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Chapter 68 Recording Ghost Book (1)

Ma Yiyan, the head of the Ma family in Jiangzhou, had three wives, none of whom lived past the age of 25, and none of them left any children.Ma Yiyan said sadly: "The fortune teller once told me that I was destined to be childless. Now, I should stop thinking about it." Even so, he still married his fourth wife out of luck. .

One day, his wife saw a one-horned steed in a dream. The steed ran in the sky for a few laps before stopping, and finally turned into a red horse and burrowed into her stomach.After his wife woke up, she told Ma Yiyan what happened in her dream, and Ma Yiyan said happily, "This is an auspicious sign." Soon after, news came that his wife was pregnant.

She was pregnant in October, and on the day of delivery, Ma Yiyan suddenly saw a purple light escaping from the eaves outside the door, and shouted anxiously: "My son, don't go!" Then he heard a cry like a horse neighing.The midwife ran out of the room crying and screaming, "The evil spirit has come to the world." It turned out that a very ugly baby was born, with a face like a horse, huge eyes, and hands curled up like hooves. with.

Ma Yiyan was afraid of causing disaster, so he was about to throw the baby into the river, but his wife hugged the baby tightly, crying and said: "It is not in line with the teachings of the saints to throw away the child who has been born so hard. Yes. Except for his ugly appearance, he is no different from other children in his sleeping peacefully." He pressed a pair of scissors against his own neck.Ma Yiyan had no choice but to put down the child, shook his head and walked out.

The baby was named Ma Lian. He did not learn to speak until he was three years old, and he did not learn to walk until he was nine years old. He was weak and sick, and every time he got sick, he seemed to die at any time, but he miraculously came back alive.The doctors were all surprised and thought it was all due to the protection of the gods.

When Ma Lian was 12 years old, he was playing alone at the door. A player walking on a rope happened to pass by. It is really a huge loss. If you can follow me and learn my skills, I will die without regret." Ma Lian said, "This is exactly what I expected." So he followed him and left without anyone knowing. where did they go.

Many years later, a walking rope king appeared in Chengdu. His body was as strong and rough as a horse, but he could stand firmly on the thick and thin silk thread of his hair and walk freely on both ends of the cliff.He was also able to throw the rope into the sky, and the rope hung straight down, as if tied to a cloud.When people saw it, they praised it one after another: "This is fairy art."

A young man said contemptuously: "This is just a trick to deceive people, there is nothing to be surprised about." The king of the cable said with a smile: "Since you don't believe it, why don't you climb up and have a look?" After climbing up the rope for three days and three nights, they finally reached the end of the rope, but saw that the rope was tied to the feet of a black-faced and red-haired ghost.The ghost angrily reprimanded the young man for his rudeness. The young man was taken aback and slipped off the rope in a hurry, never daring to speak big words again.

Later, a tea merchant in Jiangzhou recognized Zuosuo Wanglai and asked, "Aren't you Ma Yiyan's son Ma Lian?" Zuosuo Wang calmly replied, "I have never heard of this person." The tea merchant returned to Jiangzhou. Finally, he said to Ma Yiyan: "A person's appearance will change with time, and my memory will also be blurred, but Ma Lian's appearance is too strange, no one in the world will resemble him, I will never forget it."

So Ma Yiyan and his wife came to Chengdu from Jiangzhou and asked to see the king of Zou Suo, but the king of Zou Suo closed the door tightly and said loudly: "On the matter of Zou Suo, you can only stand like a crane if you concentrate on it. Will be fettered by the mortal world, be abandoned by the rope and lose your life, is this the result you want to see?" Ma Yiyan had to cry and leave with his wife.

Another three years later, the reputation of the king of walking ropes has spread throughout the world.Although he is not from the martial arts world, he is ranked among the top [-] masters in Jianghu by virtue of his superb skills, and he has received an invitation from Huashan Lunjian.On the way to Mount Hua, Zou Suo Wang ran into Gu Dichun, a lake girl in Changbai Mountain.Gudichun's bright wrists are covered with frost, as white as the moon, with the appearance of being out of the world.The king of zuosuo looked at her quietly, and said to himself sadly: "in the past, in order to pursue the highest state of zuosuo, I violated filial piety and abandoned my parents. After seeing Gu Dichun today, I realized that I am still far away. Far from having no desires and no desires, this is God's punishment for not serving my parents."

He tremblingly walked up to Gu Dichun to express his admiration.Gu Dichun was pursued by many heroes because of his outstanding appearance. He didn't pay attention to the king of Zuo Suo, but laughed at his appearance, saying: "The ugly stones on the roadside look up at the white clouds. What an insult." After hearing this, King Zou Suo left sadly.

Huashan Jianzong Lilangshan asked the rope-walking king to perform the rope-walking for everyone, but the rope-walking king refused repeatedly, but Lilangshan still insisted, and he had no choice but to walk on the rope between the cliffs.The walking rope king was as stable as Mount Tai all the way, flying lightly on the rope, agile like a crane, and walking like a horse. The onlookers were shocked by his superb skills and all praised him.Walking rope king walked to the center of the rope, suddenly a mountain wind blew, and the rope swayed left and right. Walking rope king tried several times to stabilize his body but failed, and finally fell into the cliff in front of everyone. Creepy.

Daoist Lingxu of Penglai Xianshan sighed and said: "It's all because of being messed up by the woman. It's the doomed fate of the Suo King." He ordered the boy to put the scattered and broken corpses of the Suo King into a cloth bag and bring them back. Penglai Mountain.In Mount Penglai, Daoist Lingxu used lotus roots to reshape the real body of the Suo Suo King, taught him the art of illusion and the art of exorcising demons, and accepted him as his closed disciple.Zuo Suo Wang was very grateful and devoted himself to learning fairy arts, but the idea of ​​leaving the fairy mountain became stronger day by day.

One day, he said to Taoist Lingxu: "I have been walking in rivers and lakes with rope walkers since I was a child. I am as free as a bird in the sky. Staying in one place for a long time will only make my legs shrivel and tremble. There is no way to do it." Reached the highest state of walking rope, I hope you can let me go."

Daoist Lingxu laughed three times after hearing this, and lightly flicked the face of the king of walking rope: "No desire and no desire is not the highest state of walking rope. Excessive pursuit of freedom has become a shackle that binds you, and even the morality of the world is not enough. Obey, what are you talking about a master?"

King Zuo Suo suddenly realized that he rushed back to Jiangzhou that day to serve his parents. From then on, he kept his name incognito and lived like an ordinary person.He is extremely filial and gentle with others. Although he has peerless skills, he never shows them off. He makes a job of slaughtering dogs in Jiangzhou.Five years later, Ma Yiyan and his wife passed away one after another. King Zuo Suo mourned excessively, vomited blood, and was dying. He supported the coffin and cried loudly.After the funeral, King Zuo Suo left Jiangzhou and traveled all over the rivers and lakes without a trace. He still slaughtered dogs as a profession and subdued many demons.

The mountain woodcutter said that he once saw an ugly man walking between the cliffs, and he didn't know if he was the king of walking ropes.

(End of this chapter)