I looked up at the tombstone, and sure enough, there were thin red lines hanging on both sides. At that time, the third child should have hung the line on the tombstone, but it would be broken and hung on both sides, and there could be a red line broken into small sections on the ground.

I looked around again, and the altar was not completely dug up, and it was hard to see outside even from the altar.

At this time, he caught a glimpse of the small stone pavilion not far away, one was standing, and the other was lying next to it.

It should be the small stone pavilion found by the old dog, these two stone pavilions are the decorations of the cemetery altar, the bottom is a column, carved with moire, and the top of the column is a pavilion.

If you look closely, you can see that the pavilion is a little black, and it is speculated that it must have been lit inside. Follow the old man up from the altar pit to the slope above the tombstone.

I saw that the ground was sprinkled with white ash, which looked like lime, and the white ash on the ground had obvious traces of being trampled on, and there were some white and mutilated footprints left around.

Going around to the northeast, the same is true of the white ash here. The old man looked at the mountain peaks in the distance, looked back at the cemetery, turned his head to the third child and said, "Third child, have you tried to go down to the shovel?" The third child replied on the side: "I tried, and after the tomb was tested, Lao Wang came to try it, saying that he couldn't wait idle." The third child glanced at the cemetery and said, "But the old king told me that this tomb cannot be explored, and no matter where the shovel is placed, it can touch the stones." We paced back to the altar pit, and the old man looked at the altar pit and said, "This tomb is different from the usual, if my guess is right, this tomb is a grotto." The third child was a little surprised, and then said, "The grotto was rebuilt?" Could it be that a naturally formed cave is a tomb? ”

"Well, it should be so, first of all, this is a mountainous area, there are many grottoes, and the grottoes are much more defensive than man-made ones." The old man said while thinking: "And the feng shui here is also very good, although the terrain is remote, but it is nothing for a soil emperor like Tusi." Lao Wang Tan can't go down, which is naturally the reason. The third child frowned and said to himself: "If this is the case, it is too dangerous to blow up, and the thief cave can't be beaten, do you want to enter from the original cave entrance?" The old man glanced at him and said: "Yes, if it is a natural grotto, then there are rocks up and down, left and right, and the only entrance to enter is only this original cave, but looking at the current situation, in addition to the tomb itself, there are still people who are making a formation here." The third child didn't answer, he was now counting on old age.

The old man looked at me and said, "Xiaofeng, you come with me." As he spoke, I walked down the altar pit, and I followed without saying a word.

When I came to the tombstone, I pointed to the red thread, incense and candles, and explained to me why the tomb was measured. This method of tomb surveying was invented by the old man, he said, and other schools of thought also have tomb measurement methods, but the purpose is to test the risk of the cemetery.

The souls of those who died naturally will pass away with transcendence after burial, while the souls of those who died unnaturally will generally be reincarnated and dispersed after the end of their lives.

Only in exceptional circumstances will it become a Yin God. Therefore, the first is to test whether the tomb has a soul to be attached, and the second is to test whether the attached soul is normal, if there is a normal attached soul, the tomb will not be opened, and the yin money will be left after the tomb test to comfort the deceased.

Only a tomb without a soul attached to it, they will do it. If you encounter a special undead attached to it, the gentleman with the palm eye will even help to exceed, one is to accumulate yin and virtue, and the other is to facilitate the surrounding villagers.

Most of the tombs are undead, and they will not touch new tombs that are less than 50 years old. But there were also encounters like today's situation, where the attached undead are ferocious and numerous.

Generally, the palm of the eye chooses to give up, but there are also people like the third child who have a backer and will ask a master to help.

The tomb was first measured by sprinkling white ash around the tomb, a mixture of powders used to test the number of dead souls in the vicinity.

Then hang the yang line on the tombstone, the yang line is a positive thin line, which is used to test the situation of the dead soul in the tomb, and the ordinary dead soul does not dare to touch the yang line.

Finally, he put incense and lit candles to pray, saying that he was not allowed to come to rob the tomb because of his financial constraints, what difficulties he had, etc., and then put incense in front of the tombstone.

