$689, Perfect Self (1/2)
Su Wu answered fluently: "I also saw a broken statue in the realm of heaven and man. The statues we three saw were not the same one - as for what the statue symbolizes...
I don't know.
I can only roughly guess that it may symbolize a certain state of perfection of you and me.
It is a reflection of a certain realm that you and I may reach in the future.
Based on this guess, it is not difficult to guess why the statue that Master saw exudes the strange charm that Master contains - you and the strange charm that you contain are all part of the statue.
You and the strange charm are a whole.
What kind of strange charm is the 'Dragon Claw Girl'?"
Red Dragon True Man was silent for a while, digesting the various information Su Wu said. After a long time, he replied to Su Wu: "There was 'thunder and lightning' in the world first, and then there was 'Thunder God' .
The power of thunder and lightning can kill livestock, scare tigers, and burn houses. Since ancient times, all living creatures have been afraid of thunder. Therefore, fear led to the worship of "thunder" and "fire".
On New Year's Eve, people set off fireworks and firecrackers, which sound like thunder and light like fire, and use the power of thunder and fire to scare away the "Nian beast" that harasses the village.
Thunder is considered to be a punishment from heaven.
Most people believe that people who are killed by thunder must have poor morals.
Or they are unfaithful and unfilial, or unchaste and unclean.
In the early years, when traveling to various places, passing through a place in the south, the local people worshipped the god of thunder and fire. On major festivals, they must set off firecrackers and light fireworks to form a sea of fire.
Then men danced dragons through the sea of fire, believing that this would please the god of thunder and the god of fire and protect each family from disease. , and the coming year will be smooth sailing.
The dragon dance formed by fireworks and firecrackers is called "Dancing the Living Dragon" by men.
There is also a kind of "Dancing the Dragon", called "Dancing the Dead Dragon".
The dragon dance is mostly held at dusk when day turns to night, while the dragon dance is held at midnight when night turns to day.
The place for dancing the living dragon is chosen in the downtown.
The place for dancing the dead dragon is set in the cemetery.
The former is to pray for blessings and entertain the gods, and bless the safety of the house.
The latter is to send away disasters.
- Most of the people who are chosen to dance the dead dragon are widows who are accused of not keeping their chastity. On the night of the dragon dance, they will be bound by the witch in the clan with a secret method. The joints of their hands, feet and necks are bound so that they can only walk straight with their legs, their heads cannot turn, and they can only stare at the front.
After doing these, After that, these women will be asked to swallow a bowl of "zombie talisman water". After drinking the talisman water, they will be confused and look like walking corpses.
After that, they will change into white clothes, and the witch will hold the dragon head and the witch's husband will hold the dragon tail, leading a group of women to dance the zombie dragon through the clan cemetery.
And the road in the cemetery that the zombie dragon must pass through must be covered with a layer of red-hot firewood.
Everyone must walk barefoot on the firewood,
until they pass through the entire cemetery and return to their original position.
Generally speaking, after passing through the entire cemetery, the team of zombie dragon dancers will only be the witch and her husband who was married before she became a spirit. The rest of the unchaste women were mostly captured by the Thunder God when they passed through the cemetery.
Such women are called "dragon-caught women".
The clan holds a "zombie dragon dance" activity every year.
The tradition has been going on for hundreds of years.
But when I traveled to that place, the "zombie dragon dance" activity there was just a problem.
——When the men who were dancing the dragons passed through the busy streets and returned to the temple, the temple master took off their dragon clothes and found that the heads were missing from their necks.
In contrast,
when the team that was dancing the dragons that night returned to their original positions,
no woman in the team was captured by the dragons, but the women had not regained consciousness and were still in a daze.
The dragon clothes of the dragons were connected to their scalps.
That layer of dragon clothes had turned into dragon-shaped ghosts with countless women's souls attached to them.
——Buried in the clan's cemetery were not the ancestors of the clan, but ghosts.
For hundreds of years, dancing the dragons in the name of "sending away disasters and eliminating gloom" was actually sacrificing widows, women, sons-in-law, and disabled men who had no one to rely on, no power, and no influence to the ghosts in the cemetery!
These ghosts were buried in the tombs by the ancestors of the clan in unknown ways, and there was no sign of recovery for hundreds of years.
But over the course of hundreds of years, the consciousness of the dead gathered in the cemetery, which eventually affected the overall situation, causing all kinds of evil spirits to stick to the souls of the dead and revive in a different way.
This is the origin of the evil spirit 'Dragon Claw Girl' that someone carried on his back. "
Red Dragon True Man looked gloomy, and there was still some surprise in his eyes when he mentioned this matter.
Obviously, carrying the 'Dragon Claw Girl' was not an easy task for him.
The 'Dragon Claw Girl', an existence formed by the adhesion of countless evil spirits, may have surpassed the 'wild' level of terror. After all, Red Dragon True Man is already familiar with dealing with wild-level evil spirits.
Su Wu sighed, not expecting that the evil spirit carried by his master was also involved in such a past event.
He looked at Red Dragon True Man, and then said: "The many evil spirits buried in the clan cemetery can stick to each other with the souls of the dead as a medium-this may not be just a coincidence.
