Chapter 167 The ancient building and the sutra curtain suppress the demonic dragon
“Ghost city?”
“Did Yuan Hong really say that?”
In the dense forest.
Chen Yulou frowned slightly as he looked at Kunlun who was hurried back.
They had only left for a few minutes. I thought the two of them were very fast, but they didn't expect to bring back such a piece of news.
“Yes, from the shopkeeper, word for word.”
Kunlun nodded.
He actually didn’t know whether it was a ghost town or a demon realm.
But having grown up in the mountains, he has a sensitivity to danger that is close to that of animals.
That one was really weird.
The yin energy is deep and the evil spirit is prevalent.
It seemed as if something was roaring silently deep in the black mist.
"Okay, I get it."
Chen Yulou let out a breath.
The territory of southern Yunnan has been a place of alienation since ancient times, and it is difficult to fathom the evil evils.
From the few words Kunlun said, even he couldn't guess what it was for the time being.
"Let's go, lead the way, and go see what's going on."
Slightly turning the horse's back, the dragon colt sneezed under him, and immediately chased Kunlun ahead.
A long team walked through the mist-shrouded forest, silent except for the rustling sound of horse hooves on the thick fallen leaves.
This will make the atmosphere less tense.
Not long after.
It’s less than two miles away.
In the distance, Chen Yulou saw Yuan Hong's figure.
At this moment, it was squatting on the horse, as if it had encountered something terrible. Its whole body was as tight as a big bow. Just looking at its back, you can feel its fear and uneasiness.
"How could it be?"
Seeing this situation.
His heart sank.
Others don’t know, but Chen Yulou knows it very well.
That guy Yuan Hong has already entered the realm of nourishing Qi quietly.
In the team, except him and Luofu.
Even the Partridge Whistle dare not say that it can suppress it steadily.
Now that it can make him so frightened, it seems that the thing has a lot of background.
“困——”
When the horse’s belly is clamped, the dragon colt stops.
Chen Yulou raised his horse and stood side by side beside Yuan Hong.
"Master..."
It was him.
Yuan Hongcai secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Chen Yulou nodded, without saying anything more. He looked up and saw spiritual energy floating in his night eyes.
In the dense forest ahead, most of the slowly flowing thick fog seemed to disperse in an instant, and the blurred vision gradually became clearer.
The first thing that comes into view are the ruins of broken walls.
The low wall is mottled and covered by vines. Shrubs break through the ground and emerge from the broken wall, pushing green bricks all over the ground.
It looks like it is indeed an ancient city.
But the scale is too small.
It was not even as good as the Nanjian City they had visited during the day.
It is more like a small town than a city.
However, due to the erosion of the years, the ancient town has long been abandoned, without any popularity, and most of the houses have collapsed. Only...a white stone tower with a different style still stands alone.
“Tower?!”
Looking at the white tower from a distance.
I don't know why, but Chen Yulou always feels indescribably familiar.
It seems like I have seen it somewhere before.
But for a while, I couldn’t remember it.
“Brother Chen?”
Partridge Whistle and the others had also arrived early.
However, they did not have night eyes. Now that the golden crow was falling in the west and the night was shrouded in darkness, they could barely see a few meters away with the help of the wind lantern in their hands.
That area is densely forested.
With his eyesight, he could only vaguely see the shadows of trees.
"What did you find?"
When he asked, Hua Ling, Miss Hong and others also looked over curiously.
"It's a deserted ancient town."
"An ancient town?"
Hearing this unexpected answer.
The group of people couldn't help but look thoughtful.
“Is it recorded on the map?”
Partridge Whistle was still an expert, and he immediately asked the key.
But Chen Yulou shook his head.
“According to the map mark, this is the boundary of Longtan Mountain. It is true that there is an earthen village, but it is very clear that there are only a few households, which is obviously not worthy of the ancient town.”
Hear the words.
Partridge Whistle and others also felt their hearts sinking.
After traveling all day, I was already exhausted both physically and mentally.
