Chapter 140: Trapped in a Ghost Village(1/2)
Behind the dilapidated palace, it was not a garden, but a chasm. Between the waist-deep weeds, there were dense wastelands, neither white sail nor tombstones, but even so, it was still not the worst, because there were more wooden coffins around and half-filled tombs that were filled or half-digged. As for the scattered dry bones, there were even more bones everywhere, and there was no one who could tell who they belonged to.
"This damn ghost place!" Someone suddenly made a speech after being stunned for a long time.
Guan Qingye touched the side, "You are right, this is really a ghost place." He almost beat the last three words, and everyone understood the meaning of his words.
Ghost, for Tianyou in his previous life, this existence only exists in film and television, literary works and legends, but is a real thing in this world. At least everyone in the Shenzhou Continent is convinced that they are real.
Tianyou's perception of the existence of ghosts is very contradictory. On the one hand, the worldview before traveling through time constantly denies the existence of ghosts, and on the other hand, the sixteen years of ears and eyes constantly proves the real existence of ghosts. However, in terms of personality, Tianyou is more willing to believe that ghosts are real, because Guiqi is also one of his main hobbies.
There were 28 people on the scene, except for Tianyou, who believed that ghosts really existed, just as everyone on Earth was convinced that great white sharks existed, although 99% of them had never seen them with their own eyes.
Seeing so many dead bones in the graves and the meaning of the words "Filling the green leaves" made everyone feel that the whole body shivering in broad daylight, and even the scorching sun above their heads seemed to have suddenly lost its temperature.
"I, I, I...we really want to wait here until ugly?" A student asked the others tremblingly.
No one answered his question, but the answer was obvious.
"Everyone, since we have already shown it, our mission has been completed. I wish you all the best to pass the assessment." The two servants quickly finished the above content and opened the scroll back to the city without waiting for everyone to react, and then disappeared beside everyone. Someone wanted to ask something, but unfortunately they ran too fast and didn't have time to stop them.
When everyone was a little panicked and at a loss, Guan Qingye suddenly said loudly: "Don't panic, stay calm, listen to me." The students who were just feeling unscrupulous when they heard someone talking, immediately looked over instinctively, and the crowd became quiet.
"Everyone, I know that everyone is coming from various countries or neutral areas to join the young talents under the Zixiao Palace, but we are not in a competitive relationship. Zixiao Palace doesn't care that they have accepted 26 disciples this year but they are not alone, so there is no competitive relationship between us. In order to pass the assessment, I suggest that everyone unite and cope with the current difficulties together."
What Guan Qingye said was originally a fact, and of course there was nothing to refute for everyone, and the subsequent intention to cooperate naturally became natural.
Next, Guan Qingye first pulled Tianyou out and recommended his jungle survival experience to everyone, and then asked others what useful specialties there were, but he really found a very useful person.
This man's surname is Qian, with a single name with a Ming character, with a pretty face, and a gentle and gentle scholarly look. He speaks a little timidly, and you can tell that his family is not well off when you see through it. However, this person's ability is absolutely suitable for the situation at this time, because he can actually exorcise ghosts.
"Have you really seen a ghost?" Tianyou didn't care whether he could exorcize ghosts. He was just curious if there were really ghosts.
Qian Ming seemed a little cowardly because Tianyou suddenly leaned up. He took a step back before nodding to admit that he had seen it. Tianyou immediately became excited and wanted to ask, but was pulled by Guan Qingye.
"Don't scare others, let me ask about the situation first."
Compared to Tianyou's proactiveness, Guan Qingye's slowness, as a humble gentleman, is easier to communicate with the other party. He asked the general situation in just a few words.
Qian Ming really knows how to catch ghosts, and it is not only theoretical knowledge, but also practices many times. In order to help make up for family benefits, he started to take jobs in the county at a very young age, so his experience is richer than theoretical knowledge. However, he himself said that his ghost exorcism was learned from the notes left by his father. Considering that his father's level is an unknown, and the notes are not formal textbooks and no one can guide him, he is actually just a half-baked person. Fortunately, he has really caught ghosts, and relying on actual verification, he has also summarized some of his own methods.
