Chapter 61: Stepping Stones
Zhang Guozhong turned around and shook his flashlight, only to see a person standing behind him, to be precise, something standing up.
I saw that this thing was at most three feet tall, and it looked like a person, but it only had an upper body, arms but no legs, and the entire front half was wrapped in thick rotten leaves, and some bones on the top of the head were peeking out of the cracks in the leaves.
Zhang Guozhong shook the flashlight, and the singing suddenly stopped, only to see this thing grabbing Zhang Guozhong's feet and neck with his hands, and his whole body suddenly shook up and down, and the rotten leaves also rang out.
"I'll fuck you..." Zhang Guozhong brushed a dagger, cut off the hand that grabbed his foot and neck, and then backhanded a dagger, straight at the neck of this thing, only felt that the dagger was cut on tofu, basically there was no resistance, the head of the opposite thing was cut off with a bang, and rolled down the hill along the path, leaving a black cavity.
"Why are there still demons in the mountains?" Zhang Guozhong thought to himself, seeing that there was no resistance to this thing on the other side, he flew up and kicked this headless body more than a foot away.
The earth demon is a kind of small monster that is rumored to be a god in the countryside, the legend is that it is only a three-foot tall villain, festering all over the body, can sing, who hears the song of the earth demon and turns back, the light is a serious illness, and the heavy is a life. But in fact, the earth demon is a kind of resentful corpse formed in a special environment, and there must be animals to take advantage of this resentment to rest the immortal can be formed, the real earth demon only * corpse hurts people, if you only hear it singing, the external physiology will not be harmful.
According to the theory of Maoshan Shu, the appearance of the earth demon requires very special or coincidental conditions, first of all, the dead must die at the hands of the living; Secondly, the body of the deceased must be buried in a place where yin qi is abundant, such as a pool of yin, where the deceased's resentment cannot be diffused and therefore cannot be reincarnated. Secondly, the body of the deceased must be destroyed after death, thus causing aggravation of grievances (e.g., destruction of the body caused by landslides, plant rhizome growth, etc.); Finally, near the place where the body is buried, there must be Xiu Xian animals to complain about it.
In nature, even if it is a resentful corpse in a mass grave, the possibility of becoming an earth demon is still very small, and it cannot be produced for thousands of miles, how can there be such a thing in this barren mountain and wild mountains?
Zhang Guozhong was pondering, and suddenly noticed a few black things falling from the ground, looked down and picked them up, it was a Buddha bead, obviously it fell when he cut off the head of the earth demon with a dagger just now, and then took a careful look with a flashlight, there are other places.
"Monk!" Zhang Guozhong's brain thought quickly, the earth demon in front of him was obviously the body of a monk...
The cloth "Eighteen Dead" needs a child... The earth demon at this moment is the corpse of the "monk"...
"I see...!" Zhang Guozhong suddenly realized, and he didn't feel a burst of excitement in his heart, this Zhao Mingchuan must have deceived a group of monks on the mountain in the name of building a temple, and then killed them together, and made the "Eighteen Immortals" who guarded the treasure land, so it is impossible to have any temple on the mountain, and the temple marked on the map is likely to be the place where the Tibetan national seal is inherited!
"Although there is no detailed record of the breaking method of the 'Eighteen Immortals' in any ancient books, nature seems to have broken this array by two veins..."Zhang Guozhong secretly pondered, "When the monks were killed, Zhao Mingchuan probably buried the monks' bodies under the tree (Maoshan Shuyun: The shade is yin, and there is wood but no yang. There is shade under the tree, and the sun cannot shine, and if the yang energy is weak, it will gather yin energy. Or some other place where the shade gathers, but then after nearly a hundred years, a tree next to the corpse has simply grown the bones of the corpse buried in the shade into the hollow of the tree......
And at this moment, the appearance of the monk earth demon (most likely due to the destruction of the corpse by the landslide, and it happened that there were immortal animals around, so the earth demon was formed), proving that another vein has been broken..., it seems that this Zhao Mingchuan's means are too far worse than his ancestor Zhao Sange, just a few decades, there are only sixteen of the eighteen underworlds. If there are a few flower monks who are halfway monks in the remaining sixteen veins, then this so-called eighteen immortals should be nothing..."
Thinking of this, Zhang Guozhong clenched the dagger, took three steps and made two steps back to the camping stone cliff.
"Senior brother!? Mr. Qin!? Zhang Guozhong found that Lao Liu Tou, Qin Ge and Song Kuan were lying on the stone cliff with their feet facing the sky, their eyes were wide open, and black water was flowing down their eyes, not knowing if it was blood or something else.
"This..." walked closer and touched the pulse, Zhang Guozhong found that the pulse of several people was quite normal, but he didn't blink, he didn't speak, as if he had lost his soul, the pupils in his eyes had disappeared, and under the strong light of the flashlight, the entire black eyeball had turned into a black ball.
Looking around, there was no so-called Hades chariot and horse team, "Eighteen Immortals... Today Lao Tzu made you eighteen pieces of waste! Zhang Guozhong put the dagger in his waist, picked up Lao Liu's head, and walked along the path just now to the grass pit where Li Ruixue was hiding...... When everyone was on the road, Li Ruixue was fine after all, which proved that it seemed to be relatively safe there.
"Ouch, Brother Zhang, this is... What's wrong? Li Ruixue was already scared to pee her pants at the moment, but because she didn't have any lighting tools, fortunately she didn't dare to move her nest.
