Chapter 25: Dragon Fishing
I remember that my father once said that if the Qinglong Sha is in the state of the hidden dragon in the abyss, if you want to lure it out, you must have a sufficient amount of sacrifice, and the blood Buddha head is a perfect sacrificial item.
I didn't expect it to come in handy here.
But the head of the Blood Buddha is only the size of a fist, and the cavity of the headless Maitreya in front of him is so big, it doesn't seem to be the right number?
"Since this headless Maitreya likes to eat human heads, I will give it a blood Buddha head for it to taste."
After saying that, Dad disbanded the bun and put the fist-sized blood Buddha head flat on top of his head. Take a step and recite a Buddha name, and walk towards the headless Maitreya.
As soon as Dad walked up to the Headless Maitreya, a black gas suddenly burst out of his mouth, and after circling around the top of his father's head, the blood Buddha head disappeared.
A moment later, a terrifying voice came from the headless Maitreya's stomach, one crying and the other laughing. Those who listened to it had a numb scalp and trembled.
When I think of the blood Buddha's head, it is half smiling and half crying, and this bitter laughter is made by it. However, the bitter laughter only lasted for a while, as if someone had gagged him, and he couldn't laugh or cry, he could only make a whining sound.
"Walk in, it's dangerous here." Dad said.
As soon as I walked into the courtyard, I heard a loud bang behind me, the temple gate collapsed, and the impact of the explosion knocked us all to the ground.
Because Han Leng pressed me under me during the explosion, I was fine, but he was miserable, and his entire back was blurred with flesh and blood, and he became a bloody man. Han Bing hugged Song Yu in time with her body-protecting true qi, although there were no external injuries on her body, she sprayed several mouthfuls of blood in a row, and it seemed that the internal injuries were very serious.
My dad was at the back and hit the hardest. A face was as white as paper, and he couldn't get up for half a day.
Now among the five of us, the one who was most seriously injured has been replaced by Han Leng. In the end, the Han family, who was born as a corpse, although they were blown up into blood, but because the acupoints and meridians have been transformed with secret methods since childhood, there is no danger to their lives for the time being.
When Han Leng finished bandaging the wound and gritted his teeth and stood up, his father was still lying on the ground. Song Yu and I wanted to help him up, but he waved his hand and refused.
"Dad, didn't you say that the blood Buddha head is a sacrificial item? I think it's about the same as explosives. I looked at him distressedly and said.
"Where can I calculate so accurately, it would be nice to be able to use it. Along the way, I didn't find any place to use the blood Buddha head, damn I thought this thing was going to be smashed in my hand, who knew it was used like this. Dad spat out a mouthful of bloody phlegm and said.
This time it took almost half an hour of rest, and then the five of us began to continue on our way at a slow pace.
The main hall door was open, and we walked straight inside. From the time we went down to the tomb to the present, we have experienced many dangers, and our physical strength has almost been exhausted, especially the explosion of the temple gate just now, so that my father has not recovered until now.
If there is any more danger, I really don't know how to deal with it. However, since the main hall is already in place, it stands to reason that it should be safe. The main hall was a place of worship for the priests, and it was impossible to hide murderous motives.
There is light in the main hall, and the light source comes from the nine permanent lamps on the altar offering table. Standing at the door, there were two rows of figures standing faintly in the hall.
The woman on the right is all women, and the clothes on their bodies vary greatly, and they have the style of each era, and the woman standing closest to the shrine is wearing a dress from the Ming Dynasty.
The row on the left can't all be called people, in Han Leng's words, it's a row of mongrels.
At first, he was a yellow-skinned man who barely maintained a standing posture, and the further he went, the fewer characteristics of the yellow-skinned child and the more human characteristics he had. When he reached the shrine, all the yellow skin features on the man's body disappeared.
is wearing a general's armor from the Ming Dynasty, and his facial features and eyebrows look a little familiar. I thought about it carefully, and it was a bit similar to Huang Sanye.
When the fat man and others were looking for Song Yu, they mentioned the tomb of the general of the Ming Dynasty, and a general of the Ming Dynasty really appeared here. However, judging from the arrangement of the portraits, this general should also be a descendant of the cross of the yellow skin, but he has completely evolved into a human form.
I basically don't know much about the history of the Ming Dynasty, and I can't think of an allusion to that general that can be linked to the yellow skin.
"Dad, can the yellow-skinned and humans really reproduce?" I asked my dad if I was so shocked by what I saw.
"Yellow skins are fur animals, and they will never marry with the human race to give birth to children. Even if you have cultivated and changed your human form, you must not do it, because the Heavenly Dao Compendium often does not allow it. Dad said.
"No, Dad. In the folk tale, didn't the White Snake and Xu Xian give birth to a champion Xu Shilin? ”
"Snakes are not the same as yellowskins, snakes are scaly creatures that can turn into dragons. All creatures that are related to dragons can intermarry with the human race if they practice enough. Because people think they are descendants of the ancestral dragon, the descendants of the dragon, and they have the blood of the ancestral dragon. The two ancestors of Fuxi Nuwa are both human heads and snake bodies. ”
"And how did the yellow-skinned essence do it? It's not going to be able to fight with the dragon eight poles, huh? "Now I wonder even more.
