Chapter 70: A Good Man

Feng Qiyun told Cha Wenbin that no organization or powerful individual wants to see another person in this world who can take a leadership position in the spiritual realm. Religion and politics, the two seem to be incompatible, but they are constantly entangled all over the world, for whose faith is true, whose main god is orthodox, and who does not hesitate to break out in killing and even war, the high degree of unity in the spiritual realm is based on one premise: mythology.

Scientific interpretive myths are stories created orally by the people collectively to express the worship of superpowers, struggles, and the understanding and imagination of the pursuit of ideals and cultural phenomena. Religion, on the other hand, is a cultural phenomenon that has emerged in the development of human society to a certain historical stage, and belongs to the special ideology of society.

In ancient times, due to man's unknown exploration of nature and the expression of man's pursuit of immortal liberation, he believed that there was a supernatural mysterious force or entity outside the real world, which made people awe and worship the mystery, thus leading to the belief cognition and ritual activity system.

Religious mythology, on the other hand, is a legend formed by absorbing mythological characters and events in the process of religious development, and it also belongs to a special ideological embodiment. Its characteristics are very obvious, both depicting a world ruled by gods, and believers have to believe in them in order to be protected by mythological characters, which is often said by the common people is called belief is spirit, and non-belief is nothing is easy to explain.

Although myths are ubiquitous, they are too far away, and more and more people think that myths are just fabrications, and those characters are just beautiful imaginations, which is a development of religion in the new age, and people believe in religion and obey the teachings from the good side of their religion. For example, in Taoism, there are very few people who refine pills and cultivate immortals, but more and more people attach importance to those philosophies in the origin of Taoism and use it in their own life and work, in order to try to solve some doubts in their hearts.

The traditional Maoshan Taoist priest is becoming more and more declining in the context of such an era, just ask how many people are willing to believe that a person who is a demon and a monster in his mouth is a person who tells you that your life is controlled by a dead person, of course, there are still many things in this world that cannot be explained by science, but just like many people will raise a topic: since your mouth is full of ghosts, why not catch one and let me see? It's hard to imagine what kind of laughter will happen when Cha Wenbin points to the corner and tells others that there is a ghost there, yes, he can't prove it to most people, because there are many conditions to see ghosts in this world.

A small number of people think that they have encountered something unclean, and they will confide in their relatives and friends, but the result is often that the defendant is dazzled or hallucinated, they are annoyed and helpless and afraid, and they see those horrible things wandering around them. It was at this time that the Taoist priests came forward, but there were fewer and fewer such scenes, because people's anger was slowly increasing, and people's hearts had begun to make the dead ghosts feel afraid.

People are afraid of ghosts for three points, and ghosts are afraid of people for seven points. In our world, in fact, people and ghosts live together, and where there are people, there will be ghosts, but the yin and yang are separated between the two, and living in two worlds, there will be very few opportunities to meet.

Ghosts are actually part of mythology, and the myths that people understand are actually those gods who are high up and have power, which is not true. If there is sunshine, there will be darkness, and if there are immortals, there will be ghosts, Cha Wenbin can not catch ghosts for you to see, but he may become the legendary "fairy". Taoism has never lacked immortals, from Lao Tzu to Jiang Ziya, to Zhang Daoling to Lu Dongbin, too many Taoist people have become gods, and there are too many people in the people who believe in them and offer incense to them, but this is an example. The individual case is a purely accidental phenomenon, which is not enough to cause a large-scale effect, and it is not universal, and only universal beliefs can develop into religions and have a strong influence. However, will Taoism, as a belief that was once extremely universal and listed as a state religion, be swept away again after a thousand years of decay because of the success of one person? The answer is unknown, but it cannot be tolerated!

Cha Wenbin was originally a young man from the countryside who had no desires, and it was Rohmon who forced him to embark on this road step by step, if it weren't for the special fate of their prophet, would it cause Ma Sufeng to compete for it back then, and then would he have embarked on the road of learning. Although everyone can understand the Tao, they have to enter the Tao after all, and this is a very interesting cycle.

