Chapter 20, the barefoot God

The purpose of cultivating is to become immortals, but to ascend in the daytime, so where do you ascend to? Of course, it is in the heavens, and the heavens, and the immortals dwell. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

But living in the mortal world, facing the sky every day, no matter how good your eyesight is, you can't see any castles in the sky. Moreover, according to the scientific knowledge that Zhang Lu obtained from his previous life, above the ground is the atmosphere, and out of the atmosphere is the vast universe, theoretically speaking, if the immortals live in the atmosphere, unless the range is really narrow, it is impossible not to leave some shadows on the ground under the sun. What if it's outside the atmosphere? Is it really true that the moon is part of the immortal dwelling?

It's just that there are really not many people living in the mythical Moon Palace...... Immortals, even Chang'e and Wu Gang, even if you add rabbits and toads, there are only four in total. But Zhang Jian is an immortal, in addition, he once mentioned that his teacher Tai Suzhen, as well as the oldest of this generation of immortals, the East Prince, the West Queen Mother, at least four big living immortals, should live in a bigger place than Chang'e, right?

Mars? Or even a planet outside the solar system? Is that still an immortal? It's an alien, right......

Therefore, Zhang Lu guessed that the immortal should not live in the plane where the earth is located, but may be another time and space - of course, it is not excluded that this realm is different from his original world and even the basic concept of the universe, there is really a Guanghan Palace on the moon, there is really a Lingxiao Treasure Hall on Mars, the immortal is equal to an alien, and the UFO is the immortal who returns to the earth to save his relatives......

But Zhang Jian has been around several times, and he has never been seen on a spaceship......

Okay, even if it's another time and space, then what is the heavenly world like? Zhang Lu once asked Pei Xuanren, Pei Xuanren spread his hands: "I haven't ascended to the immortal, how do I know?" asked Zhang Jian again, Zhang Jian looked at him left and right.

Therefore, Zhang Lu can only make all kinds of guesses and ideas in his heart. Perhaps, as folk mythology says, there are thousands of palaces in the sky, and luxury can surpass the emperors of the world - at least there is no such thing as a Lingxiao Treasure Hall or the Four Directions of Heaven in these years - or countless fairy mountains and beautiful waters, and the beauty of the scenery surpasses the planet Pandora in the movie. Or perhaps it was something that no mortal could have imagined in those days, that it was an alien-like land, built with bizarre buildings in a very postmodern style.

But he never expected that Zhang Jian would take him to the sky and see such a scene......

said that Zhang Jian said that he would take him to the sky, so he raised his right hand and grabbed his shoulder. Just like when he went to Zhongding from Luoyang Palace, Zhang Lu felt that his body was light, the wind was whistling in his ears, and then the things in front of him changed greatly. It seems that the heavens are much simpler than the "earth shrinkage" on the ground, and in the blink of an eye, they have arrived—and perhaps it can be deduced from this that the heavenly world is not in this universe, otherwise it is estimated that the moon landing would have to go wild for a whole year at the speed of traveling thousands of miles a day.

Zhang Lu's eyes were full of flowers, and then he regained his eyesight, and saw that he was in an ordinary wilderness, with endless mountains in the distance, a round of red sun hanging on the top of the mountain, and a large pond nearby, as if it had been dug artificially, covering an area of about 100 acres -- the water of the pond clearly came from the distant mountains, and the river meandered and flowed into it from the side and back.

He couldn't help but turn his head and glanced at Zhang Jian, and his eyes clearly said, "Are you sure this is heaven?

Zhang Jian smiled faintly and raised his hand to point: "Let's see." ”

Zhang Lu looked in the direction he was pointing, and saw several huts built on the side of the pond, with mud walls and thatched roofs, which were both simple and simple. To say that this is the residence of immortals is too ordinary, but to say that this is a teleportation point on the ground, how can it be that the vast wilderness is not discovered by mortals? Where have we been?

But at this moment, he suddenly noticed that something seemed to be moving next to the hut. When I looked closely, it turned out to be yellow-brown and had a rough and uneven surface, so at first glance I thought it was a mound of earth. But when he looked at it, the "mound" suddenly moved, first violently raised, then zigzag in the air, and retracted into the pond with the ripples of the water—no, the thing had roots, and was originally partially below the surface of the water.

"What's that?" Zhang Lu couldn't help but widen his eyes as if he had expected it.

"It's a dragon, you only saw it, the dragon's tail ears," Zhang Jian said with a smile, "This place is called 'Royal Dragon Pool', and the two tails of the middle dragon are cultivated." ”

When Zhang Lu was shocked, he finally asked: "This is heaven?"

