Chapter 4: Legends
Dao verse: Enlightenment transcends life and death, and the true return to heaven is a layman, and the long thinking immortal road is equal, and it is not as good as us to accompany him.
Seeking the art of immortality is the ultimate goal of every person who learns the Tao, the twenty-fourth chapter of "Journey to the West" wrote: Tang Seng four people came to Wuzhuang Temple, because Tang Seng did not know the ginseng fruit and refused to eat, was told by Zhu Bajie to tell Sun Wukong to steal, Zhenyuan Daxian two fairy children found out and scolded them, Sun Wukong was very annoyed, and finally uprooted the ginseng fruit tree, and broke into a catastrophe. During this period, Sha Wujing said that he was not qualified to eat when he was a curtain general. You must know that the ginseng fruit tree blooms once every 3,000 years, bears fruit every 3,000 years, and matures after another 3,000 years. If a person is destined, he can live to be 360 years old when he smells it, and he can live for 47,000 years if he eats one.
It is conceivable that those who are immortals may not have the opportunity to eat, let alone mortals, the content described in "Journey to the West" has a fictional side, but the meaning of immortality to people is even explored by modern medicine.
When it comes to longevity, we have to mention one of China's emperors, Qin Shi Huang. In 219 B.C., he sent Xu Fu to lead 500 boys and girls to the east to the sea in search of the elixir of immortality, but unfortunately he did not wait for him to return until he died. In later dynasties, there were emperors who made alchemy, wanting to live a long life, or even a thousand years old, and even the first sentence of the last dynasty was "Long live long live, long live, long live", so whether it is a god or a mortal, no matter how expensive and good the food and clothing are, it is not as good as a sentence of "long live".
What is the matter with the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb and the secret treasure of immortality in Jiang Ren's mouth, which is also related to Qin Shi Huang, to be precise, it is related to Qin II Hu Hai. After the death of Qin Shi Huang, Qin II Hu Hai understood that Xu Fu would never return, and it was impossible to wait until he died, so at the instigation of Zhao Gao, he ordered officials from all over the country to find the elixir of life for him. After a long time, there was no result, so anxious that Hu Hai summoned Zhao Gao once in two or three days, Zhao Gao was annoyed by the question, and could only hold back a bad idea.
The opportunity also happened to be a genius under Zhao's master, and this priest had seen many people in the border area use the method of raising corpses to revive the dead again, which is the zombie in our mouth, but it is completely different from when he was alive. After decades of research, Fang Shi theoretically came up with an alchemy technique, which is to raise the corpse with the corpse, first find a dead person to feed the corpse blood, maintain the coexistence of popularity and corpse qi, and thus live forever, but this method requires a large number of fresh and freshly dead corpses, so that there can be liquid blood available. After feeding to a certain level, the person is then smelted to obtain the pill, so that the secret treasure of immortality can be obtained, and the living person can live forever after taking it.
Zhao Gao relayed this method to Hu Hai, who of course gladly accepted it, and then killed a large number of innocent people in vain, causing civil complaints and further inspiring uprisings in various places. In order to consolidate his power, Zhao Gao set up Fusu's son Ziying as the emperor and persecuted Hu Hai to commit suicide.
After Hu Hai's death, Ziying was in power, Zhao Gao was executed, and this Fang Shi could not escape the fate of being implicated, but the alchemy was not yet successful. So Fang Shi secretly confessed to his three apprentices and inherited his own business. But it backfired, the dying man sucked too much corpse blood, and the corpse qi turned out to be a demon corpse, becoming uncontrollable, and finally the three apprentices could only work together to seal him in the heavenly sarcophagus, and use a corpse needle to lock his immortal body, and hide it in a secret place, waiting for the capable people in the future to obtain the secret treasure of immortality.
Injured in a battle with a demon corpse, the three apprentices died soon after, leaving behind only a vague chèn, hoping that future generations would enjoy the fruits and obtain the secret treasure of immortality.
Proverb:
The heavenly stone seals the demon corpse, and the ground needle locks the corpse grid;
There is a lonely island in the sea, and the blood moon shines through the stars.
The five elements gather all the corpses, and the bones lead to the funeral lamp;
The stone temple enters the alien, and the secret treasure of immortality comes out.
The news spread far and wide, a spread of ten to hundred, to the end, the tomb where the demon corpse was buried became a thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb passed down by word of mouth, among which there are many bizarre and unbelievable legends, thousands of years have attracted countless tomb robbers to find, but the demon corpse is not an ordinary thief can control, in the final analysis, the tomb robbery is the inside of the weapon, incapable people dare not touch this hot potato, capable people are not worth sacrificing their lives for this, so there is no one to get.
Later, there were many side ways that imitated the methods of refining corpses back then, and similar demon corpses were made, but they never got the so-called secret treasure of immortality.
There is a saying on the green forest road: don't take ill-gotten gains, don't touch things that can't be done, and don't keep those who are not virtuous. Doing what you can is the long-term way, and judging the situation is what a gentleman does.
Until the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a Taoist priest, who watched the stars at night, traveled all over the rivers, determined the specific location of the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb, and decided to eliminate the thousand-year-old demon corpse. He didn't want to solve this matter completely, but he wanted to solve this matter completely, and one day he would be taken by lawbreakers and bring disaster to the village.
This Taoist priest's name is Jiang Youdao, a Taoist priest who cultivates halfway, and his wife, who is also a Taoist priest, worked together to dig the tomb, but both of them underestimated the demon power of the demon corpse, and at the moment when the sarcophagus was opened, his wife was rushed by the thousand-year-old corpse gas, lost her life, and was also infected, making it unrecognizable. In the end, the sarcophagus can only be sealed again, leaving it depressed and unhappy, and there is no good death.
Although Jiang Youdao failed to eliminate the thousand-year-old demon corpse, he recorded the method of eliminating the demon in a book of "Thirty-six Techniques of Taoism", which also included the Taoist techniques he had learned all his life, hoping that his descendants could learn the mystery and live up to his painstaking efforts, and at the same time warned future generations not to touch the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb with luck, in a vain attempt to seize the secret treasure of immortality.
At the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the land of the Central Plains was shrouded in the haze of artillery fire, and the social turmoil was carried out, and the Chinese and foreign forces wanted to profit from it. Especially in Japan, whether it is culture or writing, there are commonalities, the tomb culture of the Central Plains for a long time is very well understood, and many ancient tombs contain extremely valuable Ming vessels, so they excavated a lot, until after the surrender of Japan in 1945, this trend was suppressed.
However, long before the surrender, Japan had a premonition of the future outcome, so it wanted to take all the treasures of the Central Plains before the rout. During the excavation period, I was particularly shocked to learn the news of the secret treasure of immortality from a traitor, and I found a hidden tomb robber, and under the guidance of this master, I calculated the approximate location of the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb. But after being told how powerful this tomb is, it was decided to use the strength of an infantry brigade to excavate the thousand-year-old demon corpse tomb. Unexpectedly, a battle of Midway Island had severely damaged Japan's vitality, and the excavation mission was put on hold for the time being, leaving only a platoon of Japanese soldiers guarding near the tomb, disguised as ordinary people, acting secretively, and it was difficult for ordinary people to distinguish.
Perhaps the heavens could not see what the Japanese army was doing, and a continuous heavy rain washed away the rocks, and all the Japanese troops stationed there were buried, and the matter became a mystery......