Chapter 64: The Spies
Until ten days later, the atmosphere in Bianliang City was still immersed in the excitement brought by the appearance of the Immortal Venerable.
That unforgettable day was like a real fairyland, which deeply affected everyone who witnessed it.
Compared with the thousands of people who first encountered immortals, this group of believers who were baptized by the spiritual rain are generally much more educated, and most of them are citizens with higher incomes, and they have the right to speak at the city level.
Therefore, when these people returned home, they either wrote books and passed on their stories, or taught by words and deeds, vividly re-explaining the situation of the Xishan Festival that day to the people around them.
In a short period of time, more than 500,000 people learned in detail about what happened that day through various means.
They were puzzled, then shocked, and finally madly remorseful.
I regret why I didn't be a little more devout to the Immortal Venerable before, and I learned more about the deeds of immortal immortals, but I missed such a big immortal fate in vain!
You don't see, tens of thousands of people who are familiar with each other have all regained their ruddy complexion overnight!
Some old and decrepit people rarely straighten up their waists that have been rickety for a long time.
The sick old man no longer has to wail and cry every day and night.
This is a miracle that cannot be faked!
Just like after Wang Sanmeng's mother returned to the village, everyone would talk about her son's filial piety and simplicity to the point that he was moved by Xianzun, and then the Taoist chief gave him an invitation to the ceremony. It's just that she carried her up the mountain to drench in a fairy rain, and her original dying and struggling body was finally rejuvenated, dispelling evil and removing pain.
These deeds that happened in front of them finally reached a tipping point, and people finally began to tend to believe that this immortal Venerable was a true immortal who cared about the people in his heart.
In addition to the same privileges of reincarnation in the afterlife, he can also change the number of lives of each person in this life, so that he can live a long life and be free from the pain of sickness.
And this is only the blessing he has brought down to the ordinary believers under his knees.
If you enter the Immortal Sect, what kind of beautiful scenery will it be?
The statues of immortals that are enshrined in every household have been upgraded again.
According to the tens of thousands of people who were fortunate enough to participate in the Xishan Festival, the immortal body enshrined in the Immortal Palace was carved from white jade, and perhaps there was something mysterious in it that could not be compared with outsiders.
Change!
The statues of immortals made of wood, clay, gold and silver were all replaced with jade carvings.
It is better to want mutton fat white jade, jasper is inferior, and topaz can only be said to be barely usable.
Brother, you use black jade, don't you live too freely and happily without worries, and you want Xianzun to sharpen you?
A jade rush was inexplicably set off in Bianliang City, which made the merchants of the Black Khanate and the Liao State who came to trade in the Song Dynasty make a lot of money.
Heihan is located in the Tarim Basin, rich in Hetian jade, and merchants in Xinjiang often make a living by selling jade.
However, because the Black Khanate was a religious regime, most of the jade collected was used to pay tribute to the temple, so it was strictly forbidden for private organizations to sell it in the country.
Not to mention engaging in international trade.
Merchants who were brave enough to come to the Great Song Dynasty to sell jade were either local bullies, official trading agencies of the Black Khanate, or a combination of the two.
These people have been trading between various countries for many years, and each has developed a unique skill.
I immediately realized that the meaning behind this 'jade mining fever' was extraordinary.
After digging deeper, I realized that this was closely related to a god that the Song people had believed in in recent days.
Listen to one or two more things.
The main thing is to listen, but you don't need to probe much.
The fanatical people of Bianliang are now as excited when they see a person who has no belief in Immortal Venerable, as if they had picked up money in the aisle, and they can't wait to talk with people for three days.
Starting from where life comes from and where death goes, it talks about the three hundred happiness methods of believing in Immortal Venerable.
In the end, he criticized the shameless bald donkey of the Great Xiangguo Temple, and dared to risk the disapproval of the world to say that Xianzun was a pseudo-immortal, and deserved to be burned by a heavenly fire Most of the temple, and now he is homeless and crowd-funded to build a temple.
This method of 'before I could exert myself, the enemy automatically sent me a steady stream of information' made the Black Khanate's spies happy and miserable.
Happily, they quickly figured out the twists and turns and the chronological order, and they also knew that the group of monks who often quarreled with people on the street recently were the senior monks of Daxiangguo Temple.
It is said that because the Taoist head of the Immortal Sect refused to debate the scriptures with the reincarnation of the spirit boy in their temple, he was criticized by the abbot of Xiangguo Temple as a demon, and he did not know the true scriptures, and he was afraid that he would confuse the world.
So on the second day, a round of fire dragons fell from the sky, burned the abbot a total of 100 monks alive, and burned down dozens of houses, even the main hall of Taizu's inscription was not spared.
It wasn't until the last abbot Yuanfa Master, who had lived in the temple for many years, came forward to beat the dead abbot Zhisong as the embodiment of the red sheep demon, specifically to stir up the people's hearts and provoke the relationship between the Great Xiangguo Temple and the Immortal Sect, and they had never had a disrespect for the immortals.
On the contrary, Master Yuanfa acknowledged that since the Buddha's nirvana, no one has had the opportunity to meet the true Buddha face-to-face.
He was very interested in the story of the true immortal's tribulation, and hoped to have the opportunity to talk to Dao Ziqing, and wanted to find out how the monks of their generation would continue to walk this path.
As for Daozi, he has not yet given an answer, only the former head of the Qingfeng Daoist (Lu Liang) officially issued a decree to identify Abbot Zhisong has already been secretly poisoned by demons, and it is the demons who are harming people in the temple wearing his skin.
Those who were burned to death by the fire dragon were demons who had lost their minds, and they were no longer human, and it was not a pity to die.
As for Master Yuanfa's proposal, if the time comes, the Daozi Sect Master will invite him to meet him.
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If the people of Bianliang only talked about it with the spies, they probably knew almost all the valuable information.
Helplessly, for these people who are obsessed with preaching more than anything, the destruction of the Great Xiangguo Temple is just an appetizer, and I haven't had time to tell you about the great deeds of Xianzun.
No one should leave today, and I couldn't say you in three sentences, and I spent 180,000 yuan to buy incense and pay tribute to the immortals, and I couldn't cultivate at home.
As a missionary who is proficient in human nature, a certain family should weigh and weigh the Black Khanate's belief in his own gods!
As a result, these spies could only listen to the people of the Song Dynasty gushing about the origin, development, prospects, beliefs, rituals, symbols, and so on of the science of the Immortal Religion with painful masks on their faces.
It wasn't until the man's mouth was dry and he couldn't continue anymore that he reluctantly let go of this untapped potential believer and went home.
The leader of the Black Khanate's trading group held a parchment scroll in his hand, read the contents of the above account one by one, raised his head and frowned at the spies under him, and said, "So, you spent twenty times to buy a talisman that is rumored to be the Immortal Venerable's enlightenment?" ”
The spy took out the wooden plaque around his neck, looked at the wooden plaque with a humble and respectful face, and said: "Steward, this is a wooden plaque carved by the hand of the Qingfeng Dao chief, with a wisp of immortal blessings lingering on it, and he knelt down in the worship hall for three hours, and waited in line for two hours before staying up all night to take it down!" When I get home, I'm going to give it to my son and bless him to grow up safe and healthy! ”