Well of Mystery

The old Taoist stuck the mahogany sword in his hand into the incense burner in front of the altar, rang the bell with the other hand, and asked loudly, "Who is here?"

The two ghosts murmured their names, and they were the sons and daughters of this family who had been kidnapped.Shang Douxing watched quietly from the side, and found that the two of them were covered in blood, and the clothes on their chests were even darker. Thinking of their cute appearance in life, he couldn't help but feel sad.

At this time, the old Taoist asked the two ghosts again: "You two, how did you die?"

"Our hearts were dug out and we died," the boy replied.

It turned out that all the young men and women who were conscripted and arrested were indeed sent to the capital, but after entering the capital, they were not sent to serve high officials and nobles, but were sent to the secret Taoist temple in Chang'an Daming Palace.There their hearts were dug out and cooked together with other strange and terrifying materials to make pills for today's son Li Chan to take!

After the ghosts cried out their tragic experience, the old Taoist tried to save them and other victims in the haunted house.After the ceremony was over, the joss stick was extinguished, but Shang Douxing still stood there motionless.

The old Taoist sighed, and turned his head to tell Shang Douxing the truth—in fact, the old Taoist deliberately arranged tonight's super-delivery ceremony, so that Shang Douxing could hear the truth clearly with his own ears.

Now in the Daming Palace, there are three Taoist priests beside the emperor who are bewitching the crowd.They seized on Li Chan's mentality of believing in magic and praying for immortality, extorted money, and suppressed heretics.Over the years, due to the influence of taking elixir, Li Chan's health has been deteriorating.Personality has also become eccentric and gloomy.

The old Taoist also said that he had a contest with those demons in Chang'an three years ago.It was the night of June 27th in the lunar calendar. Fighting caused a fire in East City of Chang'an. Twelve lines west of Caomen, more than [-] shops were burned. The old Taoist priest was also seriously injured and retired without success.And in the following three years, those three demons coerced the emperor and kidnapped and killed innocent people.

Said here.The old Taoist finally revealed the real purpose of his trip - to ask Shang Dou Xing for help.Let's seek justice for the dead together.

"Why does it have to be Shang Daxiong? A Taoist priest and a monk, isn't that a mix and match?" Bai Xiuqi couldn't help asking.

"I really need to find a monk."

Jiang Chenglu sighed: "Because there was a prophecy before, saying that these three monsters will eventually be killed by a person who has religious beliefs but is not a fellow Taoist. I am afraid that the so-called difficulty of the law. These three demons are 'preparing for a rainy day' for this fable."

The entanglement and repeated skipping in the middle are not mentioned.In short, Shang Douxing finally agreed to the old Taoist priest's request.But the old man told him not to act rashly.After seven days, go out of town and walk three miles north, and spend the night in the first house you see.

Although he didn't know what kind of medicine the old man sold in the gourd, Shang Douxing still went as promised.Three miles outside the town was originally an abandoned village.The first house is a ruined temple.It was getting late, and Shang Douxing meditated in the ruined temple to prepare for the night.

Around midnight, he heard rustling voices coming from the yard outside the ruined temple.

Recalling what the old Taoist said before, Shang Douxing leaned against the crack of the door and looked out.I found a fat man in gray and a tall, thin man in red standing at the door talking, roughly meaning that the old Zhang family next door went to visit relatives in the mountains a while ago and found an incredible treasure.Three days later it was the village chief's birthday, and Lao Zhang planned to give this treasure to the village chief.Now that thing is buried under the ground of the old Zhang's house.

Shang Douxing silently remembered what they said, and waited until dawn to open the door and go out.I saw an old stone mortar in the yard, and there was a pair of drumsticks with mottled red paint inside.He found the next door again, and found that the house was already dilapidated, but there was a huge camphor tree in the courtyard, blocking out the sky and the sun.

Shang Douxing walked around the camphor tree and found that there was a place where the soil near the root of the tree had been loosened.He dug up the soil and found a small stone box, which contained a piece of wood carefully wrapped with yellow silk.

Shang Douxing took the wood back home, and the old Taoist came to visit that night.He told him to be prepared. During this period of time, he would rest during the day and wake up at night. Ghosts would come to his door within seven days.

Shang Douxing listened to the old Taoist's advice and made preparations. On the night of the seventh day, the wind was really strong, and four little ghosts came through the air with a certain shoulder, and an old monster with purple skin and white hair was sitting on it.

Seeing Shang Douxing, the old monster asked him to hand over the treasure.Of course, Shang Douxing ignored him and continued to meditate in the courtyard.Seeing this, the old monster immediately yelled and ordered his subordinates to rush forward, but no one could get within ten feet of Shang Douxing.

"It's Sun Wukong's painting that's in prison again." Bai Xiuqi was no longer surprised, "Hurry up, I didn't get to the point for a long time!"

