Chapter 12: Unasked whether it is fate or calamity
Even though three masters worked together, it took half a day to carve the Zhenwu Temple Formation. After the formation was carved, the five masters took Ji Ruochen back to the mountain.
It seems that Zhenwu Temple was also severely damaged during this interception, so the return journey was smooth sailing and did not encounter any obstacles.
As soon as he entered the gate of Taishang Daode Palace, Ji Ruochen felt that the atmosphere in the palace was very different from when he came down the mountain. At that time, the palace was still filled with immortal energy and a prosperous scene, but he could only feel a slight trace of tension. However, at this moment, Taishang
There was a sense of solemnity in the Morality Palace. Everyone looked solemn and their steps were hurried. They no longer had the calmness and ease of the past.
Immediately after Master Ziyang returned to the mountain, he went into seclusion. Ji Ruochen went back to the courtyard to practice on his own. It was not until Yunfeng came to visit him in the evening that he asked what had happened in the palace recently.
Yunfeng's face darkened, and after a moment he sighed: "Come with me."
Ji Ruochen put on his clothes and stood up, following the wind and wind through the house and alley, and after a while he arrived at a corner of Taishang Daode Palace. Here, with gray tiles, gray walls and black stone floors, it was a solemn and solemn place, which was very different from other places in the palace. In this remote place
In the corner, there was only a side hall made of black wood, with doors but no windows, and no other ancillary buildings or decorations. Ji Ruochen could even feel the wisps of Yin Qi constantly spreading out from the cracks in the door. This side hall was originally used for
It is used as a temporary shelter for the lonely ghosts who died violently on Mogan Peak before reincarnation. However, whether it is a human or an animal, it is rare to encounter a soul who died violently on Mogan Peak for many years. Even if there are, most of them accidentally slip and fall to death.
There are strange beasts and the like, so this side hall usually looks no different from other places in the palace. But now the sinister wind in the palace is so strong, I don’t know how many ghosts are hidden in the palace!
With a creak, Yunfeng pushed open the palace door, and a wisp of bone-chilling cold wind immediately hit his face, almost making Ji Ruochen unable to breathe.
He followed Yunfeng into the palace and looked around, his originally calm face changing color slightly.
The hall is not very spacious, but it is too cold, which makes it appear very deep and secluded. At the end of the hall is a foot-wide incense table, with a pair of pale white giant candles burning. The candles are blazing, but the light is very weak, but it illuminates the surroundings.
A three-foot square place.
On the bluestone floor tiles, there were two rows of corpses neatly arranged, with almost no place for the two of them to stay!
The faces of these corpses are lifelike, with different wounds on their bodies, fresh flesh and blood from the wounds, and occasionally a drop of blood will ooze out. Anger, unwillingness, fear, surprise, and all kinds of emotions at the moment of death are all frozen on their faces. They look like these people
It was as if he had just died, and there were still faintly visible souls floating around in the air, which had not yet found the entrance to the underworld.
Although the clothes were of different colors, there were several faces that Ji Ruochen was familiar with. It seemed that these people were young disciples of the Taoist Sect who were touring and training outside the mountains. Among them were two middle-aged Taoist priests. Ji Ruochen remembered them.
My meritorious deeds are very profound, and I never thought that I would embark on this path of no return.
"In the past half month, all the fallen disciples of our sect have been here. This palace isolates Yin and Yang, which keeps their souls from dispersing and their bodies from decaying. It serves as a temporary shelter for them after their death." Yunfeng's voice was calm.
With a little helplessness.
Ji Ruochen knew that this hall had the function of isolating Yin and Yang. But he didn't understand why the Daode Sect had lost thirty members in half a month. Secondly, placing these corpses in this hall was like being imprisoned, and their souls were not allowed to go.
The reincarnation of the underworld. The original intention of the Taoist Sect to build this hall was to wash away the blood of those who died unjustly before they fell into the underworld, so as to avoid suffering after death. However, currently, this hall is used to store the corpses of disciples for half a month, which is actually the same as that of the underworld.
The soul of the disciple is imprisoned, why is this?
