Zheng Yan asked why he planted peach trees, the little monk said he could eat peaches, why he planted ginkgo trees, and the little monk said he could eat ginkgo seeds; Zheng Yan asked why there was a small pond in the peach forest, and the little monk blurted out the statement that he ate fish, and then quickly covered his mouth, looked at Zheng Yan and smiled, and said that it was for watering trees, the pond does not freeze all year round, the water in it has never been used up, and I don't know how deep it is, the master and brother will not let it go down, even if it is hot and unbearable in summer.

Zheng Yan looked at this small pond a little distracted, and remembered a little girl who was always wearing a pink skirt and was brainwashed by Yingyue, saying that she wanted to be a maid for herself.

In the early years, the clan's land property had not yet been handed over to the treasury, and the grandfather had a peach orchard on the outskirts of Luoyang, and there was a small pond in the middle like this peach forest here. The little girl was the same year as Zheng Yan, and she forgot where her hometown was, but there were relatives who worked long in the peach orchard of the eldest grandfather, and remembered that the family was plagued by the plague and her relatives died, so the long-term worker relative placed the little girl in the peach orchard.

The first time I saw her was in the spring when she was eight years old, when the peach blossoms were in full bloom, the eight-year-old girl was picking peach blossoms under the peach tree by the pond, Zheng Yan followed a few cousins to play there, and a few cousins stopped her when they saw the little girl's movements, the little girl was not afraid or spoken, so she looked at a few people directly, which somewhat angered a few children who were not sensible, so someone raised his fist to fight, Zheng Yan felt a little sorry for the little girl, so he blocked it for her.

After that, the little girl told Zheng Yan that she was thinning the fruit, and told a lot about planting peach trees, at that time, Xinluo had not yet appeared, and Zheng Yan often took Yingyue to play with the little girl.

Later, in the spring of the year when he was ten years old, it was the time when the peach blossoms were in full bloom, Zheng Yan never saw the little girl who said that she wanted to be a maid for herself, and even her long-term relatives disappeared together.

After getting some peach branches, the two returned to the brick kiln and began to prepare for the fire, and soon a scorching flame rose at the mouth of the kiln, Jue Lin looked at Zheng Yan and blinked, Zheng Yan knew it, and went to a place where no one was there to clean up the four loaches, cut them in half and then prop them up with a simple peach wood frame, apply the condiments and insert them to the edge of the kiln mouth, so that it won't take long to eat grilled fish,

While smiling and asking Jue Lin how he usually eats fish, after all, the precepts do not allow killing, Jue Lin looked around and found that no one whispered that in fact, he also killed, it was all the cause and effect of the previous life and this life as a break, and every time he would recite the mantra of the past life to them, and strive to let them be human beings in the next life, Zheng Yan did not believe in this kind of cause and effect in the next life,

Legend has it that the underworld is vast and all-encompassing, and only the central underworld will judge the dead souls and convict them, and the criterion based on seems to be the morality of the world. Ghosts must first serve their sentences in the underworld, and then they will be sent to the other four realms of reincarnation except for the Demon Dao and the Ghost Dao, and there are also ghosts left in the underworld.

There is also a saying that when the original six realms were first created, the demon path was also in reincarnation, but later, with the disappearance of the Great Emperor of the Northern Yin and the Five Directions of the Ghost Emperor reincarnation, the entire underworld group of dragons had no leader, and was jointly managed by the heavenly realm and the Western Elysium, and the Heavenly Immortal Court and the Western Elysium were naturally hostile to the demon world, fighting and fighting for many years, and naturally did not want the demon world to get a soul with living power and good qualifications, so the demon path was closed, and the demon world was also excluded from reincarnation.

Now the underworld should be in a situation of separation, the ten halls of Yama and the ten yin handsome and five generals can only barely take charge of the very small places around the underworld, and they also need to be encouraged to maintain a few soul passages, so that the dead souls can be connected to the underworld, and they also need to send ghosts to the human world to arrest and attract living souls, it is said that when the Emperor Xudu and the Five Ghost Emperors were there, they didn't need these at all, Zheng Yan could see ghosts with his eyes when he was very young, so he also saw the appearance of ghosts, with red belts in Xuanyi and weapons in chains, very eerie and terrifying.

