Lu Shanguan's mother, Su Wanqiu, practiced the 'Seven Star Ziwei Jue' and 'Dayan Shen Arithmetic'. She made cards from multiple subjects and placed them on the table. Then she threw up a thousand-year-old yarrow and let it fall. Falling on the major of "Paleography".
So Lu Shangguan chose the "Paleography" major at Imperial University and spent six years getting his undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees.
After that, he followed his ancestor Lu Yideng and learned the "Confucian Heart Method" and "Haoran Qi". He also learned witchcraft and a small part of "Dragon Chapter", "Feng Wen", and the basic talismans left by the ancestor Cangjie. .
His skill is too shallow and it is very difficult to study these magic symbols.
Therefore, the ancestor Lu Yideng asked him to try to study the "Ghost Book" and gave him a bunch of information, including the Taoist "Yin Fu Jing", "Taiyi's Sutra of Saving the Suffering and Saving the Heavenly Lord", and "Taiyi's Sutra of Saving the Suffering and Saving People" , "Lingbao Tianzun's Wonderful Sutra of Saving Suffering and Eradicating Sin" and Buddhist "Ksitigarbha Sutra" and "Great Compassion Mantra" are classics that can save the souls of the dead.
With these classics, coupled with the Lu family's special soul lamp, it will help to understand the various levels of heaven, earth, humans, gods, and ghosts, and complete the system of heaven, earth, and the underworld.
According to the information obtained by Lu Cheng's soul search Nezha, ancestor Hongjun wants to rebuild heaven after the great catastrophe. The future cultivation system will be divided into 54 levels, including 18 levels of hell, 6 levels of the human world of desire, and 18 levels. There are four levels of formless realm in the form realm, followed by the four Brahma heavens, the three pure heavens, and the Daluo heaven, totaling 54 heavens.
So far, all the monks of the Lu family have focused on the human world and the immortal world, and have never seriously studied the Netherworld system. Although Lu Chengming knew that since the spiritual energy was revived, some ghosts and ghosts have filled the world, and some ghosts have even been reincarnated with memories, but those ghosts will not do anything to him as long as they do not come out to harm people. He was busy practicing and had no energy to take care of it.
However, since Lu Cheng learned that the "Ghost Book" was juxtaposed with the "Book of Heaven", "Book of Earth", "Book of Man", and "Book of Summer", it was different. It showed that there were ways in the "Ghost Book" and hidden laws of heaven. , it is worth spending time to study.
He even thought: "Why does Ksitigarbha stay in the underworld? What avenue did he study underground? Are the legendary Styx ancestors and Wangchuan ancestors gods or innate gods and demons? Where do they practice? ? The underworld has long existed. If Hongjun wants to recreate heaven, he must unite with Buddhism to accommodate the ten kings of Yama in the underworld..."
Lu Cheng felt that the Netherworld system was too complicated, and he couldn't figure it out despite racking his brains.
He was busy improving his skills and didn't want to spend time thinking about it, so he entrusted Lu Yideng to study it.
Lu Yideng is a master of Chinese studies. He prefers to ponder the "Book of Man" and "Book of Xia", and "subcontracts" the tasks assigned by his ancestors to future generations, asking Lu Shangguan to study the "Book of Ghosts".
Lu Shanguan learned a lot and memorized the Taoist and Buddhist scriptures by heart. Then he went to Mang Mountain in the north of Luoyang City.
Mang Mountain has been a popular burial place for emperors, nobles and prominent figures of all dynasties. It has hundreds of thousands of ancient tombs. It is known as "living in Suzhou and Hangzhou, and dead in Bei Mang". Luoyang was the ancient capital of thirteen dynasties, stretching for two to three thousand years. The bones of more than 40 emperors and more than a thousand dignitaries are buried in Mang Mountain. The people buried in Mang Mountain almost determined the direction of China's five thousand years of history. Therefore, Mang Mountain is known as the "Oriental Pyramid" and the "Valley of the Emperors of China"
Mang Mountain in Guangxi is more than 100 kilometers long. In a narrow sense, Mang Mountain only refers to the watershed between the Yellow River and the Luo River.
Climbing Mang Mountain allows you to have a distant view of the city, and the best time to view it is in the evening, so the "Mang Mountain Night View" is listed as one of the eight scenic spots in Luoyang.
The sun sets, night falls, everything is silent, and the cold wind blows.
Lu Shangguan sat on the top of Mang Mountain and recited sutras in a catchy way.
His voice was neither high nor low, neither urgent nor slow, and could be transmitted ten miles away.
If it had been left in the past, someone would definitely have come to stop it, because ten miles is too far away. If you stay up until midnight, isn't that disturbing the people? However, this is the year 4008 AD. The population left on the earth has decreased significantly. And because of the ten-day sky, many people have taken refuge in the "Weiyang Palace". There are fewer and fewer people staying outside, let alone Beimang. Even the huge city of Luoyang, which had 7 million people at its peak, now only has 20,000 to 30,000 people living there.
For this reason, the entire Beimang Mountain has turned into a deserted wilderness, with lush vegetation, desolate, and completely occupied by ghosts!
Lu Shan's concept of chanting scriptures attracted many ghosts.
As a Yuanying monk, he had already opened his third eye. Although the night was hazy, there was still moonlight.
He saw countless ghosts, men and women, old and young, dressed in strange costumes from all dynasties, some even wearing imperial crowns, standing or standing, some grinning, and some even gnashing their teeth.
A ghost picked up a stone on the ground and threw it at him, but it was blocked by the protective aura around him.
Some ghosts rushed over with wooden sticks in their hands. When Lu Shanguan pointed his finger in the air, they immediately turned into white light and disappeared without a trace.
To be honest, the skills of ghosts are not very high. Because they have no physical body, they can only accumulate souls and cannot produce essence.
After death, the three souls and seven souls are separated. The soul returns to heaven and the soul returns to earth.
As the spiritual energy revived, those remaining souls that had returned to the ground, after absorbing the spiritual energy, gradually replenished their souls.
After the soul is complete, it is the real ghost.
There are many ghosts who have been reincarnated, but there are also some ghosts who are unwilling to reincarnate as humans because of concerns, arrogance, or rigidity. He could not be reincarnated as a human being, so he stayed and continued to practice, accumulated souls, and over time became a "ghost". The word "charm" refers to a ghost with a strong soul, a certain amount of magic power, and the ability to confuse people's hearts.
Lu Shan meditated on the scriptures for two hours, watching hundreds of ghosts turn into white light and disappear. But there are also many ghosts who, instead of disappearing, have become clearer in appearance.
At midnight, Lu Shanguan stopped to think.
At this time, an old man with a goatee and a tall head stepped forward and said, "May I ask your name, please?"
Lu Shan looked at him and said, "My surname is Lu, who are you?"
"In Xialu Buwei."
"What? Are you an impostor?"
"I am really Lu Buwei, the person who led the compilation of "Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals". Mr. Lu, can you please pause your chanting and come to my cave for a chat?"
"Okay, where is your cave?"
"It's not far from here. Master Immortal, please come with me."
Lu Shanguan followed the other party to a small hill.
Lu Buwei's tomb is 10 meters high and 100 meters in diameter. It is surrounded by flowers and trees and covered with ancient locust trees and wild grasses. Next to the tomb, there is a tall monument and a merit monument, which is engraved with the merits and demerits of Lu Buwei's life.
(End of chapter)
