Chapter Sixty-Four: Ancient Rituals Between Southern Witches

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"What's that?" I asked.

Zhang Hefang saw my reaction, smiled himself, and said: "Mr. Fan, you must feel that things are very chaotic now, now, let me tell you the reason, probably, you can know what is going on." ”

"That's great, I'll hear you." I said.

Zhang Hefang pondered for a moment and continued: "However, to be honest, I don't actually know if that ritual really exists and whether it is really effective, but, at least, according to the current development, that ritual may indeed awaken that person. ”

Then, Zhang Hefang told me about a secret that only a few people in the Nanwu Group knew about that had been passed down for thousands of years. The Wuzong in his mouth, I am more accustomed to calling it Xuanyi people.

Zhang Hefang said that thousands of years ago, this Xuanyi man did help the rise of many ancient civilizations in China and even the world. Although it is said that this Xuanyi man is an almost god-like existence, since he still has a physical existence, he cannot avoid accepting the fact of the cycle of life and death.

This surprised me, I once thought that this Xuanyi person, even his own gender can be changed at will, how can he be bound by a small matter of life and death. However, Zhang Hefang told me that this Xuanyi man is not actually immortal, but his so-called reincarnation of life and death is not the reincarnation of sentient beings. He has his own set of reincarnation, that is, he has created a method for himself to reincarnate.

The life span of the Xuanyi people is very long, but there will be an end to the day.

In the stone murals of Yunnan, the Xuanyi people used to have six attendants. These attendants easily remind me of the bronze coffin bearers of the ancient mountain village of the Qin brothers. However, Zhang Hefang explained to me that these six people can be called the "split soul" of the Xuanyi people in a sense, here, Zhang Hefang made a lot of explanations to me, and I listened to it for a long time before I finally understood, it turned out that, to put it bluntly, the six waiters were actually the same as the Xuanyi people, or rather, they were similar to the doppelgangers of the Xuanyi people.

The six attendants can be referred to as Liuhe or Liuyu Attendants. As soon as I heard about the Six Emperors or Liuhe, I easily thought of some Taoist theories. And Zhang Hefang did explain that what is said in Taoism, whether it is Liuhe or Liuyu, it is all related to these six attendants.

Legend has it that whenever the Xuanyi people are about to die, they will summon the six royal attendants to come to him, divide their souls into six parts and pass them on to the six imperial attendants, and after a thousand years, the six imperial attendants will gather together to recall the Xuanyi people, that is, to resurrect the Xuanyi people.

At this point, I interrupted, "No, according to what you mean, if these six people die, wouldn't all the rituals and other things have no effect?" ”

Zhang Hefang shook his head and said, "These six people will always exist." ”

"What do you mean by that?" I asked.

Zhang Hefang replied: "These six imperial attendants will all live forever in different forms. ”

"Unreasonable, unreasonable." I couldn't explain the logic of this, and said, "How can the Xuanyi people make their attendants immortal, but they can't?" ”

Zhang Hefang said to me: "Mr. Fan, I think you have also seen those human snakes and monsters in the old man's cave, in this world, there is indeed an immortality technique, but there is no perfect immortality technique in this world. Whether to live forever in the body or immortalize the spirit is a difficult choice. You think that the six royal attendants seem to be very powerful, but in fact, they are also quite painful. ”

"But, what you just said I was one of the six imperial attendants, but why didn't I feel it? I didn't feel any pain, and besides, I didn't have any immortality, I was getting older all the time. ”

Zhang Hefang lit another cigarette and said to me, "Didn't you also see the X-ray I gave you?" ”

As soon as I heard this, I chuckled in my heart, and I had a vague premonition, but I couldn't say it, or rather, I didn't dare to admit it.

Zhang Hefang continued: "You will indeed grow old and even die, but your physical body is immortal, and as for the reason, it is very simple, because you are a 'vessel'. ”

"You'd better finish everything in one go." I said.

So, Zhang Hefang gave me the following explanation. And for these explanations, I have to say, I hardly believe it at all, that's incredible.

According to Zhang Hefang. On the X-ray, I had a vague little man-like thing in my stomach, which he called "ontology", which was another name for "dish."

