Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Cave of Cold Bones

To say that this Youfang Taoist priest, is indeed not a fuel-efficient lamp, the Ming Dynasty, Daomen has emerged four well-known Youfang Sanren, known as the "Jiangnan Four Little Immortals" in the circle, at this time this Youfang Taoist is one of the four little immortals, surnamed Wang, called Qi Fengzi, has always acted filthy and insatiable, in addition to the Taoist cultivation is still circled, basically there is no other good reputation, to talk about killing, this Wang Qi Feng is not undone, but the few who were killed by him are not good birds, belonging to the dog bites the dog and eats the black. At first, Wang Qifeng also suggested to Li Guang, saying that Zhao Jinzhou's corpse skin was too dangerous, and there was another way to kill Zhang Wenyong, but it would take a little longer, about two to three months, but Li Guang couldn't wait, this Zhang Wenyong would not die for half a month at most, and his position in the general judgment could not be saved, and it was a trivial matter that the position could not be kept, and the new general sentence could not even keep his head as soon as he took office.

To say that killing a living adult in half a month without realizing it is indeed a bit difficult to use some special props at Wang Qifeng's level. What are special items? According to Wang Qifeng's preliminary analysis, and no matter why the officials and Zhang Cong who moved the grave died, there is no doubt that Zhao Jinzhou's specimen can kill people quickly, and the most critical step is just how to safely transport Zhao Jinzhou's corpse skin around Zhang Wenyong's house.

Although it is simple to think, but after Wang Qifeng came to Longhugang, he was dumbfounded, with Wang Qifeng's ability, it is not difficult to find the burial place of Zhao Jinzhou's corpse and the exact location of the original Eight Thieves' Tomb, but through the observation of the Yin and Yang trend of the entire Longhugang, Wang Qifeng was surprised to find that the burial place of Zhao Jinzhou's corpse and the location of the Eight Thieves' Tomb happened to be the center of the two largest giant yin pools in Longhugang, so that the yin and resentment were full of resentment, and an independent yin circulation had even been formed between the two points, just like the "seven passes" between cities"The same, and some other wandering ghosts and wild ghosts in Longhugang are also involved in this yin qi cycle, whether it is moving Zhao Jinzhou's corpse skin or destroying the eight thieves' mounds, it will destroy the normal cycle of this yin qi system, at this time, a person will not only face the grievances of Zhao Jinzhou's family, but the thousands of wandering ghosts and wild ghosts in the entire Longhugang, if the death of the three servants was caused by the resentment of Zhao Jinzhou alone, then Zhang Cong later moved to the ancestral grave and caused trouble. It is very likely that it has touched a certain link in this yin energy cycle.

In addition, the consequences of destroying this yin qi system are the same as the consequences of destroying the "seven passes" of the town, theoretically speaking, it is bound to commit the taboo of "changing the heavens and usurping the earth", even if you are not killed by the wandering ghosts, it is inevitable that you will die on the spot. If you want to forcibly move Zhao Jinzhou's corpse skin, if it is barely feasible when this yin qi cycle has not yet taken shape a few years ago, but at this time, the raw rice is ripe and the rice is ripe, how easy is it to pay attention to the corpse skin? To tell the truth, Wang Qifeng is a self-aware person, as soon as he saw this formation, he simply returned Li Guang's silver ticket, not to mention himself in the current situation, even if Lao Jun was in the lower realm, if he wanted to move this Zhao Jinzhou's corpse, he had to weigh it.

Besides, Li Guang, since Wang Qifeng agreed to help, the hanging heart has been put in his stomach, but he didn't expect this dead old man to go back on his word and return the silver ticket, in a hurry, Li Guang was ready to implement the plan by himself, three thousand taels of silver, you stinky Taoist priest is not willing to earn, some people squeeze their heads!

Of course, Li Guang also had lingering palpitations about the death of those officials and Zhang Cong, since Wang Qifeng had already helped find the location of Zhao Jinzhou's corpse, this Li Guang simply spent 1,000 taels of silver to hire two people, planning to dig the corpse skin out of the ground at night, empty the straw and lime in the corpse skin, and then secretly bury it outside the courtyard of Zhang Wenyong's house. After staying up all night, Li Guang went to Zhang's Mansion early in the morning to see the effect, but he didn't go far before he was scared back, only to see that the streets and alleys of Xiangyang were full of officers and soldiers, at first Li Guang thought that the matter was exposed, these soldiers were here to arrest him, but later he inquired and found out that it turned out that this night, Xiangyang Mansion died silently seventy-seven people, not only the prefect Zhang Wenyong's family died, but also several unrelated families around were also wiped out, and the two people he hired were simply killed on the street, At present, the yamen has reported this matter to the imperial court as a plague outbreak, and the area around Zhang's mansion has been put under martial law by the official army.

