Chapter 16: Righteous Spirits, Evil Shadows Emerge
Zhou Yan thought in his heart, if it weren't for my sake of your body, could I lend you an umbrella? If it weren't for the fact that you couldn't get wet in the rain alone, I wouldn't be too lazy to use the umbrella, alas! Ning Caichen, you can't let me save some snacks, I know that you are a good old man's character, but at this time, it's not the time for you to be a good old man, you should control yourself first.
"This, Lord Ning, Master Zhou is right. I'm just saying, don't take it seriously, don't take it to heart, I'm fine, I'm really fine, you can put on an umbrella", the little monk of the ten directions also quickly explained, if Ning Caichen really lent him the umbrella, he really couldn't use it, which was also a kind of practice for their Buddhists.
"Well, well, though, I seem to see a house in front of me, and there should be a family living in it. Now that the rain is so heavy, the road is definitely not easy to walk, let's go over and avoid the rain first, and wait until the rain stops", Ning Caichen looked at the faint black shadow in the rain curtain in front of him, and said.
After a while, they came to the front of the house that Ning Caichen had seen before, but they didn't expect that this was a quaint and dilapidated mountain villa, it looked like the portal was full of dust, and even the plaque of the mountain villa was covered with cobwebs, which didn't look like it was inhabited at all.
"Righteousness, Qi, Mountain, Village", as a scholar, Ning Caichen naturally looked carefully at the old plaque on the gate of this villa, and tried hard to read the name of this villa word by word.
"Open the door, open the door, is there anyone! We are here to take shelter from the rain", even if it was such a villa, Ning Caichen still thought that it was inhabited, he hurriedly stepped forward and knocked on the door of the villa, shouting loudly.
"Squeak", "squeak", two sounds. Ning Caichen didn't expect that he just slapped it casually twice, and the gate of this villa fell without warning.
"Bang", "bang", two sounds sounded, and the two doors fell to the ground heavily.
After the gate fell, a group of screaming crows suddenly flew out of the mountain villa, with a faint demonic aura of decay, like a black cloud.
"Brother Ning, be careful", Zhou Yan hurriedly blocked in front of Ning Caichen, and the true qi was released, drawing a golden circle of light shining in the void, covering Ning Caichen inside, and the old monk Baiyun recited a Buddha name, took a step forward, and gently pushed his hands with both hands, and a solemn golden Buddha light emanated from his hand and shone into the black cloud composed of countless crows.
Then I heard a scream coming from the black clouds, and the crows immediately scattered and fled, and all of them flown away. Old Monk Baiyun used this trick to expel rather than kill. My Buddha is compassionate, although they are a group of crows hovering around the dead, but in his opinion, as long as they are not cultivators who have become demons, all living beings are equal, and they cannot be killed easily, which is not the same as the concept of ordinary monks who kill demons when they see them.
"Thank you two for saving each other", Ning Caichen hurriedly thanked him.
"Brother Ning, what are you polite to me about. However, I see that this mountain villa has long been deserted, no one lives in it, it should be an abandoned house, and it just so happens that we are staying here now, and we will talk about the road when the rain stops", Zhou Yan said with a wave of his hand.
"I can't wait, I'm dying of hunger, hurry up and find a place to sit first, don't talk about it here", the little monk of the ten directions saw that no one was going forward, so he broke in first.
"Ah", before he waited for a while, he heard a terrible cry from inside, and then saw the little monk of Shifang running out again and quickly hiding behind the old monk Baiyun.
"Master, let's live in another place! There are dead people here, what if there are ghosts? I'm so scared! I don't want to live here, let's go quickly", the little monk of Shifang tugged at the sleeve of the old monk Baiyun.
"Shifang! Can you be steady, I have forgotten all the Dharma I usually teach you, why don't you remember it for a long time. Now, you see that it's getting late outside, and it's raining, where can we go, let's go, let's go first and have a look", the old monk Baiyun took the lead and walked towards the inner hall of the Zhengqi Villa.
"Wait for me, master, don't go so fast! There are dead people in there, I'm really scared", the little monk of the ten directions saw the old monk Baiyun walk in, and hurriedly followed.
"Hahaha, let's go too, Brother Ning. Let's see what's going on inside", Zhou Yan took Ning Caichen's arm and strode up following the footsteps of the master and apprentice.
Soon, the four of them walked into the inner hall of Zhengqi Villa, and saw that the light in the inner hall of Zhengqi Villa was dim, and there were dust, dirt, and broken wooden boards, debris and the like everywhere, as if no one had been there for a long time, and what was even more strange was that there were several pale yellow pine coffins neatly placed in the center of this inner hall, which looked eerie and terrifying. If you come to shoot a horror movie, you don't even need to set up the venue.
"One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, there are a total of eight coffins here", Ning Caichen's nerves were quite large, and he counted these coffins one by one.
"No~yes~, could it be that the family of eight in this mountain villa lying here is too scary, it turns out that the whole family has died here, master, let's go quickly", the little monk of Shifang said with a trembling voice.
At this time, a thunderbolt resounded in the sky, and the little monk of the Ten Directions was immediately so frightened that he wanted to run away again, but unfortunately, this time he bit and still did not escape. After all, everyone is here, and where can he run if he runs?
"Master, resentment breeds here, yin qi is extremely heavy, I think there should be evil ghosts to haunt me, it seems that this is really not a place to stay for a long time", Zhou Yan frowned when he saw the decorations in this inner hall, and said with a serious expression.
