Chapter 1: Questioning the Gods
At the beginning of the opening of chaos, the world was divided into three realms: the human realm, the heavenly realm, and the underworld. The human world is the common origin of all beings in the three worlds, and it is the source of the growth of all souls.
Through the cognition of all things in heaven and earth, the sages of the human world discovered the trajectory and laws of the existence of all things in heaven and earth. It is the essence of change, immortal, formless, imageless, beginningless, endless, all-encompassing, its big and outside, its small and inward, and it is eternal and unchanged. This is regarded as the "Tao".
Through the understanding and study of the "Dao", the great sages discovered that there is a "Dao" in the body of sentient beings, and they found that intervening in the laws and trajectories of the Dao in the body can make themselves stronger, and they are regarded as cultivators, also called cultivators.
When a cultivator is strong enough to a certain extent, he will ascend into a world that makes it even more powerful, which is regarded as the heavenly realm.
After the death of sentient beings, their souls return to the underworld, or dissipate, or imprisoned in the nine hells, or reincarnated and reincarnated as the underworld.
Since ancient times, the Three Realms have also been in crisis, and I don't know when the Heavenly Realm will not be revealed, the Underworld will be extinguished, and the Human Realm will also lose the aura that cultivators need to change their internal Dao.
In order not to lose the "Dao", the great sages had to find another way and independently created a realm outside the Three Realms - Pangea Continent.
The creatures of the human world have fallen to the point where they cannot cultivate, and the aura of heaven and earth is not visible, and they can only develop civilization and technology.
Slowly, the beings in the human realm entered the period of godlessness and lost their respect for the heavenly realm, and only a few monks remembered that there were still the heavenly realm and the underworld.
However, the Pangea Continent outside the Three Realms has been in dire straits.
On the evening of September 9, 1996, a middle-aged man in his 50s was cleaning at the door of an orphanage shelter in Weishan City, when suddenly a gust of wind blew the door open.
The middle-aged man sighed, "Poor child." "This situation happens several times a year, and I think that another pair of ruthless parents have lost their children, but fortunately I met a kind Taoist chief, but there is no Taoist temple nearby!
"Dao Chief, did you pick up this child?"
"Yes, this child's name is Chu Wushi, please take care of it!" The old Taoist priest sent the child into the arms of the middle-aged man, turned around and wanted to leave.
"Dao Chief, wait!" The middle-aged man hurriedly shouted, "According to the rules, you have to leave your name, photo, and register." ”
Seeing that the old Taoist priest stopped and turned around, the middle-aged man hurriedly ran to the backstage to put down the sleeping baby, and took out a notebook to register, "Daoist, please sign it!"
Seeing the old Taoist priest signing, the middle-aged man picked up the camera on the side and shouted to the old Taoist priest: "Daoist, look here." With a click, he took a picture of the old Taoist priest.
The middle-aged man put down his camera, took the registration book and looked at it, only to see that the name signed by the old Taoist priest was "Fengxi". When I looked up again, I found that the old Taoist priest was gone.
The middle-aged man was stunned for a while, then looked at the child in the swaddling clothes, and saw that in the dirty swaddling clothes was a child with a sallow face and a very beautiful appearance, and hurriedly took the child to the nursery at the back.
Twelve years have passed, and the director of the orphanage has changed several times, some orphans have been adopted by some kind families, and some naughty children have left the school early and left the orphanage on their own.
Only this child named Chu Wushi is very well-behaved and sensible, and he is even more delicate and beautiful, but every time he is adopted and left, he will be sent back after a few days, and the reasons for sending it back are varied, what is haunted at home, what night is dreamed by the ancestors, and even more said that this child is a spirit child, and his family is not blessed.
Over time, Chu Wushi became the only older child in the orphanage, but fortunately, the people in the orphanage liked this child, and this child was also very sensible, diligent and simple, and he relied on himself step by step into high school and university.