Hearing the news, Li Guang can be said to be happy and afraid, happy is happy that Zhang Wenyong can be regarded as dead, afraid that he never expected this thing to have such great power, fortunately he has an extra heart and hired two substitutes for the dead ghosts, otherwise he will be the one who dies on the street. However, this is not the time to summarize the results of the struggle, the power of Zhao Jinzhou's corpse skin is really unexpected, and the thief is weak, even if Zhang Wenyong is dead, Li Guang still decided to leave Xiangyang immediately and go away, just when Li Guang prepared the carriage and horses and was ready to go on the road, Wang Qifeng found the door again, opened his mouth and asked for 10,000 taels of silver hush money, and threatened to go to the official army to report if he didn't give money, to be honest, whether the current matter of Xiangyang Mansion was a plague or not, except for Li Guang himself, only Wang Qifeng knew best. But then again, this Li Guang is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he frankly admits that he is not afraid of informants, and more than 70 people died overnight in a huge Xiangyang Mansion, and you go to the informant and say that it is the incumbent general judge who instigated the ghosts and gods to kill the prefect, who would believe it? You stinky Taoist priest promised to help again and again, but when he saw that the risk was high, he shrank into the sun, and when Lao Tzu did it himself, he came out to extort money, how can there be such a cheap thing in the world?

As a result, a few days later, someone found the body of Li Guang's family of five in the field thirty miles outside Xiangyang City, and all the belongings on his body were looted, two years later, a newly built Taoist temple outside the city of Yunyang Mansion in Hubei Province is called Qifeng Temple, the incense is very prosperous, the inside and outside the seven links, the scale is even more than Shaolin Wudang, the host of this view is Wang Qifeng who has to rely on door-to-door practices to earn hard money in the first two years.

Let's talk about Xiangyang.

Although the ancient people did not have any modern communication tools, but the speed of spreading gossip was faster than the Internet, the news of the outbreak of the plague spread all over the city of Xiangyang in an instant, a large number of people moved out of the country, at the same time, the news also reached the imperial court, at that time Zhu Di had just got his nephew Zhu Yunwen, the courtiers were incomplete, the official documents were piled up everywhere, and the government affairs were a mess, how could they have the heart to care about what plague was not plague, so they simply threw this matter directly to Xia Yuanji, the household servant, but at this time Xia Yuanji was also busy, then sent someone to send the official document back to the hands of Hubu Langzhong* and Huguang Qing Officials Ren Chong'an, but Ren Chong'an had no choice but to reluctantly bring a few medical officers to Xiangyang City in person. According to the officers and soldiers in the city, this plague is really strange, the dead basically die at night, there is no fart during the day, and some people are still alive during the day, and they will die silently at night.

The plague does not distinguish between day and night, after a few years of corpse fruitlessness, an accompanying medical officer named Huang Yande felt that things seemed to be far less simple than the plague, so he reminded Ren Zhongan that he should go to Wudang Mountain to invite people to come and see, in ancient times, Chinese medicine and Taoism are three points connected, many Chinese medicine practitioners even know a little bit about Taoism, this Huang Yande is one of them, according to Huang Yande's understanding, there is no disease in the world that can make people die silently in just one night, the reason why Xiangyang Mansion suffered this catastrophe, It's likely that something terrible was provoked.

When Ren Chong'an visited Wudang Mountain, it coincided with Zhang Sanfeng's travels to Laoshan Mountain, and Song Yuanqiao, the big apprentice who was temporarily in charge of things in the mountains, did not take Xiangyang's affairs seriously, thinking that these folk things could be solved by playing tricks, so he sent his little brother Mo Shenggu to return to Xiangyang with Ren Chong'an, but he didn't expect this Mo Shenggu to return to Wudang Mountain in less than half a month, and when he saw Song Yuanqiao, he said: Xiangyang's things have come and gone, I have never seen such evil things when I grow so big, and I am counting on me alone, no drama......

In Xiangyang, Mo Shenggu effortlessly found the buried Zhao Jinzhou's corpse skin outside the courtyard of Zhangfu, and then found the burial place of the Eight Thieves' Tomb in Longhugang, so far, the so-called "plague" in Xiangyang City has an exact explanation: it is actually caused by the diversion of the Yin flow of Longhugang, to put it bluntly, the Yin Qi formed between the corpse skin of Zhao Jinzhou and the Eight Thieves' Tomb in Longhugang has changed the path because of the movement of the corpse skin, and the wandering spirits of the mass grave were brought into Xiangyang with the corpse skin, and Xiangyang is a city inhabited by the living. Yang Qi must be many times stronger than Longhugang, and all of a sudden it will go from Yin to Yang Foot, and even ordinary souls will become evil ghosts. According to Mo Shenggu's opinion, for the matter of Xiangyang Mansion, the only way at the moment is to dig out Zhao Jinzhou's body from the Eight Thieves' Tomb, bury it with the corpse skin first, and then bury it with his family and then exceed it, although the procedure is the same as a few years ago, but the difficulty is much greater, because time has passed, and the grievances of the Eight Thieves' Tomb at this time are already frozen. Obviously, it's not a one-man task.

