Chapter 55, Burning Medicine Tianzhu Mountain

An Qisheng said that there is no lingua franca in the sky, Zhang Lu was stunned for a moment, and thought that Zhang Jian was talking nonsense again, and then asked carefully, only to know that the original question and answer were not exactly the same thing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

To say that the oldest immortals at present, that is, the Queen Mother of the West and the Prince of the East, both ascended to the sky 15,000 years ago, of course, there was already a language at that time, but it is difficult to say whether there was a formed text. The pronunciation of the Qin and Han dynasties was called "ancient sound" in the phonology of later generations, the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Tang Dynasty were called "Middle Ages", and the Song Dynasty was called "modern sound", from the ancient sound to the modern Mandarin is only separated by less than 2,000 years, whether it is the initials, finals, or tones, it is already 108,000 miles away, not to mention the long time of 15,000 years?

——The folk say that the Min and Cantonese languages of later generations have retained the most ancient sounds, and this is just a matter of listening to it, and it should not be taken seriously. Not to mention the so-called reservations, at most it can be traced back to the late Middle Ages, and what has been retained is only a part of the vowel system and the tone system, which is more different than the dog and the wolf, which is simply the difference between humans and orangutans.

Therefore, if there is no set of universal pronunciation in the heavenly world, it is really inconvenient to communicate, and the so-called "Gu Immortal language" only refers to grammar, and it really doesn't do anything with pronunciation. However, the body structure of immortals is fundamentally different from that of mortals, and they communicate with their minds every day, so they don't use their vocal organs much, so the Queen Mother of the West has an older pronunciation than the ancient sound, and there are not too many obstacles to communicate with Liu Lei's immortals who speak the early pronunciation of the ancient sound, and Zhang Jian's immortals who speak the late pronunciation of the ancient sound.

Moreover, before the immortals were integrated by Liu Lei, there was not much communication between each other, each of them operated their own grammar system, which was originally in the Chinese lineage, and it was basically not a big difference in a few words - just like Zhang Lu traveled through the previous era, it was rare to be able to understand the ancient sound directly, and it was not too rare to be able to understand the ancient text directly.

As for the Gu Immortal language, it is the inheritance left by Pangu, Fuxi and other generations of Gu Immortals, only the grammar system, neither the formed text, nor the phonetics - how can there be grammar without words, Zhang Lu does not understand this, and An Qisheng does not want to explain more, only said: "The day is different, and you can know it." "The immortals inherited the legacy of the Gu Immortals, so they naturally wanted to learn the Gu Immortal language, but basically regarded it as a dead language, and they didn't use it much in their daily lives. For example, before Zhang Lu crossed over, there were many people who liked to read ancient books, and there were very few people who opened their mouths.

Therefore, An Qisheng did not intend to teach Zhang Lu Gu Xian language, and of course he would not use the grammar of Gu Xian language on a large scale in front of him - only in some cultivation tips, it was really unclear to explain the grammar system at that time, so he tried to insert part of Gu Immortal grammar. This kind of miscellaneous, Zhang Lu was very depressed when he heard it, but it was not easy to make a request: You can teach in Gu Xian, I can understand.

The heavenly world is an independent society that is different from the mortal world, and even if it is loosely structured, there is a complete set of interrelated and complete settings. Zhang Lu has always wanted to inquire about the situation, but unfortunately he followed Pei Xuanren to learn the Tao in the past, and Pei Xuanren is not an immortal, his knowledge is limited, and he has not met Zhang Jian a few times, so he only fished for some clues. This time, I took advantage of the gap in my studies to sincerely ask An Qisheng for advice - the main question is, what is the broken generation in the immortal inheritance?

It is probably basically determined that Zhang Lu is the person who destroys the evil in Tai Sui's divination, and it will not take too long to ascend to the heavenly realm, so An Qisheng does not hide his selfishness, and explains the history of the heavenly realm and the inheritance of the immortal law to Zhang Lu in detail - much more complete than what Zhang Jian and Pei Xuanren mentioned at the beginning.

