Chapter Eighty-Six: Yangzhen

According to Old Man Yan, the reason why the reincarnation bridge can allow the ghost to possess the corpse from the corpse to the corpse is precisely because the Tianshi Cycle Circle on the stone bridge will exhaust the corpse qi accumulated in the corpse, so that the ghost corpse can change its state in advance.

What kind of magic circle it is, Old Man Yan didn't elaborate, and even if he told me, I might not be able to understand it, but now that I am personally caught in it, I have to start paying attention to what Old Man Yan said, because it may have something to do with my current situation.

Since it is the time of the heavens, it must be related to the stem branch, I know that the ancient calendar is based on the stem branch, and the ten heavenly stem and the twelve earth branches have a very far-reaching influence on the calendar, medicine, divination, astronomy, geography and Taoist numerology.

Ten heavenly stems, namely: Yan Feng, Zhanmeng, Rouzhao, Qiangyuan, Zhuyong, Tuwei, Shangzhang, Chongguang, Xuanhuang, Zhaoyang.

The twelve earthly branches, namely: Difficulty, Chifenruo, Setig, Shan Yan, Zhixu, Dahuangluo, Dunqia, Xieqia, Shutan, Zuo O, Eun Mao, and Dayuanxian.

If these names seem unfamiliar to everyone, then they must be familiar to everyone after their simplified names, they are: A, B, C, D, E, G, G, XIN, NON, and Dec; Twelve earthly branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu, Hai.

My understanding of the stem branch is still influenced by the third uncle, and I only know a rough idea, the field of application of this thing is very wide, and it is very mysterious and complex, and I am only familiar with its timing function. Before the death of the Qing Dynasty, the Ganzhi timing was still very common in China, but all the calligraphy and painting works handed down from generation to generation, most of the authors will turn into the completed Ganzhi date on the inscription after the completion of the work, for example, I painted a picture this year, and I want to leave a payment on it to commemorate, then the Ganzhi year should be a certain day in the last year of B.

The order of the stem and branch is matched exactly sixty for a week, and the cycle is repeated, and the cycle is recorded, which is often referred to as a jiazi. At present, there is a stone slab engraved with the name of the stem branch on the reincarnation bridge, which shows that there is indeed the kind of heavenly time formation that the old man said on the stone bridge, and the reason why I have not been able to go out should be due to the influence of the magic circle, the cycle of the stem and branch is alternate, without beginning and end, so I have been going around in circles on the stone bridge and cannot leave.

This can give me a bit of a headache, but fortunately, I have been watching the third uncle calculate these at the beginning, and I have also heard some doorways, and I know that the ten heavenly stems and the twelve earthly branches actually correspond to their own attributes, and they are closely related to the five elements.

For example, the head of the heavenly stem, '้˜feng', whose attribute is yang, corresponds to the five elements of the pillars of the wood, that is, the wood of the wood, and the 'single tree' in the earth's branch, whose genus is yin, that is, the wood.

Each piece of bluestone floor tile in contact with the yin line is engraved with the name of the unsimplified stem branch, and these stem branches correspond to the five elements of yin and yang, etc.......

Damn, it must be like this, otherwise there is no way to explain it.

Thinking of this, I immediately became excited, and began to recall the attributes of the stem branch that I explained to me when I first watched the third uncle fiddle with the hexagram.

A and B are the eastern wood, propylene is the southern fire, Wuji is the central soil, Gengxin is the western gold, and non-decane is the northern water. In addition, the sub in the earth branch is yang water, Hai is yin shui, Si belongs to yin fire, and noon belongs to yang fire. In this way, the bluestone floor tiles that I need to pay attention to should be engraved with the fire representing the five elements: Rou Omen, Qiangyuan, Great Wilderness, and Dunqi; and engraved with the water representing the five elements: Xuanhuang, Zhaoyang, Sleepy, and Dayuanxian.

"Step on the yin line, walk along the bridge, turn right when the fire is encountered, and go straight forward when encountering the water", which means that it is to go according to the yin line on the stone bridge, and try to stick to the bridge edge, and at the same time encounter the bluestone floor tiles engraved with the names of Rouzhao, Qiangyuan, Great Wilderness, and Dunqi to the right, and when you encounter the floor tiles engraved with the names of Xuanhuang, Zhaoyang, Sleepy, and Dayuan, you will go straight forward.

