In the early years, there was no Ghost Festival, and the earliest July and a half were just to celebrate the harvest, and then somehow, the Taoist Sanguan and the Buddhist Bon and the secular July and a half were entangled in confusion.

Zhang Muliu once heard someone preach that the word "Obon" is actually from the Sanskrit Ulan Po, and the original meaning is actually "to save the upside down". Later, it was also confused, and there was a saying that the ghost door was wide open, and a hundred ghosts walked at night. In fact, together with the night walk of the hundred ghosts, it is not from ancient times, but the island on the east side of Shengshen Continent has slightly changed the saying that has been passed down in the past.

It is not easy to cultivate ghost things, and seven out of ten cannot be called ghost cultivation, but can only be called ghost things.

After the death of a living being, a breath of resentment does not disappear, and the soul does not disperse, it can be called a ghost. And after the resentment is condensed, it is similar to surviving with the Yuan Infant, and with the soul of the entity, it can be called ghost cultivation.

Therefore, most of the ghosts in the eyes of the world are the kind of ethereal and insubstantial existence, so there is a word called human ghosts. And ghost cultivation is also similar to a sentence, that is, the words in the book: "The body is dead, the god is the spirit, and the soul is the ghost."

Only those with a strong soul can be called a ghost male, and a male among ghosts can have a chance to walk out of a ghost path.

Whoever teaches a Ganbu Continent to change its name to Zhanbu Continent is a real ghost hero.

The female sword immortal was not happy to talk about Gu Tianting, and Zhang Muliu had no choice but to ask Bai Qilin. In addition to the three supreme heavens, the remaining thirty-three heavens all fell to the world, and the court of later generations was all modeled after the official positions of the heavenly court at the earliest, and later had their own set of rules.

Therefore, at the beginning of each dynasty, an altar must be set up to worship the sky, and the jade seal of the town country is mostly engraved with "Ordered by the sky, that is, Shou Yongchang", because it is the ancient heavenly court that falls, people learn to establish the imperial court, and there is an official position system.

Bai Qilin was overwhelmed and explained: "Most of the Heavenly Court official positions written in later generations are not right. The Taoist sect will substitute its own teachings into the ancient heavenly court, and the same is true for the Buddhist sect. But there are countless sects in the world, and only Buddhism has the creation myth. And you don't want to think about it, the old Huang Dao handed down in later generations, when there was Huang, there was a Dao Gate? There was a Dao, but there was not necessarily a Dao Gate. ”

Zhang Muliu nodded yes, and the white qilin continued: "At that time, when the heavenly court was still there, mortals ascended to nothing more than a scattered immortal, and the so-called scattered immortal was not a realm name, it was an idle immortal, and there was no authority. The most useful thing to say is the descendants of the first group of gods who founded the Heavenly Court, calling themselves the gods. And there is a difference between gods and immortals, most of the gods are those who are born with their own powers, and immortals are said to be cultivated by your human race. It's just that there aren't many ancient gods left, and I remember that there was a water god still in Heaven back then, and he was the only ancient god left. Because of the decline of the ancient gods, the three supreme geniuses fell into the hands of the immortals. Later, Heavenly Court declined, perhaps because of the conflict between the descendants of the ancient gods and the immortals. ”

The white qilin muttered, "The reason why I know so much is because my Qilin clan was also the spirit of Middle-earth. Within the Eight Desolations and Liuhe, the spirit beasts of the Quartet respect our clan. ”

The spirit beasts of the Quartet have not changed, they are the spirits of Middle-earth in exchange, and the main thing is that the Yellow Dragon is in the center. The unicorn was once a beast of Middle-earth, and not many people know about it.

Liu Gong laughed and asked, "Master, is there really a ghost? I haven't seen a ghost since I'm so old, how can I find such a strange thing?"

Zhang Muliu shook his head and said: "With Xiaobai here, how dare ordinary ghosts come close to us? ”

What kind of local official Linfan or something, it's really not a matter now, and when I get to the noodle boiling pool, I don't know what will happen! If I don't do it, I will really lose people and lose my life. In fact, Zhang Muliu has been wondering, should he let Le Qing take Liu Gong back to Shengshenzhou first?

