Chapter 14: Arrival
The entire Central Plains Taoism is divided into two factions: the north and the south.
In the north, the Heavenly Master Dao founded by Zhang Daoling, a real person, is the Taoist, and in the south, the Shangqing School founded by Huayang Zhenren is the Taoist.
As the head of Taoism in the south, the ancestral court of Maoshan where the sect of the Shangqing sect is located. Every day, a large number of tourists from all over the world come to worship the incense, and the vigorous flow of people drives the formation of an ancient town at the foot of the mountain.
The sky was clear, as blue and clear as if it had been washed after rain.
Since the beginning of autumn, the weather has become cooler and cooler, and on this morning when the weather is cool and autumn, the ancient town at the foot of Maoshan Mountain has come to two dusty travelers.
"It's finally here!"
Ye Yi looked up at the peaks of Maoshan Mountain with complicated eyes, since he left Jiuquan Town, it has lasted a total of one month and three days, whether it is in modern times or now, it is a long journey.
Although the road is not as demonic as Tang Sanzang learned scriptures, after nine hundred and eighty-one difficulties, hardships and hardships, but the daily experience of wind and rain, sun and rain, twilight in the mountains and forests is not comfortable. But all of this has come to an end today, and I am about to truly step into the world of my dreams.
There was a little more expectation in Ye Yi's eyes.
Compared with Ye Yi's expectations, Uncle Nine looked at the town in front of him in a trance.
He died at the age of six, followed the master into the mountain to cultivate, the mountain years are long, the days are pure, he is young and playful, and the brothers who can not bear the loneliness often secretly go down the mountain to play in this town.
In the spring, I put paper harriers with children of the same age outside the town, go down to the river to fish and catch cicadas on the trees in the summer, and catch loaches and osmanthus flowers in the fields in the autumn...
At that time, I always thought that I was doing it seamlessly, and I had never been discovered by the elders, but now that I think about it, if it wasn't for the master's default permission, I and the others would not have been able to go out through the mountain protection formation.
It can be said that this town ran through most of his childhood.
"Master. Ye Yi shouted softly.
Coming back from his trance, Uncle Nine said with a flat face, "Let's go!"
After a long time, is the deceased good?
......
The two entered the town, the town was full of people, traffic, and shouting along the streets, and the scene of peace and prosperity was extremely rare in the last days of this dynasty.
"I just don't know how long this prosperity can last!"
With the passage of a month, passing through many small towns and cities along the way, Ye Yi has gradually found that the signs of troubled times have appeared.
The place is chaotic, the bandits are everywhere, the people have no food to wrap their stomachs, and the excesses and miscellaneous taxes are not reduced in the slightest.
Now the whole dynasty is sitting on a huge powder keg that has lit the fuse, waiting for the fuse to burn into the powder keg.
When the time comes, there will be a loud bang, the world will be turned upside down, the dynasty will collapse, and countless heroes in troubled times will surge out, among this group of people, there are heroes who are eager to be called kings and emperors, and there are heroes who are eager to save the country with new laws...
And whether it is a hero or a hero, in the scramble, it will only bring deeper chaos to the country, which cannot be avoided and cannot be stopped...
Even Ye Yi, a time-traveler who has a detailed understanding of the future, is the same, this is a surging trend, and anything that tries to stop it in vain will only be swallowed up.
Moreover, this country has rotted its roots under the rule of foreign races, and only through countless times of blood and fire can the rot and sins under the darkness be burned away, so that the nation that once ruled this world can be reborn and rise again.
Perhaps it is the goal he longs for is about to be achieved, Ye Yi has a lot of thoughts at this moment, his eyes are long, and he seems to fall in the future, the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the Xinhai Revolution, the warlord secession, the Japanese invasion of China, World War I, World War II...
"Cultivating the Tao, the way of heaven is humane, if I am going to get it today, what about humanity?"
"Maybe I can't change much, but at least, I will make this nation rise faster and get rid of those humiliations faster!"
For the first time in this era, Ye Yi decided what he wanted to do for the country.
Wear clear and do not rebel, chrysanthemum chainsaw drill.
There is no need to rebel when you travel to the end of the Qing Dynasty, but if you can't step on Tokyo and build a view of Beijing in the future, the sea of corpses in London will be a loss of the face of the traverser.
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Even if the sun is such an existence overlooking all things, in the face of eternal time, everything is nothing, and our greatest enemy is not our own incompetence, but the cruelty of time.
When he first left the mountain, his heart was higher than the sky and he was in his prime, but now when he returned, he was nearly mid-year and had his own disciples.
The tofu shop at the entrance of East Street in the town is still busy with business, but it makes him miss the young and beautiful and fair-skinned Tofu Shih Tzu for countless nights, but now he has a yellow face, a thick waist, and his once long straight and smooth hair is wrapped in an ugly cloth towel, only a girl who looks very similar to her back then...
With a hundred years of time, the fragrance of osmanthus wine in the Tongji Hotel is still fragrant, but the old woman who always likes to smile and squint, look at herself with a kind face, and then take out the soft osmanthus cake from the blue bib to her brother, is gone...
The blacksmith shop at the end of East Street has always been ridiculed by himself for not being like the son of an iron man, a white and chubby little fat man, but now he has become a bronze-skinned strong man, sweating hot sweat in the stove with great strength and beauty to beat the iron tools requested by customers...
One by one, one scene at a time, the memories are like a tide, and the past can't stop echoing in my mind.
