Chapter 53: Searching for Buddha in a Foreign Land
Zhang Lu came back to his senses from the "film" shown by Zhang Jian, and saw that Zhang Jianchen was slowly removing his hands from his temples on both sides. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info Zhang Lu couldn't help but ask in a low voice: "If you demonstrate here with me for a long time, won't Tiangong really find out?" Zhang Jian smiled: "I should draw a circle, that is, isolate your connection with heaven and earth; However, if you are out of the circle, you don't dare to speak boldly. ”
As he spoke, he took a step back, walked out of the circle, and arched his hand towards Zhang Lu: "This world is real, not false, the earl should stop being confused, and cultivate with peace of mind." Really quit. "He has changed back to Wang Zhen's identity.
Zhang Lu waved his hand and lowered his voice: "Then how will we contact each other in the future?"
Wang Zhen (Zhang Jian) smiled slightly: "In the future, if you have a fate, you can see you again." After saying that, he left without looking back.
Zhang Lu was still standing in place, not out of the circle for the time being, just scratching his chin and pondering. After recombing Zhang Jian's "film" and voiceover, he roughly figured it out: Zhang Tingchen is for revenge, for revenge, or for revenge, or even maybe he is really ambitious, he hooked up with himself, just so that one day he can really take the throne of heaven in the future, in response to the rumors!
So, is this rumor of "the elder holding the bow" talking about Yi or the surname Zhang? If it refers to the surname Zhang, does he have this blessing?
First of all, no matter whether this rumor should be on him or not, Tiangong will inevitably be unable to let go of the doubts in his heart and will not let himself go easily. What do you think, Zhang Jian is not only his disciple grandson, but also driven by him, like a subordinate, and personally came to the door to report the results of the investigation, swearing that he had no ambition, Liu Lei said that he would be destroyed, and he would be destroyed if he said that he would be destroyed, not to mention himself - I had only met with Tiangong, he couldn't even believe Zhang Jian, how could he trust himself?
The emperor's suspicion has always been the most serious, and later Emperor Yang of Sui slaughtered the important minister Li Hun for a rumor of "Li should be the Son of Heaven", Li Yuan escaped not necessarily because he was Yang Guang's cousin, but just that there are too many people surnamed Li in the world, and they can't be killed at all, so they can only focus on clearing - it is said that there were indeed Hun people who persuaded Yang Guang to kill all the surnames Li at that time, but this matter was too unrealistic, so he gave up.
But for example, among the immortals today, there are too few people with the surname Zhang, so Liu Lei must rather kill by mistake than let it go-isn't Yi so degraded? And Zhang Lu believes that after the elder man descends to earth, no matter who he is reincarnated, he will definitely be directly killed by Liu Lei's people.
If you are not the one who should be answered...... Immortal, that's really a notoriety for nothing, and disasters from the sky for no reason. Rather than that, it's better to really try to answer the message!
If you want to talk about the position of Tiangong, it doesn't mean anything, it's just a CEO, and you don't have full personnel rights, and you don't give a high salary. But as Zhang Jian said, it is different now, Liu Lei took advantage of the demonstration of Qi Yi to make the heavenly world his own hall, and now even if he is not the lord of the heavenly realm and the king of immortals, he is at least the leader of the tribal alliance, and the virtual power in his hands has become real power. In this way, the position of this heavenly prince is worth fighting for.
Instead of fighting in the world and creating a new dynasty, it is better to dominate the immortal sky and become a quasi-Jade Emperor. What do you say, there are millions of people in the mortal world, and there are only a few thousand immortals in the sky, and the Jade Emperor is like the director of the neighborhood committee? That is the past, not necessarily the future, once you win the position of the Heavenly Father, you can develop a new education system that conforms to the trend of the times and represents the advanced productive forces, and pull three or five hundred or even more mortals to the sky a year, then what is the difficulty!
