White Bone Monkey King

It was still in the Xuan Palace made of white marble.

He was guarding the gate of the tower dully with his sword sharpened.

The old Taoist priest kept chattering about Jiajian, his mouth never idle for a moment, and he used his words to embolden himself in the dark and gloomy underground palace.

He is good at sharpening swords and has a good temper. If Jin An were to be here, I guess the old Taoist priest Chui would be interested.

Suddenly, the old Taoist priest tightened his expression and closed his mouth. He listened carefully to the movement outside. He heard the footsteps of several people outside the tower. Not long after, he saw Jin An, Xu Anping and Qianshi monks who had left before. Came back safe and sound.

But the expressions on the three people's faces didn't look good.

As soon as Jin An came back, he went straight to the point and asked the old Taoist priest: "Old Taoist, what kind of dead people can't be killed no matter how you kill them? Every time you kill them, they will condense into human form again like resentment, and the smell is extremely stinky."

Ah this?

The old Taoist priest was confused for a moment and asked Jin An what happened. Did he encounter anything while he was away?

So, Jin An explained in detail what happened after the three people left.

He felt that the old Taoist priest was well-informed, and perhaps he could get some clues through the old Taoist priest.

After hearing this, the old Taoist priest looked at him in surprise and said, "It turns out that those big noises you heard just now were caused by you, little brothers, encountering strange corpses and destroying them."

The old Taoist priest said without hesitation: "According to your description, little brother, every time the body feels like the resentment has been condensed again, and it smells extremely bad. Why do I think this thing is a bit like disaster energy? Could it be that you, little brothers, have just suffered a disaster?"

"Everyone present here is a member of Taoism and Buddhism. You must all know that after death, the breath of death will be blocked in the throat. After a certain period of time, the breath of death will naturally come out."

"Usually when rigor mortis has passed, after the first seven days, the body has softened and the throat bones have slipped, and the breath of death will be spit out."

"As for the smell of this breath, as you said, little brother, it is extremely stinky, worse than rotten eggs that have been left out for a month."

"This breath of death contains the cold nature of corpse poison. It is a highly poisonous thing. If it touches flowers and plants, they will wither instantly. If it touches a living person, the cold air will enter the body. The headache will not heal, the cough will not heal, the complexion will turn black, as if poisoned, and the mind will lose consciousness. I don’t know, etc. If the person died in vain, then the breath is not the ordinary breath of death, but the resentment and anger that has been held in the throat. If the anger does not dissipate, the corpse will be raised if forced to bury it. Therefore, it is often said among the people. It is said that when you meet someone who died in vain, or someone who died unexpectedly, don't let cats, dogs, crows and other animals break into the mourning hall, because the bad breath in the dead person's throat will use the vitality to raise the corpse. Have you heard of the cat-faced old lady? That’s the truth.”

"Even if the body needs to be moved, the body must be moved by close relatives such as parents, wives and children, and the body can only be moved from behind to prevent people from accidentally inhaling the evil breath and becoming evil. At worst, squatting in the son's house every day She scolds her son for being unfilial outside the window, and if the fuss gets too loud, he will enter the house and eat people."

The old Taoist priest finally said: "My experience as an old Taoist is limited. Based on my little brother's description, I can only think of the possibility of disaster. I haven't thought of other possibilities yet."

The old Taoist priest frowned in thought, and finally shook his head, indicating that he really couldn't think of any other clues.

Monk Qianshi, who was strong and calm, frowned and said: "Although what the old Taoist said makes sense, there seems to be something unreasonable in it..."

"For example, if the dead man in the jade coffin was really a breath of disaster exhaled from his throat, why did he turn into a human form and know how to hide in the jade coffin and practice secretly? There are details in this that make people think deeply."

"For another example, we are closest to the jade coffin. Why didn't people appear abnormal after accidentally inhaling a few breaths of bad breath?"

"The most important thing is, where did this breath of disaster come from, and who was buried in the underground palace with this breath of disaster. It can't be the master of the Taoist temple thousands of years ago. This is almost impossible."

