Chapter 23: Its Existence is Dangerous
If one were to extrapolate a bit according to time, when the village suffered from the scourge of evil creatures, it was precisely three years after the three years of the Great Famine had passed.
In the three years before this, the village had suffered from the infestation of lonely souls and wild ghosts, the village is not quiet, the village is not quiet, that is because in the three years of famine, starvation death of young children is too much, these young children were hastily buried in the poplar slope in that place of extremely heavy moisture, coupled with this type of young children and more, there are some adults and so on, the corpse gas is heavy, a long time, the grievances gathered into a plague, naturally, to haunt the village.
At this time, by chance, the old woman came to our village and helped the villagers to get rid of the ghosts.
The villagers were grateful to the old Tai Sui, and at the same time responded to the old Tai Sui's idea of building a Tai Sui temple under the slope of the poplar tree in the northern part of the village. This would have been a commonplace thing, however, the villagers did not expect, it is because of the arrival of the old age, the spirit of the world gathered into the spirit, inadvertently in the absorption of the local yin and yang aura.
In fact, from the old age in the village door-to-door to save people to drive away the ghosts, it has been sucking the village's yin and yang spiritual qi. The lack of spiritual qi makes the whole village lose its vitality, so the evil spirits come here in droves, and this kind of place is the most suitable place for them, if it is a place with sufficient yin and yang spiritual qi, the evil spirits are not willing to live or even stay, they like the place that lacks the yin and yang spiritual qi, where there is no vitality, and on the contrary, it is a dead qi, and there are people living in this kind of place, so the evil spirits can't come happily. The evil can not be happy to come? This is simply a good place for them to show their skills!
Then the subsequent gathering of evil creatures that plagued the village was a natural thing to happen.
Although it is said that the event of the evil creatures disturbing the village, or more rely on the existence of the old age, but in the final analysis, this disaster is the old age it inadvertently, indirectly caused this disaster.
And in the end, when Hu Laoshi understand all this time, the old age of the merits, the villagers of the kindness, has been deep enough to let a person thankful, not to mention to drive away the good old age. So Hu Laoshi set up a spiritual gathering formation near the Yangshupo Taiyou Temple, using Taoist techniques to draw in the aura of yin and yang from heaven and earth, supplying the old Taiyou, and at the same time allowing the yin and yang aura of the village to gradually nourish and recover.
However, the recovery of yin and yang aura in the village, after all, is not a momentary thing, so in the later old woman inexplicably disappeared, Yangshupo along the gathering of the spirit of the formation to collect the spirit of qi is still consuming, the village once again appeared in the evil, and Hu Laoshi had no choice but to choose to join forces with the black snake spirit, to drive away the other evil, leaving the existence of the black snake spirit alone.
Speaking of which, one has to rewind time again, when the evil things in the village gathered to plague the villagers, the old woman and Hu Lao Si, one casting Taoist spells and the other using spiritual power cultivated over millions of years, worked together to deal with the evil things.
It was at that time that they discovered the Corpse Toad, a fellow that had been hiding in the earth beneath the Old Master's Temple for an unknown number of years, and would drill out from under the earth every fifteenth night of the full moon, and when the bright moon was high, it would look up to the sky to gulp down poisonous gases and suck up the moonlight. Usually it just so coldly watched all the changes in the village, human feelings, street rumors, all in its dull head inside the continuous accumulation, it is silently learning the world's most intelligent animals – human wisdom.
Even if the evil things in the village will gather, scourge the villagers, the corpse toad is still silently watching and watching, as long as those evil things do not infringe on its interests, disturbing its purity, it is too lazy to move.
Discovered its existence, just in the middle of a chance. The night of the full moon on the fifteenth day, that day the old lady and Hu Lao Si chased a lousy monster to this, when the lousy monster panic, a scurry to the top of the temple, so that Hu Lao Si and the old lady was surprised at the scene appeared, originally seems to be empty on the roof of the temple, steeply appeared in a huge thing, angry eyes as two red lanterns like a round open, a big mouth two rows of fine teeth with ice-cold Light, it opened its mouth, sprayed out a mouthful of thick black gas, Lai monster in that moment before reacting, poisoned fainted, the whole body from the top of the temple fell downward, the body did not fall to the ground, a powerful adsorption force with a whistling wind sound, the Lai monster sucked up in the air, straight into the mouth of that monster.
