【Chapter 131】Hundred Ghost Pond
To enter the underworld, first pass through the Ghost Gate, which is a must to enter Huangquan Road. Legend has it that the ghost gate pass is an archway, black lacquer plain tile, there is a wall but not the earth and stone are built, there is a door but not wood and not bamboo, the archway is just a large plaque with black characters on a white background, and the three big characters of "ghost gate pass" are written vigorously and forcefully on it.
The Ghost Gate Pass is a strict barrier, as unbreakable as a copper wall, no matter who you are, as long as you enter the underworld, you will have to pass through this Ghost Gate, let you be a Da Luo Jin Immortal to die here, and you have to line up with both feet to pass in a regular manner. There are eighteen ghost kings and dozens of little ghosts on both sides of the pass, holding ghost weapons to patrol on both sides, if there is a wanton troublemaker, they will pick the soul with a halberd, poke a rotten intestine piercing, and then disappear, turn into the dust of the underworld, and will not be able to live forever.
Whoever comes here will be inspected to see if they have a pass. This pass is called the "road guide", which is burned by the family in front of the corpse after death, and can be worn directly on the body of the deceased. After checking the road guide, you can pass through the ghost gate, which can be regarded as the real Huangquan Road.
But the person is also dead, and the soul has fallen into the underworld, and after checking the way, he has passed the ghost gate, and this person is considered a ghost of the underworld?
No!
There is another place after the ghost gate is closed, this place is not big, it is not small, it is a deep pit of nine zhang nine long, nine zhang nine wide, nine zhang nine deep, which is filled with Lichuan water, every day there is a ghost to change the water when it is in Hai, and it is changed when it is in the child, this place is the Hundred Ghost Pool.
As the old saying goes, "wait for a while on Huangquan Road", which is the place where you can wait if you say wait? If you want to go to reincarnate to see the judge late, the only thing you can wait for on the entire Huangquan Road is this hundred ghost pool, because after entering the pool, your whole body is like entering a boiling oil pot, as long as you can bear it, no ghost is willing to go down to the pool to find you.
What is this pond of hundred ghosts for?
Of course, whether you bribe the ghost pawns to show mercy when they fight, or let the judge be accommodating and reduce some criminal laws, and cast a good baby, it's all your business, but this thing is really brought over in the world, and it is all about popularity.
But popularity is not allowed to enter the underworld, in the underworld, this popularity is a kind of aroma, so that the ghost is familiar with infatuation, infatuated with yearning, eager to take this taste for himself, so there are ghosts that will harm people's lives, at the beginning of the behavior of eating human flesh and drinking blood, it is for this popularity.
So this ghost can't smell it, and when he smells it, he goes crazy and becomes manic, like giving a piece of fragrant meat to a wolf pack, or a drop of blood to a shark. But the funeral goods on this dead man have rules since ancient times, and they can be brought down, so what should I do?
Therefore, after entering the ghost gate, the ghost will enter the Hundred Ghost Pool again. The water poured into the Hundred Ghost Pond is Lethe water, and with this Lethe River water you can wash away the human smell around your body, and fade the adhesion between the body and the human world, and when you come out of this Hundred Ghost Pool, then this soul will completely turn into a ghost of the underworld. If Meng Po Tang can make the deceased forget everything in his heart, then this Hundred Ghost Pond is from the physical body, so that the deceased can completely detach from the yang world.
"Because this Hundred Ghost Pond is the pool where all the souls of the Underworld have to pass, this is the place where ghosts gather. And on this bronze token, it happens to be surrounded by the image of this hundred ghost pool, so no matter what this token is used for, it has the meaning of gathering a hundred ghosts, not like it is used by Taoists," Sun Qian said affirmatively.
