The sound of the ghost knocking on the door lasted for most of the time it took to burn the incense.
The civet cat's cry also changed from a strange scream to a howl during the half time of the incense stick.
It was like a baby crying, disturbing the five people in the room.
The screams made everyone terrified, so Mrs.
Chang simply knelt on the bed, howled and ate her head outside the room, and repeatedly begged the immortal to spare her life.
What people fear most is not death, but the fear when they are on the verge of death.
Although Chang has made up his mind to die, in the face of this unknown and fatal force, he still reveals the innate desire of animals to survive. .
Not only Chang, but even Ding Yi started to feel scared at this moment.
Originally, Ding Yi knew that he was a key criminal wanted by the whole country for painting shadows and graphics in the imperial court.
It was already very good for him to be alive until now.
He never took death seriously.
The reason why he hid in Tibet to save his life was entirely for the sake of his wife and children.
But at this moment, Ding Yi felt the fear of dying for the first time in his life.
The stiff corpses of the Sishan family in the past day immediately came to mind. especially Chang Sishan's father had his eyes open when he died.
He was hanged with his eyes open, and his face was ferocious.
This was the first time Ding Yi had seen him.
Although the man was already hardened, there was that kind of danger in his eyes.
The fear of death seems to be frozen in the pupils Kong Li, Ding Yi couldn't figure it out at first, but now he completely understood that the old man didn't want to hang himself at all.
When he was hung up by the rope, his consciousness was probably awake, and he probably watched him hang himself with his own eyes. dead Just when Ding Yi was thinking wildly, the sound of the ghost knocking on the door suddenly stopped.
He didn't know whether it was the civet cat's howling that had an effect, or Chang's ringing head that influenced the thing.
In the room, except for the civet cat's muffled sound and Chang's Apart from the sobbing, there was no other sound.
Immediately afterwards, Mrs.
Chang was frightened and the cat stopped snoring.
There was only deathly silence, and the atmosphere was even weirder than when a ghost knocked on the door.
Just when Ding Yi wiped his sweat and was about to hang up the demon mirror that fell on the floor, there was a sudden clang, the door opened wide, and the huge force knocked Ding Yi over, and his head hit the corner of the table. , the civet cat suddenly jumped over Ding's body.
He stood at the door with a squeal.
Ding Yi covered his head and slowly raised his head.
Suddenly he saw that the cat at the door seemed to be several times bigger.
Its huge body almost blocked the entire door.
Its nine tails opened like a fan, and its whole body His hair exudes black air.
Ding Yi closed his eyes and shook his head, then took another closer look.
The cat was still a cat, it hadn't gotten bigger, and it only had one tail.
"Could it be that I opened Tiancong secretly?"
Ding Yi stood up holding the table and grabbed the peach branch.
At this time, the civet cat suddenly turned its head to Ding Yi, bit the corner of Ding Yi's clothes with its mouth, and pulled it out of the door with as much force as a big living person.
Ding Yi understood that the cat did not mean any harm, but let him go with it, "Maybe, this cat knows how to break this thing, but if he goes by himself, what will happen to the four young and old people in the house?"
When Ding Yi was hesitating, his youngest son suddenly rolled his eyes, and his pupils immediately turned into spinning spindles, or in other words, turned into a pair of cat eyes, "Ding Gong, come with me, your wife and children and mine My benefactor will be safe."
After saying this, the youngest son frothy on the bed and fell into Luo Shi's arms, unconscious.
Hearing these words, Ding Yi completely understood that this cat was here to repay his kindness to Chang, and he would definitely not lie.
"You take good care of the child.
I will come back when I go.
If I can't come back, you can take Chang with you as soon as possible tomorrow morning."
"Sister-in-law and the child have left the Chang Family Camp, and they must raise the child."
After explaining to Luo Shi, Ding stepped out of the house, closed the door with his backhand, and disappeared into the night with the black cat.
It's strange to say that Ding Yi usually doesn't have the strength to restrain a chicken, and it would take him a long time to catch a chick that ran out of a crack in the fence, but this night he felt like he was exerting endless energy, jumping up and down the spine.
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It felt like walking on flat ground, and because I was born with night blindness, it was difficult to see things when it got dark.
Without lights, it was almost impossible to walk.
But this night, I could see things very clearly.
The black civet cat running four or five feet in front could make every move.
See clearly.
Jumping back and forth, Ding Yi followed the black civet cat to Chang Sishan's house, and saw the civet cat stopping in front of a large water tank.
"What does this mean?"
Ding Yi came to the water tank and took a closer look at the water tank.
It was obviously not the stuff of the dynasty.
The shape of the water tank was very strange, a bit like a gourd.
There were two protrusions in the middle and upper sections of the tank.
There is a circle of animal patterns carved around the edge of the tank.
It seems that it is not a thing for holding water, but some kind of sacrificial vessel from ancient times.
I have been to Chang Sishan's house before, and there are only a few broken furniture.
I have never seen anything like this before.
"Could it be that it was dug out of the mountains in the past few days?"
Ding Yi was thinking about it when he suddenly saw the civet cat slamming into the water tank.
His head was broken and blood flowed suddenly, and the sound was like a landslide, shaking the Chang Sishan family's shabby house three times, but the civet cat refused.
Instead, he took a few steps back and continued to hit his head against the water tank.
There was another loud noise.
After these two hits, the civet cat could no longer stand still, but he still swayed back, ready to continue hitting.
"It turns out that the accident in Changjiaying was because of this."
