Chapter 272: The First Test

Pattaya, Thailand, known as the Oriental Hawaii, is a desirable tourist destination with its coconut breeze and cool blue sea and silver sand. The old man took Wang Cheng to build a thatched house on the uninhabited beach in Pattaya, and the old man would catch a lot of live fish from the sea in Pattaya every day for Wang Cheng to practice peeling......

At first, the old man asked Wang Cheng to peel the fish skin with a knife with one hand, and when Wang Cheng was able to peel off the fish skin in one piece without hurting the fish, he asked Wang Cheng to slowly use the black gold silk thread to peel the fish skin. The old man's requirements for Wang Cheng were very strict, and if Wang Cheng was slightly inferior to the old man's mind, he would use a silk thread to draw a line on Wang Cheng's arm. The silk thread is covered with small sharp blades, gently scratched on the skin, only crispy and numb, and when the pain is felt, the injury is already spilled with blood, Wang Pi's daily practice is to peel the fish skin!

A few years have passed in a flash, and the speed of the old man's decay is several times that of ordinary people, and he has already reached the point where his two hands are subconsciously shaking when he is not in a good position. The old man called Wang Cheng to his side and said, "I have taught you everything that I can teach you, and now it depends on whether you can really become the successor of the eight-faced Buddha." ”

Wang Cheng asked puzzledly: "How is it the descendant of the eight-faced Buddha?" I can now skin a whole fish alive and the fish is still alive, don't I count? ”

"It's not a long way off, you've been here for three years. What you have learned is only the practice of the living technique, and when you have achieved something in your practice, you will also refine the soul and boil the granulation corpse oil. If you can control people's souls as you like, I will pass on the eight-faced Buddha statue to you. There's a burial ground on the South Sea Island in Pattaya, and I want you to skin your whole face tonight. If you can't peel off the skin before the tea cools, then you can't be considered a descendant of the Erawan Buddha. The old man said as he looked at the island to the south with cloudy eyes.

At midnight, Wang Cheng and the old man rowed a small boat onto the island where the corpses were buried. Funeral customs in Thailand are different from other places in that the funeral ceremony in Thailand is to park the deceased in their home and let it stink before cutting down a large tree. Hollowing out the body of the tree and putting the deceased into the body of the tree for burial, the identity of the deceased is high or low, and the family nobles and lows look at the tree coffin where they are buried. Wang Cheng chose a new grave and dug up the tree coffin inside, and when he pried open the coffin, Wang Cheng, who was so strong in the smell of corpses that he could barely open his eyes.

In the coffin lay a woman who was not very old, but judging by the clothes of the corpse, it should be a woman from a poor family. The old man looked at the woman and said disdainfully: "It turned out to be a poor ghost who is neither male nor female, and this can be regarded as a creation." Later, I will refine his soul so that he will not have to worry about reincarnation in the next life. With a blank face, he offered an eight-faced Buddha statue and recited prayers aloud in Thai in the northwest direction......

The shemale in the coffin should have been buried for a month, and there was a layer of slippery corpse oil floating on the black and gray face of the corpse. After reciting the prayer, the old man handed the eight-faced Buddha statue to Wang Cheng, took a bamboo tube from his waist, and poured a cup of warm tea in front of Wang Cheng. The warm water was steaming in the bamboo cup, and Wang Cheng smelled a strange smell in the water similar to the smell of a corpse!

The old man said: "This cup is a testimony that you have practiced the living human technique to skin fish for three years, and you can be considered the first successful step if you can peel off the face of a dead corpse before the tea cools." If you can't peel it off, drink the tea! You must know that under the eight-faced Buddha, there is never a waste that can survive, and I only have that sentence to remind you, hands must be steady and careful! After the old man finished speaking, he retreated to the coffin and watched Wang Cheng do the knife for the first time......

Wang Cheng twisted the eight-sided Buddha head and pulled out the silk thread inside, and according to his usual experience of skinning fish alive, he went along the deceased's hair bun into the knife. The silk thread was like a soldering iron discarded in butter, and it cut through the deceased's shriveled skin layer at once, and the sticky corpse oil made Wang Cheng have to be very careful to roll up the slightly upturned human skin.

Only when the human skin is moderately tight can the skin continue to be peeled with silk threads, but this is completely different from killing fish and skinning. When the silk thread crossed the eyelids, the eyeballs, which were already rotten like bean dregs, rolled out with the rolling human skin. The two eye sockets became two pitch-black blood holes, and Wang Cheng almost couldn't help but want to vomit, but when he saw the faint heat of the cup, he suppressed his panic and continued to take the skin......

The most difficult part of the whole face to peel is the part of the human nose, which is different in height, shortness, fat and thinness, so the collapse of the nose has become the most difficult to peel off on the human face. The cheekbones on both sides of the bridge of the deceased's nose protruded, and it was easy for the silk threads to cut through the skin of the face that was not as thick as a human hair.

Wang Cheng used the old man's twisting gesture to pick up the human skin under the wings of his nose, and then slowly turned the silk thread, sticking to the epidermis on the cheekbones, and gradually peeled off. Before Wang Cheng could breathe a sigh of relief, he discovered a new problem, the stiff epidermis of the deceased had already made the two lips swollen and rotten, and even the teeth were exposed......

