Chapter 14: Illusion of the Heart
It took a lot of money to build Nezha Palace, but Qiao Kun was careful in his calculations, and he made efforts to save some expenses, but it was still not enough.
Fortunately, under the monthly salary, during which there was new grain for old grain, the grain governor took them to earn less, which was barely enough.
Later, when Qiao Kun counted his property, he found that there was a special space for storing a lot of ores in his sleeves, but more than a dozen ores were pure natural dog-headed gold, with irregular shapes, and the smallest ones were more than four feet tall and weighed tens of thousands of catties.
There are also silver ores, platinum ores, black iron, red copper, etc., and some unknown ores and even more.
In addition, there is a lot of gold and silver that is refined. He saved so much money because it was all useless.
The main reason is that Qiao Kun is quite irritable these days, and he only studies the Taoist scriptures every day, but he does not carefully count the items in the "Qiankun Talisman in his sleeve". And he didn't know that immortal cultivators also stored gold and silver.
However, when he found out, the Nezha Palace was almost completed, and Qiao Kun only took a small subsidy and collected the remaining ore.
After the main body of Nezha Palace was built, Qiao Kun made a statue of Nezha again, with the same height and appearance as Nezha's real person, as well as the models of Qiankun Circle and Chaotian Aya.
The final effect is that Nezha is accompanied by two ghost judges on both sides, both of whom are five short in stature, with green faces and fangs, and the statue of Nezha is slightly taller than that of ghosts, with a round face and big eyes, and a cute baby.
Then Qiao Kun found a temple for Nezha, and it was consummated.
After everything in the palace was complete, Nezha's soul entered the statue, the heavens and the earth shook for a while, the glow was everywhere, the talismans around were launched, and the surrounding areas were arranged according to gold, wood, water and fire.
The appearance of the statue is more similar to that of Nezha's real person, and his expression is a little smarter.
Qiao Kun sensed it carefully, and felt that this palace was connected to the surrounding veins for hundreds of miles, and the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth were complete, and they sensed each other with the people.
He said in his heart, Cuiping Mountain had already preset the gold, wood, water, fire, and earth talismans, and it was really not a temporary idea. Could it be that it was all arranged by Taiyi Zhenren?
Qiao Kun pressed his doubts and only observed secretly.
And it is said that Nezha appeared in this Cuiping Mountain, a vision of heaven and earth, all the people have a sense, since they came here to pray for blessings and disasters, thousands of spirits, thousands of requests.
The temple also has some means, will be some simple publicity, people within a radius of 100 miles come here to incense, for a time Nezha Palace incense flourished.
Mrs. Yin often came to offer incense to Nezha, of course, she didn't ask Nezha for anything, but just to look at Nezha and pray for Nezha by the way. But she wants to avoid Li Jing, she doesn't come diligently, and it won't take long every time.
However, Qiao Kun often comes to Nezha Palace, because he has no home in Chentangguan, and he has no relatives, so he is very free.
Miao Zhu knew that he was the boss behind the scenes, so he took great care of him. Occasionally, Qiao Kun stays here, and there are single rooms to live in, which is very comfortable. Although Nezha Palace is not big, there are always one or two guest rooms.
However, Qiao Kun came to Nezha Palace, more to spy on Nezha.
Although he also wore incense, he did not believe in Nezha. Although he also hoped that Nezha's palace would be full of incense and let Nezha cultivate into a god as soon as possible, he could see that the so-called "thousands of spirits, thousands of requests" was simply impossible.
Because the human heart is born without contentment, it begs for warmth when it is full, and it seeks comfort when it is full of food and clothing.
If you have a donkey and a mule, you want to be an official, you want to live a hundred years old, and you want to live forever when you are a hundred years old.
So endless, it's hard to satisfy.
And each person's needs are also different, conflicting with each other, this family begs for rain to save the dry crops, and that family hopes that the weather will be sunny to dry salt, which one should be? If both the borrower and the creditor come to help, who should they help?
If it involves feelings, it will be more complicated, for example, if a young man comes to ask to marry a certain girl, but the girl is thinking about another guy, and the other guy is thinking about another guy, how should it be arranged?
No matter how it is arranged, there will always be people who are not satisfied.
If you consider the families of several parents, the complexity is even more tenfold. Where can you do it?
And so on and so forth. If you really respond one by one, please thousands of spirits, thousands of people, ten thousand people, I am afraid that this radius will be chaotic. What's more, Nezha didn't have such a profound mana to do these things.
If Nezha really had this kind of mana, it would be simple. Qiao Kun directly made a wish to bring Ao Bing back to life, and then let Nezha be resurrected? Why let Nezha pretend to be a ghost here and absorb the incense of faith?
It's all just illusion in the end. But it's different from ordinary illusions, but illusions that act on the mind.
When someone comes here to bow, Nezha Xinggong interacts with it and gives feedback, and the person feels that what he wants has been answered.
And subtly affected by the palace, the expectation is reduced, there will be no more non-divided ideas, the sense of satisfaction and being satisfied is increasing day by day, and I feel that Nezha is effective, and I am deeply immersed in it, and I can't extricate myself.
Qiao Kun knew this, because when he gave Nezha incense, he also interacted with Nezha Palace, and he was in illusion.
