Chapter 107: Ancestral Hall
Originally, I still didn't know a little about this ghost vine, but as soon as I heard the words 'Ancestral Tree', I immediately understood what was going on.
In the country of China, people's clan consciousness is very strong, and many villages are maintained together by clan relations. Each village has its own ancestral hall.
In the southwest, when the foundation stone of the ancestral hall of a village is laid, three locust trees are often planted around the ancestral hall.
The locust tree is a tree that grows in a year and grows in ten years. Often when the first ancestor of the village dies, it will be cut down and used as the coffin of the first generation of the village's 'ancestor'.
After these locust trees are cut down, the remaining roots, if they can continue to survive, will be left in the village as a symbol of the village.
If the root dies, it will be buried under the ancestral hall as an ancestral tree, and it will be worshiped as one of the ancestors.
In our Xuanmen, there has always been a view of 'neither false nor true, but do it because of thought', that is to say, even if there is no subjective consciousness of the ancestral tree, once in the ancestral hall all the year round, enjoy the incense offerings, receive the worship of the villagers, and entrust the feelings of the villagers, they will often begin to give birth to their own souls.
But in those villages where fathers are kind and filial to their sons, kind to others, and feng shui is good, the ancestral wood can often be turned into the guardian saint of a village, holding the village with good wind and rain, abundant grains, and peace in and out.
However, once there is a problem with the feng shui of this village, or if people's hearts change and become fierce and evil, Patriarch Mu Suo will also become the embodiment of evil spirits and entangle with the villagers of this village.
This village is obviously the second case.
As far as we know, in this village, except for a few people with foreign surnames other than Yang Zhen's family, most of them are people with the surname Zhang. And we have basically seen what kind of virtue these 'descendants surnamed Zhang' have become.
Headed by the village head, most of the villagers surnamed Zhang control the resources of the village and oppress people with foreign surnames. That's not it, let's just say that this time, it is clear that the village chief is using the ancestral wood to cultivate evil arts. And those with foreign surnames blamed the village chief for being a victim of 'sacrifice'.
And those 'vines' that are entangled around us today are, to put it bluntly, evil things derived from above after the ancestral wood became an evil thing.
Soon, we came to the outside of the ancestral hall, and Shen Hang said: "Don't delay too much, let's do it directly, burn this monster's lair." ”
As soon as the words fell, several of us found the ignition one after another, but at this moment, we heard a fierce roar from inside the ancestral hall.
Immediately afterward, we saw more than 20 people rushing out of the ancestral hall, these people had blood-red eyes, disheveled clothes, pale faces, and strange walking postures, revealing a fierce aura from top to bottom.
We quickly recognized that the person at the head was none other than the village chief!
"Kill them! Protect the Ancestral Tree! The village chief's tone changed, pointing at us and shouting hysterically.
"Damn, you still kill us, and you don't look at any virtues, one by one like a big smoker, Lao Tzu can pinch you to death with one hand!" Ma Guo was immediately annoyed, and he was about to go up and clash with them head-on with the torch.
"Everybody's scattered!" Shen Hang suddenly shouted: "Ma Guo, stand back!" They are now controlled by Ancestor Mu, and their strength is naturally not what it used to be, you are not their opponent now! ”
Ma Guo was stunned for a moment, and as soon as he turned around, the village chief had already grabbed Ma Guo, and we saw clearly at this time that the village chief's hand had changed, and there were rows of jagged small leaves on it, which were originally five fingers.
"The evil weapon on the ancestral wood invaded the bone marrow, and it actually made people look like wood. This thing is really powerful, you all beware. Shen Hang shouted.
A few of us scattered one after another, taking on a fan-like shape, and then we heard Shen Hang shouting: "Fire Talisman!" ”
As soon as the words came out, all of us immediately understood that to deal with wood, it was natural to attack with fire, so we took out the fire talisman one after another and pasted it on the torch in our hands, and in an instant, the flame of light on the torch suddenly rose five or six times, turning into a super large fireball with a diameter of more than one meter.
Seeing us like this, those villagers seemed to be a little afraid and didn't dare to rush up. At this time, Shen Hang shouted: "Slowly force over!" ”
When we heard Shen Hang's 'order', everyone began to move forward, and our fan-shaped formation shrank little by little, and finally forced their group of villagers back into the ancestral hall.
"Teacher Shen, what should I do? Even if the village chief is not a good thing, we can't really burn them. Now that the ancestral wood is attached to them, are you considering using the tool of 'pure house'? I shouted.
I saw a look of approval in Shen Hang's eyes, and responded loudly: "Try it!" ”
In the Taoist Law School's saying, the thing of being possessed by demons and gods will be called 'taking away'. This 'house' refers to the body that is used to store the spirit.
Now the village chief is in a state of being 'taken away', and 'pure house', as the name suggests, is actually to sweep away their bodies and drive away those external spiritual forces that are placed on their bodies.
Shen Hang took out a small flag from his arms, and slowly planted the small flag at the door of the entire ancestral hall, we looked at Shen Hang, and immediately understood, and stood next to the small flag, and saw Shen Hang wave his hand, everyone closed their eyes and began to chant.
What we are reading now, called the Taishang Tiangang Chapter, is an extremely niche Taoist classic. But no matter how niche it is, it is also a classic, and as the scriptures are quickly recited by us, we feel that the entire ancestral hall, like a pot of boiling water, begins to surge.
Slowly, we heard someone screaming inside, Shen Hang looked at me, and made a look, I understood, he wanted me to go in to check the situation.
I hurriedly ran into the ancestral hall, and immediately saw that the ancestral tree was hanging in the middle of the ancestral hall, and the rhizomes and vines around it were extending in all directions, and the village chief and others were lying on the ground with a painful look, and the seven orifices were bleeding and painful.
I immediately understood that the Ancestral Wood had been suppressed by us now, but this monster was not so easy to settle, and it was probably going to have a jade burning battle now.
I hurriedly ran out and shouted, "Oh no, Mr. Shen!" They're all going to die! ”