Now it is clear that it is dark around the hall that it is a perfect carnival of ghosts. Qian Ming's ability is even more important than Tianyou, so everyone is surrounded by Qian Ming to ask what to do in the evening. However, the final answer can be said to be not very good, because Qian Ming himself doesn't know what to do.
He usually exorcized ghosts one at a time, and he had never dealt with such a situation. Besides, he usually had to bring a lot of props to exorcist ghosts, but now they were empty-handed, so he, a half-baked ghost-exorcist, was powerless.
"Let me tell me what you usually use, and see if you can find it for you. At least the altar should be able to help you." When everyone was in a trough because of Qian Ming's words, Tianyou stood up. He is an actionist, and he believes that there will be a way before the car reaches the mountain. If you can't figure it out, do it first and never get into a stubborn position.
Qian Ming looked at Tianyou in confusion and asked, "Brother, what is the use of the altar?"
Tianyou was stunned when asked: "Do you usually don't use the altar to exorcise ghosts?"
Qian Ming was also a half-baked man. He thought that other Taoist priests needed to expel ghosts, so he asked: "Have you seen other Taoist priests expel ghosts? How dare you ask what this altar looks like? What is it for? My methods all come from my father's notes, the content is not very complete, and there are many comments. If you know, please let me know one or two."
Tianyou is not sure if he says this. He doesn't know how to exorcise ghosts. As for the altar, what's going on in TV anyway, as for whether the Taoist priests in the Divine Continent use the altar, Tianyou doesn't know anyway.
"Hey... I don't know much. It seems that I have heard someone say that I wanted to ask you. Since you don't know, I can't do anything about it." Tianyou explained for a while and quickly changed the subject and asked, "What do you usually use? Let's listen, maybe you can find some?"
Qian Ming thought about it and said it didn't matter, so he said, "First of all, a Taoist robe is needed."
"Don't think about this. What else?"
"And there is also peach wood sword, chicken blood..."
"Wait." Tianyou suddenly said to Dashan, "Come here to help."
Although Dashan didn't mind helping, he began to hesitate when he saw Tianyou jumping out of the hall and walking into the graves. He was a native of Shenzhou Continent and the lowest-level people. He was the most awe of the sayings of ghosts and gods. Even in broad daylight, he was still a little scared to let him walk into this pile of graves.
Seeing the mountain hesitant, he dared not go down. A strong boy next to him, who was half a head taller than the mountain, immediately jumped down. "I'll help you, what do you want me to do?"
When Tianyou saw this person, he smiled first, then crossed his hands and made a support move. "You are standing there. When I rushed over, I jumped back and stepped on your hand. Just throw it up with your best strength just now."
“This is simple.”
The tall young man immediately set up his pose. Tianyou retreated for a while and then reminded him to start sprinting immediately. When he rushed to the other side a few steps away, he suddenly jumped up and stepped on the other side's crossed palms. The young man suddenly exerted force as he said before, and Tianyou instantly felt a huge force coming from his feet. Originally, he just wanted to borrow some force, but he didn't expect that the other party was so strong. With his own force, he jumped up, and his whole person instantly flew up like a shell.
However, as soon as we got together, Fei Tianyou realized that it was not that we didn’t use enough force, but that we were too full.
"Damn!" Tianyou saw that he had surpassed the roof of the hall in an instant, but the upward trend was still very strong. He flew nearly one meter higher before he began to fall. However, it was not the roof tiles but a big hole. Tianyou waved in a hurry, and finally moved a little distance, hitting the edge of the big hole with a bang, smashing a large piece of the remaining tiles. Fortunately, he finally grabbed a horizontal support and did not fall with the fragments.
