[Chapter 288: Imperial Master’s Dojo Ancient Witch Doctor]
Shenlongjia is adjacent to Wushan County in Shancheng City to the west. After traveling day and night, Yang Yiyun and his group of seven crossed Shenlongjia and reached a mountain in the Xiaosanxia in Wushan County at dawn the next day.
It was also the destination of their trip, Wushan.
Wushan is actually just a noun for a mountain range. It has appeared in various places in Kyushu in history. Now it mainly refers to the continuous peaks in the “south-north” direction at the junction of Hu Province, Chongshan, and Hunan in the eastern part of the Bashu Basin.
For various reasons, there are always people who like to take the words literally and think that “Wushan” refers to the mountains in Wushan County, and “Wuxia”, one of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River, happens to be located in Wushan County, Shancheng City and Badong County, Beihu Province, which leads some people to mistakenly think that “Wushan” refers to the Wuxia in Wushan County.
In fact, Wuxia is just a section of the Three Gorges rift valley running from east to west, and “Wushan” refers to the mountain peaks running from “south to north”, even if the entire Three Gorges of the Yangtze River is only a part of “Wushan”.
Now the peak of one of the mountains in the Wushan County Xiao Sanxia where Yang Yiyun and his party are located is also one of the Wushan Mountains.
According to the story of Taoist Changling and Baishan, at least one must have innate strength to go to this mountain.
Yang Yiyun’s strength is comparable to that of ancient martial artists who have entered and exited the innate realm. In addition, with Baishan and Xia Lu, several people plan to buy a good one for Yang Yiyun.
In fact, the second purpose of this ancient martial arts conference is an expedition organized by innate masters.
And here in the Xiaoshan Gorge of Wushan County, there is a dangerous place controlled by several ancient sects, and it is also a place where they have serious opportunities.
In short, there are benefits.
So Yang Yiyun reluctantly became one of them.
According to Changling and others, this is the place where Wu Xian (the imperial physician of Emperor Yao) practiced in the ancient Tang Yao era, and Wushan County was named after Wu Xian.
Wu Xian is a figure in ancient Han legends. He lived during the reign of Emperor Yao of Tang. He was famous for his divination. He could prolong people’s fortune and illness, know people’s life and death, and judge people’s survival and destruction by years. Emperor Yao respected him as a divine witch and appointed him as a good minister.
In oracle bone script, Wu Xian is written as Xian Wu. He was good at divination, the founder of divination, and a representative of theocracy. He
was the state teacher of Emperor Taiwu of the Shang Dynasty and the founder of divination. He was a famous astrologer who was successful in governing the royal family and wrote “Xian Yi”.
Wu Xian also invented the star-pulling technique. Although the book “Wu Xian Zhan” was written from the Warring States Period to the early Han Dynasty, it inherited Wu Xian’s learning. This ancient astrological work first proposed the observation unit of star-pulling. There is Wushan in Changshu, which is named after Wu Xian, and there are Wu Xian Temple and Wu Xian Tomb.
Wu is a person who serves as a medium between God and the lower emperor. One is Wu Wu, a legendary witch doctor, a minister of Tang Yao, who used his great skills as Yao’s doctor. He could wish for the prosperity of people, cure people’s diseases, wish for trees to wither, and wish for birds to fall.
According to the “Book of History”, Wu Xian was a wise minister beside Emperor Taiwu of Shang. His son Wu Xian served as prime minister after Emperor Taiwu’s grandson Zu Yi ascended the throne, and was also known as a wise minister. There is Xianwu in the oracle bone inscriptions, so some scholars believe that Wu Xian may be the minister of King Taiwu of Shang.
The place we are going to this time is not Wu Xian’s tomb, but Wu Xian’s Taoist temple recorded in the classics mastered by the major ancient sects. As an ancient witch doctor, Wu Xian is a powerful sorcerer in the eyes of ancient warriors. The
ancient Kyushu ancient witch is not a wizard below, but a very ancient mysterious inheritance, with witchcraft, witch doctors, etc.
Wu Xian can be an ancient imperial teacher, and the witchcraft and witch doctor he displayed is a treasure in the eyes of several ancient sects. The Wu Xian Taoist temple we are going to this time is a place recorded by several ancient sects and it really exists.
It’s just that ordinary people can’t get in, and can’t find it.
Only ancient warriors of the innate level can enter that place.
According to Baishan’s introduction to Yang Yiyun, Wuxiang Daochang is filled with poisonous fog all year round, which is difficult to see with the naked eye. It should be guarded by a formation.