That's the corpse toad that Chen Jin and I encountered, after it sucked the lousy monster into its belly, it coldly swept a glance at the jaw-dropping old woman and Hu Laoshi in the distance, feeling that they were still far away from themselves and not in danger, it lazily retracted its body shape and turned into a big one-footer, jumped down from the top of the temple, and popped back into the temple.
Behind the idol inside the Old Master's temple, there was a hole leading to the ground, and the corpse toad, from there, drilled into the ground and continued to silently watch all the changes with those eyes that could penetrate obstacles.
Hu Laoshi and the old woman were very surprised, they both recognized that this is the corpse toad, and the corpse toad that has grown into a spirit is really rare, especially this kind of corpse toad that has survived for more than a hundred years.
At that time, Hu Laoshi decided to kill the corpse toad, but the old taiyou shook his head and rejected it. In the old woman's mind, this corpse toad and herself are extremely similar in some places, they both prefer purity, willing to crouch in the ground for a long time, silently watching the life of all things, quietly watching the change of the sea and the land. When it is underground, it can be said that there is no threat to human beings, especially it chose the bottom of the temple, but also because few people here will be digging. Even if it appears on the night of the full moon every fifteenth day, it is only a matter of minutes, and the chances of bumping into people are still very few. Moreover, if it found someone's presence above it, the corpse toad would rather stay a little longer below the ground than bother with those humans who were particularly lively.
In the old woman's insistence, Hu Laoshi acquiesced to the existence of the corpse toad, after all, this kind of thing is basically no harm to human beings, although it is said that its formation, a little bit chilling, disgusting, is devouring the corpse in the coffin of the qi long into, but after all, it did not scourge the living people.
After this, it had been a few more years, until after the old taiyou was trapped by the white fox spirit and the yellow wolf monster.
At that time, the old man suddenly evaporated, the white fox spirit began to perform that scourge in the village, it is difficult to avoid, other evil things are also intermittently attracted by this village without the yin and yang aura, full of dead air.
Hu Laoshi could not fight the White Fox Spirit alone, nor could he deal with the successive arrivals of the evil creatures. Although the White Fox Spirit would still have disputes with the other evil creatures, if there was another gathering of the evil creatures to plunge the villagers into trouble, then it would be a big problem.
Therefore, Hu Laoshi chose the black snake spirit, at first it also thought of looking for the corpse toad of the Old Master's Temple as a helper, but the corpse toad is a kind of stupid thing, it will not understand what is a friend, what is good will, but whoever goes to disturb it, it will think it is an enemy.
Hu Lao Si has no other way, for the black snake spirit, Hu Lao Si understands the habits of this kind of evil, it is cunning, but not like the white fox spirit of that kind of vicious, that kind of insatiable, it prefers to clean, bored with the other evil, will protect the ground, to ensure that their own place of survival of the peace and stability.
The fact that Hu Laoshi is very satisfied, and the black snake spirit after joining forces, expelled the other evil things do not dare to invade the village, but also the white fox spirit out.
However, when everything was calm, the Black Snake Spirit suddenly asked for Hu's help to drive away the corpse toad under the Old Master's Temple. The corpse toad is the thing that snakes are most afraid of, and in the side of the Black Snake Spirit's couch, there is always such a corpse toad that has become a spirit, so the Black Snake Spirit really can't sleep at night, and is restless.
Hu could not refuse this request, so he and the Black Snake Spirit teamed up to drive away the corpse toad.
Corpse toad seems to have no special love for fighting and killing, it will rarely be angry to endless killing revenge, it will be very easy because of its own safety and security by the infringement of anger, but it is very smart, as long as the feeling of their own life suffered a crisis, it will choose to turn around and escape to save their lives, this is the nature.
