I took a deep breath and said, "If we go any further, it might be a tough battle. Get ready!"
Monk Shi and his companions simultaneously displayed their weapons, and moved forward step by step, covering each other, until they were several hundred meters away, when the cave began to become more and more spacious, even to a degree that was hard for me to believe. The entire cave seemed to have been hollowed out of the mountain, and even if hundreds of people rushed in at once, it would not necessarily feel crowded.
Monk Shi swallowed his saliva and said, "Is this a tomb built on a mountain? Look what's over there..."
When I turned the flashlight in the direction of the monk's finger, I actually saw a temple with red walls and golden tiles. The temple was not too big. Apart from the main building, there were no walls or flagpoles. At first glance, it looked like a slightly larger mountain temple. But who would build a mountain temple in a cave deep underground
I said in a deep voice: "Go and have a look!"
As I cautiously approached the temple gate, the first thing I saw was the overturned vermilion lacquered door.
The temple door, nearly two meters high and several inches thick, seemed to have been knocked off the door frame by an external force and lay flat on the ground. It was unknown how long the temple door had been down, but there were still traces of blood on it. It must have been hit by a living person or a living thing in the past.
When I looked up, I saw a clay sculpture standing on the left side of the main hall, which was more than one meter tall. At first glance, the clay sculpture looked like a person wearing a red robe and a black official hat, but on both sides of the official hat, there were clearly a pair of furry pointed ears, and a long tail trailing behind him. His hands were folded in front of his chest, as if he was saluting the deity on the main seat.
"Wolf!" I couldn't help but gasp, "Is this the mountain temple?"
The only god who has wolves as his ministers is the mountain god.
There is a legend in Northeast China that wolves are dogs raised by mountain gods. Wolves generally do not eat people. They will only attack humans when the mountain gods let them go. Once the mountain gods designate someone as the wolf's prey, that person will wait to die on the mountain and will not resist until they are bitten to death by the wolf.
No wonder I had no intention of resisting the old wolf when it appeared; no wonder the candidates of Xuanjing Division were as vulnerable to the wolf as ordinary people. It turned out that we were all the targets designated by the mountain god.
No wonder the old wolf was able to escape from the rolling thunder talisman, it turned out that he had a trace of divinity in him, so the thunder and lightning that were specifically designed to kill demons and ghosts would show mercy to him.
If the old wolf became a servant of God, then who is the mountain god
When I shone my flashlight towards the main seat of the mountain temple, the first thing I saw was a coffin leaning against the altar. The several-foot-long coffin seemed to have been lifted up by one end and pushed diagonally onto the altar, but it only moved halfway before stopping.
In front of the coffin was an old wolf that was lassoed like a horse. It was unknown how long the old wolf had been dead. Its fur had long since rotted away, and its bones were exposed in some places, but its front paws were still clinging to the edge of the altar - it was trying to climb up to the altar before it died.
The reason why the old wolf failed was because there was a corpse squatting in front of it. The man held the old wolf's head tightly with both hands, apparently trying to stop the old wolf from climbing up to the altar, but half of his butt was sitting on the altar. That man was Hengfei's grandfather Hengkun
The strange thing is that the statue sitting on the altar behind the corpse looks like a mountain god wearing a dragon robe, holding a tooth plate, and wearing a flat crown on his head, but his face is empty and has no facial features. Could it be a mountain god
Everything in the mountain temple was dead, without any sound or movement, but the whole temple made me feel extremely gloomy and full of danger. After seeing everything clearly, the whole temple seemed to have suddenly turned into the Hall of Yama. We became ghosts waiting for Yama's judgment, and sooner or later we would be thrown into hell. The only possible variable was which level of hell we would be thrown into.
"Where's Guazi?" I felt like I was shouting to build up my courage, "Tell it to find Hengfei, quickly!"
“Guazi’er! Guazi’er…” After Ye Jin shouted twice, Guazi’er finally let out a low growl towards the statue in the mountain temple.
Heng Fei is on the statue! Ye Jin and I looked up in shock, and saw that the dough-like face of the mountain god had a mouth that had appeared on it: "My two Taoist friends, long time no see."
I said in a deep voice: "Who are you?"
"Jin Bufei, a geomancer of the Half-Life Dao." The man smiled faintly, "In terms of seniority, I'm afraid you two should still call me 'Uncle Master'. However, the Half-Life Nine Veins have always treated each other as equals when they meet alone, so we can just call each other 'Daoyou'."
Lu Xiaoying and I looked at each other before I said, "The Half-Life Dao has always had only five meridians. You are not from the Half-Life Dao, right?"
"Hahaha..." Jin Bufei laughed, "I don't think you are the descendants of the Half Life Dao. The most powerful magic in the world is Qimen Dunjia, and the Half Life Nine Veins are named after the Qimen Nine Dun. Heaven, Earth, Man, Dragon, Tiger, Wind, Cloud, God, and Ghost are the Qimen Nine Dun. The Half Life Dao is not nine veins, how many veins should it be?"