I finally figured it out, and I couldn't bear the endless stone bridge and this blood-colored space anymore, so I began to walk along this line of thought, and sure enough, I found a difference. Another fainter yin line that I didn't see at all before appeared in my field of vision, I was more sure that my idea was right, and at the same time, I was happy and scolded the old man in my heart, which is also why I happened to hear the third uncle talk about the dry branch, otherwise if I change someone, I don't know what the names of these bluestones on the head represent, this is too fucking daddy.

While scolding in my heart, I followed the prompts cautiously, and after a difficult and tortuous journey, I suddenly saw a flower in front of me, and the blood-colored space blurred all of a sudden, replaced by a darkness in front of me, and came out, I finally came out of that strange space, and I had already left the stone bridge.

When I saw the familiar ruins of the ancient town in front of me, I almost cried out with excitement, knowing that I had crossed the reincarnation bridge and entered Yangzhen, which is what I call the mirror ancient town. However, after the surprise, I immediately found out that something was wrong, the old man and the doctor were not nearby, and compared to before, the environment here was many times worse, there was a howling yin wind everywhere, and there were strange sounds from the ruins in the distance from time to time, which were very similar to the ghost cries I had heard in the Fengyang Ghost School.

The yin wind was biting, as if it directly penetrated the flesh and pierced into the depths of the soul, making the pores of my body shrink, and this is not the most worrying for me, I thought of the messy Tianshi formation in the stone bridge, if the doctor walked into that place like me, he would definitely not be able to get out, after all, not everyone is so lucky to know the attributes and meaning of the stem branch.

But the doctor didn't come out, why didn't even the old man come out, this formation was arranged by him and the grandfather, it is impossible that even he can't come over, right?

In my anxiety, my eyes caught a glimpse of a line written on the railing of the stone bridge, which was the doctor's handwriting, and I hurriedly leaned over, only to see that it was written: I will go first with my seniors, and I will save you after repairing the circle, if you can get out, don't come alone-the doctor stays.

I didn't know how the doctor got out of the stone bridge, but it was enough to know that he was safe and sound.

I looked at the ruins of the ancient town that was filled with black air, and after a little groaning, I decided to go along, although I knew that this decision might be stupid, but I was really relieved to leave me alone.

Having made up my mind, I encouraged myself in my heart and walked towards the ruins of the ancient town according to the route I had taken before.

As soon as I walked through the bluestone square, a translucent shadow that emitted this black gas flashed in front of me, and the yin wind almost froze me, but I didn't even see what it was.

My body became a little stiff, and my face changed suddenly when I saw the shadow flying back again, because now I could see that the thing seemed to be a person, but it was almost transparent, and if it weren't for the thick black gas it emitted from outside, I wouldn't even be able to see its outline.

I had seen what the ghost looked like with the help of the Taoist priest before, and I immediately knew that the shadow in front of me that exuded black gas should be the resentful ghost of the ancient town, and I couldn't help but feel a chill in my heart, looking at his appearance, it seemed that he wanted to get into my body.

Old man Yan said that the undead who died unjustly in the ancient town were completely different from ordinary ghosts due to the influence of feng shui eyes and node breath. Ordinary people can only be possessed by ghosts when their yang energy is weak, and these resentful spirits in the ancient town can ignore this restriction and directly occupy the human body, and after being possessed, it is also different from ordinary ghost possession, after the resentful soul of the ancient town occupies the human body, the soul of the person who has been robbed of the body will be driven out, and his body will form a new ghost possession corpse with the resentful spirit, but due to the incompatibility of the body and the soul, the resentful soul will soon be forced out, and the body that has lost the soul will become a zombie because of the powerful yin qi corpse.

I know how powerful this is, naturally it is impossible to be restrained, at the moment when the transparent shadow rushed towards me, I took out a handful of talismans at the same time and scattered them, this is the old man gave me the evil charm before leaving, in addition to the evil charm, I also have thunder charms, fire charms, corpse charms and other charms in the backpack I carry, these are the old man's talismans prepared in advance, because I was trapped on the stone bridge, so these things also left on me.

