Chapter 17, refining qi and thinking
Lu Changsheng's father was a strange person, and Lu Changsheng's situation was very different, and all the villagers in the Wu Gu Village respected him very much, because his profession was a burial master.
There are many common names for the funeral master, because Wu Gu Village is a Miao village, so it is also called Demon Gong, and the traditional name of the Han funeral master is Mr. Feng Shui.
In his father's cabinet, there are many books, each of which has a year, most of them are about funeral techniques and feng shui, but one of them is the most peculiar.
But the things described in this book are much more detailed than chatting, such as how ghosts and gods come to be, what people become after death, and even introductions to various ghosts.
This is also the reason why Lu Changsheng likes this book, but he only saw half of this book, so he didn't read it, not because of his cultural level, but because his father didn't let him read it, because he peeked at this book, Lu Changsheng was hung up and beaten.
He remembered that after being beaten, his father sternly warned the two brothers that neither of them was allowed to peek at any of the books in his cabinet, and if there was a next time, it would not be as simple as being beaten.
Although the timid Lu Changsheng was curious, he was even more afraid of being whipped by the bullwhip, so he didn't dare to peek at it, but he remembered some of the contents recorded in the book until now.
And now Lu Changsheng, who feels the crisis, desperately wants to get this book, even if it is against his father.
About a few days later, Lu Dahai came back, but what left Lu Changsheng speechless was that Lu Dahai came back with a whole box with a Chinese brand lock on it.
"Why did you carry it all over?" Lu Changsheng looked strange.
"I can't read, I didn't say hello to my dad when I went back, and when he went out, I secretly stole the box out of his room, and my dad must have thought that the family was robbed, and he didn't have to be beaten when he went back. Lu Dahai said honestly, "Whatever book you want to read, you can read it with confidence." ”
Lu Changsheng looked at the eldest brother, who said that the eldest brother was stupid?
So, the two brothers found a hammer and pried the lock open, when they saw the books inside, Lu Changsheng's eyes almost lit up, he didn't know the preciousness of these books before, but now he found that many of the books in them are old, and the oldest of them may be traced back to the Ming Dynasty.
You must know that it is not easy for these books to be preserved until now, not to mention the war years, that is, the ** broken four olds, many ancient books have been burned, except for a few of them because the age is too old, hurt by time, most of them are intact.
Lu Changsheng couldn't wait to turn to the "Yin Yang Ghost Record" and looked at the book he had read before, while he was happy in his heart, he didn't forget that it was at school, and it happened to be Saturday, so Lu Changsheng made up a lie, saying that the school was too noisy, and asked the eldest brother to take him to the small rental house they rented before.
So, the two of them left the school with the books on their shoulders, and when they arrived at the rental house, Lu Changsheng cleaned up the books and arranged them one by one, what made him most interested in the book "Yin Yang Ghost Record".
Lying on the bed, Lu Changsheng looked at it intently, now it is different from when he was a child, he has experienced more things, and people's thinking will be much broader, especially the effect of the Yin Soul coming out of the shell, which makes his memory enhanced and a lot, so the content in it is almost understandable at a glance.
His browsing speed is also amazing, about half an hour, an ancient book of about 60,000 words of classical Chinese, he read it word for word, but when he finally introduced the ghosts and immortals, he only brought a few strokes, which made him very uncomfortable.
Because he didn't find a specific way to cultivate, it just said that ghosts and immortals can walk freely in the world, and they can take the essence of the sun and the moon to achieve the supernatural power of creation.
But the specific method of creation, and what kind of supernatural powers, has not been elaborated at all, and everything is considered to be over at this point, which makes Lu Changsheng very disappointed.
Putting down the book, Lu Changsheng was very unhappy, but he accidentally glanced at other books, he thought in his heart, he just saw the book "Yin Yang Ghost Record" selectively, and he didn't have time to pick it, maybe there were unexpected surprises in other books.
So he began to look through it, an ancient book called "Funeral Technique" fell into his eyes, his father is the funeral master, he is a god all day long, something strange happens in the village, and the villagers will look for his father, so when he was a child, Lu Changsheng felt that his father was powerful.
But it is precisely because his father is supernatural, and he is often looked down upon by the villagers, so Lu Changsheng has some hatred for this father in his heart, if it is not for the grace of nurturing, and the eldest brother is so good to him, I am afraid that after Lu Changsheng comes out, he will not want to return to that village for the rest of his life.
With his father's ability, it is very easy to block the mouths of the villagers, and he was originally doing this business, if he said that Lu Changsheng was not a disaster star, then he was not, but his father remained silent from beginning to end, never explaining to those ignorant villagers, even if it was a lie, he was unwilling.
