Haunting Spectre Road

Chapter 84: Lanruo Temple

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After walking less than fifty meters this time, the ridges of phoenix-winged roofs and a large number of houses were faintly visible in front of them. There were bells hanging on the four corners. Xiaolan couldn't help but exclaimed: "Oh my god, there are more here." Such a big family, a haunted house?" Zhang Jianfeng glanced at the mythical beast carved on the roof, "That's... the Stable Beast Dragon?!" Zhang Jianfeng's tone became solemn. Xiaolan looked at the beast head with a ferocious face in panic, and asked: "What is the stable beast dragon? Is it a monster that can eat people?" Zhang Jianfeng stared at the beast statue motionlessly and said: "No, The Stable Beast Dragon is the mythical creature that is said to be the Jade Emperor's backbone. It has a violent personality and specializes in driving away evil spirits from the lower world." Xiaolan listened confusedly: "What's wrong?" Zhang Jianfeng said: "The Stable Beast Dragon Dragons were worshiped as gods in the feudal era. Later, in order to maintain peace and not dare to offend the stable beast dragon, the palace imitated the stable beast dragon and made the spine beast that we can still see today. According to many According to the law of this dynasty, placing a stable beast dragon on the roof can be punished by hanging. Could it be that this is..." Zhang Jianfeng suddenly took out the gold powder and threw it forward. The scattered gold powder looked particularly dazzling in the misty gray air. Colors, the fog quickly disappeared, and a faint fragrance of flowers came. In front of Zhang Jianfeng and Xiaolan's eyes, an endless tapestry of flowers gradually appeared. There was a trail among the clusters of red. At the end stood a tall vermilion gate. Both sides of the road are covered with small, light pink flowers. The light petals tremble slightly, holding the goose-yellow stamens leisurely. Although they are densely packed, they are never tangled in one place. Large tracts of pink light are spread around the extremely disproportionately majestic mountain gate, extending to the end there, creating a wonderful landscape.

"What beautiful flowers!" If Xiaoqing hadn't been carrying Xiaolan on her back, Xiaolan would have bent down to pick two flowers: "What kind of flower is this? I seem to have never seen it before." "That is a kind of flower that has been around since ancient times. As for the extinct flower, it has a very nice name: graceful and free. And because it has a very similar temperament to the orchid, people often call it 'Ruolan'." Zhang Jianfeng answered, while the corners of his mouth slowly rose. There was an imperceptible smile. Will suffering finally leave forever with this light red

"Ruolan? Ruolan." Xiaolan murmured, not knowing whether it was because she also had the word "lan" in her name, but she had completely fallen in love with this pink color, along with its elegant and generous temperament. "Xiaolan, let's go. It will be dangerous to stay in these places for too long." At some point, Zhang Jianfeng had reached the end of the trail and urged her. Xiaolan responded and pushed Xiaoqing upwards again. Pushing, I looked at the light pink with nostalgia, thinking: I will never see it again in the future, right? Goodbye, graceful and free. Carrying Xiao Qing on his back, he hurried towards the gate.

Zhang Jianfeng has been observing this gate for a long time: "I said it is impossible to put a stable beast dragon up there so casually. It turns out that it is really a temple, dedicated to the Jade Emperor or some Buddha, right? The strange thing is, why can't I find it anywhere? Where is the name of this temple? Forget it, never mind. You stand aside first, I will set up a barrier to prevent any evil things from suddenly rushing out." Xiaolan nodded and took two steps back nervously. . Zhang Jianfeng set up the barrier three times and stretched out his hand to slowly open the door. A strong and uneasy throbbing suddenly appeared in Xiaolan's heart, which made her unable to breathe. Her head felt extremely dizzy at first. Then accompanied by severe pain, "No..." She wanted to stop Zhang Jianfeng from pushing the door further, but she seemed to be choked by something in her throat and couldn't make a sound. Her head hurt more and more. With a "squeak", Zhang Jianfeng had completely pushed the door open. Xiaolan's body softened and she couldn't support it anymore. She stumbled back and "bang", a piece of dust fell from behind. The wooden planks of the steps clearly revealed a stone plaque on the wall, with three more scrawled seal characters on it. This time, Zhang Jianfeng recognized those three characters almost at first sight: Lanruo Temple! …

