Chapter V: Folk Law and Taoism
Li Feng said that I was originally a ghost child, and I was born with the five disadvantages and three defects, so he suggested that I go to the Taoist temple to apprentice, become a Taoist priest, and use the luck of Taoism to protect myself. Of course, Li Feng is also a Taoist, but the Yinshan faction, although he belongs to Taoism, he does not belong to Taoism, but is a popular teaching.
Fajiao is a religion that has its own lineage due to the culture of the folk region, and they do not have a fixed Taoist temple or a fixed place for cultivation, and most of them travel in all directions, relying on the inheritance of masters and apprentices, and are hidden and not visible. Even if there is an incredible legend left in a corner of the folk, you may not know which sect he belongs to.
Quanzhen, Zhengyi, Shenxiao, Qingwei, Jingming, Lingbao, Wudang, these are Taoist Taoism, with fixed Taoist temples and fixed places to preach.
The Lushan School, Meishan Shigongjiao, Huaguang School, Yinshan School, Liuren School, Dasheng Sect, Luban Sect, Maoshan Jiulong Sect, Yaoshan Sect, etc., are all folk Taoist sects, Taoist teachings, hidden in the folk lineage.
Fajiao and Taoism also have their own cultivation systems, and the sects also have their own precepts, the only difference is that Taoism emphasizes Taoism, internal cultivation, and scientific rituals, and its purpose is only one, to ascend to immortals. The Dharma religion attaches more importance to the Dharma and supernatural powers. In the teachings of the law, witchcraft to punish the wicked is often seen. Of course, there are also spells that exorcise evil spirits, transcend the souls, and so on. Different from Taoism's pursuit of the ideal of flying immortals, the magic religion focuses more on the application of magic to reality, and its magic powers all pursue realistic effects, such as seeking wealth and promotion, eliminating disasters and curing diseases, and so on.
Because the Dharma and Taoism have the same magic, there are also "mountain, physiognomy, medicine, life, divination" five arts inheritance, but the ritual and internal cultivation are inferior to Taoism, and also belong to Taoism, so people usually call the Dharma a certain school of Taoism. For example, the Taoist Yinshan School, the Taoist Huaguang School, the Taoist Lushan School, etc., are not called Fajiao. Of course, these are also facts, because the Dharma is originally subordinate to Taoism, and its disciples are also Taoist monks, and the purpose of its cultivation is also to pray for people to eliminate disasters and pray for evil spirits.
The Yinshan method that Li Feng learned is one of the folk teachings, and it is also a congenital teaching.
The so-called absoluteism is one of the five evils and three deficiencies as soon as you enter the door. The five disadvantages are nothing more than "widowhood, widowhood, loneliness, loneliness, and disability." And the three deficiencies are, to put it bluntly, "money, life, and power".
Of course, these five evils and three shortcomings are not unique to the Sect of Absolute Religion, and every cultivator may commit them. Whether it is Taoism that pursues flying immortals, or folk teachings that focus on magic.
However, there are five disadvantages and three shortcomings, and there are also acquired, and the innate saying is that whether to commit or not to commit is only between the thoughts of the cultivator
For example, the old man Chen in the next village who sells clothes in the town, he is a student of Maoshan. Because the shopkeeper on the opposite side made a conspiracy to rob him of his business. Old man Chen secretly got someone's hair and nails and took someone's eight characters. Taking advantage of the defenselessness of others, he detained the soul of his competitor.
After detaining the soul, he wrapped it in a red cloth and threw it into a place overgrown with thorny grass and extremely damp
Since then, the detained shopkeeper's business has really plummeted, not only that, but he has become more and more unlucky, and later, he even had a car accident, lying in bed so angry that he almost had to go to see the king of Hades.
Seeing that the boss got this report, Old Man Chen exclaimed with joy. At this time, something unexpected happened to Old Man Chen, his two sons, one was hit by a basketball and suffered a concussion. One fell off the second bunk bed and actually broke a bone.
Old man Chen remembered his master's teachings when he was studying the Fa. "Don't do evil when you learn the Fa, you must do good in doing the Fa, you have a burden in everything you do, and the five evils and three deficiencies follow you like a shadow."
So, he was busy lifting the ban for the boss. It's just that this old man Chen is not proficient in his arts, and he will only be banned, but he will not lift the ban yet. Later, he invited a master to undo the forbidden spell.
