Chapter 64 The Shadow Walker
Mortal dreams in the world, and those who walk in yin live yin and yang.
The cycle of cause and effect will eventually count, and it will be reported to the heavens in a moment.
We came to the Dorsett Hotel, Haohai their company's annual meeting was held on time, I sat under the stage, watched their company's senior management, and walked into the venue one by one in order, among those senior managers, there was one person who caught my attention.
Behind Sun Qiusheng there is a young man in his 30s, I saw that he was fair-skinned, with a touch of handsomeness in his facial features, and a little tenderness in his handsomeness, his eyes shot two points of starlight, two sword eyebrows looked so imposing, pale peach-colored lips, with a shallow smile, giving people a sense of bohemianism added to the sunshine handsome.
Seeing him walk over with his head held high and his majesty, I couldn't help but look at this person a few more times, because he gave me a very familiar feeling, but I searched all my memories, I am very sure that I have never seen this person, but the familiar feeling he gave me is very strong, what is going on?
I deliberately observed the position where the person was sitting, and the name plate said "Zhang Mingde", and I silently wrote down the name in my heart.
Some singing and dancing began to be performed on stage, and at this time, I turned on the Sky Eye and looked at the man named Zhang Mingde not far in front of me.
I wanted to see through my heavenly eyes to see clearly the background of this person's life experience, but what I didn't expect was that his life experience was shrouded in layers of fog, no matter how I destroyed my ability to see through the layers of isolation.
And these actions of mine seemed to attract the attention of the man named Zhang Mingde in front of me, and I saw that he inadvertently sat up straight, tilted his head to the side, and looked at me from the corner of his eye.
It was his casual glance that made me withdraw my gaze, and my eyebrows couldn't help but furrow. I thought to myself, my Heavenly Eye Power has never been invalid for ordinary people, unless there is only one possibility, that is, the person named Zhang Mingde sitting in front of me is definitely not an ordinary person!
Until the end of the annual meeting, when I got home, I was thinking about this question, who the hell is that person?
In my room, I meditated as usual, I don't know how long it took, but I just listened to the sound of the "tick" of the clock, and in a state of stillness and non-stillness, I suddenly became alert, because as my cultivation deepened, my perception of the surrounding environment became more and more acute.
I instinctively began to mobilize the energy around my body, and according to the route of this exercise, I ran quickly, and I concentrated the energy in my chest, ready to explode at any time.
At this time, I had already turned on the Sky Eye Vision, looked around, and found that there was nothing special, but my feeling would never deceive me, so I increased the flow of energy, opened the Wisdom Eye Vision, and my gaze penetrated this space and looked at another space.
There was a person standing in front of my eyes, dimly unable to see what it looked like, when I concentrated my mental strength and concentrated all my energy on him, I finally saw his appearance clearly, this person was none other than the one who gave me the extremely familiar feeling at the annual meeting - Zhang Mingde.
But the clothes he was wearing now were not the suit, but an ancient dress, and I noticed that he still had a sword behind his back, and when I looked at him, he was not surprised, but smiled and stepped forward, stood at me with one palm, and uttered a verse in his mouth:
The canyon is different, and the lonely canopy is thousands of miles away.
If you want to know the meaning of the wanderer, the old people.
Dust off the old wind and dust, and break the fog for thousands of years.
See you again today, and go forward hand in hand.
When I listened to what Zhang Mingde said, I suddenly seemed to understand something, and a voice in my heart kept shouting, could he be?
At this time, I heard Zhang Mingde speak: "It's been a thousand years since the canyon was separated, I don't know if you still remember that Xiaode back then?" When he finished saying this, my body was obviously shocked, which was the same as what I had guessed in my heart, it turned out that he was really Xiaode in the canyon! No wonder he feels so familiar to me!
I immediately couldn't wait to meet him, grabbed his shoulders with both hands, up and down, left and right, looked at him carefully, the feeling from my hand was so familiar, so kind, my tears didn't know when, they had slowly flowed down.
