Wei Yan outlined the Tongtian Sect, there are only four heavenly gods, Pangu, Huaxu, Fuxi, and Nuwa, although they are four heavenly gods, they represent a family, which can be regarded as four in one.

Obviously, Wei Yan's Tongtian Sect relies on the most fundamental ancestor worship of the Chinese nation, Pangu is the creator father god, Huaxu is the mother goddess of the world, Fuxi is the male god of creation, and Nuwa is the goddess of creation.

Although the myths and legends of Pangu opening the world, Hua Xu giving birth to Fuxi Nuwa, Fuxi creating things, and Nuwa creating people were not so systematic in the Eastern Han Dynasty, they were already very specific in later generations.

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji naturally didn't dare to think that the three Qing and Six Emperors were the masters of heaven and earth like those brain-dead in later generations, and they had also heard of the myths and legends that Wei Yan said, so they naturally didn't dare to deny the existence of the four heaven and earth primordial gods Pangu, Huaxu, Fuxi, and Nuwa, and they muttered: "General, where should our Taishang Laojun be placed?" ”

Since the time of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Daoling founded the Five Bucket Rice Road in Heming Mountain, respecting Taishang Laojun as the highest god, since then in Taoism, "Taishang Laojun" is the earliest supreme god, as for the name of "Sanqing" was first seen in the "True Spirit Position Karma Map" written by Tao Hongjing of the Southern Liang Dynasty, in which the status of Taishang Laojun fell behind the Yuan Shi Tianzun, and the Yuan Shi Tianzun is actually the incarnation of Pangu.

Wei Yan shook his head lightly and said: "Taishang Laojun is the incarnation of Lao Tzu Li Dan, the originator of Taoism, but he can be an immortal above Confucius, Mencius, Zhuangzi, Mozi, and Xunzi, but he can't be a god, the so-called god of heaven is a person who is born and raised, and has all kinds of magical powers, Pangu God created the world, Huaxu God created Fuxi and Nuwa, Fuxi created all things in the world, Nuwa created human beings, compared with these four gods, dare to ask Lao Tzu Li Dan in addition to composing the Tao Te Ching and founding Taoism What other great magical powers? ”

Wei Yan made a final decision, Zuo Ci and Yu Ji had nothing to say, as long as Lao Tzu Li Dan's status was above the other hundred schools, they felt that they were worthy of their ancestors, and there was no need to dwell on this issue.

Wei Yan made his attitude clear, he must respect history, respect myths and legends, but also clean up the source, all the immortals who are not in harmony with history and logic are all expelled from the altar, such as red pine nuts, such as Zhang Liang, such as Zhang Daoling, all of them are ignored.

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji glanced at each other and asked a fundamental question: "General, you said that if you believe in our Tongtian Sect, you will embark on a smooth road to the Heavenly Realm, what is the Heavenly Realm like, neither of us has actually seen it, but we have heard that General, you have been inspired by the Heavenly Emperor, can you tell us what the Heavenly Realm is like?" ”

Wei Yan made a depiction of the world in the 21st century, all modern things, airplanes, trains, rockets, mobile phones, computers, electric lights, televisions, etc., Yu Ji and Zuo Ci could not think of it, they could only be artifacts of the heavenly realm.

Yu Ji and Zuo Ci listened to Wei Yan's description of the scene in the heavenly realm while staring at Wei Yan's expression seriously.

They were surprised to find that Wei Yan's expression was very serious, it was really the expression that they had experienced life in it.

Wei Yan really didn't lie, he described all the advanced things of the 21st century to these two gods, but he didn't say anything about the corrupt environment, morality, and ethics of the 21st century.

Yu Ji and Zuo Ci were very surprised, their mouths opened wide, and it took a long time to close them.

