"I want to see who is the sacred place..." He dragged the compass to the stone pile and walked around it twice, confirming that there was no danger. Old Liu rolled up his sleeves and moved away several stones at the top of the stone pile.

"Miss Zhuang, it's okay..." Zhang Guozhong squatted down and patted Zhuang Ning on the shoulder. At this time, Zhuang Ning was still lying on the ground with his head in his arms and trembling.

"Mr. Zhang... Did Mr. Liu put explosives in it?" Zhuang Ning said in shock, "It's just a pile of stones, why do you have to mobilize so many people?"

"Haha... this is not explosives, nor is it a mobilization. If you have the chance, you will explain it to you. If Mr. Tong wakes up one day, he can also ask him to explain it to you!"

"Guohu... also understands these things?" Zhuang Ning seemed a little surprised, "He... is also a Feng Shui master?"

"These have nothing to do with Feng Shui! This is Taoist art!" At this time, Zhang Guozhong had already walked to the stone pile and started to move stones with Lao Liu. The pile of stones looked quite large, but it was not necessary to move it a few times. Without moving a few pieces, an iron rod as thick as a thumb appeared in the middle of the pile, about one foot higher than the ground. He pulled it with his hand and didn't move at all, as if it was nailed very shallowly.

"This... doesn't seem to be a witch..." Squatting down, Zhang Guozhong carefully observed the steel drill, and saw that the corrosion level was not much like something a hundred years ago. "Senior brother, there are no insects at all, just an iron drill!"

"Dig down!" Seeing that the stone was moved cleanly and it was exposed to the ground, there was still only one iron rod, Lao Liu naturally didn't give up. "Where did the iron rod come from the iron rod? There must be something under the bottom!" After saying that, he simply took the folding shovel from the bag and started digging down the iron rod. As a result, after digging a few times, he encountered a hard stubble, and it was not too hard. The analysis of the feeling from the shovel handle seemed to be stone or metal.

"Buried underground? Is the witchcraft used earthworms?" Zhang Guozhong didn't know why, so he could only swing a folding shovel and dig it with Lao Liu's head. In the middle of Lao Liu's head, Zhang Guozhong dug around. After a while, a pair of white hand bones were dug out. From the outline of the bones buried in the soil, it should be two hands stacked together. Then it was riveted into the soil by an iron rod.

"This... Mr. Zhang... let's call the police..." Zhuang Ning was so scared that his face turned pale.

"Ms. Zhuang, please rest assured, this is not a modern thing..." Qin Ge squatted down, picked up a piece of bone dug by a shovel from the soil pit, put it in front of his nose, and smelled it. Then he bounced it with his fingers a few times. "This bone has basically been calcified, judged by the climatic conditions and humidity here. It has been buried underground for at least fifty years!"

"Fifty years?" Zhang Guozhong was also stunned, "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, that happened more than a hundred years ago..."

"I mean at least fifty years..." Qin Ge also frowned when he said this. He picked up a larger piece of finger bone from the pit and placed it in front of him and looked at it repeatedly, "but it is definitely less than a hundred years!"

"Less than a hundred years?" Zhang Guozhong was stunned. "So, it is likely that it was the Republic of China?"

"What do you think this is?" Zhuang Ning squatted in the grass about ten meters away. It seemed that he had found something.

"Let's take a look..." Zhang Guozhong walked to the opposite Zhuangning and opened the grass. He saw a small section of square stone piles exposed on the ground, which was less than half an inch. If he didn't look carefully, it would be difficult to find out. In terms of the size and quality of the stone piles, it looked very similar to the "fire fire situation" I encountered in Li Village. The only difference was that the top of the stone pile was not engraved.

"Senior Brother!" Zhang Guozhong dug out a stone pile with three or two shovels, and the buried part was only one foot long at best. "Look at this!"

"What is this?" Zhuang Ning was a little confused when he looked at the stone stakes dug out of the ground. "Taoist totem?"

"Not totem!" Zhang Guozhong shook his head, "It's a spell... Could it be..." Although Zhang Guozhong felt familiar about the vanguard carved on the stone stake, he couldn't remember where he had seen it for a while.

"Chilu Curse! This is her mother... is Zhengyi's thing!" At this time, Old Liutou and Qin Ge also jogged to each other. When they saw the stone stake in Zhang Guozhong's hand, they were also a little stupid. The slaughtered text on the side of the stone stake turned out to be Zhengyi's long-forbidden "Chilu Curse".

"Red Lift Curse!" After hearing what Old Liu said, Zhang Guozhong suddenly realized, and his hands were weak and almost dropped the stone stake to the ground...

The so-called "Red Lift Mantra" is originally part of the "Red Lift Mantra" of Zhengyi Forbidden Formation, and the name of the spell is also based on the name of the array. Zhengyi Sect has always been one of the top sects in the Central Plains Dao Sect, and the taboo standards for the game magic are the strictest. From the tomb formations to the spells and rituals, as long as there are slight flaws on the moral level, even if there are no substantial harm and are just contrary to traditional etiquette, they are likely to be banned. It is precisely because of this that Zhengyi Sect's forbidden arrays has more and more diverse types than other sects.

