"Well, that's a long story." Hearing him ask about this, I sighed and had no choice but to tell him about the old man's death after fighting with Yin Kun, as well as a series of things about how I was chased and killed by the Red Guards.

After listening to me, the other side of the phone was silent for a long time, and after a while, Wang Zhicai sighed: "I never expected Mr. Jiang to be ...... Alas, if the world is really unpredictable, don't be too sad with double happiness, everything must be mourned and changed. ”

"Thank you Brother Wang for your concern, things have already passed, not to mention that the master told me before his death that people's birth, old age, sickness and death are determined by God, and I have already seen all this." After speaking, I smiled and said: "Brother Wang, I don't dare to go back to my home now, so I have to come to Lianhai to join you, you can't see death and not save me, you have to take me in." ”

On the other end of the phone, Wang Zhi pretended to be angry and said: "What are you polite to me, I won't hide your double happiness, the most lacking thing in the sixth department now is talents like you, if you join the sixth department, I can't ask for it." ”

"Then thank you Brother Wang for making it happen." I said politely.

Wang Zhi paused and said: "That's it, I can't say it clearly on the phone for a while, I'll arrange for you to have a meal when you come out tomorrow, let's talk while the two brothers are drinking, how about chatting again?" ”

"No problem." Without the slightest hesitation, I readily agreed.

Then Wang Zhi told me the address of a hotel and told me to wait there tomorrow, and then hung up the phone.

When the work was over, I was naturally in a good mood, humming a little song, and swaying back from the newsstand to the paper shop.

"What makes you happy like this? Why are you still singing? As soon as I walked into the store, Yu Banxian asked with a smile.

I said proudly: "I have found a job, and I am still a state institution, an iron rice bowl, and I have been raised by someone for the rest of my life, how can I be old, are you envious?" ”

"Really, a state agency can take in a little kid as old as you?" Yu Banxian squinted at me a few times, and glanced at his mouth disdainfully: "You haven't graduated from junior high school yet, if you don't have a diploma, if you don't have a degree, they will take you in if they let the donkey kick their heads." ”

Since getting along these days, Yu Banxian, an old man, has been familiar with me, but it is not the face that asked me before, and he is also open-mouthed when he speaks.

I glared at him and said angrily, "What little brat? I call it strength, you know? Don't you know the cultivation of this Dao Master? They took a fancy to my good ability to subdue demons and eliminate demons. ”

"Well, according to that, it's really reliable." Yu Banxian touched his chin and nodded thoughtfully.

I grinned and said, "It's not reliable, as I expected, it's time to officially go to work tomorrow." ”

"Oh, this is a good thing, a happy thing, I have to celebrate what I say today." After speaking, Yu Banxian couldn't wait to grab my arm and walk to the door, and said with a smile as he walked: "Don't eat at home tonight, go to the restaurant, don't get drunk and don't return, old and rotten treat." ”

"Lao Yu really pays attention to people." When I heard that he was going to invite me to dinner, I was shocked.

Yu Banxian waved his hand, and said without changing his face: "The old man's style has always been like this, there is nothing to pay attention to, I will treat you...... You're paying for it. ”

"Damn." I almost fell headlong when I heard it.

I went out and found a small restaurant at random, ordered a few hard dishes, and Yu Banxian and I began to eat and drink.

You toasted a few glasses back and forth, and when we were full of wine and food, we settled the bill, and then we hooked up and hummed a little song to return to the paper shop.

After returning to the store, it was already more than ten o'clock in the evening, and Yu Banxian drank a lot of wine, and fell asleep when he entered the house.

I didn't feel sleepy at all, but sat cross-legged, lit a stick of incense in front of me, and began to prepare to practice the method of out-of-body cultivation, planning to go out and wander around at night.

The sandalwood I lit in front of me was brought back from the temple, because the sandalwood offered in the temple all the year round will be stained with a little divine power, and if my primordial spirit absorbs the incense, he can use it to grow.

I closed my eyes, meditated, concentrated, and eliminated all distractions, and then visualized the Seven Stars Pagoda suddenly jumping.

"Boom"

There was a flash of golden light in front of my eyes, and I saw my body again, and my out-of-body success was successful.

At this time, the cigarettes around me converged on my primordial spirit, and I took a big puff, as if smoking marijuana, and I only felt indescribably comfortable, a feeling of fluttering immortals.

When I looked down again, my spirit was also condensed, and at the same time, I also understood in my heart why those gods and ghosts like to smoke incense.

It is recorded in the Taiyin Secret Sutra that Taoist cultivation is divided into gathering spirits, channeling, out-of-body, yin gods, exorcisms, possession, etc., and the purpose of my out-of-body tonight is to hone the original spirit with the help of night travel, so as to achieve the realm of the yin god.

My primordial spirit floated out of my room, and I heard the sound of Yu Banxian snoring in sleep from next door, I ignored him, and arched out along the door of the shop.

At this time, there was no one around in the middle of the night, and the streets were silent, and I was exposing the original spirit to the outside world for the first time.

I had my feet off the ground and was about to try to float a few steps forward.........

"Whew"

Suddenly, a breeze blew in my face, the wind was not strong, but it suddenly felt like entering an ice cave, as if I was standing naked in the glacier snow in winter, my body was almost frozen, and I was far from staying warm in the house.

The wind kept blowing, and I gritted my teeth and walked a few steps against the wind, and I felt like my legs were stuck in a quagmire, and every step I took seemed very difficult.

It seems that this night tour is not as simple as I thought.

The Tao Sutra said at the beginning that this world is a great sea of suffering, and the human body is like a raft crossing the sea, but the sea of suffering is boundless, and the raft will eventually decay.

"Bitter sea, bitter sea." My teeth chattered, my body was so cold that I almost lost consciousness, and I kept chanting these two words in my mouth, and it was at this time that I suddenly realized why people should enter the underworld to be reincarnated after death.

Because after death, there is no body, just like the soul wanders on the sea without a ship, and once the boat capsizes, there is only one possibility in the end, and that is that the soul is drowned in the water.

"No wonder people often say that those lonely souls and wild ghosts can't enter the underworld, so they will endure pain and torture in the world, it turns out that they are drowning and struggling in the sea of suffering."

I sighed to myself for a while, endured the cold and piercing pain, and began to take difficult steps, wandering forward little by little.

After about an hour, my spirit gradually adapted to the changes in the outside world, and it was no longer as cold as it was just now.

At the same time, I gradually walked faster.