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

Chapter 764 The Six Harmonies Child, the Heaven-Reaching Pattern on the Mountain-Suppressing Stele!
After looking around, I didn't see the two of them.

Tong Chuan said, "They and your uncle went to the public housing area."

Chen Yang then realized that his uncle was also not there.

After a slight pause, he remembered that Xuanjing had mentioned that his uncle resembled one of his old friends and that he should find an opportunity to have a good chat with him.

They're probably chatting right now.

……

"Elder Zhou said that the power of this stone tablet is about to be exhausted, and it won't be of much use to leave it here. I'll tell Master Xuanjing and the others about it later, and take it with me!"

Since Tong Chuan has already said that the stone tablet does not belong to the Tong family, but was only borrowed by them, then he can take it without consulting the Tong family.

He said that only to save face for the other party.

The stone tablet belongs to Emei. Xuanjing also said that he considers himself half an Emei disciple and has even given himself a Dharma name. If he takes it away, wouldn't that be taking something from his own family?

It makes sense!

Before Tong Chuan could say anything, Chen Yang immediately picked up the stone tablet.

The stone tablet is quite heavy; with the stone tortoise base, it weighs at least a thousand kilograms.

However, for Chen Yang, this weight was nothing.

"Did you eat too much at lunch? Are you playing with stones?"

Just then, Xuanjing and the other two turned around from the bend in the road beside them.

The three chatted and laughed, seemingly having a good time.

When Xuan Jing saw Chen Yang holding the stone tablet, she smiled and asked a question.

Chen Yang said, "Perfect timing! I wanted to take this stone tablet back to study it. Grandpa Tong said it's from Emei and told me to ask you about it!"

Xuan Jing looked towards Tong Chuan.

Tong Chuan said, "This stone tablet is of little use here..."

He was happy to agree.

Since Tong Chuan had no objections, Xuan Jing nodded in agreement, "It's just a stone tablet, what's there to study?"

Chen Yang didn't mince words at all, "I've heard that the Mountain-Suppressing Stele was left by the last Mountain Lord, Zhao Quanzhen, and it may be related to the secret of achieving the Celestial Realm. I think it should be of great research value!"

Xuan Jing was both amused and exasperated upon hearing this. Seeing his serious yet smug expression, she said, "Alright, go ahead and do your research. Don't forget to let me know when you've come up with the results."

Everyone laughed.

Young people always have too many ideas. This kid is only at the Creation Realm, yet he's already worrying about breaking through to the Celestial Realm.
The Zhenshan Stele is indeed said to have been left by Zhao Quanzhen, because Zhao Quanzhen was the last mountain lord of Shushan. He should have witnessed the so-called severance of the heavenly road four hundred years ago and understood the cause and effect. Therefore, later generations felt that the Zhenshan Stele might contain some secrets left by Zhao Quanzhen.

And within this, there may very well lie the secret of the Heavenly Road being severed four hundred years ago.

This kind of speculation was believed by many people in the past.

However, after seeing the Zhenshan Stele, this speculation will be dispelled.

What secrets could a mere stone tablet hold? You can scan the contents of the tablet with your spiritual power and see everything clearly. It's nothing more than a stone imbued with divinity by a Celestial Realm expert.

As time goes by, the divinity within it is slowly consumed and dissipated. After some time, when the divinity in the stone tablet has completely dissipated, it will just be an ordinary stone!
So, what research value does it have?

In Xuan Jing's view, the so-called secrets to breaking through to the Celestial Realm were mostly hearsay and far-fetched interpretations.

But since Chen Yang wanted to study it, they didn't spoil his fun, treating him like a child who had just encountered a new toy.

……

"Seventh Uncle, come and take a look, what is this?"

At this moment, the group of young men who had been demolishing the ancestral hall gathered together, and someone shouted towards Tong Chuan, as if they had made a discovery.

Everyone walked over.

After the altar where the ancestral tablets of the Tong family used to be placed was moved from the original location of the main hall of the ancestral hall, there was a dark area on the ground underneath.

After the group finished dismantling the ancestral hall, they felt that the place was a bit strange, so they took hoes and shovels and dug for a while.

When the hoe went down, all that came out was black mud. At first, it was quite dry, but after digging for a while, the soil became moist. When the hoe was pressed down, black water could be seen seeping out.

There wasn't any strange smell.

