Chapter 17: Maoshan Sect

"Maoshan outcasts? Master, since Uncle Shi has been abandoned by the Mountain Gate, what are we going to do with him? "I secretly thought that the cheap master must have committed some kind of sect rules or something, otherwise how could he be abandoned by the Maoshan Sect?

The cold moonlight sprinkled down, the mountain road was rugged, Master and I walked extremely hard, secluded and deep mountains, just the two of us, walking on the mountain road non-stop, although the surrounding scene was full of gloomy atmosphere, but now that I am with a group of Maoshan Grandmasters, naturally there will be no more fear.

When the master heard me ask, he sighed softly: "It's not that the mountain gate abandoned him, but that he voluntarily abandoned the mountain gate and became an ordinary secular man, the seventh day of the first month, speaking of your master, as a teacher, I should also tell you about the history of our Maoshan Sect. ”

Looking at Master's posture of sighing for a long time, I couldn't interrupt his words, so I could only listen to him tell him about the origin of the founding of the Maoshan Sect and the extremely legendary history of its rise and fall.

During the Western Han Dynasty, the three brothers of the Mao family in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, Mao Ying, Mao Gu, and Mao Zhen came to the county to cultivate and do good, benefiting the world, and the descendants changed the sentence to the three Mao Mountain, referred to as Mao Mountain, and the three brothers of the Mao family were also called the ancestors of Maoshan Taoism by later generations.

After Qi Liang hermit Tao Hongjing set Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism three founded the Taoist Maoshan School, since the Tang and Song dynasties, Maoshan has been listed as Taoism's "first blessed land, the eighth cave sky"!

The Maoshan Sect produced many talents, and its influence expanded day by day, and it flourished in the Tang and Song dynasties. Tang Dynasty Maoshan Taoist Wang Yuanzhi, Pan Shizheng, Sima Chengzhen, Li Hanguang, etc., especially the Song Dynasty Maoshan School masters of the past dynasties were given the title of "Mr" by the Song Dynasty, and Liu Mingkang was at the peak of his prime.

Maoshan sect from the Southern Dynasty Liang to the Northern Song Dynasty, flourishing for hundreds of years, has been the mainstream of Taoism, after the Southern Song Dynasty, gradually declined, but still inherited, and sometimes there is a high Taoist name in the world, Maoshan sect inherited the Shangqing faction, is the Shangqing faction to Maoshan as the development center of another name, introduced into later generations, since the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Taoist inheritance was strongly rejected by the rulers, so the germination of Maoshan many schools, but the Maoshan sect's "Shangqing Dadong Zhenjing" has been passed down to this day, known for Maoshan Xianzong, Maoshan sect has a total of 45 generations of heirs, the first generation is called Taishi, The second generation is called the Xuan Master, the third generation is called the True Master, and the subsequent generations are called the Grandmasters.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the dispute between the orthodox Taoism of Maoshan Xianzong and Tantra gradually appeared, Xianzong adhered to the "Shangqing Dadong True Scripture" to think about the gods, alchemy, chanting the scriptures, and Tantra to practice secret arts, jade talismans, ancient forbidden mantras are hidden, why today the real Taoist priests are becoming less and less, but those fake Taoist priests, true gods are becoming more and more rampant, so that the world's misunderstanding of Maoshan deepens, the good Maoshan Sect is unrecognizable, smoky miasma, traced back to the source, can not escape the mysterious and legendary secret controversy.

The so-called secret controversy, is the Maoshan two branches of the sect and Tantra for the battle for the Maoshan orthodox door and the constant open and secret fighting, to say why the fight, there is no other reason, but the two major branches of the sect do not have the orthodox Taoist sect handed down the head of the token, speaking of the head of the token, then to mention the two words "secret manifestation", originally Maoshan opened the patriarch since the creation of the school, there is no distinction between the sect and the tantra, it is precisely because of the rise and fall of the history of hundreds of years, in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the cultivators were mostly excluded, but also the period of decline of the Maoshan faction.

Maoshan disciples have no source of survival, until they are broken and withered, disciples or run away, or with a secret volume to set up their own portal, in short, to later, to Maoshan as the name of the major schools have appeared in the world, such as the Ten Thousand Souls, Ruyimen, Nine Dragons Sect, Dragon and Tiger Sect, etc., but they are all into their own faction, and still attached to the Maoshan portal of the two branches of Tantra and Xianzong, has been looking for the famous Maoshan Zhenshan Eight Treasures, as well as the secret token "secret compass".

