Chapter 7 The First Ghost
It is recorded in the book that whether it is a demon or a mortal in the world, without concealment, they will naturally exude a breath, which echoes with the aura between heaven and earth, forming different complexion phenomena.
Zombie ghosts belong to the yin thing, and the body will emit black gas, which is the so-called yin qi, the difference is that zombies will smell foul when they are close to the body. There are also plants and vegetation, which can be transformed into demons by the aura of heaven and earth for a long time, and the body will emit dark green gas.
Mortals and immortal cultivators are different from others, there are three fires on the top of their heads, corresponding to the three souls of heaven, earth and man, the two souls of heaven and earth are yin and yang, black and white, and the two soul fires stand three inches above the shoulders. Only the human soul varies from person to person, and the color of its soul fire is also different according to the different spiritual roots, standing above the three inches of the heavenly spirit.
Regardless of whether the black qi is the ghost qi or not, Meng Hao's heart has already been activated, and the main feature of the Hundred Ghosts Upper Body exercise is the upper body of ghosts. The power of one ghost is regarded as the power of one person, and the power of two people can be exerted by merging one ghost, and the more ghosts are fused, the greater the power of oneself. Correspondingly, the emotions brought by the ghost will also become heavier, and the founder of the original exercise will also die because of this path.
Ghosts are cold and cold, and they are easy to cause damage to the body, and if you want to really master and exert your power, you need to get into the Dan realm, but in the early stage, you can temporarily realize the upper body of a hundred ghosts through some methods, but the power will be greatly reduced.
If you want a ghost to go up, you must have a ghost around you, all you need to prepare a special horcrux for the ghost to live in, the best thing to accommodate ghosts is jade, which is the most suitable for the cultivation and residence of ghosts. However, Meng Hao does not have it at present, so he can only seek something else to replace it, that is, the locust tree, the locust tree has the name of the ghost tree, so the locust tree can also be used as a ghost object, and the higher the year, the more suitable the locust tree.
Meng Hao remembered that there was a vintage locust tree halfway up the back mountain of Meng'an Village, and the two of them could hug it together, and it should be more than a hundred years old. Without hesitation, Meng Hao took advantage of noon and ran directly to the back mountain with tools.
Even in the scorching heat, there will still be a cool breeze blowing under this lush locust tree, and the shade under the tree is very deep.
Fortunately, this old tree is not very tall, Meng Hao climbed up the branch, found a branch with the thickness of an arm, sawed a meter of length with a saw, and returned home with this locust tree stick. It stands to reason that the position of the center of the tree is the most appropriate, but it is impossible for Meng Hao to cut off the old tree to take its heart, everything has a spirit, this is what Meng Hao learned from the book.
Peeling the one-meter-long wooden stick, and then sawing it into small pieces again, Meng Hao was ready to make two strings of locust wood bracelets, but Meng Hao did not have special tools for polishing, so he could only carve it slowly by himself, and this busy time was two days later.
In these two days, in addition to making bracelets, Meng Hao would refine a spirit rune every time the essence in his body recovered, and when the bracelet was completed, Meng Hao already had three psychic runes and two exorcism talismans plus a soul charm in his hands.
The exorcism charm is the simplest kind of attack spirit rune, the drawing charm needs to absorb the noon sun qi in the yellow rune, according to the strength of the person who draws the talisman The sun essence is also different, used to exorcise ghosts. The Soul Charm is used to guide ghosts, and it is needed to introduce the soul into the Horcrux that you can control.
At this moment, Meng Hao happily looked at the locust tree bead bracelet he made, each string has 12 white wooden beads of the same size, the shape of the beads is a little rough, not sleek and natural, but the white wooden beads with the red rope are quite a bit of handicrafts.
The production of the locust wood bracelet is only the first step, in order for the ghost to live inside, the second step is to carve the requiem rune on the surface of the bead, only then can it be considered a simple Horcrux. The requiem talisman is not complicated, but Meng Hao in the current realm can only depict the requiem talisman on one of the beads first, and then add the others later.
"Heaven and earth are born together, gather the spirit and calm the spirit, and the spirit of the hundred worlds. Ann !!"
Meng Hao pinched his fingers and recited the requiem spell, and the requiem talisman between the two fingers immediately ignited a green smoke, floating to the wooden bead bracelet in front of him, and blended into one of the wooden beads, a shrunken requiem rune appeared on the surface of the wooden beads, and the wooden beads became different from other wooden beads in terms of color and feel, and there was a sense of warmth in the hand.
When it was almost midnight that night, Meng Hao prepared some things and went out, ready to find a ghost to subdue and test the effect of the hundred ghosts.
Ghosts are generally not discovered by the human eye, so after going out, Meng Hao used a psychic talisman to open the eyes of heaven for himself, in order to find traces of ghosts. Through the experiment, Meng Hao found that the psychic talisman he made only had the effect of a quarter of an hour, and now he only had two psychic talismans on his body, so he only had half an hour to look for ghosts.