Zhang Jian nodded, and then shook his head again: "It's just a corner of the sky." ”

As he spoke, he took the lead in walking towards the huts, and Zhang Lu was full of questions, so he had to observe the surrounding situation while following closely. As he approached the hut, he saw the door of one of the rooms open, and a man stepped out...... Or maybe it's an immortal? That immortal looks about thirty or forty years old, with a broad forehead, a high nose, and three locks of long hair fluttering on his chest. He wore a half-length robe, with a placket that reached the knees, bare-legged, barefoot, and no shoes, and carried a bamboo cane—an ordinary country farmer.

However, Zhang Jian was very respectful to the farmer, and made a long bow from afar, saying, "Meet the Heavenly Father." ”

Zhang Lu couldn't help but be taken aback, the so-called Heavenly Father is God, and the Jade Emperor will be the Jade Emperor in the next generation! The Jade Emperor is dressed like this? Who are you blind?

He was stunned there, full of disbelief, when he saw Tiangong slightly raise his feet, and somehow, he was more than forty meters away, and he instantly came to him, and then raised his bamboo cane and pointed at himself: "Who is this son?"

Zhang Jian introduced: "That is, what I said to Tiangong the day before yesterday, Earl Zhang Lu and Zhang of Mi County are also. Then he turned to Zhang Lu: "This is the Lord of Heaven, the head of the immortals, the Lord of Heaven, and the teacher of Taisu Zhenren, who can come and see." ”

Zhang Lu instinctively bent his knees and was about to kneel, but he was gently knocked on his calf with a bamboo cane by Tiangong, and he couldn't kneel. I only heard the heavenly lord say: "Heaven does not practice mortal rites." Then he asked Zhang Jian: "This son has not yet attained enlightenment, why did he bring him to see me?"

Zhang Jian replied: "This son is in trouble." ”

Zhang Lu didn't know what he was bumping into in the Songshan Fawang Temple, the monk said that it was a "demon", but that was a concept that only existed after the introduction of Buddhism, referring to all obstacles to practice, inside is the inner demon, outside is the outer demon, and there are other heavenly demons, demons and the like. Mortal Taoists thought this concept was very good, so they also introduced it into their own cultivation system, but it seems that the heavenly immortals have not kept up with the times.

The Chinese tradition only has the concept of ghosts, monsters, and ghosts. The so-called ghost is a dead person, which was later extended to all aliens that can exist in an uncertain way in the world even though they are dead; the so-called strange thing, the explanation in the Shuowen is very simple, it is "alien", which refers to all special beings that cannot be classified as ghosts. So what is it? The "Shuowen" interprets it as "divine calamity," which originally meant that ghosts and gods descended on the earth, and later referred to all foreign objects that are more indescribable and unclassifiable than ghosts.

At that moment, Zhang Jian asked Zhang Lu to state his experience for the third time, and when Tiangong heard it, his face was still sinking like water, expressionless, and he only said: "In this way, it should be for this." Turning to Zhang Jian: "What do you want?"

Zhang Jian replied: "Since it can be determined that this is the son, I will lead him to pay the order to the Heavenly Father." ”

Tiangong flicked his sleeves: "What is the use of coming to heaven before this son has attained enlightenment? As soon as he turned around, the man crossed over to the door of the hut again, and then entered the house and closed the door.

Zhang Lu looked at Zhang Jian, Zhang Jian shrugged his shoulders: "Since the Heavenly Father said so, you should return to the world with me and step up your cultivation." ”

"Don't mind," Zhang Lu couldn't help but exclaim, "This is really in the sky? That one just now is really God? What the hell is going on, you can't hide everything, and urge me to cultivate immortals!"

Zhang Jian smiled, opened his arms, and shook his head from side to side: "Is this heavenly scene different from what you imagined?"

Zhang Lu said that it is not big, even if there is no Zique Immortal Garden, at least there is a beautiful mountain and beautiful water, you see that this distant mountain is not necessarily very high, and the water near it is not much clear, and the light is faintly visible, and a dragon's tail looms, you want me to believe that this is the heavenly world? If this is really the case in the sky, what motivation do I have to cultivate immortals? Unless-"All this is fake!"

Zhang Jian smiled and nodded: "Your insight is really extraordinary-yes, all of this is fake. Then he thought about it for a while, and then said, "Actually, for immortals, everything in the mortal world is fake, and you are still a mortal, so in your eyes, everything in this heaven is false." ”

The reason is actually very simple to explain, immortals can create or change their own environment at will, so there are often two extremes: one is to create a heavenly dwelling according to the most beautiful scenery in their own imagination, such as Zique Immortal Garden, Langshan Xiushui, etc., in fact, they also exist in the heavenly world, and some immortals like that; the other is to create a heavenly dwelling according to the scenery they have lived in the mortal world - for example, the "Royal Dragon Pool" where the heavenly prince lives is a reproduction of a certain fragment of his mortal life.

When Zhang Lu heard this, his heart couldn't help but move slightly, and he asked, "You said that there are two dragons in this pool?" Zhang Jian smiled and bowed. Zhang Lu asked again: "This day is ...... Do you have no surname Liu Hu?"

