Cultivation

Chapter 54 Map

Sure enough, Guo Sixian gave him a stack of papers and threw him into the carriage so that he could be quiet as if he didn't exist. Shangguan Li and Zhang Linggu sat side by side on the coachman's seat, and they pretended to be ordinary Taoist priests in order to deceive others.

There are quite a few monks wandering around these days. If passing monks sense the astrological aura in the carriage with such a dress, it can also explain their identities very well.

More than 30 miles out of the city is a mass grave. The age is not good, taxes are heavy, locust plagues and floods occur, and refugees are scattered and hungry everywhere. Naturally, there are many corpses scattered in such a mass grave.

But looking at the corpse that was gnawed to pieces by wild dogs and crows on the ground, Shangguan Li still frowned and lowered her eyes. She pulled the rein and urged the horse to go faster, wanting to leave here quickly.

At this moment, Guo Sixian in the carriage lifted the curtain and almost bumped into Zhang Linggu's back: "Stop."

Shangguan Li hurriedly pulled the carriage, Guo Sixian squeezed past her and got out of the carriage, holding the tortoise shell left by Master Lu in his hand: "What place is this?"

"I don't think there is a need to ask this question, right?" Zhang Linggu smiled wryly. Although he knew that divination was a very laborious task, seeing Guo Sixian like this was simply a demonic obstacle.

"I know it's a mass grave, but the Qi veins here are wrong." Guo Sixian took out a compass from his sleeve, holding the compass with one hand and pinching the nine palaces with the other to calculate Liujia, but his eyes were fixed on the crow hovering in the sky: " The rotten corpse is an obstacle, and the bird falls into the hole, you can see if the three female corpses are buried at the threshold, exchange position and departure position..."

Zhang Linggu looked at Shangguan Li who immediately turned his head to look at the sky and refused to dig the grave, so he had to go over and split the seal on the grave with his palm, and opened the coffin roughly. It was indeed three female corpses as Guo Sixian said.

Guo Sixian continued to pinch his fingers: "Three female gatekeepers... Take the three coffins as points to form a line, and the intersection of the lines..."

Zhang Linggu directly lit three sticks of incense and placed them on the grave. The light smoke from the incense was not upward but towards the middle of the chaotic grave, and the three pillars of light smoke crossed together in the middle... He struck with his sword without hesitation. down.

There was a mess of flying sand and stones from the split grave, and the coffin inside was also split in half, but there were no bones in the coffin, only an earthen jar, which was of ordinary shape, a rough earthenware jar that ordinary people could afford.

Relying on his skill and courage, Zhang Linggu jumped into the coffin and reached out to grab the earthen pot.

The earthen jar must have been filled with rainwater that had been submerged for many years. As soon as the earthen jar was picked up, Zhang Linggu saw that the bottom of the earthen jar was leaking, and the water leaked out and dripped on the bottom of the coffin. A barely visible shallow groove flows, outlining a map and a few lines of writing.

Guo Sixian grabbed the pen in the carriage and traced the map very quickly, and asked him to write down the words next to it: "Everyone who sees this picture is a predestined person."

all?

This is because the person who buried the earthen jar didn't even open the coffin alone, or did he think that the grave would not be dug only once?

While Zhang Linggu was thinking wildly, Guo Sixian had already drawn the map, and the water stains on the bottom of the coffin had soaked through the coffin board and disappeared. Zhang Linggu squatted down and touched it, and he could feel the deep and shallow traces. But it looks like the grain of ordinary wood, so it can't be seen that this is a map at all.

The person who set up this game has to pass by here to sense that there is a formation here, and to be able to see that this game is the three female gatekeepers, and then open the coffin and have to lift the earthen jar to see the map...

How much of a coincidence does this have to be?

It seems that they are indeed destined people for this layout.

Guo Sixian looked at the map in his hand with bright eyes: "Let's go to the place on this map to have a look. The astrology map showed a glimmer of life when passing by here. I think what we are looking for is here."

Shangguan Li looked at Zhang Linggu with questioning eyes: "Go?"

"Although this picture looks like a mountain, we don't know what it is. I think we should go to Yizhuang in Huaiyin County first." Zhang Linggu said: "Old Guo is not sure. Forget it, we don't need a carriage anymore, and Yujian is only a stick of incense away."

Shangguan Li glared at him: "You don't have to be afraid that the Altar Master Qingmu has eyes and ears here, if he finds out that Guo Sixian and I are not dead..."

"Then let's beat him to death first." Zhang Linggu said as Yujian flew up.

Not to be outdone, Guo Sixian flew up, and Shangguan Li had no choice but to follow.

Guo Sixian was not very proficient at Yujian, so Shangguan Li had no choice but to hold Zhang Linggu's hand and fly forward.

As Zhang Linggu said, they arrived at Yizhuang in Huaiyin County in just one stick of incense.

The age is not good, and Huaiyin County has also been plagued by insects. Ten rooms and nine empty houses have fled, and Yizhuang has no one to take care of it, looking dilapidated.

There are several coffins parked in the Yizhuang, with a thick layer of dust on them. It seems that the corpses have been buried for a long time. The relatives in the family don't know if they are still alive, and they probably won't come to restrain them.

