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After stripping people of their clothes, they wrapped them in sackcloth and soaked them in an oil tank. After nightfall, they tied their heads and feet to a high wooden pole and set fire to them from their feet.
This is also called pouring some human oil wax.
The bandits in Sichuan and Hunan have another innovation, which is to drill a small hole in a person's head, pour in lamp oil and ignite it, which can make people die in extreme pain.
In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, after Dong Zhuo was killed by Wang Yun's design, he was lit with a sky lantern.
Of course, these have nothing to do with the lighting of sky lanterns in the Maoshan technique.
To light a sky lantern is to light a sky lantern.
In some places, sky lanterns are also called Kongming lanterns. Because Kongming lanterns are very similar to the hat on Zhuge Kongming's head, they are called Kongming lanterns.
There is also an interesting saying that Mr. Zhuge was besieged by Sima Yi in Pingyang, and the whole army was helpless.
Mr. Zhuge came up with an ingenious plan. After calculating the wind direction, he asked people to bring thousands of sheets of white paper and paste them into countless lanterns. Then he used the upward gravity of the smoke to lift them into the sky. Small lanterns rose up one by one, and everyone in the camp The soldiers shouted: "Mr. Zhuge is sitting on a sky lantern to break through!".
Sima Yi believed it to be true, and led his troops to chase after the sky lantern. Zhuge Liang was able to escape, so later generations called this lantern "Kongming Lantern".
As for how the name Kongming Lantern came about, it is impossible to verify.
Although sky lanterns are rarely used, Lin Yi asked Wen Cai to bring them over when he came to Huangjia Town this time. He didn't expect to use them today.
Ji Dong and Qiu Sheng lit the lotus lantern inside the sky lantern, and as the heat rose, the sky lantern gradually lifted into the sky.
The four sides of the sky lantern are painted with yin and yang fish, a picture of eight trigrams and the characters of forgiveness.
Watching the sky lantern rise into the sky, Uncle Jiu dragged a wine jar in his hand, on which was written Huang Youde's birth date, horoscope, and map of the Big Dipper.
Uncle Jiu looked up at the stars in the sky, they were shining clearly, and after aligning the position, Uncle Jiu took off the Yin-Yang fish from the Taoist crown, and printed it on the direction of Tianshu star carved on the wine jar.
Tianshu star is the head of the Big Dipper, and the Big Dipper is used to confirm the orientation.
So this method of finding corpses is destined to use the Big Dipper map.
The stars twinkled in the sky, and the Yin-Yang fish mark in Uncle Jiu's hand was printed on the wine jar.
After the cold blue light flickered, a blue light bead appeared in Uncle Jiu's hand.
This is the imprint of Huang Youde's soul. With this and the sky lantern, Huang Youde's body can be found.
Uncle Jiu pinched the seal with one hand, and there was a faint blue soul mark floating on the seal, and pointed to the sky lantern with the other hand.
With a whoosh, Huang Youde's soul imprint flew straight to the lotus wick under the sky lantern.
With a muffled pop, the rope tied to the sky lantern broke instantly, and the sky lantern slowly flew towards the sky.
"It's done!"
The corner of Lin Yi's mouth raised slightly, and he looked at Uncle Jiu with adoration in his eyes.
Uncle Jiu deserves to be Uncle Jiu, and many miraculous Taoism emerges endlessly. After studying with Uncle Jiu for more than ten years, Lin Yi found that what he had learned was still a drop in the bucket, and he was far from being a teacher.
"Ayi, Qiusheng, take the thing and follow the sky lantern, it can lead us to find Huang Youde."
"Got it, Master!"
In fact, there was no need for Uncle Jiu to say that Lin Yi had already called Qiu Sheng to follow him.
Each of them was carrying a bamboo box, and a treasure bag slung over their shoulders, which contained all the stuff that Uncle Jiu ordered them to bring.
The Kongming lanterns in the sky fluttered and flew towards the back mountain of Huangjia Village. Although the speed was slow, it was faster than Qiu Sheng and Lin Yi.
Jingling along the way, Lin Yi and Qiusheng trotted along with the Kongming lanterns in the sky.
