Chapter 37: Fighting Poison with Poison
At the beginning of his apprenticeship, Ma Zhenren told Zhang Guozhong a story that has been passed down for a long time in the Maoshan Sect, which nowadays should be called a "classic case".
In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a governor named Song Kejin, his father died of illness, he wanted to be buried in the ancestral tomb, but because of the river diversion, it was forced to be buried in a place one mile away from the ancestral tomb, after the burial, Song Kejin every day dreamed that his father was lashed with whips, sobbing blood all day long in the netherworld, at the beginning, Song Kejin thought that he dreamed of his father's excessive thoughts due to the dream, but a year of dreaming of the scene every day, this Song Kejin tormented as if they were dead. But for a year, he dreamt of this scene every day. Later, a Taoist priest called Sun Shide came to the place where his father was buried, not far away from a Yuan Dynasty Mongolian aristocrats found a tomb, is in the Song father's tomb side of the main tranquility of the Yunqi position, immediately concluded that the Yuan Dynasty tomb is the Song father is not the culprit of peace.
Song Keggin wanted to dig out his father's coffin and bury it elsewhere, but in ancient times, digging up coffins was a great disrespect to the dead, not to mention his own father's coffin? Song Keggin is at a loss, Sun Taoist gave him a note, let him find a vicious murderer, and then and the murderer to talk about a deal, if the murderer promised Song Keggin, his own death to protect his father, will be promised before the beheading of the meat and wine treatment, beheading after the burial of the more can be generous, burned a hundred pounds of paper money.
Although it is also doubtful, but every day dreaming of his father is real, under no circumstances, Song Keggin soon with a body back a dozen people's lives of the JiangYang thief ChengSong reached an agreement, and set up a note. This Cheng Song was also confused, thought the pie fell from the sky, the world actually have such a confused official, very quickly agreed to the conditions of Song Keggin, eat a month of good wine and good food when a dead man.
After Cheng Song was beheaded, Song Ke Jin really according to his life contract, pick the best coffin to bury him, and then give Cheng Song burned more than a hundred pounds of paper money, along with Cheng Song's life of the document also burned.
According to the arrangement of Taoist Sun, Cheng Song was buried in the main Yinchang's vegetarian joints on the side of Song's father's grave, since then, in addition, Cheng Song's grave as the eye of the formation, set up a "release of Burgundy Array", the yin qi in the earth's veins was constantly transported to Cheng Song's coffin, originally this "release of Burgundy Array" is to save people and drive away ghosts. Originally, this "Release Burgundy Formation" is used to save people and drive away ghosts, but this time it was used on the dead, which is also a breakthrough innovation of Maoshan Church.
Sure enough, Song Ke Jin in Cheng Song buried that night, suddenly dreamed of his father a smile, dressed in front of their own, nodding at their own, and in the back of the father, a black-faced man is respectfully standing, it is Cheng Song, since then, Song Ke Jin never dreamed of his father was whipped.
Although this story is a legend, but also belongs to the "poison against poison" precedent, and the story of Sun Taoist practice, in theory, is completely feasible.
This time, the old Liu head and Zhang Guozhong think of a piece, although I do not know the hands of this piece of poisonous jade itself is something, but inside is not still sealed with a "thousand souls of the elf" it, if the town of Taiwan and the poisonous jade as a tomb, respectively, the poisonous jade is also placed in the town of Taiwan's vegetal joints, around the cloth on the "release of the Burgundy Array! ", the "thousand souls of the mandrill" power plus "release Burgundy array" gathered up the yin gas, even if the town of the platform is living in the Great Lohas Immortals are also guaranteed to be put down.
Now the most important question is how to make these two things fight. Theoretically, the "Thousand Souls Mandrill" sealed in the poisonous jade and the thing in the town platform belong to the same kind, and the only way to achieve the goal is to make them think that each other is a living thing.
