As I got closer, I saw a shrine, about ten feet high, with a statue of a middle-aged male god with a gray face and a sharp mouth in the middle.
"This should be Mr. Dou." The Taoist Priest with a grimace somewhat understood the image of the Gray Immortal ancestor. He took two steps forward while looking at it. At this time, something suddenly tripped under his feet. He quickly looked down. When I went there, I saw a half-foot-square bulge on the ground in front of the shrine.
The bulge on the ground is a foot high. At first glance, it looks like a platform and the cover of something. The Taoist priest with a grimace is a tomb robber. His first instinctive reaction is: Could there be a coffin embedded in the ground? ?
He Siniang came over at this time and asked, "What is the Taoist looking down at?"
The Taoist priest with a grimace pointed at the "stone platform" and replied, "Does this look like a coffin lid? You see there is a gap between it and the ground."
"How can this square thing be a coffin lid?" He Siniang knelt down, looked at it carefully and said, "Why do I feel that this is a secret passage?"
"ah?"
"Taoist priest, look, you can still vaguely see the chute in this gap."
The Taoist priest with a grimace bent down and took a closer look at what Siniang said. He nodded, and then said: "It seems that it is really a secret door, but I don't know why it is locked... Hey! Here!" The Taoist priest with a grimace pointed at the stone. On the right side of the stage - you can see a groove the size of your palm.
"This machine lock is also in the shape of a rat!" He Siniang said happily: "Taoist Priest, try it with your jade pendant."
The grim-faced Taoist priest immediately put the jade pendant into the groove. After a muffled sound, the stone platform on the ground slowly moved to the left.
Zhao Ermu came over after hearing the sound and asked, "What did you two find again?" As soon as he finished speaking, a dark hole appeared in front of everyone.
"Is this a secret passage?" Zhao Ermu looked at the ghost-faced Taoist priest: "There won't be any treasures in it, right?"
"There is an answer inside." The grim-faced Taoist priest seemed a little excited: "This must be the confusion that the poor Taoist has been having for many years." After saying that, he walked straight into the secret passage.
Inside the secret passage was a stone staircase that sloped downwards, which was longer than expected. The deeper the Taoist Ghostface went, the more the surroundings began to become colder. After walking up dozens of steps, Taoist Ghostface felt the chill was almost bone-piercing. At that moment, a stone room suddenly appeared in front of him, and the stone steps came to an end.
The stone room was slightly smaller than the one above, but it seemed empty, because there was almost nothing in it, except for a wooden table placed against the stone wall at the very end.
The Taoist priest with a grimace came to the table. There was a thick bamboo slip on it, and a wooden sign was placed next to it. On the sign, eight big characters were marked in red pen: Use Pei to invite immortals and make money.
What does this mean? The Taoist priest with a grimace wondered: "Use the jade pendant to invite the Gray Immortal? How should I do it?"
"Why don't you take a look at what's written on the bamboo slips first?" He Siniang said from the side.
The Taoist priest with a grimace nodded and carefully unfolded the bamboo slips, only to see densely packed small characters on them, which seemed to record a lot of things.
The two of them began to read the Simplified Chinese characters side by side. The grimace-faced Taoist priest's expression changed after just a few glances. Sure enough, the ins and outs of the Taibao of the Xian family were recorded in it.
The article first introduces the origin of the Taibao of the Xian family. The Chen family was originally just a group of bandits outside the customs. Later, during a tomb robbing activity, they accidentally discovered an underground palace. From then on, the Chen family who walked out of the underground palace suddenly He started to change his name and number, and called himself "the Taibao of the Immortal Family".
After changing their names, the Chen family gradually became prominent among the thieves. This was mainly due to the two treasures found in the underground palace. One was the stone-breaking beast, the iron-armored mausoleum-piercing beast, and the other was the yin marrow jade that can calm the divine orifices.
Seeing this yin marrow jade, the grimace Taoist priest was moved. Although the article did not introduce the origin of this object, it said that it has the most yin nature and can make the wearer's seven orifices more sensitive than ordinary people. The disadvantage is that it easily attracts evil spirits.
The grimaced Taoist priest rubbed the jade pendant in his hand, and seemed to understand the reason for his extraordinary eyesight and hearing. At the same time, he also solved another confusion in his heart: that is why he still always encounters all kinds of evil spirits while carrying the Long Ming Dao, a treasure that wards off evil. Such "dirty stuff".
The article also mentioned that only Yin Marrow Jade can awaken the Iron-armored Tomb-piercing Beast. The ancestor of the Chen family discovered this accidentally, so there was
Later, the Taibao lineage of the Xian family appeared.
As for the underground palace that the ancestors of the Chen family found, it was obviously this place. As for the predecessor of this place, the records in the article are also very different from Zhao Ermu's oral account. However, one thing is the same, that is, before this temple, a blue man was indeed enshrined. The face of "Bodhisattva".
This temple was formerly called the "Void Temple". It is not a Buddhist thing, but a teaching place with a more distant and mysterious origin.
The Bodhisattva in the temple should be called "Master" to be precise, and his name is "Champa Namkha". Namkha means "void", so this temple is called the Void Temple.
Champa Nankha is the first of the eighty great achievers in this religion, second only to the founder Xinraomiwo. He was born in the Qiongyin City of Shangshung Kingdom. After achieving Dzogchen, the Dharmakaya has transformed into blue. Blue Color represents emptiness, innocence, purity and sincerity, so the statues in his temples all have blue faces or blue bodies.
Seeing this, He Siniang was confused and said: "This religion is just a local religion in Zhangxiong Kingdom. Its influence in the snowy land is not as good as Buddhism. Why do they have their religion in China, thousands of miles away?" field?"
"Perhaps before its decline, its influence was not small, but it was too long ago for us to understand." The grim-faced Taoist thought for a while and then said: "And Si Niang, do you remember that in the valley of King Hui's Tomb, at that time There have been traces of our religion.”
"Yes, I remember."
"This may be an indication that before Buddhism spread eastward, this religion had a certain scale in China."
He Siniang nodded in agreement.
"But we can only rely on guessing. There are only these records about the Void Temple in the bamboo slips. The following is an introduction to the origin of the armored mausoleum-piercing beast."
The ancestor of the Chen family seemed unsure about the origin of the armored mausoleum-piercing beast. He only speculated that it was an exotic snow-covered beast that was brought along with the spread of the sect to the east.
This alien beast's claws and teeth are very hard and can easily break through rocks, let alone ordinary rammed earth. It also likes shade and coolness. The Yin Qi in the ancient tomb has a natural attraction for it, but when the temperature is high It will fall into a deep sleep. If you want to wake it up, you must use Yin Marrow Jade.
It is precisely based on this characteristic of the armored mausoleum-piercing beast that the Chen family can drive it to fight for them. It is not the appearance of the gray fairy as rumored by outsiders. The reason for such rumors is simply to add a bit of mystery to their sect. That’s all.
The article also explains the hiding place of the armored mausoleum-piercing beast. It can be said that it is far away in the horizon and right in front of you, in a secret cabinet on the wall behind the table.