After digging about a meter deep, their hoes reached something hard. They removed the black soil on top and found more than a dozen black, coal-like stones of various sizes in front of them.

The stones were irregularly shaped, shiny black, some as big as half a soccer ball, others as small as an adult's fist.

Did they find a coal mine?

The burly men couldn't figure it out, so they quickly called Tong Chuan and the others over to take a look.

A crowd of people gathered around the pit.

Someone has already picked up the black stones from the pit.

The stone was shiny black, a blackness that was somewhat eerie.

It doesn't have any particular odor, unlike coal.

Moreover, if it were a coal mine, it wouldn't be just such a small area. The ancestors of the Tong family wouldn't have been so idle as to bury a few pieces of coal in the ancestral hall.

It looks like coal, but it's not actually coal.

"Human soul?"

Chen Yang blurted it out.

He was quite familiar with this thing, having seen it with his own eyes.

Back in Huangjia Village, Chen Antai left behind a piece of human soul, which was later obtained by Huang Daolin. He used it to refine a batch of Heart-Refining Pills, and Chen Yang had to consume one of them. Moreover, he still had one left.

Chen Yang kept the Heart-Refining Pill because it was not advisable to take too many doses in a short period of time.

This medicine is indeed very effective. It can help cultivate one's mental state. Chen Yang's mental state has now entered the mid-stage of the Creation Realm, and this medicine has played a crucial role in that.

According to the Compendium of Materia Medica, "human soul" is the black crystal formed beneath the ground when the soul of a person who has hanged falls to earth.

This is a medicine, and it is the main ingredient in refining the Heart-Refining Pill.

Isn't this a job that's been taken care of?

A rare and precious elixir.

With so many human souls, you should be able to refine quite a few Heart Refining Pills, right?

Chen Yang's face showed a hint of surprise.

Xuan Jing and the others were also quite surprised, for with their experience, they certainly knew what a human soul was.

What puzzled them was how so many human souls could be buried beneath the Tong family ancestral hall.
This thing is hidden in the ground, and it is invisible and traceless when viewed with spiritual power. It can only be identified with the naked eye. That is why so many people have searched the ancestral hall countless times with their spiritual power, but they have not found its existence.

Judging from the quality of these people's souls, they must have been around for many years.

If the soul of a person is said to be born from the soul of a person who has hanged themselves, then how many people must have hanged themselves in this Tong family ancestral hall?

Or perhaps someone from the Tong family got it from somewhere else and buried it here on purpose?
Why bury so many human souls here?
Huang Daolin held a piece of human soul in his hand, lost in thought. After a moment, he said, "Look around, see if there are any more..."

Upon hearing this, everyone hurriedly searched everywhere.

Some areas inside the ancestral hall were paved with floor tiles, and the group removed the tiles and thoroughly searched the place.

Besides the area below the altar, similar black soil areas were also found in the four corners of the main hall of the ancestral hall, as well as in the center of the hall.

Without saying a word, he picked up a hoe and started digging.

Before long, the soil was dug up, and sure enough, many more human souls of various sizes were discovered.

It took more than half an hour of excavation to gather all the souls together.

The quantity is astonishing, with seventy-two pieces of various sizes.

Among them, there are six pieces, each about the size of half a football, one in each direction, and each area contains exactly twelve human souls.

Looking at these souls, Huang Daolin almost bit his teeth until they bled. "It seems that the wandering master last night was most likely after these souls."

"The Six Harmonies Child Formation!"

At this moment, Xuan Qing suddenly said something.

Huang Daolin looked at him, "Master, do you know about this situation?"

Xuan Qing nodded. "I played this game more than ten years ago in Hunan, but I think he didn't develop it properly."

"Ah."

Zhou Mingyuan nodded in agreement, "If he gets into this habit, things won't end so easily this time..."

The group was playing a game of riddles, leaving Chen Yang completely bewildered.

"What is the Six Harmonies Child Bureau?" Chen Yang couldn't help but ask.

His eyes revealed a deep thirst for knowledge.

Huang Daolin opened his mouth, as if to say something, but in the end he held back.

Xuan Qing and the others didn't offer any explanation. Tong Chuan also wanted to ask, but seeing that Chen Yang hadn't responded, he could only give up in frustration.

The group stared at the coal-like objects for a long time.

Huang Daolin said, "Although human souls are good things, these human souls have absorbed too much Yin energy and have become corrupted. I don't know if they can still be used."

