Night Lights

Chapter 153
In the dark, the heaven and the earth are born together, worshiping incense every day, asking the gods to assist the Tao; the five battalion officials, hearing the mantra, descending quickly, pasting three feet of paper, drawing human figures, dividing the altar, offering five-meter bowls, cutting their hair and putting them on top, Five cups of wine, offering sacrifices to the heads of pigs and sheep; reciting the mantra to invite the gods, breaking the blood of the middle finger, and dotting the eyes to open the spirit, and five generals can be summoned; this name is: five battalion officers and generals. ——Excerpted from the eighth volume of Jiangyin in "The Book of Words Without Words".

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"Oh!"

Hearing what Lin Qiusheng said up to this point, Bai Shibao finally understood: No wonder the Changchun Seven Masters of the Quanzhen School said that "Miao Jiang's discussion was interrupted without reason", and the source of the daring came from Dong Ziqing.So he turned to ask again: "Then what happened next?"

At this time, the crowd headed north all the way, and had already walked more than ten miles.Lin Qiusheng raised his head and looked at the sky. The sky was heavy with lead clouds, as if it was about to rain again, and he was so dull that he couldn't breathe.I saw him shaking his shoulders, and continued: "Later, my master performed a soul-sealing technique on me!... They all said: 'The five great sufferings of death', the three souls of a person will dissipate after death, and the body is like experiencing The five major tortures of 'Gold, Wood, Water, Fire, and Earth' are simply miserable!"

Bai Shibao asked, "What are the five great sufferings of death?"

"At the beginning of a person's death, the soul dissipates! The three souls ascend, and there is no pain in the body, but the seven souls leave the body, but it is like torture!"

Lin Jiu explained next to him: "First of all, the body will feel like being cut by thousands of knives and suffer from the pain of Ling Chi, which is the pain of 'golden'; secondly, the body gradually becomes stiff, as if the poison has entered the body, and the whole body is colic, this is' "Wood" is bitter; then there will be spots on corpses, as if water is coming to the body, and the body suffers from the pain of rotting. Fire' suffering... Finally, every inch of the body will be torn apart, every inch of flesh and blood will be turned into grains of sand.

"This……"

After hearing this, Bai Shibao was startled, his whole body trembled, and he thought to himself: "Fortunately, every time I go to hell, only three souls come out of my body! I dare not even think about the pain of the seven souls leaving the body!"

Lin Qiusheng laughed beside him and said, "It's okay! My master's 'soul sealing technique' only suffers from 'gold'!"

Bai Shibao was stunned and said, "That's going to be cut into pieces by thousands of knives, it's too much for ordinary people!"

"It only hurts for a while!" Lin Qiusheng explained: "When I first 'died', my body was cut into pieces, and I was very angry, but after a while, my three souls and seven souls gathered in my chest, and I didn't know the pain. Already!"

Bai Shibao asked: "Why do you gather the three souls and seven souls in your chest?"

Lin Qiusheng shook his head, expressing his ignorance.

"It will also be in other places..." Lin Jiu interjected, "It depends on how the deceased was reincarnated in his previous life!"

"Past life?"

Bai Shibao asked: "I don't understand this, what can I say?"

Lin Jiu replied: "To distinguish the appearance of the past life, you can only see it after death; after the death of a person, the whole body will be cold and frozen to the bones, but there is only one place that is hot, and anyone who touches the dead body can feel it. The 'Path of Past Life' of the dead!"

"How do you perceive it?"

Lin Qiusheng asked: "I don't know about this either, Uncle Nine tell me and teach me!"

Lin Jiu was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and said, "Since Mao Xiaofang didn't tell you, I'll just explain it to you briefly, and I dare not call it a teaching... This phenomenon is called in the Taoist school: Six Realms of Reincarnation!
If the soles of the deceased’s feet were hot, then he was in the “hell realm” in his previous life; if his knees were hot, he was in the “animal realm” in his previous life; For the 'Tao of Heaven', the top door is hot, but for the 'Sura Tao', in the previous life, he must have been a person who was reborn in the Buddha way! "

"but……"

After Lin Qiu paused, he continued: "Some Buddhist eminent monks and Taoist elders gather blood essence from their bodies after death, their bodies are as soft as cotton, their complexions are ruddy, and they emit sandalwood. , I can’t find a hot spot in my body! That bit of blood has turned into a ‘relic’ or a ‘relic flower’…”

Bai Shibao heard from his master Zhang Xiazi before: "The resentment in the mouth of a ghost is called 'ghost relic', which can prolong life after swallowing, so what is the use of the 'relic' formed from essence and blood after this person dies?"
After thinking about it, he asked Lin Jiu.

Lin Jiu explained: "The relics are 'qi, blood and soul essence', also called 'spiritual relics'. Naturally, they are harder to find than 'ghost relics', and their spiritual power is even more powerful! This thing can be transformed by one person in a hundred years, and most of them are A spiritual treasure that protects the temple!"

Bai Shibao was thoughtful after hearing this.

After a while, Bai Shibao asked Lin Qiusheng again: "Since you have been enchanted, why did you run into the forest and meet Lingyao again?"

Lin Qiusheng shook his head again and again and said: "Actually, this technique didn't take effect at that time! I sat cross-legged in the forest at night according to Dong Daochang's instructions, waiting for the 'fake death' to fill the 'dead door' on Dong Daochang's hexagram; who knew that I just sat Not long after I played, I vaguely heard the sound of men and women laughing..."

"Is it Lingyao?"