Lin Yi's cultivation base is high, and his physical fitness is far beyond ordinary people. Driving in the dark is not affected, but Qiu Sheng is not, and his physical fitness is better than ordinary people. On the way, he fell a few times. A melee.
Uncle Nine is already a monk in the Foundation Establishment period, and in this era, he is well-deserved to be called a great power.
Because Uncle Jiu is very likely to be the only cultivator who has broken through to the Foundation Establishment stage.
Along the way, Uncle Jiu was walking on flat ground, his speed was neither fast nor slow, and he was extremely unrestrained.
The Kongming Lantern floated over a cliff, and Qiu Sheng followed behind Lin Yi panting slightly, looking at the hundreds of meters of cliff in front of him, feeling a little scared.
This cliff is connected by a rope bridge. This rope bridge has not been walked by people for many years. It has been in disrepair for a long time, and many planks on it are broken.
"Brother, how are you doing this!"
Qiu Sheng glanced at the bottom of the cliff, and there was no bottom to see. The bags on their bodies weighed dozens of kilograms, plus their own weight, crossing this old rope bridge would be no different from committing suicide.
"Look at how cowardly you are."
Lin Yi gave Qiu Sheng a blank look, and then pinched the curse seal with his hand.
"The universe is boundless, Fenglei is ordered, Yufeng!"
The two Wind Control spells shone with a faint brilliance, and there were invisible air currents swirling around the spells.
"Hey, this is the Wind Control Curse, you don't have to be afraid if you have it."
Ji Dong put the Yufeng Curse on Qiu Sheng's body, and made one for himself by the way.
This Wind Control Charm can make people bless the power of the wind, ranging from lightening one's body against the wind to attacking against the wind, it is a very practical spell.
This is not the first time Qiusheng has been cursed by Ji Dong, and he also knows the magical effect of the Wind Control Curse. He immediately smiled and was no longer afraid.
Ji Dong and Uncle Jiu followed closely behind, crossed the rope bridge and looked up at the sky, only to find that the sky lantern had stopped flying forward and began to circle in place.
Uncle Jiu's face changed, and he said in a low voice, "It seems that Ade's body is nearby, Ayi, you take Qiusheng and don't separate, let's move separately, and when you see that bat is dead, send a signal to me. "
After Uncle Jiu finished speaking, his body floated away, and he fled towards the distance.
"Wow! Why is Master so fast!"
Qiu Sheng exclaimed, just now Uncle Jiu disappeared all of a sudden, like a ghost.
"Of course it will be soon. Master is now a monk in the Foundation Establishment period, and he has the highest cultivation level in the whole world. Do you think he can be unhappy?"
As Ji Dong spoke, he aimed in another direction.
"Okay, don't talk from now on, follow me, that vampire is hard to deal with."
Hearing what Ji Dong said, Qiu Sheng became serious, nodded, followed behind Ji Yi, and touched the sky lantern.
There is actually a European-style building in the back mountain, but it has already collapsed due to disrepair.
In the dilapidated courtyard, a blond man dressed as a priest stood in front of a sarcophagus holding a poisonous snake.
There is also a jade body of a woman on the sarcophagus.
And under the sarcophagus, lay a lifeless corpse, it was Huang Youde.
This blond man was the priest who turned into a vampire back then, and now he was released by the three of Awei.
After sucking Ade's blood, he has completely recovered, and looks like a normal human being, but he is cold and has no vitality.
"Hiss, ha!"
The vampire pinched off the poisonous snake's head with one hand, and the poisonous snake was bleeding.
He dripped snake blood on the corner of the mummy's mouth, and there were strange syllables from his mouth.
The snake blood was quickly absorbed by the mummy, and the mummy started to swell up visibly like a dried fungus soaked in water.
Not long after, this mummy turned into a fair-skinned foreign girl!
"Hiss! Ha!"
The vampire screamed excitedly, his eyes were full of love for the woman.
Throwing away the snake body, the vampire grabbed Huang Youde's body on the ground, and stabbed Huang Youde's heart with one hand.
Then, a still warm heart was pulled out.
