Chapter 5 Taiping Gate
"Uncle, look at me again, it's also found in the tomb," I took out a small cloth bag and took out something from it, "Yesterday when I was cleaning up the bones, I found that one of this person's ribs was very special, the first half was a bone, the second half was this, it seemed to be jade, the shape was the same as the ribs, and I couldn't really see it if I didn't look carefully, so I took it down." ”
"It's broken!Hmph, show it to me!" After speaking, he took the jade and looked at it carefully, only to see that this thing was crystal clear, round and bright, and at a glance he knew that it was a good ancient jade, and it was also engraved with dense patterns like words, but it was too small to see clearly.
"It's called bone jade. In ancient times, there were some sects that would engrave the secrets of their sect on the jade with a special symbol, and then use the secret method to put it into the body of the master, some put it in the muscles, and some put it between the intestines and stomach. Uncle Li explained.
"Then this is the cheats, haha, I'm going to be a hero! hehe!" said and made a forward motion.
"Hero, there are few people in this world who know the characters on it, who do you learn from, keep it, maybe you can sell it for a good price. ”
"No, you don't know each other!" I looked at Uncle Li in surprise.
"Do you think I'm an immortal who can do anything, the graphics on this are the passwords of other people's sects, I understand?"
My excitement just now suddenly turned into a very disappointed, I looked at my eldest brother's Heavenly Thorn Sword, and then looked at the bone jade in my hand and sighed helplessly.
"By the way, who are you, how do you know so many things, didn't you say that you still want to teach us these things? "The two of us looked at Uncle Li with curious eyes.
"Of course I'm talking about the arithmetic, I got up so early in the morning just to wait for you to come to apprentice, I already calculated that you would come at this point, hehe, but then again, you are not allowed to tell anyone about us, you know?" Uncle Li said.
"Well, we swear we won't say it!" both of us put away the hippie smiley expressions and sternly snorted.
"Okay, now the time is right, let's go to the house immediately to pay homage to the teacher, and officially accept you as apprentices. After saying that, the three of them entered the house one after another.
It turns out that this Uncle Li is not an ordinary person, he is the descendant of Taipingmen. Taipingmen was founded in the Southern Dynasties by the Taoist master Lu Jingxiu. At that time, Taoism was mainly divided into three major factions: Wudou Midao, Shangqingjiao and Taipingmen.
Five buckets of rice road is also called the way of the heavenly master, created by Zhang Ling, because the person who enters the Tao must come out of five buckets of rice, so it gets this name, because it is also called "rice witch", "rice thief", "rice road". The religion is mainly based on participating in the practice of charms, using various charms to eliminate disasters and diseases for the people, and pray for blessings, which won the hearts of the people at that time and dominated at that time.
Shangqing Sect was established by Tao Hongjing, thought that the door was the main transmission, in the early days to health preservation, alchemy as the main practice, and then by Ge Hong will be the Lingbao Sutra, the Three Emperors Sutra also added to the study, forming a unique and mysterious sect. Since the religion is located in Maoshan, it is also known as Maoshan Sect.
The predecessor of the Taiping Gate was the Taiping Road created by Zhang Jiao, the leader of the Yellow Turban Army, during the Three Kingdoms period of the Later Han Dynasty, but due to the failure of the Yellow Turban Army uprising, Cao Cao brutally suppressed it, which made the Taiping Road fall apart, and only a small part of it was privately active in the people. In the Southern Dynasty, the Taoist master Lu Jingxiu, occasionally obtained in Guangzong, this book is the foundation of Zhang Jiao's establishment of the Taiping Sect, also known as, is according to the distribution of the ten cadres of A, B, C, D, 戊, Ji Geng, Xin Ren, and Gui A total of 10 parts, each of which is 17 volumes, a total of 170 volumes. The book is based on the theory of the five elements, and each book covers different contents, especially in the study of the law of the interpretation of all things and the formation of balancing the five elements, which is very mysterious. Lu Jingxiu couldn't put down this book, and couldn't bear to lose it, so he set up the Taiping Gate.
Because Taiping Dao has a certain mass base, after the establishment of Taipingmen, it was carried out very smoothly and soon became a great religion at that time. However, the rafters that came out rotted first, and the Taiping Gate rose instantly, bringing great pressure to the two traditional schools of Tianshi Dao and Maoshan Sect. In terms of Taoism, the depth of knowledge involved is far better than that of the two sects of Heavenly Master and Maoshan, and it is difficult to compete with the Taiping Sect from the front. In order to maintain the prestige of their sect in Taoism, the two factions united to crowd out the Taipingmen, and spread rumors everywhere, saying that Lu Jing had bad intentions in establishing the Taipingmen.