As the saying goes, "Show off and don't worry about stealing, and hide and lose it." The more you ban it, the more likely it will attract the attention of some people with ulterior motives. According to legend, in the second year of the Tianshu period of the Wu Zhou Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty (691 AD), the ancestral building in Zhengyi's ancestral temple was stolen. Almost all the classics and array diagrams that record the taboo array have traces of being read, but they are all safe and sound, and they are not lost. Because the things were not lost, they did not receive enough attention from the observation. Unexpectedly, just three months later, the gods Luoyang came out and shook the sky.

The "headless case" that I heard about, the so-called "headless" case does not only refer to the rare clues, but is based on the physical level of "headless" - the newly appointed Little Sima 1 Lu Si's family was mysteriously destroyed between 37 people and 37 people. Without exception, the deceased had their heads removed from their bodies. The force was as great as the punishment of dismemberment of five horses. For a time, rumors in Luoyang City were panicked, so that Wu Zetian had to hand over the case to Prime Minister Di Renjie for personal investigation.

If it were ordinary people, this kind of real-life "headless case" would never be investigated, but Di Renjie was Di Renjie after all. He knew that the yin and yang and the five elements were compatible with astronomy and geography. He could be said to be a omnipotent medical arts, Taoism and Buddhism. After checking the victim's corpse, he quickly ruled out the possibility of committing crimes and locked all suspicions in the category of the left and right paths. First, he conducted a carpet-style investigation of Taoist temples and temples near Luoyang, and then conducted a comprehensive secret investigation of all places selling Buddhist and Taoist instruments and scriptures around Luoyang. After all, he did not succeed.

He was also preparing to call all the stonemasons and jade craftsmen in the city to the yamen for questioning. Although the question did not ask any clues, the questioning led to a series of suspicious plots: when the case handlers came to issue the questioning notice, they found that a blacksmith named Wang Ergou and a stonemason named Li Youcheng in the city died almost at the same time three days before the incident. After visiting the two families, Di Renjie learned that the two had taken over the same person's business before their lifetime. The man claimed to be Zhang Liang, and entrusted Wang and Li to create a batch of iron drills and carve a batch of small stone piles.

Although the case can basically be determined at this point, in order to ensure that everything is foolproof, Di Renjie still wrote a letter to Zhengyi Master Zhang Luchen, who was the master of Zhengyi, hoping that Zhengyi would send a decent disciple down the mountain to help solve the case. As soon as he saw the letter, Zhengyi immediately thought of theft of the Sutra Library not long ago, and his calves turned forward on the spot. According to Di Renjie's description in the letter, the so-called side-door used by the criminal was actually the absolute forbidden formation of Zhengyi's school - the Chiliu Formation.

This formation originated from the Western Jin Dynasty. It was not originally the formation of Zhengyi Sect, but a unique formation of a small Taoist sect called "Qingchen Sect". Strictly speaking, the Qingchen Sect is not considered a Taoist sect with the roots of Miaohong. It was an inexplicable sect formed by some unsuccessful court sorcerers in the Later Han Dynasty. Because the court was highly valued at the time, it also brought the banner of Taoism. By the time of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the inheritance of the Qingchen Sect was declining and could not be settled. So he found the Zhengyi Sect to surrender, and Zhengyi also accepted it. Although the people had accepted it, the Qingchen Sect's formation was not available.

The reason for the exception being included in the category of forbidden formation is very simple. What kind of serious formation can you study as a group of palace sorcerers? The palace inside is nothing more than intrigue and deception. At least half of the so-called formations of the Qingchen Sect seem orthodox, but a little transformation can harm people's invisible side-door paths. Just like the current Red Flow Formation, even the real person of the Heavenly Master cannot imagine what the consequences would be if this formation was studied based on this formation. As a marginal formation that is prone to disaster, it is new if Zhengyi is not banned.

In order to save the bad influence, Zhang Zhenren went down the mountain to apologize to Di Renjie, truthfully explained the causes and consequences of the theft of Zhengyi Sutra Tower and helped Di Renjie find the iron drill and stone pile buried downstream of Luoshui 2. Until the case was finally solved, Di Renjie did not cause trouble for Zhengyi's faction about the leakage of the ban array. He just handed the iron drill and stone pile used for the formation as evidence of the crime to the court. Of course, Di Renjie was not a fool, he knew that

Naturally, the fewer people know about this kind of evil thing, the better. In the later stage of the case, not many people have actually seen iron spindles and stone piles. Di Renjie also personally issued a seal order to all the people involved in this case. However, the content carved on the stone pile was inexplicably leaked a small part and has been circulated to this day. This small part of the content leaked is the "Red Flow Curse" carved on the stone pile dug out by Zhang Guozhong at this moment...

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1 Little Sima: The name of an official in the Zhou Dynasty. Wu Zetian changed the Tang Dynasty to Zhou, restored the Zhou Dynasty's official system, and changed the six ministries of "officials, households, rituals, soldiers, punishments, and labor" to the six officials "Heaven, Earth, Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter". The Xia officials took the "Grand Sima" as the chief official, which was equivalent to the "Secretary of the Ministry of War" in the six ministries, and "Little Sima" was followed, which was equivalent to the "Sermon Minister of War".

2 Luo River: It is the Luo River, one of the tributaries of the Yellow River. It has a total length of 453 kilometers. It flows through Luonan, Lu family, Luoyang, and enters the Yellow River from Gong County. (To be continued...)
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