Chapter 20: Black Tai Chi Gate
"Luo Fusheng, I'm already dead, if I get lost, please give me a ride for the sake of my classmates...... Luo Fusheng! ”
I woke up from my sleep to find my pajamas soaking wet.
I dreamed of Guo Mingyue, this is the first time I have dreamed of her for so many years, from her birth to death.
She was still wearing a white dress, in a labyrinth-like place, surrounded by a gray fog, she was running in panic inside, as if she was trapped, and within that fog, a big hand pierced through the fog and grabbed towards Guo Mingyue.
I sat up and leaned on the pillow, listening to the cold wind howling outside, recalling the situation in my dream over and over again, and suddenly remembered that after Guo Mingyue died, her father had called me once, saying that Guo Mingyue had left something for me, and then I took back a box.
The box was one meter long, one foot high and wide, I don't know what kind of wood, there were some strange patterns carved on it, and the lines were simple and simple, like a kind of decoration from ancient times.
I remember when I first opened the box that day, I felt a smell of stale that seemed to have gone through a long time, and then I saw the scrolls full of boxes, there were nine in total.
Those nine scrolls are supposed to be the nine paintings mentioned in this note......
I actually dreamed of Guo Mingyue for the first time, and this is definitely not just a coincidence.
I rummaged through my notes for the events mentioned in the nine paintings, and even found an earlier record.
At 10:32 a.m. on May 24, 1916, in a village in the Heilongjiang region, a peasant family surnamed Jin gave birth to a daughter.
As soon as the girl was born, a strange thing happened in the village: the head of the Jin family, who was discussing with people in the ancestral hall of the village, suddenly rolled off his chair and fell to the ground with a scream, and then rolled on the ground in pain.
The rolling patriarch's hands and feet made a "creaking" sound, and after a while, there was no movement.
And several other people who discussed the matter were also prominent figures in the village, and two of them were said to be from the provincial capital.
After the death of the Jin family patriarch, several other people also rolled on the ground screaming, and their bodies also made noises, and they all lay on the ground and did not move after a while.
The villagers arrived one after another and found that a total of nine people, including the patriarch, had died, and all nine of them had their bones shattered and died.
Because two of the dead were important people from the provincial capital, this incident alarmed the above, and the county quickly sent a guard to investigate the matter.
When the guards arrived in the village, they looked around the ancestral hall and found an old box, which opened and contained nine paintings.
At that time, it was identified that these nine paintings were very old and could be used as valuable antique collections.
After some rigorous investigation, nothing was found about the cause of death of several people.
But it seems that something strange happened in the process of investigation.
First of all, after the guards knew that the nine paintings were expensive, they tried to take them away several times, but they all found that the paintings were missing halfway through, and when they looked back, they found that the paintings themselves had returned to the ancestral hall.
After a few times, the guards were very angry, so one of the leaders planned to burn the paintings, but the nine paintings were so invulnerable that they could not be damaged by all means.
On another occasion, the guards conducted door-to-door interrogations of the entire village while investigating the case.
When they found a side branch of the Jin family, the family's daughter, who had just been born for a few days, actually smiled at several guards.
This surprised everyone present, the newborn baby's eyes would not focus, but the child would still smile at people.
One of the team members ran out screaming as if he had seen a ghost.
Later, he told people that he saw that the daughter of the Jin family had her entire face turned black and had no facial features.
At that time, someone in the Jin family who knew the situation had told the guards who came to investigate, saying that the head of the Jin family had opened a treasure chest handed down from generation to generation, and it was said that this treasure chest contained the secret of immortality, which was given to him by the ancestor of the Jin family by an inadvertently encounter with a fairy in white, so that the Jin family could keep it for generations, so that the descendants of the Jin family could reproduce endlessly.
