"The sunset is close to dusk, but there are still unsummoned spirits in the world" Everyone chewed on this sentence, but most of them didn't understand

"Is there still an unconjured soul in the world?" The old man with a cane suddenly stopped, and his faint old eyes became sharp again, as if he wanted to pierce the Demon Wolf Celestial Star.

"If the old fairy Sima can really summon the soul of a certain San Lang to see a certain one, even if the cause of his death is related to you, you don't need to wear linen and wear filial piety, just go to his spirit to make a salute" Did the old man open his mouth and said, everyone understood the reason why Dugu Xin called the old fairy Sima to come, it turned out that he wanted to use the hand of the old fairy to summon the soul?

In the Daozang, the Daomen says that after a person dies and before he enters reincarnation, he is in the state of the bardo body. At this time, the soul consciousness of the dead person has not yet been opened, and the soul will linger somewhere. When the soul consciousness reaches a certain time, it will be opened, but there is a saying at this time, some will take a few days, and some may be forever confused, wandering between the human world and the underworld, and cannot be reborn.

At this time, it is necessary for the Taoist immortal elders to come to repose the soul, especially those who die in a foreign country or die in an accident, they need to be guided to return to tranquility and avoid becoming a lonely soul.

Taoists all claim to be able to communicate with ghosts, and the psychics can even summon spirits to talk to them, Sima Lao Immortal is one of the best, and the immortals of the various avenues are long, such as Wang Xuanfu Zhenren of Longjiao Mountain Changsheng Temple, Hanguang Daochang of Jinglongguan in Chang'an County, Deng Qixia Zhenren of Longhu Mountain in Guixi, Hongzhou and Zhang Wanfu Zhenren of Zhenjiang Jurong Maoshan Sect are all people with this magical power.

Everyone flocked to the saint to Daning Fang, which is only one square away from Daming Palace, this square is full of Jin Wuwei's figure, close to Zhang's Mansion, there are more people who guard the door, and there are more people from Qianniuwei and Lijingmen who have entered Zhang's Mansion, and the people on Zhang Xuan's Mansion have been controlled, and there are a few more dead people.

Everyone saw that what Zhang He, the eldest man of the Zhang family, said was really good, just in case, this was really prevented, when the people from Lijingmen entered Zhang's mansion, a group of Mai people were preparing to move Zhang Xuan's coffin.

Dugu Xinci was about to enter the mansion with the sage, when he saw a group of Taoists coming in a hurry, led by the old immortal Sima Chengzhen.

The latter few people also know each other, several Taoists in Xuandu Temple and Deng Qixia in Longhu Mountain.

Everyone once again looked at Dugu Xinci, the saint has been prepared in his heart, the two doors of Buddhism have recently competed, each held a large avenue, Buddhism won by quantity, Taoism is famous for luxury and magic, although it is a tie, but the number of believers in Buddhism is indeed higher than Taoism, how much? There are still 200,000, and the Dharma of Buddhism has gathered 6 or 700,000 believers, but the Taoist Gate has even 400,000 cheekily shouted out.

Daomen can say that most of its believers are rich and noble, and princes and princesses believe in Taoism, but they can't deceive themselves.

The people of insight in the Daomen began to reflect, what is the problem?

The local religion, with the full support of the Yan and Tang royal families, how can they compete and not win against foreign monks?

At this time, Dugu Xinci sent people to ask if he had the confidence to cover the Buddha Gate, and he came to the next sentence that there are still unsummoned souls in the world, so he naturally understands that he is letting the Daomen go to summon souls? Whose soul is it recruiting? It's definitely not his Demon Wolf Tianxing, then it's only Zhang Xuan, who hanged himself after insulting the martyrs in the past two days.

But everyone in the world knows that Zhang Xuan hanged himself after being humiliated by the Marquis of Far East, and the Marquis of Far East was not satisfied, and when he died, he still summoned his soul to scold him again?

Although most of the martyrs' families also think that Zhang Xuan should be scolded, the Far Eastern Hou fought well, and the humiliation was happy, but after all, people are dead, and people are dead, but if they can really summon the Yin Spirit, the impact will be great?

Hearing that the Yuandong Hou Wannian Ming Mansion will be punished by the saint, some of the martyrs are excited and even want to face the saint's grievances, but at this moment someone came out and said that the Yuandong Hou is still young, this is the means of the saint to train him to become a talent and remove his reckless spirit. is still a child, the road back is long, and the future will be great if there is a saint to protect him.

Therefore, the martyrs turned over the waves, and they went on to worship and weep in a step-by-step manner, and did not do anything about this matter for the past two days.

And the Taoist masters who know the danger are happy to see it, why? Who told the Far Eastern Hou to get closer to Buddhism recently?

Zhong Licuo was also warned not to act rashly, and reluctantly returned to Nanshan to practice behind closed doors.

This afternoon, I heard that Zhang Xuan's widow who was pregnant with Liujia went to Wannian County to sue the Marquis of Far East, and everyone was even more cold, who is this? Are you going to let that Far Eastern Marquis be ruined?

