There are only vague outlines of distant mountains.
Xuan Qing led the big black horse out of the abandoned village. Behind the carriage were Xuan Jue, Xuan Zhao and Su Wu.
He led the big black horse to the entrance of the village, and the three people following the carriage joined him in untying the reins and bridle of the big black horse in a tacit understanding.
"Let's go. If you go west from this way, you can survive." Xuan Qing patted the big black horse's head and told it a few words, regardless of whether it could understand it or not.
Subsequently,
He walked behind the big black horse's butt and slapped the big black horse's butt hard!
Snapped!
The sound is crisp and clear.
The big black horse was frightened, neighed several times, and started running. It ran for a distance, then turned around and wanted to run back. Xuanqing flicked the whip in his hand, and the whip whipped the air and made a crackling sound.
The big black horse was so frightened that he did not look back and ran away with all four hooves.
Xuanqing threw away the whip, took the reins of the horse, and pulled the carriage towards the hazy mountains.
His two junior brothers and nephew Yang Zhen have all sat back on the carriage.
The big brother's feet are faster than the big dark horse,
Now rush on at full speed,
The scenery on both sides of the road turned into colorful strips of light.
None of the people in the carriage spoke.
After all, the journey of Maoshan witchcraft was full of difficulties and obstacles. At the moment, everyone was concentrating on dealing with the final difficulty, and there was no thought of chatting.
Xuanzhao hung the dying talisman of the Maoshan witch master around his neck.
When the destiny talisman is damaged,
He can get the news as soon as possible.
but,
Although there are many cracks on the destiny talisman at this time, the destiny talisman still looks relatively strong, and it will take some time for it to be truly damaged.
Xuanqing pulled the carriage and ran for about half an hour.
Sun rise,
The mountains ahead, which seem far away in the horizon, are coated with a layer of gold.
Under the mountains,
Houses are lined up one after another, arranged in a relatively flat area at the foot of the mountain.
Many houses and buildings gathered together to form the most prosperous city in Samaodi.
This city is now deserted,
The smell of corpses rushed into Su Wu's nose in waves with the wind blowing around.
Xuan Qing stopped.
On the road ahead of him,
Corpses fell one after another on the official road out of the city. Many of the corpses had taken on the shape of a 'giant'. The pools of corpse water soaked into the tamped loess on the official road, making the soil soft and muddy.
Su Wu and others jumped off the carriage and gathered around Xuan Qing, observing the corpses around them.
"A small number of corpses died because their heads were cut in two.
Most of the corpses have no obvious scars on the body surface -" Su Wu came to a rough conclusion after examining several corpses. He squatted next to a corpse that had not yet shown a giant state, and picked up the corpse hanging from his waist.
with a horn dagger, peeling off the clothes of the corpse,
Put the dagger against the corpse's throat and completely cut open the corpse's chest, upper and lower abdomen.
The belly of the corpse is slightly bulging,
As Su Wu's dagger passed by, a stream of corpse water spurted out.
Completely open the chest, upper and lower abdomen of the corpse,
Several Taoist priests from Maoshan Wu also gathered over.
They observed the organs, texture, and bones of the corpse.
"The degree of corruption of this corpse is not high. It has not been dead for a long time. Although the internal organs are corrupted, it is not serious." Xuan Jue frowned and spoke, "The internal organs of the corpse are relatively well preserved and there are no obvious injuries.
."
He looked at Xuan Qing beside him.
Xuan Qing nodded and sighed: "They died under the murderous rules of the Zhongzu. These people with intact bodies were either cut off by the Dao... all the cause and effect of their past and future, or they were directly killed.
Cut off Hun'er and cut off his Qi."
"At that time, the Suffering God, the Lord of Suffering, filled the realms of the ten directions, always using his divine power to save all sentient beings from being lost..."
Xuan Jue recited "The Sutra of the Supreme Being to Save the Suffering" in a low voice.
Xuanzhao took out a charm from his bag and threw it on the corpses piled on the road.
The spell instantly burned into a ball of fire,
This ball of fire fell on a dead body, just like falling on kerosene. In an instant, the dead body and the surrounding corpses were all ignited. Soon the fire burned blazingly on this official road, sweeping away all the people.
Corpse.
"Let's go."
