On the fifteenth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the midyear festival, the midyear festival is a Taoist saying, Buddhism calls the Bon Festival, and the common people call it the Ghost Festival. Ghosts with descendants and descendants go home to receive incense offerings, and orphaned souls wander around, wandering wherever they can find something to eat.

For this legend, of course Wang Xiaobai knows, what he doesn't know is what the third level has to do with ghost energy, Wang Laodao has not said, until the night of the fourteenth day of the first month, Wang Laodao dressed neatly, put on the incense case, and said to Wang Xiaobai: "Xiaobai, the last pass is called Shou**, this pass must be passed, the descendants of the past generations of spiritual officials, every year on July 15, must be guarded on this day." ”

"Master, what do you mean by guarding **? How to abide by the law? Don't you let the wild ghosts appear? ”

"Guarding **, guarding the ghost gate, on the fifteenth day of July, the underworld released not only lonely souls and wild ghosts, but also some ghosts who have not been reincarnated and reincarnated, these ghosts have not been dead for a long time, and it is inevitable to be nostalgic for the world, but the underworld has the laws of the underworld, only on the fifteenth day of July to release the incense, accept the paper money, and then take a look at the relatives of this life, it is merciful, but if you don't return, it is a violation of the laws of the underworld, and we are responsible for arresting them back."

"Ahh Wang Xiaobai always thought that the third level was as difficult as climbing to the sky, and he had to go through a lot of hardships, but he didn't expect that it was just to hold the **, and it didn't sound dangerous, but after thinking about it carefully, he found that this third level seemed simple, but it was not easy, and the difficulty was that he didn't know how many ghosts would be unwilling to return to the underworld.

After death, people return to ghosts, before drinking Meng Po soup, the memory is retained, for the warmth and feelings when they are alive, they are extremely nostalgic, whether it is just dead, or those lonely ghosts and wild ghosts floating in the two worlds of yin and yang, living, is a temptation, a temptation that cannot be resisted, and more than half of them are unwilling to go back?

Can you catch it? Wang Xiaobai pondered and was silent, Wang Laodao saw his troubles, and said softly: "Xiaobai, you don't have to worry too much, there are still a few people who don't understand the rules, let's tell you the truth, last year I guarded **, a city land, only two did not want to return, I caught it back, this year I will take you to guard **, only one county land, presumably there will be less, Xiaobai, this third level is actually to let you know the responsibility of being the inheritor of the Lingguan Dao Law, if I am not there one day, you must keep ** in the mid-year festival every year, this is a duty, but also fateOnly after passing this level can I truly accept you as an apprentice, and you can truly become the successor of the Lingguan Law......"

No wonder Wang Laodao will leave for two days on July 15 every year, it turned out to be doing this, since it is the last level, no matter how difficult it is, you have to break through, not to mention listening to the master's meaning, it is not so difficult, but Wang Xiaobai does not dare to be careless, ninety-nine eighty-one is difficult, don't because of the last trembling thing, check the equipment, a spiritual official token, three yellow runes, yellow runes are drawn by Wang Laodao, just draw six, obviously he thinks that this year's **, unruly ghosts, will not exceed six.

Wang Laodao explained to Wang Xiaobai the rules of keeping **, and began to burn paper, Wang Laodao burned paper quite level, not the folk kind of drawing a circle on the ground and chanting a few words to burn the paper, but first burn incense, five incense, here to say a few words, burning incense is not indiscriminate, usually burning three, Taoist three incense means three Qing, Buddhism three incense, indicating the body, mouth and mind, five incense is for ghosts, such as Baojia Xian and other immortals to burn four incense. And in the process of burning incense, you can see the blessings and misfortunes, show the good and the bad, there are twenty-four incense spectrums, interested friends can check it themselves.

Wang Laodao lit five incense sticks first, spread a yellow charm in the basin in front of him, the yellow charm was a white candle on it, the paper money in his hand was thrown on the fire one by one, and at the same time chanted the incantation, Wang Laodao burned paper very beautiful, it was simply an art, the paper money flew to the flame, and it did not fall to the ground after burning, but burned quickly, turned into fly ash, and scattered with the wind.

After Wang Laodao recited the incantation, while burning the paper money, he said to Wang Xiaobai: "I burned the paper money with Tai Chi kung fu, using soft and rigid strength, you can also try it!" ”

Burning paper can be burned so handsome, Wang Xiaobai is quite admired, of course, I also want to give it a try, next to Wang Laodao sat on the ground, first recited the eight divine mantras, pure heart, clean mouth, clean body, took the paper money handed over by the master, and recited the scriptures: "Taishang mercy, play the subtle secret scriptures, Xuan En sorrow, save the soul of the night, where the sincerity of mourning, will be retribution, now there is the Tao, recommend the dead, extend the grace of the saint, confess the sins of many lives......"

