Chapter 28: Haunted House in the Hill (28)
As one of the three major Taoist temples in China, Haiyun Temple has been well-known for exorcising evil spirits and catching ghosts among insiders for hundreds of years.
It was just because during the unstable times, the Haiyun Temple went out into the world to save people, and nine out of ten people never returned, resulting in the Taoist temple being almost completely empty for decades.
When peace was restored in the world, Haiyun Temple, which had finally been able to recuperate, reappeared and closed its gates. It would only reopen when a major disaster occurred and cooperate with the local Binhai City officials to pray and set up barriers to prevent natural disasters from endangering ordinary people.
This is why when people in Binhai mention Haiyun Temple, they generally think that praying is very effective and drawing lots is very accurate. Those who know more will say that Haiyun Temple is very accomplished in the art of formation.
It is precisely because of Haiyun Temple's attitude of doing great good without seeking fame over the past century that the Binhai City officials have been very friendly to Haiyun Temple and have shown the utmost trust and respect.
Such horrifying scenes appeared in the live broadcast program that caused an uproar on video platforms and social platforms. The discussion level remained high and it even topped the hot search list at one point.
Not to mention that there were injured people in the program crew.
Under such circumstances, the Binhai City officials should have blocked the program's live broadcast rights as soon as they discovered the incident, but they were stopped by the abbot of Haiyun Temple.
The Taoist priests who later rushed to Guishan with the official rescue team just shook their heads when faced with official inquiries.
"In terms of public opinion, Haiyun Temple will have personnel responsible for new media operations to coordinate. But this program cannot be banned at the moment. We also cooperated at the beginning of the year. You should know that there were corpses resurrected in Guishan. This program is an important clue to finding those corpses. But, it's not just because of this."
The old Taoist priest who led the team said solemnly: "Do you remember that the source of all the news about Guishan since the beginning of the year was from those college students who climbed the mountain?"
The official responsible for following up on this matter nodded.
Because Binhai University belongs to the top domestic universities, all news related to Binhai University has its own traffic. College students are also a group that attracts attention from the whole society. Therefore, the disappearance of college students while hiking at the beginning of the year was widely reported. In the end, because one of the missing students could not be found, even the authorities were very anxious under public opinion.
However, after a long search, the rescue team found no trace of the missing college student, not even a piece of cloth. They could only speculate that the college student might have fallen into a deep crevice in the mountain in a panic.
The person in charge was deeply impressed by this incident because he had seen the file of the missing student, who was a young and handsome young man with a sunny and reliable smile. He looked like a good kid.
At that time, he was still very regretful and sad.
Seeing that the person in charge knew, the old Taoist priest continued, "As for the missing student, I have an uncle who is very good at fortune-telling and wanted to calculate his location, but the hexagram showed that the student was no longer in Guishan."
The person in charge showed a sad expression as if nothing had happened, thinking that the old Taoist priest was euphemistically saying that the student was already dead.
But the old Taoist priest shook his head: "He is not dead."
"What!" The person in charge was surprised: "Then we should go to rescue immediately..."
"But he is not alive either." The old Taoist priest said calmly: "He is still in the world, but he is no longer a human or a ghost. He is no longer in Guishan."
"And here, on Ghost Mountain."
"The hexagram shows that he will be found by someone who enters the Ghost Mountain in the summer, and his struggling soul will be saved and able to go to another world peacefully."
The old Taoist priest said: "But because his soul is extremely fragile and is in the gap between yin and yang, the slightest change may cause his soul to fly away, so this program cannot be stopped, and no external force can interfere and change it."
——And, not only this one soul...but all the wandering ghosts who died in Ghost Mountain over the past hundred years and trapped in the cracks between Guishan and Ghost Mountain will be freed.
Although the hexagram was ominous, it was theoretically almost impossible to completely clear the ghost mountain that had been filled with ghostly aura for a hundred years. However, it was not an absolute death hexagram.
In the dead air, the program crew that broke into the Ghost Mountain had already decided on the change.
Even the person in charge who often deals with Haiyun Temple and others could not help but be confused by this ambiguous statement.
