Song Shichang walked into Ju’an Pavilion and subconsciously glanced at the well in the courtyard. He couldn’t help but recall the evil ghost in the well, and then looked at the trunk of the jujube tree in the courtyard.
“This jujube tree gathers spiritual energy all year round and is surrounded by spiritual winds, which can even wash away the turbid energy. Mr.’s little home is really not simple.”
Ji Yuan closed the courtyard door and replied with a smile.
“It’s not that this jujube tree is simple, but it’s not that my little pavilion in Ju’an is that simple. Old City God, please sit down. You and I are just qualified to invite the stars and the moon to drink together.”
“Haha, Mr. Ji invited me, Song doesn’t dare to disobey!”
Song Shichang stood in front of the stone table, waiting for Ji Yuan to close the door and come back, and then he naturally sat down at the table with Ji Yuan. The latter had already set the wine cup for Song Shichang and poured a glass of rich Huadiao wine. .
“Song Chenghuang please!” “Mr. Ji please!”
After having a drink together, Song Shichang’s slight nervousness disappeared. Ji Yuan was still Ji Yuan, but he was a little obsessed with it.
“Ning’an County has been peaceful for decades. In addition to the stability of the world, the care of the underworld is also crucial. The old city **** also plays a great role.”
“As the saying goes, if the yang alone cannot succeed, the yin alone cannot grow. They always complement each other.”
The old city **** said humbly, picked up a piece of pastry and tasted it.
Ji Yuan is not quite sure why the old city **** is visiting today. After all, he is not a mortal, and his concept of time is different. It doesn’t matter if he hasn’t seen him for ten or twenty years, but he is not in a hurry. Anyway, he will always explain his purpose and say Maybe it’s really just a drop-in visit.
The two chatted casually for a few words. Song Shichang talked about the not too big changes in Ning’an County, while Ji Yuan picked out some experiences that were not too exaggerated.
Unknowingly, it was almost midnight. Song Shichang looked up at the stars. He could vaguely feel the power of the stars falling down. In a trance, he felt that Ji Yuan’s body was also twinkling with starlight, but he used his Dharma Eyes carefully. It looks nothing special.
“Mr. Ji, I am in a corner of Ning’an County. As a city **** in the county, Mr. Song has a small vision and limited knowledge. He knows very little about the vastness of the world and only sees all the beauty. You can be regarded as the most magical person among the people Song knows. A lot of people.”
Ji Yuan did not refute these words, and there is no need to be modest, because this is indeed the fact.
“Song came to visit this time because he actually wanted to ask Mr. Ji a question.”
“Song Chenghuang please speak.”
“Yeah!”
Song Shichang nodded and spoke slowly.
“I, Song Shichang, have been the city **** of Ning’an County for a long time. I was lucky enough to survive the collapse of the previous dynasty. It has been more than 300 years now. Although my cultivation is shallow, I am content and happy, protecting my yin and yang in Ning’an County. That’s Song’s wish.”
“Lord City God, you are so righteous!”
Ji Yuan bowed his hand to express respect. Song Shichang did not dare to accept the courtesy, but immediately greeted Ji Yuan with courtesy.
“Sir, you are ridiculous. Isn’t that what the City God’s job is? When I talk about this, I don’t want to say how great Song is, but to talk about the years. In the past few hundred years, the City God has witnessed the life and death of countless people, and has also witnessed The disappearance of countless ghosts gradually made me feel confused.”
Song Shichang looked at Ji Yuan’s increasingly serious look, organized his words and continued.
“Ordinary people enter the underworld after death. Having family members to offer sacrifices can lead to a peaceful life. Without family members to look after them, it will be a little desolate. However, if there are no special circumstances, the soul will dissipate sooner or later. When the life of the underworld is over, the soul will disappear first and then the three souls. Divided, the human soul is annihilated, the earth soul and the heaven soul enter the earth and ascend to heaven, disappearing in the heaven and earth.”
“Yeah.”
Ji Yuan nodded in agreement to show that he was listening. In fact, he listened very seriously. Compared with this kind of professional knowledge, he was definitely not as good as the old city **** Song Shichang.
Song Shichang did not directly ask the question he wanted to ask. Instead, he used some representative souls over the years as examples to tell the records of the Yin Division in detail.
There are evil people, good people, and ordinary people among them, and there are even many ghost soldiers and ghost officials who cannot last long in the end.
This is also the first time that Ji Yuan has talked about ordinary souls in the underworld with the ghosts and gods of the underworld in such detail. Although people die, they are still a society in the underworld, and they still rely heavily on the yang world in life, but their final destination is still the same. of.
After talking a lot, Ji Yuan was not impatient at all. After listening for a long time, he could even vaguely sense the questions that the old city **** wanted to ask
“The soul disappears like a lamp. When the human soul extinguishes, the two souls of heaven and earth are always connected to heaven and earth. It is normal for them to ascend to heaven and enter earth. However, Song accidentally discovered that at that moment, there was actually a soul of heaven carrying the remaining breath of human soul together. ! ”
Ji Yuan sat upright and interrupted for the first time.
“May I ask Old City God, how many times have you seen this kind of thing?”
Song Shichang recalled it.
“Such things are extremely rare. Ever since he accidentally discovered them more than two hundred years ago, Song has been paying attention to the dissipation of ghosts in the underworld. After seeing them again, he even sent two chief officers to stay in the ghost town to specially We have monitored this matter seven times in more than two hundred years, including the last one. Of course, we cannot say that there are no omissions. ”
“Seven times.”