Looking at the situation after overnight, if the white ash is not abnormal, the red line is not broken, and the incense candle is burned smoothly, it means that everything is normal, and there is no soul attached to the tomb, and you can do it.

If there is an abnormality, it depends on how serious it is. For example, the candle is not burned, and one of them is half burned, but the yang line is not broken, which means that the soul is not satisfied, but there is no rejection.

Now this cemetery is the yang line is also broken, the candles are burned but the incense is not burned, and there are still a large number of footprints around.

The third child has never seen this situation, and the old man analyzed and speculated that this is a dead soul who is angry, does not accept offerings, and has a tendency to find a substitute to ask for his life.

The third child heard the old man's explanation on the side, his hand holding the cigarette trembled a little, and his voice trembled a little: "Damn, I have never encountered such a ruthless one." The old man replied: "I'm afraid that someone here has made a formation, and these souls who are looking for a substitute to ask for their lives are trapped here, and they are not having a good time, but they can only find others to replace themselves." At this time, I asked, "Old man, do you mean that someone will make a formation and let these dead souls guard the tomb?" The old man nodded and said, "In the past four hundred years, the souls of the dead in this array have been replaced by batches, and they have long been crowded. However, in recent years, the political situation has stabilized, and the people in the vicinity no longer have to go up to the mountains to collect medicine and chop firewood. The souls of the dead in this array have long been tortured into ghosts, and this time I can't let go of your arrival. I couldn't believe it, so I asked the old man and said, "Isn't the third child still able to enter the city, it's nothing!" The old man said with a cold look in his eyes: "The four of them have already died in four bodies, don't you bring us here to let the third child go out, they hope that the more people there are, the better." Hearing this, I couldn't help but feel furious, and timidly asked the old man: "That... We... Will it also be dangerous? ”

"Don't worry! With me here, I can break through this soul formation tonight and let those souls rest in peace. The old man said lightly.

Then the old man instructed the third child to let everyone look around for the entrance to the cave. I couldn't think of how to find the entrance to the cave for a while, but I was more concerned about the old man's breaking formation tonight, and I didn't know if the old man was going to wear a yellow sermon robe like on TV, holding floating dust and gossip mirrors to break the formation.

Over the next few hours, the group divided into four groups, starting from the altar pit and looking around the mountainside for the entrance to the cave.

The third child said to me: "Xiaofeng, if you want to find any traces of human movement, like the one with a whole cliff, it will not be the entrance." I nodded my head to indicate that I understood, and then I went from side to side.

The place I'm looking for now has a lot of trees growing on it, and it's connected to the mountain where we're camping.

From the junction, the climb gets steeper and steeper, and you can't see what the top of the mountain looks like when you look up. As I searched, I climbed higher, and within half an hour I came to the bottom of the cliff, where the steep cliffs were cascading rocks and rocks, and shrubs, trees, and weeds grew in the crevices of the rocks.

Turning his head to the west, he didn't look so steep. As we walked west, the earth gradually increased, and there were almost no small stones to be seen, and most of them were large bare stones.

I also looked into the gap between each large stone block, but I never found anything. When he met Brother Zhang in the west, he didn't find the entrance to the cave.

So I went north, and there were almost no trees on the north side, only large rocks were exposed, and in some places there were turf, thatch, and shrubs, and it looked very desolate.

In this way, I searched the mountainside of Nuoda, and found a few places that seemed to be entrances, and several people dug up the earth and moved the stones, but found that it was a dead end.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, Lao Hu seemed to have found another place that looked like an entrance in the northwest.

Brother Zhang and I also rushed to the place where Lao Hu found the entrance, and at this time, Lao San, Lao Wang and others were already there turning stones to find the entrance to the cave.

The two of us came to the front and helped to pick up the stones and put them next to them. After a while, the mouth of a cave with a clear bit of man-made manipulation was revealed.

The cave was originally filled with stones of different sizes, and many small trees, shrubs and weeds had grown in the cracks of the stones.

When I opened the stone, I saw the entrance of the cave, there was a narrow and very narrow crack at the top, the bottom had been chiseled flat, and there were some traces of chiseling on the cave wall.