"Master Li, you can do me a favor..."Zhang Guozhong put Lao Liu's head in the grass in the shape of a "big" figure, "You hold his eyelids with your hands, don't let him close his eyes!" Zhang Guozhong instructed Li Ruixue to take out a handful of incense and light it, and insert it around the outline of Lao Liu's head, while he stood a foot away and posed a figure with a copper coin.
With Zhang Guozhong's roar, Lao Liu sat up with a brush. "Ahh ”
"Senior brother, it is indeed eighteen underworlds, but it seems to have been broken a lot... I'm going to save them now..."After that, Zhang Guozhong picked up the dagger and prepared to go back to Shiyazi to save people.
"Back... Come back! Lao Liu grabbed Zhang Guozhong's clothes, "Maybe it's the pulse eye on it, you went to look for death!" ”
"You're all on the road, I'm fine," Zhang Guozhong distinguished, "Maybe I'm a powerful guy (Wentian Dagger)... You are optimistic about Master Li first..."After that, Zhang Guozhong climbed the stone cliff again, and carried back Qin Ge and Song Kuan in two trips.
"It's weird..."After Qin Ge and Song Kuan woke up, Lao Liu Tou also pondered, "Why, it's nothing wrong with you kid, and our brother has been tricked...?" At this time, Zhang Guozhong learned that when he left Shiyazi to find Li Ruixue, Lao Liu Tou and the three of them invariably felt that they saw a white in front of them, and then lost their memory, and did not regain consciousness until they were carried off the stone cliff and broken.
"Let me think about it... Brother... I..."Zhang Guozhong suddenly remembered that the piece of dead jade dug up by the seventh uncle's family had been in his bag, "I understand, I have that piece of dead jade on me!" So it's okay! This may well be a stepping stone! ”
"Stepping stones?" Old Liu Tou frowned......
Stepping stones are a medium of the ancient "parallel burial method". In ancient times, a considerable number of husbands and wives could not die together, thus giving birth to the "stepping stone" in the complex tomb bureau, that is, the key to "enter the temple first, and then continue the relationship". Since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, some nobles and eunuchs have built tombs for themselves before their deaths, and set up complex tomb formations or anti-robbery tombs. In other words, this so-called "stepping stone" is the "back door" of those complex formations.
"No wonder Zhao Kuncheng, that old boy, wants to get this thing away..."Old Liu Tou said, "It turns out that he won't break this eighteen immortals..."
"That stone cliff may be a trap!" Zhang Guozhong said, "According to the distance of the mountain road, that stone cliff is exactly the place that can be walked by climbing the mountain road for a day, and it happens to be camped at night!" So the 'Eighteen Immortals' may be around that stone cliff! But according to the topography, it is the 'tiger's mouth', and it is the only way to enter the treasure land! ”
"So the veins of the 'Eighteen Immortals' are on the stone cliff, but anyone who dares to spend the night there, come one, and die one!" Lao Liu Tou continued, "I don't have that stepping stone on hand, no matter how big my ability is, I have to admit it!" ”
"Yes! I suspect that Zhao Mingchuan probably wanted to lure the seventh uncle's grandfather to this place back then, even if he couldn't die himself, Zhao Mingchuan would make up for it, but the seventh uncle's grandfather was not fooled, but killed him..."Zhang Guozhong continued to analyze, "If the seventh uncle's grandfather was deceived here like this group of monks, I'm afraid there would be no current Liao family..."
"So... Right now... We... Only one person can go in? Qin Ge seemed to hear some doorways.
"That's right..."Old Liu Tou said, "Guozhong went in first with the knocking stone, it should be fine!" I'll find a way to break this eighteen dead before dawn tomorrow, and try to let everyone in..."
"Why before dawn?" Song Kuan said, "Isn't it clearer after dawn?" ”
"If it's dawn, I'm sure you can't find a place..."Old Liu Tou squinted his eyes and said, "If you leave a place for knocking bricks, you can only enter at night, not during the day, otherwise you will be lost, and your life will be lost!" If you could find a place during the day, you should have let people dig it after so many years, right? …”
"Take care, everyone!" Zhang Guozhong took the dead jade in his arms, took a lot of materials from Lao Liutou's package, and replaced the flashlight with a new battery, "If everything goes well, I will come back tomorrow morning, and everything will be clear by then!" With that, he turned on his flashlight and climbed straight to the stone cliff......
"Let's not move, stay where we are!" Lao Liu Tou stayed at the scene to command, serious, "Everyone listen to me, don't do it privately!" If we deviate a little, Guozhong will be in danger! With that, Lao Liu Tou took out his compass and began to draw the surrounding terrain on the ground.
"Brother Liu!" At this time, Li Ruixue came up again, "Call Brother Zhang back... Let's still... Let's go back! ”
"If you go back now, I can give you 200 yuan, if you don't go back, give you 400, I'm in charge!" Old Liu Tou didn't bother to raise his eyes to look at him, and he was drawing pictures underground while coping with it.
"Brother Liu, this... It's not a matter of money or money, my family... Still... And my wife and children! Li Ruixue stumbled and said, "I grew up in the mountains, I'm used to seeing these messes, and I'm not too afraid, but... But today it's evil..."
"What's evil?" Lao Liu raised his eyes, "If you want to keep it, I'll give you money now and you can go back by yourself..."
"Brother Liu, you... Look over there..."Li Ruixue trembled and pointed to the side of the mountain, "If there is an evil cloud in the sky, you will see blood, Brother Liu..., our brothers are destined, even if I go back by myself, I can't watch the big guy put ... Putting your life on the line, isn't it... Brother Liu... Uncle Liu! We... We... Let's go back..."
"Evil clouds?" Old Liu Tou looked in the direction of Li Ruixue's finger, "The black light is blind, where did the evil cloud come from?" ”……
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