Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 234 Feathering
Zhao Gongming!
I looked fearfully at the black-faced man sitting cross-legged in front of me, and my heart trembled. I remembered the statue of the God of Wealth I saw when I first entered Jiulao Cave. The two figures gradually overlapped before my eyes.

I licked my dry lips to relieve the tension and anxiety in my heart.

The name Zhao Gongming is familiar to anyone who is a little familiar with Chinese mythology.He is one of the four generals of Taoism, the general of the Thunder Department of the underworld, and Qiu Wen, one of the five gods of plague.If you are not familiar with these, then the common people must have heard another name for him.

Martial God of Wealth Zhao Gongming!

Every year in the first month of the lunar year, the Han people will worship a god who is in charge of the gold and silver treasures in the world.

And it is such a mythical figure who will appear alive in front of my eyes, which makes me very shocked.

"Greetings, Senior Zhao Gongming!"

I restrained my startled expression, lowered my head and cupped my hands and bowed respectfully to Zhao Gongming in front of me.

But soon I found something was wrong, because the black-faced man in front of me didn't respond at all, I didn't even hear him breathing, he just sat cross-legged as a rock.

My heart skipped a beat, there might be something wrong with the person in front of me, otherwise we had such a big commotion outside the door with Zhu Polong, even I broke the stone gate and trespassed in the cave, Zhao Gongming didn't make any noise, It doesn't make sense at all.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help becoming more courageous, and then I carefully looked at the black-faced man in front of me. His face gave people a sense of majesty and sternness at first glance, but upon closer inspection, he found that there were many details. They all looked a little stiff, and with no breathing, they didn't look like a living person.

At this time, Xia Wu became more courageous when she saw me coming, she pulled the corner of my clothes and said timidly: "He...he seems to be dead."

My eyelids twitched. Although I had such a premonition in my heart, Xia Wu's words still made my heart tremble.You must know that this is a god in folklore, which makes people feel like a dream.

I swallowed nervously, and stretched out a hand to touch Zhao Gongming's wrist, wanting to check his pulse.

But then, something unexpected happened to me. Just when my fingers touched Zhao Gongming's body, his seemingly burly and majestic body was as light and fluffy as a piece of paper, falling down at the touch of a touch. All of a sudden he fell sideways on the stone bed, exposing his back in front of our eyes.

"what!"

An extremely sharp voice came out of Xia Wu's mouth, which pierced my ears.

But I have no time to worry about this at this time, because the moment I saw Zhao Gongming's back, my legs were so frightened that I couldn't believe it.

On the back of this mythical God of Wealth, there is a huge hole with jagged edges, as if someone forcibly tore it open from the inside.Looking through the hole, Zhao Gongming's body was empty, without viscera, muscles, or bones, as if he had been hollowed out alive, leaving only an empty shell.

A figure floated out of my body, looking solemnly at the strange scene in front of me.

"Xue'er! Do you know what's going on?"

As soon as I saw Xueer come out, I immediately asked.Although this girl looks young, her background is extremely mysterious and she knows many secrets.

Xue'er didn't answer my question, but drifted around for a while, carefully observed all around Zhao Gongming's fleshy shell, and as time went by, the expression on her face became more and more serious.

After a long time, Xue'er sighed quietly: "Piao Piao seems to be independent from the world, becoming immortal and ascending to immortality."

I was taken aback, what Xueer said was Su Shi's famous line in "Ode to the Former Chibi", I didn't understand what she meant for a while.

"Emerging, becoming immortal." Xue'er repeated, this time only four words, but it was no less than a bolt from the blue to my ears.

I was shocked and said, "Xue'er, what did you say? How could this be possible, Xue'er, his body has obviously been hollowed out."

Xue'er rolled my eyes at me and said, "You have been studying Taoism for so many years, do you know what is called eternity?"

I nodded and said: "This is a Taoist term. It means that a person who cultivates the Tao has reached a certain level of cultivation and understands the great way of heaven and earth. He can jump out of the cycle of life and death, live, grow old, get sick and die, become immortal, and live the same life as heaven and earth."

