readx(); Taoists believe that blood and qi are not possessed by ghosts, which is also the most fundamental difference between living people and lonely souls. Around the end of the period when witchcraft began to flourish, blood sacrifices were gradually reduced due to their cruelty, and a red pigment was needed instead. As a natural red, cinnabar has become a symbol of blood, so Taoist priests will choose to use cinnabar to paint the talisman of catching ghosts and subduing demons. Since ancient times, ghosts are afraid of people, not people are afraid of ghosts, except for ghosts, because people's yang energy is extremely heavy, and the ghosts of yin will be burned by the yang energy of living people.

In ancient times, people were not familiar with the properties of cinnabar, but because of its effect of warding off evil spirits, ordinary people would have a little at home. In Ge Hong's hands, cinnabar has become the most indispensable part of alchemy. In his book Hug Puzi?? Huang Bai recorded: "Cinnabar is gold, and the sergeant who serves the immortal ascender." ”

But cinnabar and quicklime, once mixed and heated, produce a toxic gas: mercury oxide. This is just a simple modern chemistry problem, but in ancient times, I don't know how many monks died because of this, until the development of modern science, mercury was determined to be a poisonous metal, and alchemy began to gradually withdraw from the stage of Taoism.

Using the earth as a furnace, Cha Wenbin really has a bit of the style of a contemporary alchemy master, several layers of thick gauze are wet with water and then wrapped in a layer of carbon powder, and the charcoal left over from last night's fire is everywhere. This is their improvised gas mask, easy to use.

When the quicklime encounters water, it begins to release a huge amount of heat, and as soon as it comes into contact with the cinnabar-rich soil, a large number of bubbles begin to bubble out of the puddle. At this time, people only need to retreat to the distance and observe, and when the chemical reaction is completely neutralized, it is the first step to open the underground world. Modern Taoist priests are much happier than in ancient times, at least they will not die at the hands of these inexplicable things of their own.

Taking advantage of this effort, the thick glutinous rice porridge was boiling in the big pot that was erected, which would be used later, and when the porridge was boiled to the point that it was stirred with a wooden stick, Cha Wenbin walked to the edge of the pit with a rooster.

A stick was planted on the edge of the lime water pit, and a rooster was tied to the stick, and if the chicken was not abnormal within five minutes, it meant that the cinnabar in the pit had basically been neutralized, and the mercury should have sunk, and if the chicken could not survive, it would have to wait.

Ten minutes later, the chicken was still looking down for food, and at this time, Cha Wenbin asked a few people to come over carrying the boiled glutinous rice porridge. The water in the pit was pumped out in turn, and the diesel generator of the superton worked, and after a while, people were able to stand in the pit. At this time, the sun is in the sky, and it is the time of the day when the yang energy is at its strongest, and it is also the best time to do it.

The mountain took the sapper shovel and continued, and the color of the soil below had changed from brown to black, and it was mercury that played a role. The cinnabar is removed, which means that the blood that symbolizes life has been removed, and the power of the blood corpse in it has decreased a lot at the moment, and it is naturally much easier to deal with it when the coffin is opened.

In a short time, a black door stained with mud was cleared, ordinary but heavy. It took all the strength of the four men to barely pull up from the bottom. The surface of the wood has been soaked in mercury, and no matter how good the wood is, it cannot be completely sealed after thousands of years buried in the ground, unless it is a cedar, which is obviously not.

Chaozi scooped a splash of water and washed away the dirt on the surface, and with his hand, there was a faint layer of red under the black wood, and the red layer could still reflect in the sun. With a touch of his hand, the wood was delicate and smooth, and he couldn't help but say, "Good fellow, rich lord." ”

Leng Yiran held the work notebook, and she had to record the unearthed status of each step at any time: "What material?" ”

"Rosewood, good rosewood, why is it so heavy! Such a large coffin can make a good dining table, if it can be pulled to the south, it can be changed to a villa in the provincial capital when it comes back. ”

Leng Yiran scolded with a smile: "Phew, you can think of it, hit the table with a coffin, call you, can you eat at this table?" ”

"It's not for me to eat, the current price of red sandalwood is on an equal footing with Huanghuali, just such a large and neat piece of material has long been extinct, and those with a thick bowl can be sold at a sky-high price, and they are so pulled to make coffins, the lord here is not an ordinary rich man."

In Cha Wenbin's eyes, the coffin is the coffin, and the one made of pure gold is just a sleeping dead, he only cares about what he wants: "Look, can it be opened?" ”

Chaozi circled the coffin a few times and touched it around with his hands: "There are six nails in total, one on the front and one on the back, two on each side, and there is no secret door." ”

"If you touch it again, there should be two in front of you."