Especially Yu Ji, who is in his nineties, sighed: "I have lived for more than ninety years and have always cultivated the Tao, but I have never had this situation, and the general is not yet twenty years old, so I have this situation." ”

Wei Yan smiled slightly and said, "Heavenly Master Yu, do you know why you haven't been in such a situation?" ”

Yu Ji and Zuo Ciji asked, "Please show the general." ”

Wei Yan arched his hand to the sky, his expression was never solemn: "That's because most of the Tao you have been cultivating and preaching are made up by yourself, and they are not the way of heaven. ”

Yu Ji and Zuo Ci looked ashamed, Wei Yan was right, from Zhang Daoling to them, all the Taoist monks were making up and pretending to be ghosts to deceive the world, and the only one who really understood the way of heaven was Lao Tzu Li Dan, who wrote the Tao Te Ching.

Zuo Ci arched his hand and asked, "General, since you have received the Apocalypse, why didn't you come to convey the Heavenly Dao, but instead fake your hands with the two of us?" ”

Wei Yan looked at Zuo Ci with a very serious expression: "Zuo Tianshi, there is a specialization in the art industry, although I have received the apocalypse, but the gods have not taught me any Taoism, I can't show the apocalypse in my mind to the people of the Han Dynasty, so that they can believe in me and then believe in the Tongtian Sect, what I can do is to follow the instructions of the gods, in the shortest possible time, unify the Han Dynasty, and rejuvenate the Han, and although you have not received the apocalypse, you have superb magic, you can express the will of the gods, and then convey it to the world, so that the world believes in you." ”

Speaking of this, Wei Yan arched his hand to the sky again and said solemnly: "It is the meaning of the great god Fuxi to let the two of you create the Tongtian Sect, the great god of Fuxi informed me, the two of you have not received the apocalypse, but you can cultivate a superhuman Taoist technique, so understanding, if you have the merit of preaching, it will be the two best choices to ascend to the heavenly realm as a sage." ”

Hearing Wei Yan's words, Zuo Ci and Yu Ji were a little moved, and hurriedly asked, "How many sages are there in the Heavenly Realm?" ”

Wei Yan had already thought about this problem clearly before meeting with these two gods, and he had to set up the characters in a world to make up a world, and he said without thinking: "There are five types of gods in the heavenly realm, which are gods, immortals, saints, sages, and good.

The gods, also known as the gods, have four, namely the creator father god Pangu, the mother god Hua Xu, the male god of creation, and the goddess of creation Nuwa, the great god of Pangu and the great god of Huaxu are husband and wife, giving birth to Fuxi and Nuwa.

Immortals, also known as heavenly immortals, are the Yan Emperor Shennong, the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, the Dao Immortal Li Dan, the Wenxian Kong Qiu, and the Wuxian Lu Shang.

The sage, also known as the earth immortal, fourteen, the Confucian saint Meng Ke, the Taoist saint Zhuang Zhou, the soldier saint Sun Wu, the ink saint Mozi, the word saint Cangjie, the wine saint Du Kang, the kitchen saint Yiyin, the wood saint Luban, the medical saint Bian Que, the sage Zhang Liang, the sage Sima Qian, the sage Fan Li, and the sage Zhang Heng.

Sages, also famous immortals, as many as a thousand people, many of them are disciples of the immortal saints, such as the seventy-two disciples of Wenxian Kongqiu are among the sages, and all those who have some achievements and virtuous virtues in the world have risen to the heavenly realm as virtuous after death.

The good ones, also known as the scattered immortals, are as many as tens of thousands of people, these people are virtuous, do good deeds in the world and accumulate virtues, and when they accumulate merit points of 10,000 points, they can enter the heavenly realm and enjoy the carefree and happy life of the heavenly realm. ”

Wei Yan set up the gods of the heavenly realm in this way, just to block the mouths of those Confucian scholars who occupy public opinion, you are always "silent ghosts and ghosts and chaotic gods", but do you dare to deny that your Kong Qiu is a literary immortal? Do you dare to deny our ancestors Pangu, Huaxu, Fuxi, Nuwa, Yandi, and Huangdi? If you don't dare to deny it, then you have to accept it.