There are three Gu Immortals, namely Pangu, Fuxi and Nuwa, and their legends are not limited to the heavenly realm, in fact, the mortal world is the main source. An Qisheng once heard Tiangong Liu Lei say that the pronunciation of the words "Gu", "Xi" and "Wa" was quite close in the early period of ancient sound, so Liu Lei once suspected that there was only one real Gu Immortal, and it was only three in later generations - if it is really the only one, then it can be regarded as the God of Creation, he not only opened up the world, but also created human beings, and left the inheritance of cultivating immortals.

The first generation of the present immortals were Chi Songzi, Rong Chengzi and Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, etc., all of whom directly inherited the teachings of the Gu Immortals and achieved enlightenment about 50,000 years ago. However, this inheritance suddenly produced a fault about 30,000 years ago, that is, the so-called "Jedi Heavenly Communication" in the mortal world.

According to the historical records of the mortal world, the emperor made a heavy and Li Jedi Tiantong, but in the fairy world, this matter was attributed to the present Xianyao. Legend in the mortal world, after the Yellow Emperor, there is Emperor Zhuan, after the Emperor Zhuan, there are Di Yao, Di Shun, and then to Dayu, Dayu's son Xia Qi created the first dynasty in the world - Xia Dynasty. However, according to the immortals of the Western Queen Mother and the Eastern Princes, before the Xia Dynasty, there was the Yu clan as the co-lord of the world, and before that there was the Tao Tang clan, the Yu clan called its leader Shun, and the Tao Tang clan called its leader Yao, all of which were just borrowed names - like Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, those should have been the names of immortals.

Emperor Mi, Emperor Yu, Emperor Yao, Emperor Shun, and also include Dayu, in fact, they are all immortals of the same period as Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, and may even be the same as Pangu, Fuxi, and Nuwa, but they are just different names from the same immortals. It is said that because of the prevalence of the outer ways of the mortal demon law, the Fa-rectification is not transmitted, and he or they are angry and simply cut off the passage between heaven and earth, which is equivalent to severing the bond of the Fa-rectification inheritance. Later, it was the Queen Mother of the West and the Two Immortals of the Eastern Princes who entered the Fa-rectification outside the Dao and ascended to the Heavenly Realm, so they barely connected to this fault.

But when the two old men went to the sky to take a look, they were empty, there were no immortals, and they left some relics that could be used to discover the Dharma inheritance - for example, the Queen Mother of the West directly occupied Kunlun, which was said to be the residence of the Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, and gradually transformed it into her own cave world. So, where are those Gu Immortals and the First Present Immortals? Is it the shattered void that has risen for the second time, or has it already fallen, and no one ...... Immortals know.

What's worse is that the immortals who have ascended to the sky one after another have enough wishes to live forever, because the lifespan is too long, so there is not enough motivation to dig out the truth. Moreover, the relics of the Heavenly Realm have all been studied almost well, if you want to find out the clues, it is estimated that you will have to try to break the void, but for now, no immortal can get close to that realm.

The more Zhang Lu listened, the more bizarre it became, and he felt that there was something strange in this, and he couldn't help but feel a little more curious about the heavenly realm - just like playing RPG, you have to have suspense in the plot, and the setting can't be put all at once, so that people can have the desire to continue playing. Then he turned his face and asked An Qisheng again about the question of interpretation.

But An Qisheng didn't take the teachings to heart at all: "It's just a side-door and a foreign way, what's the point?" What Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, just like the mountain gods and beasts in folklore, are just ethereal fantasies.

Zhang Lu frowned and asked: "The Buddha is poisonous from itself, and the other country is also quite vast, and there are no immortal cultivators who have attained the Tao?" He almost asked: I look at the immortals in the sky, none of them seem to be foreigners, all of them are Chinese people--in fact, to be serious, the Queen Mother of the West is also a foreigner, and the land of the Western Regions was not included in the Chinese territory until the Han Dynasty - are foreigners all scum and born without immortal fate? Fortunately, I swallowed my words in time and didn't show my stuffing.

