Chapter 1: Hell in the Ten Directions
In the cold mountain, a dilapidated mountain temple is wrapped in a shadow in the rain, fluttering, a messy Chen poem will be laid out, the broken black tile can not cover the mottled black hole on the top of the temple, and the mountain rhyme is also missing.
The world is shaky, like falling into the hell of the ten directions, like an opening, whether it is a person or a ghost, the civilization in the cold mountains has not declined with the fortune of people in the dry bones, in the cold night, the yin wind is like a cone, hitting the human face, like being slashed by the barbed tongue of the mountain tiger, this wind is stained with a fishy smell, filled with unsanctioned evil, making people feel cheap and disgusting.
The wind swept the air, pushing the clouds overhead, black and slightly gilded, sometimes like the withered hands of the weak dead, embellished with a little fiery clouds, sometimes shaped like skeletons, wanting to open their mouths, spitting out their long tongues, and playing with a mass of blood, let it change. If there is no need for rain, this cloud is here, tightly pressed to the ground, floating in space for a long time like a wild dog on a chain, and this cloud will not dissipate for a month and a half.
There are two brothers who have coarse cloth and short brown, wading valleys and rivers, carrying bags on their backs for travel, both of them are unusually thin, their body fat is not enough, their faces are very tight on their cheekbones, as if they will collapse when they poke their fingers, and between breaths, their faces are rhythmically agitated against their cheeks.
The taller ones don't know if it's caused by leg injuries or hunger, and they walk all the way, like a beating bean on the rugged mountain road, sometimes rolling up their trouser legs, unconsciously adjusting the balance of their bodies. His eyes were very tight, like the muscles of a slug soaked in salt water, his eyes, his eye sockets were tight along the texture of his skin all the way to the bone marrow, because his clothes were pulled back and forth by two shoulder straps, every three steps and five steps, he always had to help up, as if he was playing with something precious, even if he was tired, he didn't want to stain it on the ground.
The two brothers, the elder is called Yu Fan, and the younger is called Lingzha, the name of these two brothers is that their father pushed some incense in Dingyun Temple back then, and asked the old host to take it. This top cloud temple is also called cloud top temple, is a local incense is quite prosperous, spiritual Yu Ze place. Dignitaries, declining aristocrats, nouveau riche, and royal nobles who can't beat the eight poles will also visit the temple in person, either to scatter some incense or to walk around to eliminate the accumulation of food in the stomach.
More than ten years ago, the weak bodies of the two did not have this kind of wind and bones, and time fluttered its wings, driving the wandering and trivial past. Along with the dissipation of time, there is also death, and there is the recklessness of shouting awe only when death is near. Supernatural anecdotes can cause insecurity to be stubborn and perverted, including the wealthy, including the declining aristocracy who can still pick out a rotten gold tooth or two between their teeth, and they are bored and have no way of knowing the nobles. Finally, there are the merchants, the nouveau riche who are about to rise, the loan sharks.
These people are not willing to see the world in a limited time, and they are tired of seeing it, and they are abandoned, and they are afraid of it. But what is there to see in this world, the tragic situation of selling women, the act of selling people's hearts, and the events of disobedience are spreading in the world where spiritual power is becoming increasingly scarce.
The walls of hell are high again, and the hungry demons are full again. Filled with ghosts, Yama, who is in charge of the Yin Division, feels that he can appropriately release a number of harmless ghosts to the human world to ensure the sustainability of the limited resources of hell.
After filming the case and pressing the seal, the first group of harmless ghosts of humans and animals signed and painted, and left this ghost place where the haunted house is rising day by day.
In order to protect themselves and ensure the order of the world, these ghosts can only live in recesses where there is no daylight, such as the mountains and waters, and inaccessible places. Because they are a vulnerable group, they have to abandon their homes and migrate after hearing harsh reprimands, insults, and contemptuous shouts.