Needless to say, these elementary methods such as living talismans and dummies were useless, and could not last more than a minute in front of the "Thousand Souls Mandrill" or something more powerful. Zhang Guozhong kept fanning himself, when he suddenly smelled a fragrance, and went out to see that Village Chief Li was burning incense and worshipping the Bodhisattva.
"Comrade Zhang, I'm asking for peace for you guys! You'll surely turn good fortune into good fortune if you accumulate virtues and do good deeds!" Village Chief Li said very sincerely. A spark flashed through Zhang Guozhong's head when he saw the picture of Guan Shiyin posted on the wall of Village Chief Li.
"Bodhisattva... Buddha... seated Buddha... map... porcelain vase... Zhao Le... Fiery Killing Bureau... Fiery Killing Bureau ... "The more Zhang Guozhong thought about it, the more it made sense...
"I know! I know!" Just like when he saw the corpses in Li Village, Zhang Guozhong shouted and entered the house, and Old Liu Tou, who was sleeping, sat up with his knife, "What's wrong? Who's charging up again...?"
Zhang Guozhong from the Silk Village to find a car, to the Yuanba to find a stonemason, carved six small columns, is a set of "six fire" stone pile, "sallow wood" can not be found, the use of mahogany instead of a wooden box, red nitrate is not available, the use of vermilion sand, to get these things, but also With the old Liu head made a set of foolproof plan, after eating and drinking, by Chen Sanlai led to the "Persimmon Ridge".
"Persimmon Ridge" is a small peak, the terrain is unusually dangerous, old Liu head here took a look, even said strange, this is the mountain in the position of the sun, and according to the map on the record, "Kun demise platform" is on the ridge. This Zhao Sange array is too incredible, theoretically speaking, nine Taiwan should be spread in the mountain to the Yin position, the positive yang position of the town of Taiwan, I do not know by which way the Immortals guard. But when the three into the "Kun demise platform" completely stupid, here which is what town platform? Obviously is an ancient battlefield, white bones tired, broken swords and broken gorges, do not know what the two sides of the people, basically no one body is intact, either no head or missing arms and legs, and are wearing Ming Dynasty style armor, like the regular army of the imperial court. And the base of this town platform has also been the same as the first two platforms, empty.
Qin Ge and depressed, Zhang Guozhong a persuasion, only reluctantly to cheer up to the next "true immortal platform".
"True Immortal Terrace" and "Star Sucking Terrace", repair in a cave, from the "Kun demise stage" is only less than 5 miles, is the two nearest to the town of Taiwan, the old Liu Tou stepped peeping the sky formation, the yellow flag! Not moving, then from a thin hole in, the more you go more spacious, but the deeper you go the more wrong, only to see both sides of the hole from time to time there are three or two of the ancient people were embedded in the wall. Due to the moist environment of the cave and the strong Yin Qi, these people rot are not very serious. But the strangest thing was that there were a few corpses in the slots on the wall that were badly decayed and the iron bars were broken, the corpses were lying on their sides in the slots as if they had been dragged out, I don't know if it was like this when the town platform was built in the first place or if it was destroyed in later times.
"Prisoner's Martyrdom..." old Liu Tou drew his dagger, "how come there's still this stuff in the Tang Dynasty?"
Prisoner Martyrdom, is a kind of lodged soul method, rumored to have started in the Sui Dynasty, although it is powerful, but due to the amount of work involved is no less than repairing the organs, so very few people use this method to guard the tombs, and it is only a short-lived in the records of the lodged soul method's application.
Prisoner martyrdom method, is the wall will be cut out of a human-shaped groove, and then the living tied up embedded in the groove, the groove than embedded in the person smaller than the number one, so the person was embedded in the living is very painful, inlaid after the completion of the groove, the outside of the groove with an iron bar nailed, and then it does not care about, simply lack of morality to the funny. These people who died in the squeeze and hunger are commonly called "tepid ghosts", which is one of the most difficult evil ghosts.
"Strange..." Zhang Guozhong gripped the dragon scale tightly, "The other town halls, they all killed them on the spot, why is this town hall engaging in the time-consuming and laborious prisoner martyrdom?"
