Yin-Yang Judge of Hell - C89
There have always been different systems for naming and dissolving these fiends. Each sect had their own unique sects, so I know a limited amount of them and didn’t dare to say much about them for fear of making the experts laugh at me. And the one who is going to resolve it today is called Liu Gong Sha, Liu Gong is also a Yin Bow, I have heard of that before. As for the name Liu Gong Sha, although this is my first time hearing it, I think I can understand it myself. This has to do with local funeral customs, so it may not be anywhere else. In this case, when the coffin is lowered into the ground and ready to go down the well (that is, when the coffin is placed in a pit, the grave here is called a well and the hole is called a well), a bow is placed above the lid of the coffin before the well is filled. The Yin Bow was made from a willow branch with a certain degree of tenacity. It was made with a hemp rope, and the arrow was made from a mulberry branch as thick as a thumb. Of course, there weren’t that many things to pay attention to. When the bow was placed, the arrow was aimed at the end of the coffin, the lower part of the wind and water of the yurt. At the same time, it was necessary to ensure that the string was taut, but not necessarily full of bows, and then pressed down with papyrus and tiles, so that the papyrus was cut into the shape of a silver dollar. The whole process was called releasing the Yin Bow. When releasing the Yin Bow, the arrow must not be aimed at anyone, so he must ensure that there was no one behind the coffin. I had encountered this process before, when the Yin Bow was released at night, when the young man, not knowing what to do, had stood at the foot of the coffin and stuck his head out to look. The person who had released the bow shouted several times, but I didn’t notice. What I want to say is that the Yin Bow occupies a very important position in the funeral process and has always been taken seriously. Although the times have been changing and many links have been omitted or simplified, the Yin Bow has always been kept and has never been changed.
As for why you should release the Yin Bow, there are two ways to explain it. One is that when a person enters that world after dying, they will be bullied by the surrounding Yin people. They will give him a bow and arrow so that he can beat them away.” Another theory was that before a dead person died, there might be a grievance, and that was to expel the resentment so as not to be disturbed after death and come back to disturb the family. As for the former, as a judgment, I think it is possible, for I know that there is indeed another world, and that there is indeed a struggle in it. Even so, I still think that the possibility of the latter is higher, because mulberry trees are all Yin Wood and have the effect of gathering Yin Qi. Furthermore, they can condense that invisible resentment and Yin Qi and use the Yin Bow to strike out together. However, there was a problem here. As far as the Yin Residence was concerned, they needed to gather yin energy. If they truly expelled that yin energy, then the Yin Dwellers would not be able to live in peace.
Leng Wuzui’s home was located to the east of the city. It was around 80 miles away from the city, so he could drive. As soon as I got on the highway, I got into a fight with the old beggar. The reason was simple. I asked the old beggar to explain to me the mystery of the title of the Book of Judgement. Of course, I wanted to use that snake as a threat. I said that after all these years, you must know where the previous judge lived, and you told me that I was going to visit him. He said that since the opportunity is not here yet, you will know when the time comes.
I was angered as well as I scolded, “Get the hell out of here, don’t say anything!”
The old beggar stuck his head out the window and looked out. He hurriedly withdrew his head and patted his chest. “Aiyo, so fast?” After calming his mind, he said in a low voice, “If you can jump early, then so be it. I’ve never seen someone like you, forcing someone to their death!”
I said, “Well, if you won’t say it, then I’ll ask you a question that isn’t heaven!”
“Tell me about it.”
“When those two snakes were entangling Wu Rilan, they were actually helping her all the time. They didn’t do anything bad, so why do you have to kill it? We can just drive it away.”
After a while, he said, “Although I don’t know who Wu Rilan is, but things are not as simple as you think. Do you think that they came to the human world to learn from Lei Feng after eating their fill?”
“But they did do something good. Not only did they help Wu Rilan fight against Huang Xuanlong, they also saved her life. Although they will absorb her Essence, they will not be able to kill her in a short period of time.
“You only know one thing, but not the other. Let me ask you, do you know why they want to get on Wu Rilan’s body?”
“Behavior is a reflection of motivation. It absorbs origin energy. Does this mean that the origin energy is its motive? In other words, it’s for cultivation!” In fact, I had already thought about this question before, so I could immediately give my own opinion on the old beggar’s question. Just as the old beggar said, there is indeed no such thing as a free meal. They definitely have a request, but I do not know why those spiritual objects in nature cultivate on people’s bodies. I always thought that the goal was very simple, to absorb the person’s essence and refine it for nourishment.
