Chapter 045: Leaving the Seclusion
Just as I was about to take a closer look, a figure in a yellow shirt suddenly appeared on my eyelids, but I couldn't see the person either.
I don't know why, but when I saw the yellow shirt, I instinctively felt disgusted. I thought it was too disgusting. The yellow shirt and the blue skirt were close together, and it was obvious that the yellow shirt was taking advantage of the blue skirt. I was so upset. I don't know why the spiritual bracelet made me see this kind of picture.
At this time, the two clothes disappeared, and the images of my parents appeared on my eyelids, and before I could react, they flashed by. Then my relatives appeared, the house where I lived when I was a child, the scene of going to school... There are many things that I have forgotten, but they flashed on my eyelids and evoked distant memories.
After a while, everything disappeared, and Ma Danlong's voice rang in my ears, "Open your eyes."
I took a long breath and slowly opened my eyes. Ma Danlong asked, "How do you feel?"
I told him what happened just now, and Ma Danlong said, "You are indeed predestined. The spiritual bracelet has merged with your thoughts. Now I will tell you how to find a specific person if you reach the bardo realm. Now you can go find Liu Yang."
My heart was pounding and in my throat. Are we going to start the actual practice now?
Ma Danlong led me out of the meditation room and to the back hall. He pointed at Liu Yang and said, "You sit in meditation in front of him now. You don't need to use any mental techniques or mantras. Use your mind to think about the bracelet first, and then think about Liu Yang in front of you. Give it a try."
I secretly looked around and found that Qingyue was gone. He must have released Li Daming and the other three.
After the three of them were rescued, I felt relieved. I moved the cushion over and sat opposite the altar. I closed my eyes and focused on the spiritual bracelet, then thought about Liu Yang opposite me.
In an instant, the scene around me suddenly changed. I was on a boat, no, it should be called a black-sailed boat. At the stern, there was a little girl holding a boat pole. The pole was almost twice the height of the little girl, but she still held it very easily, like someone who has lived on the water for a long time.
Why is Liu Yang here?
The surroundings were foggy and filled with thick water vapor. Looking up at the sky, it was yellow.
I was suddenly startled. I had been to the bardo realm before, and the sky there was like this. Could it be that I had arrived in the bardo realm now?
The black-sailed boat floated on the river. The river was empty, with no mountains or shores in sight, no wind or waves. The sky was gloomy, and only the little girl was holding the pole, letting the boat move slowly forward.
I was sitting opposite the black tent, and stood up and walked over. The tent was dark, with only a little light, so I could barely see what was going on inside. I saw Liu Yang at a glance. He was sitting cross-legged, with his eyes closed, concentrating, in the same state as the physical body in the back hall.
Liu Yang's Five Aggregates of Emptiness Zen is the third level he has entered. He meditated and practiced in the Yang world, that is, in the real world, and then he left the bardo body and continued to meditate in the bardo realm. Now his consciousness has entered the third level, called the empty realm.
I was about to take a closer look when suddenly the little girl stopped the pole in her hand and turned to look at me.
I don't know why, but I felt particularly scared of this girl and took a step back. The girl came over and I was very nervous. There was an indescribable expression on her face.
At this moment, I felt a huge danger, and I decided to go back. When I slowly opened my eyes, I found myself still in the back hall of the Taoist temple, with Liu Yang sitting on the altar in front of me.
"Did you find it?" asked Ma Danlong .
I nodded. "Master Ma, I saw a boat drifting on the river. Liu Yang was on it! I seemed to have entered the bardo realm."
Ma Danlong asked: "There is only one ship? No one else?"
"There was a little girl rowing the boat, and the situation was very strange." I described it, "and I felt inexplicably sad on the boat."
Ma Danlong nodded: "I understand. Do you want to know who that little girl is?"
"Who?" I asked.
Ma Danlong said: "If my guess is correct, the boat you saw should be a ferry boat. According to legend, it is a boat that ferry the dead souls out of the bardo and into the underworld. The little girl rowing the boat is the incarnation of a great god. People call him Qiye, or Bai Wuchang."
My hair stood on end instantly. I had accidentally seen the legendary White Impermanence?!
When I recall the scene just now, my whole body is shaking.
"If Bai Wuchang knew that I was... would he take revenge on me?" My throat gurgled.
