Chapter 204: Awakening the Corpse, Trapping the God
Chapter 204: Awakening the Corpse, Trapping the God
Ye Lianchen didn't know what the origins of this giant corpse named Long Boyan were, but even after so many years of death, he still forced the mandrill to use all his strength.
No one knew what incantation the mandrill chanted at the end, but after he finished chanting it, whiskers grew all over his body and became one with the lotus seat.
Regardless of which school or sect, mantras are never recited randomly. Each word and each syllable has unique Dharma connotations and directions. What's more, the mantra recited by this mandrill temple master is somewhat similar to the mantra of great vows and oaths in ancient Western Buddhism.
The spell that the mandrill just chanted was not difficult to understand literally. It wanted to use the power of the Blood Lotus Seat to suppress the giant corpse, but the price was that it could not leave the Blood Lotus Seat during the suppression period. Moreover, in Ye Lianchen's opinion, it might not be just that. The mandrill's magic power and essence seemed to be absorbed by the Blood Lotus Seat.
Ye Lianchen has already guessed the origin of this blood lotus.
It has long been a consensus in this world that the spirit closest to Tao is human, the flower closest to Tao is lotus, and the instrument closest to Tao is jade.
The lotus is highly respected by everyone, whether in Taoism, Buddhism, Zen, or by humans, demons, and monsters. In addition, although lotus is common, there are not many spiritual plants with a profound origin and background. It is also highly favored by monks.
The true prototype of Ye Lianchen's body is the Nine-Hole Dust-Free Lotus, which is impervious to all kinds of filth. Therefore, after entering Tianshao Mountain, the pervasive corpse poison could not hurt him at all. Even though he had been hiding in the filthy and bloody fire pond for three or four months, he did not feel any discomfort.
This Nine-Hole Dust-Free Lotus is not only impervious to dirt, but is also hollow inside and straight outside. The lotus root has nine holes, the stem has nine holes, and the bulb has nine holes, which correspond to the nine holes in the human body. So when the Nine-Hole Dust-Free Lotus blooms, bears fruit and gives birth to nine seeds, the entire plant can be refined into a Dharma body, which can hold the soul and the primordial spirit.
When the master looked at the Nine-Hole Dust-Free Lotus, he felt that it was not as good as his own bamboo staff. Although this was true, his own bamboo staff was cultivated by the efforts of four generations of the master Fei Mingzhishan, and it was a rare spiritual object in the world. If the Nine-Hole Dust-Free Lotus is not as good as the bamboo staff, it cannot be said that the lotus is inferior.
After all, this is something bestowed by the headmaster of Mount Sanqing, how bad can it be!
Cheng Xinzhan cultivated this lotus for more than twenty years, and it took him more than twenty years to cultivate it from a lotus seed to a blooming lotus. At the beginning, the lotus grew very slowly, but later on, it grew quickly with the careful care of Lao Bai and his junior sister.
So when Cheng Xinzhan returned to the mountain after overcoming the calamity, his physical body and bamboo body were affected by the thunder and could not go out, so he immediately refined the Nine-Hole Dust-Free Lotus and transformed it into a Dharma body. He took possession of it with his spirit and changed his name to Ye Lianchen.
The reason why he sent his incarnation down the mountain and into western Hunan was because he thought over and over again and felt that destroying the Lost Soul Gorge seemed too simple. If the Hanging Coffin Gorge and the Lost Soul Gorge were both at this level, then with Taoist Tian Zhen's strength, there was no need for him to stay in western Hunan for so long!
The evil disaster in western Hunan is definitely not as simple as it seems.
It is far away overseas, where the real Dragon King sits. The Northern School is mysterious, and has produced figures like the Blood God Son who even give the Five Realms a headache. The Southern School is at its peak, with local dragons who roam the rivers and into the seas. Even the newly established Three Corpses Island in the southeast has strange corpses from the Five Realms. These seem to be demonic forces that Cheng Xinzhan cannot shake for the time being.
But if we can't even eliminate the evil spirit in a place like Xiangxi where there are all kinds of people and no top-level masters are ever heard of, then what's the point of our ambition to exorcise the devil?
So he came back alone with his sword.
So the first thing Ye Lianchen did after entering Xiangxi was to find Shi Buyu, the local tyrant, and inquire about the news of Tianshao Mountain.
Sure enough, this question brought out something extraordinary.
The Soul-Lost Gorge has not been destroyed, and it is suspected that there is support from Longhu Mountain behind it. In Shi Buyu's words, Tianshao Mountain is far more powerful than the Soul-Lost Gorge.