"Gu Xinghan, get out of here!!" Master Wu Zhen rushed in like a crazed lion. The two little Taoist priests at the door were knocked to the ground unpreparedly, holding their buttocks and shouting "Ouch, Ouch, Ouch!" . Gu Xinghan pressed the strings helplessly and said: "Wuzhen, although we are familiar with each other, Zhongnan Mountain is not the gate of your Jiuhua Mountain after all. What does it mean to come in like this?" "What do you mean?" Master Wu Zhen said angrily. Said: "What do I mean by asking you!! I originally thought you would go out to surrender in person, but who knew you actually let Zhang Jianfeng go alone!!" Lone Xinghan changed his usual calm tone and said coldly: "I miss you. Don't forget, I swore never to leave the mountain, even if I die!" Master Wu Zhen was stunned, and then said angrily: "Even so, you can just post a message and find a helper to go with you. Do you know what is inside the stone gate?! Inside the stone gate is the legendary ghost temple that is the source of all evil that scares the magic world - Lanruo Temple!!!" Lone Xinghan's tone was so calm that he seemed not to know Lanruo Temple: " I knew it more than ten years ago." "Then do you know that there is the ultimate corpse poison hidden in Lanruo Temple, and if you get a little bit of it, your life will be worse than death?" "I know it too." Got it. You still let Zhang Jianfeng die? "Lone Xinghan said seriously: "You can't say that. I taught him the Eight-pole Formation Diagram, and I plan to send the Seven-Star Sword to him later. After all, he is the 'first disciple of Taoism'. If he even has this point, If you can't overcome the difficulties, can you still be considered a disciple of me, Gu Xinghan? "Master Wu Zhen said: "Then do you know that Qian Zhen, the 'first disciple of Buddhism' in Shaolin, has died after failing to subdue demons in Heilongjiang? Are you willing to let him take such a risk in order to achieve your so-called fame and fortune? " Lone Xinghan's body trembled slightly before he said: "If you are greedy for life and afraid of death, why should you enter the magic world? Seeing that Gu Xinghan was still so stubborn, Master Wu Zhen was so angry that his whole body trembled. He pointed at him and said, "Okay, okay!" Since you are afraid of death and dare not go, then I will go! "While we were still in a stalemate, a young monk suddenly ran in and knelt down and said, "Great, I finally found you, Master Wuzhen. We have been told by Master Zenkong, the abbot of Mount Wutai, that you don't have to interfere with this matter at Lanruo Temple. Things are determined by the celestial phenomena, and life and death are destined, so just let Zhang Jianfeng go alone. "Master Wu Zhen was suddenly stunned. Master Wu Zhen's roar echoed over Zhongnan Mountain: "Why are you even like this, He Jianfei? ! ! You have become such a victim, haven’t you woke up yet? If you don’t let me go, I will go! ! What a fate of life and death, go to hell! ! "

The little Taoist priest looked at Gu Xinghan in panic: "Master, this..." Gu Xinghan smiled bitterly and said: "Let him go, we are all the ones who lost in that battle on the Ghost Road." The little Taoist priest was puzzled. : "Isn't the road of wronged ghosts solved?" Lone Xinghan sighed slightly, without explaining anymore, returned to the headmaster's room, looked up at the portrait of the master, and remembered the thrilling scene of the dancing cherry blossoms decades ago. The battle, the last smiling face of the master, and the two vaguely opposing figures. Lone Xinghan, who had always been as calm as water, felt irritated, walked out of the room again, looked at the gradually dimming Big Dipper in the north without saying a word, smiled sadly for a long time, shook his head and said: "Destiny, destiny... Master, if I never leave the mountain for the rest of my life, that's right. Destiny?" Turning around, he saw that the young monk who had just delivered the message had not yet left, and asked strangely: "Huh? Why don't you go back to Wutai Mountain?" When the young monk asked, he hurriedly knelt on the ground and replied: "Our abbot has one more sentence. The words have not been conveyed, so I dare not resign." Lone Star Han said: "It's strange, why didn't you finish conveying them all just now?" The young monk replied: "The abbot told me that this sentence must be before Master Wu Zhen's departure. We can’t tell until we go.”