The old Taoist priest stopped explaining and looked in the direction of Guishan.
Not only Haiyun Temple, many people in this circle are worried about Guishan's situation.
Although the official statement was that the anomalies found in Guishan were discarded human models dumped by unscrupulous merchants, and were reflected red by the sunset glow, so that at first glance they looked like blood-red humanoid monsters, it was purely an illusion of the villagers.
But they knew very well that since a whole group of bandits died tragically in the mountain a hundred years ago, the mountain had been shrouded in a deep ghostly aura. All the rumors about death in this mountain over the past hundred years were true.
Hundreds of wronged souls, and a sorcerer who wanted to destroy the Haunted Mountain but ended up dying here...
After a hundred years of accumulation, no one can tell how brutal and cruel the things hidden inside are.
Moreover, after repeated searches without results, they also speculated based on the results of divination that after this mountain was officially renamed Guishan, there was another ghost mountain left behind Guishan.
Guishan is a mountain in the world of the living.
Guishan, however, fell into the dark side because of the heavy ghost energy and resentment, but was held back by an unknown force and was unable to completely leave the world of the living, so he was trapped between yin and yang.
Unable to survive, impossible to reincarnate.
Whether it is the villagers and passers-by who disappeared before, the college students who climbed the mountain, or the program crew who were clearly on the mountain but could not be found this time, it is almost certain that they were dragged into the Ghost Mountain.
Even if they wanted to rush in to rescue people, they couldn't find the entrance to the Yin-Yang Gap.
They could only wait until Ghost Mountain pulled them in, or until the people inside found a way to open the road to Ghost Mountain from the inside.
“Master!”
The old Taoist priest was just deep in thought when he heard a scream from the other side.
A middle-aged Taoist priest ran over anxiously from the foot of the mountain. In a moment of panic, he even forgot that there were members of the rescue team next to him. His figure was as light as flying and came quickly, just like the legendary Qinggong.
Many members of the rescue team were stunned.
"Not quite right, Master. Something is changing Guishan." The middle-aged Taoist priest said without even taking a breath: "The trees on Guishan are turning into locust trees."
Sophora tree, there is a ghost beside the tree.
They are often possessed by ghosts without bodies, allowing them to stay in the human world. They can even use locust trees to transform themselves into human forms, snatch the bodies of passers-by for themselves, and deceive the ghost messengers in the underworld.
“How could it be…”
The old Taoist priest's face changed, and he subconsciously began to calculate with his hands hanging in his robe.
The next moment, he turned his head and looked at Guishan in shock.
The originally sunny and clear sky began to gather large patches of dark clouds, gradually covering the sky above Guishan Mountain.
The cold wind that was not in line with the summer temperature violated the normal geographical laws and blew from the deep mountains and the top of the mountains, trapping the rescue team members standing here from all directions, making it impossible for them to open their eyes.
The century-old towering ancient trees in the woods rustled in the strong wind, their leaves shaking and their trunks shaking violently, like ghosts howling and struggling under the gloomy sky.
The old Taoist priest immediately made hand gestures and recited scriptures. A warm and righteous force suddenly emerged, enveloping everyone around him. This prevented the rescue team from being blown away by the strong wind or hit by broken branches.
However, at this moment, when everyone opened their eyes again after the strong wind was blocked by an invisible barrier, they were shocked to find that the forest they were in had changed from the original beech and pine trees to thick and tall locust trees!
The big locust trees were more than 20 meters high, and it took two people to wrap their arms around them. They were almost a hundred years old. The small ones looked to be several decades old.
"How is this possible..." Some rescue team members were stunned.
Under great shock, their minds were shaken, and some of them even had a thought from the bottom of their hearts: Could it be that there are really ghosts in the mountains? Are those monsters seen in the live broadcast not the villains wearing suits as told by the authorities, but real ghosts?
The old Taoist priest was surprised by Guishan's changes, but he also noticed the expressions of the rescue team members.
——When ordinary people encounter ghosts, the worst thing they should do is to believe in them.
As the saying goes, if you believe, there is; if you don’t believe, there is no. If a person firmly believes that there are no ghosts in the world, has no fear in his heart, and does not give ghosts any chance to take advantage of him, then ghosts will have no way to do anything to him.
