Chapter 38: Sun Crow Moon Rabbit, Three Stages of Success and Dependence Zhang Jiuyang closed the booklet and sighed softly. Lu Yaoxing was undoubtedly a smart man. He had foreseen Blind Lin's revenge, so he wrote this booklet in advance and put it in a secret room, waiting for future generations to find it and avenge him. But what he didn't expect was that the other party's revenge was far more brutal than he had imagined. All 32 members of the Lu family, including the son he had born at the cost of killing his own daughter, were burned to ashes by the raging fire. Unjust is doomed to destruction. Zhang Jiuyang thought of Yunniang's daughter, the poor girl who was well-behaved and sensible but was cast into a bridge pile. Although he had helped to transport her body out and buried her properly, dead was dead. The one who killed her was her own father. To be honest, it was only because Lu Yaoxing was already dead, otherwise Zhang Jiuyang would have to kill someone with a sword at night and offer his head as a sacrifice to the dead soul. He is not Zhong Kui. Zhong Kui only kills evil spirits, but he not only kills evil spirits, but also kills evil people. Sometimes the evil in people's hearts is even worse than that of evil spirits.
Zhang Jiuyang put away the booklet. He would naturally not avenge Lu Yaoxing, but the matter of Blind Lin was complicated and confusing, so he had to take it seriously. Is he really dead? Zhang Jiuyang suddenly felt a chill as he recalled the scene when he went to burn paper for Blind Lin at his grave during the Ghost Festival. At that time, he saw that there was already a pile of freshly burned paper ashes in front of Blind Lin’s grave. It is said that this person was a loner with few friends and relatives, and he wondered who would come to visit his grave. If Blind Lin hadn't died, then the person visiting his grave... would it be him? Or was it that when he was visiting Blind Lin's grave, the other party was hiding in a corner, secretly observing and sizing up the disciple whom he had raised but who had suddenly become a stranger to him? When Zhang Jiuyang thought of this, his scalp went numb and goose bumps appeared all over his body. Of course, this is just a guess and may not be true. Zhang Jiuyang took a deep breath, regained his composure, and glanced sideways at the other iron box. What is placed in here should be the things in Blind Lin's box. Lu Yaoxing mentioned in the booklet that Blind Lin attached great importance to the box and would take it out to look at it every hour. "Brother Jiu, leave it to me!" There was a flash of pink knife light, and the iron lock broke into two pieces. Ah Li opened the box, her nose moved, and she said, "Brother Jiu, this smell attracted me here." Zhang Jiuyang looked carefully and what he saw were several human skins. There seemed to be something painted on the human skin. He took out the top piece of human skin, and when he saw the pattern painted on it, his eyes couldn't help but focus, and then turned into excitement. There were a dragon and a tiger painted on the human skin. The dragon was bathed in fire and the tiger was walking on the waves. There was a line of familiar words on each side. "When the five elements are reversed, a dragon emerges from fire; when the five elements are not in harmony, a tiger is born from water." Zhang Jiuyang was excited. Isn’t this the first picture of the Jade Ding Xuan Gong that he was practicing, the Fire Dragon and Water Tiger Picture? Look at the exercise formulas below, they are exactly the same.
If this was the first picture... Zhang Jiuyang quickly picked up the other two human skins. One of the paintings showed a naked man sitting cross-legged, with his hands in a mysterious seal, his meridians faintly visible, and a sentence written next to him. "The girl catches the crow to swallow the jade rabbit, and the baby drives the rabbit to absorb the golden crow." Zhang Jiuyang was overjoyed. He had no choice but to think that this was the second picture of the Jade Ding Mysterious Art that Lao Gao had mentioned, the picture of the Sun, Crow and Moon Rabbit! The last piece of human skin still had a naked man meditating painted on it, but there were three flowers gathered on top of his head and eight ancient seal characters written next to them. "Follow the three barriers and draw fire to force gold." This is the third picture of Yuding Xuan Gong - the picture of the three levels of success and failure! Zhang Jiuyang was very excited at this moment. He never expected that before going to bed, he was still worrying about not being able to practice the second level of skills, but he found that his urgent problem was solved when he woke up. Not only the second realm, he also obtained the three-level map of the third realm of cultivation! In an instant, I felt as if the clouds and fog had cleared away, and my mind suddenly became clear. Although I don't know why Blind Lin attaches great importance to the first three pictures of Yuding Xuan Gong, it is undoubtedly a huge gain for Zhang Jiuyang. It's a pity that Lu Yaoxing doesn't know the goods and doesn't know the mysterious text and wonderful method. "Brother Jiu, what is drawn on it that makes you so happy?" Ali asked with some doubt. Zhang Jiuyang collected the three human skins, picked her up, spun her in the air, and said with a smile: "A-Li, you are really my lucky star!" Ali's eyes were curved, her calves were kicking in the air, and her two braids were almost standing up. "Hey, Brother Jiu, it seems like something has been dropped." Ali suddenly reminded. Zhang Jiuyang looked down and found a piece of paper several inches in size, which seemed to be sandwiched in the human skin. He was so excited when he picked up the human skin just now that he let it fall to the ground. He picked up the paper and saw that there were traces of tearing on the edge, obviously it was torn from a book or volume. Wait, this paper looks familiar... Zhang Jiuyang suddenly thought of the diary left by Blind Lin, the last page of which was torn off. Could it be this page? He picked it up and saw that it was indeed the handwriting of Blind Lin, but the content was a bit confusing. "Cast the three noble men in gold." "The Shaoyin and Shaoyang are hidden in wood." "When it melts, the peach blossoms are on the water." "Burn the blood of parricide in fire." "Bury three hundred living people in the ground." Zhang Jiuyang looked at these five strange words, seemingly thinking about something. He didn't understand the first three sentences, but the fourth sentence reminded him of Lu Yaoxing.
Blood of Parricide... Lu Yaoxing personally beat his own daughter to a stake and was finally burned to death by fire, which perfectly fits this sentence. As for the fifth sentence, it is a bit chilling. Not only were they buried alive, but three hundred people were buried alive! If Lu Yaoxing's story represents the fourth sentence, does that mean that there really were three hundred living people...buried under the loess? Maybe it has happened, maybe it hasn't happened yet. But Zhang Jiuyang knew that this matter was of great importance and might involve many innocent lives. He touched a yellow token in his arms, which Lao Gao had left for him before he left. He said that he could use it to contact the Imperial Observatory if there were any important matters in the future. Unexpectedly, this small token would come in handy now. …… The next day, Zhang Jiuyang met the governor of Qingzhou City through the token, and put the booklet left by Lu Yaoxing and the paper with five strange words into the box. The governor gave face to the Imperial Observatory and said that he would immediately send someone to deliver the item to the capital, at an express delivery time of 600 miles. This is also the ancestral system of Daqian. Although the Imperial Observatory did not interfere much in government affairs, it was in charge of matters concerning ghosts and gods. It had countless extraordinary people under its command and had great power, so it was feared by countless people. It was a very special institution. Even the most powerful minister, second only to the emperor, did not dare to reach into the Imperial Observatory. One of the ten principles for establishing the country promulgated by Taizu was that the Imperial Observatory should be independent of the court bureaucracy and only obey the emperor's orders. When the Imperial Observatory handled cases, local officials had to provide assistance to the greatest extent possible. After sending these things, Zhang Jiuyang finally breathed a sigh of relief. If the sky falls, there will be tall people to hold it up. Next, what he, a small cultivator of the first realm, should do most is - Break the situation! (End of this chapter)