Chapter 7 Under the Gate of Yin Mountain
After that, I went to his house and lived with this blind old man.
Li Feng once told me that the price I had to pay to join his master was that I had to be lonely all my life, with no children and no daughters. He asked me if I would like to come to his door.
I only asked him one thing about this
"Learn spells from you, will I ever see my sister again!"
Li Feng hesitated for a while before he said, "If there is fate, you can still see it." ”
At that time, I was too young to know the catty in it, I didn't know that this sentence was ambiguous, and the second half of the sentence was that if there was no fate, no one could do anything. "My heart is only left with these three words.
So, when Li Feng looked at me, I nodded resolutely: "I want to worship you as a teacher." ”
After receiving my reply, Li Feng nodded and took out a piece of clothing from the room. He said to me, "Put on this dress, stay in your room, don't come out, and come out again when I call you tonight." ”
I listened to him, changed my clothes, and stayed quietly in my room, not going anywhere. Even when I was hungry, I didn't take half a step out of the room.
This situation lasted until midnight, and Li Feng mysteriously called me out and asked me to follow him.
I didn't know where Li Feng was going to take me, but I still listened to him honestly.
On the way, Li Feng told me, "I'll ask you if there is anyone behind you in a while?" Do you remember to say no, if I ask you if there is someone in front of you? You also have to say no, once you get the answer wrong, then this prostration, you can't complete it. And you can't be my apprentice! Got it? ”
I nodded and wrote down everything Li Feng said.
Following Li Feng, the more and more remote we went, and later, we went up to a very lonely mountain, which was even deeper than the one I sent the stand-in.
Walking through a section of woods that we couldn't touch our fingers, gradually, we reached the top of the mountain.
Li Feng walked in front of me, and suddenly, he turned his head sharply and asked me, "Is there anyone behind you?" ”
I shook my head decisively and said no
He asked me again, "Is there anyone in front of you?" ”
This time, I was stunned, because there was indeed a person standing in front of me, and this person was Li Feng. Under the conditioned reflex, I wanted to say yes, but suddenly, I remembered Li Feng's words, and I couldn't hold back the words that I was about to say, shook my head and said no.
Li Feng nodded with satisfaction and said to me, "Since there are none, then let's go down the mountain!" ”
I was said to be blind, and I followed him back in a circle. I wondered in my heart, apprenticeship, is it so simple to end?
Of course not, this is actually just one of the preludes to apprenticeship. It's just that I didn't understand it when I was young, and I later learned that this is one of the ways to inherit the Absolute Sect.
Whenever the master of the Sect wants to take in an apprentice, he will lead you to a mountain where no one is around. This process cannot be seen by anyone, especially the woman. After you reach the top of the mountain, the master will ask you, is there anyone in front of you? You have to say no, which means that you don't recognize your ancestors. When he asked, do you say is there anyone behind? You must also say no, meaning the last.
When Li Feng finished asking these words, he led me down the mountain.
When I got home, Li Feng led me into the room, and in the room, there was a small altar, and on the altar, there were three wooden signs. They are the Lord of Yinshan, the King of Ghost Power, and the Emperor Pangu. Strangely, this altar was placed directly on the ground, and was not enshrined on the table in a splendid manner like the gods I had seen every day
Li Feng told me that these three are the gods enshrined in the Yinshan Dharma Sect, and the one in the middle is the ancestor of the Yinshan faction, the ancestor of Yinshan. Due to the Yin Mountain Sect's extreme emphasis on earthly qi, most of the people dispatched were the gods of the Netherworld. Therefore, the altar must be set up on the ground and grounded. You can't stay three feet off the ground. This kind of altar is called the lower altar, and it is also called the altar of the underworld.
Li Feng asked me to kneel three times and bow nine times towards the altar, took out a cinnabar pen, and enshrined the religion for me.
Conferring the Confession is the way of inheriting the folk teachings.
In the industry, there is always such a saying.
This sentence is called "Spread a word of truth, and spread ten thousand books falsely." This means that even if you read hundreds of books at home, a thousand copies of the Fa will not be as effective as a single sentence of the master. Even if you draw the talisman vividly, but without the seal of the grandfather, you always draw a blank piece of paper.
The difference between Fajiao and Taoism is that the spells of Fajiao are extremely easy to learn. When the master wants to give the apprentice a certain spell, he only needs to draw a talisman in his hand, or tell the ancestor to pass it orally, or draw a talisman on the apprentice every time he passes on a spell. After a period of diligent cultivation, the apprentice can use it.
In the inheritance of the folk Taoism that I am familiar with, there are the following four ways to teach.