At this time, Ye Lianchen, who sneaked into Tianshao Mountain, also guessed that there might not be any big force supporting Tianshao Mountain, but it itself might be the remnant of ancient Western Buddhism that had already descended into the evil way.
With the clue of the remnants of the ancient Buddha, Ye Lianchen could guess the origin of the Blood Lotus Throne.
When Cheng Xinzhan refined the Nine-Hole Dustless Lotus into a Dharmakaya, he also checked for other spiritual plants and objects that could be transformed into Dharmakayas. As the saying goes, time waits for no one, and since time cannot be allowed to pass, he can only create clones to do more things.
When he was consulting ancient texts, he discovered that among the spiritual plants and objects that could be used as incarnations, the lotus was the first, followed by ginseng and then bamboo. No wonder the lotus was said to be close to Taoism. Among them, the use of the lotus as an incarnation can be traced back to the ancient Three Altars and Sea Assembly God.
The blood lotus throne in front of him felt somewhat familiar when he first saw it.
This blood lotus has no stalks, leaves or roots. Roots grow directly under the lotus platform. The lotus leaves are shaped like flames, and the leaf veins are like blood vessels. It has the effect of suppressing corpses and evil spirits. It is very similar to the Buddhist precious lotus "Floating Life Burning Karma Fire Lotus" recorded in ancient books!
The "Fire Lotus of Burning Karmas" is said to be a sacred plant passed down from generation to generation in Yongning Temple in Datong Prefecture, Jinyuan. It is the temple's treasure, but during the persecution of Buddhism in the Northern Wei Dynasty, the entire Yongning Temple was buried in a sea of fire, and the whereabouts of this sacred Buddhist object has been unknown since then.
But I didn't expect to see this precious lotus here.
Moreover, this lotus has now been refined into a magic treasure by the demon, and the demon uses its magical effect of suppressing corpses to refine evil corpses.
According to historical records, this lotus is also called "Flesh and Bone Lotus". Its lotus is a precious medicine for treating physical injuries. It is highly compatible with the physical body of living beings. Practitioners can also further enhance the power of the lotus by transferring their physical essence into it.
It is precisely because of this characteristic of the "Flesh White Bone Lotus" that this precious lotus can also be used to refine into a Dharma body.
The blood lotus before my eyes is exactly the same as the "Fire Lotus of Floating Life and Burning Karma" recorded in ancient books!
According to the characteristics of the fire lotus and the spell that the mandrill had just chanted, Ye Lianchen could judge that the mandrill would not be able to leave the blood lotus in a short time.
At this time, in order to further suppress the giant corpse and promote the fusion of the last eyeball with the giant corpse, the mandrill even went so far as to let his soul leave his body and follow the roots of the fire lotus into the giant corpse.
And who is Ye Lianchen?
A direct descendant of Meiji Mountain.
The fundamental law of Meiji Mountain lies in the way of Yin and Yang, and in the art of bringing the dead back to life. If it comes to fighting alone, relying on Ye Lianchen's incarnation, he really doesn't dare to fight against the mandrill, but if it comes to the way of corpses, he thinks he can't be worse than this mandrill.
It is widely known that Cheng Xinzhan is proficient in talismans, swords, elixirs, incantations, yin and yang, and the five elements. However, outsiders and even the many elders in Sanqing Mountain who pay close attention to him do not know how profound his attainments in corpse-raising are.
He had never trained any corpse servants, and the only insect corpse he had trained was thrown into the Three Corpse Island and he never took care of it again. But this did not mean that he had never practiced the art of raising corpses. On the contrary, after Wen Sukong took him to see what was under Mount Meiji, he spent the most time on the art of raising corpses.
Not having a sword in your hand and having a sword but not using it are two different things.
So after three months under the fire pond and blood pool, he had already understood the mandrill's method of refining corpses clearly.
What he learned is called corpse-raising technique, and what the mandrill has been doing is called corpse-refining technique. The difference of one word makes a world of difference.
When a mandrill refines a corpse, it treats it as an object, altering it at will, adding hands and eyes to create a strange body shape. It also suppresses the corpse with a fire lotus at all times to extinguish any intelligence that may have been born in the corpse. Once the corpse is fully grown, it will separate a thought or directly use its soul to take control of it, controlling the corpse for fighting and conquest.
The evil corpse refining technique calls the resulting corpse a corpse puppet or a corpse slave.
