Chapter 4 Seeking the Way to the South Mountain
The thought that I would only live to be thirty-five years old made me despair and collapsed.
The feeling that I knew that I was dying made me tremble, and my heart was beating so hard that I felt like I was about to suffocate, but just after my heart was beating violently, my whole body suddenly loosened, and my consciousness instantly began to become unusually light, so light that I could float to the sky; But then the body suddenly became so heavy that it could fall straight into the bottomless abyss.
Think about it now that I am more than twenty-five years old, which means that I still have ten years to live, just at the age of the prime, but I am about to die, unwilling, unwilling!
It seems that the only hope is to pin my hopes on the 'Nine Objects of the Underworld', yes, I must collect all the Nine Objects of the Underworld, close my eyes, and return my yang life.
On my mobile phone, I found out that Zhongnan Mountain is a Taoist immortal mountain, located in Shaanxi Province, so after I got off the night shift, I hurriedly embarked on a journey to Shaanxi alone.
After most of the day of trains and cars in turn, I finally arrived at the foot of Jungnam Mountain before dark, and found a relatively cheap hotel to settle down, just after resting, I went to find someone who could help me live my life early tomorrow morning.
That night may have been the cause of anxiety and fatigue, and I slept until dawn.
After a few hours I finally climbed the mountain, I searched all the temples and temples on the mountain but did not find anyone who could help me live a long life, I didn't even see any suspicious people, there were two or two or a family of three pious pilgrims everywhere, I was about to despair.
I'm starting to wonder if the old man with the white beard in my dream is playing tricks on me. Calling me to find someone, without revealing his name or describing his corresponding appearance for identification, I began to recall what the old man with the white beard had said to me in his dream, and after reading it I was convinced that the old man had asked me to come looking for him without any characteristics, but only said that it depends on my own fate, and I will go!
Just when I was in a hurry like an ant on a hot pot, I only heard:
"Fighting ghosts, fighting ghosts, Kuixing fighting ghosts..."As I looked at the voice, I found that a few dozen meters away from me, there was a Taoist wearing a brown and blue Taoist robe and a black mixed yuan scarf on his head, who was chanting alone.
After hearing this, the surrounding pilgrims also cast strange eyes at him one by one, thinking that this person was weird, but I inexplicably felt that this strange words seemed to have some other meaning, and it sounded a little familiar!
After a deep thought, "Ouch, aren't these the last two words that the white-bearded old man said to me?" 'Fighting ghosts, fighting ghosts' is not exactly the word Kui! "So this is the code he gave me! I felt a jolt in my heart.
So I hurriedly pushed through the crowd and ran towards the Taoist leader in a brown and blue robe. I saw that the Taoist man was about fifty years old, and his face was calm and peaceful, as if he had gone through countless human tribulations, and he showed a calm appearance.
In front of him was a small square table with four corners, covered with a layer of yellow cloth that was not thick, and an old gossip compass was placed on the table.
"Fighting ghosts, fighting ghosts...", I only heard that the Taoist was drinking to himself at this time
So, I hurriedly stepped forward, "May I ask the chief, what is the meaning of your heavy statement?" I asked respectfully.
"Those who know will know, and only wait for those who are destined to be on the call!"
"Are you the one who was introduced to me by the old white-bearded man who appeared in my dreams? He directed me to Zhongnan Mountain to find you, and if nothing else, you should be the person I am looking for. "I was in a hurry.
"Oh! What is your name? The chief said with some astonishment
"Chen Tiankui!"
"It's really you!" The chief looked a little excited
Then he said, "Since you have already seen the white-bearded old Tao, then let me ask you: What did the Taoist tell you besides calling you to come to me?" "Apparently the chief was not satisfied with what I had just said, as if he was waiting for something more important.
So I hurriedly said, "His old man also said that I was born with pure yin and yang eyes, but I will have my yang life reduced by half, and I can only live to be thirty-five years old, but if I can collect all the 'Nine Objects of the Underworld', then I can live past the age of seventy, or even longer." And I don't know what the 'Nine Things of the Underworld' are? So now I came to visit the Taoist to help me renew my life! "I basically poured the purpose of my visit in one go, like a bamboo tube pouring beans, and poured them cleanly.
When I finished speaking, I saw that the Taoist was already deep in thought.
After a while, the chief seemed to suddenly come back to his senses, got up and picked up the gossip compass on the table, and hurriedly beckoned to me and said, "Well, young man, come on, follow the old way, I will go to the back room, listen carefully to the old way, and slowly explain to you."
I had no choice but to obediently follow the Taoist into the backroom, who told me to ask for something.
As soon as I entered the back room, I was attracted by a portrait hanging in the central hall. I saw that the man looked ugly, with a bearded face, a face like pig iron, and his eyes were wide as if he was going to eat someone, that's right, it was a portrait of Zhong Kui.
