The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 6 Rebirth Spell
The ghost was named Ma Zheng before his death, and he was a villager who lived in a small village at the foot of Wei Mountain during the Jingzong period.

Just like all the people in this era, Ma Zheng was born, grew up, got married, had children, and lived an ordinary and ordinary life in a small village.

Until one day, Ma Zheng's two grandchildren disappeared inexplicably, along with several other children in the village.

At the beginning, no one paid much attention to these things. After all, the children in the village are very naughty, and it is only normal for them to disappear for a short time occasionally.

Even those schoolchildren who were sent to study in private schools would sometimes follow this group of little overlords up and down the mountains, and would come back very late after tossing around.

This kind of "not paying attention" continued until the evening, and finally someone found that their children were missing.

One can imagine what happened next, and the whole village was mobilized urgently.

The family headed by Orion began to call their children's names in the deep mountains in the middle of the night.

Although this kind of behavior is very taboo in the local customs, because it is easy to alarm the mountain gods and attract some terrible evil spirits to the village.

But for the sake of their own children, even those old people who are old-fashioned can't care so much.

However, such a search and rescue operation lasted all night, but the missing children were never found.

The next day, the distraught Ma Zheng didn't want to waste any more time, so he volunteered to go to the government office closest to the village, hoping to find his missing child with the help of the government.

But what Ma Zheng never expected was that the government office had actually received a similar report a month ago.

In the past month, not only his family has lost children in nearby villages, even the county town has occasional cases of children missing.

To say that the county master at that time was considered a capable person, he just locked a wandering warlock from some clues without any effective information.

He was a wandering sorcerer who seemed like a monk but not a monk, and who seemed to be a Taoist but not a Taoist. He had neither a certificate issued by the imperial court nor a public inspection issued by the local government.

But when the investigation came to this point, a new problem came up again.

Because after careful investigation and follow-up, the government discovered that the wandering warlock could actually be regarded as a "traveling businessman" to some extent.

Although the Wandering Warlock did not have a name in the government, but by selling some domesticated livestock, he also gained considerable fame and familiarity in the nearby villages.

In the words of the wandering Taoist priest himself, he was a monk who suffered a lot during the reign of Emperor Xianzong.

It's just because I was too hasty when I escaped, so I didn't bring the certificate and public inspection with me, so now I'm living in a foreign land, and I don't even have the thought of returning to my roots.

Fortunately, he is good at domesticating livestock, which can be regarded as a skill.

Therefore, after being settled here, they simply made a living by domesticating and trading livestock, and seldom did the old profession of surveying Fengshui and predicting good and bad luck.

It can be said that from the point of view of reason and logic alone, there is almost no flaw in the description of the wandering Taoist priest.

Even the capable county lord just beat the other party a few times with a stick, and then let the wandering Taoist priest go.

After all, in the dangerous place of Xiangchu, there is a shortage of talents.

Even though he knew that the wandering Taoist priest's "black household" status was tricky, but seeing that the other party was good at domesticating livestock, the county lord decided to turn a blind eye, even if the other party was a fugitive.

However, Ma Zheng and those people who lost their children are not reconciled!
Especially Ma Zheng, he instinctively believed that the wandering warlock was the murderer, and had been looking for the opponent's flaws.

It can be said that the emperor pays off, or it may be that the wandering warlock has let down his vigilance because he escaped a catastrophe...

In short, on the night when the wandering Taoist was released, Ma Zheng, who had been following him, discovered a shocking, frightening and angry truth.

Those "animals" that were traded as livestock were actually conjured by wandering Taoist priests.

And two of the lambs even shed two lines of tears after seeing Ma Zheng.

The humanized sad eyes made Ma Zheng realize the identity of the two lambs for the first time - they were his grandsons.

Ma Zheng, who was frightened, angry and sad, immediately chose the wandering Taoist priest to do his best, and the result can be imagined.

How could an ordinary old man be the opponent of a wandering Taoist who is proficient in sorcery?

Unsurprisingly, Ma Zheng was killed by wandering Taoist priests.

In the last scene of the revolving lantern, the wandering Taoist "lifted off" his disguise of human skin, turning into a mighty white-fronted giant tiger with eye-catching eyes, and pounced on Ma Zheng.

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"..."

After digesting Ma Zheng's life as a "human being", Pei Wende fell into a long silence.

Although Ma Zheng's revolving lantern did not reveal how it became a ghost, it is not difficult for Pei Wende to imagine its experience after death.

"Accomplice to a tiger?"

The so-called "ghosts" originally refer to the ghosts who were killed and enslaved by tigers. Their birth is inseparable from the tigers that killed them.

"It's really a terrifying ability..."

Through a rough review of Ma Zheng's life, Wen Wende discovered that the real Ma Zheng is not that kind of treacherous and evil person.

On the contrary, whether it is from the evaluation of him by the folks in the village, or the performance of facing the wandering Taoist alone, it shows that Ma Zheng was a brave and resourceful man when he was alive.

On the other hand, Ma Zheng, who has turned into a "ghost", can no longer be regarded as the human being he used to be in various senses.

Although he still remembers part of the memories of his life, his behavior is no different from that of a real ghost, and in some respects, even a real ghost has to be admired.

"So, is that why I can't see its memory after death?"

Slowly squatting down, Pei Wende's face inadvertently revealed a look of pity, and his tone became much more solemn.

"No matter who you are before or after death, you are now free."

Speaking up to this point, a certain childhood memory suddenly flashed in Pei Wende's mind.

At that time, Pei Wende had just recalled his previous life, and his cognition of himself was still struggling with the question of "who am I".

Zen master Lingyou led him to trek across mountains and rivers when he was young. In the process, he encountered similar ghosts full of resentment and hatred.

Facing those ferocious, terrifying and resentful ghosts, Zen Master Lingyou calmed down their anger with only one "spell".

And that "spell" has a well-known name no matter what era it is in the past and present—the mantra of rebirth.

"Namo Amitabha Ye..."

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(End of this chapter)