I frowned at the whistling wind and asked, "But how did she get in with such a strong wind?"
Liuzi said, "She knows this place very well, so she must have found a way to get in. And she definitely knew we were here when she threw out these three corpses. So as long as we find the way in, we will definitely be able to get in."
At this time, a lot of gray-white paper scraps floated out from the passage, and these paper scraps were messy in the wind. Bai Yi squinted his eyes and looked at the wind wall and said, "Do you feel that the whistling of this wind is very rhythmic, and sometimes strong and sometimes weak? There is only one passage here, and there is no possibility of a hidden passage like the one in front, so there must be a special skill to get through it."
I didn't understand, so I asked, "For example?"
Bai Yi continued staring at the scattered pieces of paper and said, "For example, by taking certain steps, following the rhythm of the wind direction, and avoiding the wind, maybe we can get through."
I wanted to continue asking, but Liuzi stopped me and said, "Let Lao Bai see. Since he has said this, there should be a way."
Bai Yi frowned and walked towards the wind wall again. Suddenly, the strong wind blew him back several steps. At this time, I saw him posing in a very strange posture, he moved left and right. It felt a bit like Nuo dance, but the posture was much simpler. Liuzi nodded in conviction and said, "So that's how it is. We should be able to walk out with Yu Bu."
I watched Bai Yi walk forward even though he would occasionally let the wind push him back a few steps. And he was walking more and more smoothly, and the wind blocking him was getting weaker and weaker. I held Liu Zi and said, "Is he walking the Yu Step? The Bu Gang Ta Dou?"
He nodded, picked up his luggage and said to me, "We should have known that this is the Hebo Temple. All the elements are somehow related to Dayu's flood control. For example, the Yinglong Plate mentioned above is because Yinglong helped Dayu control the flood and split the river. And this Yubu was used by Dayu when he controlled the flood."
I looked at him suspiciously and said, "How do you know?"
He snorted, and said with a look that said, "I didn't know this originally, but don't you think about how much information I collected about this temple for my dead boss? This is called business improvement, don't you understand?"
After saying that, he patted me on the shoulder and asked me to follow him. Liuzi looked at me and said, "I'll recite the formula, and you step where I step. Anyway, this thing is not difficult to do, even a hobbyist like me can do it a little. If it really doesn't work, you've seen how Bai Yi walked in front of you, you can probably do it by following his example!"
I nodded, thinking what he said made sense. Liuzi also looked at the paper scraps in the wind, and then recited: "Right foot in front, left foot behind, then right foot forward again, with left foot following right foot, this is one step…"
We followed the Yu Bu style and slowly approached the wind wall. I found that the wind was almost blowing from my back or chest. After passing the strongest wind walls, the wind behind was almost nothing. But we still did not dare to be careless and continued to follow the Yu Bu pace, maintaining the most standard step.
I was spinning so hard that I couldn't tell the direction. When I finally passed through this wind wall, I felt like I was carsick when I was a kid. I was the last person to walk out of the wind wall. The two of them were waiting for me on the side. As soon as I stepped out, I felt my legs twisted and my eyes were full of stars. I covered my knees and kept gasping for breath. The running all the way was enough to overdraw all my strength. It can be said that the only way I can hold on now is to rely on my breath. I want to see the end of this matter before I close my eyes.
I took a few deep breaths and wiped the cold sweat from my forehead. I looked up and found that the two of them were motionless. I walked forward and found that a huge green stone wall appeared in front of me. This stone wall was carved from a whole piece of jade. It was extremely magnificent and integrated with this place. What was depicted on it was none other than the Yellow River with nine bends and eighteen turns. The sun, moon and stars were all around, and there was a groove in each bend, nine in total. This nine-bend Yellow River wall was extremely cold, and this cold atmosphere was exactly the same as the ghost weapon. I was startled, thinking that it must be the original storage place of the ghost weapon, but we only have a few of them, and we don’t know where the rest are.
