Chapter 35: Zeng Jing
After a long time, Youliang felt that his mouth was cold, and it was very pleasant until his throat and eyes, and he finally woke up and slowly opened his eyes
Mei Niang's chubby face appeared in his sight, and he was carefully holding the half-pulled wild fruit shell and feeding water to his mouth.
What's going on? He gradually remembered what had happened on the altar, and Sun Yifeng kicked himself down the wooden steps, and now his head was still splitting.
"Meow." Mei Niang called softly, and her two front paws poured the last bit of water from the husk into his mouth.
Arara sat up and found himself lying under the altar, the two soldiers beside him still standing there without squinting.
"Erya, what about Erya?" He recalled.
"Meow." Mei Niang pointed to the sky with her paws and shook her head sadly.
"Are you saying that Erya and Sun Yifeng have already come out of the murals?"
Mei Niang nodded wistfully.
"So the two of us are trapped in the mural and can't go back?"
Mei Niang burst into tears, her nose was furrowed, and her expression was extremely sad.
Youliang understood, Sun Yifeng coerced Erya to return to the Goddess Peak Stone Cave together, while he and Mei Niang stayed in the painting to fend for themselves.
After a long time, he solemnly asked Mei Niang: "Did you kill the old monk of Tongguan Buddha Cliff Temple?" ”
Mei Niang hurriedly waved her front paws to deny.
"Did you do the death of Erya's grandfather Li Laohan?"
Mei Niang's head shook like a rattle, and her mouth was "whining".
"It's all done by Sun Yifeng?"
Mei Niang nodded vigorously.
Youliang slowly stood up and said to Mei Niang: "Okay, since they were killed by Sun Yifeng, and Erya likes you so much, I won't say anything." ”
When Mei Niang heard this, she immediately put her head on Youliang's ankle and rubbed it diligently, and her mouth gently "meowed", which looked particularly weak and pitiful.
"Alas, it took so much effort, but the devouring needle was taken away by Sun Yifeng, how can we get out of the river when we are trapped here? Let's go and see if there's anything else we can think of. Arara sighed.
Leaving the altar, Arira walked in front, Mei Niang followed at her feet, the pedestrians on the road seemed to be still, and there was no response to ask them, just like the scene in the photo, but the water in the stream was still flowing, the breeze was gentle, and there was a faint fragrance of flowers in the air.
"Mei Niang, let's go to the hill of that nameless temple and take a look." Youliang saw Mei Niang walking with a limp, so he bent down and simply picked it up and climbed up the mountain.
The trees on the mountain are tall and dense, much better than the vegetation of the ancient town of Ningchang in memory, and the sun is always immobile overhead, and it seems that time has also stood still.
When he vaguely found the location of the Nameless Temple, he found that there were no buildings at all, just a flat dam in the valley, and some brown bones like cow and sheep skulls were scattered on the ground, like ancient sacrificial places.
There is a small and shallow cave on the rock cliff, and the raised rock on it is also engraved with the words "Zhu Ying's corpse", Arira walked over, and was surprised to find that there was an old man sitting cross-legged in the cave, his hair and beard were full of white frost, and the person had frozen.
Strange, the weather is not cold, how could this old man freeze?
Alas, it's an illusion again, Youliang sighed and sat outside the cave to rest, "meow" Mei Niang jumped into his arms with a soft cry, and dozed lazily.
Arira yawned, and suddenly he felt that something seemed to be wrong, so he stared at the old man, what was wrong?
By the way, it is the costume, the clothes of this old man are completely different from the clothes of those pedestrians in Wuxian Kingdom, this person is wearing a silk horse coat, with a big braid combed on the back of his head, which is completely the costume of the Qing Dynasty, this is the Wuxian Kingdom in ancient times.
Youliang thought about it, there is only one possibility, that is, this old man accidentally broke into the mural in the Qing Dynasty and has been trapped here for hundreds of years.
If you have a good touch of the scene, you can't get out of the worst and the end will be like this, and Nizi and Erya may never see each other in this life.
"Meow." Mei Niang ran to the frozen old man and sniffed, and the last two front paws began to tear at his coat.
