Hit the yin and yang road

Zhang Qiudao closed the door, turned around and raised his index finger: "Shh, hide first." Then he saw Mao Zhen, frowned slightly, but there was no time to ask, but the three of them hid in the cabinet together.The next moment, the door of the house made a violent 'bang bang' impact, and the things outside the door seemed to stop the impact soon because they did not hear the panic screams from inside the room.

The three of Chen Yang heard a heavy sound coming from outside after the stillness, like the sound of stones rubbing against the ground.Zhang Qiudao grabbed the two of them and said, "I haven't left yet." The thing outside came back shortly after leaving, and this time opened the door with a key.

The heavy stone rubbing sound was especially clear in the room. Through the gap in the cabinet, Chen Yang saw that the thing outside was wearing extremely heavy stone-soled shoes on its feet.The soles of the shoes are covered with cinnabar to ward off evil spirits, and every time they rub against the ground, they will make a harsh sound.The thing still held a bloody ax in its right hand, and was walking towards the cabinet.

Chen Yang put his hand on the long whip around his waist, while Zhang Qiudao shook his head slightly while holding his arm.Sure enough, the things outside went around the cabinet, split the table and the bed, but they didn't find the 'living soul' they were looking for, so they turned and left.When I left, I closed the door. After a moment of silence, the door was suddenly opened again. The thing poked its head in to check, muttered a few words, ambiguous, closed the door and continued to inquire about the next house.

Chen Yang opened the cabinet door and looked at the destroyed table and bed, as well as the only cabinet that had not been inspected or damaged, and asked Zhang Qiu, "What is that thing? How did you get into it?"

Zhang Qiudao heaved a sigh of relief, and said: "When I was running for my life, I accidentally broke into this house, and I got offended. That monster has no brains. No matter how I shake him, I can persist in chasing him." He pointed to the destroyed building. Table, bed, and unspoiled cabinet: "The bed and table were destroyed because I hid in them before and was discovered later. So every time he looked for me after that, he would think I was hiding in the table and bed, and the cabinet was because there was no Hidden, so he doesn't know."

Chen Yang only saw the lower body of the thing just now, which should be about two meters high by visual estimation.Although I haven't seen the upper body, I believe Zhang Qiudao's words, because the thing closed the door when it came in and left.When knocking on the door, he did not use an ax to chop the door, but found a key to open the door.It can be seen that it is different from the ghosts in other houses.

Zhang Qiudao looked at Mao Zhen and asked Chen Yang: "Who is he? The ghost in the yin house?" None of the celestial masters who came in from his memory looked like Mao Zhen.

Chen Yang: "Mao Zhen, the celestial master who fell here more than [-] years ago, Mao Xiaoli's uncle."

Zhang Qiudao's skeptical attitude has not changed: "Mao Xiaoli's uncle is in a vegetable state and is still lying in the hospital. He is indeed in a state of dementia. If you are really Xiaoli's uncle, Mao Xiaoying should recognize you."

"Mao Xiaoying is also in this house?", "I'm still alive?" Chen Yang and Mao Xiaoying said in unison, the former was surprised, while the latter was pleasantly surprised.Zhang Qiudao immediately turned his head suspiciously: "You are a living soul, you don't even know you are alive?"

Mao Zhen waved his hand and said: "My living soul has been away from my body for more than [-] years, and I have been eroded by the resentment in the yin house every year, and I have long lost contact with my body." When I lost contact with my body, I thought I was really dead, and I was depressed for a long time. At the same time, the sixth building was built in the Yin Mansion. So I just don’t know the owner and internal structure of the sixth building. , there is no way to help you."

Chen Yang pondered for a moment: "Is this house the sixth?"

Mao Zhen: "Yes."

Zhang Qiudao: "Leave the room first, and the ax ghost will soon find out. Although he has no brains, he has a dog's nose, which is why I was chased so closely. When I entered the door just now, I was at the door first. I spent an invisibility talisman to hide the yang energy in the room. But the time limit is not long, news will come soon, and he will return soon and find that we have stayed in the closet. Now leave, just in time to find Mao Xiaoying."