Liu Zi said in great annoyance: "The other ghost weapons are not in our hands at all. The things we have may not be heavy enough to see Yin Yang 4 with the dog's eyes , and they will not work."
Still hoping for the best, I said, "Maybe we don't need that much. Let's put some things up there and see."
Bai Yi untied the backpack. Fortunately, these things were made of copper. If they were ceramics, they would have become broken tiles after being bumped all the way. At that time, I probably wouldn't even have the energy to cry. Bai Yi carefully put the copper objects into the grooves according to the shape of the grooves. First, there was the copper slip we found in the ancient well, and another thing turned out to be the Alaya mirror that caused the death of Boss Liuzi. When these things were embedded, a unique totem was formed. If the nine objects were combined into one, it would definitely be natural. But we don't have the things in the other six gaps. We don't know what they look like.
Bai Yi stepped down from the steps of the Yellow River Wall, and we all stared at these ghost weapons. Suddenly, I found some vague shadows appeared on these jade walls. After a closer look, I found that after the ghost weapons were placed, many distorted human faces appeared faintly, and these faces were extremely painful. Among them, there was a face that was very similar to Liuzi's boss. He also maintained the terrified look when he died, as if it was just a replay of the moment.
At this time, I felt as if a cold wind blew into the back of my neck, and my left eye began to hurt again. I glanced around with the corner of my eye and found that there were actually some people following us. These people had their hands hanging down and were standing behind us. I immediately turned around to pay attention, but there was nothing behind me. I looked around carefully. All the buildings here were designed to show this Nine-Bend Yellow River Wall. It was divided into the Yin and Yang sides, and the surrounding area was densely written with unknown characters. The closer to the Nine-Bend Yellow River Wall, the denser the characters. At this time, the embedded ghost weapon was surrounded by milky white jade patterns, and the distorted faces were gradually dissolved. I pointed to the wall and said, "Those who were killed appeared on this wall…"
Liuzi rubbed his eyes and said, "No… This piece of jade has almost no texture, it's very transparent, how can there be a human face? Are you dazzled?"
I swallowed and covered my left eye with one hand. As expected, this jade wall was extremely transparent, without even a trace of color, let alone any horrible and twisted human faces. I trembled and spread my hand covering my left eye, and took a closer look, and found that the heads appeared again, and they were actually merging with each other. Soon, there were only three heads left. They twisted as if they were trying to break free. I frowned and still held on to the hope and asked, "There are only three heads left… Can't you still see?"
Bai Yi looked at me, nodded and said, "I know, but we can't see it."
I saw the three faces twisting in my direction. I stepped back unconsciously and asked them, "Why?"
Bai Yi whispered, "Because all of this is to lure you in. Many of the things you see are actually different from what we see. Many of the things you see along the way are actually things we haven't seen."
I swallowed and said, "Here… there are so many words here…"
Bai Yi answered simply: "No… There is only this piece of jade wall here, nothing else."
I couldn't help but whisper to myself, "No way… I'm the only one who can see it… Then how much of what I see is real…"
Just when I started to analyze what really existed in front of me, I felt as if there was someone standing behind me, but I could no longer trust my eyes. I foolishly asked Bai Yi who was standing next to me: "So which ones really existed? And… I'm telling you… there's someone standing behind us… can you see this?"
They turned around suddenly, and almost at the same time Bai Yi grabbed my collar and pulled me back. Liu Zi cursed with a crying voice: "It's Ao Yin! Do you think we are blind? How could we not see? Get out of the way!"
I turned around and found that Ao Yin had appeared behind me without a sound. Why didn't he attack us by surprise? Just as we were looking for a place to hide, the old woman suddenly rolled out from behind us. She was covered with wounds and her clothes were torn. She looked very embarrassed. When she saw me, she immediately shouted, "Don't let this thing get close to the jade wall! Stop him."
At this time I saw that Ao Yin seemed to have no feeling towards us. He was like an old ox being led by the nose, walking towards the Yellow River jade wall step by step.
