Chapter 109: Secret Conversation (I)
After breakfast, the Taoist priest and Sister Bailing sat together and talked for a long time, talking about many things.
I didn't hide my experience with the Taoist priest, and told Sister Bailing all of it, because many of them involved the secrets of Fengyang's underground, so I told Fengyang what happened to me.
After listening to our experience, Sister Bailing's reaction was the same as that of the third uncle at that time, and she was shocked. After a long time, Sister Bailing asked who else I had told about these things, I smiled bitterly, and said that you were the only one who knew my two experiences, and even the third uncle only knew about Fengyang, and this time, I just told him a rough idea.
After listening to my words, Sister Bailing breathed a sigh of relief, and repeatedly told me not to talk about these things to anyone except my grandmother, not even a few uncles in the family. I didn't understand this very much, but when Sister Bailing told me this, her expression was rarely serious, and I knew that it might not be simple, so I nodded solemnly, promising that I wouldn't say it, so she gave up.
As for the third uncle's side, Sister Bailing said that if the third uncle asked, he would say that he couldn't remember clearly, and in short, he must not tell the details of the matter.
This makes me a little embarrassed, among the uncles, I have the best relationship with the third uncle, and if I want to lie to him, I really can't do it. After telling me, Sister Bailing's eyes glared, and she looked at the Taoist priest, who swore to the sky very interestingly: "Poor Dao swears to Master Zu, if I tell these things with reporters, I will never be able to go out in this life, I will be struck by lightning at any time when I go out, and I can't be reincarnated after death!" ”
After swearing, this guy immediately smiled and flattered Sister Bailing, I couldn't help but shake my head, and said in my heart that this dead Taoist priest shouldn't really like Sister Bailing, right?
After talking about our experience, the next thing is what happened to Sister Bailing in the past three days. I originally thought that these things I had experienced were bizarre and tragic enough, but after listening to Sister Bailing's experience, I almost dropped my jaw.
The Taoist priest who encountered the situation that Sister Bailing encountered at the beginning had already said that they did not get separated after entering Yeling, and looked for my traces everywhere.
Not to mention the strangeness of Yeling, there are countless dangers and horrors hidden in it, especially the periphery of Yeling. In Sister Bailing's words, Yeling is like a huge tornado, all the dangers are gathered in the marginal area, the further you go in, the closer you get to the center of the storm, the impact is weakened, and the danger is smaller.
We had just entered Yeling, and we were in the most terrifying and dangerous area, and Sister Bailing and the Taoist priest were worried about my safety, looking for my whereabouts, and at the same time consciously retreating into the depths, because they had already suffered from the threat of darkness at that time.
Sister Bailing told me that those things hidden in the dark, even if she joined forces with the Taoist priest, she would definitely not be able to fight, and there was more than one terrifying existence like that. The reason why they were able to retreat with their whole body was completely lucky, because at that time, there happened to be a Yin Spirit Passage outside Yeling, and the gate of the Netherworld was wide open, so that those things in Yeling could restrain their breath and dare not be presumptuous.
The Yin Spirit Corridor is different from the Yin Soldier Corridor in many folklore, the so-called Yin Spirits refer to the real Netherworld creatures, they are not creatures of this world, but they can drag anything into the real Netherworld and fall into the Yellow Spring, making it impossible to get out of trouble.
In many Taoist records, the Yin Spirit has always been the most mysterious and terrifying existence, and hell is recorded in Eastern and Western mythology, but Hell is not the Netherworld. The various gods of the underworld in hell: Hades and Lucifer in the West, the Ten Temples of Yama and the Ghost Emperor in the East, regardless of whether they really exist or not, even if they do, they are not Netherworld creatures, the real Netherworld is only a few speculations and concepts so far, more like another higher-dimensional world.
The Taoist priest had read a lot of strange Taoist classics, such as the "Records of the Heavenly Master", so he knew more about these things. He told me that the Yin Spirit Corridor is a sudden supernatural phenomenon that occurs at an uncertain time and place, sometimes in the middle of a deserted mountain forest, sometimes in a crowded market. The former is okay, even if it happens, I'm afraid no one will know, but if the latter, it will be a tragedy.
The Taoist priest saw twice in a book of anecdotes about the appearance of the Yin Spirit Corridor in the downtown area, once during the reign of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty, which occurred in a small county town in Sichuan, the land of abundance. On the day of the incident, the fog inside and outside the small city was filled with fog, and it was extremely quiet, and no one noticed anything unusual at that time, but when the fog cleared, vegetable farmers from nearby villages entered the city to sell vegetables and vegetables, and found that the entire small city, including several villages on the outskirts of the city, was completely populated, and tens of thousands of people disappeared overnight, leaving no trace.