This is something that has never been encountered in the skin of a fish alive, and the silk thread in Wang Cheng's hand can't help but stop. If the silk thread is pulled, the skin of the deceased's lips will be damaged, and even if the skin is peeled off, it will not be complete. Wang Cheng thought about it for a while, and there were also classics of skinning people alive in Laoshan Taoism, but none of them recorded skinning people!

There was the torture of skinning people alive long before the Six Dynasties of China, and in the period of the Sixteen Kingdoms, the former Qin King Fu Sheng liked to skin people. Let the tortured sing and dance for viewing and playing, and with this kind of good work of Qin Wang Fusheng, it slowly evolved into skinning the whole body of a living person. The methods of peeling are also becoming more and more cruel, some are filled with mercury, some are peeled alive from the back, and some are soaked in lime water and poured asphalt......

The founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty gave full play to the skinning technique, and officials who embezzled 60 taels of silver were punished with skinning and grass. Straw was filled into the human skin and stood at the entrance of the yamen to show the public, but the corrupt officials repeatedly forbade it and made the human skin into a mattress, and let the next official sit on the skin of the previous person to handle the case! However, the Tao only writes the method of skinning the living, but there is nowhere to learn from the skinning of the dead.

The warm water in the teacup was no longer hot, and the silk thread in Wang Chengxin's hand gently drew an obvious gap along the deceased's rotten lips, releasing the rotten flesh inside. After the corpse water flowed out, the deceased's lips collapsed in a large piece, and Wang Cheng quickly pulled the silk thread and rolled the face of the shemale all the way to the chin to collect the knife. A blackened dough was spread out between Wang Cheng's hands, and the dough was completely complete except for a hole in his lips......

Wang Cheng said uneasily: "Master Aman, it seems that I am still a waste, and three years of peeling live fish have been practiced in vain." ”

Wang Cheng was disheartened and wanted to get the cup of bamboo tube tea, the old man took the dough from Wang Cheng's hand, touched the inner layer with his fingers, and smiled: "Your craftsmanship has made me very satisfied, the thickness of the whole dough is much better than when I was back." ”

"I made a gap in the lips of the deceased, how can this be said to be complete?" Wang Cheng held the bamboo tube tea and said in a daze.

The old man laughed and said, "I am most satisfied with the knife you just made, the living technique is a kind of disguise technique performed on the living. Its divine power is enough to cause earth-shattering changes, and in Hong Kong, it is to use the living technique to transform Xia Qingda into a big-nosed foreigner. With the help of Xia Qingda's hatred of killing his son, he easily annihilated the Blackbeard pirate, and the really big-nosed foreigner didn't understand what was going on until he died. I've been impressed by your performance today, and you can now be regarded as a descendant of the eight-faced Buddha. ”

Wang Cheng had an epiphany and said, "Master Armand, are you saying that I was right to cut the lips of the dead corpse just now?" ”

"I'll tell you the truth, even with my ability, it's hard to be seamless, and your knife is right. Although human skin with granulation corpse oil can be transformed, the only way to minimize the damage to the skin that cannot be decomposed and cannot preserve its original appearance is to minimize the damage. Your skills in practicing are already perfect, and then I will let you bow three times and bow nine times to the eight-faced Buddha statue. The old man said with the eight-faced Buddha statue held alof.

Wang Cheng also understands that in this troubled world, only daunting means can have a place to live. When he should change his appearance one day, he can return to Laoshan again, Wang Cheng thought of this, and bowed three times and nine bows to the eight-faced Buddha statue. After Wang Cheng finished worshipping the eight-faced Buddha, the old man said solemnly: "The eight-faced Buddha descendant has the rules of three precepts and three noes, and now that you are the eight-faced Buddha descendant, I will tell you these rules!" ”

Wang Cheng lowered his head and said: "The disciple remembers the master's teachings, but I don't know what rules there are in it?" ”

"Alas, the eight-faced Buddha was originally from India. But India no longer believes in Garuda, so it came to Thailand. All eight-faced Buddha descendants must first quit sex, and must not break the child's body for the sake of **. The second is to quit greed, if your mind is full of greed and wealth, then the spell will be killed by the yin spirit you ingest. Finally, there is the abstinence of profit, and the hustle and bustle of Vanity Fair is not where we are. These are the three precepts, can you do it? The old man said with a long sigh.

Wang Cheng nodded and said, "Master don't worry, I can do all of this." ”

The old man's face softened and said: "Each generation of the eight-faced Buddha can only choose one disciple as his own mantle heir, if there is a successor, you can't be merciful to him." If anyone dares to embarrass your heirs, you can't spare them. You have to be so sure that you don't reveal who you really are to anyone, and your face and name change frequently. This is the three precepts and three no's of the eight-faced Buddha, if you can't do it one day, you will be cursed by the eight-faced Buddha statue and die! ”

After the old man finished speaking, he handed the eight-faced Buddha statue in his hand to Wang Chengdao: "From now on, you will start to learn the art of soul refining with me." You can only refine your soul into corpse oil at any time if you have trained the Horcrux yourself, but one thing you need to know is that the Horcrux will be your lifeline. Once the Horcrux is broken, your life will be over......"

Wang Cheng thought of the guy at the wonton shop with palpitations, but since he chose this path, he would keep going!