Everyone below finally felt relieved when they watched Tianyou stand up from the roof. Tianyou waved his hand to the bottom, and then began to look around. Soon he seemed to have discovered something, and turned around excitedly and stood on the edge of the hole on the roof and shouted: "I'll say I can help you find something. There are peach trees in the forest over there. Let's get some branches and make a few more peach wood swords. It's better than unarmed?"
Everyone was excited when they heard Tianyou's words. Everyone had heard of the peach wood sword that could kill ghosts. When they thought of the peach wood sword at night, they immediately felt much safer.
Regardless of others' excitement, Qian Ming frowned and said, "But Brother Tianyou, we have no axe and no wood saw. How can we cut down a big tree to make a wooden sword? Branches are not possible. Peach wood swords must be made with old tree hearts that have been used for the past. The branches outside are useless."
"Don't worry about this, I have a way." Tianyou turned over and drilled from the hole. He turned the beam in the air with his hands and clawed, then landed steadily among the people who ran into the hall because he was worried that he would fall. He ignored the other people's surprise gaze, Tianyou asked directly: "Can chicken blood be replaced? Can pheasants be allowed? What about rabbits or other animals?"
Qian Ming was stunned for a moment, then said: "My father's notes said it would be a more powerful rooster. I have never used anything else. But I summarized it myself and the rooster blood should be replaced, as long as you buy enough yang energy."
Tianyou didn't know which animal has sufficient yang energy and which one was insufficient, but he knew that there was an animal with sufficient yang energy.
"How much blood do you need?"
"No need to have a lot, just have a small bowl."
After hearing this, Tianyou immediately shouted to Dashan: "You didn't dare to go out just now, so you should help this time, right?"
Dashan argued awkwardly: "I just reacted a little slower. Who said I was afraid?"
"Okay, you are a man, now it's time for you to show your courage."
"What are you going to do?" Looking at Tianyou's malicious eyes, Dashan instinctively wanted to retreat.
Tianyou smiled and said, "What are you doing? I'll ask you for some blood."
When many people heard that they needed blood, they hadn't reacted yet, Qian Ming immediately said: "Yes! The body of a boy is in the state of the most yang energy. This brother is tall and stunning. At first glance, he has a strong yang energy. If he collects a little blood, the effect will definitely be better than that chicken blood."
"Look, Qian Ming said so too. For everyone, you can give some blood?"
"I...I..."
"Don't worry, you heard it too, just a small bowl of blood is enough. You are such a big person, and a small bowl of blood is not a problem."
"Why should I do it?" The tall boy who helped before recommended himself again.
Seeing that Dashan was obviously a little scared, Tianyou turned to the young man here and asked, "What name do you want?"
"The vast sea."
"Okay, I'll leave the blood donation to you. But it doesn't take it now. The blood will coagulate too early." As he said that, he pulled Pang Dahai and shouted to the people around him: "The sea donated blood for everyone. No matter what the situation is at night, if the sea is in danger, everyone should take care of it. The efforts must be rewarded, right?"
Everyone agreed in unison, praising Pang Dahai for being so good that Dashan wanted to volunteer again, but when he wanted to release a bowl of blood, he felt a little scared. He was still struggling for a long time but still couldn't say it.
"With the peach wood sword, there are substitutes for chicken blood, what else do you need?"
"Yellow paper, cinnabar."
“Can you replace yellow paper with cloth?”
"Yes, I tried it, but the effect will drop a little."
"Some are better than none. There are many curtains here, so you can use them by removing them. But I don't know if I can find the cinnabar. Maybe there is one in the forest, maybe not, and I will go and see it before talking about it. You can say something else."
"Black dog blood."
“Can it be replaced?”
"It should be OK, but I don't know what blood should be replaced. This is not just a problem of yang energy."
"Is there anything else?"
"Qingshui."
A student immediately said: "There is a well on the side of the hall, so I don't know if it is a dry well."
