The so-called Mortuary Village comes from the custom of Song Era.
Among the clans in various places, some were rich and some were poor, so the rich used money to organize Mortuary Village, which not only had ancestral halls and public fields, but also private schools to teach poor children in the clan how to read.
Anywhere where a wealthy person organizes Mortuary Village, it is a good deed praised by everyone.
Of course, it costs a lot to maintain the operation of such a scale of Mortuary Village. As the Lineage declines, many Mortuary Village will eventually have only one function left, which is to park corpses.
Especially in a big city like Xianyang, which is close to the ancient ferry and has many merchants traveling from north to south, as well as people from other places who come to make a living, it is inevitable that some people will die in a foreign land.
Divine Land people pay attention to returning fallen leaves to their roots. After these people die, they are often parked in Mortuary Village, waiting for fellow villagers to show their kindness or tribesmen to arrive and transport them back to their hometown.
Xianyang City Mortuary Village, just outside the city to the west.
This place was once a royal hunting ground in ancient times, so the terrain is wide, with large hills and dense forests, and a Medicine King Temple.
The road leading to Mortuary Village is surrounded by mountains and forests on both sides.
There are also many coffins parked in the mountains and forests. They are usually built with bricks and stones, a platform is set up three inches above the ground, and a circular cover is built, in which the coffins are placed.
Some are so old that their masonry has collapsed and are covered with moss...
Some did not even build Stone Platform, but just used wooden shelves to support them. They have long since decayed and collapsed, and even the coffins have cracked and turned black...
Seeing Li Yan and the two men looking around, Wang Daoxuan explained, "This is called a floating house. According to the funeral ceremony, the coffin cannot be lowered to the ground before the coffin is buried. Sometimes the descendants have no time to break the ground, or they die in a foreign land, so the floating house must be dealt with first."
Sha LiFei clicked his tongue and said, "It seems that no one cares about these. They were poor during their lifetime and cannot be buried in peace after death. It's really..."
"It's not just poverty either."
Wang Dao Xuan shook his head and said, "There are many Prosperity people like this."
Li Yan frowned, "Why?"
Wang Dao Xuan burst into laughter, "I want to find a satisfactory Feng Shui treasure place to bury my ancestors and descendants, but a good treasure place is hard to find, so many Prosperity people's coffins have been left unburied for more than ten years."
"What a sin!" Sha LiFei scolded, "These unfilial sons, for the sake of Prosperity, let their elders expose themselves to the elements and cannot rest in peace without fear of retribution!"
Wang Dao Xuan was also a little helpless, "The court has repeatedly banned this matter, all because Imperial Court nobles are like this, Prosperity others follow suit, and even ordinary people follow suit."
After hearing his story, the two of them asked questions one after another.
"Daoist Master, is Feng Shui really useful?"
"Of course it is useful. Being buried in Auspicious Spiritual Vein and shrouded in Gang Qi will also bring good fortune to future generations. However, each generation's bloodline is thinner and the effect is less effective. Even a good treasure cave can only bless Three Dynasties."
"However, a hundred years is enough to create a prosperous Lineage. Therefore, many Feng Shui masters have traveled all over the country. As long as they find a good acupoint, they can sell it for a good price."
"But these are small trends after all!"
"Look at those royal families, which one of them doesn't spend a lot of manpower and money to find the best treasure caves, but under the general trend of human nature in the world, they are all in vain."
"And the Zhou family, after Zhou Monkey's mother died, they also spent a lot of money to find Jiang Xiang Sect masters from Ganzhou and found a Auspicious Burial Site. She was buried in a grand ceremony, which was only two or three years ago."
"If virtue is not matched, no matter how good Feng Shui is, it will be useless..."
The three of them were chatting and walking, and soon approached Mortuary Village.
After all, it is Xianyang Mortuary Village. It occupies a large area, but due to its age, it looks a bit dilapidated, and even half of the earthen walls have collapsed.
Li Yan has also learned a lesson. Whenever he is near these places, he must first pinch Yang Seal and run Olfactory Mystical Power to see if there is anything strange.
All of a sudden, all kinds of smells flooded into the nasal cavity.
Li Yan looked ugly and almost choked and turned over.
The smell of rotting corpses from different eras was really unbearable for him.
Seeing this, Wang Dao Xuan smiled and said, "Xianyang Mortuary Village is guarded all the year round, and City God Temple will also send people to come regularly to handle matters and clean up the filth Yin Energy. There will be no evil things."
"But strange things often happen to Mortuary Village in some remote areas. The watcher must also be Xuan Gate People to suppress it..."
While talking, several people have entered Mortuary Village.
Because Li Yan gave special instructions and Sha LiFei gave him enough money, Wu Lao Si's coffin was also well taken care of and stored separately without being exposed to wind or sun.
Wang Dao Xuan bought some tributes on the way. After the three of them offered incense one by one, they set a time for moving the coffin with the old man guarding Mortuary Village before leaving.
As soon as I went out, Li Yan noticed something was wrong.
He suddenly turned his head and saw a man covered in blood and pierced by chains deep in the jungle on the left slowly raised his hand and pointed to an area.
Exactly the same as what I saw in my dream that night!
He was excited, stretched out his hand to hold the knife, and pinched Yang Seal at the same time.
However, I didn't smell anything unusual.
In the blink of an eye, the figure disappeared again.
"What's wrong?"
Sha LiFei saw this and asked quickly.
Li Yan looked ugly, "I seem to have dyed something dirty."
Then, he recounted his dream last night and what he saw today.
