Chapter 33: The Secret of the Year (Part II)
Xu Si is not a little ghost raised by an old kidnapper!
Could it be true that he said that the iron guards of the country went deep into the barren mountains?
Xu Si is one of the iron guards of the country?
The person who led the troops to chase and kill Qinglong back then was not a mountain patrol dog, but an iron guard?
After these thoughts flashed through my mind, a possibility occurred to me.
Back then, the four Jiangshan Iron Guards led the officers and soldiers to strangle Qinglong, but in fact, it was just a means for them to hide people's ears. Their purpose was to drive the green dragon into the valley that had been chosenβthis valley was the dragon's lair.
The Iron Guard led the official army to imprison most of the bandits in the valley, and then sealed the ghosts with secret methods, allowing them to slowly eat away at the dragon's lair, and after a few years, it would become a dead hole.
They made up a story of "bandits encountered mountain gods and were gouged out and tortured", which made people dare not easily go deep into the mountains to explore.
To make the story more realistic, they even left a small number of blind ghosts near the valley, which is why I encountered ghosts in the back valley.
Old Walnut told me that destroying the dragon vein with evil ghosts is a relatively gentle method.
A dragon vein often involves the earth's qi within a radius of hundreds of miles, or even thousands of miles. If the dragon vein is forcibly destroyed, it will collapse and crack the ground at the least, and at worst, natural disasters will be raging and the lives will be destroyed. What the Iron Guards want to do is to make the country permanent, not to make the people miserable, so they must choose a gentle way.
Exterminating a nest of bandits, watering the ground with human blood, and devouring souls with human souls, for the Jiangshan Iron Guard, can not only destroy the dragon veins, but also keep the peace of the party, even if they torture and kill all the thousands of people alive in the valley, they will not have the slightest mercy.
However, after all, the dragon vein is not an ordinary feng shui crypt, and its own aura will also turn around and devour ghosts. So after a batch of ghosts is consumed, another batch needs to be added.
In the past, the people who spread the rumors of the good treasure of the green dragon must have been the iron guards of the rivers and mountains who stayed in the valley.
A hundred years have passed, and even if the Jiangshan Iron Guard did not die in the valley on the spot, he would have turned into a pile of dry bones now. The person who released the news during the Republic of China must be a ghost in the valley.
How many years have passed since the Republic of China? The ghosts that were replenished last time should have been depleted.
I couldn't help but feel a chill on my body, and reached out to grab the old crutch: "Say, did you release the blood moon, or did the ghost make it?" β
"It's a ghost!" The old kidnapper smiled and said, "Since you are self-righteous and think that I put a red light to pretend to be a blood moon, why can't I follow you?" Now that you know you're scared? β
"Bastard thing!"
I ripped off the old crutch's backpack and rummaged through it twice, and sure enough, I found a bundle of explosives, which was a little relieved.
I could have seen that the old crutch picked up his prosthetic leg, which was a retractable Luoyang shovel, and he must be the heir of a certain tomb robbing sect. Grave robbers nowadays usually carry explosives on them, and this bundle of explosives may be my life.
As soon as I grabbed the explosives and stood up, I saw a dark shadow appear out of thin air not far from me.
I said in a deep voice, "Are you Xu Si, or a monkey?" β
The other party smiled: "Before this, I once swallowed a ghost, it should be the monkey you said." β
"Are you Xu Lie?"
This ghost swallowed the monkey, which means that he is the one who got into the corpse and told me the story. At least half of his story is true.