Although Monk Qianshi came from the Sakyamuni Buddhism and was not a disciple of the Taoist sect, if he put himself in his shoes, he felt that even in Buddhism, a big demon would never be buried in the pagodas used to bury the golden bodies or relics of eminent monks. , because this is an insult to the tranquility of Buddhism.

At this time, even Xu Anping nodded in agreement with Monk Qianshi.

The old Taoist priest said without thinking: "Of course it's because the two of you are blessed by good luck and your life should not be cut off. You have another chance in the Cave Heaven Blessed Land. One is the 'Vengkong Li Di' Immortal Body, and the other is the 'Golden Pill Seed' Immortal." Body, my little brother, is a tough-minded person, and even the people who gather around him will get some blessings, hehe."

As he spoke, he raised his buttocks and changed himself into a comfortable sitting position. He twisted his beard and continued: "Actually, one thing is true. Jade can nourish people and corpses, but don't forget that this jade It can also be used to make magical instruments to consecrate and ward off evil spirits.”

"Why do you think it must be the evil corpse dove occupying the magpie's nest and hiding in the back hall of Xuan Palace to practice? Without considering another possibility..."

"Perhaps the truth is that whether it is the jade coffin, yellow talisman, coffin nails, or one's own efforts to change the feng shui pattern of the underground palace, restore the living spring, and use the endless vitality brought by the living spring water to suppress the evil atmosphere in the coffin, they all come from the same What about human hands? Only this truth can explain some details, such as why a breath of disaster can hide in a coffin to practice, such as why a breath of disaster can build a coffin for oneself. "

"You must know that the apse is the central axis of the Xuan Palace. It is a place in the mausoleum that releases yin energy and gathers yang energy, and is a good place for feng shui. This is why the apse of the mausoleums of past dynasties was used to store ancestors' spiritual tablets and important coffins. For the jade coffin In terms of the evil spirit inside, the apse on the central axis is a fire pit. It will not jump into the fire pit even if it knows it is a fire pit. Unless the apse is a place where yin gathers, but I think this Xuan Palace is in a Feng Shui place. The scriptures do not meet several major conditions for a place of gathering Yin.”

"Back then, the master of the Corpse Relief Immortal must have accidentally discovered a gap in the underground palace when he was looking for a quiet place to practice the Corpse Relief Immortal. He accidentally discovered this disaster in the underground palace. The master was compassionate and wanted to avoid this. The evil spirit escaped from the underground palace and caused disaster, so we found a jade coffin, sealed the evil spirit with yellow talismans and coffin nails, and suppressed it in the living spring of the apse on the central axis of the Xuan Palace."

When it comes to Feng Shui knowledge, old Taoist priests are the most professional.

Hearing what he said, I felt like I was enlightened and suddenly enlightened.

Jin An quietly gave a thumbs up to the old Taoist priest who was secretly lifting his buttocks, "You are still good, old Taoist," which made the old Taoist priest rub his hands and laugh.

Xu Anping nodded and pondered: "After what you said, the old Taoist Master, I thought about it carefully, and I can't rule out the possibility... But there is one thing I still can't figure out. If it is really a sigh of reluctance after death, this disaster Who does it come from?”

The old Taoist priest shrugged: "The world has changed, the clouds have changed, and the answer to this matter can only be found by traveling back to a thousand years ago when the Taoist temple was still prosperous."

That said, in fact, these words were just used to deceive Xu Anping and Monk Qianshi. Who did this calamity come from? Jin An and the old Taoist priest secretly looked at each other. They already had the answer in their hearts.

This is a huge human-shaped mausoleum. If it is really the remains of the legendary mountain god, then the origin of the disaster is self-evident.

Regardless of whether the profound palace in front of him is the atrium profound palace built near the chest or the heavenly profound palace built in the head, it is the place closest to the breath of disaster in the throat.

If this humanoid mausoleum really undergoes some changes due to the passage of time, it would be normal for it to "come back" and let out a sigh of relief.

If this breath of disaster is really caused by the resurrection of this underground palace, unless they can completely destroy the underground palace, they will never be able to extinguish the breath of disaster... Jin Anxin already has an answer in his head.

