Chapter 3: Matsuyama's Scheme
The sky is slightly white, and a waning moon hangs obliquely on the tip of the southwest peak.
Except for a few dog barks in Songshan, there is no movement, on the bank of the river, there are several families, and a few woods, lying quietly in the thin white mist.
Outside the woods, there is a green hill, faint, floating there like a dream, revealing only an outline.
On the occasion of the day before the white, halfway up the mountain, in the simple and magnificent Taoist courtyard, a distant bell sounded.
Songshan view, on the ancestral hall of the patriarch, there are more than 20 portraits of the patriarch hanging high, there are men and women, there are long and young, each has a description, lifelike, all are looking ahead, containing the meaning of the Tao.
On the long vermilion lacquer table below, rows of wooden plaques are placed, some covered with red cloth, some cracked in the middle, and some with burning marks.
On the card symbol, there is a disciple's name, entry time, inheritance context, and a name symbol behind it.
Every inner disciple has this tablet deposited here.
If a disciple dies or is in danger outside, there must be a miracle here.
When disciples are walking outside, or they encounter the wrong way of the sidelines, and illegal loose cultivation, all kinds of witchcraft cannot be prevented.
This famous brand charm can become a shelter, and there is an ancestor in the dark, borrowing one or two divine powers from the ancestor for future generations of disciples to tide over the crisis······ Even if he can't cross it, he can be sheltered to live in the good land that the master has opened up in the underworld.
Each sect and sect, according to their own Taoism, also has similar means to protect their own disciples.
At this moment, more than 100 people have gathered outside the ancestral hall and stood quietly.
The middle-aged man wearing a Taoist robe and a Taoist bun, behind him, in the hands of Elder Song, took a long handful of letter incense, and with a flick of his right hand, flames were born, and green smoke curled.
Take a few steps forward, hold the incense, and bury it in a half-human-high four-legged beast ear bronze tripod.
Then bow down in public.
The shouts of the Singing Elders rang in my ears:
"Three Worship Patriarch!"
Outside the ancestral hall, a group of people bowed down together, each wearing a mysterious costume, solemn.
After three prostrations, he sang again:
"Rite over!"
The middle-aged Taoist led by him prayed silently for a moment.
Immediately afterwards, I saw that on the statue of the patriarch, one of the girls in pink clothes with Zhongyun sideburns blinked and floated down, like a living person.
The girl with cloudy sideburns walked down the self-portrait, and after a few steps, she gave up her position, and it was roughly visible that the portrait behind her had turned into a blank piece of paper.
The disciples outside the ancestral hall were all seeing this unbelievable picture for the first time, and there was a slight commotion.
"I've seen the ancestor!"
The middle-aged Taoist was slightly surprised, then thought of something, and bowed for a long time.
As he remembers, this is an ancestor of the Songshan Guan School, and he had another chance to become an immortal and inherited the immortal mansion of his predecessors, and has lived for more than 600 years.
The last time he appeared in person was one hundred and fifty-six years ago, and he was only a junior at that time.
In a blink of an eye, of the more than 200 people who entered the inner door at the beginning, only one or two people remained, and the rest had passed away.
Between the sighs, there is a sense of urgency.
He has only been able to refine into an immortal body so far, and has completed the cultivation of the first level of earth immortals, but two of his peers have already stepped into the second level.
Distraction from general affairs brought him an advantage in foreign resources before, but now it has become a drag.
As soon as he remembered that the Earth Immortal was only three hundred and sixty years old, he was awe-inspiring.
"Perhaps, it's time to abdicate and make way for Xian······"
As soon as this thought came out, I suddenly felt relaxed and suddenly enlightened.
The whole body was full of inspiration, and the work that had been stagnant for a long time also made small steps forward imperceptibly.
"Get up, don't be polite."
The gentle voice of the pink-clothed girl came.
"I know everything about the tenderness of heart, and the fault is not yours, but mine."
Seeing that the master's deeds have made slight progress, this patriarch nodded slightly, and then turned to the topic.
"At the Qinghua banquet, all the immortals went to the banquet, I saw her at a glance, she was a person with a background, she must have been a powerful monk in her previous life, and her family was robbed and reincarnated."
"At that time, the thirteen Dao families were unwilling to accept it, just waiting for her master to come and extradite her in her previous life······ I saw her kneeling pitifully, from the beginning of the lanterns, until the feast was over, and she did not wait for a piece of paper, and there were fourteen people with her, and she was the only one, but she was pitiful······ I secretly instructed her to live in Songshan, first register her name and place orders, and if someone comes to look for her in the future, she can also be allowed to come and go freely, I don't want her to leave later······ Since then, they have become masters and apprentices. “
"I thought that she could inherit my inheritance, and I didn't want to ······ before it became a climate."
Reminiscing on her face, as if she was remorseful, the girl with cloud temples sighed faintly, with the vicissitudes of life that did not match her appearance, and between her originally green eyebrows and eyes, there was even more faint exhaustion.
"Patriarch, the disciple is guilty!"
The boss is ashamed.
Xinrou was originally the heir of this patriarch's attention, and she was told thousands of times before, but she was still taken advantage of, and when she crossed the catastrophe of spring thunder, her body was destroyed, and now she has gone to the underworld.
Although this has nothing to do with him, after all, he is the head of the general affairs, and this responsibility ······ He had to admit it.
The more he felt that this position was not free, and he was more determined to go.
I already planned to take advantage of this incident to abdicate and move to the blessed land of the master, concentrating on cultivation in order to achieve the way of immortals.
However, this transfer of authority is not a matter of time and a half, and the junior disciples have not yet completed the instrument for the time being, and they still need him to take care of them for a few more years and slowly prepare.
Originally, in his mind, Xinrou was also a candidate.
At a young age, he condensed the true seed by himself, and after walking the road of seeking immortals according to the ancient method, he gave birth to the true spirit, broke through the realm and crossed the tribulation, and passed the wind tribulation, fire tribulation, and thunder tribulation respectively, and marched all the way, and in just ten years, he completed the sixty or seventy years of other ghosts and immortals, as if he was a fairy seed.
There is a saying that "too rigid and easy to break", and even he, an earth immortal, is sometimes frightened by the soft entry of the heart, and it is difficult to feel at ease.
Songshan view of the Taoist method, does not pay attention to courage and diligence, more emphasis on accumulation, lies in the stamina, in the early stage of the actual entry in more than 300 Taoist veins, does not show advantages, on the speed of the entry is just ordinary.
The reason why it can monopolize the three counties and rank in the middle stream is only because this vein method will gradually catch up after the three ghosts and immortals, and because of the solid accumulation in the early stage, there are fewer obstacles here.
As long as one or two immortals are born in the door, they will be eligible to be promoted to the upstream, and they can expand externally, occupy more shellfish farms and ore veins, and annex some small factions.
In fact, if you really think about it, among the dozens of Earth Immortal Ancestors who are still in the door today, this one in front of him has the highest merit, the most extensive supernatural powers, and the closest to the immortals.
"Although Xinrou died, after all, she had survived the three calamities before, and she was not bound by the underworld, and she was also qualified to be a righteous god, I mean to choose a Taoist couple for her, hold a dark marriage, and then help her ascend to the gods."
The golden light flashed in front of him, and there was an extra talisman in his arms.
The head of the house:
"The disciple receives the order."
When I looked up again, I saw that the girl in pink had already floated into the painting.