Chapter 242: The Tree of Samsara

Hearing Su Xiaoxiao say this, Cheng Xingzuo hurriedly explained: "This is my master's relic, it can't be smashed. If the princess wants to smash it, we can smash something else, but we can't delay the matter of those ghosts!"

Cheng Xingzuo was almost crazy. This Princess Anle was too annoying. She kept talking about irrelevant and insignificant nonsense since they met. She didn't say a word about how to solve the problem.

Su Xiaoxiao insisted: "The answer is in this star plate. If you want to solve the problem, smash it!"

Cheng Xingzuo hesitated, and Su Xiaoxiao pushed him, and the star plate fell heavily to the ground and broke into several pieces.

Cheng Xingzuo was shocked: "Princess Anle, this is what my master left for me!"

He bent down sadly to pick up the fragments, only to find that there was something else inside the star disk.

There was an ancient book and a letter hidden inside, and the envelope read: "From my beloved disciple Xingzuo!"

"This is my master's handwriting!" Cheng Xingzuo held the letter in his palm and opened it carefully.

"Xing Zuo, if you can read this letter, it means that you have overcome your timidity and passed the test of the master. Your teacher is very pleased.

To solve your current predicament, you have to rely on the master and this book. You must worship the master as your teacher. This will not only help you break the predicament, but also help you to reach a higher level. Remember, remember!"

After reading the letter, Cheng Xingzuo finally understood that the seemingly nonsense exchange with Princess Anle in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion was a test from Princess Anle to himself.

Perhaps, as long as his words were inappropriate, Princess Anle might refuse to help.

Thinking about it, I am really scared. Who would have thought that awkward chats can also be a kind of test!

Without saying anything, he knelt down in front of Su Xiaoxiao: "Princess, please accept me as your apprentice!"

Su Xiaoxiao quickly stepped back: "Why are you yelling nonsense? Your master died a long time ago!"

Cheng Xingzuo picked up the ancient book on the ground, shook off the dust on it, and handed it to Su Xiaoxiao with both hands along with the letter from his master.

"My master said that I should worship you as my master, and said that the key to breaking the deadlock is that you still have this ancient book!"

Su Xiaoxiao frowned. She only wanted to be the youngest of the master, and didn't want to accept an apprentice, let alone such a big apprentice!

Su Xiaoxiao muttered to herself: "Why do I feel like I've been tricked!"

Xiaohong said on the side: [You can't repair the reincarnation road yourself, so accepting an apprentice is also a good idea! 】

"Is that so?" Su Xiaoxiao hadn't figured it out yet, but she really wanted to know what was written in the book, so she took the book.

Seeing this, Cheng Xingzuo kowtowed to Su Xiaoxiao three times: "Master, please accept my disciple's greetings!"

Without waiting for Su Xiaoxiao to refute, Cheng Xingzuo said: "Since you have accepted my master's token, you have accepted me as your disciple. I will listen to my master's words in the future!"

Xiaohong raised her dragon claws towards Cheng Xingzuo: [You are really amazing! ]

Su Xiaoxiao didn't have time to argue with him, and she just didn't recognize him anyway.

She opened the ancient book solemnly. Xiaohong and Cheng Xingzuo held their breath and didn't dare to breathe, wanting to experience the power of this mysterious ancient book.

Su Xiaoxiao frowned and turned the page with a serious expression without saying a word.

Cheng Xingzuo was so anxious that he kept shaking his head. Xiaohong asked intuitively: [What is written on it?]

Su Xiaoxiao closed the book with a stern face, handed it to Cheng Xingzuo and said: "Since you are my apprentice, why do you need me to come in person to read books? Read it to me!"

Xiaohong was stunned with surprise: [Master, you agreed to accept him as an apprentice?]

Su Xiaoxiao put his hands behind his back and said sharply: "Don't worry about my business!"

Xiaohong was annoyed and shrank back obediently, hanging on Su Xiaoxiao's neck.

Cheng Xingzuo was overjoyed, respectfully took the book and started reading.

Although Princess Anle is young, her abilities are unfathomable, and there must be a reason for what the master taught her. Cheng Xingzuo is willing to be her master.

Su Xiaoxiao breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that neither of them looked at her. She couldn't let anyone know that she was illiterate and couldn't understand the book.

Cheng Xingzuo opened the book. The methods of divination and fortune-telling in it were all things he had never seen before even though he had read a lot of books.

Cheng Xingzuo read them to Su Xiaoxiao one by one. Su Xiaoxiao was confused, so she waved her hand and said, "Don't read anymore. Find the information about the road to reincarnation directly!"

Cheng Xingzuo nodded and began to read at a glance.

When he was almost done reading the book, he finally slowed down and said to Su Xiaoxiao, "There are records about the path of reincarnation here!"

Su Xiaoxiao and Xiaohong leaned over at the same time, and then silently retracted their heads.

Xiaohong was confused: "Master, what kind of weird talismans are those? I can't understand any of them!"

Su Xiaoxiao rolled his eyes at Xiaohong. This old man is really blind and keeps talking about things that are not relevant.

Fortunately, Cheng Xingzuo could also hear Xiaohong's voice, so he explained, "This is Sanskrit. Many Taoist classics are written in Sanskrit!"

Xiaohong suddenly realized, looked at Su Xiaoxiao and said, "I know, Master, you..."

"If you don't speak, no one will think you are dumb. You should stay at home!" Su Xiaoxiao immediately rubbed Xiaohong and stuffed her into his collar.

Then he said nonchalantly, "Tell me, what is written in this book?"

The sense of oppression made Cheng Xingzuo withdraw his thoughts and obediently tell the things in the book.

It turns out that when a person dies, the series of funeral events are the passage for the soul to the underworld.

For those souls who have no one to see them off, there is also a special reincarnation road. The entrance to this road is a thousand-year-old tree that is invisible to the naked eye, called the Tree of Reincarnation.

Except for those who do not want to reincarnate, those lonely ghosts, regardless of good or evil, can enter the underworld through the tree of reincarnation, and then be assigned to different passages according to their life stories, and then step onto the Naihe Bridge, drink a bowl of Mengpo soup, and start a new reincarnation.

Although the results of reincarnation vary greatly, some are reborn into rich families with no worries about food and clothing.

Some are poor, but have harmonious families with loving mothers and filial children.

Some also become beggars, or crazy or stupid.

As for those who have done all kinds of bad things, some are reborn as animals, and some are directly thrown into the eighteen levels of hell, and will never be reborn.

But the tree of reincarnation is the door to rebirth for those helpless ghosts. Once they enter the road of reincarnation, their lives can be restarted.

However, five hundred years ago, Taishang Laojun wanted to prepare elixirs for the banquet for the Queen Mother's birthday, so he opened hundreds of elixir furnaces.

A little Taoist boy operated it improperly and overturned the boiling elixir furnace, which fell down quickly and landed directly next to the tree of reincarnation.

Originally, the tree of reincarnation might be damaged, but it would not be destroyed.

As it happened, a naturally strong immortal girl was fighting with others. She thought the huge elixir furnace was in the way, so she kicked it directly, and the hot lava burned the tree of reincarnation!