A day later, everyone saw some corpses eaten by wild beasts on the road, and there were traces of a great battle, which was a mess.
"Master Rudder, we may be approaching an aboriginal gathering place here!" Gao Xianzhi said with a slight expression on his face.
Gu Hai nodded.
"Ah, I know this place!" Xiao Rou exclaimed suddenly.
"Oh?"
"That mountain, I know that mountain. If you climb over that mountain, you can see the medicine garden I used to stay in! Wuyou Valley!" Xiaorou pointed to a mountain peak and said.
"Go!" Gu Hai and his party rushed there quickly.
Soon, everyone climbed to the top of the mountain and looked at the back together.
But he saw a huge scorched valley, as if he had experienced a monstrous fire before. Below the valley, there were some buildings, but they were almost collapsed at this moment, and the medicine garden that Xiaorou was talking about was also reduced to scorched earth at this moment.
"It's here, it's all burned?" Xiaorou asked in surprise.
"The things here should have been ransacked, and there is nothing left!" Chen Tianshan said regretfully.
"Master, something is wrong. Where are the corpses here? Xiaorou said that there are over a thousand people living here? There is not even a single corpse?" Gao Xianzhi asked in surprise.
"Yes!" Gu Hai narrowed his eyes and looked around.
"By the way, benefactor, there is actually another place here! There are good things in it that can't be taken away." Xiaorou said suddenly with a change of expression.
"Oh?"
"It's a spring, only the owner of the valley can enjoy it, and can only enjoy it once a year. It seems that I heard that bathing in this spring will strengthen my cultivation!" Xiaorou said.
"Spiritual spring? Is there a spiritual spring here?" Chen Tianshan's eyes widened immediately.
"What is Lingquan?" Gu Hai asked curiously.
"It's a naturally formed spirit-gathering formation, which gathers countless spiritual energy in the spring water, and the spiritual energy cannot leak out. However, as long as the bather, the spiritual energy will be squeezed into the body to help practice, and the spiritual energy of the spiritual spring is the most The gentle aura will not cause any sequelae!" Chen Tianshan said excitedly.
"Where is the spiritual spring?" Gu Hai looked at Xiaorou.
"In the cave behind that palace, it's very secret, I'll take Engong there!" Xiao Rou is very happy to finally be able to help Engong!
A group of people quickly stepped into the valley.
The scorched valley was full of collapsed ruins, and the same was true for one of the largest palaces, more than half of which collapsed.
"Headmaster, look!" Gao Xianzhi said with a sudden change of expression.
In the dilapidated palace, there are hundreds of corpses placed at this moment, all of which are charred and black. Some corpses have been torn apart, but they are all pieced together.
"All the corpses gathered here?" Chen Tianshan showed a hint of surprise.
Gu Hai's eyes froze, he became alert, and quickly turned his head to check his surroundings.
"Master Rudder, there is no one in the valley, we have seen it on the mountain before!" Gao Xianzhi frowned.
"Then, who brought these corpses back?" Chen Tianshan asked with difficulty.
Gu Hai frowned and took a deep breath and said, "Let's go to Lingquan first!"
"Hmm!" Everyone felt complicated and nodded.
Walking around the ruins of the palace, I immediately saw a hidden cave surrounded by a pile of burnt wood ruins. It seemed that when the fire came, the burnt wood blocked the entrance of the cave to prevent outsiders from discovering it, but at this moment the burnt wood was moved away. , and there are some footprints on the ground.
"It's here!" Xiaorou called out.
Gu Hai and Gao Xianzhi narrowed their eyes slightly, became alert and stopped.
"Let's go?" Chen Tianshan called.
"Someone has gone in, or rather, someone is inside!" Gao Xianzhi said in a deep voice.
"Is there someone?" Chen Tianshan's face changed, and he became more careful.
Just when the three of them were cautious, a voice suddenly came from the cave.
"Infinite Life Buddha!"
The voice was quite loud, but in the ears of everyone, there was a sense of peace, as if listening to the Buddha's name, the heart was at peace for a moment.
However, Gu Hai's expression changed, and he became more alert.
Slowly, an old monk wearing cassock came out of the cave. The old monk's face was full of compassion. When he walked out slowly, he was holding a corpse in one hand. The corpse seemed to have been dead for a long time. There are many scars on the body. Looking at his face, he should have died of suffocation.
"So it's the ancient rudder master, sorry for being rude!" The old monk said with a slight smile.
"Master knows me?" Gu Hai's expression changed.
The old monk looked at Xiaorou in Gu Hai's arms, smiled slightly and said, "God has the virtue of loving life, and Gu Tuozhu can punish evil and promote good for an irrelevant little snake! How can the poor monk not remember?"
Gao Xianzhi and Chen Tianshan looked at each other, just entered this small world that day, a group of people besieged and killed Xiaorou, and the old monk was among the crowd
"Dare to ask Master's Dharma name?" Gu Hai said solemnly.
"The poor monk 'pity'!" The old monk said with a smile.
"I've seen Master Liansheng! I don't know where the corpse is, but Master Liansheng collected it?" Gu Hai asked curiously.
"That's right, wait a moment, I will collect the last two corpses and bury them!" Master Liansheng laughed.
"Okay!" Gu Hai nodded.
Lian Sheng walked slowly to the palace, and slowly placed the two corpses in the palace.
"The rudder master?" Chen Tianshan looked at the cave eagerly.
Gu Hai shook his head to signal Chen Tianshan to stay calm.
But he saw that the old monk suddenly turned his hand and took out a Zen stick and thrust it into the ground.
"boom!"
There was a loud bang when the Zen staff fell to the ground. A golden light rippled from the Zen staff, covering the surrounding land.
"Boom!"
