Chapter 2 What is the Son of Heaven?
"There are so many books that you can't finish reading them in a lifetime. β
Gu Chensha sat casually on the ground and looked through a broken book, surrounded by heavy halls, and the scrolls in each hall were piled up.
This is the place where the "Tianfu Canon" is compiled and the books of the world are stacked.
He was punished for three days sorting out books.
The emperor showed off his martial arts, first, to expand his territory, for martial arts. The second is to compile books, that is, Wenzhi.
In the fourth year of Tianfu, he began to gather countless well-educated Confucians, collect books from all over the world, and compile canons.
In the past ten years, a cartload of books has been pulled from all over the country to the capital, piling up a large area of the palace.
Of course, the valuable martial arts classics and Taoist books and immortal chapters have been screened out and collected into the secret land of the royal family, and the rest are all miscellaneous books of the three religions and nine streams.
Because they are leftovers, the books are neglected and insects are gradually grown.
Although he was punished to sort out the books for three days, a few little eunuchs wandered around here and did not come to care for him.
He was reading a book at random, which was a notebook of old people from the previous dynasty, introducing cultivation and martial arts.
"Cultivation is divided into the mortal realm and the path realm. The mortal realm is fourfold, the first glimpse of the doorway, the hall and the room, out of the spirit, and the peak. And then upward, that is to enter the Tao with martial arts, and step into the Dao realm, there are thirty-six changes.
If you change into 'convincing the valley', you don't eat the fireworks of the world, and absorb the aura of heaven and earth.
The second change is "nine cows and two tigers", and the whole body has the power of nine cows and two tigers.
Three changes of 'copper skin and iron bones', invulnerable.
The four changes of 'gold-swallowing fossils' are viscera as powerful as a furnace, and they can be melted by swallowing gold and stones.
If you can cultivate to the realm of spiritual energy filling with a hundred acupoints, then the whole person will be reborn.
Six changes 'refining qi into gang', after the spirit gathers a hundred tricks, the aura circulates endlessly in the body, and gradually cultivates and grows to the limit, it can be sprayed out, turned into gangqi, and sends out a hundred-step divine fist, shattering people in the air. The so-called Gangqi, also known as true qi, means true.
Seven changes 'off the ground', the true qi grows again, surrounds the body, can hold up the body, stand in the air, and have the ability to fly for a short time.
Eight changes 'Samadhi True Fire', the whole body is full of true qi, producing the inner house true fire, burning from the inside to the outside, inch by inch, smelting the body.
Nine changes 'glazed jade body', after the real fire refining body, after passing the last level, the whole body is as crystal as glass, no illness and no harm, and a long life of three to five hundred years without dying.
As people cultivate deeply, they will develop various abilities, and the ancient sages recorded these changes in cultivation, forming thirty-six changes.
In the end, the thirty-six changes can be 'reborn with broken limbs', 'reborn with blood', 'immortal body', 'out of the body', 'borrowing corpses to return souls', 'size wishes', 'void creation', and 'opening up the cave sky', which is the real immortal means."
After reading this notebook, he closed it and said in a low voice: "The change in the Dao realm is really amazing, but it's a pity that my martial arts are mediocre now, and I am just getting a glimpse of the door." Forget it, these clichΓ©s are not much to look at. β
Throwing the notes down, he looked for a book again.
Regarding the thirty-six changes in the Dao realm, there have been many records since ancient times, but there are very few people who have cultivated it.
He looked left and right, looking for books everywhere, and suddenly he stumbled, and a pile of books collapsed, covered in dust, and blinded his eyes.
"When people are unlucky, they will choke to death if they really drink cold water. β
He hurriedly sorted out the broken books from the dust pile, and suddenly felt something strange to the touch of his hands.
"What kind of material is this? It's not silk, it's not linen, it's not leather?"
He pulled out a yellowed scroll from the corner, and he couldn't make out the name, but it was moth-eaten with small holes everywhere, and the font on it was small, like a mosquito and a fly.
"What is the Son of Heaven? Only those who collect the culmination of a certain family of knowledge can be called a son, such as the hundred schools of thought in ancient times. And the Son of Heaven is the one who gathers the great achievements of the Heavenly Dao, holds the power of Heaven in his hand, holds the Heavenly Constitution in his mouth, lives and dies with one thought, and canonizes the gods by the heart, this is the Son of Heaven. Isn't it ridiculous that the current emperor established the country by conspiracy and killing, and ruled over all mortals, also known as the Son of Heaven?"
