cloudy day

Chapter 51 The truth of life experience
"Young man, don't you think that Yinling Mountain is a barren mountain now, but in the late Ming Dynasty, it was a battleground for military strategists. On the west side of Yinling Mountain, there is a pass called Guimen Pass, which was a famous gate at that time. Taoist priests make people build it." The old man said.

"Ghost Gate? This name is scary enough." I said with a smile.

"Actually, Tianmen Pass in Guangxi is also called Ghost Gate Pass. It got its name because of the high cliff canyon and dangerous terrain. But the Ghost Gate Pass in our Yinling Mountain is different. This pass is a veritable Ghost Gate Pass. It is a veritable pass for one man to guard against. "The old man's face became much more serious, and he said meaningfully.

My heart trembled, and I asked impatiently, "Old man, tell me what's going on?"

"Do you know who the Taoist priest who built this ghost gate is? It is Shen Zhenyi, the head teacher of the Quanzhen Longmen Sect! During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Taoism declined, but the Quanzhen Longmen Sect was once revived precisely because of Shen Zhenyi. A genius who is rare in a thousand years! With only 36 Taoist priests, he blocked the [-] elite soldiers of the Qing army at the gate of hell." The old man said vividly.

"How... how did Shen Zhenyi do it?" I asked in surprise.

"According to legend, on the fifteenth day of the seventh month in the lunar calendar, Shen Zhenyi opened the gate of the underworld and released the evil spirits, which prevented the Qing soldiers from invading! That night, there was almost no one alive on the entire Yinling Mountain. Afterwards, the 36 All the Taoist priests died, and only Shen Zhenyi is missing," said the old man.

I was very engrossed in listening, but these things were too mysterious and legendary, it was hard to tell whether they were true or not, so I couldn't help asking casually, "Old man, do you think these things are true?"

"I don't know, but the ghost gate is still there, but half of it has collapsed, and now there are only ruins left. If you are curious, I will take you to see it tomorrow." The old man said, I nodded excitedly , Curiosity, almost made me forget the purpose of coming here.

I then asked: "Is the old man's ghost gate built on the Hundred Ghosts Slope? The origin of the Hundred Ghosts Slope is not related to the evil spirits released from the legendary ghost gate."

Unexpectedly, the old man shook his head, took a few puffs of cigarettes, and said to me: "No, it is said that even though the evil spirits were released that time, they were all subdued by the disciples of the Quanzhen Longmen Sect, and the gates of the underworld were also surrendered by the back then. 36 Taoist priests were sealed at the price of death."

"Then how did this Baiguipo come here?" I asked curiously.

The old man took a sip of water and continued to narrate: "This happened during the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty. At that time, for some unknown purpose, a Taoist priest opened the gate of the underworld again and released many evil spirits. But fortunately, Longhu Mountain, Maoshan Mountain , The three celestial masters of Quanzhen Longmen Sect arrived in time, sealed the entrance of the ghost gate, and got rid of some powerful evil spirits. However, some little ghosts slipped through the net and hid in the corner of Yinling Mountain. Since After that, the entire Yinling Mountain was filled with thick fog at night, and people always saw ghosts wandering around, and it almost became the second underworld."

"Then those celestial masters and Taoist priests didn't care about it, and let the Yinling Mountain be occupied by ghosts." I asked.

The old man shook his head and smiled bitterly, and said to me: "Young man, do you know how big this Yinling Mountain is? More than a dozen mountains criss-cross each other, and the entire mountain range is more than 200 kilometers long! No matter how powerful the celestial masters are, they still have to rely I looked for it with both feet, but the ghosts came and went freely. They couldn't beat the Taoist priests, so they could hide. But later, the celestial master and those Taoist priests spent ten years setting up a magic circle at the foot of the mountain to prevent those ghosts from going down the mountain. , can only stay on the mountain to fend for itself forever. In the hundreds of years since then, nothing strange has happened, and the mountain has gradually regained its vitality, and a village has been built."

"So that's what happened, but since the Yinling Mountain is safe, why is there no one living in the village we saw when we came?" I asked suspiciously.

And when I mentioned this matter, the originally relaxed expression on the old man's face became more and more nervous and fearful...

He took a few puffs of cigarettes in his mouth, and then said slowly: "That's because an earth-shattering strange thing happened more than ten years ago, maybe it's because of my personal experience, I even feel that that time The incident is even more weird and terrifying than those two times during the Ming and Qing Dynasties!"

"Ten years ago..." I was extremely shocked in my heart. Didn't my adoptive father pick me up from the pile of dead people in Baiguipo more than ten years ago at that time!

(End of this chapter)