Chapter 39: Ten Ghost Statues
He Qianshan squatted down and carefully identified that these footprints should belong to two people, one large and one small, most likely Li Shangfeng and Sister Sisi.
Following the trajectory of the footprints, he began to make up the picture of Shangfeng and Sisi entering the temple.
Ji Sisi followed behind Li Shangfeng, but for some reason he didn't struggle to resist, or chose the opportunity to escape.
She had only walked a few steps before she stopped at the first pillar of the door.
And Li Shangfeng strode to the statue of Hades in the middle of the main hall.
He moved a few steps in place, stopped for a moment, and then turned back and walked in the direction of the temple gate.
When he reached the bottom seat on the right side of the hall, he stopped, took a step sideways in the direction of the seat, paused for a moment, and then turned and walked out of the hall.
Ji Sisi still followed......
After reading the footprints, He Qianshan's heart was full of doubts.
If so, even if she is powerless to fight, she is too submissive!
Could it be that he is vain and wronged for self-preservation? Well, it must be so, Li Shangfeng is ferocious, and this may be the only way to live!
Thinking of a few suspicious things just now, he first came to the beam where "Ji Sisi" stopped.
An object he had picked up behind the pillar confirmed his suspicion that Ji Sisi had indeed been here!
Because this object is Ji Sisi's twentieth birthday, he gave him a jade bracelet!
This bracelet, Ji Sisi has never left his hand since he put it on, and this time he lost it here, he must have taken advantage of Li Shangfeng's lack of attention and secretly left it for him to report his whereabouts!
He Qianshan breathed a sigh of relief, at least Sister Sisi should not worry about her life for the time being!
He put away the bracelet and walked over to the statue of Hades.
The painting on this tall statue has almost peeled off, but the majesty and momentum are still there, especially the shock in the fierce eyes, which is awe-inspiring!
He Qianshan stood at the position where Li Shangfeng stopped, carefully observed the consequences and found that it was suspicious!
The base of the statue does not exactly coincide with the dust on the ground!
In other words, it is very likely that this statue was moved by Li Shangfeng.
Thinking of this, he didn't say a word to Lord Hades, hugged and released his arms, and invited the statue of Hades away from its original position!
However, he didn't find any hidden doors or hidden grids, but one place was surprisingly clean, as if something had been pressed on it!
It seems that this Li Shangfeng returned to the nest not to live for a long time, but to come back to pick up this thing, no matter what this thing is, it is obviously extremely important to him!
He Qianshan really couldn't figure out what it was about a lawless person like Li Shangfeng that would make him care so much?
The last suspicion is in the lowest seat on the right side of the hall, but He Qianshan looked left and right, turned around this chair a few times, and didn't find anything special, so he figured out the direction of Li Shangfeng's footsteps and the location of his stops, and then speculated on his possible line of sight......
Suddenly, the wall facing the back of this seat attracted He Qianshan's attention, this wall was empty, but it was exactly strange!
There are a total of ten chairs in the hall, the widest one is located in front of the statue of Hades, the back of the chair is carved with a wolf's head, covered with animal skin, needless to say, this is the seat of Li Shangfeng.
The remaining nine chairs are arranged in order of four on the left and five on the right, except for the wall behind the last chair on the right, which is empty, and each of the other chairs has a figure painting hanging on the wall behind the chairs.
Although these paintings have long been stained by dust insects, the characters in the paintings are lifelike and vivid, and the painters are skillful and extraordinary!
Each painting is crowned with the title and name of the character, and there are also two simple poems, and the font is exactly the same as the couplet of the temple gate, which seems to be written by the same person!
He Qianshan started from the fourth picture on the right and looked at it one by one:
Fourth image from the right: This person is skinny, with a skull face, unkempt hair, torn clothes and trousers, holding a notched bowl, holding a bamboo stick in his hand, called "begging ghost Wang Liang", and the inscription poem says: "Mojiao beggars begging for white food, and many souls under the python king's stick!"
Third image from the right: This person is rich, dressed gorgeously, smiling, his eyes are narrowed into a slit, like a businessman, holding jade Ruyi, hanging a money sword from his waist, called "greedy ghost Ge Ke", the inscription poem says: "No money can live a life, wishful golden sword to ask for life debt!"
Second image on the right: This person is huge, fat as a cow, naked, with a big belly hanging over his knees, carrying a nine-foot mountain hammer on his shoulder, called "broken bones ghost Tian Leopard", and the inscription poem says: "But I saw the giant spirit fleeing quickly, and the wind and thunder hammer fell without bones!"
Right image: This is a woman, and it is a very beautiful woman, facing the water surface to pluck the green silk, the posture is graceful, exquisite, fragrant shoulders and jade arms are draped in a zhang of red silk, and a pair of small golden bells are hung at both ends of the red silk, called "Shen Fish Ghost Xia Hongluo", and the inscription poem says: "Shen Yu Yan looks like a snake and scorpion heart, and the red practice of the demon Aya Lover!"
Fourth image from left: This is a short old man who looks like a dwarf, carrying a wooden box that is only about the same height as him, holding a scorched yellow bamboo pipe with holes on it, and it is impossible to tell whether it is a flute or a flute. is teasing the bee colony that is dense like a dark cloud overhead, saying that "the poisonous bee ghost ascends to the height", and the inscription poem says: "The insects in the depths of the old forest are companions, and the corpses of the poisonous bees are like mountains!"
