After returning to the village, start chasing the mountain from binding Emei

Chapter 206: Is there a cave in the temple?

"Old Wu!"

Arriving at the backyard, Chen Yang shouted directly.

It was dark in the backyard. It took Chen Yang a while to find the switch and turn on the light in the yard.

I don’t know if it’s preconceived ideas or a psychological effect.

Under the cover of night, the paulownia tree spread out its branches, like a ferocious beast with its claws and fangs bared, lying there quietly.

The flocks of birds flying above brought gusts of wind, rustling the leaves of the tree.

At this time, there were also many hunted small animals piled under the paulownia tree.

There was blood all over the place and it was difficult to walk.

"Hey!"

I heard the sigh of the Wutong tree, "I was about to fall asleep, but I was woken up again. You are really annoying."

Chen Yang's face was full of black lines, "In this environment, can you sleep well?"

You complain about me being noisy, why don’t you complain about these birds and bats being noisy?
"It's like this every night. I'm used to it." said Wutongshu.

Chen Muyu frowned, "Is it this powerful every night?"

The phoenix tree shook its branches, as if stretching itself. "Not really. Tonight is the worst, isn't it? Yes, the Ghost Festival wasn't that bad either. I wonder if it's because you're here, so we're holding a welcome party for you..."

"This scene is too scary." A black line crossed Chen Yang's forehead.

The phoenix tree yawned. "Are you scared already? I was counting on you to settle this matter!"

Chen Yang raised his eyebrows. "Master Wu, you said before that they are most likely coming for Monk Jin Ming's relics. Does that mean that as long as we take the relics away, the problem will be solved?"

"What you said makes sense. Go quickly and don't disturb my sleep." The Wutong tree said perfunctorily.

"Mr. Wu?"

"Longdeng and the others won't give you anything." Wutongshu sighed, "They won't even let you touch the relic."

"why?"

"How would I know why? Go ask Longdeng."

The paulownia tree showed great impatience.

Chen Yang looked up at it. The sycamore tree under the night sky looked so mysterious.

"Mr. Wu, you seem to be sick!" Chen Yang said suddenly.

"Well?"

Wutongshu was obviously stunned for a moment, then said, "Not only am I sick, I'm seriously ill. Do you still have the medicine you gave me during the day? Give me some more quickly..."

"Yes, but I don't have it with me. I'll give it to you tomorrow."

Of course, this was not the illness he was talking about. After hesitating for a while, he still didn't reveal the truth.

For Chen Yang, dealing with the paulownia tree should not be a difficult task.

He now has insecticide in his hand, which can kill all the insects on its body in minutes.

But doing so would alarm the person who raises the insects, causing him to be cautious and afraid to show up, which would be troublesome.

In addition, he was not sure whether Wutongshu was under duress.

As the saying goes, to eradicate all evil, things must be dealt with at the root.

What is the purpose of this person hiding behind doing this?
Just for a relic?

Chen Yang took a deep breath and said, "Can you please drive these things away first? They are too noisy."

"With me here, they just don't dare to come near. I don't have the ability to drive them away. Besides, if I drive them away today, they will come back tomorrow. What's the point?"

"Go to bed, they will go away after a while."

Wutongshu sounded uninterested, as if he didn't want to care about this matter at all.

pat!

A fruit fell from the tree and Chen Yang caught it in his hand.

There is no trace, just pinch it open and take a look.

Sure enough, it’s also bad.

The bugs inside are shedding their skin and transforming into Class B minions.

"Ugh!"

Chen Yang sighed lightly, crushed it to death, said nothing, and left.

"Ugh!"

In the darkness, the paulownia tree also let out a long sigh.

"Squeak..."

A shadow descended in the sky.

Soon, hundreds of bats were hanging upside down on the branches of the paulownia tree.

……

-

Outside the Zen room, Liu Henghu was still picking up stones to hit the birds in the sky, while Qinzhou stood beside him, feeling a little numb.

"How about it?"

Seeing Chen Yang coming back, Qinzhou immediately asked.

Liu Henghu also looked at him.

"There is indeed something wrong with this sycamore tree, but when I look at it, it seems to have some unspeakable secrets!"

