The legendary gatekeepers of heaven are the four heavenly kings!
The gatekeepers of Buddhism seem to be the four heavenly kings too!
This is a bit strange. Are these four heavenly kings from heaven or from Buddhism?
As for the underworld.
It is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas:
[There is a mountain called Dushuo. There is a large peach tree on it. It bends for three thousand miles. The northeastern part of its branches is called the Ghost Gate, where all ghosts come and go.
There are two gods on it, one is Shen Tu and the other is Yu Lei, who oversee and lead all ghosts.
The evil ghost clings to the reed rope and eats the tiger.
So the Yellow Emperor made a ceremony to drive them away, set up a big peach man, painted divine tea, Yulei and tiger on the door, and hung reed ropes to ward off evil spirits. 】
The earliest door gods were these two, a man and a woman. The man was called Shen Tu and the woman was Yu Lei, who guarded the gates of ghosts.
Later there was a legend that these two were brothers!
In ancient times, the eighteen levels of hell were not yet complete, so at that time, if the evil spirits of cholera in the world were caught by these two door gods, they would be thrown to the tigers below.
What the ancients called peach charms was to write the names or portraits of these two ancient door gods with peach wood carvings and hang them on both sides of the door to protect your home from evil spirits!
And the earliest door god must have had a tiger as his mount, and he was also the one who helped the door god eat ghosts!
As for why peach wood is used, it is because peach wood is yang in nature, and the earliest ghost gate was opened on a big peach tree, which was the former Peach Mountain!
It is also written in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.
[There are huge peach trees in Taodu Mountain, stretching for three thousand miles.
There is a golden rooster on the top and two gods below, holding reed ropes to feed ominous ghosts and strange birds.
At the end of the day, the sun shines on the golden rooster, and the rooster crows loudly, so all the roosters in the world begin to crow.
The golden rooster flies down and eats all the evil spirits. The ghosts are afraid of the golden rooster, so they all run away. 】
Taodu Mountain, after someone chopped down the big peach tree at some point, it was renamed Fengdu Mountain!
After losing the ghost-suppressing peach tree and the ghost-suppressing golden rooster, Fengdu Mountain became even more gloomy due to the gate of ghosts.
Therefore, the gatekeepers of the underworld are Shen Tu and Yu Lei, but they guard not the direction of the human world, but the direction of the underworld to prevent evil ghosts from returning to the world through the gate of hell.
The Hungry Ghost Festival falls on July 14th in the south and July 15th in the north, which is their annual holiday.
Of course, this is a long way to go!
Now, Chen Yun's land also has a gatekeeper!
That's Nie Xiaoqian!
Originally, Nie Xiaoqian was going to follow Ah Wu to sort out the earth's energy and drive away demons.
Do hard work!
However, now even Ah Wu herself has to be here to help, so of course she has to be there too!
So he became a glorious gatekeeper!
Although she was always surrounded by a big cock looking at her like a bug, which made her feel uncomfortable, she still endured it!
In fact, Nie Xiaoqian died not long ago, but her ability is not inferior to that of a century-old ghost!
The most important thing is that she killed too many people under the command of the Millennium Tree Demon.
For ghosts, the more people they harm, the more resentment they accumulate and the more powerful they become.
Moreover, after they have performed meritorious services, the Millennium Tree Demon will also give them some rewards so that their cultivation can be improved as soon as possible.
Otherwise, she is just a female ghost who has just died a few years ago and cannot make any waves, let alone seduce men for the thousand-year-old tree demon!
In fact, when she first heard the news, Nie Xiaoqian wanted to refuse.
I have never heard of such a weak gatekeeper!
"Lord, can I not be the gatekeeper? I'm so weak, I'm afraid I won't be able to shoulder this responsibility!"
After hesitating several times, Nie Xiaoqian formally walked up to Chen Yun and whispered.
"Do not worry!
This gatekeeper does some good in front of you! "
Chen Yun smiled when he told her this: "This should be a kind of Tao fruit!
Your strength is too weak now, and it may be very dangerous in the next thing!
Although the land under my feet is not big, it has extremely strong laws. If you take over the position of gatekeeper, you will integrate this law!
