Chapter 423: There is a Ghost Valley in Yunmeng Mountain
Qi Yuan didn't stay in that small mountain village for too long. He just relied on his past life memories to give guidance to Yuan Pingsheng. After the little things in his stomach were emptied, he wouldn't be able to say anything if he stayed any longer.
However, Yuan Pingsheng's understanding of farming is still far beyond Qi Yuan's imagination. Many things can be understood at a glance, and he can understand the improvement of agricultural tools very quickly. The only more complicated issue is the manufacturing of waterwheels.
However, the human race has never lacked wise people. As long as they have this idea, it is not difficult to create it, not to mention Qi Yuan explained it to him in quite detail.
After bidding farewell to Yuan Pingsheng, Qi Yuan continued to tour Kyushu with his junior sister.
The main reason why he went down the mountain was to experience this era when hundreds of schools of thought were contending, to see the grace of human sages, and to learn from their ideas to see if they could draw parallels and see if it would be beneficial to his own practice.
As for humane virtues, he no longer deliberately pursues them.
Now he is only one step away from the Golden Immortal. After the sword practice method has been completely spread, his immortal merits have become much richer invisibly. There is no need to covet the human merits. Let's leave these opportunities to the human race.
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Therefore, when Qi Yuan met Yuan Pingsheng and found that he was indeed a peasant scholar who devoted himself to the people, he directly taught him all the knowledge he knew.
If nothing unexpected happens, as long as Yuan Pingsheng uses this knowledge, it will be enough for him to gain enough merit, and he will definitely have a place in the Hall of Human Sages.
Even if Yuan Pingsheng has an upright temperament and blames Qi Yuan for these achievements, it is useless. He is not a cultivator, so he naturally does not know Qi Yuan's true identity. Even in the cultivating world, many monks have only heard of the Emei Sword Sect.
The founder of the sect is called Bai Mei Zhenren, but not many people have actually seen him.
Therefore, even if it were spread later in Yuan Ping's life that this knowledge was taught by a Taoist named Baimei, ordinary people would only spread the beautiful story that he was taught by a god and benefited the world.
And whether it is better grain seeds, waterwheels, plows for cultivating the land, or other agricultural tools, after all, these are made by his hands, and it is he who is recognized in the hearts of the people, so the humane merits gained from these things are also made by him.
It will only happen to Yuan Pingsheng.
Qi Yuan and Yang Chan traveled around the human race, and they did not show their magical powers in front of others. When they met those sages or knowledgeable people explaining their knowledge, they would join in the fun and listen, and occasionally they would feel something gained.
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Sometimes the two of them would even directly ask some questions in their minds and discuss and communicate with those sages or great scholars. Gradually, some reputations spread.
It's just that these two dragons rarely stay in one place for long, so they don't attract too many people's attention.
In this way, the two of them wandered around Kyushu leisurely for several years, witnessing the customs and customs of various places, and even witnessed the struggles between various schools of thought.
The two of them pretended not to have seen the conspiracy and plotting.
There is absolutely no way to control this kind of thing.
And although these battles were somewhat cruel, they also promoted the development of each family invisibly.
What really interested them was the demeanor of the debates among the great scholars.
Each and every one of them was sharp-tongued, high-spirited, sharp in their words, lofty in their intentions, and brilliant in their words, all of which demonstrated the profound knowledge and wisdom of these scholars.
Every time he saw these people debating various issues, Qi Yuan couldn't help but sigh in his heart. If these people also knew how to practice Buddhism, with their eloquence, there would be no role for Buddhism to spread teachings in the future.
When these people really want to find faults, they can pick out the bones in their eggs, not to mention that many Buddhist concepts do have contradictory meanings.
It is no wonder that after Buddhism spread to the East, it would actively integrate various theories of Taoism and Confucianism, otherwise it would be difficult to gain a foothold in Kyushu.
On this day, they came to a town near Yunmeng Mountain.
After arriving here, I was surprised to find that most of the people in this town looked terrified. It was not dark yet, so they closed their doors one by one and went to bed early.
The town of Nuoda fell into a strange silence, which made Qi Yuan and Qi Yuan a little strange.
It's not that they want to stay overnight. With their way of doing things, they don't need to rest. It's enough to just find a place to meditate and adjust their breath.
The two of them felt strange and wondered whether there was a monster causing trouble.
So they used their spiritual consciousness to scan the town, but they didn't find any strange phenomena, and there was no evil spirit. It didn't look like there was a monster coming to harass them.
Just as they turned around to look around, there was a creak, and a door not far away cracked a thin crack.
A wrinkled old woman looked at them carefully through the crack in the door. After she felt that they did not look like bad people, she waved at them: "You two are from out of town, right?
It's going to be dark soon. If you don't find a place to hide quickly, you might be harmed by ghosts if you stay outside. Come to my house and hide, and leave as soon as it gets light."
The two looked at each other after hearing this. They didn't expect that they were actually being haunted. No wonder they didn't sense the evil spirit.
At this time, the sun has not yet set, and there is still enough Yang energy between heaven and earth, so naturally there is no Yin energy remaining.
The two of them walked towards the old woman's house. After thanking the old woman, they entered the house.
There are four people in this family. In addition to the old woman, there is also a middle-aged couple and a child who is more than ten years old.
The old woman was very kind-hearted and warmly invited them to sit down in the house. She also offered them some food, but Yang Chan refused: "Mother-in-law, there is no need to be polite. We two don't need food."
Then she asked: "My mother-in-law just said there were ghosts, what happened?"
"well……"
When the old woman heard this, she sighed and said, "I can tell by your accents that you must have come from a foreign country.