Chen Yang shook his head, "I think we should have a good chat with Monk Longdeng!"

The door of the meditation room opposite was tightly closed. Despite such a loud commotion, Long Deng and Long Yun did not come out.

Qinzhou walked over and knocked on the door, but no one answered.

He turned around and looked at Chen Yang and the others.

Liu Henghu shook his head and said, "Let's talk about it tomorrow."

With such a commotion, anyone would be scared. Long Deng and the others are just ordinary people, so how could they dare to come out?
"So that's it for tonight?" Qinzhou frowned.

"Otherwise what else?"

Chen Yang shook his head.

The three of them stood under the eaves for a while and then returned to the meditation room.

……

That night, the noise outside lasted until after two o'clock, when it gradually died down.

The next morning.

The yard was a mess.

The monks who had gone down the mountain to return to secular life last night came back to become monks early in the morning. Under the leadership of the monk Longdeng, they were cleaning the courtyard.

The yard was littered with the corpses of various small animals, a scene that made people feel creepy.

These monks seemed to have gotten used to it. Some of them were chatting and laughing while they were cleaning up.

in the corner.

Liu Henghu was chatting with Monk Longdeng about what happened last night.

Chen Yang walked over, said hello, and interrupted, "Master Longdeng, I heard that there is a relic of Master Jinming enshrined in the Buddhist temple. I wonder if we can have the honor to see it?"

No beating around the bush, straight to the point.

Upon hearing this, Longdeng Monk was slightly startled, then nodded, "Of course, Master's relics are enshrined in the Vajra Hall. You can see them anytime you want..."

Chen Yang was a little surprised when he heard this.

He didn't expect that Monk Longdeng would agree so readily.

From the tone of Wutongshu last night, he thought it wouldn't be so smooth.

Vajra Hall.

It is a small room, housing several statues of Vajra Bodhisattva.

The clay statue has a layer of paint on the surface, and the workmanship is a bit rough and not delicate.

For a small temple like this, it is quite good to achieve this level.

On the wall opposite the door, there is a shrine with incense and candles burning in front of it and a black lacquered wooden box in the shrine.

Monk Longdeng brought them to the shrine, clasped his hands together, and bowed respectfully to the shrine.

He reached out and pressed on the box, and the lid popped up.

Inside the box, there was a small object, probably a piece of finger bone, light red in color, and looked like a piece of translucent jade.

"This is the relic left by the master!"

Monk Longdeng had a pious look on his face. “After Master passed away, two relics were burned out. One of them was sent to Baoguo Temple for offering. This is the remaining one!”

Chen Yang asked, "Why not send them all to Baoguo Temple?"

Long Deng smiled bitterly and said, "This is Master Jin Ming's last wish!"

"Oh?"

When they heard this, they were all stunned.

Longdeng shook his head and said nothing more.

"Can I take it out and have a look?"

Qinzhou said this suddenly.

Everyone turned to look at him, and he realized that this request might be a bit offensive.

Longdeng chanted a Buddhist name and said, "Thinking carefully, it seems that since this relic was enshrined here, strange things have happened at night!"

"Oh?"

Liu Henghu frowned, with a look of surprise on his face, "Could it be that he really came here for the relics?"

Longdeng shook his head, indicating that he didn't understand.

Chen Yang used the system to detect Long Deng's physical condition and found that he was just an ordinary person with a physique of about 50.

I don’t know about Longdeng, but among the dozen or so monks in the entire Jianfeng Temple, none of them has a physical strength of more than 100.

They are all ordinary people.

"Why don't we try to enshrine this relic in another place?" Liu Henghu said tentatively.

I want to know if it has anything to do with the relics. Can't I just move it away?

"no?"

Long Deng shook his head in a decisive tone, "Don't move. Master Jin Ming instructed before his death that this relic can only be enshrined here and cannot be taken anywhere else, otherwise the temple will encounter a disaster!"

"Oh?"

The three of them were a little surprised. They never expected that Longdeng would react so strongly. Chen Yang asked in surprise, "What disaster will happen?"

"do not know!"

Long Deng shook his head. "Before his death, Master repeatedly told us that no matter what happened, this relic must remain in the temple. Since Master Jin Ming ordered this, we must obey it."