Lone Star Han smiled and said: "When did your abbot become so interested in guessing riddles? Well, then you can tell me." The young monk said: "These are the abbot's original words. I ask the disciples to quote them directly. If there is any offense, , Master, please forgive me." Gu Xinghan nodded, and the young monk said: "He said, 'If you are not willing, then go ahead.'" After saying that, regardless of Gu Xinghan's reply, he kowtowed and left. Lone Xinghan was stunned, and he didn't know where he was for a long time. After a long time, he suddenly laughed, twirled his beard, and said: "The first disciple of the Buddhist family, I'm afraid you are the one who is unwilling to accept it, right?"

There is only chaos left in my mind, as if the heaven and earth have not yet separated, just as if I had just entered the stone door. Although it is not blank, there is no memory, and my body seems to become lighter, swaying with the gentle breeze. The faint fragrance like an orchid slowly penetrates into your feeling, and the pink tenderness has instantly filled all the space around you, supporting you to float slowly, just like the petals supporting the stamen, weak but firm, Dead? Still alive? A piece of memory flew gently from a distance, just saying, this is an ancient temple, there is an evil ghost inside, and it is not your opponent. Apart from these, the master never told him anything else, Lanruo Temple, graceful Freeness, everything, came so suddenly... A picture suddenly appeared in his mind. Zhang Jianfeng, who was only five years old, leaned lazily in Lone Xinghan's arms, listening to Lone Xinghan's instructions on the horoscopes in the sky: "Folk legend says that on that day When a star falls from the sky, someone will die. In fact, the star will not fall, it will just become very dark. It will not become bright again until the next person corresponding to it is born. Get up." Zhang Jianfeng raised his little face and said, "What about my little star? Will it go dark?" Lone Xinghan just looked at the sky intently for a long time, and said: "The celestial phenomena are destined, life and death are destined, we can All I did was know it in advance." The celestial phenomena are destined, and life and death are destined.

"Zhang Jianfeng!! Zhang Jianfeng!!" A distinctly distant and extremely familiar cry came from his ears. The cry seemed so urgent, as if there was a shield in the center of Naihe Bridge. Zhang Jianfeng slowly opened his eyes. , the first thing he saw was Xiaolan's face crying with joy, Zhang Jianfeng said confusedly: "Are we... already in the underworld?" Xiaolan wiped the tears from his eyes and said: "What are you talking about? Get up, we succeeded Defeat the monster." Zhang Jianfeng struggled to straighten up. Xiao Qing was still unconscious, but around him there were many strangely arranged flags of different sizes, divided into five colors: red, yellow, purple, green and blue, forming a layer of glazed knots. world, and outside those flags, the powerful ultimate corpse poison rushing out from Lanruo Temple was forcibly blocked, forming a huge vortex. Zhang Jianfeng suddenly realized that he had instinctively swung out the Eight Extremes Formation Technique that he had been holding tightly in his hand during the crisis. The Eight Extremes Formation Diagram Technique was so mysterious that even the ultimate corpse poison could only linger outside when it was deployed. . "After many comments about A Chinese Girl, the tears on the bones have dried." Zhang Jianfeng finally understood the meaning of that poem. As Xiaolan said, this stone tablet is actually a death warning left by the ancients to future generations!

Seeing the power of the Eight Extremes Formation, Zhang Jianfeng couldn't help but get energetic. He used both hands to change the formation and prepared to rush out of this ghost temple. The flags leading to the exit slowly separated and opened a path. Zhang Jianfeng faced the little Landao: "You stand in the center of the formation and don't move. I'll go ahead and explore the way first." Xiaolan nodded and knelt down to check Xiaoqing's condition. She saw that although Xiaoqing's eyebrows were slightly frowned, his face was still rosy. Just when he breathed a sigh of relief, he saw Zhang Jianfeng running back from the path in a hurry. His face was as white as gold paper, his head was covered with sweat, and he said nervously: "The temple gate is gone!" "What?!" Xiaolan jumped up. "How is that possible? I clearly remember it was over there. Could it be that you went in the wrong direction?" Zhang Jianfeng's eyes were terrifyingly deep: "I walked to the end and found that it was a wall. I also I thought I was going in the wrong direction, so I fumbled around in a circle until I returned to the starting point. I found that there were walls on all sides, solid walls, which meant that we were trapped in a secret room that appeared inexplicably in front of the mountain gate! "Xiao Lan opened her mouth wide and stared at Zhang Jianfeng in disbelief. After a long time, she asked with difficulty: "Then... what should we do? Even if we are not poisoned by corpse poison, we will starve to death here." Zhang Jianfeng didn't In reply, he just looked around, and at the same time, he was thinking fiercely about the reason for the appearance of the secret room. Logically speaking, under the strong interference of the mana field of the Baji Formation, no matter how terrible Lanruo Temple's resentment was, he would not be able to expel these corpse poisons. If it has really reached the point of creating a secret room, then it doesn't need to build any secret room at all. Wouldn't it be easier to directly break through the barrier of the Eight-pole Array Diagram? Since it's not Lanruo Temple's problem, then who is responsible? The vortex, the wall, the temple gate, the flags, could it be... a problem with the Eight-pole Formation Diagram? Zhang Jianfeng's heart suddenly brightened. It turns out that the secret room was actually created by himself!

