Chapter 30 Chapter 9: A Heroic Killer But No Name

The trees here are lush and luxuriant. It stands to reason that it should be the singing of birds and the dancing of beasts.But what we saw was chilling, except for a few killers, there was no sign of life.I think, it must be that the yin energy here is too heavy, and the creatures are afraid to avoid it. I closed my eyes, wiped off the yang fire, and cast the yin spell. I saw wandering spirits here and there, howling endlessly. Most of these spirits were dead bodies used to practice knives, and some were recruited wild ghosts. There were fifty or sixty here and there scattered. "Master, save me, please save me..." A wandering soul wailed at me, I looked carefully and found that it was the soul of the dead body assassinated by the young man just now.His body has been stabbed to pieces, his body is bruised and riddled with holes, his soul can no longer possess him, and he cannot return.

There are so many ghosts and ghosts here, but the knife hand is safe and sound, there is a reason for it.There are two kinds of people that ghosts are most afraid of, one is a person with a strong yang spirit, and the other is a person with a strong murderous spirit.Courageous people are generally full of yang energy, and ghosts can't get close to them; while swordsmen are very murderous, and ordinary people will shudder when they see them, and ghosts are even more frightened and avoid them. With so many ghosts, wandering out will harm the villagers.So, I took out the Huya ruler from my bosom, and when all the ghosts saw them, they acted in horror, howled and fled, I mercilessly collected them all, there were about fifty or sixty ghosts.

At this time, I heard that the knife-breaker invited us into the shed to rest. "Little master, thank you for your trouble." The old man sat on a tiger skin wooden bench in the shed, looking very mighty. The four disciples stood beside him indifferently, without any expression, like four puppets, tall and stiff. At this time, we noticed that on a door panel in the corner of the shed, there was a dead body covered with a white cloth. Next to the dead body lay a treasured knife. It is particularly dazzling, and the tail of the hilt is cast with a grinning tiger-shaped head, which makes the sword look murderous even before it is unsheathed.

We guessed that the one lying on the door panel was the corpse we were going to chase this time. The old man introduced to us the deceased who was going to be chased this time. The deceased was his eldest disciple, a native of Panlongpo, Baojing. When we asked the name of the deceased, the old man was silent for a while.Then he said: "The name is a burden to the swordsman. He comes without a trace and goes without a trace. What's the use of leaving a name. If you want to call him, call him but has no name." But nameless, what a rare good name!There is a state where no sound is better than sound.I even suspect that this old man must have been a scholar before, otherwise how could he come up with such a Zen-like name.

Following our rules of expelling corpses, the old man told us some unnamed situations. But entering the profession as an assassin without a name is also a son inheriting his father's career.His father was a hero in Panlongpo, Baojing County, Yongshun Prefecture. In his early years, he was a pig butcher in the market.His skill in slaughtering pigs is superb, just like a butcher cutting a cow. He cuts down with one knife, and then a few times, a pig is put on the desk. He never uses scales when selling meat. Go down, it must be exactly right.Because of this, his business is booming.A butcher who sells meat with him is a local bully who often trips him up because of his jealousy.Once, while he was not paying attention, he put rat poison in his meat, which caused him to lose a lot of money and his good reputation.Later, after Wuming's father found out the truth, he cut off the bully's right arm with a single knife, and was sentenced to prison.When a wealthy local family surnamed Gao heard about his experience, he sympathized with him and admired him, so he paid him to redeem him from prison and asked him to be the leader of his family in charge of guarding the house.

Such a peaceful life was maintained for several years, but was disrupted by a group of robbers. This Mr. Gao's family is well-off, and he is a big family in the local area.On a dark and stormy night, a group of robbers attacked Gao's compound.This gang of ruthless robbers consisted of about 70 people, and they ransacked Gao's family. In order to prevent Gao's revenge, after plundering all of Gao's property, they ransacked Gao's entire family.But the nameless father led his family to resist desperately in this bloody battle, but in the end he was outnumbered and stabbed seven or eight times by the robbers, and lost his left arm. Finally, he was rescued by the people who heard the news and saved his life.

