Chapter 14: The First Seven Ghosts
Legend has it that after Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, he was eager to live forever, so Xu Fu, a Qi person, wrote that there were "three sacred mountains" in the sea: Penglai, the abbot and Yingzhou, where immortals lived, and they could get the elixir of immortality. Qin Shi Huang was very happy, so he sent thousands of boys and girls to follow Xu Fu to the sea to seek immortal medicine.
The first time he went to sea, Xu Fu said that the gift was too light, and the immortals did not give the immortal medicine. So Qin Shi Huang once again prospered with gold and silver, and ordered Xu Fu to go to sea. Unexpectedly, this time Xu Fu said that he met a big Jiaoyu and couldn't go to Xianshan. Qin Shi Huang was still unwilling, and ordered the crossbowmen to go to sea together, and really encountered the big Jiaoyu and shot it to death. But because he did not have the strength to go any further, he returned.
In this way, Qin Shi Huang was even more convinced of Xu Fu, and it didn't take long for him to go to sea again to look for the elixir, but this year, Shi Huang Yingzheng himself died on the road, and Xu Fu never came back.
It is said that Xu Fudong crossed to Japan and brought agriculture and culture to Japan, and was a Japanese god figure.
And as soon as the Seventh Master said this, the history of searching for the elixir of immortality was pushed forward by thousands of years.
When the second uncle heard the so-called immortal elixir, his eyes suddenly lit up: "What way?" ”
The seventh master frowned slightly, seemed to be a little hesitant, and said after a while: "I don't know if I can believe this information, anyway, I think it's a little too unbelievable." I've just said all this, and you're all ignoring one of the most critical issues. ”
"Huh?" The three of us looked at each other and didn't react for a while: "What is the most critical question?" ”
"This Gu Yusheng, why does he know the whereabouts of the Nanpan Divine Palace?" The seventh master asked with a smile.
The three of us were stunned again: It's true, I've been listening to the Seventh Master talk about Gu Yusheng and the Nanpan faction, but I haven't noticed this problem, Gu Yusheng, why do you know the whereabouts of the Nanpan Divine Palace?
"Why?!" The pig's head asked hummingly.
"If I say that this Gu Yusheng is an ancient corpse five thousand years ago, do you believe it?" The seventh master said with a wry smile.
As soon as everyone heard this, their instinct was a disdainful expression of "you pull it down" - we understood what the seventh master meant, he was saying that this Gu Yusheng was originally a member of the Pan tribe five thousand years ago, and was made into an ancient corpse, and came back to life five thousand years later and became the first helmsman of the Nanpan faction. It was precisely because of this that he was able to know the location of the so-called Nanpan Shrine.
"This ......" the second uncle sneered: "According to what we know now, China, oh no, is those ancient civilizations in the world, making mummies or all kinds of ancient corpses we encounter, generally there are two situations - first, when you are not born, you will pour some special medicines to your mother, so that she can form the so-called 'ghost fetus', and as soon as she is born, she is an evil thing; second, you can pour special drugs into adults, or soak them in a medicine jar to cultivate evil things. Either way, the main thing is to change the body organs of these people, so that they slow down, reduce blood flow, and affect the brain waves of these people, making them manic. In fact, the so-called technology of freezing people, faking them to death, and resurrecting them after a few years is similar to the two methods I described. However, the original two methods of sorcery were only in the hands of a small number of followers, and are now almost lost. Generally speaking, one out of 100 experiments is successful. Even if it succeeds, it won't survive for long. ”
"Isn't that right, second uncle?!" I interrupted, "Some of the evil things we met have lived for more than a thousand years!" ”
"That's the limit we know now." The second uncle nodded and said: "Generally, those who can survive for more than a thousand years are not ordinary evil creatures, they need to wake up every once in a while and absorb some things, such as corpse qi, corpse soil or the juice of other animals and plants, to maintain the organs of the body." But even so, more than a thousand years is already the limit that the human body can bear, even if the body's organs run slowly, more than a thousand years, they will age to death. Even if it is rounded off, it is counted as two thousand years, the Gu Yusheng you mentioned in the seventh master, but he has lived for more than 5,000 years, this is not only incredible, it can be said to be a fool's dream......"
"Yes...... Moreover, in fact, there is no definite conclusion on the existence of the Xia and Shang dynasties in the Chinese civilization. I pulled out my cheeks and said: "Not to mention the earlier Yao, Shun, and Yu, and the earlier Chiyou and the Yellow Emperor, I also think it's not very credible." ”
"At first, I didn't believe it either." The Seventh Master took a deep breath: "But later, the master told me something, and I have encountered it myself, so I think it may be true." ”
"What's the matter?" I asked in unison with the pig's head, I glanced at the pig's head, and said with a smile: "Seventh master, if you are really retired, it's not bad to tell stories, you are too good at telling stories, this is exciting, a ...... that stays in the pit."
