There is a trick

Chapter 132 Spring Plague Ghost (5K)

"There is actually a method to transform thoughts into silk?"

Xiao Zhenming was a little surprised when he heard that.

Among the various teachings of the Duangong lineage, the Meishan Teaching is one of the more prominent and powerful branches.

Even so, as a disciple of Meishan Dharma, he had never heard of this kind of Duangong practice of 'transforming thoughts into silk'.

If one wants to gather thoughts and turn them into threads, what level of soul cultivation is required to achieve this?

An idea flashed through Xiao Zhenming's mind for a moment, and he then looked at Zhou Chang who was standing opposite the 'Mirror of Truth' and said, "The Mirror of Truth is essentially a Taoist thought projected onto the altars of other fellow Taoists.

This method is extremely risky to perform.

Because once the thought is sent out, there is no defense at all, not to mention that this thought is directly sent onto the altar of another Taoist priest.

If our fellow brothers see the round mirror that is the focus of our thoughts and harbor evil intentions and use methods of suppressing or cursing, we will be almost unable to stop them.

We cast this mirror in the hope of finding a glimmer of hope in death—

Fortunately, I have met a brother like you who is willing to lend a helping hand!

You can twist your thoughts into a thread and probe it into the round mirror, so that you can directly connect with my soul!"

"Okay." Zhou Chang nodded.

He and Yang Rui looked at each other, then reached out to the round mirror in front of them.

Pitch-black iron wires emerged from his fingertips, interweaving into a net and slowly sticking to the round mirror. The moment the iron wires covered the round mirror, the round mirror in front of Zhou Chang melted like ice and snow, leaving only a little light of thought rotating on the altar.

All the iron threads of thoughts were entangled around that one point of thought light.

That bit of thought light flew out of the altar, along with clusters of iron thought threads, and instantly broke through the air and disappeared without a trace!
Zhou Chang looked at the direction where the light of thought disappeared. It did not point to any of the three forks in the road, but went straight along the root of a big tree to the top of the tree, and finally disappeared.

He turned to look at the round mirror that still remained in front of Yang Rui's altar.

But in a moment, that bit of thought light had flown back to Xiao Zhenming's eyebrows, and along with Zhou Chang's iron thread, it had wrapped around Xiao Zhenming's soul several times!
Xiao Zhenming's body was shocked and it took him a long time to react.

He looked in shock at the dark thoughts that flowed out from his brows, and the direction they were drifting. After a long time, he turned around and said to Yang Rui and Zhou Chang on the other side of the mirror: "These black threads of thoughts are actually swimming towards the cliff in front.

If we follow the black line, we will have to jump off the cliff..."

Zhou Chang stood side by side with Yang Rui. He looked at Xiao Zhenming and the other two who were in doubt across the mirror, and said with a stern expression, "The various scenes we see with our eyes now are actually what the ghosts in the dark want us to see.

It is completely different from the actual situation.

A seemingly ordinary tree may be a long road leading to somewhere else.

The cliffs you see may not be real cliffs.

Live to death.

It all depends on whether you have the determination to give it a try. "

Xiao Zhenming knew that what Zhou Chang said made a lot of sense.

But after all, it was the three of them who jumped off the cliff, and whether the path under the cliff was the road to the outside world was still unknown.

Making this decision requires even more courage on his part.

Xiao Zhenming hesitated for a long time, turned his head inadvertently to take a look, and immediately made up his mind!
He turned back, his face full of twisted fear: "Those weird women are staring at us secretly again, as if they are discussing how to deal with us!
Staying here is just like boiling a frog in warm water, and you will eventually die!
Take a risk and maybe you can have a chance of survival!
I have made up my mind, uncles and uncles, what about you?"

The two elders nodded:

"You, a young man, dare to make such a decision. What do we, who have lived long enough, have to be afraid of?"

"Let's go!"

Xiao Zhenming then reached out, took off the round mirror on the altar, and placed it on his shoulder.

He collected the altar seal and instruments on the altar, pushed the altar over, and swept away the circular scratches around the altar. This was considered as removing the altar.

