—178 A.D.——

Jizhou, Julu.

"Unexpectedly...... That's right. ”

Zhang Jiao woke up from his meditation and verified the idea that suddenly appeared in a flash of inspiration when he was cultivating the book retreat, and after finding that there was no problem at all, he sighed that he had fulfilled his wish.

Ever since Zhang Jiao defeated Zuo Ci and Yu Ji through a trial more than twenty years ago, and obtained three volumes of the Book of Heaven from the "South China Fairy", he has never stopped studying them, even if he has made no progress for a long time.

His initial motivation was to prevent Zuo Ci and Yu Jina, the two "immortals", from being angry and doing it to him, even if the "South China Fairy" could protect himself for a while, how could he protect himself for a lifetime?

However, after the defeat of the two "immortals", it was as if they had completely forgotten him, and they only embarrassed Taiping Dao a few times in a painless place, and as for intercepting and killing or breaking into the main altar to start a war, there was no shadow.

According to the information collected by the Taiping Daoists, one of them went to the vicinity of Luoyang, and the other went to Jiangnan, as if those trivial matters were their task, and they came to grab the Book of Heaven just by the way, and it didn't matter if they were CD or not.

If you think about it carefully, the "South China Fairy" has never deliberately done anything at all, although Xu Zijiang gave a "Jiangzuo Meilin, the talent of the unicorn", but her actions in front of people are still the same as before, doing good deeds at will, saving people at will, although she has been tripped in Luoyang recently because of the plague, but she did not use the power of the immortals to eradicate it instantly.

Therefore, if you want to become an "immortal", you must first have the light breeze that does not care about everything, because he usually calls himself a "poor Tao", but he doesn't know what a "Tao" is.

With this mentality, if you look at the cultivation mantra that you couldn't understand at the beginning, you will naturally understand the unfinished meaning in it.

Introduce qi into the body, refine qi and transform the gods, refine the gods and return to the void, and realize the void and the Tao.

This mantra clearly points out what to "do", but does not explain "how to do it", which is exactly the same as the attitude of those "immortals", and the meaning is about "I can only help you get here", whether you can comprehend it, and how much you can comprehend, it all depends on the individual.

Zhang Jiao's comprehension of this is to work backwards from the last sentence, why are the first three sentences all "refining" one thing into another, but in the end there is a strange "combination"?

Is this an explanation, and the sentence containing the word "合" can also be added in front?

For example, the qi is drawn into the body, [the body and the qi are combined]; refining qi and transforming gods, [qi and gods are combined]; refining the gods and returning to the void, [the gods and the void are combined]; Enlightenment, harmony.

Is it because those immortals went straight to the [Hedao] realm where Zhang Jiao didn't even have a clue at the moment, so they couldn't deviate from their own "Dao" in whatever they did?

As the ancestor of Taiping Dao, Zhang Jiao may not have anything, only the "Dao" existed from the beginning, that is, the "Nanhua Fairy" gave him as the purpose of the Taiping Dao "Xuanhua on behalf of the heavens and saving the world".

That being the case, why did he still bother with the primary "refining"? Even if you go directly to "merge", there is no problem.

"Draw qi into the body, body and qi merge ......" Zhang Jiao has made up his mind, reciting the mantra in a low voice, no longer simply using the absorbed aura to realize the power of the spell, but seeing himself as a part of the aura, and at the same time working hard to achieve a certain "immortal art".

Whew-

Just like the "immortals" described in the book or commentary, Zhang Jiao did not use the "phantom", and the whole person turned into a breeze and disappeared in the quiet room.

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"Father! Those dog officials in Luoyang are too much! Zhang Jie, whose figure was slightly longer and whose face gradually appeared girlish, strode with her apricot yellow flag on her shoulder, and directly pushed open the door and broke into the quiet room, but only saw Zhang Jiao's remaining illusions disappear, and said dissatisfiedly: "And, isn't it here?" ”

"Miss, don't destroy Master's illusion anymore," Ma Yuanyi chased after him, and persuaded very helplessly: "When those illusions face people other than Miss, they can reply to specific questions according to Master's pre-determined content, and they can even attack the enemy to a limited extent, but they will collapse on their own as soon as they see Miss." ”

For this kind of setting, the Taiping Dao has reached a consensus: even if it is an illusion, Daozu refuses to let the young lady call them "father".

"But I need to get a direct and clear answer from my father now, not those 'Qu Shuai' relays," perhaps tired of running, Zhang Jie sat on the couch with her flag, "Because my father doesn't come forward, they can say whatever they want, senior brother, haven't you noticed that there are several different opinions on those dog officials in Luoyang within Taiping Dao?" ”

Miss Minjing didn't even notice it herself, and the "dog official" she kept talking about actually belonged to a view, and Ma Yuanyi sighed helplessly.

Due to the wide influence of the Taiping Dao, in some places, the needs of traveling preachers alone could not be satisfied, so Julu Zongtan opened up a "channel" with direct contact with various places, which could make Fu Shui, Jiuhua Yulu Pill, and preachers come and go smoothly, and the person in charge of each channel is called "Qu Shuai".

