Volume 4 The War of the Heavens and Gods Chapter 2 (1)
Above the nine heavens, there are immortals. The stars are embellished, the clouds cover the road, the world envies, admires, and seeks it, and the name says: "Immortal Fantasy".
However, this is only wishful thinking on the part of ordinary beings. The vast fairy continent is boundless, except for the Zhongzhou Heavenly Court but the immortal paradise, the East Field, the Western Regions, Nanze, and the North Wilderness, except for the place where one or two immortal gate lords are based, are all barbaric places, fierce beasts are rampant, scattered cultivation and death fights, since the opening of the fairy world, there is no day without a death fight, and there is no day without the death of immortals.
The heroes are divided, the princes are fighting, and the suffering of war is no different from immortals.
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Celestial Realm.
Heavenly Court, where the immortal kingdom is located, sits in Xianzhou, and its status is similar to the so-called "capital" of the lower realm, and the Jade Emperor, the lord of the heavenly court, in addition to the so-called "only immortal" (the immortal of the immortals, the only immortal) serves as the leader of the immortal kingdom and leads a group of immortals, but also the nominal lord of the six worlds (immortals, demons, demons, Buddhas, and the underworld).
Because of this, the status of the Heavenly Court, which is located in the "Gyeonggi Heavyland" of Xianzhou, is incomparable. According to legend, when the fairy world was first opened, Taishang Laojun had eleven transformations ((1)), and this eighth transformation was: "Laojun is the ancestor of chaos, the parent of heaven and earth, so he stands on the road of no disease, swims in the ruins of leisure, resists the void to rise and fall, and takes the yin and yang to pottery." The distribution is turbid, the universe is opened, the three lights are suspended, and the group is cultivated, the heaven and the earth are judged, and the sun and the moon are operated accordingly. The four seasons are metabolized, and the five elements are born together. Therefore, at the beginning of the 9999000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 and with the Qi of the Three Clears, each gives birth to three Qi, and synthesizes the Nine Qi, and is nine days" and then, "Each of these nine days gives birth to three Qi, each Qi is one day, which is twenty-seven days." Nine days, thirty-six days". This is the origin of the heavenly court.
Emperor Huang Zengtian (the first heavy heaven) Duxian Pavilion.
As the place where the immortal world leads the monks of the lower world to ascend to the Tao, although this place is under the jurisdiction of the Honglu Temple of the Ministry of Rites, it has always been valued by the Jade Emperor. After all, there are many sects of the immortal families in the nether realm, but in the end, the ones who can prove the great road are often only a few ancient sects, and some have existed since ancient times, they inherited from the Sanqing Taoist system, and set up dojos in the eastern wilderness, the western regions, Nanze, and the Northern Wilderness of the immortal realm, called the vassals of the Immortal Kingdom, which are the princes of the Quartet, each doing their own thing, and is not subject to the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Court. And the private extradition places set up by the major sects, and the disciples of the Nether Sect are a big proof of this.
It is precisely because of this that the Immortal Pavilion, which is the "only" legal extradition place in the Immortal Realm, has naturally attracted the attention of the high-level of the Heavenly Court.
It's just that the avenue is ethereal, and the immortals who can soar are often surrounded by the major immortal gates, and the dragons and phoenixes who can become the avenue with scattered cultivation are even rarer, and there is no one trillion. Therefore, the "immortal pool" used here to transform into immortals has not been used for nearly a thousand days. As a last resort, Heavenly Court had no choice but to reopen the list of gods, and find people who had meritorious deeds in the lower realm to attract heroic spirits to canonize the gods. Under the growth of the other, this once famous immortal pavilion gradually declined. If it weren't for the fact that Heavenly Court still had a glimmer of hope for the Nether Realm cultivators and those sects that were truly attached to Heavenly Court, I am afraid that this Immortal Pavilion would have been withdrawn long ago. Today, this place has become a place to punish sinners, which can be called the "second day prison".
"......," one of the Honglu officials yawned boredly—it was already the one hundred and thirty-eighth day since he had been demoted to the Immortal Pavilion. Originally, he was a Yellow Turban wrestler on duty with the Lingxiao Treasure Palace, but he fell here because he accidentally broke a wine cup of the Jade Emperor Great Tianzun.
Thinking of this, he suddenly smiled self-deprecatingly, and he was already too lucky compared to the immortal general who was demoted to the lower realm back then. But speaking of which, he was able to get a light hair and still trust the blessing of that senior, if it weren't for the fact that the person was demoted to the lower realm but Lingshan made an Arhat for nothing, it is estimated that he would have been beaten to the mortal dust a long time ago, and he would have suffered from the flying sword every day.
"Brother Dao!!"
Just as he was laughing at himself, a Honglu official suddenly screamed when he had only been congratulated yesterday—on the charge of having met the Jade Emperor's favorite celestial maiden and forgetting to salute.
"What is the matter with Daoyou, that you have lost your dignity?" he replied listlessly.
"Brother Dao, look at that!" The new junior is really energetic, and this person's enthusiasm has not been reduced by half a point because of his coldness, "Brother Dao, go quickly, someone has entered the Immortal Pool!!
"What ?!!" this time, even he couldn't sit still.
A large circle of people had already gathered next to the Immortal Pond - looking at this posture, I was afraid that all the immortals on duty today were already here at this moment. This is understandable, after all, since Nuwa Niangniang set up a heaven and earth barrier to protect the mortal world with the mountains and rivers as a sacrifice, there has never been anything to ascend to the human world in the place where mortals live. And most of the immortals on duty here have only recently been "transferred", and they have never seen such a thing at all. I was curious for a while.
"Strange?" the new official from yesterday suddenly frowned, "Why didn't that person move at all?"
"Indeed......" As soon as the words came out, the man who came with him, along with several colleagues around him, frowned.
Immortal Pool, as the name suggests, the purpose of the water of this pool is to help the ascended people fade away from the mortal womb to shape the immortal body, which sounds infinitely mysterious, but this taste is no less than peeling the skin and pulling the bones. Can ...... now
"No," said an old-looking immortal, "don't faint, do you?"
"This ......" people around are a little unsure. After all, the one who has become an immortal and has attained the Tao has not survived the three calamities and tribulations, and if he does not have a firm will, how can he attain the Immortal Dao? But after all, the spiritual energy of the Nether Realm is thin now, the laws are declining, and everything is different from the past.
Could it be that the Nether Dao Gate has decayed to this point?
"Ahh
"How?"
"Why is Brother Dao like this?"
"Don't die of pain, do you?"
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Under the gossip, the immortal official who had seen the truth in the pool showed a crying and laughing expression, and said, "That person...... Fell asleep. ”
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Exegesis:
Note (1): "Lao Tzu Eighty-one Transformation", also known as "Taishang Laojun Historical Reflection Diagram", depicts the manifestation deeds of Lao Tzu from the beginningless to the fifth year of Song Shaosheng (1098 Yuan AD), including Lao Tzu's transformation of Hu.
The so-called "eighty-one map" originated from the "Lao Tzu Hu" theory. When Sima Qian's "Historical Records" was the biography of Lao Tzu Li Er, he left behind the mystery of "more than 5,000 words of morality and morality, and I don't know where it ends" and "Lao Tzu, the hidden gentleman is also" and the idea that can be interpreted in a variety of ways. As a result, Buddhism was attached to Taoism in the early days and evolved into the theory of "Lao Tzu Hua Hu", which began in the late Eastern Han Dynasty.