The middle-aged man who looked like a farmer stretched out his hand and grabbed the iron wire floating in front of him. He looked at the two senior masters on his left and right again, and finally said nothing. He just asked the two to grab the iron wire like him, then took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and walked forward in the direction of the iron wire.

Zhou Chang saw the future of Xiao Zhenming and the other two reflected in the round mirror:
Amidst the sky and earth with a black wind blowing, a strand of pitch-black iron wire floated across the air.

The pitch-black iron wire twisted and turned abnormally in the air, passed through the dark mountain pass, and fell straight down to a dark cliff in the distance.

Xiao Zhenming and two other men held on to the pitch-black iron wire tightly and ran along it, crossing the valley and moving forward, until they finally reached the cliff.

Below the cliff, the black wind was howling even more fiercely.

It seemed that because the mountain wind here was even colder, or perhaps for some other reason, the shoulders of the three men began to tremble slightly.

Xiao Zhenming reached out and took off the round mirror from his shoulder. He looked intently at Zhou Chang and Yang Rui in the mirror, moved his lips, and chanted a subtle spell, causing the round mirror in his hand to disappear into nothingness.

The round mirror that appeared on Yang Rui's altar suddenly disappeared without a trace.

He and Zhou Chang could no longer see what was happening on Xiao Zhenming's side.

"Just wait patiently." Yang Rui sighed and said so.

Zhou Chang nodded, lowered his eyes, and looked at the strands of iron wire pulled by his five fingers, lost in thought for a moment.

The iron thread had swum too far away, and with his current level of spiritual cultivation, he could not sense the situation at the other end of the thread at all.

He watched the wisps of thoughts float through the air, along the roots of the big tree, climbing up to the top of the tree, and finally disappearing into the void.

After a long time,

The thoughts floating in the void suddenly shrank!
Zhou Chang then felt something touching!

He followed this impulse, encouraged his mind, and constantly collected his thoughts, and then he saw——

The clusters of iron threads that were floating above the big tree suddenly straightened up at this moment. A huge resistance came from the other end of the threads, as if a terrifying ghost had grabbed the other end of the threads and tried to stop Zhou Chang from pulling the threads back!
The void above the big tree began to spread with layers of ripples!

Zhou Chang's eyes lit up, and his thoughts were completely focused, as if they had turned into invisible arms, violently pulling at the clumps of thoughts, playing tug-of-war with the ghosts and gods in the dark -

The iron wire was pulled back and forth in the air, even cutting the air and making a rustling sound!

Bai Xiu'e knew that this was a critical moment without Zhou Chang saying anything.

She also placed her hand on Zhou Chang's wrist——

Delicate and white hands stretched out from Bai Xiu'e's sleeves and grasped the black iron wire!

"sand--"

With the combined efforts of the 'two', the suspense in this tug of war finally disappeared——

Tie Niansi was pulled back directly by the 'two people'!
At the other end of the thread of thought were Xiao Zhenming and the other two, who were holding the thread tightly with their eyes closed!

"Oh!"

The three of them rolled to the ground and screamed in unison!
They rolled on the ground, probably thinking that they had fallen off the cliff, their bones and muscles were broken, and their life was in danger!
"Brothers." Zhou Chang looked at the three people rolling on the ground and said, "We are now gathered together - you really made the right bet this time."

When Xiao Zhenming heard the sound, his body trembled!
He opened his eyes first and saw the young man standing in front of him at a glance!

"This, this, this--" Xiao Zhenming's eyes changed from fear and confusion to ecstasy in an instant. He stuttered and couldn't say a complete sentence. He simply turned his gaze to his uncle and aunt who were still shouting beside him, patted them hard, and shouted, "Not dead!
Uncle and uncle masters, we are not dead!
Alive!"

……

“My two fellow brothers, since you helped us escape from Fig Village, we are definitely not people who don’t keep our promise!

This item obtained from the Yin Mine will be entrusted to you, brother, for safekeeping!"

Xiao Zhenming took out the sports watch from the purse hidden in his chest and handed it to Zhou Chang carefully.