The three of them opened the door and walked out from the corridor. The corridor was empty, and footsteps could be heard even if they moved lightly.Zhang Qiudao: "Let's go to the third floor. There are no ghosts living in the room on the fifth floor, but the ax ghost will keep looking for it, which is very annoying. Let's take the elevator instead of the stairs. If you take the stairs, the ax ghost will always follow behind. There is no way." Throw it away. But the elevator is at the end of the long corridor, and you need to pass by the room where the ax ghost is, and once you go there, you will definitely be found."

Chen Yang walked forward: "Which room is the ax ghost?"

Zhang Qiudao: "I don't know." He stopped and stuck to the door: "Listen." After a few seconds, he got up: "Not here."

Chen Yang and Mao Zhen did the same thing, walking lightly, carefully looking for the room where the ax ghost was.In front of the door of the room that was almost close to the elevator, I put my ear close to it, but I didn't hear the slightest sound.The closer the elevator is, the fewer rooms there are, which means that the probability of the ax ghost being in those rooms is higher.

Chen Yang shook his head to Zhang Qiudao and Mao Zhen, indicating that there was no sound inside.But when he was about to get up, he caught a glimpse of the cat's eye on the door out of the corner of his eye, and saw something in the cat's eye suddenly moved, and he suddenly realized that it was an eye.The next moment, the body reacted faster than the head, and quickly backed away, and a sharp ax suddenly appeared where he was standing.

It turned out that it was the ax ghost who discovered Chen Yang and his party. In anger, he hacked through the door directly from the inside, and embedded the ax into the door.Chen Yang yelled: "Run!" As soon as the words fell, Zhang Qiudao and Mao Zhen had already rushed towards the elevator, pressed the elevator and waited for the door to open.The ax ghost had already run out, pestering Chen Yang to prevent him from escaping.

The ax cut many deep marks on the wall, and each time it crossed the wall, it would bring out a series of sparks.Accompanied by the sparks was the angry roar of the ax ghost after being teased. Zhang Qiudao's face changed when he heard the tune-changed roar: "That's bad."

Mao was puzzled: "What?"

At this moment, the elevator door opened and the two entered.Zhang Qiudao yelled at Chen Yang: "Come in quickly!" Chen Yang ran towards the elevator while avoiding the sharp ax of the ax ghost, and when he ran to half of his ears, he suddenly heard a large number of sharp and disgusting voices.The sound was like scratching a blackboard with long nails or scratching an iron pan with a shovel. It was extremely harsh and unpleasant, and it was endless.Like pieces of seawater pouring into my ears from all directions, there is nowhere to hide, and the pain is very painful.

Chen Yang tried his best to dodge the coming axe, and his legs almost went limp because of the disgusting sound.Pulling out the long whip around his waist to wrap around the axe of the ax ghost, the ax ghost is over two meters tall, and when it blocks the corridor, it looks like a hill, tall and terrifying.His whole body was shrouded in black, and he couldn't see his face clearly. He only knew that in contrast to his huge body, his palm-sized head looked particularly deformed.

The ghost of the ax was so powerful that he pulled Chen Yang over with the force of the ax being entangled, trying to pinch his neck and twist his head off.And Chen Yang was also dragged over by force, pasted the Five Thunders Spirit Talisman in the palm of the ax ghost and detonated it, and stepped on the shoulder of the ax ghost to lift off his black hood.Suddenly, he found a big hole in the back of the ax ghost's head, and the inside was empty, and he really didn't have a brain or anything else.

The ax ghost noticed that the black hood had been lifted, and put it back on in a panic, ignoring Chen Yang for a while.Chen Yang used this to escape, fell to the ground and quickly slid into the elevator, and the elevator door closed.The ax ghost turned his head, saw the closed elevator door and rushed over to try to open it, but when he found that it couldn't be opened, he roared angrily, turned around and walked down the stairs.

The elevator door opened, and the three of them had reached the third floor.In the long corridor on the third floor, the lights flicker on and off strangely. The door of each room is as narrow as the prison door in the last century in the West. The door is tied with three or four iron cables outside, and the door is firmly nailed to death with iron nails.The three of them walked forward and heard harsh voices coming from the doors on both sides. Sometimes when they passed by a door, the door would suddenly slam violently.Sometimes you can hear the sound of swallowing saliva or licking things with your tongue from inside.