"You don't have a choice," said Daoist Jia, "your choice is to pick it up and do what you have to do, this is arranged for you by your fate, and it is also a fulfillment to be able to fulfill the last wish of the people of the previous dynasty." ”

"Shouldn't I wait until I find him and then destroy him?" Cha Wenbin said with a smile: "There are thousands of me who destroy me, so you won't, you need this guide, it's right to destroy it, because its existence is a seed, there will be the possibility of germination at any time, get rid of the seed and everything will be clean, and it is the best policy to strangle any possibility in the budding stage." ”

The face of the Taoist priest who said this was red and white, presumably it did speak to his heart, Cha Wenbin continued: "It is a hope, a seed that continues the Han mythology of the Great Zhou Dynasty, any dynasty will have the day when the curtain ends, and it is only like this when the Tang Dynasty is strong, but faith will not, the gods created the mythical era of Taoism, and now it has only one breath left, this breath is originally not about me, but as a Taoist disciple, I can't watch the day when the curtain ends, A little hope should be left for future generations. But this seed can't be planted by me, I can't bear it so much, and I don't want to bear it, Old Man Jia, you are highly respected and considerate. ”

"You neither go nor agree to destroy it," said Jia Daoshi, "This shows that you are also contradictory in your heart, I am willing to call you brother, people need to go through many choices in this life, if I can choose, before this, I am not willing to take the lives of my relatives, but this is my duty I cannot escape." Your duty is determined by God, the sky is the greatest, I can understand you, but God may not be considerate of you, if this matter does not work, will there be a second Cha Wenbin? No, you're the only one, but will Rohmon let them go? I don't think so. ”

"Threatened?" The fat man sneered: "If you can't win, you will threaten, it's an old trick, it's not your family who has the final say in the world, and now it's not the old society anymore, the people are the masters." ”

"Of course I believe that you have this ability," Cha Wenbin said, "and my family, right?" ”

Jia Daoshi did not deny that as a leader, if he did not cooperate, there would be no need to survive, Luo Men has always done what he said, and now Chajia Wulipu does not know how many pairs of eyes are staring at that small house.

"You never know how to respect other people's choices." Cha Wenbin sighed and said: "It's so strong, if you are too angry, you will hurt yourself after all, just follow your wishes, I will find it, and then destroy it, although our accounts have not been cleared, but I don't want to have any more entanglements, give me the white flag." ”

Feng Qiyun pulled his clothes and said, "You really think about it?" ”

Cha Wenbin nodded and said, "Think about it, if a prophecy can determine the life and death of a faith, then the belief itself is fragile. What they are afraid of is exactly what I am not afraid of, the value of existence lies in whether it is valuable in itself, just like the Taoist priests of Maoshan will be eliminated after all, when the human heart is more terrible than the ghost, what else do we Taoist priests do? The demons and monsters have long avoided it, and those mass graves in the cemeteries have long become new factories and new houses under the violence of machinery, and the ghosts are not even as good as livestock, so what is the use of this faith? ”

At a certain point in the development of anything, it will die out, and something will emerge to replace it, and this is true of matter, and the same is true of spirit. This is a kind of sadness, a kind of helplessness, but we have to admit the fact, people have long ceased to be afraid of ghosts, and religion itself is precisely to make people afraid, because you are afraid so you will kneel in front of the gods and ghosts, because you are afraid of losing so you pray for it, because you are afraid of punishment, so you pray for forgiveness, when one day this fear itself is gone, and there are only interests and rights in people's hearts, anything that stands in front of him will no longer arouse any fear.

"I'm leaving." Cha Wenbin looked at them and said, "Brothers, your task has been completed, and now it's my turn." ”

"What do you mean?" The fat man said, "Are you going alone?" What are you kidding, what is our relationship, when did you abandon your comrades? ”

"That's right," said Daoist Jia, "only he can go, and I am no exception, your mission has been completed, just wait here with me." ”

"Listen to him." Cha Wenbin looked at Feng Qiyun, Ye Qiu and the fat man and said sincerely: "Maybe this is the last time we will meet, please remember that you once had a friend named Cha Wenbin, he didn't have any great skills, and he couldn't bring glory and wealth to his friends, but he had a wish, that is, not to hurt again." If you respect him, then please leave him, a lonely star will not bring you good luck, I also promise you, I will live well, be an ordinary ordinary person, we are brothers, we are friends, this is enough, if you can hope for anything, I think, there is only one sentence, Cha Wenbin is still an upright and good person after all. ”