I widened my eyes slightly and said, "Master, then you came to Eighteen Mile Village this time because you think your Maoshan is wrong...... One of the tokens of our Maoshan faction is in Eighteen Mile Village? ”

Hearing this, the master shook his head and said, "It's not just me who is wrong, but even Gu Tan, who is now in charge of the Xianzong, is also wrong, but there is no reason why we are all mistaken, alas! I really don't know where the secret compass is now......"

I hurriedly asked, "Master, do you know what the Tantric Compass looks like?" For example, whether it is square or round, thin or thick, black or white, is it ......"

Master's eyes suddenly widened, I stuck out my tongue, swallowed the unfinished words into my stomach, only to hear the master reprimand: "The secret compass is one of the tokens of the master, you must not use words to play with it, but really to talk about it, I really don't know what the secret compass is, I once heard my master say that the secret compass has transcended a 'fan' word, because he is not gold, wood, copper, iron, not in the five elements, but can accurately calculate the trend of the five elements, with it, and then find the other eight tokens, you can carry forward the Maoshan Sect......"

I opened my mouth slightly and said, "And then?" ”

"Boom!" I bared my teeth in pain, but saw the master glaring at me again, and said, "How can there be so many then!" Hurry up! ”

"Huh?" Suddenly, the master stopped, only to see him reach out and touch his forehead, then put it in front of his nose and sniffed it, and immediately said angrily: "Bird?!" How can there be bird poop in the middle of the night? ”

Immediately, the master pinched his fingers and counted, but he said even more suspiciously: "Today is Bingzi Day, and I don't rush to it, how can it be ...... On the seventh day of the first month, you ...... You'd better walk slowly, if you get too close, even the gods will be unlucky. ”

After speaking, the master smiled apologetically at me, and immediately hurried forward, I was left behind a long distance, and shouted a few words silently at the master's back angrily, and then followed helplessly, no way, who made the family the master......

After leaving the small mountain village and the place where I had lived for sixteen years, I found that the outside world was so big, so big that I couldn't imagine that the lonely life since I was a child had cultivated the foundation that I could quickly adapt to all harsh environments, and I walked with Master Yang Yuanshan for three days and two nights, and seeing the third night gradually coming, I couldn't help but gasp and shout: "Master, why don't we always walk the mountain road to drill the old mountain forest, can't we take a normal road to rest?" ”

In front of me is an endless deep mountain and old forest, although the moonlight is getting brighter and cleaner day by day, but in this case it is difficult to see the sky outside through the layers of branches and leaves, hearing my voice, Yang Yuanshan stopped, turned to look at me, and smiled indifferently: "This is not the way?" If there is someone who needs your rescue from a hundred miles away, you have delayed the big thing like this, and it won't ruin the reputation of my Maoshan Sect? ”

I said with some grievances: "Master, how can I compare with your old man with my stature?" Besides, you still have such a powerful spell protection, I ...... now There's only one sigil on the belly! ”

Saying that, I was really tired, so I found a big stone and sat down, and unbuttoned my jacket, which I don't know, but it scared me to the blue face at a glance, only to see that there was a black dot the size of a fist under the strange amulet, and it was like a mark, I am now too sensitive to black, especially this black mark that I don't know when it appeared, it seems that there are fine black threads around the mark that are spreading outward, I just shivered all over my body, and hurriedly shouted: "Master, Look what this is?! ”

Yang Yuanshan walked up to me and looked at it seriously, then stood up and said: "It is the yin evil qi suppressed by the Heavenly Master True Person Talisman, if the talisman disappears, then the yin evil qi will instantly control your mind, and the consequences are unimaginable......

When I heard this, I jumped up, and my voice trembled and said, "Master, you see that we have been walking for three days in a row, and I have sweated a lot, and I see that this amulet is about to fade, why don't you draw another one for me?" ”

Yang Yuanshan shook his head and said: "The charm has no power to undertake, so it is useless to draw now, now you still have four days, we have to find a place to help you expel these evil qi as soon as possible!" ”

After speaking, Yang Yuanshan glanced at the dark mountains and forests in the distance, and then nodded and said: "Well, if we don't stop halfway, we can reach Gupao Town in two days, your uncle lives in Gupao Town, we can rest at ease when we go to him, and then I will dispel the evil qi for you, if your master is happy, maybe the thing I thought about will come to pass, hehe, let's go." ”