However, the truth is not that simple. Today, I heard the old beggar say that I know. We have always disagreed with the existence of monsters around us, because we have always been too self-centered. In fact, in our lives, especially in the remote mountains and forests, like people, there are many old things, have a spirit. Just like how the people often said, the four great deities, the fox (Hu Xian), the weasel (Huang Daxian), the hedgehog (Bai Daxian), and the snake (Liu Xian), all of them came from cultivation. So, gentlemen, it’s not that I’m alarmist, it’s that we all need to rethink and weaken our own perceptions, and to look further out, we need to see which of the so-called anomalies are in the vast expanse of nature.
Once these things reach a certain age, they will have cultivation experience just like humans. As they grow up, their thinking and understanding will constantly change, but humans will only reach the end of a few decades. However, once those things have experienced hundreds or even thousands of years, their wisdom will far surpass ours. However, there was a rule of nature, which was the legendary Dao. One of the most important laws was reincarnation. This was also the idea embodied in the Yi Jing. It was a thought that repeated over and over again, living a life of all things, before finally coming back to one. The ‘one’ here was taiji. Therefore, there was bound to be death if there was life, and nothing could escape from it. In order to break free from the restraints of the dao, these spirit creatures had to undergo all sorts of tempering and escape all kinds of calamities. The old beggar thought that the two snakes must have sensed the impending doom, so he hid on Wu Ruilan’s body in order to use her body as a refuge. This process was called the ‘tribulation’. This sort of thing had happened before in the acting and the evaluation books, and it was being sung by people.
The old beggar laughed, “Who said there is no certainty? This is the certainty. They thought they could escape, but the result did not change. They just made a detour.”
“But why are they so afraid of me? If it’s really a matter of life and death, they definitely won’t leave.”
When I asked about this, I suddenly thought of something. Wu Rilan had told Wu Ruilan not to let anyone into the main hall because she had already expected me to appear, but because my head had been smashed by San Fu and my face was covered in blood, Wu Rilan had forgotten about it in her panic. This meant that those two snakes had limited cultivation experience and could only be counted as one, that is, I was the judgement and would be coming over. However, once I came over, they were in danger, but I didn’t calculate that Wu Rilan would let me in because of a moment of carelessness. This is probably what the old beggar meant when he said this, and in the entire process, I wasn’t the only one. Everyone involved, including Huang Xuanyuan, are all pawns that are pushing this Snake Essence towards a fixed goal. It is terrible to think of it this way. We are all in different determinations, pushing different elephants to different determinations, and the people or things around us are pushing us to determinations. Is this the meaning of our existence? I don’t dare think about it anymore!
Then the old beggar was a little surprised to hear me say this. He frowned and said in a low voice, “Did they leave by themselves?” You didn’t chase them away? ”
“I don’t know if it’s because of the righteousness of my body that frightened them, but it was obvious that some snake wasn’t afraid of me last night and almost caused my death! I couldn’t understand it at all. The first time I saw him, he was scared away. The second time he was beaten up by me and ran away. The third time he dared to fight me to the death! Could this thing have grown so fast? ”
When the old beggar heard this, he pointed at me and laughed. My nose was bubbling and I was confused.
“What!” I shouted angrily, thinking that if there was something you wanted to say, you’d say it. I laughed dryly.
The old beggar was laughing so hard that he was almost out of breath. He laughed so hard that his nose was snot and tears were flowing down his face. Finally, he wiped them all over his body and gasped for breath. Then he looked at me and said, “Do you know the story of the exhaustion?”
“Just this?” I asked. “Does that make you laugh like this?”
“Don’t tell me this isn’t funny!”
“You’re sick!”
The old beggar meant that the righteousness in me had indeed frightened them in the first place, and that the black snake had found its way to the bottom of me the second time I had the courage, so the third time the other snake (I think it was the green snake, because it had several strands of hair wrapped around me) had dared to come into contact with me, and it had won. The black snakes know about my secret, and as for how they knew about it, I think they have their own way of communication. But even so, there was nothing funny about it. Why was the old beggar so happy? Could it be that he had been lonely for too long? A joke that wasn’t even a joke could stir up his sense of humor.
I stole a glance at the old beggar and saw that he was looking out of the window in silence, his face expressionless and his eyes blank, the same expression he had been looking out at the stars the night before.
I’m sure he must be very lonely!
We were both silent for a long time. Finally, Leng Wuzui opened his mouth and asked, “Why did that old man light my house?”