Although after taking over this position, the rules of the gatekeeper can only protect you on this land. After leaving the land under your feet, your strength will still return to its past!
But at least I have the power to protect myself! "
Chen Yun has always been straightforward in his speech, at least to his own people.
He is very busy!
These days, the most important thing is to use the Two Instruments and Four Symbols formation to circle around this territory of my own.
As long as his formation is successfully arranged, even if there are hundreds of thousands of heavenly soldiers in the sky, he will still have to weigh it on this land of the human world!
Old man Zuo is cutting wood!
Ah Wu is moving stones, cutting stones, and turning stones into bricks, which are ready to be used to build a house!
It is indeed a waste of talent for a dignified earth god to use it like this!
Miss Ninth took a group of little guys and started digging the land and planting vegetables next to the lake!
Occasionally, one or two bones are found in the ground, which will scare these children!
But if you dig a lot, you’ll get used to it.
As for Dunzi, he is now the king of children!
Every day, I take the children with me to plow the land and plant vegetables with my sister. After finishing the work, I have to take the children to practice knife practice.
In fact, in terms of mental age, he is not old, but physically, he is already in his teens!
Not to mention how the ghosts and gods in the state capital arranged it, anyway, no human soldiers have come to attack this place yet.
However, Yan Chixia did not encounter obstacles on the way back to Beijing as he expected.
Instead, he returned to the capital smoothly. As soon as he returned to the capital, he knew that something big had definitely happened!
Because, without asking, people in the capital had already heard the news that the statue of the City God in the City God's Temple in the capital was damaged by lightning.
"broken!
It seems that the City God of the capital is in danger! "
Yan Chixia was muttering in her mind, and casually asked a middle-aged drinking man not far away who was telling stories eloquently to others.
"Then why hasn't the court erected a new statue of the City God after so many days?"
he asked a little strangely.
Logically speaking, it had been so many days, and he didn't believe that the emperor didn't know how much influence the City God had on the human world.
"I heard it!"
The man he was questioning came over and whispered: "I heard that the emperor originally planned to set up another city god, but he was stopped by the abbot!"
The man glanced around, then lowered his voice and said, "The abbot said that the other king, the City God, must be careful!
If you are not a royal family, you cannot stand!
But if you were to search among the royal family, it would be difficult to find a royal ancestor with meritorious deeds who could hold up the position of king and city god!
So it was empty! "
Yan Chixia was stunned for a moment by the other party's words. The position of City God has always appointed heroes who were loyal and courageous in history and served the country and the people.
The royal family has to fill it in. Someone who has been an emperor before will most likely disdain being this so-called city god?
The royal family who have not been emperors have always been treated like pigs. Such people may not be of any use after they become the king's city god.
Therefore, during the past dynasties, when denominations were awarded to gods, those with good reputations were chosen in folklore or recorded in history!
Has there ever been such a thing as a royal family coming to confer a god?
It’s obvious that we don’t plan to seal it!
Therefore, Yan Chixia understands that this may mean that she has fallen into the enemy's hands!
Even in the court, I'm afraid it will be troublesome!
Although he is not very good at looking at the luck, he is not very good at it. One advantage is that he can take a rough look at the luck in the sky above the capital, which does not mean provoking the dragon of luck hovering back and forth in the sky!
Just like being a boxer and being looked at by an ordinary person, or being looked at by another boxer in the ring, the two feelings are different.
He, a fake Taoist priest who wasn't very good at looking at qi, was in the capital, but he didn't get the backlash even though he was roughly looking at qi!
Of course, the main reason is that he still has a position in the court. This is why he is so bold and dares to look for air luck in the capital.
For some reason, he just felt uncomfortable with the Dragon of Luck hovering over the Imperial City!
Others wanted to make him uncomfortable.
While Yan Chixia was eating, there was already a team of people waiting outside the door.
A man with a pale face and no beard. I don't know whether he should be called a middle-aged man or a young man. Anyway, they are almost the same.
After entering, he saluted him:
"Yan Captou, the father-in-law invites you!"
[I have a cold and feel a little uncomfortable. I will write 2,000 words today and make up for the other 2,000 tomorrow]
(End of chapter)
