Chapter 2: The Old Blind Man

"You're here." A low voice came from the dilapidated shack by the Black Dragon Pool.

Arara stood there silently.

"Why don't you speak? Have you figured out that you are willing to worship the old man as a teacher? ”

"You're blind, how can you recognize me at once?" Arira's tone was cold.

"Hmph, do people only have two eyes?" The old blind man asked dissatisfied.

"Of course."

"No, there is a third eye, which is divided into two parts in the hall at the root of the nose, called 'Tianmu', but it can't be seen from the outside."

Youliang thought about it, he had heard of the saying "Open Heavenly Eyes", maybe the old blind man had this special function, so he continued to ask: "Why are you looking for me?" ”

"The old man is good at numbers, so he can naturally calculate his own destiny, and this person is definitely not wrong at this moment in a certain year, month, and day."

"What about my life?"

"I'll know later." The old blind man smiled.

"I do." Arira fell to his knees on the ground, and knocked his head three times in a row, and he decided to end the years of stealing his life in the room of the Buddha Cliff Temple.

"Ha Luha, from today onwards, you will be the second generation of the 'Ghost Gate Willow', come in." The old blind man was happy.

"It's only the second generation?" Youliang was taken aback.

"Isn't the second generation bad?" The old blind man said proudly, "The old man has created a lot of original things on the basis of the 'Thirteen Needles of the Ghost Gate' in ancient times, 'blue is better than blue', of course he can set up his own sect." ”

Ararashi didn't say anything more.

"'Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles' was created by Zhang Daoling of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which is what the common people later said about Zhang Tianshi, since ancient times, it has been the secret of the family of medical Xuan, specializing in the treatment of all kinds of evil madness and ghosts, because it is too domineering, regardless of cause and effect, so all dynasties and dynasties belong to the forbidden needle." The old blind man explained.

Arira listened silently.

"The old man's surname is Liu, his name is Shisan, and in his early years, the people in the rivers and lakes called 'Liu Thirteen'. But all the 'thirteen' are very secretive. The earth branch is divided into 12 attributes, the year has 12 months, and the day has 12 hours. Liu Thirteen smiled mysteriously, "The thirteenth needle of the ghost seal is the needle of killing ghosts, the first twelve needles are like a punishment, and the last needle is like the executioner's ghost head knife to cut off the head, and the ghost is wiped out." ”

"Cure your hands." Arara stretched out his hands.

"There's no medicine at hand now, and after a while, you have to read and memorize this first." Liu 13 took out a yellowed pamphlet from his bosom and handed it to him.

Arira took it and took a look, this is a thread-bound book called "Shunzhi Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles".

"This tells the cause of the onset of the hundred evil madness and the corresponding acupuncture point acupuncture method, and then teach you Master's original secret method in the future, don't let anyone know about this matter, and remember to send some food to Master every day." Liu 13 admonished.

Arirashi nodded, turned around, left the shack and returned to the temple.

That night, Youliang read at night in the ear room of the Tibetan Scripture Pavilion, which was arranged for him by the abbot Weidu old monk to take care of him because he was disabled.

Turning the title page, there is a naked human body picture, which reads "Sneaky Crazy Cave Map", and is accompanied by a song "Medicine King Sun Simiao Needle Thirteen Ghost Cave Song":

"All kinds of evil madness are sick, and the thirteen ghost caves can be recognized.

The body of the needle is the first ghost palace, and the second needle ghost believes that it is all exceeded.

Acupuncture is sought from the beginning one by one, with men starting from the left and women starting from the right.

A needle in the ghost palace stops, from the lower left needle right needle out.

The two needles are designated from the big hand, and the ghost letter is pierced in three points.

The three needles are designated from the foot university, and the ghost base is pierced in two.

After the four needles of the palm, the big mausoleum point, into the needle five points into the ghost heart.

The five needles are ghost roads, and the fire needles are seven up and down.

Six needles must be found on the large vertebrae, and one inch of the famous ghost pillow will be entered.

Seven piercing earlobes are five points down, and the name is called the ghost bed needle to be warm.

Eight needles bear the name of the ghost market, from the left out of the right Jun remembered.

The nine-needle Lao Palace is a ghost cave, and the ten needles are named on the star ghost hall.

Eleven yin sewing three strong, female jade door head for the ghost hidden.

The twelve qu pools are ghost ministers, and the fire needle still has to be seven times.

Thirteen tongues are in the tongue, and this acupoint must be named when the ghost seals.

The two sides of the hands and feet are opposite to each other, and if they meet the fox's hole, they are only single-pass.

This is the true secret of the medicine king, and the rampant evil ghost has disappeared without a trace. ”

Under the oil lamp, he wrote down the names and locations of the thirteen ghost caves with good intentions, and then read them page by page, until the second half of the night, and still did not feel sleepy.

According to the book, "Hundred Evil Madness" is divided into two types: evil and demon. Those who are evil often have auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations and hallucinations, which are called "ghost upper body" by folklore. Ordinary ghosts are not very provoking the people of the yang world, but some unjustly killed souls are very vicious and often easy to harm people. The demons are animals that have become sperm, such as the "gray and white yellow willow fox" that is a mouse, a hedgehog, a weasel, a snake and a fox. After all, there are very few animals that become essences, most of them eat some fairy grass by accident or inhale the moonlight, eat the marrow and know the taste and repeatedly try to gradually accumulate Taoism, and only after living to be more than 100 years old can they become monsters. They first have to learn all kinds of bird calls, and then imitate human language, and finally possess human bodies. After these demons possessed the human body, the host's temperament changed greatly, and some were especially willing to drink tea and talk with the people to learn from it. Some make the host have small magical powers, such as the folk "immortal family", like to treat people's diseases, and even cooperate with the Taoist priests of the Maoshan Sect to cast spells, such as "Fu Ping" divination, or "pen fairy" psychic, etc., and they are never tired of it. There is also a kind of demon, which is attached to the body of young men and women, and specializes in intercourse with others to absorb yin or yang essence to accelerate the improvement of one's cultivation.

