Prologue
PS: In order not to cause misunderstanding between the two protagonists, a paragraph was deleted from the prologue.
On the third day of the seventh month of the nineteenth year of Wanlie, Qin Tianjian was looking at the celestial phenomena coldly and was terrified. He had been stargazing for more than 40 years, but he had never seen such a strange landscape. Near the purple microstar in the northern sky, a originally dim star suddenly fell, turned into a meteor, crossed the entire sky, and fell straight to the east, just as he calculated the reason, he was stunned to find that there was a bright star in the original position, and this sudden change caught him off guard. However, everything did not end, and a similar bright star appeared in the originally chaotic eastern sky, and the two stars reflected each other, decorating the night sky extremely strangely.
The stars in the sky were shrouded in a silvery white light, and the originally dazzling stars next to the Emperor Star Ziwei seemed to be completely restrained, and the twenty-eight nights representing the meaning of the auxiliary also lost their former brilliance, at this moment, the vast starry sky only belonged to the two demonic bright stars that appeared out of thin air.
"The heavens are in chaos, the heavens are in chaos!" Leng Muya kept muttering to himself, and after a while, he couldn't hold back any longer, and a mouthful of blood spurted out violently, he knew that he had already suffered a lot of internal injuries in his vain attempt to break through this nameless heavenly opportunity. He sat down slowly with his chest clutched, his back against the wall, his heart full of endless frustration, did he really not even know what it portended? Then what else do you want him to do as a Qin Heavenly Eunuch! Thinking of the great favor he had received, he finally made up his mind. Leng Muya bit his finger and drew on the ground with that bit of blood, the degree of obsession and fanaticism seemed to go back to the day when he first learned the stars in his childhood. For a long time, he looked up blankly, there was no result, and there was no result after such a long calculation. With a miserable smile, Leng Muya knew that it was impossible for him to penetrate this unknown everything, and he inadvertently glanced at the sky again, and his pupils contracted violently.
"Impossible!" His terrible cry pierced the night sky, and the vision just now was actually gone, what a bright star, everything was still as ordinary as what he had seen before. If it weren't for the astrological charts on the ground, he would have wondered if he was crazy. "Why, why did you let me see this, God, why are you teasing me?" After a heart-rending shout, Leng Muya finally fainted.
The news that Qin Tianjian had gone crazy overnight really caused a sensation in the capital, however, with the emperor appointing a new supervisor, the matter subsided. The courtiers naturally didn't have much interest in the madness of a small five-rank petty official, and the new supervisor didn't report any astrological anomalies, so these big people quickly put this matter behind them, and the emperor gradually forgot about this middle-aged man named Leng Muya, after all, he still had too many things to worry about. Only one more madman is on the streets of the capital.
"Demon Star, I saw Demon Star!" Leng Muya, who was in rags, had a dull gaze and stumbled down the street. Behind him, followed by a group of mischievous children, who kept throwing rocks and all sorts of rotting vegetables at the madman. The adults silently looked at this person who had looked up with a complex mixture of sympathy, pity and contempt, not knowing that this person had seen a spectacular scene that was about to affect the first dynasty of the dynasty, and that this scene would be widely sung by future generations, and the name Leng Muya would forever leave a brilliant mark in the history books. But at this point, he was just an ordinary madman. Although Leng Muya was not alone in seeing the astrological spectacle in that instant, most of the laity deceived themselves on the grounds of dazzle, while most hermits or outsiders kept silent about it, and the likes of dignitaries rarely watched the stars in the middle of the night, so this matter was lost in time.
The white-haired Ming Fang Zhenren looked at the strange scene in the sky in a daze, and let out a long sigh, since he was a child, he liked to look up at the starry sky and listen to his master tell one mysterious story after another. After growing up, although he was extremely talented, he comprehended most of the Taoist techniques of Luoyingmen, but he only had a soft spot for this stargazing technique that could peek into the heavens, and it was fate.
He smiled to himself, and slowly turned around, there was a description of "the demon star appears, the world changes" in the classics handed down from ancient times, and the habit of stargazing in the past generations also came from this. But Ming Fang Zhenren didn't believe in this kind of too mysterious thing, but at this moment, that strange scene seemed to be still presenting in front of him, so he couldn't believe it. However, if providence is so, what else can I do?
"Master!" A deep voice came from behind him, "It's so late, you haven't slept yet?" ”
Even if he didn't look back, Ming Fang Zhenren knew that it was his eldest disciple Yan Xiu. His own lazy nature, coupled with Luoyingmen's high requirements for the inheritance of Taoism, did not find Yan Xiu as a disciple until he was sixty years old. The scene at that time is still unforgettable, the village in ruins, the corpse that is not visible, and the boy hiding in the corner of the wall where he is still smoking, a human tragedy has cast a shadow on his strong and unbreakable Dao heart, and he who has always been peaceful is truly angry. In the thirteenth year of Wanlie, there was neither military disaster nor theft, and in the prosperous era of the world's harvest, who dared to commit such a crime at the risk of the world's greatness?
From the boy's mouth, Ming Fang Zhenren intermittently learned the truth of the matter, just because the people of this village were unwilling to pay the three points of fire consumption imposed by the Lanzhou prefect, so they clashed with the officers and soldiers who collected taxes, and wounded three soldiers. The boy was only able to avoid this disaster by hiding under the bed at the time, but all his relatives had already been killed.
The furious Ming Fang Zhenren didn't say a word and broke into the Lanzhou Mansion with the boy, angrily denouncing Qian Mucao's atrocities of disregarding human life, and the embarrassed Qian Mu denied it, and also accused him of framing the court officials and ordered him to be arrested in prison. Seeing this situation, Ming Fang Zhenren only said lightly, "Be careful of the Nine Thunder Heavenly Punishment" and floated away, no one could stop him.
That night, the thunder razed the Lanzhou Mansion to the ground, and all the officials of the prefect Qian Muhe, who usually did evil, were killed by the thunder, and the corpses were charred and black, while some of the officials with good voices were safe and sound. Then the blood rain in Lanzhou, which has always been rainless, rose three feet on the third day, and the red water rose three feet, which shocked the entire imperial court, and the people were also discussed. In the end, the emperor, who knew it, suppressed the matter, but the warning of the heavenly thunder still made many officials restrain a lot.
"If the variables that the demon star can bring can make the people of the world truly live and work in peace and contentment, then the poor Dao would rather lose these decades of Taoism and re-enter the earthly world!" Ming Fang Zhenren's eyes, which were still dull just now, suddenly burst into essence, and he cut the railway.
Yan Xiu on the side couldn't help but be confused, but he felt that the master with a serious face at the moment not only did not feel strange, but also looked so amiable and respectable. He didn't know what kind of impact Master's vision would have on his life in the near future.