The same is true for Zhang Mingde opposite me, everyone's mood has not been calm for a long time, as if they have told the thousand-year-old parting feelings with their eyes.
After all, Zhang Mingde was a few years older than me, and he was the first to wake up, and when he saw him laughing with tears in his eyes, he said: "Xiao Hyunzi, let's sit down and talk first, our meeting this time is not only fate, but also the intentional arrangement of the alliance." As he spoke, he and I sat cross-legged on the floor.
Zhang Mingde said: "Since the death of your master, Master Jueming, there has been a lack of strong protection forces around you, and now the alliance headquarters is also understaffed, and the people of our alliance often fight with the people of the Evil Sky Alliance, and both sides are dead and wounded, so the alliance has specially sent me here to deal with the future crisis with you in order to protect you." Because, you have been targeted by some big names in the Evil Sky Alliance, and they are also ready to attack you, you must be extra careful in your actions in the future. "When I heard Zhang Mingde say this, in fact, I didn't care, since the master passed away, I have seen many things, some things cannot be avoided, and they must be bravely faced.
I crossed the topic and asked about Xiaode. It turns out that Xiao De has been learning from a great Taoist master since he was a child, and his Taoist name is called Three Itching Daochang, the reason why he is called this strange name is because his master has a problem, that is, he loves to tickle, and scratches at least three times a day, so he gave himself such a Taoist name.
Although the name is not very good, but it has real materials, Xiaode followed his master, and practiced a body of diamond iron bones, and Xiaode is still both internal and external, that is, both martial arts and internal cultivation, like what novel is written in the high and high, land soaring, 100 steps through Yang and other martial arts can be said Xiaode He Quan, he has been practicing for nearly 30 years, so Xiaode's ability and skill in all aspects are far behind me.
When I asked Xiaode about Xiao Yu's situation, Xiao De smiled mysteriously at me and said, "Xiao Hyunzi, you don't have to worry, you will know when the time comes, hahaha..."
At this time, Xiao De said to me: "Xiao Hyunzi, it's not too early, I have to leave here, you have to do it yourself, practice hard, I will come to contact you when the time comes, and I won't bother you during this time." After saying this, Xiaode didn't hesitate, and slowly disappeared in front of me.
When Xiaode left, I didn't make up my mind, but continued to meditate and practice, but I suddenly felt a cold aura enveloping the building I was in, but this aura was not too strong.
At this time, I turned on the Sky Eye Vision, looked around, and found that in a room on the first floor of this building, a man in black pulled out a person's soul with a chain, I was a little surprised, because I found that the man in black with chains was not a yin, but also a human soul body, what was going on?
So, I continued to observe, and found that after the man in black had pulled out the soul of the person, he took him to Hades, handed it over to a yincha, and then turned and left. When the soul of the man in black returned to his body, I found his true body in the park seat not far from my house.
Without hesitation, I got up and went downstairs, I wanted to know the truth of the whole thing, and when I appeared in front of the man in black, he had just gotten up from his seat.
He was a little surprised to see my appearance, and then looked me up and down, and then took a few steps back in shock, his voice trembled a little, and said, "Immortal, please give me a bow!" As he spoke, he knelt down and kowtowed to me.
I hurriedly stopped him and said, "I'm not an immortal, my name is Dong Hyun, you can call me Xiao Hyun, I just came to see you out of curiosity, what was the situation just now?" Isn't it all a bad thing to seduce people's souls? ”
The man in black heard me ask about this, nodded, and said: "My name is Xiao Feng, then I'll make a big difference, let's call you Brother Xiaoxun, in fact, I am a 'Yin Walker', and this time I came here just to carry out a mission..."
It turns out that "walking in the yin", according to different folk customs in various places, is also known as touching and frightening, touching the blind, exorcising ghosts, going down to the gods, going down to the yin, passing through the yin, walking, etc., which means to walk from the yang to the underworld and lead to another world.