Sure enough, Chaozi found another wooden nail on the head of the coffin, but this one was driven horizontally, which was different from the regular comb nail. Chaozi has seen a lot of coffins, whether it is the age or the style, he has never seen this kind of fighting, why should the nail be left horizontally.

"How do you know there's another one?"

"This nail is called a flat nail, and it's not surprising that you haven't seen it. After death, people will have a return to the soul. Man has three souls and seven spirits, and after death, the soul leaves the body, the soul rises and the spirit falls, and the spirit descends into the earth of different depths. As soon as a person dies, the soul will rise again after entering the earth, and it will rise one foot a day, but the soul will remain in the coffin and not leave. When the soul is re-unearthed and the soul in the coffin is combined, it will form a revival, and at this time, the soul will go home out of the coffin, that is, the night of the soul. However, the soul of the red burial method cannot be unearthed, and in order to retain the soul, it is necessary to give the soul an illusion, and it has met the soul. The nail that you touch and drive into horizontally should be engraved with the master's birth date and name, and when the spirit encounters it, it thinks that it is the soul, and it will no longer rise, so that the spirit and the soul can never be gathered, and they can never be separated. The Lord here can only be reincarnated after returning to the soul, so that he will never be able to return to the soul, and the soul will be trapped in the coffin, and the spirit will float below.

The red burial itself is indestructible and unbreakable, with blood and qi circulating around, plus this flat nail to control the soul from gathering, the lord here can really sleep peacefully. ”

"Then how do I open the coffin?"

"I'm not here for him, the moment you open the coffin, your soul will be annihilated immediately once you see the light, and Da Luo Jinxian can't save it. This method was originally a misery for him, from the day he was ticked off his name in the book of life and death, his earth soul was trapped in the underworld, and it was a relief for him to open it one day earlier. ”

Chaozi picked up a crowbar, one end of this thing is a curved iron hook, which is specially used to open the coffin, glanced at Cha Wenbin and said, "Then I will open it." ”

"You can't open it all the way, just open one tail and let the light in. The contents are nothing during the day, and once he loses his soul, he will become a zombie at night. If it weren't for that lynx, I would have burned him, and I would have kept it now. ”

According to Cha Wenbin's instructions, Chaozi first pried out a few nails in turn, and then worked together with Dashan and Dashan from the tail, pushing open a hole about 20 centimeters long, and a bloody stench immediately gushed out.

Through the small section of the coffin that was opened, it can be seen that the person inside is wearing a pair of old shoes, which indicates that the person was in front of the person, and the trouser leg was tied with a circle of gold thread, Cha Wenbin said, this is to prevent the stumbling rope prepared to prevent the corpse.

After seeing the light, Cha Wenbin asked them to pour all the prepared thin glutinous rice mixed with realgar into the coffin. These things are not used to restrain blood stiffness, but are used for another purpose.

After closing the coffin again, Cha Wenbin used an ink fountain to play a layer of heaven and earth net on the back of the coffin, and pasted a heavenly master talisman on the head, so that at least the lord inside would not jump out immediately after dark.

The coffin was exposed to the outside in this way, and the rest of the time was to wait for dark. The lynx is a very cunning animal, it has a very high IQ and is very sensitive to smells, and in the past hunters could trap a slippery head such as a weasel, but no one has ever been able to catch a lynx.

Cha Wenbin believed that the lord in this coffin was the black lynx's inevitable thing, and that the lynx would watch everything they did during the day.

The afternoon was relatively boring, the rooster that was first used to explore the way had been wiped on the neck by Chaozi, and calling the flower chicken was his forte, and the chicken blood mixed with chicken feathers was indiscriminately smeared on the coffin, which also had this attraction for the lynx.

Zhao Yunxiao was very excited, he was eager to see a live zombie, this is not everyone has the opportunity to have a date with a zombie. But Cha Wenbin didn't feel so easy.

Taoist priests divide zombies into eight categories, namely: purple zombie, white zombie, green zombie, hairy zombie, flying zombie, wandering corpse, ambush corpse and immortal bone. The further you go, the more difficult it is to deal with, and the master in the coffin behind should be a kind of immortal bone and shadow corpse.

This kind of corpse is also called raising corpses, that is, artificially causing corpses not to rot, this kind of is generally very long, Ma Zhenren once cleaned up an eight-hundred-year-old corpse, and it took a lot of effort to subdue it, and the latter one is obviously more than eight hundred years. Judging from the situation in the coffin, this shadow corpse is still a dry corpse, and hatred is eight evils. There is a saying in the Daomen: Eight Yao rings, yellow spring water comes. It means that when you encounter this kind of corpse, once you don't handle it well or your mana is not enough, it is very likely that you will have to go to the underworld to report......