People can be deceived, but Heaven cannot be deceived. Those who deceive Heaven will be punished by Heaven.
The heart can be deceived, but the Tao cannot be deceived. Those who deceive the Tao will be destroyed by the Tao.
The moment I saw these four words, the words I had seen in the Yashan Sutra Pavilion in the past seemed to be triggered and suddenly jumped out of my memory.
There were hidden words appearing on the window paper, which caught Jianchou off guard; the content of the words were four such thrilling words, which also caught Jianchou off guard; at this moment, there were corresponding words flashing from his memory, which still caught Jianchou off guard.
She stood in front of the desk where writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone were placed, staring blankly.
I will deceive God.
If it is matched with the two sentences above, what a boldness it is!
Those who deceive Heaven will be punished by Heaven!
How dare this person to go against the will of heaven
What courage!
Jianchou recognized that the handwriting on the window was the ninth type of handwriting among all the handwritings in the study.
If her previous guess was correct, the ninth type of handwriting was the closest to the time when Jianchou was alive, so it should have been written by the last owner of the house, or by the last person left behind by the owner.
Behind those four large characters that could not conceal their sharpness and chill, there were rows and rows of small characters.
The blooming plum blossoms have a faint red hue, which also dyes the words on the snow-white window paper a faint red.
Jianchou looked over and took in every word, and for a moment, he couldn't help but be shocked!
Her pupils dilated, and she was completely attracted by the strangeness and boldness of the things described on the window paper...
More than four hundred years ago, the Underworld of the Polar Region was first established less than three decades ago.
The status of the eight Yama Kings had just been consolidated, and the entire underworld, imitating the human world that was closely related to it, established seventy-two cities and seventy-two departments, and eight Yama Palaces were erected in the eight directions.
One day in the one hundred and seventy-sixth year, a new ghost, along with many new ghosts who died on the same day, were led by the ghost messengers into the gate of hell, and finally saw this world that was completely different from the human world.
The new ghost from the Jieyinsi told him that he was different from the people around him, but was a ghost who died unjustly and still had 36 years of life left.
Therefore, he would not be escorted directly to the Mirror of Sin, but would have to go to the City of the Dead, spend thirty-six years there, and then enter the cycle of reincarnation.
Therefore, after receiving his identity jade badge from the registry office, this new ghost went straight to buy a house.
Here, what was written on the window paper did not mention where his Xuanyu came from.
Jianchou guessed that it should be the same as Chen Tingyan's, a memorial service from relatives and friends in the human world.
After settling in the City of the Dead, this person had the opportunity to come into contact with a whole new world.
So he began his initial practice and bought a batch of books to deepen his understanding of this world.
At that time, some information about the Nineteen Continents was not a secret, so this person easily knew the whole picture of this world.
This is Yuanshi Star.
There are nineteen continents on the earth, the West Sea, and the isolated island on earth. Underground there are the polar regions, the evil land, the underworld, and the eighteen levels of hell.
The ground and underground are separated into two worlds by a layer of yin and yang.
The place where he is is "underground", which is the "polar region".
Here, people can actually gain the power to split mountains and crack the earth through practice.
But at the same time, there are also more mysterious and strange things here—
For example, reincarnation.
Reincarnation cleanses a person's life experiences and puts them into a new body like a blank sheet of paper.
Therefore, the past life and everything in the present life are all severed.
Heaven created all things to nourish them.
Among all creatures, humans are the most intelligent creatures, but they cannot escape the cycle of reincarnation.
The number of people in the world is always increasing. The body comes from all things, but what about the soul
Does it also come from all things
But what kind of thing can give birth to a "soul"
All the confusions came to my mind.
Fortunately, he had a full thirty-six years to study everything and answer his own questions.
But the more he studied and searched, the more he discovered that a different emotion seemed to appear in his heart—
Unwilling.
Since there is reincarnation, why should we wash the original soul into a blank sheet of paper
Buddhism teaches people to be good, and calls it "peace in the next life."
But whether there will be peace in the afterlife or not, how can a soul as a blank sheet of paper know
Now that the past has been washed away, are you still "you"
Without background, environment, memory, and even personality, how can one know
Reincarnation is no different from erasing a person's existence!
Perhaps, the only thing that remains the same is the “raw material”, or that piece of blank paper on which the next life can paint.
Because I have memories and personality, I can be called "me", and not anyone else.
However, the so-called reincarnation has nothing to do with "me".
Entering reincarnation is the real "death", the permanent extinction...
