Because of the witch words, he wants to curse the Gu Dao, and he uses the trick of disgust to win.

——"The Book of the Later Han Dynasty • The Biography of Qinghe Xiaowang Qing"

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Retrieving the withered branch from the bewildered disciple's hand, Haiqing Zhenren's thin wrist was slightly forced, and the withered branch was broken into two sections, stacked together, and then folded in half, and then smashed it with a medicine bowl: "The big peach tree is not an extraordinary thing, because it is implicated in the underworld, in order to avoid it, no matter the gods, demons, people and ghosts, they only call it the big peach tree, and its official name is the spiritual root of heaven and earth." ”

The spiritual root of heaven and earth is an innate treasure that evolves from chaos, which is neither clear nor turbid, but also clear and turbid, containing the way of "Tai Chi" in it, which is extremely mysterious. It sprouts when it is rooted in turbidity, and it only does idle when it is washed by water, fire, and wind; The branches and leaves support the clear air, and the trunk stands up to the sky, which is more consistent with the idea of Pangu. A piece of heaven and earth spiritual root can open up the world and create a world, and in the same way, a world can only allow one heaven and earth spiritual root. Originally, the spiritual root of heaven and earth in the Chinese continent was called "Jianmu", after the building wood was cut down, a big peach tree grew in Taodu Mountain, and after the big peach tree died, the spiritual root of heaven and earth never appeared in the Chinese continent again.

"Since we don't have the spiritual roots of heaven and earth, why don't we plant another one?"

Hai Qing Zhenren shook his head, his hands kept moving, with a wonderful rhythm: "It's really a fool." The spiritual roots of heaven and earth are closely related to the number of qi, and since the flood of the wilderness, our Chinese continent has grown two spiritual roots of heaven and earth, which is the ultimate in the number of qi. Jianmu coexisted with the flood era, after Jianmu was cut down, heaven and man were separated forever, the three emperors and five emperors retreated, and there were no ancient ancestors; The big peach tree coexists with the witch road, after the death of the tree, the witch road declines, the Buddhism and the road coexist, and then the humanity is chaotic, a hundred schools of thought contend, and the number of qi rises and falls, and there should be no chance to grow a new spiritual root of heaven and earth. Today's Heaven and Earth Spirit Root is far away in the Gothic Continent, and the Elven Royal Court has reached the peak of a clan's qi with their World Tree, and has the ability to touch the entire Qiankun; Even if the Elven Royal Court is shattered now, but the qi number still exists, and the World Tree is immortal, if our Huaxia Continent insists on replanting the spiritual root of heaven and earth, I am afraid that it will cause the Qiankun to collapse and attract the attack of the heavenly demons from the outside world. ”

After listening to the introduction, Tu Shi felt much more comfortable. There is no shame in breaking the withered branches, after all, it is the spiritual root of heaven and earth! Gothic is supposed to refer to the "gothic" servers in Europe.

After watching it for a while, he couldn't bear the loneliness and asked, "Master, are you teaching me how to make incense?" ”

"Those who refute the miscellaneous are not pure, and those who are greedy are not refined. If you don't practice enough, you shouldn't waste time on the incense path, and the production methods of incense are complicated and difficult, even if you are given a formula, it will be difficult for you to succeed. Haiqing Zhenren unhurriedly prepared the spices, and his eyebrows were calm: "I taught you fur in the hope that you will meet your colleagues in the future, at least you can be rough and fur, so that you don't even understand fur." ”

Tu Shi pouted: "I really don't believe that every Taoist priest understands incense!" ”

"A furnace is open, all the true insights are learned, and the decrees of each respect are not extended, and it is incense that is said. The incense smells up to the infinite world of the ten directions, and the three realms are indispensable, which is indispensable in the sacrificial activities of the altar of Zhaijiao. Wang Chongyang, the patriarch of Quanzhen Dao, also used incense as a metaphor for cultivation - 'the body is an incense burner, the heart is the same incense, the pillar of cigarettes is clearly distinguished, the incense is burned through Kunlun according to the time, and the fragrant spring is auspicious'. In this way, do you dare to ignore the incense? ”

Haiqing Zhenren said, poured the ground spices into the jade plate, and then put the jade plate into the incense burner. Suddenly, light smoke rose from the small hole in the lid of the furnace lid, and the smoke slowly gathered into a column, and then slowly dispersed into strands at the top of the column, which dispersed even more thinly, and finally faded away—it really looked like a big tree with lush foliage! The blue-white smoke tree blooms on the top of the furnace, it seems to be real and illusory, and it is not inferior to the golden ocean of "seeking the dragon in the sea of clouds".

