The Taoist Association and the General Administration arrived at Longdaogang the next day. There were five people in total. It can be imagined that the higher-ups valued the dragon veins, after all, it was related to the fate of the country. Chen Yang and Zhang Qiudao contacted them and learned that two of the five people were Three Caves and Five Thunders Heavenly Masters, about forty years old.
One is Yi Wei, the master of Changdao Temple in Sichuan Province, and the other is Meng Fu, the master of Fire God Temple in the Imperial Capital. Both are nominal members of the General Administration. They usually do not take orders, but only come forward when the fate of the country is at stake.
The other two were the Five Thunder Celestial Masters. One of them was a female Taoist from the Quanzhen Sect named Su Li, about 30 years old, and the abbot of the Ziyang Palace in Shen City. The other was Kou Xuanling, representing the Southern Celestial Master Sect. The other was Chang Beibei, the director of the General Administration.
Du Bei and Kou Xuanling were acquaintances, and although the other three met for the first time, they had heard of Chen Yang before. Because every member of the Dafu Office needs to submit a report in duplicate to the Taoist Association after receiving an order, and the Tianshi in the Tianshi world like to leave a message on the app after receiving an order.
Although Chen Yang did not leave a message on the app, Mao Xiaoli would always leave a message of nearly two thousand words.
Yi Wei, the head of the Changdao Temple in Sichuan Province, is a kind elder. When he saw Chen Yang, his eyes were full of smiles: "I didn't expect that I would be able to meet another descendant of the Ghost Dao in my lifetime. I am also your elder."
Sichuan Province was once a place where witchcraft and ghost arts were prevalent, so Yi Wei was very close to Chen Yang, the descendant of witchcraft and ghost arts. He said, "I have a sister who is also a witch. She is in Q City. Unfortunately, she had to go to Guangdong for something a few days ago and didn't have time to see you. She told me before that she wanted to meet you."
Bashu, with Ba in the east and Shu in the west, is Q City and Sichuan Province, so Q City is actually a place where witchcraft and ghosts are prevalent. Now, witchcraft and ghosts have declined and only exist in small tribes in Q City and Sichuan Province.
Chen Yang glanced at Du Bei, then replied to Yi Wei: "I will come to Q City next time and visit you then."
Yi Wei laughed, asked for his contact information and said, "My sister learned that I was coming to Q City to see you, and she insisted that I get your contact information."
Su Li, the abbot of Ziyang Palace in Shen City, has a gentle personality: "Let's go in and talk."
At this time, they were all standing at the door. The local government arranged a secluded courtyard for them. After hearing this, they all walked in hand in hand. Chen Yang deliberately stayed at the end. After everyone walked in, his left hand was hooked.
Looking up, it was Dushuo.
"Brother Du, you are here again."
"Come to see you." Du Shuo hooked Chen Yang's little finger, climbed up along the finger and held it tightly: "Are you unhappy?"
"No, I'm very happy. But you must be very busy over there, so you don't have to come to see me all the time."
"Longdaogang is the gate of hell. The day when the Earth God pardons sins is approaching, and this place is not stable, so I came here to deal with it."
In the past, the Ghost Emperor who was in charge of governing this area would suppress Longdaogang, but this year Dushuo personally took action to deal with it. First, his wife was here and could accompany him. Second, there was still a month before the Ghost Gate opened in July, but people had already died, which showed that it was unusual.
"what happen?"
"A Rakshasa is about to be born."
"A female corpse in a stone coffin?"
"Yangyang has found out so much? That's amazing." Du Shuo pinched Chen Yang's neck and earlobes, caressing him with many small movements. Although his appearance had changed, his eyes were still the same, with a doting smile.
When Chen Yang saw him, he felt like a jelly candy basking in the sun at the end of June, soft and sweet, and couldn't help wanting to snuggle up to Du Shuo and have him pat his head. But now he was still outside, with so many people around, so he could only pull Du Shuo's little finger and said, "What's going on? Tell me, I don't know much."
"What do you want to know?"
"When was the female corpse in the stone coffin suppressed in Longdaogang? Why was it used as a corpse-suppressing coffin? There have been a series of deaths in the past few days. Is someone haunting her?"
Assuming that the entire Longdaogang is regarded as a murderous corpse, then the female corpse in the stone coffin exists as a coffin to suppress the corpse. He wanted to know whether the continuous deaths over the past few days were caused by the female corpse in the stone coffin or by human intervention.
