"It is said that there is a mythical story spread in ancient times."
"The Phoenix divine bird is reborn from the fire every five hundred years. It lives towards death. After burning in the fire, it is reborn and gains eternal life. However, once the rebirth fails, it will be turned into ashes forever."
"Luofeng Mountain, Corpse Raising Tan, Netherworld Phosphorus Fire, if this is the place where the phoenix nirvana is born towards death, then what is born here is not a beautiful divine bird but a corpse phoenix that brings endless disaster and pain to the world...
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The old Taoist priest looked at the corpses in the pool, shook his head and sighed, and couldn't help but let out a sigh.
The two of them walked around the water pool in the depressing and claustrophobic cave to see how wide the pool was. From time to time they stretched out torches to shine on the green water, trying to see clearly the environment under the pool.
Old Taoist Priest: "There is phosphorus fire in the pool, which is consistent with the legend of the Phoenix's Nirvana. Little brother, do you think the female corpse whose eyes were dotted will be Nirvana under the seepage pool and become a corpse Phoenix forever?"
Jin An used Qi-gazing techniques to explore the cave and found that the corpse Qi in the depths of the cave was even heavier, so he shook his head and replied: "She did not achieve nirvana and be reborn under the pool."
I didn't expect that this underground space is quite wide. I walked for about a stick of incense and didn't see the end. Instead, I arrived at the narrowest point on both sides of the pool. The water here was clear and not polluted by the rotting corpses outside.
Because the terrain here is relatively high, the water only reaches people's ankles, forming an isolation zone.
Wow!
The two stepped on the water and arrived at the other side smoothly without any danger. After walking for a while, they were startled when they saw an ancient temple in front of them.
The ancient temple is covered with blue stones, and the valley is quiet. It has both vast history and the chill of the Nine Netherworlds. It seems that it is not a modern thing, it is at least a thousand years old.
"Something's not right here little brother!"
"Or... there's something wrong with Phoenix Town itself! This ancient temple looks like a very old thing at first glance. It doesn't look like it's for gods, but it looks like it's for some kind of monster!"
The old Taoist priest warned.
Jin An nodded and continued to take the lead.
The lacquered wooden door of the ancient temple has lost its original color and only has the color of old wood. One of the doors has lost one door and is half open and half closed. It is unknown what happened here and it was abandoned.
Walking into the ancient temple along the door, I found that the ancient temple was very large, and there was an open space in front of me. The mountain walls on both sides were carved with the five halls of the underworld and the four great judges, including the bull's head, horse's face, black impermanence and white impermanence, and other ten evil figures... They are all famous evil figures among the people...
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After passing through the corridor, a main hall appears in front of you.
"The Palace of Life?"
"Strange ancient temple, strange name."
There are several tall stone statues placed in the main hall. It's hard to say which gods they worship, but they must be similar to the underworld figures outside. They are all underworld figures.
After passing through the Palace of Life, we encountered another Palace of Death. The Palace of Death has no doors, no windows, and no entrance or exit. Isn't this just a coffin house? The old Taoist muttered.
Jin An looked at the Death Hall in the coffin house in surprise: "Although it has been a long time, I still smell a very strong smell of blood. It is not the bloody smell of fresh death, but the bloody smell of many dead people who have accumulated for many years and has not dissipated. This Death Hall cannot survive death."
Few people."
The old Taoist priest looked thoughtful: "Some temples and ancient ancestral halls are used for both sacrifice and punishment. Could it be that this Death Hall is a place of execution for punishing traitors or disobedient believers?"
"The reason why they built coffin houses with no doors or windows is to restrain their souls so that these people will never see the light of day and have no chance of reincarnation?"
After bypassing the Death Palace, there is a group of buildings. Those buildings look like residential areas and are neatly planned. However, there is a big problem with the orientation of these buildings.
