Chapter 30 Chapter 29: Cold Bone Cave

To say that this wandering Taoist priest is indeed not a fuel-efficient lamp. At the time of the Ming Dynasty, four well-known wandering scattered people emerged in the Taoist sect, known in the circle as the "Four Immortals of Jiangnan". Taoist Fang is one of the Four Immortals. His surname is Wang and his name is Qi Fengzi. It's not that he didn't do it before, but the few people he killed were not good birds, it was a matter of dog eating dog and eating black.At first, Wang Qifeng also suggested to Li Guang that Zhao Jinzhou's body was too dangerous, and there were other ways to kill Zhang Wenyong, but it would take a little longer, about two to three months.But Li Guang couldn't wait any longer. Zhang Wenyong wouldn't die for another half a month at most, and he would probably lose his position as the general judge. It's a trivial matter if he can't keep his seat. Once the new general judge takes office, he won't even be able to keep his head.

To say that it is really difficult to kill a lively adult within half a month without any special props at Wang Qifeng's level.What are special props?Judging from the situation at the time, Zhao Jinzhou's specimens were the most suitable props. According to Wang Qifeng's preliminary analysis, regardless of the reasons for the death of those government servants and Zhang Cong who moved the grave, Zhao Jinzhou's specimens can quickly kill people. The characteristics are unquestionable, the most critical step is how to safely transport Zhao Jinzhou's corpse to Zhang Wenyong's home, and then it will be a matter of course if you just use some formations.

Although the idea was simple, Wang Qifeng was dumbfounded when he came to Longhugang.With Wang Qifeng's ability, it is not difficult to find the burial place of Zhao Jinzhou's body and the exact location of the Eight Thieves' Tomb. The location of the Eight Thieves’ Tomb happened to be the center of the two largest Yin pools in Longhugang, so that the yin and grievances converged and the resentment was so powerful that an independent yin energy cycle had even formed between the two points, just like a town. The same as the seven levels in the middle.And some other wandering ghosts in Longhugang are also involved in this Yin Qi cycle. Whether it is to move Zhao Jinzhou's corpse or destroy the Eight Thieves' Tomb, it will destroy the normal cycle of this Yin Qi system. What will be faced is not only the grievances of Zhao Jinzhou's family, but also thousands of wandering ghosts in Longhugang.If it is said that the death of the three yamen servants was caused by Zhao Jinzhou's grievance, then Zhang Cong moved to the ancestral grave and caused Zhang disaster, it is very likely that a certain link in this yin cycle was touched.

In addition, the consequences of destroying this yin qi system are the same as those of destroying the seven gates of the town. In theory, it is bound to violate the taboo of usurping the world. It is also inevitable.If you want to forcibly move Zhao Jinzhou's body, it would be barely feasible a few years ago when the Yin Qi cycle was not yet formed, but at this time the raw rice is already ripe, so it is not easy to think about the idea of ​​removing the body?To be honest, Wang Qifeng is a self-aware person, seeing the situation, he simply returned Li Guang's banknote. Let alone himself in the current situation, even if Laojun descended to the realm, he would have to weigh carefully if he wanted to touch Zhao Jinzhou's corpse.

Besides, Li Guang, ever since Wang Qifeng agreed to help, his heart has been hanging in his stomach, but he didn't expect that this old man would go back and return the silver ticket.In desperation, Li Guang prepared to implement the plan by himself, three thousand taels of silver, you stinky Taoist priest is not willing to earn, some people squeeze their heads! Of course, Li Guang also had lingering fears about the deaths of those yamen servants and Zhang Cong. Since Wang Qifeng had helped find the location of Zhao Jinzhou's body, Li Guang simply hired two people for 1,000 taels of silver, intending to take advantage of the dark night to find the location of Zhao Jinzhou's body. The skin was dug out from the ground, and the straw and lime inside the body was emptied and buried secretly outside the yard of Zhang Wenyong's home.After a night of ups and downs, Li Guang went to Zhang's mansion early in the morning to see the effect, but he was frightened back after he went out, and saw officers and soldiers everywhere in the streets and alleys of Xiangyang. Guang thought that the matter had been exposed, and that these soldiers were here to arrest him, but after inquiring, he found out that seventy-seven people in Xiangyang Mansion died silently overnight, not only the prefect Zhang Wenyong's family died suddenly , several irrelevant families around were also wiped out, and the two people I hired simply died in the street. At present, the Yamen has reported this incident to the imperial court as a plague outbreak, and the area around Zhang's mansion has been martial law. .

