Chapter 19: The Depths of the Leylines
The cold in the tunnels was oppressive, and after walking for a while, the steps were gone, and only the rough shale road remained. Except for the pillar of light in Master Cheng's hand, there was silent darkness on all sides.
"Young man, in fact, you shouldn't come down, you only have one life, and you must cherish it. You are different from me, I am old, and I am a natural demon master, and my fate is destined to be born with a destiny, and I must dedicate a qiē to the demon...... Let's go this time, nine deaths and one life, maybe we can't come back! Master Cheng sighed deeply. As soon as he entered the tunnel, he seemed to be a different person, with vigorous steps and quick movements, and he always walked in front.
"There are no witches in the tunnels, and there are no other dangers, of course we can come back alive." Guan Wen helped him correct it.
"It's not scary what you can see, the scariest thing is what you can't see at all. I regret it now, I shouldn't have opened the mandala seal, let alone brought you here. Master Cheng stopped, discerned his direction at a three-way intersection, and then entered the hole directly ahead.
"Some things always have to be solved, and if they are not solved, it is a big heart. Let's take a look, knowing that the witch has disappeared, won't everyone's hearts be put down? In other words, understanding what is happening here, and then replanning the great cause of 'suppressing demons', is what needs to be done urgently. Guan Wen said.
Master Cheng stopped again and looked back at Guan Wen.
In the distant darkness, there was a faint "humming" sound, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a human, an animal, or a machine. The smell of scorched ruins wafted through the air.
"No one can do it-" Master Cheng said, and then repeated repeatedly, "No one can do the great realm of subduing demons, the mana of generation after generation is constantly declining, and it is getting farther and farther away from the three thousand demon masters of the past, once there is a battle, it will be difficult to protect oneself, let alone kill the witch." ”
He leads the way in front, pausing for direction at every fork or fork in the road.
"Master Cheng, have you been here?" Guan Wen asked.
It stands to reason that the mandala seal was opened for the first time, and no one understood the complicated situation in the leylines.
"No, but the battle of the three thousand demon masters was personally commanded by the ancestors of the Cheng family, and he left a map of this place, which has been passed down from generation to generation, and also left the ancestral training of the Cheng family as a demon master for generations. All his life, he stuck a knife in the ribs for his friends, and never considered his personal safety. Perhaps only someone like him is worthy of the title of 'Demon Master'. Master Cheng's feet were getting faster and faster, and his feet didn't touch the ground, as if he was about to fly, "It's coming, the enchantment life and death field is about to come ahead." ”
Guan Wen reviewed the history of the Tang Dynasty, and the only celebrity with the surname Cheng was Cheng Biting Jin, who was known as the "Demon King of the Mixed World". Since the "old ancestor of the Cheng family" mentioned by Master Cheng must refer to that person.
After walking for more than ten minutes, Master Cheng stopped abruptly and turned off the flashlight.
At the moment before the light disappeared, Guan Wen saw a volleyball-like net open in front of him in a large open space, each mesh was half a foot square, and there were many pendants less than half a foot at the junction of the warp and weft of the large net. The lights disappeared, and the two men were immediately plunged into endless darkness.
"This is it, listen—" Master Cheng whispered.
"Oh-a-y...... Ahh......h
As soon as Guan Wen heard the voice, his heart felt as if he had been grabbed by someone, rubbing it thousands of times, and it hurt his heart and lungs.
"Who's calling?" He swallowed hard and opened his eyes wide, but he saw only darkness.
"What do you hear?" Master Cheng asked rhetorically.
Guan Wenping sucked in, turned his face sideways, and his right ear forward, listening as best he could. The sound was still ringing, but after listening to it for a while, it was not like a woman's cry, but more like a baby's night cry or some kind of bird or insect cry.
"Are there birds in the leylines? Are there any insects?" He took a long breath to steady his mind and force himself to relax. As a painter, he knows that people are in a state of extreme stress, all their senses are abnormal, and they can't do anything.
"Nope." Master Cheng replied, asking again, "What did you hear?"
Guan Wen smiled bitterly: "Maybe I have auditory hallucinations, right?" Just now I seem to hear the sound of a woman crying and a child crying at night. ”
Master Cheng immediately asked, "Did you really hear it?" Is it a 'oh, ah' cry?"
Guan Wen nodded: "That's right."
In the darkness, he also heard Master Cheng's nervous saliva.
"That's what I've heard since I entered the Demon Circle—or rather, that's the voice of the witch. You heard it right, and I heard it right, the witch has always been alive. After a while, Master Cheng said quietly.
The human eye cannot see through the darkness, but it is precisely because of the shielding of vision by the night that hearing, smell, and telepathy can be more unconventional.
"But on the other side of the net, there's nothing." For a long time, Guan Wen whispered.
Master Cheng did not respond, but silently lay down on his stomach, first using his left ear to the ground, and then changing his right ear. This technique of "listening to the sound on the ground" was invented by the ancient Jianghu people, and it has a considerable scientific xing.
"It's true that there is nothing, the voice is from afar, but at least it proves that the witch is still alive." Master Cheng's voice trembled slightly.
Guan Wen couldn't help but smile bitterly: "This qiē is really unbelievable, it is the twenty-first century, scientific development, social progress, and global civilization are improving in a new way." But on the distant snowy plateau, we have to face the idealist strange theory of the resurrection of the witch. It turns out that if you want to explain the 'demon suppression' thing, you have to come here, out of this unique environment, no one can believe it, and only think that the 'demon suppression' is a kind of myth and legend that does not exist. ”
He picked up Master Cheng, and the two of them walked slowly to the front of the net.
