I've always chosen not to believe in curses, thinking that they were just bad things to say before life, but here, in Savage Tun, curses are always there.

There is not much change from three years ago, the biggest change is that the village party secretary has changed, and Father Miao has taken over the class of his predecessor, he is an old party member and a veteran, and his words have weight. We would have been in trouble on this trip, but this is someone else's territory, and we don't want our opponent to lose our family, so we are at ease.

I heard Uncle Miao say that the government has recently engaged in ecological forestry protection, and this part of Savage Tun will be included in the next 50 years of mountain closure and afforestation reserve. Most of the people here are descendants of loggers, and now that the road is broken, there are already people planning to move out of the mountain. Miao Lan's man is the captain of the mountain patrol team hired by the government, he has been a soldier, and he has just returned from the army, he is a very honest guy, and Miao Lan was five months pregnant when we went.

Father Miao lives alone now, and we will make do with it, the purpose of Cha Wenbin's trip is to find the soul, Yuan Xiaobai's soul.

"Xiaobai lost a soul, and it is really a miracle that he can live for two years." Cha Wenbin lay on the bed and looked at the ceiling and said: "At that time, I couldn't see it, I almost killed her in vain, our time is very limited, I lit a life-sustaining lamp when I came out, and it will be fifteen days at most." ”

"Doesn't it look so much better?" I asked.

"The appearance is like returning to the light, the soul is gone, and the spirit will be scattered. I also only temporarily stabilized her seven spirits and sealed the acupoints with silver needles, but it is not a long-term method after all, her spirit I think about it should be here, fortunately, there is this compass left by your grandfather, and I will know when I go out later. ”

"How powerful is this compass?" In my impression, the compass was not good-looking, and I played with it when I was a child, but the old man would always raise his heart to his throat and watch me ravage that thing at will.

Cha Wenbin looked at the compass, the pointer on it was on the line where life and death were connected, and it had always stopped there. At least, I've never seen it move the pointer.

"I don't know, the master said that it must be useful, don't lose this thing of yours, fat man, you pay attention to the time, we will leave five minutes in advance."

"Okay, the high-tech watch that Xiao Yi got is very accurate, and the error will not exceed one second a year, right?" What he was wearing was an electronic watch that I gave him, a trendy thing at that time, a Hong Kong product.

Twelve o'clock and five minutes, Savage Tun, eighteen waterholes, we walked through them one by one.

"This one has ......" "This one has too." "Wen Bin, Wen Bin, come and see, this is not, this is really not!"

"None? Are you sure? Cha Wenbin was standing by another pond about 20 meters away from me.

I was afraid that he wouldn't hear it, so I shouted at the top of my voice, "No, I'm sure, it really doesn't!" ”

It didn't, it really didn't, it was the only one of the eighteen pools that didn't reflect the moon......

It was the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as Halloween.

Cha Wenbin said that there is a ghost gate in every place, and every year on this day, wandering ghosts will appear, whether they are dead in a foreign land or lonely ghosts. He said that the reason why Yuan Xiaobai's soul hadn't disappeared within two years should be that it had been sucked into a certain place, and the yin qi in this place was heavy enough that even a single soul could support it.

When a person's soul leaves the body, it is like a flower that is broken, and the broken flower will dry up in a yard for two days at most, but if you leave it in a moist environment, the flower can bloom, even two weeks or more.

Flowers can be raised, and so can souls. Two years ago, Uncle Qiu touched the gold coin, and then when he tried to leave here, something happened, and a woman, to be precise, a female ghost, caused his home to be wiped out overnight. So Uncle Qiu never left Savage Tun in his life, until he died.

Our old branch secretary also followed in the footsteps of Uncle Qiu, which proves that there is indeed an inexplicable thing about Savage Tun, about which Cha Wenbin and his master Ma Sufeng once mentioned. Ma Sufeng originally promised to come with us, but before leaving, he didn't come for some reason, it was said that he was going to another place, he told Cha Wenbin that if that tunzi wants to find a breakthrough, he must start with those waterholes, according to him, the eighteen waterholes are likely to be the king's tomb, and it is also a formation.

If he wants to break this formation, Cha Wenbin is naturally not qualified, what he can do is to bring out the soul that Yuan Xiaobai once threw here. On this point, Ma Sufeng explained, don't be reckless, in this place, Da Luo Jinxian may also be torn off a few beards when he comes.