It wasn't until the Liu family struck the drum three times, and the father and son of the Zhang family of Luanxiang Pavilion appeared, that everyone slowly solved the mystery. This time the Far East Hou is afraid that there is no danger or danger?

At this moment, Dugu Xinci sent people to ask, can you have the confidence to cover the Buddha's door? Come and ask Zhang Xuan's soul for a certain trick?

It's tantamount to asking, are you waiting for Taoism to be almost? Don't let someone go back and look for Buddhism again, then there will be no good fruit to eat in Rudaomen.

Buddhism only believes in the six realms of reincarnation, stresses cause and effect, but never interferes with cause and effect, even if there are great virtues who can open their eyes to see the soul, but they do not communicate with them, just chanting sutras excessively, they will not attract the soul to come out for dialogue.

But who knows if the Demon Wolf Celestial Star can find someone else who can communicate with the soul? Don't forget that he is a subordinate of Huashi, a former magician, and there are also those who study the undead, some of them can summon golden armor gods like the great shaman Fagaku of Mohe, and there are also those who can collect resentful spirits and gather them into the appearance of the Xuanwu Emperor like Tahe.

Sima Lao Immortal sighed, and rushed straight to come, and a few others also wanted to come over, but were persuaded by Zhang Wanfu Dao Chang, at present, it is still necessary to focus on the Martyrs' Shrine, and let Deng Qixia Dao Chang of Longhu Mountain bring a few people to cheer.

Everyone waited for the old fairy Sima to come over, and then they entered together.

Dugu Xinci also said to Nalan Feiya, the smell inside is not good, it is better to stay outside, right?

"A certain son of the sea, every time he goes to sea, there will be casualties, and every time he returns to the shore, he will hold a spiritualist ceremony" Nalan Feiya knew that her lover was afraid of the gloomy spiritualist ceremony.

"Then how does the conjuring of the sea work? Can't you find a body? "Dugu is curious.

So Nalan Feiya talked a little about their customs: after the person who went to sea was unfortunately buried in the sea, because the body could not be found, his family used a scarecrow to replace the corpse, put on the clothes of the deceased, and set up a "mourning hall" at home. At the same time, on the seashore outside the village, a Taoist priest is invited to summon the spirits of the deceased. The conjuring is performed at night when the tide is rising, and the relatives of the deceased go to the beach to shout, call back the "ghosts" lost in the sea, recruit them into the scarecrow, and then bury them. This kind of spiritualist ritual is called "tide soul".

Relatives would first set up a small "dipping table" on the seashore, and then in the evening, they would light incense and candles in the tent, with a scarecrow in the middle and the deceased's birthday on it. When the tide rises in the evening, the Taoist priest sits on the "dipping platform", rings the bell chime and cymbals, and recites the incantation in his mouth. At this time, piles of bonfires were lit before and after the "dipping platform", someone held a bamboo with roots in his hand, and a basket was hung on the top of the top, which contained a rooster, facing the sea, with the mantra of the Taoist priest, constantly shaking the bamboo. There are also family members of the deceased, dressed in linen and filial piety, carrying lanterns with words, and calling the name of the deceased in a loud voice: "So-and-so is coming!" So-and-so is coming! "The sound was very bleak. Then, a child or relative says, "Come on!" Come on! "One call and one response, until the tide flattens, the Taoist priest leads the soul home.

The next day, the relatives put the scarecrow in the coffin and sent it to the mountain for burial. When a person dies, the soul of course leaves the body. But where does the vast underworld go from? So the next procedure is for the living person to "show the way" to him.

To "guide the way" is to point the way for the ghost to ascend to heaven. In the world of the undead of some religions in the north, the "return" of the undead requires the help and guidance of a shaman. First of all, go up one path first, and then continue to walk forward, and there are many forks in the road, which are paths according to the different genders of the deceased. The souls of the dead have to cross a river on the path of their own clan, and there are many white bones. In this way, it is said that the river can be crossed safely.

Dugu Xinci pretended to be creepy, and finally entered the mourning hall.

When I entered, I had to say, this old Sima immortal shouted in vain, you don't need to summon spirits, just look at this messy mourning hall and know that there must be something wrong with the death of this Zhang Xuan, otherwise what are you doing when you carry out the corpse of Zhang Xuan?

"You don't have to look at so-and-so? Is this the kind of person who is preparing to destroy the corpse? Dugu Xinci looked at everyone.

"Hehe, these people are holding a special horizontal knife made in the Far East, you see, there are two words Temple Street on the handle of this knife?" Feng Yuan smiled like a night owl.

"Really? Is this IQ really failing? Temple Street is so ugly? Dugu Xinci also smiled, but it was like a spring breeze blowing from the thawing of the glacier.

Most people no longer pay attention to this former temple street commander who folded in Chong, no one believes that such a crude knife came from Temple Street, which is famous for its excellent equipment, and no one believes that such a simple strategy to blame the devil is the hand of the demon wolf Tianxing.

"Old fox Zhang, you won't believe that these people are also sent by a certain person, right?" Dugu Xinci was bored and asked the four members of the Zhang family who were squatting next to Zhang Xuan's corpse to check.

