(Preface: Even if there was no god in this world, there were too many people who believed in it, God could come out of thin air. So some people began to create gods, some people began to enthrone gods, themselves or others. Over time, people could no longer determine whether it was a man, a god, or a ghost on the altar we voluntarily or forced to worship? Finally one day, someone stood up and said, "Why can't I enthrone the Jade Emperor?")

"Why can the power of mind help Yiyi?" This was the question I asked Feng Junzi after he confirmed that the ju flower bloomed according to my wish.

After the second class in the morning, I heard me ask questions quietly. Feng Junzi put down a thread-covered ancient book in his hand, made a mysterious look, and said leisurely: "Since I encountered you and that little girl ghost, I have been trying to help you two. Now you are fine, but she is still trapped in the Qingming Mirror, and it is not to let it go if you don't let it go. During this period, I went to the library to check the "Daozang", which made me dizzy, and I made a major discovery."

“What major discovery?”

Feng Junzi said seriously: "I found that the practice method from ancient times to the present is vast, but the classics circulating in the world in various sects have one common feature - that is, they are all written for people, not for ghosts!"

What a major discovery! I couldn't help but feel angry and amused: "I haven't heard of any books for ghosts, but it's almost the same to burn paper money."

Feng Junzi shook his head: "Listen to me and finish my words. I found that there is no method of ghost cultivation in the Taoist sect, so I thought of other ways. In the past few days, I have read a lot of unofficial historical notes and novels of the Ming and Qing dynasties and monsters, and finally came up with a clever plan for me."

"What a clever plan?"

"Shi Ye, look at this ancient book. It should be a notes of people from the Ming Dynasty. This book records many ghost stories circulating among the people. Several of them mention that the offerings in folk ancestral halls are often not gods and Bodhisattvas, but many of them are demons and monsters. Many ghosts are attached to unconsecrated Buddha statues and god statues. Accepting incense offerings, and over time, they can increase their practice. Do you know what it means to accept incense offerings?"

"Incense offerings? It means that ordinary people burn incense and kowtow."

"That's the case, but it's not that simple. God is offered by humans. Even if there is no god before and there are too many people who believe in it, a god can be created out of thin air. Incense worship must have something to ask for, and what to ask for comes from faith. Incense on earth is the wishes of everyone. Ghosts attached to mud dolls and be worshiped by people means practicing according to their wishes. Yiyi only has Yin God but no body. If the furnace is not there, it will naturally not be able to cultivate my alchemy. However, you can find a temple with incense, attach it to the statue of the gods, and accept the merits of everyone's wishes. Yin God may also be able to practice and form, and then we will think of other ways. The reason why you need to practice your mind power will naturally be useful when you are at the place."

"You mean - find a temple - let Yiyi - pretend to be a Bodhisattva!"

Feng Junzi smiled slightly: "You are not stupid either. You will understand as soon as I say it. The question now is, where can I find such a temple? Is there such a place in the countryside? It is best to have incense."

Feng Junzi asked such a strange question, and I blinked and thought for a long time: "I only know that there is a mountain god temple in the mountains of Zhaoting Mountain. The statue of the mountain god inside seems to be a woman. But this small temple is not big and has been abandoned for a long time, but there is no incense."

"Female Mountain God? It's so good. It's just tailor-made for Liu Yiyi. Where is that temple?"

"It's not far from the foot of Zhaoting Mountain. You can see it after walking more than a mile through the mountain gate. Next to it is the famous Snow Creek Spring of Zhaoting Mountain. There are many tourists coming there every year."

Feng Junzi slapped his thigh: "When you mention it, I still have a little impression. It's settled like this. The incense doesn't matter, I have my own way! Shi Ye, go back and prepare. Ten days later, you bring the Qingming Mirror, and we two will visit the mountain temple at night."

"What else are you going to do? Can't you go tonight? Why do you have to go ten days later?"

