Data cultivation, I observe immortality in the five elements

Chapter 310 Shrine, Earth-bound Spirit, Incense Shinto, Prayer

What the man in charge didn't expect was that two corpses appeared out of thin air in the river.

Judging from their clothes, they were the two boys who jumped into the water earlier.

Such a horrifying scene made him feel cold all over.

"Run quickly, there's a ghost in the water!"

This loud shout immediately attracted the attention of other people on the boat.

When they learned that there were three corpses floating on the stern of the painting boat, two of them were still very 'fresh'.

Suddenly there was a flurry of excitement on the boat. There were many businessmen and women in brocade and satin, as well as promiscuous women who were still holding pipa and half-hiding their faces.

He didn't even bother to put on his clothes and rushed to the dock in a panic.

Only Luo Yan, who had watched all this from beginning to end, knew the ins and outs of this matter.

Under the first corpse, there was a huge black shadow.

There seemed to be a broken mortal soul in the black shadow, which looked extremely ferocious.

The resentment is overwhelming.

With the blessing of some strange treasure in the water, a simple self-awareness was born.

You must know that the souls of mortals are extremely weak. After many people die, their souls dissipate directly.

The probability of becoming such a group of resentful ghosts and alien beings that cannot be dissipated naturally is very low.

This is a female corpse, and her soul is full of resentment.

Everyone who comes close to her original body will be dragged into the water and drowned by her, as if taking revenge.

After simply observing for a while, Luo Yan turned his attention elsewhere.

He was very curious as to what the stone statue's purpose was in bringing his consciousness here.

Where is this place? Is it in Cangwu Realm or another world?

With the idea of ​​exploring everything, Luo Yan's consciousness circled this secular town several times, and finally found a dilapidated shrine in the northwest corner of the town.

An idol is enshrined inside.

It's just that the place is overgrown with weeds and the ruins look like it has been abandoned for a long time.

The mud coffin on the shrine is full of cracks. The statue inside may have been eroded by wind and rain, and the entire body has shown a semi-weathered state.

It seems that just blowing hard can blow away most of the stone debris on it.

On the left and right sides of the shrine, there are also several slightly blurry large characters carved:

The servant of Jinghuang Lei Mansion shot Xiang Zhenjun to exorcise evil spirits, capture demons, assist the saints, and wild thunder

When Luo Yan saw the honorific words on the stone statue in the shrine, his heart moved slightly.

This seems to be the stone statue in Chenyang Mirage Palace, but it is much smaller.

Luo Yan had a guess that there must be some unclear connection between the two.

"Water corpse, residual soul, shrine, stone statue"

This scene made him feel extremely familiar.

It is very similar to the passage recorded in the scriptures of a previous person that Luo Yan once read in the Buddhist Scripture Pavilion of the Five Elements Temple:

"There are gods in the three realms. Gods can enter dreams, come to the world, suppress evil, and protect one place."

The scenes recorded in the biography are so similar to the current scene!

This made Luo Yan have to think about its authenticity.

What is the nature of this stone statue?

What is this place?

Are you still in Cangwu Realm? Or maybe it's just a dream?

Continuous thoughts echoed in Luo Yan's mind, making him unable to calm down for a long time.

Old Ancestor Chen must have had his own intentions in making such an arrangement.

Unable to figure out the root cause, Luo Yan could only wait patiently.

He believed that it wouldn't take long before he could figure it all out.

The previous trip around this small mud town was not fruitless.

In the sky above several courtyards, Luo Yan saw the condensed air of defeat.

These dejections have become very conspicuous in his current state.

When Luo Yan went to the homes of these secular people, he found that the radiators of despair were people nearing the end of their lives.

Some are so ill that they can only moan silently in bed.

Next to him stood several figures weeping silently, who seemed to be close relatives.

Others are very old, huddled up in thick rag quilts, their skinny bodies shivering constantly.

There's no one around to look after you.

Without exception, these people's lives are coming to an end.

That's why these dejected spirits arise.

Luo Yan felt that his current state was very strange, like a cloud or a wisp of wind, without substance.

Everyone turned a blind eye to him.