The evil ghosts imprisoned inside smelled the breath of living souls, and they all came alive.

Mao Zhen said: "Every house has an owner. The fifth floor is where the owner lives and entertains guests. Generally speaking, ghosts are not allowed to live in the rooms on the fifth floor. However, people with bad tastes are not guaranteed, such as nameless The hostess of the house will deliberately arrange the guests next to the room where the ghost lives. In order to intimidate the new guests, she thinks that the living soul after being frightened will have a very active head and taste very delicious at this time."

Chen Yang thought of what he had encountered in the room and the hostess who was holding an iron rod and hammer to cut open the head and suck the brains, she was indeed a pervert.

Mao Zhen continued: "However, the owner of the sixth house is the ax ghost just now. I heard that he has no brains and does it with brute force. Therefore, he is the most loyal and obeys the rules. The fifth floor will never imprison evil spirits. So the source of resentment likes to live in the sixth house the most. Because it is quiet here, and there are no greedy and disgusting evil spirits."

Hearing this, Zhang Qiudao glanced at Mao Zhen casually, and then said: "Go to the room at the end, where the keys to all the rooms on the third floor are hidden, and it is also the only place where no evil spirits live."

Mao Zhen stopped and smiled tacitly at Chen Yang.Chen Yang looked at the back of Zhang Qiudao walking in front with an unclear look in his eyes.Zhang Qiudao turned around, "Why stop?"

Chen Yang and Mao Zhen continued to walk forward until they reached the end room.Zhang Qiudao opened the door and walked in. Seeing this, Chen Yang asked, "Is there no lock?"

Zhang Qiudao: "I've been here before, and I didn't lock it when I left."

Chen Yang: "Every celestial master will appear in different houses, and you and Mao Xiaoying both appear in the sixth house. So, of the two of you, who is the first to appear in the sixth house?"

Zhang Qiudao: "Neither of us."

Chen Yang: "What do you mean?"

"I originally appeared in the Mausoleum of No Stele, which should be the third house in sequence. I couldn't see a ghost in that house, and I was pushed into the dark room by black hands. Those rooms are tombs. When I was After I was locked in, a group of old ghosts appeared outside to carve the door, as if they used the door of the room I was in as a tombstone, and the room as a tomb, trying to trap me in it. After I ran out, I found out that the building The name of the house is the Mausoleum of No Stele, and it is a large mausoleum." Zhang Qiudao closed the door.

Chen Yang observed the small room in front of him. It also had antique decorations, but there were not many decorations. Instead, there were mostly wine bottles, wine jars and instruments of torture.

Mao Zhen said: "I know the Tomb of No Stele. I went there when I first came in. Later, when I was imprisoned, I dragged the ghost friend next door to find out that the house in the Mausoleum of No Stele was built to house the ghosts who were buried alive. Those buried alive must be dry and thin, and they all look like a group of old ghosts. They will push people who accidentally broke into the tomb and carve a tombstone outside. After the tombstone is carved, the person is completely locked inside."

Zhang Qiudao: "That's true. When I escaped, the tomb was almost finished."

Chen Yang: "It sounds very dangerous." He leaned over and pressed the wine tank, lifted the lid of the wine tank, and saw a corpse inside.After a pause, he closed the lid again.

"Hi!" Mao Xiaoying suddenly came out from behind the wine tank at this moment, startling everyone.

If it weren't for Mao Xiaoying's future brother-in-law, Zhang Qiudao would just pick up the wine jar and throw it at him.Mao Xiaoying also knew that she had frightened them, so she explained, "I thought you guys knew I was here."

Chen Yang: "If you don't speak, how do we know?"

"Oh, okay." Mao Xiaoying then stared at Chen Yang and Mao Zhen, and asked Zhang Qiu: "Brother-in-law, are you sure they are really one of the celestial masters who came in?"

"Wait." Chen Yang's suspicious eyes wandered between Mao Xiaoying and Zhang Qiudao: "What do you call him?"

Mao Xiaoying: "Brother-in-law."

Chen Yang was very surprised: "Xiao Li agrees to be with you?"

Zhang Qiudao: "Not yet. Pursuing."