Feng Junzi gave me a blank look: "You don't look at the calendar. What day will be in ten days? It's the winter solstice of the year, and it's the time when the yin pole and the yang is born. You should continue to practice your view of impurity in the past ten days. Although you have the supernatural power of mind, your mind is still weak. It's a little stronger... And you can calculate, ten days later, how many days will it be since you first saw Yiyi?"

I counted with my fingers. Ten days later, it was exactly forty-nine days since I saw Yiyi for the first time. The legendary ghost's seven-seven-digit number of Yang, is it really God's will? Unfortunately, I didn't know Feng Junzi's approach at that time. Not only did he not try it before, but he also violated a taboo in the world of cultivation. I always regarded him as a master, but I forgot that he was still young and only celebrated his fifteenth birthday last night.

After self-study that night, I saw Feng Junzi standing outside the flower bed, shaking his head at the two flowers that bloomed in advance, and muttering to himself: "If I were the Qing Emperor in another year, I would repay the peach blossoms to bloom. The rebel leader would also write poems! Why are you waiting for the next year? I will go up the mountain to be the gods in ten days!"

...

I don't understand how many kinds of dogs there are in the world. From Tibetan mastiffs to Chihuahuas, there are many different shapes. Some of them don't look like animals at all, but they are all dogs. But no matter what kind of dog, they can't climb trees, and those who can climb trees are cats. But I just met a dog that can climb trees.

It was noon one day. Under the bridge hole of Zhuangyuan Bridge, I had just sat down on the cushion when I heard something tugging the vines. Turning his head, I saw a puppy coming in. The puppy is not big. According to the size of the native dog in our countryside, such a big dog is probably only three months old. The hair on its body is brown-red and furry, and it runs like a small fireball rolling all over the ground.

There is actually a dog that can run to such a place. How did it go down to the bottom of the pool? Did it fall down accidentally? Because the Zhuangyuan Bridge has no railings. While I was curious, the puppy ran directly to me, not afraid of me, a stranger. It stared at me with a pair of black eyes, and its pink nose was still sucking hard, as if it was smelling my smell. Perhaps because I was tired of running just now, I made a squirting sound of breathing in my mouth.

The puppy looks very cute. I reached out to touch its head. It did not dodge. Instead, it stretched out its pink tongue to lick my palm, making me itchy. I suddenly remembered that there were foods in my pocket, which were beef jerky and chocolate. I never bought these snacks, and they were all Feng Junzi. Last night when I went to Sister Han’s noodle shop, I saw Feng Junzi also eating wontons there, and while eating, he was joking with Sister Han. When Sister Han saw me coming, she gave me a large bag of various snacks. He said that I hadn’t had lunch for the past ten days, so why didn’t I come to the restaurant for dinner. These snacks were all bought by her. I don’t know why Feng Junzi told her, depressed! Sister Han coaxed me like a child.

Seeing the cute look of the puppy, I remembered the chocolate in my pocket, took it out and peeled it open, and broke a piece and put it in the palm of my hand. The puppy immediately licked it into his mouth, squeezing it, and then looked at me eagerly, and I broke a piece for it. Soon the chocolate was finished, but I still felt unsatisfied when I looked at the puppy, and kept looking at the pocket I had just taken, and there was a bag of jerky in my pocket.

I took out the beef jerky and teased it: "Puppy, what's your name? This beef jerky is too hard, can you chew it?" Unexpectedly, the puppy seemed to understand what I said, and made two whistling sounds in his mouth. He looked at me and nodded his head vigorously.

"Oh, are you yelling?" I continued to tease the puppy, but unexpectedly the puppy nodded again, and his eyes still did not leave the jerky in my hand. I took out a small piece of jerky and fed it. It tilted its head and chewed it vigorously. After eating, it looked at me again. It was not too late to feed a bag of jerky, and I clapped my hands and pulled out my pockets, indicating that I had no more. Seeing that the puppy had finished eating, it yawned and jumped on my legs. It was seen that it was facing the sky, its belly was up, and it was full, and it fell asleep on my cross-sitting legs!

