Dongxuan Spiritual Realm

Chapter 45: Leaving Hell
The two cultivators' spirits knelt with their hands supporting them, and slowly raised their heads. They saw a young man's vigorous face in a patch of clear light. At first they thought it was Young Master Duhun, and were immediately terrified.

"Master, please spare my life! It's not that I'm incompetent, it's really..." Before he could finish his words, he realized that it wasn't Master Duhun, and he was still in shock, "You...you..."

They didn't know what the relationship between Yang Qisheng and Master Duhun was, so they didn't dare to ask rashly. They were already incompetent and would be severely punished, and they were afraid that if they said something wrong, the punishment would be doubled.

Yang Qisheng sighed in his heart, the two sword immortals who cultivated evil spirits were actually frightened like this: "You don't have to be afraid, you are safe in my hands."

The evil spirits cultivated by these two people are different, and the soul bodies they achieve at this time are also different.

One of them, a Taoist whose soul was like a ripple of water, seemed to have grasped a life-saving straw: "Please, please, don't hand us back to Master Soul Crossing. He will send us to hell!"

Yang Qisheng asked curiously, "Is there hell in this world? Does he have such great power that he can send you to hell?"

"Yes, yes, yes, it's the ghost cave opened up by his master. Inside is a hell specifically for imprisoning and torturing souls. Please, don't send us back. I don't want to go to hell... wuwu..."

He had been there before, but the experience was so excruciating that he wished he could die. He only wished he could not disappear forever and die completely like ordinary people do after death!

Another Taoist priest, whose soul was filled with anger, sighed and said, "It's useless. You've forgotten that the Soul-Ferrying Ghost has refined a divine tablet for each of us. No matter where we flee, even overseas, he can still bring us back! Unless he dies, we will be his slaves forever, with no hope of liberation!"

The first one cried loudly, but because he had no physical body, he could not shed tears, and only the dark cry of a ghost came out: "We destroyed the paper body he gave us. According to the 'yin law' set by his master, we will be thrown into the seventh level of hell... Wuwu, I'm finished..."

He turned to Yang Qisheng and kowtowed, begging: "Please, Immortal, help us and grant us death..."

The fiery soul sighed, "What's the point of begging him? Although this fellow Daoist appears kind and benevolent, he hasn't yet cultivated evil spirits. At most, he's at the Perfect Foundation Establishment stage. Our primordial spirits are protected by our natal spirit tablets, so he can't completely destroy us. Even if he shatters our three souls and seven spirits, we'll be restored to health in front of him as soon as the soul-ferrying ghost returns and uses his natal spirit tablets. What's the point? He might even suffer even more severe punishment."

Yang Qisheng laughed and said, "It's just a divine tablet that restricts your soul? I have a way to break it."

"What?" The water spirit body seemed to feel hope rising again. "Please forgive me, Immortal. I have been a ghost for too long. I am blind and deaf. I didn't hear you clearly. Please tell me again, Immortal. What do you have?"

"He said he has a way to crack it! But what good is that?" The Fire Spirit looked Yang Qisheng up and down, shook his head helplessly and sighed, "It's impossible. Only an ancestor who has refined the Golden Elixir, who can defy fate and completely understand the secret of 'my destiny is in my own hands', can crack the natal divine tablet."

Seeing their disbelief, Yang Qisheng looked up at the increasingly intense battle between Young Master Duhun and the horse demon. The outcome was still unclear, so he said, "I know, I have a way to break the natal divine tablet. Our sect has a scripture called 'The Spiritual Treasure Sutra for Saving People.' Have you heard of it?"

The two ghosts shook their heads.

"It's normal that you haven't heard of this. But you should have heard of Taiyi Palace, right? You haven't heard of it either? What about Qingning Mountain? Master Mingyi? Master Wuwang? Master Dayu? Master Zhongfu? Yunyang Sect? Master Linglei?"

He called out a series of names in succession, and the two souls almost shook their heads, indicating that they had never heard of any of them.

