Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 12 The First Dream

The back mountain of Tsingyi Village is just a small mountain. Although it doesn’t look big, it connects westward to the longest and widest north-south mountain system in China—the Hengduan Mountains. It stretches for nearly two thousand miles, with high mountains and deep valleys, dense forests There are not only rare animals such as giant pandas and golden monkeys, but also ferocious beasts such as tigers, leopards, and bears. The entire mountain is an undeveloped primitive area, and no one knows how many secrets are hidden in it.

My grandfather and I walked on the rugged mountain road, the roadside was overgrown with weeds, and it was a desolate scene.Since the back mountain was contracted by tea merchants, the villagers seldom went up the mountain. In addition, after the Snake King Temple was demolished, all kinds of weird things happened in the village and my grandfather warned that no one came up again. The group of tea merchants who contracted this place didn't know what happened. Except for a few people who were sent to survey the ground at the beginning, they didn't send any more people later.

"Grandpa, why don't we take the main road, but here instead!" I asked a little puzzled. Since I went up the mountain, my grandfather took me along a weed path beside the mountain road. No one has passed by for a long time, and the potholed road is full of weeds and wild flowers. Walking on it, it almost covered my feet.

Seeing how difficult it was for me to walk, Grandpa simply stopped, stretched out two big hands and hugged me directly, and walked quickly with both legs, he said as he walked: "Come closer here. , the old Taoist is probably still on his way.”

A thought suddenly flashed in my mind, and I blurted out: "Grandpa, do you know where that monster is? I feel like you know a lot of things."

Grandpa was startled, and then said with a smile: "As expected of my grandson, Chen Youcai, your baby is smart. Now, Grandpa won't hide some things from you."

Grandpa found a slightly spacious space and put me on the ground. Then he lowered his waist and reached out to unbutton my clothes. I believe that grandpa will not harm me.

Grandpa pulled off the clothes on my left shoulder, exposing my bare shoulders to the sun, and there was a cup-sized phoenix imprint on my left shoulder, which appeared vivid in the sun, as if it was about to spread its wings and fly.

"My dear grandson, do you know what this means?" Grandpa pointed to the phoenix mark on my left shoulder and asked me.

"Didn't you say it was my birthmark before?" I was a little puzzled, and I somehow thought of the woman in the white coffin. She also had a phoenix mark on her left shoulder, which was exactly the same.

Hers is gold and mine is teal.

Grandpa smiled and said, "It's not wrong to say that this is a birthmark, because it was accompanied by you when you came out of the mother's womb. But it has extremely important meaning to my Chen family."

Grandpa squinted his eyes, his eyes flashed with excitement, and he said: "The information passed down by the ancestors is actually not much, the most important of which is related to this imprint."

"When a child born with a phoenix and bird appears in the descendants of the Chen family, it will be the day when the Snake Temple will be demolished. The Snake Temple will be demolished, and the demon gate will be opened. All the Chen family will send this child to the back mountain at all costs. In the Ancient Soul Ridge, my Chen family's Longxing Land is buried there, things that my Chen family has dreamed of for 300 years!"

"It's because you have this imprint on your body, so when Li Dao Scar came to demolish the Snake King Temple, I didn't stop me, because that was what the ancestors had already calculated. My dear grandson, if it wasn't for you , then I, Chen Youcai, will try my best to keep the Shejun Temple, this is the fate of our Chen family!"

I felt a chill on my body, and it turned out that the root of everything came from the phoenix mark on my body. I reached out and touched the mark on my left shoulder, and it was no different from other skin. In my ten years of life, it also Having never displayed any strange abilities, I don't understand what it really represents.

I was waiting to ask again, but was interrupted by my grandpa. He buttoned my clothes, touched my head and said, "Okay, dear grandson, I know what you want to ask, but there are some things that grandpa doesn't agree with." I know, you may know the truth of all this when you enter Guhun Ridge. You just need to understand that grandpa will not harm you, and neither will the ancestors of my Chen family. Everything we plan is just to make you Can you get to..."

Grandpa suddenly closed his mouth at the end, he picked me up silently, and continued on his way.I feel like Grandpa is hiding something from me, but when I see his tightly pursed lips, I know those deeper secrets, Grandpa won't tell me now.

Grandpa runs extremely fast, even if he is holding me as a burden, he doesn't seem to be affected at all. I watched the surrounding scenery pass by quickly, and the sound of howling wind echoed in my ears. Grandpa's skills don't look like a five or sixty-year-old I am afraid that the fastest running speed of those young boys can't catch up with the current grandpa.

I closed my eyes, listened to the wind in my ears, and fell asleep in a daze, falling into a strange state.

It was a lengthy dream. In the dream, I seemed to see a group of people kneeling on the ground. They wore gorgeous clothes and wore strange masks on their faces. I couldn't see their appearance clearly, I could only see them Facing the high platform in front of me, clasped hands and knelt down, and made some strange gestures, which seemed to be a kind of etiquette for them. Their mouths sang awkward and complicated words, and I couldn't understand or understand what they said .

Dimly, I looked in the direction of their kneeling. In front of them, there was a tall altar. The sides of the altar were decorated with dazzling gold, jade, and countless ivory and precious stones.

The altar is very high and very large. I looked up along the steps of the altar, and there seemed to be a figure there. She was shrouded in a ball of brilliance, releasing a dazzling brilliance.I couldn't see her appearance clearly. When I opened my eyes wide and tried to see her appearance clearly, I felt dazzled for a while, and tears flowed down my cheeks.