Since ancient times, there has been a kind of person in society who has made it his profession to walk in the yin. They claim to be officials of the underworld, and they report to the underworld at night to fight for the bull's head and horse face, black and white impermanence, and usually sleep at home during the day, snoring and recuperating.
Xiao Feng was born in a poor mountain village in Henan Province, he was destined to go to the fate of a yin person since he was born, why do you say this, things have to start from the time he was born.
It was a very festive thing after the birth of the child, but, "the child, something is wrong with our son, he, is he a man or a woman!" Xiao Laohan hugged his wife's newborn son, his expression changed from surprise to confusion and then to horror, and then removed the cloth bag on the child and sent it to his wife.
The wife had just given birth, but she also looked up with all her strength, but the moment she saw her son, she screamed, rolled her eyes and passed out directly......
The news that the old Xiao family gave birth to a yin and yang person soon spread in this small mountain village, the so-called yin and yang people, in fact, are children with both male and female characteristics, in the countryside where the news was closed at that time, and the people were superstitious, everyone regarded the yin and yang people as ominous symbols, some people said that the ancestors of the old Xiao family must have done something wrong, and God sent down the punishment; Some people said that keeping the child would definitely bring disaster to the village, and asked Xiao Laohan to quickly lose the child.
Hearing the rumors in the village, Xiao Laohan frowned, his heart was not good, he sat in his yard and smoked dry cigarettes, until he smoked his eyes, he knocked the cigarette pot in his hand, got up and entered the room.
Looking at the sleeping child, Xiao Laohan was still unable to be ruthless, tiger poison does not eat children, let alone people. In the end, the couple still kept the child and named it Xiao Feng.
Because of his identity as a yin-yang person, Xiao Feng has always been untreated by the people in the village, and children of the same age as him are unwilling to play with him, calling him a "freak" and "monster" behind his back, and throwing stones at him at every turn. Until Xiao Feng was twelve years old, a wandering Taoist priest passed by the small mountain village where Xiao Feng lived.
At that time, Xiao Feng had just finished farming with his father and was about to go home, when he met the Taoist priest at the entrance of the village. It was a hot day, and the Taoist priest's clothes were soaked with sweat, and he was squatting under a crooked-necked tree at the entrance of the village to rest. Xiao Feng was kind-hearted, so he handed the kettle on his waist to the Taoist priest.
It may be this move, or it may be that Xiao Feng really has Huigen, and the Taoist priest immediately said that he wanted to accept Xiao Feng as an apprentice. The Taoist priest did have some skills, and he actually saw through Xiao Feng's identity as a yin and yang person at a glance, but he did not dislike it, but said that this was a gift from God, and Xiao Feng would definitely become a great figure in the future.
Xiao Laohan was very happy after hearing this, wishing for his son to become a dragon is the greatest wish of all parents, and the Taoist priest said so, so he naturally has no reason to refuse. In this way, Xiao Feng became the closed disciple of the Taoist priest, and he followed the Taoist priest to leave his hometown and travel all over the world, and this trip was ten years.
Ten years later, during the Mid-Autumn Festival, Xiao Feng returned home, when his father was seriously ill and about to die. The Taoist priest also calculated this, so he let Xiao Feng go home and told him that this incident would be an opportunity to open up his potential. Xiao Feng didn't understand it at that time, and it wasn't until later that he understood what the master meant.
Seeing his son come back, Xiao Laohan was very happy, and his whole mental state was much better, and he was even able to get out of bed, and his face became very ruddy. But Xiao Feng knew in his heart that his father had returned to the light at this time, and he was afraid that he would not have a few days to live.
He was grief-stricken, but he still stayed by his father's side and walked with him through the last days of his life. The first time he felt the death of his relatives, Xiao Feng felt very uncomfortable, when he said goodbye to his father, he came to a cemetery outside the village, the strange thing is that others will feel very depressed and gloomy when they go to the cemetery, but he definitely feels very comfortable, as if the cemetery is his home.