This incident became a shocking massacre.Although the government is looking for criminals everywhere, but because this group of robbers is quite cunning, they usually disperse their activities and frequently change the location of their activities, so they can't do anything about them, and finally nothing happened. But the nameless father thought of the favor of the Gao family and vowed to avenge the master's family.So, I persisted in practicing Kungfu every day, and finally, I became a one-armed life-killing sword with a high level of proficiency.But Wuming's father was a dutiful son, his father had passed away long ago, and after his mother passed away, he sent his wife and three-year-old son, but Wuming, to a relative's house hundreds of miles away, and then embarked on the road of revenge for his master .

But the nameless father stringed seventy dog ​​teeth with hemp rope and hung them around his waist to count.A dog's tooth represents a robber, and killing one removes the other.Before long, more than 30 robbers were killed.Although the bandit leader was cunning, he still showed some clues, and he noticed the location of his activities. In the end, the nameless father broke into the bandit's lair alone, with a deadly sword on his back.After a bloody fight, the leader of the bandit was killed, and the rest of the bandits were also killed, but the unknown father was finally exhausted and was surrounded and killed by the bandits.

But the nameless mother also knows some boxing and martial arts. After getting the news, she decided to avenge her husband.Maybe he knew that his trip would be dangerous, so in order to prevent the robbers from retaliating against his son, he broke his three-year-old son's nameless right hand into a disability, and abandoned him by the roadside, waiting for kind passers-by to pick him up.Afterwards, the unnamed mother rushed to the scene of the accident to collect her husband's body without fear, but was ravaged by the remnants of robbers and tortured to death.After the local people knew about the loyalty of the couple, they respected them very much and spontaneously set up a tomb for them.

But nameless, he was thrown on the road and adopted by a poor man who couldn't get his wife to pick up trash.However, what happened to Wuming is naturally miserable, especially the disabled arm, because no one knows his life experience, so he is looked down upon!Therefore, in the world, he lacked warmth since he was a child, and became withdrawn and heartless! This scene was watched by one person, that is, the unknown master.It turned out that the old man and Unnamed's father had been butchers and sold pork together, and later changed their careers to become knifemen, and they recognized Unnamed's appearance.When Que Wuming was fourteen years old, he persuaded Que Wuming's adoptive father to lead the child quietly into the mountains, where he began to teach martial arts and practice killing swordsmanship.

