In the past five hundred years, great changes have taken place in terms of clothing, behavior, etiquette, and even ethics.

Not to mention the architectural style.

Qi Xuansu said: "After the Golden Horde entered the Central Plains, the capital was not called the Yanjing Mansion of the Imperial Capital at that time, or the predecessor of the Imperial Capital was the capital built by the Golden Horde, so it is not surprising that there is a ruins of the underground palace left by the Golden Horde here. ”

Zhang Yuelu walked into the hall and said: "At first, I thought that this underground palace was related to the traditional state religion of the Golden Horde, shamanism, but I soon found out that it was wrong, not only did there be no trace of shamanism here, but there were very deep traces of the Quanzhen Dao. ”

As he spoke, Zhang Yuelu stretched out his hand and pointed to a few places, both patterns and words, which indeed had nothing to do with the belief in the shamanism of the Immortal Heaven, but was very familiar to the people in the Daomen.

As for why we say the traditional state religion, because the Golden Horde always had two state religions, one was shamanism, and the other was constantly changing depending on the situation.

Qi Xuansu carefully observed for a moment and said, "These traces are a little strange, they don't seem to be exactly the same as the current Quanzhen Dao. ”

"Not strange." Zhang Yuelu said, "Today's Quanzhen Dao is the Quanzhen Dao after Xuansheng removed its dross, in other words, a lot of inappropriate content has been deleted by Xuansheng, and this belongs to the Quanzhen Dao five hundred years ago. ”

Qi Xuansu, as a native of the Vientiane Dao Palace, knew a lot about the history of the Daomen, and immediately said: "The Quanzhen Dao five hundred years ago was the ruins left by the Changchun lineage? ”

Daomen has prospered twice, once is the ancestral dragon lost its deer, the white emperor won the world, believing in Huang Lao, "Huang" is the Emperor of Heaven, "Lao" is the Taoist ancestor. As a result, the Daomen prospered and took charge of the government. Later, Emperor Wu ascended the throne and reused Confucianism. Confucianism and Taoism competed, and Taoism was defeated, which opened a nearly thousand-year-long Confucianism.

Until the Li royal family established Daqi, because the Taishang Daozu was also surnamed Li, the Li royal family respected the Taishang Daozu as the ancestor, calling him the "Great Sage Ancestor" and "Taishang Xuanyuan Emperor", and the Daomen became the state religion.

At the end of the Great Jin Dynasty, it was one of the most decadent and degenerate periods of Taoism, at this time the Taoism was influenced by Buddhism, talking about magical powers, all kinds of nonsense, creating a lot of immortals out of thin air, but bragging can not blow Buddhism, painting cakes to fill hunger can not paint Buddhism, Sun Zhenjun died in this period, was completely crushed by the great sun.

At this time, the Daomen abandoned the cosmic view of the ancestors of the Taishang Dao, the concept was confused, the reason was not reasonable, and the people were completely defeated by Confucianism in terms of helping the people and governing the country.

During this period, many people of the Taoist sect pleased the powerful, attached themselves to the imperial court, and took the upper route. One of the best is the Quanzhen Dao Shenxiao Patriarch Tongzhen Daling Mr. Lin Lingsu, who once fought with the Buddhist monks, and said to the Emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty: "The Buddha Temple is changed to Gongguan, Shakya is changed to Tianzun, the Bodhisattva is changed to a monk, the Arhat is changed to a Venerable, and the monk is a monk. ”

According to the emperor's performance, the edict changed the Buddha to the Tao, changed the clothes, called the surname, the left and right streets were changed to the Institute of Morality, and the Monk Division was changed to the Department of Virtue, which was subordinate to the Institute of Ethics. Soon after, the nun was changed to a female virtue.

The crown prince went to the palace to fight, so that Hu Seng Lizang and other twelve people and Wutai monks and two monks, Dao Jian and others fought with Lin Lingsu, and the monk was defeated, and he was willing to wear a crown and hold Jane.