Hearing this news, Li Guang could be said to be both happy and afraid. The joy is that Zhang Wenyong is dead, and the fear is that he never thought that this thing would have such a great power. A scapegoat, otherwise he would be the one who died suddenly in the street.However, this is not the time to sum up the results of the struggle. The power of Zhao Jinzhou's corpse is really beyond expectations, coupled with a guilty conscience, even if Zhang Wenyong is dead, Li Guang still decides to leave Xiangyang immediately.Just when Li Guang prepared his chariots and horses and was ready to go on the road, Wang Qifeng approached the door again, asking for a hush money of 10,000 taels of silver, and threatened to inform the officers and soldiers if he didn't pay the money.To be honest, apart from Li Guang himself, only Wang Qifeng knows whether the current situation in Xiangyang Mansion is a plague or not.But then again, this Li Guang is not a fuel-efficient lamp. He admitted frankly that he is not afraid of the whistleblower. In the huge Xiangyang Prefecture, more than 70 people died overnight. You go to the whistleblower and say that it was the general judge who instigated ghosts and gods to kill. Prefect, who would believe it?You stinky Taoist priest promised to help you over and over again, but when you saw the risk, you shrunk your sun. When I got things done by myself, I ran out to extort money. How can there be such a cheap thing in the world?

Seeing that Li Guang was not up to the trap, Wang Qifeng left without saying anything. As a result, within a few days after the incident, someone found the bodies of five members of Li Guang's family in a field 30 miles outside Xiangyang City, with all their belongings and valuables on them. Ransacked.Two years later, a newly built Taoist temple outside the city of Yunyang Prefecture, Hubei Province was called Qifengguan. Wang Qifeng, who has worked hard. Let's talk about Xiangyang. Although the ancients did not have any modern communication tools, they spread gossip faster than the Internet. The news of the plague outbreak spread throughout Xiangyang in an instant, and a large number of people moved out with their families.At the same time, the news also spread to the imperial court. At that time, Zhu Di had just settled his nephew Zhu Yunqi. There were not enough courtiers in the court, official documents piled up everywhere, and government affairs were a mess. It was dumped to Xia Yuanji, the servant of the household department.But at this time, Xia Yuanji was also very busy, so he sent someone to send the official document back to the Hubu doctor and Huguang official secretary Ren Chong'an.Helpless, Ren Chong'an had no choice but to reluctantly bring a few medical officers to Xiangyang City in person.During the time when the official documents were tossed around, another person died in Xiangyang Mansion. Although the scale was much smaller than the outbreak of the 77 people on the first day, it was very strange.According to the reports of the officers and soldiers in the city, this plague is really strange. The dead basically die at night, and nothing happens during the day. Some people are still alive and kicking during the day, but they will die silently at night.

Plague does not distinguish between day and night. After several trials with no results, an accompanying medical officer named Huang Yande felt that the matter was far from being as simple as the plague.In ancient times, Chinese medicine and Taoism were closely connected. Many Chinese medicine practitioners even knew a little bit about Taoism, and Huang Yande was one of them.According to Huang Yande's understanding, there is no disease in the world that can kill people silently in just one night. The reason why Xiangyang Mansion suffered such a disaster is probably because of something serious.

When Ren Chongan visited Wudang Mountain, it happened that Zhang Sanfeng traveled far away to Laoshan. Song Yuanqiao, the big apprentice who was temporarily in charge of the affairs in the mountain, didn't take the Xiangyang matter seriously. Gu returned to Xiangyang with Ren Chong'an.Unexpectedly, Mo Shenggu hurried back to Wudang Mountain within a month, and when he saw Song Yuanqiao, he said: "The things in Xiangyang are very old. Alone, no play!" In Xiangyang, Mo Shenggu found the body of Zhao Jinzhou who was not buried deep outside the courtyard of the Zhang Mansion without any effort, and later found the burial place of the Eight Thieves Tomb in Longhugang. So far, the so-called plague in Xiangyang City There is a definite explanation: it is actually where the dark current of Longhugang changed its course. To put it bluntly, it is the yin energy formed between Zhao Jinzhou's corpse and the Eight Thieves' Tomb in Longhugang, which has been changed due to the movement of the corpse. path.The wandering souls and wild souls of the Mass Burial Mound were brought into Xiangyang along with their corpse skins. Xiangyang is a city where the living live. The yang energy must be many times stronger than that of Longhugang. His soul will also become a ghost.According to Mo Shenggu, the only way to deal with the matter in Xiangyang Mansion right now is to dig up Zhao Jinzhou's body from the Eight Thieves' Tomb, bury it with the skin of the corpse first, and then bury him with his family. It's the same as a few years ago, but the difficulty is much greater, because it has been a long time, and the grievances in the Eight Thieves' Tomb are already frozen three feet. If you move Zhao Jinzhou's body, the consequences will be the same as moving the skin of the corpse. The messy injustices brought to Xiangyang City, and even the people who moved the corpses had narrow escapes. Obviously, it was no longer a task that one person could accomplish.

