Chapter 411: The Taoist War
I ignored the surprise of Win Lao and continued: "The Taixuan Treasure Sutra is the treasure of the Daomen, which first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period, and was later regarded as a treasure by the Qi practitioners of the Fang Shi in Daqin.
Later, because Qin Shi Huang unified the world, he learned that there was a secret method of immortality in the Taixuan Sutra, so he seized the Taixuan Sutra from a monk named Yu Chongzi by cunning and plundering.
However, it is a pity that Qin Shi Huang is destined to be unable to practice the exercises in the Taixuan Sutra like ordinary people because he is the son of the Heavenly Destiny Dragon, so Qin Shi Huang retreated and chose to let Xu Fu, the ruler of the Fang Shi Sect at that time, go to help him find the elixir of life.
Xu Fu knew that it was impossible for ordinary people to escape the cycle of life and death, even Qin Shi Huang could not escape life and death, but he had more than 2,000 Fang Shi descendants under his command who were controlled by Qin Shi Huang, and he had to follow, and later Xu Fu went to sea for the first time to find the elixir of life for Qin Shi Huang.
Xu Fu came back after three years at sea and brought back an elixir that could cure all diseases to Qin Shi Huang, in fact, few people knew that Qin Shi Huang had a dark disease when he was young because he followed his father Qin Zhuang Xiangwang to fight, and every rainy season was painful as death.
Therefore, Qin Shi Huang has a small alchemist with him all the year round, and the elixir that this alchemist carries in his hand is to refine it for Qin Shi Huang to relieve pain, but when Qin Shi Huang established the Great Qin Empire, his dark illness was still not cured, and it was not until Qin Shi Huang sent Xu Fu to come out for the first time to find the elixir for him, and his dark illness was cured after he came back.
When Xu Fu came back, he not only cured Qin Shi Huang's secret disease, but also told Qin Shi Huang that he had found Penglai Xianshan overseas, and this time he came back to report like Qin Huang, planning to go to sea again on a certain day to find the elixir of life for Qin Shi Huang.
However, Xu Fu is not a fool, after he cured Qin Shi Huang's secret disease, he put forward a condition for Qin Shi Huang to release his two thousand disciples, and he will go to sea again to find medicine for Qin Shi Huang.
Qin Shi Huang was so happy in his heart at that time, and secretly said that this dark disease that had plagued him for many years was finally cured, and he agreed to Xu Fu's request as soon as he was high, he thought that the whole world was his now, even if he let go of those monks, it would not hurt, as long as Xu Fu could help him find a long-term medicine.
Moreover, at that time, he detained two thousand Fangshi to blackmail Xu Fu to find the elixir of life for him, and now that Xu Fuken is trading for him, he naturally will not embarrass those Fangshi too much, so he not only agreed to release the two thousand Fangshi, but also promised Xu Fu to give him five hundred boys and girls and three thousand Jiashi to go to sea with him to find the elixir of life.
But Qin Shi Huang didn't know that Xu Fu was gone, so he was already destined not to come back, and sure enough, Xu Fu went out until now, no one knows where Xu Fu went, and Qin Shi Huang also died on his sixth tour in 210 years ago.
At the same time, the people of the Fang Shi Sect had already received Xu Fu's order, and after Xu Fu went to sea, all the disciples were dismissed, and all of them were broken into pieces and entered the people, in order to prevent Qin Shi Huang from waiting for Xu Fu to return, and in a fit of rage, he arrested the Fang Shi Sect again and mutilated them.
The dissipation of the Fangshi sect also led to the loss of the Taixuan Sutra, until the end of the Tang Dynasty, a Taoist sect called Shangqing Dao suddenly emerged, this Shangqing Dao is not like other sects, most of the other Taoist sects are derived from the Tianshi Dao, that is, the sect of Zhang Tianshi Zhang Daoling.