Before and after burning the paper in front of his father's grave, Xiao Feng went home, but that night, he had a strange dream.
In the dream, he appeared in a strange place, where it was eerie and chaotic, there was light and there seemed to be no light, there was wind and there seemed to be no wind. There was a path in front of him, and he followed it until he came to a door, and behind it was a street that was almost the same as the rest of the world, and after wandering around the street for a while, he came across his dead father.
His father was also surprised when he saw him, and immediately said that he had received the money he had burned during the day, and he had settled down here, so he didn't have to worry. Xiao Feng was very happy when he heard this, and after separating from his father, he returned to the door, and when he was about to go back, a man eight feet tall and wearing a grimace mask suddenly appeared next to him. The man grabbed Xiao Feng, looked him up and down, praised him for his good qualifications, and then taught him a spell. The strange thing is that the spell is obscure, but Xiao Feng only heard it once, and he could even pronounce it clearly. Seeing this, the grimace man smiled and nodded, and then waved his hand lightly, and Xiao Feng woke up from his dream.
At this time, Xiao Feng didn't know that he had become a yin walker, and he didn't know what that spell meant. Until one evening, when he was idle at home, he sat in the courtyard and recited the mantra.
As soon as the words fell, Xiao Feng came to the chaotic land again, and through a door, he walked to the street. At this moment, a familiar voice suddenly came from behind him: "Hey, aren't you a child of the old Xiao family, why did you run here!" ”
Xiao Feng looked back and saw that the person who greeted him turned out to be Lao Liu, who lived in the west of the village. Lao Liu Tou is a carpenter, kind and kind, and when he was a child, he bought sugar gourds for Xiao Feng to eat, and he is one of the few people in the village who does not dislike his identity as a yin and yang person. It is precisely because of this that Xiao Feng is very impressed with him.
It's a pity that Lao Liu Tou has a short life, and in the year Xiao Feng left home, he died of illness. Since he has no wife and children, his future affairs are handled by his younger brother and sister-in-law.
Lao Liu Tou exchanged a few words with him, and then said, "Xiao Wu, I didn't expect you to learn to walk in the yin, it's really amazing, it seems that your father is really a terrible character!" By the way, you go back to report safety to my brother, just say that I received the money he burned last time, everything is safe here, don't worry about him, it's important to find a daughter-in-law for my eldest nephew quickly! ”
After the two said goodbye, Xiao Feng woke up, and he finally realized that he was already going to go to the yin. He had heard the master, that is, the Taoist priest, say that in addition to Mr. Yin and Yang, Shen Po, and Mi Po in this world, there is a more mysterious profession, that is, Yin Walker. Yin walkers can communicate the two worlds of yin and yang, and can even pull the soul of the dead back to the yang world, which is very powerful. However, the yin person can only do this business by women, after all, the woman's body belongs to yin, but after a long time, the yin qi enters the body, which will damage the longevity, and it is exactly like this, the yin people do not live long.
However, this situation does not exist in Xiao Feng, he is a yin and yang person, the yin and yang in his body are balanced, even if he goes to the underworld, he also has yang energy to protect his body, and he will not be violated by yin and evil, it can be said that he is a natural yin person. It is no wonder that the Taoist priest asked him to go home, it turned out that his father's death was an opportunity for him to become a yin walker.
Xiao Feng was very happy, he immediately went out to find Lao Liu Tou's younger brother, and told him Lao Liu Tou's original words. After hearing this, Lao Liutou's younger brother felt incredible, and the news that Xiao Feng had become a yin and yang person also spread not long after.
Slowly, more and more people came to him to help him walk through the yin, and he also encountered many strange things. The ghost has also encountered it, but he has learned Taoism from a Taoist priest, and he is not afraid.
In the evening of this day, a middle-aged couple brought their son to Xiao Feng for help, saying that their son had fallen into evil and was entangled by a female ghost, and begged Xiao Feng to go to the underworld to plead and let the female ghost let their son go.
