This change is difficult for ordinary people to understand. It has nothing to do with the people's livelihood. In fact, it does not involve a serious public security situation. It just re-examines some legends about gods and ghosts circulating among the people.
This kind of explanation allows ordinary mortals to understand the practice, and the layer of mystery fades away. At the same time, the layer of fear disappears. This is the cognitive attitude of human beings. The more mysterious it is, the more it makes them think.
West, scare yourself. When these things are completely revealed, you will find that it is nothing more than that.
What Hou Ting and the others are doing is to slowly eliminate this barrier, so that spiritual practice and ordinary life are not so opposed to each other, but complement each other. You have me, and I have you.
There are many such mysterious cases, but most of them are mortal crimes. The criminals try to hide themselves and escape punishment under the guise of legends about gods and ghosts; only a few of them actually involve practitioners.
What the three cultivation masters did was to distinguish them. Ordinary cases were sent back to the public office for handling, and they only concentrated on the part of the cultivators.
The workload is huge, so it makes sense for Zhisun to join. He can liberate the two young people from numerous cases; after all, he is the one who has really lived and practiced here for decades, and he is very important to this town.
No one is as familiar with him as he is. With this person around, basically every major case has a context, even if it's a long time ago.
No one of the three cultivation forces dares to fall behind in the process of this era, and they must do something; if Taoist Zhisun still doesn’t change after the truth about the demon fox case is revealed, then Taohao Sect will change him in the next step!
"As a principle, we can't solve all the unsolved cases left over from history. That's neither realistic nor necessary. Well, it's impossible for us to do it either.
Try our best to solve the ones that are the most widespread and have the most far-reaching impact. If we can't do it, just admit it. There is no shame in it.
Finally, due to the flow of people over the decades, many of the people involved are no longer in Xiong'er. I can even imagine that some of them have died long ago. Therefore, I found some cultivators with poor reputation in the local area and lined them up...
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Lantern frowned, "Then the future bad luck will be chosen from among them? This is what you are best at, right?"
Hou Ting was indifferent, "Or, can you come up with a way to get the best of both worlds? I don't mind."
The monk holding the lantern shut up and stopped talking. There is no better way. Many people have fled far away after committing crimes, and they are not even within the Three Kingdoms. Who knows where they have gone? Who knows whether they are dead or alive now?
This is the difficulty of historical cases. If you want to give an explanation to the people and support the scene, you have to make up stories and find scapegoats!
Expecting every case to be done as beautifully as the Demon Fox Case is a fool's errand; if every case is treated with pretentiousness and misconceptions, that is a treacherous minister.
What is a capable minister? It is to build a few real cases to publicize, and then fish in troubled waters in other directions, not only to solve the problems left by history, but also to solve the hidden dangers that may exist in the future. This is the truly smart approach.
Taoist Zhisun showed his value at this time, "I will provide such a list, including those restless guys in Mengdong who are deeply hidden, and strive to nip the threat in the bud."
Hou Zi nodded with satisfaction, "Look, actually things are not that complicated, as long as everyone works together. I personally have no intention of leaving anyone alone and I don't think such a small place is worth fighting for.
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A satisfactory result, a smooth path to enlightenment, and leaving this place. This is what I pursue, and I am afraid it is also what the two of you pursue."
Hou Zi showed his ability to control the overall situation, "So, stop distinguishing the differences between orthodoxy. It would be a joke for minor cultivators like us to care about this. Our own path has not yet been determined, so what is the dispute about orthodoxy?"
... As life becomes more fulfilling, it is difficult to say that the three of them have truly reached a consensus and eliminated all barriers; but one thing he is right about is that everyone's common wish is to be promoted to Tongxuan and then leave this place.
Because there is a common goal, there is a common motivation, and it becomes easier to clear the backlog, especially when it can be transferred.
Hou Zi began to return the focus to his own practice, which included success and confusion.
The ones that go smoothly are those that have laws to follow, such as sword awareness, eye purple and other special skills.
What was not smooth was the preparation for the upper realm, because it contained too many uncontrollable factors; he had basically prepared all the external preparations, including elixirs and bitter lungs, but what was missing now was the approach bridge;
There are no certain rules for approach bridges. Each monk is different and full of strange things. The process of finding his own approach bridge is actually the process of a practitioner perfecting his world view and establishing the concept of cultivation.
It is difficult to imagine how a person without the concept of monasticism can complete the first big hurdle in the process of spiritual practice. The key to the concept of monasticism lies in enlightenment, feeling, and a breakthrough in some kind of perception. This cannot be achieved by accumulation of quantity alone.
The process of completing qualitative change involves too many relationships.
Everything Hou Zi did in Xiong'er was an attempt in the search process. He didn't know if it would be useful. He had to do it first to know the final result.
In the same situation as him are Lantern and Zhisun, each of whom is looking for his or her own path.
On this day, after morning class, the three of them met as usual to arrange the tasks for the next half month; this was a tacit understanding of the three of them, division of labor and cooperation, with Taoist Zhisun first screening them, and then waiting for the follow-up with a lantern, and repeating it again if there was any trouble.
People work together to solve it.
It is appropriate to give the preliminary screening to Taoist Zhisun, because his understanding of the local situation is unparalleled by others; as for whether he will bend the law for personal gain, this is a question that does not need to be considered. Whoever falls behind will bear the consequences himself, and no one wants to
Carry this shit on yourself.
It is difficult for practitioners to be bribed, especially when it comes to their path, as nothing can be exchanged for benefits.
"There are sixteen suspicious cases here. Nine of them can be determined to be ordinary grudges after initial analysis, and I have handed them over to the government. There are still five cases that are ambiguous. I will continue to follow up and make a judgment.
There are two cases that can be determined to be related to practitioners. One is the case of the corpse in the ancient well. It was an old case two years ago. The crime occurred in the suburbs of Mengdong Town; the other is Jishan, a hundred miles north of the town. Local residents said that there
There are strange practitioners coming and going, and the wild beasts in the mountains have been acting strangely for some time. We have been entrusted to take a look.
Two things, how should you two Taoists divide them?"
