Chapter Twenty-Five: Soul Wandering to the Underworld
"Brother Shanlin, can you tell me what kind of position is the Immortal Venerable in the Vain Death City?" I asked Hu Shanlin.
Hu Shanlin led me aimlessly, and eight Changtang disciples followed behind, all with their hands on the scabbard. This scene reminds me of Gao Yanei in the Water Margin, how awkward it is.
"Your great-grandfather is a vain city immovable venerable, you don't even know this?" Hu Shanlin looked at me with some amusement.
I scratched my head a little embarrassed and said to him, "Isn't this because I don't know, so I asked you about it, tell me about it." “
Hu Shanlin smiled and explained to me, this immovable honor is neither an official position nor a fruit position. Take Buddhism and Taoism as an example, the Taoist Heavenly Court is equivalent to the governing body, while Buddhism is more like an education department outside the country.
It's the same with this immovable venerable, those who die horizontally, who have the karma to enter the city of vain death, either wait for the grievances to be cleared and go to the capital city to be punished and wait for reincarnation, or they will stay and cultivate, and cultivate ghosts and immortals without reincarnation.
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For those who are preparing to be reincarnated, the prefecture has a special department, which is directly under the jurisdiction of the capital city. There is a red lotus pond in the city of vain, and the steward takes these dead ghosts into the red lotus pond and practices them with red lotus fire, which takes different amounts of time depending on the grievances.
And all these things that are ready to cultivate need the teachings of the immovable deity. There have been many immovable deities in the past, and there have been many ghosts that have been enlightened, and the previous ones have gradually attained different fruit levels, or ascended to the arhat, or ascended to the great bodhisattva.
There is one of my great-grandfather Gao Linyuan in this generation, so many of the current ghosts and immortals are from his disciples. Not only in my churches, but also in many churches there are his disciples.
As soon as he explained this, I understood that the reason why the king of my family stele was so good in the capital city was because he was equivalent to the great Confucian sage in the past, and even the lords of various countries should be respected.
This metaphor is still light, how many ghosts and immortals went to the camp, and then accumulated more merits, and became ghosts or stewards of the underworld. And my great-grandfather is their mentor, can you not give him face. Whether his old man is in the barracks of various houses or in the capital city, it can be said that the world is full of peach and plums.
Hu Shanlin saw that I closed my mouth and pondered, and smiled: "Let's go, the master of the Manchu sect has said it, I will be a tour guide for you and take you around?" “
He said something funny to me, I grew up, except for learning martial arts in Shandong when I was a child, basically I didn't even go out of our city. When I went to college and left home, I thought I had seen the world, but I didn't expect to catch a tour group from the underworld today.
Hu Shanlin told me that the area we are in now is called Fude Street, and it is a place where good people who were kind and kind live in their lives, and when the time comes for them to be reincarnated, even if they can't enter the heavens, they must be rich people with both parents.
He showed me around and showed me a few directions and a few more streets. Like what Zengshou Street, Caiguang Street, Ankang Street and so on. It is said that the houses on the left and right sides of these streets are for those who have accumulated all kinds of good fortune. The houses are also high-gate compounds, but the scope doesn't seem to be much.
And in the back, like those dilapidated small houses, thatched houses, chicken feather shops and so on, occupy a lot of land. That's all about karma before death. During reincarnation, they are generally born in marginal areas, mostly in poor homes. A new life in the book of life and death will also have all kinds of calamities according to the evil consequences.
Hu Shanlin told me that the area of the human world is not big. The Animal Dao, the Heavenly Humanity, and so on are larger, but they don't coincide with this space, and if you want to enter it, you need to have the Dharma Decree Manjushri.
"What? Isn't Tiandao a god? The reincarnation of immortals also wants to enter the underworld? I asked Hu Shanlin in astonishment. I knew that heaven and man also had blessings and calamities, but I didn't expect that they would be no different from people.
Hu Shanlin smiled and said to me: "Although the reincarnation of heaven and humanity also enters the underworld, the environment is different. The blessings of heaven and man are not the same as those of people, and when they enter the humane, they are also the six roots of many lifetimes, which are rich and noble. If you can be awakened to the essence of fate, or if you can set your heart to cultivate, it will be very fast to be reborn as a celestial being. “
"Have you ever seen the place of reincarnation of heaven and humanity?" I asked Hu Shanlin.
Hu Shanlin smiled bitterly and said to me: "How can I have that qualification, but I heard that the station of the reincarnation of heaven and humanity is also magnificent, like a heavenly pavilion and palace, I have never seen it with my own eyes." “
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"But let's do it," Hu Shanlin changed his words and said to me with some hesitation: "Actually, the current human reincarnation is almost inferior to the animal nature. “
"Why?" I asked him subconsciously. Humanity is one of the three good paths, although it is the last one. That's also stronger than the beast path of the Three Evil Realms, how could he say that?