Waking up from the dream, I reached out and touched my face, which was wet.

"My dear grandson, what's the matter with you?" I saw my grandfather standing aside, looking at me anxiously, and he stretched out a big hand to wipe away the tears on my face.

I looked around and looked at the surrounding environment. I don’t know when I was put on a big rock by my grandfather. I was surrounded by an open space full of strange rocks. There were no trees, no grass, and no living objects. The place seemed dead and silent. gloomy.

"My dear grandson, what's the matter with you? I saw you fell asleep just now, so I put you on this rock. I didn't expect you to wake up immediately, with tears on your face." Grandpa was a little worried. Looking at me, it has reached the most critical step in the Chen family's plan, and he doesn't want any accidents to happen.

I shook my head and said to my grandpa: "Grandpa, it's nothing. I just had a dream. I dreamed that a tiger was chasing me, and I cried out of fear."

I don't know why I lied to my grandpa, but I have a faint feeling in my heart that the dream I just had seems to have a lot to do with me, so I can't tell anyone.

Grandpa didn't speak, he stared into my eyes and looked at me with guilt, I didn't dare to look at him, so I lowered my head and straightened my wrinkled clothes, I knew he could tell that I was lying, because every time I used to When you lie, you will lower your head and dare not look at people. This seems to be a physiological reaction that cannot be controlled.

Grandpa was silent for a long time before he said in a muffled voice: "The old Taoist priest should be here soon. No matter what happened just now, you must cheer up now and listen to Grandpa. This is the most critical time in the past 300 years of my Chen family. You can only succeed, not fail!"

I nodded, and asked again: "Grandpa, since this is our Chen family's plan, why did you ask that old Taoist to come, and said that he came up to the mountain to catch monsters?"

I found that during this period of time, my thinking ability has improved a lot. I vaguely thought that the master and apprentice from Mount Emei seemed to be being led away by my grandfather all the time.

Although my grandpa usually has a bad temper, he will not take the initiative to block the door to provoke others like this morning, and even make sarcasm and ridicule. It was to stimulate the old Taoist to go up the mountain to catch the monster himself.

Grandpa listened to my words, he sighed rarely, and said in a low voice: "Because grandpa has no skills, alas, since the ancestor Shengzhigong, the descendants of the Chen family have not been as good as one generation after another, especially in terms of Taoism. There has never been a genius like Mr. Sheng. Your grandfather and I are mediocre, and I know my own weight, so I am not sure that I can send you to that place safely."

"So, grandpa wants to stimulate that old Taoist priest and ask him to help!" I said.

Grandpa glanced at me approvingly, and continued: "The Snake Lord Temple is demolished, and the demon gate is opened. The Snake Lord Temple is the hub of a Taoist formation laid down by our ancestors. Once it is demolished, the eyes of the formation will be broken and suppressed for 300 The leakage of the evil spirit of the year will naturally trigger the vision of the world, that is, the earth dragon turned over that night."

"Without the suppression of the formation, those spirits will naturally start to do evil. Our Chen family's plan in the past is to use the excuse of eliminating monsters to invite Taoist cultivators with high magic power. Join hands with them, or praying mantis to catch cicadas. The bird is behind." At the end of the grandfather's words, a smile appeared on his face.

I thought of certain plots on TV, first let a group of people take the lead for me, and then hide behind to count on others to take advantage of it. The more I watched it, the more I felt that grandpa was doing this kind of thing now.

"Grandpa, aren't you afraid that the old Taoist finally took advantage of it? He looks like he has a lot of skills. What if he takes away the things planned by our Chen family?" I asked with some concern. , after all, I watched TV dramas since I was a child, and there are quite a few such plots on TV.

Grandpa laughed after hearing my words: "Hehe, how could it be so easy? Our Chen family has calculated for more than 300 years, how can we let others take advantage of it? This matter is indispensable for the right time, place, people and everything. If it is not correct If you don’t have the right time and the right person, then his end will be very miserable!”

"Then since the ancestor of our Chen family, Chen Shengzhi, is so powerful, why didn't he kill all the monsters on the mountain at the beginning, so that we can go in directly?" I rubbed my eyes and asked my grandfather curiously. road.

When I saw my grandfather listened to my words, there was a very rare look of blankness in his eyes. He shook his head at me after a long while and said, "The ancestors have their own calculations. In short, follow the plan they gave us. Just go down the road."

"It is my destiny, Chen Youcai, to protect you from growing up and to escort you to the plan of the ancestors. And you, Chen Zixuan, my grandson, is to inherit the greatest gift from the ancestors and get it. Use it to open up the brightest future for our Chen family." I saw grandpa's eyes getting brighter and brighter, and a bright smile bloomed on his face.

At this moment, a human voice came from not far away. Grandpa's face changed, and he hugged me around, and moved behind a pile of big rocks, blocking the figure.

"Daoist, is this really the place? Why do I feel a little weird?" Zhao Laowu's loud voice can be heard clearly from a long distance. He is also bold, so many people in the village don't He dared to follow up the mountain, but he followed Wuwei Daoist without saying a word, and I don't know if it was related to his young daughter.

"That's right, it's right, the place where monsters live can still make you feel uncomfortable! My master will take action, and naturally there will be no problems!" A gust of wind blew a mocking word into my ear.

I hid behind the stone and looked out with a pair of eyes exposed. The person who was talking was the little fat man Yang Kun. He was walking next to Wuwei Daoist.

And in front of them, there was a yellow-haired fox...

(End of this chapter)