Ji Yuan frowned and thought. He didn’t know how many people died and how many ghosts died in the past two hundred years. Such a huge base, and under the deliberate observation of the underworld, only seven cases were seen, indicating that this phenomenon is really very, very rare. .
“Actually, it’s not just that.”
Song Shichang drank the wine in the glass again, and the wine absorbed the water vapor and dissipated, as if he was tipsy, and then continued.
“About six years ago, Song met a man at the Chenghuang Temple.”
“Practice people?”
When Ji Yuan asked, Song Shichang shook his head and answered.
“No, he is a mortal, or a philistine businessman, and what he wants is wealth. There is nothing special about it, but this person has the soul of a special soul that disappeared decades ago…”
Song Shichang paused and looked at Ji Yuan, who had already guessed it.
Sure enough, Song Shichang’s next words did not deviate from Ji Yuan’s expectations.
“They are eighty-nine points similar, or in other words, if it weren’t for the difference in age, the similarity would probably be ten points!”
People have aspects and souls. The former can change in disguise, or the son can inherit the image of his father. It is not surprising that they look similar, but the souls are unique, and it is also one of the ways that ghosts and gods often look at people. Some It is similar to the art of fortune-seeing without prediction and scrutiny.
Song Shichang recalled his initial shock, but Ji Yuan was not too surprised. He was slightly stunned, thinking that maybe Mr. Ji really knew.
“Back then, the merchant lived in an inn in the county. In order to prove it, I asked him in a dream that night, confirming that he was not related by blood to the dead ghost back then. He was a person from Kyoto who came to my Ning’an County to collect the documents. But this soul… This incident shocked me greatly. Song also took the opportunity to ask the Great City God of Desheng Mansion, but he didn’t know.”
Song Shichang looked at Ji Yuan who had been listening quietly without showing much surprise.
“Mr. Ji is a person with great supernatural powers. When he woke up from a dream, he didn’t know the time in the world. Can you help Song solve this matter?”
There is no theory of reincarnation in this world, but it is not without the reality of reincarnation. In fact, if one has reached a certain level of cultivation, it is possible to do such things, but it is also extremely difficult and dangerous, let alone ordinary ghosts. .
So Ji Yuan is not as calm as he seems on the surface. It’s just that he has heard too much about reincarnation and other things in his previous life, so he is somewhat resistant after all.
After thinking for a moment, Ji Yuan deliberated before speaking.
“I wonder if the old city **** of the Song Dynasty has ever heard of the two kinds of water flowing in the genus Dragon?”
“Waiting? Two kinds?”
Song Shichang frowned.
“If the dragon dragon has reached the level of cultivation and wants to transform into a dragon, it will meet the water channel at the right time, and the time and place are favorable. It will make waves and move away. It is for the purpose of walking on the water. There is another kind that Song doesn’t know.”
“Yes, that’s right. Another kind of reluctance can be regarded as a secret of the dragon clan. Haha, of course it is not a secret that must be kept.”
Ji Yuan smiled and explained.
“In fact, when dragons are about to die, most of them will not want the dragon soul to become a ghost. Most of the dragons will choose to perform the last act of escape in their lives, converting their own essence and energy into leaving… …”
Ji Yuan told Song Shichang in detail about the situation when he saw Mo Jiao wandering into the water and discussed the matter with Lao Long. The latter also looked stunned.
“So, if there is a dragon with really good luck and talent, it is still possible that it will reappear in the future. Although the body of the dragon may be different, it retains its original personality and most of its memories. It is considered a kind of reincarnation. Rebuild.”
“Reincarnation and rebuilding, reincarnation and rebuilding…”
Song Shichang muttered and repeated this new term twice, while Ji Yuan also continued.
“Actually, those who are highly cultivated may also have more superior methods. I will not speculate on the immortal cultivators for the time being. Some demons are good at this. They themselves are called obsessed, but In fact, only some cases are suitable for this kind of title, and the other small part… should actually be called ‘seizing the body’.”
Although it was the first time Song Shichang heard the two words Ji Yuan threw out one after another, they were very concise and concise. Combined with the content of the preface, he could almost understand what they meant.
“Then the situation I saw is similar to this?”
“Well, if the souls are really similar to this extent, it can indeed be regarded as reincarnation.”
Ji Yuan did not say “reincarnation” because this is an accidental event, and reincarnation is an event of active choice.
This matter has puzzled Song Shichang for a long time. Now when he heard Ji Yuan’s explanation, he knew that it was a “normal phenomenon.”
“Then can those ghosts whose heavenly souls take the aura of human souls with them have an afterlife?”
Ji Yuan shook his head.
“The members of the dragon dragon can only gain a chance by relying on their lifelong cultivation. Does the old city **** think that an ordinary ghost will have a certain chance at the moment when his oil burns out his lamp and his soul disappears?”
Song Shichang suddenly realized.
“Yes, thank you Mr. Ji for clarifying my doubts.”
After Ji Yuan answered, Song Shichang felt much more comfortable, and the subsequent conversation also took a casual and leisurely direction.
Before dawn, the old city **** got up and prepared to leave, while Ji Yuan saw him at the door.
The two sides saluted and parted, but Ji Yuan continued to stand in front of the courtyard gate in deep thought until he could no longer see the back of the old city god.
The ghost whose oil has run out and his lamp has dried up can have an afterlife by relying on a wisp of spirit from the souls of the remaining people in the village to die with his soul. This is not a story about six reincarnations in the past life. The hardships and dangers involved are absolutely extraordinary. The dragon dragon has only a slight chance, let alone a human ghost.