I thought to myself, "No wonder Ao Yin didn't come to bother us three brothers. It turns out that he was chasing this ghost old lady." At this time, she was covered with wounds, but there was no blood on her body. Instead, a lot of gray-white ashes fell. At this time, she was holding a rope in her hand. She put a rope around Ao Yin, and Ao Yin still moved forward. She took the torch from my hand and burned Ao Yin's back directly. I immediately smelled a stench of burnt meat. Ao Yin suddenly came back to his senses at this time. He roared to the sky and turned his head directly. Meng Ji lowered her body with a torch in her hand. But at this time, Ao Yin rushed towards Meng Ji impatiently, as if he wanted to get rid of this person who prevented him from approaching the jade wall as soon as possible. Because the speed was too fast, we didn't have time to make a move. I saw Ao Yin flash in front of Meng Ji like lightning. He grabbed her stomach and his sharp claws went straight out from her waist. There was no bleeding in her body, but a lot of gray-white ashes sprayed out from the rupture.
I wanted to take action, but Bai Yi held me back and said, "Don't go! You'll be killed if you go now."
I stared at Meng Ji anxiously. She grabbed Ao Yin's claws and held him tightly.
She struggled to speak: "Shoot!"
The three of us had guns in our hands, but if we opened the gun from this angle, Meng Ji would be the first to be shot. Although I didn't care much about her life or death, I didn't want her to die now. Liuzi held a gun and Bai Yi held a dagger. They all stared at it intently and didn't act rashly. Ao Yin was not afraid of the flames at this time, and he roared madly. At this time, I saw that the skin on Ao Yin's face fell off in an instant, and half of his real face was actually horns, like Cao Yang. He roared at Meng Ji like crazy. I found that there were a lot of words under his feet. His expression was ferocious and he bared his teeth at Meng Ji. Meng Ji seized the opportunity and broke free from his claws. She rolled and crawled towards us, but Ao Yin grabbed her hair and dragged her towards Yubi like a dead dog. Seeing that Ao Yin was about to meet Yubi, she turned over and rushed directly in front of the monster, making a cry like a night owl. At this time, I finally saw her open her mouth. There was actually a little human head in her mouth, but this little head was very small and extremely ugly. When the little man saw this, he began to scream wildly. The cry mixed with Meng Ji's voice, and all my hair stood up. Suddenly, I felt that my ears were about to go deaf. I remember Bai Yi said that if this woman opened her mouth, I must avoid facing her directly. Fortunately, I was not face to face with her. Ao Yin was very strong and dragged Meng Ji in front of him in a few strokes. At this time, I saw a light green flame spurting out of Meng Ji's mouth for some reason. Although it was very weak, it immediately burned up when it met Ao Yin. Ao Yin frantically shook Meng Ji off, and Meng Ji was thrown hard onto the jade wall like a rag, and then fell heavily to the ground. Before we could see what was wrong with the old lady, Ao Yin started running around frantically. Bai Yi seemed to be very afraid of the light green flame. He hugged me and took several steps back. I could hear his heart beating fast. He yelled at Liu Zi, "Hurry up and find a place to hide! Don't run into this fire!"
Liuzi jumped like a rabbit and retreated to the side, then held the torch tightly in his hand to block his chest. Ao Yin roared in pain, and it didn't have time to get close to us. The strange beast was burned to ashes. I remember that Bai Yi also used the so-called fire of karma in the past to save the woman who was entangled by the ghost. But compared with this ghostly green flame, it was nothing, because in less than a minute, such an exaggerated Ao Yin, such a powerful ancient Shanhai Jing beast was destroyed and only gray-white ashes were left. I was sweating profusely, thinking that this was the reason why Bai Yi told me not to face Zhangzui Mengji. She was simply a fire-breathing monster, but since she had this trick, why didn't she use it against him earlier?