Jin An: "If the door faces south, the children and grandchildren will not be cold; if the door faces west, people will make noises and cry. The orientation of these houses is very similar to those shady houses we saw in Wutou Village. If the door faces west, it is not easy to see the sun. The house will be open for a year
It has been dark and humid for three hundred and sixty-five days. The living people have become depressed and have bad luck. The dead people have stayed here and will not leave. This orientation is only adopted when building a tomb for the dead."
The old Taoist priest was naturally familiar with the affairs of Wutou Village. He was surprised and said: "Here are carved statues of Yincha gods from all over the underworld, a palace of life and death, and a house of the underworld. Could it be that this place was built based on the ghost city of Fengdu?"
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Neither of them connected this place with Mr. Yuan of Wutou Village and the people of the Northland grassland tribe. This kind of building method is not only made by Mr. Yuan, but also by many Feng Shui masters, temple builders, and descendants of Luban disciples in Kangding Kingdom.
make.
The most important thing is that the time is not right.
The history of the ancient temple in front of me is older than Mr. Yuan's ancestors, at least thousands of years old.
"Little brother, look over there! There seems to be a shadow flashing past in that room!" The old Taoist priest suddenly pointed in a direction and shouted softly.
Jin An was a skilled man and had the courage to open the door and enter the house. However, as soon as he entered the house, he ducked to avoid something coming from above him. The old Taoist priest who followed him into the house was not so lucky because his view was blocked.
, his reaction was a little slow, and he was hit in the head with a heavy object with a thud, almost knocking him over and falling to the ground.
The old Taoist priest touched his forehead and grimaced in pain. There was another sound of cracking in the air above his head, and the thing hit him again. The old Taoist priest looked up and saw that it was kicked by two toes in the air. He was so frightened that he ran away in panic.
The pair of feet did not kick the old Taoist priest and continued to swing back and forth in the air. The old Taoist priest took a torch and shined it, and his expression suddenly changed!
There is a man hanging in this room!
The dead man's face was black and blue, his eyes were wide open, a black tongue was sticking out of his mouth, and his hands and feet were weak and drooped!
Just now Jin An entered the house with too much movement and bumped into a dead person, so he kept swinging back and forth in the air and bumped into the second old Taoist priest who entered the house.
The most peculiar thing is that the house and the dead person are covered with a thick layer of dust. The person has been dead for who knows how many years and has not decayed.
"Mom! It's really a ghost house for the dead!" Being caught off guard, the old Taoist priest broke into a sweat.
Perhaps the old Taoist priest also felt that his shock just now was a bit embarrassing. He coughed dryly and then pretended to be calm and joked: "The owner of this house has a very strange way of sleeping. I wonder if he will suffer from stiff neck."
Next, the two of them searched the house but found nothing, so they searched other buildings.
About one-fifth of these buildings had dead people hanging in them, and most of them were empty houses. Just when the two of them had no results, suddenly, in the dark underground environment, there was a faint candlelight shining deep in the distant buildings.
He moved and immediately attracted the attention of Jin An and the old Taoist priest, who chased after him.
It was a building with a closed door, and the candlelight shone through the window. The old Taoist priest asked Jin An in a low voice what to do, should he go straight to Huanglong? Or should he keep an eye on the six directions and act according to the wind?
Jin An remained silent, looked up at the roof of the cave above his head, then turned to look at the mountain walls on both sides, and finally walked directly towards the only building with a candle on it.
Jin An did not kick the door as soon as he came up. He looked menacing. He bowed first and then attacked. He knocked first and saw no answer, then pushed the door open and entered.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he tried to push the door with his palm, someone behind the door seemed to push hard, and he failed to push the door open successfully for the first time.
Jin An snorted with cold eyes, and pushed hard with his palm again. This time he pushed the door violently open, and he happened to see two people sitting in the room, a man on the left and a woman on the right, facing the door, just opposite to where they were standing.
Jin An and the old Taoist priest were facing each other at the door.
But they are not living people, but dead people. It seems that they are dead wives and dead husbands.