Chen Yang: "Huh?"

Mao Xiaoying on the other side laughed and said: "It doesn't matter, I will catch up sooner or later. I am optimistic about you, brother-in-law. You are very good. I will call my brother-in-law in advance. Practice a few more times, and you will not make mistakes when you go out." He sighed, very relieved : "It's really good, young talent."

Chen Yang: "...Didn't you just meet? How do you know that Zhang Qiudao is excellent?" Are you no longer sure?Is it really okay to call brother-in-law so casually?Obviously Mao Xiaoli has not agreed to Zhang Qiudao's pursuit, why is Mao Xiaoying so impatient?Full of doubts but unable to ask, Chen Yang felt uncomfortable.

Mao Xiaoying said as a matter of course: "Finding Xiaoli's goodness, falling in love with her, and pursuing her proves that my brother-in-law is very good."

Chen Yang: So casual.

Mao Zhen rolled his eyes: "Because most of the Mao family women are obsessed with Taoism, harmony or making money, they are not keen on marrying and having children. Therefore, most of the Mao family women become aunts. Every time there is a girl in the family who is old enough to have a boyfriend At that time, the men of the Mao family hoped that they would fall in love early."

Mao Xiaoying was surprised: "How do you know?" After a pause, he said again: "You look very familiar, have I met you somewhere?"

Chen Yang: "He is your uncle."

"My uncle is still lying in the hospital. I have to visit him regularly every month. He is not so handsome, just like a boy." Mao Xiaoying said seriously.But what he said made Mao Zhen pale with shock, holding his face and screaming: "Is my body in the world not as handsome as it is now? Am I already old?"

Chen Yang: "Wake up, you have been imprisoned for more than [-] years. In the yang world, you are already in your forties. Not only that, as a vegetable, you only absorb liquid nutrients such as glucose, which makes your body skinny. If you haven’t moved for a year, your body must have shrunk. Not being ugly like a ghost doesn’t mean you have good genes, it can only mean that your relatives treat you well.”

Mao Zhen fell into despair instantly: "Why am I still alive? Forget it if I die."

Mao Xiaoying: "Is he really my uncle?"

Chen Yang: "According to what he said, yes. So let's ask you to see if you recognize him."

"I definitely don't know him. He was lying on the hospital bed when I was born. By the time I can remember, uncle is already not handsome." Hearing the word 'not handsome', Mao Zhen completely lost the motivation to live , while Mao Xiaoying continued: "Fortunately, our family has the habit of taking family portraits every year, and we can be in the mirror within three generations. My dad said that I would not like to take pictures of myself lying in the hospital bed because of my uncle's stinking vigor when he was alive." The appearance on the picture, so every time the uncle in the developed photos after taking pictures is the same as when he was young, I posted it on P.”

Then Chen Yang saw Mao Xiaoying took out a folded photo from his pocket, and was surprised: "You still carry a family photo with you?"

"No." Mao Xiaoying said while spreading out the folded photos: "When I came in, my dad told me to see if I could find my uncle. If I could find it, I would bring it back, so he asked me to bring the photo to recognize my relatives. "

Chen Yang: "It's really a rainy day."

Mao Xiaoying opened the photo, while Chen Yang and Zhang Qiudao stepped forward to look at it, comparing the appearance of Mao Zhen in front of them with the Mao Zhen in the photo, and found that they were exactly the same.Even the smiles are similar, sunny and confident, this was once a genius.

After Mao Xiaoying confirmed that the Mao in front of her was really her uncle, she was very excited and wanted to hug her: "Uncle, let's hug."

Mao Zhen pushed Mao Xiaoying away indifferently, not wanting to hug her at all.He has lost interest in recognizing his relatives, and the most important thing is that he has been hit hard by the fact that he has become old and disabled.Let him lose the motivation to continue living in a short time.

Mao Xiaoying said: "It doesn't matter, as long as the uncle wakes up, he can recover. If you work hard and succeed in rehabilitation, you can restore your figure and appearance. Believe me, even if you are in your forties, you are still a handsome uncle. Now handsome uncles are very popular."

