An important town in southern Xinjiang of Yongchang County, Heyucheng, Tianyin.
Deep in an old house street in Nancheng District, there is a secluded house that is not too large.
The three main rooms in the house, together with the east and west wing rooms, almost occupy the entire courtyard, so that what is left now is a courtyard rather than a corridor under the eaves.
At this time, the house was extremely quiet. From the door to the inside, there were circles of white cloth wrapped around the beams under the eaves, one after another, as if the weather was fine and scattered in the sky in the distance.
Clouds.
In the narrow yard, the spiritual platform made of bamboo branches is the same plain color as the shed. On the platform are fruits, meats, flowers, and cypress branches, all laid out. Under the cover of white cloths hanging down, it makes people feel a little...
Unreal.
In the shed behind the mourning platform, there is a lonely wooden coffin on two benches.
The door of the house was open, and people dressed in plain clothes or with white cloth strips wrapped around their heads and waists walked into the house with their heads lowered. They crowded under the eaves on all sides and said nothing.
Time passed bit by bit, until a long-browed Taoist priest wearing an exaggerated red and yellow robe walked in from outside the house, making some squeaking sounds from inside and outside.
The Taoist priest had a solemn expression, holding a bell magic weapon in his left hand and a peach wood magic sword in his right hand. He walked with a heavy gait, which made the golden stamens on the lotus crown above his head tremble.
In this way, he walked to the coffin under everyone's gaze. He raised his eyes, which were always slightly narrowed, and scanned the coffin in the center of the coffin. Then he opened his eyes suddenly and shook the bell with his left hand, suddenly breaking the original atmosphere in the house.
In a dead water-like atmosphere, the mahogany sword in his right hand danced like a flower, and he muttered words, "...the divine mantra of human reincarnation and rebirth, to save suffering from all directions and attract merit..."
Following the movements of the Taoist priest, there was already a fat man wearing sackcloth and mourning beside him. He held a torch and smoked the coffin from front to back. Then he lit the incense candle on the coffin, and the smoke immediately filled the air, covering the coffin.
The narrow courtyard was packed with people.
Seeing that the fat man had finished his movements, the Taoist priest took steps and moved around the shed of the spiritual platform. The chanting in his mouth became hazy and low, with a certain rhythm, and it also showed some solemnity in the solemn atmosphere around him.
The Taoist priest turned around like this nine times before returning to the starting point. He carried the peach wood sword diagonally on his back, placed the bell on the spiritual platform, faced the spiritual throne, kept changing the spells in his hands, chanted the spells in his mouth, and then faced
Pointing at the spiritual tablet in the center of the spiritual platform, the wooden spiritual tablet immediately shone with a green light nearly ten feet tall, like a pile of green strange fire in the dim courtyard.
The people around him who were close to him and dressed in plain white knelt down one after another, while the relatives and friends further away bowed.
Just after everyone knelt down and bent over, the Taoist priest standing in front of the spiritual platform suddenly opened his eyes, because right in front of him, on the coffin behind the spiritual platform, a frighteningly rich cyan light suddenly bloomed. The light was like a
The sharp sword pointed straight at the sky, then suddenly converged, and all retracted into the coffin!...??m
At this moment, all evils retreat!!
But the light bloomed so suddenly and disappeared so quickly. Not to mention the people in the courtyard who knelt down and bowed their heads, even the Taoist priest himself who witnessed all this thought he was dazzled, but after all, his fellow wood element cultivators
, how could he ignore the huge fire-like energy in the coffin?!
And that ball of wood element energy seems to be alive, or is it like a formation that is constantly running?!
The Taoist priest was suddenly startled, but he did not turn his head and look around. Instead, he completed a complete set of rituals based on local customs. Then he took the opportunity to turn around and looked around. He bowed his head to everyone in a corner of the courtyard near the gate.
Among the people wearing white clothes, I saw a middle-aged Taoist priest with a handsome face, simply wearing a blue robe and carrying a simple long sword on his back!
The two people looked at each other, the middle-aged Taoist priest had no expression on his face, and the long-browed Taoist priest who was presiding over the ritual did not show any abnormality and took the lead to look away.
After the ritual was over, several strong young men entered the coffin, carried the coffin, and left the courtyard amidst solemn chants that sounded like a sailor's call.
A long funeral procession lined up at the back. People held tall plain-colored spiritual flags and sprinkled snow-white paper money high into the sky, gradually moving away.
And the middle-aged Taoist priest who was incompatible with everyone just followed the end of the team and watched the coffin being carried to a slightly higher cemetery outside the city. They watched it being lowered into the dug depth with the help of everyone.
