"Search my main hall?" The ghost monk burst out laughing and said, "Who do you think you are? How dare you even try to search my main hall?"
"Let's not follow the ghost monk's nonsense and start the search directly. Come on!" I said to Old Man Kong.
"Yeah!" Old Man Kong nodded and said, "This ghost monk is very scheming, we have to be careful."
Old Man Kong and I searched the main hall. , I originally thought that while we were searching, the ghost monk would come out and cause trouble or something! But he didn't. Not only did he not cause us any trouble, he didn't even make a sound.
"Why does the ghost monk have no voice?" I asked Old Man Kong.
"I don't know." Old Man Kong shook his head and said, "We have been searching in the hall for a long time, but there are still no clues at all. Why don't you do some divination and see if you can figure out something to save us Running around like a headless fly."
"Okay!" I nodded, then picked up a few small sticks from the ground and made a fortune.
What is gained is also lost. There is a lack of official ghosts in the hexagram, and the gold of the third line of the Xun hexagram is placed under the earth of the second line of the hexagram. Chentu is the god of flying, and Youjin is the god of subduing. Earth produces metal, which is called flying and subduing.
Judging from this hexagram, it seems that the ghost monk really did not lie to us.
"Your master's bones and relics are really not in Jiming Temple." I said.
"Where is that?" Old Man Kong asked me.
"Flying to ambush." I thought for a while and said: "The death of your master should be a sudden disaster. Ambush means hiding underground. If I am to cut it correctly, your master's bones and The relics should be hidden underground.”
“Underground? It’s also underground in Jiming Temple!” Old Man Kong said.
"There is no official ghost in the hexagram. Judging from the hexagram, your master's body should be in a place where ghosts gather. The place on Mengquan Mountain that can be called a place where ghosts gather is definitely a seal Those places of lonely souls and wild ghosts.”
“It’s not easy to get into that place!” Old Man Kong said.
"If you don't have the guts, don't go looking for your master's bones and relics!" The ghost monk, who had been quiet for a long time, finally spoke again.
"Have you known where Dr. Gui's bones and relics are?" I asked.
“I didn’t want to tell you at first, but who would have thought that you, a brat like you, would figure it out.” Ghost Monk paused and said, “But you, a brat like you, are really good at divination. You can figure out what happened decades ago."
"Since you know, then show us the way!" Old Man Kong said.
"That place is called Purgatory. I have already told you the name of the place. As for how to get there, you have to do it yourself." The ghost monk laughed and said, "Even things that happened decades ago can be It shouldn’t be difficult for you to figure out a rough idea or a direction, right?”
Since Dr. Gui's bones and the relics he left behind cannot be found in Jiming Temple, there is no need for Old Man Kong and I to stay there for a long time!
After coming out of Jiming Temple, I quickly did another divination. I was not able to divine the specific location of purgatory in this hexagram, but I was able to divine the general direction.
I divined the direction, so I naturally have to lead the way!
After walking for a while, Old Man Kong showed some worry on his face.
“Is this the right way?”
"It should be right!" Although I was a little unsure, I still bit the bullet and said to Old Man Kong: "Until now, I haven't made any mistakes in my divination, and I shouldn't be wrong this time either. "
"Yes!" Old Man Kong nodded and said, "I believe you."
I continued to lead the way. After walking for a while, I found someone in front of me. A grave. Although the grave was made of earth, it was not small.
Someone! There was someone beside the grave. The guy was circling the grave, as if he was looking at something.
Old Man Kong closed his eyes and looked at the guy who was wandering around the grave. As he looked, he said, "Why does that guy look so familiar?"
look familiar? Old Man Kong said that person looked familiar?
After he reminded me, I immediately calmed down and observed the guy carefully.
"Yi Ba!" After seeing it clearly, I shouted at the top of my lungs.
The man turned his head and I saw it correctly, it was indeed Yi Ba.
"Brother Chu Yi! Old Man Kong!" Yi Ba looked at us in surprise and asked, "Why are you here?"
"You've been missing for so many days and there's no one around. So you came here?" I rolled my eyes at Yi Ba and said, "You came here to take risks alone. Don't you think you're a little too much like me as a brother?" "Really?"
"What are you planning to do here?" Old Man Kong asked Yi Ba.
"You can enter purgatory from here." Yi Ba pointed to the grave in front of him and said, "I have to go in and take a look."
"For your master?" Old Man Kong asked.
"Yeah!" Yi Ba said.
Having known Yi Ba for so long, he often mentions his uncle, Taoist Xuanqing, but his master, Yi Ba, is rarely mentioned. Even until now, I don't know what his master's name is.
"What's going on?" I looked at Yi Ba with some confusion and asked.
"Master is probably in purgatory, so I want to go in and have a look." Yi Ba said.
“Have you found a way in?” Old Man Kong asked Yi Ba.
"No." Yi Ba shook his head and said: "I have just arrived. Apart from the fact that this tomb looks a bit big, there seems to be nothing unusual about it. But what I can be sure of is that entering purgatory The mystery is hidden in this tomb.”
The mystery is hidden in this grave. I walked around the grave in front of me, but I didn't see any mystery.
“I don’t see any mystery!” I said with a puzzled look.
Yi Ba stepped on the steps around the grave. As he stepped, he counted with his fingers. After walking around the grave three times, Yi Ba stopped.
“Any idea?” I asked Yi Ba.
“This soil is not real soil.” Yi Ba pointed to the soil on the grave and said.
"What's that?" I asked.
“Corpse mud.” Yi Ba took the words and said, “The mud piled on this grave is all corpse mud.”
I know about corpse mud. This thing is not naturally formed, it is man-made.
After a normal corpse decays, it will evaporate, leaving only a pile of bones in the end. After some special treatment, the corpse will not rot, but will turn into something like mud, which is corpse mud.
"So, the grave in front of me was deliberately created by someone." Old Man Kong took a step towards the grave, put his nose to it and smelled it, and then said: "Make these The man with the corpse mud is really a tall man. Hands! I have seen corpse mud before. Because it is made of corpses, it usually has a bit of corpse odor, but the corpse mud piled on this grave has no corpse odor at all. There is no taste at all.”
"The entrance should be hidden under the mud!" I said.
"Yes!" Yi Ba nodded and said: "No one can touch corpse mud. If you touch it, you will be infected with corpse poison, and your whole body will rot and die."
I know what Yi Ba said. The problem now is that we can't get in unless we get rid of the corpse mud!
Old man Kong went over there and found a branch.
"What do you want to do?" I asked.
"I want to try it and see how powerful these corpse mud are." After saying this, Old Man Kong directly inserted the branch into the grave.
As soon as the branches came in, green smoke came out. Without an open fire, the part of the branch inserted into the corpse mud was quickly burned to char.
“This corpse mud is a bit too powerful!” I was so shocked that my mouth opened.
“Fortunately, I used a branch to get there. If I had to reach out directly, my hand would be gone immediately.” Old Man Kong said.
“Do you have any tricks?” Yi Ba asked Old Man Kong.
"The people who are most familiar with corpses are you Taoists. If you don't have any tricks, how can I have any tricks?" Old Man Kong took the words and said: "These corpse mud on the graves are not real at first glance. It's new mud, but old mud. In other words, no one has touched these corpse mud for many years." Yi Ba frowned and pondered. Looking at him like this, he must be thinking, how can he get rid of these corpses?