After Xiao Feng heard this, he asked their son if he had a grudge with a female ghost, and the couple looked at each other after hearing this, and then said: "He, they actually had a relationship before!" ”
It turned out that the young man's name was Li Zhen, who lived in a neighboring village and was a talented scholar, while the female ghost's name was Lu Xiaoyan, who was in the same village as Li Zhen.
The two are childhood sweethearts, who grew up together and have a good relationship. But a year ago, Li Zhen went out to study and met a girl surnamed Li, and the two hit it off at first sight, and it didn't take long for them to walk together. After Lu Xiaoyan learned the news, she was overwhelmed with grief, and when Li Zhen was talking about marriage with the girl, Lu Xiaoyan died in an accident.
Not long after Lu Xiaoyan's death, her ghost haunted Li Zhen. Li Zhen dreamed of her at night at first, and Lu Xiaoyan didn't become a blue-faced fanged ghost, but just stood in the distance and waved at him, asking him to go with him. After dreaming for a few days in a row, Li Zhen fell into evil, and Lu Xiaoyan's ghost sometimes came to his body.
When he was put on by Lu Xiaoyan, Li Zhen's behavior, movements and voice would become no different from Lu Xiaoyan's, and Li's father and mother could naturally hear it, so they asked Lu Xiaoyan why he was pestering their son. Lu Xiaoyan said that she wanted to take Li Zhen away and make a pair of ghost mandarin ducks with him in the underworld.
Parents are very worried, they have found a lot of people, but those people are two knives, no ability, Li Zhen was tortured by Lu Xiaoyan in an inhuman form, and he was sick every day, after the girl of the Li family knew about it, she was immediately scared away, and the marriage that was originally said to be good was also blown.
Later, the couple heard about Xiao Feng's reputation, so they asked someone to catch up with him and find him.
Xiao Feng nodded after hearing this, then lit seven incense candles in front of him, recited the incantation and went to the underworld. It is estimated that after more than half an hour, Xiao Feng woke up. His brows furrowed, and his tone became unfriendly: "You guys aren't telling the truth! ”
It turned out that Xiao Feng found Lu Xiaoyan's soul in the underworld and heard a different narrative from his mouth.
Lu Xiaoyan told Xiao Feng that when she was with Li Zhen, she secretly tasted the forbidden fruit, and as a result, she accidentally became pregnant. At that time, both of them were young, Li Zhen asked her to kill the child, and said that he would definitely marry her in the future. Lu Xiaoyan believed Li Zhen and beat the child, but when Li Zhen went out to study, he met the rich girl surnamed Li, and in order to live a good life, he did not hesitate to abandon Lu Xiaoyan and be with her.
Lu Xiaoyan was grief-stricken, in such a remote mountain village, people's concepts were still very conservative, she was worried that if she told the truth, she would be criticized by people, so she naturally didn't dare to tell the story that Li Zhen had a child. Due to the blow, Lu Xiaoyan's whole person became in a trance, and her family was very worried, so they persuaded her to go out for a walk and not to be bored at home all day. As a result, when Lu Xiaoyan was on the street, she was too preoccupied with thinking about her own affairs, and was hit by a passing carriage, and her internal organs were shattered, and she died with a whimper.
Lu Xiaoyan didn't plan to pester Li Zhen at first, but after going to the underworld, other ghosts knew that she had a child, and they didn't want to marry her, she was alone in the underworld, so she planned to pull Li Zhen down to accompany her.
Li's father and mother were taken aback when they heard this, because they didn't know that there was such a thing in the middle, so they hurriedly asked Xiao Feng what to do. Xiao Feng frowned, and he told the two that they would be fine as long as they burned more paper money for the ghost and apologized, but now there is only one way left, and that is to use a stand-in.
Xiao Feng asked them to find a complete piece of pigskin, and then used the pigskin to tie it into a paper figure. He told Li Zhen's parents that if they wanted to deceive the ghosts, they had to use the skins of the creatures as raw materials to tie the paper figures, because there was life on them, so it was not easy to be recognized.