Everyone's mood is getting lower and lower,
The road ahead was blocked by dead bodies and flames, but the carriage was useless.
Xuan Jue then pulled the carriage into the fire and lit it. Everyone walked around the official road, passed through the city filled with the smell of corpses, and stopped at the foot of Maoshan Mountain.
"There are two ways to go to 'Yuntaiyuan' where I lived before. One is to cross the main road of 'Jintan', pass Lingguan Hall, Zhangtai and Yuhuang Hall, and go to 'Sanmao Taoist Hall'
, the single courtyard on the west side of Sanmao Taoist Temple is the 'Yuntai Courtyard'." Xuanqing looked up at the mountains of Maoshan Mountain.
Mountains and mountains wind forward,
A piece of red mist was billowing among the mountains.
Xuan Qing's eyes paused briefly on the red mist mixed with white phosphorus fire, he retracted his gaze and said: "The second road is not the main road.
Passing through "Xia Maoshan" and bypassing many deep forest paths, you can climb up the west wall of Sanmao Taoist Temple.
Climb over the wall and arrive at Yuntai Courtyard.
Both paths take about the same amount of time——"
Xuan Qing raised his head and pointed at the red mist that was still far away from everyone, and said: "That red mist - is Zhongzu, right? Judging from the place where it is tumbling and floating, it should be in the Taiyuan Hall.
Could it be that the headmaster stayed in the Taiyuan Hall?
No matter which way you take, on the way to Sanmao Taoist Temple, you can at least temporarily avoid having to meet Zhongzu."
The red mist between the mountains is the still frame of Zhongzu?!
After Su Wu heard what Xuan Qing said, he first looked at the old Taoist Xuan Zhao and saw Xuan Zhao nodding solemnly. Then he looked up at the red mist floating among the mountains. He looked at the red mist floating in the mountains across an unknown distance.
That red mist has no real feeling.
It’s just that I once heard Master Xuanzhao say that ‘Zhongzu’ has practiced the magic of demon body seeding to the point of almost becoming an immortal——
Feathering is equivalent to vaporization...
Now, Zhongzu has turned into a red mist, indeed he has almost become an immortal!
If he has experienced the ninth level of reincarnation, he will definitely be completely vaporized, and then he will have no idea how to resist it!
And at the moment, as long as we don't get close to that red mist, won't there be any serious problems for a while?
Su Wu lowered his head and observed the expressions of his uncles,
I noticed that they all looked at Hongwu with extremely solemn eyes.
——Things may not be as simple as he guessed.
"Let me tell you something.
Let’s see which way is better.” Su Wu said.
A pair of Ox Horn Master hexagrams from the Duan Gong Dharma lineage appeared silently in his hand.
The Taoists turned to look at Su Wu and looked at the pair of ox-horn hexagrams in Su Wu's hands in surprise. Old Taoist Xuan Zhao looked at it for a moment and said suddenly: "That Duan Gong you met when you went to the underworld?"
"yes."
Su Wu did not deny it.
His pair of Niujiaoshi hexagrams were obtained from Quan Zhuo, the ‘false god’.
It was not obtained from the inheritance of Duan Gong who died due to the 'Dead Man's Refining' as Xuan Zhao thought.
"When did you learn Duangong's method of divination?" Xuan Zhao was suspicious and asked another question.
There are special rituals for Duan Gong divination.
It’s called ‘Shi Gua Good and Bad’,
It cannot be learned without special practice.
Su Wu had never learned this science, and his divination was always on time and inaccurate, so he replied to Xuan Zhao: "I have never learned Duan Gong's divination, but I happened to have this pair of things in my hand, so I just used them to throw around." Just throw it away.
You have to make a choice anyway."
"Then it's better to let me throw it." Xuan Zhao took the pair of Niujiao divinations from Su Wu's hand and muttered, "The Maoshan shaman also accounted for a witch character, but the divination methods such as witch ghost veins did not work. With."
After he finished speaking, he held his breath and
Throw the ox horn hexagram behind you.
The yin side of Dharma Gua is upward,
The tip of the horn points to the position of heaven and earth.
Very bad.
Seeing the result, Xuan Zhao was not surprised. He picked up the Dharma hexagram and threw it again.
This time, the yin side of the hexagram is also facing upward, but one points to the stem position and the other to the "li" position. The "li" position offsets the "yin", and the final hexagram becomes "unfortunate".