Tu Shi took a deep breath and smelled the sweet fragrance that was very fresh and only had flowers. The fragrance slowly rose from the nasal cavity, radiating into a cool feeling, which penetrated deeply into the frontal lobe, making Tu Shi faintly have a headache, and it felt similar to suddenly drinking a big sip of cold drink, all of which were cold and painful in the brain. As soon as this feeling hits, the fragrance becomes secondary. He blinked, feeling the hair tingle at the back of his neck, as if something was staring at him. But he was not afraid, but very reassured.

Even if you have peace of mind, the pain of breaking the sword is unforgettable. That scene was so cool that Tu Shi felt a faint pain in his heart and couldn't let go. This is exactly what it is:

Ningjiao scattered the winged birds, and did not make the hero break the Wu hook; There have always been many things in ancient and modern times, and a sword has risen and fallen thousands of households.

Haiqing Zhenren spoke: "Don't resist, otherwise you won't absorb the medicinal properties of the incense." It's just a weapon, what's the pity of losing it? ”

Tu Shi felt aggrieved, and as soon as his rebellious spirit came up, he said coldly: "Master, you are just a Taoist, not a swordsman, what do you know?" ”

Haiqing Zhenren glanced at Tu Shi in a little surprise, shook his head and said, "Words are disrespectful, stretch out your hand." ”

Tu Shi stretched out his hand angrily, and Master Ren hit it three times with the golden flute.

Haiqing is really humane: "Taoism pays attention to the dust, Buddhism studies the four are empty, in the process of cultivating the Tao, the most important thing is always their own Taoist heart, pills, magic weapons, caves, Taoism are just tools to help you realize the Tao and overcome the calamity, a sword is not brought in life, death is not brought outside the body." If you can't even see through this, and you have to put the cart before the horse, then your achievements are limited to that. ”

"But master, I never thought of becoming a Taoist priest from the beginning, you insisted on accepting me as an apprentice." Tu Shi knew that he was very stubborn, and he didn't want to change this character trait. "I don't learn anything about the four major emptiness, and if someone breaks the sword, it will be as if nothing has happened."

Haiqing Zhenren still didn't get angry: "You and I are destined, and being a teacher is just following the trend." Moreover, you may not be unwilling to be a Taoist priest, if you really don't have this heart, you won't look at my stall and ask about my goods that day. ”

Tu Shi felt so wronged: "I just saw two people, one red and one blue, sitting together and setting up a stall, and I thought it was a little interesting, so I leaned over to see——"

"That's where it all started." Hai Qingzhen's tone became stern, and there was no room for comment.

Tu Shi stopped talking.

The probability that the first group of players in "Qiankun" is distributed in Jingzhou is one in nine, and the probability of reporting in Yibei City is one in nine, and among the hundreds of NPC mentors in Yibei City, he accosted two people at the same time, this probability Tu Shi didn't know how to calculate, and it could indeed only be summed up by the word fate. This is exactly what it is:

A hundred years of repair can be crossed in the same boat, and a thousand years of repair can be slept together; It's hard to say a word, don't guess, don't doubt, don't talk nonsense.

"Although I don't know swordsmanship, one of my magic weapons, 'Da Luo', is a sword. The sword is not only a weapon used by mortal warriors, but also a magic weapon used by Taoist priests, but mortal weapons are hardware things, containing the qi of swords and soldiers, with the purpose of killing, while Taoist magic swords use peach wood and money, either to ward off evil spirits or suppress evil, not for the purpose of killing. You like to use a sword, and you don't like to be a Taoist priest, and the two are not compatible. ”

Haiqing Zhenren paused and said, "There is also a kind of Taoist priest, and their natal magic weapon is the sword...... Flying swords. The mind is tied to it, and the sword can fly out of the hand. The people of the time were ignorant and respected him as a sword immortal. ”

Flying swords?

Tu Shi's eyes lit up. When he was a child, he watched Tsui Hark's "Shu Mountain", in which the Taoist priest could make flying swords and behead people thousands of miles away. "Master, can you also make the Da Luo Sword fly?"

