Chapter 37: Cihang Hall

Pudu Cihang looked at the sky in the crown sedan chair, and saw that the moon was dark tonight, covered by mist, and there was a faint pain in his right arm, and he shouted, "In the next few days, it will be the night of the Tengu eating the moon, and the moonlight will be greatly reduced, and the mana on my body will be uncontrollable at that time." Go to the Cihang Hall at once, and let me survive the night of the lunar eclipse safely. Suddenly, the Sanskrit chanting immediately stopped, and all the monks ran forward with their Dharma weapons, and hurried away.

But he said that Zuo Tian's longitudinal horse galloped wildly, and soon caught up with the monk team in the gallop, only to see that the monk was not in the monk's team, everyone was in a hurry, and couldn't help but ask the monk at the end of the team, "Is the abbot going back to the capital? Why are you walking in such a hurry?"

A female monk turned around and replied, "Since the Dharma Abbot went south, he has been preaching the scriptures and teachings for several days, which has damaged the true yin. Qianhu don't have to worry about it, please leave. ”

Zuo Tianzong frowned and said, "I was ordered to escort Master Fu and his party back, but now that Master Fu is leaving, it is difficult for me to explain to the emperor." After the abbot's health improves, he will go to the front of the temple to help share one or two. ”

A voice came from a distance, "Since Zuo Qianhu has a heart, let's come with this seat." This seat needs to be recuperated, and I hope you don't disturb it. "It was the voice of Napudu Cihang.

Zuo Tianzong bowed and replied, "Thank you for your understanding, the Dharma is damaged, Tianzong should wait outside the hall, waiting for good news." When the female monk heard the Dharma Abbot's voice, she stopped talking, and ran for a while to keep up with the team.

A few days later, late at night, on the outskirts of Jingshi, a continuous stream of majestic monasteries rose in the night, and beyond the courtyard walls were dense forests of trees, and an avenue led to the mountain gate. When the monks came to the outside of the temple, they did not stop, but hurriedly entered the temple gate and disappeared.

The mountain gate is a big archway, on which are written Pudu Cihang four big characters, it is the emperor of the present day, to this civil official to get off the sedan chair, military attache to get off the horse, need to walk to the temple gate. On weekdays, the incense here is prosperous, and it is crowded during the New Year's holidays, but it is so quiet in the middle of the night, and there is no one.

Zuo Tianzong rode off the horse and wanted to enter the mountain gate, but was stopped by a female monk, "The Buddhist gate is quiet, it is difficult to tolerate the world, thousands of households please stay." You can rest for a few days in a nearby farmhouse, and then the Dharma Abbot will notify you and go to court together. After saying that, he immediately turned around and left, and entered the temple gate, and the temple gate closed with it, blocking Zuo Tianzong outside the mountain gate.

At this moment, a gust of wind blew, the sky was dark, Zuo Tianzong couldn't help but look up, only to see the edge of the bright moon in the sky, a black shadow slowly appeared, swallowing the light of the bright moon, for a while and a half, the earth was pitch black, leaving only the mountain gate in front of the temple, four huge braziers were burning. The flames in the brazier were whistling by the mountain wind, shining on the ground, showing countless strange shadows, which was terrifying.

Zuo Tian looked at this scene and couldn't help but say, "It turns out that tonight is the night of the Tengu eating the moon, no wonder this place is so empty." "On the night of the Tengu eating the moon, the legend is that there are gods in the sky to steal the moon, making the world dark, at this moment in the capital, there are people beating gongs and drums, running with candles, shouting loudly, hoping to scare away the gods in the air, so that the moonlight can reappear in the world. Thinking of this, Zuo Tianzong couldn't help but show a little smile on his face.

As the moon disappeared little by little in the sky, at this moment in the temple, Pudu Cihang's face was full of hideousness, and he drank in a low voice, "Tiangu eats the moon, messes with the Dan Qi in my body, I want to appear!" After speaking, the skin on the whole body was broken, revealing a huge bone shell, and a fierce aura appeared in the air.

A strong wind blew, knocked over the brazier in front of the mountain gate, the firewood fell to the ground, and the black horse got up and stood up, kept roaring, and tore the head hard, Zuo Tianzong is a person who loves horses, and he can't bear to pull hard, so he loosens the reins on the horse stone. The black horse was free, and immediately galloped away, no longer hesitating, as if there was something extremely terrifying here, stopped a few hundred meters away and turned back, and kept calling Zuo Tianzong.

Zuo Tianzong saw his beloved horse fleeing, and his heart was surprised, could it be that something happened in the temple? No matter what, he went over to say hello first, tonight the wind is weird, and the temple should also be careful of the fire candles. Hurry to the temple gate.

I don't know why, there is no one on duty in front of the temple tonight, Zuo Tianzong stepped forward to push the door, but the temple door was opened, there was silence everywhere in the temple at this moment, except for the sound of the wind, there was no other sound at all, it was really weird.