Another time it was more sensational, it happened in the late Qing Dynasty, and it was widely spread in the Xuanmen, and it was this Yin Spirit Passage incident that caused the Xuanmen vitality at that time to be greatly injured and almost wiped out.
At that time, when the great powers carved up the weak Qing Dynasty, the place where the Xuanmen was located rose up to fight back, and used thaumaturgy to terrify the invading forces of various countries, and then the great powers moved their own sect forces to deal with the Xuanmen. Although the Western sect is not weak, the Xuanmen has a long heritage, and the art of Qimen Dunjia is broad and profound, which is not the enemy of its ability. Later, these foreign religions supported the Nine Lotus Divine Sect, the largest cult in China at that time, to cause rebellion and balance the Xuanmen.
Originally, with the strength of the Xuanmen at that time, even if the foreign sect and the Nine Lotus Divine Sect united, they could not shake the Xuanmen Righteous Path, but at that time, the five Great Dao Sect Sects, which had the highest prestige and strongest strength, all fell because of the Yin Spirit Passage incident, causing the Central Plains Righteous Path to lose its backbone and greatly damage its vitality. Later, the witch and Taoist alliances, and the most mysterious Eight Strange people in the world intervened, which turned the situation around.
It can be said that the Yin Spirit Passage incident was the fuse that caused the chaos of the last generation of Xuanmen, and it was rumored that the five Daomen bigwigs who were most likely to be feathered into Daoists had no power to resist in the face of the Yin Spirit Passage, and all of them were killed, and the Yin Spirit Passage has since become a taboo for the Xuanmen to talk about the color change.
I didn't know the horror of the Yin Spirit Passage before, and I didn't have any concept about it, so I didn't pay much attention to it after that, except for some fear when I faced the fog at the time. Now after listening to the Taoist priest's detailed explanation, I finally know why Sister Bailing and the Taoist priest were so frightened when they saw the fog at that time, and even avoided it even when they entered Yeling. Now it seems that we were able to come out of Yeling alive, what a blessing!
Speaking of this, the Taoist priest seemed to think of something, and suddenly mentioned that the stele collector Lao Yang Uncle was killed by the ghost mandrill, and all kinds of strange things that suddenly appeared near the village some time ago: vamphivorous vines, ghost mandrills, and black-haired murderous corpses controlled by corpse puppets.
I didn't understand why the Taoist priest mentioned this, so I looked at him puzzled, and the Taoist priest didn't buy it, and explained: "Although the Yin Spirit Passage is a sudden phenomenon, it is similar to natural disasters such as earthquakes, and there are precursors. Humans cannot predict the Yin Spirit Passage, just as humans cannot predict earthquakes but animals such as ants and mice can predict the occurrence of earthquakes, and near-Yin things such as ghost mandrills and vampire vines can know the location of the Yin Spirit Passage in advance by virtue of their innate perception of the Netherworld aura. Because before the Yin Spirit Passage occurs, the two spaces will overlap, and the breath of different spaces will emanate from the overlapping place, attracting nearby beings interested in the Netherworld Passage, and those things that happened in the village before are very likely to be coincidences caused by the Yin Spirit Passage. ”
The Taoist priest's explanation reminded me of the mass grave I fell into with He Xiaoyi that night, and I suddenly felt a chill in my back, could it be ...... We also fell into the mass grave because the Yin Spirit Passage was about to arrive, causing the spatial confusion, so that we entered that terrible space that did not exist?
I didn't ask much, but I already believed the Taoist priest's explanation in my heart, it turned out that these changes in the village were not caused by my arrival, but by the Yin Spirit Passage, which made my heart feel a little more guilty all the time.
Sister Bai Ling continued to tell her story.
The Taoist priest and Sister Bailing kept looking for me, and gradually went deeper into Yeling, the dangerous aura in the darkness dissipated, and Sister Bailing and the Taoist priest knew that they had been out of the greatest danger, but at this moment, the trees in the entire forest came to life.
The sudden change caught the two off guard, and all the trees rampaged, and the two were quickly scattered between the dodges.
Sister Bailing was forced to dodge everywhere by the giant tree, and the face of a tree suddenly protruded, and out of the tree came out of the body of half a person, and the skin of the half of the person's body was old bark, just like the life bred inside the tree, as soon as it protruded, it shook two whip-like roots and whipped Sister Bailing.