In today's immortal sky, all the immortals are the ruling class, but there is no ruling class, how can this social mechanism be perfected? You have to do some heavenly officials, heavenly officials, fairies, fairy children, marshals of Tianpeng, and general of the rolling shutter to come out and wait for the dispatch. All of them are like the prince of the east and the queen mother of the west, creating waiters by themselves, which has to be done in the year of the monkey, and the ones they create must be robots, and they have no self-awareness, right?
Anyway, Liu Lei must be killed, and the importance of this is still above the extinction, so he had to board Zhang Jian's thief ship. As for who should come to the prince of the day after Liu Ti is dismissed, it can depend on the situation at that time - even if Zhang Jian is arched up, he will at least have to make a word side by side to become the king!
The basic clues have been sorted out, and there is a general plan for the direction of their future development, and the only remaining problem is that it seems that Buddhism also wants to plug in the bar...... Zhang Jian showed him all the scenery in the sky, including the gathering of immortals in the Wuji World (in fact, it should be regarded as outside the Wuji World), and pointed out and introduced a lot of immortals, some of whom had heard of it, that is, there were books in the mortal world, and some were completely unfamiliar, among which there were no Cihang Dao people, Puxian Venerables and the like......
Although Zhang Lu didn't read much in his previous life, he also knew that those names were compiled by the author of "The Romance of the Gods", and they were not as reliable as some unreliable statements on the Internet, they actually belonged to Taoism, and were later adapted by Buddhism into Guanyin Bodhisattva, Puxian Bodhisattva or something, in order to confuse fools and foolish women. Therefore, the Taoist style of the heavenly immortals, or the Fangshi fan, are all from the local area, and they have nothing to do with the Western religion.
So since there are immortals in Middle-earth, are there any Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in India or the Western Regions? Are there any gods or gods in the west? There are so many religions in the world that they are evolving and merging anytime and anywhere, and it makes no sense to say that every religion has a pocket world nature of the abode of immortals! Moreover, religious struggles in the mortal world will always affect the inheritance of the heavens, and there is no connection between these pocket worlds -- at least the immortal heavens in Middle-earth are completely untouched by other heavens -- it is even more unreasonable......
After thinking about it repeatedly, until the idea was basically decided, Zhang Lu stepped out of the circle. Of course, he doesn't plan to return to Dingmur Mountain, the next plan is to go to Jingzhou via Yingchuan, go to Suishan to visit Bujue, by the way, Suishan is not far from Longzhong, and you can also go to see Zhuge Kongming, how old is he and what he looks like. In the next step, I don't plan to go to Jiuyi Mountain to find Baique, there is no point, it is better to go back up and go to Hanzhong to see what kind of inheritance Zhang Lu is, what kind of Taoism he will have. Then from Hanzhong to the south of Bashu, through the south of Tianzhu to Tianzhu......
There are many dense forests in Nanzhong, the climate is hot and the miasma is extensive, but for Zhang Lu today, this is not a problem. Hundreds of years ago, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Jian to the Western Regions, and he saw the bamboo canes and Shu cloth sold by merchants from the body poison (also translated as Tianzhu, that is, India) in Daxia (estimated to be in Xinjiang or Central Asia), indicating that the body poison was not far from Shu, which directly led to Emperor Wu sending troops to open up the Yunnan-Guizhou region in the southwest. Hundreds of years have passed, but there may still be trade routes to be reached.
Even if you can't find a way, with Zhang Lu's current ability, climbing Mount Everest may not be possible, and it should not be too difficult to climb the plateau on the eastern side of the Himalayas. It's a big deal to go all the way south with the North Star on your back, even if you can't go to India, at least you can go to Myanmar.
You say that this kind of cultivator in the mortal world is also strange, for example, Yu Ji is looking for a ladder to heaven everywhere, but the farthest west is Xinjiang, why didn't he think about entering Tibet or going to India? How interesting can it be to wander around those places that are still recorded in Chinese history books?
Zhang Lu instinctively felt that there was a problem here, I had to go over and see for myself, or I could find some new clues.
