Hit the yin and yang road

In the mural, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva lives at the top, with a crown of jewels, a lotus in his left hand and a pearl in his right, standing on a lotus pedestal.The golden light of merit and virtue illuminates the evil ghosts and souls under the seat, and listening to the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva recite the original vows to get the opportunity to be saved and reincarnated.

Followed by a mural, the painting shows the celestial master pretending to be the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva and performing rituals to save the souls of the dead on the Ghost Festival.The relatives of the dead souls prayed sincerely, and behind each of them there were one to three ancestors bathing in the golden light of merit.This ceremony is called 'Broken City'.

After reading the murals, the five continued to walk towards the basement and encountered six other celestial masters one after another.When the two sides met for the first time, they both finished the fight first before confirming that it was not a mirage ghost pretending to be. The other party said to Chen Yang and others: "We also encountered a mirage ghost. He pretended to be a familiar celestial master to deceive us. After being exposed, he guided We came to the sixth house and said that the source of resentment is here."

Chen Yang: "Why did you come to the basement?"

Their answers were the same: "Open the door and go forward to the basement. We thought this was the sixth house."

All the celestial masters also realized something was wrong after exchanging information and comparing them. It stands to reason that they were all in houses far apart, and some were clearly in rooms on the fifth floor.As soon as the door was opened, the outside was not a corridor but a dark corridor in the basement. It was obvious that there was chaos in the space, and they all encountered mirages.The purpose of the mirage is very clear, which is to lead them all to the sixth house.

Kou Xuanling: "Sounds like catching a turtle in a urn." All the celestial masters were driven in like ducks, waiting to be slaughtered in the same place.

Zhang Qiudao: "The purpose of mirage ghosts is definitely not good for the celestial master. As Lao Kou said, it is probably to imprison us all in the same place and slaughter them slowly. It's like cats teasing mice, but why do some people open the door and step out?" Just change the position directly. Direct space transfer? This is the power of the gods."

Chen Yang pressed his palm against the wall and thought: "Perhaps... have you ever thought about what the raw materials of the whole yin house are?"

Kou Xuanling: "Huh? What do you mean?"

Chen Yang's copper coin sword is extremely domineering when used to kill evil spirits, but in terms of sharpness, it can't even cut a piece of paper.So he didn't think about his copper coin sword at all, but borrowed his Seven Star Sword from Zhang Qiudao. The Seven Star Sword was sharp and exquisite, and it was not light in weight.Chen Yang picked up the Seven Star Sword and inserted it into the wall, then rotated it, and began to cut the wall.He said: "The incarnation of the city of death in vain is the entire yin house without beams. The yin house without beams is the name of the tomb. Since it is a tomb, there are naturally not so many houses. The ten houses are actually shady houses without beams. It’s just that these houses and roads are all built by the source of resentment. Every time the resentment increases, new houses will be built. From the first road to the first house, it will gradually increase to the tenth house. And the materials of these houses—”

With a bang, Chen Yang dug a hole the size of a brick on the wall, exposing the bones inside.He stepped aside to let the celestial master behind see the bones in the wall: "The material is ghosts. Turn them into bones to fill houses and build houses, so you will suddenly encounter space transfer. Because the whole house is alive, you Encountered a ghost blindfolded."

There was a chill down everyone's backs, and the houses were alive, which meant that they were all filled with ghosts.Each of the ten haunted houses has hundreds of rooms on five floors and countless roads.Evil ghosts are imprisoned in each room, and lanterns with human heads are hung outside each room.They knew that the entire yin house was full of ghosts, but the number of ghosts still shocked and frightened them.

"Too much."

Chen Yang: "Maybe there are not so many." Everyone was puzzled, and he explained: "Maybe there are no evil spirits in those rooms. We thought they were full of evil spirits. In fact, it is very likely that they are just evil spirits in the walls that act as bricks and stones." That's all."