"It turns out that the meaning of the Son of Heaven is like this!" Gu Chensha read the two sentences of the notes of this unknown scroll and found it interesting, "The Son of Heaven is the incarnation of the way of heaven, and it is indeed not comparable to the emperor of the world, the emperor of the world cannot be called the son of heaven at all, the son, the master of learning, or even the ancestor of opening up knowledge, such as the patriarch of the Legalist family, called the Dharma, and the patriarch of Confucianism, which is the Confucian." The Heavenly Dao Patriarch is the Son of Heaven. The strongest place of the Son of Heaven is that the gods can be canonized, and there are many true gods in ancient times, all of whom were canonized by the ancient Son of Heaven, and they still enjoy incense. β
Thinking about it, he continued to look down.
"In ancient times, there was an edict to worship the heavens, and it was ordered by the heavens, which was the condensation of the essence of the heavenly way, giving all sentient beings a chance to become the son of heaven, as long as they could get the edict of the heavenly talismans, so as to communicate with the heavens, gradually cultivate, and understand the way of heaven"
Seeing this, Gu Chensha closed the broken scroll, "I know the edict of sacrificing to the heavens, whoever can get it is the Son of Heaven, and then the edict was lost, and the emperor replaced it with a jade seal." The four characters on the jade seal, ordered by the sky, are the font on the edict of the heavens. β
The emperor sacrificed to the sky, and the opening words were: "Chen so-and-so, subject to the edict of heaven, the prime minister of the river and mountain"
But since ancient times, this edict has disappeared, and the emperors of the past dynasties have not actually been canonized by heaven, but only rely on force and power to sit on the throne.
Now the emperor of the Dayong Dynasty, Gu Taxian, the year name is "Tianfu", which means that he wants to find the edict of the heavenly talisman, and he will become the son of heaven with a good name.
"Take this book back and read it. He patted the dust on his body, put the book in his pocket, and turned back to the yard.
At present, he is only fourteen years old, and he can only live in a remote courtyard next to the palace.
And when he becomes an adult at the age of fifteen, he will be able to open a house, start a family, and at the same time canonize a knighthood and receive fixed money and food, and then life will be better.
Of course, with his identity, if he wants to be crowned a prince and a county king, then don't think about it, it's good to be a Feng'en general.
The titles of the imperial court clan are divided into prince, county king, Zhenguo Gong, auxiliary Guogong, Zhenguo General, Auxiliary General, Fengguo General, and Feng'en General.
Only particularly favored princes can be crowned kings at birth, while ordinary princes are first crowned with low-class titles, which are not hereditary, and then decrease.
His small courtyard was on the northernmost edge of the palace, with only two or three rooms, and it was empty, and there were no palace maids and eunuchs waiting in sight.
He is not favored, his monthly money is often deducted, and he has no maternal support, he is unlucky, who will follow him?
Unlike some princes and mothers, who are rich enough to rival the country, they are generous, cultivate power, and dominate the palace.
The yard is also cluttered. Weeds are everywhere, emerging from crevices in the stone slabs, swaying in the wind, and birds such as sparrows are searching for grass seeds to eat.
At night, foxes and badgers are infested, and snakes and insects crawl.
The northern side of the palace is sparsely populated, connected by woods and lakes, and is eerie during the day and even haunted at night, leaving even the daring guards with palpitations.
Gu Chensha doesn't care, it's cleaner to hide here to avoid disaster.
As soon as I entered the small courtyard, a little eunuch came over, holding a big rooster in his hand, oh oh oh, oh, and immediately bent down when he saw him: "Nineteen masters, there are chickens to eat today, Shang Shan Jian bought a lot of fresh vegetables today, I said a lot, and finally gave us a chicken." β
Gu Chensha couldn't be happy, and sighed: "Little Yizi, you have been loyal to me for so long, and I haven't given you any benefits, and you are still being bullied everywhere." β
This little righteous son was the only eunuch who was willing to follow him, and he had been for many years.
"Master, don't say that, I'm just a dispensable leper dog, only Master treats me as a person, dare I be disloyal?" Xiao Yizi hurriedly knelt down: "Master, this yard is too barren, do you want to pull down the grass?"
"As the saying goes, if you don't sweep a house, you can't sweep the world, I just make this place more desolate, making people feel that I am decadent as death, so that there are many fewer troubles. Gu Chensha was deeply skilled: "Get up." β
"The little one understands. β
Xiao Yizi stood up, cold and unguarded his hands from slipping, and the big rooster suddenly flew up and pounced towards the ancient dust and sand.
Giggles!
The chicken feet scratched hard in the face.
In a hurry, Gu Chensha blocked it with his hand, and his claws bloodily grabbed a large piece of the flesh on his hand.
Brush!
He pulled out the dagger from his sleeve and cut the neck of the big rooster with the move of "sweeping a thousand armies".
His martial arts are mediocre, but he has also practiced hard, and he still has the power to bind chickens.
The neck of the big rooster was cut, and the blood of the chicken was spilled on his body.