Zhang Hefang said to me that the immortality technique of my body is a kind of so-called physical immortality, that is, no matter how much my physical body is hit, it will still continue to exist. Even my whole body was torn to pieces, but the little man in my stomach was like a little baby, and when my current body was destroyed, that little man would be like a baby, little by little, growing into what I am now, living and dying until a new reincarnation appears.

I am seriously skeptical of these claims. However, Zhang Hefang had no intention of proving anything to me, and looking at his posture, it seemed to show me that I was just stating the facts, and as for whether I believed it or not, it was my own business and had nothing to do with him.

I continued to listen quietly.

Zhang Hefang told me that the so-called Liuhe refers to the six directions, that is, southeast, northwest, and up and down, that is, heaven and earth.

The Six Imperial Attendants are, to some extent, the guardians of the six directions. Zhang Hefang said to me, in fact, Bu Jin is also one of the six imperial attendants, but her immortality method is different from mine, Bu Jin's immortality method is spiritual immortality.

At this time, I interrupted Zhang Hefang and said: "No, it is said that if it is Bu Jin's immortal immortal life, then her body should age, you know so much, you must also know something about Bu Jin's situation, she has never aged at all." ”

Zhang Hefang said: "Mr. Fan, don't worry, listen to me and tell you slowly." First of all, there is one thing that you must be clear, that is, Bu Jin is not a human being. ”

"Holy!" I said with some annoyance: "I don't know how many times I've heard this sentence, so can you give me an explanation, if Bu Jin is not a human, then what is she, is she a ghost?" ”

Zhang Hefang shook his head and said, "She is Gu." ”

As soon as I heard this, I almost fell off the wicker chair and hurriedly asked, "You, what did you say?" Is she Gu? ”

Zhang He nodded expressionlessly, and said softly, "Human Gu." ”

"Human Gu?" I wondered. "Can people also turn into Gu?"

"All things have spirits, and human beings, as the heads of all spirits, can naturally turn into Gu." Zhang Hefang replied.

"My God, Gu can make such a perfect and beautiful girl, I thought that human Gu would be a zombie or something, no wonder her body is always cold, and her body movements are always very stiff and rigid."

Zhang Hefang nodded and said, "What you said is not wrong, since it is a human Gu, there will be a lot of inconvenience in many cases." ”

"There's still something I don't understand." I asked, "Why is Bu Jin in the bronze coffin of that mysterious old village chief?" ”

"It's not a bronze coffin, it's a Gu making vessel."

Subsequently, Zhang Hefang told me that in fact, to a certain extent, Ashuna and Long Bujin are actually the same person. At the beginning, the six imperial attendants in Long Bujin's body (Zhang Hefang called them the earth imperial attendants) actually lived in Ashina's body, which means that Ashuna was the earth imperial attendant. However, as Ashina's body continues to age, her actions become more and more constant, and in order to find a permanent host, Ashuna must find a host that can stay young forever. So, she found the mysterious village, and the village chief of that village was actually a very famous Gu maker in the Southern Witch Realm. His identity as Ashina's natural way, and, at that time, Nanwu's people had already realized that now should be the time for reincarnation to restart, so the old village chief agreed to Ashina's request to make a permanent human Gu for her as the new host of the Earth Imperial Attendant. The production of human Gu was very difficult, and the old village chief even refined himself into it, and then sent six coffin bearers to send the made human Gu to Ashina's Miao Village. After that, Azuna waited for the right time to come, until she finally made a decision, and after that, she began to carry out the spiritual migration, transferring her spirit into Long Bujin's body, of course, it was a very slow process, which lasted for a full thirty years. That's why it didn't take long for Ajuna to die after I picked up Bu Jin.

I heard a chill in my back and said, "No, Bu Jin also said in the old man's cave at the time that we lied to Ashina, if she knew that she and Ashina were actually the same person, then how could she say that?" ”

Zhang Hefang patiently explained to me, "I told you that any form of immortality has its drawbacks. The price of spiritual immortality is that it takes a long time to transfer the host, and after a successful transfer, it takes a long time for the new host to adapt to the new body and recover the original memories little by little. You must have wondered why Long Bujin seemed to know everything well, as if she had been there before, when in fact, she had been there. ”

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