Chapter 1: Invite the teacher out of the mountain

"Is God fair?" I've been obsessed with this question before. But now I think it's fair, there are gains and losses. As far as life is concerned, everyone comes with a stripe, and when they leave, they are also striped. Whether you are a rich person or a poor person, you can't take anything outside of your body with you.

Later, I met Master Yang, who was Yang Jirong. I used to call her 'teacher', but after experiencing so many unbelievable and unbelievable things together, I felt that the word 'teacher' was no longer enough to describe her supernatural ability, so I changed my name to a master.

To be honest, I never thought that I would one day become an assistant to a master of metaphysics, let alone that I could participate in those weird, bizarre, and even creepy events. But life is so peculiar, a specific turning point will change the trajectory of life.

After reading so many things, I understand a truth, all living beings are actually fragile, and they are so close to death. And death is not the end, just a beginning, a thought of heaven, a thought of hell...

I sat on the soft cushion of the train and looked out the window at the verdant greenery, replaying my recent experience in my head, and I couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

This is a train bound for Jiangxi, and the destination is Yichun, Jiangxi. I haven't been to Yichun, but I know that it's a place of great people, and it's both a holy place of Zen Buddhism and an ancient city of civilization, and there are many famous people. Tao Yuanming, a poet of the Jin Dynasty, was a native of Yichun.

The Zen culture of Yichun has a long history, and among the seventy-two blessed lands in the Taoist world, the soap mountain, Shifeng Mountain, and Dongbaiyuan are in Yichun. Zhangshu Soap Mountain is the ancestral garden of Taoism Lingbao School, and is one of the three famous mountains of Taoism in the south of the Yangtze River. There are three immortals and seven Buddhas from Yichun, among which the three immortals are Lu Dongbin, He Xiangu, and Li. It is said that this place is still the place where Chang'e runs to the moon, so there are no natural disasters in Yichun, and most of them are people with fairy wind and bones.

The Maoshan Taoist priest we are looking for is from the Maoshan sect of the Zhengyi Sect. Zhengyi Sect is divided into Maoshan, Lingbao, Qingwei, Jingming and other sects, but it is still represented by the Heavenly Master Dao, and it is customary to go to the Heavenly Master Dao is also called Zhengyi. Zongtan Jiangxi Longhu Mountain. The three mountains of Fu Seal are Longhu Mountain, Mao Mountain, and Gesoap Mountain. Zhengyijiao is one of the two major schools of Taoism in China in the later period. On the basis of the long-term development of the Heavenly Master Dao and the Dragon and Tiger Sect, with the Dragon and Tiger Sect as the center, it is a great Fu Seal faction composed of various Fu Seal Taoist sects.

Ancestor Heavenly Master Zhang Daoling is the founder of Heavenly Master Dao. According to the Taoist records, Taishang Laojun descended to Heming Mountain in Shuzhong on the seventh day of the first month of the first month of the first year of Emperor Yongshou of the Han Yuan Dynasty, and taught the Daoling Sutra and the Sect of the Scriptures, so that he could spread the teachings for the Heavenly Master. Zhang Lu, the grandson of Hou Daoling, was rewarded by Cao Cao's official position when he went on an expedition to Bashu, and went to the mainland with him, and tens of thousands of Taoist disciples were placed by Cao Cao in Chang'an, Luoyang, Yecheng and other places. The Tao of the Heavenly Master began to spread in the mainland, and many nobles joined, such as Wang Xizhi, whose ancestors believed in the Tao of the Heavenly Master from the Han and Wei dynasties.

This branch of Ouyang Zhenren belongs to the scattered folk magicians, and it is also passed on to the folk after the ancestor cultivated in Maoshan, plus the ancestors of the past dynasties have learned in many ways, such as the useful ones of each sect are included in this sect, such as the lack of a sect, Huashan Sect, folk witchcraft, Hengshan School, Buddhist Tantra, etc. And proficient in Zhouyi, numerology, divination, astronomy and geography. Therefore, most of their ancestors were strategists, military advisors, masters, etc. However, there are few warlocks in this sect, and most of them are witch doctors, drawing talismans for people to drive away evil spirits and cure diseases.

Ouyang Zhenren is an ancestral transmission of five generations, and a single transmission is an ancestral training, and he has followed his master to practice martial arts and learn magic since he was a child. Most of them are oral teachings, and their debut must be after the master returns to heaven. Spells can be passed on to people, but it depends on fate, and the first condition is to look at people's conduct and heart.

The train was moving at a rapid pace, and I was both curious and in awe of this real person I had not yet met, and I felt that anyone who could cast spells to help people solve their worries was worthy of respect, including Master Yang. Because those who do this business have five disadvantages and three shortcomings, most people can't hide from it.