Fortunately, the dead man in the jade coffin was temporarily resealed with yellow talismans and coffin nails. Even if he really wanted to make a fuss, he shouldn't be able to make any big fuss in a short time. Since this breath of disaster can't kill him, Jin'an simply temporarily Ignoring it, under the guise of vigil, I sat alone at the door of the tower and counted the gains.

It's dark now, there are many dangers in the underground palace, and they can't go anywhere.

The first thing Jin An counted was the trophies from the Wutong Divine Sect, but they were all evil things, such as baby mummies, scarecrows used to lower their heads, placentas, corpse ropes, and a rope with no apparent use. Severed fingers, some bottles and jars used to raise ghosts, a few stacks of black talismans... these things are treasures to evil people, but they are useless to normal people.

There are not many really useful things, just some fruits to satisfy the hunger.

The strength of the Wutong Divine Sect's demons is not bad. If they hadn't encountered an alien like Jin An and could see through his Wutong Divine Transportation Technique, they wouldn't have died so aggrievedly.

Jin An burned all the useless things with a fire, and actually contributed 9100 yin virtues.

Then, he counted the bulk of the loot this time. King Xiao Ling was indeed his wealth-giving Taoist. The number of divine treasures in his body was no less than his.

Well, Jin An searched carefully and determined that there was not another Hot Wheel among the pile of divine treasures on King Xiao Ling, so he could not complete a complete pair.

One of his purposes for decisively killing King Xiao Ling this time was to target the other Hot Wheels Diamond Ring on King Xiao Ling. This will be his most important goal when facing the upcoming catastrophe. A way to save his life, but unexpectedly, his wish came true.

He frowned.

Jin An suppressed his emotions for the time being and continued to count other items. There are only so many things a person can carry. In fact, there are not many really useful things on King Ling. The next ones are all bits and pieces, which caught his attention the most. Yes, three of them.

The first thing is a fruit. The fruit is full of gleaming green light, a bit like a child sleeping with his arms crossed. As soon as Jin An takes it out, the tower is immediately filled with amazing vitality.

This is the first time Jin An has encountered a spiritual fruit with such amazing vitality during this trip.

The second thing that attracted his attention was a yellow talisman with astonishing spirituality. The yellow talisman was a Yuan Shen magic weapon. He couldn't identify what the Yuan Shen yellow talisman was for the time being. When he has time, he could ask an old Taoist priest or ask him in person. The answer can be found in the talisman book left to him by Master Yuyouzi.

The third item was two brocade bags. I don’t know if it was because Jin An knocked down one of the brocade bags with the treasure money last time. King Xiao Ling was much more cautious this time and divided the pieces of Luo Geng’s jade plate into Got two brocade bags.

In a brocade bag are nine pieces of Luogeng jade plate.

The other brocade bag contains seven Luogeng jade plate fragments.

Jin An's eyes showed something strange.

Including his original thirty-eight jade fragments, he now collected a total of fifty-four Luogeng jade plate fragments.

"I once heard King Xiao Ling mention that he once got a pair of ginseng fruits. The pair of green ginseng fruits growing on the same root were like a pair of golden boys and girls, lifelike. Now only one boy's ginseng is left. Fruit, it seems that King Xiao Ling has already taken one of the ginseng fruits." The movement of the ginseng fruit in Jin An's hand was so loud that even Xu Anping was attracted to the door of the five-color earth pagoda.

oh? Jin An asked calmly: "Do you know the specific uses of this ginseng fruit, Fellow Daoist Xu?"

This time Xu Anping shook his head. Naturally, Prince Xiao Ling would not tell outsiders about this kind of thing.

However, it is not difficult for Jin An to guess the general purpose of this ginseng fruit. The little King Ling was so seriously injured by him before that a normal person would have been seriously injured and died. Even if he did not die, the leg with only a little skin left would definitely not be saved. .

As a result, when I saw King Xiao Ling again this time, not only had his injuries healed, but the muscles and bones in his legs had all grown back. He must have had another destiny.