But I knew why immediately. In a split second, I noticed that the burning smell coming from Meng Ji became stronger. She began to spit out a lot of ashes from her mouth. She twisted on the ground in pain. The little head in her mouth opened its eyes and began to burn from itself. She closed her mouth with great difficulty. She shrank into a ball, trembling all over. I heard the woman's painful sobs. The heart-wrenching pain and sadness could not be expressed through shouting, but only turned into the weakest sobs and wails.
The three of us stepped aside and looked at Meng Ji, who was curled up in the corner of the jade wall like a wounded animal. She pointed at the package beside her in pain and said, "Open it… put… put the ghost weapon on it!"
Bai Yi immediately took the backpack belonging to Boss Zhao, and there were indeed a few remaining bronze artifacts in it. Bai Yi didn't care about the evil power of these bronze artifacts. In her bag, I actually saw the bronze jar that was removed from my old classmate's museum and the bronze box of Qianmu Lake that was supposed to sink to the bottom of the lake. Her backpack could only hold these bronze artifacts. There was nothing else in it, and there was no food at all. The previous words were completely a trick on us.
She has: a copper box, a copper spear, a copper jar, a small bronze bowl, a copper horn and a copper spear. These ghost weapons fit the grooves perfectly. Once they were put in, many human faces appeared. At the same time, I also felt that the evil ghosts around me who were pounding their hands were increasing. So these ghost weapons must be real, otherwise these evil spirits would not appear. But there is one more, where is the last one?
Bai Yi quickly picked up the Xuan Huang Bi from his bag and held it in his hand to resist the coldness of these things. But even so, his lips were still purple from the cold.
Meng Ji climbed up in pain, and none of us dared to approach her. At this time, she held the jade wall and said to me: "Come here!"
I didn't know what she was going to do, so I took a few steps back carefully. She wanted to grab me with her hands, but now she couldn't even stand steadily, let alone grab me. She pointed helplessly at the groove at the top and said, "Put your hand in, and there is a ring inside… You… You pull it! The last ghost weapon is still here… It's still here!"
I don't know if I should do that, but there is no way out now. Bai Yi nodded, and I covered my wound and walked to the jade wall. I found that the cave stone at the top was the deepest and the largest. I don't know what is inside. I trembled, closed my eyes and reached my hand in. Along the stone wall, I felt that the jade wall was terribly cold, and my hand felt like it was in an ice cave. It was not until my arm was almost stretched to the end that I felt that I encountered something like an iron ring. I held the iron ring and found that there was something sharp on the iron ring. As soon as I exerted force, I felt that I was cut. This made me think it was another mechanism, but nothing happened after pulling down the iron ring. I licked my lips and pulled my hand out a few centimeters. Suddenly I heard a click, and I immediately retracted my hand in fear. There was indeed a shallow cut at the base of my hand. Everyone stared at the groove, but after at least three minutes, there was no earthquake or collapse of the jade wall. Only a click was heard, and then there was no sound.
I looked at Meng Ji in confusion. She lay on the ground and stared at the jade wall. I retreated. But the jade wall still did not react. Meng Ji's shoulders kept shaking. She stared at the Nine Bends of the Yellow River Jade Wall and laughed very sadly. She said excitedly: "How could it be like this…"
Liuzi asked me in a low voice: "What's going on?"
I shook my head sadly and said, "I pulled the iron ring inside and cut my hand, but nothing happened now. Old White, do you know what happened?"
Bai Yi still stared at the jade wall without letting up. He said, "The last ghost weapon is hidden in the Nine-bend Yellow River wall of the Hebo Temple. If all the ghost weapons were gathered, I think we could activate the last ghost weapon through the mechanism. But now the ghost weapon has not appeared, which means we have no way to enter the real Hebo Temple."
When I heard that I couldn't get in, I was anxious to pull the iron ring again. But Bai Yi stopped me. He looked at Meng Ji and said to me, "You saw the thing in her mouth. Don't get close to her. She is no longer Meng Ji, nor is she a longevity woman. She is a ba."