However, the Jin family grew greedy and wanted to find a way to live forever, but found that there were only a few incomprehensible broken paintings in the box, and they were very disappointed, but when they saw that those portraits were somewhat historical, they wanted to contact them to sell. Before selling, he first went to various antique shops in the city to publicize it, saying that he had a good thing in his hand with the method of immortality, and asked how much he could sell it for, but he was driven out as a madman.
But a few days after the Jin family patriarch returned to the village, a few people came to the village to look for him, saying that they wanted to buy paintings, and the patriarch saw that these people's clothes were very unusual, so he hurriedly brought them into the ancestral hall for a secret talk, but in the middle of the conversation, several people suddenly died tragically.
The guards reported these to the police, and asked them to continue investigating the cause of death and take the paintings back, but when they looked for them again, the paintings disappeared, and asked the caretaker of the ancestral hall, saying that in the middle of the night, a white light lit up in the ancestral hall, and a fairy in white appeared and took the box away.
Later, I heard that two of the people who came to buy paintings and died tragically in the ancestral hall were Japanese.
The case was later closed.
Besides, the daughter of the side branch of the Jin family is growing up day by day, and she is showing more and more magical skills, such as fortune telling, healing, midwifery, drawing talismans, exorcism of ghosts and evil spirits, and even going to yin, almost omnipotent.
No one has ever seen the daughter of the Jin family learn from anyone, it seems that she was born with these skills, and she is getting more and more powerful as she grows older.
The daughter of the Jin family was a mysterious local mystery until she was 27 years old, and she mysteriously disappeared again.
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Listening to the howling wind outside, I got up and poked the brazier on the ground, added a few pieces of charcoal to make the fire burn a little brighter, and began to try to remember the nine scrolls in the box—the contents of the nine paintings.
The paintings are very old, and it can be seen that they are from different eras, and the scrolls are numbered.
The first painting is made of some kind of animal leather, and on it is painted with a black pigment half of a person imprisoned in a cave.
The "half" man was half naked, with only half of his head left, and a circle of branches around his waist, leaving only one arm and one leg, and holding a black round cake-shaped thing in his hand, and his arm stretched forward, as if to give this thing to someone in front of him.
The other half of his body seemed to melt, and although the picture was black, it still showed the feeling of blurred flesh and blood.
Opposite the person was a black mist, and in the black mist, there seemed to be a figure, and a scrawny hand reached out from the black mist, to pick up the black cake-like thing.
I remember looking at the painting and inexplicably having a very uncomfortable feeling in my heart: sadness, misery, loneliness, and even the pain of being crushed.
Even now when I think about it, I feel sad in my chest.
I thought about the black cake-shaped thing in the painting, and then at the cold black "discus" in my hand, and I thought that this was what was in the painting.
The second painting is still animal leather, but with a more refined treatment and more fluid and delicate lines.
It shows a man with long disheveled hair, who is being tied to a fire by a group of people, his body already in tatters, as if they are eating him......
A black round cake was lying on the ground, and a little girl was reaching for it.
The third painting is made of coarser cloth, with a dull red color in addition to black.
It shows a woman tied to a fire.
The woman's whole body was burning, her mouth was wide open, her eyes were round, and she looked extremely painful.
A crowd of onlookers watched, and among the onlookers was a girl holding the black cake-shaped thing in her arms.
The fourth painting is made of silk silk and has several colors on the picture.
The painting depicts the battlefield after a fierce battle, with corpses strewn all over the ground, bleeding and drifting, and in the center is a woman in armor with arrows stuck all over her body.
The woman knelt on the ground with her eyes open, a spear from her chest running out of her body, the other end of the spear stuck in the ground behind her back, and the spear supported her from falling.
A teenager next to her was reaching for her waist and feeling for a black round object.
The fourth painting is all paper from now on.
In the fourth painting, an execution site, in the center of which a young man with a different head is on his knees beside the execution table, his head rolling to the side. But I can still see the face on the skull, with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes, and very handsome.
The black biscuit, which was exactly the same as the black "discus" in my hand, rolled down in a pool of blood, and a little fox with pure white fur was probing to pick up the black biscuit.