The corpses raised by Taoist corpse-raising techniques are used both to protect the Tao and to prove the Tao. The dead bodies are used to explore the method of longevity, that is, to seek life from death, and the Yin-Yang method, that is, to seek yang from yin.
The corpse raised by Taoist corpse-raising techniques will develop intelligence and become a new life, completely relying on itself to control the body.
Therefore, in the Taoist corpse-raising technique, the raised zombies are called corpse servants or corpse friends, and they are also given names and titles.
It is precisely because of this that he can throw the insect corpses onto the Three Corpses Island and let them fend for themselves without having to worry about them all the time.
As for whether the newborn spirit of the zombie is completely new or nurtured from the remaining memories of the previous life, both methods of nurturing are passed down in the Taoist sect. In Taoism, the former is called "Yuanchu Lingtai Corpse Nurturing Technique" and the latter is called "Xuanming Sushi Corpse Nurturing Technique". These two methods have always been controversial in Taoism. Each sect has its own opinion, and all believe that their own corpse nurturing method is the real method of longevity.
Among them, the "Original Soul Embryo Corpse Raising Technique" takes longer to raise, but has lower requirements for the corpse itself, and carries less karma. The "Xuanming Consciousness Corpse Raising Technique" has higher requirements for the corpse itself, and it can basically be ignored for those who are below the third realm during their lifetime. At the same time, it carries greater karma, but more people practice it, just because this method can raise oneself.
The ascetics made arrangements before death, locked up their essence after death, and then used the methods they had arranged before death to nourish their bodies, so that they could live out their second life. However, such methods were stealing the vitality of heaven and earth. Once they failed to overcome the golden elixir tribulation or the immortal tribulation, their souls would immediately fly away, and they would not have the chance to reincarnate.
Meijishan has both of these methods of cultivation.
Ye Lianchen knows both methods of raising children.
He used the "Yuanchu Lingtai Corpse Raising Technique" to raise the insect corpse, because the insect corpse was originally a larva. As for the cause and effect of the corpse, he tried to avoid it as much as possible.
As for the giant corpse in front of him, it was obvious that it had an extraordinary origin. Even after being refined by the master of the Mandrill Temple's secret method for many years, it still had the aura of a dead tiger, and its body had been resisting the fusion of other foreign flesh and blood.
Moreover, after years of secret refining, this corpse is only one step away from becoming the evil corpse of Hanba. At this time, it is bound to give birth to spiritual intelligence. It is the master of the Mandrill Temple who has been suppressing this corpse with the secret method of the ancient Buddha and the "Floating Life Burning Fire Lotus" to kill the spiritual intelligence that is about to be born.
So it was very clear what Ye Lianchen should do at this moment.
While the mandrill temple master's body was unable to move, his soul entered the giant corpse. Naturally, he had to use the secret method of "Xuanming Sushi Corpse Raising Technique" to stimulate the giant corpse to recall its past life. It would be best if the mandrill temple master's soul was dragged into the giant corpse's memory fragments so that it could not come out.
He was seen making a lion seal with his hands, pointing at the giant corpse, his lips and teeth moving slightly, chanting the "Qinghua Longevity Mantra" in a low voice.
"The command of Taiyi Jiuku Tianzun!
Recall the things that happened in life and open the door after death.
The green lion steps into the underworld, and the ghost returns to the spring.
Hurry up and obey the command! Wake up! "
When Ye Lianchen pronounced the last word "wake up", it sounded like a lion's roar. A green nine-headed lion phantom burst out from his hand seals and sank into the back of the giant corpse's head.
"Wow—"
As soon as the phantom of the lion touched the giant corpse, the body of the giant corpse began to tremble violently, as if struck by lightning, shaking the entire fire pond and blood pool.
As the caster of the spell and the one who raised the corpse, Ye Lianchen was also suffering from the backlash of the secret technique. This was one of the causes and consequences that the "Xuanming Sushi Corpse Raising Technique" had to bear.
The giant corpse's memories of his life now appeared directly in Ye Lianchen's mind:
Deep in the mountains of western Hunan... a peaceful and quiet Miao village... this seems to be a land of giants... the people here are named Long Bo... in the night... countless zombies crawled out from underground... bloodbathed the Miao village... the chief Long Bo Yan resisted... blood... blood was everywhere...
Some weird and hideous corpses surrounded Long Boyan... a tree corpse that looked like a tree and a human... a dragon corpse whose upper body was a woman's and whose lower body was a skeleton...
Long Boyan watched his clansmen die one by one... watched his wife and children die...