He realized that he had no past life and no afterlife.
He was not himself in the previous life, and he will not be himself in the next life.
All he has is this life, all the experiences, all the experiences, and all the thoughts.
He sat in front of this window for a long time and listened to people talk about the disputes over the tripod again and again.
He thought of practicing.
But after practicing for a long time and making terrifying progress, he heard about the cultivation of the Eight Kings of Hell, and he thought of the earth and underground, and the Yin and Yang realm.
Why is there a difference between above ground and underground
Is there any difference between the monks in the Nineteen Continents and the monks here
When one has cultivated to the pinnacle, that is, the so-called "heavenly" realm, can one really ascend to the upper realm and escape from this world
The answer is no.
The Nineteen Continents is a normal world, but this vast evil land is not.
At the moment when all things in the universe were first born, at the moment when the great Pangu took his first step onto this planet, the tens of millions of miles of evil land underground were circled.
Neither man nor heaven will allow it!
At this moment, there are only six years left until the thirty-six-year deadline.
He has spent a long time on research and practice.
When the time came, he was faced with only two choices.
One is thrown into the cycle of reincarnation, and the water of the rebirth pool at the end of the cycle completely wipes out all traces of his existence; the other stays in the extreme realm, continues to practice, and becomes a judge, a great judge, or even the King of Hell.
But that's all.
Becoming the King of Hell, what next
The higher you go in the polar sky, the more cramped it becomes!
One is a dead end, and the other is also a dead end!
The only difference is sooner or later.
This new ghost, who had come to the City of the Dead for thirty years, sat in the room for a long time, seven days and nights.
When he reopened the door, he was disheveled and his eyes were bloodshot.
He walked through the silent courtyard and carved a few words under the stone lion seat outside the mansion's gate;
He walked along the long street and left some symbols outside the gate of the City of the Wicked Dead where the Wicked Ghosts were going to pass through;
He crossed the vast evil land with swaying grass and carved an inconspicuous pattern on the huge pillar of the Ghost Gate that new ghosts must pass through...
Then, he returned to the City of the Dead as if nothing had happened and participated in that year's Extreme Domain Tripod Competition.
In the competition for the tripod, he did not become the first, but because of his outstanding performance, he became a judge under the command of King Qin Guang at that time. In the struggle among the judges, he won the right to supervise the Samsara Department.
During his short six years in office, he did one shocking thing after another!
Using a modified formation to deceive everyone, he stole a large amount of water from the reincarnation pond and hid it in his mansion in the City of the Dead.
Because of his position, he had the opportunity to observe the original copy of the Book of Life and Death.
So he found a way to add a brand to the blank soul, endured the pain of splitting his soul and leaving a mark on his soul that only he knew.
With his powerful abilities, he asked King Qin Guang for an opportunity to reincarnate as a human and return to his old clan.
Even though King Qin Guang warned him that being a second emperor was against the will of heaven, he would die in vain within thirty years even if he lived to be forty or fifty.
Six years passed in a flash.
Under the deep regret of King Qin Guang, he finally chose to re-enter the cycle of reincarnation.
Before being taken to the Mirror Platform, he renewed his lease of the house for another thirty years, copied all his memories, stored them in a corner of the house in the City of the Dead, and left clues in this endless sea of books.
"If I die in vain some day, I will once again enter the gates of hell, the city of the dead, and the gate of my old house..."
The pale red handwriting floated on the snow-white window paper as light as smoke.
That kind of deep planning and cunning scheming almost made Jianchou breathless!
What a horrible thought!
What a shocking plan!
Jianchou stood frozen in front of the window, his feet planted on the ground, as if rooted, unable to move...
Images flashed through my mind quickly.
It was the map of the Yuanshi Star that she had opened, the bright red marks on the Ghost Gate, the City of the Dead, and the front door of the house, and the purple-gray water of the reincarnation pond that she saw when she opened the formation...
Everything, unexpectedly, fits together perfectly at this moment!
She also thought of the nine kinds of handwriting, and the influence of the traces of the former on the latter...
At that moment, an extremely horrifying thought suddenly emerged in my mind.
Jianchou couldn't control his gaze, as if he wanted to confirm his own thoughts, or as if he was completely absorbed by the description in the light red handwriting.
This unjustly dead ghost who planned everything finally embarked on the cycle of reincarnation. At the end of the cycle, he threw himself into the reincarnation pool and was washed into a clean sheet of paper.
I have no past, and I don't know what I experienced in the City of the Dead.
