Chapter 31 Bones on the Peak
The top of the mountain is very cold. In the middle of the top of the mountain, fog is swept by fog. There seems to be a cave in the middle, and the thick fog dissipates and gathers again and again. The entire top of the mountain looks like a fairyland.
"No wonder those people chose such a place to put turtle talismans. This place is simply a good place for cultivating immortals, full of spiritual energy. Practicing in such a place can last three or four years a year." Chen Fengcheng used the art of gathering energy to crazily absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
When I went up the mountain, the spiritual energy in my body was consumed very quickly, which was just enough to replenish the spiritual energy in my dantian.
It was almost dawn, and the thick fog was very large. Although the purple Qi cultivation level could see things at night, it could not penetrate the thick fog. There was no way. Chen Fengcheng could only take out the flashlight to light it, but the flashlight could not shine far, but it was much better than looking at it blindly.
At this time, Chen Fengcheng finally began to see the situation on the top of the mountain. Remaining corpses were lying everywhere on the top of the mountain. A corpse could be seen every ten steps away. All of these people had become bones, and some of them were covered with broken Taoist robes. Over time, the Taoist robes could still be preserved. It must be related to the cold weather on the top of the mountain.
This kind of Taoist robe is not like the orthodox Taoist robe worn by Chen Fengcheng's sect, but a Taoist robe with another characteristic.
Their Taoist robes also had Yin-Yang Tai Chi Talisman on their chests, but they also had the pattern of the Big Dipper on their clothes, which made Chen Fengcheng very puzzled. In his mind, there was no Taoist priest in the Taoist robes with the Big Dipper on their patterns.
Unless these Taoist priests were from sects after the Southern and Northern Dynasties, if you think about it carefully, you will understand that these people came hundreds of years ago according to what Taoist Baimei said, but at that time, Chen Bomao had already died a thousand years ago in his previous life.
As for the sect, we can only slowly look for clues to see if we can find them. In addition to the corpse, Chen Fengcheng also found some packaging bags, all of which were bread instant noodles, and fruit peels. It is obvious that these things were left by Li Zimu and his group.
Chen Fengcheng began to search for each corpse, and he checked it very carefully. After reading each corpse, he found one thing in common, that is, these Taoist priests died of internal injuries.
Because there are no traces of damage on each of them, this way of death is obviously caused by serious internal injuries. If there is external injuries, traces can be easily found on the bones.
Why do these people die collectively from internal injuries? Chen Fengcheng was puzzled.
After checking all the corpses outside the cave, half an hour had passed. At this time, Chen Fengcheng also saw the fat man.
The fat man spent a lot of effort and finally climbed to the top of the mountain. He said to Chen Fengcheng panting: "Oh my, but he is so tired that I am exhausted. My spiritual energy is exhausted. Old Chen, please borrow some spiritual energy for me and let me slow down."
People who practice Taoism have spiritual energy to protect themselves, and they will not feel tired in normal times. However, if the spiritual energy is exhausted, once they are the kind of person who does not exercise for many years, their physical skills will immediately feel exhausted after losing the spiritual energy to protect themselves. This is the case in front of the fat man.
"No need to borrow it. The spiritual energy on the top of the mountain is very full. You can use the Qi Gathering Art quickly. You will be full in less than half an hour."
When the fat man heard this, he used the Qi Gathering Technique and found that the spiritual energy in his body was gathering rapidly at an incredible speed.
"My grass, this is a good place, Lao Chen, I will live here for a year and a half, and I will be able to get into purple soon."
Chen Fengcheng nodded: "Well, if nothing unexpected happens, you will be in a year, but we don't have time now and we must do serious things. I will look back to find a way to do your cultivation."
The fat man was so excited that he was suddenly depressed when he heard this.
The fat man continued to gather his energy, while Chen Fengcheng began to search for the cave in the middle. As soon as he entered the cave, what caught his eye was a thick white bone sitting on a futon.
A human corpse suddenly appeared, and he was sitting facing the entrance of the cave. His two empty eyes kept staring at the entrance of the cave, which made Chen Fengcheng feel goosebumps all over his body.
However, he was slightly frightened, and Chen Fengcheng quickly returned to his calmness and carefully observed the situation inside the cave.
The cave is not very large, but it is only a few dozen square meters. There are some murals on the walls around the cave, mixed with some text.
Behind the dead body was a Dharma image. Chen Fengcheng took a closer look and did not recognize which immortal the Dharma image was.
Not many gods and immortals have Dharma appearances. Only those founders or those who enjoy great merits in the world will have Dharma appearances.
Because the Dharma image eats the incense of the human world, once there is no incense supply, the existence of the Dharma image will lose its meaning. Because without incense, even if mortals make wishes and vows to the Dharma image, it will be invalid.
This also explains why the more incense the temples are, the more effective the Bodhisattvas and Buddhas he worships, and the same is true in Taoist temples.
The gods do not eat grains and only eat incense on earth. The more powerful the incense a god, the stronger his magic power will be. Therefore, many gods will occasionally descend to the mortal world and show their true bodies in order to let the mortals in the world know that they are real.
However, the Dharma image here is a bit different. The appearance of the person in this Dharma image is very different from other gods and immortals.
Most gods have kind-eyed eyes, and the Dharma appearance in front of them does look very serious and seem to be very unreasonable.
This Dharma image has a fierce look, a tall nose and a rolling lips. People with this appearance are either evil people or cruel officials who are born, and are very rare to see a god who has become a monk and a Taoist priest and practice Taoism.