Recently, first the material purchase channel was cut off by the ten permanent servants, and the cheap materials were increased by about three times, and then the sales channels around Sili were heavily taxed, and under the rise and fall, the Fushui and Jiuhua Yulu Pills in the Sili area were completely losing money and were selling, and they had to temporarily abandon the market there.

Later, when I heard that Si Li was plagued and the ten permanent servants were in a hurry, some of the affected Qu Shuai were still clapping their hands, but after the court stabilized the situation a little, they did not hesitate to put the source of the plague on the head of Taiping Dao.

If it weren't for the fact that Taiping Dao has been operating word of mouth all these years, I am afraid that it would really be beaten to death with a stick, even so, the overall income of Taiping Dao has still plummeted, and those areas that are difficult to preach, such as Yizhou, have completely refused to enter Taiping Dao.

At present, the internal view is roughly divided into two factions, the defensive faction that "evacuates all the preachers, and as long as they continue to smear, we refuse to save people within their sphere of influence", and the defensive faction that "evacuates what to withdraw, a mere group of money-greedy eunuchs, with our strength we can't contain them?" The offensive faction was led by Zhang Liang and Zhang Bao respectively.

It is said that in addition to these two, there is also a small group of surrender factions who "give them what they want", but they will be cleaned up by both sides, so they are relatively hidden.

However, no matter how heated the discussion between those Qu Shuai and Daoist disciples was, it was still Dao Ancestor Zhang Jiao who really made the decision, and both sides of the attack or defense needed the help of his unpredictable spells.

But at this critical juncture, Zhang Jiao couldn't go into retreat, and the various commanders claimed that when they asked Zhang Jiao's "phantom" for help, they all received "support", which was obviously impossible, so Zhang Jie was anxious to find her father's true body.

In Ma Yuanyi's view, the master's avoidance is actually an attitude, that is, "maintain the status quo", he himself may be accumulating strength to wait for [the year is in Jiazi, the world is auspicious], but this sentence has a shuddering ambiguity, Ma Yuanyi has never spread it at all, and Miss Minjing should not be ...... bar.

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Zhang Jiao, who turned into a breeze, was rushing to Luoyang at a speed far beyond the galloping horse.

He scoffed at the so-called "offense" and "defense" of the remaining visions.

The so-called "when mortals think, the gods laugh", after Zhang Jiao finally stepped into the threshold of "immortals" with one foot, he finally understood this sentence.

Shrink defense? Refusing to save people? Where do you put the "South China Fairy" who specially passed down such a means of saving people as "Fu Shui"?

Rise up and attack Luoyang? How many people would die in that case? Not only the fairy, but even Zuo Ci and Yu Ji would not agree, besides, if Wang Yue was given an excuse to make a move...... Do you still remember the "Trace of Heaven" that once stood in the sky above Luoyang?

At present, there is only one solution, which is to sneak into Luoyang and kill Liu Hong, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, while he has just been "promoted" and has not yet attracted the attention of other opponents of the same level!

Xuanhua on behalf of the heavens, saving the world, but it has nothing to do with the emperor, in fact, it is his unrestrained and unscrupulous collection of wealth, so that he has gone up and down, and has made ten permanent servants and many freaks who are officials only for money, if Liu Hong is a wise and martial emperor, then Wang Yue will definitely not be the ten permanent servants he cultivates for him like this.

The emperor who is greedy for money, this title is simply ridiculous, as the lord of the world's wealth, of course, he has no problem if he wants to enjoy better, and he can take away luxury goods as he wants, but he actually widely restricts the gold, silver, and even copper coins that should be circulated in the market, just to pile them together and look good?

I heard that before he was elected as the emperor from the first Hou Guo, his life was very difficult, so he developed this character? It's a pity that many people in the world have no obligation to pay for his tragic childhood, anyway, the last few emperors have all died young, and the side branch ascended the throne, and he is nothing more.

Although the emperor is the Son of Heaven, he is still a mortal who has not awakened to the peerless, and the only problem at present is how to escape from Wang Yue's hands without revealing his identity after the assassination.

No...... Actually, there are ...... Will that "South China Fairy" stop himself, in what form?

Zhang Jiao was thinking about it, when his heart suddenly tightened, and he hurriedly stopped.

Then, a sharp multicolored gun shot up into the sky, just shrouding Zhang Jiao's original flight path, at this time, even if the breeze controlled by Zhang Jiao has stopped, the colored gun on the hill below will still spit out, a "you don't want to pass" posture.

Zhang Jiao descended the breeze and appeared on the still smooth mountain: "Who is Your Excellency, why do you want to block the way of the poor road?" ”

"Hehe, why did I stop you, you know it," the gun bearer was an old man in a silver helmet and silver armor, with a childish face, and not far behind him was hiding a handsome and lovely boy about ten years old: "If you can't escape from me, don't go to Luoyang, if you are caught by Lao Wang and identified, your disciples and grandchildren will be wiped out." ”

The form in which the "South China Fairy" stopped him was like this? Zhang Jiao sighed without knowing whether he was sorry or happy, and took off the Nanxian staff behind his back: "In this way, 'Great Sage and Good Teacher' Zhang Jiao, I am here to ask for a lesson or two." ”

"'Sharpshooter' Tong Yuan, please!" As soon as the words fell, the silver spear in the old man's hand turned into a colorful phoenix, stabbing with the cry of a hundred birds.