Commander's Destiny

Chapter 2
"The book continues from the last chapter. It is said that there was a one-armed celestial master who traveled around with a silly Taoist boy..."

This is a story told by a legendary storyteller in a restaurant in the north of Nanchang, Jiangxi.

His stories are often spread quickly, and even children playing in the streets and alleys can imitate a few words.

Every time this gentleman shows up, he wears various masks to show others, so he is called a thousand-faced man.

The story of the one-armed celestial master and the silly Taoist boy he told last night was fabricated by him based on the legends in the Jianghu. Unexpectedly, early this morning, children playing in front of the pawnshop would tease the guests who had just entered it.

They yelled loudly, especially when they yelled the words "Daisha Daotong", for fear that the young man in Taoist robes who walked into the door of the pawnshop would not hear him.

We know that general pawnshops, in most cases, are usury institutions that are equivalent to collateral, for people who have property but lack cash on hand for turnover, and the collateral can be redeemed.

But in the north corner of Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province, there is a special pawnshop that only accepts dead pawns, and the pawns it accepts are rather strange.

There is no shopkeeper in the pawn shop all the year round, only a young man, who looks about fifteen or sixteen years old, but his eyes are full of shrewdness.

As soon as he saw the guest who was mocked by the children outside the door, he went up to him and asked, "Little idiot, you are here again. What good things did you bring today?"

"this!"

This young man who was called a little idiot, at best, was half a boy, about thirteen or fourteen years old, with dull eyes and dull eyes, and he seemed to be not very bright.

It's just that the Taoist robe on his body is very conspicuous. If you are a person who often asks for scriptures, you should know that it comes from the famous Taoist mountain Longhu Mountain in the southeast of the provincial capital.

"I don't want this one, where did you get a woman's old clothes?" The little boy threw back the red bellyband that the little idiot brought over to him in disgust.

Although the other party was expressionless and seemed calm, he felt that his self-esteem seemed to have been greatly hurt.

He seemed to be having a hard time, took out a small cloth bag from his arms, and carefully took out a jade-like stone from it.

The whole body of the stone is yellow emerald, very permeable, it is exactly a piece of emerald.

The little idiot lowered his head, pondered for a moment, and said two words solemnly: "Long eyes".

The young man took this piece of jadeite and looked it over carefully. It was a Manjushri Bodhisattva pendant.

"Little idiot, we are all dead here, you know, you can go back on one day, but you can't redeem it the next day."

"I know, Master told me, I never asked for anything I brought back before."

"Okay, wait for me a moment." The boy made arrangements for the young man, poured him a cup of tea, took a few candies, turned around and entered the back hall, as if he was going to show the things to someone. It took a while before he came out, and said mysteriously: "You are not an ordinary object, it is a soul object. How do you want to sell it?"

"Soul object? What is a soul object? How did you see it?"

"Actually, all the items you brought over for sale were actually soul objects. It's just that the soul fragments residing in them have been attracted by others, leaving only a little soul breath. Of course I can't perceive it. It's our shopkeeper. told me."

"The previous items were all given to me by the master and asked me to bring them over to sell. He said they were useless. Why don't you change them for some money and give them as a thought for those who are destined. I got this by chance on the way back to the mountain once. , I like it very much myself, I secretly hid it, and never showed it to the master. It’s just that the master was seriously injured and unconscious when he came back this time, so I wanted to sell some more things and hire him a doctor. Well, that’s right , What did you mean when you said you were selling it?"

"What the shopkeeper means is that you are an object with soul fragments. Although it is of great value, it is also extremely risky, because the owner of the soul fragments is definitely not a mortal. If you want to sell it, you can either identify and deal with it yourself, or we can invite an expert to identify and deal with it. It just so happens that an old friend of the master just came back yesterday. We don't know whether it will make the souls in it disappear, and you have to bear the risk yourself."

The little idiot listened to the boy's discussion, his little face turned purple from holding back, and after a long time he squeezed out a reply: "How much can you give me?"

