Tianwei Taoist Temple presents a completely different feeling at night than during the day.
The gloomy wind swept through the courtyard lane,
The shadows of the trees spread out on the white wall.
More than twenty headless corpses lined up in a row opened the gate of the courtyard where the 'ancestral hall' was located, and filed out of it. Their shadows were reflected on the white wall on the side, overlapping with the shadows of the trees, and their steps were stiff.
Projected on the white wall, it looks particularly strange and eerie.
The headless master dressed in blood was walking staggeringly,
The strange shadows of the 'thin bamboo poles' that grew out from behind them overlapped each other and became taller and taller. The pale shadows swayed with the swaying figures of more than 20 headless masters. As they swayed, they themselves
It split into another pale shadow that was exactly the same as itself and more than nine feet tall.
Seven rows of bleeding eyes sprouted from the two slender faces, and the tongues reached to the neck of the headless corpse at their feet. They were arranged on the left and right sides of the headless master's team, and their slender nails penetrated the void.
The broken pieces of Dao pattern rhyme were salvaged from an unknown place, and combined with their own charm, each formed a rectangular, long-handled 'pair of cards'.
Both sides of the 'pair cards' have a black background, surrounded by blood-red lines formed by the pattern of the avenue.
On one facing card is written 'Quiet'.
One facing card says 'Avoid'.
Two pale shadows, each holding a pair of cards, fanned towards the dark corner under the big pine tree ahead——
The wind is blowing!
The sound of ghost cries rang out in the wind!
Su Wu, who was hiding behind the big pine tree with Cauldron Ling, was observing this group of 'Revenant God Guards', his eyes slightly focused - these two 'Resentful God Honor Guards' waved their cards, and the dark wind they stirred up could blow away the consciousness of a living person.
His ability was vaguely floating in the gust of wind, not to mention the female master beside him. He could only use the power of his "Cunning Eye" to stabilize his own consciousness, so that his consciousness would not be slapped away by the Resentful God's ceremonial guard!
He and Cauldron Ling had visited many Taoist temples and had seen all kinds of different "ceremonial guards of resentment".
That slender shadow holding a mourning stick is just the most common ceremonial guard of the resentful god.
As the number of Tianwei Taoist disciples gathered increased,
A team of more than ten people from the Tianwei Sect can gather the ‘Dai Qi Gui Ying’;
A team of more than 20 people gathers the same 'pairing shadows' as they do now;
There are also groups of more than 30 people, including the "Gong Shadow", "Umbrella Shadow", and "Fan Shadow", as well as the red shadow holding a pumpkin sledgehammer, the green shadow holding a moon ax, and the green shadow holding a moon ax.
The dark shadow kicking towards the sky...
Such a variety of strange shadows can be arranged to form a "ceremonial guard" with the same etiquette standards as the fourth-rank and above officials of the imperial court.
This is the reason why Cauldron Ling calls these mysterious shadows ‘the ceremonial guards of the Resentful God’.
"There are all dead bodies here, there are no living people.
I then used thunder to drive them away.
Avoid future troubles!"
Su Wu patted Ding Ling on the shoulder,
As his palm fell on Ding Ling's shoulder, Ding Ling felt that her consciousness, stirred by the evil fan swept by the opponent's cards, returned to calmness. Along the way, she was invisibly affected by various comments from the senior brother next to her.
kind of care.
This time on the 'Crescent Moon Night', it was easier to break up the 'Guard of Ceremony of the Resentful God' than before. There was no need to break up the 'Guard of Ceremony of the Resentful God' like in the past, and I would have to stay in bed to recuperate for a long time.
She nodded gratefully to Su Wu and said, "Okay."
Su Wu didn't say anything,
Suddenly he stood up - a pair of pairs of cards were attacking him from the left and right. His figure remained motionless, a pair of shadow arms grew out of his back, and the twenty fingers of a pair of palms moved together, and countless colorful silk threads flew out from the fingertips and entangled them.
Keep that pair of cards.
Immediately afterwards, Su Wu raised his sword fingers with his left hand and held the talisman in the palm of his right hand. A powerful thunder light burst out from the top of his head. The thunder light tore a hole in the dim sky. In the hole, a thunder pool suddenly appeared!
In the thunder pool, a purple golden edict has already appeared for the most part,
It is joined by thunder dragons and electric snakes, and then rushes towards the top of the sky, interacting with the temple system of the 'Original Thunder Ancestor Beiyin Holy Mother'!
Thunder and lightning like thorns gathered in the palm of Su Wu's right hand, and in an instant they formed a 'divine whip' - Su Wu held this weapon which had grown stronger and longer than when he first saw the cauldron spirit, like a three-dimensional whip.
The purple python-like thunder whip whip hit the approaching 'Pair of Shadows' fiercely!
Crack!
The divine whip fell on the two shadows, tearing them apart in an instant!
Beat all the more than twenty headless master corpses that gathered them into charcoal!
"The star is shining, driving the fire wheel away. It's thousands of miles high, and the thunderbolt sounds! It's as urgent as a law!" Su Wu casually threw down the 'God Beating Whip', and the whip cord formed by the thunder light disintegrated on its own and disappeared without a trace.
, his hand seal changed, and he turned to the "Flowing Fire Seal", and used the charm descended from the "Zhenwu Temple System" to enlighten the "Flowing Fire Yang Sun Curse" in the various thunder talismans!
The talisman soared from behind him, dragging a stream of light around the more than twenty headless corpses that had turned into charcoal.
Light it up again!