The new environment has created a completely different way of doing things and personality for him...
Even, completely different handwriting!
He was reborn, and he died completely.
Twenty-eight years later, he died in vain again and embarked on the road to the gates of hell for the second time.
He had no idea there was a so-called "last time". It was just that at the moment of passing through the gates of hell, he had a mysterious feeling that made him look up and notice the pattern that no one else could notice!
Then, there is the City of the Dead.
In front of the city gate, the sensation appeared again, pointing him to a certain direction.
So, after registering at the registration office, he was confused and finally saw the house and the words on the stone lion at the gate...
I rented his house, entered his room, read his books, and all my memories of the past came back.
Three lives and seven worlds, thousands of years and hundreds of generations.
Even after billions of reincarnations, I—
It's still me!
"… "
Seeing that she was completely speechless, she just looked up at the words on the window paper, feeling a sense of oppression coming over her.
It was as if a living person walked out from among the handwriting, stood with his hands behind his back, and looked down at her.
She didn't know how much energy and perseverance it would take to spend thirty years researching those things.
She didn't know how difficult it was to participate in the competition, perform well in it, and finally get out of it safely, becoming a judge admired by King Qin Guang.
She also didn't know that stealing the water from the reincarnation pond and carving the soul mark would lead to horrible consequences if she was discovered.
She also didn't know how amazing it was to be able to find such an incredible way out of two dead ends...
If there is a mistake in any link, there will be no recovery.
How did this person remain calm and self-controlled as he methodically carried out his plan step by step
Those nine kinds of handwriting were indeed left by one person.
Just because he has been reincarnated again and again, the new him mainly uses the handwriting of this life. After retrieving and integrating the memories, he will have a trace of the previous life.
This was the reason why she saw a slight inheritance relationship between the handwritings, and why she always felt it was awkward when the handwriting in the books was changed.
All doubts are resolved at this moment.
Jianchou no longer knew whether he was feeling admiration, fear, dread, or something more complicated...
There were light red words on the window, and a small tail.
This person walks through the cycle of reincarnation time and time again, solemnly.
In his third life, he had begun to comprehend all the great formations that could conceal his true intentions. In order not to arouse the suspicion of King Qin Guang, he directly tampered with the Book of Life and Death, killed a person in the City of Wrongful Death who was reincarnated in the same year as himself, and went into reincarnation as a human being, but died again within thirty years.
Fourth life, the same old tricks...
Although everything in the world conforms to the word "reason", there are always "exceptions", which is also within the reason of the world.
He reincarnates from life to life, but he does not have to live forever as a human being.
He had higher, higher aspirations.
That is, someone who has comprehended the rules of heaven and earth, lives as long as heaven and earth, and can travel throughout the universe - an "immortal"!
In his reincarnations, he tried his best to study everything he could.
At the end of the ninth life, after returning to the City of the Dead, he finally finished reading all the books that could be read and all the books that could not be read in the Extreme Realm, and glimpsed the secrets of heaven and earth.
So he set up a plan to make the next life the last one.
The handwriting did not mention what this "game" was.
Jianchou could not guess from the clues, he only vaguely felt that this person's last life was a blank sheet of paper. The key point was probably -
memory
Her brows slowly furrowed, and her eyes finally focused on the last two lines of words—
"I am very happy. A pearl does not want to be covered in dust, and a piece of brocade does not want to be seen at night. So I record here the plan of deceiving the heaven and going against the way of the world for nine generations, to show it to future generations, so that they can break this situation for me."
"Cut three plum branches on the window, and burn a stick of eucalyptus incense."
"From heaven to earth, from gods to demons, I will keep my promise to you!"
In heaven and on earth, to gods and demons, I keep my promise to you!
Jianchou recited this sentence slowly, his voice sounded like a whisper, but his heart was beating violently.
There are three branches of plum blossoms cut by the window, but there is no burning stick of eucalyptus incense.
So…
As long as he lights a stick of incense on the eucalyptus tree at this moment, he can get the "promise" of this "heaven-defying and unrighteous" cultivator
From heaven to earth, from gods to demons...
Could it be that he has already achieved success, and what he is facing are the words left by an "immortal"
Jianchou's mind suddenly became confused and he had no idea what was going on.
The subtle fragrance of plum blossoms lingered in her heart.
She stared at the last few lines for a long time, then withdrew her gaze and glanced across the desk, where she saw a long black wooden box pressed next to it.
He flipped open the box and found a foot-long dark purple incense stick lying quietly inside.