Yin Shou Shu

Chapter 170 Stone Tablet
The girl's cry spread far and wide in the stone forest, filled with surprise and joy.

It seems like some major discovery has been made.

In the stone forest where their shouts could not be heard before, they could now hear each other's shouts.

It seemed that the Yin Altar opened by Ran Qing dispelled the strange power that blocked everyone in the stone forest.

Hearing a voice coming from afar, Little Mianhua looked at Ran Qing anxiously and asked, "Is that Mo Li?"

This stone forest is eerie and gloomy. Little Mianhua is afraid that it is some other evil spirit in disguise to lure them.

Ran Qing was silent for a few seconds and then nodded: "It's her..."

One of his ghosts was right next to Mo Li at this moment.

Mo Li was found about two minutes ago.

But the ghost didn't bring Mo Li back, which was a bit strange.

Ran Qing looked at the Yin altar on the ground. At this time, only a small part of the burning candles and incense sticks were left and were about to burn out.

This simple Yin altar ends here.

Ran Qing beat the small drum and brought back all the ghosts.

In the dark stone forest, shadows slid along the ground and all disappeared under Ran Qing's feet.

Finally, the shadow that disappeared under Ran Qing's feet reappeared.

He led a few people towards Mo Li's direction: "Let's go find Mo Li."

Judging from the direction the sound came from, Mo Li was not very far away.

After all, the overall scope of the Stone Forest is not large.

Before, some strange force blocked them, and they couldn't even see each other when they were face to face.

But at this moment, that power disappeared.

Long Zongshu and Ran Qing supported their unconscious cousin and took Xiao Mianhua through the stone pillars, and soon they arrived at an open depression in the stone forest.

Most places in the stone forest are crowded, with rugged and strange rocks occupying the space in the stone forest.

But there is an open area of ​​about ten square meters in this depression. The girl is standing in the center of the depression with a stone tablet in front of her.

Seeing Ran Qing and the others appear, Mo Li pointed at the stone tablet and said, "Look!"

Ran Qing walked up to the stone tablet and looked at the carvings on it, feeling a little hesitant.

"Is this... traditional Chinese?"

It is not surprising to see inscriptions in the stone forest. The stones of the entire stone forest are all engraved with ancient and mysterious words.

That may be the writing of the ancient Yelang Kingdom more than a thousand years ago, or even the writing of the ancient Luo Kingdom even earlier.

But the stone tablet in front of him was obviously different. It was square and carved by hand like a tombstone.

Moreover, the words engraved on the stone tablet were different from the strange characters in the stone forest. They were the Chinese characters that Ran Qing and the others were familiar with.

However, the handwriting on the stele is messy and difficult to see clearly. It is a messy cursive script.

Mo Li nodded and said, "It's in traditional Chinese, but I can't quite understand it."

The two examined it carefully but still could not make out the content of the inscription.

After Long Zongshu put his cousin down to rest against the stone pillar, he leaned over to take a look and said, "It says here... In the 24th year of Hongwu, Zhang Quanyang of Longhu Mountain suppressed evil here."

Ran Qing and Mo Li looked at him at the same time, surprised: "You can understand it?"

Being stared at by two people at the same time, the tall and introverted Long Zongshu suddenly blushed. He subconsciously shrank his neck like a quail.

Even the voice suddenly became weaker.

"Um... I've learned a little bit..." Mo Li immediately walked around to the back of the stone tablet, pointed at the words on the back and asked, "What's written on it?"

After Ran Qing and Long Zongshu arrived at the stele, they discovered that there were more cursive characters engraved on the other side.

The tall and thin Long Zongshu squatted and read for a while, looking hesitant.

"This... the inscription says that this Taoist priest Zhang traveled to Zangke on the emperor's orders to help the local military settlements exorcise evil spirits and suppress ghosts."

"When I arrived at Yuezhao, I discovered that there was a sinister aura lurking in the mountains, and a great evil was lurking."

"He led his soldiers into the mountains and discovered an ancient forest of evil-suppressing steles in the tiankeng. In ancient times, the people of Zangke had suppressed an ancient evil lord here."

"Due to its age, the Demon-Suppressing Stone Forest has been corroded by wind and rain. The ancient evil lord suppressed within the stele forest is about to emerge."

"Master Zhang, uh..."

Long Zongshu seemed to have come across some incomprehensible text. After carefully studying it for a while, he said, "Daoist Zhang fought a great battle with the Evil Lord. He said that this Evil Lord had been suppressed by the Forest of Steles for thousands of years and had long since worn himself out. Logically, he shouldn't be difficult to deal with."

"However, when Taoist Zhang arrived in Zangke, his Taoist magical powers were suppressed by a strange force and he was unable to fully exert his strength. In the end, he and the evil master fought each other to a draw."

"He summoned heavenly thunder to destroy the evil master's will, but he was powerless to destroy the evil master's corpse."

"The evil masters of Zangke are incredibly strange. Even if only a corpse remains, the power of that corpse can still poison the living."

"Daoist Zhang was severely injured and had little time left, so he couldn't destroy the evil master's corpse. He could only erect a stone tablet to suppress evil here, hoping that the power of time would dissipate the evil power of the evil master's corpse."

"Oh, he also warned future generations not to enter this cenote after dark. Leave immediately after seeing this stele."

Long Zongshu pointed at the inscription on the stone tablet with messy and wild handwriting and said, "He said that this tiankeng is a dangerous place. In Feng Shui, it is called Yin Yang Sha."

"It means that here, yin and yang are indistinguishable, life and death are reversed. Once night falls, the yin and yang evil spirits within the tiankeng will start to wreak havoc, causing many strange and unforgiving things."

"Even the animals and people in the tiankeng will be affected by the Yin-Yang evil."

Long Zongshu interpreted the general content of the inscription, and Ran Qing and Mo Li were surprised.

"Yin Yang evil..."

The two of them didn't understand Feng Shui, but they knew there was something strange and weird in the stone forest.

Ran Qing looked at the dark stone forests around him and said, "So the words engraved on these stones are the spells used by the ancient natives to suppress the evil lord."

No wonder it gives people a weird and eerie feeling, which is not consistent with the legendary sacrificial site.

Mo Li looked at Ran Qing and asked in confusion, "The old woman asked you to come here to capture ghosts... Which ghost?"

"If the evil master has been annihilated by Taoist Zhang's thunderbolt, there can't be any ghosts here."

"What did the ghost you saw look like when you cast the curse?"

Even if there was a corpse left of the evil master, it had been suppressed by the ancestors of the Zangke people for thousands of years, and had long since died. Then, the Taoist priests summoned heavenly thunder to annihilate it, leaving only an empty shell.

No matter how strange and bizarre this corpse is, it is almost time for it to disappear after being suppressed by the stone tablet for hundreds of years.

Even if it doesn't disappear, even if it's intact, an empty shell is always an empty shell.

Ran Qing needs evil ghosts to make wine, and corpses are useless.

Ran Qing also frowned and turned over the horoscope card.

The gloomy little wooden sign, which had been malfunctioning since entering the tiankeng, was now restored.

After staring at the destiny card for a long time, Ran Qing vaguely felt a voice calling him from underground.

The curse on the Lord's card does point to this place, and it is underground.

"under……"

(End of this chapter)