Even if he stands at the door of those secular people's homes, others will pass through him.

Not aware of it at all.

Luo Yan even experimented. In his current state, he could reach anywhere in the city instantly without any effort.

But as long as he exceeded the river outside the city, he could not continue forward.

It's like being restricted to this land.

It feels quite like an earthbound spirit.

Such a scene made Luo Yan feel very familiar. No matter how he looked at it, it felt like a Shinto practice.

Today's conventional practice methods are all based on breathing in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth as the main practice method.

Demonic monks absorb the blood and souls of living beings to practice.

Although rare, they can still be seen occasionally in some places in Cangwu Realm.

Even so, this is within the understanding of normal monks.

In fact, in many ancient biographical records, special cultivation systems such as demonic path and ghost path are excluded.

There was another practice system that was popular in the Cangwu world.

That is Shinto!

However, later, due to some reasons, the cultivation systems other than the immortal way were deliberately suppressed.

The current situation is very much like a product derived from the Shinto system.

After all, things like shrines are too easy for people to associate with.

Just like a monk, he can be identified at a glance, with obvious external characteristics!

About a few hours later, three Taoist priests wearing gray robes suddenly walked up to the dock.

The leader was a middle-aged Taoist with a ruddy complexion.

There is also a young man on the left and right, who is about fourteen or fifteen years old, protecting him.

They all held a copper bell, a mahogany sword, and a command flag in their hands.

Immediately afterwards, many people wearing the clothes of county police officers began to arrange the platform while blocking the river bank.

There are also offerings such as melons and fruit scented candles placed on top.

The secular people further away were not afraid, and they all had the courage to stand at a very distance and watch the scene of the Taoist priest casting spells to drive away ghosts.

Obviously such a scene was very strange to them.

"Go away, go away, make the spirit and soul leave the body."

"When you pass away, you will be a ghost and a ghost. I will be blessed by you in all four lives."

"The dust and filth are eliminated, and the nine holes receive the spirit and return to the childlike form."

On the newly built platform in front of the pier, a middle-aged Taoist priest was chanting a mantra in a low voice.

There was a look of indifference on his face, it was obviously not the first time he had dealt with such a ghost.

Often it only takes a few verses of salvation scriptures to resolve the problem perfectly.

The two little Taoist boys standing behind the middle-aged Taoist priest kept adding yellow paper to the fire plate in front of them.

This ensures that the flame in the fire plate will not go out. When the middle-aged Taoist priest finished reciting the salvation sutra, the water surface was like a rock falling into the water, with waves of ripples rippling.

The corpses of the two boys stuck to the stern of the boat were vaguely struck by a burst of white and sacred light.

The evil force on the corpse was dissolved, and then the boy's corpse, which had just fallen into the water this morning, floated to the shore automatically, as if with divine help.

The officers who had been waiting on the shore for a long time immediately fished out the bodies of the two men.

But the first corpse was still motionless.

The middle-aged Taoist priest standing on the Taoist platform naturally saw such a scene and frowned.

He glanced at the salvation ritual text that was about to burn out in the fire plate.

The middle-aged Taoist priest directly picked up a talisman on the sacrificial table, then pointed suddenly, and a little spiritual light flashed.

The talisman spontaneously ignited out of thin air, and then rushed straight towards the corpse at the stern of the boat.

Unfortunately, the talisman fell down immediately when it flew over the corpse.

Seeing this, the middle-aged Taoist priest offered several more shining talismans.

The final outcome is the same, they all fall into the water without exception.

Obviously, the resentful soul under this corpse cannot be easily dealt with.

At this time, the middle-aged Taoist priest's expression had long ago changed from the leisurely look on his face to become very gloomy and ugly.

And after being tested by so many spiritual talismans, the resentful soul in the water seemed to be angered.

The river water in the stern area of ​​the boat suddenly began to roll.

And this water force is getting higher and higher, and then directly evolves into a large water column that is as wide as two people's embrace, attacking the middle-aged Taoist priest on the Taoist platform.

At this time, the middle-aged Taoist priest reacted very quickly and jumped out of the Taoist platform while rolling and crawling.

