Chapter 913: Initiation Ceremony, Paper Man Stealing Souls
Outside the Luo Temple, various flags and banners were hung, and it was as lively as a temple fair.
Xuanzhen believers wearing white clothes and paper armor each covered their faces with white paper, as if they were wearing paper shells, which looked weird and strange.
Lao Guangming, who was wearing a close-fitting shorts and dressed as a dock worker, was led outside the Luo Temple by the leader.
This was an opportunity he had finally earned by bribing Lifu's boss...
A group of new disciples were crowded here. Lao Guangming was pushed by a tall and strong man. He quickly lowered his head, his honest and shrinking eyes perfectly acted like a dutiful person.
But in fact, he was looking at everyone from the corner of his eye, taking note of their appearance.
Only the group of real Xuanzhen believers had a blank sheet of paper that he could not see clearly.
"It's strange. People from the Xuanzhen Sect dress up like this to avoid leaking the identity of the followers, but if someone takes the opportunity to sneak in, how will they identify them?"
Lao Guangming was the patrol officer at Dagukou Patrol Shop. On the orders of his superiors, he infiltrated into this gathering of Xuanzhen believers to find out information. Seeing this situation, he subconsciously felt that this was an opportunity.
But for some reason, when he was about to change into such a dress and blend in, he felt a huge uneasiness in his heart.
The strong man with a fierce face next to him didn't look like a good guy, and the six-inch dwarf next to him looked even weirder...
Lao Guangming decided to wait and see what happens.
Three or five believers wearing paper armor, blue talisman paper with red cinnabar on it and a scrawled talisman drawn on it walked out of the Luo temple in a swaggering manner. They looked around the paper like facial makeup and looked around.
He said in a muffled voice: "Quiet! You are going to join the cult. From now on, we will be brothers and sisters. We will share blessings and share hardships! From now on, we will be together in Dago, and everyone will be taken care of... This is the great gift of the leader of the cult.
grace!"
"You should already know that the leader is a god-like figure. If you want to join our religion, you must master magic and have supernatural powers. From now on, you will not be confused with the common people. Everyone will burn incense and worship, kowtow to Xuanjun, and everyone will become an immortal.
A chance to gain enlightenment and practice Dafa!"
"Bow! Kow Xuanjun! Practice Dafa and become an immortal!" the followers below said enthusiastically.
The leading believer suddenly flew down a crow and landed on his shoulder. The crow made a harsh noise, which made the new believers dizzy and breathless.
Their noise gradually stopped, and the man said slowly: "Wanting to join the religion is not that simple. In addition to memorizing the scriptures and paying the membership fee, you also have to use blood talismans in advance to worship your own paper substitute. Wait.
After kowtowing in front of the meeting, everyone will burn paper figurines and ascend to heaven, and present birth dates, names, and oaths in front of them. From now on, we will be a family, eating and living together, and sharing wealth and wealth!"
"But if anyone dares to violate the oath, he will be stabbed with three swords and six holes in front of him!"
The paper-armored believers on both sides shouted together: "Fuck him!"
The believers on both sides took wooden weapons wrapped in silver foil and stepped forward in unison. Their faces with talismans painted on the paper were strange and ferocious, and they shouted in unison: "Put him in!"
Lao Guangming snorted in his heart, it turned out to be an evil cult...
He took out the paper figurine in his arms. It was a human shape made of white paper. On the back, his birth date and birth date were written in blood, as well as his name - Lin Dexiang.
The bamboo frame of the paper figurine also has a tuft of hair woven into it, mixed with an oath written on a piece of yellow paper. The content is nothing more than that Lin Dexiang, a young man, was recommended by a certain elder brother and worshiped together in the Xuanzhen Sect.
Father is like a brother.
Then there are a few lines of vows, wearing the same clothes, eating the same food, using the same money, everything is uneven.
Help your brothers, raise your orphans and sisters-in-law, and support your parents together. You must not apostatize. If you betray your faith, you will be called a burnt offering, drowned in the water, struck by thunder, and so on...
The paper man in Lao Guangming's hand is a stand-in that the police patrol department put a lot of effort into. It is indistinguishable from the prisoner's paper man and his breath, but no matter how he casts a curse on the paper man, he cannot be found on his head. The only unlucky person is
It will be the Lin Dexiang from the patrol prison.
The paper man's eyes, which were dotted with ink, suddenly turned around and hid in Lao Guangming's arms, clearly seeing the scene.
A few miles away on the canal, in a swaying barge, a Taoist priest placed a small figure cut out of yellow paper between his eyebrows, with a vertical eye painted in blood on the forehead.
The Taoist priest opened his eyes, and a chubby catcher next to him quickly asked: "Master, how is the matter?"
The little Taoist priest smiled proudly: "The Xuanzhen Sect is nothing more than that! Everything is under the control of the Taoist Master. I heard you say that those who join the Xuanzhen Sect have to worship a paper man with their name written on it for seven days, so I am 70% sure.
Looking at it now, this certainty can be as high as 90%!”
"The so-called secret rituals of the Xuanzhen Sect are just the wisdom of human nature!"
"The one who has collected the most complete collection of heretical scriptures in the world is my Qin Tian Jian."
The Taoist priest wrote lightly: "The method for this paper man to enter Taoism is simple to say. It is nothing more than sacrificing one's own spirituality to a substitute paper man, and then using the paper man to sneak into the spiritual world and steal the spiritual power to make great medicine!"
