Warlock Notes

Chapter 153 Six Paths of Reincarnation
"Jie Jie, honored guest, if you want your friends to be safe, you'd better go in and talk to me." Seeing that I hesitated, the old woman said again.

I did hesitate, I don't know what kind of medicine she sold in the gourd, but I really wanted to find my group of partners quickly, so I struggled a bit, and walked into the room slowly.

It's not the first time I've come to this house.In the afternoon, I woke up and searched from house to house, but I didn’t see a single figure in the whole village. The aborigines who wrapped up the village suddenly appeared. Although I was a little puzzled, I was still depressed went in.

It was exactly the same as what I saw in the afternoon. In this room, there was a stone bed. There was nothing, and the room had no roof. I was curious, if it was raining, how would these people sleep on the bed?
"Jie Jie!" The old woman followed, pointing to the stone bed beside her and said, "Dear guest, please sit down."

"I don't have time to waste time with you! Tell me, what's going on." I said bluntly.

The old woman smiled sinisterly at me, and then slowly sat down on the stone bed.

"This village was named Liudao Village a long time ago." The old woman said slowly.

As soon as these words came out, my flustered heart suddenly calmed down.

Many people know about the six realms, and of course I am no exception.The so-called six realms refer to: the heavenly realm, the Asura realm, the human realm, the animal realm, the hungry ghost realm, and the hell realm.

But the Six Paths was proposed by Buddhism, while the Maoshan warlocks were Taoism. Taoism and Buddhism have a deep relationship, but there are also many contradictions between them.

Buddhism often says that among the six paths, the paths reincarnate with each other. At first, they are the realm of hell. Those who practice the realm of hell can enter the realm of hungry ghosts after a certain period of practice. After the completion of the realm of hungry ghosts, they can go to the realm of animals The way of animals is cultivated to the way of human beings, and the way of human beings is cultivated to the way of heaven. After the way of heaven, there is the way of Shura.

Of course, this is a relatively gentle process, during which there were no major disturbances. Once a major disturbance occurs, it will do the opposite. For example, if a human being makes a mistake, he will Retreat to the animal realm, or even hell. People in the heavenly realm will be sent to the human realm or the animal realm if they make mistakes. In this way, the six realms of reincarnation complement each other.

We of the Taoist lineage don’t believe in the six realms, but it’s not that we don’t believe it at all. In our eyes, the heavenly realm is the most important stage, and the Shura realm is those people who have gone wrong or ghosts and ghosts when they entered the heavenly realm. Things and the like, went mad, leading to entering the Shura way.

And in our eyes, the so-called way of heaven means that people can live for a long time after their Taoism reaches a certain level, or some spirits can live for a long time when their Taoism is advanced. During the time, do more good deeds, accumulate good relationships, and finally be named a "god" by people in the human world, enshrined in temples or homes, and enshrined every day, resulting in avoiding the suffering of reincarnation and becoming the way of heaven.

Compared with Buddhism, we Taoists are more willing to believe that the animal way is the first, and then some animals in the animal way evolved into the human way and the Shura way (spirits, ghosts, etc.), after the death of the human way or the animal way, the Shura way, Falling into the realm of hungry ghosts is divided according to what you did during your lifetime, directly entering reincarnation, stepping into the realm of the human world, the realm of Asura, or the realm of animals, or staying in the realm of hungry ghosts.

This seems to be a reincarnation between the five realms, so there is no such thing as the Dao of Heaven. In the eyes of our Daoists, the Dao of Heaven actually does not exist. That is to say, there is no real "God" in this world. The so-called gods just have more people who believe in them, and those who have done more good deeds, or ghosts, and ghosts are sealed, and it happens that these people, ghosts, and ghosts have high Taoism and live longer, so they are called gods. People in the world of human beings worship them as "gods", and they barely have a way of heaven.

But the way of heaven mentioned in the Taoist school is not the way of Tao that Buddhism says is very Tao, the way of heaven lasts forever, and you can live forever.

In the eyes of the Daoists, people of the Dao of Heaven are also mortal.

The old woman in front of me mentioned Liudao, so for a while, I thought a little too much.

"Jie Jie! Liudao Village, Liudao Village, do you know what it means? My honored guest!" The ugly face of the old woman was distorted with jealousy. In this narrow illusion, she looked extremely terrifying.

"I don't want to discuss this with you now." I didn't have time to answer these words, so I asked directly: "Just tell me, where did you lock up my friends?"

"Jie Jie, distinguished guest, can you listen to me?" the old woman said with a smile.

