Chapter 1: The Jade Emperor
Although it was the morning of early spring, it was a sunny day, clear sky, and cloudless weather, but standing on Baolian Mountain and looking around, there was green smoke everywhere, curling and misty, enveloping the huge Baolian Mountain in a fog, as if the fog in the mountains was still not dispelled by the morning sun.
The tip of his nose sniffed the smell of green smoke and incense blown by the breeze, and his ears listened to the bursts of prayer and Sanskrit sounds from all directions, Xu Zhuo couldn't help frowning slightly and slowly shook his head.
As a staunch materialist atheist who was educated in science since childhood, he has always been disliked and even disgusted by this kind of worship of God and Buddha.
If it weren't for the needs of today's TV station, he would never have set foot in a nationally famous religious shrine like Baolian Mountain.
When I was thinking about what I might face at work today and felt a headache, a group of middle-aged women squeezed around me, chattering and chattering.
Looking at the pious light on the faces of this group of middle-aged women, Xu Zhuo couldn't help but shake his head again, turned around and walked towards the mountainside of Baolian Mountain.
His job today is only to be in charge of the camera when important events happen, and now that there is about an hour before the important events happen, he can move freely.
It's not interesting to stay here and continue to be disturbed by the incense burning and prayers around you, so it's better to take advantage of this time to wander around and think it's just a hike to get some exercise.
Po Lin Mountain is nominally just a mountain, but in reality, it is a small section of mountain range that bears the name of Po Lin Mountain, which contains a full six or seven mountains.
Among them, most of the hills have been occupied by various temples, but there is still some space between the mountainsides due to the slightly lower terrain.
However, these spare parts are not blank, the Jianghuai Municipal Government has simply developed Baolian Mountain into a large scenic and cultural tourism area based on religious culture by taking advantage of the fame of Baolian Mountain, even the mountainside part is also built neatly, and steps, escalators, small pavilions and so on can be seen everywhere.
Xu Zhuo was not interested in these man-made facilities, so he made a special circle and came to the back mountain.
The development here is naturally not as good as the front mountain, but it is possible to find some natural areas with few artificial traces.
Xu Zhuo climbed up and down along the mountainside, specially picking those primitive roads that were not artificially paved, and after a while, he was sweating.
After walking for a while, the noisy sound from the top of the mountain and the front mountain became much quieter, and Xu Zhuo also sweated because of the climbing for a while.
"It seems like it's really lacking in exercise." Xu Zhuo touched his neck and found that the back of his neck was covered with a layer of fine sweat, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
If he had been in college a few years ago, he would have climbed a few hundred meters above sea level, and even if he had climbed up and down a few times, he would have been sweating at best, and he would never have been so out of breath as he is now, as if he had no strength up and down.
It's only been a few years of work, and all the good physical fitness I trained in college is now thrown away I don't know where to go.
"Take a break."
Xu Zhuo looked left and right, and found that there was a small platform on the mountainside in front of him, so he decided where to sit for a while and then return the same way.
As soon as he took two steps, he suddenly felt a slip under his feet......
"Bad ......"
As soon as the thought flashed in his heart, Xu Zhuo's body had already fallen down.
At this time, he didn't even have anything to borrow power by his side, and suddenly his whole body fell down, and he threw himself directly on the hillside, and rolled down with a gurgling like that.
Xu Zhuo couldn't make any effective movements at all, so he could only desperately protect his face, shrink his body, and let himself spin around.
After a long while, Xu Zhuo suddenly felt that he had touched something, and his body slammed, and finally stopped.
"Shhhh
The sharp pain coming from his back made Xu Zhuo twitch on the ground for a while, and then he barely opened his eyes and stood up.
When I looked around, I found that this should be a deep valley, but when I looked up, I found that the fog was thick overhead, and I couldn't see anything clearly, not to mention the top of the mountain, and I couldn't even see the mountainside where I fell.
Xu Zhuo tried to shout twice, but he could only hear a burst of echoes, and did not get any response.
When I took out my mobile phone, I saw that there was no signal at all.
"I shouldn't have fallen into another dimension all of a sudden, right?"
Xu Zhuo smiled self-deprecatingly, looked around again, and found that there was nothing special around, but there was a path in front of him that seemed to be stepped on by a person.
Seeing this trail, Xu Zhuo felt a lot more relieved.
Since there are traces to follow, it proves that you can find a way out.
Besides, after all, this is the range of Baolian Mountain, and it is very easy to ask for help, so there is nothing to panic about.
Thinking of this, Xu Zhuo put away other nonsense thoughts, and simply regarded it as an expedition, and walked towards the depths of the path.
After walking for more than ten minutes, I went around a corner, and the front suddenly opened up.
When I looked up, I saw that there was a hut attached to the far end of the trail.