Zheng Yan saw that some of these statements were from a "Water and Land Chronicles", and I don't know when the book was written, and who wrote it, anyway, it is said that many Heavenly Rank monks believe it. You must know that if a monk cultivates the Yin God, he can enter and exit the underworld if he can find a way, but generally no one dares to do this, many people can't get in and out, and the body gradually decays, even if there is the support of the Yang God, there will not be much progress in cultivation in the future, after all, the Yuan God needs the Yin God and the Yang God to be combined;

If you find a way, the original god can also enter and exit the underworld, but if it is not strong enough, no one dares to go, it is said that there are too many powerful creatures in the underworld, and when you see the souls of the human world and the heavenly world, they will inevitably attack it, they seem to have a method of devouring, and after devouring, you can strengthen your body, and only the monks who have cultivated to the realm of heaven dare to do this, so the heaven-level monks said that this "Water and Land Chronicles" is right, it is right, it can be seen that the words and deeds of the heaven-level monks have an influence in people's hearts, so many forces will win over and even curry favor with those heaven-level monks.

Zheng Yan has not asked the people around him to verify the truth of these things, and the exploration of the unknown is always the most attractive, and Zheng Yan is no exception, but he still prefers to explore after he is ready, for fear that one day he will go to the underworld to see what is going on in this skin under impulsive curiosity, because he found that he had thoughts of light life and death in his subconscious very early.

Jue Lin was full of praise for Zheng Yan's barbecue skills, and asked for advice very seriously. Just when the two of them were feasting, Juechen and Juese came over with two large bundles of peach branches, Jue Lin hurriedly stuffed the barbecue in his hand into his mouth and didn't speak, Juechen was a little helpless, put down the branch and beckoned the two to rest, Zheng Yan knew that the brick was going to burn for several days, and the kiln fire could not be extinguished during this period.

Someone took over the shift, Zheng Yan and Jue Lin carried a basket of previously burned bricks, ready to repair the damaged floor tiles in front of the Buddha Hall, and went to the kitchen to eat some more by the way, Juechen was a little reluctant to Zheng Yan to do these jobs, but when he saw Zheng Yanle in it, he didn't say anything anymore, and Jue Se on the side watched the two walk away, and said in a loud voice, "Why didn't Zheng Nanzhu fight with you this time?"

Juechen added some firewood to the kiln, sat on the small bench and said with a smile, "Maybe I was already comfortable with Yutai Feng before I came."

There was already a lot of ash at the mouth of the kiln, Jue Se shook his head, took out a few potatoes from the monk's robe and buried them in the ashes, and took out a bag of dried tofu, a bag of salted peanuts, and a palm-sized black-skinned gourd.

Juechen pulled out the stopper, sniffed it, and smiled helplessly, "Your Dharma name is really appropriate, Master has always had great wisdom",

Juese hesitated for a moment and asked softly, "Is there any movement in the right Dharma Protector Hall?"

Juechen shook his head, his expression seemed to be even more helpless, and he said softly, "I think it's a chance that hasn't come yet, in fact, I don't want to go out, it's enough to go to Pingyang City once in ten days and half a month."

Juese took a sip of wine and Mu Ne's face seemed to smile, "Are you afraid of seeing your fiancée, since you are not obsessed, why are you afraid to see you?"

There was a "pop" sound at the mouth of the kiln, and Juechen's body trembled suddenly, and then he was a little embarrassed, "Uncle Shi said that the catastrophe in my life will fall on her",

Juese thought for a while and said seriously, "You two have only met when you were very young, how can you remember each other's faces when you are already middle-aged? If Uncle Shi doesn't say this, if you meet her, don't say whether you can recognize her, will you still be in this state of mind now? Just like that year, if Master didn't remind you to be careful not to break that statue, you might not be nervous and won't break it, I want to say that Uncle Shi's prophecy itself is part of your destiny."

The corners of Juechen's mouth twitched, it seemed that there was some truth, it was impossible for Uncle Shi not to think of this problem, did he want to let himself experience this catastrophe?