As you can imagine, the original entrance to the cave was about an acute triangle, but now it has widened into a rectangle of two people wide and high.

After cleaning up the rocks outside, looking in from the outside, the afternoon sun is still very good, except for a slope outside, but the inside is black and hollow.

There were several big living people next to him, but none of them wanted to go in first.

"Don't move, I'll go talk to the old man about the situation." The third child told everyone present, and then turned around and went in the direction of the altar.

Although the third child asked everyone not to move, but the old dog couldn't stay idle, and threw the stone inside, probably to hear if there was any movement, and when the stone was thrown in, he heard the sound of hitting the stone, and he didn't know whether it was smashed on the ground or on the cave wall.

The people on one side didn't stop him until the stones he threw were getting bigger and bigger. After a while, the voice of the third child came from the walkie-talkie: "Lao Hu, did Lao Hu hear it?" Lao Hu took down the walkie-talkie pinned to his waist and replied, "What about it, how do you say it?" ”

"You guys get some branches to cover up the hole, and then go back to the camp, and remember not to go into the hole." The third said on the intercom.

After listening to what the third child said, he replied to him: "I know, I will be optimistic about them." Then pin the walkie-talkie back to the waistband of your pants.

Of course, everyone also heard the words of the third child, and then everyone went into action, decorated the entrance of the cave, and then went back to the camp.

Back at the camp, it was nearly dusk. The forest was getting dark quickly, and when I looked up at the sky, I could faintly see the glow of the setting sun, but I felt a cool air emanating from the ground.

Dinner was still made by Lao Hu, and before the meal, Lao Lao asked everyone to gather by the fire for a meeting.

"In the afternoon, everyone has found the entrance to the cave, and I have also set up a formation in the camp, so everyone can rest in peace at night." Everyone sat down, and the old man said directly.

Everyone nodded their heads to show that they understood, and the old man thought for a while and then said, "Third child, you still have a yang thread in your hands, right?" The third child rolled up his long sleeves, revealing the red rope on his left hand, and said in his mouth: "It's here!" Seeing this, the others also rolled up their sleeves to signal, but only Zhang Ye and I didn't do it.

The old man nodded and said: "It may be dangerous to break the formation tonight, you stay in the camp and don't go out, but if you find a strange situation, you should check whether the other party's yang line is complete as soon as possible." If it breaks, wake up the others and tie up the person who has broken the thread. Then I can't sleep, I have to supervise each other until I come back. The third child nodded and ordered: "Everyone roll up their sleeves and go to bed, and those who keep vigil should check at any time, and wake up others in time when they find the situation." Seeing this, I began to be a little scared, I don't know if it was the cold wind blowing my back or fear, and after a convulsion, my body began to tremble involuntarily.

At that moment, someone tapped me on the shoulder, and I immediately gave a stir, and then my body stopped shaking.

Turning his head to look over, it was an old hand.

"It's okay, it's me!" The old man looked at me and said. I blinked, letting my mind stop from thinking.

Then he nodded and didn't say anything. The third child on the other side smiled and said to me, "Boy, it's the first time." Don't be afraid, there are so many of us, it's going to be fine. "It was getting darker, and the dense foliage was obscuring the moonlight.

Everyone had already eaten dinner and went back to the tent to rest in silence. I stood outside the tent, looking up at the sky, thinking to myself that I didn't know when I was going to break the formation tonight, and if something strange would happen tonight.

Just as I was about to turn back to the tent, I caught a glimpse of the old man coming out of the tent, making eye contact with me and waving at me.

When he came to the front, the old man said, "Xiaofeng, let you go with me to break the formation, are you afraid?" I nodded and replied, "I'm afraid." He smiled: "This is just an opportunity to practice, let's go together." After saying that, he turned around and walked into the woods, carrying a travel bag that he brought with him this time.

I followed him a little reluctantly, suddenly remembered Brother Zhang, and then asked, "Old man, won't Brother Zhang come along?" The old man didn't reply, but said, "He stayed in the camp." "I don't know how the old man saw the road clearly, I almost tripped over a branch several times after me, but he seemed to be walking on the ground.

