Chapter 61: The Struggle for Divergent Paths

Great Xia Dynasty, Yingdu. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A city that has been inherited for thousands of years, it has been built magnificently and in good order. There are 800 miles of Bianshui in the outer city to surround the entire Yingdu, forming a natural moat, and after the Bianshui, it is the inner city wall of Yingdu.

The huge city wall is like a black dragon between heaven and earth, and people look as small as ants in front of the city wall, because the city wall is too high, and if you look up from the bottom of the city wall, there is a sense of oppression that it will overturn. The huge bricks of several inches thick were built on top of each other, and although they had passed through thousands of years, they still glowed with a dark luster.

The bricks were made of obsidian brought from the Tianfeng Mountains, which was hard and more resistant to fire, and ordinary swords only broke a black spot on it. The surface of the stone is smooth and flat, glowing with a long black light, the gap between the stones outlines the mortar made of glutinous rice mixed with clay and charcoal, which is as hard as a stone after drying, and perfectly connects countless flat stones together, and the whole city wall is flat like a whole, like a huge black dragon entrenched in the north of the dynasty, and the obsidian is the dragon scales, shining with a dark light in the sun.

Taiyi Daoren and his junior brother Renkui entered Yingdu through the city gate under the black dragon. Go straight to the Sanqing Taoist altar and participate in the five-year Borderless Festival.

The Sanqing Taoist altar is in the north of Yingdu, corresponding to the imperial palace in the south. A large expanse of imposing buildings is lined up one after another. Roughly centered on three halls, divided into three areas in the east and west, these three Huanghuang Taoist halls are the three temples of the Sanqing Daomen of the Great Xia Dynasty, the heavenly god temple, the earth god temple, and the human god temple.

The so-called Sanqing, the sky refers to the sun, the moon, the stars, the ground refers to the sky, the earth, people, the Sanqing Daomen is named after the Taoist temple. Each of the three temples has different powers, with the Temple of the Celestial God having the most power, in charge of divination, focusing on matters of the future, and adjudicating and punishing those who violate the way of heaven.

The Earth God Temple is in charge of all the finances of the Sanqing Daomen, and specifically manages countless Dao halls, temples, real estates and Daomen magic weapons distributed throughout the continent.

The temple of people is in charge of the monks of the Sanqing Daomen, explains the practice of the Sanqing Daomen, keeps all kinds of documents and classics, and is responsible for the dismissal and promotion of the Daomen personnel in various places.

The main content of the Wujiang Dharma is that the bishops and door masters of the Taoist halls from all over the country go to Beijing to report on their work, so they are held in the temple of the human god.

Countless large and small Taoist halls are solemn and solemn, arranged in an orderly manner around the tall and majestic human and divine halls, on both sides of the Shinto road that are dozens of zhang wide, the tall birch trees are swaying, and there are Taoist towers, sacred monuments, and Huabiao between the green leaves. In the Heavenly Empire, the supreme majesty of the Ten Thousand Years God Cult is undoubtedly evident in all the buildings and details.

In the wide dome-shaped temple, there are three layers of black circular stone seats, the stone seats are carved with gorgeous and dense gold ornaments, the first layer is all dressed in purple, which is the purple-clothed archbishop, the second layer is the Tsing Yi Pope, and the bottom layer is the gray-clothed master.

After the solemn fairy music, the blue light in the main hall gradually flourished, and the sunlight from the top of the dome through complex refraction, emitting a green light on the dome inlaid with formations, illuminating the entire hall.

The popes of the four major states and counties, the world's famous mountains and rivers, described in detail the situation of the Daodian sect in the past five years.

As if in the sky, the three popes sitting on the top divine seat listened to the reports of their subordinates expressionlessly, and the old face of the Heavenly Dao God Emperor Ming Huayu was full of exhaustion, and his eyes were slightly closed, as if he was about to fall asleep.

Liangzhou Pope Araki Daoren is tall and majestic, standing on the green jade god couch painted with the Wuji Nine Stars Diagram in the middle of the temple, the purple Taoist robe moves without wind, and after completing the routine debriefing, he has conducted a comprehensive and thorough analysis of the world's cultivation sects, and he is quite dissatisfied with the management of the main altar of the Taoist Hall in recent years.

Some of the dozens of purple bishops had flat faces, as if they didn't understand the meaning of Bishop Araki's words, and a few of them had sincere sorrow on their faces.

"The discipline of the imperial court is completely lost, and it is unable to dominate the various cultivation sects, and the Dongcheng Courtyard is even more of a shrunken turtle. The Sanqing Daomen is the head of the sects in the world, how can we watch the sects fighting and the people suffer! It is really urgent to reorganize the apologetic cavalry!"

