Chapter 80 Chapter forty-fifth life, with you

Hearing the question, Liu Xuedao turned around and looked at Zamao Xiaodao with complex emotions in his eyes. I don't know if this emotion is appreciation or something else, anyway, there is something unspeakable in it.The two generations of people from Maoshan stared and looked at each other with a distance of one meter. Then the short old Taoist stretched the eyebrows of Xu Xiu who was about to fall, frowned, and said lightly: "Who is it is very important." Is it?" Zamao Xiaodao's eyes were bright, he nodded firmly, and said, yes, for me, it is equivalent to saving my life, so it is very important.

Liu Xuedao's seemingly stiff face began to show a smile.The old man can actually joke: "Really? Then I'd better not tell you...haha!" He was very pleased when he saw Miscellaneous Xiaodao showing a very disappointed expression, and walked away shaking his head, saying something He sang with a Jinling accent: "Everyone in the world knows that gods are good, but fame can't be forgotten! Where are the ancient and modern generals? The pile of grass in the barren mound is gone..." This song was chanted by the crippled Taoist, and it was called "The Song of Goodness". The open-mindedness and helplessness in the words just expressed his mood at the moment.This song is not pleasant, it is like a desolate cry, with a feeling of believing in the sky.As the singing faded away, his figure gradually turned into a black spot and disappeared at the end of the hillside.

The departure of Liu Xuedao made us feel more melancholy.Even before that, he was our enemy and scarred us. Our sadness may still continue after Huo Wa's departure.This little bug has the same virtue as the fat bug, but it seems to be more irritable.I don't feel it normally, but when it flew into the dark cave, I felt a little empty in my heart. I don't know how to say it, but I was just upset. Among Miao Jiang's friends, since then, there has been one less person like a Drifting who can help look after bags and is ready to destroy corpses and traces. Oh, fire baby, fire baby, what's going on with you?

The little lama Jiang Bai and others did not leave.They seemed to have a way of secretly conveying news. Less than half an hour later, more than 20 people came, including monks wearing red lama robes, and some ordinary Tibetans. Wearing a weird mask.This person was full of death, but he didn't look like a practitioner.When the lamas came forward to communicate with each other, we found out that he was actually a celestial burial master. Except for a lama with black-rimmed glasses who left to supervise matters related to tracking down the right envoy of the evil spirit sect, the rest of the people were not in a hurry to leave, but began to use nearby stones to pile up a simple sky burial platform.

Tibetan Buddhism believes that after death, the soul and the body do not leave this world together, and the soul still has a "bardo" state.It usually takes three to five days to morgue. In addition to setting up mourning halls, altars, burning butter lamps, and offering various foods, monks are also invited to recite the "Sutra of the Dead" from morning to night to save the dead. soul. However, the death of Master Geripa at this moment seems to be a bit special. Several lamas gathered together and discussed it, which led to the current situation.I didn't understand what it meant, I just sat cross-legged at the entrance of the cave with Miscellaneous Mao Xiaodao, Duo Duo, the little demon, the ghost demon mother-in-law, and the tiger cat, waiting for the relevant ceremony to proceed.

Because it is a sky burial that we are not familiar with, and there are so many professional religious people around, of course it is not our turn to intervene.The visitors brought the relevant materials needed for the practice.The belly of the sword-backed crocodile was hollowed out, then pulled to the celestial burial platform by more than a dozen people chanting, and lay there horizontally, and then the celestial burial master in black and mask began In the sound of the scriptures of a lama, a dance like a shaman danced.Ten minutes later, the dead Guru Geripa was stripped naked, and an obscure religious pattern was scratched on his back.

The main body of this pattern is actually a "卍" character, as for the rest, we are not very clear. After that, dissection, viscera, meat, scalp, and head were cut off, the bones were crushed with stones and mixed with tsampa, and the meat was cut into small pieces and set aside... everything was the process I learned in the past, Generally the same. We were shocked to see Master Geripa who was fighting side by side with us before being chopped into pieces.Although I knew the custom of celestial burial for a long time, seeing it with my own eyes gave me a sense of empathy, and I felt as if I had been divided into countless pieces of meat.The heavy psychological pressure made us hold our words in our chests, and we couldn't say anything.

