On the second day, after breakfast, Zhenyangzi summoned Zheng Xuan to the quiet room where he lived, and Zheng Xuan stood up and said, "Master." ”

Zhenyangzi sat on the futon, smiled and said, "In the future, you will be my disciple, and you need to know some things, so I will explain a little to you today." Xuan'er, you sit down first, you can be by my side. ”

Zheng Xuan saw that the master was honest and humble, and he had the style of a peaceful real person, which made people amiable at first sight, so he learned to sit cross-legged with the master on a futon beside Zhenyangzi.

Zhenyangzi looked at Zheng Xuan carefully for a while, and said in his heart: "Shizun takes such a fancy to him, although he doesn't say it, there must be a reason, this son, his eyes are persistent, his expression is bright, his qualifications are not the best, and he still needs to pay a lot for cultivation, so I will teach him personally in the future." Xuan'er is like a piece of jade now, let's see the future experience. ”

So, Zhenyangzi asked, "Xuan'er, how old is this year?" Where do you live? Who else is in the family? ”

Zheng Xuan said: "The disciple is thirteen years old this year, and his family lives on the shore of Yanyu Lake, and he has a father, a mother and two younger sisters. ”

Zhenyangzi nodded and said: "The lifespan of mortals is no more than 100 years, and when they enter the road of cultivating and learning immortals, those who have attained the Tao and become immortals have a lifespan of more than 10000 years, and they have encountered tens of millions. These four words are the four characters of our Taoist authenticity, which contains the way of the unity of heaven and man, and is also the essence of my Taoism, and it is also the realm of countless years when many heroes and heroes have been running and shouting in the Three Realms, helping the world and saving the people, and supporting the right path. ”

Zheng Xuan stared at the master and memorized these words with his heart. Zhen Yangzi was relieved to see it and gently stroked Zheng Xuan's hair.

Zhen Yangzi continued: "In the beginning, the heavens and the earth were chaotic, birds and beasts, and the birds and feathers, each according to its own kind, in order to survive, eat each other, survive the fittest, and survive the fittest. Then there are great sages and great benevolent people, who create Buddhas and become immortals, all of whom take it as their responsibility to save the world. ”

Zhenyangzi paused and said: "My Taoist ancestor Pangu Yuanshen Tianzun, with great supernatural powers, infinite exercises, set the sun and the moon, create heaven and earth, all things can prosper, and after creating my Taoist family with his own strength, he will derive all the sects and sects in the world, three religions and nine streams." Shakyamuni Buddha in the West Heaven opened the altar lecture on Mount Meru, founded Buddhism, because of the dispute between the Taoist Buddha, and my Taoist ancestor Pangu Yuanshen Tianzun led the crowd to fight in Sanqing Mountain for three years, convinced to respect my Taoism as orthodox, and then my Taoist ancestor Pangu Yuanshen Tianzun conquered the demon world, defeated the demon world five ghost emperors, and finally Taoism unified the world, with Sanqing Mountain as the center of the world, with a hundred years to build Taiqing City and Sanqing Treasure Palace, to this day the world is peaceful, mortals to establish countries is a later thing. ”

Seeing that Zheng Xuan listened carefully, he was relieved, touched his head, and continued: "Xuan'er, walking in the Three Realms in the future, you must always take Taoism as the authentic, remember the four words 'only the Tao is from', protect your own heart, do not deviate from the orthodoxy of the Tao, go down the world, for the common people, hold the way, do not use force to be strong, do not show weakness with cowardice, let alone perverse, do not be manic and rebellious, otherwise the sky will not be allowed, the earth will not be allowed, the master will not be allowed, I will not be allowed, do you remember?" ”

Zheng Xuan's heart couldn't help but tighten when he heard this, he got up and lowered his hand to Zhenyangzi, and said solemnly: "Disciple remember, but the Tao is what the disciple seeks in his life, and everything follows the Tao." Never deviate from the orthodoxy of the Tao, the world will go up, for the common people. ”

Zhen Yangzi is kind, and seeing that Zheng Xuan understood his words very quickly, he was very satisfied, stroked his beard and smiled, and said: "When you enter my door, the big rules only need to remember my words, and the small details only need not to violate the rules of the Sanyang Temple, and I will ask other disciples to teach you in the future." ”

"Yes." Zheng Xuan said.

Zheng Xuan asked again: "The disciple is still puzzled, may I ask Master, what is the Tao?" What about the way I follow? ”

Zhenyangzi smiled and said: "All things in heaven and earth are derived from the "Tao", that is, the so-called "Tao gives birth to one, life to two, two to three, and three to all things". Tao is the truth contained in the five elements of "heaven", "earth", "god", "man" and "ghost". My Taoist scriptures take the "Tao Te Ching" as the general scripture, and the "Three Emperors Sutra", "Lingbao Sutra", and "Shangqing Sutra" are the three groups of Taoist scriptures as the sub-scriptures, that is, the 'Three Caves True Sutra'. Our generation should refer to this general outline as its purpose. ”

Zheng Xuan asked, "Master, are you an immortal?" ”

"Hehe, asking for immortals is also what I have asked for all my life, I have been cultivating for hundreds of years, and I have not yet understood one out of ten parts of the "Tao Te Ching", and the road to becoming an immortal is long." Mayoko said with a smile.

Zheng Xuan asked again: "After becoming an immortal, where do you go?" Do you live in Taiqing City? ”

"After cultivating and becoming an immortal, you can live in the ten major cave heavens, thirty-six small cave heavens and seventy-two blessed lands. Sanyangguan is only respected by your master as an immortal, so Sanyangguan is also known as Fangcun Dongtian"

Listening to what the master said was wonderful, I was about to ask again, when I suddenly heard a rapid sound of gold in the view of "dang, dang", and my heart was stirred, and Zhenyangzi changed color and said: "Xuan'er, follow me to the front hall, this is the bell that summons the whole view, come with me." ”

Zhenyangzi got up suddenly, took Zheng Xuan by hand, and rushed to the front hall, thinking: "Usually, in addition to the great gift of offering to the true god in the temple, on the day of the birth of the real god of Tianping, Fang used the golden bell to convene the whole view, but what is it today?" Is there something big about it? Or did that really happen? Mayoko was scared in her heart, and she couldn't help but speed up her pace.