Yuan Tiangang, a famous Xiangshi, Taoist priest and a strange man of the Tang Dynasty, liked to travel the famous mountains and rivers of the world before he became famous, and inspected the topography and landform forms and patterns of various places.

On this day, he traveled to a very remote mountain village in the east, and suddenly felt very thirsty, and was thinking about entering the village to replenish some water.

Suddenly, on a high ground at the edge of the village, he saw a boy who looked like a beggar, sitting alone on the ground and playing with some kind of concentration.

Maybe I was so involved in playing that I forgot about the scorching sun. And in the shade not far away, a group of other urchins frolicked. This beggar-like child, at first glance, looks like an outstanding.

After Yuan Tiangang saw it, he immediately became curious, and he quietly walked behind the boy. When he stood there, he didn't look at it, and he couldn't help but be amazed when he saw it. It turned out that this boy was drawing the ground for chess, taking stones as children, black and white in his heart, and playing with each other left and right.

And the chess game he played alone turned out to be a famous exquisite endgame on the ancient score. However, what surprised Yuan Tiangang even more was that there were four other exquisite endgames next to this boy, which were also some chess games that were very famous in the ancient score.

At this time, the boy also suddenly found that there were outsiders, but he was still unmoved by no one around him, still staring there and pondering, silently calculating the chess path in his heart, and sometimes taking out one or two exquisite games.

After looking at it for a while, Yuan Tiangang was even more shocked, it turned out that this boy's chess strength was far beyond his imagination, not only had both right and strange, but also far-reaching wisdom.

After watching it for a while, Yuan Tiangang had already forgotten the scorching sun above his head, and even more forgot that he was so thirsty that he couldn't help but squat down and play against this boy. As soon as the two took over, they fought from noon until the sun set, and they fought until the sky was dark.

In the end, although Yuan Tiangang won all five games, he also won extremely hard, and he paid a lot of effort. Moreover, the most subtle thing is that this boy automatically admits defeat when the defeat has not yet been revealed, showing an extremely rare self-cultivation.

Looking at this boy's skeleton Qingqi restrained atmosphere again, Yuan Tiangang suddenly had the idea of accepting him as an apprentice. The two saw that it was getting dark, and Yuan Tiangang returned home with the boy. In this boy's home, only one of his grandmothers, who had been bedridden for many years, was gone.

When Yuan Tiangang euphemistically proposed to the old man that he wanted to accept this boy as an apprentice, the old man hesitated for a long time, and wasted a lot of effort before handing over a yellow cloth package to Yuan Tiangang. After handing it over to him, the old man calmly tilted his head, and the immortal passed away and ascended to heaven.

Yuan Tiangang opened it and took a look, only then did he know that this boy turned out to be a person with a great background, and his name was Sima Danyun. His ancestor turned out to be the last emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Sima Dewen, who was known as Emperor Gong of the Jin Dynasty.

In June of the second year of the original dynasty (420 AD), Sima Dewen was forced to settle in Liuyu, and the Eastern Jin Dynasty perished. Sima Dewen was deposed as the king of Lingling, and in September of the same year, Liu Yu sent someone to suffocate Sima Dewen with a quilt, at the age of 36, and was buried in Chongping Mausoleum after his death.

It is recorded in the history books that this Sima Dewen only has two daughters and no sons, in fact, he once had a son, as early as the war of that year, somehow went to the people, and it is rumored that he has long died.

After he was established as the emperor by the powerful minister Liu Yu, he himself knew his embarrassing puppet position very well, so even if he had secretly found his still living biological son at that time, he didn't want to implicate him again, but hid him in the folk snow.

Later, when he learned that Liu Yu was finally going to force him to take the throne, he congratulated himself on his wise move at the beginning, and at the same time sent his most trusted confidant general with a loyal and brave guard of the dead to hide and protect his prince who was hidden among the people for life.

Trying to wait for the right opportunity, and then do something big, restore the hegemony of his Sima clan's dynasty, and at the worst of all, he must keep his last pure bloodline.

However, there is no impermeable wall in the world, and the rumor that Sima Dewen had a son among the people was quickly spread by those who cared about it. Of course, Liu Yu will never allow the existence of this prince, which is a big hidden danger that he is most taboo.

Therefore, while ordering the secret execution of the abolished Sima Dewen, he immediately sent elite soldiers to conduct secret investigation and hunt down.

The guard of the dead soldiers who were deceived and hidden by this great general did not live up to Sima Dewen's trust, protected this prince who was hidden in the people, escaped countless pursuits, and finally fled to the north, where the imperial court was relatively weak. In the middle of a remote mountain, he built an independent village and thrived there.

It's just that after fighting all the way, there are not many guards left with hundreds of people, and only this general and dozens of dead soldiers remain.

And this prince who was desperately rescued, may be quiet by nature, or he may have seen too much bloody slaughter along the way, he has almost lost his ambition to fight for hegemony, and only hopes to live a peaceful life.

At this time, he has lived there for hundreds of years, but he is also at ease with the world. At that time, that small village has slowly become a lively town.

The people there have long forgotten what princes and generals there are among them, and all of them have become ordinary people. By the time of this Sima Danyun's grandfather, their family had become very poor in the years of war.

After a few years, their village was also occupied by the rebels, and the family began to be displaced again.

Eventually, they fled to the small mountain village where they are now, where they stopped for a while, and because his grandfather and father were both coarse and literate, and extremely easy-going, they were soon absorbed by the original villagers of this place, and truly became a family here.

But just three years ago, the place suffered a plague, and seven or eight out of ten of the adults in the village died. In this plague, Sima Danyun's grandfather and parents both died, leaving only him and this grandmother, who had just died, in the family.

