$650, Borrowing Life to Reincarnate (1/2)
The sun rises in the east.
The sleeping Tianwei Taoist Altar began to wake up.
The disciples of the Tianwei Taoist Altar who were possessed by the "Resentful God of Ceremony" in the dark night woke up from under the walls and corners of the Taoist temples. They were completely unaware of what happened last night and gathered together in a daze, without any clue. After discussing it for a few words, the matter was forgotten.
Su Wu unlocked the Tianwei Taoist Altar sealed by the ‘Evil Temple Door Curse’ sealed by the Red Dragon Master.
The disciples who were still alive here received notices one after another that they were allowed to go down the mountain and leave the Taoist temple.
Tianwei disciples began to leave the mountain gate in twos and threes.
If they stay on the Taoist altar, they will become the targets of the "Guard of Resentful God". They may have their souls taken away and die in the process of being possessed by the "Guard of Resentful God".
Let them go down the mountain,
It also leaves them a way to survive.
In the Taoist courtyard where everyone lives in Beilu Mountain.
Several Beilu Mountain disciples moved the books one by one to the desk in the middle hall. Su Wu sat behind the books, turning the pages and reading various classics collected in the Tianwei Taoist Altar Library.
At this time, Ding Ling walked in from outside the door.
Xianxing moved a chair and invited Ding Ling to sit down. He then looked at the master who was immersed in studying behind the desk. Just when he was about to remind Su Wu, Su Wu had already raised his head and looked at Ding Ling sitting on the chair: "I took advantage of the time I still had last night to dig out the many books in the Tianwei Taoist Altar and read through them briefly."
Ding Ling looked at the mountains of books piled high on his desk and couldn't imagine how the man behind the desk spent half a night reading through so many books.
But she had no doubt about what Su Wu said, and nodded gently when she heard the sound.
Su Wu continued: "Most of the things you told me last night can be found in the classics.
In addition, I also found some other clues. "
Several female disciples who were guarding the desk and sorting out the classics calmly looked at Ding Ling, who was sitting on the chair and seemed a little embarrassed. As Su Wu said this, an inexplicable atmosphere brewed in the middle hall.
Ding Ling was completely unaware. He raised his eyes to look at Su Wu behind the desk and asked blankly, "Is this something related to the God of Resentment?"
"It's hard to know whether the two things are related."
Su Wu shook his head, took out a book from the mountain-high pile of books on his desk, handed it to Xian Zheng beside him, and ordered it to be handed to Ding Ling. He continued: "It's a matter of Wutong Shen.
In the "Test of the Patriarchs of the Tianwei Taoist Altar", it is recorded that in his later years, the seventh generation master of the Tianwei Taoist Altar, Yaoyangzi, began to move the "Wutong Shen" into the Taoist altar. Enjoy the worship service.
Yaoyangzi died one year after Wutong Shen moved to Tianwei Altar.
Since then, he has been responsible for worshiping the Wutong God, and advocated moving the Wutong God into the Patriarch Hall. The person worthy of worshiping in the Patriarch Hall is his apprentice, the eighth generation altar master, Benming.
I remember you said before that the ‘Master White Crane’ who had been kind to you in raising him had urged Ben Ming not to move the Wutong God into the Patriarch Hall.
But Ben Ming did not listen to this harsh advice.
Instead, it means that Master Baihe is connected with outsiders and often corresponds with Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Temple.
Those letters and the armor and horse charms are also kept in the library. I have already read them. Master Baihe mainly communicates with the Sian Chai monk in the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Temple, and he also mentioned Pass the five-passage god thing. "
Su Wu took out another stack of sealed letters and armor and horse charms, and ordered his disciples to hand them to Cauldron Ling for viewing.
While Ding Ling was reading various materials handed over by Su Wu, he listened to Su Wu say: "This Sian Chai monk is the one who later led his disciples to leave the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Temple and set up the Dharma in the Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva Temple. The "Black-faced Patriarch" who successfully established the "Pu'an Altar" under the siege of Pingmai is often called the "Monk King" by outsiders.
In the correspondence between ‘Monk King’ and Master Baihe,
Regarding the matter of the ‘Five-Connected God’, I mentioned to Master Baihe a strange incident that happened far away in the ‘Dongliu Island Country’.
It is said that there is a nine-tailed fox on Dongliu Island, which can transform into a beautiful woman. It is famous as "Tamazo Mae".
This ‘Tamamo-mae’ has the ability to arouse people’s desires. It can make people’s wishes entangled but never come true. The wishes eventually turn into resentment, which in turn causes all kinds of disasters..."
Su Wu had also heard ‘Jianzhen’ tell it to him personally about the old events in Tamamo before mentioned by the monk king Sianji.
But 'Jianzhen' was the person who had actually met Tamamozamae. He and Su Wu worked together to forge the Ten Destruction Swords, sealing away this terrible and terrible disaster-level and even catastrophe-level monster. He told Tamamozamae , closer to reality, but also weird and creepy.
Although the Tamamo-mae story told by the Monk King was a bit strange, it was not evil enough. What the Monk King said could only be listened to as a story.
At the end of the letter, Sian Chay said: "Tamazao Mae and Wutong Shen are both existences that gather the wishes of all living beings. Tamamozamae is an evil spirit, and Wutong God may not be the 'true god', but may also be a transformation of evil spirit.
It is definitely not a good thing to welcome this object into the Tianwei Taoist altar. I hope Master Baihe can persuade the altar owner at that time, Ben Ming, to stop worshiping the Wutong God, move it out of the mountain, and label it as an evil sacrifice.
