Chapter 35: The Road of Merit
cpa300_4(); The old man looked back at me and said, "Hehe, young man, you are still young, you don't understand a lot of things, and many people may not understand merit, merit does not decrease with a person's reincarnation, and the only way to reduce merit is to use it to offset karma. Of course, merit is indeed an important reference for measuring one's reincarnation in the next life. This person has lived for a lifetime, in just a few decades, and the merits that ordinary people can accumulate are only a drop in the bucket for the improvement of the Great Dao. Some people do evil in one life, and the road of reincarnation is not smooth, and they become thieves and thieves, so they become more and more degenerate and evil, and they become livestock in several lifetimes. And some people do good in one lifetime, the path of reincarnation is wide and boundless, and there will be more resources to do greater merit in the next life, so that the cycle of more than ten lives and dozens of lives is the prelude to the reincarnation of the heavenly way. ”
"What is Heavenly Reincarnation? It won't be an immortal, right? Could it be that this path to immortality is the way you are talking about? I immediately asked, I had never touched any of these things, and when I heard the old man's words, I suddenly had a feeling of a sudden opening.
The old man just smiled and said incomprehensibly: "You can't say the truth, you can only wait for yourself to understand it." ”
I sighed, thanked the old man for answering his questions, and began to immerse myself in my own thinking world.
The old man's words touched me a little, ghosts, gods, ghosts, ghosts, The door of Elysium in the Temple of the City God? The Buddha statue Bodhisattva inside the temple? Taoist immortals in Taoist temples? Do these really exist?
I am ashamed to say that as a Taoist family, I actually have doubts about the Taoist immortals, and I vaguely remember that when I once followed the master to learn the Tao, I asked the master if there were any immortals in this world, and the master's answer was somewhat similar to this old man, he said: "Immortals are just a concept for ordinary people, a kind of belief for our Taoist family, and an ideal for those who are on errands in the underworld, I know so much, as for whether there are immortals?" All I can say is that I haven't seen it. If you think there is, then there is, and if you think there is no, then there is nothing. ”
What the master said was very vague, the first said that the underworld errand regarded the gods as ideals, and then said that he could only say that he had not seen it, and then said that I think there is something, and I think there is no none. At that time, this question was so closed, but now listening to the old man's words, I began to feel that this immortal seemed to exist.
It's just that the old man's words also made me understand that even if there are immortals, it's not something I can spy on now. How easy is it to accumulate merit for more than ten lifetimes or dozens of lifetimes? Many people accumulate virtue in the last life and do evil in the next life, and once the merit is reached, they will not be able to attain the Tao for many lifetimes.
"Hehe, I'm not a good person, and I'm not interested in immortals or anything, and this time I was fortunate enough to enter from the Golden Gate, just to get a job in the underworld." After a minute or two of silence, the middle-aged ghost spoke again.
"Huh." The two old men on the left and right just smiled and didn't speak.
After waiting for ten or so minutes, Black Armor almost ordered five more people to enter, and there was still no me among these people, this seems to be in the order of first come, first served, if it goes on like this, I estimate that I will have to wait for forty or fifty minutes.
In all kinds of boredom, I began to try to recite the Yin Gathering Mantra again, the Yin Qi here is very pure and strong, if I can gather Yin here once, it will definitely be much better than the Yin Gathering effect on the avenue in front of the Evil Dog Ridge.
I deliberately found a corner where there were no ghosts and sat down, and began to recite the Yin Gathering Mantra silently in my heart. The surrounding yin qi was slowly gathering with almost imperceptible movements, and the rules here seemed to be much, much higher than those on Huangquan Road and Vicious Dog Ridge.
After I recited the Yin Gathering Mantra once, I could almost only feel the Yin Qi slowly passing through my soul body like a steady breath, but although there was very little movement, I could clearly feel that the effect of the Yin Gathering Mantra here was stronger than that of Huangquan Road more than twice.