Zheng Yan and Jue Lin were in the front yard while repairing the floor tiles, recalling the methods of the three of them at that time.

Killers generally don't pay much attention to the number of roads, so the tricks are more freewheeling, and they also have a capable and simple style, this Zheng Yan is very familiar, and the same is true for the battle array, before entering Mu Hanyang's memory, it was mostly the scene of fighting among thousands of troops, and now I think about the time span of nearly a hundred years, when I woke up, I was not a little tired and tired, but I was still unfinished, and the abbot of Dingzhen asked himself if he wanted to rest at the time, and now I think about it carefully, it seems that this is the change brought about by accepting Mu Hanyang's divine thoughts, and his hidden spiritual power and combat consciousness have been activated, and the hundred-year memory has also left a mark in his spiritual consciousness, although it is not enough to talk about it intermittently for a hundred years, but thirty or forty years is always enough.

Martial cultivators generally don't try to master spiritual methods, but most martial cultivators have strong spiritual power, and spiritual power is an indispensable condition or qualification for martial cultivators to go far. His mental power does seem to have changed a little, at least the battle of the three killers is not missing a little in retrospect, and he can simply go through the scene again in his mind.

I don't know when an old man wearing a black monk's robe sat on the steps of the Buddhist hall, just looking at the two teenagers working with an expressionless face, Zheng Yan smiled at him after realizing the existence of the old monk, and he coughed lightly next to him, and he didn't know what to remind, Zheng Yan felt that he might be afraid that he would be rude to the old monk, and he seemed to be the kind of person who didn't pay respects?

"Do you practice martial arts?",

Just as Zheng Yan and Jue Lin were squeezing their eyebrows, a somewhat stiff voice came, it was the old monk on the steps talking to himself,

"Well, I've been practicing for seven or eight years, how can the master see it?",

The old monk didn't answer Zheng Yan's question, but just said bluntly, "At present, the trend of the convergence of the three religions is becoming more and more obvious, based on this, a new division has been produced in the Nine Realms of Martial Dao, do you know?",

Zheng Yan stopped what he was doing and thought about it, and replied seriously, "The refinement, wonderfulness, and contemplation of the Lower Three Realms Sect Realm; the opening, ingenuity, and three perfections of the Middle Three Realms Grandmaster Realm; and the Immortal Sea, One Scoop, and Kaizhen of the Upper Three Realms Immortal Realm." This statement has not spread much, and I only know a rough outline, and it is said that there are more detailed statements".

The old monk nodded and said, "Sect Scholar, Sect Master, Immortal Scholar, these three great realms correspond to the Humane Realm, Authentic Realm, and Heavenly Dao Realm of the Huandan Monks, regardless of the four or nine heavenly tribulations. The refinement realm in the lower three realms is to comb the muscles and bones meridians to expand the volume of qi and major to cultivate refinement; the wonderful passage realm is the cultivation of true qi, that is, the main cultivation of qi, and it is necessary to achieve the smooth and ingenious flow of true qi; the realm of contemplation is mainly to cultivate the spirit, that is, the god, to be able to retain the spirit, so that the lower three realms are the cultivation of the essence and spirit, which is also the foundation of martial cultivation, what do you think?"

Zheng Yan nodded in agreement, in fact, it is not much different from the current common set of realm divisions.

The old monk looked at Zheng Yan and said, "There is no end to the cultivation of the spirit and spirit, that is to say, if you don't reach the realm of contemplation, you don't need to cultivate the spirit, then this so-called realm division is untenable, what do you say?"

Zheng Yan muttered in his heart, this is probably the reason why this division method has not been widely spread,

The old monk didn't wait for Zheng Yan's answer, and said to himself, "It's said that it is the division of the realm, it is better to say that it is the division of the cultivation stage, the world will always set specific goals to strive for, and if they can't reach it, they will be anxious and hesitant to suffer from gains and losses, and they will be proud and complacent and have no one in their eyes, in fact, the realm in their hearts is objectively just a height, within the same stage, the level does not represent the strength or weakness, nor does it represent the ability to break the realm."