Zhang Linggu walked around to the place where Wu Zuo lived in the back. There were three houses covered with yellow mud and bamboo strips, which could barely keep out the wind and rain. When he opened the door, he found that the inside was fairly neat. Although the things were piled up in a mess, there were not many. Dusty, looks like it should be inhabited.

He withdrew and said to Shangguan Li and Guo Sixian: "There are people living here, let's wait."

Shangguan Li frowned: "Most of the people here have already fled, so why don't you stay here to eat if you don't leave?"

After listening to Zhang Linggu's description, she always felt that that person was a master of the ghost way back then. If the master who left behind was his successor, she might also be well versed in this way. She would not leave in such a situation. What?Do you eat dead human flesh?

After waiting for a while, a hunchbacked old man walked into Yizhuang carrying a fish basket. His clothes were patched several times, his face was yellow and emaciated, and he looked very poor.

Guo Sixian, the kindest of the three, was pushed out to talk to the old man.

Guo Sixian made a salute: "Old man, the three of us passed by here to ask for a sip of water."

He hastily stuffed a lot of things into his sleeves just now, and when he shook his sleeves, the compass fell out of the sleeves, and he bent down to pick it up a little embarrassed.

The hunchbacked old man, who was still indifferent, became excited when he saw the compass. The fish basket in his hand fell to the ground, and a live fish was frightened and kept wagging its tail in the fish basket, trying to get out of the shallow and narrow world. escape.

The hunchbacked old man walked over excitedly and grabbed Guo Sixian's sleeve: "You, is your surname Yu?"

Guo Sixian was taken aback, but his upbringing did not allow him to get rid of an old man.

But the old man asked as if he wanted to fight him desperately: "Did you come from Qianshan? Didn't you?"

Guo Sixian glanced at Zhang Linggu, Zhang Linggu thought for a while, he should have been surnamed Yu, so he said to the hunchbacked old man, "My surname is Yu, and I come from Qianshan."

Cloudy tears flowed from the corners of the hunchbacked old man's eyes: "I've waited for you."

"Why did you wait for Qianshan's surname to be Yu?" Zhang Linggu pulled Guo Sixian and blocked him behind him: "If you have anything to ask me, you can go to Qianshan..."

"I wish I could fucking go." The hunchbacked old man jumped on his feet and said, "I've waited for 200 years, but I've waited for you. Heaven has eyes."

Shangguan Li clenched the hilt of his sword and asked Zhang Linggu in a low voice, "What's going on here?"

She didn't know that Zhang Linggu was about Yu Yuanzhou's Lingying. She thought that Zhang Linggu was going to pretend to be someone else to deceive the old man. So there is kindness or hatred.

"I broke the door rules back then, and was punished by my master to wait here. I thought I would wait for 20 years, but who knew it would take more than 200 years." The hunchbacked old man wiped his tears with his dirty sleeve , he waved his hand: "Stop talking, take out the picture quickly."

picture?

Guo Sixian took a look at Zhang Linggu, and handed the old man the hunchbacked map drawn from the random graveyard. Anyway, he was silent, and even if the old man took the map away, he could draw another one.

Holding the map in both hands, the old man kowtowed three times to the west, muttered a few words silently, then licked his right index finger, and tapped the paper with his saliva. After the tap, he fell to the ground, A puff of black air emerged from his body, and the black air formed a human shape in the air. From the outline, the black air looked like a thin man. He bowed three times to Zhang Linggu and then turned into a black smoke and went west. .

Guo Sixian picked up the map from the ground and saw that a mountain was clicked on the map, he frowned: "But which mountain is this?"

Zhang Linggu looked to the west: "Yin Mountain."

He looked down at the fish in the fish basket, and there was a carved wooden sign hanging on the fish basket. When he was a child, Wu Jiuzi had hung the Leifu wooden sign for several years. When he saw this wooden sign, he couldn't help but feel a little kind, and stretched out his hand. Untie the wooden sign.

The Yinshan Mountains are very wide. Fortunately, they have a map. When they reached the peak marked on the map, they found a cave halfway up the mountain. There is nothing special about the stone wall, but there are some paintings on the four sides. The brushwork is rough and faceless, and it is vaguely recognizable as scenes of farming, riding horses, hunting and fishing.

It took so much trouble to let them come to see the villain's painting?

Zhang Linggu looked at all the murals carefully, and one of the pictures of a wizard offering sacrifices to the sky made him feel that something was wrong. A human head was placed on the altar, and the stone of the altar... He took out the stone in Yizhuang from his sleeve. Put the wooden sign taken from the fish basket on it, only to hear a "click", the altar on the stone wall sank in, and a big stone in the hole slowly moved aside.

Looking at the stone steps going down from the entrance of the cave, Guo Sixian swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Go down?"

Zhang Linggu pulled out his own sword, and a blue light flowed from the blade to illuminate it: "I'll go down and have a look, you wait for me here."

The author has something to say: "Three female gatekeepers" and so on are words that I flipped over on Qimen Dunjia. It's purely a mess, just read it.