Today's "Great Virtue of Buddhism" comes from this.

However, the fate of this Quanzhen Dao patriarch is not good, during the flood in the capital, the second battle of Buddhism and Taoism, there is a cockroach appearing, Lin Lingsu used the left way to kill the cockroach, but the flood has not receded, people think it is a sign of the country. Because of the apparitions of the Sangha, the flood waters receded. Lin Lingsu left the capital and returned to his hometown, where he mysteriously fell soon after.

In the evaluation of later generations, both the Taoist sect itself and the Confucian Buddhism sect have a negative attitude towards this patriarch.

Later, it was the Golden Horde that went south, and the Great Jin Kingdom was destroyed. Another patriarch of the Quanzhen Path began to emerge.

Among the five ancestors of the Quanzhen Dao, Chongyang Patriarch is the last patriarch, he has seven disciples, successively served as the head of the Quanzhen Dao, Danyang Zhenren was taken over by Changsheng Zhenren, and Changsheng Zhenren was taken over by Changchun Zhenren, this Changchun Zhenren once went to Saiwai in his twilight years, out of the Iron Gate, arrived at the palace of the Great Snow Mountain, met the King of the Golden Horde, and advised the King of the Golden Horde to "respect the heavens and love the people, reduce the slaughter, and have few desires", and was respected as a "god" by the King of the Golden Horde.

After Changchun Zhenren returned to the imperial capital that was still called Yanjing at that time, the King of the Golden Horde gave the tiger talisman and the seal book, ordered him to lead the world Daomen, and issued an edict to exempt the Taoist Academy and Taoist priests from all taxes and servitudes, so the Quanzhen Dao flourished again, established a large number of palaces in the imperial capital, set up altars for Jiao, and for a time the sect was opened in all directions, and the Taoist couples gathered.

Today's Jade Emperor Palace is expanded on the site of a Taoist palace left by Changchun Zhenren.

Then it makes perfect sense that there is such a Quanzhen Dao site under the Jade Emperor Palace.

Zhang Yuelu agreed: "This place should have a great relationship with Changchun Zhenren, but at that time I spent a lot of time checking these details, and I was afraid that people outside would not find me, so I stopped here and returned outside." ”

"Let's move on." Qi Xuansu silently operated the Golden Body Realm and the "Green Immortal Armor" and stepped forward.

Zhang Yuelu took out the "photoless paper", turned it into a paper umbrella, and walked side by side with Qi Xuansu.

Five hundred years ago, the Quanzhen Dao, the most corrupt and depraved period of the Daomen, is regarded by many people in the Daomen today as a barbaric, ignorant dark age, and even a black history.

Zhang Yuelu said slowly: "In the past two hundred years, some Daomen people have been deeply influenced by Western studies after traveling to the West, and they have divided the history of Daomen into six eras in the way of Westerners. The earliest was the era of the sages of the Taishang Dao Ancestor who stayed in the world and the White Emperor reused Huang Lao, then the barbaric era of the barbaric rise of Zhengyi and Taiping Dao, and then the golden age when the Daomen became the state religion in the prosperous era of the Great Qi Dynasty, followed by the rise of the Quanzhen Dao but was deeply influenced by Buddhism and the most corrupt and depraved Dark Age, and the era of change during the Great Wei Dynasty when the Daomen merged with hundreds of schools of thought but were divided and contended, and finally the current era of civilization when the Daomen were unified and became the lord of the world. ”

Qi Xuansu said: "I have also heard about Western studies, and I heard that Westerners also divide us into three generations, saying that Zulong and Emperor Bai created the First Empire, Dachen and Daqi are the Second Empire, and Dawei and Daxuan are the Third Empire. In this way, the Age of the Sages was at the beginning of the First Empire, the Age of the Barbarians was at the end of the First Empire, the Golden Age was at the beginning of the Second Empire, and the Dark Age was at the end of the Second Empire. The era of change was at the beginning of the Third Reich, and we are now ......"