"Master Qin, don't be anxious..." said Old Liu Tou, "This township looks like no one has been here before... The yellow flag doesn't move and I don't know what it means... Maybe if you don't touch the township, you'll be fine...? "
Qin Ge is also happy and nervous, old Liu Tou let Li village head to Yuanba town to the butcher's pig knife borrowed, although funny, but really more effective than his pistol.
Channel is about 50 meters long, both sides of the densely packed with thirty or forty prisoner martyrs, the old Liu head is also the more you go the more soft legs and stomach, a "thousand souls of mandrill" is still so difficult to deal with, this to the yin place of prisoner martyrs have dozens of, if all become "Tepui ghosts", I'm afraid that the master of the ancestor to come! If they all become "Tep Ghosts", I'm afraid the Grandmaster will have to admit defeat.
Corridor strength, is only 30 square meters square of a small stone room, before here must be a huge natural cave, but all around were artificially repaired on the wall, the old Liu head with a dagger handle knocked the stone wall, seems to be very thick.
The stone room's town table seat is very obvious, right in the middle of the stone room, Qin Ge waved his flashlight and shined it on the town table, only to see that the table was empty, nothing.
"Master Qin, don't be in a hurry, let's go to the next..." Old Liu Tou is also a little embarrassed, although this Qin Ge invites people to hate, but it's not good to always hit people.
"This..." Qin Ge didn't seem to be in a hurry, but crouched down and carefully observed the town platform. "Sect Master Zhang, can you show me that piece of jade of yours?"
Zhang Guozhong was puzzled, but he didn't dare to strike Qin Ge at this moment, so he could only hand the box containing the poisonous jade to Qin Ge carefully, and with a snap Qin Ge lifted the lid of the box, carefully looked at the appearance of the poisonous jade, and then looked at the base of the town platform, and then took out the poisonous jade and wanted to swing it onto the town platform.
"Stop!!!" Old Liu head's face went white, "Now swinging this onto the town platform, are you tired of living you?" Qin Ge was also stunned at this moment, he was too involved just now, how could he have such elementary thoughts? However...
"Sect Master Zhang, this seems to be the real town table where this piece of jade is placed, look..."
Following Qin Ge's flashlight, Zhang Guozhong did find that a notch had been chiseled out of the stone zhentai seat, which matched the side thickness of this piece of poisonous jade very well, if the poisonous jade was really a zhentai, it should be inserted into this notch standing up.
At this moment, suddenly heard a snap outside the cave, like the sound of something taut.
Old Liu Tou immediately pulled out his compass, only to see the needle thumping and appearing to shift widely from time to time.
"Surname Qin!!!" Old Liu Tou couldn't hold back any longer, "Look what you've done!!!" Shining his flashlight towards the passage, in the column of light, there seemed to be three or two silhouettes.
"Quick! Set up a formation!" Old Liu Tou shouted, with the experience of the Star Sucking Platform, in this kind of place that is the most Yin, the Life Killing Bane Blade will not work. At this moment, the only hope was the pre-planned "poison against poison" plan.
"No way! It's too late!" That method was originally used to break the township platform, if the township platform was stationary, the "Releasing Burgundy Formation" on this side would have plenty of time to pull Yin Qi from the ground, but at the moment, the figures in the distance were clearly moving, and the "Releasing Burgundy Formation" wouldn't be able to suck in the Yin Qi in time, and the enemy's position would change, so it wouldn't work at all. It would not work at all.
Zhang Guozhong gripped the dragon scale, jogged a few steps to the stone corridor, picked up a small stone, and threw it fiercely to the figure not far away, only to hear a poof sound, the stone seems to have hit something soft.
"Solid (Maoshan Sect jargon, evil spirits that punch their bodies are called hollow, while living corpses are called solid)...!" Zhang Guozhong looked around at his surroundings as he said, "Damn it, senior brother, what should we do!?" I only saw a small cave of about 30 square meters, surrounded by stone walls going straight up and down, not to mention running, there wasn't even a place to hide.