"Well, whether you've heard it before or not, I have a way to save you. It can allow ghosts to be reborn without any worries. But there's a prerequisite. I can only clear away all the obstacles in your soul, but you have to remove the worries in your heart yourself."

The second ghost's face showed no emotion, indicating that he didn't understand.

"That is to say, my magic is extremely mysterious and magical. Whether you are trapped by a formation, tied by some magical weapon, or imprisoned by your natal divine tablet like this, I have a way to break it. But you must eliminate the resentment in your body. You cannot harbor hatred or love. Whether you hate someone or love someone, you cannot leave and can only continue to be a demon. Only by letting go of everything, eliminating your worries, and completely forgetting this life can you be completely liberated."

The fiery spirit said, "We've been practicing for fifty or sixty years now. We don't have anything we particularly desire. If I had to say anything, it's only this ferrying ghost. I wish I could peel his skin alive and drink his blood!"

"That's exactly what I'm saying!" Yang Qisheng said, "You have such a deep grudge against him that you can't leave. No matter how powerful I am, or even if we replace him with a senior from the Jindan or Yuanying stages, they still can't save you. This obstacle isn't something he's holding onto you, it's something you're holding onto him. I can remove the shackles he's holding onto you, but I can't remove the shackles you've held onto him."

The water spirit was crying and begging beside him, "I don't hate him anymore. I don't hate anyone, and I don't love anyone. I just want to escape from here. I don't want to be like this anymore. I want to go away, as far away as possible. Please! Please help me."

"Okay!" Yang Qisheng drew a golden Lingbao talisman on his palm, pinched the Lingbao Jue with his right hand, and first used the Jieyou Divine Mind to penetrate the water spirit body. "I will help you strip away the evil spirit you have cultivated in this life. You can't take it with you when you reincarnate. You must give it up. Don't resist. You must let go of this evil spirit, otherwise it will also be a shackle hanging on you."

The water soul only wanted to escape completely. Even if it was not thrown into the hell of Taiyin Ghost Cave Heaven, being a slave to Master Duhun every day in the body of a paper man was no different from being in hell.

He truly gave up everything, focusing his mind inward and no longer caring about anything outside of himself.

Yang Qisheng first used his elusive divine consciousness to help him peel away the evil spirit bit by bit, until only the pure spirit and soul remained. Then he used his spiritual light to cleanse him like clear water. Everything went smoothly. The Lingbao Sutra for Saving People was extremely profound. Saving people was not difficult at all. The difficulty lay in the person's own inability to let go.

It is written in the opening outline of the Sutra of Saving People: It is easy to save people from hell, but it is difficult to save people from hell. Once people are saved from hell, they will be reborn in a new hell soon.

When Yang Qisheng was converting the twelve Yuanchen demon spirits on the bronze mirror at Longgao Mountain, the most difficult part was to dispel the resentment in them. If the resentment was not there, Yang Qisheng would have converted them successfully long ago!

Now this water spirit body has really let go of everything, without love or hatred. Yang Qisheng easily completed the entire set of "Thirty-six Secrets of Lingbao to Eliminate Disasters and Misfortunes".

The spell had just been performed when, far away in the Wangui Cave Heaven in Taiyin Mountain, in the secluded residence of Master Duhun, in a wing room across the courtyard, many god tablets of various sizes were placed on a stepped table.

At this moment, one of the tablets with "Xu Changsheng" written on it exploded into pieces with a "bang", shocking the guardian gods. They thought that there was an invasion by foreign enemies, so they came to inspect with three-pronged pitchforks, and found that the tablet suddenly shattered, but they could not figure out the reason. After busying themselves for a while, they still could not find the solution, so they had to give up and put it back in its place.

Young Master Duhun was fighting the horse demon at the most intense moment and had no time to care about the whereabouts of a ghost slave whose paper body had just been destroyed by the horse demon.

In his opinion, as long as he had his natal god tablet, these ghost slaves would be captured no matter where they escaped to.