Zhang Jian couldn't help laughing out loud: "You have it! Listen to the string song and know the elegant meaning, and the meaning of the Qing is also!"

Zhang Lu said in his heart, it turned out to be him-

Ancient books once recorded that there was a person named Liu Lei in the Xia Dynasty, who may still be the ancestor of the surname Liu, who once learned the method of raising dragons from the "Fenglong Clan" that has been passed down from generation to generation. Later, after Xiahou, Kong Jia got two dragons, one female and one male, so he sent Liu Ti to raise them, and gave him the surname "Yulong Clan", and gave him the descendants of Feng Wei. It's just that the technique of this royal dragon clan is a bit not up to par, and it didn't take long for the female dragon to die, and he also had a big heart, so he directly chopped the dragon meat and made it into a dish and dedicated it to Kong Jia. But after all, the paper couldn't contain the fire, and when Kong Jia came to inspect and see the condition of the two dragons, Liu Ti couldn't hide it anymore, so he had to roll up the cover and run away - it is said that he fled to Luyang, and later he was still there to cultivate immortals and gain Taoism, and he soared in the day.

But who would have thought that such a guy who not only has not only good dragon raising skills, but also has a bad character, and is not even ranked in the legends of the gods and goddesses of the past dynasties, can become the "head of the immortals and the lord of heaven" after his ascension, and become God......!

Seeming to see through what Zhang Lu was thinking, Zhang Jian patted him on the shoulder and patiently explained: "There is no distinction between young and old, master and apprentice in the sky, and meritocracy is the move. Referring to the "Royal Dragon Pool": "The dragon is a mythical beast, it is rumored that Nuwa created a man, and Fuxi made a dragon, but people have to live and reproduce, but the dragon is withering day by day, and there is no dragon in the ground today." In the past, Liu was tired of raising and dying a dragon, which led to a great hatred in his life, so he created this illusion in order to have peace of mind. ”

Zhang Luxin said that he still had a "great hatred in his life"? If you really feel guilty, can you still cook the female dragon and sacrifice it to Kong Jia for food?

Zhang Jian said with a smile: "Immortals and mortals are reborn, which is tantamount to another life, and the things in heaven are probably more different from those experienced in the mortal world in the past than the two lives before and after you. Even if a mortal is a sage, there is no one who does not do anything wrong, once he ascends to the immortal, the past is gone, even if he kills countless people, after ascending to the immortal, it is like having a big dream - naturally, he must first be enlightened and regret the past, otherwise he will not be able to ascend to immortal, and if he is still too attached to the experience of the mortal world, he will not be able to ascend to immortal. Today's heavenly father, you can't be a mortal Liu Lei in the past. ”

Zhang Luxin said that this person has changed his face and become a new person...... Ah bah, are you an immortal? As soon as he opened his mouth, he asked, "I don't know what Master Zhang's heavenly abode looks like?"

Zhang Jian said that my home is very simple, there is no Zique Immortal Garden, and there are no beautiful mountains and rivers, but I just moved a few grass houses from the cultivation to the sky - it is estimated that after Pei Xuanren ascends to the immortal, he will also be like me, just creating a fantasy world. "You are still a mortal, and you can't be in the heavens for a long time, so I'll send you back first, and then visit my house after you ascend to the immortals. ”

Zhang Lu waved his hand: "Wait!" "You were accidentally crooked, you have to explain to me first what is going on." The "" I encountered, the magic mirror monk and Pei Xuanren don't know what it is, you as an immortal are like a great enemy, and Tiangong also said "Be this son" because of this, I don't think this is like a fairy fate, this is a bit of a bad fate - you don't make it clear to me today, don't want to send me away easily!

Zhang Jian sighed lightly and said that I don't tell you the reason, it is for your good, I am afraid that it will affect your cultivation heart, if your heart is disturbed, then it will be hopeless to ascend to the immortal. But you kid is really special, your soul comes from two thousand years later or another world, and you are born with no desire to cultivate immortals, and you don't know how to respect teachers...... If you don't mention a few points, it is estimated that if you have a strong temper, you will directly give up cultivation, and you will go to the red dust to try the inexplicable rumors.

Zhang Lu said That's right, don't underestimate my determination to discover the truth, you have to tell me that you are ugly today.

Zhang Jian smiled slightly bitterly, said okay, and then stretched out his hand and pointed upward: "The thing you encounter is indescribable, it is only temporarily named, it comes from outside the ......."

Attached: "Historical Records, Xia Benji": "There are two dragons from the sky, there are male and female, Kong Jia can't eat, and he hasn't gotten the dragon clan." Tao Tang declined, and then there was Liu Lei, who learned to disturb the dragon in the Fenglong clan, and took Kong Jia. Kong Jiaci's surname is called Yulong's family, after receiving Fengwei. The dragon died in order to eat the queen of the summer. After the summer, he begged and moved away in fear. ”