Ding Yi sighed, "God bless my wife and children, and I am gone."
After sighing, Ding Yi took a few steps back, slammed his head into the water tank, and heard a sound like the earth was shattering.
There was a loud noise, and even Chang and Luo, who were shivering into a ball, were frightened.
"Oh, this is a corpse refining kiln."
Hearing this, Zhang Guozhong could guess something.
He heard his master mention this thing back then.
Since the beginning of the Warring States Period, alchemy has become popular in the world.
People firmly believe that it can be achieved by taking pills.
Achieve immortality or immortality For the purpose, before the Han Dynasty, alchemy was mainly based on yellow and white alchemy, and its raw materials were mostly heavy metal substances such as mercury, lead, and tin.
In the Qin and Han Dynasties, "gold alchemy" gradually appeared, and some non-metallic substances were added to its raw materials.
But most of them are heavy metals During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, golden elixirs were still favored by most princes and nobles.
However, as we all know, elixirs must be taken in conjunction with the "mind methods" of many Taoist schools.
Maoshan and Quanzhen both have their own methods, although the details are small.
There are some differences, but basically it can be said that Much the same, those who understand the "mind method" can take elixirs to increase vitality and qi, and prolong life.
However, if ordinary people take such things with seriously excessive heavy metal content, the consequences will be no different from drinking pesticides directly.
Not only will they not be able to live longer, but they will be more likely to live longer.
Being poisoned.
As more and more people were poisoned and died after taking elixirs, by the end of the Tang Dynasty, traditional elixirs based on golden elixirs gradually lost the trust of the princes and nobles.
This meant that some people specialized in refining elixirs for dignitaries.
The alchemists who made a sudden fortune lost their jobs.
In order to regain the trust of these princes and nobles, these alchemists invented a terrifying alchemy - the Red Spirit Pill.
The raw materials of the so-called Red Spirit Pill are not traditional heavy metal materials, but live and active people.
Most of the early alchemists studied Taoism intensively.
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When refining people into pills, they would find ways to seal the human soul in the pill.
People will not be poisoned after taking this elixir.
On the contrary, it will have an effect similar to stimulants.
For a time, this elixir will not be poisoned.
The so-called Red Spirit Pill began to become popular in the upper class society again.
However, using people to make pills is different from using metal to make pills.
It involves Feng Shui issues.
Most of the Red Spirit Pills' alchemy rooms are built in deep mountains and dark places, and the refining methods are also different.
Strictly kept secret from the outside world, this "Corpse Refining Kiln" is the container for refining the Red Spirit Pill.
Its scientific name is "Golden Body Chamber", and "Corpse Refining Kiln" is just a common name.
However, not every alchemist is a master of Taoism.
Due to the popularity of the Red Spirit Pill, some envious alchemists with two swords also blindly jumped on the horse and changed their profession to start refining the Red Spirit Pill.
These people do not have the ability to seal a person's soul in the pill.
With the ability, most of the resentful souls of those who were refined remained in this "corpse refining kiln", and over time, Thousands of souls must have their fate, so these two-knife alchemists became the first batch of unlucky ones.
This can be regarded as reaping the consequences.
Coincidentally, although this "corpse refining kiln" cost these two-knife alchemists their lives, it was Another group of people were made to plan to make a fortune.
These people were Taoist disciples with evil intentions.
For them, these abandoned corpse-refining kilns were simply high-quality and low-priced weapons for making money.
In the troubled times of the late Tang Dynasty, countless Taoist scum used the abandoned corpse-refining kilns to extort money, rob homes, and even seek wealth and death.
This thing was also used by later generations.
It is recognized as one of the most difficult things to deal with.
"Could it be that just hitting your head can break that thing?"
Zhang Guozhong didn't know much about the corpse refining kiln, so he was confused when Sun Ting said this.
"No, that method was only taught by the civet cat.
It's strange.
That night, Ding Yi and the civet cat did exchange their lives for the lives of Ding Yi's wife and children and the old lady Chang.
But in the following decades, Changjiaying is a well-known ghost village, and no one who went there came back alive," Sun Ting sighed.
"Ding Yi and the civet cat are both dead."
Zhang Guozhong showed a look of regret on his face.
"Chang and Luo searched house to house in the village the next day, and finally found the bodies of Ding Yi and the cat at Chang Sishan's house.
Ding Yi's brain was shattered and his death was miserable."
Sun Ting pursed his lips and kept saying shake head After finding Ding Yi's body, Luo Shi passed out on the spot, and Chang Shi also cried to death several times holding the cat's body.
Fortunately, the two children were still sensible.
Seeing their mother and old lady so sad, Although it was hard to lose his father, he still comforted the two elders.
Finally, Mrs.
Chang and Luo Shi dug two shallow pits, one large and one small, at the entrance of the village, and buried Ding Yi and the civet cat, taking with them all the savings of the Ding family.
Ding Yi was a poor fortune teller, and his family didn't say anything was valuable things, even though Master Daoguang gave him a thousand taels of silver, there was not much But it was cash, and one thousand taels was equivalent to one hundred catties.
With two children and a lame old lady, Luo Shi could only get two hundred taels at most, and threw the rest at home.
While it was still daylight, the four members of the family fled the Chang family camp and settled in Shi'en.
Just a few days after arriving at Shi En, Luo fell ill and fell ill in bed.
He remained ill for a year.
Although doctors from all over the country were invited, Luo finally died in the third year of Xianfeng and went to see her husband: