Chapter 399 No wonder Jing Zhui is so happy
Ye Xiaoman showed great sincerity and was like a piece of gummy candy that could not be driven away. Jiaying had to pause his writing and tell her the whole story.
It turned out that the Taotie beast knew it was no match for Jiaying and ran into the secret realm it was guarding. Seeing Ye Xiaoman being affected and falling into danger, Jiaying chased the Taotie beast into the secret realm to rescue her.
As soon as he came in, he was entangled by the skeleton monk.
Ye Xiaoman said, "There's no sign of life outside. Even evil spirits can't survive here. It's remarkable that this old monk, the only ghost here, has managed to survive until now. I wonder how he did it?"
Jiaying introduced the Skeleton Ghost's identity: "Master Liaochen, more than two thousand years ago, he was a high-ranking master of Yongning Temple, second only to the Holy Son."
Ye Xiaoman nodded. "So there's this connection between you and him. So, what does he want from you?"
Jiaying unfolded the scroll written in blood on the table and spread it out for Ye Xiaoman to see.
“He wanted me to document his experience.”
Great people are afraid of being forgotten.
Especially for those who were once famous, being forgotten by everyone is more painful than death. Even if they die, if they happen to die for a great cause, they will still die with honor. They even want their deeds to be recorded in the writings of historians, passed down through the ages, and be proud of by future generations.
As long as the stories don't die, they live forever.
Even though Master Liaochen has been dead for many years and has become a wisp of obsession wandering around this dilapidated temple, he is unwilling to die in such an unclear and silent way. He wants to leave behind his "story".
Jiaying told Ye Xiaoman the story he had recorded.
One day more than two thousand years ago, the highly respected Master Liaochen received a commission from the people.
The content of the commission is simple and dangerous.
A village was wiped out overnight, creating a dangerous place. A villager, influenced by the corpse-raising ground, was suspected to have evolved into a vicious ghost, with the potential to become a ghost king. The villager pleaded with a high monk to go and calm his soul and eliminate the disaster.
Master Liaochen therefore left Yongning Temple and has never been heard from since.
After Master Liaochen disappeared, Yongning Temple sent people to the local village to investigate, but they could no longer find the village that was said to have given birth to the Ghost King. The locals also suffered from collective amnesia and no one remembered the existence of the village.
The person who sent the request for help to Yongning Temple has long died.
What is the truth of the matter? Where did Master Liaochen go? This has become an unsolved case recorded in Yongning Temple.
Ye Xiaoman interrupted: "Is this the village where Master Liaochen went to exorcise the ghost?"
Obviously, Liaochen failed and he was trapped here forever.
Jiaying shook his head, "This is a memory."
"Memory?" Ye Xiaoman was confused.
Jiaying patiently explained to Ye Xiaoman.
It turned out that when Master Lechen arrived at the scene that day, he found that as the intelligence had said, a village had been massacred, and a villager had absorbed the resentment of the dead in the village and turned into a fierce ghost.
Master Liaochen arrived a step too late. The evil ghost had already taken away the land deed and entered the ghost realm, and the village became part of the ghost realm's territory.
In order to prevent the birth of the Ghost King, Master Liaochen dealt with the remaining resentment in the area, followed the trail of the evil ghost, and came to the ghost world, hoping to convert the new ghost while he was weak.
Having said this, Jiaying explained to Ye Xiaoman the Buddhist methods of converting evil spirits.
"There are two ways."
"The first one is salvation."
Use Buddhist scriptures and mantras to directly convert evil spirits. This is generally applicable when our power is far superior to the enemy's, and we can directly eliminate them by reducing their dimensionality.
"The second is to break the attachment."
Obsession is the basis for the birth of evil spirits.
As long as the hatred is not extinguished, the evil spirit will never die.
The best way to get rid of a ghost is to dissolve its obsession. Revenge for revenge, repent for grievances, fulfill unattainable wishes, and keep loved ones together forever. Once the wish is fulfilled, the ghost will dissipate.
Ye Xiaoman asked, "What if you encounter a ghost that refuses to let go of its obsession no matter what? For example, when you have the ability to seek revenge, but find that the enemy is already dead, it would be very difficult to let go of that, right?"
Jiaying said, "Let them forget."
Ye Xiaoman: "Ah?"
Jiaying: "Cleanse the ghost's memory and make it forget what it's obsessed with. Or simply modify the ghost's memory, changing sadness into joy."
"Once a ghost forgets its obsession, it will slowly disappear."
Ye Xiaoman touched the tip of her nose and glanced at Jiaying, thinking that modifying memory is the specialty of your Yongning Temple, and in the end you even used this trick on your own Son of God.
In short, Master Liaochen caught up with the evil ghost in the ghost world. The evil ghost had a special experience and had become very powerful in a short period of time.
Master Liaochen cannot directly liberate him, nor can he directly erase his memory, so he can only choose the last way: modify the memory of the evil ghost.
Ye Xiaoman listened with great interest, "How do I modify it?"
Jiaying bent his fingers and tapped Ye Xiaoman's forehead with his knuckles - this action was too intimate for him, and he quickly withdrew his hand unnaturally.
"Dive into the ghost's memory."
The method sounds mysterious.
Ye Xiaoman understood this as rewriting the entire story. For example, if a ghost king was ambushed by bandits while traveling for business, the master could infiltrate the ghost king's memory and change the story to "encountering bandits but being saved by a monk." If the ghost king lost his memory of being killed, he would naturally have no resentment.
It is easy to explain but difficult to implement, because the human mind is a very sophisticated structure after all. If any clue is not modified in place, it will eventually be discovered.
Once a person enters the memory of a ghost, it is easy to lose himself and gradually regard the memory of others as the "real world". Eventually, he forgets it and spends his whole life in the memory of others - it is terrifying to think about it.
Master Liaochen was ultimately unable to escape the evil ghost's memory. He was devoured by the evil ghost's obsession and died.
Ye Xiaoman froze when she heard this.
She suddenly realized a terrible fact.
"Wait, Jiaying."
"You mean, this isn't a secret place, but actually a ghost's memory palace?"
It is known that Master Liaochen was devoured by the memories of an evil spirit.
So, if she didn't enter the evil ghost's memory, how could she meet Master Lechen!
So she can only live in the evil ghost's memory.
This is a simple logic problem.
Jiaying nodded slowly.
Ye Xiaoman held her forehead with her hand.
Damn it, considering Jing Zhui’s performance, this is most likely the Ghost Lord’s memory!
The obsession of ghosts comes from painful memories. Ordinary people must forget painful memories in order to survive, but ghosts are just the opposite. If they want to live forever, they must remember their pain.
In order to protect their obsession, the ghosts used all their magical powers. For example, the clever ghost master hid his memory under the Yellow Springs Ferry and sent a big monster to guard it.
Look how happy Jing Zhui is, he has found the vital point of the ghost master.
It would only take a few minutes to exchange the Ghost Lord's obsession for his head.
Ye Xiaoman's defenses were broken. She pointed at Master Lechen's skeleton and cursed, "Your ghost world's settings are so weird. Can people extract their memories to form a space? And this space can even eat people?"
Lord Ghost, the most powerful ghost, damn it, I’m dead this time.
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