In the pit, he watched middle-aged and young people weeping sadly and burying coffins in the earth, watching people burn paper to pay homage and then gradually disperse, as if everything had nothing to do with him.
After most of the people dispersed, including the men and women wearing sackcloth and mourning, the middle-aged Taoist priest walked from a distance to the new tomb, stared at the engraved stone tablet, and stood quietly for a long time.
"This... Taoist priest," a voice came from behind the middle-aged Taoist priest, but it failed to make him turn around, "this is what grandma asked us to give to you before she left...
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The middle-aged Taoist priest finally turned around. Standing behind him were the two young men who had carried the old man in the tomb out to bask in the sun on the old streets of Heyu City. One was fairer and fatter, and the other had dark skin. At this moment, the white man was white.
The handsome man is holding a silver hairpin in his hand. At the end of the silver hairpin are two pearls lying there quietly.
The middle-aged Taoist priest walked up to the white-faced man who was obviously nervous, held the silver hairpin in his hand, and stared at it, "What did she say?"
"Ah...grandma said..." The white-faced man's forehead was dripping with cold sweat. The black-faced man on the side saw this and said, "Grandma said, the property should be returned to its original owner.
Gain immortality!"
The middle-aged Taoist priest held the silver hairpin tightly, looked back at the new tomb, and murmured, "Everlasting life is achieved... Immortality is achieved..."
The middle-aged Taoist priest put away the silver hairpin and passed by the two of them. He waited until he had walked a few feet before he suddenly stopped and asked, "Now that the demons and barbarians are being executed, have you ever returned to the military camp?"
The two young men looked at each other and did not dare to be disrespectful. The dark-faced man spoke again, "I dare not deceive the Taoist priest. Our subordinates were indeed transferred back to the military camp, but within two days, they were transferred to station under the city wall again.
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The middle-aged Taoist priest did not look back, but his sword-shaped eyebrows slightly wrinkled, "Now that it's over, I will go to Jincheng County, Wuzhou, northwest. Although I have traveled thousands of miles, if I really need it, I can go to Jincheng County to serve as a government official.
Find me, Pindao... Chang Yufeng."
After finishing his sentence, without waiting for the two young men to reply, his figure had disappeared from the spot, leaving only the two brothers staying in the same place, inexplicably shocked.
But it was said that the middle-aged Taoist priest Chang Yufeng flew away in the sky and landed in a secluded place outside Heyu City. He was about to go to the city gate when he saw the long-browed Taoist priest who had previously presided over the ritual in the house with a fair-skinned Taoist boy.
He was standing outside the city gate, waiting for him.
Chang Yufeng walked straight past, and the Taoist priest Changmei took the initiative to step forward and bowed, "Junior Mi Xiang, I have met the Taoist priest."
Chang Yufeng stopped, turned his head slightly, and looked at the fair Taoist boy, "What's the matter?"
The Taoist boy looked back with his clear black and white pupils, without darting or avoiding.
"This junior has been practicing Taoism for decades. I am stuck on one thing and cannot get out of it. I would like to ask my senior for advice," the Taoist priest with long eyebrows bowed and said.
Chang Yufeng glanced at him and said, "Ask."
The long-browed Taoist priest straightened up and looked into Chang Yufeng's eyes, "Senior, do you know where the souls of all living things go?"
Chang Yufeng looked at him coldly, "When a person dies, his soul is destroyed and he returns to nature."
The Taoist priest with long eyebrows sighed and shook his head, "If a person dies and his soul is destroyed, how can the soul be reborn?" He took a step forward, his eyes burning, "All things are born, and the soul comes. It is not that all things are born, but the soul enters the body. If not,
Is it possible for a cultivator to seize his soul? The body is perishable, but the soul is immortal. Cause and effect in previous lives, reincarnation, and so on..."
Chang Yufeng left without waiting for the long-browed Taoist priest to finish his words, but stopped again after taking a few steps. "With your strength in the third realm, I'm afraid you won't be able to figure out these things in this life," he turned around and pointed.
Pointing to the Taoist boy, "If you really want to figure this out, let him practice well."
After saying that, he was about to leave. The long-browed Taoist priest lowered his head and glanced at the Taoist boy beside him. His eyes were not affectionate, but he suddenly seemed to remember something and shouted in the direction where Chang Yufeng left, "Senior, this junior once made a prediction."
"Senior, there will be a bloody disaster in the near future. If you want to eliminate the disaster, you should go..."
He looked at the empty official road not far away and murmured, "Go west..."