And the soul body accepts the yin qi more fluently, the rules of each place in this underworld are different, just like a toddler, adapting to the yin rules on the Huangquan Road is equivalent to learning to climb, adapting to the yin rules on the hungry ghost ridge is equivalent to learning to walk, if you adapt to the rules in this golden gate, then it will be considered to run.
My heart suddenly became happy, if I can complete it in this Yin Gathering once, how strong will it be? No wonder those yin people are coaxing one by one, it turns out that there is such a pure and rich yin environment to stabilize their soul bodies.
The second time, the third time, the fourth time, until I read it twenty times, finally the black armor yin almost reached me, judging from his expression, he seemed to know what I was doing, but he didn't mention it, and he didn't blame me, which made me feel at ease, I don't know if there is such pure yin qi here in other places.
If I have the chance, I will definitely finish a yin gathering here.
This time, the black armor almost ordered five ghosts, after entering the alley, I found that this place is not as simple as it seems on the surface, but the space inside the alley, which looks extremely ordinary on the outside, is very large, five independent gilded rooms are lined up, these rooms are nearly 100 square meters in size, the doors are all open, but the situation inside is not clear.
"You, the first room, you, the second room, you the third .....room," said the black armor yincha looking at the bamboo slip in his hand.
We each nodded and walked into the room assigned by the shadows.
After entering, the environment inside suddenly became clear, the same empty space, seven or eight meters away from the door, there was a golden desk, and behind the desk sat a red-faced judge.
When he saw me come in, he casually said, "Come and talk," and with a wave of his hand, the door behind him closed automatically.
"Yes," I said respectfully, and walked over to him.
"Sit down." The red-faced judge raised his hand again, and suddenly there was a "chair" formed by the condensation of yin qi behind me, and the "chair" looked like a cloud of black smoke, floating behind me.
"Thank you, Judge." I just glanced at the stool that wasn't a stool, and sat down.
The black smoke didn't change even after I did it, not only did it withstand my soul, but I also felt a trace of black smoke invade my dizziness.
I frowned, the sensation made me uncomfortable, as if someone had been touching my buttocks, and I looked at the red-faced judge who had closed his eyes and didn't dare to say anything.
After a while, the red-faced judge opened his eyes, and he said with a smile: "I already know the good fortune and karma of your life, and now I will read out the arrangements for you in the underworld. If there's anything you don't understand, you can interrupt me. ”
"Please let the Judge make it clear." My soul is straight, and I am ready to listen to the judgment.
The red-faced judge glanced at me with a smile and said: "First of all, congratulations on completing the task given to you by the underworld, getting rid of several evil paths in the yang world, and making a part of your contribution to maintaining the order of the yang world. You can choose to accumulate merit by doing good deeds, punishing adultery, and eliminating evil, or you can live an ordinary life. Do you understand? ”
I nodded and said, "Understood, what is my second choice?" ”
The red-faced judge snorted and continued: "The second choice is very simple, according to the characteristics of your soul body and the good nature that you still retain, you can choose not to go to reincarnation and directly hold a position in the underworld, if you want to choose the second one, I will report it, and for half a year, the underworld will arrange a position for you." ”
"The prefecture holds a position? Is it possible to wander away from the soul of the yin and yang world? I blurted out.
The red-faced judge shook his head and said: "This depends on the arrangement above, there are few positions that can be vacated in the underworld, so it will take half a year, as for the specific duties, it may be the yin of the underworld to maintain order, or it may be the yin of the soul in the yang world, or those prison officials in hell, these positions are possible." ”
"Your Excellency, can I make a choice after half a year?" I continued.
The red-faced judge shook his head and said: "If you want to choose the second one, you must make a choice immediately, otherwise you will abstain from the right and can only choose reincarnation, because you have more merits, so the yin life you need to keep is much shorter than that of ordinary yin spirits, only three years, as long as you stay in the ghost world castle for three years, you can be reincarnated and reincarnated as a new person." ”
(There are a lot of things today, this is the second update, and the third update has not started yet, but I try to write it, and the old man will see it tomorrow, good night!) )