Chapter 136: The Soul Sealing Formation in the MineThe mine entrance is located halfway up the mountain, and a lot of weeds at the entrance have been cleared. After I came in, Chu Yucheng followed me in. I didn't expect him to go down the mine with me. As an employer and employee, there was actually no need for him to go down with me. I asked, somewhat puzzled: "Why did you come in together? What if you encounter danger?" "You can protect me." The entrance to the mine was quite narrow. I was walking in front and couldn't see Chu Yucheng's expression when he said this, but my heart suddenly warmed up because of this sentence. God knows how hurtful this sentence is to the ears of those who like him!!! It’s hard not to be moved by this feeling of being trusted and relied upon wholeheartedly! Fortunately, the lights in the mine were dim, so my slightly red face was not noticed by him for the time being. The entrance to the mine is not big, but once you come in, it's suddenly open and you'll find a different world. There are obvious signs of construction here. Because it was originally intended to be a mine with a mythological theme, there are elements such as the Gate of Hell, the Ox-Head and the Horse-Face, all of which are a bit dilapidated.
It can be seen that the appearance of these statues or patterns is based on the aesthetics of more than ten years ago, which seems a bit outdated now. As soon as I stepped in here, I felt the fluctuation of vital energy around me. It turned out to be a formation. I just felt that the atmosphere here was different when Ou Bingjun in my body spoke: "It's a soul-sealing formation." Ou Bingjun's voice sounded a little strange: "It's a very powerful soul-sealing formation. I saw it in Chen Ziyuan's Feng Shui book." The Soul-Sealing Formation is similar to the Ghost-Locking Formation, and both are formations primarily used to seal souls. An ordinary ghost-locking formation is just a trapping formation, making the ghosts mistakenly believe that the world outside the formation is the living world. It can only trap some not-so-smart evil ghosts. Once they are discovered, the formation will be useless. The advanced version of the ghost-locking formation in the small teahouse uses 28 silver ingots instead of 28 copper coins, and at the same time uses objects that can ward off evil spirits to introduce the power of faith to suppress it. The Soul-Sealing Formation is different from the Ghost-Locking Formation. In the God-Sealing Formation, seventeen ancient copper coins with boy's eyebrows on them were used to set up seven small passes, corresponding to the seven stars of the Big Dipper, namely Yunken Pass, Shangxuan Pass, Zichen Pass, Shangyang Pass, Tianyang Pass, Yusu Pass and Taiyou Pass. These seven levels are not only passages, but also a playground for wronged souls. The wronged souls wander in the small seven levels and will never find the exit. The resentment and anger of these souls were also sealed in it. Over time, the "air" in the mine naturally became complicated and turbid. People with insufficient yang energy who stay in here for a long time will naturally become confused, lose their feet, and have hallucinations and auditory hallucinations. Ou Bingjun's voice became serious: "The resentment here is very strong, and it's no less than what I felt back then." This soul-sealing formation is still intact, which means there are still evil creatures trapped here. Moreover, the fact that Ou Bingjun acknowledged this resentment showed that this evil creature was most likely an evil ghost, and its power would not be weak. My first reaction was to look at Chu Yucheng. Seeing the serious expression on my face, he realized something was wrong: "What's wrong... Is there... that kind of thing here? Is it tricky?" I nodded. "It's a little tricky and a little dangerous, so why don't you get out first?" Chu Yucheng shook his head slowly and firmly: "No. I want to go with you."
He was resolute and steady, as if he had no choice. It was as if a firework exploded in my mind. Ou Bingjun poured cold water on me at the right time: "Hey, hey, hey! Can you please concentrate a little? Let's talk about love affairs after we have sorted out the things here, okay?" I turned my head away awkwardly, not wanting to respond to the expectation in his eyes for the time being. Chu Yucheng didn't want to leave, and I didn't insist either, so I walked with him towards the depths of the mine. There are still traces of previous mining on the stone walls, as well as many mine caves and pits. "This mine was originally mined in four layers. This mine is the second layer. There is one layer above and two layers below." Chu Yucheng took the blueprint and introduced the structure of this mine to me: “When we first started developing it, we only wanted to develop the two floors in the middle. After this floor was cleared, those problems arose when we were developing the next floor.” Chu Yucheng and I came to the next floor, and the yin energy here was indeed much heavier. There was no electricity on the third floor, so it suddenly became a lot darker. I turned on the searchlight that Chu Yucheng had prepared long ago. The searchlight's light can only illuminate a very limited area in this dark mine. Chu Yucheng took me on a tour of the third floor, but apart from the heavier yin energy here, I didn't find any trace of yin objects. Although there was no trace of evil objects, I found a few copper coins used to set up the formation, and also saw talismans with a suppressing effect painted on the stone wall, which could not be seen clearly without careful observation. The mine is an inclined mine from the second to the third level, going down along the terrain, but from the third to the fourth level it becomes a straight mine, and generally you need to take a cage, but this mine has been abandoned for many years, so the cage naturally cannot be used anymore. I had a feeling that there must be something down there, so I suggested going to the next level to take a look. I took out a rope from my bag and easily went down from the third floor to the fourth floor. I asked Chu Yucheng to stay on the third floor and not come down, in case something went wrong with the rope and we were both trapped on the fourth floor and couldn't get up, which would be a problem. When I went down to the fourth floor, a cold wind blew towards me, and a musty smell mixed with some unknown smell made me frown. There is something down there. My sixth sense told me so almost the moment I reached this floor. I had just taken two steps when the searchlight above my head flashed twice and then completely lost its light. I fumbled around in the dark, took out a candle from my bag and lit it. The candle flame trembled violently, as if it would go out in the next second. It was not until I used a trace of my vital energy to protect the candle that its flame stabilized. Taking advantage of the little light, I looked around, and sure enough, I saw a ghost slumped in the corner of the stone wall, looking emaciated. I guess he must have been malnourished and pale in appearance when he was alive. He just sat in the corner with a dull look in his eyes, and didn't react at all when he saw one more person in the environment. This is the first time I have seen such a soul. Unlike the previous ones who would get excited when I looked at them and acted like ghosts like the sun rising in the west when I talked to them, this thin man seemed to just treat me as air. Whether I walked up to him, squatted down and looked him in the eyes, waved my hands in front of him, or talked to him, he remained indifferent. Surprising. So weird. For some reason I started to feel uneasy.