He is a person who pays attention to the setting, no matter how vivid the characters are, how bizarre the plot development is, and how old-fashioned the author's penmanship, as long as the setting is not up to par and there are big loopholes, he will never be able to read it, and he will be forced to abandon the book. Now that I have inexplicably entered this world of cultivating immortals, if I can't figure out the blank spots in the setting, I can't get through the fog of war, and I can't unravel this knot in my heart, and I can't even sleep well.
Luckily, he doesn't need much sleep now......
From Yangcheng to Zhiwan County, Nanyang County, more than 500 miles of road, Zhang Lu walked like a fly, and arrived in two days. He did not enter the city, but continued south, but he had not gone far before he ran into the rebels again. When I inquired about the fleeing people, it turned out that Zhang Ji, a hussar general, led his troops to invade Jingzhou and met Liu Biao in Sui County. Zhang Lu remembered that it seemed that Zhang Ji died in this battle, and his nephew Zhang Xiu led his army on his behalf, and later negotiated peace with Liu Biao, and then stationed in Wancheng - Cao Cao's expedition to Wancheng, folded his son Cao Ang and the general Dian Wei, he still has a little impression.
However, whether it is Liu Biao, who gave birth to two pig sons, or Zhang Xiu, who was played by Jia Xu as a dog, Zhang Lu is all interested in it, and he has no idea of dealing with it at all. So he hurriedly bypassed the battlefield and went straight to Xiangyang.
Suishan originally belonged to the branch of Jingshan, according to the record of "Mozi", the ancestor of Chu helped Zhou to destroy Shang, and his son Xiong Li was sealed by the Zhou people near Suishan. The mountain is not very high, but it is very dangerous, especially at the northern foothills, there are cliffs everywhere, and ordinary people can't climb up at all. But this is difficult for Zhang Lu, he carries his clothes, climbs the mountains and streams like walking on the ground, as if walking leisurely.
The general climbed to the top of the mountain, and suddenly heard a loud voice from above, with a strong accent: "Where is the visitor, climb Wusui Mountain?"
Zhang Lu hurriedly arched his hand upwards: "Zhang Lu of the Ding room, please ask Master Ruan." ”
In fact, Bujue's teacher Ruan Qiu did not have the surname Ruan, but the surname Huang, whose real name was Huang Ruan Qiu. He is older than Pei Xuanren and Zhang Jujun, and he is estimated to be more than five hundred years old, and he has always sat on Suishan Mountain, and he is easily unwilling to take a step down the mountain - Zhang Luxin said that just a super otaku like you, you don't hear anything outside the window, it's strange if you really want to be able to cultivate the right path.
Although cultivating immortals has to transcend the red dust, abandon the mundane, and refer to one's own heart, but no knowledge can be studied behind closed doors, thinking that Pei Xuanren still goes down the mountain every three or five times, like Ruan Qiu is completely home, Zhang Lu is really not very optimistic about his prospects.
When they met, they saw that Mr. Ruan Qiu had long hair, draped over his shoulders, and wrapped in fur, just like a savage. An old face, with big ears and a puffed mouth, revealing two rows of black and red gums when he spoke—even his teeth were gone.
Ruan Qiu had also heard his apprentice Bu Jue mention Zhang Lu, so as soon as the other party reported his name, he knew the origin. So he invited Zhang Lu into the cave where he lived to talk. Zhang Lu said that I have some friendship with Bujue, so I came to visit thousands of miles away, and I also visited my predecessors by the way. Ruan Qiu shook his head: "It's too late, and the stepper is not in the mountains." ”
Ruan Qiu said: "Ziqi is led by immortals, and when he enters my door, the earl knows ......" Because Bu Jue and Zhang Lu both seem to have immortals as backers behind them, Ruan Qiu does not dare to be the elders, and they are all commensurate with the words - "The immortal Naiyun has already ascended to the hall, and my teaching is insufficient, but he has self-cultivation." "The immortal took Bu Jue away, and planned to teach him the immortal method himself.