"Mei Niang, don't be disrespectful to the dead." Arira reprimanded.
"Meow." Mei Niang didn't listen, she still stubbornly tore the silk jacket, and a white silk silk was revealed in the old man's arms, with dark red handwriting on it, which looked like a blood book.
Mei Niang's nose kept moving, and she motioned to Liang to take out the silk silk.
Youliang looked at it in surprise, stretched out his hand and pulled out the silk silk, and sure enough, it was a blood book, which read "In the winter of the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, Anren Zeng Jing, the capital of Hengzhou, Chenzhou, stabbed the blood testament".
Although it is a blood book, the fly-headed Xiaokai is very delicate, who is this Zeng Jing, how could he die here? When Youliang was in Fengling Temple, Master Yidu taught him to read and read Buddhist scriptures, so he was no stranger to ancient Chinese, and he could barely understand it.
"Yu Anren Zeng Jing, the Central Plains Lu Shen, Yi Di took advantage of the void, stole the artifact, and the universe was overturned. The distinction between Huayi and the theory of the great and the monarch and the minister; Hua Zhi and Di are the boundaries between people and things. Emperor in the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius should do it; The emperor of the Warring States period, Mencius should do it; After the emperor of Qin, Cheng Zi should do it; Emperor Mingji, Lu Liuliang should have done it, but now he is being lived by Haoqiang. ”
This paragraph reads a little awkwardly, but to the effect that the man named Zeng Jing expounded some views on the political situation at that time.
Youliang then looked down, "Yongzheng took the throne, banned his brother Yinxi, and sent the rest of the party to Guangxi." Zeng Yan heard that he had submitted a letter to Yue Zhongqi, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, to seize the throne of Yongzheng, and strongly persuaded him to oppose the Qing Dynasty. In September of the seventh year of Yongzheng, the emperor and Zeng Zhi wrote the question and answer "The Mystery of the Great Righteousness" and published it, which made Yu Baikou speechless. In the winter of the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, Qianlong ascended the throne, and on the grounds of 'venting the public anger of his subjects', he planned to be executed to thank the world. Yu thought that Qianlong had escaped by looking for the tomb of the medicine king to get the devouring needle, and was able to take refuge in the feng shui maze of the 'Ten Witches of the Dragon's Drum and Ten Witches' through the secret passage of Lantian Rim River. Yu recorded the devouring needles in the tomb of the King of Medicine, woohoo, and left it for those who are destined for future generations. ”
It turned out that Zeng Jing took refuge in the "Ten Witch Diagrams of Dragons and Drums", this person is neither a descendant of the Sun family, nor a token of the witch cicada, so it is not easy to get in. Youliang thought about it and suddenly a flash of inspiration flashed in his mind, since Zeng Jing, who had no token and was not a descendant of the Sun family, could come in to avoid the disaster, then he should also be able to get out, he must have a way.
Thinking of this, Youliang was very excited and couldn't wait to continue looking.
"For example, the moon is unsullied, swimming in the void realm" Zeng Jing quoted the scriptures in the "Ahama Sutra" to explain the "Ten Witch Diagrams of Dragons and Drums". It is to the effect that the ancients wished the most mysterious feng shui puzzle in the ancient and modern times of the ten witches such as Wu Xian, the originator, and the things in the mural are between the real and the true, and the people and things can be transformed between reality and illusion.
How does this translate? Youliang was puzzled, he remembered the "Blue Moon Valley" where Nizi and the others were hiding, and the chief couldn't find it when he used the planes of the Air Force, was it also some kind of "void" as Zeng Jing said?
The next part was the one that interested Ara the most, and it was enough to make him scratch his ears and cheeks with excitement.
"The Ten Witches of the ancients, condensing the art of their lives in devouring the two needles of yin and yang, killing demons and ghosts, and passing them on to future generations. Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, deeply felt that if this needle fell into the hands of evil villains, it should harm the world and poison the common people, so he was on his deathbed and hidden in the puzzle of the 'Ten Witches and Drums' for more than a thousand years, and the world could not get it. ”
It turned out that the "devouring needle" was a pair of yin and yang, so Sun Yifeng only took away the "yang needle", and there was still a "yin needle", and he was overjoyed.
