"Master Gu, how did you tell?"

Master Gu picked up the stone chips, looked at them carefully for a moment, and nodded, "This gravel is half new and half old, with staleness, and these chisel marks... Near Gushan, there are mining picks and other spiritual tools used for mining.

, I have been refining in the weapon refining industry, and I am very familiar with it. A normal mining pick will never leave such a mark when chiseled into the stone."

"This kind of trace is left by the spiritual weapon used in tomb robbing."

Master Gu recalled for a moment, and then said: "In the past, when I was learning to make weapons, I met a few colleagues with whom I had good friendships. While drinking and chatting, I heard some secrets told by them, and then I found out... that they made weapons for the tomb robbers.

A tomb robbing weapon."

Mo Hua looked a little strange, "Won't Dao Tingsi cause trouble for them?"

Master Gu smiled bitterly, "There is no way, this is a waste of money. Some weapon refiners live in a very tight life. If they don't make some extra money and earn some spiritual stones, they will not be able to improve their cultivation, and it will be difficult for them to improve their skills in weapon refinement."

"Generally speaking, Daotingsi doesn't bother to investigate this kind of thing. Unless there's a big mess, they won't trace the source to the weapon refiner."

"Besides, sometimes there is nothing you can do about it. Tomb robbers are all ruthless desperadoes. They have targeted you and asked you to refine weapons. If you do it, you might be able to live in peace. If they don't tell you, you won't

He said, no one has found anything on you."

"If you don't do it, they will try their best to threaten you, find excuses for you, and even threaten your family, relatives and fellow Taoists."

"It's better to do less than to do more, and there is also a spiritual stone to be offered, which even an ordinary weapon refiner can't refuse..."

Mo Hua nodded, expressing understanding.

Although it is said that one has to distinguish between right and wrong as a human being, people still have to live.

Since you have to live, there are too many things you can't control, and you can't be too harsh on them.

He himself was "coerced" by Lu Chengyun into refining the Corpse King for him.

Master Gu glanced at Mo Hua and saw that he was considerate, so he breathed a sigh of relief and continued:

"A few of my colleagues couldn't help themselves. Later, when they were drinking, they spilled the beans. After questioning, I finally understood some of the secrets behind this."

He pointed to the mark on the ground and said, "The ax mark has an ancient and ingenious shape, like a crane's beak or a crescent moon. Others may not be able to see it, but in the eyes of an interested person, they can tell at a glance that it is a spiritual weapon used for tomb robbing."

Mo Hua nodded, pondering in his heart.

"Tomb robbing..."

As far as he knew, there were funeral customs in Xiujie, and there were many types of them.

There are water burials, cremations, wood burials and earth burials.

Except for wild places and remote states with different customs, most monks will still choose to be buried in the ground after death.

There are many methods of burial.

Mo Hua remembered that a long time ago, when he was still in Nanyue City, his master told him about monks' funerals and the formation theory of Yin Zhai and Yang Zhai.

In Taixu Sect, he had a younger junior brother named Xie Ling, who came from Genzhou.

Genzhou is mountainous, with extraordinary mountains and dragon-like ridges. It gathers the essence of heaven, earth, sun and moon, and also hides many ancient tombs.

The Xie family, who was born in Xie Ling, seems to be one of the big families in Genzhou. The family inherits the art of Kanyu, discerning the energy of mountains and rivers, determining the tombs of life and death, and passing down the secret array of Yin and Yang Feng Shui.

Pay attention to distinguishing qi, escaping mountains, fixing tombs, and suppressing evil spirits. Distinguish the qi of heaven and earth, use mountains and rivers to escape, look at Feng Shui, fix tombs, prevent corpses from transforming, and drive away evil spirits...

But the doorway inside is very deep.

Although Mo Hua's twenty-year experience from childhood to adulthood was "colorful", he came into contact with very few tombs and didn't know much about monks' funerals.

Tongxian City is very poor and there are basically no large tombs.

"Do monks have to be buried after they die?" Mo Hua asked Master Gu.

Master Gu is a golden elixir from the Gu family. When he was young, in order to learn weapon refining, he traveled around, suffered a lot, and saw a lot of the world. He should know more than himself.

Master Gu said: "Generally speaking, this is the case. People are born between heaven and earth. When they are alive, they stand upright with the sky and the earth. After death, they rest in the earth."

"But if you are poor and alone, then it doesn't matter: when you are alive, you have no place to stand, and after death, how can you have a piece of land to cover you?"

"It doesn't matter if you have no heirs: no children, no heirs, no one to set up a grave; no incense and no fire, no one to go to the grave. Once you are dead, you are done with it a hundred times."

"Those who die accidentally, are buried in the wilderness, and buried in the belly of demons, naturally don't have this particularity."

"Of course, most of these are casual cultivators. Family cultivators are different."

"Once you have a family, even if it's just a small family, there will be an ancestral hall and ancestral tombs. Naturally, you will pay more attention to funerals."

"The bigger the family, the more important the funeral and the stricter the rules. Many family monks are proud to be able to enter the family's ancestral tomb after death."