"At the end of the Ming Dynasty, a massacre took place here. The sins of killing were too great, and the resentment of the wronged souls could not be appeased. The underworld and Fengdu sent out 3,000 ghost officials, but they were unable to do anything to the 30,000 wronged souls here."
"How come?"
The ghost officers can capture wronged souls and wild ghosts easily as long as they are not fierce ghosts. To dispatch three thousand ghost officers, it must be a large-scale battlefield, for fear of the appearance of fierce ghosts. Although the massacre in the late Ming Dynasty was full of resentment, most of them were ordinary people, and it was not easy to generate fierce ghosts. How could three thousand ghost officers not be able to do anything
"The day of the massacre is the day of the third destruction."
The day of Sanpo is the Great Ghost Festival. Every sixty years is a Jiazi day, when evil spirits and evil spirits roam around, and resentment rises to the sky. If a massacre happens to occur on this day, it is even more likely to breed evil spirits than those on large battlefields.
"No wonder." Chen Yang continued to ask: "What happened next?"
"Ten thousand soldiers were trapped in the city, running out of ammunition and food, and began to kill each other and eat each other's flesh. The civilians who were hiding in the city - especially the women, were kept as captives, fed with human flesh, and then slaughtered. After a year, the gates of hell opened, and the Emperor of Fengdu took away all the wronged souls, judged their crimes, and sentenced them to punishment."
Chen Yang got goosebumps when he heard this. It was not difficult to imagine the scene at that time. It was probably a scene worse than hell, so horrifying and terrifying, the terror and despair that penetrated deep into the bones and soul.
"Ten thousand soldiers are trapped in the city by wronged souls? Trapped for a year?"
"I was only trapped for three days."
"Then how come they were trapped for a year?"
Du Shuo looked indifferent, as if he was thinking of what happened that year: "They trapped themselves."
Fearful and guilty, no one dared to run out of the city gates to be torn to death by the ghosts. They would rather be trapped in the city and eat human flesh, living a life of mutual suspicion and vigilance. They were not like humans, but more terrifying than ghosts.
"Then... the female corpse in the stone coffin?"
"A wandering sorcerer developed the 'Eight Coffins to Suppress Corpses' method, which can seal women with special fates into stone coffins to suppress the thousands of evil spirits outside the city at that time."
So this is the origin of the Ghost Gate at Longdaogang, the female corpse in the stone coffin, and the Eight Coffins Corpse Suppression Method, the cruel and bloody truth.
Chen Yang held Du Shuo's hand tightly and whispered, "Your crimes are extremely serious and you will not have a good end."
"Um."
Just as Chen Yang said, all those who participated back then did not have a good end and are now atonement in hell.
"So what is Fengdu going to do with the female corpse in the stone coffin?"
Du Shuo: "Let's talk about it after we go in."
It seemed that he had a plan. So Chen Yang didn't waste any more words and stepped into the yard.
Kou Xuanling and Zhang Qiudao walked out and were about to call their respective directors into the room, but they both saw the two of them holding hands.
"… "
Kou Xuanling was shocked: Have we reached the point where we can hold hands? The validity of a relationship based on sleeping together is really long.
Zhang Qiudao felt complicated. His own director was cheating on his wife, and he discovered that the person he was cheating on was actually the director of the General Administration. Is this the dirty unspoken rule of the workplace for adults
Chen Yang hadn't noticed anything was wrong until he saw Zhang Qiudao's complicated look and realized that Du Shuo and Du Bei looked different. In Zhang Qiudao's opinion, he was cheating. It was very likely for a promotion and salary increase.
He silently let go of her hand and took a small step to the side. Zhang Qiudao felt even more complicated because of his act of covering his ears and stealing the bell.
Chen Yang looked at Du Shuo for help. The emperor was calm to begin with. After receiving his wife's look for help, he reluctantly explained, "Chen Daoyou, be careful. Pay attention to the road and don't fall."
Chen Yang's eyes lit up, and he quickly said, "I'll be careful next time. Thank you for holding me back."
Kou Xuanling breathed a sigh of relief. He had felt something was strange before, but it turned out that Chen Yang almost fell down and Du Ju just happened to hold him.
Zhang Qiudao's heart was as cold as his expression. He accidentally fell and caught her, and their fingers happened to be intertwined. What a coincidence.
