After asking, I suddenly felt stupid. Of course he is looking for the same thing as us. It is absolutely impossible for a person who has set up eight strange formations to seal multiple souls in the same place.
Qin Bukong said to me, pull him up, you two are lying on the ground awkwardly, how ugly it is. Then he came up to Jiang Xuerou and said, brat, we won't do anything to you now, but you have to behave yourself, otherwise you will be used as a teething stick for my big snake. Jiang Xuerou nodded repeatedly, so I released my lock on his legs, then pulled him up and let his back lean against the big stone pillar in the center of the array.
Only now did I see Jiang Xuerou’s appearance clearly. He has a long face, even in such a dim environment, it looks very white, with thin eyebrows, but a pair of big eyes. He looks to be in his twenties, not big, and looks thin. There was dust on his face and forehead, probably from when he drilled the hole and when I jumped on him. Jiang Xuerou's face was full of horror, as if everything that had happened so quickly had not been digested by him and he had not yet come to his senses.
But when he saw me, he also had a surprised expression on his face. He didn't seem to expect that I was also so young, barely a few years older than him.
Qin Bukong asked Jiang Xuerou, how did you find this place? Jiang Xuerou said that a while ago, the master got a manuscript written by an ancient person. It records a large number of anecdotes about metaphysics. This manuscript should have been written in the mid-Qing Dynasty. At that time, the Qing troops entered the customs and quickly swept across China. Because the people in power knew that since they had settled in Zhongyuan, the barbarian customs in Manchuria in the past should be assimilated to the Han people to a greater extent, so on the one hand they continued to attack cities and fortresses, and on the other hand they also Search for all the treasures lost among the people.
Jiang Xuerou said that he had read the manuscript himself, and it mentioned that during the Northern Song Dynasty, the Miao witch king "Ghost Mudang" was fought with an expert named "She Xiuping" for more than a month, and finally killed the witch king. And the story of sealing the soul. Jiang Xuerou said that at the time, she thought it was a legend. After all, in history, there was almost no relevant information about these two people. However, at the end of this story, it is mentioned that "the distant seal is hidden in the city, and all the evil spirits gather within three thousand feet. It is stored in the underground palace for a hundred feet, and the seven evil spirits are guarded, so that future generations may not be mistaken." words, and emphasized that until the manuscript was turned into a book, the seal had not been found.
Regarding this story, the ancient man who wrote the book also mentioned that in the early years when Zhang Xianzhong entered Sichuan, the Qing army used the pretext of killing Zhang Xianzhong to send a large army up the river from what is now Nanjing, killing and searching along the way. The treasures left among the people naturally include the soul of the Witch King. However, all the people killed by the Qing army were blamed on Zhang Xianzhong.
As for whether this period of history is true or false, no one can tell now. Just Jiang Xuerou mentioned one thing, which greatly increased the possibility of the whole thing. He said that the ancients once wrote that in order to show off their power and incite the people to resist Zhang Xianzhong, the Qing army wrote seven identical inscriptions in seven different places. There is a sentence in the inscription that is the seven-character rule. These seven characters are "kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill"!
I know this. As for the Seven Kills Monument, it is said that none of the existing ones in the world are authentic. They are all later copies. But Jiang Xuerou said, where we are now, I checked the old county annals in the local library. In the early Qing Dynasty, this place used to be the "Fansi Governor's Office" used to educate barbarians and ethnic minorities. According to the records, According to the transcript, one of the Seven Kills Monuments was erected in the corner of the Yamen courtyard.
Qin Bukong and I were a little surprised when we listened to what Jiang Xuerou, a thin man, said. Although we know for sure that there is the soul of the Witch King here, we have never understood the past and present life of this place, and we have never even thought about why the master chose this place to seal it. At the moment, Jiang Xuerou seems to mean that the Qing government knew about the seal here, so it deliberately chose the site to build a government office here to educate the feudal lords, and even set up monuments to suppress it.
Qin Bukong asked, what is the connection between the Seven Kills Monument you mentioned and the soul of the Witch King here. A look of pride flashed across Jiang Xuerou's face, and he said that this was actually what he had guessed. Because the ancients wrote about "the guardianship of Qisha Pass", he boldly speculated that the "Qisha" in the Qisha tablet was actually homophonic with "Qisha". Under such a coincidence, he felt There is a need to explore here.