A large number of images of the giant corpses before their death flooded into Ye Lianchen's soul. Ye Lianchen was a ghostly soul, originally in charge of human desire. At this moment, a large number of horrific images flooded into his mind, and he seemed to empathize with them. Blood hatred and rage surged, and the Qi of his body changed rapidly. He immediately broke the [Hide] spell and revealed his figure in the fire pond and blood pool.
Ye Lianchen woke up instantly, forced himself to suppress his restless energy, and disappeared again.
one breath;
two breaths;
Three Breaths;
There was no movement from the mandrill's body.
Ye Lianchen slowly breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, his chest felt like it was hit by a hammer. He did not feel comfortable forcibly suppressing the disordered energy and casting the spell again to escape in an instant.
Fortunately, there was the "Xuan Ji Wu Leakage Talisman" to conceal the breath. Fortunately, at this time the soul of the master of the baboon temple was facing the impact of the giant corpse's sudden awakening of his lifetime memories, and he had no time to consider that in a certain moment, there was suddenly one more person in his own temple.
Ye Lianchen took a short breath, but did not dare to waste time. Although the giant corpse's memories were complicated and filled with strong hatred, it was the mandrill's third-level soul that entered after all, and it would not be entangled by the giant corpse's memory fragments for too long.
When he cast the "Qinghua Eternal Life Curse", he naturally thought about what to do next.
The master of the Mandrill Temple used his own blood and essence to draw talismans and refine the eyes and corpses. At this moment, there was still residual blood and essence on his fingers.
Ye Lianchen collected the remaining blood from the finger of the mandrill temple master, took out the cinnabar he always had on hand, and mixed them together to form magic ink.
Afterwards, he made the Five Mountains Seal with his left hand, used his right finger as a pen, dipped it in magic ink and drew talismans on the giant corpse's head.
There are probably few people of the same age in the world today who can recognize the talismans written by Ye Lianchen. The talismans he drew and wrote are a combination of the extremely ancient and obscure "Heavenly Seal and Earthly Script" and "Ghostly Book and Dark Pattern".
I saw him writing the character "困" on the Giant Corpse Palace;
Write the character "閗" on the upper star palace;
Write the character "囻" on Baihui Palace;
Write the character "囹" on the back of the parietal palace;
Write the character "囷" on the top of the Strong Palace;
Write the character "圄" on the Zuo Chengling Palace;
Write the character "圉" on the right Chengling Palace;
Write the character "圚" on the Tiangang Hidden Palace;
Write the character "圛" on the Disha Dun Palace.
While writing the characters, Ye Lianchen quickly chanted a spell:
"Tian Peng Tian You holds the handle of the dipper, and Yi Sheng Zhen Jun guards Feng Jing;
The three souls are bound in Danyuan Palace, and the seven spirits are locked in Dongxuming;
The Nine Emperor Star God has bestowed the Golden Scroll. Anyone who dares to violate it will be cooked by thunder and fire—hurry up and obey the order!”
When Ye Lianchen finished reading and writing, a red golden light suddenly appeared above the giant corpse's head, accompanied by flickering lightning as thin as a hair.
This is the "Nine Palaces Soul-Locking and Spirit-Sealing Talisman", a secret method recorded in the "Secret Instructions for the Manifestation of the Gods of Longevity and the Fetus".
This kind of talisman was first created by Taoist priests who traveled around the world to protect mortals from being taken away by evil spirits. It was a talisman for protection. Later, based on this method, descendants continued to strengthen the prayers and prayers, and it became the extremely powerful "Nine Palaces Soul-Locking Talisman", which can prevent the soul of the cultivator from being taken away by evil spirits, and can even keep the cultivator alive before death and prevent the soul from dispersing for a short period of time.
However, there are two key points to this talisman. The first is that the ink used to draw the talisman must be the essence and blood of the person whose soul and spirit are locked up. The second is that the power of this talisman is too strong. It can prolong life, which is the effect of changing fate. Therefore, writing this talisman will consume the lifespan of the person who draws the talisman. The greater the power of the locked soul and spirit, the more lifespan of the person who draws the talisman will be consumed.
At this moment, in order to completely prevent the mandrill's soul from coming out and to prevent its soul from passing messages to the outside world, he could only perform this secret symbol.
At this moment, the corpse was that of Long Boyan, but the baboon spirit in the corpse was locked inside by Ye Lianchen with baboon's essence and blood, isolating it from the inside and the outside.
(End of this chapter)