Volume 1 Chapter 78 Six Earth Fire
In fact, according to the explanation in the notes of Dead Face, this "Fire Bureau" is not a simple spell, but more derived from the principle of Yin and Yang tombs, belonging to the category of Feng Shui tomb bureau. My family is originally in the funeral industry, so I am particularly interested in this kind of spell involving tombs. I have carefully studied the principles, but because the structure of this Fire Bureau is too complicated, I didn't get any great experience in the end.
I stood there, pulled out a strand of hair and twisted it in my hand. I saw that the wind was blowing northeast. I turned back and looked at the funeral home. At this time, the funeral home was just behind the sun, casting a slanted shadow. I calculated silently in my mind and ran southwest.
"Lu...Brother Lu...where are you going?" Lion Head shouted from behind. Hearing the sound of footsteps, the fat guy also caught up with him.
I was anxious, and without looking back, I ran back as fast as I could. When I got back to the big iron gate, I took a breath, observed the direction of the sun, determined the southwest direction, and ran straight forward.
The fat man just ran to the iron gate and stopped to gasp for breath. Unexpectedly, I continued to run outside. I shouted a few times behind him and caught up with him.
The place where Ronghua Funeral Home was built was originally an execution ground a long time ago, and then it was built into a cemetery. After being struck by thunder, all the graves here were moved and converted into a funeral home. Therefore, there are no houses to be seen within a few miles around it. It is a deserted place with mostly gravel and loess slopes.
I was running, counting my steps silently in my mind, and after running about 230 steps in a straight line in the southwest direction, I stopped at the current point. I should have run 180 steps, but I was young and my legs were shorter than those of an adult, so I estimated that I took 230 steps.
After standing still at this position, he turned around and looked around. After a long while, he heard the fat man running up to him panting, and his legs went weak, and he fell to the ground.
"Oh my god, I'm running so hard. What are you doing, Brother Lu?" The fat man shouted while lying on the ground with his four limbs in the air.
I didn't have time to pay attention to him, so I found a higher mound and looked around. Fortunately, the terrain here was flat, the land was barren, and there were few groves, so there was not much obstruction.
"Hurry up and find a place where the soil has been turned over! I'll look this way, you look that way!" I ran past the fat man and shouted.
The fat guy's clothes were soaked, and he was panting like a cow, almost unable to walk. However, he was still strong enough to agree, get up and run in the opposite direction of me.
The sun was rising higher and higher, and the sunlight was so bright that I could hardly open my eyes. I was sweating profusely after running for a while, and my eyes were foggy, but I didn't dare to stop for a moment. If this was really a fierce situation, then the Taoist priest surnamed Chen was too damn cruel. Boss Ma and the others must all die at the hands of this bull nose.
I ran all over the place, feeling very nervous, because I was using the number of steps to measure, so I could only get a rough estimate and the direction was extremely inaccurate. And after all, it was my first time calculating, so it was very likely that I got the direction completely wrong. All I could do now was pray to God for help, and I could only rely on manpower to increase the positioning accuracy.
Just as he was searching anxiously, he heard the fat man shouting at the other end: "Here, here, the soil has been disturbed here!"
I was startled and hurriedly ran towards the fat man's location. I ran so fast that my vision went dark. I stopped to take a few breaths and finally recovered. I took a closer look at the place where the fat man was pointing. It was a small gravel beach with a yellow mud mound behind it.
At this time, some new mud appeared on the gravel beach, which showed obvious signs of being turned over by someone.
"Dig down!" I was delighted and called Lion Head to help. The fat man didn't ask and came up to dig with me bare hands.
There were a lot of gravels under the soil, and after being exposed to the sun, the soil was very hard, and soon our hands were rubbed to the point of bleeding. Although the fat man's round face was twisted into an eggplant in pain, he held back a sound, which made me look at him with new eyes.
Fortunately, the soil became softer as we dug down, and we touched something hard after digging about half a meter. I called the fat man to stop, and carefully brushed away the loose soil on top, only to see a stone pile as thick as a bowl exposed in the soil.