I have nothing to do, Han Duo and the others are still in her hands. What else can I say?
After nodding helplessly, "Speak, I'll listen."

"Jie Jie!" The old woman smiled like a sign, and then slowly mentioned a past about the ghost village (Liudao Village).

The Liudao Village (ghost village) mentioned by the old woman actually existed a long time ago. At that time, when the matrilineal clan commune was at its peak, a group of dead people drifted to this place.

I doubt the age of the old woman, but I guess she should have heard it from her ancestors, not experienced it personally.

The earth in the past was completely different from the present. In ancient times, the territory of the continent was very wide, and the crustal plates were not very stable, and natural disasters and man-made disasters often occurred, so people's feudal superstition was more serious.

Chen Li once said that the people in the ghost village only keep women, not men. In fact, Chen Li did not lie completely, at least the old woman also mentioned this point, but that is just the civilization inherited from the matrilineal clan commune, and this The place has lived in the mountains for a long time, and the ancestral precepts left by their ancestors have allowed them to persist until now, which is really rare.

The old woman also mentioned a phenomenon that more and more people entered the village.

This is not difficult to understand. After the reform and opening up, the great leader put forward the policy of 'to get rich, build roads first'. The above policy came down. At that time, there were relatively few corrupt officials, and the implementation was thorough.

Highways have indeed brought a lot of convenience, and they have indeed improved the living standards of the people across the country, but they have also destroyed the tranquility of many places. Although generally speaking, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, from any point of view, at least 90.00% of the people have enjoyed the benefits of this policy.

But there are exceptions to everything, and there are also a small group of people who are distressed by this incident, such as the villagers of Liudao Village.

The improvement of people's living standards, coupled with the convenience of roads, led to Liudao Village being gradually found by some adventurous teams.Since then, Liudao Village has been unstable.

There are very few villagers in Liudao Village. Although food and clothing have not been solved for a long time, self-sufficiency can still be maintained. For these native people, everything that enters the village is food, so in their In the eyes, those outsiders are actually similar to beasts.

With the first conflict between the people in the village and the outsiders, the people in the village got used to eating human flesh. In their view, what they ate was just a kind of beast that resembled them.

However, I found out that I accidentally ate No.1 of the same kind. It was the old woman in front of me, the village head of Liudao Village. After discovering this, she tried to communicate with the villagers, and the villagers improved because of this. There are many, but it is inevitable that there will be conflicts between outsiders and villagers. Once it happens, the murderous side of the villagers will be reflected.

Even if they knew they were of the same kind, they subconsciously only pushed those outsiders out of the same kind, so there was no discomfort at all.

This situation continued until Uncle Zhong came here!

I heard from the old woman that Uncle Zhong came here about 30 years ago. I guess Liudao Village was not discovered by large-scale tourist groups at that time, because the roads at that time were not as developed as they are now, and it was impossible to The tour group is sent to a place only one day away from Liudao Village.

After Uncle Zhong came here by accident, he was also the one who lived in Liudao Village the longest, but Uncle Zhong was different from the people here after all, and it was absolutely impossible for Uncle Zhong to eat people.

During the time when Uncle Zhong lived here, the old woman was still a young girl. Although she had nothing to do with beauty, she was full of curiosity about unknown affairs, so she learned the language of modern civilization.

In Liudao Village at that time, there were not a few people who had learned the language, but with the passage of time, those who learned it one by one left HR.

Uncle Zhong stayed in Liudao Village for a long time, until the next wave of people intruded inexplicably, and then left with him.

When Uncle Zhong came back to this village again, he brought a group of people with him, but at that time, a group of people had already arrived from Liudao Village, and they had conflicts with the villagers here, resulting in the killing of all those people. The old woman felt that it should not be wasted. Since Uncle Zhong had guests, he had to be full anyway, so she used human flesh to entertain the group of people.

I reckon that it was also because of this incident that those tourists who had been entertained by human flesh spread the word, causing Liudao Village to be called a "ghost village" by the outside world.

According to the old woman, the villagers in Liudao Village have actually been told by the old woman that they have changed their original intentions and don’t want to eat outsiders anymore. It’s just the difference in cultural level that inevitably leads to some conflicts between outsiders and the villagers. After the intensification, the folk customs of the villagers were so tough, which led to the frequent occurrence of cannibalism incidents.

At this point in the story, the old woman paused, "Dear guest, the villagers of our Liudao Village do not bully people, but we are not afraid of people. We eat people, but we only eat those who have committed the most crimes. Tell me frankly, Are you?"

(End of this chapter)