In order to find a relatively powerful snail, Lin Tianze left the mass grave and wandered around in the mountain forest for a while, but in fact he didn't go very far.
After walking for more than a few hundred meters in the forest, you can see a bluestone road winding upward at a glance when you climb up a hill.
The towering Buddhist wall temple is reflected among the pines and ancient trees.
The mass grave behind the temple was my "home" where I temporarily settled in another world.
This is a temple built in a deep mountain and old forest. There are old monks, young monks and more than 200 people. A huge sandalwood plaque hangs on the red lacquer gate. However, the plaque on the mountain gate is empty, without a word written on it.
Because this temple is unknown, Lin Tianze was slightly stunned when he first heard about it. He also gave a thumbs up. If Lanruo has no boundaries, how can the Taoist place of the mind be limited by the ten directions and three lives, that is, it has no boundaries.
Cultivation of the mind in peace and inaction is not a Taoist temple. Why should we stick to temples? If the mind is not pure, can practicing in a temple really lead to peace and tranquility?
Why did you name this place where you temporarily stayed?
Compared to the previous life, which included changing names countless times, purging a group of people after becoming traitors, and being reborn as a listed company due to movies, this ancient mountain gate, far away from the world of mortals, is indeed a place with a Buddhist artistic conception.
The mass graves, home to many lonely souls and wild ghosts, can live next to this temple, so the two naturally have a deep connection.
According to a local ghost, there was a plague in this nearby town more than a hundred years ago. The local officials built disaster shelters directly in this mountain forest. People who were suspected of having the plague were imprisoned here. If they had obvious symptoms,
, dragging her into the woods behind and burying her without caring about life or death.
It happened that a monk wandered here and heard about this incident, preached the Dharma, and gave medicine to save people.
After treating the plague.
The monks discovered that people who had died unnecessarily due to the plague and bad government would not be able to get rid of their resentment and might be in serious trouble.
So the shed where the patients were imprisoned was used as a temple, the graves where the patients were buried were used as a dojo, and dozens of children who had no worries about the plague were accepted as lay disciples.
Every day, he led them to recite sutras and Buddhas to their dead relatives, suppress the group of ghosts and resolve their grievances, and allow them to be reincarnated into good families.
Thanks to the monks for curing the plague, the pilgrims who came to offer incense were also told by the monks that dead people are short-sighted. In the place where the dead were buried, they should first burn incense sticks and then come in to burn incense and worship the Buddha. So this became the default rule.
There was no way this land would have developed into such a messy mass grave.
But it just so happened that there was a family with no children and an old couple living next door. In the winter of that year, the husband of that family fell seriously ill and lay dying in bed.
His old woman was crying in front of the bed and said, "The shopkeeper is dead, and there are still people who are taking care of the funeral and offering sacrifices and burning paper. I'm really pitiful about the old woman. She is alone at home. She died and it stinks. I don't know if anyone knows."
, my neighbor didn’t know if he was willing to dig a hole and give me half a straw mat to wrap myself around.”
The old man in his family was already in a daze and uncomfortable because of his illness. When his wife, who couldn't lay eggs, cried like this, his temper got worse. He was lying on the bed unable to move, but he sat up and cursed.
"Those bastards who are buried will have someone to take care of their affairs and continue to make incense. If you don't want to live anymore, you should die early. Go dig a hole in the forest and bury yourself. If you die there, you can follow them and enjoy the incense."
Absolutely!"
The old man took his last breath and lay there with a plop.
His old woman didn't know she was honest, but she took the old man's curse words seriously before he died.
I still think what the old man said makes sense. The place where plague patients are buried is a geomantic treasure, and there are eminent monks chanting sutras.
Dozens of young men and women take care of graves, and people who go to temples to worship Buddha also default to placing incense sticks in front of mass graves.
So he buried his old man there, built a tomb for himself next to him, and waited until he died.
Then this matter spread for some reason. At first, those beggars and idle men thought that Feng Shui was good, so you helped me and I helped them, and they all decided where they would end up after a hundred years.
After that came the Yamen at that time.
The imperial court above has allocated special funds to build a righteous village to collect the corpses of those who died in other places. If the corpses are not handled properly, it will not be a good thing if zombies, ghosts appear, or if the corpses are stolen and cultivated by evil people.
When the county magistrate heard about this, he clapped his hands. This land is good and will be buried here in the future. Yizhuang doesn't know why, but the houses are always damaged. Daily maintenance requires extra money, otherwise there will be no craftsmen to work.
We also need to ask experienced experts to take care of it. These experts will report the materials, various incense paper money, and various specially made coffins, which add up to a huge expenditure.
Now there are free enlightened monks, which saves worry and effort.
Then, the money allocated to maintain the charity village was put into his own pocket by someone unknown.
There are no secrets among the upper echelons, and some of the big clients were also opened to a new world by Mr. Guan’s actions.
