All kinds of rituals are in place, until three o'clock, the conferral meeting officially begins, and the three masters look solemn and solemnly enter the altar array.

The conferral conference is the largest Taoist event in addition to major Zhai Jiao activities such as Luo Tian Dajiao, bringing together the three mountains and some other Zhengyi veins, such a large scale, naturally not a day or two can be completed.

In modern times, it is generally held for three days, and in ancient times it was seven days. The ceremony contains fasting, Jiao offerings, and the upper table, which could have been held separately, but after being included in the conferring ceremony, they constitute a huge ritual group, and now it is the Republic of China, using the ancient method of conferring the urn.

At this moment, the Heavenly Master Zhang Jingqing ascended to the largest main altar as the supervisor, Zhang Shoucheng ascended to the imperial altar on the left, and the master Zhang Yi ascended to the altar on the right.

After the three masters ascended the altar, the remaining fifteen deacons rushed in and set up their respective positions in turn.

After ascending the altar, the three masters all shake the copper hand furnace with their right hands, pinch the middle section of the middle finger with the thumb of the left hand, and knot it into a "jade clear jue". This represents the highest Taoist god Yuan Shi Tianzun, and at the same time stepping on Yu steps, there are words in his mouth, and he can vaguely hear "urgent as a law".

During the practice, the sunlight sprinkled down, directly hitting the high pole jade beads on the main altar, and in an instant, the golden light emitted by the jade beads was so bright that it could be seen ten miles away.

Zhang Yi, the presiding officer of the ceremony, stopped and stood still, but his right hand was still shaking the hand stove, and his left hand was still pinching the "Yuqing Jue", and he announced loudly:

"The time has come, serve incense, serve lamps, and know chime!"

Hearing this, a group of deacons were ordered to command all the Taoist people to light incense candles, light oil lamps, and play the song to welcome the immortals according to the procedures rehearsed in advance.

In this step, Zhang Huaiyi and Tian Jinzhong had things to arrange, and Zhang Zhiwei had no chores because he wanted to participate in the conferral ceremony, so he was only waiting for his turn to add the Dharma urn and receive the legal position.

The ritual is completed, and in an instant, incense and candles are burned together, the lights are burning together, and the sheng flute is ringing in unison!

Zhang Yi, the master of the degree, was extremely serious, and stood on the altar with a solemn face.

His left thumb moved frequently, and began to pinch the method, first pinching the index finger three lines with the thumb, then turning to the middle finger, pinching the middle finger three lines, and then turning to the ring finger, pinching the ring finger three lines, pinching the three fingers and three lines, and then repeatedly pinching the twelve signs of the second, third and fourth fingers, which is the "patrol trick" in the Taoist formula.

At the same time as Zhang Yi pinched the method, Zhang Jingqing, as a supervisor, stood on the main altar, looked around, and supervised the various sub-altars, so as not to have a half-point difference and mess up the rules of the award.

At the same time, Zhang Huaiyi, Tian Jinzhong, four Taoist priests, carrying the statue of the ancestral master Zhang Daoling, came to the main altar under the escort of the four deacons of Qingdao, refiner, regency and Zhilu, guided by the deacon Zhengyi.

Zhang Jingqing, the superintendent, took the statue of the ancestor with both hands and respectfully placed it on the throne of the main god under the gaze of the deacons.

There is a saying for this step, which is called welcoming the saints.

After welcoming the saint, Zhang Jingqing put his hands into the basin next to him to wash his hands, then burned incense, and then moved his hands together, pinched the "Heavenly Master's Formula", and invited the ancestral Heavenly Master to come.

Immediately afterward, the statue of the Ancestral Heavenly Master began to shake slightly, and the statue began to glow.

Zhang Zhiwei looked at this scene with burning eyes, and what he thought in his heart was, although this step is called inviting the Ancestral Heavenly Master to come, has the Ancestral Heavenly Master really come?

There was a golden flame flickering under his eyes, and he wanted to see the mystery, but he found that the Ancestral Heavenly Master was like emitting a fiery golden light, which flashed his eyes painfully.

From this statue, he felt a vast and far-reaching will, which seemed to be right in front of him, but it seemed to be thousands of miles away.

It's an extremely contradictory feeling, as if you're looking directly at a raging fire from a distance, and even though it won't be burned, you can feel the light, heat, and shock in it.

Blinked his eyes a few times, Zhang Zhiwei no longer used the Divine Eye.

The statue of the Patriarch has been enshrined for nearly two thousand years, and it contains a huge amount of faith power, and it is impossible to see the situation inside.

As for that vast and far-reaching will, whether it was the true spirit of the Ancestral Heavenly Master, or the kind of passive response similar to the edict, Zhang Zhiwei couldn't say.

He felt that there was a high probability that it would be a passive response, after all, there was an annual conferral conference, and if it was to respond every year, it would be a lot of trouble.

However, considering that in the next step of receiving the law, the Dharma Lineage God has to give the assessment in person, and he has no conclusion, and the specifics can only be known after personal experience.

