Chapter XI

There are five types of beings in the world and their cultivation methods, which are not listed as orthodox cultivation methods by Taiping Academy.

Heavenly demons, outer paths, corpses, puppets, ghosts.

In the Taiping Scroll, these five categories are compiled into a separate volume, called "Side Gate".

The seven orthodox cultivation systems in the world, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and martial arts, are known as the "Main Gate".

The side door is born inside the main entrance.

The demon of the day, the Taoist heart is demonized. Taoist monks, refining gods and turning into voids, the heart imitates the appearance of God, and the law of God metaphorizes the heart. If the mind is relaxed, it will turn into a golden pill, marry a baby, and refine the gods and return to the ruins. If the mind is uncertain and restless, then it will enter the rootless outer realm, turn into a demon in the heart, and occupy the body. The inner demon is the product of the cultivation of Taoist monks, born in the void, and is the foundation of Taoism and the monk's mind, and the natal calamity of all Taoists. If you can't successfully eliminate your own demons, the demons will occupy the monk's body and become an extremely unique creature, which is the Heavenly Demon.

Under normal circumstances, a Taoist monk will only have one inner demon in his life. The higher the talent and accomplishments of the Taoist, the later the manifestation of the inner demons, and the more difficult it is to cut them off, and the inner demons born after cultivating to reach the twelve volumes are almost the dead knot of all Taoist powers. The heart demon is an invisible thing, and it is transformed by the distracting thoughts of the Taoist monks, and after occupying the monk's body, it is even more accessible to the monks, which is ever-changing, and causes chaos in the world. Therefore, the Heavenly Demon is the mortal enemy of the Daomen monks.

The second outer path is the collective name of the three evil realms among the six realms. The monk of the Buddha family, the ape guarding the horse, one thought of the Buddha and one thought of the devil. A person's life thoughts are innumerable, and he is surrounded by countless thoughts, turning himself into great freedom, crossing others and himself, and realizing great wisdom. However, when the Buddha is practicing, if the six roots of the eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, and mind are not pure, then the mind manifests the three realms of evil ghosts, beasts, and hells, and the divine will falls into the realm of mad demons and incarnates into demons. In the same way, the outer demon spirit is the great enemy of all the monks of the Buddha's family.

The third is the corpse, also known as the corpse. After the death of an ordinary person, the flesh and blood of the body dissipate, and only the bones remain. However, the human warriors and demon clans are extremely powerful in their innate or acquired flesh and blood. Under special circumstances, the dead body will give birth to a new consciousness from blood, flesh, bone, or meridians, thus regaining control of the physical movement and becoming a corpse.

The consciousness of the corpse is weak, and the formation conditions are harsh, so the number is very small. Most of the corpse spirits that appear are extremely powerful, have no pain perception and have the lifelong learning of martial artists, relying on instinct to hunt various races to maintain flesh and blood survival and advancement. In most sects and demon clans, after the death of a powerful martial artist, the sect will use divine powers to refine his body to prevent the deformation of the corpse.

The fourth is a puppet, also known as a puppet. It is a creature created by the practice of soldiers and practitioners. The soldier monk condensed the weapon pill with his own essence and blood and the essence of heaven and earth, and gave birth to the innate divine weapon from the soldier pill, and the innate weapon continued to evolve as the monk grew. However, there are many strange things in heaven and earth, and once the soldiers condense or practice, refining things that they can't control, they will be eaten by the soldiers and become puppets. Similarly, cultivators, and the spirit born when refining a heavenly weapon, a peerless elixir, or a formation is also classified as a puppet.

Therefore, the four beings mentioned above were all born in the practice of monks and opposed to each other. The spirit of the side door is already within the rules of the Heavenly Dao, the cultivation of heaven and earth, and the mutual restraint of all things, is the law and the balance.

However, the last kind of side creature is born in almost all flesh and blood creatures - ghosts.

Everything has a soul, whether it is a shemale or a heaven and earth spirit, born with three souls and seven spirits. The three souls "Heaven and Earth Destiny", the seven spirits of Tianchong, Linghui, Qi, Force, Center, Essence, and Ying. The soul form is combined into a living being, and the soul is a ghost when it is separated. After the death of the living souls of heaven and earth, most of the souls dissipate in the heaven and the earth, but under many special conditions, the living souls are immortal and wander between the heavens and the earth, which is both ghosts.