When Zhang Lu heard this, he couldn't help frowning. He knew that it was not someone else who unearthed Bu Jue from among the many living beings back then...... Immortal, it was Zhang Jian who stabbed him, but when he calculated the time and led Bu Jue away, Zhang Jian had already been sent to the mortal dust and possessed by Wang Zhen, a member of the Shangdang. Even when he met him, Zhang Jian had to draw a circle first, isolating the inside and outside, did he dare to use the banner of immortals again to run to Sui Mountain to pick up Bujue?
Then there are only three possibilities: first, Ruan Qiu is lying...... It doesn't look like it, and the second is that the heavenly scenes that Zhang Jian showed to himself, as well as the related explanations, are all nonsense - it stands to reason that this is not the case. And the third possibility, as Zhang Jian said, Tiangong Liu Lei will send his cronies down to take over his education, maybe he will also send other immortals to pick up Bujue?
Carefully inquiring about the relevant details, Ruan Qiu was really a little confused, and he couldn't understand it at all—maybe he was just afraid of the authority of the immortals, and he would believe whatever the other party said. In Ruan Qiu's opinion, the person who sent Bujue up the mountain back then and picked him up not long ago was of course the same immortal, but there was no solid evidence.
Zhang Lu guessed that there were two reasons why Zhang Jian was sure that he was a genuine "white sparrow": one was that he came from a strange background and came through time, and the other was that he possessed others and always wanted to murder him. But Zhang Jian only explained the second point to Liu Lei - it is estimated that he could not fully understand the matter of the traverser, and it was inevitable that he still had doubts in his heart, so he did not dare to report the news to Liu Lei. Therefore, the evidence is insufficient, and Liu Lei cannot believe that he will inevitably respond to the prophecy of "White Sparrow", simply, there is no shortage of manpower in the sky, let's continue to teach the three children.
Thinking about it further, if he changes places and is Liu Lei, then while he scolds Zhang Jian, he will inevitably suspect that Zhang Jian has ambitions and is not untrue about what he said - he is unlikely to suspect that Zhang Jian has left a back hand, because of his invincible magic power and two secret moves to defeat the enemy, Zhang Jian will definitely not expect it - so Zhang Jian insisted that Zhang Lu was a "white sparrow", and Liu Lei could not help but put a question mark.
And Liu Lei must be looking forward to it, even if Zhang Jian didn't bluff him, it would be best to look at the wrong person, in fact, the real "white bird" is not a surname Zhang. If all three of them are connected to Xiantian, and the two of them are destroyed, Liu Lei just started to get rid of Zhang Lu - now that he has a word, it is estimated that Pei Xuanren and Zhang Jujun, who were imprisoned, may not be able to jump for a few days.
Zhang Lu thought to himself, should he change his itinerary and go to Jiuyi Mountain to find Bai Qi'er? If that girl had just been picked up by some immortal, he could confirm his conjecture.
But before that, let's go to Longzhong to visit Zhuge Liang first.
He lingered on Sui Mountain for three days, asking Ruan Qiu for the spell of the Plastic Energy Department. It's a pity that Ruan Qiu's accent is heavy and the language is ancient-it is estimated that it has something to do with his region and age-Zhang Lu can't understand five out of ten sentences, and he really doesn't benefit much. So I had to say goodbye and inquire about the direction of Longzhong.
It is estimated that when Ruan Qiu went up the mountain, there was no place name Longzhong, and the old man never went down the mountain, so I didn't know anything. After Zhang Lu went down the mountain, he asked a woodcutter, only to know that Longzhong was at the eastern foot of Jingshan Mountain, and he had to rush back.
Sandwiched between two hills in this place, there is a narrow flat land, and there are many farmers on the flat land and gentle slopes—it seems that Liu Biao's governance of Jingxiang is indeed quite peaceful. Zhang Lu was about to ask a farmer if there was a Shuijingzhuang nearby, and if there was a family surnamed Zhuge anymore, when he suddenly heard someone behind him speak: "Why are you here today?"
Attached: "The Legend of the Immortals": "Huang Ruan Qiu, the Taoist priest on Sui Mountain." Clothes and hair, ears seven inches long, no teeth in the mouth, four hundred miles a day, planting onions and shallots on the mountains for more than 100 years, people don't know and ......"