Chapter 153: The Valley of the Earth's Lungs
In Lai Bu's book "Yin Killing", it is recorded that the "Five Elements [***] Bureau" was created by Jingfang, the master of Yixue in the Han Dynasty, based on "Qimen Dunjia", which is unpredictable, and it is difficult to get out if you stray.
Lai Buyi said in the book that "Qimen" is rest, life, injury, Du, Jing, death, surprise, and opening the eight doors, referring to the different directions of the gossip, and "Dunjia" is "Jia", which is hidden in the Qimen Bureau.
The layout of the valley mouth of the "Earth Lung Valley" in front of you is obviously a "shocking" door, which means that after entering, there will be frightening and strange things. When Mo Yan was hesitating whether to go directly into the valley, a warning sound sounded from the mouth of the little mountain ghost.
He hurriedly turned around and saw two people in the distance hurrying towards him.
Mo Yan hurriedly changed his appearance with his thoughts, and turned into an old-fashioned white-haired senior man, his face was full of wrinkles, and he looked like a ten-year-old man with a hunched back.
"Hey, old man, is there a valley up ahead?" the two men asked in a loud voice.
"What did you say?" Mo Yan pretended not to hear clearly behind his ears, and his voice also pretended to be an old voice.
The old man is about fifty or sixty years old, and the young one is only in his early twenties.
The old man stepped forward and said, "In Xia Penglai Xiao Renyu, this is the old man's nephew Xiao Chong, dare to ask the old gentleman his name, but he came to the Lung Valley for a banquet?"
Mo Yan coughed a few times and said slowly: "Have you ever heard of Nanzhang Laosu?"
Xiao Ren was stunned for a moment, and searched quickly in his mind but still had no impression, but despite this, he still said, "It turned out to be Mr. Nanzhang Laosuo, who has been admired for a long time, and I hope to forgive me a lot of disrespect in my nephew's words." ”
"Well, it's not an exaggeration to know," Mo Yan said pretending to be reserved, "this is the Lung Valley of the Earth, and you were invited to come?"
"Exactly, I came immediately after receiving the invitation from the Lung Valley, and today is February 15th, but fortunately I am not late. Xiao Renyu replied.
"Look at your invitation. Mo Yan stretched out his hand.
Xiao Renyu took out a five-color wooden token from his arms, and the yellow in the middle was divided into four colors: blue, red, white and black, probably symbolizing the five old monsters.
"It's the first time we've received an invitation, hasn't Lao Su been here before?" Xiao Renyu asked.
"Laosu is located in Nanzhang Road, which is far away, and it is not easy to come to the Central Plains through the tropical rainforest. Mo Yan didn't answer what he heard, and deliberately bypassed the topic.
"It's the end of the day, and we have to hurry into the valley. Xiao Renyu looked up and said.
"Well, let's go into the valley together. Mo Yan nodded.
Mo Yan has memorized all the feng shui puzzles in the book "Yin Killing", even if he enters the shocking door, it doesn't matter, as long as he walks through the three auspicious doors of "opening, resting, and living" according to the direction of the gossip, it will be fine.
The forest in the Lung Valley was luxuriant, and the four of them stepped into the valley, and after walking more than ten zhang away, they saw two people flash out from behind the big tree, dressed in earthy yellow cloth robes and yellow scarves on their heads, holding swords and blocking the way.
The visitor gave his name and showed the invitation. The yellow-robed man said.
"Penglai Xiao is stupid, Xiao Chong. Xiao Renyu handed over the five-color token.
One of the yellow-robed men checked that it was correct, nodded and said, "Please come with me." "Take Xiao's uncle and nephew to the valley.
Another yellow-robed man glanced at Mo Yan and the little mountain ghost: "Where's the invitation for the two of you?"
Mo Yan coughed dryly, his hands seemed to be groping around on his body to find the token, and at the same time facing the yellow-robed man's teeth chattering: "Da Da Da" is like a swing.
The yellow-robed man looked at him in surprise, and couldn't help asking, "Hey, are you sick?" But then his face was red and his ears were red, and his whole body was hot and dry, and at the same time, his mind was also in a trance, and he leaned against the trunk of the tree on his heels, and his eyes were bloodshot and staring ahead.
As soon as Mo Yan saw that the true qi wave had worked, he immediately dragged the little mountain ghost and quickly slipped into the valley, and walked a few quick steps to follow behind the Xiao family's uncle and nephew. The yellow-robed man glanced back, thinking that the two of them had also passed the test, so he told him: "Keep up, don't fall behind, otherwise you won't be able to get out." ”
The blood in the yellow-robed man's body under the big tree at Taniguchi gradually cooled down, and his complexion gradually returned to its original state, he patted his head vigorously with his hand, and said to himself in confusion: "What happened to me just now, it seems that I have a fever." ”
Mo Yan followed them as they meandered through the woods and rocks, and the fog around them was so hazy that he could barely see the surrounding scenery, so he walked for about a pillar of incense, and finally entered the Shengmen and went out of the Five Elements [***] Bureau.
The front suddenly opened up, and there were several rows of thatched huts along the mountain, and I saw yellow-robed men with swords patrolling and guarding. Continue to go deep into the valley, facing a cliff, there is a huge cave on the rock wall, engraved with three big characters of "earth lung hole", and there are yellow-robed people guarding the entrance of the cave.
