These days were the most terrifying and lonely days in the old patriarch's life, and he made full use of the less and less "waking time" to repeatedly think about why such strange things happened to him. But after thinking about it, I still don't have a clue. In the past, he was very contemptuous of looking at the fortune telling, and felt that they were all charlatans, and he never believed in this set, but since he encountered this terrible strange thing, after trying all kinds of efforts, he still couldn't find the answer and the reason, the old patriarch suddenly felt that he was becoming more and more superstitious, and began to be interested in these "gods and ghosts" things, which really responded to the saying "I'm not afraid that you don't believe in God, I'm afraid that there are patients at home" When people encounter life-and-death matters, but they can't control it, they often become superstitious. This is the normal psychology of human beings.

So, he began to take advantage of his soberness to quickly find fortune tellers, ghost hunters, exorcist people, Taoist priests, monks, and the old patriarch also found a few, and took all kinds of measures they built, but there was no effect at all, still the time to be awake is getting less and less, and the interval is getting longer and longer.

This made the old patriarch physically and mentally exhausted, and he thought to himself, forget it, let's go with the flow. Just when he was disheartened, he suddenly thought of the two books handed down from his ancestors: didn't those two books teach how to escape from all kinds of dangers? And he heard his cousin, who was a consultant to the provincial cultural institution, say that it was those two books that ensured the continuation of their descendants of the Zhao family, and in the troubled times, those descendants who inherited the special abilities of Emperor Jianwen relied on these two books to train all kinds of special skills and avoid many dangers.

And can the solution to this terrible strange thing he encountered be found in these two books?

So the old patriarch immediately found these two books, and read them carefully, and when he actually read them, the old patriarch also felt that he was only shallow in learning, and in the face of this difficult classical Chinese, he felt that it was too difficult to read. There was no way, he could only gnaw word by word, and he also knew that he didn't have much time.

These two books are really extraordinary, and they really involve the situation encountered by the old patriarch, which makes the old patriarch very excited, and a glimmer of hope suddenly rises. He really regretted why he hadn't thought of these two books earlier, and why he hadn't read them well before. The book says about the danger that the old patriarch encountered:

In addition to the tangible swords in the world that can hurt people, there are also invisible yin qi, which can also kill people. The living are counted as "yang people", and the dead people are counted as "yin people"; "Yin people" are afraid of yang, so lonely souls and wild ghosts are most afraid of the place where the sun shines; And the "yang people" are most afraid of the gloomy and dark places.

The "Yin person" will soon be "scattered" in the "land of extreme yang", and the "yang person" will stay in the "land of extreme yin" for a long time, the yang energy will also be taken away, and the yin energy will invade in, which will cause a strict consequence before the body dies, the yang energy in the body will become yin, and a person in this state is no longer a person, because although his body is still there, the yang energy has disappeared, the body is all occupied by the yin energy, and the yang life ends early. And although the physical body, which is completely controlled by the yin qi, can still sit and walk, eat, drink, and lazar, the true wisdom, character, and mind of this person have dissipated.

The old patriarch saw that the situation mentioned in the book was completely consistent with his symptoms, so he regretted more and more that he had not read these two books, and he hurriedly looked for a way to solve it in the book.

It is written in the book that if you have to do so, once you are in this "place of extreme yin", the way to fight against yin qi is to meditate for two hours a day and practice the "Great Light Method". It is mentioned in the book that Wen Tianxiang was able to spend three years in a cell with extremely strong yin qi by practicing the Great Light Method, without being injured by yin qi.

In addition to the yin house and cemetery, there is also the "extreme yin place" that is naturally formed because of the topography and local atmosphere.

In addition to these, there is another place where the yin qi is extremely heavy, and that is the prison cell. In ancient times, the prison cell was a hell on earth, dirty, smelly, rats and snakes crawling all over the ground, feces and urine flowing, filthy, similar to public toilets, the mortality rate of prisoners was extremely high, and rats and snakes could breed quickly in places with strong yin qi. Before the famous Southern Song Dynasty Prime Minister Wen Tianxiang was captured, when he was surrounded by Mongolian soldiers, he met a Taoist priest, and it was this Taoist priest who taught Wen Tianxiang the "Great Light Method", so Wen Tianxiang meditated and practiced the "Great Light Method" every day after being captured for three years, fighting against the yin qi in prison, and he did not get sick once. In the end, because he was bent on death and would never surrender to the Mongols, he was killed by Kublai Khan.

When the old patriarch read this, he suddenly remembered that when he was a child, all the elders who lived in that house would meditate every day. This seems to be a family tradition, and it is stipulated that boys should meditate every day from the age of 14. At the time, the children didn't understand why.

