Chapter 294: Nine Lives (Unitary)

The ancestor stepped forward with an arrow step, raised the incense ash on the furoshiki into the sky, and then took out a porcelain bottle, unscrewed the lid, and spilled it. This bottle is full www.biquge.info of white phosphorus, and the white phosphorus mixed with incense ash fell on the body of those mountain bandits, and suddenly "popped" out of a stream of blue light, and a stench of pale yellow smoke rose up, and the mountain bandits rolled and struggled a few times, and their faces slowly turned black, and they stopped moving.

As soon as these mountain bandits died, the other bandits were already outnumbered, and the soldiers of the rear brigade had already arrived. Strangely, these people did not flee, but rushed towards the ancestors together. Unfortunately, it was too late for them to strike a blow for their lives, and the soldiers with spears in their arms escorted the ancestors, and did not step forward, but lined up in two rows, with flat-ended spears, one to the chest and the other to the waist, waiting for the bandits to collide.

Against the dense array of guns, personal martial arts could no longer play any role, and in a few moments, the last few mountain bandits were already lying on the ground. But the soldiers also paid a heavy price, with ten killed and more than twenty wounded.

But it was too late to rest, and the soldiers, under the leadership of Tan San and Zhao Wu, rushed to the Taoist temple. At this time, the ancestors had already realized that the reason why the dozen or so mountain bandits before did not retreat was to cover the escape of the Ghost Immortal Master, and it was estimated that at this time, the Taoist temple was empty.

Sure enough, as the ancestors thought, everyone rushed into the Taoist temple without encountering any resistance. Tan San left Zhao Wu behind to take the guards to protect the ancestors, and he divided the soldiers into several teams and scattered them to the nearby mountains to search for them.

The ancestor and Zhao Wu found a dungeon in the backyard of the Taoist temple, and a young man in his twenties was imprisoned in the dungeon.

The man was not injured, but his hair was shaved by the robbers, and the ancestors knew that this person should have made a soul reference to himself. And next to the backyard dungeon, there is a dark and gloomy room, in which knives, scissors, axes and chisels are all available, and the floor is full of dried and blackened blood. There was a wooden post in the middle of the house, and on the wooden pillar was a large iron ring, and on it was a twine, the thickness of a thumb. The iron ring seems to have been pulled by a great force and has become oval, and the hemp rope is almost broken by grinding, which shows how inhuman torture the people who were originally tied here have been subjected to.

The ancestors waited in this temple for two days, and small groups of soldiers from all walks of life returned to the vicinity of the temple, and the news slowly spread back, to the disappointment of the ancestors, except for the sporadic capture of a few mountain bandits, there was no news of the ghost fairy master at all, and even the shopkeeper did not know what to do. However, everyone understands that how can these hundreds of soldiers be able to search for Mopan Mountain, which is more than 100 miles long, and although the main culprit has not been caught, he has not concealed his flaws in the end, and the case has finally come to light.

The ghost and immortal master used the Taoist temple as a cover and the life-sustaining technique as a bait to collect money frantically, robbed more than 40 people on the official road of Mopan Mountain, cut out their hearts and brains, brutally killed all of them, and then abandoned the corpses in the mountain stream. Not only did a large number of murder weapons be found in the Taoist temple, but also many spiritual runes and spirit cards that cast evil spells, and the names of many of the people who contributed to the continuation of life were recorded on it. Shun Teng, Tan San and Zhao Wu led troops to besiege Chengning Town, and together with the remnants of the mountain bandits who contributed to continue their lives, arrested 100 people and escorted them back to Laizhou Mansion.

At this point, the sensational case of the ghost fairy master's heart and life was solved, although later Laizhou Mansion and the surrounding nine prefectures and 39 counties all issued a notice offering a reward for the arrest of the ghost fairy master, and the arrest of the ghost fairy master from all over the country poured out of the nest for more than a year, and more than 2,000 soldiers of Laizhou Wei entered the Mopan Mountain three times to search the mountain, but there was still no trace of the ghost fairy master.

In the case of the Venerable Master, everyone thinks that it is a pretense of witchcraft to bewitch the people and kill them for money. But the ancestor did not see it this way, at the end of the genealogy story, he wrote: "The theory of ghosts and immortals continuing their lives can confuse the ignorant people, and then those who continue to seek immortals are all big families in the counties of Lai and Deng, if there is no precedent, how can they believe it? Isn't it self-destruction of yin virtue to continue one's life as a sacrifice to the living? How can one win the trust of the public? In the battle of Mopan Mountain, there were indeed corpses among the bandits, but they were different from the class, and their thoughts were still there, and they didn't know their methods, but they were definitely not the likes of warlocks in the rivers and lakes, and the third was also. The ghost and immortal master's false way to continue his life, why should he use the living as a guide? There is no other evil in the life of a hundred animals, and the officers and soldiers will cut off their nests and cut off their own paths. If there is no solution to the four questions, then the art of continuing life really does not dare to talk about it with demons and witches. ”

For the ancestors, the Ghost Immortal Master and his life-sustaining technique are still an unsolved mystery, but for me, across hundreds of years of time and space, I have a different feeling of the same way for the record of this bizarre experience, but due to the different times and different angles, I have found some things that the ancestors ignored.

