White Wolf Temple Chapter 41: The Mystery of the Ancient Tower
"Don't touch this coffin, let's go upstairs and have a look." Wei Huaiqi thought for a while and said, "That's all it takes, let's go." "I pulled Wei Huaiqi to go up again, and unexpectedly, this time I went up the stairs and the ancient tower did not shake, and no vision occurred.
The fifth layer of the ancient pagoda, there is nothing special, only a square table, there is a wood carved Buddha shrine on it, the top of the Buddha shrine is a lacquered gold dragon head, the dragon body is wrapped in flowers and vines, and the head is decorated with a double-layer brimmed helmet hat, which is like a Buddha hat and an official hat.
Both sides of the Buddha shrine are also carved with a dragon and a phoenix shape, the upper dragon and the lower phoenix, the demeanor is realistic, and at the bottom, it is carved a unicorn with its head up and roaring to the sky, echoing with the dragon head on the top.
Under the shrine is carved a lotus throne, on which is a lacquered gold Buddha statue, but this Buddha statue has no eyes on its face and does not know
Is it the negligence of the craftsman carving, or is it deliberate, anyway, it is indescribably weird.
"People who believe in Buddhism have special respect for Buddha statues, and this kind of Buddha statue without eyes is simply disrespectful, how can anyone carve this kind of Buddha statue?" Wei Huaiqi said with some puzzlement.
"Huaiqi, don't worry about this for now, do you know anything about the Buddhist shrine?" I turned my head and asked Wei Huaiqi, "The Buddha shrine is a small pavilion dedicated to Buddha statues, shrines, etc., and it is generally made of wood. The original niche refers to the place where the rock cliff is dug and drilled to be empty to place the Buddha statue. Wei Huaiqi said slowly.
"It stands to reason that this Buddha shrine is so exquisitely carved that it should not be cut corners when carving the Buddha statue, so this Buddha statue has no eyes, most likely someone did it on purpose." I analyzed, Wei Huaiqi nodded, and agreed.
"There is only one Buddha shrine on this floor, let's look for it and see if there are any clues." Wei Huaiqi said that he rummaged around the Buddhist shrine, but unfortunately the two of us searched for a long time, but we didn't find anything special.
"Forget it, let's go to the top floor and have a look." I reluctantly said, "Wait a minute! At this moment, Wei Huaiqi said in surprise, I followed her gaze and found that the shrine behind the eyeless Buddha statue seemed to have a dark grid.
The dark grid is very ingenious, if you don't deliberately look at it, it is difficult to find this dark grid, Wei Huaiqi put his hand on it and knocked it, and found that it was empty, I picked up the eyeless Buddha statue and smashed it towards the dark grid.
A large hole was smashed in the wooden plank in the dark compartment, and through the hole I saw what appeared to be a letter inside, and I carefully pulled the letter out of the hole.
The letter paper is very rough, and on the cover are two traditional Chinese characters in cinnabar: ghost book! I took out another piece of letter from inside, and the letter was written in traditional Chinese characters, and I read the letter from beginning to end.
The person who wrote the letter was the craftsman who built this ancient tower, named Guan Yi, and he used this letter to write down all the secrets related to the construction of this ancient tower, and the secrets were all appalling.
This ancient pagoda was originally not called the ancient tower, it was called Hu Tower, and the Hu Pagoda was built to help a general realize his long-cherished wish to become an immortal after his death, and the general found Mo Changsheng, the most famous immortal crossing man at that time, to carry out the method of crossing immortals for him.
Mo Changsheng proposed that if you want to become an immortal, you must build a seven-level floating tower, and then use a special method to make people fly into immortals inside, I can't help but be stunned when I see this, this is the legend of the immortals!
I hurriedly continued to read, so Guan Yi and others listened to the general's order, built this seven-story ancient pagoda, named Hu Pagoda, according to Mo Changsheng, the general hired someone to make a delicate Buddha shrine, and there is an eyeless Buddha statue.
The general needs to kill three wolves, take the wolf bones and put them into a special shape, and then Mo Changsheng uses the secret method to take the wolf bones to lay down the formation, which is the three-layer ritual that we affirmed before.
After that, Guan Yi and others made a coffin made of thunderbolt wood according to the requirements, and when the general died, it was placed in it, and then the right Mo Changsheng could fly the coffin after using the secret method, and finally let the general fly to the sky to become an immortal.
It's a pity that Guan Yi didn't expect that Mo Changsheng would kill a group of people in the end to complete his ceremony, Guan Yi learned the news by chance, and immediately felt a chill in his heart, knowing that he couldn't escape, he wrote this matter on a letter and quietly hid it in the Buddha shrine on the fifth floor.
After reading this letter, I probably understood that this ancient pagoda was originally built by the Immortals to help people become immortals, and as for that Mo Changsheng, it should be another Immortal Crossing Immortal.
The first generation of the Hua family was the Hua family, but when it was passed down to the third generation, the third generation of the Hua family's head Hua and his wife Mo Wei quarreled because of something, so Mo Wei left with her daughter, and later became the Mo family of the Du Xian people.
"It seems that this ancient pagoda should have been built for the purpose of becoming immortals, but why is the situation I saw yesterday completely different from today?" I said with some doubts.
"Don't think about this, let's go up to the sixth floor to take a look, and when we finish reading all seven floors, we can have a logic to figure out this ancient tower." After Wei Huaiqi finished speaking, he walked upstairs, and I nodded, thinking that this was indeed the case.
The sixth layer of the ancient pagoda is like a Shura field, in a circle painted with cinnabar, there are dozens of dried corpses lying horizontally and vertically, I saw this scene, swallowed my saliva with difficulty, my God, how can there be so many dried corpses!