The five disadvantages and three deficiencies refer to one numerology. The so-called five evils are nothing more than "widowhood, widowhood, loneliness, loneliness, and disability." To put it bluntly, "three deficiencies" are "money, life, and power", who will have five disadvantages and three shortcomings? A disciple or a person who learns the Tao. Because they can help people tell fortunes and read their faces, they are proficient in the art of public opinion, and they leak too many heavenly secrets, and they have changed the laws of this world.

On TV, we often see fortune tellers who are mostly blind, or which feng shui master suddenly dies due to bad luck, which is all due to five disadvantages and three shortcomings, not fabricated out of thin air. The operation of this world has its own laws, and those who spy on the heavens to change the rules of things will be punished by God, so they cannot enjoy the complete numerology like normal people.

After more than 20 hours of driving, we finally arrived at the village where Ouyang Zhenren lived. Walking into the village, you can hear birds singing on the branches, and tall and straight trees are planted on both sides of the road, like rows of soldiers, with their heads held high, very mighty.

Behind the trees were houses of various heights and sizes, and we crossed the path next to the house to the hill behind the house, which was winding and undulating, and the mountain was full of lush trees and weeds. And the real man's house is located in this lush greenery.

Walking into the yard, there are all kinds of flowers and plants planted in the yard, as well as fruit trees. Beneath the grape trellis is a marble cobblestone table, and around the stone table are four cobblestone benches of the same material. There is a set of tea on the stone table, and it can be seen that this real person is a tea lover.

Sensing the arrival, Ouyang Zhenren pushed the door out of the room, and when he saw us, he smiled and stepped forward, "I've been waiting for you for a long time, I've worked hard all the way, please come in"

Before I came, I imagined that Ouyang Zhenren should have a Taoist bun on his head, wearing a Taoist robe, three locks of long hair on his cheeks, holding floating dust in his hand, sitting in the main hall, and talking to people with his eyes closed and silent, listening quietly.

When I first met me, it was so different from what I imagined. He's just wearing loungewear, and he's very casual and comfortable. The expression is gentle and resolute, and he walks with a tiger's step, without any shelf, and his smile is even more approachable.

Master Yang nodded with a smile, "Ouyang Zhenren." When I passed by Ouyang Zhenren, he suddenly smiled meaningfully at me, which made me confused, but he didn't ask anything, and followed Master Yang into the house.

Speaking of Ouyang Zhenren's stories, there are really too many to count, and Master Yang told me a lot about him when I was on the road. The real master is his father, Mr. Ouyang, who is also a well-known Taoist priest in the local area. Not only in his own village, but also in other villages, anyone will invite him to go, such as looking at feng shui, exorcising evil spirits and curing diseases, etc., and his spells are indeed very powerful, and over time, his fame will gradually grow. Ouyang Zhenren is regarded as a son inheriting his father's business, and all what he has learned comes from his father's inheritance.

After everyone sat down, Master Yang got straight to the point and said directly: "We came to visit this time because we have something important and want to ask a real person for help."

"Oh? What's up? The real person took a sip of tea, put down the cup and looked up and asked.

Master Yang said, "I won't tell you, I'm here to learn from my teacher."

"Apprenticeship?"

"Yes, I want to worship you as a teacher and teach me Taoist spells"

After Ouyang Zhenren heard this, he was silent and said, "I won't accept apprentices for the time being, I'm sorry I can't help you."

Master Yang hurriedly said, "True person, I have a friend who has reached the end of his life, and he originally came to ask for his soul, but I used a charm to temporarily save him, but he can only delay for three months, and he will die after three months, he is still young, I can't watch him die." So I thought of you, the Taoist has a spell to borrow longevity, you can teach me, so that I can save him"

"I do have the spell of borrowing longevity, but borrowing longevity is not something that others can learn if they want to, I speak more straightforwardly, I hope you don't mind, you can't learn it, I won't teach you"

Then he continued, "It's not early today, you have worked hard all the way, the guest room is ready, let's go rest first, let's talk about something tomorrow" After that, he got up and wanted to take us to the guest room, Master Yang saw that there was no result today, so he had to give up, and was ready to find a way to persuade Ouyang Zhenren tomorrow.

We lived in Ouyang Zhenren's home for 5 days, and Master Yang tried all kinds of ways to get Zhenren to agree to teach her every day, but every time she was politely rejected by Zhenren Tai Chi, seeing that the time for the return trip was coming soon, Master Yang was so anxious that he couldn't sleep all night.

Just when we all thought there was no hope for this matter, a dream of Master Yang reversed the deadlock...

On the last night, we were all in a low mood, feeling that Liang Hui was really hopeless this time, and I thought that we couldn't sleep at all in this mood, but we fell asleep soon after lying down.

There was a white mist all around, and not far from me, I saw a familiar figure, it was Master Yang. She walked slowly ahead, and there was a bright light at the end of the white mist, and she looked straight for it.

"It's a dream!" I said to myself in my heart.

"Sister? Sister? I tried to call Master Yang, but she didn't seem to hear me and kept going.