"Amitabha, Zhou Daoyou said yes, but when did people in my generation ever fear anything? In today's world, demons and evil are rampant, and we, as cultivators, want to slay demons and eliminate demons and transform the world. Tonight, let's stay here and see where the ghosts and spirits will come to make trouble," said the old monk Baiyun with a calm expression.
"Okay, then follow the master's teachings, we will meet this ghost here for a while tonight, I hope he won't crash into my hands as a death, otherwise, hum ......", Zhou Yan replied easily, you must know that they are people who have even killed thousand-year-old tree demons, even if there are a few powerful ghosts, how can he take it seriously.
"Tonight, we will stay here for one night, disturb the rest of this place, and hope that you will understand", Ning Caichen bowed respectfully towards the eight coffins that were placed on the ground.
Zhou Yan and the others each found a room in this Zhengqi Villa, although there was a layer of dust, ashes, etc., but it was also a few bedrooms, they roughly cleaned it, and they made do with it, Zhou Yan and Ning Caichen each had a room, and the little monk of Shifang really didn't want to leave his master, so the two of them had a room.
In a room with a leaky roof in the eaves, Ning Caichen accidentally saw a bath bucket placed in a remote corner, and said happily: "I haven't taken a bath for a long time, I feel that my body stinks, there is a bath bucket here, let me borrow a little rootless water from God to take a bath." ”
Ning Caichen put the bath bucket in the leaky top of the room, followed the rain, took off all his clothes quickly, and sat in the bathtub to freshen up his whole body, very relaxed.
At this moment, the ground in the inner hall of the Zhengqi Villa continued to shake, and wisps of ink-colored aura invisible to the naked eye quietly emerged from the ground, and the eight coffins neatly placed in the center of the inner hall faintly revealed the vermilion brilliance of the Dao Dao, and there seemed to be several mysterious Dao talismans pasted inside the inside of the eight coffins, as if suppressing this unknown existence.
In a clearing outside the Zhengqi Villa, there was a black-robed man surrounded by dark black underworld, I saw him stretch out his left hand under his black robe, pointing in the direction of the Zhengqi Villa, a dark and deep black aura appeared in his hand and quietly flew into the Zhengqi Villa, and I heard him say: "Wake up, wake up, the true owner of the Righteous Qi Villa sleeping underground, kill all these thieves who invade your territory! Let their souls sink and lose in endless pain until they die... ...”
"I~~ smell the breath of the living, I~~ need the nourishment of flesh and blood, I~~ want to kill them all ......", accompanied by the call of the black-robed man, a dull voice came from the underground of the Righteous Qi Villa.
As if hearing that dull voice, the black-robed man suddenly disappeared with a wave of his sleeve, just like when he appeared, silently.
With a "bang", the door of Ning Caichen's room was suddenly blown open by a gust of wind blowing from outside the room.
"What person?", Ning Caichen sat in the bathtub, leaning back against the edge of the tub, clasping his hands in front of his chest, like a woman who was about to be **, and asked outside in a panic.
But after half the salary, no one answered him, only the two doors of his room kept making a "squeaking" sound under the blowing of the cold wind outside.
"Are you human?" Ning Caichen felt nervous in his heart, and a sense of danger came to his mind, and he hurriedly asked again, finding that no one was paying attention to him. Ning Caichen hurriedly got dressed and ran next door.
Zhou Yan lived next door to Ning Caichen, so as soon as Ning Caichen encountered danger, he thought of Zhou Yan first, thinking about finding him first. In Ning Caichen's eyes, Zhou Yan is not omnipotent, but it is almost the same.
Ning Caichen had just walked out two steps before he met Zhou Yan who came to look for him.
"It turns out that Brother Zhou is here, he scared me to death just now", after Ning Caichen saw Zhou Yan, he patted his chest with his hand, with a relieved expression, one of his hands was behind him, and he touched a sticky liquid in one hand, and he was so frightened that he was already in a cold sweat.
As for why Ning Caichen bumped into Zhou Yan here, in fact, at this time, Zhou Yan also felt that something was wrong, he secretly urged the Yuan Shen to use his spiritual sense to sense that the concentration of yin qi here was constantly rising, and he walked out at that time thinking about finding Ning Caichen first, you know, among the few of them, only Ning Caichen was a mortal scholar who was powerless.
However, what Zhou Yan didn't expect was that Ning Caichen's sense of danger was so sensitive, and he even found that something was wrong. It seems that Ning Caichen should have a spiritual root, and if he cultivates, he is the kind of person who can get twice the result with half the effort. He didn't know that Ning Caichen was actually frightened by a sudden cold wind, so he said that it was strange here.
"Brother Zhou, I feel that this place is really haunted!What should I do?" Ning Caichen asked with a helpless expression.
"Good, good, rather don't be afraid. With my master and apprentice here, you can rest assured that you are safe. ”
The old monk Baiyun who came in time heard Ning Caichen's question, and before Zhou Yan could answer, he promised to do so.
"Thank you, Master, Master doesn't know what we should do next, should we leave or stay?"
"Amitabha, Lord Ning, please stretch out your left hand", the old monk Baiyun frowned slightly, then his brows stretched, and he said to Ning Caichen with a smile.
"Why is this?", Ning Caichen handed his left hand to the old monk Baiyun in confusion, and saw that the old monk Baiyun's face became golden and flashing, his eyes were full of golden brilliance, his face was solemn, and he spit out a golden blood stain from his mouth, which submerged into Ning Caichen's palm, and turned into a golden-red "swastika" mark. In Ning Caichen's eyes, this "swastika" imprint seems to contain infinite power.