"Hey, this monk Jinming is really good at playing mute puzzles!" Qinzhou smiled, with a hint of joking.

Chen Yang suddenly asked, "Master Longdeng, do you know the underground palace?"

"Underground Palace?"

Long Deng was startled, "What underground palace?"

"You do not know?"

Chen Yang looked at him in surprise, "You are Master Jin Ming's apprentice. Master Jin Ming never told you about the Bamianshan Underground Palace when he was alive?"

Longdeng was a little confused.

He looked towards Liu Henghu.

Liu Henghu briefly explained the situation to him.

Long Deng suddenly understood, but his face was also a little surprised, "Usually, the master only teaches us to chant scriptures, and never tells us other things. You just mentioned the underground palace, and I thought you were talking about the underground cave in our temple..."

"There are caves in the temple?" Chen Yang's eyes moved slightly.

Long Deng nodded, "That was the place where our master practiced meditation when he was still alive. We are not allowed to go in!"

The three of them looked at each other, as if they had some kind of premonition.

"Master Longdeng, can you take us to the cave?" Liu Henghu said immediately.

Since this is the place where Monk Jin Ming meditates, there might be some useful clues left behind.

"This……"

Longdeng was obviously in a difficult situation.

Chen Yang said, "Now that something like this has happened, we have to find a way to figure out the cause..."

"All right!"

Long Deng hesitated again and again, as if he had made some decision, and immediately asked Chen Yang and others to help move the shrine in front of him.

A hole covered with wooden boards appeared on the ground under the shrine.

The three of them were a little surprised that the entrance to the cave was actually right here.

The dragon lantern lifted the wooden board, and a dark hole appeared in front of the three people.

The entrance of the cave is one and a half meters wide, with a wooden ladder leaning against the wall, extending all the way down.

Longdeng took the lead and walked down.

Chen Yang was also cautious and afraid of accidents, so he let Qinzhou stay on the ground and he went down with Liu Henghu.

……

Following the wooden stairs down about ten meters, a passage appeared in front of Chen Yang.

The floor and walls were paved with bluestone. The space was fairly spacious, but the light was dim and it was difficult to tell where the passage led to.

"This underground cave has been there since the temple was built. It has a history of one or two hundred years. It is said that it was built by Shi Dakai, one of the Eight Kings of the Pingtian Sect. It is recorded in the county annals of our county. You can see that these stones for building the walls were all dug from the deep mountains. It must have cost a lot of manpower and material resources back then..."

Monk Longdeng acted like a tour guide and introduced the situation of the cave to Chen Yang and the others, sighing as he spoke.

There was no electricity in the cave, but there were oil lamps on the wall. Monk Longdeng lit the oil lamps and the room soon became bright.

He took down the oil lamp and led the two of them inside.

There is no sunlight all year round, so the air in the passage is still flowing, but it is a bit chilly.

There are a dozen stone chambers of various sizes on both sides of the passage, but they are basically empty, with only one or two chambers filled with some useless debris.

Walking to the end of the passage, a larger wooden door appeared in front of them.

There was a big lock on the wooden door, and at this time, the door was locked.

Monk Longdeng took out a bunch of keys and asked Liu Henghu to hold the oil lamp for him. He searched for a while before finding the correct key and unlocking the door.

"The master usually meditates here and usually doesn't let us get close. You can go in and see for yourself."

Longdeng put the key away, left a few words, and turned away.

The two looked at each other and carefully opened the door.

crunch.

As soon as the door of the stone chamber opened, Chen Yang's brows furrowed.

The air inside was a bit turbid, exuding a faint musty smell.

Liu Henghu also had the same serious expression.

They were all familiar with this smell.

The furnishings in the stone chamber are simple.

A cabinet, a row of bookshelves, and a futon.

There was a small table in front of the cushion, on which were a cup, a wooden fish, and a Buddhist scripture.

It can be said that the house is bare and everything is visible.

The two men walked around the stone chamber but did not find any useful clues.

"Brother Hu, do you smell it? There seems to be a fishy smell in the stone chamber, like the smell of blood."

Chen Yang twitched his nose, trying to find the source of the fishy smell.