His face showed deep regret.

"Do you need it?" Xuan Jing asked.

Huang Daolin didn't mince words and nodded directly, "As for alchemy, I have a pill with human soul as the main ingredient."

The pill he was referring to was, of course, the pill for refining the mind.

Xuan Jing nodded. "In that case, these souls are yours. Let them bask in the sun and soak them in the purest yang water. Perhaps they can still be saved."

His words startled Chen Yang.

So generous? And it's all at someone else's expense.

These souls were dug out from under the Tong family's ancestral hall. How dare you, an outsider, take charge of things for the Tong family?

Tong Chuan stood to the side but did not offer any opinion.

He knew what a human soul was, but he had no practical use for it; it was merely a medicine to calm the mind.

Furthermore, just hearing about its origins makes it seem sinister, and getting involved with it is considered unlucky.

So do whatever you want with these things in the village. Take them as far away as you can, you'd better take them all with you.

Huang Daolin didn't say much, but gave Chen Yang a wink, and the two of them quickly packed up all the human souls.

Although Chen Yang had doubts, seeing that they all seemed to be hiding something and keeping quiet, he figured there was something they couldn't say.

He wasn't in a hurry; he would ask his great-uncle privately later.

……

-

They stayed at the Tong family's house for another night, and nothing else happened.

The small mountain village has finally returned to its former tranquility.

Before leaving, the group of leaders surveyed the area around Tongjia'ao one last time to make sure they found nothing unusual. The next day at noon, they discussed the matter and then withdrew.

This trip to Dawa Mountain has been delayed for quite some time.

As for the You Shi incident, no one can say for sure whether there are any loose ends left. And it's impossible for anyone to waste time on an uncertain answer.

Therefore, we can only retreat for now. If any problems arise later, we can have the Tong family report them in time and then deal with them.

……

-

Xuanjing and Xuanqing went straight back to Emei, and Zhou Mingyuan hitched a ride with them. He planned to go to Emei to ask the Mountain Chasing Association for help in finding out the whereabouts of Huanglong Zhenren.

With official intervention, tracking a person's movements shouldn't be too difficult, unless the person stays deep in the mountains. Otherwise, there are cameras everywhere now, and information will eventually be found, whether the person travels by plane or other means of transportation. Even if he walks back to Hong Kong Island, he probably won't be able to avoid all the cameras.

As for Chen Yang, if there is any news about Qian Huai Ren, Chen Yang will notify him immediately.

Zhou Mingyuan has been away for quite some time this time and is thinking of going back to the provincial capital.

Before leaving, he instructed Chen Yang to let him know if Shi Ling fully woke up, as he wanted to meet with her.

Although he didn't explain why, Chen Yang agreed.

Chen Yang drove with Huang Daolin and parted ways with Xuan Jing and the others in Lingjiang County before heading to Pingqiang Town.

……

"Uncle, what's this 'Six Harmonies Child Game' you were talking about yesterday?"

In the car, Xuan Jing and the others were not there, and Chen Yang finally asked the question that had been bothering him for a long time.

"Ugh."

Sitting in the passenger seat, Huang Daolin sighed upon hearing this, and then began to speak slowly, "The Six Harmonies Child Formation has many interpretations. It exists in both Taoism and Legalism. Legalism calls it the 'Six Harmonies Child Formation,' while Taoism often refers to it as the 'Earthly Fiend Child Formation,' which is a forbidden technique among evil arts..."

"To set up this arrangement, seventy-two children with blood ties to the arranger are required to be buried in a place of Yin and Sha using the Six Harmonies Direction Method. If this arrangement is successful, over time, the spirit spirits of these children will be born within it. These spirit spirits are a combination of Yin and Sha energy and spiritual intent, resembling Yin spirits. The stronger ones are comparable to the primordial spirit of the Dao True Realm. The Fa Sect calls them the Six Harmonies Children..."

"Once these evil spirits take shape, they can communicate with the planner's mind and be at the planner's command at will, killing people invisibly..."

……

"Seventy-two boys? And they have to be related by blood, so aren't they family?" Chen Yang was somewhat astonished.

Huang Daolin nodded. "That's right. So this technique is the most evil of all, not only greatly violating the laws of nature but also going against human ethics. It has always been listed as a forbidden technique by the three religions..."