The same is migration, compared with the people on the grassland, the cattle and sheep who moved to get a wife in the shade of the abundant water and grass, and the ghosts do not consume food, and in hell they have been torn off the fat intestines by the cows, ghosts, snakes, and gods, so they do not know hunger, and they are soaked in bitter salt water The leather whip has cut off the nerves to feel the pain, so they do not know the heat and cold.
The only thing of value for them is the shroud that the family members or destroyed before death, or the money they have saved for many years to buy the shroud, which was whipped by the whip of the cow, ghost, snake and god, and then bought some silk threads from the knitting shop undertaken by the Yin Division, which are woven from the human wind silk stolen by those who have both virtue and virtue in the Yin Division, and the threads are worn into the tattered longevity clothes, and sewn up overnight to ensure the dignity maintained at the time of death. This wind silk is valuable, and it also brings ten thousand taels of gold to Yinsi.
The wild ghosts in the world, without the whip of the whip, coupled with the hard work of the ghost house may suddenly be conscripted and disappear, so they are also lazy, some simply in the dilapidated temple, waiting for the reincarnation quota under the eaves of the long-uninhabited house, the ghost who can have the opportunity to be reincarnated must be a person who has accumulated virtue for a long time in the previous life, and the item that people rely on to accumulate virtue is money to put it bluntly, and money is the initiator of promoting the floating of good and evil in the world. The lazy ghost is not bad, lying under the damp eaves every day, occasionally lazily picking out the burning sun from the corners of his eyes, and the wind that pours into his ears at night. In the hazy moonlight, their eyelids flickered to catch a glimpse of the starlight beyond the earthly world, making them forget that they had lived in this earthly world.
One day, the wind in the world, if you eat a ghost, you can prolong your life for one year, if the elixir of refining is accompanied by the snow lotus of ice yin, the ginseng of Yangsheng, the effect is even more extraordinary, it is said that someone caught a ghost who did not violate his birth date when he died, and practiced the elixir according to the formula of the famous mountain and the old road, and took it, and he would prolong his life for a century when he was about to die, and he could also spare the wind and moon at the age of 100 years.
As a result, ghosts were clearly priced, especially some lazy and uncared ghosts were hunted by others, and they were really refined.
And Yu Fan's father, strong and strong, gave up farming, sold a few acres of thin fields, and used the money to go to a blacksmith shop to hit a tin and copper broadsword, and went to a nearby Taoist institute to find a mage to open the light, perhaps because the family business has been dilapidated for many years, so that he can avoid believing in Buddhism and converting to Taoism, but in any case, the two cubs he gave birth to were not destroyed by illness, everything was fine until he was about to become an adult, and when he reached the age of marrying a daughter-in-law, for the future of the child, he had to throw away the hoe, plow, these agricultural things, relying on the black and thin physique, followed an old Taoist practice on the three roads, but every time he fought with people, and found that he lacked some skills in the lower three ways, so in half a year, relying on the softness that was not broken with the boy's body, he learned to sweep his legs, grab hands, and Xuan Gong fists and feet. Using the kung fu he had learned, he took the sword and went hunting in the ruined temple and the long-uninhabited mansion. A ghost who dies at noon can be exchanged for ten taels of silver, a ghost who dies in the morning can be exchanged for five taels, three taels that die at the end of the day, and two taels that die at the end of the day. One or two a month is enough to support a family's livelihood.
In order to hunt more efficiently, he relied on his experience to draw some ghost books, on which recorded the characteristics and habits of some more valuable ghosts. For example, there are no delusional ghosts, sex is lively, often hidden in gambling houses, restaurants, to tease people's joys, sorrows, sorrows, and sorrows, such ghosts can confuse people's hearts, how many sons and brothers according to this alchemy, feed the beauties to win the heart.