After reading the suicide note left by his grandfather, Yuan Tiangang helped him put away the small yellow package and found a piece of black cloth to wrap it tightly.

Then, with the help of his neighbors in the village, his grandmother was buried. In the end, Sima Danyun, who was like a little beggar, left this small mountain village.

After Yuan Tiangang took this boy Sima Danyun away, the two traveled all the way, and finally arrived at Panlong Mountain in Langzhou, which is now in the northeast of Sichuan Province. Settle down here on your own and practice in seclusion. Moreover, Yuan Tiangang also took Sima Danyun as his own disciple for the first time, and taught him everything he had.

It is said that this Sima Danyun is the only disciple in Yuan Tiangang's life, and even the Li Chunfeng, who was almost compared to him later, is just a close friend of his half-disciple and half-friend, and he has not really waited for his true biography.

Why does Yuan Tiangang care so much about this little Sima Danyun, it turns out that there is a very obscure historical legend here.

It is said that Yuan Tiangang was originally the son of the emperor, and he had very similar opportunities to this Sima Danyun's residence. It turned out that Yuan Tiangang turned out to be the son of Yang Jian, the founding emperor of the Great Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui, born at the beginning of the third year of Emperor Wen of Sui (583), because of the cruelty of the harem struggle, Queen Dugu killed his biological mother, and then he was sent to a family surnamed Yuan to raise him.

When he grew up, he gradually learned about his life experience, but he was also like Sima Danyun's ancestor, the exiled prince, he had already looked down on all the fame and fortune in the world, and only wanted to be a real cultivator in the mountains and forests. So when he knew Sima Danyun's true identity, he fell in love with this child who was born with Huigen.

The two of them were in the deep mountains, and this stay was more than ten years, and later Yuan Tiangang had to go out of the mountain again because of his big name, and he was ordered to enter the court and become a royal think tank. And this Sima Danyun didn't want to go out of the mountain to show himself in the world, so he continued to practice those metaphysical kung fu in the mountains.

In addition, he helped his master Yuan Tiangang to continue to improve and compile the famous photographic books, celestial books and feng shui books that were later handed down to future generations.

Among them, there are the famous "Nine Heavens Xuannu Six Lessons", "Five Elements Picture Book", "Yi Jing Xuanyao" and "Three Worlds Physiognomy", which are said to have been written by him and finally compiled for Yuan Tiangang.

Although this Sima Danyun and Li Chunfeng are both Yuan Tiangang's two masters, Li Chunfeng enjoyed fame in his early years, and what he learned was quite miscellaneous and had a great influence, so he was mostly known to the world.

But this Sima Danyun is as his name, indifferent to fame and fortune, with a deep temperament, and never shows mountains and dews in front of him, so he is not known to the world.

In fact, his metaphysical achievements are extremely high, and his talent is unfathomable, and sometimes even his masters Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng secretly praise him in private, saying that he has surpassed the two in some places.

In addition, this Sima Danyun is still cultivating in the deep mountains, and he has inadvertently practiced a deep Xuanmen inner family kung fu. This unexpected harvest was not even expected by his master Yuan Tiangang. Later, he dabbled in the study of meridians and acupuncture in some ancient books, and also reached a very high level of attainment.

Since then, in his free time of cultivation, he often incarnates as a sloppy mute Taoist and travels down the mountain. With his profound internal skills and miraculous medical skills, he helped some ordinary people in the vicinity and relieved some incurable diseases for free. It's just that he easily doesn't reveal his metaphysical skills, so as not to leak too much of the heavenly secrets, which violates the normal operation of the natural laws of the Heavenly Dao.

Later, more and more people in the neighborhood who had received his favor spontaneously gave him the honorific title of "sloppy real person".

He even built a few simple small stone houses for him in the local area as a temporary place for him to stay. As long as there is a poor person with an incurable disease, ask someone here to write down his illness and address, and he will soon go to the hospital for free treatment in person.

Gradually, his fame was finally spread far and wide, and some high-ranking officials and nobles with status and status went to seek medical treatment, and they also wanted to invite him out of the mountain to serve themselves. But he was not allowed anything except to heal the sick, and if someone was unreasonable, he might be punished accordingly.

Later, he slowly got a little tired of it, feeling that these things had gone beyond his original intention, and even affected his cultivation.

So, he went away to Qingcheng Mountain, where he found a quieter place again, and never asked about the world anymore, and devoted himself to his metaphysical practice.

But later, his name was overheard by Tang Taizong Li Shimin, and when he learned that he was another apprentice of Yuan Tiangang, he specially arranged for someone to invite Sima Danyun with a large amount of money.

Because Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty at that time, admired Taoism very much, and he urgently needed all the talented people in the world to be used by him for him to drive, especially a hermit like Sima Danyun.

But in the face of heavy money, Sima Danyun was still unmoved, did not answer the call, and even changed his cultivation residence again, so that the envoy who came to invite him returned in vain.

In the end, it was Yuan Tiangang who personally wrote a letter and asked Li Chunfeng to summon him, and Sima Danyun was ordered to go out of the mountain. After leaving the mountain, he was enshrined by the court and raised as a strange man.

However, because he was silent on weekdays and unwilling to show his true skills, he was gradually snubbed by the emperor and lived in the Xuandu Temple in Chang'an all day long.

In this way, he gradually liked this quiet life, devoted himself to cultivation all day long, and wrote books and lectures. Even so, Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, still treated him with courtesy, although he didn't like his arrogance and coldness, but his treatment has not changed, and he is often rewarded.

During this period of time, he independently completed three metaphysical works, "Xuanwen", "Xuantian", and "Xuanlu", and raised his metaphysical cultivation to a higher realm.