"Yes!" Xu Lie confessed: "I told you that I stayed in the temple...... It's just that I'm not here to suppress any evil spirits, but to replenish some ghosts to the Dragon Devouring Array at the right time. β
I slowly took two steps back: "You deliberately tricked me into going to the Mountain Temple?" β
"That's right!" Xu Lie said with a smile: "You have the Yuan Yang of the living on your body, and leaving you is enough to replace a hundred unjust souls." I don't have to do any more killing. β
I said coldly, "Do you have what it takes to keep me?" If you really have that ability, you can leave me in the first place. Your power should have been almost consumed by the earth's qi, and now you can only fight ghosts, not kill people, right? β
"That's right!" Xu Lie didn't deny it: "But there are exceptions to everything, if it's somewhere else, I'm really not sure to leave you behind, but in this dragon devouring array, you can't fly with wings." β
I quietly moved another step: "Don't you know, there is no emperor now, there is no dynasty?" What do you mean by killing again? β
"Yes!" Xu Lie replied unexpectedly: "The last time I made a move to collect people, I knew that there was no real emperor in this world. β
I couldn't help but be stunned: "Then you continue to kill?" β
"If there is no emperor, it does not mean that no one wants to be an emperor." Xu Lie smiled: "Since I have already made a move, I must destroy the dragon vein." The mutilated dragon vein is actually more dangerous, and the injured dragon cannot become an emperor, but it can dominate. In order to avoid blood, I can only wronged you. β
Xu Lie stood up and said with a smile: "For the sake of the world, I think you should be able to make a little sacrifice, right?" β
"Bullshit!" I took a step back: "Lao Tzu is not that great, and I don't want to sacrifice!" Even if someone occupies the dragon vein and becomes the overlord, it is also a headache for the high-level, and it is my business! β
"Man! Always so selfish! For the sake of the world, I can't sacrifice my ego! Xu Lie shook his head, and a gust of wind suddenly blew in the valley, and the soil under my feet suddenly rose into a dense bag of soil, looking like countless spring bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest were about to break through the soil after the rain.
"Let's go, let's go to the temple!" I pushed my tall head, which was about to be frightened, grabbed the old crutch on the ground, turned around and ran towards the temple.
"Isn't entering the temple a dead end?"
"Let's go!" The second time I ran forward with my tall head, one hand had already pulled the fuse from the explosive.
As soon as the lead sparked in my hand, patches of wooden stakes suddenly popped up around me. Those wooden stakes were about two meters tall and arm thick, and each stake carried an upright corpse - the officers and soldiers of the time used the stakes to penetrate the bandits of Qinglong straight up and down, nailing them to the valley, and also locking up their ghosts.
Now, these corpses are blocking my way, and I have to go straight through them if I want to enter the temple, otherwise there will be no second way.
Suddenly, the corpse on the stake raised its head at the same time, and its eyes were full of ghostly fire staring at me. At that moment, I thought that what was beating in their eyes was not a ghost fire, but a fierce light, a fierce light that wanted to hunt its prey.
It seems that the Jiangshan Iron Guard did gouge out their eyeballs back then, in order to let them eat instinctively, like ants, and slowly gnaw away the aura of the dragon vein.
At this time, the tall head suddenly shouted: "You are crazy! The explosives are about to explode, hurry up and throw them! β
The fuse of the explosives was still snorting in my hand, but the corpse on the stake raised its arm at the same time, as if it were preparing to block the net.
My purpose was to blow up the back wall of the temple and run away. However, there was only one bundle of explosives in my hand, and if I threw it too high, it would easily be blocked by the door frame and fall outside the temple gate; If you throw it too low, you will be intercepted by the dead and you will not be able to enter the temple gate.
"Throw it away! It's going to explode! The tall head shouted in his throat, and his voice was shrill and piercing.
I glanced at the explosives in my hand, and the lead was about a finger or so, and it didn't take three or four seconds for it to explode in my hand.
"Throw it on it, blow up the girder!" The old crutch suddenly shouted: "Hurry up! β
In the nick of time, I didn't have time to judge right from wrong, so I raised my hand and threw the explosives onto the roof.
After the explosives were taken off, I suddenly felt a chill in my heart - Xu Lie, although he had been trapped in the valley for many years, he knew that there was no emperor in this world, so it was impossible for him not to know that there were explosives in this world, even if no one told him, the tomb robbers who entered the mountain would carry explosives. He knew I was going to blow up the mountain temple, so why didn't he stop it?
The thought crossed my mind before the tall head swooped down and crushed me to the ground.
Immediately afterward, there was a loud bang above my head, and a large amount of rubble and sand poured down as it spurted over my head. I heard the crackling of rubble around me, and I immediately rolled over and pressed my tall head under me.
I have practiced foreign skills, and I will not die if I am hit by a stone, but the tall head does not have this ability. The moment I crushed him underneath me, several rocks fell on me. I just felt like my internal organs had been turned over twice in the cavity, and my eyes were black for a while......