When Gu Xinghan taught this spell, he said that the Baji Formation itself has no lethality. It is just a distorted space created by Kong Ming's wonderful Bagua Transformation. It is mainly used for self-protection and besieging the enemy. The principle of its application is that life and death restrain each other. In this way, except for the space surrounded by it, all the spaces outside it are distorted to varying degrees. There are only two ways to break through this distortion. One is to remove the eight-pole array. The diagram method makes the distortion disappear naturally; the other is to follow the "rules" of the Octopus Array Diagram and make one's actions distort according to the degree of distortion of the environment while the Baji Array Diagram still exists. Now, the space that he and Xiaolan are in is the normal space where life and life are in conflict with each other, and hidden in the huge vortex of corpse poison is a space in which life and life are in conflict with each other. In other words, the door of life in the Eight-pole Array Diagram is in the vortex. In fact, it is the Door of Death, and the location of the Door of Death is exactly the exit! !

Xiaolan has not yet woken up from the shock in the secret room, and she cannot accept it anymore and rushes into the ghost temple instead. "In the ghost world, never look back!" Zhang Jianfeng looked at the vortex and said quietly: "The reason why the ghost temple is scary is because according to legend, it has a passage directly connected to the ghost energy of hell. Although it is in the world, we have to put it aside It is regarded as a netherworld. People in the magic world often enter the ghost world by mistake. There is no way back in the ghost world, so we can only follow the process of ghost reincarnation and return to the human world. Now we have no way to escape except rushing in. If you want to defeat the undead, it is best if you can remove the eight-pole formation diagram. If you cannot win, you must go down that passage to the Six Paths of Reincarnation and return to the world." Zhang Jianfeng slowly pulled out the Vermillion Bird Green Sword: "Enter If you live, if you retreat, you will die. I don’t believe in any destiny of life and death, no matter what, I will give it a try.”

"Hahahahahahaha-" A burst of sharp laughter suddenly came from the vortex, approaching them from far and near. Xiaolan's face was ashen: "Okay, we don't need to rush in now, the undead spirit has already come out on its own initiative. !" Zhang Jianfeng listened for a long time, shook his head and said: "No, this grievance is so weak, it absolutely cannot be the undead spirit of Lanruo Temple. After I came in, I always felt that there was something non-human following me, but I couldn't find it. , is this the thing?" The laughter got closer and closer. Xiaolan leaned on the ground and hugged Xiaoqing tightly. Zhang Jianfeng also held the Suzaku Sword tightly. A blurry figure appeared in the vortex, staggering came towards them. Xiaolan's whole body shook violently, and her face turned blue and white due to the extreme intimidation: "Vice Chairman!! That's the Vice Chairman!! Lanruo Temple is killing people in the school!! We broke the seal, it wants to kill Everyone in the school!!!" Zhang Jianfeng was shocked. After careful identification, he suddenly said: "No, that is not the vice chairman. It should be said that it is no longer the vice chairman. We have completely forgotten Wang Hongbin. Today, he is already his soul. It’s the third day of union.”

"Are you playing the trick of resurrecting a dead body again? Have you killed another person?" Zhang Jianfeng raised his sword and gritted his teeth and said: "Wang Hongbin, I let you go once, but you don't repent? You have sinned so much that even if Taoist ancestors show great kindness, they can't save you. Fall into the blood pool hell! Come here and die!" "Hahahaha." Wang Hongbin laughed wildly: "What does it matter if you let me go? I'm not a half-ghost? I still can't be reborn? Zhang Jianfeng, thank you very much Opened the stone door for me. I told you before that you can't fight against the stone door, hahahahahahahahahaha! Just enjoy the happiness of being trapped and starved to death, I'm going to get back the other half of my soul."