After the ancestral master is seated, it is time to burn incense, make sacrifices, open the light, and light the image...... Complex procedures are busy but not chaotic.

This process is called Ansan.

After the sage was finished, Zhang Jingqing raised the hand stove with his right hand again, and kept shaking it towards the altar of the people.

Zhang Yi on the altar of people got the instruction, and also raised the stove with his right hand and shook it, indicating that he understood.

After shaking the furnace, Zhang Yi took back the hand stove and handed it to the deacon who was responsible for confession. Immediately, the waiter hurriedly handed over clean water and asked him to wash his hands.

After washing his hands, Zhang Yi looked solemn, stood on his chest with one hand, pinched into a "fighting formula", and held the blessing in the other hand and began to sing loudly.

The content of the chanted blessing is: "Respect the heaven and the earth, and the mind is clear and empty." Saint Gaozhen, all the teachers. Today, there are disciples, who are conferred on them, pious and pious, and supported by spiritual light......"

After singing the blessings, Zhang Yi raised his hand again and shook it in the direction of the altar of suffering.

The altar of relieving suffering means that the monks are enlightened, and the suffering is saved by ordinary people, and at this point, the preparation and ritual of the conferral assembly are finally completed.

Next, it is the Taoist priest who will be awarded this time.

Under the call of the confession deacon, a group of little Taoist priests wearing blue coats came to the altar with a solemn face.

Zhang Yi saw that he had arrived in front of the altar, so he pinched the "Shangqing Jue" with his hand and started the next ritual.

For those who are new to the Tao, they must first learn to pray, and this process is called "prostration", which is divided into four steps: prostration, prostration, observance and prostration.

This process is completed by the confessing deacon and the disciples.

After the worship, Zhang Yi recited loudly: "Look up at the blue sky, the ancestral heavenly master is by your side, heaven, earth and man are one, and the disciples show their divine power." ”

The confession deacon led the students and repeated the content recited by Zhang Yi word for word.

Seeing this, Zhang Yi smiled slightly, nodded in approval, and then shouted loudly:

"Heavenly Spirit, Earth Spirit, please invite the ancestral heavenly master to the altar, urgently dispatch psychic soldiers, psychic generals, and quickly come to my ears, psychic, and heavenly gods. Ear communication, heart communication, future communication, past communication, present communication, chain heart communication, chain ear communication. I come to be quiet, and my mind is quiet. I come to enlighten the spirit, enlighten the spirit. I have been ordered by the Ancestral Heavenly Master to exercise supernatural powers......"

Zhang Yi's speech was extremely fast, and he shook his head when he read it.

This level is a bit difficult, it must be sung by the Gong Sheng independently, not by the confession deacon, and must be sung word for word, so he has the qualification to confer the three or five Gong Sutras.

The Taoist priests who came here to confer the urn have all worked hard, and this passage of scripture has basically been memorized backwards, so it is naturally not a problem.

Zhang Zhiwei has also experienced this level, but he has the ability to never forget, he only listened to it once, and he can recite it all over again, and it is not bad at all.

After a group of small Taoist priests finished chanting, on the altar square, a group of Taoist priests cheered in unison, and at this point, it was basically considered that the urn was completed.

Seeing this, the three masters each stood on the altar where they were standing. With his left hand, he pinched the "Seal Opening Formula", and after pinching it, he pinched the "Entering the Temple" again, indicating his sincere conversion to the ancestral heavenly master!

Seeing this, the confessor immediately took a group of small Taoist priests to the main altar and stood still in front of Zhang Jingqing.

Looking at the little Taoist priests below whose faces were still a little immature, Zhang Jingqing asked, "You, why did you enter the Tao?" ”

"Supporting the ...... of Justice"

"Demon Slaying and Demon Destroying ......"

"Studying medicine can't save the country's ......"

"Seek the truth ...... me"

……

Everyone's answer is different, but everyone has a reason to become a Taoist.

Zhang Jingqing looked at everyone and said in a deep voice: "Nowadays, there are many seekers in the world, and there are few people who start and finish well. ”

At this point, how can anyone regret it, a group of little Taoist priests immediately bowed to the ground with their hands, bowed to the ground, and repeatedly confirmed that they wanted to become Taoist priests.

Seeing this, Zhang Jingqing nodded and waved everyone to get up.

Originally, at this point, the conferral conference should have entered the next stage, but this time, Zhang Jingqing looked at the sky, said one more word, and asked everyone:

"What is 'robbery'?"

A group of little Taoist priests were stunned for a moment, scratching their ears and cheeks, not knowing what to say.

Zhang Zhiwei also looked at the master unexpectedly, and didn't understand why the master said the word "robbery" at the conferral meeting.

"Tribulation" is the words of the Buddhist scriptures, is the abbreviation of "robbery", from the legend of Tianzhu, it is said that the world will be destroyed once after a number of years, and start again, such a cycle is called a "catastrophe", and then borrowed to refer to natural disasters and man-made disasters, which are widely used.

Did Master predict what would happen in the next few decades? Zhang Zhiwei said in his heart.