In the conversation between the shopkeeper and the ancestor, it was mentioned that fate and luck are not the same, and the Venerable Master of the Ghost Immortal is not to continue his life but to change his fortune. The ancients did theoretical research on the matter of changing fortunes, and also proposed systematic solutions. For example, the feng shui fortune change based on the Zhouyi Bagua, the nine-money fortune change based on the theory of scattered wealth and friendship, and the hexagram fortune change based on the life grid bone phase, etc., is the ghost fairy master's soul introduction method a method that we don't know yet?

It is difficult to get a real test of the idea of longevity, who can confirm how much life expectancy is, and how to confirm how much life has increased after renewing life, as the ancestors said, how can we believe it? But changing fortune will make people have a clear feeling. I can imagine that Lao Zhang has experienced so many accidents in just a few months, which is definitely bad luck, and he has come back to life again and again, which cannot be explained by common sense. And these strange things that happened with coincidences to resolve coincidences, in addition to his awe of Heaven's will, did he also have perseverance and resistance?

If you think about it further, is there really a coincidence in this world? Is there really a pie in the sky in this world? Is there really an unexpected tragedy in this world? I have always believed that there is none. Lao Tzu said that the Tao gives birth to one, life to two, two to three, and three to all things. Everything is sourced, everything can be traced. In ancient Chinese texts, the origin and fate of ancient times are false, that is to say, the so-called fate and the so-called chance are just the natural results of people's insight into the world and finding the source.

On the road to success, not all roads lead to Rome, otherwise, as long as you can walk, everyone will succeed. There is only one right path, and when the path of your life intersects with it, opportunities arise. In the same way, the path to tragedy is also there, and when you fellowship with him, bad luck begins to haunt you. In other words, there are always two paths that are important for life, but even if most people intersect, they don't know where the opportunity is, and they don't know that the doom is coming.

And a wise man who can perceive the affairs of the world can naturally grasp the opportunity and avoid bad luck, and if he can understand the source of another person thoroughly, of course, he can guide him to pursue advantages and avoid disadvantages, which is what the ancients said about changing luck.

And the means used by wise people, whether it is Zhou Yi gossip, physiognomy, even constellations, or even divination, are all tools for studying the "origin and fate" of others, and use these tools to trace the true origin of a person's heart. In later generations, too many people who were ignorant or even swaggered, in order to make these tools more mysterious, instead concealed the theoretical ideas that guided the use of tools, and became real superstitions.

On this core theory, all religions tend to be the same, for example, the Buddha has a Buddha fate, the Tao has a Dao fate, although there is no such word in Christianity, but he will tell you that the Grim Reaper always knocks on the door twice. That means that death never takes a person's life away for no reason, but gives him a warning, or a revelation. That is, the Grim Reaper knocked on the door for the first time, and some people read the meaning of it, and naturally took some evasive methods to avoid it. And others are obsessed and can't understand it, and when the Grim Reaper comes a second time, they can't hide from it.

Why does the old saying say that there is no such thing as happiness, but no one can do evil? Why are many people with good morals unwilling to help others solve their doubts and change their fortunes, but say that the secret of heaven cannot be leaked, and if it is leaked, it will be punished by heaven? This is something that I have never figured out?

But more than a year ago, I chatted with Liao Huansheng, talked about the issue of fate and luck, and also talked about the curse. Huan Sheng's perspective is very unique, which is related to his deep knowledge of natural science and philosophy. He didn't dwell on the cause of the damnation and who would make the final decision, because it would only fall into the cycle of believing and not believing.

Huansheng told me that my theory of the two parallel lines of chance and doom has some truth, but it still stays in a two-dimensional plane world, but the reality is that these lines, including the trajectory of human destiny, are not two-dimensional, but exist in three-dimensional space.

Then, just like the stars in the vast galaxy, life is the origin of the planet itself, and fortune is its own orbit. However, different planets and planets have mutual attraction, which will subtly affect the trajectory of the planet. The same is true of the galaxy we exist, which is influenced by other galaxies and has its own way of moving, but many humans have not yet been able to recognize and observe it. The starry sky is like this, and so are all beings.

In Huansheng's view, the ancients have long realized the avenue of the unity of heaven and man, the trajectory of human destiny is no different from the trajectory of the movement of the planet, if a person is entangled in the so-called bad luck, he will naturally be attracted by it, and the trajectory of life will also change, the so-called heavenly opportunity can not be revealed, that is, many people with Taoism, although they understand the cause and effect, but they do not have enough concentration to contend with each other, and do not want to be affected by the bad luck of others, and change their own fortune and say excuses.

(The vastness of the world, the wonder of the universe, and the insignificance of human beings, if they can be known, if they are unknowable, even the saints dare not judge them.) However, in spring and autumn, the old thing is new, and in a day and a night, the flowers bloom and thanks. Waste is ruined, surplus and void are still in existence, big and fame and fortune, fine and drinking peck. Observing everything silently, there seems to be a definite one in the dark, so the saint does not dare to judge the one who is determined. --"A Thousand Miles of Destiny")