"If it's not an evil spirit, I'll give you 50 yuan. If it is, I guess the master will have to work hard, so I can only give you ten yuan." He added: "If it weren't for your pity, you might not even have the ten yuan. It's very expensive for an expert to go out."

"Okay, then go and tell the shopkeeper, please come out and help me!"

"Don't panic, put your things on the cabinet first. When the expert wakes up, I'll ask the shopkeeper to bring them to him. If you come back tomorrow, there should be some news."

"Master is familiar with you, so I, Jiang Qianfeng, naturally trust you. Well, I'll go find the doctor first." After finishing speaking, the little idiot left in a hurry.

It turned out that this little idiot's real surname was Jiang, and the Taoist name his master gave him was Qian Feng, that's all the little guy knew.

However, regarding his master, the boy did not dare to be negligent. According to the shopkeeper, he is a famous generation of celestial masters in Longhu Mountain.

After the little idiot left, the boy went to the shopkeeper with the emerald.

Naturally, the shopkeeper was very happy with this lucrative business, and ordered the young man to go directly to the expert in the soul item warehouse in the backyard.

Although the boy didn't have much contact with this expert, he was used to his weirdness since he was a child.

This tall man is named Bai Wuyan, and he lived in the backyard when he was adopted by the shopkeeper. From the first time I saw him to now, he has always looked like a young man in his early twenties for more than ten years. When I get old in the future, can I still call him little white brother like now.

Brother Xiaobai was born with delicate features and handsome looks, but he doesn't know how to chat with people. Apart from being fascinated by soul objects, he is completely incapable of dealing with worldly affairs. He spends all day studying the thick notebook he carries soul object.

But sometimes he would go out suddenly, not knowing where to go mysteriously, and he would go out for many days.

Today just happened to be that he came back last night, so he probably hasn't woken up this early in the morning.

I had no choice but to help him prepare meals and send them to him on an excuse.

"Brother Xiaobai, you haven't come back for many days, you must not have eaten well, I prepared some meals, are you awake?"

"Come in." Hearing this, the young man walked into Bai Wuyan's room. He was already fully dressed and sitting at the table, flipping through the notes that he never left.

"Brother Bai, you're already up, so you can chat with us while you're eating." As he spoke, the young man brought the food in front of Bai Wuyan, with an attentive expression on his face, he probably didn't notice it.

"What do you want to talk about? What do you mean by sending me so much food all of a sudden? Are we familiar? Don't you have a saying, how do you say it, oh yes, it's called being courteous for nothing"

"No, no, I am going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing."

"Alright, then what's the matter with you, just tell me."

"Then I'll just say it straight, Brother Xiaobai, I need your help with a business."

The little guy took out the jadeite Bodhisattva pendant, and carefully handed it to Bai Wuyan.

"This is what the little idiot brought over to pawn it, but the shopkeeper said this time it's an object with a surviving soul, and let me take it for you to decide, isn't it..."

Before the little guy finished speaking, he was snatched away by Bai Wuyan. "This Baoyu must have a lot of background, where is he? You quickly take me to him to find out."

"He said to find a doctor, he should go to Li Langzhong not far away on the East Street first."

"Okay, you come with me."

It was said that the two put down their work, closed the store, and went straight to Li Lang Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinic. It happened that Li Lang was still giving acupuncture to patients, and Jiang Qianfeng was sitting in the outer hall waiting.

The little fellow hurriedly called to Jiang Qianfeng: "Little idiot, I have invited the expert out, let's take a step to talk."

Bai Wuyan asked the boy to go back to the pawn shop first, took Jiang Qianfeng to a secluded place in the dense forest and sat down, and asked, "Master Qianfeng, where did you get this emerald?"

"I picked it up in a cave."

Bai Wuyan said surprisingly: "Do you know that what is sealed in this emerald is the earth soul fragment of a pure soul, and his heavenly soul may be used by some practitioners, because the heavenly soul and the earthly soul are separated into two places. , so if you don’t enter reincarnation, you won’t be reincarnated.”

"What is a heavenly soul and an earthly soul? What is a pure soul?" Jiang Qianfeng was at a loss when he heard it, but the question still caught the point.