I suddenly thought of what Guan Yi wrote in his heart, Mo Changsheng wanted to kill them to complete the ceremony, looking at this way, these people should be the workers who built the ancient pagoda.
Although Wei Huaiqi is well-informed, he has never seen so many dried corpses, some of these dried corpses can still see the appearance of his life, Wei Huaiqi involuntarily retched, I walked over and patted her back gently.
"Wow", Wei Huaiqi spit it out in one gulp, and a fermented sour smell came to my face, I felt a little upset, sure enough, even if it was a beauty, the things that spit out were just as sour and smelly.
I walked to the circle drawn by cinnabar, and found that the circle was not drawn into a circle by a line, but with a brush dipped in cinnabar, and a spell was written down one by one, and finally hundreds of charms converged into a circle.
The spell drawn by Cinnabar is still the same as the previous spell, if I guess correctly, this should be a rune created by another line of immortals, but I have not been in contact with this vein and another vein, so I don't know any of these runes.
Wei Huaiqi slowed down for a while before he got used to the scene in front of him, "This Mo Changsheng's method is too cruel, and this unbelievable way can really help people become immortals?" Wei Huaiqi complained.
"Who knows, but I think it's a good way to go to hell!" I also complained, "Are you better?" I asked Wei Huaiqi with concern, and Wei Huaiqi shook his head: "I'm fine, don't worry, vomit!" As soon as Wei Huaiqi said that it was okay, he retched again.
"Love is a parasite in your world-" The phone rang suddenly, "Hey, who's it?" "Are you free tonight?" Come to my house for dinner. Cheng Yu's voice came from the other end of the phone, I glanced at my phone, it was not yet noon.
"Let's see at night, I have something to do here, I don't know if I can finish it at night." I thought for a moment and said, "Okay, if you can come, just let me know in advance." Cheng Yu hung up the phone after speaking, not dragging his feet at all.
"The little lover's call to you?" Wei Huaiqi's sour voice came faintly, "Oh, people just invited me to a meal and thanked me for saving my life." I snorted and said, "Come on, who appreciates you for letting you go to the house for dinner." Wei Huaiqi retched again after speaking.
"Look at you, why don't you go back to school first?" I patted Wei Huaiqi on the back, "I'm fine, let's hurry up, don't delay your date with your little lover at that time." Wei Huaiqi walked upstairs with some anger.
The seventh floor is the highest level of the ancient tower, and there are seven high tables in it, and a small stool is placed on the table, and a red cloth strip is tied to the leg of the stool, and there is nothing else, and I looked at these seven high tables and fell into deep thought.
I really can't figure out what the meaning of these tables and stools is, Wei Huaiqi thought for a while, and suddenly seemed to remember something, turned his head to me and said, "I don't know if you have heard of a custom of inviting God." ”
God, please? I know this, but there are too many ways to invite God, and I can't know them all, Wei Huaiqi continued: "There is a custom of inviting God among the people, through holding special ceremonies, the gods are invited over, and it is said that the immortals who invite them sit on the stool. ”
"You're saying these things are for the sake of pleasing God?" I asked with some doubts, how could there be so many gods and immortals who would sit on such a broken stool, "I'm just a suspicion, only Mo Changsheng himself knows what these are for." Wei Huaiqi sighed.
"This place is indeed mysterious, I can't see any evil spirit, and the smell of blood that I smelled here yesterday can't be smelled at all today." I frowned and said, "I always feel that today's ancient tower is not the same as yesterday's?" ”
"Let's go down first, and then think about whether the hanging coffin can be opened, I feel that if you want to solve the mystery of this ancient tower, you must first open the hanging coffin and see the mystery of the hanging coffin." Wei Huaiqi calmly analyzed.
"That's the only way to do it first, but I look at the way these seven high tables are arranged, it seems to be arranged according to the Big Dipper." I suddenly realized, "I have the impression that this seven-star formation is mostly used to subdue demons and suppress demons. ”
"Could it be that you are asking God to come and suppress some filthy thing here?" Wei Huaiqi thought for a while and said, "It's not impossible, this little stool also has talisman paper on it. With that, I took the rune paper off a small stool.
What is the rune paper is drawn with a grinning strange face, a bit like a fox's face, and a few small characters are written in cinnabar under the strange face, or the kind of rune from before, I don't know any of them as usual.
"This painting should be a fox fairy." Wei Huaiqi looked at it for a while and said, "Fox Fairy? Why is it so hideous? I asked, a little incomprehensible.
The fox fairy is because of the decline of Taoism, so there is a fox fairy belief in northern China, in order to beg the fox fairy to bless the food year after year. There are also many folk sayings that the fox fairy gets off the horse, that is, it means that after the person with the seven orifices is possessed by the fox fairy, it can predict the bad luck.
"It's understandable to invite the fox fairy here, most of the painting is so hideous because it's not a serious fox fairy. Most of the fox fairies invited by ordinary people are for marriage, but this fox fairy invited by Mo Changsheng is not like this. Wei Huaiqi said slowly,
"Most of the drawings on this rune paper are Stygian foxes." After Wei Huaiqi finished speaking, he told me about the legend of the dark fox.
Legend has it that in ancient times, there was a scholar named Liu Xiahui, who fell in love with a young lady from someone else's family, but this scholar didn't know that the young lady of this family was not an ordinary young lady.
The young lady's family is surnamed Hu, living in a small two-story building facing the street, the young lady surnamed Hu usually rarely deals with outsiders, the reason why the scholar can see this young lady, is because he accidentally passed by the second floor, accidentally was hit by the fork of the upstairs window, the young lady poked her head out to look, just saw the scholar.