The earth slowly collapsed towards the center, and the palace where the corpses were placed slowly sank into the ground. The surrounding land rolled towards the center, slowly burying the palace, forming a huge tomb.
"Impossible, who is this person? This, what kind of magic weapon is this?" Chen Tianshan exclaimed.
"What's wrong?" Gu Hai looked at Chen Tianshan.
"Master Rudder, this small world has compressed people's cultivation into the innate realm, but using the innate realm to move the Zen staff...! Even my Sect Master Qinghe can't do it!" Chen Tianshan said with an ugly face.
"What do you mean, this person is stronger than Sect Master Qinghe? Or his magic weapon is stronger than Sect Master Qinghe?" Gao Xianzhi asked.
Chen Tianshan nodded with a complex expression.
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, everyone, rest in peace! Buddha of Infinite Life!" Master Liansheng put down his Zen staff and clasped his hands together.
"call!"
There was a sudden gust of wind blowing all around.
"Master Liansheng, what are you doing?" Gu Hai asked curiously.
Master Liansheng turned his head to look at Gu Hai, he seemed to have a good impression of Gu Hai, and he didn't mind, saying: "Collect the corpses and build a tomb for them, and establish a sustenance!"
"Master, I heard that people here will be reincarnated after death! Many people don't care about their own lives, why does Master care so much?" Gu Hai asked curiously.
"They don't care because they don't understand! When they understand, it will be too late!" Master Liansheng shook his head.
"I would like to listen to the master's explanation!" Gu Hai said curiously.
"You can't see it, but I can see it. There are 831 souls standing here, saluting me! You are grateful to me! Every thought of gratitude is my merit!" Master Lian Sheng laughed.
"Eight hundred and thirty one souls? Here?" Gu Hai looked at the huge tomb with surprise.
"In every tomb, there is a soul standing. They are extremely lonely, looking at the pedestrians around, waiting for the sacrifice, because only when they pay homage to him, will they have the feeling of existence. You can understand that everyone Can't you see your own loneliness?" Master Liansheng explained.
"Isn't a person reincarnated after death? There is a soul standing on each grave? What do you mean?" Gu Hai asked curiously.
Master Liansheng looked at Gu Hai, and was silent for a while: "Forget it, Gu Tuo Master has a compassionate heart, and I can also explain Gu Tuo Master's doubts. People have three souls and seven souls, have you heard?"
"Yes, I often hear about three souls and seven souls!"
"The three souls are the soul of heaven, the soul of earth, and the soul of man! After a person dies, the three souls are separated, and the soul of heaven returns to heaven, which is what people often call the spirit of the dead in heaven.
The soul of the earth enters the earth, that is, the underworld, enters the underworld, and finally reincarnates.
The human soul, however, stays in the place of the corpse, guards the corpse, absorbs the energy of the surroundings, and benefits future generations. If it is buried in a place where spiritual energy and blessings gather, the descendants of future generations will surely have good fortune and good luck. If buried in a place where bad luck and pollution gather, future generations will also have bad luck in life! "Master Liansheng explained.
"Master, the three souls and seven spirits are not reincarnated together?" Gu Hai asked in surprise.
For a long time, Gu Hai thought that when he was reincarnated, the three souls and seven souls were all together.
"When a person dies, his soul flies away, doesn't Master Gu know?" Master Liansheng laughed.
"Huh? When you die, will your soul fly away?"
"That's right, the three souls are yin, the seven souls are yang, the seven souls are your physical body, and when the flesh disappears, the soul will disperse. The three souls are the three souls of heaven, earth and man! Earth souls can be reincarnated, and human souls are given by parents. Inherited from the bloodline, it is connected to the human soul of future generations, and the heavenly soul is a gift from heaven, and it will return to heaven after death, so it is called heavenly soul!" Master Liansheng explained.
"So, for a reincarnated person, only the earth soul is the same in the previous life and the present life. The two souls and seven souls are already new. After reincarnation, they are not the original self?" Gu Hai said with a look on his face.
Master Liansheng nodded.
"Ah, I finally know why the Great Elder does not allow suicide and rebirth. It turns out that the memory of the previous life is just the memory of the earth soul. It will be gone after death! Everyone is unique!" Xiaorou showed surprise.
However, Gu Hai's face suddenly changed, and he continued: "Master, if a person dies, do you want to bring her back to life? Is it possible?"
"It's possible in theory, but it's too difficult to resurrect the dead! Seven souls can be reshaped, but three souls are too difficult!" Master Liansheng shook his head.
"Oh? How to say?"
"The human soul is easy to say, it has been guarding the grave! What about the earth soul? It may have been reincarnated! What about the heavenly soul? , you have seen that even an old man will end up dying in the end!" Master Lian Sheng explained.
Gu Hai was silent for a long time, his eyes were uncertain for a while, and he wanted to say something several times, but he held back.
"Master, will the human soul always guard the corpse?" Gao Xianzhi asked.
Master Liansheng looked at the tomb beside him, took a deep breath and said, "Human souls are the most fragile, and many possibilities will lead to their demise, exposing their corpses in the wilderness, being eaten by wild animals, and the human soul has no physical sustenance, and will soon dissipate." Yes. After the burial, it can be entrusted to the tomb, and it can be kept for a long time. However, there are also various accidents, and it may be blown out like a candle one day. There are many possibilities, and I can't tell!"
"The human soul will perish?" Gu Hai's expression changed.
"Look at the chance, everything is possible, God has the virtue of good life, but sometimes it is not what God can decide!" Master Liansheng shook his head and said.
"Thank you Master for clarifying the confusion!" Gu Hai took a deep breath and saluted solemnly.
ps: I have to go out again today, Khan, I updated it in advance!