After tying up the paper figures, Xiao Feng took them to Lu Xiaoyan's grave, and when they were about to burn the paper figures, Xiao Feng seemed to suddenly remember something, turned his head to look at Li Zhen, and said lightly: "There is still a wisp of soul missing!" ”
After that, he took out two charms from his arms, pasted them on the foreheads of the paper man and Li Zhen respectively, and then recited the incantations. After a while, a black shadow slowly flowed out from under Li Zhen's feet and burrowed into the paper figure's body. In an instant, the paper figure seemed to come to life and became lifelike, and Xiao Feng immediately threw it into the fire and burned it.
After doing all this, Lu Xiaoyan's ghost really stopped pestering Li Zhen, but before burning the stand-in, Xiao Feng took a wisp of Li Zhen's soul and let it attach it to the paper figure, so that Lu Xiaoyan couldn't see it. However, after Li Zhen lost his soul, the whole person became very wooden, not as smart as before, which can be regarded as a little punishment for him.
After listening to Xiao Feng talk about this, I couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion in my heart, the world is really big, all kinds of bizarre things emerge in endlessly, if many things are recognized by people, it will be a huge impact on everyone's traditional concepts, but due to the influence of inherent concepts, there are many things that I don't want to admit.
After I learned some basic information about the "Yin Walker", I continued to ask him, saying, "What is the situation of the person you took away tonight?" ”
Xiao Feng began to explain to me, it turned out that the person who was taken away tonight was called Li San, he was insidious and cunning in his business, he ran a grain and oil store in our city, and he was always short of catties and taels when selling rice.
Li San's cousin has a very good background in our local area, and through his cousin's relationship, he monopolized the grain and oil stores in the city, drove away the merchants who used to open grain and oil stores, and made it a monopoly, and many people dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.
There is a person named Liu Fu in this city, he also ran a grain and oil store before, Liu Fu is a real person, honest management, although he does not make much, but the water is long-term, and the business has been good.
Li San came over again and again to find fault, Liu Fu swallowed his anger, but he was really reluctant to close the rice shop, so he could only work with him under pressure.
One day, the grain and oil store caught fire, years of hard work was burned, Liu Fu was also seriously burned by the fire, lying at home dying, people with a discerning eye know that this "accident" is from the hands of Li San, he is a person who will do anything to achieve the goal.
Liu Fu's mother washed her face with tears all day long, praying that her son could survive and that his life could be saved better than anything else, and that the grain and oil store would not open. However, the heavens did not fulfill people's wishes, and a few days later, Liu Fu still left with hatred, and now, Grandma Bai wanted to ask for an explanation for her son, and sued Li San to the county with a complaint.
The result can be imagined, Li San has already made a point up and down, coupled with the protection of his cousin, this case was hastily settled on the grounds of insufficient evidence. Liu Fu's mother shouted that the sky should not be right, and the earth was not spiritual, and her son died in vain, and her heart was also broken, and she washed her face with tears all day long.
Originally, Li San's actions had been recorded one by one in the "Book of Life and Death" in the underworld, and his yang life was approaching, so the following sent Yin to prepare to detain Li San's soul.
But when those yin errands came to the door of Li San's house, they were all blocked out of the door, and they couldn't enter the room at all, and found that a magic circle had been arranged around Li San's house, and there was no way, so Xiao Feng was found below, because Xiao Feng could walk the amulets of the yin and yang did not work for him, so he came forward to bring this wicked person to justice.
In the wee hours of the morning, I returned home, lying in bed and not falling asleep immediately, but thinking, the most terrible thing in this world is not jackals, tigers and leopards, not cows, ghosts, snakes and gods, but people's hearts.
How can the world understand that there is a god in the head? I think that people are unaware, but in that darkness, there is a pair of discerning eyes watching you, recording everything you do, and one day in the future, you will get this fruit because of that.