"I can't." Haiqing Zhenren poured cold water on Tu Shi: "Swordsmanship is a small Dao ear, and it belongs to what I said about putting the cart before the horse." ”

Damn, why doesn't Master Right play with flying swords, he is always chanting scriptures and burning incense, and he is more like a monk than a monk?! Tu Shi complained: "Master, if I really have a relationship with a Taoist priest, I shouldn't have learned any "Lingbao Sutra" from you, but learned flying swords from that kind of Taoist priest!" ”

"Who can understand the word fate? Just as there is no fate between you and Zhengyi, you can't understand it as a teacher. ”

Haiqing Zhenren asked in detail about the shape of the two iron plaques in front of the Bai family's ghost house, and muttered for a while: "It is indeed the handiwork of Zhengyi." If there is someone in the world who can suppress that kind of powerful ghost with disgust instead of Taoism, it must only be able to do it. ”

Tu Shi was surprised: "Isn't it Taoism to be disgusted?" ”

Haiqing real people supported their foreheads and began to popularize science.

Disgusted with pressure, tired of winning, read as overwhelming, that is, tired and victorious, in the old folk a kind of folk custom of avoiding evil and praying for good fortune, which is to use spells to curse or pray to achieve the purpose of defeating the people, things or monsters that are disgusted. Many people don't know, in fact, painting the door god on the door is the way to be tired of winning, the prototype of the door god is the two brothers mentioned earlier, Yu Lei, people hope that the house is safe, so the image of the two gods will ward off evil spirits. The method of disgust is generated from the folk, and many folk customs are integrated, people often know that they do not know why, painting the door god is just one of the examples, paste the Spring Festival couplets (also called peach symbols), New Year's money, hanging New Year's paintings, paper-cutting actually belong to the category of disgust.

As mentioned earlier, after hitting the ghost, the connection between the three souls and the seven spirits of the person is unstable, and it is necessary to use the "peach charm" to re-stabilize the soul, but where is there such an elixir among the people? At this time, the method of disgust comes into play, one of the methods, which the folk call "calling the soul", also called "shouting shock", if the child suddenly falls into a coma or cannot speak, he can take the clothes he usually wears and wave at the intersection and shout his name. This method does not require mana at all, even an illiterate peasant woman can do it.

"If you want to say that you are tired of winning, maybe your friend called 'Kuaishou Little Spirit Boy' knows better."

Lu Lingchuan? He's just a craftsman, what can he know? Also, even if this ID is said by the unsmiling right master, it's still very shameful!

Let's talk about the relationship between boredom and righteousness.

Tianshi Tao (the predecessor of Zhengyi) can be said to be one of the earliest sects in the history of the development of folk religion in mainland China. At that time, in the Bashu area, the original Ba people believed in the primitive witch and ghost shamanism gathered people to collect money, all kinds of evil, Zhang Tianshi with the Yellow Emperor Jiuding Danjing and more than 1,000 disciples came to the east, and there was a large-scale religious conflict with the witch and ghost religion. After this battle, the Wudou Mijiao (later the Heavenly Master Dao) absorbed some elements of the primitive religion of the ethnic minorities in the Bashu region, and its Taoist techniques such as summoning gods and impeaching ghosts and banning spells directly inherited the magic of the Han Dynasty monks. Nowadays, Zhengyi takes the "Zhengyi Sutra" as the main scripture and does not re-practice; Worship the gods, draw talismans and chant spells, séance to exorcise ghosts, pray for blessings and disasters...... It can be seen that Zhengyi has almost completely inherited the essence of the method of disgust.

However, disgust is not a profound Taoism in nature, and it cannot even be systematically summarized as a discipline. With the passage of time, there are fewer and fewer people in Zhengyi who are proficient in aversion to victory, so this Zhang Tianshi who sealed the ghost house of the Bai family must be cultivated to a high level.

"Since this Heavenly Master is very powerful, why don't you eradicate the powerful ghosts?" Tu Shi asked.

Haiqing Zhenren sighed lightly: "You have a different heart. ”

"What?" Tu Shi didn't understand.

"You didn't eradicate the Toad King, but you did want to eradicate the ghost, because the ghost destroyed your sword. That's the difference. Haiqing Zhenren looked at his disciple with some pity: "You slay demons and eliminate demons not for the justice and axioms that you adhered to in the past, but for your own likes and dislikes, Qingfeng, you have changed." ”