Soon we came to the excavated altar. Standing in front of the tombstone, the old man took out the paper money from his backpack and burned it, muttering in his mouth: "Burn and sacrifice to the yin gods of all parties, and the old man is so sudden that he wants to break the evil array." If you are not the owner of this tomb, if you are not in shackles, please stay away quickly. I heard him read it three times, and after burning the paper money in his hand, he lit three sticks of incense, which were not inserted in front of the tombstone, but inserted in the side of the altar pit.

I watched the old man finish doing this, returned to the tombstone, and only heard him whisper: "Xiaofeng, let you come with you first, firstly, because you are a virgin, it will help you break the formation this time." You won't blame me, will you? The old man turned his head to look at me, but the moonlight was not bright enough to see his subtle expression.

I replied to him, "I don't blame you, but I'm a little scared." He nodded slightly, and then said, "In a while, I will use the Soul Banner to gather these Yin Spirits and temporarily put them into the magic weapon, so that I can break this Soul Array." He sat down cross-legged, took out the spirit banner from his backpack and placed it on the ground, and continued.

"You sit cross-legged behind me and protect the back with your true yang body." The left hand picked up the spirit flag, and the right hand went to untie the cloth wrapped in it, and then shook it, and scattered in the wind, only to see a palm-sized cloth with several long strips of cloth connected to it, with symbols and words written on it, and it was too dark to see what it was.

The old man said: "The Soul Formation is a method of detaining the three souls and seven spirits, condensing yin qi, and refining ghosts and gods. He thrust the spirit banner forward and posed with both hands.

I couldn't see the specific situation behind me, and I vaguely heard him mutter: "At the beginning of chaos, yin and yang coexist. The living are yang, and the dead are yin. The ghosts and gods of the eight directions listened to my decree, and the Sanqing Avenue resisted evil and returned to the right. Then I saw the spirit flag fluttering, and the old man stopped talking.

The wind was loud all around, but I couldn't feel the wind. I sat behind me, not daring to move, my feet were already cramping and numb on my toes.

Before I continued to pay attention to the changes in my feet, I saw the old man's gesture change again, and he shouted: "Close..." "I felt the wind around me fade away, and the spirit banner slowly drooped.

At this moment, the old man suddenly stood up, with nothing in his hand, but waved it in front of me, as if he was practicing a sword.

Suddenly he straightened up, pointed his fingertips in the direction of the tombstone, and did not hear any sound, then he sat down cross-legged in front of me, moved his hands and arms a few times, and then stopped, holding a position.

At this time, the spirit banner in front of him had returned to normal, and the banner was hanging on the pole. After waiting for a while, the old man stood up and reached out to take the spirit flag, and suddenly the banner stretched out, and the old man immediately raised his hand and slapped it to the top of the flag.

I was still sitting where I was, and after watching his series of movements, the stretched banner was stretched out and drooped again.

Just when I thought it was over, a strong wind mixed with dust blew towards me, my eyes closed subconsciously the moment I felt the dust, and then my body was swept by the gust of wind, I closed my eyes and waited for a few seconds, but I didn't feel anything unusual, so I slowly opened my eyes and looked around.

The old man standing next to the spirit banner looked at me and asked, "Xiaofeng, are you okay?" I was a little scared and said, "I... I'm fine. The old man walked back to me, and said while reeling the spirit flag: "It's okay, now that the soul service array has been broken, you can go to the tomb at dawn." "I watched as the old man put the spirit flag into his backpack and carried it.

"Let's go back!" The old man said. Then follow him back to the camp the way he came. The third child, who was keeping vigil outside the tent, saw us coming back, stepped forward to greet us and said, "Old man, is the formation broken?" ”

"Well, it's broken, but we'll have to keep a vigil tonight, just in case." The old man replied, and then asked, "Is everything normal in the camp?" The third child answered: "I just checked the red line, and there is no problem." The old man turned to me and said, "Xiaofeng, go and rest." ”

"Okay old man, you can rest early." I replied to the old man, and turned and walked back to the tent.

"Old man, since the formation is broken, you can go to the tomb tomorrow, right? Before I entered the tent, I heard the third child whispering about the old man.