Zhang Yuelu said: "There is no doubt that the era of civilization we live in is at the end of the Third Empire, the Northern Dragon is dying, whether it is the empire that Westerners say, or the dynasty in the East, how long can a family and a surname in the world exist?" A hundred years? Or two hundred years? ”

As they spoke, the two of them passed through the hall and entered a long corridor, but compared to the corridor they came, this corridor was more open and brighter with the blessing of the formation.

The power of the formation comes from the earth qi, and as long as the earth qi is endless, the formation can exist for a long time.

Probably because of the influence of Buddhism, there are many murals here, but after many reforms, there are almost no murals in today's Daomen, and they are more inclined to use meticulous words to record various major events or secrets.

The two looked at the mural, the first mural recorded a fight, there were monks, Taoist priests, rolling waves, and a dragon looming in the waves.

After Qi Xuansu carefully identified it, he said, "This seems to be Lin Lingsu's fighting method with Buddhism. ”

Zhang Yuelu nodded, and then looked at the second mural.

The mural depicts a group of nineteen people walking through the Gobi steppe, with snow-capped mountains and a palace built on top of snow-capped mountains in the distance.

"This is Changchun Zhenren and his eighteen disciples going to the grassland to meet the Golden Horde King in the Great Snow Mountain Palace." Qi Xuansu once went to the Great Snow Mountain Palace with Zhang Yuelu and remembered it deeply.

Zhang Yuelu said with emotion: "This patriarch probably wouldn't have thought that three hundred years later, the Great Snow Mountain Palace would become the location of our Daomen's Western Regions Daofu. ”

The two continued to look down.

The third change is a bit strange, the background is obviously not in the Central Plains, but like the royal court of the Golden Horde, full of exotic style, in a luxurious hall where hundreds of Taoist priests and monks are arguing fiercely.

Zhang Yuelu pondered for a moment: "This should be the debate of Kaiping City, with the support of the first Khan King of the Golden Horde, the Quanzhen Dao of Changchun Zhenren almost unified the north, but when it came to the third generation of the Golden Horde, Buddhism complained to the third Khan of the Quanzhen Dao, which opened the dispute of Buddhism and Taoism for thirty years, and at this time, the power of the Quanzhen Dao was too strong, which caused the concern of the Golden Horde nobles, so with the help of the Golden Horde nobles, and the efforts of the Buddhism in the Western Regions, in the key Kaiping City debate, Buddhism successfully defeated Daomen, Since then, the Quanzhen Path has begun to decline, and Buddhism has replaced the Taoist as the state religion of the Golden Horde, alongside shamanism. Since then, the degree of dominance of Buddhism has been even greater than that of the Quanzhen Dao, which has made the Daomen and Confucianism very angry. ”

After Zhang Yuelu's reminder, Qi Xuansu also remembered: "The Golden Horde would not have thought that this made a huge change within the Daomen, completely abandoning the upper route of flattering the powerful, and returning to the bottom line of the Yellow Sky when the sky was dead, and began to accumulate strength and prepare to rebel, so the Taiping Dao rose for the second time, gradually replacing the position of the Quanzhen Dao, and indirectly led to the defeat of the Golden Horde, and also laid a solid foundation for the later Daomen to defeat the Confucian Gate." ”

The two came to the fourth mural, the content of this mural is an endless battlefield fight, the difference between the two can be clearly distinguished from the clothing, a big river in the distance, should be a long river.

Qi Xuansu said succinctly: "Instigate the world to rebel." ”

Zhang Yuelu said: "At this time, the Daomen are still in a subordinate position, and the main force is Confucianism. ”

The four murals encapsulate the transition of the Daomen from the Dark Ages to the Age of Change.

At the same time, the road has come to an end, and there is only a stone gate on the opposite side.

Qi Xuansu motioned for Zhang Yuelu to get out of the way, and he came to push open the stone door.