Taiping Evil Cloud Chapter 40 Red Stream Array
"I want to see what the hell is sacred...... "dragged the compass to the stone pile and circled twice, making sure that there was no danger, Lao Liu Tou rolled up his sleeves and moved away a few stones at the top of the stone pile after dividing it by two.
"Miss Zhuang, it's okay......" Zhang Guozhong squatted down and patted Zhuang Ning's shoulder, at this time Zhuang Ning was still holding his head and lying on the ground shivering.
Mr. Zhang...... Could it be that Mr. Liu put explosives in it? Zhuang Ning was shocked and said, "It's just a pile of stones, why do you want to be so excited?" ”
"Huh...... This is not explosives, nor is it a mobilization, if you have the chance, I will explain it to you, if Mr. Tong wakes up one day, you can also let him explain it to you! ”
"National Tiger...... Do you know these things? Zhuang Ning seemed a little surprised," he ...... Mr. Feng Shui too? ”
"It's okay to follow feng shui! This is Taoism! At this time, Zhang Guozhong had already walked to the side of the stone pile and began to move the stone with Lao Liu. To say that this stone pile looks quite large, but it doesn't take a few times to move it, and before moving a few pieces, a thumb-thick iron drill is exposed in the middle of the stone pile, about a foot above the ground.
"This ...... It doesn't seem to be some kind of Gu technique...... "Squatting down, Zhang Guozhong carefully observed the steel drill, and saw that the degree of corrosion was not very similar to something from a hundred years ago, "Senior brother, there are no insects at all, it's just an iron drill!" ”
"Dig down!" Seeing that the stone had been removed and exposed to the ground, there was still only one iron drill, and Lao Liu Tou naturally did not give up, "Where did the iron drill come from?" There's got to be something down there! With that, he simply took a folding spatula from his bag. I started digging down the iron drill, but I didn't dig a few times before I hit the hard stubble, which was not too hard, and the feeling analysis from the shovel did not seem to be stone or metal.
"Buried in the ground? Could it be that the Gu technique uses earthworms? Zhang Guozhong also didn't know why. I can only pick up the folding shovel and dig with Lao Liutou, Lao Liutou digs in the middle, Zhang Guozhong digs around, and after a while, a pair of white hand bones were dug out, and the outline of the bones buried in the soil was analyzed. It was supposed to be two hands stacked together, and then they were riveted into the soil by an iron chisel.
"This ...... Sheet...... Mr. Zhang, let's ...... Let's call the police......" found that it was a human bone nailed by the iron drill, and Zhuang Ning's face turned white with fright.
"Ms. Zhuang, please rest assured. This is not a modern thing......" Qin Ge squatted down, picked up a bone that had been cut off by a shovel from the dirt pit and sniffed it in front of his nose, and then flicked it with his fingers a few times, "This bone is basically calcified, judging by the climatic conditions and humidity here, it has been buried underground for at least fifty years!" ”
"Fifty years?" Zhang Guozhong was also stunned, "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, that was more than a hundred years ago......"
"I mean at least fifty years......" said this. Qin Ge also frowned, picked up a large phalanx bone from the soil pit, and put it in front of him to look at it repeatedly. "But definitely less than a hundred years!"
"Less than a hundred years?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned, "So, it's likely to be the Republic of China?" ”
"What do you think this is?" Zhuang Ning squatted in the grass about ten meters away, and seemed to have found something.
"I'll take a look at ......" Zhang Guozhong walked to the opposite side of Zhuang Ning, picked up the grass, and saw a small section of square stone stakes exposed to the ground. It's less than half an inch, and it's hard to spot if you don't look closely. In terms of the size and color of the stone pile, it is very similar to the "fire bureau" encountered in Li Village back then. The only difference is that there is no inscription on the top of the pile.
"Senior brother!" Zhang Guozhong dug out the stone stake with three or two shovels, and the part buried in the ground was at best a foot long, "Look at this!" ”
"What is this?" Looking at the stone piles dug out of the ground by Zhang Guozhong, Zhuang Ning was a little puzzled, "The totem of Taoism? ”
"Not a totem!" Zhang Guozhong shook his head, "It's a spell...... Could it be ......" For the inscription carved on the stone pile, Zhang Guozhong said that he had a sense of déjà vu, but for a while he couldn't remember where he had seen it.
"Red Stream Curse! What the is this...... It is a thing of the positive one! At this time, Lao Liu Tou and Qin Ge also trotted to the front, and when they saw the stone pile in Zhang Guozhong's hand, they were also a little stupid, only to see that the inscription carved on the side of the stone pile turned out to be the "Red Stream Mantra" that had been banned for a long time.
"Red Stream Curse!" Hearing what Lao Liu Tou said, Zhang Guozhong suddenly realized, his hands were weak and he almost dropped the stone stake on the ground......
The so-called "Red Stream Mantra" was originally part of the "Red Stream Array" of the Zhengyi Forbidden Array, and the name of the spell was also based on the name of the formation. The Zhengyi faction has always been one of the best in the Central Plains Daomen, and the taboo standards for the battle spells are also the strictest, ranging from the tomb formation to the spell text, as long as there is a slight flaw at the moral level, even if there is no substantial harm but only contrary to the traditional etiquette, it is very likely to be banned, and because of this, the forbidden array and forbidden techniques of the Zhengyi faction are more numerous and more diverse than those of other sects.