"The mortal body is heavy, but you must know that the two realms of heaven and spirit are in the sky! The spiritual machinery of this world is filthy and contains evil spirits, so it is difficult to access it, so the founder of our sect came up with the idea of ​​using the light and spiritual body of a paper man.
How to fly into the sky, enter the two spiritual realms, and steal spiritual secrets..."
The little Taoist priest stretched out his hand and pointed, and the paper man in front of him stood up.
"Look! Later, the Xuanzhen believers will burn sacrificial fires, incense and paper in the Luo Temple. The heat will rise to the sky. Then they will guide many new disciples to release paper to the sky. Those paper figures will turn into sacrificial spirits.
Many inspirations from the upper world can be stolen. When the paper figures come down the road, the Xuanzhen believers will take the opportunity to burn those paper figures, mix the many names and birthdays among them with the inspirations to light the everlasting lantern, and then paste the paper to make a lantern.
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"This is the soul lamp commonly used by many cults! It contains a ray of energy and life of the believers."
"The soul lamp burns the spiritual fire, which is used to combine the medicine and draw the talisman, and then swallow the talisman water, and then you can officially practice..."
The little Taoist priest spoke clearly and clearly, and he obviously had a good understanding of many sects.
When the gate of Luo Temple opened and many believers filed in, they saw a fire pit burning inside.
It is a pit about six or seven square meters in size. It is made of red bricks to form a circular pond. A pile of thick wood is burning in it. There is a strong aroma in the air. People with sharp eyes can see that in the fire
There are also a few unburned bones, most of which are not human, but those of rats, rabbits, deer and deer.
But there are a few pieces that are burned very cleanly, a bit like human parietal bones!
A few Xuanzhen believers performed a great dance in front of the fire pit. They held the "Three Realms Card", which is the skull on the top of the fontanelle where the three seams of the skull meet. They were wrapped in white paper and draped with colorful ribbons, and danced around the fire pit.
The corners of Lao Guangming's mouth twitched slightly, which was a ritual of northeastern shamanism.
Shamanism is a sect that combines the three major paths of communicating with gods, inviting immortals, and shamanism. It was also the early state religion of this dynasty.
The way of Xuanzhen Sect is really wild and complicated...
The wizards suddenly grabbed a handful of paper money from their arms, flew into the sky, and fell into the fire. Suddenly, the flames licked the void, and the heat twisted the air, faintly opening a road to the sky.
On the altar, a figure wearing white clothes and a green gauze Taoist robe soared from behind the three statues of creation and landed steadily on the altar.
Qian Chen sat hugging his knees, his Taoist robe covering the altar in front of the three statues.
He had shaved his beard, and his eyes were as dark as agate. He clearly reflected the scene of everyone in his eyes. He slightly lowered his jaw, looked down at everyone, and asked: "What are you doing?"
A group of believers quickly possessed them and said: "Reporting to the leader, we are ordered by the leader to introduce a new batch of brothers and sisters!"
Qian Chen waved his sleeves, and a strong wind rushed towards the crowd. The flames in the fire pond were swept by the wind and turned into a fire whirlpool, rolling up the paper money all over the sky, flying one after another, turning into countless fire butterflies, and flew towards the crowd.
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"Enter and pay homage to Xuanjun's great religion. If you don't learn from the good ones, how can you learn how to get started with the art of paper man stealing souls? How can you learn the shamanic way of burning sacrifices by ghosts and shamans? How can you learn the art of opening the door with dominoes in the three realms...
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"Seeing this, you are all ashamed!"
Qian Chen moved his sleeves, and the paper figures in everyone's hands flew up one after another. They were ignited by the fire butterflies that filled the sky, and turned into dozens of green fires in the air. Then Qian Chen patted them casually, and the flames moved to dozens of lights on both sides.
The golden flame replaced the ever-burning lamp.
He signaled with his eyes, and the believers on both sides quickly retreated holding the ever-burning lanterns, and made soul lanterns on both sides.
Qian Chen stepped on the long table in front of the shrine with his left foot. A large black vat below was suddenly pushed out, slid for more than ten meters and stopped in front of the fire pit. Qian Chen grabbed the edge of the jar with one hand and stopped.
A big tank.
Then he tipped it sideways and poured the contents into the extinguished fire pit.
The gurgling water, with a hint of viscosity, was poured into the big pit.
Immediately, a very strange piece of meat, which was completely black, like fat, and had a fat body like a ball of dead meat, but without any trace of decay, fell into the pit.
The surrounding believers were shocked, and the believer with the crow on his shoulder said carefully: "Leader, what is this?"
A book in a secret book appeared in Qian Chen's hand. It looked like an ancient book made of silk that had turned yellow after countless years.
He said calmly: "The reason why the old leader introduced me to the religion is because of the secret ancient book passed down from my family in my hand - "Xuanjun Seven Chapters Secret Sutra"."
At this time, the eyes of everyone in the sect were directed towards me, and it was obvious that they had heard of this sutra.
The old leader highly respected the "Xuanjun Seven Chapters Secret Sutra". Otherwise, he would not have given up the position of leader to an outsider. However, because of this, Qian Chen, the new leader, was quite doubtful and did not have a deep foundation in the religion.
Chapter completed!