White Bone Monkey King

Speaking of pest control trees.

I have to mention a Taoist classic "Behind the Elbow".

"Behind the Elbow" records many Chinese medicine prescriptions, including many methods and prescriptions for preventing and treating plague.

Among them was the method of sending plague ships.

In traditional folklore, plagues are often regarded as evil spirits causing trouble, and because there are five plague emperors in Taoist mythology, the folk only mention dispatching, driving, and sending away plagues, but not destroying or killing them.

Firstly, they are afraid that people are saying that ghosts are listening. For example, the older generation uses rat poison secretly and does not want family members to say it openly. The older generation explains that all things have spirituality to prevent others from listening, so they do not take the rat poison.

The second reason is that I am worried about causing the misunderstanding of the Five Plague Emperors, thinking that the people want to kill the righteous god. The Five Plague Emperor, also called the Five Blessing Emperor, is the righteous god who drives away plagues and prevents diseases and disasters. If you anger the Emperor of Five Blessings, who will drive away the plague and pain for you in the future?

The word "dispatch ship" is as it sounds. If a large-scale epidemic breaks out in a certain place, and because there is no way to cure it temporarily, the only choice is to abandon the car to save the troops, taking the overall situation into consideration, imprison all the infected people on the ship and then exile them across the ocean. A glimmer of hope has been left for you. Whether you live or die depends entirely on your destiny.

There are many folk stories about plague ships.

According to legend, in the past, a merchant encountered a large ship with masts and no sails in the ocean at night. He suspected that it was a pirate ship and accidentally collided with it. However, they saw that the ship was full of talismans and paper-tied statues of gods with strange paintings. Everyone on the merchant ship was frightened. Within a few days, all the crew members died of the disease.

Where to send the dragon boat? Among the ten continents, three islands and five lakes, this is the plague boat. However, there are also places where they will directly set fire to the boat to do everything possible and leave no room for the living.

The principle of dispelling plague trees is the same as that of sending plague ships. In inland areas far away from the coast, there is no vast ocean to expel plague people, and there are worries about the pollution of lakes and rivers water sources affecting the people downstream, so the people have developed plague-repelling trees and plague-sending caves.

People in some places believe that there must be detoxifying grass within five steps of the five-step snake, so they firmly believe that there must be something to defeat it in the epidemic area. The people in this place will find the oldest ancient tree in the nearby mountains and put it there. People are tied to ancient trees and left to fend for themselves. Whether they live or die in the end depends on God's will. Those who survive in the end must be those who do not deserve to die.

The same goes for sending plague caves. In some arid Gobi areas, where there is neither sea nor big trees, people are imprisoned in caves. The underground can lead to the underworld. If you walk around the gates of the underworld without dying, it means that the Lord of Hell thinks that your life is not over yet and the underworld will not accept you.

In fact, whether it is the plague ship recorded in "Behind the Elbow" or the plague-repelling trees or plague-sending caves developed by the people on the plague ships, they are all isolation and prevention methods that people have no choice but to face when medicine and stone cannot cure them. Everyone We all know that from the moment people are sent to the plague ship, plague tree, or plague cave, they are all dead. It's just that the people believe in the idea of ​​good and evil that "the number of avenues is fifty, the number of heavens is forty-nine, leaving a way for people to survive", so they find excuses to not only comfort themselves, but also give the epidemic a belief to survive. Everyone deserves it. required.

These contents were what he saw in the strange book "Guangping Youshuo Synaesthesia". On their way home through mountains and rivers, Guangping San people encountered the plague-repelling tree.

When Guangping Sanren passed by the primitive mountains filled with poisonous miasma, thunder suddenly fell from the sky, the lightning was as thick as a thunder dragon, and the Yang energy was powerful. After the residual heat of the lightning dissipated, Guangping San people found the place where the lightning struck, and found that it was not the mountain spirits that caused the thunder disaster, but a thousand-year-old tree that was struck by lightning. The rest of the trunk was gone, leaving only a small section of the burned stump.