Zhang Muliu had a hunch that the boiling noodle pool was the last layer of black veil that had been covered by so many things over the years. He went to him openly, and people may also be waiting for him openly.

The young man in white turned over and jumped off the white deer, this time it was okay, he was not thrown and eaten. He tightened his back, looked at Liu Gong with a smile, and said softly after a while: "Your master taught me back then, it was three tricks. I also taught a little guy that he would stick a river lantern by himself today, and he would run a long way after the river lantern. ”

The young man in the green shirt was very longing and wanted to smoke to suppress his shock. He said in his heart, good guy, the master is finally going to teach the divine skills, see that I don't practice him a big sword immortal in one go.

Zhang Muliu smiled and said, "But I don't want to teach you." ”

What is holding a sword, blocking a sword, and taking out a sword, it is more to stabilize the sword heart of sword cultivation, but Liu Gong doesn't need it. As for what sword moves, Zhang Muliu knows what a fart!

Liu Gong muttered: "Don't teach and mention, isn't this a pot of meat in front of people who are dying of hunger, only letting you smell the fragrance but not letting you move chopsticks!"

The young man smiled dumbly, and a divine sense hit the young man's forehead, and said lightly: "I don't teach you because you don't need it, so I passed on your sword refining method called Jian Yan Nine Tricks, your master should be more familiar than me, and you can go and ask him for advice then." But there is no rule that should not be passed on, and if you see something worth teaching in the future, teach it to him. ”

Young Liu Gong was almost about to cry bitterly. He took out a pipe made of bamboo from his arms, handed it to Zhang Muliu, and said with a smile: "I actually have an apprenticeship, but grandpa took out the grass carp, and I will forget it." I made this pipe myself, and I know that the master has never smoked, but sometimes when I get tired of drinking, I can take a few puffs to kill my sorrows. ”

Zhang Muliu took it with a smile, and looked at the young man for a long time before he said:

"Dot. ”

He actually smoked, and he smoked at a very young age. But adults will say that this thing is addictive, and if it smells, it will be beaten.

The first smoker was taught by my grandfather, the thin old man who looked like a bamboo pole, who liked to wear a tattered black jacket in the cold and summer, and sat on the threshold of his adobe house smoking an old dry cigarette, and would often talk to a group of children about the vast world outside.

The old man who had been idle all his life told many stories, and what impressed Zhang Muliu the most was that he said it.

"There are a lot of strange things in our world. Legend has it that there is a place in the north where the sun and the moon hang in the sky at the same time, and it only gets dark once a year. ”

Later, Zhang Muliu thought about whether the place that Grandpa Tai said would be the border city of Juluzhou?

The reason why Zhang Muliu smoked when he was a child was because there were some big and small stories in his grandfather's mouth, which made Zhang Muliu, who was still a child, feel extremely uncomfortable.

Zhang Zhuokang suffered a big loss because of smoking, and it's funny to think about it, this guy has nothing to do when he is idle, and he takes a pipe to burn people's butts. As a result, he kicked the scalper's hind legs a few feet away, and his arms and bones were broken.

It's just that as he grew older, Zhang Muliu felt that he still liked to drink, so he never smoked again.

Liu Gong heard what the master said, and hurriedly took out a very beautiful embroidered purse, took out a handful of tobacco for the master to fill, and helped the master light it.

This purse contains the most expensive cigarettes, produced by Wanbao Mountain, the most popular in Zhanbu Continent, and it is said that the tobacco sold in a day can be piled up as much as a mountain.

Zhang Muliu saw the embroidered words in the purse, and he couldn't laugh or cry. It seems that many places now sell old dry tobacco, and they will write a few sentences on the purse they sell. Liu Gong's purse is embroidered:

"It's good to dispel sorrows, but eat less. ”

The young man in white took a sharp breath, and naturally spit out a smoke ring, and Liu Gong rolled his eyes on the side, saying in his heart that it was an old Jianghu!

......

