Volume 1: Yuan Pu Anthology The Story of Pi Zijing
Jiulong Mountain, winding and undulating, stretches for more than ten kilometers, and has nine large and small hills. Because it looks like a dragon as a whole, it is called Jiulong Mountain. Although there are no tall and steep mountains and dense and pristine deep forests here, there is a magical legend in this place for more than a thousand years - the bottomless pit of skin spirits.
According to legend, there is a hidden bottomless pit on Jiulong Mountain, and it is said that this hole has no end, and there are rumors that it can lead to the East China Sea from there. Inside the cave lives a group of skin spirits with high mana, and it is said that the leader is a white-haired and white-bearded thousand-year-old skin spirit.
Although people have never really found this legendary bottomless pit, the story of the leather spirit has been passed down to this day. As for the authenticity of the story, there is no way to verify, but there are indeed many old people who say that they have really encountered it.
Legend has it that the fur is an animal between a fox, a badger, and a weasel, and is a mysterious animal whose name is difficult to see, and its bizarre legends are found all over the country.
Some people describe that the skin is not large, and it is familiar with the size of the local dog in the countryside today, but there is no real video data. It is said that the skins have a long lifespan and like to live in some deep caves in the mountains and hills, and they especially like to go to the top of the mountain in the quiet hours of the evening and look up at the bright moon in the form of a human.
Because they absorb the essence of heaven, earth, sun and moon all year round, they slowly have spirituality over time, and after hundreds of thousands of years of hard work, it is said that they can cultivate the Tao and turn into a human form, which is called the skin essence or skin fairy.
After cultivating and turning into a human form, Pi Zijing has a docile temperament, and often haunts the barren mountains and wilderness at night or at night. They like to play games with the world, but generally do not enter nearby villages to disturb people's lives and harm ordinary people. Sometimes, when they are happy, they will also learn from those ancient thieves to punish corrupt officials and bullies and help the poor people.
Pi Zijing also likes to look like an old grandfather and grandmother, quietly following behind the lonely boy, and the school boy walks. Sometimes he would call the boy affectionately and ask with a smile: "Child, do you think I look handsome?" ”
If the child turns around and says, "You're so handsome," he will happily leave a pile of pastries for the child, and then walk away a little bit and then turn away into a puff of smoke. The boy was in good health for at least the next two or three years, and he did not suffer from even a single minor problem, which is said to be the reason for eating his pastry.
Therefore, according to legend, there is such a saying, that is, "a word of a boy is better than hundreds of years of cultivation". But if the boy ignores it, it will continue to ask questions. It doesn't matter if the boy really ignores him, as long as he meets someone, he will naturally disappear and leave.
But if the boy scolds it or says, "You're so ugly," or sees its hidden tail and says, "Why do you still have a tail," then it will cry out in frustration.
It is said that as long as the boy is not happy to take care of it or can see its true body, it proves that his cultivation has not yet reached home, and he has to go back to penance. But they won't harm that boy, because if they harm the boy, it will destroy thousands of years of cultivation, and sometimes they will be struck by lightning and scattered forever.
Therefore, in the vicinity of Jiulong Mountain, there has been such a rule since ancient times. Even after the sun sets, walking alone in the wilderness, remember not to look back and not to talk nonsense.
The older generation said that there was a taboo. Because you may be able to damage this elf's thousand-year-old cultivation with a casual word, you mistake the elves' cultivation and finally have to pay it back with your own yang life, and in addition, you will be permanently resented by the elves who have lost their thousand-year cultivation.
Pi Zi Jing is the most effective elf near Jiulong Mountain, and it turns out that everyone nearby has the custom of worshiping Pi Zi Xian's family. Pi Zijing has a great feature, that is, he knows how to repay a promise. As long as others are kind to it, it will repay it forever, and it will never deceive anyone who has promised it.
At the same time, it also has a big drawback, that is, it is difficult, once someone violates its taboo, then it will make you live but not die and not be at peace for life. The end is not to make you die immediately, but to make you crazy for half your life, let you suffer and torture, and die little by little. Especially against those who commit great treachery and evil, the punishment methods have become even more severe.
Legend has it that no one in the vicinity of Jiulong Mountain dared to provoke the bottomless leather spirit, because the old people had told too many stories about the leather essence.
Until now, on the sunny slope of the hill where the old eagle stone cliff is located, there is a thousand-year-old cypress tree, and there is a big stone under the tree.
Every year on major festivals, there are nearby villagers and pilgrims who come from outside to kowtow here. When children in the neighborhood usually go up the mountain, as long as they pass there, adults will ask them to kowtow there.
Especially in the past two years, the village has also repaired the thousand-year-old cypress tree and put a large incense burner made of local mountain stones, and the incense here is obviously much more prosperous.