Wang Xiaobai recited the scriptures, learned Wang Laodao to throw out a piece of paper money, using the strength of rigidity and softness, but he couldn't reach the realm, the softness was there, but the strength was not sent, the paper money fluttered in front of him, turned a corner, and fell to his feet, Wang Xiaobai was very embarrassed, just about to pick it up, Wang Laodao said in a deep voice: "There is still a lot of paper money in your hand, what are you afraid of if you fail?" Go on! ”

Wang Xiaobai took a deep breath and continued to throw paper money to burn, in fact, he was not far from the iron basin, the same as Wang Laodao, almost one meter and five distances, but Wang Laodao was thrown easily and freehand, Wang Xiaobai was either far away, or he was close, the strength was gone, the strength was gone, the strength was gone, the strength was gone, the strength was gone, the strength was not used, the combination of strength and softness, it was really not just talking.

Wang Xiaobai didn't have much paper money in his hand, just more than 20 sheets, but these more than 20 pieces were thrown off, and they didn't burn into one, but the paper money was thrown all over the place, Wang Laodao still looked calm, throwing the paper money one by one, and said lightly: "Pick up all the paper money that was thrown away, and still sit in the original place, continue!" ”

Then go on, Wang Xiaobai picked up the paper money on the ground, sat back in the original place, still threw paper money one by one, or none of them could be thrown on the iron plate, Wang Laodao seemed to be demonstrating to him, playing more slippery, the paper money was thrown out, some were as fast as lightning, but when it reached the top of the candle, it would suddenly stop, and some of the paper money was thrown slowly like goose feathers floating, but it could always come to the iron plate and be lit.

Wang Xiaobai couldn't cry or laugh, and wanted to say to Wang Laodao, "Master, I know that I am far worse than you, so I don't need to slap my face like this?" ”

I think so, but I can't say that, or throw it one by one...... After throwing it for an hour, there was a candle that looked like a dot and burned on the top of the iron plate, Wang Xiaobai couldn't help cheering, but found that the paper money he threw was listless when burned, and it did not fly around, but fell directly into the iron basin.

"First intention, then force, you don't realize it, what's the use of force?"

Wang Xiaobai...... Throwing off the paper money for two hours, the sky is getting darker and darker, the strange thing is that Wang Laodao burned half a white candle in the iron basin for two hours basically did not change, Wang Xiaobai did not give up, according to Wang Laodao's teachings, first intentions and then force, and threw half an hour of paper money, Wang Laodao said in a deep voice: "The time is coming, follow me to meet the ghost!" ”

As he spoke, he took back all the paper money in Wang Xiaobai's hand, threw it out one by one extremely quickly, and then took out a yellow talisman, recited a spell, and threw it above the iron basin. The sound of burning, the white candle was quietly extinguished, the yellow talisman was burned into ashes, still suspended in the air and kept in its original state, Wang Laodao stomped his foot lightly, and the yellow talisman suddenly disappeared, I don't know where to go, Wang Xiaobai blinked, yes, it just disappeared.

Just wanted to ask Wang Laodao, but Wang Laodao dragged him up, and said softly: "The ghost is coming, follow me to pick it up!" ”

Talking and tidying up his clothes, Wang Xiaobai also tidied up his clothes, under the leadership of Wang Laodao, walked to the temple gate of Huangxian Temple, Wang Laodao stood solemnly, Wang Xiaobai followed sideways, after five or six minutes, this clear open space under the bright moon suddenly became gloomy, and a black shadow instantly shrouded the open space of Huangxian Temple.

The sudden black shadow, inexplicable, and then the cold breath emerged, and the temperature of the summer immediately dropped, Wang Xiaobai felt particularly obvious, and then the open temple door became blurred, like a layer of white fog covering the door, and then two spirit flags stretched out from the temple door, both of which appeared in the middle.

The conjuring flag is black and white, the white conjuring flag is on the right, the white one is not a little impurity, the pure white, the black one is on the left, it is also black translucent, one white and one black symbolizes a yin and a yang, after the two conjuring flags appeared, slowly moved to both sides, and then Wang Xiaobai saw two ghosts, one snow-white, one pitch black, wearing a high pointed paper hat.

Behind the two ghosts, there is a man in a red official robe, who is also in his thirties, the costume of the Ming Dynasty, and the hat and wings, in addition to his pale face, he is still very handsome, not worse than a star, but he has a beard.

The official was holding a roll of bamboo slips in his hand, and when he saw Wang Laodao, he arched his hand and said, "Wang Lingguan, can you still guard a city this year?" ”

Wang Laodao made a Taoist standard bow, and said softly: "Judge Jin, don't come to be safe, bring apprentices this year, it's inconvenient to stay away, just guard a county here, and get five hundred places!" ”

It turned out to be a judge, Wang Xiaobai's eyes widened, the judge is the god of the underworld, and it is also divided into ranks, and the chief judge is located in the palace of the Son of Heaven in Xudu, and is responsible for judging the ghosts who came to the underworld. The four major civil and military judges in the palace of the king of Yama belong to the Division of Rewarding the Good, the Division of Punishing the Evil, the Department of Yin Law, and the Division of Inspection. The four most famous judges are: the Division of Rewarding the Good, the Division of Punishing the Evil, the Division of Inspection, and the Judge Cui.

There are many small judges under the four divisions, in addition, there are also judges in the Chenghuang Office, and those who do real things belong to the middle-level leaders in the prefecture, and I don't know which division and that government the golden judge in front of me who looks kind and angry.