After Jiang Xuerou told his master his thoughts, the master also felt that this matter was of great significance. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, China fell into decades of war. Some old and buried things survived because everyone fled the war. So with a sense of luck, Master also speculated that the soul of the Witch King was , has not yet been found and taken out. Of course, the premise is that the contents of this manuscript are true and not just nonsense.
So Jiang Xuerou asked the teacher to report that he would go to this place to investigate in detail. If the situation is true and there is indeed the soul of the Witch King here, then he would report it back to the teacher after getting the evidence and let everyone work together to find this soul. In the future, development and construction will destroy the seal here, and the people will suffer as a result.
I kind of admire Jiang Xuerou's master. If he doesn't really want to take it as his own, then he is indeed a compassionate person. Jiang Xuerou continued, so he came to the local area in advance to collect local news. After observing for a long time, he found that where we are now, which is the small alley where Qin Bukong rented the house, there are almost all bungalows and dilapidated buildings. The old houses are mainly old houses, and strangely, there have been large-scale constructions nearby, but they seem deserted. On the contrary, with this place as the center and radiating out about one kilometer, there is a very prosperous area in Hankou. However, this small area always looks shabby despite the prosperity around it.
Jiang Xuerou said, have you noticed that this kilometer is almost exactly three thousand feet away? This fact also confirms the sentence in the handwritten scroll: "All evil gathers within three thousand feet." Although Qin Bukong and I didn't speak, we both nodded secretly. Jiang Xuerou continued with some pride, so he judged at that time that the center of this circular range, a hundred feet below, almost thirty-three meters deep, should be the location where the Witch King's soul was sealed.
I was a little stunned, even a little impressed. The lean man in front of me didn't expect that his little head was so smart. We found this place largely because of the rumors Qin Bukong heard in his early years, and because he had been dug up before, so there was some luck involved. However, Jiang Xuerou relied purely on his own observations and the results of previous generations. Notes and careful calculations will help you find this location accurately.
But I was still a little dissatisfied, so I asked him, why did you dig from the ground to the soles of our feet instead? Jiang Xuerou scratched his head in embarrassment and said that it was because he had hired some workers to dig before, but he dug too much and felt unreliable, so he dismissed the workers and dug the rest of the road himself. Qin Bukong also asked, how long have you been digging? Why haven't we heard the sound of you digging rocks before? Jiang Xuerou shrugged and said, maybe it was because we were still far apart at the time, or maybe you didn't pay attention.
We stopped talking again, and besides that, there really was no better explanation. So after being stunned for a moment, Qin Bukong asked Jiang Xuejue again, "Tell me, what does Qisha Pass mean? To be honest with you, before you got here, the little brother in front of me and I had been in a row." After breaking the eight-door formation guarding the center of the formation, we are thinking about how to open the seal at the center of the formation. Have you seen those round holes on the ground?
After speaking, he pointed to the ground and said, these eight round holes are used to insert the eight vajra prongs we obtained earlier. Jiang Xuerou took advantage of the situation and looked down, and then said, "I noticed it just now, ahem, before you get out." If it is Qisha Pass, then there shouldn't be eight holes here. I thought I understood it wrong. Before I could understand it, you stopped me.
I said to Qin Bukong, do you still remember that there are seven long bricks on the heart stone pillars? Could it be the Qisha Pass he mentioned? Before Qin Bukong could answer, I turned around and asked Jiang Xuerou, what exactly is Qisha Pass?
Jiang Xuerou said that the so-called seven evil spirits refer to demons, demons, demons, demons, mandrills, demons, and Kui. These are all extremely ferocious demons and ghosts. Each guards a separate level to protect the Witch King's soul together. This soul is originally a thing that gathers resentment, and these seven evil spirits are all caused by this.
Sure enough, it seems that the Eight Gate Formation that Qin Bukong and I worked so hard to break has only entered the outer periphery. It's like peeling a hard-boiled egg. What we have broken through is only the shell. The real egg yolk is where the center of the formation lies. If we want to find the egg yolk, we have to clean up the egg white part.
Thinking of this, I suddenly felt depressed. It seems that the overall situation set by the ancients thousands of years ago cannot be broken by Qin Bukong and I. But at this time, Jiang Xuerou asked without opening any pot, what is the Eight Gate Formation you just mentioned? Why have I never heard of it? Qin Bukong and I looked at each other, and it was obvious that we both thought of the same thing, and then I said to Jiang Xuerou, uh... this... don't mention it, don't mention it...