"It's a big disaster to go from Jintan Road, and it's bad luck to go through Xia Maoshan Road," Xuan Zhao said.
"Then go down to the grassland,
No more taking the main road." Xuan Qing replied.
Everyone made up their minds, Xuan Zhao returned the Niu Horn Dharma Diagram to Su Wu, and the group set off again, detouring around the main road of Maoshan and heading down Maoshan.
Divination in the face of severe disasters will not be accurate due to too many hexagrams.
There are too many factors that affect a divination.
Therefore, everyone did not take this hexagram too seriously.
It's just that this hexagram provided everyone with a new perspective and pushed them to make the final choice.
While everyone was walking around the main road of Maoshan Mountain and walking down the long steps of Maoshan Mountain, several black dogs crossed the main road of Maoshan Mountain and ran straight to the city at the foot of Maoshan Mountain.
In the process of running,
From time to time there is a black dog with its head and body divided into two parts,
At the moment when the body of the black dog in the back was divided, a series of talismans floated out from the body of the black dog, gathered into a vague human shape, and threw it into the body of the black dog in front.
Behind a group of black dogs,
The rhymes are churning like the sea,
Down the mountain steps,
There are traces of knives and axes left on the mountain steps.
——
The mountains are green.
On the long steps of Xia Maoshan,
Four figures alternately walked upwards, already approaching the peak of Xia Maoshan.
"Climb over Xia Maoshan,
If you walk through another wild forest, you can see the 'Sanmao Taoist Temple'." Xuan Qing, who was walking in front, stopped and looked at the familiar scenery here. He recorded the scenery in his heart before looking back. .
Xuan Zhao, Su Wu had already passed him and was walking in front.
He followed Su Wu and walked side by side with Xuan Jue.
Xuan Zhao was walking in the front. This Taoist who looked like an old man was walking as fast as he could on the mountain steps without any signs of panting.
He climbed up the stone steps at the corner,
Just as he was about to turn around and greet Su Wu and others,
The fortune talisman hanging on his chest, which represented the strength of the Maoshan witch master, suddenly shattered into several pieces and fell from his chest - the old Taoist priest's pupils shrank and he looked at the talisman that fell to the ground. Blocks of life talismans - a huge life and death crisis enveloped the mind in an instant!
He suddenly turned around,
Grinning, he took off the satin bag from his shoulder.
Pointing to the peach blossom in the bag,
The old Taoist looked at Su Wu: "Senior nephew Yang Zhen, I have to ask you for help——"
"What?"
Su Wu subconsciously looked at the bag in Lao Tao's hand.
Look at the peach blossom in the bag.
He looked down at the peach blossom,
I didn’t see it,
At this moment,
The old Taoist priest's head was cut off silently... and his talisman body was cut off silently.
A strange charm overflowed from behind the old Taoist priest,
Raging like the sea!
At the moment when a line of blood appeared on the old Taoist's neck,
A burst of singing sounded from behind Su Wu. The singing contained great sadness, and also carried a stern warning that was not resorted to the surface. It floated in his ears: "High up, it is clear and refreshing, and the tragic song is loud in the sky.
I only hope that immortality will be achieved, and I don’t want humanity to be poor.
There are thousands of ghosts in Quanqu Mansion, the northern capital.
But if you want to curb people's calculations, they will cut off people's lives.
A Ren sang a song in the cave to take pictures of Bei Luofeng.
Bind the demon spirit and chant the coat, and kill the six ghosts.
The heavens are full of energy, and my way is prosperous.
The heavens are full of energy, and my Taoist sun is prosperous..."
That burst of singing turned into a stern warning in Su Wu's ears, and every sentence revealed the same message: "Close your eyes! Close your eyes! Close your eyes! Close your eyes!"
He closed his eyes suddenly!
behind him,
Xuan Jue also closed his eyes tightly.
Xuan Qing sang loudly, his eyes flashing with white light spells.
He looked at his junior brother who was two feet tall and tall,
Hot tears flowed from the corners of his eyes.
However,
There was no trace of sadness on the elder brother's pale face.
At that moment,
He warned Su Wu and Xuan Zhao with his singing voice.
The own talismans and magic bodies are shot at the same time,
Cut off every memory related to Junior Brother Xuanzhao...