Heaven and earth work, yin and yang help each other, and the soul is born, even if it is immortal after death, it cannot stay in the world for a long time. Therefore, the soul domain is the place where all ghost cultivators are located.

The Soul Domain, an extremely large Yin Spirit World, has been separated from the world since ancient times. The soul domain is not controlled by the human world, but is transformed by the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, and has a completely independent operation and derivative method. The so-called eternal separation of yin and yang in the mouths of the people is not just talking, the vast majority of monks and mortals will not be able to meet ghosts in their lives, and the folk reincarnation and rebirth theory is even more nonsense, which is the rules of heaven that saints cannot influence.

One of the orthodox duties of Confucianism and the academy is to oversee the mutual stability of the soul realm and the human world.

In the "Taiping Scroll", the corresponding to the side door is the "left road".

It is from this that the so-called side-door left road comes from.

Zuo Dao is a general term for some monks who practice special exercises.

There are two left paths, one of which is the lower left path, which refers to the monk's inability to climb to the top of the avenue due to talent and other reasons, so as to invoke some extreme spells that plague the world, such as sucking people's blood, collecting yin and replenishing yang, and other spells. There has been an endless stream of such monks from ancient times to the present, and most of the sects where they belong are called cults.

The second is the left road, which refers to the method of cultivating the side door with the body of the main gate. It means that the monks of the two races of the human and demon races are not satisfied with orthodox cultivation, but instead cultivate or control the cultivation methods of the five side sect creatures. For example, the Shura who specially induces Buddhist disciples to give birth to foreign demon spirits for their own use, the Pan corpse man who refines and manipulates the corpse spirit, and the ghost messenger who communicates the world and the soul realm-ferryman.

Most of the leftist monks are not recognized by the righteous path of the world, and they are evil cultivators.

The ferryman is different.

Beside the creatures, only ghost cultivators were born in the human world, but they need to practice in the soul realm.

The ferryman is a monk recognized by the Soul Domain, and the messenger of the Yang Decree on behalf of the Soul Domain.

Ordinary people can't see the ghosts of the soul realm at all, so there are very few ferrymen in the world. The most well-known is the Taoist ghost photographer in Maoshan Mountain, who is dedicated to serving as a ferryman.

The ferryman is recognized by the soul domain in an extremely ancient way, and after signing the "soul contract" with the soul domain, he gets the identity of the ferryman. The duty of the ferryman is to help the soul wandering in the world to settle and guide

When it enters the soul realm, the people often say that the bull head and horse face are the image description of the ferryman.

There are many new ghosts and ghosts in the world every day, so according to the agreement between Confucianism and the Soul Realm, in order to ensure the stability of the world, a small number of Confucian disciples can exercise the responsibility of ferrying on their behalf after reaching a certain level of testing, and these Confucian disciples are called "Zhouzi".

The Confucian boat can guide the soul into the soul realm. But some resentment or power is very strong, and the evil ghosts who are causing trouble everywhere can only be subdued by the ferryman's supernatural powers.

In return for the ferryman, the Soul Domain will teach him the method of mobilizing ghost cultivation to a certain extent, that is, the ghost art of the world.

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Inside the temple.

Xiao Bai held a pale golden formation compass, the compass was engraved with the word "Xianting" two ancient seals, the four circles inside and outside the plate were engraved with the blessing of spiritual power, and the milky white light rushed into the sky from the compass, and then spread, with the small temple as the center, all the breath in a radius of ten miles was isolated by the formation.

Liang Zhi was suspended in mid-air, his hands pinched in front of him, his long hair and cyan shirt moved without wind, his open eyes were shining with dark red runes, and ancient mantras sounded from his mouth and in all directions:

"Linyuan to the underworld, broken green and secluded! Carry the ancient three seals on your back, feed the soul of Da Luo, swim down the mound, and call the other side!"

"I, with the ferry boat, the ghost art of the world!