Liuzi frowned and muttered, "No way… is this old lady so self-destructive?"
Bai Yi continued, "I suspected earlier that she had transformed the Ba ghost into her body, otherwise there wouldn't be so many ashes. This ashes was completely burned out by the Samadhi Fire. As expected, when Meng Ji opened her mouth, the Ba in her body came into contact with the outside world, especially in this place with extremely heavy Yin energy, and the Ba almost completely exploded. Meng Ji's body has long been reduced to ashes. She is now just an empty shell. The reason she has survived until now is entirely because she has borrowed her life for so many years. Now she is gambling the last round, gambling with her biological father, and now it seems that King Wen of Zhou still has a move to win."
Bai Yi looked down at Meng Ji, who was lying in front of the jade wall, and said, "All nine of these things are correct, and the ring you pulled at the end should be the mechanism of the last and most tense ghost weapon. The other eight ghost weapons… If I'm not mistaken, they were all taken away by Meng Ji. What's in her belly is nothing else, but the ghost of Ba. In ancient mythology, people worship Ba as the daughter of the sun god. The heat and flames she endured are not the hell fire, but the purest Samadhi fire. And Meng Ji didn't know how to get the soul of this Ba ghost and became one with it. In short, this should be a recent thing. It may be that we opened the ghost curse and she merged with Ba. Her own ability is not enough to endure the erosion of Ba ghost for a long time, so she can't speak. Once she speaks, Ba ghost will get the external qi, and the energy will be released. She is burned from the inside out, and the pain can be imagined. And once Ba burns, it will only burn its body to ashes. In other words… Meng Ji is finished."
Her laughter was cold and desperate, but nothing happened to the wall. I don't know what happened. Did we come here in vain? Then what does it matter that so many people died? After a long time, she took down the bronze jar. I saw a vague male face appear near the jar. He kept staring at Meng Ji. But Meng Ji probably didn't see it either. She silently held the jar in her arms and stroked it. This movement dropped a lot of ashes on her body. She said to the bronze jar foolishly: "In the end, I miscalculated. I used Gui'er's life to escape from here in exchange for myself. I wanted to rescue you and Gui'er. But I forgot that it was you who finally fulfilled my father's will and volunteered to enter the reincarnation of the ghost curse. Thirty-six people died on the same day, leaving only nine evil ghosts guarding this place for life and death. Now the feng shui is no longer the same as before, and the Great Zhou has disappeared. Your stubbornness has ruined me and yourself. Should I say you are crazy… or stupid? Fan Rui?"
When Meng Ji said this name, the face of the person on the jade wall actually began to shed tears of blood. Suddenly, I remembered where I had seen this name before. The name "Fan Rui" was indeed engraved on that jar. Could it be that… this person was the one Meng Ji had spent so much effort to save?
But as a contemporary person, I have no idea about what happened in that era. She is also just a heretic, so I have no way of understanding what she said. I can only guess from her few words that the entanglement between these two people must be very deep.
At this moment, she looked like an old woman who had lost everything. Although her face was still bright and beautiful, the desolation and despair were only seen in a female ghost who had wandered for thousands of years. She raised her head and looked at us with eyes that could not shed tears. The expression in her eyes made me feel that she was just a woman who was teased by fate. A lot of ashes began to fall from her body. She said, "This is my final destination. You still have to continue your journey. The last ghost weapon is the key to open the main hall of Habaek. As long as you find it, you can go in. But… I don't have time anymore…"
For the first time, I slowed down my tone and asked in a low voice, "Is there any other way to find the ninth ghost weapon?"
She pointed at me and said, "You can find it, but you probably won't be able to find it… You don't have much time, because the eight ghost weapons are enough to activate the last line of defense of this temple. By then, the other seven entrances will be sealed. If you can't find it… you are destined to be buried with this temple. The nine tripods of mountains and rivers, the nine bends of the Yellow River, this represents the source of the Yellow River… Ah!"