When Chen Yang passed by Zhang Qiudao, he heard him sigh softly: "Brother Chen, the people of Dushuo are not bad. You... cherish them more."
After saying that, he pulled Kou Xuanling away.
"… "
Du Shuo laughed, and Chen Yang looked up, seeing the mockery in his eyes. So he sulked: "It's all your fault. You have to be two different people for no reason. We are obviously the same person, but in the eyes of others, I have become a scumbag."
Du Shuo hurriedly coaxed him: "I know Yangyang is the most loyal. Otherwise, how about I return to my original state?"
"No. It's too much trouble to explain." Even though he was mad at Du Shuo, Chen Yang was still worried that he would reveal his identity as a ghost messenger. "What if it's exposed?"
Du Shuo especially liked the way his young wife cared about him even when she was angry with him, so he said, "I always use this appearance when I walk in the world of the living. I never hide it except in front of you and your friends. So I didn't expect this to happen in advance. As for exposing my identity, I'm not worried, and you don't have to worry either."
The Northern Yin Fengdu Emperor was not worried about exposing his identity in the world of the living. Anyway, he could change his appearance at any time and walk in the world of the living. Before he met Chen Yang, he had walked in the world of the living less than five times in hundreds of years. Every time he finished his work in the world of the living, he would go back. He was just an old nerd.
He had only appeared a few times in the General Administration, and a few people in the Taoist Association knew his identity. Even if he changed back to his original appearance, someone would help him arrange a new identity to explain to other people who didn't know.
Chen Yang shook his head: "Forget it, it's better to have less trouble. By the way, I will donate the money I earn to a charity foundation in your name to accumulate merit for you. Do you have an identity certificate in the world of the living?"
Because he wanted to accumulate merit, he did not choose to donate anonymously. Chen Yang did not need too much money. He wanted to do charity in the first place, to accumulate merit for Du Shuo and to accumulate blessings for his deceased relatives.
Du Shuo: "Give it to me. I'll do it."
"Okay." Chen Yang gave all the money he earned to Du Shuo without hesitation, and he donated it.
Du Shuo only took half of it, but later donated it in the name of Chen Yang. All the merits accumulated fell on Chen Yang, laying the foundation for him to become the City God of Fengdu after his life ended.
Du Shuo and his men had surveyed the terrain of Longdaogang before meeting Chen Yang, and found that Longdaogang was suspended on the claws of the dragon vein, although it would not cause the collapse of the country. But the claws were injured, the dragon's flight was blocked, and the prosperity of the country would also be hindered.
Suri said: "Fortunately, it was discovered in time and there is still a way to save it."
Chen Yang asked curiously: "How to save it?"
He had never encountered such a problem before. It was a feng shui terrain with a scissors evil spirit, and it was also the gate of hell. What's more, there was also a vicious corpse-suppressing coffin. It was simply dangerous everywhere and difficult at every step. The only solution he could think of was to ask the city god of this place to register all wandering ghosts and ask the ghost emperor of Fengdu to close the gate of hell.
As for continuing to develop Longdaogang, it’s fine. But if they continue to develop the property knowing that it is the gate of hell, I’m afraid people will still die.
"Exorcise the dead, close the gates of hell. Send people to guard them. The gates of hell can only be opened every year when the earth official pardons sins. Stop developing real estate and turn it into a park greenway."
Chen Yang was stunned. It was exactly what he thought. However, they had a lot of connections and face when it came to these things, so it was not difficult to save the souls and stop the development of the property. But—
"Who will guard the gates of hell? What should we do with the female corpse in the stone coffin and the eight corpse-suppressing coffins?"
Du Shuo answered him: "Rakshasi guards the Gate of Hell and suppresses the eight corpse-suppressing coffins. It is still the same as before. The eight corpse-suppressing coffins serve as Rakshasi's soldiers and guard the Gate of Hell for her."
Chen Yang's eyes widened in surprise: "You mean the female corpse in the stone coffin... She became a Rakshasa woman? But is she willing to guard the gate of hell?"
"She would."
Meng Fu and the other three temple masters had great confidence in Du Shuo's ability and treated him with great respect. Later, Chen Yang realized that in their eyes, Du Shuo was already the Heavenly Master of Shangqing. The Heavenly Master community respected the Heavenly Master of Shangqing very much and regarded him as a senior.
