The longevity of the heavens begins with Mingyu Gong

Chapter 411
"The refreshment of the heart is the soul; if the soul is gone, how long can it last?"

Taoist spiritualism is a widely spread Taoist method. The origin of this kind of saying can be traced back to the Zhou Dynasty. According to the records of the Zhou Dynasty, the folks began to have such activities as "Guan death" soul-calling, which was called in ancient times. Rehabilitation means calling back the soul.

There is a description of summoning souls in "Chu Songs: Calling the Soul". The caller tells the soul that the world is not a place for the soul to rest.

However, evocation of souls is not limited to the situation of the deceased, it is also used in situations such as sacrifices, divination, and lost souls of babies.

With the rise of Taoism at the end of the Han Dynasty, spiritualism for the purpose of longevity appeared.As a result, the folk soul-calling ceremony gradually developed into a Taoist ritual, with a complete set of spells, and the soul-calling spell, and the soul-calling ceremony is also one of the many Taoist spells.

After finalizing the spirit-calling spell, Taoist priests' walking, living, sitting and lying down, especially in the religious activities of Zhaijiao, all stipulate the dignified procedures.

The holding of the soul-calling ceremony is very solemn. It is necessary to choose an auspicious day for the zodiac, and prepare altars, incense candles, guide meters, Ming coins, large banners, talismans and other utensils.

Taoist masters’ legal clothes, legal utensils, food utensils, living, bedding, eating, receiving precepts, confessing, worshiping, burning incense, reading scriptures, and fasting, etc., all have dignified rules.

When holding rituals, setting up altars, making offerings, offering incense, ascending altars, chanting mantras, sacrificing gods, welcoming driving, etc., are carried out by Taoist priests such as Gaogong, Dujiao, Jianzhai, Jingzhai, Jingzhai, incense, and lamps. Zhong reported to the gods his birth date, dharma position, played music and scattered flowers, sang functional words, etc., and the ceremony was grand and solemn.

The altar rituals include praying for alms, saving death, prolonging life, letting go of precepts, offering arrows, unraveling stars, guarding houses, breaking ropes, raising and lowering corpses, resolving grievances, summoning lonely souls, birthday lamps, prolonging life lamps, asking for scriptures, and accepting Offerings, funerals, sending off ghosts, purifying the house, repentance, etc.

And the most difficult of them all is the soul-calling technique.

The art of evoking souls spread among the people today is all vain, and only Lou Guan Dao, as the true transmission of Taoism, has mastered this art.

Taoist Xuanyuan knew this well. Although the conditions in Lanruo Temple were poor at this time, he still built a mourning hall in the main hall in front of the Buddha, and asked the rest of the people to leave the hall and stay in the hall to cast spells.

He stepped on the seven stars, and according to the Taoist classics "Yunji Qijian·Department of Life and Destiny", the seven-star lamp lights a candle, and the soul of the deceased returns to his hometown.

This candle was obtained from the North Sea, and was carved out of ice-cold jade. Its appearance is crystal clear, but its interior is full of strong masculinity. It is most suitable for summoning souls.

Taoist Xuanyuan took out the seven-star lamp, lit it and inserted it into the eye of the formation on the ground, silently reciting the soul-calling incantation secretly passed down by Lou Guan Dao.

"Wandering souls, where do they stay? The three souls descended early, but the seven orifices have not yet come. False alarm lawsuits, lost the true soul. Today, the five gods of the mountain are sent, and the general Youlu collects the soul and helps the spirit. The gate of heaven opens and the gate of earth opens. The boy who was ordered to send the soul here. The Taishang Laojun is in a hurry like a law!"

Every time he shouted the incantation, the flags on the ground flickered, as if resonating with the seven-star lantern.

As he recited the mantra over and over again, a wisp of lavender smoke slowly emerged from the seven-star lamp, drifted up, and gradually condensed, forming a purple lotus flower in midair, which slowly rotated, releasing a refreshing fragrance.