"However, the Tong family's plan did not come to fruition and should be considered a failure. Of course, it is also possible that the person who orchestrated it did so intentionally."

"How so?" Chen Yang asked, his face full of curiosity.

Huang Daolin said, "If it were the real 'Six Harmonies Child Formation,' there should be a large number of child skeletons, but there are no skeletons under the Tong family ancestral hall, only human souls..."

"In this situation, it's possible that there were burial remains before, but they were moved by the person who set up the scheme; or it's possible that the scheme was set up elsewhere, but it was broken before it could be completed, so it failed to generate spiritual energy and instead condensed a human soul, and then the scheme was moved to the Tong family ancestral hall..."

"Although it didn't become a child spirit, it condensed a human soul. By using the human soul to enter the formation, and given time, the human soul absorbs the yin energy and grows. For a wandering master, this is a spiritual medicine to increase cultivation..."

……

After hearing what Huang Daolin said, Chen Yang understood.

If that's the case, then it's not unreasonable for that wandering monk to come and force his way into the Tong family ancestral hall.

"So, the wandering monk who was killed by Elder Zhou that night was the one who set up this 'Six Harmonies Boy Trap.' This trap was set up in the Tong family ancestral hall, so it must be related to the Tong family. Tong Kui, who built the ancestral hall back then, is a prime suspect. I'm afraid that wandering monk really was Tong Kui," Chen Yang said.

Seventy-two boys, and they must be related by blood. If it is Tong Kui's work, it means that this person has to harm his own clansmen.

How utterly depraved must one be to have the heart to do such a thing?
Human greed is truly boundless. Some people are capable of doing incredibly crazy things to satisfy their insatiable desires.

At this point, both of them fell silent.

No wonder Huang Daolin and the others were hesitant and unwilling to go into details yesterday. This Six Harmonies Child Formation is indeed too brutal and affects the viewing experience too much.

At the time, so many young men from Tong Chuan and the Tong family were present. If they knew that their ancestors had done such a brutal thing to their ancestors, wouldn't they just explode on the spot? Their worldview would probably be shattered.

……

-

Jiapigou, the old Chen family residence.

This trip to Dawa Mountain has delayed us for about a week. Fortunately, Black Tiger knows how to find food on its own; otherwise, it would probably be starving to death by now.

At night, the moon was bright and the stars were few.

Chen Yang practiced the "Three Flowers Gathering at the Top Divine Skill" for a while, but the improvement of his divine sense was as slow as a snail's pace. He no longer had the thrill of advancing to the first rank in one night as before.

Of course, Chen Yang felt it was slow only in comparison to his own past performance. The "Three Flowers Gathering at the Top Divine Skill" could be considered a top-tier spiritual cultivation technique, increasing one's spiritual power by several points a day, which was many times better than other techniques.

Cultivation is not an easy thing. Many people cultivate for a year or two and still may not be able to improve their first-grade divine sense cultivation.

"It only grows a few points a day, even a dog doesn't practice cultivation."

As Chen Yang came out of the house, he muttered a complaint to himself.

In the woodpile, Black Tiger looked up at him, seemingly wondering why he was involved.

The cold moonlight shone into the courtyard, and in the distance, the shadows of the mountains loomed, while dappled shadows of trees swayed in the night breeze.

It was already midnight, and every household in the village had turned off their lights, so it was pitch black everywhere, with only the occasional bark of a dog.

The insects in the grass outside the yard were chirping quite happily.

With no one around, Chen Yang took the Mountain-Suppressing Stele out of the Mountain Lord's Seal.

The enormous stone tablet stands firmly beside the loquat tree.

"Woo..."

Black Tiger whimpered, clearly frightened by the stone tablet, and quickly tucked its tail between its legs and shrank deeper into the woodpile.

This stone tablet is indeed intimidating to powerful creatures like mountain spirits and wild demons.

Chen Yang ignored Black Tiger.

He reached out and touched the dragon and phoenix patterns on the stone tablet again, and then took out the dragon and phoenix jade pendant from the system's storage.

First, I placed the dragon-patterned jade pendant in front of the stone tablet to compare it. Its size, shape, and patterns all matched the dragon pattern recesses on the tablet perfectly.

Without hesitation, Chen Yang installed it directly.

The size is just right.

However, the stone tablet did not react.

Chen Yang remained calm and quickly put the phoenix-patterned jade pendant back on.

(End of this chapter)