Now, I suddenly encounter such a strange situation, how can I feel at peace?
Compared to them, Chen Yulou thought further.
Given Zuo's chieftain's control over the West Yunnan Road, it stands to reason that there should never be such a big mistake.
"Honggu, you, Kunlun, and Hua Ling will lead people outside to respond."
"Brother Dao, Yuan Hong and the old foreigner brothers, bring a few guys and follow me into the town to find out!"
Chen Yulou breathed out, put away his distracting thoughts, and ordered in a deep voice.
"Okay!"
"Yes, from the shopkeeper."
Hua Ling and Miss Hong led the Xieling group of bandits to camp on the spot.
They are all old people who have been in the world for a long time.
Know what to do in such unexpected situations.
Without Miss Hong’s orders, a group of people quickly led the horses to an open area, and then lit a bonfire on the spot to drive away the wild beasts. Of course, it could also scare the evil spirits in the mountains.
While talking.
Chen Yulou’s mind moved.
The Ang Qing Chicken, which had been hiding in the bamboo cage and hibernating, raised its head and crowed, turning into a stream of colorful fire that cut through the night sky and landed directly on his left shoulder.
Being a phoenix.
It takes almost an instant.
It noticed something strange outside.
He held his head high, as if two blazing flames were igniting in his eyes, staring into the distance, with an astonishing ferocious aura all over his body.
See it like this.
Chen Yulou was not surprised.
Just comforted him gently, and then looked up at the distance beyond the mountain.
It just took a while.
The setting sun has completely disappeared, the clouds in the sky have been obscured by night, and the entire mountain is shrouded in darkness.
Not much delay.
Chen Yulou led a group of people and quickly passed through the fog barriers and entered the ancient town.
It’s just that I just entered the town.
A sense of desolation, gloom and death came over me.
It is obviously summer.
This place is not like the one under Zhelong Snow Peak.
But the temperature instantly dropped by more than ten degrees, and the biting chill penetrated through the collar, giving people the feeling of stepping into an extremely cold place.
“Why is it so cold?”
“Something’s wrong.”
I picked out a few guys who were accompanying me. They were all martial arts practitioners. The lamp burned brightly.
But even so, it's a bit difficult to resist the Yin Qi here.
Almost as high as the Sanshi Bridge in Xianwangxuan Palace back then.
However, there is a well under the Sanshi Bridge that leads directly to the earth's veins.
It is the key to maintaining the balance of pure and turbid Qi in the entire Feng Shui formation.
But Chen Yulou looked carefully at this place, and it didn’t look like the Feng Shui pattern of Tiansha Yin Vein.
The more so, the more cautious you need to be.
An ancient town that has no records and seems to have appeared out of thin air is inherently weird, not to mention that the evil spirit is so heavy?
Beyond that.
In the majestic and endless evil, he faintly noticed a trace of evil spirit.
“Everyone cheer up and march in groups.”
He whispered a reminder.
Chen Yulou then walked lightly into the town.
I don’t know how long this place has been abandoned, with only ruins and broken walls left, but... you can still get a glimpse of the glory of the past.
Just.
Stayed in southern Yunnan for so long.
I have seen the customs and scenery of all ethnic groups.
The architectural style here does not correspond to that of any clan.
The feeling it gave him was a bit like Zen.
Six or seven wind lanterns.
Break the heavy fog along the road.
Not long after, the white stone tower in the town finally appeared in sight.
Compared with the previous view, now standing under the tower and looking up, the shock is even more profound.
More than ten meters high.
Seven floors up and down, eight sides inside and outside.
The base is engraved with Tantric scriptures.
On each side are several Tantric Bodhisattvas, Vajra Dharma images and eight heavenly dragons.
After a rough scan, there are two to three hundred statues.
Standing alone among the ruins, it is like a vajra reaching into the sky, which is breathtaking. "This...Buddhist land?"
Partridge Whistle's pupils tightened, with a look of disbelief on his face.
Traveled around the world for many years.
Because he presented himself as a Taoist, he had almost never interacted with people in Zen Buddhism.