"The yang needle is tangible, the yin needle is invisible, and the two needles are one, so that it can be effective. Yu boasts of reading poetry and books, martial arts are world-famous, Kangyong and Yong dynasties, there is no other, why is it difficult to find these two needles? How do you know that the medicine king's strategy is better, the two needles are separated, the yang needle is not a descendant of the Sun family and cannot be obtained, and the yin needle is fateful, and it is chosen by heaven. Then search the void and finally get the invisible yin needle, accidentally inhale and swallow the body, no matter how strong the internal force is, it is difficult to suppress the cold day and even one day, if there is no yang needle to solve, seven days will be stiff like an ice man, record this suicide note, the future generations have the fate to get the yang needle, can incinerate the remaining corpse to suck the yin needle into the body, the two needles are one, when you can rush out of the void illusion, return to the world to slay demons and kill ghosts, and achieve a great cause in the rivers and lakes. There is only one wish, to send Zeng Jing's ashes to the ancestral grave of Zengjiazhuang in Anren County, Hengzhou Prefecture, Chenzhou, remember. ”
Youliang put down the blood book, fell into contemplation, for a long time, slowly raised his head, and muttered to himself: "If I am trapped here, it is also death, it is better to swallow and devour the Yin Needle like Zeng Jing's predecessors, maybe the 'Bardo Corpse Sucking Dafa' in the body can resist and restrain the cold breath." ”
"Meow." Mei Niang seemed to understand his words, and limped to the woods to pick up some dead wood and dry branches.
"Good job, Mei Niang." Youliang said approvingly, and then went to the forest to collect firewood together.
When the dead branches are enough, how can you light a fire without matches?
Mei Niang stretched out her claws to Zeng Jing's waist and tore off a suede pocket, Youliang opened it and saw that there were a few gold ingots and fire sickles and other things in it, although it was not clear how to use it, but it was also known that this was a thing that the ancients used to make fire.
"Zeng Jing's senior, my name is Youliang, I read the blood book left by your old man, although I don't have a yang needle, but I also want to fulfill the last wish of my predecessor. If you can't resist the cold of the yin needle, it's a big deal to sleep here with you. If you can do it, please rest assured that I will send the ashes to Zengjiazhuang, Anren County, so that you can return to the ancestral grave for peace. Arara knelt down and kowtowed three times.
The meridians and veins of his hands were broken, and he couldn't exert his strength, so he had to drag Zeng Jing's frozen and stiff body to the dry pyre, and then pondered hitting the flint with a fire sickle, and the sparks ignited the mugwort, and finally the firewood pile burned into a raging fire.
"Meow." Mei Niang surrounded the fire, throwing the dead branches on the side into the fire from time to time.
In the flames, Zeng Jing's frozen body gradually melted, his clothes burned, and a faint black smoke came out.
Youliang's dark eyes stared nervously at the burning corpse, and after a while, Zeng Jing's mouth gradually opened, and a wisp of black gas like ink slowly overflowed
The scorching flame touched the wisp of black gas and retreated to the side, Arira leaned his head forward, and then inhaled the black gas into his body with his nose hard, and suddenly a cold air penetrated through his internal organs, and his body couldn't help but shiver. He gritted his teeth and persisted, insisting on inhaling all the invisible qi of the "Devouring Yin Needle" into his abdomen.
With a bang, Zeng Jing's body burst into flames in an instant, and the flames rose into the sky and enveloped them. At this moment, Arira's whole body seemed to be frozen, his bloodless face and teeth "gurgling", and his whole body trembled like chaff.
It seems that the "Bardo Corpse Sucking Dafa" in the body can't resist the ancient cold of the Yin Needle, and Youliang slowly withered to the ground in the same posture as Zeng Jing.
"Meow" Mei Niang jumped up and down anxiously, at a loss.
Arira's vision gradually blurred, his whole body lost sensation inside and out, only his heart retained a trace of warmth, just like all people who freeze to death, his face was covered with a layer of white frost, and the corners of his mouth showed a hint of a smile.