Two years later, Que Wuming became a qualified swordsman. His attack, defense, night travel, memory, diving, eaves, mental concentration, etc. are very powerful, and he finished training a year earlier than the average swordsman.But Wuming is very talented as a swordsman. In addition to mastering the master's swordsmanship, he also created his own dagger assassination training method. He stacked dozens of layers of high-quality cowhide and stabbed with a dagger. Impenetrable, if you persevere, you can pierce fifty layers of kraft paper in half a year.Daggers have always been shamed by swordsmen, but because of their flexibility, maneuverability, and convenience, they can be used in conjunction with broadswords. What surprised the old man was that Wuming still inherited his father's loyalty.He has his own principles for accepting and killing people, not to kill any women, not to kill any children, not to kill all loyal people, not to kill anyone who should not die.The old man was very annoyed at first, because the swordsman business has always only collected money from people and done things for others, and never asked whether the person who was killed deserved to die.But after a long time, seeing that he was stubborn, I let him go.Within a radius of five hundred miles, most of the corrupt officials, profiteers, hooligans, bullies and bullies were killed by him. Listening to the old man's nameless introduction to his disciple, we couldn't help but respect the deceased. "Why did the disciple die?" I asked the old man. "Hey..." The old man sighed for a long time, and then said slowly: "A few days ago, we took a job, and someone entrusted us to kill a corrupt official, so I sent him. But after the job, he When I came back, I was depressed. When I asked, it turned out that the one who was killed was not a corrupt official at all, but an honest official who was loved by the people. Because he did not want to join forces with corrupt officials, he was regarded as a thorn in the side of the corrupt officials. The one who came to invite us to kill It was sent by a corrupt official. After finishing the work, my apprentice found that the local people poured out to pay homage to the dead. After inquiring, I found out that the person who was killed was a rare and good official. After he came back, he kept blaming himself and refused to eat or drink. , Three days later, he committed suicide!" When we heard it, we couldn't stop tutting.There are such cold-blooded killers in the world! When asked about the unknown date of birth, the old man shook his head and didn't know. Without the horoscope of birth date, the corpse would not move. Fortunately, I have learned divination.For those who are not sure about the date of birth, they can use the method of reverse derivation and exclusion to determine. If the time of a person's birth cannot be determined, a comprehensive judgment can be made based on whether the parents are alive or not, the order of the parents' death, the number of brothers and sisters, etc.And this method is often suitable for reverse derivation and exclusion of choosing one of two or choosing one of many. I asked about some things that were unknown, and I couldn't help but feel sad. It turned out that the old man knew nothing about the situation of his apprentice, Quewu, except for some general information about his parents. It seemed that there was no way to calculate Quewuming's birth date. When I was helpless, I remembered to take out the "Liu Pai Walking Corpse Side Door Secret Technique" from my bosom, and wrote "Anyone who can't be sure of the birthday of the deceased can use the spirit call technique to ask the hexagram within ten hours of dying." In my hometown, Chenzhou Prefecture, soul-calling is an integral part of funerals.There are also music, singing and dancing in the soul-calling ceremony, playing the music that the deceased loved to listen to, and performing the music and dance that the dead loved to watch when he was alive. According to the saying, life is formed by the change of vitality.The soul is yang, the po is yin, and the soul will synthesize into a specific life.When a person is born, there is spirit attached to the body, the spirit is the soul, and the body is the soul.When a person is about to die, his soul will go up to the sky, and his body will go down to the earth.This is the process of reincarnation in human life.If a person's soul leaves the body, it will cause illness in the short term, and death in the long term. The soul who died in a foreign country cannot find its way back.This soul, just like his corpse, has been staying in a foreign land, suffering endless misery.This lonely soul will become the most miserable hungry ghost: forever in a different place, wandering for a long time, with no hope of reincarnation.Unless his family members "call out the soul" for him and make him hear the "speech" that is looking forward to him, he will be able to return with the fluttering banners of treasure. Master did not teach how to cast spirits. However, I used to see this ritual a lot when I was a child.There is nothing to talk about for entertainment in the countryside, except that when someone dies in a family, the metropolis will serve as an ashram at the funeral and perform spiritualism. The soul-calling ceremony is generally presided over by monks or Taoist priests.Because "monks pass through heaven, and Taoists pass through hell", these two kinds of people have the ability to get close to ghosts. During the ceremony, monks or Taoist priests hold the "calling soul flag" in their hands. The flag is composed of five belts, and the titles of the five parties are written on it.In addition, there are two other people carrying a colorful pavilion made of paper, ready to welcome the soul of the dead back.Those who walk with this colorful pavilion are the family members, relatives and friends of the deceased. When they reached the suburbs, the group stopped in the direction of the dead body.After holding a candle and burning incense, the juridical person rings the magic weapon to attract the long flag, and recites the words of summoning the soul aloud in his mouth.Its words are unknown, but the voice is mournful and long, full of a sense of sadness. Therefore, Tian Gudao and I set up a "spirit card" for Que Wuming. The "spirit card" is also called the spirit tablet and the god master, and it is the sustenance place of the soul of the deceased.With the spiritual bit, wandering souls can gather together. I recited the incantation, and Tian Gudao held up the banner, doing it for a while.Soon, there was indeed a dark wind and undercurrents, and the spiritual seat shook slightly. We felt that the wandering soul had returned to its place. I immediately took out the divine hexagrams and started divination in front of the spiritual tablet. Based on the unknown general age, we delineated several age divination divinations. The first few rounds were actually Yin divinations, and it was not until the eighth round that we got a Yang divination and determined the year. Next, in the same way, they learned the month, date, and hour of the deceased. Tian Gudao and I didn't talk too much, we started to seal the corpse, practice the method, then lifted the corpse, bid farewell to several swordsmen and left.