But it was done intentionally by the clan members.
Those evil spirits may have been carefully selected by the ancestors of this clan, and they can become part of a certain "puzzle".
Just like the Black Horn Mountain God Collection Scroll, the Plague King's Ceremonial Guard, and the God of War Puzzle.
It's just that the people in this clan may have misjudged the 'jigsaw puzzle', which caused the 'Dragon Catching Girl' to resurrect at a time point that they had not expected at all, causing a catastrophe. "
After hearing this, Master Chilong pondered for a moment, looked at Su Wu, nodded and said: "When you said that, I thought about the situation at that time, and it is indeed possible that this is possible.
The cunning dragon clutching the girl uses the soul of the deceased as a medium to stick to each other.
But since I have carried it on my back, it has never shown any sign of falling apart.
If it weren't for the fact that all the Liguis were in perfect harmony with each other and were part of a certain 'puzzle', it would not have resulted in such a result.
However, that clan had already been wiped out with the resurrection of Long Zhuanv.
Want to find clues to the puzzle from that clan,
It is no longer possible. "
"The law of heaven is clear, and retribution is not good." Su Wu commented lightly, then turned to the topic and mentioned the matter that he was most concerned about to Master Chilong, "I just asked the master why the master can remember the gods. Experiences in the realm of empathy?
Does Master have any opinion on this? "
"A certain person uses the ghost-god training method performed by the sympathetic dragon to catch the girl, and then enters the realm of communion between heaven and man.
As for the dragon catching the girl, she was conquered by a certain person who used Zhong Kui's charm and various thunder skills.
Now that I think about it, the reason why a certain person can remember all kinds of experiences in the realm of interaction between heaven and man must be because of the "Charm of Zhongkui Avenue". "Master Chilong had already thought about Su Wu's question and immediately expressed his opinion to his disciple.
"Does the avenue have charm..." Su Wu was thoughtful for a moment.
The complete charm captured in the realm of communion between heaven and man can be used to glimpse the ‘I’ in the most perfect state.
The general charm extracted in this situation can be used to deduce the evolution process of the most perfect "I".
So what are the similarities and differences between the charm of the avenue obtained in the divine genealogy temple system and the complete charm in the realm of interaction between heaven and man?
Do the two have the same origin?
Chilong Zhenren stood beside his disciple, recalling the broken statue he had seen in the realm of interaction between heaven and man. The master and disciple had their own thoughts at the moment, and no one said anything for a while.
Xianzhi, who was guarding the furnace, looked at the two silent people in the corner, then turned back and looked at a knife blade on the iron felt next to the furnace.
It was a knife embryo formed by forging the head of the statue in an unconscious state when the three of them entered the realm of communion between heaven and man.
At this moment, Su Wu had not yet had time to test the quality of the knife embryo.
After all, Su Wu had not truly entered the temple system and obtained the Charm of the Great Dao. Therefore, even if he communicated with his master, it was difficult to understand the nature of the "Charm of the Great Dao".
Since it is difficult to understand the nature of ‘the charm of the avenue’,
Comparing this with the "charm of harmony between heaven and man" is completely nonsense.
He communicated with his master. According to the master's description, he still could not understand the charm of the great avenue, so he gave up on his own pursuit of the similarities and differences between the charm of the great avenue and the charm of interaction between heaven and man, and instead asked the master's opinion on this: "Master feels that he What are the similarities and differences between the charm of Zhong Kui captured and the charm that can be sensed in the realm of interaction between heaven and man?
Do the two have the same origin? "
The disciple's question made Master Chilong stunned for a while.
After a long time, Master Chilong scratched his head and said: "I have only stepped into the realm of interaction between heaven and man once, and my perception of the charm in this realm is far less profound than yours.
But perception is inherently mysterious and mysterious, and even if we try to describe it completely in words, we can’t say it accurately.
Someone vaguely feels that the charm in the realm of interaction between heaven and man is a ray of inspiration of 'reformation' captured from the distorted world with the help of the ruthless charm. This ray of inspiration will reflect the distorted 'perfection'. I' will correct the distorted part of my perfect self.
If you think about it,
That is a gift from ‘Heaven’ to the creatures that enter this realm.
You also said before that in the realm of interaction between heaven and man, there are not only three or six levels of charm, but the highest level is the 'complete charm'.
The "complete charm" can reveal the most complete and corrected "I".
It can also corroborate one another’s ideas.
However, the charm in the divine genealogy of the temple system is not determined by ‘Heaven’, and is not dominated by ‘I’. Since the establishment of the divine genealogy, the temple system has been continuously generated, and each temple system has a corresponding charm.
The ‘spirit’ is shaped by the charm of the temple system, the wishes of all beings, and the incense offered.
There was the temple system first, and then there were the gods.
In some temple systems, there are even no gods sitting there.
——Because the charm in the temple system is too rare, and the reason why the charm is rare is that all living beings do not believe in the gods in this temple system. From this point of view, the charm of the temple system's avenues was actually created by 'him' .
Fabricated by ‘all living beings’ and the divine genealogy.
It's just that when Taoists enter the temple system, they have a chance to master the charm of the great road created by all living beings and divine genealogy. "