Chapter 66: The Secret of the Dead Jade
What Zhang Guozhong remembered was naturally the stepping stone. I remember that Qin Ge once analyzed that this stepping stone was actually a "belly back print", and the printed figure happened to be a Guanyin statue; And when this stepping stone was buried in the room of the seventh uncle's son, the swinger actually had a nightmare of Guanyin cannibalism for several days - what is the connection between all this? Is it an inevitability, or is it a coincidence?
At this moment, Zhang Guozhong's head is a mess, it stands to reason that a single piece of dead jade buried in the ground will never make people dream for no reason; Moreover, Qin Ge once analyzed that the belly back print may be a map or a key, as far as the current situation is concerned, the situation of the map can be ruled out, and another possibility is the key, if this dead jade is really the key, how to open this lock?
Thinking of this, Zhang Guozhong was about to suffocate again, stretched his neck desperately, and poked his mouth out of the water for ventilation. The black grandfather below is just like a stone man, holding it tightly and weightily, letting Zhang Guozhong desperately break free without moving.
At the moment of ventilation, with the faint flashlight from the bottom of the water, Zhang Guozhong inadvertently glanced at the Guanyin statue from the perspective of looking up, "Well......mm!" Zhang Guozhong almost sucked the water into his lungs - from this special point of view, what kind of Guanyin statue is this, it is obviously a "dark channel"!
What is the "Underworld"?
The underworld channel is a medium for the flow of yin energy. Maoshan Shu believes that an artifact can only ban one evil ghost or other wrongs, and if there are too many, you are afraid that it will escape. In ancient times, many of the magic weapons of Maoshan descendants to drive away ghosts and evil spirits were passed down from generation to generation or master and apprentice (the so-called magic weapon is at most a piece of dead jade with good color, not a finely carved thing like the pagoda of King Li Tianwang), it is impossible to give up the treasure of the master for a certain little ghost and monster that is not enough to worry about, so there is such a thing as a dark ditch. Its function is to transfer the evil ghost from one artifact to another, when the caster has sealed the evil ghost with the treasure passed down by the master, he can use the underworld channel to transfer the evil ghost to other objects and seal it, so that the treasure of the master can be reused.
There is a special paragraph in "Maoshan Shuzhi", "Cheng Yunzi said: How can the instrument of the master's inheritance be reused with evil? Liu Mo replied: Tie it to the same thing, and solve it with a canal. In other words, how can the treasures passed down by the master be reused? Liu Mo replied: Binding them with the same (attribute) items, and using the underworld to transfer them", this record is specifically used to explain the purpose of the underworld.
There are two kinds of underworlds, one is to use things, and the other is to array. The method of taking things is to use some yin materials to form a channel in a certain arrangement; The method of using the array is to use some charms (basically the "ghost attraction spell" based on "Death Script") as the medium. The statue of Guanyin in front of me is obviously the second type, that is, the array with the "ghost mantra" as the medium. I saw a rough line about a finger wide, starting from the back of the hand of the Guanyin jade box, densely spread to the back of the Guanyin statue, no need to look to know, it must be the "ghost spell" carved by the text, its position is hidden until, if you don't lie on the ground and look up, it is difficult to see.
This discovery even made Zhang Guozhong forget the suffocation at the moment, no wonder the young master of the Liao family had a nightmare, it turned out that the inscription carved on this piece of jade was part of the "ghost inducing curse"!
Tilting his head to the side as much as possible, Zhang Guozhong took a closer look at this Guanyin statue, and saw that the statue's left hand (the hand that should have held the jade bottle) held the jade box, and the right hand applied the fearless seal, and the sleeve of the right hand was concave - if it weren't for the discovery of the underworld, the recessed cuffs would probably be understood as a meticulous carving technique, but at this time, it seems that the recessed part of the cuff is extremely close to the width of the dead jade!
"There are quite a lot of eyes...... Zhang Guozhong had to admire this Zhao Mingchuan's scheming at this time, if he didn't know that there was such a thing as a dark ditch, even if he had a stepping stone in his hand, he wouldn't want to see the flaws in it. Either how did you come here and how to go back, or you were trapped alive in the cave by this ghost, even if you can find this, don't think about taking this heirloom so easily.
According to the current situation, the only way is to put the heirloom seal back into the jade box first, and then put the knocking brick into the cuff of the Guanyin statue, but this is undoubtedly more difficult for Zhang Guozhong, who was held in the water, than to ascend to the sky.
Although his arms can't move at the moment, his legs can still move, and after thinking about it again, Zhang Guozhong decided to take a risk. Because the Gui Ghost behind him is probably half a head taller than himself, if he can hold the dagger between his feet and poke him in the gap where the Gui Ghost is half a head taller than himself, maybe there is hope that he will let go? Thinking of this, Zhang Guozhong riveted, his two legs were bent to the top of his head at 180 degrees like the "straight body bending" in gymnastics, and then his wrist shook violently, and the Wentian in his hand flew up more than two feet, and then the two legs were connected, and with a snap, Wentian just fell between the two legs.
After his legs twitched for a while, Wentian finally rubbed the toes of his feet from his knees little by little. After lowering his legs, Zhang Guozhong had enough true qi, bit the tip of his tongue, and squirted a mouthful of true yang saliva up.
