White Bone Monkey King

Ancestral hall.

Depending on the place, it is also called ancestral hall, ancestral temple, ancestral temple, and ancestral temple.

It is a place where ancestors are worshiped or sacrificed.

It is also the place where the clan power and theocratic status of a village or a place are the highest. Any grand festivals or celebrations will be held here.

Therefore, the ancestral hall also played a role in gathering people's hearts and uniting the clan and the people. Even in some places where the ancestral hall was powerful, the rules of the ancestral hall were greater than those of the local court, and abuses of lynching were common.

The most powerful person in this ancestral hall is the sect leader, and the sect is old.

Jin An knew something about the ancestral hall, and needless to say, the Chen family ancestral hall was the place where the Chen family worshiped their ancestors.

When descendants pay homage to their ancestors, they pray for good weather, good harvests, and protection from diseases and disasters. That's why the old saying always says that you can enjoy the shade by standing under the tree of your ancestors. However, the Chen Ancestral Hall not only failed to protect the Chen family, but also collapsed many times during the construction process. The Bagua Tower, which was supposed to attract the Eight Symbols of the Universe, ended up being a Five Elements Tower with only five floors.

Even the Five Elements Building of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth only lasted for one year because of a series of strange events that year and the rush to cap it off. In the summer of the second year, it was blown down by a storm from the sea.

Since then, the local Chen family has been in dire straits. The members of the clan have died, and the family business has been ruined. This has made everyone panic. Even the most courageous masons and bricklayers dare not take up the task of repairing the Chen family ancestral hall. I am afraid that I will spend my life if I have money.

Once the Chen Clan's ancestral hall fell down, another year had passed. During this year, the clan members were as desolate as the dilapidated ancestral hall. The speed of desolation was staggering.

True to those words, the building collapsed overnight.

Those who could escape fled, and those who couldn't were left to eat and wait to die.

Later I heard that the leader of the Chen family was unwilling to let the Chen family fall into his hands. He shamelessly went to Jiuquan to meet his ancestors, and then invited a Feng Shui master from nowhere to check the Feng Shui of the ancestral hall.

As a result, when the Feng Shui master saw the collapsed ancestral hall, his face turned pale with fright, saying that there was so much resentment and yin and yang in the Chen Ancestral Hall that a big hole was created in the original land of dragons and tigers.

Turning a blessed land into a fierce place where yin and yang collide and dragon and tiger fight.

This kind of bad place has a very famous name in Feng Shui——

The dragon's pond and the tiger's den.

The higher the terrain, the conflict between yin and yang, the fiercer the fight between dragons and tigers, the unstable foundation will naturally be crumbling, and no tall buildings can be built. Even if you manage to reach the fifth floor, with the conflict between yin and yang and the struggle between dragon and tiger, it will collapse sooner or later.

When dragons and tigers fight, it will inevitably affect the fish in the pond, and this fish in the pond is the clan members who worship the Chen family's ancestral hall.

The Feng Shui master immediately asked the sect leader if they had offended anyone or provoked any wild gods or evil spirits. Otherwise, the resentment could not be so great that they could break into the Chen family ancestral hall and stir up wind and rain.

No one knows what happened after that day, but at dawn the next day, the body of the Feng Shui master was found in the river a few miles outside the city. The body was swollen from soaking.

Everyone speculated that this Feng Shui master might be a charlatan. He took money from the Chen family and tried to escape overnight. However, he was caught and beaten to death by the Chen family and his body was thrown into the river. Otherwise, it would not make sense. How could this Feng Shui master drown in a river a few miles away?

Although the head of the Chen family stood up and denied it, yesterday after the Feng Shui master read the Feng Shui of the ancestral hall, he said that he was incompetent and could do nothing. Then he left overnight without even drinking any water. They had no idea where he went after leaving the city... But this Feng Shui master His death was strange, so naturally no one believed him and thought the sect leader was lying.

But this time the sect leader invited a Feng Shui master to inspect the Feng Shui in the ancestral hall. It was like a person's reflection before his death. His energy was exhausted. In less than a month, all the sect members who remained in the local area, including the sect leader and sect elders, all died one after another. So far. No one can say clearly how these people died.

At this point, the Chen family, which had been surviving for a year, was completely dead, with no one left alive.

Later, people gradually said that even those who fled to other places could not escape the bad luck. However, in this era of inconvenient transportation, no one can verify whether it is a rumor or a fact.

It is precisely because so many evil things happened in the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall that no local people have approached the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall since then. Everyone has stayed away, fearing that it will bring bad luck. ’s footsteps.

Even the watchman and the person who poured night fragrance did not dare to pass by that street at night. Later, because more and more strange things happened, it became very noisy, everyone was in danger, and the whole street became depressed. , ten rooms and ten empty rooms, everyone has moved out.

The source of all the bad luck, the collapsed Bagua Tower in the Chen Family Ancestral Hall, was called the "Yin Tower" by fearful people. It is said that on every first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, a vague figure would stand in the Yin Tower.

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As the group rushed to the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, they listened to A Ping's introduction to the situation there. After listening to A Ping's explanation, Jin An's face straightened. The Chen Clan Ancestral Hall was really a dragon's pond and a tiger's den.

However, these conversations between him and Aping were all deliberately avoided with the little girl. Some things are adults' business, some are dark, and adults only need to bear them. Children should have the innocence and happiness of children. .

A Ping was resolute, and Jin An finally agreed to let A Ping follow.

Jin An looked back at Youyou who was playing carefree with Hui Daxian like two children, then turned back to A Ping: "A Ping, have you ever seen the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall?"

A Ping shook his head: "The place we live is too far away from the Chen Ancestral Hall, and it takes a long time to walk there. In addition, there are many dangers hidden along the way, so we have never been there."

"Furthermore, the Yin Tower of Chen's Ancestral Hall is rumored to be very evil. Locals will never go there unless they are worried about their longevity."

The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was intentional. Jin An rubbed his chin. Why did he think A Ping was scolding him for hanging his head on the rope because he thought he had a long life?

Jin An smiled freely, but didn't take these words to heart.

When he and A Ping learned about the Chen Clan Ancestral Hall, the girl in red umbrella followed him without haste, so that the Yin Qi spread out from her could not only protect the little girl and the Great Gray Immortal beside her, but also He can always alert his surroundings and clear obstacles ahead for Jin'an.

While walking around, we were protected by a murderer like the red umbrella girl Zhizhi Ren. We all had a peaceful journey and carefully arrived at the street where the Chen Family Ancestral Hall is located.

This place is exactly what Aping said, depressed and desolate. You can occasionally see scattered lights in other places. It is not completely dark, but this street is dim. As soon as you stand at the intersection, you can feel the light coming from the street. There were gusts of cold wind blowing out of the depths, making the hairs on people's arms stand up from the cold.

The streets were dead silent and desolate.

dark.

open.

no one.

Jin An had the absurd illusion that he was facing a barren grave in the wild.

He did not rush into the street immediately, but first picked a taller building nearby and carefully observed the surrounding environment, trying to find the whereabouts of Sangmen, Yan Kuan, and the leader of the Black Rain Kingdom, although he knew these very well. Everyone is a very deep person in the city and will not let him find clues easily, but he still wants to give it a try.