"The little ones should be damned, the little ones should be damned!" the little Yizi was so frightened that his soul was not possessed.
"Get up, what is this? Gu Chensha didn't care: "You cleaned up the big and cooked it, I'll go back to the room to bandage the wound and change clothes." β
He was mixed with chicken blood, and his body was really not presentable.
Go back to the room and take off your clothes, the book fell down, and there was blood on it, and there was a faint flash of light.
Gu Chensha bent down and picked it up.
As soon as the hand touched the book, boom! The blue flame burned on it, the book had been burned, and a cyan scroll appeared, which was neither gold nor iron, nor silk nor hemp, and there were four words on it, as if the birds were soaring.
"Ancient ornithography?" Gu Chensha recognized, this is the most mysterious text in ancient times, birds can fly, communicate with the sky.
The word is in the shape of a bird, which is to uphold the will of heaven.
"Ordered by the heavens! This is the edict of the heavens!"
He stammered and couldn't believe his eyes.
Because the four words on the scroll are "Commanded by Heaven".
Unexpectedly, this thing that the emperors of the past dynasties pursued all their lives was actually hidden in the broken book.
If you get this edict and cultivate hard, you can become a son of heaven.
Without this talisman, no matter how powerful and vast the territory is, he is still the emperor, not the Son of Heaven.
The emperor is the emperor, and the Son of Heaven is the Son of Heaven.
Because the emperor can only order mortals, and the Son of Heaven can canonize the gods with an edict in his hand!
The Son of Heaven is a god.
Only the gods who hold this edict and canonize are true gods, and other than that, they are all false gods.
Even now, one of the ten great feats of the Emperor of Tianfu, "Abolishing obscenity to seal the gods", is just cleaning up those evil gods and demons who have not been canonized by the ancient emperor of heaven, not really canonizing the true gods himself, and he has no edict to worship the heavens.
The true authority of the Son of Heaven is not to rule over mortals, but to canonize the gods.
Otherwise, how can you be called the Son of Heaven?
Gu Chensha put this thing away, calmed down from the initial excitement, and sighed long: "Sheji artifact, the virtuous person lives in it, and it may not need any heavenly talismans." β
Just as he put it away, a phantom of a big rooster suddenly appeared on the edict, circulating and flowing, and inhaling it.
After the humming talisman sucked the shadow of the big rooster, an inexplicable warm current passed out of the air and injected into the body of Gu Chensha.
He couldn't help but moan, only to feel the strength of a rooster increase.
"Is it true that the records of the ancient history books are true? The ancient emperor, killing living beings and sacrificing blood to the heavens on top of the edict can obtain the power of that living being?"
Just now he killed the big rooster, and the blood stained the broken book, and the big rooster caught himself with blood, and it was also stained, mixed together, and it formed a small sacrifice.
This is equivalent to the ancient dust and sand being sacrificed to the heavens, and naturally they will receive gifts from the heavens.
The edict of the heavenly sacrifice was also stimulated.
Gu Chensha is the prince, and he has followed the emperor to worship the sky many times, but he has not seen any vision, and the heavens have not given the emperor anything, which is the reason why there is no edict to worship the sky.
Without this edict, no one can communicate with the heavens.
After getting the legendary edict of sacrificing to the heavens, Gu Chensha did not have the intention of becoming an emperor, and it was undoubtedly his own death to win the heir with his current small strength.
Besides, he doesn't have any idea about the throne, and he is still in the stage of survival.
Gu Chensha is a prince after all, although he has pretended to be crazy and stupid all these years, he has actually secretly studied and practiced martial arts, and martial arts are limited to resources and cannot be improved, but he has really read a lot.
"As a prince, I originally practiced the pills and supplements that I deserved, but all of them were deducted, and now I have just got a glimpse of the way of martial arts, with this edict of sacrificing to the heavens, I can follow the example of the ancient emperors, kill fierce beasts and sacrifice to the sky, pray for the blessings of all people, and cultivate divine skills. However, you can't sacrifice to the heavens in the palace, otherwise you will be accused of practicing witchcraft and will be given death. It seems that the only way to go hunting in Nanshan is to go. β
The palace is the most taboo witchcraft.
Gu Chensha must not be caught.
He didn't think about offering the edict of the heavenly sacrifice talisman.
If it is dedicated, it will definitely cause a sensation in the government and the opposition, and it will also make great achievements, and it is certain that he will be canonized as a prince, but what is the use of that? If he has no strength himself, the prince will be deprived at any time, and he will be framed and given death with a word, can you resist?
It is even possible that someone will be impeached in the future for the crime of possessing a private artifact and plotting misdeeds.
When I use the edict of the Heaven Sacrifice Talisman to cultivate the Dao Realm first, and become stronger, I will not be slaughtered by others. β