In the fifth, a man with a foxtail is dressed in a white brocade robe, his limbs and head are bound by ropes, and each is tied to a horse.
The man's face was handsome and his expression was strangely distorted, and he could see that the five horses were all exerting great force outward.
There was a table next to it, and behind it sat a man in official uniform, his gaze falling on a black circular object in front of him.
In the sixth painting, the body of a middle-aged man with a hideous face is split in two by a sharp blade, and a black round discus falls out of the man's sleeve. A man with horns on his head picked up a black discus.
In the seventh painting, a Taoist holds the dust in his hand, and the soft dust is inserted into the body of a man with horns on his head.
The background was a cold and snowy field, and there was a low earthen house next to it, and the black round cake held by the Taoist in his other hand fell into the courtyard where the earthen house was located.
In the eighth painting, a young woman is locked in a huge cage with her eyes closed, not knowing whether she is alive or dead.
Outside the cage, surrounded by a thick black mist that formed a whirlpool......
When I saw this painting, my heart tightened: it formed a swirling fog that I had dreamed of countless times.
When I opened the ninth one, it turned out to be blank.
I only glanced at those nine paintings and immediately put them away and put them in the box, because when I opened them, I felt uncomfortably depressed in my heart, which was a kind of despair, wanting to cry, but also with unwilling, ill-fated grief and pain.
Now, according to the records in this "Tale of Mountains and Rivers" and all the information I have, it can be roughly determined that this Jin Taizhi is the last generation of Hei Taijimen.
There is almost no record of the Black Taiji in the official history, and the word is a name derived from the Zhou Yi Bagua Taiji diagram.
From the information I have collected so far, I know that Black Taiji is a kind of witchcraft derived from the combination of Zhou Yi Bagua Taiji Qimen, but it is more domineering and evil. Its spells involve prediction, poison, witch doctors, feng shui, curses, etc., but the core witchcraft power is curses.
It is said that the ultimate curse power of Black Tai Chi can even open the gates of the world and hell.
The origin of this black Tai Chi is almost as early as the eight trigrams, and can be traced back to the period of Fuxi painting hexagrams. The creator of the Black Taiji Witchcraft was a very intelligent servant by Fu Xi's side, named Zhiyu.
Zhiyu is smart and less benevolent, he witnessed Fu Xi performing gossip and felt something, so according to the Bagua Taiji diagram, he created a more domineering black Taiji.
After Fu Xi learned that Zhiyu had created Black Taiji, he knew that this technique was powerful, and he was afraid that he would harm the world, so he imprisoned Zhiyu in Li Mountain.
During the long years of captivity, Zhiyu continued to deduce and improve the content of the black Taiji's witchcraft, making the black Taiji witchcraft more and more powerful, and even had the power to destroy the world, but this power was evil after all, with great backlash, constantly eating away at Zhiyu's body, so that half of his body turned into pus and blood under the backlash.
In order to solve the revolt, Zhiyu begged a woman named Wu Cai to open the way to the center of Li Mountain, where he found the Iron of the Netherworld and refined the Black Taiji Mirror, the cold energy in which could neutralize the evil power of Black Taiji witchcraft.
The iron of the underworld is the heart of Li Shan, Li Shan collapsed due to the loss of the iron of the underworld, and Wu Cai was also punished by Fuxi for helping Zhiyu, so that she was forever lost in the long road, traversing life and death and could not be solved.
Later, at the end of his life, Zhiyu found a successor and passed down the art of Black Tai Chi.
There are not many descendants of the Black Taiji Gate, and it is extremely low-key and mysterious, and it has been hidden in the crowd for thousands of years, and it is difficult to find a trace......
I clenched the black discus in my hand, feeling the comfort of the cold air in it from the palm of my hand into the body, so the legendary black Taiji Gate called the black Taiji mirror, the cold and evil artifact, should be the one in my hand.