He is a cultivator, who has been polishing his soul for more than ten years, and his mind is stable, so of course he can detect clues.
Then he urged the Great Yen God to continue to vibrate, and the five qi in his chest rubbed repeatedly, and it took a lot of hands and feet to break this illusion.
At that time, he was furious, and Nezha's move was to deceive many people. If he has a hot temper, he is afraid that he will knock down the statue of Nezha on the spot.
But he thought that Nezha died after all to protect the people of Chentangguan, and he died quite miserably. He was unwilling to ruthlessly cut off the hope of Nezha's resurrection.
It's just that he can't let Nezha harm the people.
For the sake of safety, he patiently observed for more than ten days, and found that although Nezha performed an illusion, it did not cause the slightest damage to the people, and the people were quite satisfied, so they did not demolish Nezha's palace.
He didn't know why Taiyi Zhenren wanted to arrange such a resurrection method for Nezha, maybe now Taiyi Zhenren has more than enough heart and not enough strength, right?
But this is not a reason to fool the people so much. Qiao Kun had a grudge in his heart, so he often observed the situation of Nezha's palace and many people, if Nezha had a bad behavior to harm the people, he would definitely eliminate this disaster.
Because Nezha Palace was created by him himself, if something goes wrong, he will destroy it with his own hands.
After staying for a long time, he found that this illusion had the effect of sharpening the mind of the primordial spirit. He used "White Cloud True Magic Method" to fight against illusions, sharpen himself, and improve quickly.
He was also afraid that his diligent practice would also be the Nezha illusion in his body, so he always introspected himself and used the Vipassana Sutra to observe himself.
On this day, he was resting in Nezha's palace, but in a trance, he looked at a human figure, but it was vaguely Nezha's figure.
He wondered in his heart, didn't he say that it would take at least three years? Why is it only a few months before Nezha has a body?
Nezha saw that he was a little squirming, and after a while, Ai Ai said, "Thank you." ”
The words are neither cold nor enthusiastic, and the voice is different from that of the living, with a mechanical coldness.
Qiao Kun found that Nezha's figure was quite weak, and he thought that he was just a little shaped, and he was far from being completely resurrected, "What do you thank me?" ”
Nezha said: "Thank you for allowing me to be buried with my whole body, and for helping me build this Nezha Palace." ”
People of this age are very concerned about the integrity of the body. Then Qiao Kun built Nezha Palace, which can be regarded as saving Nezha's life.
These are indeed what he did, but Qiao Kun accepted it calmly, "It's nothing, this is also what I am willing to do." Actually, I still like you. ”
It's the truth. He originally liked Nezha very much, but he was really in the world of gods, and after contact, he found that Nezha had no concept of good and evil, and his personality was bad, so his original favorite mood naturally changed.
Then there was a long silence.
Nezha is not ignorant, he appeared at this moment to get closer to Qiao Kun.
It's just that he did things according to his mood before his death, and he never cared about the feelings of others, and now after his death, he doesn't know how to get along with others.
And although Qiao Kun was thinking nonsense, he didn't want to communicate with Nezha more, and he had no intention of opening.
In the end, it was Nezha who broke the deadlock, "I'm actually quite annoying, right?" ”
Qiao Kun replied casually, "Yes, it's annoying." willful, and does not listen to persuasion. Especially there is no reverence for life. ”
Among all Nezha's shortcomings, the most annoying thing for Qiao Kun is that Nezha wants to kill people if he doesn't agree with him, and he lacks reverence for life.
Qiao Kun himself has never been like this, although he has killed many creatures, but he will not kill living beings senselessly.
He also had great respect for life and never killed indiscriminately. He also cherishes food and never wastes it.
"Isn't there a reverence for life?"
Qiao Kun nodded, "Why do you think you can deprive others of their lives at will, is it because you are stronger than others?" If that's the case, then the Dragon King of the Four Seas has forced you to death, what do you have to resent it? ”
Caiyun Boy, Biyun Boy, and the Three Princes of the East China Sea, don't they have relatives? Nezha himself was happy, but he created pain for many people.
After saying that, Qiao Kun felt sorry again, Nezha was already miserable, so why bother stimulating him again? And what position does he have to accuse Nezha?
If Nezha was still alive, he would never dare to talk to Nezha like this, he was afraid of being beaten to death by Nezha.
The accusation at this moment is just bullying Nezha and not being able to fight back.
Thinking of this, he apologized to Nezha: "I'm sorry. These words are too much, in fact, I don't like to preach. ”
Nezha shook his head, "No, I'm very happy." ”
This is true, after Nezha was canonized as a god, he had his own supernatural powers, and he could sense the demands, emotions, and good and evil intentions of others. After all, without these abilities, he would not be able to give clear feedback to believers.
At this moment, Nezha can clearly sense Qiao Kun's emotions, it is true to be in awe of life, it is true to like him, it is true to hate him, and even the last reflection and apology are also true.
Although there are accusatory words, Qiao Kun is not condescending, but respects him with an equal exchange, even if he is facing a child he hates.
He felt that even though there were disparities in strength, appearance, and wealth, all people were equal.
This kind of equality and respect, Nezha has never experienced from anyone.