Chapter 54: Jade Lotus Seeds
On another day, grandpa took Hu Dabao to the vicinity of Tiantianquan, and asked him to personally pick the jade lotus seed, which is a rare spiritual thing in heaven and earth, and it is a thing that recognizes the Lord, and in order to maintain survival after being removed, it will take the initiative to absorb the surrounding spiritual energy.
After letting this jade lotus seed absorb the essence of Hu Dabao's body, there will be less resistance to using this jade lotus seed to contain Hu Hui's soul, after all, what Hu Hui cared about most in her life was her father. Hu Dabao himself does not know water, he grew up inland, and most of the people in the inland are landlubbers.
But for the sake of his daughter, Hu Dabao had a white face, and almost desperately went to the water to plop, and after choking on the water, Hu Dabao grabbed a large handful of jade lotus seeds, and began to retch when he lay on the shore, and spit out several kelp in his mouth. When it was time to be a child, Grandpa asked Hu Dabao to help him chop the jade lotus seeds according to the pattern he had drawn, and the key was not to break them as much as possible.
The jade lotus seed grows about the size of a sweet potato when it is young, but when it reaches adulthood, it becomes a large disc, but it is not in the shape of a flatbread, and in terms of the outline of the surface, it is very similar to the shape of the growth rings inside the tree after cutting it open.
It's just that the jade lotus seeds are not completely glued together in each round, but are knotted together through small joints, and there are a total of seven knots in a round, and after all of them are broken, a complete circle of jade lotus seeds can be made. An adult jade lotus seed has a total of about 6~8 circles.
This jade lotus seed is disassembled according to the circle, grandpa cut them all neatly along the rhizome, the jade lotus seed itself is very soft, just like the green vine on the edge of the cliff, soft and strong, it is also a good choice for tying heavy objects. After the jade lotus seeds were dismantled by his grandfather, he asked Hu Dabao to help him tie all the straightened jade lotus seeds together.
Three circles of jade lotus seeds can be tied to a two-meter length, and grandpa wants him to make a four-meter one, a total of thirty-two. Hu Dabao worked hard, and the dry soil on the ground made the sweat on his face mud. The two of them worked from dusk to the early morning of another day, and when Hu Dabao tied all the thirty-two jade lotus seeds, his waist almost couldn't straighten up.
Grandpa is not much better, this thing to revive Hu Hui's soul is not child's play, if you don't get it in one step, both of them will be severely punished by God. Grandpa mixed all those medicinal powders overnight, put them into suitable containers, and after Hu Dabao handed over the jade lotus seeds that had been braided to him, he smeared the medicinal powders on these jade lotus seeds in turn.
These thirty-two jade lotus seeds are used to weave the container for parasitic Hu Hui's soul. Depending on the part of the body, the medicinal powder to be sprinkled is also different, some are used to purify evil spirits, some are used to nourish the soul, some are used to cleanse the spirit, and some are used to plate the spirit. Grandpa is also old, and almost with his rich experience, he has greatly reduced his working hours.
Hu Dabao watched his grandfather learn at first, and then slowly followed his grandfather to weave the processed jade lotus seeds together. The two of them worked hard for a day to make Hu Hui's limbs and torso, and at ten o'clock in the night, the two of them connected their limbs, torso and head together, and branched them into the Tianshou Yin and Yang Array drawn by their grandfather in advance.
The Yin-Yang Array was relatively familiar to me before I became a burial master, and my grandfather explained a lot of things to me about the Yin-Yang Array - for the burial master, the four words Yin and Yang gossip are almost the origin of everything.
The greatest use of the Tianshou Yin-Yang Array is that it can help the soul who has lost the Seven Spirits to find his Seven Spirits while maintaining a state of integrity, which requires a very long process of nourishment, but the Tianshou Yin-Yang Array is used to assist the soul to complete this. It's just that when I watched my grandfather draw this Tianshou Yin and Yang Array, I felt a little sad in my heart, because although this array is easy to use, it requires the underground burial master to pay for a few years of his own Yang Shou.
This is also related to the nature of the profession of the underground burial master, for the underground burial master, almost everything has the most strict two-sided - there is a gain and a loss, if you want to gain something, you must lose a thing, you have to use a method, and you must cripple yourself. It should be very appropriate to use the words equivalent exchange to describe the underground burial master.
I think grandpa should have really taken Hu Hui's matter to heart, otherwise he wouldn't have done this for Hu Dabao. And why Grandpa did this, I seem to be able to understand, if you calculate from the perspective of time, Grandpa will no longer be a burial master in two years. Help Hu Dabao rescue his poor daughter, which may be the grandfather's last burial as a ground burial master.
In this half of his life, because he became a burial master, he violated the taboo of the family, and the Zhang family has suffered a great misfortune, which is estimated to be the biggest reason for his grandfather to retire. But after working as a burial master for half his life, it is difficult for him to let go of things like Hu Dabao.
Time unconsciously reached zero o'clock, and at this time, the jade lotus seed stand-in used to revive Hu Hui's soul had also been made, and the Tianshou Yin and Yang Array also began to glow with bursts of strange white light, slowly turning. The full moon in the sky and the Tianshou Yin and Yang Array on the ground reflect each other, and they look very gorgeous.