Only this Shangqing Dao is not, it is an independent Taoist sect, and the exercises practiced are not Lao Tzu's "Tao Te Ching", nor Zhang Daoling's "Lao Tzu Xiang'er Note" but an ancient book called "Taixuan Bao Jing".
Shangqing Dao is located in Lingyun Mountain in Nanchong, Sichuan, so some people call this sect Shangqing Lingyun Dao, Lingyun Dao's exercises are strange but unpredictable, and it is the only Taoist who does not follow common sense among all the exercises in the Taoist sect.
Other Taoists worship Sanqing, but this Lingyun Dao does not respect Sanqing, they only believe in heaven and earth, their exercises are against the sky, Taoists talk about cultivating themselves, and after practicing inner penance, they can hook heaven and earth to seek a higher realm.
However, Lingyun Dao is cultivating external power to strive for immortality, and it is precisely because the teachings of Lingyun Dao are in conflict with most sects, which finally makes them ostracized, resulting in Lingyun Dao finally being besieged by more than ten Taoist sects and completely wiped out in the early Ming Dynasty.
At that time, more than a dozen sects based on Tianshi Dao, Taiyi, and Quanzhen Dao attacked the two sects of Shangqing Lingyun Dao and Shenxiao Dao at that time with the slogan of opposing evil and defending righteousness.
Shangqing Lingyun Dao was attacked because their Taixuan Treasure Sutra was too weird, it is said that the Taixuan Treasure Sutra has the unfathomable power to practice and live forever, as for Shenxiao Dao, it is because their Shenxiao Five Thunder Method is too mysterious, and Shenxiao Dao was attacked completely because other Taoists wanted to seize Shenxiao Dao's exercises.
In the end, the war between the two sides pulled one of the five major sects at that time, the Great Truth Dao and the Pure Ming Dao, into the water, and this war made the five largest sects at that time all stand in their own camps, and the Heavenly Master Dao camp has three major sects in addition to it.
There are also more than ten small sects such as the Qingwei faction (ancestor Ma Danling), the Tianxian faction (ancestor Lu Chunyang), and the Xuanwu faction (ancestor Zhenwu Emperor) to support, while Lingyun Dao and Shenxiao Dao were only supported by the two great sects at that time, the Great Truth Dao and the Jingming Dao, and finally the two sides finally launched a decisive battle.
Although the strength of the four Taoist sects such as Shenxiao Dao and Shangqing Dao was extraordinary, the four of them could not withstand the attack of many sects, and finally the two sides launched a decisive battle in Fengxian County, Nannan, Jiangxi, the ancestral court of Shenxiao Dao.
This Taoist war led to the complete decline of Taoism, and the five Great Daoists fell to three, making Taiyi, Dazhen Dao and Jingming Dao completely disappear from the field of vision of later generations, and Shangqing Lingyun Dao and Shenxiao Dao were directly erased by Tianshi Dao and other Taoist sects.
That war led to the current Taoist lineage of nothingness, although the war led by the Taoist victory, but at the same time they also paid a lot of substitution, the Heavenly Master Dao from a prosperous Taoist school was directly dispersed, Taiyi is directly falling, after the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the Heavenly Master Dao also because of the internal division of the war before there were three sects of Fu Zheng.
The three sects of Fu Zheng are: Maoshan Sect of Maoshan Mountain, Zhenggui Dao of Gesoap Mountain, Zhengyi League Wei Dao of Longhu Mountain, these three religions are collectively referred to as Fu Zheng Three Sects, many people think that Zhengyi League Wei Dao is the Tao of the Heavenly Master, but in fact, the ancestor of the Heavenly Master Dao is Zhang Daoling, the Tao of the Heavenly Master is also known as the Taoist of Wudou Rice in the folk.
And the patriarch of Zhengyi League is Zhang Zongyan, this Zhang Zongyan is the son of Zhang Shun, the seventeenth generation descendant of Tianshi Dao, Zhang Zongyan was dissatisfied with his father's killing in order to unify Taoist thoughts, and finally broke away from Tianshi Dao, and after the Taoist war, he persuaded some Taoist people affected by that war to establish a new Taoism together.