"Hey, how come someone has driven a stake here?" Lion Head exclaimed.
I shouted "Dig further" and reached out to grab the mud. Lionhead, with a bitter face, followed suit and dug the soil until we dug about a foot deeper. I immediately shouted "Enough" and asked Fatty to stop.
After wiping off the loose soil on the stone pile, I saw that it was carved with strange patterns. From top to bottom, on the half exposed above the ground, near the soil layer, there was a small character engraved. The character was as bright as blood and was written in cinnabar .
The fat man reached out and touched it, and said, "What is this thing? Why is there something engraved on it?"
My heart was beating fast. The small word written in cinnabar was the word "Wei".
"Fuck that idiot !" I cursed fiercely and stood up from the ground. I felt dizzy because I had been squatting for too long. That idiot surnamed Chen was really too vicious. This was really a hot situation!
The word "Wei" engraved on this stone pillar is not the "Wei" in "future", but the "Wei" in the Twelve Earthly Branches: Zi, Chou, Yin, Mao, Chen, Si, Wu, Wei, Shen, You, Xu and Hai.
The Fire Bureau in Maoshan magic actually originated from a very vicious tomb bureau, which was invented by a man named Mao Ding. Mao Ding is also a very remarkable figure in our industry, but he is evil and invented many cruel and vicious tomb bureaus. The Fire Bureau is one of them, but it was called the Soul Refining Bureau at that time.
Anyone in the industry knows that the human soul is yin, so the folks sometimes call it the ghost. In the Yin-Yang Five Elements, water is yin and fire is yang, so for the human soul, it is strong when it meets water and weak when it meets fire.
The soul-refining system invented by Mao Ding is to sprinkle incense ash in the dug grave pit. The body is buried at noon on the day of the Great Heat with the incense ash as the foundation. The coffin is placed in a north-south direction and made of black ash wood produced in Sichuan, with red saltpeter spread in the coffin.
Both black ash and red saltpeter are pure yang substances. Compared with the cinnabar commonly used in our industry, these two things have better effects. However, because these two things are relatively rare, only some wealthy kings could afford them in ancient times, so cinnabar is more commonly used.
After the body was buried, six stone stakes were carved with the twelve earthly branches, Yi, Wu, Wei, Hai, Zi, and Chou, and buried around the tomb, with Yi, Wu, Wei inside and Hai, Zi, and Chou outside. Among the three earthly branches, Yi, Wu, and Wei form the southern fire, and Hai, Zi, and Chou form the northern fire. These two fires are called the six earthly fires in the notes of the dead face.
The burning of the six fires in the north and south is like purgatory for human souls. It is said that after Mao Ding invented this tomb, the first person to suffer the pain of the red flame purgatory was an enemy of Mao Ding. After his death, he set up a soul-refining trap for him. His soul was trapped in the trap, suffering from the burning flames day and night, and could never be reborn.
Later, this vicious tomb bureau was spread out and was transformed by a Taoist priest into a killing technique, which is now the Fire Bureau. Dead Face only said in his notes that the person who transformed the Fire Bureau was a Taoist priest, but he didn't say who it was. But since this is a Maoshan technique, it is likely that the person who changed the Soul Refining Bureau into the Fire Bureau was a Maoshan disciple.
The Soul Refining Bureau refines the soul, while the Fire Blazing Bureau burns the person, which is the biggest difference between the Fire Blazing Bureau and the Soul Refining Bureau. In the Fire Blazing Bureau, a burial pit is also arranged, but unlike the Soul Refining Bureau, the corpse in the burial pit acts as a traction, leading the six earth fires to the place where the caster wants to commit a crime, leading the earth fire to kill people, silently putting people to death, which is extremely cruel.
Although Dead Face recorded the layout and principle of the Fire Game in his notes, he did not specify the method to crack it. Qingzi said that Dead Face learned it secretly, so it is very likely that he only learned half of it and did not learn the solution.
Or in other words, there is simply no solution to this fiery situation!