Furthermore, because of the preconceived news that Kunlun brought back, he always thought that this place was a ghost.
Unexpectedly, the Tantric Bodhisattva statue carved on the stone tower suddenly disrupted his thoughts.
Even though he is well-informed.
For a moment, I couldn't help but froze in place, feeling numb.
"Shanjie City...Mandala?"
It was completely different from their panicked reaction.
At this moment, when I saw the Chen Yulou carved by all living beings on the stone tower, I felt a sudden enlightenment.
My eyes flickered and I murmured in a low voice.
"What?"
Although Partridge Whistle stood closest, he didn't hear what he said clearly.
Can't help but frown and ask.
“Brother Dao, I know the origin of this place.”
Chen Yulou shook his head and was not in a hurry to explain.
But he said with a serious face.
"The ancient building with sutras and curtains is the place where Buddhism suppresses demons."
He said why he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity when he looked at this place from a distance.
This stone pagoda is clearly the Sutra Tower pagoda unique to Tantric Buddhism during the Nanzhao and Dali era.
In his previous life, he had read it on the Internet.
There is a Dizang Temple sutra building in the Spring City Museum.
The exquisite shape and perfect preservation are rare in the world.
In the introduction to the collection, it is only said that the sutra pillars are used for chanting sutras in Tantric Buddhism, but there is another rumor that has been circulating among the people. The ancient sutra pillars were built to suppress the dragons in Jinzhi River.
That’s why eight sea dragon kings are carved on the base of the entire sutra building.
Suppress the demonic dragon with the real dragon.
If so.
The appearance of this scripture building seems to be able to be explained clearly.
Where is this?
Longtan Mountain!
At the foot of the mountain is a secluded pool with green waves. The water has never dried up for thousands of years. Everyone says that the bottom of the pool leads directly to the Dragon Palace, where dragons live.
In the previous life, such rumors were almost lost to the public.
Chen Yulou would definitely look down upon it.
But in the world of ghosts blowing out lanterns.
But he didn’t dare to question it at all.
The strange resurgence and rampant demons are no lie.
In addition, the trace of evil spirit detected from the Yin Qi before, this guess should be very close to ten.
"Suppressing the Demon..."
Partridge Whistle's pupils shrank slightly.
This answer was once again beyond his expectation.
Although he rarely interacts with Zen people, he has also seen pagodas in temples, but generally speaking, they are mostly used to bury the relics or golden bodies of eminent monks.
Therefore, when we see traces of Tantric Buddhism.
He also subconsciously thought so.
"Longtan Water Monster."
Chen Yulou nodded and softly uttered a few words again.
For a moment, Partridge Whistle felt like a pair of invisible hands passed through his mind.
Sort out the tangled thoughts at once.
"Then...Brother Chen, do you want to turn on the demon slayer?"
With his words, the pupils of everyone including the old foreigner and Yuan Hong suddenly dilated.
The Tantric Buddhism can be suppressed by force.
The monster under the tower must not be simple.
Besides, they have been suppressed, why should they be released and killed?
Isn’t this unnecessary?
The old foreigner opened his mouth and wanted to speak several times, but the senior brother was extremely abnormal today, as if he had never seen it before.
The Partridge Whistle did notice it.
But based on his understanding of Chen Yulou, he can kill demons wherever he goes.
Such a good opportunity right now will never be missed easily.
Sure enough.
Chen Yulou, who was still looking at the ancient building with his hands behind his hands, turned around, his eyes shining with light.
“Brother Dao still understands me.”
“Snakes are lurking around, snakes are frightening, and dragons are moving away. As a dragon, each one is harder to see than the other.”
"Since we bumped into each other, it was just a matter of chance."
Chen Yulou smiled softly.
It seems to be talking about a trivial matter.
But when Yuan Hong and others heard this, they shuddered.
Slay the dragon?
How conceited!
From this sutra pillar, we can see how much effort the Esoteric Buddhism spent in suppressing the Longtan water demon.