Out of Ya'er Town, even if you are out of Yu Country, and then a few thousand miles north is the boundary of Boiled Noodle Pond, and this thousand miles is not easy to walk. Because the country under his feet is extremely unfriendly to the people of Yu Guolai, largely because Yu Guo respects Taoism, and Weiguo, which is opposed to it, is extremely respectful of Buddhism. In fact, the entire Zhanbu Continent is actually Buddhism's dominance, because it is rumored that the Buddha was born in the Zhanbu Continent. Yu Guoneng squeezed out Buddhism and only respected Confucianism and Taoism, which is also rare in Zhanbuzhou, which can be regarded as a world of Buddhism.

In the past, he deliberately bypassed many large countries all the way south, but now he has to walk in this majestic country with many temples.

But Zhang Muliu really doesn't like Buddhism, at most he looks at it with ordinary eyes.

The group crawled westward like a turtle, much slower than ordinary people. There is mainly a young man in white who stops and goes, and a young man in green shirt who takes a pit step by step. Liu Gong didn't dare to walk on the road, if someone saw the good road surface and stepped on countless big potholes for himself, he would scold a few words if he didn't kick a few feet.

Liu Gong smelled of sweat all over his body, Le Qing had already jumped on Zhang Muliu's shoulder, muttering all the way to complain, and he was impatient to listen to Bai Qilin, and he would stop for a while when he stared.

It's dusk, but it's raining lightly, and it is estimated that the people who went to put the river lanterns tonight have already scolded the streets.

On the country road, a white coat found a branch out of nowhere, two fingers thick, crooked. It's nice to have a road in the countryside where you can see the past, but of course it's all dirt, and when it rains, it's muddy. So at this moment, Zhang Muliu lifted up his robe and stuffed it into the waistband of his trousers, rolled up his trouser legs, and walked slowly in the mud with his bare feet.

The rain became heavier and heavier, but the young Liu Gong did not slip, and there was a shoe print when he walked through a place, and when the soles of his feet left, the small pit was filled with water. At this moment, the young man returned to his sloppy appearance, and a pair of white boots hung from his waist.

Bai Qilin shook the mud on his hooves, shrank in an instant, jumped to Zhang Muliu's shoulder on the other side, and said lightly: "Do you want to go to the broken Dao temple in front to take a look? ”

Before Zhang Muliu could answer, Liu Gong had already raised his head excitedly and shouted, "Is there a ghost?"

The young man in white smiled, the long sword behind his back disappeared, and he tore off the two small beasts on his shoulders and held them in his arms, and ran barefoot wildly. Mouth shouted:

"There's a ghost!"

Liu Gong smiled, and said in his heart that the master was so stupid! Liu Gong turned his head to look at the deep woods on the side, how to look at how panicked.

Zhang Muliu ran all the way with Le Qing and Bai Qilin, and soon arrived at a ruined temple, the wall had almost collapsed, and there was only one hall left and half of it could cover the rain.

The young man in white stepped into the dilapidated hall and shook his hair, almost soaking wet. Secretly sighed, suddenly looked up, and found three flower-like girls sitting not far away, who did not make a fire, but just looked at the young man in white coldly.

The young man was stunned, and said in a dumb voice: "Why are there so many beautiful women in the wilderness?"

The three women all looked at them coldly and did not speak.

The young man in white suddenly shouted: "Aren't you ghosts who ran out of the ghost gate?

As he spoke, he took out a piece of yellow paper, and the earthworm crawled over it, and he didn't know what to draw.

I saw the young man in white put the puppy and the deer aside, walked around like a god with a yellow talisman in his hand, and kept chanting to the three women with the yellow talisman: "Hurry like a law, immeasurable Tianzun, demons and monsters leave quickly......"

The three women still watched coldly, but they saw the young man in white and painted with mud and flowers walking around, the eyes of the people around him were dizzy, the buzzing in his mouth was constant, and his brain hurt from the noise. So one of them, looking at the younger woman, picked up the kettle beside her, and splashed it on the young man's face, and the yellow charm instantly drenched, and the young woman said coldly:

"Are you sick?"

Zhang Muliu was poured water, Huang Fu was wet and stuck to his wrist, spit out a mouthful of water, frowned:

"What a powerful ghost! I can even break this ghost-catching talisman, look at me to change a powerful talisman. ”

The three women were a little irritable, and the woman who had just spoken glared at her, and spoke up again: "Have you been kicked in the head by a donkey? We are human! We are human!"