Moreover, the immortals sacrificed by Wei Yan such as Pangu, Huaxu, Fuxi, Nuwa, Emperor Yan, Yellow Emperor, Laozi, Confucius, Lu Shang and other saints, except for Pangu and Huaxu, are a little ethereal, the others are real, most people in the world worship faith, Taoism, Buddhism and other sects make up miscellaneous gods can not compete with the faith power at all.

Wei Yan denied Liu Xiang's fabrication of the "Legend of the Immortals", in which more than 60 immortals, Wei Yan only left the Yellow Emperor, Lao Tzu, Lu Shang, Fan Li and a few others as immortals, and the rest were all placed in the ranks of sages.

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji asked suspiciously: "General, I heard you say that the first emperor also entered the heavenly realm and became the new emperor of heaven, why didn't you mention the emperor of heaven?" ”

Wei Yan said very seriously: "The heavenly realm is created by the four heavenly gods, the four heavenly gods and even the supreme existence, even if ordinary people have made great merits in the mortal world, they can only be one of the immortals, saints, virtuous and good when they ascend to the heavenly realm, but as long as they ascend to the heavenly realm, they will be eternal and immortal, and they will enjoy the blessings of heaven forever, but there are many good ones, and there are many disputes, all the gods, immortals, saints, and sages in the heavenly realm are unwilling to deal with mundane affairs, and the literary immortal Kongqiu proposed that after the death of the emperor of the human realm, he will be promoted to the heavenly realm as the emperor of heaven, and will be responsible for governing the disputes of those good people, The position of the Emperor of Heaven is not immutable, as long as the emperor of the human world dies, he will ascend to the heavenly realm as the new emperor, and the previous emperor will be reincarnated. ”

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji asked again: "May I ask the general, do you know where those who have done nothing in the world have gone after they die?" Where do those who have done evil in the world go when they die? ”

Wei Yan pointed to the ground and said with a cold smile: "Below is the underworld, all people with less than 10,000 merits will arrive here after death.

There are two levels in the underworld, and the upper layer is hell, and those who have done nothing in the world against good and evil come to hell after death, and they will be punished for the sins they have committed in life, but after the punishment is completed, they will be sent to samsara.

The lower level is purgatory, where those who have done great evils on earth, and who are full of unforgivable evils, are sent to purgatory after death, and they will be punished for the evils they have committed in their lifetime, and they will not be able to be reborn for generations, and they will always suffer in purgatory, unless their descendants have done good deeds and accumulated merit so great that they can ascend to the heavenly realm as saints and sages, so that their ancestors can be liberated. ”

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji agreed, because in the "Taiping Qing Lingshu" made up by Yu Ji himself, Yu Ji once said: "God knows what is good, and God knows what is evil", and those who do good will have no evil words in the book of Yin Cao's life, and the sky will see good, so that God will follow it, move his life, and live a long life, not only longevity, but also shade his descendants, and the good people can become gods; Those who do evil, when they die, will be sentenced and punished by the evil Cao Difu, and then have the opportunity to mend their ways. ”

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji asked again: "May I ask the general, can the entrance to this underworld be in the capital?" ”

There is a beautiful scenery of Pingdu Mountain in the city of Xudu, it is the forty-fifth blessed land of the seventy-two blessed lands of Taoism, according to the Eastern Han Dynasty's "Legend of the Immortals" and the Jin Dynasty Ge Hong's "Legend of the Immortals" book, in the Han Dynasty, there were Wang Fangping and Yin Changsheng and others, abandoned the official to follow Zhang Daoling to cultivate, and finally became an immortal, ascended to heaven. Later, the two immortals of "King and Yin" were falsely rumored to be the "King of Yin" and mistaken for the "King of the underworld", so the place where they lived was Xudu, and then became the Yin Cao Difu dominated by the King of Yama.