"Humans are born from the aggregation of three souls. The first of the three souls is the heavenly soul, the second is the earthly soul, and the third is the human soul. Among them, the heavenly soul of a very small number of people has the possibility to transform into a pure soul. The necessary condition is that they do not kill in ten lives , Do great good deeds, the heavenly soul transformed into a pure soul will not enter the underworld, and will not go through reincarnation," Bai Wuyan continued to explain, "Generally, there are two possibilities: one is to encounter a great opportunity, and the mortal relationship has already reached the Tao or In this case, the earth soul will completely follow the heaven soul and become a higher-dimensional state; the other is that the mortal relationship is not over. Due to the collapse of the human soul, the earth soul is affected by various causes and effects in the previous life. Pulling, part of it is forced to stay in the related objects of the previous life, and the other part is still attached to the soul of the sky, and it is likely to be eroded by evil spirits, turning into demons, demons, or even ghosts."

Bai Wuyan saw that Jiang Qianfeng seemed to understand, and then changed his way of saying: "Simply put, we must find and awaken his heavenly soul, and reunite the heavenly soul and all the earthly souls, so that this pure soul can be reincarnated and be a new human being." .”

"Master, after I get this gem, I often have a dream. In the dream, there is a middle-aged woman. Her son is straightforward and stupid. She goes up to the mountain every day to worship the Bodhisattva, praying for the blessing of the Bodhisattva, so that the child can live in peace and happiness." I became wise, cried and went blind, and then a fox appeared, and then the fox turned into a woman, and the woman turned into a fox." Jiang Qianfeng dreamed of these scenes many times, and the vivid picture in his mind seemed to blurt out .

After hearing this, Bai Wuyan guessed: "It may be that you have perceived part of the memory of this pure soul. The fox you saw may be a fox fairy who practiced on the mountain. The fox fairy saw that the woman was a woman who had accumulated a rare experience in ten lifetimes. The great good man, the heavenly soul will be transformed into a pure soul in this life, and the fox fairy wants to use this pure soul to ascend to the Tao ahead of time, so he lures the old woman to seal up part of her earthly soul in this emerald, occupying his heavenly soul and human soul. Soul, continue to practice with the old woman's heavenly soul and human soul."

Bai Wuyan suddenly came back to his senses, and thought to himself, no, how could this little idiot dream of the past of this pure soul?

Bai Wuyan didn't think about all this at the moment, knowing that this soul seal is actually a pure soul karma, after thinking about it, it's important to get down to business, so he continued to ask Jiang Qianfeng: "Mr. Can you tell which mountain the woman went up to and which Buddha she worshiped?"

"I can't see the mountain. I must have never been there. The Bodhisattva is exactly the same as the one on this gem. He also holds a sword, so it's easy to distinguish."

"This Bodhisattva is Manjusri Bodhisattva, and that mountain is probably Mount Wutai, the ashram of Manjusri Bodhisattva. After all, only such spiritual mountains can have such capable fox immortals. Then let's go to Mount Wutai to investigate first. Master Qianfeng Xiaodao, you It's best to go with me, you seem to have a great ability."

"Wait a minute, master, Mount Wutai, it's very far away, who will give me the money when you leave, and I can't go with you, what will my master do if we go so far away."

"Your master? Your master is Zhang Yiduan, the former celestial master of Longhu Mountain. If he made a mistake, I think the pawnshop shopkeeper tricked you into selling it in exchange for money for your master's medical treatment because he wanted to make money from your item." Wuyan thought to himself, this little idiot really lived up to his reputation, he was just played by the two pawnbrokers.

"My master, is he really that powerful? He hasn't woken up for three days and three nights after he came back this time. I'm afraid he'll pass out and don't want me. What should I do?"

"Well, since you are determined not to worry about Master, why don't you and I go back to Longhu Mountain first? Even if your master has something to do, ordinary doctors can't do anything about it. Maybe I can do something, but follow your master I know. Said, most likely nothing will happen, the old man still owes me an explanation, he will be fine."

(End of this chapter)