As the saying goes: "Show off not afraid of stealing, hide and protect the loss", the more you are forbidden, the easier it is to attract the attention of some people with ulterior motives, according to legend, Tang Wu Zhou Tianzhu two years (AD 691), Zhengyi ancestral court Tibetan scripture building was stolen, almost all the classic book formations that record the taboo formation have traces of being read, but all of them are safe and sound, not a piece is lost. Because the thing was not lost, so it did not get enough attention from the view, but I didn't expect that just three months later, Luoyang, the god capital, had a shocking "headless case", the so-called "headless" of the case, not only refers to the scarcity of clues, but is based on the physical level of the veritable "headless" - the newly appointed Xiao Sima 1 Lu Si and a family of 37 people were mysteriously wiped out overnight, and the deceased without exception were all heads pulled out of the body alive, and the strength was as great as the punishment of five horses dividing the corpse, For a time, rumors spread in Luoyang City, and people were panicked, so that Wu Zetian had to hand over the case to Prime Minister Di Renjie for personal investigation.
In other words, this kind of real "headless case" is absolutely impossible to investigate, but Di Renjie is Di Renjie after all, he knows astronomy and geography and passes through the five elements of yin and yang, which can be said to be all-encompassing in medicine, Taoism and Buddhism. The place of the scriptures and classics carried out a full range of secret investigations, and after all the results were fruitless, they simply prepared to call all the stonemasons, jade smiths and blacksmiths in the city to the yamen for questioning, but although the questioning did not ask any clues, the questioning led to a series of suspicious plots: when the case-handling personnel came to the door to issue the interrogation notice, they found that a blacksmith named Wang Ergou and a stonemason named Li Youcheng in the city died at home almost at the same time three days before the crime. The two had taken over the business of the same person before their deaths, and this person claimed to be Zhang Liang, and entrusted Wang and Li with the business of building a batch of iron drills and carving a batch of small stone piles.
Although the case can basically be determined by now, in order to ensure that nothing goes wrong, Di Renjie still wrote a letter to Zhang Luchen Zhenren, the teacher of Zhengtian at that time, hoping that Zhang Zhenren could send a powerful person down the mountain to help solve the case. As soon as he saw the letter, Zhang Zhenren immediately thought of the theft of the scripture building not long ago, and his legs and stomachs were facing forward on the spot, according to Di Renjie's description in the letter, the so-called side door left path used by the criminal was actually the absolute forbidden formation of the Zhengyi faction - the Chiliu Array.
This formation originated from the Western Jin Dynasty, originally not a faction of the formation, but a unique formation of a small Taoist school called the "Qingchen faction", strictly speaking, the Qingchen faction is not a Taoist sect with a red roots, but by some of the court warlocks who were unwilling to do so in the Later Han Dynasty to set up an inexplicable sect, because the court was heavy at that time, so it also played the banner of Taoism, when it came to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the inheritance of the Qingchen faction declined, and it was impossible to mix it up, so it found the Zhengyi faction to surrender to Cheng, and Zhengyi also accepted it, although people were accepted, But the formations of this Qingchen Sect have all been included in the category of forbidden formations by Zhengyi without exception, the reason is very simple, what kind of serious formation can the formation studied by your group of court warlocks be? In the palace, it is nothing more than deceitful and cannibalism, and at least half of the so-called formations of this Qingchen Sect are also seemingly orthodox, but with a little transformation, they can harm people in the invisible sideways, just like this Chiliu Formation right now, even the Heavenly Master Zhenren can't imagine what kind of consequences it will be if he studies it on the basis of this array.
In order to redeem the bad influence, Zhang Zhenren did not hesitate to personally go down the mountain to ask Di Renjie for the crime, truthfully explained the causes and consequences of the theft of the Zhengyi Tibetan Scripture Building, and assisted Di Renjie to find the iron drill and stone pile buried in the downstream of Luoshui 2, until the case was finally solved, Di Renjie did not find trouble with the leakage of the forbidden array, but just handed over the iron drill and stone pile used in the formation to the court as criminal evidence. Of course, Di Renjie is not a fool, knowing that this kind of evil thing is naturally known to as few people as possible, in the later stage of the case, there are not many people who have really seen the iron drill and the stone pile, and Di Renjie also personally issued a gag order to all the relevant people who have been in contact with the case, but the content carved on the stone pile was inexplicably leaked a small part, and has been passed down to this day, and this small part of the leaked content is the "Red Flow Mantra" carved on the stone pile dug up by Zhang Guozhong at this moment......
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1 Xiao Sima: The official name of the Zhou Dynasty. Wu Zetian changed the Tang Dynasty to Zhou, restored the Zhou Dynasty official system, and changed the six departments of "officials, households, rites, soldiers, criminals, and workers" to "heaven, earth, spring, summer, autumn, and winter" six officials, and the summer officials took "Da Sima" as the chief, which was equivalent to the "military department Shangshu" of the six-part system, and "Xiao Sima" was secondary, equivalent to "the military department squire".
2. Luoshui: Luohe, one of the tributaries of the Yellow River, with a total length of 453 kilometers, flows through Luonan, Lushi, Luoyang, and enters the Yellow River at the border of Gongxian County. (To be continued)