It was late at night, everyone in the village had gone to sleep, the lights were out, and the weather was cloudy tonight, making the village even darker and quieter. A cool breeze blew, which made Meng Hao's originally restless heart cool for most of it, and his heart couldn't help but tremble, but for the sake of hell, Meng Hao didn't flinch and continued to move towards the darkness.
Meng Hao began to wander aimlessly around the village, Meng'an Village is not big, from east to west, from south to north, it only took more than ten minutes for Meng Hao to turn around. During this time, Meng Hao found nothing, and did not see anything unusual or ghostly, which calmed Meng Hao's originally nervous heart a little.
The time soon reached midnight, Meng An was walking slowly on a small road at the moment, looking around from time to time, for fear of alarming the ghosts, Meng Hao walked very slowly, without making too much noise.
At this moment, Meng Hao, who was moving forward, felt a slight sound of footsteps behind him, Meng An stopped and looked back, and opened his eyes and did not see the existence of a figure. Meng Hao thought that he had misheard, and continued to walk forward, and the disappearing footsteps appeared again, Meng Hao stopped, and the footsteps disappeared with it. Meng Hao shook his head and secretly cursed his own random suspicions, misheard his footsteps for someone else's, and continued to walk forward with a wry smile.
When Meng Hao turned an intersection, there was a sound of gentle footsteps behind him again, Meng Hao subconsciously glanced back, and his originally relaxed heart suddenly rose to his throat, and he immediately stood in place in fright, and at the moment when he turned back just now, Meng Hao saw a black shadow appear around the corner.
"What the hell!!" Meng Hao exclaimed in his heart.
Originally, he had expectations for seeing ghosts and catching ghosts, but when he really faced it, Meng Hao knew the fear in his heart, and at this moment, because of Meng Hao's sudden stop, the black shadow around the corner was also motionless, and he didn't know what to think.
Meng Hao tried his best to keep himself calm, and continued to move forward pretending to be nothing, while his hands were already in his pockets, and he clenched the ghost exorcism talisman in his pocket, ready to see what the ghosts behind him were going to do.
In this way, Meng Hao walked slowly in front, and the black shadow behind him was not far away or close to follow Meng Hao in sync, Meng Hao walked through two streets, and the figure followed two streets.
At this time, Meng Hao was nervous to death, because he felt the black shadow behind him speed up his pace and gradually approached him, his heart was pounding, and the sound was so loud that Meng Hao suspected that he could hear it clearly in this quiet street.
Just when Meng Hao thought that the black shadow behind him was about to rush over, and he was about to cast an exorcism talisman, a piercing sound of opening the door sounded in this quiet street, followed by the same piercing sound of closing the door, and Meng Hao, who was about to attack, froze in place. There was a rush of footsteps in the courtyard next to the street, followed by a light in one of the rooms and a sound of anxiety.
"Daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, wake up, I've hit a ghost. ”
"What's the noise, you woke me up just when I fell asleep, and you drank so late and scared me. ”
Then there were several loud slaps in the room.
"Daughter-in-law, it's true, you listen to my explanation, don't fight, don't fight... ”
Meng Hao, who was outside the house, did not continue to listen to the conversation between the two, and left in a hurry, his face was hot, and the feelings were both human, and they both thought that the other party was a ghost. Meng Hao patted his head and secretly scolded himself for being confused, could it be that the figures in the eyes of the sky are all ghosts?
After tossing for so long and not seeing a ghost, Meng Hao turned around and walked towards home with some disappointment, and when Meng Hao passed by a street corner, he suddenly saw a figure flash and entered the courtyard on the side of the street.
"Isn't this Grandpa Meng San's house?" Meng Hao looked at the courtyard where the figure had entered, and muttered in his heart.
Meng San's grandfather was buried on the third day of his murder, but it was not arranged by his children, who were working in other places and had not returned for a long time. I heard that the neighbors called their children, but no one answered, so in desperation, several elderly people in the village who were close to Grandpa Meng San helped arrange the funeral.
"Could it be a thief?" Meng Hao frowned.
The things in Grandpa Meng San's house did not move in the neighborhood, because there was no one to guard them, it was difficult to guarantee that no one would move crookedly to steal the old man's things, how to say that Grandpa Meng San was also his distant relative, and he could not ignore it.
Meng Hao walked over softly, came to the door of Meng San's courtyard, bent down and looked in through the gap in the door, stared for a long time and didn't find half a figure, the room was very quiet, there was no sound.
"Could it be that I am psychologically troubled again, and I am wrong?"
Meng Hao doubted his eyes again, and just as Meng Hao was about to straighten up, his body was unsteady and moved forward, and his head hit the door directly.
"Bang"
With a dull sound, the gate slammed open directly, and Meng Hao fell in front of the gate, and his whole body fell into the courtyard. The fall was very heavy, Meng Hao stood up with grinned teeth, rubbed his aching head and arms, and slapped the dust on his body.