The good thing is, corpse toad this kind of thing does not hold grudges, so even if it is driven away, it will not be like the white fox sub-spirit that, day and night to kill back, revenge and snow hatred.
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When Hu Laoshi told these past things, a few of us have lamented, the original people corpse toad is not easy ah, alas, it seems that this world, not only is it difficult for people to live, the original evil life is not easy, even hidden in the ground low, do not fight with the corpse of the toad, will be attracted to the disaster, it is really the creation of the people, oh no, get toad ah … … …
I said: "So, the corpse toad is hiding under the Zhou family tomb, coincidentally, the hare was clamped blindly screaming it, the result of the bottom of the corpse toad heard the hare's screams, the gluttony was hooked out, and wanted to put the hare sucked in, but the hare was caught by the clip, and the clip is attached to the chain, the chain in the small tree chained, and just in time, the three of us went over to snatch the hare over, the three of us went over to the hare. the wild rabbit, the corpse toad thought we were robbing its food, so it was going to finish us off ……"
"Right, that should be it." Hu Lao Si nodded and said, "The good thing is that you have the belt made of Wu Ting Pi in your hand, the corpse toad spewed out poisonous gas, but you were unharmed, and you even jumped up to fight with it, coupled with the kind of aura the Wu Ting Pi emits, the corpse toad would naturally be afraid, so it turned around and fled."
I smiled triumphantly, beautifully enjoying the envy and jealousy of my brothers and sisters.
Yao Jing said with some jealousy, "Isn't it just a broken belt, why is it so powerful?"
"Broken belt?" Do not wait for me to speak, Hu Laoshi will be a little surprised out of the voice, because the speech is a little anxious, just inhaled a mouthful of cigarettes have not had time to spit out, the result is choked, and coughed several times, before crying and laughing to Yao Jing said: "Yinle body that belt, if the broken belt, then our village, even our township, the whole country, the world, there is not a good belt. "
"What's the big deal." Although Yao Jing also understands this in his heart, but his character is so jealous, he still refuses to soften his words, realizing that I am looking at him coldly, he winced, smiled sarcastically and looked at me, hurriedly lowering his head.
Hu Laoshi sighed, also with with envious eyes looked at me, said: "this world, as long as the evil thing, it is not not afraid of the Wuzui, because the Wuzui's body, innate with the dragon's blood, the dragon's breath, the dragon is a divine beast, is the head of everything, even if it is a person, can not be compared to the dragon, so in ancient times the emperor are called himself the son of heaven, is the dragon, and his children are the dragon, and the dragon is the dragon, and his children are the dragon. And his children, are the dragon children. All evil things, as long as they smelled the dragon's breath, they would be terrified and fearful, lest they could not avoid it and be devoured by the divine beast."
"But this is just a belt, why is it still so powerful?" Chen Jin smirked and glanced at Yao Jing, meaning as if to say, small kind, told you to damn jealous of people, deserved it, look at the old man to say this kind of words will be fine, angry dead you dog days.
"The belt is also made of Wu Ting leather." Hu Laoshi said seriously, "This belt, to say the least, is also living a few hundred years of Wu Ting made, even if it is dead, into the skin, as long as it does not rot, does not disappear, that the dragon qi'er will not be weak."
"Ai ai, grandpa Hu, I this belt tied on the waist, but also can drive away evil spirits and avoid poison it, that white fox spirit confuse me, this belt will be able to give me a boost, when Chen Jin and I fell into the well, almost did not freeze to death, just the white fox spirit of the evil spirit of the child is also there, this belt will be able to heat up the two of us to keep us warm, hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe that corpse toad spewed out poisonous gas to this belt This time, the corpse toad sprayed poisonous gas, this belt to me to expel the poison, ah really a good thing, baby ……" I said proudly, while laughing at the same time with a show-off eyes looking at Yao Jing, grandma, I want to live to die you a doggone day, what all jealousy, what cheap want to dip, "Hey Yao Jing, you want to use two days ah. Do you want to use two days ah?"
Yao Jing immediately nodded his head and said, "OK, lend me two days."