This explanation made the celestial masters feel even colder, because they remembered that in order to investigate the situation at that time, they stuck to the wall or the door to eavesdrop, and sometimes when they saw holes, they leaned over to watch them secretly.Now they know that the bricks and stones of those walls are full of densely packed bone corpses, and this scene appears in their minds, with countless evil spirits sticking to their faces through the wall, but they don't know anything about it.

Chen Yang: "Isn't there still a layer of wall covering that didn't directly touch it?" Everyone was silent, Chen Yang pulled out the Seven Star Sword and returned it to Zhang Qiudao: "Okay. But now you are surrounded by countless bones, and there are still bones under your feet. Stepping on the bones, there are countless ghosts staring at you above your head, left and right, front and back, and under your feet-I shut up."

Three of the ten celestial masters are female celestial masters. It is fortunate that they wear pants for convenience, otherwise it would be very embarrassing.Chen Yang's description is indeed very touching, especially when he imagined it.But the more you think about it, the less afraid you are, and your ability to accept is very strong.One of the female celestial masters is Hu Yingnan, the chief disciple of the Ziyang Palace Supervisory Academy in Shen City. She was the one who received Chen Yang and others when they traveled to Shen City before, so the two sides can be said to be familiar with each other.

Looking at other celestial masters, Chen Yang found that several celestial masters had dealt with evil spirits together by coincidence, such as Hu Yingnan, a disciple of Ziyang Palace, and Shen Yi, a disciple of Baiyun Temple, who met in the No. 444 incident of Yejiazhai in Shenshi City. Back, Qiu Shengmin met in the Jinshui High School incident.Qiu Shengmin already had some abilities, plus he was born with ghost eyes and a yin constitution, but he was led astray without a famous teacher.

Knowing each other because of the incident at Jinshui High School, Chen Yang introduced her to Chang Zile from the local family of immortals.I didn't expect her to be so talented that she could learn something in two years.

Qiu Shengmin smiled shyly, and said softly, "Because the master is generous and never hides his secrets, he taught me all the knowledge that can be taught." She has always been very grateful to Chen Yang, if he hadn't introduced her to the current master, I'm afraid she is still pretending to be a magic stick with her younger brother to cheat, maybe one day she will kick the iron plate to death without a burial.

Chang Yue who was beside Qiu Shengmin said: "Junior sister is extremely talented, she works hard, and she can achieve something because of herself." Chang Yue is Qiu Shengmin's senior brother, and at the same time, he came from a family of immortals. His father is Chang Zile.

The other two celestial masters are Miao Miao, the eldest disciple of Yi Wu of the Wu clan, and Liu Zong, the eldest disciple of Liu Quanning, the head of the Canton Taoist Association and the Beimiao Palace Supervisor.The names of both of them were very weird, which caused the other people to ask curiously: "Miao Miao, what's your last name?"

Miao Miao: "Miao." She was brought up by Mr. Yi Wu, and learned her seriousness and seriousness.But Yi Wuchang is a duplicity person, she will use her status as Wuchang to forcibly take away the position of the lead dancer.Even if Miao Miao was forced to dance square dance, her attitude was very serious.

Chen Yang: "Miao Miao Miao?"

Miao Miao: "Miao Miao."

Chen Yang: "My surname is Miao, and my name is Miao?" Miao Miao nodded, and the others were surprised: "Why did you choose this name? It's very strange."

Miaomiao showed grievance and helplessness in her expressionless face: "The chief shaman took it." Seeing that everyone was puzzled, she said: "I was abandoned in the mountains and forests when I was a child, and the chief shaman picked me up. Originally named Yi Miao Miao, later Mr. Wu’s elder brother Yi Daochang saw my birth name ‘Miao’ embroidered on my swaddling clothes, so he forced me to change it back to my original name when I entered the household registration.” So she became Miao Miao.

At that time, Wuchang Yi was still very dissatisfied, and he did not have the skill of pretending to be perfect later.She quarreled with her brother, and she cried and cried without shedding a tear, so she changed her surname back to 'Yi', pretending to use her real surname as her first name, or the alternate name has already paid Miao Miao's favor.

Chen Yang: "You are still alive?"

