Chapter 272: The Soul Lamp Continues to Live
Tang Ming's residence, the materials required for the Tiangang Seven Star Lantern Array have been prepared, the scalper is busy furnishing, the doors and windows of the entire room are all covered by black curtains painted with various runes and the Big Dipper Seven Star Map, the talismans are hideous, like a powerful ghost, exuding a gloomy atmosphere, making people feel creepy, the star map is shining, sprinkling pieces of divine brilliance, as if to purify this boundless ghostly energy.
A three-foot-wide and five-foot-long peach wood board was placed under Tang Ming's body, and the Big Dipper pattern was engraved with cinnabar, and Tang Ming's body was lying on his side, his body was rickety, his legs were curled, and the whole body was placed in the shape of the Big Dipper, which coincided with the Big Dipper chart on the peach board, forming a correspondence.
Legend has it that Kuafu chased the sun and died of hunger and thirst, before dying, he threw the staff in his hand and turned into a piece of Deng Lin, that is, the peach forest, its wood has the effect of warding off evil spirits, exorcising ghosts, suppressing the soul, and the Big Dipper Seven Star Chart cooperates, can communicate star power, and prolong the effect of life.
At the same time, with Tang Ming as the center, a series of seven-star array diagrams were engraved around it, echoing the seven-star diagram on the peach wood board, Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Shaoguang Seven Array Eyes, respectively, were based on spirit stones, as the energy to activate the formation.
In front of Tang Ming's face, according to the direction of the Big Dipper, seven silver lamps are placed, the lamp oil is guided by Tang Ming's essence blood, with the lotus seed of the thousand-petal lotus pressed as oil, the essence blood contains the information of the soul, the lotus is a very magical plant, the legend is that the great god Pangu is born from the lotus seed that bursts into the chaos of the green lotus, the Buddha often sits on the lotus platform, and its lotus oil has the effect of nourishing the heart, calming the nerves and warming the soul.
The Seven Star Lantern, also known as the Soul Lamp, uses the essence and blood as a guide and can be associated with the three souls and seven spirits of the caster. It plays the role of conjuring and fixing souls. The seven lights are arranged according to the Beidou. Integrate into the entire formation, once the power of the Big Dipper can be induced, and the soul lamp is based on the position of heavenly power, and the main soul lamp is the key point that connects the handle, and the rest are assisted by the soul lamp, and the main soul lamp plays a protective role. Once the main soul lamp is extinguished, it means that the caster is powerless to return to heaven.
Tiangang is the Beidou bucket handle, which is the essence of yang energy, and the direction of the bucket handle is that Tiangang Star (North Star) can attract the power of pure yang stars and restore people's vitality.
The soul lamp is like a bean, the light is uncertain, the scalper sits next to the main soul lamp, and begins to cast a spell to activate the entire array, with the activation of the large array, a light like a mist rises. Tianshu, Tianxuan, Tianji, Tianquan, Yuheng, Kaiyang, and Shaking Light Seven Array Eyes, the seven array eyes began to glow. Faintly, with the Big Dipper in the sky, the power of the invisible stars, the wisps of it fell, and gathered in the great array.
The soul lamp flickered, feeding back the power of the stars into the seven-star chart of the peach wood board, integrating into Tang Ming's body and nourishing his soul that was about to dry up.
Because Tang Ming is not like Zhuge Wuhou back then, Zhuge Liang became ill with fatigue back then, reaching the point where the lamp dried up, but he still has an independent consciousness and can still act, he can be in the tent by himself, Tiangangbu presides over the formation, and Tang Ming has almost no independent consciousness and cannot act, so the scalper Niu Niu took on the important task of presiding over the formation.
The formation he set up was much more perfect than the seven-star lantern array of Zhuge Wuhou back then, and he didn't have to step on the sky to maintain the formation at all, just sit cross-legged by the main soul lamp, protect the soul lamp, and the big array would operate on its own.
In addition to the main lamp, the Seven Soul Lamp continuously rotated around the main lamp according to the style of the Big Dipper Star Chart, adjusting the position of the bucket handle to maintain the uninterrupted input of Tang Ming Tiangang's pure yang qi.
Zhang Han has been sitting on Tang Ming's side, his face is haggard, he has experienced the test of his heart, coupled with the worry of Tang Ming's current situation, which makes this seemingly strong woman overwhelmed in her heart, but she still persistently tells each other's common experiences, love and hatred, and looks forward to each other's bright future, so as to call Tang Ming to wake up quickly.
It's just that Tang Ming is still like a dead thing, at the mercy of it, but there is no reaction, the light is thick, it is three days in a flash, the big array continues to operate, no one is allowed to trespass without the permission of the scalper, and no one is allowed to trespass and disturb.