There are three hundred Buddha statues on seven floors and eight sides.
Now he wants to do the opposite and kill the dragon.
However, if these words were said by others, Yuan Hong and the old foreigner would never believe it.
But Chen Yulou's soft words have an extremely domineering persuasiveness.
"Luofu, go!"
Looked at the angry chicken on his shoulder who was already eager to try.
Reach out your hand and point to the sutra curtains of the ancient building.
Luofu tore through the night instantly and landed on the top of the sutra pillar.
The phoenix fire swept across his body, as if a great sun had risen in the night, reflecting the golden light on the prayer pillars.
The Jingzhu, which had been dormant for countless years, seemed to have come alive.
Golden light flows from top to bottom.
The esoteric scriptures engraved in it will also emerge one by one. As the scriptures circulate, the Buddha statues and Bodhisattvas sitting in all directions either have low eyebrows and submissive eyes, or they have angry eyes.
The invisible but mighty Buddhist breath passed by.
All of a sudden.
The evil spirit in the ancient town is like the scorching sun and white snow, melting away in an instant and disappearing.
"This..."
"God, what's going on?"
Looking at the changes on the sutra building, the faces of the several waiters had already turned pale. If it weren't for The shopkeeper is still here, but he may have been suppressed by the fearful aura like the power of heaven, and he fell to his knees and worshiped.
The same goes for Partridge Whistle and the old foreigner.
My face changed drastically and my whole body became tense.
My eyes were fixed on Jing Zhuang’s every move.
They were just shocked, but as a demon, Yuan Hong was in great pain when he was enveloped by the Buddha's light.
It seems as if there is an invisible mountain suppressing it.
"Brother Taoist, let me borrow your mirror umbrella!"
Without his reminder, he also noticed Yuan Hong's strange partridge whistle. He had already taken down the mirror umbrella behind him, opened it and lifted it up, covering Yuan Hong's eyes. Hong's head.
Forty-nine mirrors instantly refract the Buddha's light back.
The invisible force of suppression that was pressing down on Yuan Hong suddenly disappeared.
It subconsciously breathed a sigh of relief, but there was some unconcealable fear in its eyes as it looked at the prayer building.
"Go somewhere far away."
"You guys too."
Chen Yulou didn't expect that this scripture building that had been exposed to the wind and sun for hundreds of years would still be like this. power.
His eyes swept over Yuan Hong and several waiters, and he whispered a reminder.
The old foreigner holds the Miao knife in his hand and is ready to charge into the battle.
But the senior brother seemed to have eyes on the back of his head, "You come over too."
"...Yes."
The old foreigner hesitated for a while, but finally agreed.
I just took off my umbrella and handed it over.
Wait until the group retreats into the distance.
Chen Yulou then stepped forward and looked attentively along the scripture building.
The stone tower is more than ten meters high and low.
The base is nearly ten feet in size.
Although there are slight differences between Esoteric Buddhism and Han Buddhism, their expression on Buddha statues is not that big.
The carvings of the eight dragon kings are lifelike and powerful. Chen Yulou recognized the names of several dragon kings such as Nanda, Xiuji, and Anandabhava at a glance.
Between the eight dragon kings, on the central pillar of the prayer building.
Engraved with a dragon ball.
At this moment, the golden light flows down, reflecting it like a fire bead in the deep sea.
The eight dragon kings chase each other after the dragon ball.
Seeing this, Chen Yulou understood immediately and glanced at the partridge whistle not far behind him. Then, he stretched out his hand and gently pressed the dragon ball.
Click!
A crisp voice sounded.
It seemed as if something had been touched.
On the base of the ancient sutra curtain, the dragon beads were deeply sunk, and a stone door slowly emerged.
“Sure enough!”
Don't care about surprises.
Chen Yulou quickly lowered his head and glanced inside.
Under the sutra building, there is a deep and endless ancient well.
However, before he could see what was going on clearly, the next moment, an earth-shattering roar came from the well.
Following.
There is also a majestic tide of demonic energy!
(End of this chapter)