Chapter 764: The Journey to the North (I)
Chu He ultimately failed to convince the Monkey King.
The Monkey King is not stupid, now that the situation in Chang'an City is changing, he must stay by Master Xuanzang's side and protect Master Xuanzang closely.
Although the Chu River is his shell, fundamentally speaking, the Monkey King is split from Master Xuanzang.
Before becoming a Buddha, although they were independent of each other, they were a whole, and every loss was lost.
However, the Monkey King was also righteous, and gave Chu He three monkey hairs, which were planted directly on the top of Chu He's brain.
Once in danger, you can pluck a monkey hair and blow it hard, and you can turn into a monkey king incarnation.
Although it does not have the 100% strength of the Monkey King, it should not be underestimated.
Touching the three monkey hairs on the top of his head, Chu He felt that his current appearance must be extremely funny.
Think about it, an old monk with loose skin and a wrinkled face, with three slightly golden hairs floating on his bare head, what kind of ecstasy is this?
Thinking back then, how loud the nickname of the King of Chu River was, and how extraordinary the honorific title of Chu Xiang's father was, could it be that after Jielu, there was one more nickname for Chu Sanmao?
Isn't this the more you get mixed up, the more you go back?
Chu He was extremely glad that he came in alone to brush this copy, and there was no possibility of information leakage.
And what happens in this copy, he must also be buried in his stomach, and must not let anyone know about it, making people laugh.
Although the three monkey hairs grow on the door of the head, it is difficult to see.
But now that there are benefits, Chu He can only endure it.
I went to Master Xuanzang, Bajie, and Wujing again, and wondered if I could ask for any more benefits.
Master Xuanzang gave a few words of encouragement, and then took out some messy things, which were collected everywhere when he first traveled west, although the functions are very unique, but if there is any great use, then I am afraid that there is no such thing.
Of course, Master Xuanzang's heart is good.
Bajie and Wujing don't like to deal with Chu River very much.
After a few words of chatting, I didn't have the slightest idea of benefit.
Seeing that he couldn't squeeze oil and water, Chu He had no choice but to leave angrily.
Thinking about re-entering the Journey to the West, when he comes to be a villager, he must give these two guys a little color to see.
After packing up everything, at dawn, Chu He left Chang'an alone.
A figure faintly followed behind him, as if watching.
Chu He did not go directly to the north, but first turned around in the direction of the Pure Land Temple.
Then he touched the mountains and forests, and the nine turns of Xuangong changed, turning into a middle-aged man with an ordinary appearance.
Then change the path and go straight to the north.
There are poems: There is little idle soil on the north of the mountain, and it is full of old tombs of Luoyang people. There are many people in the old tombs, and there is no place for gold piled up. The end of the world is leisurely, and the burial day is urgent, and the hill is rugged and non-stop. Gao Zhang Su curtain around Mingjing, singing elegy at night under the mountain.
Not to mention the countless desolate graves and wild graves, the bones of countless people are scattered among them.
There are quite a few tombs of emperors and generals alone.
Among them, there are many famous ones.
In the daytime, the mountains and forests are verdant, covered with glow and color, and a lush and vast wilderness scene.
But at night, it is often seen, and in the twilight, there are palaces of different styles, floating in the middle. You can hear singing and dancing, and you can see that the guests are drinking and having fun in the main hall.
And in the ups and downs of the mountains, the sound of swords and soldiers is endless.
Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States Period, Qin and Han Dynasties, Three Kingdoms, Two Jin Dynasties, Northern and Southern Dynasties and even the Early Tang Dynasty...
The souls of the soldiers of various countries and eras hovered here, and each became a force, and from time to time they would fight for territory.
This is simply a strengthened version of the Great Battlefield of the Nations.
It is not an exaggeration to say that Beibi is a netherworld place.
However, it is not absolute.
There is still a place here, which can be called the top cave heaven blessed land, and all evil spirits dare not violate it, and ten thousand ghosts dare not invade.
In the past, Lao Tzu once alchemy in the Cuiyun Peak of Beibi Mountain, and on the day of Dancheng, ten thousand golden lights soared into the sky.
After that, Lao Tzu left, no one stayed, and neither did Dan.