Luo Wen saw that his determined expression seemed to be a little sure, so he didn't interrupt, but then listened to Sun Qian say: "This bronze order shape is intended to imitate the hundred ghost pool, and the surrounding ghosts are scrambling to crawl towards the pool, with different expressions and realistic shapes, but they don't seem to be so concrete, only pay attention to the shape and meaning, not the form, but it is reasonable, but there is an abnormal place in it!" ”
The sea was listening to it very well, and when he saw that Sun Qian was going to sell Guan Zi again, he was angry, and stretched out his arm, so frightened that Sun Qian continued: "Most of the deceased are greedy for the yang world, except for those who commit suicide and seek death, how can anyone who is willing to enter the pool and become a ghost?" And the shape of these little ghosts is so lively that they can't wait to climb in quickly, which has to be said to be extremely abnormal. ”
When Sun Qian said this, Rowan looked at the bronze order and thought about it, then reached out and took the bronze order, and then Sun Qian watched Rowan slowly turn the bronze order over, so that the original face-up Hundred Ghost Pool became face-down, revealing a line of seal script on the other side.
Sun Qian glanced at Luo Wen in surprise, and then nodded a little excitedly: "Team Leader Luo is Team Leader Luo, he is really a masterpiece, I didn't expect to be able to notice this detail!" Sun Qian raised the bronze mirror above his head and looked at it from the bottom, "Actually, it's right to look at this token, because this is not a hundred ghosts entering the pool, but a hundred ghosts who have already entered the pool, and want to climb out of this pool!" ”
The sea twisted his eyebrows and scratched his buttocks, wondering, "No, I don't understand what this means?" ”
Sun Qian didn't dare to upset the sea, so he hurriedly said: "Brother Hai, look at this" After speaking, Sun Qian pointed to the other side of the bronze order, "There is a line of words here"
"Mr. Sun knows the seal book?" Rowan looked a little happy.
This is undoubtedly a major discovery for Rowan, and if he can read the text on it, then he can further confirm what this bronze order is. The appearance of this bronze order is a combination of marching talismans and Taoist tokens, but the difference is very big, to put it bluntly, some four or six are not reliable, but it also has the shape of three or seven points, like a hybrid product.
And the special shape of this Hundred Ghost Pond must undoubtedly have another deep meaning, but it is impossible to judge for the time being, if you can read the words on it, you can further have a deeper understanding of the origin and use of this bronze order. After all, Liu He's interest in it was even greater than that of the Qingyu Sword, which was enough to show its weight, and it appeared here with the Qingyu Sword, so Luo Wen was wondering if this Bronze Order would also belong to the Three Treasures from the moment he heard Liu He talk about the mutual relationship between the Bronze Order and the Qingyu Sword!
Hearing this, Sun Qian smiled mysteriously: "Team Leader Luo thinks this is a seal book?" ”
These words stunned Luo Wen: "What is that?" ”
Sun Qian lowered his head and rolled his eyes, and said with a dark face: "This is a ghost text!" ”
The sea stretched out his hand and slapped Sun Qian on the back of the head: "Don't fucking pretend to be a ghost here, do I need to put a flashlight under your chin?" ”
Sun Qian gritted his teeth with a slap for no reason, but he didn't dare to make a sound, and weighed his situation before saying honestly: "The so-called seal script refers to the oracle bone script, the golden script, the Zhou script, and the Six Kingdoms script, which retains the characteristics of hieroglyphs, and is a general term. And the words on this token should belong to the script. ”
"Then why do you still say it's a ghost text? Nonsense with me, isn't it? The sea said with a glare.
Sun Qian hurriedly waved his hand: "Brother Hai said it was funny, how dare I talk to you...... Eggs. This ghost text was originally taken from the 籀文, but there is a difference, because the ghost text has no head, it is a kind of guillotine word! ”
It is difficult to understand what Sun Qian said dryly, after all, words will be very abstract if they do not fall into words. So he pointed to the first word on the back of the bronze order and said, "Look at this word, what do you think you read this word?" ”
Rowan lowered the flashlight, and the three of them all stared at the word with their heads gathered, the word was on the same side up and down, the width was the same, and the comparison was crooked and twisted like a number of earthworms stacked on top of each other, the top was similar to the lower part of the word 'fierce', the middle was horizontal, the bottom was a 'eight', and the bottom was similar to a 'mountain' word, but the vertical in the middle extended to the bottom of the body, and then by a horizontal back cover.