"No problem." Zhou Chang nodded. "If there really is a secret treasure in the Black Desolate Mountain that is related to this object, then when we gain benefits, we can split them in half between our two families. I will never take even a cent."

Yang Rui, Bai Xiu'e and others also came over at this time and observed the sports watch with Zhou Chang.

The dial was shining brightly, and the numbers in the three rings, such as heart rate, steps, calories, etc., continued to soar.

But the battery level bar displayed in the upper left corner of the dial is clearly empty.

"After you brothers got this thing, have you ever touched the buttons on the right side?" Zhou Chang pointed to the buttons on the right side of the sports dial that looked like the handle of a mechanical watch and asked Xiao Zhenming and the other two.

Xiao Zhenming hummed and said, "Only this button can be pressed, so we must have moved it.

But I pressed it many times before, and it didn't respond. It also never glowed like it did now, and the words on it kept changing...

Fellow brothers, do you know what this thing is?
What do those words above mean? "

Observing the constantly changing numbers on the dial, Zhou Chang answered, "This thing is similar to a pocket watch.

The meaning of these numbers indicates a person's pulse, the number of steps he has taken, and how much energy he has expended.

The word "calorie" is really difficult to explain.

Zhou Chang used the word "strength" to refer to it.

"This thing can not only measure a person's steps and pulse, but it can also calculate how much energy he has consumed?" Xiao Dahu's eyes were filled with surprise, but it was just surprise. After all, these functions seemed magical, but they were actually useless.

"Um……"

Zhou Chang nodded.

His eyes were focused on the numbers in the heat ring.

Those numbers kept jumping in his vision.

It was not until this moment that he realized that the calorie number was falling at a very fast rate.

It was cut from '13' to '4', and then dropped sharply from '4' to '-1'.

After the heat turned negative, it continued to fall!
As the fall became more severe, the entire watch became cold!

All around, the light suddenly disappeared!

It became pitch black!
"These numbers are still increasing..." Xiao Zhenming did not notice that the numbers representing strength had turned negative. Or perhaps, they could not understand what a 'negative number' was at the moment.

He just watched the numbers keep increasing, and felt a chill for a moment: "We are not walking at the moment, nor are we wearing it, so whose pulse is it measuring, and whose steps are those added?
The things in the Yin Mine are really weird. Could it be that this guy's stuff is broken? "

"It's really broken..."

Zhou Chang murmured.

If this sports watch wasn't 'broken', how could it suddenly work again when all the power had been exhausted?

——He had previously asked Xiao Zhenming and the other two and learned that they had pressed the button on the side of the dial countless times. He guessed that when the three of them got the sports watch, the battery had been exhausted!
"Have you ever tried wearing this thing on your wrist?" Zhou Chang asked again.

Xiao Zhenming and the other two looked at each other and shook their heads.

"How to wear it?" Xiao Zhenming asked.

Zhou Chang shook his head and said nothing.

Naturally, he didn't plan to demonstrate it to the others on the spot.

The weird feeling this watch gave him was deeper than the current environment.

Zhou Chang was not sure whether anything bad would happen after he put on the watch.

He took a stick of incense and lit it in front of himself.

The cigarette was inhaled into his nostrils along with the air.

——Zhou Chang, who was absorbing the thoughts, did not notice the difference in the world presented in his left and right eyes.

As soon as he had a thought, the distorted and strange words in the "Dapin Xindan Sutra" began to appear in his left eye one after another. Only then did Zhou Chang clearly distinguish the difference between the world of thoughts and the real world.

But in this area right now, the conceptual world and the real world appear to be exactly the same on the surface.

Or perhaps it could be said that his eyes were no longer under his control.

So he couldn't see the real situation at the moment.

Fortunately, the "Dapin Xindan Sutra" is still under his control.

Zhou Chang lowered his eyes and used the Great Heart Pill Sutra to observe the sports watch in his hand.