However, Tang Ming still didn't have any reaction, and secretly took a look at Zhang Han's state, which made the scalper frown, in the past three days, Zhang Han seemed to have aged for ten years, her face was haggard, her eyes were dull, and she was full of a lifeless twilight, as if she was dying soon, this was her heart full of death, once Tang Ming died, she would go with it.
The original plan of the scalper was to give her a little hope, so that she would not be desperate immediately, so that after a few days of buffering, she would calm down and not commit suicide again, but looking at the current situation, it seems to be counterproductive, and she can't help but be secretly anxious.
On the evening of the third day, Tang Min woke up, and when he learned about Tang Ming's situation, he rushed in and almost fanned the main soul lamp.
Tang Min didn't care about talking to the scalper, and joined Zhang Han to wake up Tang Ming's ranks, because of Tang Min's joining, Zhang Han's mood was slightly better, and his eyes gradually became angry, no longer feeling sorry for himself, and the conversation with Tang Ming was also full of hope, which made the scalper who had been worried a little relieved, and it is estimated that under Tang Min's reconciliation, he may soon come out of this sluggish state.
However, as time went on, Tang Ming still didn't have any reaction, even Tang Min began to be irritable and terrifying, this emotion was terrifyingly contagious, Zhang Han was affected by it, and his emotions began to recur, in the room, the gloomy clouds were bleak, and the two delicate beauties, like crying spirits, kept telling a handful of snot and tears, making the scalper scratch his head.
"I said, two, the senior brother is not dead yet! Don't be like this, okay? Think about the thing that can touch the senior brother the most, maybe the next moment, the senior brother will wake up!"
"You're dead!"
The two women reprimanded in unison, and then cried and wiped their tears, but the two still listened to the opinions of the scalper and tried their best to tell the stories of Tang Ming, but most of these stories were bullied by the second daughter, and the scalper Niu Niu deeply felt the "misery" of the elder brother's childhood
"Brother, I was just ten years old that year, and I had a strange serious illness. I've been in a daze. High fever does not go away. Somehow, I always wanted to eat snow clams, but snow clams could only be found in the glaciers of the far north, and at that time, you who had just come into contact with cultivation went down the mountain alone without saying a word. Go to the far north, dig the ice, look for snow clams, the cold ice that can't be opened for a long time, you use the heat of your body to melt the ice, and finally get the snow clams, when you come back, you are already covered with frostbite, brother, I still want to eat snow clams. Can you still go looking for snow clams for your sister?"
"Tang Ming, I was six years old that year. You are eight years old, we dig bird eggs together in the back mountain, you climb the tree to dig bird eggs, I followed below, I don't want to, dig out the wrong place, I actually found a snake nest, it was a highly poisonous king cobra, chasing the two of us for most of the back mountain, I broke my foot, you ran with me on my back, and finally was caught up by the poisonous snake, you should be in front of me, fighting with the poisonous snake, the body was bitten by the poisonous snake several times, fortunately, the disciples who patrolled the mountain found the two of us, killed the poisonous snake, saved us, since then, I secretly swear, when I grow up, I must marry you, Tang Ming, are you willing to marry meοΌβ
The scalper cow secretly wondered: "Why do you talk more and more small, wow, I won't talk about peeing and mud later!"
Ignoring this, Zhang Han continued: "Tang Ming, I was two years old that year, you were four years old, we peed and played with mud, I had a lot of fun, but two days later, you said that you wouldn't play with me anymore, I was puzzled, chased after your ass and asked why, you said angrily: 'I don't play with you anymore, every time you pee, I live in mud!' But in the end you still played with me......"
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Even in such a dull atmosphere, the scalper cow almost burst out laughing, holding back his laughter, not daring to listen any more, who knows what strange things will happen to this great senior brother next!
In this way, in the second daughter's chattering and crying, three days later, the situation is still the same, Tang Ming still has no reaction at all, the scalper didn't have much hope, the mood is quite calm, but he is worried that the second daughter will continue like this, once the senior brother has an accident, how will they bear it, and how to persuade them.
He really regrets making such a show now, giving them hope, but ruthlessly depriving them of it, making it even more difficult to clean things up, but now it's too late to regret it, and he should find a way to remedy it.
In the midst of the cattle's painstaking meditation, this day has passed, this is the seventh day, the entire formation is limited to seven days, more than seven days, if Tang Ming does not react, it will also indicate that he will be weak and sentenced to death.