But then, as the times changed, the peers who lived in that house moved out, those who moved out, and those who moved out, no one followed the tradition of their family meditation anymore. After reading these two books, the old patriarch realized that the reason why his ancestors meditated every day was because they were using the "Great Light Method" to resist the invasion of yin qi in the house!

Although the other descendants of the Zhao family did not inherit this tradition, after all, they had not lived in the house for a long time, and some had never lived there at all, so even if they did not practice the Great Light Method, they were not affected by the Yin Qi, and the one who lived in that house for the longest time was the old patriarch, and this was also the reason why he had this encounter.

The old patriarch immediately decided that he would immediately practice meditation and practice the Great Light Method. Although he didn't know that he had started so late and that it would not work, it was the only hope. Fight!

So, he seized the time to wake up and practiced against time. And the place to practice is not at home, but in a park near my son's house. Because he happened to hear an old man who knew a little about feng shui and said when he was exercising in the park, the feng shui in that park was very good and belonged to a place full of yang energy, so although the old man's home was far away from the park, the old man would rather ride a bicycle all the way to the park every day to exercise than choose his own neighborhood.

Since Yang Qi is abundant, if you practice there, you will definitely get twice the result with half the effort. Whenever the old patriarch was awake, he would immediately go to the park to meditate in the morning, evening, or even in the middle of the night. This made his son feel a little surprised, and he once reminded him that he should not be obsessed with any cults or the like. The old patriarch couldn't control it so much, and he couldn't explain it to his son, of course, he still went his own way.

To the old patriarch's surprise, it really worked. Although the amount of waking time has not increased, it has not decreased dramatically as before. That is, this method, although it does not alleviate the condition, curbs the rapid deterioration of the "condition".

Just when the old patriarch's heart was burning with a blazing flame of hope, an accident happened.

One day, when the old patriarch was taking advantage of his precious waking time to sit cross-legged on a chair in the park and close his eyes, he suddenly felt that there was a person who seemed to be wandering around him all the time, so that he could not concentrate on it, so he opened his eyes very unhappily and wanted to see who it was, and he was dangling next to him.

He took a closer look, and the man who made him unable to concentrate was a blind man. The man had deep-set eyes and a very straight nose, which looked a bit like a foreigner, and he walked tremblingly around him with a blind stick in his hand, twitching his nose as he went. The blind man was also dressed in a strange way, with a very long tunic like a robe, and a blanket on his shoulders.

The old patriarch had never seen this blind man in the park, and he looked at this dress like a fortune teller. Because he felt that his time was precious, the old patriarch closed his eyes and wanted to concentrate on continuing to practice as soon as possible.

Suddenly he listened to the blind man, and suddenly sighed softly and said, "Alas, there is a stench of corpses in living people."

The old patriarch was shocked after hearing this sentence, I don't know why, he was very sensitive to this sentence, because he found that he didn't know when he began to grow a strange spot on his body, at first the old patriarch thought it was old, it was that kind of old age spot or something, but later, this kind of spot actually ulcerated, only then did he feel that it should not be an ordinary old age spot, but it didn't hurt or itch, plus his time was too precious, so he didn't go to the doctor. However, the old patriarch also noticed that there was a special smell on his body, which he did not have before, although it was not too obvious, but he could smell it sometimes. As soon as I heard this blind man say that "the living have the smell of corpses", coupled with his current state, he is indeed half a dead person, so the blind man's words suddenly touched the most sensitive part of the old patriarch's heart.

The old patriarch really had no intention of continuing to meditate, so he stood up, walked up to the blind man, and asked softly, "What does the gentleman mean by the phrase 'the living have the smell of corpses'?" ”

The blind man was expressionless, and did not immediately answer the old patriarch's words, but raised his face to the old patriarch, closed his eyes, and sniffed his nose a few times like a dog, and then said slowly and coldly: "This strange smell is coming from you, I really didn't expect that I could meet a second person like you in my life, do you often 'lose your soul'."

After hearing this, the old patriarch was taken aback, he suddenly felt that the blind man in front of him was really extraordinary, and what happened to him was actually seen by the blind man, and with only four words, he lightly broke it. Although the blind man seemed rude to speak to strangers, the old patriarch was not angry at all, because after he had this kind of encounter, he had fantasized countless times that he could meet a master and quickly break free from this terrible state under the guidance of this master. Although he visited many charlatans who claimed to be extraordinary, those people were all asking and asking questions, but no one could get to the core of the problem with a single sentence, but the blind man in front of him could.

To meet such a master, the old patriarch was of course extremely excited.