Miao Miao nodded, and the rest were quite puzzled.At this time, Mao Zhen explained in an old-fashioned tone: "You young celestial masters, you don't even know how to return your favor. Tsk tsk, the world of celestial masters has fallen."

"Love to talk or not to talk."

Mao Zhen curled his lips and explained: "A cultivator is most afraid of involving karma. Sometimes a small karma can destroy decades of practice. The power of karma is even feared by gods and Buddhas." He pointed at Miao Miao : "Her parents gave birth to her but abandoned her. Abandoning her is to sever the cause and effect between parents and children, but birth grace is also cause and effect, and it is difficult to cancel it. Named with a real name is one of the ways to repay birth grace and sever cause and effect. Cause and effect It will make you meet your biological parents again, and when you meet again, the cause and effect may be aggravated, or it may be eliminated."

I see.Everyone realized.But Chen Yang looked back at the mural that was left far behind him, and seemed to have something in his heart, but was wrapped in a transparent film and couldn't get out.cause and effect?

Miao Miao doesn't like others to pay attention to her name, so to divert attention, she pointed to Liu Zong and said, "He used to be called Liu Zongquan."

puff!Everyone held back their laughter.Liu Zong was helpless, his master and Miao Miao's master were good friends, so they knew each other since they were young, and they also knew about black history and so on.He said: "It happened before I was ten years old. Later, I stole my account book and paid someone to pretend to be my father to change my name."

Seeing this, Hu Yingnan also wanted to reveal Shen's short story.Shen Yihui quickly covered Hu Yingnan's mouth with his hands, and said solemnly: "Do you still remember our purpose? We came to find the source of resentment. After all, that mirage deliberately told us that the source of resentment was in the sixth house, and we all Gathering in the basement, although there is suspicion of being treated as a turtle, but the source of the resentment should really be in the sixth house."

"Has he shown up? Where has he been hiding? No one knows?"

Chen Yang and the others looked at Mao Zhen, who shrugged his shoulders: "I only know that he will appear in the sixth house, and almost all the ghosts in the Yin Mansion know about it."

Miao Miao seemed to feel that something was wrong, her eyes showed some doubts, she looked at Liu Zong, Liu Zong also looked back, her eyes were also full of doubts.At the same time, Hu Yingnan and Shen Yihui, Qiu Shengmin and Chang Yue each sensed something was wrong, stopped and suddenly turned around and took out the magic weapon to face Mao Zhen and asked him: "Who are you?" They also became defensive towards Chen Yang and others .

Zhang Qiudao: "Isn't it true that you are so dull? Mao Zhen has been following us and talked just now. I thought you all knew——!"

Only then did everyone realize that except for Kou Xuanling who curiously asked about Mao Zhen's identity, Miao Miao and the other six did not notice anything strange about Mao Zhen's appearance, as if there was nothing strange about his appearance.

Miao Miao and the other six had very bad faces. They hesitated and said, "We didn't realize his existence. I always thought that there were only ten people in the team. If I hadn't looked at him just now, I wouldn't have noticed this person at all." .who is he?"

The rest said that they also thought there were only ten people in the team, and only discovered Mao Zhen's existence after looking at him.

Zhang Qiudao, Kou Xuanling and Mao Xiaoying were wary of Mao Zhen, but Mao Zhen remained silent.Mao Xiaoying thought of her uncle who was still lying on the hospital bed, and couldn't bear to ask him: "You have nothing to say?"

Mao Zhen looked at him: "Didn't you want to find me?"

"I'm looking for my uncle." Mao Xiaoying explained.

Mao Zhen: "I am Mao Zhen, absolutely true."

Kou Xuanling: "Chen Yang, what do you think?"

Chen Yang: "Brother Du told me that the source of resentment will take the initiative to appear by our side. Mao Zhen is the only ghost in the yin house that actively appears by our side. I want to know your purpose." The last sentence is to Mao Zhen. explain.

Mao Zhen shook his head and said only one sentence: "I didn't harm you." After speaking, he took a step back and leaned against the wall.Countless ghost hands appeared on the wall in an instant, hugging Mao Zhen and pulling him into the wall.When it melted into the wall, Mao Zhen glanced at Chen Yang and opened his mouth to say something, but he was quickly submerged by countless bones.