"Is there still anyone living in this place?" Xu Zhuo walked over briskly with questions.
When I got closer, I realized that this hut was not an ordinary resident's hut, but looked like a small temple from the outside.
It's just that on the surface, this small temple is very dilapidated, even the main door has been removed, and the windows are only two incomplete window ridges.
Xu Zhuo looked around outside, didn't find anything unusual, and didn't find any traces of human life, thought about it, and walked in.
This small temple is already very dilapidated from the outside, and even more dilapidated when you enter it.
The roof tiles were broken everywhere, and several rays of light shot into the temple through the cracks, which made the small temple not so dim.
However, by this little light, it can be seen that the dust in the small temple has obviously accumulated a thick layer, turning the ground, the window sill, and even the incense case in the middle into a dusty appearance.
Only the two pillars standing in the small temple can still see a little background color, but they are also mottled, not to mention the lacquer surface, and even the wood inside has rotted out a few holes.
Looking at the miserable appearance of these two pillars, Xu Zhuo was very worried that they might break from them at any time, so this small temple was afraid that it would collapse with the collapse.
Looking away from the pillar, Xu Yi looked behind the incense case.
Behind the incense case is a table made of stones, and there is a statue of a god about more than two meters high.
Unlike the dusty incense table, the table where the statue is placed is clean and clean, and the statue is also very clean, and even the lacquer surface on the statue is as clean as new.
Xu Zhuo couldn't help but feel a little strange.
The statue and the platform on which it sat looked out of place in the small temple, as if it had just been moved into the small temple and put it in.
And when he moved his gaze up and landed on the statue itself, Xu Zhuo was even more stunned.
"What kind of god is this?"
This statue is completely different from many temples enshrined in such as Buddha, Maitreya, Guanyin Bodhisattva, Jizo King Bodhisattva, etc., and it is also different from the Sanqing Patriarch enshrined in the Taoist hall, but it is dressed in a bright yellow robe and a jade crown, and it looks like an ancient emperor.
"Could it be that this is a small temple set up by some emperor for himself?"
Xu Zhuo frowned and thought about it, feeling that this explanation didn't make sense.
He didn't know much about history, and he only made up for religious knowledge because of his work in the past two days, and he couldn't even talk about half of it, so he naturally couldn't make calculations.
However, he didn't care much about it, and after looking around and seeing nothing unusual, he decided to leave altogether.
Now for him, the most critical issue is to get out of trouble, not to come here to entangle some immortals.
However, when he just turned around and walked two steps, he caught a glimpse of the incense burner on the incense table, and found that there were three incense burners in the incense burner that seemed to have just nodded and now had long been extinguished, and suddenly his heart moved, turned his head to look at the statue, and sighed softly.
"Alas, in this kind of place, in this kind of broken temple, I'm afraid no one will come to give you a stick of incense in a few years."
Xu Zhuo touched it in his arms, took out a lighter, came to the incense table, took out the three sticks of incense and lit them, and then held the three sticks of incense and arched his hand to the idol, and inserted the incense back into the incense burner.
As soon as the incense was inserted into the incense burner, a thick smoke suddenly diffused out from the three incense sticks, and in the blink of an eye, Xu Zhuo was enveloped inside.
Xu Zhuo only felt that it was dark in front of him, but in an instant, it was bright again.
After a closer look, he found that the surrounding environment had changed abruptly, the white clouds under his feet were rolling, the faint smoke around him was drifting, and the smell was fragrant.
"What is this place?"
As soon as the question in Xu Zhuo's heart popped up, a loud voice suddenly sounded.
"This is Heaven."
"Heavenly Court?" Xu Zhuo raised his head in astonishment, looked in the direction where the voice sounded, and was even more stunned.
Not far in front of him, a figure appeared at some point.
This figure was more than ten meters high, standing in front of Xu Zhuo, it was like a small mountain, full of a strong sense of oppression.
And what really surprised Xu Zhuo was that this figure was very similar to the statue just now, no matter how you looked at it.
The only difference is that the statue is just an old-fashioned and cold statue, but this figure is full of endless majesty, which makes people feel like kneeling and worshiping just by looking at it.
Xu Zhuo stared blankly for a while, resisted his urge to kneel, swallowed hard and spit, and asked, "You...... Who are you? “
The figure was silent for a while, and then slowly responded: "If you use what your human race calls me, the full name should be Haotian Jinque Supreme Supreme Nature, Mi Youmi Luo Supreme Jade Emperor God." ”
"Haotian Jinque Supreme Supreme Nature, Miluo Supreme Jade Emperor God?" Xu Zhuo read this rather awkward and troublesome title, and after a few more laps in his mind, his eyes suddenly widened. "Isn't that the Jade Emperor?"
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