At that time, after hearing the rumors, the emperor was also very worried about the history of the Yellow Turban Army of Taiping Dao repeatedly, so he implemented a series of policies to restrict the development of Taipingmen. In the end, under the intervention of the regime, the Taipingmen gradually declined, and Lu Jingxiu was forced to formulate a door rule due to the helplessness of reality: the Taipingmen accepted apprentices once per Jiazi, and each person accepted up to five apprentices, and the way of accepting apprentices was also very special, and the teacher personally went to the people to find people who were destined to accept them as disciples.
Later, there has always been a folk legend, that is, every Jiazi will have a fairy next to pass the book of heaven to the destined person, and the person who gets the book can use all kinds of strange spells. In fact, this is the way of preaching in Taipingmen.
In the thirty-sixth year of the Qianyuan Dynasty, there were wars everywhere. Uncle Li was fifteen years old at the time, fell ill on the way to escape the famine, was rescued by a Taoist priest, and later found that he was very wise, so he took him as an apprentice, Uncle Li also has a senior brother, but since the death of the master Xian, they have been separated, and they have not been contacted for more than 30 years.
After the war, Uncle Li traveled everywhere to solve problems for the world. In the period of stability, people arrested all Taoist sects as superstitious activities, and Uncle Li had no choice but to live in seclusion in the Dragon Bone Mountain. During the ten years of seclusion, he used the three types of Qimen, Taiyi, and Qimen in the six to predict that the next generation of descendants would come out of the foot of the Dragon Bone Mountain, so he traveled all over the surrounding villages and towns to find the successor, and finally, finally found the iron pillar to find in Shuangpai Village, and my two brothers settled next to his house, secretly observed the two, and taught some boxing techniques to cultivate their basic elements.
After ten years of observation and training, these two people really did not disappoint Uncle Li. Not only does he have a good physique and a very high level of understanding, but he has nothing to say in terms of character and courage. When Uncle Li didn't know how to teach them the Taiping Dao Technique, the appearance of the Ghost Gripper just gave him a good opportunity, so he led the two of us to break the formation together, convince them, and start to really teach them the Dao Technique.
According to the different characteristics of the two of us, Uncle Li taught different Taoist techniques. The eight characters of the iron pillar are born with the "burly" gods, born with a strong physique and full of energy, and are most suitable for learning charms and spells, so Uncle Li let the iron pillar start from drawing talismans and reciting spells;
In addition, in order to strengthen our physical elements, Uncle Li asked them to start practicing fetal breathing. The two of us are required to inhale through our noses at all times, exhale slightly through our mouths, inhale more and exhale less, and inhale silently so that our ears cannot hear, and the feathers are placed on top of our noses and mouths without moving, and we must try to prolong the time from inhalation to the beginning of exhalation. When I first learned, I secretly counted to ten in my heart, and then spit it out slightly, and gradually practiced until I could count a thousand or longer.
From then on, the two of us began to study Taiping Taoism with all our might. On the pretext of learning calligraphy, Tiezhu practiced drawing talismans every day. In addition to the requirements for time, there are also requirements for stroke order, and each charm is different from that pen to end, and it also has to cooperate with the chanting of the spell, so it takes a long time to practice to become proficient.
And whenever I have time, I stay in the room, studying the meaning of the five elements of the sexagenary branches. This is quite brain-consuming, Qimen Dunjia is a Ganzhi, Bamen, Eight Gods, and Nine Stars in the 'Luo Shu Nine Square Grid', with the change of time and the discharge of different situations, a total of one thousand and eighty rounds, each symbol in the game has its complex meaning, representing everything in this world, and can predict various things through the calculation in the guò game.
The parents watched their son who was jumping up and down suddenly calm down and study, especially the iron pillar actually began to practice calligraphy, not to mention how happy they were, all kinds of brushes and all kinds of paper, as long as the son wanted, they fully supported them.
In this way, the two of us are smart in ourselves, and under the guidance of Uncle Li, we have made rapid progress. At the lantern festival on the fifteenth day of the first month of the Spring Festival, the fireworks flying by the fire dragon are not only very beautiful, but the iron pillar personally prays for blessings and auspiciousness on each Kong Ming lantern, as long as it is covered by the 36 fire dragons, this year will be safe and auspicious.