I couldn't meditate at noon today. I carefully picked up the dog, put it on the cushion, let it sleep well, and prepared to leave. But then I thought, how did this dog get up under the bridge? It must have fallen down accidentally, and it was a blessing that it was not injured. So I hugged the dog and climbed onto the shore of the pool again, preparing to put it down the ground. Unexpectedly, the dog jumped out of my arms as soon as he opened his eyes, climbed down the camphor tree on the shore of the pool, and crawled into the bridge hole again. A flash of eyes almost thought that I had read it wrong. Whose dog is this? He actually climbs a tree! How did it do it?

I didn't meditate at noon that day, and I was still sitting quietly on the bed in the dormitory at night to practice the view of impurity. I was speechless all night. When I woke up the next morning, I felt something furry next to the pillow was pressing against my ears. I was startled and almost screamed. I turned my head and saw that it was the puppy I met at noon yesterday. This little thing curled up in a ball and crawled next to my pillow, and it was so fragrant that it slept in! How did it come in? I remember that when I was sleeping yesterday, the door of the dormitory was closed. I looked at the window again and found that the window was not inserted and a small gap was pushed open. The puppy had to come in from the window, but our dormitory was on the second floor! Could it be that this dog could climb trees and climb the window? I really don't know if it was a cat or a monkey!

This puppy has been following me since that day. I don’t know whose dog it is. It looks very clean and neat, not like a stray wild dog. I named it and called Xiu Xiu. Xiu Xiu is very clever. Pets are not allowed in our student dormitory, but Xiu Xiu always avoids the housekeeper and does not let him discover it every time he enters the dormitory. I don’t know when it will come to me and when it will slip away by itself. I often encounter it under the bridge at noon. Occasionally, it will sneak into the dormitory and run to sleep next to my pillow in the middle of the night. Others in our dormitory also met Xiu Xiu and often teased him, but Xiu Xiu was not willing to pick others and just circled around me. I didn’t have that much chocolate and beef jerky to feed him, but later I found that Xiu Xiu almost ate everything, as long as it was I fed it, even the dried radish was chewing with relish, and I was about to catch up with the mouse.

...

The winter solstice day came soon, and it was the day I and Feng Junzi agreed to go up the mountain. It was Friday. We didn’t go to evening self-study and slipped out of school as soon as we got off school in the afternoon. I only carried a schoolbag, which contained a green mirror, but Feng Junzi took a big bag. As soon as we walked out of the school gate, a red shadow rolled over from the ground, and it turned out to be Xiu Xiu. Xiu Xiu saw me and rushed to me.

Feng Junzi also saw Xiu Xiu and asked me curiously where it came from. I told him that this was a dog I picked under the bridge of the priest, and his name was called Xiu Xiu. Feng Junzi wanted to touch Xiu Xiu, but Xiu Xiu twisted and twisted and didn't want him to touch it. This made Feng Junzi a little unhappy. Suddenly, he reached out and grabbed the fur on the back of Xiu Xiu's neck and carried it in the air like a chicken. Xiu Xiu hung in the air and struggled hard. I couldn't bear it and wanted to persuade Feng Junzi to let go. Unexpectedly, Feng Junzi raised Xiu Xiu's ear to his mouth and said something to it. Xiu Xiu immediately became honest.

Seeing that Xiu Xiu was no longer struggling, Feng Junzi hugged it in his arms and touched it a few times. Xiu Xiu closed his eyes and looked like he was obedient. Feng Junzi felt bored and hugged Xiu Xiu back to me. I asked Feng Junzi: "Feng Junzi, what did you say to Xiu Xiu just now? It seems that it can understand."