Little did he know that in the soil beneath him, the water soul was lying straight on Yang Qisheng's palm like a newborn kitten. As Yang Qisheng finished chanting a spell, he injected three "Golden Talismans of Spiritual Treasures" into the soul's body, and blew a breath of fairy air. Then, a ray of spiritual light carrying the soul flew out from his hand. It seemed to be floating away like a leaf, but in fact it was faster than lightning, and disappeared between heaven and earth in an instant.

The Lingbao golden talisman cast by the "Lingbao Saving People Dafa" can resonate with the pregnant mother's body. If the fetus has been formed but the soul has not yet been conceived, the Lingbao golden talisman will enter the body with the soul and transform into the soul of the fetus.

There is no six realms of reincarnation in this world. After a person dies, the three souls become ghosts and the seven spirits become corpses, but their lives are very short. Unless there are special circumstances, the ghost will return to heaven and the corpse will return to the earth soon, returning to the world.

When a human being is born, the sperm of the father and the blood of the mother combine to form the embryo, the body emerging from the earth, and the spirit born from the sky. The flesh and blood body comes from the earth, while the ethereal spirit comes from the sky. The two combine and develop within the mother's womb, forming a human being.

The word "Lingbao" practiced by the Dongxuan School comes from the fact that gods in the sky are called Ling and treasures on the earth are called Bao.

The water spirit body was sent away smoothly, and Yang Qisheng felt a sense of joy from the bottom of his heart. To be honest, this was the first life he had saved since he practiced the "Lingbao Saving People Sutra"!
Seeing that his companion was actually freed, the fiery soul was surprised and envious.

He changed his previous despair and decadence, stood up, and bowed solemnly to Yang Qisheng: "I beg you, Immortal, to save me and bring me back to freedom!"

"Can you let go of all attachment and hatred?"

"I can!" The fiery soul smiled helplessly. "Actually, when I think about it carefully, I'm not a good person either. Ever since I refined the immortal sword, I've killed quite a few souls. If I hadn't been worried about the divine punishment from the Universal Ceremony, I would have been even more unscrupulous... Forget it, my hatred for him is only hindering me. I don't hate him anymore! I don't hate him anymore! Just let me go!"

The hatred and resentment accumulated over the years have merged with his own evil spirit and are extremely difficult to eliminate.

It was just that he subjectively let go of his hatred, and the Lingbao Dafa was extremely mysterious. At the beginning, there were some obstacles, but later it became faster and faster, stripping away the evil spirit from his body.

This soul also lay in Yang Qisheng's palm like its previous companions, and raised its hand to caress the package of Jie'e Lingguang with enjoyment. Suddenly, it said, "In the cave abode on the Great Black Mountain to the south of me, there are two Taoist books, elixirs and other relics. I am going to reincarnate and be reborn as a human being. I am afraid I will not remember anything. Even if I remember, the mountains are high and the roads are long. I can't go back with my mortal body. I earnestly ask you to take me back to the immortal path in ten years. I will repay you in the next life!"

Yang Qisheng paused his incantation and said, "If you can't let go of these things, you won't be able to leave!"

The soul body was helpless: "Then I will give all the things in the cave of Dahei Mountain to you as a reward. I only ask that after you finish reading those two Taoist books, you give them to my reincarnated body in the future..."

"I won't take your things, and I won't look for you. I'm just here to help you escape the suffering of this life. I'm not your servant or nanny in the next life."

"Alas!" The man sighed helplessly, "If that's the case, then I'll just leave it to fate."

When Yang Qisheng used the spiritual light of Jieyou to cleanse his soul, he felt obscure and shouted, "Quickly forget all this. If you think about it again, you really won't be able to leave!"

The man quickly calmed down and adjusted his mindset, and finally completed the task successfully. He was also wrapped in a ray of light and flew away, disappearing in an instant.

Disclaimer: The explanations of terms like "Dongxuan" and "Lingbao" in this book have absolutely nothing to do with anything that exists in reality... This includes all the terminology used in inner alchemy and Buddhism; they are all fictional settings based on my own understanding. Well, this is a solemn disclaimer!
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