Hu Shanlin looked left and right, and then leaned into my ear and said, "You human beings have been killing and creating karma too seriously over the years, and the reincarnation of the animal path has been less, and they have all been cast into humanity. So many species are extinct, and there are more and more people. I can't say the specifics, but I've heard the elders in the family say that if humanity continues like this, I'm afraid it will be downgraded to the Three Evil Paths..."
After he said this, I thought that was really the case. Nowadays, many pets are better than children, and many people are not as good as dogs.
Some people can't eat, and many protected animals not only have to send several people to take care of them, but it is also said that there are also those who study the psychology of animals, and regularly go to relieve the mood of animals, so as not to cause them to be depressed······
Aside from the individual, for the whole group, is this also retribution? Human beings are highly comprehensible, and indiscriminate deforestation has compressed the living environment of other species.
In exchange for the fact that all the animals are reincarnated as humane, and the resources of human beings themselves are becoming less and less, and there is always resentment between people.
In the past, people cut wood and blew up mountains to build houses. Now that the animals live there is no place to live, the human dwelling itself is even more strained. So many forests are gone, so many mountains are flattened, and I don't see everyone having a house to live in. How many people can't afford to pay a down payment after struggling for half a lifetime?
I still wanted to continue to ask on this topic, but Hu Shanlin winked at me and changed the subject: "You look ahead, you can't go far before you return to your soul." “
He didn't dare to say it in detail, it was probably the rules of their immortal family, and I didn't want to ask again. Save that sentence and say something wrong, I'm fine, don't hurt him again. Hey, it's not easy for the fairy family, there are more rules and regulations than people.
It didn't take long for us to come to a riverside path. There is also a large road not far away, which is in a Y-shape with the small road.
I pointed to the avenue and asked Hu Shanlin: "Brother Shanlin, what is that avenue?" Why don't we take the big road and take the small dirt road? “
Hu Shanlin led me to the small dirt road and led me to the left, and said to me: "That avenue and this path both lead to the Yin and Yang Realm, but this is called the Soul Returning Road, and go out to connect the Yin and Yang Realm and the nearest two realms of the Yang Realm. And that avenue is called Huangquan Road, which connects the ghost gate at the junction of the yin and yang realms and the underworld. You are a yang soul, and it is more or less unlucky to go there. “
I nodded, and Hu Shanlin continued: "In fact, there are basically no ghosts on this road, unless the ghost hooks the wrong soul, and the person's life is not over, so send it to this road to let him return to his soul." If you make such a mistake, you don't have to do it, you will be directly thrown into reincarnation, so this is what it means to take one and leave a glimmer of life. Let's go from here, and that's where people pass after they die. “
As I walked forward with him, I asked him, "Brother Shanlin, is it really the black and white impermanence of the bull and horse that seduces the soul after death?" “
"Who told you?" Hu Shanlin smiled helplessly and said to me: "Black and white impermanence is actually ranked among the top ten yin handsome, and they are only responsible for morality. There are also bull heads, horse faces, leopard tails, beaks, gills, wasps, etc., which are in charge of various other populations, but they are generally sent by their subordinates. ”
Hu Shanlin paused and continued: "Bai Wuchang's name is Xie Bi'an, and he is called the Seventh Master below. Hei Wuchang's name is Fan Wuxuan, called the eighth master, if he goes to hook it himself, then his soul will go to eighteen layers of hell. “
As he spoke, a thick fog appeared in front of him, as if in a sauna. But instead of feeling hot at all, I was cold and cold.
Through the thick fog, a rather quaint stone bridge appeared in front of me, and there was a monument standing next to the stone bridge. The text on it is something I've never seen before, and it looks older than the hieroglyphs.
Hu Shanlin told me that this was the Nai He Bridge, and when I saw it, the stone tablet was indeed a Chinese character. He must be right, although I can't read and write after I came down, but I can still do it.
Walking on the Nai He Bridge, it is a bit similar to the Lugou Bridge, there is a stone carving standing every short distance. It's just that there are lions on the Lugou Bridge, and on the Nahe Bridge, there are all kinds of beings in the Six Realms with painful faces.
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I poked my head out and looked under the bridge, and below me was a large river with no end in front and back. If that's right, this should be Lethe, right?
Wisps of green smoke rose from the water and drifted towards the road behind me, as if that's how the fog had formed. The more I look at it, the more sad my heart becomes, crossing the Nai He Bridge, crossing the Lethe River, and this life is over, whether it is miserable or prosperous.
What separates you is not only the success or failure of this life, but also your wife, son and daughter, who will never meet again in the red dust.
Hu Shanlin seemed to see that I was a little distracted, he coughed lightly, and reminded me: "Ground horse guard your mind and don't be contaminated by resentment." “
He reminded me that I came back to my senses, and the sadness left behind by Lethe River and Nai He Bridge is a very different place for life.
I smiled embarrassedly and didn't speak. Hu Shanlin took me and continued to walk forward, and the Changtang disciples behind me were still like guards without saying a word.
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