The first is the hand, the master draws the flower in the hand, and the apprentice's palm is the palm of the opponent's palm, and each spell draws a talisman.
The second is oral exaltation. When the master wants to pass on a certain spell to the apprentice, he only needs to teach the mantra and the words, and then tell the ancestor that the spell has been passed on to a certain disciple, and a certain disciple can use it. However, this method of teaching is rarely used. The reason for this is that this method of teaching is not available to practitioners who are not highly skilled. If the skill is insufficient, the words spoken will not work, and the apprentice will not be able to use spells, and will be considered a liar. And the masters who dare to use this way have reached a certain level of cultivation. Everything they say creates cause and effect, and everything they do is heard by God. Therefore, people who have cultivated to this state are usually indifferent in their temperament, and they are very cautious in what they say and do.
The last two are more special, one is bloody, and the other is sealed.
The blood is connected by blood, and it is passed on from father to son. The apprentice and the master each cut through the palm of their hand, and their palms were opposite, and the blood was connected. The master-apprentice who uses this way of teaching is usually a father-son relationship. Of course, there are also relationships that are not father-son. If the master chooses to teach you in this way, then congratulations, it proves that you have regarded you as a son in the master's heart, and he will teach you the skills of his life without reservation.
And sealing, as the name suggests, is to draw a spell on the body. Most of these methods exist and are heavily armed. For example, the Meishan Division Gongjiao who controls the "Five Rampant Soldiers", the Lushan faction that controls the "Five Battalion Soldiers", the Maoshan faction that controls the Maoshan Soldiers, or the Yinshan faction who is in charge of the "Five Yin Soldiers" like Li Feng.
Because the soldiers and horses here do not refer to people, but to ghosts. If you want to control ghosts, you first have to ensure your toughness and defend yourself. If you don't have one or two crafts, or magic weapons to protect yourself, you will be invaded by ghosts, and the end will be that the spell will not be used, and you will harm yourself first. Therefore, among these sects, sealing is especially important.
And Li Feng gave me the edict, using the last one, he made me kneel in front of the altar, painted a spell on my body, played a sparse text, and told the Yinshan patriarch and the gods.
Then, he sent me a stone to hide the soul and set up a sign, and this brand is called the stone to hide the soul card. In the eyes of the Taoist priest, the Hidden Soul Card is his second life, and nothing can compare with it.
The Tibetan Soul Card was set up by the folk Taoist priests when they entered the house. It was set up by the master in order to prevent the apprentice from having bad intentions and using the law to harm others. For example, the old man Chen who learned Maoshan as he just said. The master abolished his cultivation, not like a movie, dotted a few points on his body, slapped a few times, and his cultivation was gone. Instead, he directly broke his Hidden Soul Card and brought his cultivation back to zero.
Therefore, it is not false to say that the Hidden Soul Card is the second life of the Taoist priest.
That night, Li Feng held the sign with a solemn expression and told me the following precepts with a solemn expression
First: "Deceive the teacher and destroy the ancestors, kill each other with the same door, and you will break the hidden soul"
Second: "Those who do not pay attention to cause and effect, show the law and hurt others, and break the soul,"
Third: "Spread the Yinshan method to those who are not right, and break the soul." ”
Fourth...... When he said the fourth, Li Feng's eyes crossed a touch of gloom, and then he said categorically to me: "In the future, if you see the king of Thai ghost power, you will not be forgiven." The tone was calm, as if he was a person from the sect of the Ghost Power King, and he had the same hatred as Li Feng.
But then he shook his head and sighed at me: "Forget it, you don't need to remember the fourth one, it's all past grievances, and he will pass it." Now the people of Yinshanmen, who can still remember the fourth one! ”
Li Feng's words made me very puzzled. Yes, confused. Not to mention his tone of wanting to speak and stopping, and changing hexagrams. Just look at the few god cards on the ground, one of them is dedicated to the Ghost Power King. It can be seen that this ghost power king sect has a deep relationship with my Yinshan faction. Since they are all a family, then why kill each other. Moreover, the first precept is not to deceive teachers and destroy ancestors, and kill each other. Now let me kill my fellow disciples, isn't this a cheat?
Seeing my puzzled look, Li Feng shook his head and said to me: "You sit down, since you have entered the Yinshan Gate, then I will tell you the history of my Yinshan Sect."
I sat down and listened to Li Feng like a story, listening to what I had never heard before.
After I sat down, Li Feng also sat down from the side and took out a small gourd, and in the gourd was the wine he had concocted.
While drinking wine, Li Feng slowly revealed the secrets that no one knew.