As the cool voice fell, the sound of a drum that seemed to be the birth of a god resounded through the formation world!

"Knock ————"

The fat man watched in amazement as the sky around him gradually darkened, and the entire formation seemed to be a ghost! Such magical powers were already beyond his comprehension. And the little monk sitting on the stone platform, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, his eyes are embarrassed, and a faint golden light shines through it, like a Buddha.

The bells and drums rang one after another, like the battle song of the soldiers on the battlefield, and a sense of sadness continued to diffuse, and then countless transparent figures appeared from all directions, gathering around the small temple.

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There is a noodle restaurant called "Three Bowls" in Wanzhou City.

The noodle restaurant has been in business since its ancestors, and it has been exactly 100 years. A hundred years ago, it was the great-grandfather and great-grandmother of the current owner who opened the store. At that time, the husband and wife were in distress until the end of the boat, and when they were about to run out of oil and starve to death on the street, they were rescued by an old woman, and three bowls of steaming clear soup noodles were exchanged for today's century-old shop.

In the past 100 years, the noodle restaurant has become more and more famous in the city, but it has never expanded in the slightest, and the six tables are full. The taste of the small noodle restaurant, even for the "world's pocket to collect the world" evening boat, is a first-class delicacy. The people of Jiangnan mostly eat rice millet for food, and it can be seen that a noodle restaurant is so popular.

Therefore, this small noodle restaurant has several special rules, one is that each person can only buy a maximum of three bowls per day, and the other is that anyone who wants to eat noodles must wait in line in person, whether it is a prince or a general, a wealthy merchant or a common man. This second seemingly unreasonable rule, but no one in the entire Evening Boat City dared to offend. Because on the fifteenth day of the first month of each month, the Yong'an palace fasts, and the prince and his wife will come to the door of the noodle restaurant early and wait with the people.

In recent days, there have been millions of monks in Wanzhou City, and the people have already entered the small world, so the noodle restaurant is naturally not open, but after the owner arranged for his family to enter the small world, he stayed. The wife asked puzzled, according to the original words of the owner, it is these immortals flying around in the sky, naturally they don't look down on my noodle restaurant, but I am afraid that the prince, Mrs. and the state pastor will work hard day after day, in case he thinks of our family, fortunately he found that the door is closed, that is the great sin in his heart.

This man in his thirties will never forget the first time the prince ate his own craftsmanship instead of the noodles made by his father, and he was full of admiration. In his heart, the prince, his wife, and the state pastor are probably the pillars of everyone in the evening boat.

Today, Mrs. Wang did not show up, and the Governor was nowhere to be seen, but the small noodle shop still opened its doors, because two equally respected guests came to ask for a bowl of noodles to eat—two scholars from Taiping Academy.

The entire world, including all the nations and races within the Holy Dynasty, basically has enough respect for the scholars of the Taiping Academy, which is the prestige accumulated over thousands of years.

The two scholars sat opposite each other, and the young man on the left, dressed in a blue Confucian shirt, wearing a jade crown of a Confucian sage, holding a folding fan, and a milky white token engraved with the word "boat" hanging from his waist. He is one of the soul-attracting boats in the realm of Suzhou today, Zhao Li.

Zhao Li was born in a small city in Suzhou, his father was originally the director of a freight line under the Li family, a wealthy merchant in Jiangnan, but was expelled by the Li family and exiled to the outskirts of Wanzhou City because he had delayed an important transaction of the family's goods due to drinking. Since she was a child, Zhao Li has had a talent that is different from other children - a pair of yin and yang eyes that can see the soul of the deceased. At the age of twelve, by chance, he received a letter of recommendation written by the old prince of Yong'an Wangfu and successfully entered the Taiping Academy in the capital to study. Many years later, Zhao Li won the title of Confucian sage, and with his own talent, he became one of the "Zhouzi" and guarded Suzhou.

The Confucian on the right, slightly older than Zhao Li, dressed in white like snow, carrying a green bamboo bookcase behind him, and also hanging a jade plaque around his waist, but the seal engraved on the jade plaque is the three words "Great Rememberer".

One of the thirty-six "Great Scholars" of Taiping Academy, Xu You.