The fog can only be dispersed once every ten years, and this time is just a time point, so they went out of the mountain. First, they heard that there was a rumor that Peiyuan Dan appeared in the secular world, and by the way, they came to host the ancient martial arts conference and find some talented disciples for the sect.
Secondly, it is Wushan Daochang, hoping to go in and try their luck.
Baishan said that he had never been there. According to an elder of Wudang who had been to Wushan Daochang, Wuxiang, as an ancient witch doctor, was full of spiritual medicines. Hundreds of years of spiritual medicines were common, thousands of years of spiritual medicines were also available, and even more rare were tens of thousands of years of spiritual medicines.
It can be said that it was a place full of treasures.
In the real Wuxiang Daochang, there is a cave that no one in the ancient martial arts world has ever entered. It is said that there is a cave door, but it cannot be entered.
For thousands of years, the ancient martial arts world has not given up the exploration of Wuxiang Daochang, in order to enter the real cave portal, obtain the inheritance of Wuxiang ancient witchcraft and witch doctor, etc.
Therefore, the innate strongmen of the ancient martial arts world will go in to explore once every ten years, and never give up.
Of course, Wuxiang Daochang is a treasure land, but also a dangerous place. Not to mention the perennial poisonous gas, the key is that there are ferocious beasts guarding it.
It is said that every exploration will lose many innate lives in it…
Yang Yiyun’s eyes were shining when he heard these words. He asked his master about the ancient witch in his heart. Master Yuntian Xie said that it was actually a kind of cultivator, but the inheritance was different.
There is also the saying of ancient witches among cultivators. It is known that if they are not cultivators who specialize in cultivating a strong physical body, the witchcraft they master is also very weak. Ancient witch cultivators were powerful body cultivators in ancient times, just like Qi cultivators.
So the difference is that one cultivates the body to enter the Tao, and the other cultivates the soul to enter the Tao.
However, according to the priest, the ancient witchcraft has also been lost in the world of cultivation.
If the Wuxian Daochang mentioned by Baishan and others is really a shaman’s Daochang, then there may be good things.
Yang Yiyun is particularly looking forward to it.
Yang Yiyun also read about witches in an ancient book of the Warring States Period.
In his understanding, witches are the predecessor of Taoism. The original meaning is the ancient people who can summon gods by dancing. Ancient doctors in Kyushu were also called witches. Now it means wizards, witches, etc., and there are also surnames.
The ancients believed that witches could communicate with ghosts and gods, and mobilize the power of ghosts and gods to eliminate disasters and make people rich, such as summoning gods, prophecy, praying for rain, and treating diseases. Over time, it became an indispensable profession in ancient social life.
In addition, witches have a horizontal top that supports the sky, a horizontal bottom that stands on the ground, and a vertical middle that connects heaven and earth, connecting people in the middle, and is truly connected to heaven and earth.
There is also a legend of the twelve ancestor witches in the mythology of Kyushu. According to legend, Pangu followed the decree of Hongjun and split the chaos with Pangu Banner, determined the earth, fire, feng shui with the Taiji diagram, separated the clear and turbid heaven and earth, opened up the primitive world, and evolved the six reincarnations, which are endless.
Pangu died because he was unable to support the power of the creation of the world. His soul was divided into the Three Pure Ones (Taishang Laojun, Yuanshi Tianzun, and Tongtian Jiaozhu) to create the world. Most of his body essence and blood turned into the twelve ancestral witches, and a small part of it circulated in the six reincarnations.
In short, ancient witches occupy a very important position in the myths and legends of Kyushu.
And Wu Xian is a person recorded in history.
Yang Yiyu never thought that one day he would go to the Taoist temple of an ancient witch doctor. Of course, from this point, it can be seen that the historical heritage of the ancient sects is very long, and the foundation should not be underestimated.
Now he is in contact with the ancient warriors of the first and second levels of innateness. Who knows if there are masters above the second level of innateness, or even the ninth level of innateness in their sect?
There should be no doubt.
When thinking of this, Yang Yiyu was still very worried. Today, he had confronted Yuan Chenzi and Ding Yang without hesitation, although the two did not fall out in the end.
But I think it should be because of Xia Lu and Baishan, two masters of the second level of innateness, who are close to him.
If Xia Lu and Bai Shan were not there, Yang Yiyu estimated that Yuan Chenzi and Ding Yang would not easily bypass him.
He thought to himself that he had to be on guard against Yuan Chenzi and Ding Yang, as they might do something bad behind his back.