The young man in white sneered: "Don't try to lie to me! It's raining heavily outside, you don't even have a fire, and tonight the ghost door is wide open, and you three women are so beautiful, hiding from the rain in this ruined temple?

The woman who kept talking was so angry that she was about to stomp her feet, and her heart said why is this guy so tendoned?

The other two women, the one who looked slightly more mature, shook his hand and struck a flame and made a fire. The ruined hall suddenly lit up. She said helplessly: "We don't make fire, it's not that we're afraid of fire." And if we're really female ghosts, you'll be left with bones now. ”

The young man in white was shocked, took a few steps back, and said in a trembling voice: "Isn't it a female ghost? Isn't it a fairy?

The three women didn't know what to say, in fact, Bai Qilin and Le Qing on the side had been scolding for most of the day.

Le Qing has been transmitting sound, one pit at a time.

The white unicorn wanted to find a hole to get into, this guy was too good at holding garlic, and it was too embarrassing.

Liu Gong finally saw the broken Dao Temple with a slight firelight, and was about to run away, when his body suddenly lightened, and the wind spring behind him disappeared and turned into a big cage.

The young man cried out with a sad face before he shouted the word "teacher", and a voice sounded in his ears, "Don't call master, come and call Mr. later, do you know? ”

Liu Gong sighed, he had already guessed what the master was going to do.

So a young man with a pair of white boots hanging on his waist and a big cage on his back swayed and said something that made Zhang Muliu quite impressive.

"Sir, what are you doing so fast? I can't even catch up. ”

Zhang Muliu suddenly felt that he was a big disciple and had the ability to see.

The young man in white rubbed the mud on his feet, smiled and saluted, his voice was a little ashamed, "Xiaosheng is actually a scholar, he has read Wu Liu for a few days, and he has also learned to draw talismans from an old Taoist. Actually, I already knew that the three fairies were not ghosts. ”

As he spoke, he walked to the side and washed the soles of his feet by the water line dripping from the eaves.

The three women were smiling, and they knew by looking at their looks that they all wanted to say, "I believe you are a ghost!"

Liu Gong looked like a scholar, skillfully handed over his boots, and then complained: "Why did Mr. run so fast?

Bai Qilin and Le Qing glanced at each other, and lazily walked to the fire to lie down, no one was willing to take care of this pair of pit goods.

In fact, Bai Qilin wanted to say: "Sure enough, it's not that a family doesn't enter the door." ”

The two little beasts walked to the fire, and the expressions of the three women immediately changed. Especially the woman who spoke first, Xiao Xiaobu ran over and squatted on the side of the white unicorn, and kept giving her the beautiful white deer in her eyes.

What else can we, Lord Kirin, bear!

The other two women looked more like Le Qing, picked up the puppy, and rubbed it on their faces, regardless of the wet dog hair.

The mature woman exclaimed, "Oh, why does the puppy still have horns?"

Zhang Muliu had already put on his shoes, walked slowly and said with a smile: "How can I say it, I have always suspected that this guy was born of a fox and a deer." ”

Le Qing scolded: "You are a pit surnamed Zhang, you are too much! If you dare to scold me again, Lao Tzu will bite you to death." ”

The young man in white stopped talking, Liu Gong put the cage aside and squatted down to roast the fire, and said with a smile: "Sir, why are there three such beautiful sisters in this wilderness......? Female ghost, right?"

The young woman picked up the little white deer and said angrily, "If I were a ghost, I would have eaten the two of you one by one." Listen up! My name is Meng Shuangshuang, and I am a very powerful monk, and I am in the foundation building period!"

Liu Gong almost couldn't hold back his laughter when he heard this, his head moved forward a few points, his jaw trembled slightly, and he made an "um" sound. was just glared at by Zhang Muliu, and he hurriedly said, "Well, ah? It turns out that it is really a fairy sister?"

The other two women teased Le Qing and said to Zhang Muliu: "Our three sisters are here to catch ghosts tonight, you should leave here quickly, and when we fight, we will have no eyes in our hands and feet, and it will not be good if we hurt you." ”

When Zhang Muliu heard this, he immediately screamed, "How can this work? I am a dignified seven-foot man, with a belly full of sage books, how can I retreat from the battle and be that deserter?"