Then he took the two trail boys and ran away without looking back.

Behind them was a man who looked like a pot-bellied official.

Although he is fat, his running speed is not slow at all.

This sudden change stunned all the onlookers.

The water column saw that the target it wanted to attack had escaped, so it turned the water column and swept it towards the far away shore.

Only then did the crowd react, and they all dispersed.

All the swarms ran away and disappeared.

There is such a mutated ghost hiding in the river.

The entire moat of this small town has become unsafe.

In the following days, as long as someone dares to sail a boat into the river, there will inevitably be a few more corpses in the river soon.

Such a strange scene directly frightened the people in the city.

Under the leadership of the county government, many monks and Taoist priests were invited to practice the ritual.

In the end they all came back in vain.

And as more and more people fall into the river, the power of the resentful souls in the water seems to have been greatly enhanced.

Even the river outside the city unconsciously rose to the level of the shore.

And the water level is very strange, constantly rising.

It is estimated that the river will spread to the city gate in a short time.

It looks like a flooded city.

Such a scene naturally caused panic among the people in the city.

But it was still within the acceptable range. As long as they were not close to the outer city river, everyone's fear had its limits.

But in the next few days, the river outside continued to surge.

It even directly overflowed part of the city wall, and the streets in the city had traces of river water.

At this moment, everyone in the city began to feel in danger.

And the area outside the city has now turned into a vast ocean.

If you leave the city directly, you must pass through the moat.

No matter who appears on the river, he will be pulled down by the ghost in the water.

drowned.

If he stayed in the city, he might be afraid that the river would continue to rise and he would be flooded, and he would have to wait passively for death.

All the powerful people in the city gathered together and discussed countermeasures day and night.

The most obvious change is that there are dozens of towering cloud platforms of various sizes on the city wall.

It was built high with various types of concrete, and food and water were stored on it.

The ordinary people in the city felt panicked and confused when faced with the monstrous flood.

This is a water ghost with overwhelming resentment. He wants to flood the city and bury everyone with him.

So the people in the city, in panic, began to pray secretly.

At this time, someone thought of those exposed temples.

Suddenly, the city was filled with the sound of prayers to God.

Just at this time, someone found the dilapidated shrine in that deserted corner.

Then the shrine was respectfully invited out, and the gravel on the stone statue was also cleaned up.

"Please ask the Supreme Immortal and Prime Minister to have mercy on you and send down your magical power to collect the water ghosts outside the city."

"From now on, this disciple must worship the True Lord day and night and rebuild the Thunder Body for the True Lord!"

In front of the shrine, many people brought melons and fruits as sacrifices and knelt down devoutly in front of the stone statue.

Everyone's expressions were solemn, as if they were fanatical believers.

It's just that scenes like this are everywhere in the city's ruined temples, Taoist temples, and wild god statues.

In the face of the disaster, the people in the city are desperate.

So I pinned my hopes on these illusory myths and legends.

All statues of gods, whether they are traditional gods or lonely wild gods, are within the scope of worship by these people.

Although most people didn't respond, everyone could still get a little comfort in their hearts.

Only in front of one of the shrines, the stone statue inside became more and more agile.

It seemed like he was coming to life.

As if hearing the constant prayers of these people, wisps of pale white smoke pillars emitted from their bodies.

Slowly gathered around the shrine.

Luo Yan saw the pale white smoke pillars that automatically floated in front of his eyes, and subconsciously opened his mouth to inhale.

Then I felt that my whole soul had been sublimated, and I was very comfortable.

In this wisp of smoke, Luo Yan felt the faith of those who prayed devoutly.

He seemed to have an innate mission and wanted to help these people achieve their wishes.

"Is it really the Incense Shinto?"

Luo Yan, who was floating above the city at this moment, had a confused expression, as if he was deep in thought about something.

When he saw the Taoist inscriptions on both sides of the shrine, he felt something was wrong.

The name of this stone statue is also too long, and only the legendary Shinto name matches it.

And whether it was the middle-aged Taoist priest on the platform or the resentful soul in the water, what appeared on them was not spiritual energy.

Somewhat similar to pure spiritual power.

(End of this chapter)