The maids and servants who were beaten to death, and the rather evil subordinates who died due to some shady reasons, should be dealt with. Since it is necessary to keep the secret and not let outsiders know about it, it will lose one's own face, so don't deal with it. After death, the trouble will cause trouble in the house.
Restless.
Nowadays, there is a place to solve this trouble that affects reputation. There are eminent monks here to suppress people and give lectures. Even if you throw a roll of mat here in the middle of the night, you won't be afraid of anything happening.
A group of dead people were buried there, listening to Buddhist scriptures. The monk didn't show any sign and just let it happen calmly. According to what he told his disciples, as outsiders and the land was not his, there was no reason or need to stop them.
So the forest behind the temple became a public cemetery.
This tradition was maintained until the monk passed away.
Among the lay disciples, the few who actually became ordained or became monks were very disgusted with this kind of bullying.
It’s okay to pay homage to one’s own relatives, and then have the graves of a bunch of unknown strangers.
People are burying dead people around your house every day, or waiting for you to dig a hole to bury them outside. What is this?
The monks in the temple had a tacit understanding, except for the graves of themselves and their brothers and relatives.
They selectively ignored other graves.
In addition, the monks have accumulated more and more prestige in the local area over the past few decades, and ordinary people no longer come here to join in. Although it is not directly abandoned, it has returned to normal frequency.
In this way, the once bustling prime location has become a mass grave where lonely ghosts now live.
Lin Tianze glanced at the top of the Buddhist temple, quickly lowered his head, and walked around in a hurry.
There is a towering pagoda made of golden light above the temple. The pagoda has seven floors. Bronze bells of different sizes hang from the eaves of each floor. However, these bronze bells do not shake or ring in the night wind, as if they are solid.
dumbbells.
As a person who always asks questions about quality when he doesn't understand, Lin Tianze naturally found out what this tower was. The technical terms were thrown around a lot, and it was a bit difficult for Lin Tianze to understand, but after conversion, it should be equivalent to the protection of luck.
It is mentioned in many folk tales that a glowing face prevents all evils from invading. If one's luck is low, it is easy to see unclean things. In some stories, monsters and ghosts will knock on the door, and only if you open the door for them can they come in and harm people. This is the protection of luck.
system.
Compared to the normal house in the story, the doors and windows only serve as door gods.
This temple fully embodies what domineering means.
It's not an ancient temple on a famous mountain. A well-known local temple has greater luck than half of the mountain where the temple is located.
An interesting point is that this tower is quite effective against monsters, but it does not target ghosts who were once humans.
This is also the reason why Lin Tianze named this tower Qi Luck Shelter.
From Lin Tianze's perspective as an outsider, this world is quite repulsive to aliens. At least from his own superficial experience after time travel, all aspects are full of traces of this.
Living creatures are protected by Yang Qi, and all living creatures have this past.
When a person who is the leader of all spirits walks alone at night, three fires will be lit on his head and shoulders that make him feel like a ghost.
There was this saying in the previous life, but after seeing it once, Lin Tianze found it strange.
Because no matter how you look at it, these three fires do not look like they are produced by the human body itself, but are patches imposed by the outside world.
It is true that this world is very magical, but if we investigate those magics, Lin Tianze feels that we can also find the root cause.
And these three fires are too consistent with people and not with objective phenomena.
When it comes to strong qi and blood, humans can rival ferocious carnivores, but why don’t ligers, tigers, bears, and wild boars have it?
As for the relatively illusory concepts of happiness, wealth and longevity, why do they only appear when walking alone at night?
Until later, I realized that this world is very similar to the historical myths of previous lives.
Going back to the ancient barbaric era, there were three emperors of heaven, earth and man.
The rule of the Emperor's Divine Court governs good weather, misfortune and good fortune.
The netherworld shapes the reincarnation system of life and death.
Later, there were five mythical eras that lasted for unknown lengths, including the Central Emperor, the Eastern Qing Emperor, the Southern Yan Emperor, the Western White Emperor, and the Northern Black Emperor.
Lin Tianze quickly figured out that the strange setting of the three fires in this world might really be the result of the day after tomorrow, man or God.
As a world that can be regarded as an individual cultivation civilization, in the long history, they have mastered the rules and formulated the laws of heaven and hell, and made some protection mechanisms for the human race. It is too normal.
The future starry sky imagined in the technological fantasy novel "Dune" also has a stand protection setting. Everyone is equipped with a protective stand protection that cannot be penetrated by interstellar cannons, and they can only fight with low-speed cold weapons to kill each other.
So even if we know that there are scholar Touki and Touki in the nearby city, ghosts that are incorporeal with yin energy and spiritual life, there are also foxes with different species and sizes.
Lin Tianze was not too surprised when he gave birth to a normal and intelligent child with that scholar, really!