Thinking back to the fact that King Xiao Ling did not carry any other spiritual fruits, but only this one that looked as lifelike as a child, the reason why King Xiao Ling recovered so quickly from his injuries may be because of the life essence in his hand. It is related to the ginseng fruit of children with amazing vitality. The majestic vitality has the effect of life and death, human flesh and white bones.

Speaking of this, Jin An was reminded of the ginseng fruit in the Wuzhuang Temple of Zhenyuan Daxian in the myth. It is said that the ginseng fruit blooms once every three thousand years, bears fruit once every three thousand years, takes another three thousand years to mature, and can only be eaten in ten thousand years. If a person is destined to smell the fruit, he will live 360 ​​years, and if he eats one, he will live 47,000 years.

Of course, Jin An would not really naively think that this ginseng fruit was the ginseng fruit of Wuzhuangguan Zhenyuan Immortal.

However, looking at the ginseng fruit in his hand that looked as lifelike as a child, sleeping with his eyes closed and hugging his knees, Jin Anxin had a grudge and couldn't be greedy for it.

Seemingly seeing Jin An's hesitation, Xu Anping said with a smile: "This is just a fruit that looks like a human. It is not a living child, and it does not have three souls and seven souls like a human. There are all kinds of strange things in this world, and they are all different. There are too many to mention, just like the ginseng, poria, polygonatum, Ganoderma lucidum, and fleece multiflorum in the five magic medicines of alchemy. As the heat increases, they can grow human limbs and facial features. The longer they grow, the more human-like they are. In fact, in the final analysis, they are used to The medicinal material used in medicine is not a human being. Just think of it as a strange-looking sweet potato or radish."

Well.

Having said that, Jin An still couldn't get over the human-looking spirit fruit in his hand.

If he really wants to eat it, he will definitely have a psychological shadow.

Finally, Jin An put the child's ginseng fruit into a sack and talked about it later.

"The people in the Tianshi Mansion are the most defensive, and they are quite popular in the court. They are used to acting in a flamboyant way. If you kill King Xiao Ling today, the whole Tianshi Mansion will be furious. There is no room for rectification in this matter. From now on, You have to be more careful." Although Xu Anping had only known Jin An for a few days, but they felt like old friends once they met, he solemnly warned him that he was afraid that Jin An would become murderous and really fight against the Tianshi Mansion and fight to the death.

"Monk Qianshi and I come from the Zhenguo Temple in Jinque, Yujing. The Tianshi Mansion can't do anything to us, but we are afraid that the Tianshi Mansion will go crazy and anger others."

"After this incident, you masters and disciples had better stay anonymous for a while, and then continue to come out after the news has passed, so as not to be bitten by the people of Tianshi Mansion."

Jin An looked shocked: "What! King Xiao Ling is dead? Who killed him?"

"I accidentally picked up these things in the underground palace."

Xu Anping: "?"

"!"

Jin An, who had looked unserious just now, suddenly looked solemn: "Thank you, maybe we won't have another chance to see each other after leaving the Cave Heaven Paradise. Even if we meet again next time, I will abandon this false identity and use another one." We meet as strangers, but I still want to say thank you to Fellow Daoist Xu for your kindness."

Xu Anping laughed freely: "There is no need to say thank you for your great kindness. On the road before, I overheard the old Taoist priest saying that you still have one beggar's chicken. If you really want to express your gratitude, why not use one beggar's chicken to offset the loss?" A favor."

After running around for a day, he was already hungry. The reason why he didn't take out the fruit he brought with him to satisfy his hunger was that he had been waiting for Jin An and the others to bring out the beggar's chicken so that he could have some wine and meat.

"..."

There were several black lines hanging down Jin An's forehead. The emotion he had just felt was all in vain. The other person had been staring at his cock.

After they had had enough wine and meat, Jin An asked Xu Anping something seemingly casually: "Fellow Daoist Xu, do you know why King Xiao Ling has been deliberately collecting so many Luogeng jade plate fragments? Is there anything hidden in them?" secret?"