After the death of his masters Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, he became the most prestigious metaphysical master in Chang'an City at that time. But because he pretended to be crazy and stupid all day long, he was deaf and dumb, so he was unknown and unknown to the world.

Time flashed to 690 AD, and Wu Zetian finally ascended the coveted emperor throne as he wished. After she ascended the throne, she wantonly crowned those heroes who supported her and worked hard. Even the monk Xue Huaiyi, who made "The Great Cloud Sutra" specifically for her to ascend the throne and was extremely "legendary", was also crowned by her as the general of the right guard and renamed the Duke of Eguo.

This monk Xue Huaiyi is not simple, it is said that he was Wu Zetian's first male favorite, and he was Wu Zetian's very trusted confidant at that time.

The emperor at that time, Wu Zetian, understood very well, don't look at himself now that he has finally become the emperor as he wished, and he also wantonly divided his own Wu clan, and it can be said that his power has reached its peak for a while.

But she knows that there are many potential hidden dangers inside and outside the court, especially the Tang Li clan who was forcibly overthrown by herself, and they all retain a certain amount of strength to some extent.

Once he waits for his hundred years to ascend to heaven, these strengths will definitely carry out a crazy counterattack, and at that time, it will be difficult to resist the heirs of the martial surname who have only been cultivated in recent years.

So on the one hand, she wantonly squeezed and mutilated the remaining Li clan relatives and their loyal henchmen; On the one hand, step up preparations to reserve a back hand and plan ahead for what is behind you.

After thinking about it again, she decided to send Xue Huaiyi, who had just been crowned again, to carry out an extremely secret mission. Let him find a top-secret place with excellent feng shui, where he secretly built a large gold cave, and stored a large amount of gold and silver treasures, weapons, grain and grass in it.

In order to prepare that once they lose power, they can let those heirs of the martial surname have the capital to make a comeback, even if things are bad, it is enough for them to hide in the field, and they can be a big tyrant who is comfortable and rich.

Perhaps, this Xue Huaiyi knew that he was just a vase-like straw bale thing, and in order to really do this top-secret task, he immediately made a statement to Wu Zetian.

said that if he wanted to do this, he had to let Sima Danyun, who had been hidden in the Xuandu Temple for many years, help him. After Wu Zetian heard this, he thought twice and thought to himself. With such a secret and important matter, this big monk who has nothing to show for himself may really not be able to do it according to his own requirements.

Moreover, this Sima Danyun has been invisible in Chang'an Xuandu Temple for decades, and has never participated in any power struggle, and is purely a scattered person who has no quarrel with the world.

In addition, she knows Sima Danyun's true metaphysical skills, and it is estimated that no one can match him in the current dynasty, as long as he is willing to help, it will definitely get twice the result with half the effort.

So she immediately sent a secret envoy with her token and went to pass the order, strictly ordering him to assist Xue Huaiyi in completing this top-secret task, otherwise she would order him to be executed immediately, and burn Xuanduguan to ashes and kill all the Taoist priests inside.

In fact, Sima Danyun had already calculated that she would be like this, and before the secret envoy arrived, she had already packed everything and waited there for a long time. After listening to the secret order, he immediately set off and rushed to Xue Huaiyi's mansion, which had already been prepared. The two of them spent a year first, and finally chose a location in today's Qixing Mountain.

Who would have thought that this Sima Danyun was originally a little disgusted with Wu Zetian being called emperor, but he was really unwilling to participate in these political battles. This time, since he asked for it by force, he naturally pushed the boat to secretly yin her, which can be regarded as repaying Tang Taizong's kindness back then.

He chose this place where Wu Zetian used to reserve a way to retreat, and chose a desperate place in the extreme yin, in order to cut off the current high-flying and domineering heirs of the Wu family.

Of course, in Xue Huaiyi's secret letter to Wu Zetian, Sima Danyun described it in a serious way. The situation pattern where this Seven Punishment Mountain is located is very complementary to Wu Zetian as a female emperor.

Because it is precisely this kind of extreme yin punishment that can overwhelm all the hidden opposition forces around it and protect the eternal prosperity of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

At the same time, he despised Xue Huaiyi even more, and wanted to get rid of him, but he didn't want to dirty his hands, so he wanted to take this opportunity to set up a big ambush for him and let his master get rid of him personally.

In this regard, he also put forward this hidden sentence for the first time that is different from later generations: one tiger is in charge, two wolves are kissing, three eagles are folding their wings, four are black rocks, five streams are red water, six Buddhas are Yongchang, and seven stars are eternal.

At the same time, under this hidden sentence, he deliberately made some exquisite and subtle explanations to please and cater to Wu Zetian's inner world.

The three peaks in front of them occupy the pattern of extreme yin and punishment, which just coincides with the natural destiny of Li Tang's heroine as the emperor; The shape of the four or five peaks is bizarre, ambiguous and subtle, which corresponds to the harmony and harmony of yin and yang; The golden body Maitreya among the six peaks will never fade, and the magical holy water source under the seven peaks has a long history, indicating that the Wuzhou Dynasty has been around for thousands of years.

These seven peaks are coherent, on the surface they are seven punishments and yin, but in fact they are seven stars eternal. In particular, the golden-bodied Maitreya Buddha statue in the sixth peak deliberately designed the face of Maitreya Buddha to be Wu Zetian's own appearance, and at the same time, this Buddha head was designed as the general organ of the entire Tibetan Golden Cave.

After Wu Zetian watched it, he was really happy, and immediately played it, and asked the two of them to immediately take someone to secretly implement it.

After receiving the emperor's secret order, the two immediately led 100,000 elite soldiers to this mountain in the name of patrolling Qilu to the east to prevent Silla.

Nominally, they were intensifying their military training here in the hope of launching another attack on Goryeo, but in fact they were here to build this hidden treasure cave according to Sima Danyun's plan.