"Come on it first, what else?" Tianyou asked again.
"If you don't have any, you can have grapefruit leaves." Perhaps knowing that 80% of these two people can't find them, Qian Ming took the initiative to add: "In fact, it's mainly about something negative. As long as it has strong yin energy and wipes it through the eyes, some yin energy will remain on the eyes, so that you can see ghosts directly. Without this, you can only see those ghosts when they want you to see it. We will be very passive."
Tianyou looked around and then suddenly looked at the back of the palace. Everyone looked at him in an instant, and then they were stunned.
"Are you thinking..." Dashan asked tremblingly.
Tianyou smiled and admitted, "That's right. Let's use the rotten soil under the coffin instead."
Everyone felt chills, and Qian Ming thought about it seriously and said, "I haven't tried it, but it might be feasible."
"There are some auxiliary magic weapons, which cannot be found here." Qian Ming explained seriously: "The peach wood sword is a weapon. After opening it with chicken blood, it can directly kill ghosts. Yellow paper and cinnabar also require chicken blood, and then you can draw talismans. This is very powerful and I don't use it very often. Clear water is used to wake up the spirit. If you are confused by ghosts, spray it with clear water can quickly awaken the other party. The cow tears and grapefruit leaves are used to see ghosts. Black dog blood is used to attack directly. It has great lethality to ghosts."
"Then let's do it first. Everyone is divided into several groups of actions, each group is responsible for one thing. Those who have free time will patrol around. Didn't the servant say that there were magic weapons hidden nearby? Maybe one or two of them could be found."
Next, everyone was grouped voluntarily and then started to act separately. Tianyou was mainly responsible for getting peach trees. Most people couldn't do this. However, he did not do it himself, but took the mountains, the huge sea and several others to the forest with peach trees.
Tianyou's method is actually very simple. First, he violently dismantled a few coffins with stones and got the coffin nails. This thing is made of iron and has a sharp edge. Use these coffin nails to peel the bark from the woods, and then he rubbed some withered vines found mixed with the bark into hemp ropes.
With the hemp rope, it is simple. First, use coffin nails to nail in the bottom of the trunk of the peach tree and then pull out. Tie the hemp rope to the coffin nails. As long as it is not smashed too deep, it can be easily pulled out. After destroying the bottom of the trunk, you can tie the hemp rope directly to the treetops and then pull it down with brute force.
After finishing a tree, you directly smash the trunk with a stone to destroy the outer area and create a rough tree core structure like a dog gnaw. Collect the smashed pieces to make a fire, and then put the not-too-large tree core in and burn it. Take it out for a while and knock it with the stone. The main purpose is to use the principle of burnt wood to process the wood, and finally make it feel like a sword embryo. Put the sword embryo directly into the fire, and the flame will naturally flatten and cause the surface protrusion to be consumed first. Then, just use Tianyou's temporary processing stone knife to scrape off the carbonized outer layer along the burned wooden stick to obtain a roughly straight-tube sword embryo.
The peach wood sword does not need to be sharp, so it is appropriate to use it if it has a rough shape. It is easy to make a irregular sword shape by burning and scratching. It is a bit ugly, but Qian Ming has seen it and said that it can be basically used.
The method was taught to others to make a few more peach wood swords. Then Tianyou went around the forest himself, and soon kicked a pheasant back. He also had a simple bow and arrow processed with wooden sticks and vines in his hand. There were actually several wooden arrows with sharpened front ends tied to his waist by a hemp rope.
"Just catch a fire and deal with the chicken." Tianyou directly handed the pheasant to Dashan. He is a hunter, so he can do this. "Oh, by the way, I saw a porcelain bowl in the hall. I will take a bowl of chicken blood first, maybe it can be used. If you don't have to, consider human blood."
Dashan responded and went to deal with it. Tianyou turned around and entered the forest again. When he came out again, everyone had no idea what to say, because this guy was carrying a coma black wolf.
To be continued...