After listening to Mo Shenggu's description, Song Yuanqiao was also difficult to ride a tiger for a while, he didn't expect things to be so complicated at all, but he couldn't stand by and watch, the dignified Wudang town was all over the world, and not long ago, he slapped his chest with a crackling sound, and as a result, he collectively shrank when he encountered a difficult matter, if this kind of thing spreads, how will he mix it up in the rivers and lakes in the future?

At this time, Zhang Sanfeng returned from a wandering, and after hearing about this incident, he couldn't come up with a plan for a while, so he had no choice but to retreat and meditate, but this retreat was not for thinking about martial arts, but for inventing a formation - a formation specifically for the Eight Thieves Tomb......

"That's the Eight Immortals Array?" Zhang Guozhong asked.

"Hmmm! According to Master Zhang's original intention, this array is divided into eight formations, each of its seven disciples holds a pulse in Longhugang, and Master Zhang himself holds a pulse in Xiangyang Mansion, and the seven disciples first overtake the seven family members of Zhao Jinzhou in the Eight Thieves Tomb, and the formation of Xiangyang Mansion temporarily leads to the yang of Xiangyang Mansion's 'Seven Passes', shocking Zhao Jinzhou's skin, the seven formations of Longhugang are very simple, and the vein of Xiangyang Mansion needs to change the seven levels to move Yin and Yang, at least it will break Yang Shou, and at worst it will die on the spot! Chenguang Dao said, "Although the disciples are opposed, but there is no other way, besides, Master Zhang's attention has been determined that it is difficult to change, in the classics of later generations, the eradication of the great calamity of Xiangyang Mansion does depend on this Eight Immortal Array, but the pulse in Xiangyang City, that is, the person who changed the Seven Passes of Xiangyang, is not Master Zhang himself!" ”

According to Chenguang Daochang, let Zhang Sanfeng personally change the life of the seven passes of Xiangyang, it is difficult for the Wudang people to accept it, and in fact, the person who went to Xiangyang to change the seven passes is not Zhang Sanfeng himself, in the Wudang chronicle classic "Wudang Xianzhi", the Taoist Taoist who is in charge of the Xiangyang lineage of the Eight Immortal Array, the surname is unknown, and later generations have speculated that the identity of this person should be Zhang Sanfeng's disciple in his later years, but in the official history of Wudang, there is no record of this person.

"About this person, in the "Wudang Immortal Chronicles", it was mentioned twice, the first time was before the deployment of the 'Eight Immortals Array', and the first time was after the deployment of the formation!" The Chenguang Daoist shook his head and said, "Yan Shang Daoist guarded Zhao Jinzhou's body in the 'Cold Bone Cave', and there has been no record since then. ”

Although the Eight Immortals Array can temporarily solve the problem of Xiangyang Mansion, it cannot solve the problem of the resentment of Zhao Jinzhou's body itself, because the time has dragged on for too long, Zhao Jinzhou's resentment can no longer be exceeded, but it can't be burned like ordinary injustice, because this Zhao Jinzhou's resentment has not been overcome, and if he forcibly burns his body, it can only aggravate his resentment, and it is even more difficult to deal with. In between, Zhang Sanfeng decided to place Zhao Jinzhou's body in a cave called "Cold Bone Cave", according to legend, this cave is big yin like water, its yin strength is incomparable to the general Shandong or giant yin pool, although the injustice has the characteristics of "yin", but if the sin of the great resentment is placed in this hole, the too strong yin in the cave is tantamount to reducing the tolerance of the injustice to the outside yang, once adapted to the yin in the cold bone cave, the injustice will not subjectively step out of the cave step, over time, its resentment can also gradually dissipate, There is no shortage of a good way to indulge in the past. And the person responsible for guarding the body of this "Zhao Jinzhou" in the Cold Bone Cave is the Taoist priest who speaks shang.

"Cold Bone Cave?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned, "Do you know the specific location?" ”

"I don't know about this......" Chenguang Daoist shook his head, "but it shouldn't be too far, then Zhao Jinzhou's body is not suitable for long-distance transportation, of course, the closer the better......"

"Then the book of "Wudang Immortal Chronicles" you said, can you borrow it from the younger generation to take a look?"

"It's all burning!" Chenguang Dao Chang stretched out his hands, "When I first hid the scriptures, I hid so many boxes, thinking that I have tens of millions of Wudang scriptures, just the scriptures and ancestral teachings are hundreds of catties, and the can't hide the can't be hidden, how can I hide that kind of book?" By the way, Zhang Zhangjiao, you just said that Senior Brother Morning Star is looking for me something, what's going on? ”

"I made it up on the spot, that big sister is endless, I want to help you out of the siege......"

"Oh, what do I say......" Morning Light laughed......

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Lang Zhong: The official name, which began in the Warring States period, is a five-grade official.