Chapter Twenty-Eight: Spiritualism
"Where's the Fu?" Uncle Zhang stretched out his withered palm, lifted my collar, looked at it for a moment, and then frowned, and muttered in a low voice. Immediately afterwards, he opened my eyes with his fingers, and after carefully observing it for a moment, he exhaled heavily and said, "Died in the early hours of last night, the cause of death, excessive panic, and heart stagnation. ”
"That's right, when we got up this morning to tell him to leave, we found him dead for a long time, as if he had a nightmare, and as if he had died suddenly. We don't want to bury him in the wilderness, and we heard that he also has a sister, so we have been taking him with us" Liu Yanming wanted to speak and stopped.
"I'm dead, no wonder they can't see me or hear me, but am I a ghost now? Hehe. ”
After listening to Zhang Bo and Liu Yanming's words, I completely understood, it turned out that I was dead, and my body was lying on the wooden cart. I smiled helplessly, and stopped talking to them, no more futile struggles. It's just that when I think of Momo's smiling face in my mind, there is an indescribable pain.
"Well, forgive my brother."
I looked up to the sky and sighed, but unfortunately no one could hear it but myself.
"Tell me about everything we've been doing since we separated." Uncle Zhang interrupted Liu Yanming's words.
You Liang is the most shrewd and has the clearest ability to express himself, so he immediately stood up and told us and Uncle Zhang from the time we parted from the mountains to the scene when we met again.
After You Liang finished speaking, Zhang Bo regretted and said: "It's me who is too careless, it has been rumored for hundreds of years that there is often a small two inns in the barren mountains near Qiaoshan in Shaanxi, and there is a fierce ghost in the inn, called the shop Xiaoer, who is waiting for the opportunity to treat those human beings who are lost in the deep mountains." But no one who enters this inn can live, and you go in four and come out three, I'm afraid it's because the shopkeeper is seriously injured. Now that it has absorbed Ye Xiaozi's yang energy, it will definitely be able to heal tonight, if you don't leave here by then, I'm afraid your life will not be guaranteed. ”
"No wonder we feel like we're still in this meadow when we keep walking, are we already ghosting the wall?" You Liang is clever.
"That's right, when it gets dark, you will go back to the Little Er Inn, and when the time comes, what awaits you will be endless fear and death." Zhang Bodao.
"It turns out that Ye He's life is here, no wonder he came out of the mountain range, his face was so unbearable, and he finally ended up with a tragic death." Liu Yanming sighed, and then asked, "That Uncle Zhang, that shopkeeper has not changed for hundreds of years, it should be extremely powerful." ”
"Fierce, very fierce." Uncle Zhang nodded and said, "It is rumored that hundreds of years ago, there was an inn in a small village under the Beiqiao Mountain in Huangling City, Shaanxi, and the shopkeeper of the inn was an old man with a mother-in-law and a beautiful daughter. It's just that the shopkeeper is a violent temper, usually always sprinkle his anger on the shopkeeper's body, and whip him with a wooden board at every turn, finally, a few years later, the shopkeeper's second can no longer bear the torture of the shopkeeper, and on a dark night, the shopkeeper's family of three was brutally killed, made into meat buns, and sold to passing villagers. Soon after, Xiao Er's behavior was exposed, which completely angered the village name, so the villagers burned down the entire inn with a fire while Xiao Er was asleep, and in the end, Xiao Er also died in the fire. ”
"The Ghost Scroll" has a saying: Qi, obsession, the catalysis of ghosts, resentment, hatred, yin, evil, etc., all of which can catalyze evil ghosts. And this shopkeeper, that grievance can't be dispersed, so he turned into a powerful ghost, for the sake of the world, now hundreds of years have passed, and the Tao should be very good. Uncle Zhang continued.
"In this way, how did Ye Yi die? There is not a single wound on his body. You Liang asked.
"Scared to death, his expression before death is the best evidence." Zhang Bo said, "Last time, a Taoist of Baiyun Temple passed by here, and it was rumored that he did it here, and fought with a fierce ghost for three days and three nights, and finally was injured and left. It is precisely because Dian Xiaoer was also injured in this battle, so he can only rely on illusions to scare Ye Xiaozi, who is the weakest among you, to death. ”
"Then what should we do now, if we don't dispose of his corpse, I'm afraid it will stink after tonight." You Liang asked.