Zuo Tianzong also entered the Cihang Hall for the first time and walked along the corridor. There is no one in the front yard, no one in the gatehouse, no one in the corridor, I don't know where the monks in the temple have gone, and it is strange everywhere.

Walking a few courtyards, there was no one, Zuo Tianzong became more and more suspicious in his heart, what is going on with this abbot? I obviously saw dozens of monks enter the temple gate, why can't I see a shadow in the temple? Along the back door of a side hall, there are steps down, Zuo Tianzong walked along the steps, did not turn a few corners, and came to a wide place, there is a distance of more than 100 meters on the left and right, there is a vacant space in the middle, more than 20 steps of ladders will surround the middle, only a few doors at the bottom enter and exit, Zuo Tianzong is one of them.

On the top of the staircase, there are countless figures, in front of which are glass candlesticks lit, lit candles. Zuo Tianzong followed the light and shadow to see clearly that these countless figures were all civil and military officials in the court.

Zuo Tianzong has been on duty in front of the emperor, of course, he knows these important ministers of the court who go to the court every day, and many of them are still frontier officials who have been sent abroad, and they don't know when they will return to the court. These adults sat motionless on the top of the stairs with their eyes closed, dressed in court clothes. Lord Yang and Master Jiang from the Ministry of Officials, Master Li from the Ministry of War, and Master Zhang from the Ministry of Industry, why are all these adults here? Could it be that some meeting is being held here? I broke into the venue by mistake?

"Ladies and gentlemen, I was ordered by the Son of Heaven to escort the imperial court prisoners back to Beijing, and there was a change in the middle. He asked the abbot to intercede, and the abbot did a ritual to persuade the prisoner to leave after leaving. The reason for this is that I would like to ask you to listen to the humble explanation. "Most of the adults here are the opposition of Fu Tianqiu in the DPRK and China, and when they gather here, don't they know that they have lost the Qin prisoner? Zuo Tianzong thought of this, and immediately knelt down on one knee and opened his mouth to explain to the ministers.

After Zuo Tianzhong finished speaking, he waited for the adults to speak, but for a while, there was no sound in the field, only the wind blew the court clothes of the adults. The adults still had their eyes closed, as if the left sky in front of them was completely nothing.

Zuo Tianzong frowned, "No! There is a problem!" Lang Sheng said, "Ladies and gentlemen, please forgive me for offending!" After speaking, he jumped forward, came to a step, and stretched out his hand to pat an adult on the shoulder, "Lord Yang, offended!"

As soon as Zuo Tianlong's palm touched Lord Yang, who had closed his eyes tightly, Lord Yang's body immediately collapsed like a deflated ball, revealing a large slit in his back. Looking through the cracks, it was empty, and the lifelike Lord Yang turned out to be a virtual shell! Zuo Tianzong shook wildly in his heart, almost couldn't believe his eyes, and grabbed Lord Jiang next to him.

Master Jiang also fell under stress, and he was also a false shell! Zuo Tianzong probed his claws left and right, and with repeated exertion, the bodies of seven or eight officials of the DPRK and Central Committee fell, all of them were empty shells. Even a fool can already guess that there is a problem with this at this moment, and it is absolutely inseparable from the protector of the country, Pudu Cihang!

Zuo Tianzong immediately stood up and said loudly, "What kind of place is this? What kind of demons and monsters are you? Where did you get the flesh and blood of these famous ministers and generals?!"

Above the clearing, Zuo Tianzong's eager rebuke echoed, and there was no response. Zuo Tian was in a hurry, looked left and right, and saw a yellow curtain in the middle, and he didn't know where it led, so he immediately started to walk.

Lift the yellow curtain, through the stone road of hundreds of meters, on the stone road, there are messy scratches, it seems to be a sharp blade crossing, the more Zuo Tianzong looks, the more frightened, the more open in front of him, it is a barren hill, and there is a foul smell in the air. "Where have you gone, come out and see me!" Zuo Tianzong was angry and anxious, this Cihang Hall was clearly Senluo Hell, and he didn't believe what Pudu Cihang said to him before.

Before the barren hill, it was the monk team that disappeared without a trace after entering the temple gate, and the crown sedan chair of the protector of the country was parked in the middle.

Zuo Tian looked at the main lord here, "What kind of demons and monsters are you, where are those ministers? Answer me quickly!"

"Why did you make the ministers of the court like this, what are your intentions?!" Zuo Tianzong asked several times before coming to the monks, but no one answered, and all the monks were like the ministers of the court in the main hall, closing their eyes tightly and being silent.

Zuo Tianzong came to the back of the monk to take a look, and sure enough, there was a big crack in all the backs, leaving only an empty shell outside, and the contents of it disappeared somewhere. Zuo Tianzong couldn't care about the protector of the country at this moment, and immediately flew into the sedan chair of the crown of the law, and pulled it forward, and a human skin shrugged down, and sure enough, it was still an empty shell.

After the crown sedan chair, there was a sound of Suosuo, Zuo Tianzong took a few steps forward and lifted the yellow veil, and when he looked out, the scene in front of him was terrifying.