An Qisheng shook his head: "I haven't seen it." "I've never seen an Indian become an immortal.

"Has the teacher ever been poisonous?"

"No, I didn't. ”

"Do you know any immortals who have ever been poisonous?"

"I haven't heard of it. ”

Zhang Lu asked, "You immortals have vast magical powers, why do you just wander around the Central Plains, and no one thinks about running farther? Since you haven't been there, how do you know if there are immortal cultivation seeds in India, and then whether there are people who have cultivated the immortal path?

An Qisheng laughed and said: "In the land of barbarians, leading beasts to eat people, what is the point." ”

Zhang Luxin said, unless the world I crossed over is compared to the original world, and there is not much difference in social productivity and political form in this part of China, and all other regions are unrecognizable, otherwise it is really difficult for you to say such things. Even if China is now at the forefront of world civilization, it cannot be said that India, the two rivers and the Middle East are remote and barbaric places. Pushing back further, one or two thousand years ago, it is estimated that China is still at the bottom of the "four major civilizations", and the Indians look at the Queen Mother of the West and the Prince of the East, which are the real barbarians......

Well, one day, whether it is before becoming an immortal or after ascending to the sky, I have to rush out of China, go to the world, go everywhere to have a good look, and complete the setting of this world.

Curiosity is also a kind of motivation, and Zhang Lu set his heart down and cultivated sincerely. To say that An Qisheng grasped his teaching progress very tightly, unlike when he originally followed Pei Xuanren to cultivate, Pei Xuanren was first concerned about his own cultivation, and the second was to lecture and teach his apprentices, but now An Qisheng has put all his energy on Zhang Lu, and he can't wait to stuff him as a crammer. Under the supervision of this "foreign teacher", Zhang Lu was really miserable, but he had no choice but to practice hard. In other words, although the teaching level of An Qisheng is not as good as Pei Xuanren, he has a high degree of education after all, and he is also strict, so Zhang Lu's progress is relatively rapid.

An Jisheng's main course is "smelting", which on the one hand refers to refining magic weapons as an aid to practice, and on the other hand, it refers to refining medicine—I think he used to refine medicine on the East China Sea back then. However, this "refining medicine" is not metaphysical, but metaphysical, not really referring to the refining of Jindan, but closer to the "Inner Dan Dao Method" of later generations. That is to say, use your own five organs as a furnace, absorb the aura of heaven and earth as a material, and through non-stop exercise, you will become a pill and also melt the tripod - into a pill is to nourish the essence and transform the gods, and the melting tripod is reborn.

In the current Heavenly Realm, the Queen Mother of the West and the Prince of the East are the earliest, and the Gu Immortal Inheritance is also the most complete-since they go to the heavens first, of course, they can search for the ruins first--but they have almost no intention of inheritance, and there are very few disciples. In contrast, many of the Immortal Ascenders who have taken a step later do have a broad desire to carry forward the righteous path - of course, it is just a wish, and there is neither a sense of urgency nor a certain amount of motivation.

In this way, two of the largest inheritance systems have been formed. One of them is to Lao Tzu as the first ancestor, Lao Tzu passed on Long Wei Zhangren, after ascending to heaven for the second time, Mr. Wen Shi, Long Wei Zhangren passed on Tiangong Liu Lei, Liu Lei passed on Taisu Zhenren, Taisu Zhenren passed on Zhang Jian, Pei Xuanren, etc. - this is the immortal Taoist system that Zhang Lu initially accepted. As for the historical books, An Qisheng came from the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu, but it was just a false rumor.

An Qisheng's faction, the first ancestor was Peng Zu who was enlightened in the Xuzhou region today, so there are many disciples. Peng Zu passed on Juanzi, Juanzi passed on to the Duke of Heshang, and the Duke of Heshang passed on An Qisheng...... In fact, Yu Ji and Zuo Ci, theoretically, are also from this faction.