Mao Xiaoying rushed over and only touched the wall.He tried to chip away at the wall, but was stopped.He said to the people behind him: "I believe he is uncle, I promised my dad to bring back his living soul."

Chen Yang: "You can't take it back."

Mao Xiaoying shook her head, looking a little stubborn. "As far as I can remember, my grandfather, father, and aunt were very sad and proud when they mentioned uncle. Uncle was the earliest genius in the Mao family, and his comprehension of Taoism surpassed my grandfather. My father said that if he If he didn't fall into the yin house, he would become the youngest celestial master in the Mao family tree. Many people said that the uncle died a long time ago, and the living soul might have disappeared in the yin house, or was assimilated into an irrational evil Ghost. But my dad said that even if he died, he shouldn’t die in a dark and damp shady house. Uncle is very concerned about the image, so even the grave must be clean and clean.”

Everyone was speechless for a while, but they didn't stop them anymore.Qiu Shengmin suddenly said: "Is this long corridor endless?"

Chen Yang looked over and found that there was darkness ten meters away from the corridor, even if there was an end, they couldn't see it.Qiu Shengmin said: "We have been walking, the distance we have traveled is definitely not short, but there is no end in sight."

Only then did everyone realize the truth that the neglected corridor might not have an end. Kou Xuanling suggested: "Go back?" When they turned around, they found that there was also darkness behind them, as if the road they came from had been swallowed up by darkness, and there was no such thing as a road at all.

Shen Yihui is a careful person, accustomed to meticulous observation.He hesitated and said: "Have you noticed that the corridor is shortening? I mean, the dark range of the corridor has increased, and the area where the fire can shine has shrunk. I remember that when we first came in, the fire could almost illuminate the corridor. The corridor creates the illusion that the corridor has an end. But the illusion is gradually disappearing.”

"You're right." Chen Yang held up a lantern to illuminate the front. Before they spoke, the dark part of the corridor was still ten meters away from them, but now it has shrunk to five meters. "What will happen if you are swallowed by darkness?"

Zhang Qiudao cut open the wall with the Seven Star Sword, pulled out the bones inside and threw them into the darkness. Soon everyone heard a tooth-piercing sound coming from the darkness. "I don't think so."

"Obviously." Turning his head, Chen Yang saw the eye hole on the skull of the corpse whose ribs had been pulled out in the wall, and said to Zhang Qiu: "You offended him."

Zhang Qiudao didn't turn his head back, he took the Seven Star Sword and plunged it into the bone hole.Bone's head retracted slowly, and stretched out his hand to pick up bricks and stones to block the cut-off wall, and lost a few finger bones on the way.

Hu Yingnan stared at the ceiling: "The front and back are blocked. Why don't you pierce through the ceiling and escape?"

Shen Yihui: "The ceiling is so short, it must be very thick. The speed of digging is not as fast as the darkness swallows it, and there are only three meters left."

Everyone gathered together in a circle, Kou Xuanling: "Chen Yang, is there anything you can do?"

Chen Yang: "Remember what I just said about ghosts covering your eyes?"

"Be more specific." Kou Xuanling knows that ghosts hit the wall, and that ghosts covering eyes are similar to ghosts hitting walls, but that's all.

"Ghosts cover our eyes to affect what our eyes see, show us what they want us to see. Just like some people couldn't see Mao Zhen just now because ghosts cover their eyes. The whole yin house is full of ghosts, and we are all trapped influence."

"You want to say that everything we see now is fake? There is no darkness, and there are no strange things in the darkness. In fact, the door is not far away?"

"No." Chen Yang raised his eyes and took a deep breath: "I just want to say that maybe all the houses, head lanterns, rooms and all the decorations in the rooms we saw are fake. There are no mirages or ghosts. It’s all false. Brother Du told me that nonsense can’t be trusted, the source will appear around us, and the elders in your family have also told you the same. What is the source actually? Ghost resentment is condensed. So when we are in the During that time, the source has already appeared around us."