"Am I just talking?" Jiang Chenglu licked his lips, "Oh, it's too hot and my mouth is a little dry, open your mouth and give me some water from you."

"Disgusting is fun." Bai Xiuqi pushed him away with a look of disgust: "Are you worthy of this tragic story? Tell me quickly!"

Closer to home, seeing that those little monsters couldn't succeed, the old monster finally did it himself.But when it was fully focused on Shang Douxing, it never expected that the real danger came from behind.

Continue to omit the details in the middle. In short, the old Taoist mantis caught the cicada and the oriole and killed the old monster, but this also consumed a lot of the old Taoist's cultivation, and he was about to die.

Before dying, the old Taoist explained two things.

The first thing, in fact, as early as three years ago when he fought against those three monsters, he already knew that his end was approaching.In the past three years, most of his body has been corroded by the hard-to-heal wound, and because of this, he can only go out of his body at night to find Shang Douxing.And precisely because of this, he no longer has the strength to confront that old monster head-on, so he can only adopt the strategy of "praying mantis catching cicadas", letting Shang Douxing stand in the open and cooperate to put on a "good show".

The second and more important thing is that the old Taoist asked Shang Douxing to carve a pair of boys and girls with the treasures in the stone box. look for him.

After saying this, the Taoist priest disappeared.Shang Douxing had no other choice, so he had to obediently take out that precious piece of wood and carve it one by one.Many days passed, and finally the shapes of a boy and a boy were carved out.

One sunny afternoon, Shang Douxing walked towards the agreed direction with the wooden man in his arms, and finally found Ziyuan Cave in a very remote valley.The cave was dark and damp, and no one answered his call.On a futon in the deepest part, he saw the old Taoist who was meditating, but when he touched it with his hand, the old Taoist's body immediately disappeared into ashes. There was only a mushroom growing on the futon and a letter left behind.

In his suicide note, the old Taoist wrote in detail the origin of the wood in the stone box and the way the wooden man was used. He also said that this piece of meat contains the rest of his cultivation. If he wants to drive the wooden man smoothly, he must swallow it Rouzhi strain.

Shang Douxing was confused.

Although forced to return to vulgarity, Shang Douxing thinks he is still an out-and-out monk in terms of mental state.Monks can't eat meat, but whether the meat cheese grown from old Taoist priests is meat or vegetarian is a question.

After struggling for a while, Shang Douxing decided to give it a try.

As a result, I vomited at the first bite.

Omit the repetition in the middle and the long and long psychological process.In short, Shang Douxing still swallowed the meat cheese.After that, according to the "instructions" left by the old Taoist priest, he raised the pair of wooden figurines with his own cultivation blood.Sure enough, it didn't take long for the wooden man to transform into form.

It turned out that the wood in the stone box was the "reverse soul wood" handed down from ancient times. The spiritual wood was carved and processed to open its seven orifices, and was nourished by flesh and blood, and soon two teenagers, a man and a woman, were transformed.The pair of brothers and sisters are Huayang and Huayin.

Shang Douxing raised this pair of siblings for a period of time, and found that they are both talented and progressing extremely quickly.But because Shang Douxing spit out a ganoderma lucidum, his strength is not enough to completely control Huayin and Huayang, and sometimes, he will be teased by this pair of eccentric brothers and sisters.

During the time they got together, Huayin and Huayang developed an extremely dependent feeling for Shang Douxing.Especially Hua Yang, because he is a boy, so he is almost inseparable from Shang Dou Xing, even sleeping on Shang Dou Xing's bed.

However, compared to the carefree pair of wooden brothers and sisters, Shang Douxing's mood is contradictory.He knew that the only purpose of these two wooden figures in front of him was to take revenge, but looking at the living boy and girl in front of him, he couldn't bear to push them into the pit of fire with compassion.

Soon, the facts showed him the fate of the so-called "benevolence of women".

That day Shang Douxing came back from the field he was plowing and found that the door of his house was wide open, Huayin and Huayang had disappeared, and a copper coin was left on the broken table in the hall.

In every family whose children have been taken captive, such copper coins have appeared, left behind by those responsible for the robbery.It is said that they believe that as long as they do this, their act of plundering will be regarded as an equivalent exchange by the heavens, and even if the robbed teenagers die in the future, the ghosts will not find them.

After seeing this copper coin, Shang Douxing turned pale with fright, packed his luggage and rushed north all night.But he had just arrived in Chang'an after a long journey, and what he heard was the shocking news of the death of the current emperor Li Chan.

A day later, two short but nimble figures appeared in the desolate Lifang in the south of the city where he lived.The beautiful wooden boy and girl are covered in blood, but with innocent smiles in their eyes.

"Master, we miss you so much." Hua Yang opened his arms and hugged Shang Douxing who was sitting stunned, but was pushed away in disgust the next moment.