Onmyoji's Secret

Chapter 28 Ancestor
"Master, what are you doing?" Mu Yueting came over at some point, she looked at Master and me who were sitting on the steps in a daze, and asked with some doubts.

The master suddenly woke up from his contemplation. He glanced at Mu Yueting and said, "Yueting, you should rest earlier, and we will hold an initiation ceremony for your junior brother tomorrow."

Mu Yueting nodded, glanced at Master and me, then turned and went back to the room.

Master was afraid that something would happen again, so he asked me to sleep with him tonight.Because it was already late at night, and with the tossing and tossing just now, I also felt exhausted all over, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Time passed quickly, and the next morning, Master woke me up from the bed. He said that today he would hold an initiation ceremony for me, and after the ceremony, I would be his official disciple.

When I thought that I could learn advanced spells with my master in the future, I was excited, and my hands and feet were much more agile than usual.After I washed up and changed into clean clothes, I followed Master into the main hall of the Taoist temple.

As soon as I entered the main hall, the first thing that caught my eye was a statue enshrined on the altar in the middle of the main hall. When I saw this statue, I couldn't help being stunned.

Because what is enshrined in this hall is different from other Taoist temples. It is neither the majestic and solemn Patriarch of the Three Qing Dynasty, nor the chic and elegant Daoist Daoist. Instead, it is a man wearing a crown and fine clothes. Above him is a broad robe with long sleeves, and his face is not angry and majestic. He holds a long sword in his right hand. The sword is not out of its sheath, which looks simple and majestic, quite majestic.

I stared blankly at the man sitting on the god's seat, and I couldn't help feeling a sense of awe in my heart. This statue is not so much a real person of Taoism, but more like an emperor overlooking the mountains and rivers, and king of Kyushu.

I swallowed my saliva and asked Master, "Master, what is enshrined on this altar? It looks so scary."

Master touched my head and said with a smile: "Xuanzi, do you remember what I told you when I was in Chengdu? Our lineage is somewhat related to Taoism, but we are not orthodox Taoist practitioners."

"The origin of Taoism probably began with Zhang Daoling, the patriarch of the Eastern Han Dynasty. He practiced alchemy and Taoism in Longhu Mountain. Later, he heard that the people in Bashu were so pure and kind and easy to teach, so he took his disciples to the west of Shuchuan and lived in Yangping Mountain. Heming Mountain and Qingcheng Mountain received disciples and set up teaching. According to legend, he was once surrendered by the Supreme Master and awarded 270 volumes of "Taixuan Jing". It is the embryonic form of Taoism, the way of righteousness and prestige, and it is also called the way of heavenly masters by the world."

"As for our lineage, the first generation of ancestors was the Taishan Taoist in the Northern Song Dynasty, but if we talk about the earliest origin and ancestor, it is much earlier than that of Taoism." When the master said this, his eyes sparkled Looking at me, he asked, "Have you heard the story of the Yellow Emperor fighting Chiyou?"

I looked at Master blankly, and shook my head. I felt that the name Huang Di was familiar, but I didn’t know what stories he had. After all, I was a child in the mountains and villages, so where did people tell me these stories.

The master looked proud at this time, and he raised his voice and said: "According to records, when China originated more than 4000 years ago, there were constant disputes in the world. The tribe of the Yellow Emperor and the tribe of the Yandi fought in Banquan. The tribe of the Yellow Emperor won a big victory and annexed it. For the Yanhuang tribe. At this time, Chi You of the Jiuli tribe wanted to start fighting again, so he summoned the Miao people in the south and ghosts and monsters in the mountains, forests and waters, and led an army to fight against the Yanhuang tribe."

"But the Yellow Emperor's tribe was good at domesticating wild animals. They not only recruited various tribes, but also drove a large number of lions, tigers, leopards, bears, and other beasts to fight against Chi You. The battle was so dark that the sun and the moon paled. The legendary Fengbo Yushi came to help, and the Yanhuang tribe was not to be outdone. Not only did the goddess Ba help out, but in the end, the Yellow Emperor invited a Yinglong. Dragon, Yinglong has been around for thousands of years, its strength is extremely powerful."