I ran after her, trying to hold her, but no matter how much I ran, I could only stay at a certain distance. Just as he was close to the light, Master Yang stopped and suddenly knelt down. I saw an old man with a fairy wind appear in front of her, the old man looked at her with a smile, raised his left hand, and three bowls appeared in front of him.

These three bowls are different from the ones I usually eat, I can't tell what the material is, but the colors of the three bowls are different, there are gold, white and navy blue. I didn't know what that meant, but my gut told me it was for her to make a choice. I opened my mouth to call her, but found that I couldn't make a sound, because I didn't want her to choose how I looked at the navy blue bowl, and I didn't want her to choose, so I could only do it in my heart, and shouted in my heart not to choose that.

At this time, I saw Master Yang raise his hand and grab the two golden and white bowls, but did not take the navy blue bowl. The old man nodded, smiled more lovingly, turned around and disappeared into the white mist.

At this time, I woke up from a dream, and after sitting up, Master Yang had already woken up, and she was sitting on the bed thoughtfully, and I said, "Sister, did you dream of an old man who gave you three bowls?" ”

"yes, how do you know?"

"I was right behind you, and I couldn't get close to you, I could only watch from behind, and I didn't understand how I could dream of this."

"He gave me three bowls to choose from, and I only chose two, and I was wondering what that meant."

"That sister, when I called you from behind, you couldn't hear me, did you?"

"yes, I didn't hear you call me, and I didn't feel anyone behind me."

"Why don't you wait for tomorrow to ask Ouyang Zhenren and let him explain? You can't figure out anything while you're sitting there."

"Yes, yes. I'll ask him when I get up tomorrow."

"Good"

After dawn, we packed our luggage and went to the atrium to find Ouyang Zhenren, there was no one in the atrium, he was watering flowers in the yard, and when he saw us, he smiled and asked, "Did you sleep well yesterday?" I'll take you to the station after lunch."

Master Yang said, "Real person, there is something I want to ask you."

"Okay, you can say it"

Then she told the real person about yesterday's dream, and after listening to it, the real person put down the water ladle in his hand, walked to the stone table to make tea, beckoned us to go over, drank a cup of tea, and asked the old man what he looked like. After Master Yang finished describing, he stopped talking and kept pondering.

After about a quarter of an hour, he said, "Your ticket has been refunded."

Master Yang and I were both surprised and said in unison, "What do you mean?" ”

"It means that you still need to stay for some time, and you will definitely not be able to leave today."

After saying this, Master Yang was very calm, he should have some score in his heart, and I said anxiously, "Why, Zhenren?" Please, don't sell it, hurry up."

He smiled, "Don't worry, don't worry... The old man Ji Rong dreamed of last night was my father."

This shocked my jaw about to drop, and Master Yang was also surprised.

Then he continued, "In Taoism, there are three paths, namely the upper way, the middle way, and the lower way, and those three bowls represent these three ways. My father will appear in Ji Rong's dream with three bowls, which shows two points, one is fate; The second is that the ancestor appreciates the food and agrees with her to learn the Tao. The three bowls are also a test of whether her heart is in line with my way, Ji Rong has good thoughts and no evil thoughts, so she chose the upper and middle ways, and did not choose the lower way, and she passed the test of this level"

"Then can you take me as an apprentice and teach me Taoism," Master Yang asked nervously and excitedly.

"I won't accept the apprentice, we are friends, you can start from this point of view, I will teach you, although you only choose the upper way and the middle way, but you still have to learn some of the spells of the lower way, do our business, you can't have the heart to hurt people, but you can't prevent people's hearts, in case of emergency"

Master Yang was very happy, "Okay, everything is up to real people"

"Real person, real person, I don't understand one thing, why I can see my sister's dream"

"Oh? Did you see that too? ”

"Yes, I was behind her at the time, but I couldn't do anything, I could only watch, but I witnessed the whole process."

"Hahaha, what did you think at the time? What bowl do you want? ”

"I didn't want my sister to choose a navy blue bowl at the time, I thought it was ominous"

"Well, I see," he said with a smile, poured us tea, and said no more.

I was anxious, and he didn't tell me what the reason was for a long time, and when I asked him again, he smiled and said four words, "The time has not come..."

Master Yang patted my hand and said, "If the real person doesn't want to say, don't ask"

I depressedly said "Okay, okay"

But I'm still very happy, we all gave up, but I didn't expect things to turn around, at least Liang Hui was saved, this can be regarded as Liang Hui's blessing, and his life should not be extinguished.

In this way, we stayed in Jiangxi for nearly a month and a half, during which Master Yang got up every day to practice and practiced for 7749 days. However, the spell of borrowing longevity is really difficult to learn, seeing that Liang Hui's deadline is approaching, at the invitation of Master Yang, Ouyang Zhenren decided to go back to Tianjin with us and set up the altar in person...