Only the scattered Danxia turned into a natural array and guarded this Cuiyun Peak.
And it is rumored that there is also a Laozi inheritance on Cuiyun Peak, a Taoist monk, who cultivates in seclusion here and is famous for alchemy.
The sect to which the monk belongs calls itself 'Lao Jun Temple', and it is unknown whether it really has anything to do with Lao Tzu.
The Li royal family can all claim to be descendants of Lao Tzu in a grand manner, these orthodox Taoist monks, say that they are the disciples and grandchildren of Lao Tzu, what's the problem?
Chu He knew that in a few decades, this Laojun Temple would be renamed 'Shangqing Temple'.
It was Tang Gaozong who personally ordered the edict.
The reason for this is difficult to know.
It stands to reason that if you want to change your name, you should also change it to 'Taiqingguan', then it is reasonable.
The Chu River is the northern mountain that enters during the day, and it is quite beautiful when you look at the north.
But it's not overly surprising, and it doesn't seem to be in line with its title of a forbidden place on earth.
But when it came to night, everything changed.
At this time, Chu He was on tiptoe, and the whole person walked lightly on the long dark street. It was with the Nine Turns of Xuangong that he changed into a ghost state.
The long street is gloomy and lively, very contradictory, and the surrounding buildings have a kind of old charm and ancient style of the Han Dynasty.
All kinds of ghosts dressed up in clothes walk through here.
Without exception, they are all worried about their feet.
Where the scarlet lantern flickered, it meant that a shop was open.
If you peek in, the timid living will be frightened.
The head needs to sell seven pillars of incense, the heart is worth three catties of paper money, and the price of the spleen, lungs, intestines, and other water is cheaper.
The most valuable thing is the human skin.
A whole intact human skin is enough to change a yang room with a length and width of no more than seven feet, but the underworld is enough to be called a mansion's yin tomb.
Eating human brains raw can make the souls of unjust ghosts more solid.
And after drinking the hot blood in the heart, the yin soul can also have a little yang energy. This is one of the few ways that ghosts can absorb yang energy.
Those outstanding-looking female ghosts can also rely on seducing woodcutters or hunters who are not afraid of dying in the mountains to chop wood, and absorb yang energy through some metaphysical blending.
And the male ghost is very uncomfortable, unless he can endure the disgusting and become a women's clothing boss, otherwise, he can only rely on hunting the living and swallowing the heart alive to obtain yang energy.
The so-called solitary yin does not grow, and solitary yang does not grow.
Although the ghost is formed by the condensation of yin energy, the core also needs to be nourished by a little yang energy, otherwise, the yin energy will be too strong, and the yang energy will be eliminated, which will attract backlash, the soul body will be broken, and the soul will be scattered.
The kind of ghost who is born with pure yin, locks up a little bit of Yuan Yang that remains from the body after death, does not leak a single bit, and does not need to take yang energy from outside, after all, it is a minority of the few.
And the role of human skin is even greater.
Wearing human skin, the ghosts can appear in the daytime slightly, and even hide from some cultivators who are not deep in the Tao, and go down the mountain to hunt for food in the town.
As long as you are bold enough and lucky enough, before causing a big commotion and attracting high-ranking people, you can restrain your greed and return to the mountain in time, there will be no problem, and you will be profitable.
The ghost market that Chu He is visiting now belongs to the original mausoleum of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty.
Liu Xiu is dead, and it is unknown where the soul returns.
The belonging of the emperor's soul has always been a secret, involving a lot of things, and it is difficult to detect. In the modern Internet society, everyone's brains are open, but some cultivators posted on the Internet, saying that the souls of those emperors were taken away by Ziwei Xingjun, maybe they were used for practice, or there were other arrangements.
But this is just a joke, and no one really believes it.
There is no Liu Xiu in Liu Xiu's grave.
But there are many people who gave him the burial of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, all of whom were unjustly killed, and they were entrenched in this northern mountain, and it was difficult for the underworld to send people to pick them up. Therefore, these unjust spirits, after gathering some old soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty, entrenched around the original mausoleum, are one of the large-scale ghost forces in the northern mountains.