Night Lights

Chapter 141
This thing is majestic, made of peach wood, the stick is short and round, mostly like a cane; it is painted with talismans, suppresses evil spirits, beats ghosts and witches, and tortures ghosts under the criminal law; Fengdu tortures ghosts, Grand Marshal Zhu; the prestige of the name taboo is engraved on this stick, using two divine powers to expel ghosts and frighten evil spirits; ——Excerpted from the eighth volume of Jiangyin in "The Book of Words Without Words".

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"This is?"

Ma Zhaoxue froze for a moment, seeing what seemed to be a green light jumping in the woods, she rubbed her eyes hastily, and then took a closer look, she was actually standing there alone!The man was wearing an emerald green robe, his long black hair fell down to cover his face, his hands were drooping, and his whole body was shaking.

Ma Zhaoxue's heart trembled, only to hear... Lin Jiuchao and Bai Shibao shouted loudly: "Open the coffin!"

Ma Zhaoxue looked back, and saw that the coffin lid was not buried deep, and Bai Shibao and Lin Jiu had dug out more than half of it. The soil was wiped away, and then he used his hands to pick the seam of the coffin lid and lifted it vigorously!
Bang!
The force was too great, the coffin lid was not sealed by the coffin nails, and with a burst of dust, the coffin lid was overturned to the ground.

Ma Zhaoxue looked back again, the person in the woods suddenly disappeared, she thought to herself: Why did that person just disappear in the blink of an eye?Could it be that my eyes are dazzled? ...Now it is dark and the moon is dying, but if there is a little light, you can see clearly. There is no reason to misread it?
Ma Zhaoxue felt that this was a bit strange. Just as she was thinking about it, she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her head, and her eyes really became blurred. She rubbed her head and cried inwardly: "It's all because I read that broken book just now, and it made me lose my mind." I'm dizzy, and I still can't slow down!"

Wang Wang!

At this time, the two big dogs ran over and bit Ma Zhaoxue's cuff, dragging her towards the coffin.For some reason, Ma Zhaoxue followed him, but before he got close, Bai Shibao called out, "What is this...a tree stump?"

Lin Jiu stretched out his hand to touch the inside of the coffin, got some black stuff on it, rubbed it lightly with his thumb, sniffed it close to his nose, and cried secretly: "Paper ashes?" It's a thick round tree stump!Thinking something was wrong, Lin Jiu patted the stump with his hand, and suddenly said in shock: "Peel off the bark! There are people inside!"

"No wonder these two big dogs don't go away, it's because they smell human..." Bai Shibao was peeling the bark with his hands as he spoke. After peeling three layers, he saw a man curled up inside. corpse!
The male corpse was wearing a double-breasted sackcloth, gray cloth trousers and black cloth shoes. Bai Shibao wondered: "The clothes of this corpse are not rotten yet! Why did you bury the old coffin?" Just as he was talking, Bai Shibao flipped through the male corpse , I saw that this man was in his early twenties, quite handsome, with his hair combed back.Bai Shibao's heart skipped a beat, and he shouted stammeringly, "This...isn't this Taoist Master Mao's apprentice?"

Lin Jiu took a closer look and was also surprised!
He also knew this person, it was Mao Xiaofang's big apprentice, Lin Qiusheng!

"Full of disasters! How could he die here?"

After Bai Shibao finished speaking, he turned to Lin Jiu and asked, "This corpse... shall we still burn it?"

Lin Jiu probed Lin Qiusheng's veins with his hands, and said anxiously: "Quick! Lift him out of the coffin first!" After finishing speaking, the two lifted Lin Qiusheng's body out of the coffin, and Bai Shibao just I felt that his body was not stiff, but soft and elastic. After laying flat on the ground, his body stretched out, lying on his back.

Lin Jiu took out a paper talisman from his bosom, pried open Lin Qiusheng's mouth, stuffed it under his tongue, and yelled: "I'll see the sky when I get out of the coffin, don't let him bite off his tongue!" Then crossed his knees and walked away Sit down, bite your middle finger and put it between Lin Qiusheng's eyebrows, and then, with both hands, chanted a mantra, and shouted: "I have the heart of the Dharma altar, the evil ghosts and ghosts are all terrified, the nine heavenly soldiers come back to life, the five thunder gods The general will divide the horses, destroy the evil and reassure the soul as a Taoist order, and keep the three souls to return to the body..."

After reading, Lin Jiu pasted another talisman on Lin Qiusheng's chest, and then slowly stood up.

When Bai Shibao saw that he had completed his teaching, he leaned forward and asked, "What's the matter? Is he still saved?"

Lin Jiu frowned, walked to the coffin and said: "There is a kind of corpse that can catch thunder and fire. After blasting the thunder on the body, it can just blast the seven spirits in the body together, so that the corpse is cheated!... I started I thought the coffin was Bai Jiang, but I didn't expect it to be Lin Qiusheng, Taoist Master Mao's apprentice!"

While talking, Lin Jiu took out a piece of bark from the coffin, handed it to Bai Shibao and said, "Look what's on it!"

Bai Shibao took a look at it in his hand, it was black like charcoal, and asked, "This is it?"

"This is blood paper ashes!"

"Blood paper ashes?"

"That's right! The paper is yellow paper, and the blood is Yin blood... There is a burial method in Miaojiang called: 'Shrouded Corpse Burial'! They wrap the corpse with bark to keep the corpse from decaying, and finally burn some more outside. 'Luoqiqian', that is, paper money stained with this blood, is incinerated and sealed with paper ash to seal the gaps in the bark! Generally, this kind of burial requires the body to be hung on the beam of the main room, only five or six feet above the ground. Row……"

"Lin Daochang!"