The evil charm Taoist priest has used it before, and its effect is similar to that of the corpse suppression talisman, but the target is a spirit such as ghosts. Compared with the thunder charm and the fire talisman, the use of the evil charm to deal with the spirit body is already quite a gentle hand break, because the ghosts and other spirits are most afraid of the thunder and fire things, Chen Bo used more than a dozen thunder talismans to block the attack of the corpse tide, and then used the fire talisman to burn dozens of zombies, I know the terrible power of these two talismans, but unfortunately although I have the thunder talisman and the fire talisman on my body, I don't know how to use it at all.

After the evil charm was thrown out, as soon as it came into contact with the translucent resentful spirit, the other party immediately let out a piercing scream, and the runes on the evil charm began to emit golden light, which was dead on the resentful soul, under the irradiation of the golden light, the resentful soul began to emit green smoke, and the black gas shrouded in it also began to leave its body like water vapor evaporated, the resentful soul suffered pain, and finally endured it, and after a loud roar, he fled back to the depths of the ruins with the glowing evil charm.

I watched in shock as the fleeing resentful spirits disappeared into the depths of the ruins, and I couldn't believe that this talisman was so powerful, and his mother's Taoist priest had also used the evil talisman, but how could the gap in power be so big?

Before this, I had never been in contact with these mysterious things, and naturally I didn't know the clues, in fact, the way of the talisman, in addition to the spell depicted by the talisman itself, the cultivation of the person who drew the talisman was also a major factor affecting the talisman.

If it is an evil spirit suppression talisman drawn by a young Taoist priest who has just entered the Dao Sect for a few years of cultivation, although it is also somewhat useful, it is mostly the power of the rune of the talisman itself, and the power is not too great, at most it can scare some weak lonely souls and wild ghosts. But if you change it to a person who has practiced for forty or fifty years to draw a talisman to suppress evil spirits, the talisman seal drawn by it not only carries the power of the rune itself, but also carries a considerable part of the cultivation and skill of the person who draws the talisman, and such a talisman has a powerful power even against the fierce evil ghosts.

The old man had the strength of the master of a religion a hundred years ago, and then he was even more immortal in the ancient town. One hundred and fifty years old, if the old man has been practicing in the Dao Gate since he was a child, it is basically more than one hundred and fifty years of Taoism, this kind of strength, if he returns to the outside world, he is definitely a powerful figure in this era, maybe it has reached the point of feathering and soaring, and it is normal for such a cultivation to draw a talisman with such power.

Thinking of this, I hurriedly and carefully picked up the evil charm scattered on the ground and did not activate, damn this is a good thing! This kind of talisman, take out a random one, in the hands of people who know how to sell it for a sky-high price, these are not yellow paper talismans at all, but a lot of money!

It's a shameless idea, but it's true. I put away some of the yellow talismans, kept about five or six in my hand for a rainy day, and then without any scruples, I strode deeper into the ruins.

I've lived in the ancient town for a while, and I'm familiar with the terrain here, and although the town has become a scorched earth, the main road is barely recognizable. With the power of the talisman, I quickly entered the ancient town, and along the way, I used the talisman to beat away four or five resentful spirits who attacked me, and finally came to the inn in Yangzhen.

To my surprise, the inn in front of me was even more dilapidated than the last time I had seen, the entire roof had almost collapsed, and the wooden building was tilting to one side, as if it might fall down at any moment. Standing in the doorway, I hesitated for a moment, but walked in, and I had a strong intuition that there was something important waiting for me here.

The inn was crumbling, and I walked very carefully, not daring to touch anything inside, but as soon as I entered the lobby, I immediately smelled a very pungent smell of blood, and my heart immediately became vigilant. In the lobby near the foot of the stairs, I found a large pool of blood, which had not yet dried up, and the smell of blood was coming from this bloodstain.

With such a large amount of blood, if it was left by one person, then this person must be dying, and I immediately became worried, for fear that this blood stain was left by a doctor or an old man.

The staircase had been completely smashed, several broken stubbles were stained with blood, and there were many black and hideous paw prints on the floor, as well as the marks of sword blades, and it was clear that there had been a fierce fight in this place not long ago. The pitch-black paw prints reminded me of the zombies I saw in the inn last time, the floor slab above had been completely pierced, and the situation in the room above could be completely seen from below, I saw the room where Lin Yuanzhang died, and I saw the foreigner with the wooden sword nailed to the pillar, but Lin Yuanzhang and the zombie on the other side were gone.

Just as a bad feeling arose in my heart, a very weak voice came from behind the counter of the inn, startling me.