Of course, in the heavenly world, the immortals are equal (before Liu Lei seized power), the difference between these two factions is like a group of scholars in later generations who mainly studied quantum physics, and a group of scholars who studied the theory of relativity, and there are no deep barriers between each other, and there is no internal talk about master and apprentice father and son. Liu Lei scolded Zhang Jian, not because the victim was his own apprentice (the mortal world is different), and Zhang Jian was not because he was an inherited Liu Lei's immortal way, and if he resisted, he would be scolded by the immortals - as for the mortal world, Liang Rengong later parted ways with Kang Nanhai, and was abused by a vote of old-school scholars for nearly a hundred years.

As the saying goes: "I love my teacher, but I love the truth even more." ”

It is also the same: "The vassals of my vassals are not my vassals." It can be replaced with: "My apprentice's apprentice is not my apprentice, and my teacher's teacher is not my ancestor." "The teacher led me into the door, and the master was still in the sky at that time, what kind of grace did he have for me?

Immortals are also made by mortals, and they will inevitably be affected by the social environment in their mortal stage, mortal masters and apprentices, like father and son, although the heavenly realm does not care about this, but the teacher is kind to me after all, and it should be respected. As for the ancestors, or even the first ancestors, that's another matter.

Of course, Zhang Lu's moral system is very different from that of Zhang Jian, Pei Xuanren, and even the new teacher An Qisheng. Besides, he really didn't have much affection for those heavenly immortals, he just felt that they were a group of lazy people who were self-contained, lacked long-term goals and self-motivation - fortunately, they didn't stop mortals from making progress, but they didn't really bother to help. If he hadn't mentioned the word "white sparrow" in the prophecy, and the name had the same name—maybe it wasn't a coincidence—then would Zhang Jian force himself to learn immortals?

There is a price for teaching yourself to become an immortal, and in the future, you will have to be a pioneer to destroy trouble, and the utilitarian heart is so obvious, it is no wonder that the drama of fighting for power and profit has finally been staged, and Zhang Lu does not have too much good impression of the teacher. Besides, An Qisheng almost whipped himself with a whip, forced him to work hard, and just sat on the stove and exercised his body and mind, and did not teach any Taoist magic powers at all.

In this way, time flies, and in the blink of an eye, there are twelve cold summers. Let's say that on this day, Zhang Lu was teasing a white rabbit outside the cave in his cultivation time - to say that when An Qisheng led him to Tianzhu Mountain, he blasted out all the beasts that originally inhabited the cave, but he left a little rabbit cub, the hair on his body has not yet grown, and a pair of small eyes are red, blinking, I don't know if he was born like this, or if he was separated from his parents and cried red-eyed...... Zhang Lu saw that it was really pitiful, so he put it away for the time being.

Cultivating in the mountains, life is really boring, and it is a good way to relax and relax when you are idle to tease your pets. Besides, rabbits are not difficult to raise, and there is a lot of grass in the mountains to eat, so Zhang Lu does not need to spend too much heart.

But twelve years passed, and the little rabbit gradually grew into a big rabbit, and then into an old rabbit. In the past few days, the old rabbit has eaten and drunk less, and the hair on his body is about to fall off, and he lies motionless all day long. Zhang Lu pondered, estimating that his life was coming to an end, and couldn't help but sigh: "When you hang up, I will be even more lonely...... An Qisheng is really not a good teacher, and he doesn't know the truth of combining work and rest. I think that when I was above Zhongding, I could still talk to Pei Xuanren about books and gossip, and I could go back to the mountain every once in a while, but now I am like a prisoner......"

At this moment, Zhang Lu was somewhat startled when he suddenly heard a phlegm cough behind him—fortunately, his voice was very low, and he was not afraid of being listened to by An Qisheng. Quickly left the rabbit, straightened up, and turned to salute: "Sir." ”

An Qisheng nodded at him and beckoned him into the cave. After sitting down, An Qisheng asked, "How old are you when you go up the mountain with me?" Zhang Luxin said why did he suddenly ask this......? Do you want me to go down the mountain? I can't help but be overjoyed......