When the master came, he was furious. Although he lifted the forbidden spell for the shopkeeper and released his soul. But at the same time, it also abolished Old Man Chen's cultivation. Later, when the master saw that Old Man Chen seemed to repent, he re-established the Hidden Soul Card and led Old Man Chen into the door again.
Only, what's the use of that? A child is crippled, a child has become a fool, even if the cultivation can come back, Old Man Chen can only spend the rest of his life in remorse.
These are the five disadvantages and three shortcomings. The terrible thing about him is that the retribution is not directly on you, but on your family first. First cut off the luck of the six relatives, and then cut off the lives of the six relatives, and then you have remorse and guilt for your relatives. A person enjoys solitude for a long time.
When you have an evil heart and want to make some ill-gotten gains, you promise others to harm others. OK! Use your relative's luck and life in exchange, and when your relative's qi is exhausted, then extract yours.
When you can't stand the temptation, you use improper methods to change the life of others. It's okay, then pay it with your life, or a part of your body, either you choose to be blind, or you choose to cut off your hands and legs. In short, if you want to be rewarded, you have to give equally.
Therefore, there is always such a saying in the industry, which is admonished by the master to the apprentice
"If you want to stay away from the body with the five disadvantages and three deficiencies, you must know that you must learn the Fa and practice to be good." Like Quanzhen, Tianshi Dao, Maoshan and other Taoism. Including many folk law teachers and apprentices, they will never choose the five disadvantages and three shortcomings before they get started, on the contrary, the master will also warn you not to provoke that thing.
The Yinshan faction is different from them, it is one of the very few innate absolute religions in the folk lineage, the law of Yinshan, the multiple dispatch of Yin soldiers and Yin generals, and its law is extremely yin. He and Lu Banjiao, the plowshare witch family, are known as the three great absolute religions. To get started, you must first choose one of the five disadvantages and three shortcomings before you can practice. It is equivalent to exchanging the price of mana, although the practice is faster than that of the vast majority of Taoist disciples, and the usage is more spiritual. But the premise is that you must first pay the price of five disadvantages and three shortcomings.
In the past, I also tried some disciples of his sect, and after learning the Yinshan Method, they became their own lineage. It also adheres to the Yinshan faction's way of accepting apprentices, so it once made people mistakenly understand that cultivation has to pay a great price, and cultivators also have five disadvantages and three shortcomings.
Perhaps, it is precisely because the Yinshan Sect is a congenital absolute sect, or perhaps, Li Feng has no intention of accepting disciples. That's why he wants me to worship a certain Taoist temple, even if it's just reciting scriptures and doing rituals all my life, and I don't know how to use magic powers.
It's just that what he never expected was that because of me, he was involved in a period of cause and effect and had to take me as an apprentice.
This cause and effect is caused by my sister. Li Feng didn't elaborate on the reason, perhaps, it had something to do with the Taoist robe my sister was wearing. From Li Feng's words, I can guess. This robe is not Li Feng's cover on my sister. It was my sister who sucked it up automatically. But Li Feng didn't want to reveal too much of the hidden truth
Although Li Feng had the intention of accepting an apprentice, he said that fate had not yet arrived, and he could not accept me as an apprentice. Next, he stayed at my house for two days, installed an altar for my house, prepared things, and helped me return to the stand-in.
On the altar, what is enshrined is not a god. It's a clay puppet, this doll is the sister wrapped in a Taoist robe.
Li Feng said that although my sister has been recovered, it is difficult for any aborted baby spirit to be reincarnated if she is resentful in her heart. Moreover, this is a sin committed by my mother herself, and it is up to my mother to repent and ask for forgiveness.
For my sister to be reincarnated as soon as possible, and for this cause and effect to be liquidated as soon as possible. Li Feng installed an altar for my family and enshrined my sister, almost every morning and evening. My mother would regularly offer incense on the altar and recite scriptures to surpass my sister.
The next night, Li Feng took me to the mountains to return my boy's life.
According to what Li Feng said, I should have returned to the Yellow Spring when I was born 100 days ago, but I was mixed with the cause and effect of my mother and sister, so I survived until now. Now that the cause and effect are clear, Heaven will come back and take away my ghost boy.
Therefore, he had to give me my child's life so that I could live and he could fulfill his promise.
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At night, when night fell quietly, Li Feng took me and set off.
Behind the two of us, followed by a group of paper dolls, yes paper dolls. They were neatly arranged behind the two of us, a row on the left, a row of green clothes, and a row of white clothes on the right.