Uncle Nine suddenly felt a tightness in his chest, and he quickened his pace, wanting to get out of here quickly, or rather, escape!
Leaving the town, Uncle Nine's pace slowed down.
The two walked along the stone staircase to Maoshan Mountain, just like ordinary pilgrims.
As the ancestral court of the Shangqing sect, the Taoist holy land, Maoshan has the reputation of Taoism's first blessed land, the eighth cave of heaven since ancient times, there are nine peaks, nineteen springs, twenty-six holes, twenty-eight pools on the mountain, the peaks and peaks are stacked, the clouds and mist are shrouded, the climate is pleasant, the strange rocks and strange stones on the mountain stand densely, the large and small karst caves are deep and secluded, the spiritual spring holy pond is dotted all over the place, the winding streams are criss-crossed and intertwined, the green trees cover the mountain, the green bamboo is luxuriant, and the end is the treasure of the world.
There are three palaces and five views on the mountain.
The three palaces are Chongxi Wanshou Palace, Jiuxiao Wanfu Palace, Yuanfu Wanning Palace, and the five views are Deyou View, Renyou View, Yuchen View, Baiyun View, and Ganyuan View.
Among them, the main peak, Damao Peak, is like the head of the green dragon, and the first palace Jiuxiao Wanfu Palace is on it, and the second palace Yuanfu Wanning Palace is located at the south waist of the Jijin Peak.
The two came to the gate of Yuanfu Wanning Palace along the road, entered the Sanqing Palace, and after the ninth uncle took him to offer a pillar of incense to the Sanqing patriarch, he walked to the inner room.
"Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, please stay here for this layman, it is a private place, and it is inconvenient to see guests!"
A fair-eyed Taoist boy gave a salute and stood at the door to stop the two.
Uncle Nine was stunned for a moment, and when he saw that the Dao boy was the same age as his disciple, he suddenly remembered that the Dao boy who had befriended him back then had already gone down the mountain, and these new Dao boys naturally didn't know him.
took out a jade seal from his bosom and handed it to Daotong, Daotong took a look, his expression changed, and he said solemnly, "It turned out that Uncle Yimei returned to the mountain, and the disciple Qingfeng saw Uncle Yimei, who is this?"
"This is my newly accepted disciple Cheng Yun, and this time I will take him back to the mountain to grant the talisman. ”
Qingfeng Daotong's eyes showed a hint of envy, and he was granted a talisman and officially worshiped under the Shangqing Sect, which was not the same as his status as a Dao Tong, and he gave a salute to Ye Yi, "Immeasurable Heavenly Venerable, but congratulations to Senior Brother Cheng Yun!"
"Thank you, junior brother!" Ye Yi has also been taught a lot of sect knowledge by Uncle Jiu these days, and he knows that there is no mistake in calling Daotong like this, so he replied and thanked him calmly.
The Shangqing faction is divided into inner and outer doors, these Taoist children are outer disciples, Ye Yi is about to enter the inner door, and his identity is naturally different.
After entering the inner hall, Uncle Nine led Ye Yi around the Yuanfu Wanning Palace, and soon came to a small courtyard called Xianyin.
Pushing open the door of the house in the small courtyard, there is a statue of the Supreme Patriarch at the entrance.
There is a desk in front of the statue of the Patriarch, and an incense burner is placed on the table.
Uncle Nine took a step forward, took the incense burner away, revealing a small hole, and put the jade seal in his hand just now into the small hole, just leaving no gap, a white light flashed from the jade seal, Uncle Nine took back the jade seal, looked at Ye Yi, who was looking at him for unknown reasons, and a smile appeared on his face, "Let's go! ”
"Huh?" Ye Yi followed Uncle Nine to the outside in confusion, pushed the door open again, and when he saw the scene outside, his mouth opened in surprise.
Different from the ordinary courtyard just now, what caught his eye now was a series of mountain peaks, countless courtyards and pavilions on the mountain peaks were built according to the mountain, the palaces were layered up, the houses and courtyards were connected, and there was a slight haze, clouds and mist, and the end was the blessed land of the fairy mountain.
The distinction between the inner and outer doors of the Shangqing faction is drawn here.
In the past when the immortals were still alive, the ancestors of the Shangqing Dynasty used great magic to open up Maoshan out of the inner and outer worlds.
The outer world is the Maoshan that the world sees today, and the inner world is what Ye Yi sees now.
In fact, the inner and outer worlds have the same peak shape, there are nine peaks, nineteen springs, etc., but the nine peaks of Maoshan in the inner realm are several times larger than the nine peaks of Maoshan in the outside world. Moreover, the palaces and pavilions in the outside world have been burned down a lot because of the Taiping Rebellion sixty years ago, but the palaces and pavilions in the inner world are intact.
The immortal lived in seclusion halfway up the mountainside, and after the small courtyard in front of him disappeared, there was a long step on the side mountain road.
Continue to climb up the steps, and after fifteen minutes of walking, there is a hundred feet wide platform in front of you.
On the platform, several Taoist children were sweeping the fallen leaves there, and an old man in an azure robe stood on the platform with his hands in his hands and looked down.
When Uncle Nine saw the old man for the first time, tears flashed in his eyes, and he hurriedly ran to the old man and knelt down on his knees, choking and saying, "Master, the unworthy disciple is back!"
Ye Yi was blessed with a heart at this time, and knelt down behind Uncle Jiu and kowtowed.
"Disciple Cheng Yun has seen the ancestor, I wish the ancestor a long life!"
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