100,000 elite soldiers, after nearly two years, finally completed the simple renovation of Yaoguang Peak, Kaiyang Peak, and Yuheng Peak in advance, and built a solid walled watchtower on it.

Then the huge space inside the two peaks of Yanggu (Tianquan Peak) and Yinjian (Tianji Peak) was excavated, and at the same time, a three-story three-dimensional structure and two hidden underground tunnels were built in it.

After all this was roughly settled, the 100,000 elite soldiers were urgently assembled on the northeastern border and launched a sudden lightning attack on Silla without warning.

The final result was that although Silla was severely damaged and the strength of the Great Zhou Dynasty was demonstrated, few of the 100,000 elite soldiers survived.

This battle, even the history books of later generations have no specific records, it is estimated that this should also be deliberately done by Wu Zetian, the ruler at that time.

After dealing with these 100,000 soldiers who knew about it, Xue Huaiyi urgently transferred his 3,000 personal soldiers, dug this third secret passage along the underground dark river under the Seven Punishment Mountain, and built this magnificent palace in the Tianxuan Peak behind.

At the same time, he urgently mobilized a large number of skilled craftsmen from all over the world to build a gilded Maitreya Buddha statue and the sixteen Arhat statues on both sides of this temple.

In particular, their heads are all made of pure gold, and this supreme Maitreya Buddha head is designed to be the master switch of the information agency here.

In addition, the belly of these seventeen Buddha statues, which is the same volume as the Buddha statue under the Sumeru pedestal, is full of rare treasures.

Later, they poured in a large amount of grain, grass, weapons and armor. It is said that the sum of these wealth has exceeded the treasury income of three years at that time, which shows how worried Wu Zetian was about what happened after his death at that time.

When these were completely done, Xue Huaiyi, under the deliberate instigation of Sima Danyun, actually made his own opinion. Behind the Sumeru pedestal, which actually represents the Maitreya Buddha of Wu Zetian himself, the words "General of the Right Guard, Xue Tian, the Duke of Hubei Province, are engraved for three years".

This is actually a ploy deliberately laid out by Sima Danyun, regardless of whether this secret place will be used or not, just with Xue Huaiyi, a male pet plaything who can't ascend to the hall of elegance, he shouldn't engrave his name there without knowing whether he is alive or dead.

Sure enough, after all this was done, first Xue Huaiyi's three thousand personal soldiers, who were given the imperial wine by Wu Zetian, were all given in this. Immediately afterwards, Sima Danyun was also on the way back from the edict, and suddenly fell ill and died violently.

In the end, only this Xue Huaiyi was left to go back happily and happily, Wu Zetian was very happy at that time, and rewarded him with great grace, but strictly ordered him not to leak a word at will.

But it didn't take long for this Xue Huaiyi to be executed by Wu Zetian under the pretext of an excuse. It is said that the cause of his death was related to the secret report that Wu Zetian received about his inscription on the pedestal of the Maitreya Buddha statue in Sumeru.

It may also be that he knows too many things, or because he is too public, and in the end, Wu Zetian had to endure the pain and poison him.

And that Sima Danyun, people have long seen through all the mysteries here, and deliberately deceived that straw bag Xue Huaiyi under the pretense of deception.

Then he sneaked back to the Xuandu Temple, took everything that should have belonged to him, and never disappeared. Since then, he has remained incognito and worked as an old pedant in a very remote mountain village.

When Wu Zetian was in power, in order to maintain the orthodox authority of her divine mandate, she vigorously promoted and promoted Buddhism, and clearly stipulated that the status of Buddhists was above that of Taoists.

Of course, in terms of their essence, Li Shimin and Wu Zetian are the same kind of people, they do not believe in any religion themselves, they only believe in and worship themselves.

Wu Zetian's revival of Buddha was just to subvert the sacredness of the Li Tang Dynasty and create the rationality of Wu Zhou's usurpation of the Tang Dynasty, nothing more. But in any case, during the time of Wu Zetian's reign, Buddhism was greatly developed.

In the late Tang Dynasty, because the land of Buddhist monasteries was not taxed, and monks were exempted from servitude, the economy of Buddhist monasteries expanded excessively, which greatly damaged the income of the state treasury.

Moreover, there are certain contradictions between them and the ordinary landlord class, which has a certain impact on political stability. At that time, Tang Wuzong, like the early Tang Taizong, believed in Taoism and hated Buddhism.

In addition, during the Huichang period, because of the crusade against Zelu, the finances were urgently needed, so at the instigation of the Taoist priest Zhao Guizhen and the strong support of the famous minister Li Deyu. The campaign to destroy Buddhism began gradually in the second year of Huichang (842) and reached its climax in the fifth year of Huichang (845).

At the same time as destroying the Buddha, even other Nestorianism and Yuanjiao were also affected to a great extent. Most of the Buddhist temples in various places have been damaged to varying degrees, most of the temple property has also been forcibly requisitioned into the warehouse, and many monks have been displaced and forced to return to the world.

In the text of the stone carvings, there are also some examples of local temples being destroyed, which will not be described here.

In addition, after that Xue Huaiyi was personally ordered to be executed by Wu Zetian, the secret of the Seven Punishments Mountain disappeared. Later, after Wu Zetian got old, I don't know if she suddenly discovered her conscience or suddenly realized it, she slowly realized that some of her earlier practices were a little too much, and finally understood the stakes between her own son and her nephew.

In the end, with the support of some important ministers, he made a decisive decision - to return the throne to Li Tang. Later, for unknown reasons, until she died, there was no mention of the great treasure.

It's just that I don't know if there is any inevitable connection between the fall of the Wuzhou Dynasty and the Zhongxing of the Li Tang Dynasty and the layout of the Seven Punishment Mountains of Sima Danyun.

