Chapter 13 Chapter Thirteen
late at night.The temple is gloomy and gloomy, and it is dark, only a faint candlelight flickers in the hall.The rain is still falling.
Di Gong, Tao Gan, and Zong Li quietly came to the small vermilion lacquered door leading to the Tenth Hall of Yama at the north end of the west building. There was a lock as big as an arm hanging on the door.
Zong Li held the lantern, and Tao Gan took out a strangely shaped key from his sleeve, and said, "This key is called 'Pepsi Harmony', and it can open no matter how tight your lock is."
He took the "Pepsi Hehe" to the big iron lock hole and twisted it a few times, and it really opened the iron lock.Zong Li couldn't help being curious.
Di Gongdao: "I heard that the ten halls of hell have been closed for several months, why is there no dust on the lock?"
Zong Li said: "Master, someone came here yesterday, saying that there is a moth-eaten statue inside that needs to be repaired."
They walked into the Ten Halls of Yama.The Tenth Hall of Yan Luo is a long corridor in the west of the middle courtyard behind the Chaoyun Temple and the Sanqing Hall. The lifelike statues in the tenth hall are hideous and terrifying, and they are painted with red and green paint.So don't say that those who watch from the outside dare not look at it, even the Taoists who are watching often hide their faces and dare not take a look.And it has been closed for a long time, and the sky is cloudy and the earth is tidal, which adds a three-point sense of eerie terror.
They looked along a dark corridor at the first right of the hall.In the first hall, a dozen or so men were seen naked, their hands and feet were nailed to the iron pillars with giant nails, they wore iron shackles around their necks, and their bodies were covered with scars of knives and sticks, bloody and festering, it was appalling.In the next hall, I saw a woman in clothes but no clothes, covered in an iron cage, and a green-faced yaksha was poured with boiling soup, his skin and flesh festered, and he cried out.In another hall next to it, a man and a woman were tied to a copper pillar, with knives circling around and stabbing each other's body.In another hall, a woman was crushed under a large stone mortar, her body was like powder, and her blood was coagulated on the ground.In the section of the partition wall, a man was thrown into a cauldron by the ghosts, his flesh and flesh melted away, and only his white bones remained floating on the strong oil.After another hall, I saw all the men and women jumping to avoid fleeing in the raging fire, each of them was scorched and crying. ——Looking all the way, cooking and peeling the heart, filing, burning, pounding and grinding, and so on.Suddenly, I saw a naked young woman covered in white paint, who was tightly chained.A yaksha with a green face and fangs was aiming a trident at her chest, her long hair was hanging over her face.In the last hall, two evil spirits were cutting a man and a woman with a sharp axe on a large chopping board. The woman had just cut off her limbs, but the man had already been cut into eight pieces, with faint bones and blood flowing like rivers.
Duke Di was furious, and shouted: "Tomorrow morning, Zhenzhi will order Zhenzhi to remove all these statues, and the ten halls of hell will also be abolished. Such cruel sculptures will not serve as a warning to the hearts of the world, but will pollute them." A heart of morality and benevolence."
Zong Li replied: "When my father was alive, he repeatedly advised Yu Jing to abolish these ten palaces."
There is also a small vermilion lacquered door at the end of the Ten Halls of Yama, which leads to the Exorcism Hall under the Northwest Tower.A thunder altar is built in.There are a number of spiritual palaces and generals.
Zong Li said: "There is a copper door behind the Exorcism Palace, you can go down the ninety-nine stone steps and circle around to get to the underground palace."
Tao Gan quickly unlocked the copper door with "Pepsi Harmony", and gently pushed the copper door open.It was pitch black inside the door, and a musty smell came from the nostrils.
Di Gong took the lantern from Zong Li, looked after the stone steps in the door, and went down step by step carefully.There is a turning point at the thirty-third stone level, and there is a carved stone arch after the third turning point.There are two chains hanging from the door.Tao Gan opened the big lock at the junction of the two iron chains, and pushed the stone door without moving.Di Gong and Zong Li went up to help, the three of them shouted forcefully, and they pushed open the stone arch.
Inside the stone arch is the underground palace: the sky is round, the terrain is octagonal, and the palace walls are as smooth and clean as a mirror of water; engraved on it are the admonitions of Dou Da.There is a white jade high platform in the middle, surrounded by eight trigrams of heaven and earth.On the high platform, the golden body of Yujing Daoist sits on the dharma seat, wearing a golden robe of yellow Luosa, a crown of lotus flowers on his head, and Zhu Wen on his feet, holding Ruyi in one hand and dust tail in the other.Yu Jing's face was shriveled and sunken, it had already been distorted and deformed, and it looked very scary.The smeared gold powder has been mottled and peeled off, and a few strands of beard were broken and fell on the holy robe.The two fingers and the treasure held are tied with a thin thread to prevent falling.
Di Gong's eyes fell on a big red leather case in the corner.He said: "Maybe all the relics of the jade mirror are hidden in this suitcase, Tao Gan, open it and see what picture books and manuscripts there are."
Tao Gan opened the copper lock of the suitcase, and saw that the box was full of silk scrolls, he opened two scrolls and handed them to Duke Di: "Master, these two paintings also depict the gray cat."
Duke Dee took it and took a closer look, and saw a picture of the gray cat chasing the bouquet, and a picture of the gray cat playing on the grass, raising its front paws to catch a white butterfly.
Mr. Di put down the two paintings, picked up another one and started to look at it. It was also the gray cat in the painting. —The cat was rolling lazily in the sun.
He pondered for a while, and said loudly: "Yu Jing was indeed murdered! Tao Gan, close the box, let's go back and catch the criminal!"
Tao Gan was still in the dark, and it was inconvenient to ask in detail for a while, so he hurriedly packed the big red suitcase again, and followed Di Gong out of the underground palace.
Di Gong asked: "Zhenzhi lives upstairs in the apse?"
Zong Li replied: "Let's go back to the Exorcism Hall, go up one more floor, and turn east to reach the abbot where the true wisdom lives."
Di Gong nodded, and told Tao Shou: "Go through the Tenth Hall of Yama, turn to the east of the main hall, and take down the cat picture hanging on the wall of the Holy Hall, and come straight to the Abbot Zhenzhi to see me."
When the three of them returned to the Exorcism Hall, they divided into two paths: Di Gong and Zong Li went upstairs by themselves; Tao Gan opened the small vermilion lacquered door at the south end, and passed through the Tenth Hall of Yama to the Four Holy Halls.
Di Gong and Zong Li went up to the second floor of the northwest tower and turned to a long corridor in the east.The wind howls outside the window in the corridor, the night rain is rustling, and the sound of tiles falling to the ground can be faintly heard.
Zong Li pointed to a small red lacquer door that was tightly closed and said: "Master, this is the door on the right side of Abbot Zhenzhi, I'm afraid Zhenzhi is already asleep."
Di Gong stepped forward and knocked twice on the door with his finger, then put his ear on the crack of the door and listened.There seemed to be someone walking inside the door, and Duke Di knocked a few more times, and then he heard someone take off the latch, and with a "squeak", it slipped open a crack, revealing a faint candlelight.Di Gong held up the lantern, Zhenzhi's face was pale, and his eyes were frightened and cold.
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