The paper crane took me to a Taoist temple and burned into ashes.
This Taoist temple occupies a large area and looks very old. It has red walls, cornices and glazed tiles, making it look solemn and solemn.
There is a gold plaque hanging high on the lintel of the main hall of the Taoist temple, which reads "Liuyun Temple" with three golden characters flying in the air.
There was no light in the view, and no one could be seen.
There is a long staircase under the main hall. I walked along the steps to the entrance of the main hall, and found that the door was not locked, but had a gap left.
Most temples or Taoist temples will light up lanterns at night, but they are not lit here.
I reached out and pushed the vermilion wooden door of the main hall. There was a soft "squeak" and the door opened.
There is only one tall Buddha statue enshrined in the main hall, but it is not the Sanqing that is common in ordinary Taoist temples, but a stone statue that I have never seen before.
It was a statue of a goddess, holding a pure bottle in one hand, but the mouth of the bottle was tilted downwards, and a small bamboo basket in the other hand.
The goddess's head is covered with a calico scarf, and she doesn't have much of a fairy-like demeanor. She looks a bit like a village woman.
In front of the stone statue is an offering table, on which are placed fruits and other tributes and two oil lamps.
There was only a small half of the lamp oil left in the oil lamp, and it seemed that it had been lit frequently before.
There is also an incense burner filled with incense sticks, some old and new.
After looking at it like this, I saw that at the foot of the goddess statue, there was a row of things covered with black cloth. They were about the same size and looked like small stone statues in shape.#@$&
This is a little strange.
Even if things in temples or Taoist temples need to be covered, they are covered with red cloth, but in this main hall, there is a row of things covered with black cloth at the foot of the main statue.
There are three futons placed under the altar table. The futons are a bit worn and have been repaired layer by layer. From these three futons, it can be seen that the incense in this Taoist temple must be very prosperous.
I didn't immediately walk in.
A few years ago, I met a ghost mother temple in Shouning Village with Coffin Chen. After I entered, I entered another illusory world and almost couldn't get out. Fortunately, a ray of consciousness from Lu Xiaohong's previous life followed me all the time.
Me, it was he who reminded me to get out of the illusion.%&(&
Now if I encounter that kind of situation again, I'm afraid I'll be in trouble.
"Shengyuan Tianshu" mentioned a method of releasing spiritual energy and using it to sense the atmosphere around or in a place. Now it is useful.
After slowly taking a few steps back, I opened the spiritual door, slowly released the spiritual energy in my body, and entered the Taoist temple's main hall like a tentacle to feel the atmosphere in the main hall and check whether Dongzi's soul was inside.
There is no spiritual energy on the stone statue, which means that the real body is not in this hall at the moment.
But the aura remaining on the stone statue is very strange. There is some righteousness, but more of it is evil.
Since Dongzi's soul was captured here, it would be normal to say that the evil god is worshiped in this Taoist temple.
But why is there still righteousness left on the stone statues?
You must know that only righteous gods can have righteousness, and evil gods cannot have righteousness.
Since ancient times, there has been no coexistence between good and evil, but this statue has left two auras of good and evil at the same time, which is simply incredible.
But soon, I figured out why.
This stone statue does not look like the Sanqing or Taishang Laojun we are familiar with, so it is most likely a character from local folklore.
Judging from her dress and the appearance of the Taoist temple, she has a history of at least a hundred years. Maybe this person has been worshiped by people for hundreds of years. She has attained Taoism and left here, but now an evil god has taken over the stone statue. Continue
Enjoy the incense of people.
If this is the case, then those things covered with black cloth under the stone statue must not be good things!
Generally, things that need to be covered with black cloth are Yin evil things.
I slowly stretched my spiritual energy tentacles under the black cloth, trying to figure out what was covered.
But the strange thing is that as soon as the spiritual energy reached under the black cloth and hit something as hard as a stone, it was immediately bounced away.
I was a little unconvinced, so I released some more spiritual energy, and the spiritual energy tentacles became thicker. This time I finally saw it.
Underneath the black cloth are indeed small stone statues, all of which look like women. They have a smile on their lips and look very evil.
As soon as I saw it clearly, the spiritual energy tentacles were flicked away again by the light from nowhere.
Fortunately, in such a short time, I had already felt that there was a soul sealed in that stone statue, and the spiritual energy was very strong.
But whether it was the soul inside the stone statue that emitted light that bounced my spiritual energy tentacles away, or whether some other force emitted light that bounced my spiritual energy tentacles away, I haven't figured out yet.
I counted them secretly and found that there were fifteen small stone statues in the row, which was not a special number.
Generally, numbers related to seven and nine are used when setting up formations or practicing any sorcery, but this number is obviously not the case.
Of course, maybe these stone statues were originally collected to practice evil arts or evil formations, but they didn't have enough souls yet, so there were fifteen small stone statues.
After the spiritual energy tentacles were bounced off by the small stone statue, I searched around the entire hall again. Except for the residual evil energy, there was nothing else.
I stood here and used my spiritual energy tentacles to explore the surroundings of the hall to prevent any ambush or evil spirits hiding in the dark.
The strange thing is that there is still nothing found. Not only is there only residual evil energy in the entire hall, but even outside the hall, there is no trace of yin or evil energy.
I walked in a little relieved.
As I found with my spiritual energy tentacles, the decoration in the hall is very simple and the evil atmosphere is not heavy.
Dongzi's soul may have been sealed in the stone statues covered with black cloth. I thought about it and stretched out my hand towards the black cloth, preparing to lift it and take a closer look.
The spiritual energy tentacles can't get in, but there's definitely no problem if I just open it with my hands.
But as soon as I stretched out my hand, I hesitated again.
In the middle of the night, no one was keeping vigil here at the Taoist temple, but the door of the main hall was unlocked, which was a bit strange.
In our area of Jiangzhou, whether it is a temple or a Taoist temple, except for special days such as the first and fifteenth day of the lunar month, there are generally very few people at night. If there is no night watchman, the doors will be locked at night.
It's not that I'm worried about thieves coming to steal things, but I'm worried about someone destroying the statues in the hall or something like that.
There is obviously something strange about that row of small stone statues, and it makes no sense if the door is not locked at night.
What's more, Dongzi's soul has only left the body not long ago. Even if it is sealed into a stone statue, it shouldn't be so fast.
Thinking of this, I retracted my hand decisively and decided to look for clues elsewhere first. If I really couldn't find Dongzi's soul, I would come back and uncover these black cloths.