I then added: "But this is just a legend after all. Although there are records of Taoist true immortals in ancient books from time to time, they have never appeared in this world. The word "Yuhua" is more used in Taoists who have reached the end of their lifespan. On the elder. Let’s take a step back, even if this Yuhua Dengxian really exists, what does it have to do with the situation on Zhao Gongming’s body?”

A look of reminiscence appeared on Xueer's face, and she said like a dream: "In the "Tao Te Ching", I believe that people have four stages: young, young, strong, and old, just like the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter in nature. , It is also similar to the changes in the four forms of insect eggs, larvae, pupae, and adults. Human death is like the emergence of insects from pupae into adults, which is called emergence into immortals.”

"Human death is divided into two types. One is ordinary people and practitioners with insufficient Taoism. Their lifespan is exhausted and they turn into ghosts after death. They re-enter reincarnation and reincarnation under the rules of heaven and earth. This is like failing to transform into a butterfly. They are like chrysalis, whose life is like a waste of time. And the other is the masters of the Tao, who comprehend the great way of heaven and earth, jump out of reincarnation, and finally become butterflies from chrysalis, and become immortals."

Xueer paused for a while before continuing: "Have you ever observed the process of an insect pupa turning into a butterfly? They absorb all the nutrients in the body in the pupa, change the structure of the body, and turn themselves into a more advanced biological existence. When the chrysalis breaks, it sheds the old shell and emerges as a butterfly, just like a new life. The so-called emergence in Taoism is similar to this, the flesh shell you see before your eyes is nothing but the old body that has faded away from the emergence."

I was stunned on the spot, Xueer's words were like earth-shattering shocks, completely subverting my world, as if opening a door to a new world for me.At the same time, I suddenly thought of another thing in my heart.

The human skin I saw in the ancient Shu ruins in Qingcheng Mountain.At that time, according to the narration of the corpse king in white, it was believed that the turtle spirit, the ancestor of zombies, had undergone a transformation, and the zombies shed their skin, as if they were reborn.Looking at it now, it is actually similar to the immortalization of this Taoist school. They both shed the old physical body and exchange for a stronger body.Maybe there is something in between that I don't know the secret.

"Hey, God of Wealth Zhao Gongming, if I remember correctly, in the folklore of Mount Emei, there is a story about Zhao Gongming practicing in Jiulao Cave. Now it seems that it is not groundless. He emerged from here. Tsk tsk." Xue'er couldn't help but praise.

"Then where did his stuff go from the meat shell? Could it be the legendary heaven?" I asked in a daze.

Xue'er gave me a blank look and said, "How do I know? I haven't seen it with my own eyes. Everything can only be guessed."

Xue'er glanced at the stone bed, and said with a chuckle, "But since you're here, you can't leave empty-handed. The essence in this meat shell has been absorbed, so it's useless, but this whip is a good thing. I don't know why he didn't take it away at the beginning, could it be that he has become a fairy and doesn't like this kind of thing?"

I followed Xue'er's gaze and saw the silver whip. I was attracted by Zhao Gongming's fleshy shell just now, so I ignored it.Looking carefully now, I found that this whip is divided into eighteen sections, and the whole body is shining with silver light. It looks so dazzling, it is definitely a treasure.

My heart was agitated, I stretched out my hand to rearrange Zhao Gongming's body, and then saluted him: "Senior Zhao Gongming, you are the righteous god of heaven and the true immortal of Taoism. I have admired you for a long time, so I offended your body just now Please also forgive me a lot, now that you have become a feather, you must not look down on this silver whip. Instead of letting it be dusted here, it is better to let me, the junior, take him to kill demons and demons in the outside world to show our Taoism prestige."

"Haha, you kid, you can really talk. But this guy is just a flesh shell, anyway, he doesn't know what you do, so don't be afraid." Xue'er giggled.

But at this moment, as Xueer's words fell, there was a sound in the room where the altar was placed just now, and I turned my head in fright.

At the door, there is a pair of eyes looking at us coldly...

(End of this chapter)