"What's hanging on it?" Guan Wen asked.
Master Cheng didn't turn on the flashlight, and responded in a deep voice: "What do you think?"
Guan Wen raised his hand and touched the nearest pendant, the surface of the thing was dry and hard, and there was a thin cloth on the outside, which felt very strange.
"It seems to be...... A puppet, right?" He asked tentatively.
Master Cheng nodded, and the pillar of light stopped in Guan Wen's hand, illuminating the puppet.
When Guan Wen saw the truth about the puppet, he was taken aback and immediately let go. It was really a "puppet", but it was full of facial features and incomparably jing, it was simply a miniature real person, gently swaying with the trembling of the net.
"Look at his face." Master Cheng said.
Guan Wen looked intently, the puppet's eyes were wide with anger, and his teeth were clenched, as if the anger in his heart could no longer be suppressed. Although the muscles of his face have dried up and collapsed, the momentum of his anger has not diminished at all.
"Master Cheng, this is ......" Under the light, Guan Wen saw that there was a similar puppet hanging at the intersection of the warp and latitude of each grid, and there were hundreds of them in total.
"They are the ones who are the ones who will die among the three thousand volt magicians, and they will concentrate their whole body on this enchantment net to fight against the witch's violent spirit." Master Cheng's flashlight shone upward, and the large net under the pillar of light had merged with the cave wall, and the end of each rope buckle was all deep into the stone wall.
The width of the web is about twenty paces, the height is about eight meters, the diameter of the rope is more than half an inch, and the color is grayish, as if the long filaments spit out by a spider are braided.
"This is the soul enchantment of the Three Thousand Volt Demon Master, and everyone sacrifices their lives just to weave this net and seal the witch completely. In the will left by the ancestor, this secret battle was recorded in detail - first, thirty-seven demon masters who raised silkworms in the Himalayas rushed into the witch's lair and controlled the silkworms to weave a large net in the shortest possible time; Then there were two hundred and forty-one demon masters who had cultivated into 'Neidan' and pushed the big net forward, trying to wrap the witch with the big net; In addition, there are one hundred and fifty demon masters who are good at archery, armed with ten rounds of beaded crossbows, and as long as the witch is close to the mesh, the poisonous arrows will be fired immediately; Finally, there are 500 demon masters who are good at writing spells and reciting scriptures to guard the phalanx, and as long as the witch is ambushed, she will immediately fill her whole body with scripture runes, so that she will never be able to turn over......
"What a perfect plan." Guan Wen sighed lightly.
He was not afraid of the dolls, on the contrary, he had only the supreme reverence in his heart for those who gave their lives to suppress demons. Without their efforts, there would be no beautiful legend of "Princess Wencheng Suppressing Demons".
On the other side of the net, the stone wall and the ground are no different from this side, except that further on, the path leads to a very deep place, shrouded in a faint flow of gray mist.
"Where does it lead forward?" Guan Wen muttered to himself.
Master Cheng also echoed with a wry smile: "Yes, where can you lead forward?" Where did the disappeared witch go? The old ancestor said that the entire Potala Palace Mountain was under the spell of the demon master, and the radius of the mountain was hundreds of miles, and it was covered by the soul enchantment. Even if there were other leyline exits nearby, the witch would not be able to escape. ”
He raised his flashlight and shone it forward, and the pillar of light shot into the gray mist, which was then swallowed silently.
"Master Cheng, you haven't finished talking about what you just said, have you? Your ancestors, are they the seniors of the Lu State Gongcheng Zhijie who are among the twenty-four meritorious heroes of the Lingyan Pavilion of the Tang Dynasty?" Guan Wen asked.
Master Cheng nodded: "Exactly."
"History of the Tang Dynasty" records: The Tang Dynasty Lu Guogong Cheng Zhijie, the word Yizhen, the original name of the bite gold, later renamed Zhijie. Han nationality, Jeju Donga Turtledove Dian (now part of Dongping County, Shandong Province). The founding general of the Tang Dynasty, the Duke of Lu, ranked among the twenty-four heroes of Lingyan Pavilion. During the Zhenguan period of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, the official worshiped General Zuo Jinwu.
In addition to the official history, the wild history records: Cheng Zhijie initially gathered the rebel army in Wagang Village, Wagang Mountain, Henan, with great momentum, and attacked the Sui Dynasty army that rushed to suppress the bandits several times. In a certain day, it rained heavily in the sky, and the ground in the middle of Wagangzhai collapsed, and a hole in the ground that was hundreds of feet deep appeared, and everyone dared not approach. Cheng Zhijie went down to the cave alone to investigate, and obtained the plaque of the "Demon King of the Mixed World", the golden crown, the emperor's costume, and the three demon charms. Since then, he has called himself the "Demon King of the Mixed World", won many battles, and finally achieved the status of the founding father of the Tang Dynasty.
In the whole world, in history, there is only this maverick and unique "Demon King of the Mixed World", who is so famous that he definitely surpasses any other civil and military general in the Tang Dynasty.
Guan Wen knew that Cheng Zhijie was the person, but he didn't expect that the "Demon King of the Mixed World" would finally be connected with Princess Wencheng's demon suppression. It's no wonder that when it comes to "suppressing demons", under the command of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Cheng Zhijie is the first to be promoted, and no one else is able to bear this kind of heavy responsibility.
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