When the three heard that Chen Yang was interested in the promotion, they all sent electronic copies of their privately-kept sutras to Chen Yang. With a loving face, they told him to review well, and said, "If you have confidence in yourself, you can take the test now. Although the three of us are not respected seniors, we are also vice presidents of the Taoist Association. We also have the right to test the promotion of Heavenly Masters."
Chen Yang: "No, no, I'm not ready yet."
After saying that, he shrank behind Du Shuo.
The three were surprised at his relationship with Du Shuo. Kou Xuanling said, "They are friends." They all expressed their understanding. They didn't expect that Du Ju, who always kept to himself, had such a good friend.
Zhang Qiudao looked heartbroken and rolled his eyes at Kou Xuanling. He thought he was mentally retarded. Kou Xuanling accepted Zhang Qiudao's rolling eyes and didn't feel anything. The relationship between Zhang's Zhengyi Sect and Kou's Nantianshi Sect was not very good.
Although the Southern Tianshi Dao and the Tianshi Dao of Zhang Tianshi of the Zhengyi School originally had the same origin, after the founder of the Kou family established the Southern Tianshi Dao, he rejected the Tianshi Dao represented by the Zhang family, causing the Tianshi Dao to decline for a period of time.
Du Shuo glanced at Chen Yang, smiling. When he returned to his room, he asked him, "Didn't you memorize the key points I highlighted?"
"No time."
Chen Yang stood in front of him, like a student being scolded by his teacher.
Du Shuo said, "You don't have the energy to memorize, or you don't have the time? When you were preparing for the college entrance examination, you could continue to learn the Taoist techniques I taught you. Why can't you do that now? College life has made you comfortable. It's so difficult to even memorize some sutras."
His tone was light, but it reminded Chen Yang of the time when he was taking the college entrance examination. He had to study and consolidate his high school knowledge, and also learn Taoism to avoid being possessed by ghosts when he was not paying attention. Although he was engaged to Du Shuo at that time, they did not get married until he came of age. Therefore, there were still daring ghosts who tried to possess him when Du Shuo was away.
So Du Shuo would teach him Taoism every time they met, and test him the next time they met. At that time, Du Shuo didn't seem to like coming to the world of the living, and rarely appeared in front of Chen Yang. Later, when he came of age, the two officially became husband and wife, and their way of getting along became more intimate.
Now, when Chen Yang heard Du Shuo's indifferent tone, he felt uneasy and his calves were trembling with guilt. He whispered, "I'll carry it now."
Chen Yang took out the electronic version of the sutras and recited them while reading them, and he also had to understand them at the same time. Fortunately, his understanding of the sutras was a hundred times more thorough than that of ordinary people. He recited them while understanding them, and his speed was quite fast. Before he knew it, he was fascinated.
After reciting the "Supreme Righteous Alliance Sutra" and the relevant key points of the sutras that Du Shuo had marked, Chen Yang quietly stretched his body and caught a glimpse of Du Shuo sitting on the side, his back as straight as a pine tree. He had a calm and majestic aura, which often made Chen Yang feel puzzled, thinking that Du Shuo must have been born into a powerful official family.
He stood up quietly, went around behind Du Shuo, and wanted to lie on top of him to scare him.
"ha!"
He rushed forward quickly, but Du Shuo was faster than him. It was as if he had eyes on the back of his head. He grabbed his wrist accurately and pulled hard. Chen Yang fell into Du Shuo's arms and was hugged and kissed.
Chen Yang put his arms around Du Shuo's shoulders and took the initiative to respond. After a long time, when he felt short of breath, Du Shuo left and kissed Chen Yang's eyebrows, nose and ears, as if he loved him very much.
"You want to sneak attack me? Have you learned everything?"
"I've learned it." Chen Yang bit Du Shuo's shoulder, leaving a light tooth mark. "You knew I was going to sneak attack you, but couldn't you pretend that I succeeded in the sneak attack?"
Du Shuo chuckled: "No. Because I want to sneak attack you too."
Chen Yang twisted his body, changed to a more comfortable position, and leaned against Jin Shuo's arms, holding his big hand and playing with it in his palm. Then he asked, "When will you set up the formation to pray for the dead at Longdaogang? Zhang Qiudao should have mentioned the matter of Master Cao, what about him?"
"It won't start until tomorrow night. We need to disperse the crowd and wait for other Heavenly Masters to arrive to set up the Ten Dharma Ceremony for the salvation of the dead. We have already sent people to capture the Heavenly Master Cao you mentioned, but he escaped first. But he has been wanted nationwide."