The feet of these paper figures never landed, and they followed us lightly with our footsteps. If you don't look at it, you won't be able to find that these paper figures are connected to a thin red line, and the other end of the red line is holding Li Feng's hand
It's a trick, but in my eyes, it's magical. Even with the red thread in the hand, I can't imagine how a thread can control these paper figures to life, just like living people.
The night is getting gloomy and gloomy.
There was no longer half a figure on the path of the village, and it was quiet. Even the insects that can be heard and seen on weekdays have not lost their traces, and the already quiet village seems more quiet, which is quiet, revealing weirdness and making people feel uneasy.
Even the moon hid in the depths of the clouds, I don't know if it was because of shyness or fear. Everything was quiet, except for the dogs of the families at the head of the village, for some reason, barking particularly wildly and exhaustively this night.
Suddenly, the leaves of the trees in the flat ground fluttered gently, and a cold air came from the soles of my feet to my heavenly spirit cover. Li Feng told me that this is the rhythm of those things, the yang wind blows on the face, and the yin wind rises from the feet.
I clutched the talisman that Li Feng gave me in my arms. Before sending the stand-in, Li Feng had told me that when my mother and sister's cause and effect were sorted out, there would be a lot of things coming to me, it could be an ownerless lonely soul, or it could be an errand from the underworld. They are all here to take my life.
Therefore, this is a stand-in, and the delivery is also extremely thrilling, and halfway through, it is very likely to kill countless Cheng Cheng to bite the gold. It's just that Li Feng doesn't care, the Yinshan faction is already a heavy ghost and a soldier, when it comes to controlling ghosts, the Taoist sect in the world is not as good as the Yinshan faction, if even the ghosts are afraid, then Li Feng doesn't have to mess up.
Besides, the paper figures behind the two of us are not vegetarians, these are all soldiers and generals dispatched by Li Feng, the row on the left is the Dongyin soldiers who were transferred by the order of the Eastern blue-faced ghosts, and the row on the right are the Western Yin soldiers who were transferred by the orders of the Western white-faced ghosts. They are all ghosts, but these ghosts all obey Li Feng's orders.
"Whew...... Hu ...... "Some hazy figures appeared on the path in front of them, and they were standing not far away.
At this time, Li Feng's footsteps also stopped, and he sneered towards the void: "I'll give you a minute, and after a minute, you "headless ghosts" won't disappear, don't blame me for beating you to the ground." ”
Li Feng's words were full of threat, but his words didn't seem to be of any use, and the gray shadow in front of him not only did not decrease, on the contrary, there were more and more.
"If you don't see the coffin, you won't shed tears!" Li Feng snorted coldly, pinched an inexplicable posture in his hand, and with an edict, several of the two rows of paper figures behind him slowly burned with the wind, and I seemed to feel that something floated out of these paper figures.
When the paper figure slowly burned out, the trail was quiet again.
"Let's go," Li Feng waved his hand and called out to me
In this way, the remaining paper figures behind us followed us slowly, all the way smoothly, to the uninhabited mountain behind the village.
Li Feng found a small corner, took out a scarecrow from his baggage, put red paper on the straw man, and put on a five-color coat.
On the red paper of the straw man, my eight characters and where I live are written, and this scarecrow is my stand-in.
Li Feng asked me to kneel down and bow three times and nine times to this straw man, he slowly burned the stream money on the side, and stood up again, first worshipping in the four directions of southeast, south, northwest, and northwest, and then turning back to the middle of the table Shuwen, and I didn't know what the gods were babbling in his mouth
It wasn't until I kowtowed until I didn't want to kowtow anymore that Li Feng told me to stand up. He took a cinnabar pen and put a little bit on the little man's forehead. With a solemn expression in his mouth, he said: "One is the road to heaven, and the other is the path to the netherworld, I am the master of Yin Mountain, and I can go to the underworld for nine days......"
The last edict seemed to be shouted out. When the edict fell, I felt a tightness in my chest, and I felt as if I was going to vomit.
At this time, Li Feng stood with his hands behind his back and shouted into the air: "The debt has been paid off, it's time to collect things, from the previous dust and debts, don't disturb each other again." ”
After shouting for a while, Li Feng picked me up and walked down the mountain slowly.
I was lying in Li Feng's arms, and my ears seemed to hear the sound of chains crackling, and I got out of my arms and looked behind me. At this time, I saw a scene that I could never forget, those paper figures we brought with us, like leaky balloons, quickly suffocated. And in the place where the stand-in was burned just now, there was a black shadow covered in chains, biting the straw man, so frightened that I quickly shrank into Li Feng's arms again.