After listening to Mo Shenggu's description, Song Yuanqiao was in trouble for a while. He didn't expect that things would be so complicated, but he couldn't stand by and watch. Not long ago, he slapped his chest in Sihai, a famous Wudang town. When encountering difficult things, they collectively shrunk their sun. If this kind of thing spreads, how will they mess around in the arena in the future? At this time, Zhang Sanfeng came back from his travels. After hearing about this incident, he couldn't come up with a sure-fire plan for a while, so he had no choice but to retreat and meditate. But this retreat is not for thinking about martial arts, but for inventing a formation ——A formation specifically aimed at the Eight Thieves' Tomb.

"Is that the Eight Immortals Formation?" Zhang Guozhong asked. "Well. According to Master Zhang's original intention, these formations are divided into eight formations, and each of his seven disciples holds one in Longhugang, and Master Zhang himself holds one in Xiangyang Mansion. The seven family members of Zhao Jinzhou in the thief's mound, and the pulses of Xiangyang Prefecture temporarily attract the yang of the seven passes of Xiangyang Prefecture, deterring Zhao Jinzhou's skin. The seven formations of Longhugang are very simple, while the pulse of Xiangyang Prefecture is It is necessary to change the seven barriers to move yin and yang, at least it will destroy the life of the evil spirit, and at the worst it will lead to sudden death on the spot." Daoist Chen Guang said, "Although the disciples object, there is no other way. Besides, Zhang Tianshi has decided to change his mind. In the classics of later generations The eradication of the great disaster in Xiangyang Mansion really depends on this formation of the Eight Immortals, but the pulse in Xiangyang City, that is, the person who changed the seven passes of Xiangyang, is not Master Zhang himself." According to Taoist Chen Guang, it is difficult for Wudang sects to accept that Zhang Sanfeng personally changed the seven passes in Xiangyang to change his life. In the chronicle classic "Wudang Immortal Chronicles", the Taoist priest in charge of the Xiangyang lineage of the Eight Immortals Formation is called Yanshang, whose surname is unknown. Later generations have speculated that this person's identity should be Zhang Sanfeng's closed disciple in his later years, but in the official history of Wudang, it is found that There is no record of this person. "About this person, in "Wudang Immortal Chronicles", there are a total of two mentions, one before the formation of the Eight Immortals, and one after the formation." Daoist Chen Guang shook his head and said, "Yan Shang Taoist guard Zhao Jinzhou His body was in the cold bone cave, and there is no record after that." Although the Eight Immortals Formation can temporarily solve the problem of Xiangyang Mansion, it cannot solve the problem of the resentment of Zhao Jinzhou's body itself, because the time has been delayed for too long, and Zhao Jinzhou's resentment can no longer be overcome, but it can't be done like dealing with ordinary grievances. Because Zhao Jinzhou's grievances have not been resolved, if he burns his body forcibly, it will only increase his grievances, and it will be difficult to deal with.In view of this, Zhang Sanfeng decided to place Zhao Jinzhou's body in a cave called Hangu Cave.According to legend, this cave is as big as water, and its intensity of yin energy is incomparable to that of ordinary caves or pools for gathering Yin. Qi is no different from reducing Yuan Nie's love for Yang Qi from the outside world. Once he adapts to the Yin Qi in the cold bone cave, Yuan Nie will not take a step outside the cave subjectively. A great way to play hard to get.And the one responsible for guarding Zhao Jinzhou's body in the Cold Bone Cave was the Taoist priest of Yanshang. "Cold Bone Cave?" Zhang Guozhong was taken aback, "Do you know the exact location?" "I don't know about that," Daoist Chen Guang shook his head, "But it shouldn't be too far away. Then Zhao Jinzhou's body is not suitable for long-distance transportation. Of course, the closer the better." "Then the "Wudang Immortal Chronicles" you mentioned, can I borrow this junior to have a look?" "It's all burned!" Daoist Chen Guang spread his hands, "When I first collected the scriptures, I only hid a few boxes. I think I have tens of thousands of Wudang scriptures, and the scriptures and ancestral instructions alone weigh hundreds of catties. But come here, how could it be possible to hide that kind of book? By the way, Master Zhang, you just said that Senior Brother Chen Xing has something to do with me, what's going on?" "I made it up now. The eldest sister is endless. I want to help you out." "Oh, I said so." Daoist Chen Guang laughed.