I'm afraid that only Sima Danyun, who is missing, knows this best in his heart, and others can't know about it.

It turned out that after Sima Danyun died and went into hiding, he had been obscure, and there was no difference between him and ordinary people. While doing the old pedant in the village in a daze, he quietly hid in an extremely secret cave alone in the middle of the night, and continued to secretly do his own metaphysical research.

In addition, he also compiled the advanced martial arts he had cultivated without a teacher, as well as those magical medical skills, as well as some Taoist talisman knowledge, and compiled them into an independent book, named "Xuan Yong".

and the three metaphysical monographs "Xuanwen", "Xuantian" and "Xuanlu" that he originally compiled independently, are collectively called "Sima Sixuan" - asking, heaven, recording, and using.

Immediately after the actual completion, he sealed the four books in a small stone letter and never showed them. In the end, he secretly buried the little stone letter in his very secret cave.

In addition, during the years of seclusion, in order to cover people's eyes, he also married an ordinary country woman and gave birth to three sons and four daughters for him.

However, I don't know if these children were not selected by him because of their limited talents, or for some other reason, not only his wife didn't know all about him, but even these children didn't know anything about him, and everything was in an extremely dull and muddy life.

Although he has been pretending to be crazy and stupid in troubled times, he can see the opportunity to avoid evil, and the family lives very stable. And by the time of his grandson's generation, his family gradually improved, and he seemed to have become a big local family.

In this way, another few decades passed, and he lived until he was in his nineties. At that time, this age could almost be said to be extremely rare, which may have a lot to do with his tranquil attitude towards life and his perennial practice of internal strength.

Until one day, he suddenly felt that his time was approaching, gathered all his family together, and after leaving a strange suicide note, he passed away peacefully.

His last strange suicide note was like a book from heaven, and everyone couldn't see the mystery in it, everyone thought that he was old and confused, so he didn't do anything deeper.

But after all, this is the last relic of the old man, so everyone collected it properly and stored it on the side of his tablet, which can be regarded as a respect for his old man.

It wasn't until more than a hundred years later that the strange suicide note left by Sima Danyun was inadvertently opened again by a girl named Sima Ruyan among his descendants.

This Sima Ruyan is not a simple ordinary woman, she has been reading since she was a child, not only familiar with the traditional subset of scriptures and histories, but also prefers bitter and esoteric metaphysics. In addition to reading, he is also proficient in other piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.

Although she is a woman, she has a very strong personality, and in today's words, she is a woman who is materially independent and spiritually strong.

However, her long fairy jade appearance is exquisite, as holy as a fairy in the clouds, which makes people inexplicably feel ashamed of themselves at first sight. When she was twelve or thirteen years old, she was often called a delicate girl.

In addition, she often sighed and said to herself, saying that she was born at the wrong time, and it would be nice if she was born a hundred years early. Fortunately, in the Tang Dynasty, the status of women was still relatively high, and she was born in the family of the official eunuch at that time.

When she inadvertently opened the strange suicide note, she didn't look at it, and at first glance, she was stunned by the contents. It turned out that this strange suicide note was all written in esoteric metaphysical terms, and it was impossible to understand without considerable metaphysical knowledge.

This is her ancestor Sima Danyun's explanation of his life, he not only concisely and clearly told his legendary life, and clearly stated the location of the cave where he buried Xiao Shihan, but he also told in great detail about his proud work in the Seven Punishments Mountain.

In it, he systematically described the situation pattern of the Seven Punishments Mountain and the magical underground river, and described in detail all the processes of investigation, excavation, and treasure hiding at that time. In particular, he focused on the message mechanism and the correct way to open the crack.

It turned out that when he finished it in the end, he reserved a hand from the straw bale monk. He made a move on the top of the most critical giant stone portal of the Golden Cave, and no one could open the portal at will except for his own guidance.

In other words, even if that Xue Huaiyi turned back immediately, it would be impossible to really open the boulder portal.

In addition, he also pointed out that the Tianshu Peak at the back is actually the most critical place, as long as anyone can continue to dig deep along the underground river below and complete the most critical closing there, then they will be able to truly achieve a great cause.

In fact, this Sima Danyun had already calculated that after a hundred years of him, their Sima clan would definitely produce a truly powerful person.

In his hexagram, it is shown that if this descendant is a man, then he will be like the ancestor Sima Yi in the Three Kingdoms period, and eventually seek hegemony for his descendants and revive the imperial majesty of the Sima family.

But if this descendant is a woman, then she will set off a bloody storm in the world, and thousands of people in the world will go crazy and perish for it.

And this extremely yin and evil Seven Punishment Mountain and the huge treasures in it, as well as their own "Four Xuan" writings, are precisely the indispensable and important basis for them (her) to achieve great causes.

However, the mandate of heaven cannot be violated, just a hundred years later, the character calculated by Sima Danyun turned out to be this exquisite jade girl - Sima Ruyan. In this way, all this is also due to the providence in the power, and no one can stop everything that should happen.

After reading this suicide note, this Sima Ruyan immediately followed the instructions above and found the hidden cave where Sima Danyun was meditating, and successfully dug up the small stone letter that had been sealed in the dust for a hundred years. After seeing the "Four Secrets" strange books inside, she couldn't help but be surprised, like a treasure.

Since then, she has often secretly gone to that hidden cave and studied it without asking about the world. Fortunately, that place was not very far from her home, and the restrictions on women in the Tang Dynasty were much more relaxed at that time, and this Sima Ruyan himself was extremely careful, anyway, he had not attracted any special attention from others.