Feng Junzi looked at Xiu Xiu and said, "Don't worry about what you say. This little thing can understand human words. Why did you pick so many treasures under the Zhuangyuan Bridge? Also, you actually raise it as a dog! What do you feed it every day?"

"It's a dog. What else can it be raised if it's not raised as a dog? I'm a rabbit?" I replied, "Feed it whatever I eat, radish, vegetables, rice, it eats everything."

"Oh my God! Why is this happening?" Feng Junzi's eyes seemed to see something strange, and then sighed and said, "If you want to be a dog, just keep it as a dog. This is not an ordinary dog. If you eat too much grains and cereals, you will get sick. Do you want to take it to Zhaoting Mountain? Let's go quickly, otherwise you won't be able to catch the bus."

Zhaoting Mountain is more than 20 miles away from Wu urban area, and it is not far away or near. We took a rural bus at the bus station. Nowadays, pets are not allowed to be brought by buses or long-distance buses in big cities, but at that time, the dilapidated rural buses in Wucheng did not have this regulation, and some farmers in the suburbs even brought the piglets into the bus. On the way, Xiu Xiu was very interested in the two piglets on the bus, and jumped out of my arms to stretch his claws to scratch the piglets' ears, while the two piglets were lying there honestly without moving.

...

I got off the bus next to the rural road, and there were still five or six miles away from the temple in Zhaoting Mountain. When Feng Junzi and I walked to the Mountain Temple, the sky gradually became darker. This mountain temple has been abandoned for a long time, but perhaps because it is located in remote and unattractive, it is still preserved intact. There is a large stone trough in front of the mountain temple, and there are traces of cigarette smoke in the stone trough. It can be seen that there was also incense a long time ago. There are two crabapple trees with cups on the left and right outside the temple gate, which have died, and there is a mountain peach forest around it.

The small temple is not big, without a yard, and the door panel is not known where to go. Walking into the temple, I saw a painted mountain god statue on the divine platform, with a woman in a palace dress. This statue is different from the religious statues of most temples or Taoist temples, and is closer to an artistic sculpture. I saw that the mountain god is slim and beautiful in appearance, just like a lovely jassic in the little family. There is also a line of words engraved on the base of the statue: The position of the god Green Snow in Zhaoting Mountain. It seems that this is the name of the god. The paintings around the statue have been peeled off due to the age of time, but they still have the original color.

Feng Junzi surrounded him, as if he was very satisfied, and said to me: "This place is really good. Let's take a break first. It's time to wait." As he said that, he took out a few boxes of cans, flashlights, a military coat, and even a watermelon knife from his big bag. I asked him what he did with the watermelon knife, but he actually said it was for self-defense. I lived at the foot of Zhaoting Mountain for more than ten years, and no beasts appeared on the mountain.

After a simple meal, I fed half a piece of bread, and the little guy didn't know where to go. Feng Junzi put on a military coat and leaned against the altar to rest, and I also sat on the door trunk to rest. Time passed by little, and it was gradually coming to midnight while the bored waiting. Feng Junzi finally opened his eyes, looked at the time, and asked me: "Shiye, aren't you cold?"

Only then did I notice that I was still wearing daytime clothes this time, and I didn’t feel the cold wind at all. It seemed that although I didn’t feel anything about practicing during this period, my body changed unknowingly. I felt incredible when I saw Mr. Zhang wearing a silk shirt in late autumn, but now I finally understood what was going on. Before I could answer, Feng Junzi had already stood up and said to me towards the statue: "Shiye, come here and give me the Qingming Mirror."

I handed the Qingming Mirror to Feng Junzi. Feng Junzi raised the Qingming Mirror with his hand at the statue, and held my hand with the other hand. I had already prepared myself for this and knew what he was going to do. Sure enough, I heard him chant: "Borrow the magical powers and the gods will return to their positions!" The Qingming Mirror in his hand trembled and emitted a ray of light in the darkness. The halo just covered the statue. A figure floated out from the mirror and floated towards the statue along the light. The figure was Liu Yiyi, and I saw Yiyi's figure float towards the statue. At the moment when she approached the statue, she seemed to be attracted by some force and suddenly got in.