Hu Dabao is a rough man, where has he ever seen such a magical scene, looking at the woven jade lotus seeds as if they were alive and slowly standing up he was startled, his face was pale, grandpa told him many times not to worry, but after a long time, Hu Dabao was sure that this jade lotus seed would not harm himself before he put his mind at ease.
However, at the beginning, things did not go according to Grandpa's expectations - according to Grandpa's thoughts, it should not take too long to attract Hu Hui's soul, but nearly an hour has passed since zero o'clock, and the moonlight of the full moon has become darker and darker, but Hu Hui has no signs of appearing at all.
Hu Dabao waited for a long time and couldn't wait for his daughter's soul, and couldn't help but feel a little anxious, asking his grandfather what was going on? Is it the wrong way? Grandpa's face didn't look good, he just said to wait and see. Another half an hour passed, and the activation time of the Tianshou Yin and Yang Array was about to pass, and if there was no soul boarding, the formation would disappear, and at this time, Grandpa's face became even more ugly.
After taking a deep breath, Grandpa looked at Hu Dabao with some unspeakable looks and said, Hu Hui may be difficult to come back. Hu Dabao was stunned for a long time before he knelt in front of his grandfather, grabbed his clothes and cried heartbreakingly.
Hu Dabao cried and asked his grandfather why Hu Hui couldn't come back, the reason why he has been able to survive all these years is because he thinks that one day he can see his daughter again, he can hug her again, and compensate her well, so he licked his face and lived until now, he has no attachment to this world, and if he wants to live alone, he would rather break it off by himself.
Grandpa also looked a little uneasy, and after hesitation, he still told Hu Dabao the truth - there was no problem with the practice, and grandpa also obviously felt that Hu Hui had come, but Hu Hui was unwilling to enter this formation and lodge in this jade lotus seed stand-in.
Hu Dabao hurriedly asked his grandfather why Hu Hui was reluctant to come back, and his grandfather said that he didn't know, maybe because of the resentment on her body, she had completely lost her consciousness, or it could be ...... She's resisting seeing you. In short, no matter what the reason, it seems that it is impossible to let Hu Hui enter the Jade Lotus Seed now.
After being silent for a while, Hu Dabao looked a little lost, and asked his grandfather hoarsely what would become if Hu Hui didn't return to the Jade Lotus Seed stand-in. A touch of guilt flashed in Grandpa's eyes, and he said that if Hu Hui, the child, is unwilling to come back, then she is an evil ghost, and she is no longer your daughter.
I am an underground burial master, and now that I have discovered this evil ghost, it is impossible to let her do evil in the world, but only to destroy her from the world. Hu Dabao trembled, a look of pain flashed in his eyes, and he trembled and asked what does it mean to be destroyed, is it to send her to reincarnation? Grandpa said that evil spirits cannot enter reincarnation, and if they are caught, they will suffer in hell for eternity, and if they fall into my hands, they will be scattered and completely disappear from the world.
Hu Dabao cried, crying heartbroken, and his emotions were completely out of control, he cried and yelled at the sky, calling for his daughter, begging her to come back, and asked her if she didn't want to come back because she hated him as a father, hated him for not being able to protect her well, and let her suffer so much abuse that she shouldn't have.
The entire mountain forest was quiet, only Hu Dabao's desperate roar was constantly echoing, of course Hu Hui would not answer him, and Hu Hui could not be seen anywhere. Hu Dabao smiled sadly, and then he saw the handmade knife next to him, and took it to his hand.
Hu Dabao put the sharp handmade knife on his arm, looked at the night sky and shed tears, and shouted to Hu Hui, good daughter, if you hate me as a father, there is only one thing I can do for you. After that, Hu Dabao gritted his teeth fiercely, and the sharp handmade knife blade cut a big hole in his arm, but this was not over, Hu Dabao pinched the handle of the knife and lifted it up along the wound - a piece of skin and flesh was cut off by him!
Grandpa was stunned, and then immediately ran over to stop Hu Dabao, angrily scolding him not to do such a stupid thing, there is no point at all, but at this time Hu Dabao's spirit has completely collapsed, and his grandfather can't resist the strength of a man in his prime, and after pushing his grandfather away directly, Hu Dabao smiled miserably, his hand holding the handmade knife kept trembling, and he cut flesh from his body one by one with tears.
This Hu Dabao is also a ruthless person, saying that self-harm is self-harm, there is no ambiguity at all, a person is really forced into a desperate situation and ruthless, no one can stop him, grandpa has tried several times to stop Hu Dabao, but his desperate look finally made grandpa give up blocking - he knows that Hu Dabao is like this, even if he can stop him now, if he can't save Hu Hui, he won't live anymore.
The handmade knife in Hu Dabao's hand has turned into a blood-colored knife at this moment, the hand holding the knife is full of blood, and the ground is also full of red bloodstains, and pieces of skin and flesh have been peeled everywhere, hidden in the grass that shines with a ghostly light. After a while, Hu Dabao's entire right arm was only left with Sensen's white bones, and a few thin pieces of skin and flesh were pitifully attached to it.
An old man who is over fifty years old, with tears in his eyes, knelt in the dark in despair, holding a knife to cut his flesh and bones to express his apologies to his daughter, this look is very terrifying and very cruel, but it inexplicably makes me feel sad, my chest is stuffy, and my nose is a little sour.