Burn to ashes!
Thereafter,
Su Wu summoned another talisman in his hand and said in his mouth: "The Supreme Lord has decreed to supersede your dead soul. The lonely ghosts and ghosts are blessed by the four lives. Those with heads will be superseded, and those without heads will be born. Killed with spears and knives, and suspended by diving ropes.
Die openly and secretly, die unjustly, creditor and enemy, son of a bitch, kneeling in front of me, gossip shines - "
Give a spell,
The consciousness of the dead gathered around has been swept away!
The Patriarch's Hall is already the last place that Su Wu and Ding Ling have yet to search. After solving the "Resentful God's Ceremony Guard" here, the "Resentful God's Ceremony Guard" cannot be gathered together, and the Resentful God Dharma Driver cannot travel.
The ‘God of Resentment’ will not be able to come!
Ding Ling looked at the ashes scattered on the ground and let out a breath.
The anxiety in my heart finally dissipated with the ashes blown away by the wind.
She turned her head slightly and carefully looked at Su Wu beside her. Unexpectedly, Su Wu had already turned to look at her. The two looked at each other. A look of embarrassment suddenly appeared on Ding Ling's delicate face, and he hurriedly turned back.
Head away.
Su Wu said next to her: "Where did the God of Resentment come from? Why do all the good living people here automatically attract the surrender of the 'Guard of Resentment God' at night?"
And, why is Junior Sister Ding Ling not affected by this?
Junior Sister Ding Ling, can you tell me?"
The two worked together to finally break up the "Guard of Resentment" that appeared on the Tianwei Taoist altar tonight. In addition, Su Wu had saved Ding Ling's life. Ding Ling was always more troublesome towards Su Wu than to others.
Come with trust.
She nodded when she heard the words, pursed her lips, and made a small voice: "The matter was too urgent before, and I didn't have time to explain it to you in detail... Now that the guard of honor of the God of Resentment has been broken up, there is still a lot of time.
Whatever you want to know, I will tell you whatever I can tell you..."
The two of them were talking,
Walking out from under the big pine tree side by side.
Perhaps because the ceremonial guard of the Resentful God was dispersed, the darkness in the sky also faded a lot unconsciously, and the uneasy feeling dissipated.
Although there is only a shallow crescent moon in the sky,
But there are stars everywhere.
Tomorrow will be a rare good weather.
The moon was thin and the stars were bright, and a faint starlight shone on their shoulders.
Ding Ling looked at the overlapping shadows of herself and Su Wu on the mountain steps. Although the mountain wind was freezing all around, making her feel a little chilly, she felt an unprecedented sense of warmth in her heart.
It is a sense of security that all worries are covered and there is no need to worry about the future.
She slowed down a little and said softly: "The 'Resentful God of Honor' may have appeared on every disciple who worshiped at the Tianwei Taoist Altar before I was born. When the disciples of the Tianwei Taoist Altar go out, they often spend the night outside.
Any exceptions will occur.
But as long as they return to the mountains and spend the night in the Taoist temple in Fengshan, the ceremonial guard of the resentful god will appear from them.
——I discovered the clues from some records in Taoist temples.
It has been mentioned in those classics that at the beginning of each month, when there is only one crescent moon in the sky, the sky above Fengshan Tianwei Temple will always darken earlier than usual.
After that, Taoist disciples will feel tired and go to bed early to rest.
You will find out the next day,
Several people would die or disappear for unknown reasons in the Taoist temple, and then a few years later, the bodies of the missing persons would be found under a cliff somewhere in a mountain stream."
Su Wu frowned when he heard the sound: "Those who are missing and dead are probably those whose souls were taken away by the 'Guard of Resentment'.
Among the ancient records you have reviewed, when did this situation first appear?
When such clues appeared, didn't Tianwei Daotan continue to investigate the truth?
For hundreds of years, have we allowed our disciples to disappear frequently and die at the beginning of the month?"
Ding Ling lowered his head, followed Su Wu step by step, and answered his question in a low voice: "Because of my background, most of the disciples in Tianwei Taoist Temple are wary of me. I want to consult the classics in the Taoist temple, but I can only
Could you please ask Master Baihe to help me bring some books from the library for me to read?
So I only have a vague understanding of this, and I don't know when this situation first appeared.
As far as I can remember, I have never heard of the altar leader of the Tianwei Taoist Temple taking any precautions against this - there are so many people in the Tianwei Taoist Altar, and I even suspect that they don't even know about the existence of the "Resentful God Ceremony Guard"
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"Everyone in the Taoist altar will surrender to the 'Guard of Resentment God' on the night of the crescent moon?" Su Wu asked Cauldron Ling again as if confirming.
"Yes." Ding Ling nodded.
"Everyone in the mountains will inevitably surrender to the God of Resentment on the night of the crescent moon.
Everyone has become like that, and the 'abnormal' has become normal.
Naturally, they didn't know that they had surrendered to the Resentful God's ceremonial guard.
Then why have you never been affected by the 'Guard of Resentful God' and have never been possessed by it?" Su Wu looked at the thin female master.
When Ding Ling heard Su Wu's question, her eyes were blank, and she frowned and said, "Since I was born, I have had a very strange 'Mrs. Wandering Eyes' in my body. According to Master Bai He, I have contained a
Li Jui was brought from her mother's womb.
It's the treachery that's in the blood.
This treacherous nature naturally restrains the Resentful God’s Ceremonial Guard, and it should be the reason why I have never surrendered to the Resentful God’s Ceremonial Guard.”