On the other hand, there must be powerful innate ancient martial artists behind them. What if they cause trouble for him in the future?
He could never tell.
Thinking about the performance at the ancient martial arts conference yesterday, he was a little too dazzling. He refined Pei Yuan Dan and displayed innate martial arts, and there were no less than three of them. Would this make others jealous?
Moreover, when Yang Yiyu was leaving yesterday, he sent Lu Xuexi and his apprentice back to the ancient capital because they had to follow him to the Wuxiang Daochang. What if some ancient martial arts forces set their sights on them?
When thinking of these, Yang Yiyu felt inexplicably irritated.
At this time, the Taoist priest Changling who was walking in front shouted: “We have arrived. It seems that the fog will soon dissipate, and the gate of Wushan will be wide open.” Taoist
priest Changling spoke, interrupting Yang Yiyu’s wild thoughts. He looked up and found that the group had reached the halfway point of a mountain.
This is a mountain of the people in Xiaoshanxia. It was bright on this mountain. After walking for more than three hours, they took a detour to the halfway point behind the mountain. What
appeared in sight was thick fog, surrounded by mountains. The milky white fog hundreds of meters away gathered but did not disperse, rolling and rolling, and the wind could not disperse it.
This is the Wushan Mountain that Taoist priest Changling talked about. The real Wu Xian is deep in the mountains covered by thick fog.
Yang Yiyu asked Baishan: “Why stop? Can’t you just go there?”
“Master, you don’t know. Look at the fog over the mountains. It stretches for hundreds of miles, and it’s also a dense primitive forest. If we go in before the fog dissipates, we will get lost, and we will be unbearable with the poisonous miasma in the light fog.
Taoist Changling was here ten years ago. He has experience. We can just follow him into the mountains. And according to a senior from Wudang who went in, the fog will automatically dissipate within a specific time. We have to enter the mountains before us within this time, and then find the entrance to enter the Wuxiang Taoist Temple.”
After Baishan finished speaking, Taoist Changling in front of him really said, “There are only ten minutes left for the fog to dissipate. We have to get through as quickly as possible within ten minutes. After the fog disperses, there will be a section of cave road, about two kilometers long.
There are poisonous snakes and poisonous ants in the cave, which are poisonous insects that grow in poisonous miasma all year round. Although being bitten will not be fatal, it is extremely itchy. After a long time, the body will become numb, and the movement will slow down, and more poisonous insects will attack it.
So wait a while, it will be time for everyone to rush through the two-kilometer rocky area at the fastest speed based on their own abilities. Fellow Taoists, please be prepared.
In addition, when you jump up, don’t exceed three meters. The poisonous miasma still exists within three meters. Inhaling it will cause confusion, which is more dangerous than being bitten by poisonous insects. “
Chang Ling Daochang looked at the fog in front of him and gave instructions without turning his head. He seemed to be calculating the time when the fog would dissipate.
At a certain moment, Chang Ling said, “The fog is starting to recede, everyone go.”
In the roar, Chang Ling’s body turned into a residual shadow and rushed into the fog at a high speed.
Yang Yiyu saw that the fog was slowly disappearing, revealing a grayish-blue rocky area in front of him. It was all rocks, not a single weed, very strange.
The terrain was a steep mountain with a slope of 45 degrees, extending to another mountain peak hundreds of meters away.
With Taoist Changling leading the way, Ding Yang and Yuan Chenzi, the ancestor of the Earth’s core, followed in their afterimages.
They all ran at full speed, not daring to jump up at all, fearing the three-meter poisonous miasma above their heads.
Baishan asked Yang Yiyu, and Yang Yiyu said that he had no problem and rushed up.
In the end, Yang Yiyu and Xia Lu were left. At this time, Xia Lu did not pretend to be in a voice, and Tian Lai, who spoke nicely, said something to Yang Yiyu that almost made Yang Yiyu lose his dignity.
“Lie on my back, I’ll carry you. I’ve been here before, it’s not easy to walk.” Xia Lu thought Yang Yiyu’s strength was still a little weak, she could help him.
Yang Yiyu’s face was full of black lines, and his male chauvinism instantly burst out and said: “It’s just a section of road, I’m a grown man, why do I need a woman like you to carry me? If I have to, I’ll carry you across. Okay, you go first, don’t worry about me, it’s just poisonous insects and poisonous miasma, I can get through it with my eyes closed.”
Yang Yiyu boasted in front of the woman without thinking, but he didn’t expect that he would be in trouble in the next journey.
(End of this chapter)