In addition to tree stumps, Guangping San people also found many scattered molten iron chains nearby, as well as incense candles and yellow talismans left by sacrifices.

Wherever lightning strikes, demons must form into a climate and cause chaos in the heaven and earth.

The scattered people in Guangping made inquiries and read the local county annals, only to learn that too many people died in the local war in the early years. Coupled with the poisonous miasma entrenched in the mountains, diseases and pests overflowed and multiplied, and a plague broke out.

Because the local doctors were helpless, in order to take the overall situation into consideration, they finally chose the ancient plague-repelling tree and drove the people deep into the mountains to fend for themselves.

Although the Guangping Sanren did not mention what the plague-repelling tree looked like in the "Guangping Youshuo Synaesthesia Record" and whether any of those plagued people survived by chance, Jin An had already guessed the outcome.

The probability of survival of such expelled infected people is very slim, and they may all die in the end. These desperate people, because of their obsession and resentment, and because the dense forests block the sun, lack of sunshine, the rise of yin and the decline of yang, poisonous miasma, plague, yin, corpse qi, resentment... all kinds of poisons are gathered into one body, and in the end they are afraid of breeding. A huge demon appears, which is why thunder disasters are caused.

Jin An untied the stomach bag around his waist, and a statue flew out. It was the statue of the Thousand-Eyed Taoist Lord that he took into the small underworld.

This evil god's clairvoyance is just right for him to explore the underworld.

"Is this the little underworld? Hey, martial arts human immortal, why did you become a martial arts corpse immortal?"

"I understand, I understand. You are now holding a pearl in your mouth."

The statue of the Thousand-Eyed Taoist Lord made an expression of sudden realization, and then all the thousand eyes winked at Jin An. It was unclear whether the scene was funny or terrifying.

Jin An did not follow this topic and went straight to the point and roughly told the situation after entering the small underworld.

The next moment, thousands of eyes opened on the statue's body, looking around: "Strange, strange, martial arts corpse immortal, this place is very strange."

"There are black whirlwinds everywhere here, which can seal people's five senses. You can't see anything. I can only see where you can."

Jin An pretended to have a cold voice: "So I brought a useless god into the underworld?"

Sure enough, the statue of the Thousand-eyed Taoist Lord, who originally wanted to be lazy and slippery, trying to occupy the Taoist Huangting inner scene's immortality without any effort, was so irritated by Jin An, and all the thousands of eyes on his body immediately rolled their eyes: "Martial Dao Corpse Immortal, you are not just Yintang. Hey, returning a corpse looks down upon others!"

"There is no shortage of corpses, ghosts and ghosts in this little underworld. Martial Arts Corpse Immortal, please help me dig out some human eyeballs. I will open your eyes later and let you see what it means to reach the sky in the late third realm!"

The statue of the Thousand-Eyed Taoist Master revealed a martial arts corpse immortal in one mouthful, causing Jin An to snap his fingers in the air.

Along the way, the mouth of the Thousand-Eyed Daojun statue never stopped.

"This is my first time hearing about the plague-repelling tree. Martial Arts Corpse Immortal, have you ever seen the plague-repelling tree?"

"Martial Arts Corpse Immortal, your Yintang is now dark, and the Yang Fire of your Life Palace is temporarily suppressed. When you encounter the Plague Exorcist Tree, what means are you going to use to succumb to the demon?"

"Could it be that you, the Martial Arts Corpse Immortal, are planning to show your true strength in this little underworld?"

"We, the Martial Arts Corpse Immortal, have come so far and yet we haven't seen the Plague Exorcism Tree. Could it be that the people from the Tianshi Mansion deliberately set a trap for us?"

"Martial Arts Corpse Immortal..."

Jin An's temples were bruised by the chatter, and he turned around and glared: "I think you won't be called Qianyan Daojun in the future. You will be renamed Qianzui Daojun. I originally wanted to rely on your clairvoyance."

The statue of the Thousand-Eyed Dao Lord was still about to retort unconvinced. Suddenly, one person and one evil god all shut up and turned their heads to stare ahead.

"Martial Arts Corpse Immortal, did you see it just now?"