It's just that I'm curious for a while, instead of hanging the statue of the Sanqing Patriarch in the Taoist Hall, hang a portrait of Zhong Kui who eats ghosts, what is the intention!
After seeing me enter the house, he closed the door, arranged for me to sit on the wooden chair next to me, and began to speak:
"The 'Nine Objects of the Netherworld' are the Nine Yin Holy Relics of the Netherworld, and they are: the Sweet Soul Water of the Netherworld, the Tears of the Salty Ghost of the Nether, the Netherworld Grass, the Hidden Spirit Pill of the Nether, the Flame of the Nether, the Source of the Root Water, the Treasure of the Hell Lingzhi, the Judge of the Netherworld, and the Wheel of the Nether. It's not easy to find them! You must be able to climb the 'Three Mountains and Five Mountains' at the top, and you can search through countless hells, do you have the faith and perseverance!? ”
I hurriedly said, "Of course I can, don't forget the purpose of my trip!" I said categorically.
Although I said it happily, but to be honest, I was scared to death in my heart, I thought to myself, I have to search countless hells, so I will have to travel between the two worlds of yin and yang often in the future? The ghosts I encounter now are no better than the ghosts I saw when I was a child, and this could kill me at any time!
"Well, the young man told me your birthday, that is, the year, month, day and specific time when you were born." The blue-robed old man smiled and nodded with satisfaction.
I thought to myself, this old way is still weird, what do you want me to do on my birthday? Do you want to give me a divination to cut off my bad luck? Seeing if I am suitable for shuttling yin and yang, are you worried that my innate capital is not enough and will be killed by that yin evil? Hey, I can't care so much, I guess these have already been arranged by God.
After I thought about it clearly, and was ready to accept my fate, I told the governor of the province the date of my birth in one breath.
I saw that the chief first took the gossip compass and compared one or two, and then pinched his fingers with one hand to calculate silently, and after a while,
The Taoist chief said: "Xin Wei, Yi Chou, Xin Wei, Ding Hai, your eight characters are indeed all yin, and it is the yin and yang of heaven, and the fate of the yin eye is for the yin in the yin, and you are destined to go through countless ups and downs in your life, and you can't live a peaceful life, it seems that everything is providential." If you fail to survive these nine tribulations, you will surely die early and fall into the painful cycle of the Shura Dao, and if you can survive these nine tribulations, you will return your heavenly life and have a great chance to enter the priesthood! ”
The Dao Chief's tone sank, and then he said, "None of the 'Nine Objects of the Netherworld' is ordinary, if you get them in the future, you must keep them properly, and you must not let them fall into the hands of people with different intentions and evil Daoists, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable!" ”
"I know the Dao Chief, but where am I going to find the 'Nine Objects of the Underworld'?"
"It turned out to be the 'Nine Creatures of the Netherworld', presumably only to go to the Netherworld Mansion to find it, do you know the eighteen layers of hell?"
I nodded in surprise and said, "You know, you don't want me to go to the eighteenth layer of hell to find it!?" ”
When I finished speaking, the old man did not make a sound, but saw him slowly walk to the old mottled red lacquered wooden cabinet, and after a 'squeak', he took out an ancient book from the red lacquered wooden cabinet, and then the old man walked up to me and said:
"This book is "The Illustrated Chronicles of the Underworld", it is handed down from the hands of my master Zhong Kui, it has a history of thousands of years, it contains a detailed description of the "Nine Things of the Underworld", you only need to read hard to go back and will be able to have a comprehensive new understanding of hell, for the sake of our fate is fate, this book will be given to you." I saw that after the old man said this, his face showed a look of relief.
I thought to myself, Zhong Kui is your master? This is not nonsense, I don't know history, Zhong Kui is obviously a person in the Tang Dynasty with a history of thousands of years, is it possible that you are already a thousand years old!
Hey, I can't think about it so much, he actually said that there are clues to the 'Nine Things of the Underworld' in this "Illustrated Chronicles of the Underworld", then I have to look for it, it's better to have clues than no clues, after all, a dead horse should be a live horse doctor.
"Ah, Zhong Kui is your master! Then you must be a Dao Immortal, may I ask who is the white-bearded old man in my dream? I said with a look of genuine fear on my face.
"Don't call me Daxian, my surname is Yi Mingzhuang, if we meet again in the future, you can call me Yi senior, and the white-bearded old man in your dream is my senior brother, his name is Zuo Shengmei. By the way, I almost forgot about it, I gave you a hexagram before, the hexagram shows that there is an evil spirit nuisance in the place where you live now, you can be careful when you go back, this is the spirit of the peach wood talisman, you wear it on your body, it can temporarily protect your life. ”
I thought to myself, there really is something unclean! Then Uncle Yang must have something to hide from us.
I thanked Senior Yi, took the Spirit Peach Wood Talisman and hurried down the mountain, after all, it's almost dark now, and I have to rush back to work tomorrow morning!