"It's okay to fall so hard, right?" At this moment, a slightly sensitive voice sounded in Meng Hao's ears, revealing old age in his voice.
Meng Hao's movements of slapping the dust stiffened, and he looked up with some uncertainty, only to see an old man in a white sweatshirt appear in front of him, looking at Meng Hao with a concerned gaze, what made Meng Hao's heart turbulent was that the appearance of the old man turned out to be the dead Meng San's grandfather, and there was a trace of black gas overflowing from his body.
"No, it's okay, uncle. Meng Hao's words were a little trembling, and he slowly retreated to the rear.
"Huh, can you see me?" Grandpa Meng San was very surprised, and floated directly to Meng Hao, looking at Meng Hao carefully.
"Stop, don't come near me again, or don't blame me for being rude. Meng Hao said sharply.
Meng Hao hurriedly took a few steps back and appeared in the middle of the street, already taking out a ghost exorcism talisman in his hand, but he felt a little nervous.
"Don't be afraid, young man, I won't do anything to you. Grandpa Meng San saw the spirit talisman in Meng Hao's hand, and felt that it contained a supreme yang breath, so he didn't dare to step forward, and stood in place and said.
"You are already dead, why are you still in the world, why don't you hurry up and reincarnate. Meng Hao asked, not letting go of the arm holding the talisman.
"Hey, I could have lived a few more days, how did I know that I was killed by this catastrophe, I also admit it, but what I can't let go of is my family's unsuccessful son, he has been working outside, he hasn't seen him for a long time, I thought I could see him in this burial, but I didn't even see a shadow. Speaking of this, Grandpa Meng San's expression was obviously a little lonely.
"I don't go to the underworld just to see him again, how is he doing, but my heart is concerned. ”
"You know that if you stay on earth like this, you will be guilty of many sins when you go to the underworld. Hearing Meng San's words, Meng Hao couldn't help but feel a little hurt in his heart, withdrew the spirit talisman in his hand, and spoke.
There is a gap between people and ghosts, there are laws and morals in the world, and there are rules and regulations in the underworld. After a person dies, there will be Yin soldiers and ghosts to collect the soul, at this time there are two choices, one is to go to the local land temple with the Yin to report, and the other is to be obsessed with reluctance to leave.
The second option has a premise, that is, you still have yang longevity, and the accidental death of the adulterer is not over yang life, and you can continue to stay in the yang world. When the yang longevity is exhausted, it is not yin but impermanence to ask for the soul, whether you want to or not, you must leave. At the same time, every extra day spent in the underworld will result in an extra year of hellish torture in the underworld, but there are exceptions to everything.
"I've already made it clear to me, but I haven't seen my son for the last time, and even if I go to the underworld, I'm not at peace. Grandpa Meng San said very stubbornly.
"Third grandfather, do you remember Meng Yuanshan in the east of the village, I am his son Meng Hao. Meng Hao was a little sad about Grandpa Meng's obsession, and decided to help the old man realize his wish, but the old man's heart.
"Yuanshan, no wonder I see you so familiar, it turned out to be the son of Yuanshan, I didn't expect you to grow so big. Grandpa Meng San hid the sadness on his face and showed a smile.
"Third grandfather, I have a way to let you continue to stay in the world without punishment, and I can also take you to see your son, I don't know if you want to. Meng Hao said the exercises he cultivated, and asked Grandpa Meng San to consider whether to be his own ghost.
"And this way, of course I do. When Grandpa Meng heard that there was still this way, there was a look of surprise on his face, and he agreed without hesitation.
"Okay, then you relax and wait for me to do it. ”
Meng Hao didn't expect Grandpa Meng San to agree so simply, and he didn't procrastinate, he directly took out a soul-attracting talisman, pointed to the pinching talisman, and recited the words.
"The dry position is yang, the kun position is yin; Citations !!"
The spirit rune turned into a cloud of green smoke, wrapping the entire soul of Meng San's grandfather, Meng Hao's sword pointed to the wooden beads on his wrist, and the green smoke wrapped in Meng San's grandfather gradually shrank and was absorbed by the wooden beads engraved with the requiem talisman.
"Third Grandpa, how do you feel?" When Grandpa Meng's soul inhaled the wooden beads, Meng Hao sensed the existence of Grandpa Meng San in the wooden beads and asked.
"Yes, I feel very comfortable here. "Grandpa Meng San seemed to be in good shape, which made Meng Hao breathe a sigh of relief, knowing that his Horcrux had not been refined.
"Very well, I swear to take you to your son, and it's up to you whether you go or stay when the time comes. Meng Hao said.
"Thank you, Xiao Hao. Grandpa Meng San thanked.
Meng Hao, who finally got his wish and had the first ghost, didn't have too many surprises, proving that the existence of the ghost made Meng Hao's heart start to think about another big thing, closing the door of Meng San's grandfather, and Meng Hao walked towards home.