Wet viviparity

Chapter 199 Dreaming, Taiping Society
On Yintai Mountain, there are the king’s tomb, Shushi Cave, and a small temple.

Only three or two candles were lit in the temple. In this small sliver of dim light, Ji Ming was sitting on a stone drum-shaped pedestal with four animal feet, looking at a mound of rotten wood and earth in the small temple.

On the hill, there stood a gray-black rotten tree. It seemed as if time had washed away all its bright colors and it was lifeless.

Although the wood texture on the rotten tree is still clearly visible, it has become loose, and in some places it has even fallen off completely, revealing the internal fibers.

Ji Ming was staring at a deep crack in the tree, where a thin layer of mold could be seen and a large beetle was lying there, looking very sick.

This beetle has a long horn in front of its head, which is extremely elongated and forked at the end. There is also a horn on the raised back of the head, but it is very short and also forked at the end.

The insect's body is dark black, covered with a hard shell that gleams with a metallic luster. It has six legs with sharp claws at the ends.

This is the rhinoceros beetle, but Ji Ming prefers to call it the rhinoceros beetle.

If it were just this, it could not be called a strange insect. The strange thing about this turtle is the defensive shell, which is comparable to a defensive magic weapon, and the long horns on its head seem to contain magic.

Since it is hard to find toads, the tortoise shell can be used.

Outside the temple gate, Qian Geng leaned over and said, "Zhang Xiaoyuan didn't say what he wanted, but I think his request must be related to the next Taiping Society action."

"Taiping Society!"

Hearing the name, Ji Ming immediately sat up straight on the drum stone seat.

At the end of Daxia in the previous dynasty, the Daoist land was in trouble, the country was divided, and many heroes emerged. Among the Buddhists, a master founded a secret group on the mountain with the purpose of chanting Buddha's name. They also held a prophecy of "the birth of a wise king" and called it "Mingshe".

They led the crowd in chanting Buddha's name diligently, hoping to attain the Western Paradise.

Due to the correct practice of Buddhism and principles, the thirteen members of the Ming Society all showed auspicious signs of rebirth in the Pure Land, and some even saw the true Buddha in their physical bodies.

Later, there was a rift between Taoism and Buddhism in the world. In the last years of the Xia Dynasty, within just a few decades, three massive wars to exterminate Buddhism were launched. It was also after these three wars to exterminate Buddhism that Buddhism was defined as an external religion and the number one side sect.

During the three anti-Buddhist wars, news of actions within the Taoist sect were frequently leaked, so that some Buddhist seeds survived after the war. It was later discovered that members of the "Ming Society" played a role in it.

They used all kinds of shady means to spy on information within the Taoist sect, using every possible means. Some even went so far as to reincarnate and be reborn directly within the Taoist sect.

Since then, the three righteous sects have begun to follow suit and set up their own secret organizations. They have also severely suppressed the Ming Society within Buddhism and closely monitored whether there are such organizations or groups in the world's side sects. Once discovered, they will take drastic measures.

Master Fei Huzi once said that since the founding of the Kingdom of Ba, there has always been a group called "Taiping Society" in Taiping Mountain, which is managed by the head master of the Zhenjun in the Zhenjun Palace.

Because it goes against the Taoist principle of keeping oneself pure and self-reliant and not letting the mind wander, it has always been strongly opposed by the elders of the Three Peaks. Therefore, there have always been few members in this society, and it has been criticized by the Taoists on the mountain.

As for who is in the society, only the head of the upper government knows.

The master also said that in their Heguan, there must be disciples who are members of the Taiping Society, and their status is not low.

When he heard this name from Qian Geng's mouth, he was still a little surprised.

Qian Geng explained, "Master, I once heard the immortals say this in Yanshou Palace. They said that this kind of organization is something that disturbs the mind of Taoism and disturbs peace."

"What attitude do you think I should take towards it?"

Jiming asked.

"join in."

"Oh?" Ji Ming's eyes lit up, and he wanted to listen to Qian Geng's profound ideas.

“The world is moving forward, and everything is changing.

Immortals always stay in heaven, and their changes are too slow, so the ancient immortals may not be better than today's."

"it is good!"

Ji Ming clapped his hands and praised.

“We fear the unknown because we hate change and are afraid of development.

But in fact, it is precisely in times of chaos and change that more immortals are achieved than in times of stability and peace. "

Qian Geng lowered his head and thought, it seemed to be true. Whenever there was a great disaster, there were many more strange stories and encounters with immortals than usual.

Ji Ming looked at the turtle, thinking silently in his heart, and then secretly called Shu Si here, saying: "I will be in seclusion for a period of time, after my seclusion, a soul will be born in this cave.

I have many plans for him, and the prophecies I have made will come true through him. You two should serve him as you would serve me."

Ignoring Qian Geng and Shu Si's doubts, Ji Ming dismissed the two, raised his hand and slapped his forehead, and the Eye of Wet Egg was slapped out of his brain.

He looked at the word [wet] with fascination, and murmured: "In the Yintu, the magic shadow hidden by Su Luo should be the final killing move, and that magic shadow is most likely from Zhong Chengzi.

Therefore, in my reincarnation this time, it would be best if I could go down to the sea of ​​suffering in the Taishan Gaoli and take a walk in the cemetery."

Sitting on the stone drum throne, Ji Ming was still quite conflicted. After all, this reincarnation dream would be different from the previous ones. After considering for a long time, he took out one of the two dream pillows, then curled up and lay on his side on the drum throne, slowly falling asleep.

Slowly pluck the heartstrings and lightly play the cause and effect.

The heartstrings slowly pluck the deep dream, and the cause and effect shallowly play the empty dream world.

Taoism talks about reincarnation like the dream of insects, Zen enlightenment shows the traces of reincarnation throughout several lives.

Perform a prayer for a while, chant a Zen song for a while, open a ray of light in the dream. When you wake up from the dream, you will realize your reincarnation. The sea of ​​nature is boundless and the dream is deep.

Inside the earthen mound in the temple, the male rhinoceros turtle, blessed by the power of the bamboo bow, laid several eggs in the rotten soil below the mound, and finally died in the cracks of the rotten wood.

At the same time, inside the mound, insect eggs are breeding larvae.

The stagnant air in the temple made it even more depressing. The few candles burned out early, leaving the temple pitch black.

The insect eggs buried in the mound hatch one by one at a suitable temperature.

Each of them is like a baby's little finger, digging out the nutritious humus from the small holes under the soil, swallowing it mouthful by mouthful, and digesting the wood chips, humus, etc.

One of them ate particularly quickly. In the front half of its white, translucent body, its six thin limbs were digging vigorously, and the rotten soil it had swallowed could be clearly seen inside the worm's body.

Ji Ming ate the dirt happily, without any burden or difficulty in swallowing emotions.

All he wanted now was to grow bigger, fatter, and stronger as quickly as possible so that he could get out of this mound as quickly as possible.

"What the hell, why did I bury the eggs so deep?"

(End of this chapter)