"Do you want someone to believe or not?" The old man with a cane sneered.

"I just want to know if your IQ is passing?"

"This matter is to blame for the Far Eastern Hou, and a certain representative of the Zhang family apologized to you," Zhang He, the eldest man of the Zhang family, bowed down and said.

What does this mean? Surely you didn't send someone to do this? Pretending to be a disability is a certain skill, right? Dugu Xinci asked again.

"Let's not talk about those stupid thieves with low skills, if there were such stupid things under the Demon Wolf Heavenly Star, you would have been eaten cleanly, you will come and see what kind of poison this is?" The old man with a cane also got up, let go of his body and let Dugu Xinci come over to see Zhang Xuan's body.

The person who hanged himself was naturally ugly, generally his tongue spit out, and his face was pale, at this moment Zhang Xuan's tongue did not spit out, and his face was also miserable, but it was not the white caused by the kind of breath-holding of the corpse, it was the white that was painted with white powder, and a person in the Zhang family was using a big knife engraved with the words Temple Street to scrape the white powder of his face, well, when he scraped it clean, Zhang Xuan would be four or five pounds lighter.

Scraped off the powder, and the face was dark, like smoke ink.

"What are you scraping? Don't you want to put it on later? Can't you just take the clothes off your neck and look at them? Dugu Xinci was still in the mood to laugh.

The Zhang family's hands were stunned, and they glanced at Dugu Xinci, but they still took away the clothes on Zhang Xuan's neck and threw the knife in his hand, and the knife fell to the ground and the handle was separated.

"Where the hell is this made? So unbearable? Dugu Xinci asked Feng Yuanyi, who was interested in checking the tools.

"The blade is a Sixteen Guards horizontal knife of the Forbidden Army, and the handle should have been installed recently," Feng Yuanyi explained.

"Then why didn't they use the handle of the original horizontal knife to engrave the lettering?" Dugu Xinci asked this question for everyone.

"The standard horizontal knives of the forbidden army are all numbered, even if they are worn, they can be traced, but if only the blade is left, they really can't find the way," Feng Yuanyi explained.

"But don't think that only the blade can't find out the way" The hairpin of Lijingmen on the side made Xiaoyuer hate, and when he entered the house just now, he hurt people by using Lijingmen.

"Isn't it a waste to be able to hurt the people who can hurt you and other Lijingmen" Dugu Xinci said with a smile, Xiao Yu'er is very resentful, is this a compliment? These stupid thieves are waste, and the injured Lijingmen is even more waste?

"Didn't live it?" The saint also frowned and asked.

"No, the last one also killed two injured ones and committed suicide" Xiao Yu'er was also depressed, today is careless, thinking that it is not a big deal, a few good hands have not been called, otherwise how can you not catch one or two alive?

"You don't need to live your mouth, the dead can talk better" Dugu Xinci said with a smile, looking at the old fairy Sima proudly.

"Did the Marquis of Far East ask the souls of these people to ask?" Sima Lao Immortal was also depressed, how good would it be if he had been invited to stay on the opening day of Qingchuan Chinese Normal University? 100,000 people of vehicles and ships can cooperate with the door? What is like the soul of a few stupid thieves who are now lowly and low?

"What do you do with their souls? Little fish, can you just go and bring your little wolf dog? "Dugu is kind but arrogant and commands the people of Lijingmen.

"A certain has already been brought here, and someone has been sent to track it out," Xiao Yu'er smiled proudly.

"You've made progress, you've become cunning, have you?" Dugu Xin praised.

Several people from the Zhang family were still discussing what kind of poison was in that Zhang Xuan.

"What's there to see? Isn't it arsenic? Dugu Xinci shouted, "I can smell it from afar"

Several living people in the Zhang family also turned black, and they all thought about arsenic, but they didn't believe that it was just the most ordinary and simple arsenic.

"Little fish, go see what kind of poison it is?" Feng Yuanyi commanded.

"I've seen it, it's arsenic," Xiao Yu'er also smiled.

"That Zhang Xuan also hanged herself in the lobby of the Hanlin Academy, if she took arsenic, why didn't she find out on the spot? But so many people saw it at the time? Dugu Xinci was also a little entangled, "It can't be poured into it after he is not dead, right?" ”

"Yes," this time even Xiao Yu'er was entangled, "There were a lot of people in the Hanlin Academy at that time?" If you pour arsenic, you will spit foam and blood on the spot? How many hours does it take for the face to turn black, and the tongue of the person who hanged himself has not been spit out? Do you remember that day, there was a servant who went to the Hanlin Academy? ”

Everyone's faces were not good, the saint did send someone to check the scene that day, and he was also a person that the saint trusted very much.

Dugu Xinci and Nalan Feiya both looked at Feng Yuanyi with unkind faces.

"The people from Lijingmen didn't enter the Hanlin Academy that day, they asked Feng Daban to leave this matter alone" The sage smiled bitterly, and was actually concealed by such a simple trick.

Dugu Xinci pursed his lips and was too lazy to speak.

The sunset is close to dusk, but there are still unsummoned spirits in the world.

(End of chapter)