Time came to the second year of Tang Wuzong's Huichang, at this time Sima Ruyan had only studied for less than five years, and the first three parts of the "Four Xuan" books had just been introduced. At this time, her father, who was an official in the court, was inevitably deposed because of his public opposition to the Buddha destruction movement in the court.

Immediately afterwards, he was directly arrested and imprisoned by the internal guards for slandering the court in private, and even insinuating against the emperor, and was executed not long after.

Not only that, but even his family was implicated, except for Sima Ruyan, who saw the opportunity earlier, and took his young brother away from home, almost all of the rest of the family suffered.

At that time, Sima Ruyan's ability had not yet reached a certain level, so he could only reluctantly escape with his young brother, and he had no extra ability to help the remaining relatives.

After Sima Ruyan and her younger brother arrived in other places, she first took all the belongings she brought out from home and entrusted her young brother to a distant relative.

Fortunately, the relative could not have children and had no children, and had also received her father's favor in his early years, and for the sake of the face of these possessions, he boldly agreed to her entrustment.

It's just that from now on, this child will follow other people's surnames and pass on the family lineage.

This Sima Ruyan was originally a strange woman who was not born in the world, how could she care about these pedantic things, after settling her young brother, she escaped into the mountains and forests alone into the hidden cave, and continued to study and comprehend the "four mysteries" strange books.

It's just that her rigorous attitude in the original order has changed a lot, and after her relatives were tragically imprisoned, her whole person was hit hard.

She began to adopt the method of abandoning the book and chasing the end, simply bypassing the first three books, and directly focusing on the last one of the most practical "Xuan Yong", and began to study and practice day and night, and even almost went mad several times.

Sure enough, the hard work paid off, and she finally achieved a little success after three years, not only did she comprehend the Xuanmen martial arts in the book to the third or fourth level, but even those talisman methods were almost half learned, especially those medical skills that helped the world and saved people, and she learned almost all of them.

So she followed the instructions in the suicide note and found the mountains where the Seven Punishments Mountain was located, but she didn't know that this place was not very far from her original home.

At that time, his ancestor should have deliberately chosen to live in seclusion in this vicinity, probably in order to silently guard the most proud masterpiece of his life, quietly waiting for his descendants to come.

After going through a lot of hardships, she finally found and opened the entrance to the hidden valley on the east side of Yuheng Peak alone. After entering, she relied on her wisdom to index according to the map, and carefully entered the temple where the real treasure was hidden.

Seeing these treasures, she suddenly had a whim, since she Wu Zetian could become the first female emperor in the ages, why couldn't she create her own sect and become a female emperor herself when the time came.

She thinks that with her current peerless talent, even Wu Zetian back then may be difficult to compare, but Wu Zetian is just playing with power.

Now that she has this huge treasure herself, and the extreme yin punishment pattern of this Seven Punishment Mountain also happens to coincide with her destiny, all of this indicates that she will achieve a great cause.

Even if the fate of heaven is unpredictable and things are not good, it can always hit the court hard, and it can be regarded as avenging his own family.

In the end, she thought twice and named the sect "Caojiao".

She knew that although many years had passed since the Wu Zhou Dynasty, there were still some remnants of the Wu Zhou forces in various places, and with Wu Zetian's "Cao" character, it was able to awaken some local powerful forces that were hostile to the Li Tang regime and let them serve their great cause.

In addition, Wu Zetian made a great contribution to Buddhism, and after the pain of the Tang Dynasty's extermination of Buddhism, there were many Buddhist believers who missed the Wu Zhou Dynasty very much, so they were able to quickly gather a large number of Buddhists to join their camp.

Then, according to Sima Danyun's original "one tiger is in charge, two wolves are kissing, three eagles are folding their wings, four are black rocks, five streams are red water, six Buddhas are Yongchang, and seven stars are eternal", she changed the last two sentences of it to a more bizarre and bizarre "Six Buddhas have no heads, and seven views are self-imaged." ”

At the same time, she created another hidden sentence that is more like a proverb, that is, "Exquisite woman, female exquisite, seven punishments and nine tricks are exquisite." In this way, she can be regarded as having completed the preliminary preparations, paving the way for her gorgeous debut in the future.

After all this was settled, she took some of the gold from it and converted it into a large amount of loose currency in the bankery outside.

Then she used these scattered currencies to buy a lot of snacks and gadgets and other things, and bought a large number of children in nearby states and counties, and let them spread these two hidden words around. Let the surrounding people believe that there is a mysterious Seven Punishment Mountain in this group of mountains, and on the Seven Punishment Mountain lives an omnipotent and exquisite goddess.

At the same time, she spent a lot of money from outside to secretly invite a group of skilled craftsmen, and let them engrave the huge and strange sixteen Arhat headless statues on the huge rock behind the Tianxuan Peak Mountain in a very short period of time.

It's just that, on the day of success, in order to keep it a secret, she suddenly made a heavy hand to turn all these skilled craftsmen into demented people. Later, after each of them gave them a sum of money, he went to the dart board and sent them back.

In the end, she built a simple Taoist temple in front of the mountain of Tianshu Peak, and did not erect any statues of gods in the Taoist temple, but just sat in the position of the statues herself. As long as she enters this view, she can respond to all her needs, whether it is seeking medical treatment when she is sick, divining good fortune and evil, or even eliminating disasters and solving difficulties, she can deal with them one by one.

In addition, from time to time, she also took out a large amount of scattered gold and silver from the treasure cave, and gave alms to the poor people who came to ask for help.

And for those rich children who have something to ask for, she also uses her true metaphysical skills to give the most perfect help. Soon, she was revered as a god by the nearby villagers, and later even the surrounding eunuchs and squires came to pay homage here.

No matter who asks for her, she will treat them equally, whether they are poor or poor, or give gold and silver, or herbs, or spells, or even magic to help each other secretly, so that everyone can get what they need and enjoy what they want.