The second daughter began to panic, no longer chattering, they all kept silent, and fell into despair, especially Zhang Han, her eyes were indifferent, she had a decisive look, she was calm, as if she had completely let go of the burden in her heart, everything was like the smoke and clouds of the past, she had spoken, cried, and had no more concerns, just waiting for the last moment to come, she had made a choice.
Tang Min looked sad, he couldn't believe this result, walked to the side of the scalper, shook it vigorously, let him come up with a way, and returned an intact brother, almost made the scalper cow host the big array out of control, in desperation, while carefully presiding over the big array, while comforting softly, until the last moment, don't give up, maybe, a miracle will happen in the next moment, however, he himself doesn't believe this, and the language is empty and powerless, without any persuasiveness.
However, somehow, Tang Min believed in the words of the scalper, which was the effect of her heart, so that she was born to trust the person closest to her heart, and felt that the scalper would never lie to him, or was she unwilling to accept the result at all, and get some comfort from the scalper's words?
Tang Min sat down again, and began to communicate with Tang Ming very seriously, and his words were full of tears, which made the scalpers feel sad when they heard it.
It was night, the outdoor sky was overcast, the wind was howling, the wind passed through the trees, through the rocks, and made a "woo" terrible sound, so that if thousands of ghosts were crying, the window lattice was blown by the wind to "creak", in the silent night, it was particularly gloomy.
The black curtains that block the doors and windows are blown in by the wind blowing through the cracks, and the hideous talismans on the curtain seem to be alive.
Gu midnight is more than an hour away, after the child, if Tang Ming has no improvement, he can only give up, the scalper cow tried to protect the soul lamp, not to let it go out, for the unusual weather, did not think much, is trying to think about the future of the senior brother, as well as the arrangement of the second daughter, don't make any mistakes.
The second daughter looked at the hourglass next to her, the whereabouts of the quicksand represented the continuous loss of time, but the mood was decisively different, one had been discouraged, a thought of death, time had no meaning for her, it was just a matter of time and time, and it was better to mourn than to die. One was sad, wanting to see but not daring to see the speed of the quicksand, always feeling why time was so fast, longing to plug the hourglass in the past, so that time stopped forever at this moment, but they all didn't notice the strange weather.
Just when the quicksand was about to run out, Zhang Han had calmly closed his eyes, and Tang Min was already painfully close to collapse, suddenly, a white-haired whirlwind blew outside, with a terrible "woo" sound, crashing towards the quiet room, the doors and windows slammed, the yin wind was blowing, making people's backs chill, the lights were fluttering, sometimes bright and sometimes out, and the light in the quiet room was also bright and dark, reflecting the teeth and claws on the black curtain, and the hideous and terrible talismans, like ghosts in the dark house.
Suddenly, there were two bangs, the doors and windows opened, and two white-haired whirlwinds rushed into the quiet room, the doors and windows closed automatically silently, and the whirlwind gradually stopped, revealing two hideous ghosts in the middle, one was a bull's head, holding a cold steel fork, and the other was also a human body, but he was carrying a horse's head, carrying a black and cold iron chain in his hand, and was about to go to Tang Ming who was lying on the bed.
"Hell ......"
The two girls were so frightened that they trembled, although they had been cultivating for many years and had great skills, but after all, they were still young women, and when they saw such a terrifying picture at first glance, they couldn't help but panic and be terrified, and they shrank in a ball, closed their eyes tightly, and didn't dare to look at it again.
The scalper was also shocked, there was really a legendary soul messenger coming, and then calmed down, there was a faint hope in his heart, he snorted coldly, the large array was running faster, and the six auxiliary soul lamps were like marquees, rotating quickly around the main lamp, and the lights suddenly shone brightly, as bright and dazzling as small suns, and the yin qi in the room was swept away.
Immediately, the black curtain hunted, and a series of hideous talismans emerged, turning into a bloody mouth, towards the bull head and horse face, the two ghosts almost swallowed it, at the same time, the starlight was brilliant, and the seven-star pattern on the black curtain shone brightly, emitting divine light, purifying these evil things.
Immediately after, the handle of the Seven Star Lantern had already pointed at the two messengers, and the pure Yang's Gang Qi turned into a sharp sword, and then slashed away.
The triple attack roared like a wave, and before the bull head and horse could understand the situation at the scene, he was drowned in the big waves, accompanied by two terrible screams, two puffs of black smoke rose up, and the two messengers fled in a hurry.
Only an indignant voice came from the spot: "Intercept the soul and stagnate the world, and try to continue your life against the sky, aren't you afraid of being punished by heaven?!"
Then, there was no movement,
"Uh-"
Just when the second daughter was in shock, Tang Ming on the bed suddenly let out a long moan from his throat like pulling a bellows. (To be continued......)
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