Yu Fan's father felt that this was a deed, and when he saw such a ghost, he would definitely scold him away, and he would never hunt it. There are also some ghosts who have the ability to parasitize the body of the living, these are called foot-bound ghosts, and it is very difficult to get rid of them, because it is difficult to drive them away from people, and they are not afraid of these ghost hunters. Because most hunters have brute force and can't cast exorcism spells, and there is nothing they can do about them. The Dan refined by these ghosts does not violate yang qi and can prolong life, so it is also the most expensive.
I've been making a living for ten years, and my two children are in their teens, and the records of ghosts are pretty much in my hands. If the value of ghosts is still in demand in the future, they can pass on their craft to their sons who are not good at reading.
The two sons also lived up to expectations and inherited their father's life. Wandering the world with some ghost-hunting objects, at this time, I came to a place called Hanshan.
Cold Mountain, also known as Yin and Yang Two Realms Mountain, the mountain has the main peak, the name is the Snow Mountain, in addition to the wild ghosts that live in isolation here, there are also spirits, monsters. Of course, there are also people who live in Sanyo-myeon.
Here the pavilion stands next to the mountain, the shops are lined up with a street, about several miles long, this street is also known as Lancang Street, in the morning, the sun rises on the top of the mountain, each household is poured with gold, the Rui city is wide open, the lively day will be the life of the drunken gold fan here and continue from yesterday, the restaurant is still the group of people who are drunk and drunk, and they are in love. After being drained by wine, he died on the street for no reason, and was picked up by flying vultures in the sunset, and thrown on the side of the mountain where ghosts and monsters lived, and saved the steps to the underworld when he died. On the day of Yu Fan's father's death, he couldn't afford to buy an inch of land here after all, so he died and found any place to bury it.
At the foot of the cold mountain, it coincides with autumn, the mountains and forests are burning, and the moon is like a wooden fish with nowhere to place on the corner of the mountain. The wind probed the lines on the skin, erased the leaves on the trees, erased the desolation of the cold mountain, from this autumn to that summer, the two brothers had spent two years collecting the "Ghost Record" while hunting ghosts, but often all they said was a matter of ghosts and ghosts.
The autumn cold longitudinal bones, the mountains and soil are like Su.
Yu Fan in order to inherit the will of the deceased father, the obsession with the deceased made his mentality dance on the top, for the pressure of life, he often felt tightness in the chest, lack of breath, often dripping with sparks in his eyes, people who understand medicine say that his liver is too hot, and the dancing god says that he is full of yang, the so-called samadhi fire in the eyes, and the bull head and horse face dare not provoke.
In short, this terrible situation made him unable to cross the bad reality, but he decided to cross the threshold of leaving home. So, Yu Fan took Lingzha all the way to the north, from the High Heaven Plain to the Burning Cloud Desert, from the sky from the water to Youlaizhou. From the place closest to the gods to the hinterland of all kinds of demons and monsters, the two brothers finally came to a place called Hanshan with their strong will.
Although Hanshan is a place where demons are located, the gods of Linmin, the time and space of the two places are embedded in the sundial of the morning and dusk, and they do not know each other's time. Although the name of Hanshan is Han, the daylilies here are accompanied by the cold rain in winter, and they will be reborn after hitting the willow eyebrows in spring, and then the rare and exotic beasts will enter the breeding season according to the season of Hanshan.
Hanshan is actually a plant called Dracaena that is more unique. According to legend, in ancient times, there was Tianxingjiao who was wild and arrogant, regarded the gods as nothing, and often relied on his body like a black iron, like glass, and was more beautiful than Danfeng, and felt that he was the most beautiful existence beyond the gods. As a result, they wantonly pierced through the clouds and made it rain, and the floods that often caused the world to be raging, and the crops could not survive, obviously harming the various countries that represented the interests of the gods. Even some small countries were washed away by the flood created by Tianxingjiao before they could issue a declaration of independence. In order to maintain their rule, the gods united and decided to strangle the first sin in this world. Even though this Tianxingjiao was conceived by heaven and earth, it even existed before the formation of the gods.