"In the end, the Yanhuang Tribe defeated Jiuli, and the Yellow Emperor unified China and became our ancestor. However, the method of driving the beasts and summoning ghosts and gods in the battle of the Yellow Emperor was passed on to one of his sons, which is our lineage. The very first prototype."

When the master said this, his expression changed from the excitement just now, and he became a little lonely. He said: "Unfortunately, at the end of the Warring States period, Emperor Qin wiped out the six kingdoms and ruled the world, but he burned books and banned Taoism. Our lineage therefore And cut off."

"Until the reign of Taizu Kaibao in the Northern Song Dynasty, a scholar came across an ancient cave in a certain cliff of Mount Tai, and he found a bunch of ancient bamboo slips inside. After studying it, the scholar found that it recorded that the Yellow Emperor drove strange beasts, The secret technique of recruiting ghosts and gods and some records about this lineage, but unfortunately because the time is too long, the bamboo slips have been damaged a lot, and the things recorded on them are not complete."

"The scholar was extremely obsessed with all kinds of anecdotes and secret arts recorded on the bamboo slips. While regretting, he resolutely abandoned Confucianism and entered Taoism. This scholar calls himself 'Taoist of Mount Tai', he is the founder of our lineage, because he once entered the Taoism of Heavenly Master and traveled around China to learn various spells, so our lineage has some connection with Taoism , but it does not belong to orthodox Taoism.”

I was fascinated when I heard it, I didn't expect this sect to have such a big history, although I still can't fully understand it, but I still feel very powerful.

Master glanced at me and said with a smile: "Because Taishan Patriarch traveled all over China Taoism, our lineage has some research on Taoist drawing amulets, reciting mantras, observing wind and measuring water, and divination by face, but we are most proficient in using talismans. Subduing strange beasts, expelling demons and ghosts. I don’t know if you know Japanese onmyojis. They observe stars, recognize faces, measure directions, know disasters, draw amulets, and drive shikigami. Most of these are It was passed down from China, and the shikigami they mentioned are elves and ghosts driven by our lineage."

I looked at Master in amazement, and said, "No wonder Master, you recruited fierce ghosts from all directions last night. It turns out that those orthodox Taoist priests catch and subdue ghosts, but we exorcise ghosts!"

The master looked at the statue of the Yellow Emperor sitting on the god's throne, and said: "Although our lineage is counted from the Taishan Taoist, and we regard him as the ancestor of a generation, but the origin of our first ancestor is the legendary Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, so we Do not worship Sanqing, only respect the Yellow Emperor."

I looked up at the majestic Yellow Emperor wearing a crown in the middle of the hall. I felt very awed and proud in my heart. I couldn't help but think of the shocking scene where the Yellow Emperor served Yinglong. Although I knew it was just a legend, when I thought of this Still makes me very excited.

Master asked me to bow three times and kowtow nine times to the statue of the Yellow Emperor. At the same time, he asked me to recite a complicated and lengthy scripture. Finally, after doing a very complicated ceremony, he finally said to me: "From now on From now on, you, Chen Zixuan, will be the No. 30 fourth generation disciple of Xuanyuan Hall, inheriting the mantle of the patriarch."

Xuanyuan Hall? !

Is my sect called Xuanyuan Hall?I stared blankly at the statue of the emperor sitting high in the middle, feeling an unspeakable sense of pride in my heart.

Just after I had finished the apprenticeship ceremony and the initiation ceremony, a Taoist priest rushed in from outside the Taoist temple. He was about 40 years old, with a panicked look and sweat on his forehead.

He rushed in at once and shouted to his master, "Young Daoist Jiang! It's not good, something happened in Chengdu! Something serious happened!"

I saw Master was taken aback, and asked, "What do you mean? Didn't the government deal with it, and many people went to your temple, right? A few zombies, what could happen?"

The Taoist priest stood beside him, gasped for a few breaths, and then said to the master: "It was just a few zombies dug up by the Funan River, but the government didn't pay much attention at first, and just invited some of my senior brothers to surrender. But I didn’t expect that it was just an introduction, my senior brother discovered that who knows who set up a feng shui overall situation in that place, and nourished it with the yin energy of the whole Chengdu.”

"And at that point, a coffin was buried, a big red coffin!"

(End of this chapter)