Third portrait on the left: This person's face is as black as lacquer, his eyes are scarlet, his teeth are gritted, his hair is angry, he looks very irritable, he hangs a string of skull beads on his neck, he holds a smiling face in his left hand, and he holds a bull ear sharp knife in his right hand, and there is a flame beating on the blade, called "Doom Ghost Wentuo", and the inscription poem says: "It is better to die happily than to live a hard life, and there is no pain in the earth fire knife!"
Second portrait from left: This person has a thin face and a sharp chin, a sallow complexion, dull eyes, like a sick man, with a scorching sun on his head, but wrapped in a fur coat, and seems to be shivering, and the grass and trees near him are also frosted and frozen, called "Cold-blooded Ghost Yan Xuan", and the inscription poem says: "Ice is cold bone frost is blood, and the Great Xuanyin Gong is sealed for thousands of miles!"
Portrait on the left: This is an old man with gloomy eyes, white face and white hair, white robe and white boots, especially the scattered white hair is eye-catching, long to the waist, but not messy at all. The palms of the two hands are downward, the ten fingers are open, and the fingertips are like hooks, and the sharp armor is like sharp claws!
After reading the eight figure paintings left and right, and then looking at the top chair in the middle, there is no portrait of Li Shangfeng, only the words are engraved on the back of the chair, called "killing gods and ghosts Li Shangfeng", and the inscription poem says: "Nine Heavens and Nine Secluded, a miraculous skill to punish the gods and Buddhas!"
He Qianshan thought to himself, the ten ghosts are all capable people, all of them have unique skills, although it is unknown what the last person is, but they must also be extraordinary!
It can be seen that the battle of Wanmu Temple was so tragic that year, and the nine ghosts were ambushed, which also shows the strength of Wanmu Temple, no wonder after the battle, Wanmu Temple became famous!
He walked to the empty wall behind the fifth seat on the right, the nails on the wall were still there, and the painting had not fallen to the ground, so it must have been taken away by someone, but why did he only take this one?
Although it was judged that Li Shangfeng and Ji Sisi were no longer here, just in case, He Qianshan still searched around after going to this "Nai He Palace", and found nothing special.
He had no clue about Li Shangfeng's next move, so he remembered Zhao Duxue and Fu Mingyue in his heart!
Seeing that the sun should be around Shen Shi at this time, and when it is time for the two of them to stop their horses and invest in the store, if they go down the mountain before it is dark, and rush overnight, they will be able to catch them tomorrow morning.
Thinking of this, he hurriedly went to a room where he had seen pen and ink, found a piece of cloth and tore off a small strip, and wrote "The old ghost has returned to the mountain with Sisi, and now he is missing", rolled it up and tied it to the feet of the golden-winged pigeon, raised his hand and let it fly......
He didn't delay any longer, and went down the original road to the Peak of the Dragon, walked the Charm Ridge, crossed the sky, and went all the way to the col where the horse was tethered, but the horse was missing!
I saw that the small tree that tied the horse broke at the waist, and the grass on the ground fell into the mud, as if it had been dragged away by some wild beast!
He Qianshan was anxious, although this horse was far inferior to his own black wind, it was also a good fast horse, without it, it was really inconvenient to hurry!
He hurried forward along the trail of the trail on the ground, hoping that the poor horse still had a chance of life!
Sure enough, through a few long meadows, in a swamp recessed into the mountain, He Qianshan found the horse, but the sight in front of him made him sweat coldly.
He Qianshan had never seen such a huge python, the snake had a body of more than three feet, the widest part was more than two feet, the head was as big as a millstone, and the bloody mouth was biting the throat of the horse, dragging the horse to swim towards the swamp!
He saw that the horse was no longer struggling, and he must not be able to live, so he slowly retreated backwards, but who knew that he stepped on the dead branch with a "rattle"!
When the giant python heard the sound, he didn't lose the food in his mouth, threw his head over and took a look, and looked at He Qianshan, He Qianshan shouted in his heart!
I don't know if I haven't tasted human flesh for a long time, as soon as the giant python saw He Qianshan, he directly abandoned the horse in his mouth, twisted his body and rushed straight towards He Qianshan!
He Qianshan ran away, he didn't want to entangle with such a monster for no reason.
It's a pity that it backfired, the giant python met the tree around the tree, crossed the water, and could still swim on the mountain wall like flat ground!
Seeing that he was about to catch up, He Qianshan turned forward, picked up a few pieces of gravel from the ground, and beat the python's grinding plate face a few times!
Who knew that the giant python looked down on He Qianshan, only avoided the soft parts such as the eyes and nose, and ate He Qianshan's stones with the cheeky skin that was as strong as iron armor, but he didn't expect to be beaten to the point that the skin was open and the blood was flowing!
The giant python was in pain, and instantly went berserk, and after a terrible hiss that resounded through the valley, the python's tail flew out like lightning, and he Qianshan's legs were wrapped up in one fell swoop, and he was immediately dragged to the ground, and the python head opened its bloody mouth in mid-air, aiming at He Qianshan's head and swooping down!
Fortunately, He Qianshan's hands were not entangled, and his two hands broke the upper and lower jaws of the giant python respectively, and he was dead!
The giant python's two eyes stared at He Qianshan in surprise, it didn't believe that humans had a kind of strength that could resist its bite force!
How did it know, if it weren't for the fact that its head was too big, and He Qianshan's two arms didn't have room to fully spread at this moment, with He Qianshan's strength, it would not be difficult to break its head in half!