"This has to start with the source of the green dragon sha. I suspect that the ancestor of the Huang family once killed a real dragon. And devoured the dragon corpse, fusing the dragon blood. ”
Are there really dragons in this world?
In my heart, I believe that there are dragons in the world, and since there are real ghosts, monsters, and gods in this world, then naturally there must be dragons.
Looking through the information on the Internet, there are many news about dragons, such as the Changbai Mountain Monster and the Yingkou Falling Dragon Incident.
Yingkou Falling Dragon related records: "The dragon has a towering body, three armors on the left and right sides of the head, and the spine is more than three inches wide...... At the original dragon, there is a large pit that has been caught and dug, two feet square, and the paw prints are clearly visible. At first appearance, the keel still had tendons, until the skin and flesh were no longer visible. ”
This is the closest description of the appearance of dragons, and the last rumor of a dragon was recorded during the reign of Emperor Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty. In the southeast of Shiping County, Yunnan Province, there has been a dragon in the Yilong Lake, the whiskers and claws and scales are exposed, the large number of circles, dozens of zhang long.
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On the altar table, in addition to the nine lanterns, there is also an incense burner surrounded by two people, and there is no incense in the incense burner, but five long swords are inserted.
This made me curious about what was enshrined in the shrine, and I couldn't wait to lift the curtain to take a look.
With this thought, my heart was like a cat's paw, and I couldn't help but walk over and want to open the curtain.
"No life, stop." Dad drank it in time.
"What's the matter, Dad, is there still a mechanism here?"
"Zi said, don't use the hidden dragon, the sun is also below, and there is no stuffiness if you don't see it. What should be enshrined in the shrine is a wisp of dragon soul, suppressed with the murderous aura of the five divine soldiers, and it is ominous to see. Dad said.
"So what do we do next? This is the end of the fairy tomb, right? I said depressedly.
"Brother-in-law, this is not the end, you see there is a secret door here, and there is a road behind." Song Yu pointed to the back of the shrine and said.
There was a road behind the secret door, but it was a tunnel that led straight underground. The tunnel is flanked by crystalline stone walls that glow white.
The further down you go, the cooler it gets. Later, it was as if we had walked into an ice cave, and our blood felt like it was going to freeze.
I'm fine, because I'm the living dead, and I can barely bear the cold. Dad and Aunt Han Bing can resist if they have a way, but Han Leng and Song Yu really can't stand it.
"No, I can't go any further." Han Leng stopped and gritted his teeth and said.
"I ...... I can't hold it anymore. Song Yu's teeth trembled.
"Song Yu, you leave the spirit snake bone, Han Leng, you also leave the shroud, you go to the hall above and wait for us first." Dad said.
After Han Leng and Song Yu left, the three of us continued to walk down.
After walking down for about ten minutes, I felt that my limbs were getting stiffer and stiffer, and finally I couldn't take a single step, my head was dizzy, I couldn't stand steadily, and I saw that my body was about to fall down.
Dad quickly put his hand against the back of my heart, and a warm current poured into my body. I knew that this was my father using his true qi to ward off the cold for me, and it didn't take long for me to slow down, turn my head and ask him, "Dad, how long will you have to go?" ”
"Come on, you see there's a stone platform there, let's go to the stone platform."
At this point, we had reached the end of the tunnel, and the stone platform was twenty meters in front of us on the left. About five feet in circumference, it floats in the air and radiates a milky white glow.
The stones in this underground cave are all glowing, but it's too cold, otherwise it's really a fairyland. It is said that the Moon Palace is cold and bitter, and it feels like this place is similar to the legendary Moon Palace.
The path leading to the stone platform is a stone beam protruding from the stone wall, only half a foot wide, and on either side of the stone beam is an abyss with no bottom in sight. I was walking like a tightrope, my heart was beating with every step, and I didn't dare to look down at all.
My father had been using his palm to drive away the cold with his palm, and when he finally reached the stone platform, white smoke was already rising from the door of his head.
"Brother Jian, I'll help him protect his body, you can prepare." After Aunt Han Bing finished speaking, she put her hand against my heart and conveyed true qi to me instead of my father.
"Okay."
The three people standing on the stone platform looked a little crowded, and the father leaned forward slightly, took out the dark and translucent spirit snake bone left by Song Yu, and tied the snake's head with a rope. After getting it done, he casually threw the spirit snake bone towards the endless abyss.
Dad lowered the rope about twenty feet, and then tied the rope above it around his waist and tied his legs into a horse step.
Dad recited a mantra, and his footprints began to sink inch by inch, until his ankle sank into the stone.
This is the Taoist fixing kung fu, after standing still, even ten cows can't pull it.
"Dad, what are you doing here?" I asked curiously.
"In the past, there was Jiang Taigong fishing, and now there is my Fan Sword fishing dragon!"