"That's right! I hid quietly and saw a bald-headed monk walking over from a distance with his arms around a long-haired woman! I took a closer look, but I didn't expect that woman was Mazu's great apprentice, Lingyao! ... When we were in Miaojiang, we met each other, and we recognized each other! I heard the monk say that they want to "Zen, why do you want to rejoice in the Buddha?" I was curious, so I followed them quietly, and guess what? I saw them take off their clothes. Clothes, hide in the forest and love me, do that kind of thing!"

Bai Shibao suddenly remembered that Lan Xin'er had scolded Lingyao as a vixen and a 'charismatic person who flattered Master', but she never expected that even the bald monk would not let her go...

"Then what happened later? How did Lingyao find out about you?"

"I wanted to play tricks on them and steal their clothes! But when I was taking Lingyao's clothes, I suddenly dropped three paper bags and a piece of buckskin on the ground..."

Hearing this, Ma Zhaoxue frowned immediately, touched her bosom with her hand, but said nothing.

Lin Jiu asked, "What buckskin paper?"

"I opened the deerskin and saw that it said 'Mazu, Farewell'. I didn't see what was behind it, but I heard the monk's heart-piercing screams! I hurriedly wrapped the deerskin and paper. Putting it into her bosom, she poked her head to look at them! Guess what? Lingyao actually killed that monk! I could see clearly, and then she tied the monk's feet with a rope, hung upside down on the tree, and put her fingers on the He was stabbed in the stomach and bled..."

Bai Shibao said in shock: "She is going to use this monk to refine poison!"

"At this time, I suddenly felt dizzy. I was afraid that I would delay the important matter that Master and Daoist Dong had explained, so I hurriedly got up and threw it away. Who knew that I didn't run a few steps, and my heart stopped, and I passed out!... When I woke up again, I'm already in a cave, so I don't know anything about it!"

Ma Zhaoxue looked at Lin Qiusheng's boastful talk from behind, and thought to himself: Could it be this kid who saved my 'egg yolk'?
Lin Qiusheng went on to say: "When I woke up, I saw that the hole was covered with poisonous scorpions. In the distance, an old fox was sweeping wildly with its tail, scraping the poisonous scorpions all over the sky. It was black and dense. I was surprised!

I looked again, and I saw Uncle Jiu and Lingyao fighting there... When I saw it was Uncle Jiu, I wanted to help, searched my body, and just found the "Soul Beating Talisman" that Master gave me. In humans, the three souls are not stable; but as time goes on, the cinnabar has faded and is not very effective.I staggered, wanting to sweep the scorpion with my feet, and quickly walked around behind Lingyao, and a spell hit him... Lingyao flashed in a hurry, lost her figure, was slapped by Uncle Jiu, and dropped We ran away with injuries! "

Bai Shibao couldn't figure it out. I wonder if this was part of Dong Ziqing's plan, or was it a coincidence?Why didn't Lingyao kill Lin Qiusheng, but buried him in the coffin?

Ma Zhaoxue followed behind and asked, "How did the poison be cured?"

Lin Qiusheng laughed and said, "Unexpectedly, the three paper bags I dug out from Lingyao's clothes are the antidote!"

Bai Shibao was shocked when he heard this, and said in surprise: "How can you be sure that the bag is not poison? If it is poison, wouldn't it be..."

"No problem!"

Lin Qiusheng turned his head and pointed to the big dog 'Egg Yolk', and said with a smile, "I'll feed it some first!"

woof!At this point, the big dog egg yolk was biting Lin Qiusheng's trouser leg from behind, and he didn't know whether it was thanks or anger!

"Ouch!"

Seeing Ma Zhaoxue's gloomy face, Bai Shibao coughed hastily, "Cough! Then... where's that piece of buckskin paper?"

Lin Qiusheng shook his head and said, "I don't know when I lost it!"

"How did you lose such an important thing? Then Mazu is Lingyao's master, so there must be some secret written on it!"

Bai Shibao felt a little pity.

"Oh, by the way! Uncle Jiu, you haven't taken the antidote yet, have you?" Lin Qiusheng took out the last pack of antidote from his arms and handed it to Lin Jiu.

Lin Jiu took it in his hand, took out the water bag from his shoulder bag, poured the medicinal noodles into the water bag, shook it, and drank it... Bai Shibao also looked down at his hands, the palms of which turned a little light blue , just occasionally a little sore and itchy, but the swelling has subsided, and he felt relieved, secretly said: "No matter what, these hands are finally saved!"

at this time!

The sky is full of lead clouds, and the rain has not yet fallen, but there is a sunset glow across the sky, and the clouds are like fire.Seeing that it was getting late, Lin Jiu urged: "The sun is almost setting, let's hurry up!" Everyone nodded in agreement.After another four hours, Lin Jiu stopped suddenly...

In front of you, you have reached the foot of Yunmen Mountain.

Lin Jiu looked around, and there were three people standing in front of the bare plum branches.These three people are: 'Zombie Daoist' Mao Xiaofang, 'Plum Blossoms' Dong Ziqing, and Lin Qiusheng's junior, Wu Wencai.

I saw Dong Ziqing bent over, laughing loudly: "Brother Lin Jiu, don't come here without any harm!" After finishing speaking, he threw a piece of talisman paper over.Lin Jiufei caught it, held it in his hand, and saw that there was a sentence written on the talisman paper: Life is only a few decades, why bother to make ghost money?There is no chance in the underworld without reading on credit, still drawing amulets to shake Maoshan!
Lin Jiu laughed loudly after seeing it: "It seems that the back road for me, the 'Ming Xing Daban', has been paved for me by the two of you... It doesn't matter!"

(End of this chapter)