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Chapter 164: Who is mourning?

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  Zhang Wenbin cultivates the Tao, what is the Tao? Laozi said: The Tao can be spoken of, but it is not the eternal Tao. If it can be clearly stated, then it is not the Tao. Since it cannot be clearly stated, why cultivate it? Laozi also said: Righteousness reverts to strangeness, goodness reverts to wickedness! A person's good or evil, all exist within a single thought. From birth, human nature is not pure. The Tao can suppress evil thoughts and guide one upwards through virtue, but at the same time, it can also become a demon or an evil spirit.

  "Any practice requires theoretical guidance, and China's great man Mao Zedong insisted on this point." Gu Lao smiled and said: "If Cha Lao doesn't mind, I'd like to be friends with you despite our age difference, but I dare not pretend to be your teacher. You understand things that I don't, and what I understand is only to make up for what you lack. Confucius said 'Among three people walking together, there must be one who can be my teacher.' Cha Lao isn't an ordinary person, it's just that our strengths lie in different areas of learning - East and West. Isn't the Daoist pursuit all about enlightenment? A path created by one person is a small path, while a path created by many people is a great path. Integrating the strengths of various schools and understanding them thoroughly is the way to achieve enlightenment."

  Cha Wenbin gained more knowledge tonight than he had in the past few years, and his heart was also extremely excited. He couldn't help but say: "Actually, Taoism also believes that the world is materialistic. We emphasize the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, and all things are born from these five elements and interact with each other. The final element is earth, so everything in the world ultimately returns to earth. I've read a few books, and I know that the universe was initially filled with dust floating everywhere, and due to gravity, they gathered together to form various planets of different sizes. I often think that this is indeed how all things come from earth and return to earth. Since Master Gu looks down on me, naturally, I am not worthy, but now many Taoist disciples are in decline, and this extra time has given rise to some evil thoughts. Tonight, I think it's better for the old master to rest, and we'll take turns keeping watch."

  "Alright." Old Guo stood up and said: "Remember, ghosts are not to be feared. They're just a kind of stronger magnetic field. When they encounter an even stronger magnetic field, they'll be shattered. You're proficient in the Five Elements technique, which is about manipulating and concentrating magnetic fields, so you can overcome evil spirits. If ghosts were really that powerful, then this earth wouldn't have been enough for them to stay on long ago. We're just one generation, but humans have lived for hundreds or thousands of generations."

  When the old man went to sleep, only the two of us were left. Actually, I wanted to say that I didn't need to keep watch either, this really had nothing to do with me, but looking at Ye Qiu's icy gaze, I shut my mouth and leaned against the wall around the fire pit, leaning there for the whole night, not knowing when I fell asleep.

  That night was peaceful, and I was woken up early by the chirping of birds in Linzi. As soon as I opened my eyes, I felt a stinging sensation, having been smoked by the fire pit for a whole night, I almost became a smoked bun. There was already a fragrant aroma wafting inside the house, and after rubbing my eyes, I saw that they were all already in the courtyard, with Xiaobai cooking porridge, this guy is making me hungry to death.

  A big bowl of hot food made people feel much more comfortable, ran to the small stream to wash their faces, refreshed and looked at Wen Bin's dark circles under his eyes, knowing he didn't sleep last night, today's main task was still mountain climbing.

  While eating, Wen Bin said to me: "Wait for the wet air to dissipate and then leave. But I think it's best if you take us to where you lost your memory yesterday."

  "I'm eating a bun and say: 'Let's just forget it, one less thing is better than one more thing.'"

  Yue Qiu has already left...

  "What the...! Where's he?" I looked up and saw that he wasn't there just a moment ago, and neither was that dog. This guy: "If he loses Daidai, I'll fight him to the death. They're really two brothers, not holding back at all."

  Just as Zhang and Cha Wenbin were talking, I heard a dog barking, and a man and a dog came out of the woods one after another. Ye Qiu had a handful of green grass in his hand, waving it around, and walked straight towards Cha Wenbin, saying "Look!"

  I took a glance and said, "It's just a patch of reeds, what's the big deal?"

  Zha Wenbin played with the grass in his hand for a while, then put it under his nose and sniffed it. Finally, he took out a lighter and lit it up. The fresh grass started smoking immediately, and I backed away. He, however, leaned in close and sucked the smoke into his nostrils like he was taking a big drag on a cigarette. I had no idea when he developed this habit.

  "What's been found?" He looked up and asked Ye Qiu.

  "Not far from here is a big mound of earth, this dog knows the way."

  Zha Wenbin handed over the grass and said, "This is called grave head grass. If it grows on a grave and is ignited, it will produce a green flame; if not, it will produce a yellow flame. If it grows on a grave, its roots will be stained with corpse energy, and when smelled, it will have a corpse-like smell, and once burned, it will be known."

  After finishing, Cha Wenbin found a piece of Si Mao grass next to the courtyard and lit it. He ignited the same kind but from different places and found that the color of the flame was indeed different. Not only that, I saw that the color of the ash after burning was also different. The one by the courtyard was white, while the one Ye Qiu brought back was black. As for the taste, I couldn't tell them apart.