Chen Fengcheng didn't know who this Dharma image was, so he could only let him go first and start observing other parts in the cave.
The first thing I checked was the white bone meditating under the Dharma image. According to the style of the bone, Chen Fengcheng found that the corpse was a male because the pubic joint part of this corpse was relatively high, which was an obvious characteristic of men. Moreover, based on the corpse, it can be inferred that the height was not short, and it was 1.75 meters tall. It was generally difficult for women in ancient times to reach this height.
Moreover, although Taoist priests are not distinguished from men and women, most of them are men and few women, so Chen Fengcheng easily confirmed that the body was a male.
If you look at the corpse carefully, you will find that there are no scars in the bones and there are no traces of being injured by sharp weapons. Then you can determine that this person was not killed by a sword.
The bones from the bottom of this person's sternum to the pubic bone are black, which means that the person is likely to die of internal injuries or poisoning.
The black position, especially the chest position, is the most serious, which belongs to the middle dantian position among the three major dantians of the human body.
There are three dantians in the human body, namely the upper, middle and lower. The upper dantian is located in the two eyes, which is the Du meridian seal hall, and is also called the "Niwan Palace".
The center of the chest is the middle Dantian, which is located in the Danzhong point in the chest. This is where the spiritual energy of the people in the Taoist practice gathers. Therefore, the Danzhong point is a heavy acupoint for the practitioner. Once severely injured, it is very likely to die.
Especially those who practice martial arts and Taoist priests who practice Qi are more interested in this Danzhong point, because once the Zhongdantian is hit, it is very likely that the qi sea in the dantian is unstable. Once the breath is unstable, the spiritual energy in the body will scatter and wander around. The direct consequence of this is that it will cause people to disperse and die.
The lower dantian is located above the navel. This location is a place where people store their essence. When the spiritual energy in their body is not intact, they can extract the natal true energy of the lower dantian, that is, the essence energy. This way, you can forcefully cast some magic that you cannot cast, and do more than level.
However, this consequence is also serious. At the very least, it is seriously injured and rested in bed, and at the worst, it can directly take the life of the practitioner. Therefore, ordinary practitioners in the lower dantian will not randomly extract their own true essence of their natal life.
The corpse in front of me was not damaged much from the lower dantian and the upper dantian, but the middle dantian was seriously damaged, which means that this person was seriously injured at that time.
However, this person's sternum was not broken, which means that this person was not killed by outsiders, but was likely to be entangled by the practice of martial arts, causing the spiritual energy of the Qi Sea to run around, and finally he was directly driven to death by his own spiritual energy.
"Oh, what a bad luck guy. He actually died of practicing martial arts!" Chen Fengcheng sighed and bowed to the corpse.
The dead are the greatest, and politeness is the respect for the dead.
After putting down the bones, I looked at the pictures on the wall again. These pictures are all ages, many of which have been bleached, and some of them are very blurred and cannot be distinguished at all.
However, through some fragments of these pictures, Chen Fengcheng could still see that these people should be painting the mental method of practicing Taoism. However, because the pictures had long been blurred, Chen Fengcheng could not see which school of mental method this was.
But when I saw the picture of the Big Dipper several times, I guess these people are likely to practice sect spells related to the Big Dipper.
These sects did not appear during the Southern and Northern Dynasties and before, but there seemed to be historical records in the Song Dynasty. Chen Fengcheng judged that someone here should have come here in the Song Dynasty.
"Hey, Lao Chen, where are you?" The fat man's cry came from outside.
Chen Fengcheng heard the fat man’s shouting and hurriedly walked out of the hole and shouted to the fat man: “I’m here!”
"Old Chen, we seem to be late. Someone has come here. I saw a pack of biscuits and instant noodles on the ground!" The fat man seemed to have discovered a new world, and came to report his discovery.
"Well, I've known it a long time ago. It's been almost a day or two since they left. Fatty, we can't delay. We must speed up and hurry up in front of Li Zimu and the others and get to the second place, otherwise we will be very passive."
At this time, they had already figured out the environment on the top of the mountain, and they did not find any traces of the turtle talisman. The Baimei Zhenren said that a Taoist priest had come in the early years and taught the different methods of Qi-Practicing the qi of the Xiangshe Zhenren and took away the tortoise shell.
Even if they were not taken away, Li Zimu and others had already arrived, so there was almost no need to think that those people were likely to have already obtained the turtle talisman and rushed to the next location.
As for the purple aura drawn on the page, Chen Fengcheng has not seen it so far.
This shows that there are two situations. One is that the person or an alien with purple cultivation is likely to have left. Chen Fengcheng is not worried about this type, because after all, after thousands of years, the man may have died long ago. After the guardian died or left, the tortoise shell was taken away by the Taoist priest mentioned by Baimei Zhenren.
But the second type made Chen Fengcheng a little worried, because Baimei Zhenren was not Xiangshe. What he said was probably compiled to hide his identity and to confuse him when he was transformed. That would create a second possibility, that is, the person who guarded this place had been killed by Li Zimu and others. However, if you think about it carefully, this possibility was almost zero.
As for the deer, his cultivation level is only lilac, and he is certainly not the guardian of the purple spiritual energy, and it is impossible for these dead people in the cave and on the top of the mountain to be.
Whenever a human practices Taoism, the deeper his Taoism is when he dies, his bones will emit spiritual energy with his cultivation. The highest of these people on the top of the mountain is just blue cultivation, and none of them have purple energy.
Therefore, in order to get Li Zimu and the others in front of him, the two of them had to set off immediately and not be delayed at all.
Chapter completed!