Watching the old man walk into the Buddhist hall, Zheng Yan was a little confused, and he was probably not surprised, and said in a low voice, "Uncle Dingyan has always been like this, probably because he suddenly thought of something, and he forgot it after talking for a long time."

Zheng Yan didn't know what to do when he heard this, this great monk named Dingyan was obviously a high-ranking monk, it shouldn't be like this, could it be that his cultivation had gone mad?

In the Buddhist hall, Dingzhen sat cross-legged on the futon, turned his back to the Buddha statue and looked at the two teenagers who were working outside, smiled slightly, and said softly, "There are a total of thirty-six divine thoughts in these two side halls, speaking of which Mu Hanyang should be the most peaceful, and this young man is not angry, why does the senior brother have to do this?"

The old monk in the black-robed monk robe shook his head slightly, "No anger does not mean no killing, not to mention how light Mu Hanyang's murder is, the world mostly agrees with moral killing, and for our Buddhist disciples, any killing is the same, it will be contaminated with cause and effect, and moral killing violates the equality of all beings",

"Senior brother, you are obsessed, this is the way of the devil", Dingzhen said suddenly, his voice was still soft, but it seemed to be full of majesty,

Dingyan folded his hands and recited a Buddha name, hesitated for a moment but said, "No matter what, the karma he has created in the future will have our share of the fruits of his divine thoughts here, and we have the responsibility to advise",

Dingzhen smiled and said, "Don't learn to be sure that the junior and the younger brother beware of everything and calculates, cause and effect have become fate, karma and karma will not be the slightest button, there is always a lack of heaven, everything has a way, such as a dream bubble, come and receive it",

Dingyan frowned and was noncommittal, and Dingzhen didn't preach again.

Zheng Yan lived in the Jingjie Temple for another three days before leaving, it is really a simple and quiet life here that is too addictive, not to mention that there are ups and downs along the way, only here is it completely relaxed, but after all, he still has to go, and he feels a little reluctant, which makes Zheng Yan think of the scarlet of Xiaozhu, his own child fate really didn't say, sad, if only the woman's fate could be so good.

Leaving the Jingjie Temple all the way to the north, afraid of encountering the killer again so I still choose to take some roads with complex terrain, only occasionally into the village and town to ask for some water to drink, during which I met a large family to ask the Taoist priest to do things, saying that the house is haunted, Zheng Yan followed the helper to go in and look, did not see any ghosts, but found that there is a problem with the feng shui of the yard of this house, and there should be a deep underground river under the house,

This summer is surprisingly hot, the host's family often stays cool in the yard overnight, the hostess is contaminated with a lot of yin energy, so she is a little weak and weak, those Taoist priests must also see the problem, first gave the hostess a prescription, and then asked the male owner to invite a town house boulder, and then did something, Zheng Yan looked interesting, for people to eliminate disasters and have to eliminate mental disasters, Zhuang Kui is really serious enough.

Looking at the costumes of the Taoist priests, there is no doubt that Zhuang Kui, who is subordinate to Taisu, Zheng Yan thought of the young man named Guan Yunbo, and his master Jinhuan, who chased and killed him, should not be chasing himself, right?

Speaking of Zhuang Kui, has always been the image of the Taoist priest of the traveling party, for people to eliminate disasters and pray for blessings to drive away evil spirits, "Zhuang Kui" is a saying in their Taoist school, but in fact, they pursue the idea of Taisu, the outer Tao and the inner prime, the court and the Taoist ancestors rarely found that they have the deeds of the moral law, so no one has been supervised, and the places where they operate are mostly in the countryside, and over time there are a lot of mysterious legends.

I remember that there was a rumor that they were collecting spirits and ghosts in order to sacrifice a peerless evil soldier, and this evil soldier was born at a time of great chaos in the world;

There is also a rumor that they nominally belong to the Daomen, but in fact they belong to the Chaos Taiyi, and they walk around the people to preach and teach the world to abandon wisdom and return to chaos.

Zheng Yan wondered if he should follow these two Zhuang Kui to observe for a while.