"But what about his sister? Although he is dead, at least Ye Yan's body must be buried in his hometown. Liu Yanming and You Liang had a disagreement.
Uncle Zhang interrupted the argument between the two and said, "Don't argue, although Ye Xiaozi is dead, the time has not yet passed, and there is still a chance." ”
"Still a chance?" Liu Yanming and the three of them shouted in unison.
"Hmm." Uncle Zhang nodded, "Because he was scared to death, he is not dead." ”
Seeing that everyone was looking at him with bewildered eyes, Uncle Zhang circled around my corpse three times, and then bowed three times to the east, stared at my forehead, and said: "People have three souls, which can be regarded as a whole, but after being extremely frightened, the three souls and seven spirits will be separated, and the light ones will be delirious, like fools all day long, muddy, and heavy, they will immediately return to the west." Therefore, according to this principle, as long as we can recall the lost soul, he can be resurrected, but there is a time limit, that is, seven days, seven days have passed, if a soul and a soul have not been recalled, then the immortal has descended to earth, and there is really no salvation. Moreover, Ye Xiaozi can be regarded as a guest death, and the soul of a guest death, if he does not recruit back his body, he will not be able to find a way back. In this way, his soul will remain forever in a foreign land, suffering endless misery. Nor can he enjoy the offerings of incense, the offerings of food, and the excesses of the scriptures. He will become the most miserable hungry ghost, forever reincarnated in a foreign place, wandering for a long time, with no hope of reincarnation. ”
"The Conjuring? So miserable? That's still a move, at least, it can make him die with peace of mind. Liu Yanming sighed, the corners of his eyes were full of sadness.
"Well, the conjuring of spirits originated in the Zhou Dynasty sacrifice, which was first used by the ancient Son of Heaven to pray to the gods and bless the world, but then gradually evolved and split, and it was possible to summon the lonely souls and wild ghosts who died in other places, which is one of the Qimen Dunjia and Xuanmen thaumaturgy. Gods and demons are difficult to summon, but lonely ghosts are not. Uncle Zhang bit his thumb, pressed it on my forehead, and drew a pardon character, and he continued, "Among the three souls of heaven, earth and man, the heavenly soul chases the sky, the earth soul belongs to the yin, and the human soul belongs to the corpse." That is to say, once the three souls are separated, the heavenly soul will wander aimlessly in the heaven and earth, and the earth soul will quickly sink into the underworld, and as for the human soul, it will generally not easily leave the corpse. And the seven spirits are the companions of the human soul, where the human soul is, the seven spirits will generally accompany each other, and the distance between them will not be very far. Counting from the time of his death, it has not been a long time until now, so it is very likely that the Heavenly Soul will not be far away, and maybe it will be guarded by the corpse for a period of time, and there is a great certainty that it will be recalled to the body. And this earth soul is a bit tricky, at the moment of death, the earth soul sinks directly into the underworld, which requires the help of a professional Taoist. But now, as long as he can bring back the human soul and the seven spirits, he can be regarded as saving half of his life, and he can be regarded as free from death for the time being, and when the two souls of heaven and earth return to their places, he will be able to wake up. ”
"Oh," the crowd nodded in understanding.
"The Lord of the Seven Spirits, the human soul is in the body, and he returns to his place." Uncle Zhang slapped me vigorously in seven different places, and then used his right hand as a guide to draw a circle in mid-air, and finally hit my man hard. Vaguely, I really seemed to see seven brightly colored bright spots in the distance speeding towards me and rushing into my body.
Uncle Zhang called Taobao King and You Liang to help, took off my shirt, handed it to Liu Yanming, and said: "This area is surrounded by yin qi, so his seven spirits have not been blown away by the wind, and have been surrounding the corpse, so he was quickly recruited back." Little Swallow, come here, now it's up to you whether the Heavenly Soul can be recruited back or not. ”
"Look at me?" Liu Yanming looked stunned, looked at Uncle Zhang, and was stunned for a while.