If this cannot be done,
Master Bai He can give him a letter from Sian Chay and he can help. "
Su Wu's eyes flashed with light, he paused in his words, and waited for Ding Ling to read all the clues before he said: "Could the Wutong God, the Resentful God, and Tamamo Mae have the same origin?
First there was Tamamo no Mae, then there was the 'Resentful God', and finally there was the 'Gotong God'?
The three are of the same origin, but are they three independent entities? "
Su Wu still remembered that Jianzhen was filled with lust after taking a look at Tamamonomae's beauty, and his troubles grew wildly. In the end, he cut off his long hair, and the hair turned into a fierce ghost - 'Hair of Yuanxingmen'!
It can be seen that Tamamonomae itself has the ability to give birth to and evolve fierce ghosts.
This 'resentful god' is likely to be a fierce ghost evolved under the erosion of Tamamonomae's power!
The situation of the 'Five-way God' is different from that of the resentful god.
It is not as fierce as the fierce ghost, but it has the characteristics of the fierce ghost, human, and temple gods in one person at the same time, which is also very evil.
"I heard from Master Baihe that the seventh generation of the master of the altar, Master Gong, suffered from a strange disease in his later years for some unknown reason. He was very painful. He traveled in Fujian and made friends with many Dharma lines. He even had close contacts with the local religion and witch sects that were strictly prohibited by Taoism. He did this in order to combine the 'strengths of a hundred schools' and sort out ways to curb his illness.
By chance, when he stayed overnight at a folk temple at the foot of Fengshan Mountain, his strange disease recurred.
The seventh generation altar master cried to the sky and the earth, but no one answered.
He was tortured to the point of rolling on the ground.
Suddenly he looked up and saw the portrait of Wutong God on the wall of the temple, so he made a vow that if Wutong God could really fulfill people's wishes and relieve his pain, he would be willing to welcome Wutong God into the Taoist temple and enjoy the worship of the Taoist temple.
Unexpectedly, the pain in his body was instantly reduced the next moment after he made the thought.
That's why he welcomed Wutong God into the Tianwei Temple.
But after welcoming this god into the temple, his condition did not improve.
Instead, it got worse.
At that time, he had three disciples, and only the youngest disciple, Benming, the eighth generation Tianwei Taoist altar master, served him wholeheartedly. Although he also wanted to take care of this disciple, his two senior brothers were too powerful. If things continued like this, the position of the altar master would inevitably be chosen from the two senior brothers.
However,
one day, the two brothers had a dispute for unknown reasons, fought each other, and set up a magic altar to compete.
After a fight,
both died.
Benming was awarded the position of altar master because of this.
After he became the altar master, the previous altar master died on the seventh day. He was extremely sad at the time and gave his master a grand funeral. After that, he pushed the Five-Power God to enter the ancestral temple.
But he was stopped by Master Baihe. "Ding Ling pursed his lips and continued, "Although he was the altar master at that time, his foundation of cultivation was weak after all, and his strength was not as good as Master Baihe. He tried to push the Five-Power God to enter the ancestral temple several times, but was stopped by Master Baihe.
Later, he accused Master Baihe of colluding with outsiders,
and after accusing him of a crime,
he set up an altar to ask for the law, saying that he was asking for heavenly punishment. If Master Baihe had no sins, the heavenly punishment thunder would definitely not hurt him at all.
Master Baihe didn't take it seriously and stood on the altar, letting him draw a talisman and ask for the Dharma.
——Unexpectedly, he really invited a thunderbolt,
which killed Master Baihe on the spot.
Now when I think of the scene at that time, I still feel a little strange.
Benming's cultivation at that time, logically speaking, could not invite the thunderbolt of heavenly punishment to come down..."
"Yuankong, Benming, Yaoyangzi..." Su Wu listened carefully to what Ding Ling said, and silently repeated the names of the ninth, eighth, and seventh generation ancestors of Tianwei Daotan. After a long time, he said, "I always thought that the 'Five-Power God' was most involved with Yaoyangzi.
Yuankong was second.
Although Benming was the one who promoted this matter, he was not the ultimate beneficiary.
Now it seems that I may be wrong.
Benming may be the ultimate beneficiary of everything.
Only by following his line can we thoroughly understand the secrets of the 'Five-Power God',
and even involve the secrets of the 'Resentful God'! "
Ding Ling nodded slightly, affirming what Su Wu said.
Su Wu stood up: "I have already explored the library, the Taoist temples where several generations of ancestors lived, and other places. I only found this in the previous residence of Yaoyangzi 'Jinghong'-"
He picked up a gray thin book and said: "This thin book describes a method of reincarnation by borrowing life, called 'planting the life base'.
Most of the words on it are very absurd, emphasizing that those who want to 'plant the life base' should choose a Feng Shui treasure land to bury themselves.
Today, after we went down to the bottom of Fengshan Cliff together,
I want to dig up the tombs of the founder of the altar, the founder's first wife, and the seventh, eighth, and ninth generation altar masters to find out what's inside.
I wonder what Junior Sister Ding Ling thinks? "
The founder and his first wife are the ancestors of Ding Ling.
The entire Tianwei Dao Temple can be regarded as the foundation of Ding Ling's ancestors.
If he wants to dig graves here, Su Wu will naturally need to discuss with the host family.
Especially, he may have to dig the graves of the host family's ancestors.
Ding Ling hesitated for a long time before nodding: "Don't move the bodies of the ancestors and grandmothers lightly. You can explore the rest of the graves as you like."
"Okay."