Her eyes suddenly lit up, as she thought of something. She smiled at us, shook her head at the jade wall and said, "I understand… So that's how it is… Haha, it turns out that I'm the one who was counted out in the end. The Eight Bitter Ghost Curse… So that's what it means. Father, I still can't beat you. This time I have nothing to lose, and I'm tired…"
I frowned and looked at Meng Ji, who refused to blink. I wanted to ask her what she finally understood, but she looked back and seemed to see the weeping face in the jade wall. She trembled and crawled towards the jade wall, and wanted to reach out to make a final effort. But she was exhausted and didn't even have the strength to climb up. She slowly bent down and leaned her head on the bronze jar. She looked at the jar and whispered: "Stay in spiritual cultivation and forget to go home. The year is late and I will never see the flowers…"
As the poem was chanted, her voice slowly lowered. After a long time, Meng Ji did not move again. We looked at her silently, and no one dared to approach. Bai Yi's voice sounded a little bitter. He said: "The ghost weapons gathered, but the most tense thing did not appear, so she could not release the most primitive group of evil ghosts sealed in these ghost weapons, that is, the Fan Rui he mentioned."
I looked at the face, which was now extremely distorted, as if it was madly trying to break free. I asked, "Why?"
Bai Yi's eyes flickered as he said, "If you ask me, I can only say it is God's will."
Liuzi interrupted us and asked anxiously: "What should we do now? Is she dead?" As soon as Liuzi finished speaking, blue flames began to emerge from Meng Ji's body. In a moment, she turned into a pile of ashes, and the flames also burned out and turned into nothingness.
Bai Yi was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "She is completely dead…"
I have mixed feelings about this matter. I personally hate this greedy woman very much, but thinking about how she has spent thousands of years just to free her husband and children from the ghost weapon, I feel indescribable sadness. This is indeed a tragedy…
Liuzi sighed and asked, "What did her last sentence mean? What do you mean she understood?"
I shook my head, but suddenly I thought of something. This is the source of the Yellow River… so it is the source of all the stories? But until now I still don't understand why King Wen of Zhou built this temple and set such a vicious curse.
Information about Dayu's flood control is everywhere here. Dayu's flood control, the source of the Yellow River! He Bo God! These words seemed to run through my brain in an instant, and I suddenly understood some of these things. I covered my forehead and thought about that train of thought, and found that I could figure it all out! Originally, if this is really the source, then the Eight Bitterness Ghost Curse has not been cracked at all! It's all a game, or a reincarnation! We are just repeating something that has been going on for thousands of years. There is no ghost curse at all. The ghost curse is just a cover, a cover to lead us here. It is the most important thing for us to get here. And the key to figure out these things is Meng Ji's last sentence, "It turns out that I was the one who was counted in the end." If everything is calculated, then I am just developing according to a pattern now. I looked at Bai Yi with a cold sweat, and my eyes were somewhat conflicted. I said, "What else are you hiding from us? You can tell us now."
The author has something to say: I also talked about Yu Bu here, which is a Taoist method of summoning spirits. But it is said that it originated from Dayu, and its history is very long and complicated. Here I let them use this method to enter the wind wall, I personally think it is still in the past. Then the thing in Shou Po's mouth is Nv Ba. The two gods who fought Chi You for Huangdi together with Yinglong. Nv Ba is the woman of the sun god, with great fire power, which is opposite to Yinglong. Later, she could not go back and forth to heaven and became a monster, so the drought in many places was caused by this goddess. I used it here, otherwise I really don’t know how they can solve an ancient mythical beast, it’s too troublesome. Just invite a more powerful master…
Then when the article comes to the final solution, I have thrown out about 40% of the clues. Now there are only three people left. Maybe there is still room for improvement, but I will see. I am a little tired of thinking now. Maybe I will have new ideas after a while.
In short, there is still the final answer~~~everyone wait patiently!
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