It turned out that there were really demons and ghosts in the world, and Youliang closed the book and fell into contemplation.

The next day, he finished the fire and stole some steamed buns and vegetables, put them in a basket and quietly slipped out of the room, and made a detour out of the Buddha Cliff Temple to the Black Dragon Pond.

"Are you done?" Liu Thirteen asked while eating.

"Hmm."

"Then you recite the "Song of the Thirteen Ghost Caves" to the master."

Arira then recited it skillfully.

"Sure enough, the talent is good, the master didn't misunderstand you." Liu 13 nodded with satisfaction.

"How did Lady Liao die?" Arara asked suddenly.

"Anyone struck by lightning was dead before she saw lightning, so she saw something else."

"What is it?"

"Have you ever heard of 'Nine Demons and One Nightmare'?"

Arara shook his head.

"When a person dies, if he dies with great resentment, he will become a powerful ghost, or even a 'demon'. There is a folk legend of 'Nine Demons and One Nightmare', which means that nine demons can be generated in the world, and one nightmare may not be formed, and the nine demons together are not as strong and ruthless as one nightmare. ”

Youliang couldn't help but be stunned, he had never heard of it.

"The reason why 'nightmares' are rare is mainly that the conditions for formation are too harsh, and there must be enough resentment to maintain cohesion, and only large-scale people die unjustly and tragically, so that they can gather into nightmares."

"Nightmare killed her?" Ararashi muttered to himself.

Liu Shisan looked at him with a smile.

In the next few days, Youliang studied hard and forgot to eat until he memorized "Shunzhi Ghost Gate Thirteen Needles" backwards.

In the Buddha Cliff Temple, the patients who came to see the doctor were as usual, and the old monks still used their own internal strength to force out the evil things, and they were really tired enough every day, and people looked a lot older. Most of the monks in the whole temple looked down on the little monk, thinking that he was just a dumb fireworker with disabled hands, and the monks who could not chant scriptures in Buddhism naturally looked different.

Youliang secretly sent food to Black Dragon Pond every day, and his low status in the temple was so no one paid attention.

"What you are learning now is only the introductory kung fu of the 'Thirteen Needles of the Ghost Gate', and when you heal your hand, the master will teach the exclusive secret technique of the 'Ghost Gate Willow'." Liu Thirteen told him.

"When?"

"Then you need to find the tomb of the medicine king first and take out the 'devouring needle', but it will take some troubles." Liu 13 said.

"The Tomb of the Medicine King?"

"In the first year of Tang Gaozong Yongchun, that is, in 682 AD, the one hundred and sixty-eight-year-old medicine king Sun Simiao died. Now the tomb of Sun Zhenren in Wangwu Mountain, northwest of Jiyuan, Henan Province, is just a clothed mound, and the real burial location has never been recorded in the history books, how many people have been looking for his tomb for thousands of years but can not get it. ”

When Ara heard this, his heart was half cold.

Liu Shisan laughed twice and said, "Master has a reliable clue, and we will be able to leave soon." ”

"What is the 'Knock Needle'?"

"Sun Simiao's 'Thirteen Needles of the Ghost Gate' used back then, known as the 'Knocking Needle' in history, the master is currently using an ordinary silver needle bought in the pharmacy, and the 'Knocking Needle' of the King of Medicine is a thing of the originator of the ancient blessing, Wu Xian, that is an unpredictable treasure, but unfortunately since Sun Simiao's death, the rivers and lakes have lost their traces at the same time, so the master deduced that he must have been buried with the King of Medicine."

There is a good news and is silent, this matter must not be easy, tomb robbers throughout the ages have been looking for the tomb of the medicine king to no avail, can they find it with their master and apprentice two disabled people? But no matter what, he has been closed in the Buddha Cliff Temple for several years and now he finally has a chance to leave, and he must go.

Liu Shisan brought the wrinkled old face close to Youliang, and after looking at it for a long time, he said slowly: "Master will open the Heavenly Eye for you first." ”

A wave of bad breath hit him, and it seemed that he never brushed his teeth.

"Me?" Youliang was taken aback.

"Of course, how can the master and apprentice go through the rivers and lakes without Tianmu? This is the unique secret technique of our 'Ghost Gate Willow'. Liu 13 said proudly.

"What can you see when you open your eyes?"

"Well, you can see evil things that ordinary people can't see, that day in the side hall, the master had already seen that Li Er Yatou was possessed by the soul of an ugly old woman, you can do the same in the future, the ghost gate Liu specializes in treating ghosts, and without Tianmu, you won't be able to get business," Liu 13 explained, "'Tianmu Yin Eye' is divided into three levels, one layer sees demons, two layers recognize demons, and you can only see nightmare in the third layer after the most Lu, and the master is only the first layer at the moment, although the advancement is very slow, but if you have a good understanding, you may catch up with the master in a few years." ”

"Let's go."

"If there is moonlight tonight, you will go to the Black Dragon Pond at the right time."

"Yes." Arira went back with an empty basket.

Looking at the figure of the little monk in the distance, a grim smile appeared at the corner of Liu Shisan's mouth.