Soon, it's all done.The celestial burial master began to whine and blew the conch shell. The sound was desolate and wild, which made people feel inexplicably moved along with the mountain. After a while, a group of black spots appeared in the sky.The celestial burial master seemed very excited, and said a word to the lamas around him, who smiled and said a few words.Soon, our heads went dark, and a large group of bald vultures descended on the temporary celestial burial platform. Under the guidance of the celestial burial master, they began to scramble and devour them. In it, I actually saw the white-backed vulture that was subdued by Duo Duo before. This guy was eating very happily, competing with the vulture next to him from time to time.

The ghost mother-in-law sat cross-legged next to us. After the fight with the flying corpse in the obsidian coffin, her body was a little thin at this moment, and she couldn't hide it. It's a lot sharper, but it seems to lack the low-key of some masters compared to the unpretentiousness we've seen before. She told us that the sacred birds are divided into groups and eating ranges, and generally they will not cross the border, and there will not be so many vultures appearing, but they appeared at this time, which shows that the death of Guru Geraba has obtained the sacred bird. their sympathy.

I nodded on the surface, but I was still slandering in my heart, thinking, these birds are just hungry, and they just squeezed over when they smelled food coming here.But looking at these highly skilled seniors, they are all so pious and solemn about the matters of gods and Buddhas, I naturally understand the interest and stop talking nonsense. In the frenzied competition of those vultures, the body of Guru Geripa was soon eaten up, and then they began to eat the Stegosaurus next to it.But this thing is so big that it can't be eaten in one or two meals.However, as the conch shells and whistles of the celestial burial master sounded from time to time, many black shadows appeared in the sky.

I close my eyes, and I can feel that kind of unique stillness in this weird noise, that kind of detachment and indifference to life and death.Not only for the dead, but also for the living.There is no joy in life, no pain in death, it is this moving tranquility. After the celestial burial ceremony, the little lama Jiang Bai came to greet us and asked if we had reached an agreement with the old Taoist priest, would we like to go back to Baiju Temple with them?I discussed it with Zamao Xiaodao, and felt that although Liu Xuedao let us go, it didn't mean that we could appear in public in a fair manner.Although the strength of the chasing soldiers has been reduced to the weakest, we still have to act with our tails between our legs.Otherwise, maybe some big guy has a cramp in his head and plays with us again, that would be bad. So we negotiated and decided to go back to the pagoda of the ghost demon mother-in-law first, to stay temporarily, to recuperate from injuries, to cultivate one's health and rest, but if there is anything, Baiju Temple can notify us at any time. The little lama Jiang Bai is still busy arranging the affairs of purging the evil spirits in Tibet, and he will have to pay the price for the chief culprit who obstructed Master Lunzhu's rainbow transformation, and he also needs to kill the soul of Master Lunzhu in the Luofu laser stone Reincarnation, related preparations and handling, there are a lot of things, and there is not much time and energy to deal with us, so I nodded and didn't say anything more. We started to retreat with the main force.Halfway through, we separated from the crowd and walked for about an hour before we reached the edge of Tianhu Lake.The signs of the battle by the lake are still there, but Mao Tongzhen and Long Jinhai are no longer there. We groped in the grass by the lake, found the backpack and supplies we had placed here before, and then walked along the hinterland of the mountains to return to the pagoda where the ghost mother-in-law lived.Along the way, the ghost mother-in-law was just like an ordinary old Tibetan woman, babbling and telling me that we were gone, and Duo Duo felt desperate and pitiful after discovering the situation, like an abandoned orphan.That cry, even the ashes on the top floor of her pagoda were shaken off quite a bit. The ghost demon mother-in-law sighed, and said earnestly: "Life, parting, and parting from death, the old woman has experienced these things a lot, so she can especially understand Dodo's pain. It is important to see the light again, but it is important for Dodo to be with her loved ones all the time. meaning is more important than the former.” I nodded to show that I knew, and asked what to do next. The ghost demon mother-in-law said that she has a whole set of mental methods here, which will be taught to Duo Duo in the next few days, and she can practice more frequently in the future, and she will continue to absorb energy from me. In time, she will surely achieve her goal.I say yes.That night, we ate some tsampa and stayed at the pagoda, feeling tired like never before. The next morning, I heard someone shouting outside the pagoda, but it was the little lama Jiang Bai who came to visit again.