"The Road of No Return, the Woman Holding the Black Umbrella, Qingshi Alley, Yunchi Tangyu, Old Man Yun, including ten houses, the ax ghost, the painted skin ghost... are all sources. Brick by brick, all ghosts are the source, He has always been by our side, and he has approached us actively since we came in." Chen Yang held the copper coin sword in his hand and sat down cross-legged: "So, the source is by our side. This is the ghost covering the eyes."

The Yin Mansion without Liang is the incarnation of the dead city, and there is only the source occupying all the space inside.The source absorbs the resentment of ghosts, and the ghost itself is a part of the source. The ghosts lying under the bricks and the greedy ghosts encountered are all part of the source.

I was reminded from the beginning that there are many ghosts, don't believe anything the ghosts say.

The ghosts don't want to go back to the underworld, they have lost their minds long ago, they just want to add bricks and tiles.And under every brick and every tile are the bones of countless wronged souls.They snatch the souls of the celestial masters, not to occupy their bodies and return to the underworld.

Chen Yang: "Mao Zhen's words are half true and half false. He reminded us several times that we should not believe nonsense, and he also told me that ghosts snatched heavenly masters to return Yang. But back then, his living soul was trapped in the yin house, and no ghost returned to occupy it. His body."

Mao Zhen in Yangjian lost his soul and lay in a vegetable state for more than twenty years.If the ghost really desires to return to the Yang world, it can devour the Mao Zhensheng soul buried in the ground and return to the Yang world.

"When I came in, the old man told me that the most normal is the biggest problem. Ten houses, countless ghosts, we subconsciously think that this is the most normal situation, thinking that the source is a certain ghost."

The other nine people fell into deep thought. They couldn't accept this truth for a while, and they didn't know whether to believe it or not.After a long while, Kou Xuanling asked him: "If what you said is true, why didn't the celestial master of the Taoist Association tell us directly, instead asked us to find the source of the resentment?"

Chen Yang: "Cause and effect."

Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva talks about cause and effect in the scriptures of the original vows, peeking at the cause, and complaining about the theory of retribution, which is taught by hundreds of thousands of methods.Meeting by fate, retribution is self-acceptance.The yin house and Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva's power of cause and effect is extremely profound, so Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva itself cannot be transcended.The power of cause and effect is invincible to gods and ghosts.

Therefore, throw the source of resentment into Yangjian, and form a cause and effect with the Heavenly Master of Yangjian.

Without looking at the cause, how to get the result, tell the retribution of the result, how to teach and enlighten with thousands of conveniences?Therefore, they have to find the source body by themselves and form a causal relationship with it in order to be saved.

When Chen Yang pierced the real body of the source, all the celestial masters formed karma with it.The seemingly slow-moving darkness stopped in front of them, and the surrounding area was swallowed by darkness, except for the ten celestial masters in the middle who formed a circle like the sun, shining brightly.

Suddenly, the entire space began to vibrate, and the naked eye could see shaking waves in the air, just like a TV that couldn't receive a signal, and the screen suddenly flickered.Suddenly, a terrifying scream erupted like a tsunami, squeezing from all directions. Everyone covered their ears in pain, blood oozing from their seven orifices.The darkness quickly disappeared like an ebbing tide in an instant, and the houses, corridors, and walls in front of them were also collapsing, and the entire space was collapsing.

It rained continuously, and when it poured down, it could melt the stone slabs.The lanterns with human heads, Boss Yun, painted skin ghosts, ax ghosts they saw... Countless ghosts stood in front of them, showing strange and unanimous smiles, and then were melted into huge pieces of meat by the rain.The piercing screams they heard, the sound of fingernails scratching the wall, all merged together to drown out the sound of rain falling.

There are no longer corridors or houses in front of them, only huge pieces of flesh gathered together, almost breaking the sky.The flesh was covered with tumors, and the tumors split open and turned into countless grimaces. Chen Yang could recognize those grimaces before.

But now these grimaces all have a unified and treacherous expression, staring at the celestial master below in unison.