Master Qingyun was at the helm, and the canoe moved forward smoothly.
A green candlelight soul-inducing lantern hung on the bow of the boat to guide them forward.
Master Qingyun and the old Taoist priest discussed the way to return to the earthly world, that is, find a way to find a mountain temple or cemetery where there is incense and worship, find the way to the earthly world, and return to the earthly world.
This is like living people worshiping their ancestors, and the ancestors in the underworld can accurately eat the incense.
But it is a bit difficult to find a mountain temple or cemetery in the underworld where incense is used for worship, because the underworld is too big, even bigger than the earth. Moreover, these mountain temples or cemeteries are all on the shore, and they use waterways.
They had to go to the shore to search from time to time. If the search was fruitless, they had to get back on the boat and change to another place to continue searching ashore, because they could not stay too far away from the canoe to prevent Qingyun Zhenren from being unable to return.
The further away from the Huangquan River and deeper into the interior of the underworld, the probability of encountering those ancient obsessions that have persisted for thousands of years increases gradually.
The three of them spent a lot of time going back and forth like this. After experiencing many empty temples or mass graves on the hills where no descendants worshiped, they found another temple. "This is the third one we have found.
The temple has become empty. Is it another abandoned temple with a dead god? "As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. The old Taoist priest has lost the excitement at the beginning, and there is no trace on his face.
Joy filled my face with sadness. "When I walk around the world, the less I want to meet folk wild gods, the easier it is for me to encounter various man-eating wild temples. Sometimes I have no place to hide. Now I want to find one to live in.
The wild temple with the wild god suddenly became more difficult than climbing to the sky. I don’t know whether it’s good luck or bad luck.”
Looking at the wild temple on the roadside in the distance, Jin An said in surprise: "The situation may be different this time, I can smell the incense!"
Jin'an knew the art of looking at qi. Under his qi-watching technique, the roadside wild temple was covered with dark clouds and billowing with black air, inhabited by evil wild gods. In the black air, there was a looming green smoke, which was the light of incense.
cigarette!
As I got closer, I saw that the roadside temple was very simple. It was a drafty temple built with bamboo sheds and hay. Because of the leeward wind, I had not smelled it before. It was only after I got closer that I could smell the stench within a few dozen feet.
It makes people feel sick.
The old Taoist priest immediately covered his mouth and nose with his sleeves. He rolled his eyes because of the smoke: "My mother, why does this place smell so bad! Which wild god is worshiped in the temple on the roadside? It's too smelly.
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Because the stench was too bad, it solidified into a dark, ink-like turbidity that settled and refused to disperse.
The one who suffered the most was Master Qingyun. He had left his body as a soul and had no physical body to protect him. He was always subject to filthy air and soul. Even the soul-inducing lamp in his hand was greatly suppressed in such a filthy place.
As a result, the three of them just walked into this roadside temple and immediately escaped in panic. The expressions on their faces were more nervous than when they faced a strong person from the upper three realms. Especially the old Taoist priest, who was the weakest among the three, hated his parents for having two children.
Legs. "You are eating shit!" the old Taoist priest yelled in vernacular as he ran.
Boom!
A roadside temple was smashed into a wild temple by an ugly humanoid monster with a small head and a big body, a neck as thin as a needle point, and a big belly with many hands under its armpits. It had a dozen arms holding souls and magic weapons that could harm people.
The spiritual dirt and black light roared and hunted down the three people.
A person who practices greed and jealousy, always harbors frugality, fails to give alms, and eats unclean food. Due to these bad karma, this person will end up in a bad state and be born among the hungry ghosts who eat dung. His body will be burned by hunger and thirst.
He seeks for all kinds of excrement, but he cannot get it. His body is broken, he is unclean and stinky, he is despised by others, his breath is fishy, and his teeth are black.
It turned out that Jin An and the others had encountered a coprophagic hungry ghost. No wonder they escaped in such a mess. Even the daring Jin An could only flee through the door in embarrassment, not daring to fight.
If it were you, would you be willing to fight with someone in a cesspit?
A stingy villain who is jealous, greedy, lies and deceives. Because he was not satisfied with his desires during his lifetime, he was lazy and did not want others to do well. He often lied and slandered others behind their backs. After death, he will become a coprophagic hungry ghost, but his breath smells bad and his body smells filthy.
It is unbearable to stay away from relatives and friends during life and stay away from ghosts after death. Coprophagic hungry ghosts are the same as starving ghosts. Their hands and feet are small and their necks are like needles. They cannot eat normally. They suffer from hunger and poverty. The hungrier they are, the bigger their stomachs become.
The copro-eating hungry ghost chased the three men for a long distance, and finally stood on the edge of the filthy air. Unwilling to watch the three men run further and further away, they roared again and again.
The three of them fled all the way back to the canoe and hurriedly paddled away from the shore. The old Taoist priest finally had time to complain: "What a bad luck! What happened to me? I finally found a wild temple but I met a coprophagic hungry ghost! I don't know."
Are the three of us very lucky or are we very unlucky?" "Is it true that there are people among the people who worship coprophagous hungry ghosts?" Jin'an also took a while to calm down. He really couldn't figure out what kind of people would worship such people.
An evil god.
Old Taoist priest: "You are the night scented woman or night scented husband. The business of pouring night scented wine is considered unlucky, so you can only work after the curfew at night. After dark, everyone will put the excrement bucket and spittoon at the door in advance to wait for the night scented woman.
Or Ye Xiangfu comes to the door and dumps it. It is said that walking too much at night is easy to bump into unclean things, so some Yexiang women and Yexiang husbands will offer dung-eating hungry ghosts at home to ward off evil spirits and ward off disasters. Both parties get what they need.
Peaceful coexistence. There are also some people who believe that if they worship coprophagous ghosts at home, they can eat the special smell on their bodies and avoid being hated by others."
Master Qingyu couldn't help but take a few more glances at the old Taoist priest. Even he couldn't help but admire the old Taoist priest for being so knowledgeable along the way.
These insights, which seem to be of little use to practice, often require a very rich life experience, accumulated bit by bit.
Encountering a coprophagic hungry ghost can only be regarded as a small episode, and it will not affect the three of them from continuing to search for the wild temple and return to the earth.
But the wild temple of the underworld was not found. They found a green fire suddenly appeared in front of them on the Huangquan River. It was suspected to be a will-o'-the-wisp floating in the air. When the canoe approached, they realized that it was not a will-o'-the-wisp, but a lantern? "Could it be true?
Is it a soul-inducing lamp that meets someone who is wandering the other way?"
It turned out that they had guessed it at this time. It was a beautifully painted boat, with carved beams and painted pillars, riding the wind and waves steadily on the river. The wooden boat was incomparable to this exquisite painted boat, which was both small and shabby.
The painted boat was as quiet as a dead ghost building. There were no harps, flutes, and flutes. The laughter of Rouge Beauty could be heard. The three of them were not surprised at all. It would be really strange if the painted boat was bustling with gongs and drums.
Just as the three of them were looking at the boat, on the gray mist-shrouded river, another green candlelight soul-inducing lantern came from far and near. It was a huge boat with a majestic appearance like a mountain, coming from another waterway.
"It's really strange in the underworld today. Why has it suddenly become so lively? And it seems that these people are all from well-known families. Could it be that something big happened in the underworld?" The old Taoist priest just finished speaking in a low voice.
A third soul-attracting lamp and a fourth soul-attracting lamp appeared on the river. They were all heading in the same direction...
The old Taoist priest really told me that something big is going to happen in the underworld.