Meng Shuangshuang grinned, a small flame overflowed from his thumb, shining on his cheek like a candle, and said gloomily: "Reader! ”

It seems that a white deer and a puppy have made a few people a little familiar, and Meng Shuangshuang played with it, making several people in the broken house laugh.

The three sisters came from a small island in the north, in fact, with two senior brothers from the neighboring island, but then they separated, and the three of them heard that there was a female ghost here, who called herself Mrs. Demon Ling, and would come out to harm people every full moon night, so they came to hunt ghosts.

After Zhang Muliu heard it, he didn't know whether to praise them for their courage or scold them for having brains. Can the ghosts that can harm people, can the three foundation building monks deal with them?

Even Liu Gong asked, "Master, what are we going to do?" These three women have bad brains!"

The young man replied, and Le Qing and Bai Qilin could hear his and Liu Gong's words, "You all hold back! I have already said that there is a good show to watch tonight, don't make a rash move later." ”

Two streaks of green smoke swept by, and there were two more men in green shirts in the main hall of this broken Taoist temple. One person is holding a folding fan, and the other is carrying a horizontal knife at his waist, and he is graceful.

The man holding the fan looked at the mature woman with a smile, as if complaining, "Senior Sister Zeng Nuan, you ran so far, let me find it!"

The other man with a knife on his waist walked up to the woman who had not spoken, frowned slightly, and after looking the woman up and down, he suddenly exhaled a breath and said softly: "Xiao Huangduo, I'm a little angry." ”

Liu Gong was about to vomit, and said in his heart, what kind of person is this? Just this little thing, dare to come out and deceive people? It's too fucking pretentious. If the eyes just now were more hidden, and then held his breath slightly, there would be a sense of wanting to look but not daring to look, for fear that the woman would be damaged. If the last breath comes out more slowly and the eyes are slightly avoided, there will be a feeling of being very distressed, but I don't want the woman to know that she is actually very distressed. That's perfect!

Bai Qilin heard Liu Gong's heart, and at this moment, Zhang Muliu was transmitted, and his voice was playful: "Your apprentice's cultivation qualifications are not good, and some aspects are amazing! ”

Zhang Muliu wanted to cover his forehead, his mother's door was unfortunate! How could he accept such a thing? As for the two that Bai Qilin said were beaten to death, he naturally knew what it meant.

One is a man and the other is a woman.

The woman named Huang Duo also lacked heart, and her eyes were red because of this clumsy acting skills, and she lowered her head and said sorry. The man with the knife took advantage of the situation, put his arms around the woman's waist, stretched out his hand to help her wipe away her tears, and said with a slight smile: "Fool! How can I be reluctant to say I'm sorry?"

Now Zhang Muliu is about to vomit, how can it be like watching the ghost fire on the other side of the river in Jumping River City?

The woman named Zeng Nuan is older, and she is not like Huang Duo. Meng Shuangshuang pouted and held Bailu in his arms, not knowing what he was thinking.

The two young men seemed to realize the existence of Zhang Muliu and Liu Gong in hindsight, and they all turned their heads and squinted and asked, "Who is this?"

The two men in green clothes had very unkind faces, and the young man in white seemed to be frightened, and stammered: "I am a scholar passing by here, thinking of coming here to catch ghosts." ”

The young man holding the folding fan shook his head and smiled, his eyes full of sarcasm. The man with the knife stepped forward, grabbed Zhang Muliu's neck by the collar, and threw him out of the hall.

Zeng Nuan was a little disliked, thinking that the two of them had done something wrong, but they didn't say anything. And Huang Duo is more at a loss.

Only the youngest Meng Shuangshuang frowned and shouted, "You two are sick?"

It's just that the two men in Tsing Yi ignored Meng Shuangshuang, and the man holding a folding fan threw out a cloth bag and smashed it on Liu Gong's forehead, and said with a smile: "We bought this strange dog and Bailu, is a bag of gold enough?" ”

Liu Gong also ignored his master's explanation, kicked the cloth bag to the fire, and his voice was very cold.

The young man said, "Is your mother selling?"