In the light emitted by the Qingming Mirror, the clay statue suddenly seemed to have become alive! The eyes and facial features became vivid. The statue in front of me turned into two ghost shadows, one was still the original mountain god, and the other was Yiyi who merged with the mountain god statue. I finally saw Yiyi again! Yiyi stood on the altar, attached to the statue, with a pair of dark eyes, and seemed to not understand what was going on. The eyes were looking at me, looking at her expression to say something to me. I was about to speak to Yiyi, but at this time Feng Junzi had put away the Qingming Mirror, the light disappeared, and the darkness was returned to the ground. At this time, I heard Feng Junzi's voice: "Shi Ye, go out and avoid it, I still have something to do, no one can disturb me."

Where can I avoid this wild mountain and wild ridge? I could only walk out of the temple gate in the dark and stand outside the wall. I heard Feng Junzi's voice vaguely hear: "Liu Yiyi, you died innocently twenty years ago. At that time, your spiritual consciousness was confused, and your soul was unsupported today... I realized the method of ghost cultivation to teach you... Today I named you as the God of Zhaoting Mountain, gather the spiritual energy of the gods here to help you practice... I received incense on earth, condensed the soul, and re-cultivate the body..."

Feng Junzi's few words are rarely serious, unlike his usual words and deeds. I also heard the awe-inspiring outside the door. However, at this moment, Feng Junzi's tone changed and became unreasonable: "Liu Yiyi, do you really want to see the brother outside the door?... You can't be anxious. I have sealed your soul in the statue. When will you have a way to escape from the soul, you can date your brother Shi Ye... I wonder if he is, there are other ways... I can meet the Yin God in the dream, and you can send a dream... It doesn't matter, I will find an opportunity to teach Shi Ye, and let your brother Shi teach you personally..."

Why did this guy say a serious word and go on the train? I was wondering that Feng Junzi had already come out with a flashlight. Seeing me standing outside the door, he patted my shoulder and said, "The things in the temple are done!"

"Feng Junzi, what did you say in it just now? I seem to hear you Feng Yiyi be a mountain god. Are you kidding? You even made the Feng Shen!"

Feng Junzi raised his index finger to his mouth: "Worry, don't let Yiyi hear it. The most important thing in practicing the power of wishes is to have a pure mind. What is she not a mountain god in the mountain temple? The Jade Emperor should be responsible for promoting the mountain god, but you and I don't know him, and I don't know where the Jade Emperor is hiding, so I have to work harder. I originally thought I had also contacted the Municipal Party Committee Organization Department, but they didn't care about such cadres..."

Feng Junzi was talking nonsense endlessly, and I quickly interrupted him: "Okay, okay, I'm convinced you, is it over here now?"

"It's over? It's still early!" Feng Junzi's voice was filled with a smile, which seemed very strange in the darkness. "The following is a result of your practice for a period of time. I want to remind you that the next one is not as relaxed as before. You will feel very, very uncomfortable."

"Wait, do you want to use magical powers again? Feng Junzi, there is one thing I have always wanted to ask you, you are so powerful, why do you always have to use magical powers? Isn't it easier to do it yourself?"

"You don't understand this. The way of heaven is so clear that it is unhappy. What people like me who are practicing Taoism are most afraid of is to get involved in causal and effect. Things are all caused by you, so I can only borrow your magic power. At that time, God will settle the accounts, and don't count them on me... Don't forget that I'm helping you, it has nothing to do with me!" It turns out that this kid is thinking so, and there is still some truth to what he says. I want to ask a few more questions, but Feng Junzi has already grabbed my hand and raised his head and shouted loudly: "Borrow your magical powers and call Chun!"
Chapter completed!