On the other hand, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, Wudou Mijiao prevailed in Sichuan, and Xudu belonged to Ba County in the Han Dynasty, which was one of the important towns of early Taoism. As a result, this Taoist belief in the mixing of gods and ghosts contributed to the formation of "ghost towns".

If Wei Yan wants to completely replace the old-style Taoism with the Protestant Tongtian Sect, he must build the Wudoumi Sect that regards himself as the founder of Taoism, and he must completely negate everything set by Zhang Daoling.

Wei Yan said disdainfully: "Zhang Daoling's Five Bucket Rice Dao, mixed with a lot of witchcraft, is regarded as a crooked way by the Heavenly Realm, and the land of Xudu is not the entrance to the underworld. ”

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji seemed to feel the dissatisfaction of the gods of the heavenly realm with Zhang Daoling from Wei Yan's attitude, although Zhang Daoling had the merit of founding Taoism, they did not mention Zhang Daoling and his Five Doumi Sect.

Zuo Ci and Yu Ji asked again: "There is a Heavenly Emperor in the heavenly realm who governs all the good ones, and can there be rulers in the underworld?" ”

Wei Yan's brain teaser turned, he thought of the legend of the king of Yama after the end of the Song Dynasty was Bao Zheng, and deduced according to this logic: "There is a first emperor in the heavenly realm who manages all kinds of scattered immortals for the emperor of heaven, and the most just official in the world will go to the underworld to be responsible for the punishment of hell and purgatory after death, called Yama, and the current Yama is the previous strong point Ling Dong Xuan." ”

Dong Xuan, upright, shrewd and capable, honest and honest as an official, impartial law enforcement, not afraid of power, will be Emperor Guangwu's sister Princess Huyang's house slaves to enforce the law, such as the Northern Song Dynasty Bao Zheng.

At that time, Princess Huyang's slave committed murder during the day, because the officials could not arrest him because he was hiding in the princess's house. When Princess Huyang went out, she used this murderous slave as an escort. Dong Xuan waited for Princess Huyang in the Xiamen Pavilion, intercepted the princess's car, stopped the princess's horse, slashed the ground with a knife, loudly listed the princess's faults, and scolded the slave to get out of the car, so he killed him. Princess Huyang immediately returned to the palace and told Emperor Guangwu, who was furious and summoned Dong Xuan to beat him with a stick. Dong Xuan kowtowed and said, "I ask to say a word before I die." Emperor Guangwu said, "What do you want to say?" Dong Xuan said: "Your Majesty's holy virtue is in the middle of the Han Dynasty, but you indulge the slaves to kill the good people, how will you govern the world?" I don't have to be beaten, please let me kill myself. He struck his head against the pillar, and his face was bleeding. The emperor ordered Xiao Huangmen to help him and let Dong Xuan kowtow to the princess to apologize, Dong Xuan did not obey, Xiao Huangmen forced him to kowtow, and he refused to bow his head with both hands. The princess said: "When Uncle Wen was a common man, he hid fugitives and those who committed capital crimes, and the officials did not dare to come to the door to arrest them. Now that you are the Son of Heaven, can't your authority be added to a county magistrate? Emperor Guangwu smiled and said, "The Son of Heaven cannot be the same as the people. Then he ordered the hard-necked magistrate to go out. gave Dong Xuan 300,000 yuan, and Dong Xuanquan gave it to his officials. Since then, Dong Xuan has cracked down on Haoqiang, and there is no one who is not shocked and trembling, Jingshi called him "Crouching Tiger", sang and praised him, saying: "No one beat the drum in front of Dong Xuanya."

There are many credible points in saying that Dong Xuan entered the underworld as Yama, and this statement can also make officials of all sizes fearful.

In this way, Wei Yan tried his best to expound a complete religious belief system to Zuo Ci and Yu Ji, which is undoubtedly much fuller and more perfect than the original crude Taoist mythological system, and the flaws have also been reduced a lot, which is more convincing.