"How is that possible?" Ma Danlong smiled, "Don't worry. You just used a very simple function of the spiritual bracelet to locate the position of the bardo body. The most important thing is that you didn't leave your soul and go to the underworld just now. You just 'saw' it. Bai Wuchang didn't know you were there. Don't you already know where Liu Yang is? The next step is to go to the underworld and enter the bardo realm, find the ship, sit opposite Liu Yang after boarding the ship, and then focus on the bracelet, and you can enter his empty realm. Do you understand what I mean?"
"You mean, I didn't enter the bardo just now, but just found where Liu Yang is. If I want to communicate with him and wake him up, I must go to the bardo myself." I said.
Ma Danlong nodded: "Although you have the bracelet, you can avoid the test of the bardo level, but you still shouldn't go to the underworld easily. After all, it is not the world of the living. If you go there often, you will be covered with yin energy and karma, which is difficult to wash off. You avoided those difficulties, but it was just cheating. The difficulties are still there, and one day they will come back to haunt you, and you can't escape. Do you understand?" He changed the subject: "But you don't have to go to the underworld, and you can know the situation in the bardo realm without going to the underworld. Just like before, use the spiritual bracelet to enter. You can't affect the situation inside. You can only see and hear, but you can't touch or change it."
I nodded, a little confused.
Ma Danlong said, "You can go now. I suggest you find more opportunities to see the situation in the Bardo. Don't rush to go to the Bardo to find Liu Yang. You don't have enough ability now. You will achieve something after practicing slowly."
I felt very heavy-hearted because I felt like I had touched upon a vast world system that was so complex that I could not understand it at the moment.
Ma Danlong led me out of the Taoist temple, and he walked very fast in the dark. I held his whisk so that I would not fall behind. I wanted to turn on the flashlight, but Ma Danlong told me that the layout here was actually very simple, but once the flashlight was turned on, the formation would be automatically triggered, and he had no idea what the formation would become.
Ma Danlong walked briskly in the darkness. After walking for a short while, there was some light in front of us, which was a winding staircase. He took me up the stairs and came to a door. In the darkness, he pressed something and the door opened, and the light outside became brighter.
My eyes had been in the dark for a long time and were not used to the light, so I squinted.
Ma Danlong pushed me out and said, "Don't tell anyone about what happened today. If you want to come back to see me in the future, don't use ghost tricks. Just come here and write a note and put it under the crack of the door, and I will know. And after you leave, I will rearrange the formation here, so don't try to come in privately again."
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a loud bang behind him and the door closed.
My eyes were tearing up and it took me a while to adjust to the light.
When I looked again, I found myself standing at the corner of the stairs, with a tightly closed iron door behind me, messy debris all around, and a fishy smell in the air. Who would have thought that such a big secret was hidden behind this inconspicuous place and this inconspicuous door.
I climbed up the stairs dizzily, and stood in the corridor of the residential building, feeling the sunlight coming in from outside. I suddenly felt as if everything that was happening might not be a dream.
Oh my god, it's so mysterious, everything is so vague and seems like something that happened in a dream.
I looked at the building sign and it was the ninth floor. I felt out of touch with reality and couldn't figure out whether I was in reality, in an illusion, or just a dream.
I walked lightly and heavily to the door of a house. This was the house that Tongsuo rented.
I pushed the door, but it was locked. I knocked, but no one opened it. I waited for a moment to make sure no one was in the room.
I took the elevator up to the top floor, the 21st floor, and walked to the door of Li Yang's rental apartment. I knocked on the door. This time someone was there. Soon I heard footsteps and the door opened. I saw Li Yang. He looked at me with a confused look in his eyes. "Hello, who are you looking for?"
I was stunned: "I'm Lin Cong, a friend of Li Daming."
Li Yang shouted inside: "Damin, one of your friends is here, what's going on?"
Not long after, Li Daming came out in slippers. Taking this opportunity, I secretly pinched the inside of my thigh, wondering what was going on, had I traveled through time, why was everything wrong?
Li Daming came out and asked, "Hey, where have you been?"
"You still recognize me?" I said.
"Nonsense." Li Daming asked in confusion, "What's wrong with you? Are you crazy? We came here together to look for someone, and in the blink of an eye you disappeared, and then I saw my cousin. How did you find this place? Come, come, come in quickly."
I suddenly understood that it seemed like they had lost all the memories of that time.