I suddenly woke up. What the networking experts said back then, “Heaven and earth meet, gods and ghosts meet, dragons and tigers meet, winds and clouds gather”, actually refers to the eight meridians combining in pairs, not the four meridians we have always believed.
Without waiting for us to speak, Jin Bufei continued, "Even if one has mastered the Qi Men Dun Jia to a high level, one can calculate all the destinies between heaven and earth, but it is only a calculation and one can never change fate. In the past, Zhuge Wu Hou was so talented, but he also failed to save the stars and was unable to continue the Han Dynasty."
"Each of the nine half-life veins is trying to find a way to change their fate. The descendants of the earth veins are using feng shui to change their fate."
Jin Bufei said, "Many years ago, I accidentally discovered this mountain temple built in a Feng Shui cave. On a whim, I decided to gamble my life with Feng Shui, so I set up the mystery of the Old Wolf's Tomb."
I said in a deep voice: "I don't understand what you mean."
Jin Bufei continued, "If you are interested, I will tell you in detail about the art of changing your fate with the earth veins!"
Jin Bufei said, "Originally, this was where a Taoist master planned to occupy the mountain and become a god. Several years ago, someone gathered a large number of mountain people here, collected incense, and prepared to become a mountain god. Unfortunately, for some unknown reason, not only did the master fail to become a god, but even the mountain people who worshipped him all died of a plague. However, the mountain temple he built remains."
Jin Bufei said: "If you also understand Feng Shui, you can see that the place where the mountain temple is located is actually the place where Feng Shui converges for more than a hundred miles. If I can absorb the Feng Shui trend, I can also become a god."
I heard this and interrupted, "The purpose of geomancy is to make oneself a god?"
Jin Bufei said, "The nine veins of half life all have their own retribution that is difficult to escape. The retribution of the earth vein is to become neither human nor ghost. The descendants of the earth vein are all short-lived, and no one can live for more than a century. Therefore, after the age of twelve, the descendants of the earth vein can only rely on secret methods to survive. That kind of life will experience pain that ordinary people can't imagine every once in a while."
"But there are still countless tasks that have not been completed in the earth veins, and we can only live as neither human nor ghost. As long as there is a chance, we will do our best to break the curse. Therefore, I can only sacrifice those fairies who are struggling to survive like me."
Old Lady Dong shouted, "What on earth did you do back then?"
Jin Bufei said slowly, "After studying for a long time in the Mountain God Temple, I finally came to a conclusion: the reason why the great repairman failed back then was because he was a human."
"Going back a hundred years, the three hills should be called 'Lock Wolf Ridge'. The terrain here is actually in the shape of a crouching wolf, and the three hills that block the mountain range are the restraints on the wolf demon. The feng shui here has a wolf nature. If the person who occupies the feng shui, his family will either produce a bandit king or a gangster giant."
"Back then, that great cultivator wanted to subdue the wolf nature in Feng Shui and make the wolf his minister, imitating the ancient rebel kings who gathered heroes to fight for supremacy in troubled times. Naturally, he would be fiercely resisted by the Feng Shui power of Locking Wolf Ridge. Not only did he fail to become a god, he also lost his life."
Jin Bufei didn't speak clearly, but I could understand him.
There is a saying in Feng Shui that "the king and the minister have two tombs", which means that near a Feng Shui secret burial, there is a high probability that a companion tomb will appear. The person who occupies the main position will certainly have a smooth career; the person who occupies the secondary position will also have great wealth and honor, but the descendants are assisting the main position. In other words, there is one king and one minister.
There was no throne in this place originally, but the man who built the mountain god temple was going to forcibly create a throne for him - he would first become the mountain god, and then use the throne to mobilize the feng shui to establish the throne.
Although this approach is feasible in theory, it is very difficult to implement in practice. No wonder he suffered backlash.
Jin Bufei said: "So, I did the opposite. I didn't try to suppress the wolf's nature, but let the wolf willingly push me onto the altar and become the mountain god."
"Back then, I took great pains to gain the old man's trust and made him take the risk and bury himself alive in the ground. I also used a little trick to deceive the immortals on the mountain and lay in the coffin that was prepared in advance."
Old Lady Dong said sternly, "That year, what we threw into the river was really your skin?"
"That's right!" Jin Bufei said, "You think it's impossible for someone to peel their own skin, right? That's just that you don't understand the pain of living in the world of the earth vein descendants. Compared to being skinned alive, our life is a more terrible pain."
"You bastard! You..." Mrs. Dong's eyes instantly turned red in anger, and her whole body was filled with anger. I quickly stopped her and said, "Let him continue."
Jin Bufei didn't care about Old Lady Dong's anger at all: "The night I sent you away, I actually reached an agreement with Lao Lang: he sent me to the altar and worshipped me as his master; I tried to turn him into a subordinate of the mountain god and save him from the disaster."
"My original plan was flawless, but I didn't expect to run into the Heng family." (To be continued)