At the same time, the woman on the sarcophagus suddenly opened her eyes, the blue eyes flashing red.
When the vampire priest saw that the woman had woken up, he became even more excited, and put the heart in his hand to the vampire nun's mouth.
However, the nun vampire's hands suddenly grabbed the priest vampire's neck.
Click!
Blood sucking!
Vampire: "o((⊙﹏⊙))o"
At this moment, the yard became brighter.
In the sky, a kongming lantern exudes a peaceful light, and at the same time, it also illuminates the two vampires without hiding.
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hiss!ha!
The vampire nun let go of the vampire priest. Her mouth was full of blood, her pupils were blood blue, and her pupils almost disappeared.
Looking up at the Kongming Lantern in the sky, he made a strange sound of Sha in disgust.
Both bats and vampires are cold-blooded creatures who like darkness and humidity and dislike light and heat.
At this time, Kongming lanterns floated above their heads, and the warm light shrouded them, making the two vampires full of repulsion.
The vampire priest was dizzy and fell onto the sarcophagus, shaking his head, trying to wake himself up.
He had just recovered, he had only absorbed one person's blood, and he didn't have much blood himself, and was sucked away by the nun vampire.
For vampires, blood is very important, and their energy is contained in blood.
If there is too much blood loss, the vampire will also become very weak, and even die in suspended animation.
As long as the vampire is not burned to ashes, even if it is turned into a mummy, the vampire can be resurrected when it comes into contact with blood.
Thinking about it before, the priest vampire had been buried underground for so many years, and he had turned into a mummy. After being dug out, he only absorbed a little blood, and he revived, which is enough to prove the strong vitality of vampires.
In fact, in Western legends, vampires are creatures cursed by God.
There is a saying that the ancestor of vampires in the West is the ancestor of all wicked people, Cain, the eldest son of Adam and Eve.
Because Cain killed his brother Abel, as a kinslayer, he was cursed, exiled, and eventually became an immortal vampire.
Of course, Ji Dong didn't know whether this statement was true, but he had seen it on the Internet before he was reborn and had not verified it.
But even if it is checked, I am afraid that no real conclusion can be drawn.
After all, the world he used to live in did not have these feudal superstitions.
At the dilapidated outer wall of the dilapidated building, Uncle Jiu, Lin Yi and Wencai reunited again.
Through the gap in the courtyard wall, all three of them saw the scene in the courtyard.
Uncle Jiu's expression changed slightly, and he secretly thought something was wrong.
Having one vampire is already a headache, and now another one has come out!
But when he saw Ade's body on the ground, the blood hole in his chest and the heart in the hands of the vampire priest, Uncle Jiu's expression was replaced by anger.
"Damn foreign ghost, instead of making trouble in his own house, he ran to our eastern land to do evil, and even performed blood sacrifices! You should be killed!"
In ancient times, human beings were ignorant and regarded some natural phenomena between heaven and earth as miracles, so they worshiped the gods of heaven and earth, and used humans and animals as priests.
As the Three Emperors ruled the world, the Five Emperors ruled the ethics, the Shang Dynasty perished, and the Zhou Rituals appeared, such things as living priests rarely happened.
Of course, except for Chu, a foreign country that prefers sacrifices, and some remote places, blood sacrifices are still kept.
In the land ruled by the Han Dynasty, the priests worshiped at most three animals and three birds.
Cattle, sheep and pigs, the three animals reach the sky, chickens, ducks and geese, and the three birds reach the earth.
When priests offer sacrifices, having three animals and three birds is already the highest standard of etiquette.
In addition, those who use living priests are punished as evil gods.
What is evil god?That is the demon!
"Wow, Master, there are two vampires here, can you deal with it!"
Qiu Sheng squatted behind the wall, hunched his neck, and asked Uncle Jiu in a very low voice.
"Evil heretics! There is nothing to worry about, Ah Yi, start to arrange formations, and we must not let them escape tonight!"
Ji Dong nodded, did not speak, silently and carefully took off the things on his body.
Inside the small bamboo box are order flags with red background, yellow border and gold lettering.
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