This building is just a lonely hall, without any other supporting halls. Since ancient times, temples have been called Taimiao Halls or places for court meetings, or a synonym for temples. In the underworld, I really don't know what the temple is used for. I have to ask Grandpa Taizu.
He told me that this temple was once the place where the ten Hades gathered to hear government affairs. Later, nine of the ten Hades died, leaving only the chief executive. This temple became a holy place for worshipping the other nine Hades. It is very similar to the ancient imperial temples. Of course, there are many secrets hidden in it, so three checkpoints were set up on the road leading to the temple, and no ghosts were allowed to enter.
Even if you pass through the three gates, you can't come out alive. I heard that the temple is full of traps, and the way to die is more cruel than hell and the realm of ghosts. There are also temple patrols, holding ghost-slaying swords. If a ghost approaches without a token, no matter who it is, they can be killed first and then reported.
The temple patrol is the bitch Mei Ruoqi. She even has a sword that kills ghosts, which really makes us feel extremely worried. The sword that kills ghosts is not just one. It is said that since Zhong Kui followed the nine Hades, the sword that kills ghosts in his hand was refined into three. One is for the Chief Executive, one is given to Judge Wu, and the other is in the hands of the temple patrol.
As the name suggests, the Ghost-Slaying Sword is a huge deterrent to ghosts. The blade is stained with the blood of countless ghosts. No matter what kind of evil ghost or soul it is, it will be subdued by the Ghost-Slaying Sword.
Grandpa and I walked to a place a few hundred meters away from the temple and stopped to discuss how to deal with the Demon-Slaying Sword. He thought for a long time but couldn't come up with an idea. Finally, he said that the only thing that could compete with the Demon-Slaying Sword was the Shangyang Sword. Unfortunately, we couldn't find it, and we couldn't bring it into the underworld. After all, it was a male object, and it would turn into ashes in the underworld.
I looked at the magnificent hall in front of me, touched my nose and fell into deep thought. After a while, I said to my great grandfather: "This hall seems to be built according to the Feng Shui of the Cao family. The red spider lilies are blooming all around, like a jade belt around the waist, with yin in yang and yang in yin. The long stone steps in front of the door are all the way to heaven. The Cao family secret book states that the ancestral hall is a place for worshiping ancestors and is not suitable for storing gold. If you really need to use gold, you can dig a ventilation passage on both sides of the house to facilitate the release of gold energy and avoid conflicting with the wood and fire energy in the house..."
At this point, Grandpa Taizu patted his thigh and said, "That's easy. The two of us will block the ventilation passages on both sides, and a conflict between metal and wood will occur in the hall. Mei Ruoqi will wrap up the Demon Slayer Sword and hide it. Without the Demon Slayer Sword, we don't have to be afraid."
I nodded and smiled, "Not only do we not have to be afraid, we can also use the Feng Shui arrangement in the hall to counter Mei Ruoqi!"
"What do you mean?" Great-grandfather was completely clueless about Cao's Feng Shui, and now he wants to ask me for advice.
My buddy was so proud that he said to the old man, "The so-called traps in the hall are nothing more than the traps set up by Cao's Feng Shui to ward off ghosts. They are similar to the Feng Shui in the world of the living, but a little more mysterious. But we have the Feng Shui secret manual in our hands, so are we worried that we can't decipher it? It specifically describes how the underworld is laid out so that ghosts can avoid the harm of Yin and Yang Feng Shui, while ordinary ghosts can't escape."
"Then it means wearing a talisman?" Grandpa Taizu was experienced in this area and he revealed the secret in one sentence.
I nodded hurriedly: "Yes, it is the amulet."
The Cao family's amulet for the underworld is actually very easy to make. You can carve runes on Yin wood and hide it inside your clothes on your chest. Those who don't know think it's very mysterious, but those who know the details are just like this. I found a piece of dead wood on the side of the road. It should be the waste left over from the construction of the temple many years ago. Grandpa Taizu scratched it horizontally and vertically with his fingernails, and immediately the piece of dead wood was broken apart, and two neatly-made plaques that looked like our Xi family's peach wood plaques appeared.
He asked me how to write the rune, then carved it with his fingernails. He pulled two silk threads from his clothes, tied them to the wooden plaque, and each of us hung one on our chest.
Then I taught him how to break the jade belt waist trap. He nodded and said, "Now I will also teach you a spell from the underworld. It will be easy to block the secret passage later."
I thought it was some kind of magical formula, but it turned out to be the spells of ghost affairs, except that the words about Taoist priests were all changed to Yin Gui Dadi. I don't know who this Yin Gui Dadi is. I don't think he is the Chief Executive, otherwise it would be impossible to ask him to help us. Later I realized that this Yin Gui Dadi was one of the ten Hades. Although his whereabouts are a mystery, if you call him for help, it will always work.
We both quietly walked to the temple and looked up at the hall. We were a little disappointed. It looked majestic from a distance, but when we got closer, it was no different from the halls in the Forbidden City. It was not very big either. And the architectural style and tile colors were exactly the same as those in the Forbidden City.
There was a plaque hanging on the door of the main hall with four big black characters written on it: "Temple of the Underworld"!
Mei Ruoqi should have noticed our arrival, but she was afraid of Grandpa Taizu and would not go out to fight. She would definitely hide in the temple and wait for the opportunity. Although she knew that I had obtained the Cao family secret score, she did not know that this secret score could change the temple's feng shui situation, so she did not pay much attention to it.
As expected, my great grandfather and I ran to both sides of the house from the stone steps. The temple was still in silence, and Mei Ruoqi did not show up. I went to the left side and quickly found the secret ventilation passage according to the direction indicated by the Feng Shui secret map. It was not difficult to seal the hole. I stretched out my hand, pinched the formula, and recited two nonsensical ghost formulas. I stuck my hand into the ground, and my hand was like a shovel shoveling deep into the soil.
You said that my great-grandfather was so smart that he could invent anything on his own. Compared with his intelligence, my intelligence is nothing but a dwarf compared to him.
After I sealed the entrance to the secret passage, I heard a faint cry of surprise coming from the temple, which sounded very much like what Mei Ruoqi made. I guess it was the conflict between metal and wood, and abnormal situations began to occur, right
The principle of the conflict between metal and wood is very simple, because the tablets for ancestors in temples must be made of wood. When offering sacrifices to ancestors, burning incense and paper is fire, and wood and fire are born and bright, which is conducive to the rest of the ancestors. But when encountering gold, it is like a sword on the head of the ancestor, conflicting with each other, not to mention that this gold is a sword that kills ghosts with a strong evil spirit, which makes the ancestors even more uneasy and will cause a big disaster!
Just when I was feeling secretly proud of myself, I suddenly heard a scream from Grandpa Taizu on the right side of the hall. My heart skipped a beat. Could something have happened to him