"You must be dazzled!" Sha LiFei shook his head and said, "Daoist Master and I didn't see anything, and you didn't smell anything either."
"Wrong."
Wang Dao Xuan frowned and said, "The situation you mentioned has been recorded in the classics."
"It should be Cold Altar Wandering Master!"
"Now, it's right here."
Returning to the Asking Dao Pavilion, Wang Dao Xuan flipped through it for a long time before finding a page in a incomplete ancient book and pointed it to Li Yan.
I saw it written on it: During the Great Rebellion, Golden Horde Wolf Country invaded the south. I saw my ancestor in my dream, and it was the same in the daytime, and I was terrified. Later, I got the guidance of a traveling Daoist priest, and I knew what Cold Altar Wandering Master said. I entered Zhongnan Mountain, found a cold altar in the cave, worshiped Chen TianJun, and inherited the lineage of Xixuan...
Wang Dao Xuan patiently explained, "This is my Western Xuan Lineage record, but unfortunately it is incomplete. Later, I asked senior Qing YangZi for advice, and then I learned what Cold Altar Wandering Master said."
"You have also seen Cold Altar Rampaging Soldier. Cold Altar Wandering Master is somewhat similar. When some people with advanced magic skills die, because they have no disciples to continue the incense of the lineage, they practice magic and become wandering gods, just to find people to inherit the lineage."
"This thing is also called Immortal Fate. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Tao was chaotic, the demons rose and the Tao disappeared, and many Dharma veins were cut off. Therefore, Cold Altar Wandering Master activities were also the most frequent. Some of them were spread among the people, and there were stories of immortals preaching in dreams..."
Li Yan frowned slightly, "Is there any harm?"
Wang Dao Xuan said thoughtfully, "I heard from senior Qing YangZi that if you encounter this kind of situation, you only need to follow the instructions and go to Lengtan. If you don't want to inherit, it means that the blessing of this Dharma lineage is completely cut off, and the other party will not bother you anymore."
"And this thing often depends on fate. Have you encountered anything strange before?"
"It's not just weird..."
Li Yan sighed, raised the mark on the palm of his hand, and described the situation in the cave and Luo MingZi's warning.
"That's just right."
Wang Dao Xuan said in a deep voice, "Didn't Luo MingZi say that we need to find out the cause first? Maybe by following Cold Altar Wandering Master, we can find the root cause!"
In the following days, Cold Altar Wandering Master appeared again.
Li Yan It was very annoying, but I also figured out the rules.
The other party will occasionally appear in dreams, which can be avoided by being careful, but if it appears in broad daylight, no matter where it is, it will always point south.
And that's where the Qinling Mountains are!
Fortunately, as Wang Dao Xuan said, the other party made no other moves except occasionally showing directions. Li Yan gradually got used to it and no longer worried.
Of course, there is one more plan.
After sending Wu Lao Si home, he first entered the Qinling Mountains.
After all, it is an opportunity. If it is more suitable for him, then Building the Tower will have a better choice.
Just like that, it was September 9th before I knew it.
Double Ninth Day, ninety-nine returns to true nature, one yuan begins, good luck.
Since ancient times, on this day, people have customs such as climbing high to pray for blessings, worshiping gods and ancestors, and drinking banquets to pray for longevity. In some places, harvest ceremonies are also held to offer sacrifices to heaven.
Today was the time agreed with Luo MingZi to go to Mass Burial Grounds to watch Bestowing Title to Mountain God, so they all got up early to prepare.
Before dawn, there was a knock on the door.
Li Yan opened the door and saw that it was his neighbor Granny Liu.
She was carrying a bamboo basket, which contained more than a dozen persimmons, cakes, and a small bottle of wine. They were arranged neatly and looked very nice.
"Brother Li, Double Ninth Day, I'm afraid you haven't prepared anything." Granny Liu smiled and handed over the basket, "I made it at home, try it."
"Grandma, you are too kind."
Before Li Yan could say anything, Sha LiFei snatched it over, grabbed a piece of rice cake, stuffed it into his mouth, and muttered, "It's delicious. Grandma, your craftsmanship is very good."
"Eat, eat you wretch!"
Granny Liu immediately changed his expression.
Sha LiFei chuckled and quickly picked up a roast chicken wrapped in lotus leaves from the house, "Grandma, please calm down and wish you good health."
Granny Liu took the roast chicken, his face softened a little, and he looked at them again, "You are dressed so neatly, are you going to climb high?"
After saying that, he hurried back home and took three dogwood branches with emerald green leaves and red beads like fire. He handed them to Li Yan and said, "They are all grown men. They don't understand anything. How can you climb high without planting dogwood trees? It's really hard to do without a woman at home."
"That's that."
Sha LiFei responded, "Granny Liu, we are in a hurry, so we will leave first!"
After that, he took Li Yan and Wang Dao Xuan and hurriedly closed the door and left.
"Hey!"
Granny Liu couldn't stop him and stamped his feet angrily, "You evil bald man!"
Li Yan The three of them rode away from the Xianyang City door. Sha LiFei then smiled and said, "The gift just now was given by my mother-in-law to my uncle. I'm afraid Granny Liu wants to recruit you as her son-in-law."
Li Yan was stunned. He looked at Wang Dao Xuan who was smiling and said nothing, and then remembered the appearance of Granny Liu's daughter. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and he cupped his hands and said, "Thank you Uncle Sha for saving me."
"It's good to know!"
Sha LiFei laughed, separated the dogwood branches given by Granny Liu, inserted each one into his collar, and rode towards Mass Burial Grounds...