"Really?" Seeing that Chen Yang and Zhang Qiudao also nodded, Mao Zhen barely regained his energy, and said to Mao Xiaoying, "Don't call me uncle, I'm still young, only eighteen."

Mao Xiaoying: "Okay, uncle."

Chen Yang laughed, and in the next second everyone could hear the sound of stones rubbing against the floor outside the corridor, from far to near. "The ax ghost is here."

Mao Zhen made a 'hiss' sound as if he couldn't bear it, and covered his ears: "The sound of his stone shoes rubbing against the floor is too unpleasant. Why does he wear stones as shoes?"

Chen Yang: "In ancient tombs, people of some social status would use jade to make shoes. If there was not enough jade, they would use stones instead. The shoes he wore were stone-soled shoes, which were rare in tombs, because there were very few Ghosts can walk around in such heavy shoes. Therefore, such shoes appear in general tombs, and the tomb owner is usually a general. The soles of those shoes are painted with cinnabar, which has the effect of kicking ghosts and warding off evil spirits. Now we are all living souls Stone-soled shoes can also hurt you.”

boom!bang bang!bang bang bang!With the loud noise, everyone knew that the ax ghost was completely enraged, and he was not afraid to release the evil spirits in the small room to open the door to find Chen Yang and the others.This ax ghost had no brains, so it would not have occurred to Chen Yang that they might not be able to get into those small rooms, but it also left them nowhere to hide.

The door of the small room was smashed open, and the ax ghost looked inside through the hole the size of a fist.Some ghosts tried to escape from the small holes, and were either split in two by the ax ghost, or kicked out of their wits by his stone-soled shoes.In this case, even though they can escape, the evil spirits dare not move.

Chen Yang quietly closed the opened door, turned around and said to the others, "It's not easy to deal with."

Mao Zhen: "If the source of resentment wakes up, he will definitely choose to live in the sixth house. If he wants to find the source of resentment and seal it, he'd better hide in the sixth house."

Mao Xiaoying: "I heard President Chen Qingdai say that the source of resentment will take the initiative to find us. Maybe he has appeared beside a certain celestial master, using an identity that can make us relax our guard."

Mao Zhen's expression was serious: "But if we let him take the initiative to appear by our side, we will lose the initiative. We must be one step ahead of him, overcome the grievances, and seal the source. By the way, who of you will 'break the city'?"

The so-called "breaking the city" is a ritual performed by the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to save the souls of the dead. There are also some areas in Yangjian who pretend that the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva invites monks and Taoists to hold a grand "breaking the city" ritual.Because the Wuliang Yin House was originally one of the incarnations of the dead city under the jurisdiction of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, so the method of "breaking the city" can be used for salvation.

Mao Xiaoying's eyes flickered: "We all know it."

Hearing this, Chen Yang raised his eyes and nodded: "Well, they will. When the yin house is released, all the ghosts in the yin house will be attracted, and they also desire to be reincarnated, but our ability alone cannot save all the dead souls. Once the grievances in the yin house are released, the source If they are sealed, they will not be able to return to the yang world, and will be trapped in the underworld, so they will come out to make trouble when we save them."

Zhang Qiudao: "So everyone will be saved, just to prevent the ghosts from making trouble. If one falls, there will be a celestial master as a substitute."

Mao Zhen seemed to be unaware of the temptations of several people, and suddenly realized: "It turns out that it has changed now. In our era, only the best celestial masters could learn the method of 'breaking the city' to save lives, and only one celestial master was needed Transcendence is enough. Other celestial masters are responsible for protection, and this is also a protective measure to prevent other celestial masters from being seduced by ghosts if their concentration is insufficient."

Chen Yang: "It's hard to be seduced by today's celestial masters." He looked at Zhang Qiudao and Mao Xiaoying as he spoke, and both nodded at the same time to make sure that Mao was not lying.Facing Mao Zhen's suspicious gaze, Chen Yang showed a harmless smile: "Because we are excellent."

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Breaking the city: In the folk beliefs of southern Fujian and Taiwan, there is a ritual called "breaking the city" that imitates the activities of the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva to save the souls of the dead city. Rescue the souls of the dead and bring them out of the city of unjust death, wait for the murderer to arrive, and see the suffering, so that the victims can dispel their hatred."