The rows of text that were lined up in Zhou Chang's left eye's field of vision suddenly jumped when Zhou Chang's eyes 'met' the sports watch!
Large swaths of distorted and strange text began to reorganize in his eyes, becoming something he could understand:
"The relics of the 'God of Plague' came from an unknown mine.

???

???

This judgment can only be made based on the remaining aura of the 'God of Plague', and the rest is unknown.

For those whose fortunes are prosperous but whose luck is declining, wearing this item may bring bad luck!
If a person's fortune is declining or prosperous, wearing this item may turn bad luck into good luck! "

The tips given in the Dapin Xindan Jing are brief and direct.

Perhaps because Zhou Chang had saved it and it owed him a favor, it was working particularly hard for Zhou Chang now.

Unfortunately, although the "Dapin Xindan Jing" is "extensive knowledge and strong memory", it is ultimately not omniscient.

It now recognized the aura of the 'God of Plague' on this sports watch, and from this it inferred the various effects that might be brought about by wearing it. However, as for the specific origin of this item and how to use it specifically, the "Dapin Xindan Sutra" knew nothing about it.

"If a person with declining fortune wears this, can he turn things around and find good fortune?"

Zhou Chang looked at the numbers on his watch that kept jumping up and down, and for some reason he began to feel a little anxious.

It seems as if there is an unknown danger lurking around me.

It was as if the ghost associated with the watch was now striding towards it, and the data constantly refreshing on the watch was indicating its approach!

Zhou Chang forced his eyes away from his watch.

He looked at Xiao Zhenming and the others, his eyes passed over their faces, and then looked behind them——

Behind these people, a group of women appeared densely packed together.

Those women were wearing coarse clothes, with their hair loose and their faces could not be seen clearly. They stood quietly behind Xiao Zhenming and the other two.

Zhou Chang roughly counted and found that there were thirty-six women standing behind the three men.

It was just as Xiao Zhenming had said before - every time they entered or left Fig Village, they would bring out a 'weird woman'. As of now, each of the three people was followed by twelve weird women!

“These weird women actually followed you.

It’s really haunting…”

Zhou Chang frowned and watched the words on the "Dapin Xindan Sutra" being rearranged again.

Upon hearing the sound, Xiao Zhenming and the other two looked back hastily, and all at once they saw a group of strange women standing in the darkness!

"Damn it, damn it!
We have nothing to do with them, why are they entangled with us like this! " Xiao Daniu, whose neck had increasingly severe marks of strangulation, large areas of necrosis on the skin, and even emitted a foul smell, suddenly looked ferocious and spoke manically.

He drew out the dagger he carried with him and ran angrily towards the strange women standing quietly in the darkness!

Xiao Zhenming and Xiao Dahu were equally angry towards those cunning women. They gritted their teeth and watched Xiao Daniu's actions, but they did not stop him immediately.

Fortunately, Yang Rui noticed that something was wrong, and stepped out quietly, stopping Xiao Daniu who was about to rush towards the group of strange women: "Comrade, don't forget the marks on your neck.

If you stab them now, you might end up with a hole in your body!"

Xiao Daniu paused when he heard this, and suddenly he came to his senses, rubbing his neck, and said in panic: "When I saw these women, I don't know why, I felt a nameless fire in my heart!
Thank you for stopping me, thank you for stopping me!"

Yang Rui shook his head and brought Xiao Daniu back to Zhou Chang.

In Zhou Chang's eyes, the Great Heart Pill Sutra also gave another hint:
"Spring Plague Ghost: A spooky creature that falls in love with men and causes them to develop plague.

Because of the love he had for her, the man's soul became plagued, and he felt angry, mad, depressed, etc.

All these malicious emotions are gathered in the body of the Spring Plague Ghost.

If a man insults the Spring Plague Ghost, the Ghost will either hang itself by a rope in front of the man, or jump into a river and drown, or fall off a cliff and die... All these ways of death will eventually come true on the man's body and eventually cause his death.

The Spring Plague Ghost itself was not harmed at all.

If a man attacks the body of the spring plague ghost with a sword, a stick, or a knife, he himself will also be injured by the sword, the stick, or the knife.

......"

(End of this chapter)