"Wanted nationwide?"
"Yes. A charlatan pretended to be a Heavenly Master and sold fake medicine, killing innocent babies and is now wanted. By the way, he is not a Heavenly Master, but a sorcerer from Southeast Asia."
"Guessed it." Chen Yang had felt that Master Cao and his two disciples were behaving strangely before. Considering what Zhang Qiudao had said about his wooden plaque being forged, and He Tianna's mention that there had been many cases of celebrities being possessed by evil spirits in the entertainment industry recently, Master Cao had emerged as a rising star.
No matter how you look at it, it seems that he is not clean. Now I think that it should be Cao Tianshi pretending to be a Tianshi, on the one hand, he took orders to make money by casting poison on people as a Nanyang sorcerer, and on the other hand, he removed the poison for people as a Tianshi. He directed and acted by himself, and earned both money and fame.
Not long after, a third-tier actress in the entertainment industry suddenly died in her bathtub. She was bleeding heavily from her lower body, her face was distorted, and her eyes were terrified. After an autopsy, it was found that she died of dystocia. But before that, the third-tier actress's abdomen was flat and she was not pregnant.
This incident has become a mysterious and unspoken incident in the entertainment industry, and no one dares to mention it. After learning about this, He Tianna was silent for a long time before she said to others: "She debuted at the same time as me, and she has anonymously accused me of being sexually exploited several times before."
At this point, it is clear who harmed He Tianna.
"That Nanyang sorcerer challenged us to solve the strange things in Longdaogang before. The developer of Longdaogang also invited many seventh to fourth rank heavenly masters. What do they want to do?"
Chen Yang had a hunch that the Nanyang sorcerer had intended to do more evil things, but unfortunately they were foiled by him.
"He coveted the Rakshasa woman and wanted to refine her into a spirit descendant. He gathered the Heavenly Masters to refine the Rakshasa woman with their blood."
The so-called spirit descent is the most evil and bizarre method of black magic. Once it succeeds, it is almost impossible for the victim to escape.
Chen Yang couldn't believe it: "Is he inexperienced or is he confident in himself? How can a sorcerer who practices evil magic defeat so many heavenly masters? He even wants to practice Rakshasa. He is really... incomparably confident."
"So he is now wanted, and his two disciples have been arrested. All his evil magic has been abolished by the Taoist Association, and he can no longer do evil. As a murderer, he will spend the rest of his life in prison."
Chen Yang nodded: "It's right!" Then he said: "Tomorrow night I also want to watch the salvation of the dead souls and the closing of the gates of hell."
"You have a special physique, and are easily targeted by ghosts. When all the ghosts enter reincarnation, there will always be one or two evil ghosts who have committed murders and want to escape. You are the best container."
Chen Yang was confident: "They can't get within ten steps of me, and you are still by my side. I am not afraid of anything."
Du Shuo chuckled and pinched Chen Yang's neck: "You are getting bolder and bolder."
Chen Yang kicked his legs happily and said, "I also want to see a female Rakshasa. It is said that male Rakshasa are ugly, while female Rakshasa are very beautiful."
Du Shuo's eyes darkened, and he lowered his eyes to stare at Chen Yang: "Do you want to look at other women?"
"Just curious. Just like curious about how beautiful a flower is when it blooms." Chen Yang stood on tiptoe and kissed Du Shuo's lower lip: "No one can compare to you, Brother Du."
Du Shuo's unhappy mood was soothed in an instant, and he kissed Chen Yang back.
Zhang Qiudao opened the door: "Brother Chen, I have arranged for a friend to perform a ritual to help the little baby spirit next to Gao Tianliang. You don't have to—"
Chen Yang and Du Shuo looked over.
At this moment, Chen Yang was still nestled in Du Shuo's arms. This posture was so intimate that even if he fell 360 degrees on the ground, he wouldn't fall out.
Zhang Qiudao didn't want to listen to Chen Yang's explanation, so he closed the door and walked out. Beneath his expressionless baby face was a soul that had been shocked to the point of being speechless.
The author has something to say: Catch the bug.
Kou Xuanling: The friendship between people you have slept with lasts a long time.
Zhang Qiudao: The dirty unspoken rules of the workplace for adults.
The next chapter concludes this unit.
It's updated later, so those who go to bed early can wait until the next day to read it.