The seventh master snorted and leaned back on the sofa, as if recalling: "When I was eighteen years old, I officially took over the helm of the Nanpan faction and became the seventh helmsman. My master was very old at that time, in his early seventies, and after I took over, he told me about the last things about the Nanpan faction. What makes me feel weird the most is about Gu Yusheng. Master said that our ancestor did not actually die, but lived in seclusion somewhere, because he said that the previous leaders had seen this ancestor master, but it was all at night, like a ghost, he appeared in the Nanpan Valley of Hengshan, and disappeared in the blink of an eye......
"What does this Gu Yusheng look like?" I interjected.
"We have a portrait of him." The seventh master smiled: "But I didn't bring it, it's at my house." Later, I asked Master, why is this Master still alive? Because according to rumors, this ancestor died when he was seriously injured and couldn't hold on, and many people were buried with their own eyes, how could it still appear? Master told me at the time that when Gu Yusheng was buried, he had returned to his soul, which is what we usually call a corpse, and after the corpse, he killed two people, and then a gust of wind struck, and everyone fainted to the ground, and when he woke up, it was already early in the morning, and he saw that the coffin had already been restored to its original appearance, and the coffin lid was in good condition, as if nothing had happened! Even the rivets on the lid of the coffin were firmly nailed to it! You must know that those people are all masters of digging gold and pouring holes, this kind of thing has also been encountered in the cave before, thinking that they have bumped into the evil qi and hallucinated, and they didn't think much about it, and hurriedly buried the coffin! ”
"In this way, they don't know whether that Gu Yusheng died or not at that time, or whether he returned his soul after he died?" The second uncle looked at the seventh master and asked.
"That's right." The Seventh Master responded: "It's just that no one suspected anything at the time, because even the two who were killed were only dark-faced, as if they had been hit by evil spirits, so no one felt that there was anything wrong." It wasn't until a few years later, not long after the third master reorganized the Nanpan faction, that he suddenly saw a ghost in the valley of Hengshan, and when he looked closely, he found that it was exactly the same as Gu Yusheng, but the distance was closer, and after a photo, the ghost quickly disappeared! Since then, every person at the helm will see the ghost of that valley Yusheng in the Nanpan Valley of Hengshan. When Master told me this, I was only eighteen years old, and I had not seen the so-called ghost of Gu Yusheng, so I didn't believe it until I was twenty-four years old, the first seven nights after Master's death! ”
"Nanpan Valley, where is Hengshan?" The second uncle suddenly asked out of place.
I breathed a sigh of relief with the pig's head, and when I heard the seventh master say the first seven, my heart suddenly became nervous, and I was just about to continue listening to the "ghost story", when the second uncle asked like this, the terrifying and tense atmosphere was shattered in an instant......
"Ah, that's a small valley in the south of Hengshan." The seventh master smiled: "Because there are cliffs in the southeast, northwest and south, it is difficult to enter and exit, so no one enters on weekdays." ”
"What happened on the first seven nights?" I glanced at the second uncle and asked the seventh master.
"At that time, I was the only apprentice left who stayed with the master." The Seventh Master took a sip of tea and continued: "I am guarding the master alone, and I am buried in our 'ancestral grave' in Nanpan Valley. Nothing had happened for the first few days, until the first seven days, just after the hour, when I suddenly heard a slight but real sound of footsteps in the darkness of the woods, rapid and light, like a small deer running through the woods. I was really scared at the time, so I subconsciously took a piece of blood stone in my mouth, came out of the sacrificial tent, and looked around. But this look made me even more nervous - because the footsteps could not be discerned from which direction they were coming, as if they were coming from all directions, but the pace was clearly the same, it was the footsteps of one person! This made me feel creepy at night, although I had been in many tombs at that time, and I had seen well, but it was in the valley of the Eight Classics, how could such a strange thing happen! ”
Speaking of this, the seventh master paused, drank a large sip of tea, swallowed it into his stomach with a grunt, and then said: "I was standing outside the sacrificial tent, listening to the footsteps that seemed to be getting closer and closer, and a few seconds later, the candle flame in the sacrificial tent behind me suddenly 'poof' and went out!" This frightened me, and the candle flame in the tent went out without warning, which was not a good sign! I hurriedly turned my head to look, and saw that the three white candles were all extinguished, so I turned around and wanted to re-light them. ”