  "Is it the one from last night?" Old Guo asked.

  Cha Wenbin glanced at me, and my heart felt a bit hairy. Sure enough, he said: "It's probably the case that Little Yi has provoked it back. This thing has a rule, whoever provokes it will follow whoever, as long as we're active in this forest tonight, it'll come again."

  "I shouted: 'Follow someone? Don't scare me, I didn't provoke him either. If it's really not working out, you can take me to burn some paper money and apologize to him later.'"

  "You burn incense for others, but they may not even appreciate it, in this desolate and remote mountain." Zhang Wenbin looked up at the Taoist temple behind him: "This place has been abandoned for at least a hundred years. Building a Taoist temple here is questionable in itself. I took a look this morning, and among the eight positions of Qian, Zhen, Kan, Gen, Kun, Xun, Li, and Dui, this temple is uniquely located in the southwest Kun palace. I think my ancestors would not have made such a low-level mistake."

  Cha Wenbin said to Gu Lao: "Kun Palace belongs to earth, and it is opposite to Gen Palace, which is the birth gate. Since all things are born in spring and die in autumn, and crops are planted in spring and harvested in autumn, this position is also called the death gate. The death gate position is not suitable for planting melons, and people living here will not live long. How can someone deliberately build a Taoist temple here? Isn't this seeking death? Anyone with some knowledge of Feng Shui can see the problem. I don't believe the builder did it unintentionally."

  "Then, Cha younger brother," asked Gu Lao, "what kind of person would put a building on the gate of death? A tomb?"

  "No building will be built on a dead door, the dead door is a great evil omen, those who enter will not be able to rest in peace, and their descendants will not be able to accumulate ancestral virtues. In the past, I heard that someone wanted to harm others and asked a Taoist priest to find a grave for the enemy's family. The priest took the money and found a dead door spot, deceiving the wealthy family into thinking it was a good grave. As a result, within three years after the ancestor's death and burial, the family disappeared. Using Feng Shui to kill people is very sinister, and as a Taoist temple, it should not be like this. In the past, if there were any unknowing Taoist priests or laymen who lived in seclusion here, they would either fall ill or die suddenly."

  Chen Wenbin turned his head and looked at the Taoist temple: "It looks like it is protected by the Three Pure Ones, with a peaceful atmosphere, but in reality, it is a place that harbors evil."

  "Is there anything else you'd like?"

  "Except for mourning and hunting." Zhang Wenbin said, muttering to himself, then turned his head back and looked around, "Mourning and hunting, it's definitely not hunting that suits this place, could it be mourning?"

  I said, "If it's a funeral, then we slept in the mourning hall last night. Who came to mourn? That thing?" Suddenly I had an idea in my mind, could it be that those things came to mourn for us?...

  "Hurry up and get everything ready to leave." Cha Wenbin seemed to have noticed something and called out: "Ye Qiu, lead the way, let's go take a look. Being reminded by Xiao Yi, I suddenly felt a bit uneasy in my heart, it was indeed like that last night when we were visited by friends!"

  Who's visiting the door? Whose door are they visiting? This is a very difficult idea to explain, but I kind of understand. If this place was never meant for the living, then what about us going to mourn the dead? Our world is yang, so what about the yin realm? According to Gu Lao and Cha Wenbin's words, it's possible that this world exists with a yin administration, or a world that people in the yang realm can't see. Following the theory of yin-yang opposition, where there's life there's death, and where there's yang there's yin. People from the yang realm naturally go to mourn those who have died and are about to enter the yin realm. But if people from the yang realm suddenly intrude into the world of the yin realm, how would they look at us? Would they also have their own social system to mourn us, these mistaken yang realm people?

  The answer is unknown, but when we step into those uncharted woods and push aside the thickets that are taller than people, everything becomes clear.

  There are countless earth mounds like the one Ye Qiu depicted, big and small, made of stones or bricks, all built into a triangular shape with four sides. When Gu Lao saw one of the larger ones covered in vines, his voice began to tremble: "The Pyramids! China has discovered its second pyramids!"

  I've never been to Egypt, but that doesn't mean people don't know what the pyramids look like. But I clearly heard him say it for the second time... Then, Old Gu's next words made everyone's hearts uneasy for a long time: "Years ago, in another place in your China, in the northeastern part of Xi'an, at the Kalaqin River Liang Village, someone discovered pyramidal tombs for the first time. There were hundreds of them, big and small. According to calculations, these tombs were formed around 5500 BC. A male corpse was found with a jade ring in his mouth, and on his chest, he wore a green jade turtle without a head or tail or feet. These messages became top-secret, and I only recently confirmed their existence through internal sources. Especially the jade ring could fit perfectly into the turtle and rotate. However, later, your jade carving masters made a one-to-one replica of the jade ring and turtle to study them but found that they couldn't fit together. This has become a huge mystery."

  "Yu Huan?" Cha Wenbin suddenly thought of something, he fumbled in his pocket for a while and took out a red cloth wrapped object: "Gu Lao, take a look at this thing today, it also has some connection with you..."

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