Chapter 187: Unborn Ghost Mother
I squatted down and saw a line of words engraved on a piece of bronze, "Eastern Mahayana Golden Banner Ancestral Tower". It looked like a Buddhist saying. I didn't study it deeply. When Heixiao continued to speak, Heixiao didn't speak, but the fat man said, "Is this the ancestral tower of the East Mahayana Buddhism?" I asked, "Do you know?"
"What do you mean?" The fat man was excited and tilted his head to Heixiao and said, "Blind, do you say this East Mahayana is that East Mahayana?" Heixiao nodded: "It should be, who would do such a falsehood?"
Seeing my confused look, the fat man explained to me: "This is a major cult in the Ming Dynasty. It was called the Dongmahang Cult in the country, and in Fujian it was called the Jinzhuang Cult or the Jintong Cult in Fujian. At the beginning, this cult took alchemy as the core and set up dantas in the mountains all over the country. In the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, it began to make money and participate in politics. Later, most of them were wiped out, but in many places there are still this sect."
"At the height of historic times, the Golden Tong Cult had a large number of activities in the so-called fairy mountains across the country. The ancestral tower was written here, which seemed to be a very large activity place for them. It is estimated that some towers and fairy temples were buried underground here." Hei Xiazi added.
"What does this have to do with listening to thunder? Why do people come here after hearing thunder?" I asked.
Everyone was silent, obviously no one knew. Heixiazi laughed: "You are quite easy to learn." The fat man said: "The Golden Tong Cult is concerned with alchemy and magic, with the ultimate goal of feathering, but the modern Golden Tong Cult seems to be doing financial cash loans." After saying that, the fat man seemed to have missed his mouth and immediately changed the topic: "If you want to become an immortal, you will be struck by lightning. Look at the top of the bronze tower, maybe it is used to attract thunder."
I thought to myself that the fat man must have borrowed usury recently, and sighed. Fortunately, I was not worried that someone would force him to pay back the money. As for the Jintong Teaching, I remembered some common sense at this time. I still have common sense. The Jintong Teaching was established in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the smelting technology was very developed, but it was obvious that the bronze tiles on the top of the tower were not the bronze material of that time, but it should be an earlier technology.
If San Shu and Yang Daguang and others had also been here, then most of the Song Dynasty murals in Yang Daguang's ancestral tomb came from here. Are these bronze towers from the Song Dynasty? In my memory, before the Jintong Cult, there were inextricable connections with the Luo Cult and the Mahayana Church of the Northern Wei Dynasty, especially the Mahayana Church of the Northern Wei Dynasty continued to the Northern Song Dynasty and reached its peak. Some of the statements of this sect, "The Birthless Ghost Mother", were almost the model of all cults later.
At this time, I had an inspiration in my mind, but I didn't say it out loud. In the Ming Dynasty, there was a Taoist priest named Dai Ming. He wrote a strange book, which seemed to be a novel, and also a record. He wrote about a place called Wusheng Temple, which is said to be the ancestral courtyard of Wusheng Ghost Mother. It can only be seen by the thunder of heaven, and can only be seen when thunder is thunder.
The cult's ancestral temple has always been acknowledged. It is impossible to directly build one. They only find some clues from the legend and match some ancient temples. If it is understandable, it will be widely publicized after repairing it. Are these bronzes aged a long time. Are they ancient pagodas from the Song Dynasty discovered by the later Jintong Cult and repaired into ancestral pagodas and refining them here?
So why did they choose this place to repair the ancestral tower? Is it true that these ancient towers echo the natural phenomenon of the poisonous fog dissipating after the thunderstorm here, and some legends of the Unborn Ghost Mother?
Only by entering will you know these.
The group began to look for holes around, and the fat man reminded us that if there were bronze towers below, then the structure under our feet was actually very fragile, so don’t explode casually. I said that you may only throw detonators here, just take care of yourself.
Chapter completed!