"And when it comes to the aristocratic family level, after the death of some high-level monks, they will be strictly required by the Taoist court and forced to be buried."

"Forced burial?" Mo Hua didn't quite understand, "Does Daoting even care about burying people after death?"

"Generally speaking, they won't care about it. Only high-level monks from aristocratic families will care about it."

"What counts as high level? Golden elixir?"

Master Gu shook his head, "It depends on the state boundaries. Generally, in small states, if the golden elixir is capped, the funeral of the golden elixir will have to be taken care of. But in some large states and big families, only monks above the Ascension realm will die, and Daoting will

Only then will you care about their funeral matters."

Mo Hua was a little confused, "Why does Daoting care about this?"

Master Gu pondered for a moment and said slowly, "It is said... that it is to revive the spiritual energy between heaven and earth."

"Reviving spiritual energy?" Mo Hua's heart skipped a beat.

"Yes." Master Gu pointed to the sky, "It is said that in ancient times, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth was very strong. Ancient monks did not need spiritual stones at all to practice. They only needed to find a mountain, meditate, and breathe out a few

Around the sky, the spiritual energy between heaven and earth will flow into the meridians and settle into the sea of ​​qi."

"Nowadays, time has passed, mountains and rivers have changed, and the spiritual energy between heaven and earth has become extremely thin. Monks have to rely on the spiritual stones dug in the spiritual mines to practice."

"But spiritual stones are different from spiritual energy."

"Reiki is a gift from heaven and earth to all things, but spiritual stones will become the private property of monks."

"Spiritual energy wanders in the sky and fills the earth, treating all living beings in the world equally."

"But since spiritual stones are regarded as 'property', they will only gather from the bottom up and eventually be concentrated in the hands of a few people."

"And the mining of spiritual stones itself is a waste of time. If things continue like this, it will be difficult to continue."

"So more than 10,000 years ago, a certain ancestor of the Taoist court made a rule: powerful monks in the world, especially ascended monks, must be dismembered after death."

Mo Hua's pupils trembled, "Dismemberment?"

A picture of a deputy's dismembered body and tragic death appeared in Mo Hua's mind.

Seeing this, Master Gu knew that Mo Hua was thinking wrongly, and quickly explained: "It's not a corpse dissection in the literal sense. The so-called 'corpse dissection' is not a physical corpse dissection, but a spiritual corpse dissection."

"Spiritual corpse dissolution?"

"Yes," Master Gu said, "through a certain formation, the majestic spiritual power cultivated by these monks during their lifetimes is broken down again, turned into pure spiritual energy, and dispersed throughout the world."

Master Gu's voice was solemn.

"Practice while alive to gather spiritual energy into oneself; after death, the body is dismembered and the spiritual energy is returned to the world..." Mo Hua murmured, feeling shocked.

I just feel that this Taoist ancestor who stipulates that monks who have reached enlightenment and above will be "dismembered" after death, may not only have great cultivation and great power, but also have a shocking vision and ambition.

only……

Mo Hua frowned and said, "It's impossible for the noble family to agree, right?"

"This is natural," Master Gu nodded, "A monk is a cultivator, and what he relies on is his cultivation. This cultivation is hard-earned during his lifetime. Even if he dies, how can he be willing to scatter it to heaven and earth?"

"It is said that at that time, the Daoting promoted the 'dissection of corpses', which aroused public anger and caused chaos among the families."

"However, the Daoting still insisted on going its own way, and even sent out the Longxiang Imperial Army to march across the world to suppress the Jiuzhou clans, and forcibly promoted the 'Corpse Dissection Method' with irreversible will."

"During those days, wars broke out everywhere and disputes continued. Even some big fifth-rank families were annihilated by the Taoist court because they refused to dispose of their bodies.

"This twists and turns lasted for nearly a thousand years before gradually subsided."

"The aristocratic family has acquiesced to this rule, and autopsy has become a common practice."

Mo Hua sounded a little thrilling.

Although this period of history of the world of cultivation sounds like only a few words, it contains the rules of heaven, the game of great powers, the laws of the Taoist court, and the quarrels of aristocratic families. During this period, there were countless open fights to the death, changes in power, and the deaths and injuries of monks. It is really magnificent.

…

"But...is autopsy really useful?" Mo Hua asked, "Isn't the spiritual energy still thin in the world now?"

Master Gu smiled bitterly, "This involves a game beyond the realm of immortalization. As a mere golden elixir, I don't know. But it should be somewhat better... It's just thin now, but if there are no monks who can disintegrate the body after death, it will still be alive in the world.

, maybe even this 'thin' spiritual energy is gone."

Master Gu sighed and said sadly: "When that day comes, there will be no trace of spiritual energy in the world, and even the spiritual stone will be useless."

"Without spiritual energy, some naturally occurring spiritual beings from heaven and earth will become completely extinct."

"The so-called Cave Heaven Blessed Land and the Immortal Family Spiritual Mountain will lose their spirituality and become ordinary earth, stone and mud buildings."

"The spiritual mines will also shrink, and the spiritual stones will become further scarce."

"For low-level monks, it will be more and more difficult for them to live a peaceful life."
To be continued...