Hearing this, Bai Shibao suddenly said in shock: "When I went to Miaojiang, I encountered a method of refining Gu, which was quite similar to this one. They called it 'Tree Burial and Hanging Corpse'! It was also after the bark was peeled clean, wrapped They picked up the corpse, and then hung it upside down on the tree branch, waiting for the air to dry... During this period, they kept planting Gu in the corpse, using the corpse to cultivate poison and refine Gu!"

Lin Jiu nodded and said, "That's what I want to say, I'm afraid this is the Gu refining technique of 'Miao Jiang Gu Master' Ma Zu!"

"Refining Gu..."

When Bai Shibao heard this word, he couldn't help but think of Lan Xin'er, and an indescribable feeling surged in his heart.Then Bai Shibao asked Lin Jiu: "This Lin Qiusheng is Mao Xiaofang's apprentice, and now he is buried here, I don't know if Daoist Mao knows about it or not!"

Lin Jiu sighed: "However... this Lin Qiusheng is very good luck, but fortunately the 'person who buried him' has a low level of cultivation, otherwise he will be sealed in this coffin, and he will be close to death!"

Bai Shibao nodded and said, "I don't know if this person seized the fake medicine with the real prescription, or if he did it on purpose... Anyway, let's cross the river by groping our asses, and it's better to be more careful!"

Lin Jiu nodded!

At this time, Ma Zhaoxue was pulled down beside the coffin by two big dogs. The big yellow dog jumped up, jumped into the coffin, pawed in the coffin for a while, finally bit out a piece of deerskin, and handed it to Ma Zhaoxue. Zhaoxue's hand!Ma Zhaoxue took it over and looked up, and there was a sentence written on the paper: "Cheng Yi brother Ma Zu, Yi brother went north due to urgent matters, and was able to go to Miaojiang on the Mid-Autumn Festival, and we will discuss it at that time... Yi brother Ma Kuiyuan pays respects !"

Ma Zhaoxue was taken aback for a moment: "This is my father's handwriting!"

Seeing Ma Zhaoxue standing there in a daze, Bai Shibao asked, "What did you say?"

"Oh! Nothing!"

Ma Zhaoxue put her hands behind her back, kneaded them into balls, and said in her heart, "This is indeed a buckskin souvenir from our Exorcist Dragon Clan. No wonder the egg whites and yolks keep digging up this coffin. It turns out that they smell this smell... But, how could this person have my father's souvenir?"

Thinking of this, Ma Zhaoxue looked at Lin Jiu again, was startled, pointed at them and said, "Your hands..."

Bai Shibao and Lin Jiu looked down, their hands turned black at some point, as if dipped in ink, but it didn't hurt or itch.Lin Jiu said in shock: "Oops, we've got a Gu!"

"How come you got a Gu?" Bai Shibao frowned, turned his head to look at the coffin, couldn't help but gasped, and shouted, "Could it be that the coffin was poisoned by someone?"

Wang!
At this time, Ma Zhaoxue's 'egg yolk' suddenly fell to the ground and turned black! 'Egg White' yelled at the side.Ma Zhaoxue said anxiously: "Oops, my 'egg yolk' is also poisoned!"

Bai Shibao said anxiously: "The lid of the coffin is not sealed, and we still know the people inside. Isn't this a coincidence? Could it be that someone deliberately set up a trap to frame us?"

"trap?"

Lin Jiu shook his head and said, "How could ordinary people be able to induce the sky thunder? Just now, the sky thunder struck the big tree. I don't think it was a trick. Maybe the person who laid the Gu was just to punish the person who opened the coffin!"

Bai Shibao thought for a while and said, "Could it be some Dong Daoist?"

"You mean 'Plum Blossoms' Dong Ziqing?"

"Yeah!" Bai Shibao nodded, and said, "I think he is the only one who can figure it out so clearly! From the time we met the old woman on the road...everything has been manipulated by him!"

Lin Jiu shook his head, not knowing what to say!
Bai Shibao asked again: "Daozhang Lin, what do you think we should do now?"

Lin Jiu sighed: "What else can I do? Cut off both hands, so as not to infect the whole body!"

"Break...break your hand?"

Bai Shibao looked at him with his hands in a daze, who would be willing to break this opponent, following his life and death?

Ma Zhaoxue saw the two of them bumping into each other like flies on their brows, and was about to open their mouths to speak...Suddenly, he felt a cool wind passing behind him, as if a figure flashed from behind!

Ma Zhaoxue looked back!
This man was wearing a green dress, it was the man standing in the woods earlier!I saw this man patted Ma Zhaoxue's shoulder with his hand, pursed his lips and said with a smile: "Don't move around! Be careful that a poisonous scorpion like me stung your neck..." The man touched Ma Zhaoxue's ear with his hand. Touching it, he asked: "I just want to ask you, where did you get this earring?"

Bai Shibao glanced at this person, and saw that she was wearing an emerald green grass flower dress, with a slender and graceful figure, a lot of silver pendant collars and bracelets, a complexion as smooth as fat, icy skin, and charming eyes. Compared with Ma Zhaoxue, she was more beautiful all over There is a gust of wind, Sao!Bai Shibao was shocked and said, "You...you're not Lan Xin'er's senior sister, Ling... Ling?"

The man smiled charmingly: "A Duo Lingyao!"

"Yes! Lingyao!"

Lin Jiu smiled and said, "So it's Mazu's little girl! Why, do you still remember me?"

Lingyao looked up at Lin Jiuyi, with a slight smile on her lips.

(End of this chapter)