The two sat opposite each other, and after a while, the host brought three bowls of noodles for each of them. The bowl is not big, but the contents are very generous. The first bowl is created by the ancestors of the noodle restaurant, called "fresh marinade", which is made of soup made by the combination of many parallel goods in the south of the Yangtze River, watered with long noodles, the taste is extremely delicious, and it is one of the signboards of the small noodle restaurant. The second bowl is the classic noodle dish "Zangzi Noodles" from the north, which is made of a variety of home-cooked dishes and stir-fried "Zangzi" with long noodles with gluten and rich flavor. The last bowl is the most ordinary, but for small noodle restaurants and diners who come to eat, the most wanted to taste, a bowl of clear soup noodles.

"Da Keishi, the three bowls of noodles in this noodle restaurant have always been my favorite, but I am busy with affairs on weekdays, and I can only eat them once in half a year. Now it's stained with the light of an adult, and it hasn't been around for a month before it comes again. Zhao Li first picked up the bowl of "Zhenzi noodles" and added a few spoonfuls of chili peppers to it, and saw that the eyelids of the big keeper on the opposite side jumped.

"You and me, why do you have to be so different. Xu You waved his hand and said with a smile, "We came out of the academy together, and we are senior brothers and younger brothers." So I feel that I am a little older than you, if you don't like it, how about calling me Brother Xu?"

Seeing that the young scholar in front of him agreed, Xu You smiled with satisfaction, and also picked up the bowl of dry noodles in the middle, and asked the other side, "Are you particular?"

"Haha, no, no. Zhao Li hurriedly smiled and explained, "It's just my personal hobby, but if you talk about the order, it should also be tasted according to the boss's hunger, from left to right." ”

The two of them were swept all the way.

Putting down the dishes and chopsticks, finishing with a bowl of noodle soup, Xu You, the great chronicler who came to the evening boat from the Beijing Academy, praised it with satisfaction.

Zhao Li also put down the dishes and chopsticks, and with a slight wave of his left hand, a transparent light film isolated the two of them from preventing the content of the conversation from being spied on by others.

"Brother Xu, do you know what will happen in this city?", Suzhou Zhouzi asked: "This Murong family has no warning, and suddenly it is going to turn on the Seven Star Sky Lantern Festival, which is really abnormal, and Hualou actually went to provoke the majesty of the palace a few days ago, how to solve it? Once you lose it...."

Xu You, who was wearing a Confucian shirt on the other side, was also a little helpless and smiled bitterly, originally this trip to the evening boat, it was the master who personally went into battle, and it is said that several old men from the academy and the Confucian Temple took turns to preach to him "very friendly", saying that there will be a big event in the city, and I am afraid that other walkers will not be able to have enough power to move the pen, and resist the reciprocating luck struggle. But a few days ago, the master suddenly summoned him, saying that he was going to the South China Sea, and asked him to come and record it for him.

"What is the origin of that new young scholar in the palace?" asked Xu You.

"I don't know, I only know that the young man seems to have lived in the palace for a period of time three years ago, and he seems to be a distant nephew of the prince, and the inheritance of the master is unknown. Zhao Li replied after thinking for a moment.

"Hehe, an ordinary nephew, not only has a good martial arts foundation, but also knows the art of Wudang Mountain?"

The two academy people kept talking, although Zhao Li was not a memora, but as a boatman, he was stationed in Suzhou all the year round, and he knew everything about the big and small things in the late Zhoucheng, so he naturally knew everything.

Suddenly!

Zhao Li, who was constantly solving the puzzles of the great notekeeper, stood up violently, and in his eyes, a gray mist turned back and forth, looking in the direction of the south of the city. After a few breaths, this Confucian scholar, who has always been calm and calm, sweated profusely!

"What's the matter?" Xu You asked with a solemn expression, he knew that Zhao Li's excessive use of natal supernatural powers cost a lot, but it seemed that the matter was very important, and he didn't care about anything else, so he asked directly.

Zhao Li took a few heavy breaths, slowly adjusted the operation of the inner body, and then said with difficulty:

"There are ferrymen, with ghost magic. ”

"Move-ten thousand ghosts!"