Even when he was bullied, the eldest brother gave him a head, and his father would beat the two brothers first without asking the reason.
Moreover, he had been in a car accident for so long, and his father had never come to see him, which made Lu Changsheng feel that he was too ruthless.....
So holding these books, Lu Changsheng had a refreshing feeling of revenge in his heart, didn't you let me read them? Then I just want to read them, and I have to read them all.
At first, Lu Changsheng was still very proud, but the more he watched it, the more frightened he became, because the things recorded in the book "Funeral Technique" were too terrifying, and some of Lu Changsheng who had seen it were dumbfounded.
Burial art not only includes the selection of burial holes, but also includes the practice of transcendence, and the clever burial master can communicate with the ghosts and ghosts, and send those who die unnaturally to the ghost gate, so this is an industry that deals with ghosts and gods.
This line looks simple, but it is difficult to implement, if it is a person who dies normally, then it is very simple to do a set of processes, but if it is a person who dies unnaturally, it is difficult, and it can even be said to be dangerous.
Seeing the end, Lu Changsheng was stunned, because the last sentence of the funeral technique actually read, "The burial master is a business, and he reverses the heavens and the earth; ”
Roughly speaking, what the undertaker does in the world is karma, and this karma is called sin in Buddhism, and it is called walking against the heavens in Taoism, so you can't be rich and noble when you are born, and you can't be reborn after death.
If there was no experience of the ghost coming out of the shell, Lu Changsheng would definitely think that this was, but after experiencing this kind of experience, he understood that what was written in it might be true.
But he didn't care, but picked up other books, the more he looked at it, the more frightened he became, the things recorded in it were even more terrifying than those recorded in the book "Funeral Technique", and he finally found the cultivation method of the ghost immortal.
This book has no year, no signature, and not even a title, but it contains information about how Taoism cultivates to become immortals.
The first method is to guide and convince the qi, by absorbing the essence of heaven and earth to regulate the body, this book divides the human body into a small universe, and heaven and earth are a large universe, the small universe of people communicates with the large universe of heaven and earth, and absorbs the power of heaven and earth, you can cultivate into immortals, immortal and immortal, to put it simply, it is to refine qi.
And the most interesting thing in this book is that it completely subverts the traditional understanding of immortals, the world thinks that immortals need to be worshipped, but this book expounds a contrary concept, immortals do not need to be worshipped, immortals are just the ultimate form of ginseng to understand the creation of the universe.
Before reading this book, Lu Changsheng had always believed that gods were above people and were innate, but looking at history, it seems that every god in Chinese Taoism has become a god through cultivation or through worldly tribulations.
So this book indirectly made his mind jump to a higher level, and there was a feeling of sudden enlightenment, as if some kind of burden on his body had suddenly been untied.
"Everyone in the world has a mortal heart, hiding ghosts on the one hand, and offering to gods on the other!" Reading this, Lu Changsheng's heart was a little abrupt.
People are constantly doing ghost things that go against their hearts, but they desperately want to be redeemed, so while hiding ghosts, they are offering to the gods, trying to ask for a peace of mind, how can such a person become a god?
Therefore, the cultivation of this first method must be both physical and mental, first of all, the heart must transcend the level of mortals, in order to communicate with the great universe of heaven and earth, and finally to guide and convince the qi, cultivate the body to achieve the immortality of the immortals, if the heart does not reach a certain level, just think of using the guidance and convincing qi to cultivate into immortals, and in the end it is just a vain immortal path.
From ancient times to the present, there are too many people who want to cultivate into immortals, but there are only a few successful people, why saints can be called saints, because their hearts have already transcended the mundane, to reach the realm of not respecting gods, not hiding ghosts, even if the gods see them, they do not dare to offend, but treat them with friendship.
Guiding and convincing qi is related to qi in actual operation, so people who use the first method to cultivate are called qi refiners, from ancient times to modern times, there have been many famous qi refiners, and it is also a method that is relatively easy to cultivate.
But the second type is completely different, it is called cunsi, which is a method of cultivating the soul, which is called meditation, which calls the soul back into the body and merges to the point where the mind is free of distractions.
Meditation is a cultivation method, but also a starting point, out of the shell is the first realm, followed by the Yin Soul, Soul Travel, Shaping, Transformation, Driving, Yang Soul, Possession, Recreation and other nine small realms.
But what disappointed him was that there was no mention of the realm of ghosts and immortals in this book, but only that after the yin soul reached the realm of recreation, the karma of ghosts and immortals could naturally be achieved........
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