After looking at it for a long time, Zulong asked suspiciously: "Reading the 'tomb' of the cemetery?" ”
"That's not right!"
"Shang?" Rowan asked.
Sun Qian also shook his head, and saw that the three of them all had a face, "This is also reading?" Just as he was about to his tail, he saw a change in the expression on the face of the sea, and immediately understood that he might be unlucky, so he hurriedly said while he was not beaten: "This word is pronounced 'Cheng'"
"Done? Which one is into? ”
"Presented, presented"
Sun Qian coughed and said: "I don't know when and who started to use this guillotine word, and it is also said that this guillotine is the ghost script used by the ghosts and immortals of the underworld, but in fact, this guillotine is to cut off the upper part of the original head. This should be similar to the word 'fontanelle', but the upper half is cut off and becomes a fierce, so this character is a character. Judging from this, this line reads, 'Petition for so-and-so or something'"
After speaking, the three of them were stunned, and the sea was about to start with a round slap, which scared Sun Qian's big rosacea, and Luo Wen hurriedly stretched out his hand to stop: "Mr. Sun, what do you mean by this?" ”
Sun Qian smiled bitterly: "Team Leader Luo, I still know a little bit about religion, but if you want to say that I don't know much about ancient characters, that is, the first two words are all covered by me, whether it's right or not, and I don't know the words in the back!" What I can confirm is that this line of characters is indeed ghost script, and this character is indeed a broken head. ”
"Are you going to take us as a Sunday?" The sea scolded.
Sun Qian hurriedly said: "Brother Hai, brother, I have this ability, this character is an ancient Chinese character, it has been lost for a long time and is jerky and difficult to understand, even if the meaning of the same word may be different from today's, how can I know it!" ”
Luo Wen also felt that what Sun Qian said made sense, after all, this kind of text was originally taken from the Zhou text, and the meaning of the Zhou text was not clear, how to guess this evolved ghost text?
The sea frowned: "Oops! You haven't said that this has anything to do with that Hundred Ghost Pool? ”
Sun Qian spread the bronze order in his hand: "This line of words should be a mantra that seals the spell." You look at it this way, the hundred ghosts below want to climb out of this smooth and waveless hundred ghost pool, but looking at this side, there is a spell capped on it, so this token should be a spell sealing order, and it is to use this spell to press the hundred ghost pool, seal the hundred ghosts, and prevent them from coming out of this pool! ”
"What do you mean......" Rowan understood a little, but still felt a little uncertain.
"I think there may be something sealed in the middle of this bronze token!"
Sun Qian paused for a moment: "If there is a secret spell, this spell can be opened, and the things sealed in it must have a great origin, if it is engraved according to this hundred ghost pool, I am afraid that it should be sealed with a hundred ghosts in the underworld!" ”
"How sure are you?" Rowan looked a little cautious.
Sun Qian stretched out a finger: "Yicheng!" ”
The sea opened his mouth and scolded: "Yicheng is also fucking called grasping? I also said that Sun Wukong and Zhu Bajie live here, maybe there is also Monk Sha, and the three brothers are just fighting the landlord! ”
Sun Qian handed the bronze order to his left hand, and then rubbed the huge rosacea with his right hand, as if he wanted to sneeze but didn't come out, so that the three of them hid back, for fear of spraying themselves, and said after a few mouths: "We are all seeing this thing for the first time, I guess there will be no one else in the world who has seen it again, unless there is a conclusive historical record, no matter who it is, it is a guess."
The sea snatched the bronze order with disgust: "You are nothing for a long time, don't blame the ...... surnamed Jin"
Before he finished speaking, he suddenly felt that this bronze token was very hot, as if he had taken not a bronze order, but a red-hot soldering iron! Everyone was also stunned, because the moment the big hand touched the bronze order, the many imps on the bronze order suddenly seemed to come to life!