Yunfeng seemed to know what he was thinking. He smiled bitterly and said, "Ruochen, you are also familiar with the hexagrams. You might as well use the next hexagram to calculate the fortune of our sect."
Ji Ruochen followed the instructions and made a hexagram. After a moment, his expression suddenly changed and he said in surprise: "If you act against the will of heaven, you will be punished by heaven?!"
Usually when monks make hexagrams, the hexagrams are all vague and unclear. You can interpret them in any way. Whether you can understand it all depends on your personal cultivation. The hexagram made by Xiang Ji Ruochen is so obvious, which is really unprecedented. He
Immediately, I remembered something. I am not very sophisticated in hexagrams, and my use of hexagrams is not surprising. Doesn't this mean that monks from other sects will get the same results if they ask for divination?
Yunfeng sighed: "Ruochen, you are right. Nowadays, when people with a little bit of cultivation ask about our sect's fortune, they always use these eight words. This is the reason why Xiaoxiao in the world dares to attack our sect boldly.
.This hexagram began half a month ago. As soon as Master Ziyang learned about the hexagram, he immediately called back the disciples who were wandering away, but it was still a step late and injured dozens of disciples. We tried our best to snatch it back
There are more than thirty corpses. The current area guarded by our sect is only a hundred miles around Xixuan Mountain."
Ji Ruochen did not expect that the situation had become so serious. He looked at the corpses of his fellow disciples in the hall, sighed softly, and said: "Brother, why don't you let their souls go to hell and reincarnate, and let them linger in this hall?"
?If you are reincarnated and reincarnated, maybe you can still retain some wisdom in the next life."
Yunfeng shook his head and said with a bitter smile: "Ruochen, do you really think that their souls will be reincarnated smoothly after entering the underworld?"
"Why not?" Ji Ruochen asked in surprise.
Yunfeng pondered for a moment and said slowly: "Gua divination seems to be a side path, but it is not. The way of hexagrams can be divided into upper and lower levels. The lower level explores the good and bad luck of a time and a place, looking at three to five days, a radius of one hundred feet;
The middle one holds the heart of heaven above and the earth's energy below, asks about the fate of dozens of years, and observes the wind and clouds of thousands of miles; while the upper one looks at the reincarnation of thousands of years, and the heaven and earth for thousands of miles are as if they are nothing, and points directly to the origin of the great road. As for what kind of heavenly secrets can be divined,
It cannot be recorded in history books and classics. Although your hexagram is still shallow, it is also the way of the middle person, and it is asking about the affairs of heaven and earth."
"Heaven's heart and earth's qi, the affairs of heaven and earth?" Ji Ruochen frowned and thought hard. He had never thought before that there were three levels of hexagrams: upper, middle and lower. However, when Yunfeng said this, he already felt this in his heart.
There may be something else in the four words "Heaven, Heart, Earth and Qi".
Yunfeng nodded and said: "Ruochen, if you can ask such a question, you know that you have a keen talent. In fact, the only reason we have worked so hard to seek enlightenment is to ascend as a feather and become an immortal in our physical body. Then there must be a place to go after ascension, right? Lian
Whether it is a flower or a wonderful place, no matter how it is called in the Taoist scriptures, it is the place of ascension and the residence of the immortals."
Yunfeng paused, pondered for a moment, and then said: "I have always had an idea in my mind, and I might as well share it with you now. The methods practiced by monks in the world are mostly secret methods left by several ancient immortals.
My moral master, Cheng Guangchengzi, is even closer to the righteous Dharma of the Immortal Palace. He practices half the time but gets twice the result. This is the most important reason why our sect can endure for three thousand years. From this, it can be deduced that after the hexagrams and calculations by monks
What I measured may not be God’s will, but the will of immortality!”
"Immortal intention? Could it be that we are not acting against heaven, but acting against immortality?" Ji Ruochen lost his voice.
Yunfeng nodded and said: "It is extremely rare for the hexagrams to predict so clearly. I think the 10th disciple of our clan offended some immortal and aroused the immortal's anger, so he would have such a sign. Alas, say
Come on, Ni Tian and Ni Immortal are actually not much different."
Chapter completed!