Seeing this scene, Xuan Yuan's eyes flashed, he waved his fly whisk, and sternly shouted: "Break!"

As the words fell, the seven-star lamp shook violently, the purple light dissipated in the air, and the purple lotus that was originally suspended in midair turned into a cloud of purple air, which merged into the center of Yan Chixia's eyebrows.

Xuan Yuan immediately sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and meditated, after a while, he opened his eyes, stretched out his hands to make formulas, and silently recited formulas.

"The sky is clear and the earth is bright, wind, rain, thunder and lightning, the intersection of yin and yang, the two qi of yin and yang, complementary blending, regulation of the five elements, evolution of the eight trigrams..."

Accompanied by his formula, the mark on his forehead suddenly brightened, and a layer of golden light diffused from the mark, shining on Yan Chixia's corpse in front of him.

He squeezed out various formulas with both hands repeatedly, and muttered words in his mouth.

At this time, everyone suddenly smelled a strong sandalwood fragrance, which had a strong bitter taste, spreading in the air, and people couldn't help but frown upon smelling it.

Seeing this, Liu Haichan's expression changed immediately, and he blurted out: "This is cinnabar."

Cinnabar has many functions, it can cure diseases, it can also make poison, and even drug, and its most important function is - attracting souls!
Soul induction, as the name suggests, is to guide the dead to leave the body.

Back then, the Qin State destroyed the six kingdoms, slaughtered millions of cities, blood flowed, and corpses littered the fields.

And Qin Wang Yingzheng, when he was inspecting the old land of the six countries, happened to be poisoned by someone, and he contracted a serious disease.

So with the efforts of the imperial physicians of the Qin State, using cinnabar as a guide, they prepared a soul-inducing soup to save the life of Qin Wang Yingzheng.

It's just that after King Qin took the medicine, he was still lethargic, leaving countless famous doctors helpless.

In the end, an alchemist suggested that the cinnabar be mixed with mercury, supplemented by several kinds of precious materials as a guide, and go to the underworld to lure back the soul of the king of Qin by using the soul seduction technique in the pre-Qin alchemy.

It's a pity that in the end, Zhang Liang's assassination of Qin caused the alchemist to fall short in the end, and the first emperor died in the dune palace after all.

The soul-attracting technique that Xuanyuan performed this time is inherited from this alchemy, but it is much inferior to that performed by the alchemists in the pre-Qin period.

The soul-attracting technique he used at this time could barely pull Yan Chixia's remnant soul, and it was extremely difficult.

The mark on his forehead is the medium he uses to perform this method.

I saw that the imprint shone with a golden glow, getting brighter and brighter, and finally turned into a small sun, shining brightly in the palace.

Suddenly, the imprint suddenly burst into dazzling brilliance, dispelling the surrounding darkness.

And at this moment, Yan Chixia's body suddenly trembled slightly.

Suddenly there was an explosion above the head, which made everyone's eardrums buzz, and a trace of bright red blood spilled from the corner of Xuan Yuan's mouth, and he looked up at the top of the hall.

Two pieces of bricks and tiles fell off from the roof of the hall, revealing a small hole. A cold air was blown into the hall through the hole, and the temperature inside the hall dropped sharply.

Xuan Yuan's face changed slightly, and he immediately shouted to the outside of the hall: "Close the hall door tightly."

After finishing speaking, he took out a bronze sword from his sleeve, bit his fingertips, and dripped a few drops of blood onto the blade.

Immediately, a dazzling light burst out from the bronze sword, like daytime.

Xuan Yuan stood at the same place holding the sword, silently recited the formula, drew a circle in front of his chest with the sword in his right hand, pinched out a formula with his left hand, and hit the seven-star lamp.

All of a sudden, the Seven Star Lantern trembled violently, as if resisting his urging.

Xuan Yuan let out a low growl, pouring all the zhenqi in his body into the bronze sword, the light of the bronze sword soared instantly, the trembling of the seven-star lamp became more and more intense, and finally it shattered with a 'clang'.

(End of this chapter)