343: Chapter 141 Who Understands This Stuff Anyway?
343: Chapter 141 Who Understands This Stuff Anyway?
The valley spirit never dies, this is called the Mysterious Female.
The gate to the Mysterious Female, is the root of Heaven and Earth.
Continuous as if it existed, it is used effortlessly.
This is a direct quote from the Tao Te Ching.
Simply put, it means the eternal Dao between Heaven and Earth breeds everything, endlessly.
Wang Yunxiao’s educational level isn’t high, so he can’t understand the allusion here, but can only let Old Third Ding explain it in detail for him.
According to the theories of Taoism, the “Dao” is the mother of all things and is feminine; this is a descriptive portrayal.
But as everyone knows, average people can’t elevate their thinking to such a high level.
They could only understand things within their knowledge scope; exceeding that results in self-delusion and transformation.
If you tell him Li Mumu talked to another man a couple of sentences and got arrested, he would understand, oh, this woman must have already slept with someone else, a green hat is on Wang Yunxiao’s head!
Trash author’s literary pretentiousness is acting up, time to dump the book!
If you tell him about the gate to the Mysterious Female and the roots of heaven and earth, he’d slap his forehead and understand again, it must be the large bottomed woman who’s got poked by the Heavenly Emperor!
This speaks of Prince Qian.
The Xia Family’s dominion of five hundred years, why had it fallen to today’s condition?
It would have been forgivable if it were taken by the foreigners, but it was usurped by the President, a woman, which both Prince Qian and all other veterans and youngsters of the former dynasty found uncomprehensible and unacceptable.
A reasonable explanation was necessary, otherwise, their thoughts wouldn’t make sense.
Thus, the Fengshui practitioners of the Cuojin Sect, having exhausted their lifelong learning and wracking their brains, proposed a hypothesis that seemed to make sense.
This was during an unprecedented era of great changes, morality sinking day by day, societal structures collapsing, and the disturbance in the balance of yin and yang and the five elements were chaos.
The President is the embodiment of Heavenly Dao, descended to the mortal world to save the nation from crises and the common people.
The reason she was a woman is that the incarnation of Heavenly Dao as the gate to the Mysterious Female is feminine.
This type of thing is actually quite common.
Just look, in Buddhist scriptures, it’s recorded that a peacock swallowed Buddha, and Buddha emerged from the peacock’s back and then consecrated the peacock as the Buddhist Mother Great Wheel Ming King…
When they spoke like this, Prince Qian believed it, and without a shred of doubt.
He had previously believed in many nonsensical things, so this relatively reasonable and solid explanation was acceptable to him.
Having accepted it, the next question he had was whether the master had a strategy to restore the nation to enlighten him.
The only desire of the old master in the first half of his life was to sit on the throne.
Now, actually not much had changed; he was still thinking about restoring the dynasty first and then ascending the throne himself.
The master said there was a way.
The gate to the Mysterious Female is the primordial maternal body, this follows the inevitable trend, one cannot defy the heavens, but must accord with the will of Heaven.
If the mountain won’t come to me, I’ll go to the mountain.
We just need to gather the blood essence of the material maternal body, refine the Dharma Body of the Mysterious Female, and then we could swallow the essence of the sun and moon, reclaiming the fortune of the Dragon Vein!
What?
Was Old Master Wang trying to become The Invincible East?
This was the only thought in Wang Yunxiao’s mind when he heard this.
Could he really believe this?
Where was his logic?
Where were his morals?
Where was his script?
“Believe, why wouldn’t he believe, there’s nothing Old Master Wang wouldn’t believe in.
He even believed the Fusang People who advised him to go to Edo, saying they wanted to crown him as the Emperor of Heaven.”
Old Third Ding couldn’t help but laugh when he talked about this.
It’s said that those in the same trade are enemies, especially among those who practice Fengshui Physiognomy, who can see through each other’s tricks clearly.
Although he couldn’t do business with Qian King’s Mansion, he was quite familiar with the pitfalls that the Cuojin Sect had dug for Prince Qian over the years.
He had tried Immortal Cultivation more than once, worshipped all sorts of Immortals, taken all sorts of chaotic elixirs, and his bizarre behaviors were too numerous to count.
What could you do?
The old master had only this one fixation left in his life.
What else could you do to him at his old age?
Everyone needs to make a living, and among peers, if there’s no deep hatred, they usually lift each other up rather than actively sabotaging each other.
However, Leng Nian always schemed against Old Third Ding in secret, framing him with various accusations, so it’s no wonder that Old Third Ding stripped away his facade.
He spoke at length, only now getting to the main point.
It wasn’t that Old Third Ding was fond of verbosity; he was primarily concerned that not explaining the cause and effect clearly enough might not draw the police’s attention sufficiently.
“Ghost Marriage Arranging is just a front.
A legitimate Ghost Marriage would never recruit living people.
That guy Leng Nian is using this front to secretly collect beautiful virgins for Qian King’s Mansion.
They are buried overnight and dug out the next day.
Both the families of the brides and the grooms assume these women are dead and don’t pursue it further.”
“That’s it?”
Hearing Wang Yunxiao speak like this, Old Third Ding knew the issue he was worried about had indeed occurred.
All the previous talk was nonsense; the officer hadn’t grasped the severity of the problem at all.
It’s not like the foreigners have invaded.
An old master, strong and healthy, wanting to sleep with a few more young girls—what’s the big deal?
It’s not his daughter-in-law he’s sleeping with…
This is a normal person’s normal reaction.
“Sir, please do not take this lightly; this is not just about a couple of women being harmed.
As I’ve just told you, those people are intending to perform a blood sacrifice to The Gate of the Mysterious Female!
They want to use living people as offerings to contaminate the entire Heavenly Dao!”
Wang Yunxiao couldn’t understand.
“Harming one or two girls can contaminate the Heavenly Dao?”
Is the Heavenly Dao so cheap?
“What if it’s more than one or two girls?”
Old Third Ding glared and said through gritted teeth, “Sir, my abilities are limited; I can only deduce these minor details.
It’s understandable if you don’t believe what I say.
However, verifying my words is quite simple; you just need to pay attention to three things.”
“Ghost Marriage Arranging is just the beginning.
After the Red Lantern Society’s downslide, the number of missing women in the market will only increase.
Regardless of the reasons or excuses, tracing back to the source will definitely lead to Qian King’s Mansion.”
“Where are young women most concentrated nowadays?
Factories and schools.
There’s bound to be major trouble at these places.
I can’t predict exactly what will happen, but they are certainly capable of it.”
“Lastly, the weather.
It’s already June, and the rainfall will gradually increase.
If my prediction is correct, once there’s an imbalance in the yin-yang of the world, even the rainfall will be affected!”
……
He didn’t understand, couldn’t comprehend.
Wang Yunxiao’s head was spinning.
His knowledge of mystic lore was considerable compared to the average person, but he was still completely baffled by Old Third Ding’s words.
Among the twelve Cultivation Methods Nurse Liu had talked about, Geomancy was considered alongside “Chess Herald” and “Advisor” as one of the methods.
In other words, they had their own independent worldview and logical reasoning.
The Heavenly Dao, the Yin-Yang and the Five Elements…
He couldn’t understand at all.
But the things Old Third Ding said were indeed worth taking seriously.
If what he predicted was true, it would imply that a series of extremely severe social security incidents could likely occur in the future.