On the contrary, if a person believes that he has encountered a ghost and is afraid of it, then his momentum will be weakened from the beginning. In this case, the flame of his yang energy can easily be blown out by the ghost.
These rescue team members have been severely shaken by the abnormalities that have occurred before their eyes, and they are no longer suitable to stay here.
"Song Yi, send them down the mountain!" the old Taoist shouted loudly, his voice as loud as a bell.
All of a sudden, the rescue team members who were still in a trance just now heard a crisp "Qing-Lang!" sound like a soul-calming bell in their ears, which directly shook their souls awake from their confusion.
The middle-aged Taoist priest took the opportunity to call all the rescue team members and immediately sent them down the mountain as the old Taoist priest had instructed.
But the old Taoist priest still stood there, looking around with a frown.
What they had speculated before turned out to be true!
Ghost Mountain is a real thing.
However, now, Guishan and Guishan are gradually overlapping!
The locust tree that appeared and replaced other tree species in Guishan was one of the signals.
The wronged souls and evil spirits that had been trapped in Ghost Mountain for a hundred years gradually appeared in Guishan.
Just as the villagers had seen at dusk.
The only difference is that the villagers are not within the scope of Guishan, but they are on the mountain.
The old Taoist priest looked serious.
What exactly happened to the program crew members who entered Ghost Mountain?
Just after the rescue team and Haiyun audience entered Guishan, the live broadcast signal of the program team seemed to be affected by the magnetic field of the ghost, and became intermittent. Finally, all the live broadcast signals were cut off. The outside world could not see what happened to the program team in the villa.
This made the already anxious audience even more frightened, and many soft-hearted viewers even cried. While they were anxiously discussing and praying for everyone's safety on social platforms, they also frantically tagged Binhai City's official and rescue team accounts on social platforms, and the official hotline was flooded with calls.
However, even if the audience who were paying attention to this matter were anxious, it was of no use. The Taoist priests of Haiyun Temple in Guishan could not figure out what had happened in Guishan that caused the signal to fail and caused the Yin and Yang Mountains to overlap.
In Ghost Mountain.
Divination is no longer effective.
Suddenly, the old Taoist priest suddenly recalled the unruly and handsome face he had seen in the live broadcast before.
Yan Shixun!
Could it be him...
There are countless invisible ghosts wandering around Guishan Mountain, which is covered with locust trees.
This place is no longer suitable for ordinary people to stay.
It is very likely that when the rescue team members were running down the mountain, they passed by a ghost who wanted to reach out to stop them. It was all thanks to the magic spells of the old and middle-aged Taoist priests that they were able to successfully avoid the ghost and avoid having their yang fire blown out or being possessed by a resentful ghost.
The rescue team members felt a chill that chilled their souls and gave them goose bumps. But in the dark, the old Taoist priest's voice seemed to still roar in their ears.
'Run! Don't stop, don't look back, run!'
One of the young team members subconsciously turned his head, instinctively wanting to confirm the distance between himself and the danger.
But he was met with a pair of red, empty eyeballs.
The young team member's pupils constricted.
In fear, he felt something kicked under his feet and he tripped and fell to the ground.
He hurriedly tried to get up, but heard a "crack" sound of breaking. He lowered his head tremblingly, and then he saw that what had tripped him and was broken by him was actually a human leg bone.
"Okay, it hurts..."
A chilly corpse aura approached from behind the team members.
The blood-red bone claws grabbed the team member's shoulders and wrapped around him tightly.
The team members could even smell the foul and bloody odor coming from their necks.
"Give me your skin and your flesh and blood as compensation."
"Let's exchange identities..."
The young team members were finally overwhelmed by the fear beyond their cognition, and their mental defenses completely collapsed.
“Ahhhhhhhhh!!! Ghost, ghost!!!”
The middle-aged Taoist priest who was leading the rescue team and running in the front to clear the way turned around when he heard the sound, but he only saw an arm sticking out of the ground, still sinking into the ground.
What was worn on the arm was the uniform of the rescue team.
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