You don’t know, this is the Yunmeng Mountain Realm. Originally, our place was quite peaceful and our life was going well. However, since some time ago, there have been reports of ghost collisions.”
"A ghost?"
Yang Chan asked: "Is the ghost powerful and harmful to people? Didn't you ask an expert to come and subdue the ghost?"
"Please."
The old woman sighed helplessly: "A few days ago, the people in our town invited the Taoist priest from Qixia Temple, twenty miles away, to help us catch ghosts.
Things calmed down a lot that night, but an accident occurred when the Taoist priests were tracing the source of the ghosts, and only one Taoist priest escaped in the end.
According to what the Taoist priest said, there is a valley in Yunmeng Mountain that connects to the netherworld, and those ghosts gather in that valley.
In the past, some expert must have set up a formation to seal that passage, so no trouble has ever been reported. But recently, for some reason, the formation that sealed the Nether Passage has changed, and ghosts have come out.
For disaster."
The old woman sighed softly: "The Taoist priest at Qixia Temple said that there were many ghosts there and he couldn't deal with them, so he had to invite experienced qigong practitioners to come and seal off the netherworld passage in the valley again.
Although there have been no casualties in the past few days, the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep kept in captivity have all had their yang energy sucked away by the ghosts, and many of them have died.
Now that a few days have passed, I think it's time for the Taoist priest to invite someone back, otherwise if we let those ghosts continue to cause trouble and kill people, we will have to abandon our family business here and move the whole town."
Qi Yuan and Qi Yuan looked at each other, feeling surprised.
I didn't expect that in the beautiful Yunmeng Mountain, there would be a passage to the netherworld. If some evil cultivators found this, they might use it to cause disaster.
The two briefly asked about the situation and learned the general direction of the valley.
At this time, the sun set, the last ray of light disappeared, and the sky quickly turned dark in a very short period of time. Occasionally, a strong yin energy came out from Yunmeng Mountain and soon enveloped all directions.
Not only this town, but even hundreds of miles around were shrouded in that yin energy.
Fortunately, the formation that blocked the Netherworld Passage did not completely fail. It only cracked a few gaps, causing a small amount of Yin Qi in the Netherworld Underworld to leak out.
If the passage is completely opened, I am afraid that everything within a thousand miles will be plunged into darkness, and the scorching sun in the day may not be able to shine down.
As the Yin Qi permeated the air, there gradually became a bit of a cold atmosphere between heaven and earth.
This kind of coldness is not just a coldness, but a kind of coldness coming from the bones, which makes people shiver uncontrollably.
Qi Yuan couldn't help but frown when he saw the old woman's body trembling a few times in the cold atmosphere.
In such an environment with strong yin energy, not only is it easy for ghosts to breed, but it can also damage the yang energy of living people.
Especially for such elderly people, the Yang Qi in their body is not enough. If they stay in Yin Qi for a long time, accidents will easily occur, and their souls will most likely be transformed into ghosts.
Qi Yuan looked at the stove in their home. The family had just had dinner, and there was still some residual fire on the firewood under the stove. So the seal of the Kitchen Lord above his soul moved slightly, and a weak divine power fell on it.
Light on the remaining fire.
There was a crackling sound, and a few sparks splashed on the firewood.
Then, a faint warmth came from under the stove, dispelling the gloom in the house, and immediately made the family feel a lot warmer, just like the feeling of being under the sun in winter, and the whole person felt
Warm.
However, this is only treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. If the Netherworld Passage is not sealed again, the Yin Qi will still overflow in the future. They cannot stay here forever, so they should go directly to seal the Netherworld Passage.
good.
So the two of them got up to say goodbye and planned to leave.
The old woman was stunned and asked strangely: "Why are you going out this late at night? Wouldn't it be a pity if you encounter a ghost and get killed!"
Qi Yuan chuckled: "Don't worry, old man. To tell you the truth, my junior sister and I are both Qi practitioners with Taoist skills. We don't look down on mere ghosts."
Once she heard that they were monks who knew magic, the old woman stopped trying to stop them, but she was still a little worried, so she warned: "You are still young, so don't show off. If you encounter a powerful ghost, come back quickly and wait for the instructions from Qixia Temple."
After we invite some capable people with profound knowledge, we will naturally get rid of all the ghosts and monsters."
The two looked at each other, somewhat dumbfounded.
Both of them are hundreds of years old, and today they are called young by an old lady who is several decades old, which makes them feel a little helpless.
But this old lady is just an ordinary person, so naturally she can't tell their age.
So the two of them didn't say much and agreed with a light smile. After leaving this house, they followed the direction of the Yin Qi and flew towards the depths of Yunmeng Mountain.
Their escape skills were extremely fast, and within a short time, they had reached the sky above the place where the Yin Qi was the strongest.
This is a valley with rugged rocks and strange rocks. The valley is filled with gloomy air and is so dark that you can't even see your fingers.
However, there were a few green phosphorus will-o'-the-wisps emitting green light, barely bringing a little light to this dark space.
When they cast their sights into the depths of the valley, they discovered that someone had already arrived one step earlier than them.
Outside the Netherworld Passage, countless spooky ghost figures, large and small, were besieging a figure with their claws and teeth.
That figure wears a wide robe and long sleeves, and has a free and easy manner with a bit of wantonness. Even though he is among thousands of ghosts, he does not have the slightest fear. Instead, he moves around freely and can disperse many ghosts with just a few movements.
What attracted the attention of Qi Yuan and the others the most was the majestic aura of his body, which frightened the ghosts in all directions with fear on their faces and did not dare to approach him easily.