In Zhongnan Mountain, Cha Wenbin has seen one thing, which is the forbidden secret in Chongyang Palace. Ma Sufeng once broke into the Xuanming Pavilion of the Chongyang Forbidden Land at night, and all the secret methods and formations stored here have long been lost, many of which are Taoist secret methods before the Han Dynasty. It is said that when Chongyang Zhenren established the Quanzhen Sect, he collected the world's Taoist methods in order to organize the collection, and at that time, all the hermits who believed in Taoism worshiped Chongyang Zhenren as a generation of masters, and the bottom of the box of their respective caretakers were taken out and dedicated to Chongyang Palace.

Chongyang Zhenren spent thirty years revising and sorting out a batch of Taoist classics, and at the same time, he also sealed a batch and placed them in the Xuanming Pavilion. He believes that these sealed secret methods are either too vicious or not the right way.

One of the purposes of Ma Sufeng's entry into Zhongnan Mountain was to explore the Xuanming Attic, because he had also been looking for a legendary Taoist supreme method "Ruyi Book" all these years. I didn't want to, I was still found when I visited Chongyang Palace at night, and at the risk of almost being killed, Ma Sufeng brought back a few fragments of scrolls, most of which recorded some methods of Taoism in the north at that time, and one of them happened to be about a formation called: Hell Eating the Moon.

This formation Ma Sufeng stole back exactly the upper part, and when he fled in the second half, the Taoist priest in the Chongyang Palace snatched back half of it, and the second half mentioned that one of the eighteen wells was connected to the underworld, which was the ghost gate.

It is recorded in the text: eighteen wells, arrayed among them, a passage of the underworld, the door of life and death, and the eclipse of the moon.

There is a saying in Taoism: The heavenly dog falls to the earth and the moon is completely gone, and the blood eats the world for 5,000 days.

In Taoist culture, the total lunar eclipse, that is, the phenomenon of the tengu eating the moon, is regarded as a great omen. But what if the tengu eclipse moon was moved from heaven to earth?

Both: Tengu fell to the ground.

"Five thousand days, how long is that?" The fat man took his fingers and counted there, and he didn't give a specific number for a long time.

I was a little skeptical: "Wen Bin, is it really so evil?" ”

"At least, yes, you've seen it with your own eyes in this place." Cha Wenbin pointed to this waterhole and said: "Today is half of July, and the day is coincidental, there is indeed no moon in this waterhole, you can explain why?" ”

"I ......" I was speechless for a while, indeed, the other seventeen pools are no different from this one in terms of water quality and geographical location, why can the moon shadow be reflected in the others, but this one......

"You can see it at a glance with a compass." Cha Wenbin took my grandfather's compass from his arms and put it in the palm of his hand, and there was a small sachet in his right hand, and in the sachet was a ball of hair, Yuan Xiaobai's.

He gently bit one of the hairs in his mouth with his teeth, wrapped the other end around his middle finger, and then broke his lip with the teeth. His lips were broken, and his mouth began to close slightly rhythmically, and a very low grunt came out of his throat, and his eyes were half-squinted, presumably chanting a mantra.

Reading and reading, a soybean-sized blood drop began to slowly condense on his lips, Cha Wenbin gently shook his hair with his middle finger, and the blood droplet slowly began to go down Yuan Xiaobai's hair. It wasn't until the drop of blood reached his middle finger that the compass in Cha Wenbin's left hand moved slightly, and then his right hand suddenly released his hair, and something happened that made me feel incredible.

The hair was perpendicular, his teeth still biting at the hair, and the blood had reached the end of the other end of the hair, about half of it was through the hair, and half of it was stuck to the hair. At this time, the drop of blood was about to hit the ground after a few attempts, but it was the part that had been hanging in the hair that shook and shook, which completely exceeded the theory of gravity.

What made me even more incredible was still to come, and the compass that had not moved for thousands of years began to move......

Cha Wenbin held the hair in his mouth, the front end of the hair was embellished with his own blood, and he kept twisting and turning on the compass with the hair in his mouth. At first, the compass still didn't respond, he rotated counterclockwise, I don't know how long he spun, in short, I looked at his head and kept turning in circles and felt dizzy, but suddenly the compass needle began to move, and then it moved more obviously, so that after a stick of incense, where the hair in Cha Wenbin's mouth was rotated, the compass pointer followed.

He bit his hair and spun faster and faster, and his hands turned more and more happily, when suddenly he braked suddenly. When I looked closely, the drop of blood at the end of my hair finally fell, and it happened to fall on the compass, and the pointer on the compass was also dead to the spot where the blood fell.

Cha Wenbin glanced up at the direction pointed by the compass, and he had roughly made a judgment in his heart, and he said to me: "There is death and there is life, all things complement each other, life and death are mutually reinforcing, the opposition between yin and yang will not change since ancient times, there will be a reincarnation gate here, let's go and have a look!" ”