"Ah."

If Chen Yang could smell it, there was no reason why Liu Henghu couldn't smell it. He stood in front of the bookshelf and pushed it open.

There is another wooden door on the stone wall behind the bookshelf.

As you get closer to the wooden door, the smell of blood becomes more obvious.

There was no lock on the door, but it was a bit heavy. Liu Henghu stood in front of it and used quite a bit of strength to push it open.

The smell of blood hits me in the face.

Chen Yang took out his cell phone, turned on the flashlight, and shone it inside.

Before he could see the situation clearly, a strong wind blew in his face.

A vague figure rushed towards him, and this sudden move frightened Chen Yang so much that he punched out almost as a conditioned reflex.

"Boom..."

Chen Yang only felt his arm shake and took a step back, but Liu Henghu held him steady.

But that figure flew backwards and fell into the darkness with the sound of shaking chains.

"Who?"

Liu Henghu took a step forward and stood in front of Chen Yang, holding the oil lamp high in his hand and shouting loudly.

With the help of the light, you can see that this is a spacious stone chamber.

There were smooth stone walls all around, it was cold and damp, and the air was filled with a strong stench of blood.

A figure stood in the shadow of the corner.

He was tall and thin, with disheveled hair, bare hands and feet, wearing tattered clothes, and with his head buried, so his face could not be seen clearly.

All that could be seen was two blood-red eyes beneath the messy hair.

His hands and feet were locked with long iron chains and tied to the surrounding walls, like a tortured prisoner.

Behind him, the ground was piled with the remains of many dead animals, and the strong smell of blood came from there.

"Oh my God, why is there someone locked up here?" Chen Yang's face was full of astonishment.

Liu Henghu was not much better.

At this moment, he probably had countless questions in his mind. He held the oil lamp and approached the man.

"Brother Hu, be careful, this man is very strong." Chen Yang reminded.

He just exchanged a punch with this guy, but actually, he didn't gain any benefit. Even if this guy's strength was not as strong as his, it was probably not much different.

Perhaps the man had stayed in the dark for too long and was afraid of the light, so he subconsciously raised his hands to avoid it.

"who are you?"

Liu Henghu didn't dare to get too close. There was a distance of two or three meters between them. Even if the other party suddenly attacked, he would have time to react.

"Ho ho..."

The man didn't say anything either, but just let out a low roar from his throat, like some mad beast.

The eyes hidden under the hair were full of hostility, staring at Liu Henghu fiercely, like a lion about to devour its prey.

"Xiaoyang, go call Longdeng in."

The other party didn't speak, and they had no way of confirming his identity, so they could only ask Long Deng to come.

"Be careful yourself."

Chen Yang gave some instructions and turned around and walked out.

A few minutes later, the dragon lantern that was welcoming tourists at the temple gate was invited to the cave by Chen Yang.

Liu Henghu stood against the door of the stone chamber, breathing heavily, his face flushed red.

"what……"

A strange and shrill cry came from the stone chamber, and the person in the room was only two meters away from them.

His hair is disheveled and his face is ferocious.

Like a devil crawling out of hell, he raised his hands high and tried to get close to Chen Yang and others, but he was pulled by the chains and could only roar in anger.

The iron chain was stretched straight and made a crackling sound, as if it would break at any time.

"Brother Tiger, are you okay?"

Liu Henghu must have fought with him just now, but it seemed that he didn't get any benefits.

Liu Henghu calmed down and shook his head gently. He turned to look at the monk Longdeng who was frightened and his face turned pale. "Master Longdeng, who is this person? Why is he imprisoned here?"

He had just asked the man in the stone chamber, but unfortunately, the other party seemed to have lost his mind, either crying, laughing, or screaming, and even attacked him directly.

He is just like a madman.

Moreover, the strength of this madman is not low. In terms of strength alone, he is definitely above him.

Longdeng was already frightened out of his wits by such a scene.

It was not until Liu Henghu slapped him on the shoulder that he suddenly woke up and came to his senses.

He bravely leaned forward and looked again and again carefully.

"Uncle Jintan?"

The expression on Long Deng's face suddenly changed from fear to astonishment.

(End of this chapter)