"Beautiful death you." I said contemptuously, "It's just a broken belt, nothing rare."
Yao Jing's face immediately red, some chagrin twisted his head away, no longer look at me.
I also want to say some words to mock him, Chang Yunliang in the side of the child said: "Okay, say these useless dry what, I say Hu Lao Si, oh no, Hu grandfather, this corpse toad how to do? Just let it go?"
"Yes, how do we deal with the corpse toad now?" Chen Jin also said. Chen Jin also said.
I said, "What the hell, didn't you hear Grandpa Hu say, the corpse toad is harmless to people, and it's not easy to live, so forget about it."
"No, this time, since the Corpse Toad has appeared, we have to get rid of it." Hu Laoshi uncharacteristically, very firmly said: "this kind of thing, who does not know what it will become in the future, after the corpse toad into essence, there were very few natural enemies, the general evil will not go to mess with it, and its cultivation speed and fast, once the demon, no one knows what kind of character it will become, to that time if the corpse toad personality change, the scourge of the people, then want to get rid of it all! It will become a great disaster."
Listening to Hu Laoshi, we were all stunned, boy, so serious ah? This kind of thing is not a joke. When I think of the ascending old scaly dragon, I feel horrible. Chen Jin also said that all of us are not a match for it, and if there is a corpse toad demon, and it becomes vicious and violent, and sprays poison in the village, it would really be a great disaster.
After a while, Chen Jin said uncaringly, "Get rid of it, just get rid of it, it's not a difficult thing anyway, that thing is not capable of anything, Yinle a person carrying a belt to beat it half to death, a few of us and then from the side with a brick smashed, quasi smashed to death it, right Yinle?"
"That's right." I know Chen Jin this kid intentionally in praise of me, there is a bit of ridicule, but I do not care, we are used to the two, and then again this kid said is also the truth, the corpse toad is not let me swing the belt to beat away?
"Not so simple." Hu Lao Si sneered, said: "Corpse toad this kind of thing, can be big or small, a thick skin hard, and toxicity is so strong, an accident will be poisoned over, want to beat it to death, can not be so easy, not to mention, this thing is timid by nature, see the situation is not good, pulling the legs and run, catch and can not just catch it … … …"
Chang Yunliang explored his hand and said helplessly, "Then there is no way."
"Fuck, you old man just say, how to get rid of it is not finished? Where's all the bullshit." Chen Jin said to Hu Laoshi, "I don't believe you don't have an idea."
"Yes, I do, but the problem is, it's not easy to do." Hu Laosi was a bit embarrassed, always being exposed by Chen Jin on the spot, it was really hard on his face, he said, "The only way to deal with the corpse toad is to burn it with fire."
"This is not it, find it, use fire to burn it motherfucker." I immediately said viciously.
"It has to burn for seven seventy-two hours, nearly two days." Hu Laoshi added.
Guo Chao suddenly said, "Then we have to think of ways to trap it, it will run ah, also, we people can not go to help, in case we are poisoned to death how to do? Chen Jin, you and Yin Le are at least not afraid, hey not right, Chen Jin, how come you're also okay?"
"Laozi's life is hard, of course I'm fine." Chen Jin said disdainfully.
"Well, his fate is different from ordinary people, so …… Yinle, did you use the belt to do him a favor?" Hu Lao Si said.
"Yes." I nodded and looked at Chen Jin and said, "Your kid's life is even harder, but you also have to help with my old man's belt."
"Then you're no better than Laozi, if your belt wasn't given to you by Uncle Erniu, you'd have no ass!" Chen Jin immediately shot back.
This sentence finished, the room suddenly quiet down, everyone you look at me, I look at you, think this strange things are also too much, from the black snake spirit that day by Zhao Erniu after the death of all the people wondered what Uncle Erniu on the basis of the death of the black snake spirit, but also so bright, so easy, now think about it, this WuZhou leather belt is also his, that WuZhou, also he killed, he in fact by what? What? On the basis of his fierce enough, strong enough, hard life?
This is also a little too reasonable.