This Taoism is the Zhengyi League Weidao, and the reason why the Zhengyi League Weidao has the word alliance is because the people of their sect are all monks who were affected by the war and the sect collapsed and reorganized again.
Therefore, there is no unified division of the Taoist system, and it is precisely because of the division of the Zhengyi League's prestige that the Zhengyi League is particularly united, and finally the Zhengyi League's prestige is banned in the last years of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty, which has the later generation of the Zhengyi League's prestige is the saying that the Heavenly Master Dao.
Now Baidu's information about what is the ancestor of the Zhengyi League is Zhang Daoling is pure nonsense, but it is a pity that the Taoist system that has been inherited in China for thousands of years is completely lonely because of a great war, and countless famous sects fell in that war, and even the Heavenly Master Dao is weak.
Now even the most basic Taoist beliefs are almost gone, Jiangxi Longhu Mountain has also become a tourist place, the Taoist resort of Xianshan in the past no longer exists, coupled with the integration of Western culture after the Republic of China, so that the Chinese people are more repulsed by Taoist thought, and now there are only a handful of Taoist sects left.
I have to say that this is the fault of our descendants, the inheritance and culture of our ancestors have been abandoned by us, and Shenxiao Dao and Lingyun Dao completely disappeared after the war in the early Ming Dynasty, and since then, the Shenxiao Five Thunder Law and Taixuan Treasure Sutra have also disappeared into the world with the two factions. ”
"It turns out that Taoism still has such a history." After listening to my words, Win Lao couldn't help but sigh.
"Alas, what a pity." I also sighed in agreement, took out the Taiyin Sutra in my arms, looked at it, and said to Ying Lao: "I don't know who wrote the Taixuan Treasure Sutra, but this book is a treasure, the Taixuan Treasure Sutra is yin and yang, and if you can get both yin and yang, I estimate that you will be able to unlock the secret of the great war that year."
At the same time, whether the Taixuan Sutra can really be immortal can also be completely unraveled, the ancient books say that the Taixuan Treasure Sutra, the upper part of the Taiyin is divided into five volumes, and the lower part of the sun has only one volume, which is the Sun Sutra, and the Taiyin cultivation is the internal strength, the external method of the sun practice, and the housekeeping ability of Lingyun Dao is mainly in the Sun Sutra, and the Taiyin Sutra is only an auxiliary exercise.
However, the Taiyin Sutra can be used as the upper part of the Taixuan Sutra, which can already be regarded as a treasure, to be honest, if you didn't take out this Taiyin Sutra, I really can't believe that the original Taoist war history recorded in the ancient books is true.
I always thought that the Lingyun Dao that could drive the heavenly thunder and practice immortality did not exist, it was just a folklore and wild history, and now I have to believe it, this Taiyin Sutra is really too precious.
If you take it out for auction and estimate that it can be worth hundreds of millions, if I have to make an analogy, then it is the "Book of Burial" in Taoism, the book of burial is banned by the state, and it is the treasure of the tomb robbery world, precisely because the book is too rebellious.
If the funeral book is published and everyone can learn it, then those ancient tombs that have not been excavated and discovered will be looted unprecedentedly, after all, who doesn't want to get rich overnight, who doesn't want to live the life of high society, although it is now the twenty-first world, but people die for money, birds die for food, those who have the ability are not afraid to take risks, and those who have no ability are willing to be mediocre. ”
"If that's the case, then this book will be passed on to you." Win Lao looked at me with a strange face while smoking a dry cigarette.
"Why do you always look at me like this again, do I have pockmarks on my face?" I couldn't help but be a little angry when I was looked at by Ying Lao again, because his eyes were so weird, I thought you had never seen a tiger before, and then I went to the zoo for the first time to see the tiger's expression.