What was originally a normal Boundless Festival was interpreted by several purple-clothed bishops led by Araki Daoren into a discussion of the general trend of cultivation in the world. And about the future of the Sanqing Daomen, about the battles in the imperial court, and about the judgment of the world's cultivation sects, they are actually all matters of the Heavenly God Temple.

Therefore, no matter how everyone argues, in the end, it depends on the will of one of the three major popes known as the "Ming Emperor", the Pope of the Temple of Heaven, Ming Huayu.

When everyone's dispute gradually subsided, Ming Huayu, who was leaning on the throne of the god, slowly opened his eyes, and in an instant, there were stars twinkling in his eyes, and clouds were born and died in his eyes. A faint blue light shone on the extremely ordinary brown linen clothes, and an old and majestic voice came from the vast Dao Hall.

Emperor Ming stretched out his old fingers, pointed obliquely at the clouds above the dome, and said slowly: "The stars of the sea have their own origin and extinction. The general trend of the world has its own ups and downs. There is a summer dynasty, which has been dark for thousands of years, and it can be slowed down, not urgent. ”

After speaking, he closed his eyes again, and the majestic aura in the Dao Hall seemed to have decreased a little, and Bishop Araki, who was standing on the green jade god collapse, straightened his robe, knelt down respectfully, and expressed his supreme respect to the Pope.

The two Popes of the Human God Temple and the Earth God Temple nodded calmly at the same time.

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After the Boundless Puja ended, a middle-aged Taoist priest hurriedly walked towards the depths of the Heavenly God Temple with a book in his hand.

In the books are the visions and events reported by the bishops to the Temple of the Celestial Gods. For events sorted by trunk and branch, the top three are written.

Jiazi: In the fourth year of Chunhua, there was a black evil descending from the Tianfeng Mountain Range.

Yi Chou: In the second year of Chunhua, the sect at the foot of Yunmeng Mountain was fighting, fighting for fame and fortune, and the hyena Daomen took the opportunity to slaughter the world, killing 3,600 people.

Bingyin: In the early years of Chunhua, the water of the Netherworld Lake deepened, and there were black clouds rolling in the water, which was inexplicable.

Under the Bingyin entry, the names of two people are clearly marked in delicate regular script, Taiyi and Renkui.

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Xu Feng was still immersed in a daze, thinking that he would become a disciple of Ling Xuge so smoothly, but he was awakened by a loud roar in the mountains.

The bright mountains suddenly became dark, a gust of wind blew, the grass and trees flew, Xu Feng's eyes were dark, and he saw a person coming down from the sky.

A tall and strong black-clothed Daoist girl appeared in the middle of the field, her fat body was about to tear the wide black Dao robe, her black face was full of righteousness and determination, and a pair of leopard eyes shot a terrifying light.

In stark contrast to the black-clothed Daoist who is a strong man, and the beautiful white-clothed Daogu, as soon as the two met, the atmosphere in the venue was suddenly tense.

These two people were the two elders under the Lingxu Pavilion Sect Master. Five years ago, the Pavilion Master broke through the retreat.

Unexpectedly, the situation in the world has changed greatly in the past five years, and the Sanqing Daomen have gradually lost their restraint on the world's cultivation sects, and there have been more and more battles between the various sects in the Yunmeng Mountain Range. Because the two have different understandings of the sect's prohibitions, and because of their different temperaments, they are like fire and water with each other, each representing a force, and they are in dispute.

For a few years, other gangs took advantage of the chaotic situation, and many went down the mountain to seize the fields and expand their power, and even entered other gangs to enjoy the cultivation resources, due to the different opinions of the two elders, the powerful Lingxu Pavilion not only did not develop, but was bullied by other sects, and has been in the midst of infighting.

The black and strong Daogu Fa is upright, although he looks ugly, he is in charge of the sect's precept hall, he is upright, and he has a high prestige among many disciples. has always strictly adhered to the ancestral precept that men are not allowed to enter Jade Peak.

The beautiful middle-aged Taoist aunt named Miaoyu originally devoted herself to cultivation and did not ask about sectarian affairs, but because of her profound Taoism and modesty, she was promoted to the front by a group of disciples at a critical juncture in the development of the sect.

"Miaoyu, you are getting bolder and bolder, and the little white face has been seduced to the ancestral holy land by you!"

Miaoyu obviously not the first time she was said like this, and said with a slight smile: "If you don't seduce in front of the Twelve Ancestors, you don't bother to deal with you idiot." ”