Chu Wushi didn't tell him that on the night of his 12th birthday, there was an old Taoist priest in his room, and the old Taoist priest showed a fairy-like profound Taoism, which still makes Chu Wushi refreshed.
In this way, Chu Wushi worshiped the old Tao as a teacher, followed the old Tao to learn Taoism, the old Taoist was haunted, came to Chu Wushi's room every night, or took Chu Wushi to the mountains to learn Taoism and martial arts, and sternly warned Chu Wushi not to reveal his existence to others.
Although Lao Dao did not give Chu Wushi any substantial help in life, he taught Chu Wushi the profound Taoism, as well as the direction of self-improvement, self-cultivation, and purification of sentient beings.
Chu Wushi spent his free time every day learning Taoism with his master, practicing talismans and swordsmanship, and reciting various Taoist classics, in the words of his master: memorize, continue to memorize, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, the Taoism is natural, and when you understand it, you will naturally understand, understand, and understand.
Although Chu Wushi has an amazing understanding and is diligent and studious, there is one thing that is a big taboo for cultivators, that is, he is weak, maybe he grew up in an orphanage since he was a child, he is malnourished, or he is born with a physical problem, although he has been tempered by various medicinal materials of the old way, but there is still no improvement, and his blood pressure is only half of that of a normal person.
Let's just put it this way! Although Chu Wushi is 23 years old and looks tall, he has strength. It's not as good as the one-meter-six-five, petite and delicate lesbian table in middle school.
For this reason, he was often ridiculed by his classmates at school, and Chu Wushi laughed at it from the shame and anger at the beginning to the habit of taking it for granted now. But Chu Wushi also refuses to admit defeat, and his daily physical exercise never falls, although he still can't increase his strength, his endurance is stronger than many people.
The master disappeared two years ago, and even in the golden age of rapid development of science and technology, there was no news at all, and when he left, he only told Chu Wushi that he was going to explore the way home, and there was no news from him since.
Since cultivating the Dao, Chu Wushi has changed from an atheist to an authentic cultivator, but at the beginning of the 20th century, the world's two wars in succession caused thousands of casualties, if people believe in the gods, but why do the gods stand by and watch the disasters in the world?
Ever since he saw his master's god-like Taoism, Chu Wushi had raised questions, but the master only sighed at this, and after pondering for a long time, he just replied: "When you have time to ascend to the sky, you can find the answer yourself." ”
Since then, Chu Wushi has been firm in his confidence, dedicated to cultivation, and just wants to ascend to the sky as soon as possible, one is the yearning for strength, and the other is to figure out why there have been no gods in the world for nearly a thousand years, why are the gods so ruthless, and they are so ruthless and receive incense from the world in vain?
Today is the one hundred and eighth day of graduating from college, and it is also a day that Chu Wushi is extremely looking forward to, the master has disappeared for two years, but before leaving, he made a divination for his apprentice, and told Chu Wushi that today will be the day when he officially embarks on the Tao.
Chu Wushi was walking back to the rental house when he suddenly remembered his mobile phone, and when he took it out, he saw that it was his good friend Ye Xiaoling calling, and it was his petite and delicate lesbian table.
"Hey, Xiaoling, what's wrong?"
"Wu Shi, didn't you say that you know the master, can you introduce it to me?" This is also when Chu Wushi was young and frivolous, he said that he had a master with a high degree of Taoism when he was chatting with a few friends at school, for this reason, the master also severely reprimanded Chu Wushi, and since then warned Chu Wushi that he is not allowed to tell anyone where he is, since then, Chu Wushi has never mentioned that he has a master in front of outsiders, which has also become a secret between the master and apprentice.
"I'm a mage, can you tell me something first? I can solve it for you, unless you invite a real-life master, and you can't find anyone in a short time!" Chu Wushi was telling the truth, but no one believed it, because Chu Wushi had never practiced his own Dao method.