After saying hello, they walked straight into the cave. Inside the cave is a wide corridor, and an oil lamp is lit in the grooves of every few zhang on the stone wall, so it is not dark, and you can see that the corridor extends far away.
At the end of the corridor is a stone hall with a radius of dozens of zhang, and there are at least 100 people in it, all of whom are surrounding a two-foot-high bluestone platform, on which five strange old men are sitting.
The yellow-robed old man in the center has a medium face, a slightly yellow complexion, and a beard, not angry and arrogant. On his left sat two people, one green and one red, the man in the green robe was tall and thin, with a blue complexion, and the one in red was a dwarf who was less than three feet tall. On the right side, one is white and one is black, the white-robed person has a bloodless face, and the skin is white like powder, and the black-robed person is fat and stocky, and his face is like the bottom of a pot.
Mo Yan saw an ancient well in the middle of the stone platform, and the wellhead was very large and had a square circle, and he didn't know what it was for.
He and the little mountain ghost stood next to each other in the corner in the dark light, and he sneaked in not wanting to attract attention. Glancing around, most of the people in the crowd were people from the rivers and lakes, and there were also a few silk robes and brocade clothes who looked like businessmen or village workers, and they didn't find Elder Fang, Jiutoutuo and Qing'er, didn't they come?
While they were thinking, they heard a bell ringing, and everyone fell silent in an instant.
On the stone platform, the yellow-robed man sitting in the center stood up, hugged his fists at everyone and said loudly: "Everyone, Zhong Ziqi is polite, you are all subordinates or descendants of the five old monsters when they galloped through the rivers and lakes, it has been decades since now, the years are not forgiving, the old man is now a centenarian, and the other four monsters are also of similar age, this year may be the last party." ”
Everyone in the audience was embarrassed when they heard the words.
"The hour is coming, and the breathing of the lungs of the South Earth every ten years is about to begin, now please meditate on the spot and wait, when the time comes, you can buy time to inhale more aura, not only can you prolong your life but also improve your strength. As for what spirit beasts will come out this year, no one can say for sure, anyway, what to eat. The spirit beasts are dealt with by our five old monsters, so you don't have to interfere. Zhong Ziqi said.
"Thank you, old monster. Everyone thanked each other, and then meditated cross-legged on the spot, and some even closed their eyes.
Mo Yan dragged the little mountain ghost, and the two of them also sat on the ground like them.
At this time, a yellow-robed man ran in and whispered a few words in the ear of the old red monster. The old man was stunned when he heard this, and immediately got up and whispered a few words to Zhong Ziqi, and then hurriedly walked out of the stone hall with the man.
Something must have happened, Mo Yan thought to himself.
After a while, the red old monster walked into the stone hall with a group of masked people, and came to the bluestone platform, Mo Yan saw the second petite masked man holding a green bamboo cane in his hand, and his heart couldn't help but feel hot, he knew that it was Qing'er.
Huang Fan's old monster and the others got up and bowed their hands to greet each other, and the masked people took off their masks in turn, led by Elder Fang, and the Qing'er behind him looked haggard, and the person seemed to have lost a lot of weight.
At this moment, a long sigh was suddenly heard, incomparably deep and heavy, and the whole earth rose and fell with it, and then it was like the earth was gasping for breath.
Mo Yan hurriedly opened his soul eye, and found that the aura slowly emerged from the wellhead on the platform, gradually diffusing into the entire stone hall, and he was surprised to find that this aura smelled a faint earthy smell in his nose, just like the earth bead.
At this moment, those meditating people in the audience are sitting in the middle of the seat, swallowing the aura greedily, the expressions on everyone's faces are very intoxicated, and Xiao Renyu's uncle and nephew are also spitting out with their eyes closed.
Mo Yan wondered a little in his heart, what is this lungs in the earth? How can it come out of the aura, in the past, the void was torn apart in Mingzhen Island and Angkor Wat, it was in mid-air, could it be that the spiritual passage is not limited to the air, there are also underground?
Suddenly, there was a roar of "whoop", which shook everyone's ear drums, and then the wellhead on the stage suddenly stretched out two giant hands, similar to human palms, but there were six fingers and the thickness of an ordinary person's arm, and there were dense hairs on the back of the fingers.
The people in the audience who were meditating and inhaling were so surprised that they couldn't close their mouths, and they were all stunned for a while, and their eyes only knew that they were staring at the wellhead stupidly.
The giant hand grabbed the edge of the well and seemed to be climbing up, and then a cyan bald head with edges and corners gradually poked out of the well, two big eyes flashing blue looked around in confusion, and the big and curved hook nose kept sniffing, and the whole head was as big as the lion head of the lion dance on the fifteenth Lantern Festival of the first lunar month.
Mo Yan remembered that the blue-headed monster who devoured the Holy Infant Niang on the top of the wooden city also looked like this.
In the astonishment, the strange man had climbed up from the mouth of the well, ** standing naked on the bluestone platform, with strong muscles all over his body, his head was more than two feet high, his skin was rough and blue, and there was a thick hair, and there was a huge [***] two or three feet long hanging from his crotch, and his toes were six like his hands. (To be continued.) )