Moreover, the disciple under her seat who has been brainwashed even claimed that she is the Linglong goddess of the "Cao Sect", who came to the world to purify all sentient beings in the world in place of the Emperor Wu Cao, who has returned to the throne. According to their explanation, this exquisite goddess is the second incarnation of the reincarnation of Maitreya Buddha.

They also promised that as long as everyone joins this almighty "Cao Sect", in the near future, they will soon reach the true harmony of the world.

At that time, everyone will be completely free from all the gap between the rich and the poor, and everyone will be able to live freely and freely, without any unfair treatment.

Of course, the spread of these remarks of theirs is quite secretive, and everything seems to be just the resonance of ordinary people, without any publicity. Even the organization of "Cao Sect" must be a disciple selected by her personally before it can be officially recruited.

In this way, in less than a few years, she had more than 100,000 followers. Because she is secretive, well-organized, and only for the benefit of one party, and for the benefit of the people, coupled with her peerless elegance and dignified elegance, not only the people in the vicinity respect him like a god, but even some local dignitaries and nobles are also respectful to her and can't bear to intrude.

In the past few years, she has carefully and secretly selected key disciples, and on the other hand, she has continued to hype up her supreme mana as a Linglong goddess who responds to requests.

Her ancestor Sima Danyun may not have thought that this powerful descendant of his, would give up the essence of his life, and take the "Xuanyong" that he regarded as the end to the extreme.

However, just this extremely mysterious and practical "Xuan Yong" is enough to make this Sima Ruyan truly become an omnipotent and exquisite goddess in the minds of ordinary people.

During this period, she secretly gathered thousands of disciples who were desperate for her, and led them into the hidden cave in the Seven Punishments Mountain. When they arrived here, they were all stunned by everything in it, especially after seeing the golden treasure palace, they couldn't help but prostrate themselves and shout long live.

In addition, Sima Ruyan also swore to everyone that this was only one place where she hid gold and soldiers, and there were six other places across the country.

Not only that, but there are also many of her henchmen and disciples in the deep palace, and there are also some of her inner responses above the court, and even in the feudal towns in various places, there are many followers of her.

When the time comes, as long as she ascends to the heights, all parts of the world will respond, and a new dynasty will be established again. With her as the second female emperor, all those who follow her will be canonized as princes and generals at all levels, and they will enjoy wealth forever.

In the face of the facts, everyone frantically believed in every word she said, and seemed to have seen that mirage-like glorious tomorrow. Then she instructed everyone to take advantage of the situation to dig a secret passage that continued deeper, and dug the last huge cave hall inside Tianshu Peak.

After everything was completed, she had all the treasures hidden in the stomachs of Maitreya Buddha and the sixteen Arhats and in the dark room under the Sumeru pedestal taken out and placed in eighteen large black iron boxes.

Not only that, but she also ordered that all the gold heads of the sixteen Arhats, except for the pure gold heads of Maitreya Buddha that were left for use as the opening and closing organs, were also cut down, and they were melted down and divided into small pieces for future uprisings.

In addition, as early as the beginning of her business, she specially selected a group of talented and intelligent boys and girls from all over the world.

On the one hand, with the unique drug-assisted refining, coupled with her meticulous devilish training, they have practiced extremely domineering kung fu in a very short period of time.

On the one hand, let them indulge in pleasure and lust in this mountainside since they were young, lose themselves, and only know that they must be absolutely loyal to the sect leader since they were young, only in this way can they continue to enjoy themselves unrestrained forever.

For anyone else, as long as it goes against the will of the sect leader, they will meet the Buddha and kill the Buddha and the god and kill the god, without mercy.

In other words, these boys and girls who were snatched by her, after her meditation training, have been completely controlled by her spirit and even color, and they have completely lost their souls and become a group of real cold-blooded killers and messengers.

As long as it is an order from the sect leader, they will do whatever it takes to complete it perfectly, and they will not even spare their own lives in the slightest.

Because they have been believing since childhood that everything in the Master is the supreme truth, and everyone else must obey without choice.

Moreover, they also believe that only if they complete the task of the highest quality, the sect leader will reward them with everything they need, of course, this also includes the yin and yang joint cultivation with the sect leader, or even the double yin initiate......

In this way, Sima Ruyan trained these golden boys and girls into an extremely terrifying but extremely loyal special team. Let them carry out some secret tasks for themselves, including not only intimidating and kidnapping to extort huge amounts of money, but even directly attacking and robbing powerful landlords in various places, in short, in order to loot and gather a large amount of gold and silver wealth to pay the army in the future.

Of course, they will also carry out some assassinations to eliminate some potential opponents in advance, so as to clear the way for future troops.

Time flashed to the sixth year of Tang Xuanzong's middle school (852 AD), although Sima Ruyan thought that the time was not yet fully ripe, some arrangements had not yet been put in place.

However, she learned from the secret agents inside the palace that the court had begun to pay attention to herself, and was about to deploy troops to carry out a large-scale encirclement and suppression of herself. Now that she has reached this point, she simply put her heart sideways, rather than sit and wait to die, it is better to take the lead in fighting to the death, and it is not known who will die in the end.

So she openly set up the banner of "Cao" on the Seven Punishment Mountain, not only stepped up the training of 8,000 iron-blooded dead soldiers, but also built a solid wall and watchtower on the three mountains of Yaoguang Peak, Kaiyang Peak and Yuheng Peak of the bucket handle.

At the same time, she had a large number of restored weapons taken out of the cave and distributed to the ordinary believers who had come to gather, each of whom was rewarded with a considerable sum of gold and silver. And solemnly promised that in the future, as long as every city is built, all the possessions and women in it can be taken for themselves and enjoyed.