"Blow again! You powerless mage, you can't even hold a hammer. It's no wonder that Ye Xiaoling doesn't believe it, although Chu Wushi usually talks about Taoist classics as Tao, but his friends only like to specialize in these Taoist-related books.
"But we are good friends, it doesn't hurt to tell you, my grandmother has a strange disease, and I went to many hospitals and couldn't see what the cause was, and now I have to try to see if I encountered something unclean!" Because the two are classmates and good friends, Ye Xiaoling still told Chu Wushi.
"Okay, I'll go to your house now. Chu Wushi felt that it was better to go and see it himself, because the various manifestations and symptoms of the external planting were different, and it was difficult for ordinary people to observe them comprehensively.
"Can you do it?" Can I tell you, we have invited several gentlemen in the neighborhood, but it has no effect, and people at least ask what symptoms are, and you don't even ask?" Ye Xiaoling obviously didn't believe in Chu Wushi very much!
"This is the difference between a real Taoist priest and a charlatan, I don't see it with my own eyes, how can I know the cause of my grandmother's illness, how can I just listen to the symptoms, if it is really planted outside, what you see is not necessarily accurate. ”
"Okay, where are you? I'll pick you up by car, if it doesn't work, I'll find someone else!" Ye Xiaoling still didn't have any confidence.
Telling Ye Xiaoling the address of his rental house, Chu Wushi quickly rode a public welfare bicycle back to the rental house. This is the first time I have received work, and I must bring all the charms, pens, ink, paper, swords, and the five treasures of Taoism.
As soon as she arrived at the rental house, Ye Xiaoling came, which shows that her grandmother's illness is really not light. Chu Wushi hurriedly took his things downstairs.
"Do you still have something? decent? I can tell you. If you dare to make fun of my grandmother's illness, don't blame me for beating you!" Ye Xiaoling waved her fist vigorously, this is the starting style of Ye Xiaoling threatening Chu Wushi at the same table for three years and four years of college. Chu Wushi was very helpless about this, he was a dignified seven-foot man, but he was often threatened by a girl, and he was still a power-type threat!
"Alright, every time. Take me to see it!" Chu Wushi was resentful, although he was weak, it was not easy to clean up your little girl, and every time he used his strength to talk about things and catch his own sore feet.
rushed all the way to the suburbs outside the city, it turned out that Ye Xiaoling's grandmother lived in the countryside, the old man was seventy-six years old, and she was usually healthy, but half a month ago, when she got up in the morning, she suddenly had a crooked mouth and slanted eyes, her temperament changed greatly, she didn't recognize people, and she was afraid of seeing the light.
"Here, I'll tell you again, my grandmother looks very scary now, you can be scared away if you don't see it!" Ye Xiaoling got out of the car and instructed again.
"Long-winded, hurry up and take me there!" Chu Wushi was a little excited, although the master didn't tell him how deep his Dao Fa was, but he had also studied Dao Fa for more than ten years, and his realm was clear, and the outer planting was just a small Dao.
Ye Xiaoling led Chu Wushi into the door, Ye Xiaoling's parents went out to greet her, Ye Xiaoling called her parents on the way, Ye's father and Ye's mother didn't believe that their daughter invited Chu Wushi, after all, Chu Wushi was too young, and he was a little skeptical about whether he could treat his mother well, but after all, he was his daughter's friend, so he was skeptical and had a try.
"Xiao Ling, this is Xiao Chu! It's so young!" Xiao Ling's mother grabbed her daughter, her eyes were full of desire to question everything and doubt everything!
"Auntie, hello, my name is Chu Wushi, you can also call me Xiao Chu, can you take me to see the situation of the old man first?" Chu Wushi has already seen through the observation of words and expressions, and he also understands the other party's attitude very well, after all, he is not only young, but also has no fame and prestige, not even the most ordinary Jianghu warlock.
"Okay! Ask Xiaoling to take you to have a look!"