Seeing that the tip of the dagger was raised a little bit downward, and the tip of the knife was just facing his head, Zhang Guozhong was also a little weak, this is not an ordinary watermelon knife, but asking the sky, if the position of the fall is slightly deviated by even one centimeter, it will be himself.
"One...... Two...... Three ......" Zhang Guozhong shrank his head violently, his feet relaxed, and the dagger with true yang salivation plunged vertically into the center of Guigui's face, and the black uncle, who had not moved, trembled at the moment, and his arms seemed to be a little loose. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Zhang Guozhong roared, exerted all his strength to eat, and with a click, Gui Gui's arm was simply broken by Qi Gen, and a pungent smell suddenly permeated the entire secret room.
After standing up as fast as he could, Zhang Guozhong didn't care about asking the sky, so he put He's Bi into the jade box as soon as possible, and slammed the lid on the box; As soon as he turned around, he shuddered again, and saw that this ghost uncle stood silently behind him again without knowing when, the question on his face was gone, and a mouth grew on his face at this moment.
"Three...... The three of them ...... "Zhang Guozhong didn't expect that this Zhao Mingchuan would fiddle with this kind of thing. Taoism believes that people have three souls and seven spirits, and the so-called evil ghost is a whole with a complete three souls and seven spirits, although there is no IQ, but after all, they know what they are afraid of and what they are not afraid of. In the Luo Descending of the Yuan Dynasty, it is said that there is a supreme secret technique, called "Leaving the Soul Technique", which is to separate the soul of the deceased; The soul of the soulless is called "Wulu", and the soulless soul is called "Lingyu", also commonly known as "evil spirit", this kind of thing has no taboos, is not afraid of anything, and seems to have a body that is not bad. Moreover, once he attacks the "evil spirit" once with the traditional method of subduing demons and destroying monsters, he will grow a mouth, and each additional mouth increases its destructive power. In the records of Maoshan technique, the highest record of the masters of the past dynasties fighting the "evil spirit" is to grow three mouths, or in other words, in ancient and modern Maoshan Mountain, no one can carry the "evil spirit" to grow four mouths. Originally, Zhang Guozhong thought that this thing was a legend, and the original mouth was just the original one, and he didn't see it, but now it seems that he has really gained a lot of knowledge, and it seems that this thing not only does exist, but also in the Republic of China, there are still people who can get it.
Standing opposite this ghost, although the other party had no intention of attacking, Zhang Guozhong was still in a cold sweat. Zhao Mingchuan made this thing on the basis of this "soul separation technique" and innovated on his own, and made a personal ghost come out, and cleverly let this corpse use the power of evil to protect the ghost and the family. If it weren't for the fact that they had this door brick in hand, they might have died when they first entered the cave.
Bypassing Guigui, Zhang Guozhong trembled and observed Guanyin like the sleeve of his right hand, and found that the actual situation was not as simple as he imagined. The cuff was about four or five inches concave, with three faint grooves inside, and three lines were split from the cuffs on the outside of the "Soul Charm" sleeve, leading to these three grooves. Zhang Guozhong took out the dead jade and compared it, the width of each groove is exactly the thickness of the dead jade, that is to say, these three grooves can be placed vertically into the dead jade.
"Multiple choice ......?" Zhang Guozhong's sweat came out again, and he said in his heart that it would be great if he understood the text - two of the three slots must be fake, if he knew the text, it would not be difficult to find the real "soul attraction position"; But if you don't understand the text, the dead jade is wrong, and the three souls sealed in the He's bi will be released, once these three souls are integrated with the seven spirits on the Gui ghost, it will be at least a "Thousand Souls" level thing, and at that time, the stepping stone will definitely fail, and the death will be even more miserable......
Squatting in the water, Zhang Guozhong gritted his teeth and went home? He's Bi is right in front of him, it's too embarrassing to go back like this; If you don't go back, in case you get it wrong, it's basically impossible to come up with this hole with your own two brushes.
"Alas! There should be octagonal rice in his life, and he is dissatisfied with the ...... all over the world" Zhang Guozhong also learned the words of the old Liu Tou, young is young, and when the head is hot, he can do anything - if it is the old Liu Tou who is in the cave at the moment, he will never act rashly without a definite answer, but Zhang Guozhong is different, at this time he has already made up his mind and decided to be blinded once......
According to Zhang Guozhong's idea, it is necessary to take advantage of the fact that this ghost is motionless, first set up a formation around it, and then stuff the jade - of course it is best to be wrong, even if it is wrong, this array should be able to trap this thing for a minute or two, and with his own skills, it is no problem to climb out with He's Bi during this period; And the evil ghost is not the same as the ghost and the evil spirit, basically they don't go up the wall, and they go out and leave the entrance of the cave and slip away, as for the black grandfather in the cave, it is going to be said that whoever meets him is unlucky.
But at this moment, the house is full of water, and it is difficult to set up an array on the ground, and the only way is to put a wall, but what kind of array can be placed on the wall to trap the evil spirits on the ground......? Zhang Guozhong pondered while taking things out of his bag, at this time, he suddenly felt a shiver on his body, and looked down to see that his hand happened to be holding the bottle left by Zhao Kuncheng's father......