Collection of strange powers and chaotic gods

Chapter 153 The Immortal Talks about Reincarnation

According to legend, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the activity of using fuqi to invite immortals was popular among the people.

On a certain day in a certain month of a certain year, a wealthy family hosted a banquet for guests. When the wine was half drunk, someone suggested that it would be better to hold the altar and invite an immortal to ask about everyone's future and future luck, which would also help everyone enjoy the wine.

The crowd applauded.

So, the host immediately prepared various things such as urns, incense candles and so on. After a ceremony to invite the immortal, a shackles immortal took his place.

According to convention, those who support the ji must first ask who the ji is.

This Ji Immortal wrote on the Ji plate: His name is Lou Zichun, he was a Jinshi in the late Song Dynasty, and he was a good friend of Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister Wen.

The person supporting the si asked again: "What special skills do you have?"

Zixian Zichun wrote: What I practice is the magic of gas transformation and transformation. If you ask me what special skills I have, I am not bragging. The Messenger of the Nine Nethers invited me to teach in their home for four hundred years.

There were people present who didn’t know who the Nine Nether Messenger was, so the person holding the altar explained: “The Nine Nether Messenger is an official from the Underworld who is in charge of matters of life and death in the world, and his status is only one level lower than Pluto.

Lou Zichun then wrote on the ji plate: If you want to ask about the misfortunes, blessings, life and death in the world, then I know everything.

Someone among the guests asked him whether the concept of "reincarnation" is true. After death, can people really be reincarnated and become human again?

Lou Zichun replied: This is a long story, and the theory of reincarnation is really hard to describe in one sentence! If you want to know, it can't be explained in a few words.

The guests thought that the immortal refused to explain, so they repeatedly begged him to explain it to satisfy everyone's curiosity.

Yu Zichun went on to write: “There are as many ways for people to die as there are ways to live again.

Those who were highly virtuous and respected during their lifetimes will be reincarnated as gods and Buddhas after their death;

Those who have karma and no negative obstacles will still return to their original position after death.

There are also those who have no virtue and no karma. If their Qi does not dissipate after death, then they can be reincarnated and become human again; if their Qi has exhausted, then even if they are alive, they are dead. , if you die, you will die completely!

However, the death of such people does not mean that they have completely disappeared. They will still have souls, although they are very weak, just like the smoke from a furnace. Even if they are blown into the sky, they will not completely dissipate for a while.

These weak souls that have not dissipated often form into a puff of gas and float around. Sometimes they will be blown under the Yinshan Mountains by the wind.

It is extremely cold there. Only on the winter solstice day of the year does a ray of sunlight shine on the Yinshan Mountains, and there is a little bit of heat. At this time, the ghosts will change from a stiff state to slowly squirming, and then crawl up along the sun's rays.

If they crawl to the human world, they can be reincarnated as humans again. These ghosts are all scrambling and eager to be reincarnated, so many souls often get into a person's body, not just one person's soul.

And those who have no time to climb up to the sun's rays, or climb up and fall down, can only return to Yinshan and wait until the winter solstice of the next year. "

Someone among the guests asked: "Is there anyone who is not reincarnated and is a human in the first life?"

Lou Zichun said: "There are many such situations. For example, some plants and trees have no old roots and grow directly from the soil, which is the grass that became grass for the first time; people like this who directly become humans without reincarnation, He is a person who was a human being in his first life.”

Someone else asked: "Are there any of those ghosts who cannot be reincarnated as humans, but change into animals and plants?"

Lou Zichun said: "There are also such people. People who were prostitutes and actors during their lifetime will turn into insects, butterflies and the like after death; and those evil people will turn into poisonous snakes, tigers and the like."

Someone else asked: "What will happen to those people who are struck to death by lightning and turn into ghosts?"

Lou Zichun said: "Become an earthworm."

Tan Zi (Tan Qiao in the Five Dynasties period) "Book of Changes" (The main point of this book is: heaven, earth, people and things are constantly changing. Sentient people and animals can turn into ruthless stones and flowers; vegetation can also Will turn into people and animals. As for snakes turning into turtles, birds turning into clams, it goes without saying. Things can change from one to the other, indicating that they are connected with each other. If it's rotten, apply the juice on his belly button to revive him.

From this point of view, this immortal’s words probably have a source!