Although it was a pity that Daoist Mo didn't get rid of the mandrill just now, it seemed that the ghost thing was also frightened and didn't dare to come out easily, and I watched for more than half an hour and there was no movement around.

When the tent was finished, he came out of the tent, looked around, and then walked over to me and sat down.

"I'll guard first, you go and have a good rest for a while, if you encounter a situation, you have to go out, you can't do it if you don't have energy."

After I finished speaking, he nodded, "Well, I'll go to sleep after a few words with you." ”

"Tell me, you weren't very good at talking to them before." I patted my face to make myself more sober, and Daoist Mo took a deep breath and said, "It's not nonsense that I just told you that this is a ghost gate. ”

I nodded and motioned for him to continue, and he asked: "There is such a sentence in "Huainanzi", I don't know if you have any impression: Shun Zheng Sanmiao, then died Cangwu." ”

I squinted and thought for a while and shook my head, "I don't know much about these ancient books, you said yours." ”

Daoist Mo nodded and said: "The meaning of that sentence is that Emperor Shun conquered the Sanmiao tribe and died in Cangwu, which is this Jiuzhi Mountain, so according to this backwards, will this Jiuzhi Mountain originally be the place where the Sanmiao people live?" ”

"But what does this have to do with the Ghost Gate?" I was puzzled, and Daoist Mo continued: "It is recorded that during the period of the Yellow Emperor, the Sanmiao tribe participated in the tribal alliance of Jiuli, and there are documents that say that the Sanmiao tribe is after Jiuli.

What is this Jiuli? That's Chi You's team, and Chi You is known as the ancient evil god, so it's not surprising that the Sanmiao tribe can do evil magic, and if this Jiuzhi Mountain used to be the habitat of the Sanmiao clan, think about it, can it also be called an evil land? ”

I didn't expect that Daoist Mo knew so much about the things of the ancient times, and I didn't know how to answer his question for a while.

Seeing that I didn't know how to speak, he continued: "If what I just said is true, then there is a guess that is roughly reliable, and we have always thought that the Evil Technique is an evil art handed down from the South Seas, could it be wrong? ”

I'm'huh? Ever since Daoist Mo told me that Jia Ren and I might have been hit by a hemorrhoid, I have checked the information.

This evil art was first circulated in the Han Dynasty, and if it was said that it existed in ancient times, then why was there no trace of information before?

I said my doubts, and Daoist Mo shook his head: "Maybe it's not like this, the three evil arts, the three evil arts, the head lowering technique, and the Gu poison, are also the three evil techniques in southern Yunnan, and the three evil techniques are more or less related to the Miao people."

Sanmiao also has the title of "Youmiao" and "Miao people", and most scholars in modern research on Sanmiao believe that these Sanmiao have a long history with today's Miao Yao family, in other words, today's Miao people are likely to be the descendants of Sanmiao. ”

It dawned on me that if Sanmiao and Miao Yao were linked according to what he said, then maybe the ancestor of the three major evil arts in southern Yunnan was Sanmiao, after all, this tribe was a descendant of Jiuli under the leadership of the evil god Chiyou.

Jiuli is a well-known and mysterious ethnic group in ancient historical books and mythological stories, and I don't think it's unusual to say that I can use some spells.

"Jiuzhi, Jiuli, could these two names be a coincidence?" Daoist Mo squinted his eyes and fell into contemplation, and I also suddenly woke up, and countless clues in my mind connected to everything, maybe this Jiuzhi Mountain is the name given by Sanmiao, a descendant of Jiuli, in order to commemorate the ancestors.

However, this statement has yet to be verified, and the first thing is to determine when exactly the name Kuzhishan came into existence.

"Let's talk about the ghost gate." Daoist Mo retracted his mind and said to me: "I once read a wordless book in the Taoist temple, which described in detail the incident of a Taoist who strayed into the ghost gate in ancient times. ”

That was what happened in the late Eastern Han Dynasty when a believer of the Yellow Turban Thief's first horn lobbied for an uprising in various places.

It was a day when the second quarter moon was approaching the obscure moon, and the Taoist passed through a deep mountain with a yellow flag, and it was getting late to climb the mountain hopelessly, so he had to repair on the spot and prepare for dawn on the road.

In the middle of the night, I suddenly heard the wind in the mountains, the wild beasts cried, and the Taoist held a sword on his waist, and there was a rune in the bag, searching for traces of beasts, preparing to kill a tooth sacrifice.

Tracking the beast to a gap in the forest, two towering ancient trees stood majestically, the left and right sides were black and shadowless, and the quiet moonlight in front of the two ancient trees sprinkled on the ground, the Taoist looked up, it turned out to be a crescent moon hanging in the sky.

He didn't think much about it at the time, and followed the beast's cry and penetrated through the two ancient trees, and at the same time, the Taoist immediately sensed that something was wrong with this place.

First of all, how can the temperature drop sharply at a distance of only five steps before and after, the Taoist knows a little about spell deduction, and immediately took out the gossip plate in the same place to calculate the yin and yang qi of this place.

After this calculation, his face immediately turned like earth, it turned out that there was no trace of yang in this place, it was all yin, there was no place without pure yin in the world, but there was absolutely no pure yin land that was not contaminated with a trace of yang.

The Taoist hurriedly retreated, but after walking for most of the moment, he didn't see the shadows of the two ancient trees just now.

At this time, the ghosts in the forest cried wolves and howled shadows, and several strange creatures that looked like monkeys and not monkeys jumped out of the grass and pounced towards the Taoist.

Needless to say, I immediately guessed that those strange creatures must be mandrills, and what Daoist Mo said later confirmed this, after those mandrills pounced on the Taoist, the latter didn't notice any weight at all.

It's just that watching the mandrill eat their own situation still makes the Taoist heart tremble, those mandrills feed on the essence of the living, and the Taoist people quickly die under the siege of the mandrill.

I gasped when I heard this, this kind of ghost thing is actually feeding on the spirits of living people, so there was no wound on Jia Ren's body just now, and I couldn't be sure if he was injured or not.

"Then there is no trace of yang energy in this place?" I asked, Daoist Mo nodded, and then shook his head again, "No, it's just that the abundance of yin qi is the place I usually see the most, even if it is said that this is a mass grave, I don't think it's strange, and there are those stone statues." ”

He said and took out a fist-sized stone statue from his pocket, which was also tied with a red rope, "Eighty percent of these stone statues have a ghost, and legend has it that these are ghosts from the underworld, I'm not surprised at all."

And how many people died in the war between Emperor Shun and Sanmiao before ancient times? Most of the ghosts of those people who died were attached to it. ”

"I don't think it's possible." I shook my head and continued, "I have checked the stone statues, there are them from all dynasties and generations, although I don't know why they are buried here, but if it is related to the war between Emperor Shun and Sanmiao, I don't agree, after all, it was something that happened in ancient times, and it has long been over for thousands of years." ”

"So what if it's not over? What if it continues from time immemorial to the present? ”