In less than a month, the number of believers from all over the country who came to join the gathering was mixed with many ordinary speculative people, and at one time reached more than 100,000 people. In August of that year, under Sima Ruyan's order, more than 100,000 sect members launched a swift attack on the surrounding prefectures and counties as planned.

Because the imperial court at that time was not ready, the prefectures and counties in various places were only in a hurry to respond to the battle, and they were defeated for a while, and they captured more than a dozen important towns in one go.

At the same time, Sima Ruyan was carried away by this series of victories, and began to wantonly divide the princely generals, as if a big event could be expected.

The princely generals under her command who had just been divided were just some short-sighted people, and after they occupied some important towns in states and counties, they began to enjoy themselves wantonly.

In this way, their offensive slowly and unconsciously slowed down, and there was no doubt about it, which also gave the imperial army's troops a rare time to adjust, allowing them to quickly mobilize a large number of elite troops from all over the country for deployment.

When the Tang Emperor Tang Xuanzong Li Chen heard this, he was naturally furious, and immediately dispatched the surrounding Huainan Jiedu envoy and Wei Duke Cui Xuan to personally lead heavy troops from all walks of life to suppress it.

Although the teaching army pulled up by Sima Ruyan was claimed to have reached hundreds of thousands at that time, it was very vulnerable in front of a veteran general like Cui Xuan and the elite divisions under him.

In less than three months, the hundreds of thousands of religious troops on the periphery were all divided and eaten, and most of them were defeated with one blow, and the remaining part of the effective resistance was also brutally killed by the officials and soldiers.

In the end, only 3,000 of Sima Ruyan's 8,000 iron-blooded dead soldiers remained, and they were still stubbornly holding on to the three peaks of the bucket handle.

The combat effectiveness of these iron-blooded dead soldiers is not trivial, in this mountain where there is no natural danger to defend, in the face of more than ten times dozens of elite officers and soldiers, they have struggled to support for more than ten days.

In the end, Sima Ruyan knew that the general trend had gone and the destiny of heaven was inviolable, so she reluctantly ordered the whole army to give up resistance, she couldn't bear to see everyone annihilated, she decided to exchange herself for the survival of all the remaining iron-blooded dead soldiers.

But these loyal members of the sect who have already been brainwashed by her will not let her sacrifice herself in exchange for their way to survive no matter what.

In a hurry, Sima Ruyan's most elite doll guard, they secretly discussed it by themselves and made the only decision to disobey the order.

They decided to divide their troops into two ways: one was to form several assault teams with most of the male dolls, and sneak down the mountain at night to assassinate the leading generals of the officers and soldiers, burn the grain and grass of the officers and soldiers, and create chaos for the officers and troops below as much as possible.

Of course, the chances of survival of these people are almost zero, and their choice is inherently suicidal.

On the other hand, the remaining female dolls, forcibly carrying their sect leader Sima Ruyan, escaped into the cave through the hidden secret passage, and temporarily lurked, waiting for the opportunity to raise the banner again.

After they had finished their deliberations, they exchanged views with the remaining leaders of the Iron Dead, who immediately agreed with their decision and decided to resolutely cooperate. Most of them, who had already been wounded, rushed down the mountain in the dark of night and started a suicidal fight with the officers and soldiers, creating the illusion that the breakthrough could not be achieved and the entire army was annihilated.

The remaining small number of iron-blooded dead soldiers with minor injuries followed and retreated into the cave as a spark for their comeback. At the same time, they also concealed Sima Ruyan, selected a female doll that looked very similar to her, and asked her to dress up as the sect leader, and finally died in the chaos after exhausting her strength.

After everything was agreed, they launched a suicidal blitz that night. In the end, everything was as they wished, and all the cultists who rushed down, including the fake Sima Ruyan, all died in the melee.

And Sima Ruyan was forcibly escorted by the rest of the sect members, and safely escaped into the cave in the belly of the mountain, and temporarily lurked.

Although this "Caojiao" incident lasted only a few months and affected only a dozen prefectures and counties, it caused hundreds of thousands of deaths and caused a huge disaster to the local area.

Afterwards, Tang Xuanzong was very shocked, and killed more than 100 local officials at all levels at one time, and strictly ordered all localities to continue to hunt down and kill those who were caught, and to be sure to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots to prevent them from resurrecting and causing chaos again.

At the same time, historians at all levels were secretly ordered not to record this extremely disgraceful "incident of the cult," and even the people were not allowed to circulate it in any form.

Since the ordinary sect members at that time did not know that this secret place existed in the Seven Punishments Mountain, and the backbone elements who knew this secret, except for a few people who escaped safely into the secret passage, all the rest were all killed in the tragic final battle. Therefore, this secret of the Seven Punishments Mountain, which has been preserved for more than a hundred years, has been preserved forever again.

Later, months later, in the early morning of this day, Sima Ruyan quietly emerged from the secret passage alone. When she saw that everything she had worked so hard to manage had changed into a dream, she couldn't help but feel disheartened.

Especially, thinking of his faithful believers, almost all of them died heroically in order to protect themselves, and the rest of the disciples were also ruined, so they had to accompany themselves to hide in this cave and never see the light of day.

At this time, she seemed to finally really understand the four sentences written by the ancestor Sima Danyun in the general record of the "Four Xuans" - I still miss the world, I pity myself; The phantom is far away, and the silence is too mysterious......

After wandering in a daze for three days and three nights, she returned to the Seven Punishments Mountain. After returning, she first instructed her female dolls to use euthanasia to kill the iron-blooded dead soldiers who had finally followed her here, which, in her words, was their best relief.

Then, she took the remaining eighteen female dolls and walked into the deepest dark blue hall together......