The teachings of the Zhengyi sect are different from the Quanzhen sect, and the whole Allah Zhang retreats from the world and practices, and Zhengyi actively enters the world, and at this time chooses to confer Zhengyi, isn't it exactly the calamity?

At this time, a little Taoist priest stood up and replied:

"Heaven and earth are a failure, which is a catastrophe."

Zhang Jingqing nodded and said: "Teaching the Tao will defeat the body and become the spirit, only after this calamity, the body will be tempered, and the spirit can be sublimated, can you stand it?" ”

"Stand it!"

A group of little Taoist priests said in unison.

The Dharma Urn is given to the Dharma Urn of the Fu Urn, and the high merit of the Fu Gong is dedicated to the cultivation of the Fu Gong, all of which are light on the flesh and the pursuit of spiritual perfection, so they will say so.

Since ancient times, Taoism has the saying of five arts, that is, mountain, medicine, life, physiognomy, and divination.

Strictly speaking, there is a difference between Taoism and Taoism, Taoism is a school, Taoism is a religion, and between the two, there must be no equity.

The so-called Taoist Five Techniques is the definition of Taoism in the traditional sense of Taoism in the Qin and Han dynasties.

Therefore, we reclassify the five Taoist techniques and call them as: the Yi Tao of the Three Ancient Sages Fuxi, the Medical Tao of the Yellow Emperor, and the Dan Tao of Lao Tzu.

In this way, the scope of Taoism is very wide, like the Wuhou School, the Shuzimen, the Trinity Gate, and the Truth-seeking Society...... and many other Inhuman sects, all of which belong to this category.

Because the skills they have learned are all from the five Taoist techniques, it can be said that in this land, except for a few sects, the origin of the acquired alien is from the Taoist school.

As for Taoism, it is the top student in the Taoist school, and it is the "mountain" technique among the five Taoist arts.

The "mountain" technique is also the most profound of the five arts, which is full of five items: Outer Dan, Inner Dan, Xuandian, Boxing, and Charms.

The outer pill is alchemy, refining the essence of heaven and earth in the elixir, and then fusing it into itself.

The Inner Dan is also the Inner Dan Gong, the Golden Light Mantra, and the Dragon and Tiger Inner Dan Technique are all in this way, but the general Inner Dan Gong only cultivates "life", and only a very small number of Inner Dan Gong is the dual cultivation of life.

It is the Xuandian that specializes in "sexuality", and it is a method developed specifically for "sexuality" based on the classics left by Zhuangzi and Laozi.

Needless to say, a real Taoist priest, no matter what aspect he majores, will know some fist and foot kung fu, so even if many Taoist priests are not vegetarians, they will not have a big belly.

As for the talisman, it is the predecessor of the talisman, and Zhang Daoling developed the talisman on the basis of the talisman.

Seeing that the Taoist priests agreed, Zhang Jingqing nodded with satisfaction, and then stood on the main altar with his eyes closed, no longer spoke, confessed that the deacon saw this, and brought the deacon to Zhang Yi in front of the altar.

Perhaps seeing that the ceremony was so smooth, and that he and the others were about to enter the door of the alien world, the faces of the people began to have a little excitement on their faces, and they saw each other, sank their faces, and scolded:

"Halfway through the ceremony, how can we rejoice? After obtaining the job, it is considered to be officially initiated! ”

It is a very strict thing to enter the Tao by conferring the Gong, after the completion of the ceremony of the Gong, it is still necessary to recite the Tao Te Ching, detour to observe the rapid journey for seven days and seven nights, no pause in the middle, and no rest, this level is called "grinding the mind".

This is a process that many Inhuman sects have to go through, whether it is dull or genius, everything that becomes Inhuman through cultivation is not to have stepped on a painful path that is unbearable for ordinary people, and every step on the road is still remembered after many years.

If you don't grit your teeth and persevere, you will want to give up every second, temper the boredom of your heart, and even make people nostalgic for the pain of boiling your muscles and bones.

Only after experiencing this, after gaining great power, will it not be like a dream, frivolous and arrogant, and do not know what to say in the clouds.

And the last level of this conferral is a process of tempering the mind, and if the mind is not firm, even many strangers who have obtained Qi will be difficult to persevere.

And only after passing this hurdle can you obtain the title and be officially promoted from a quasi-Taoist priest to a Taoist priest.

According to the Zhengyi French Heavenly Master's Precepts, the first Taoist priest will be awarded a text by the master after "grinding his mind" to prove the Dharma he has obtained, the divine realm recorded in his name, so as to reach the gods.

After the completion of the ceremony, it needs to be divided into two halves, half of which should be burned, which means that the Dharma vein is reached, and the Dharma gods are informed, which is a symbol of status, and the other half is on the body, when it is launched, the two Dharma Baskets are linked to each other, and the spell can be cast.

Soon, the students began to sharpen their minds under the arrangement of the deacons.

Immediately followed by the link of conferring the Dharma and receiving the Dharma Ceremony, Zhang Zhiwei got up and came to the team of the Dharma Urn, waiting for the deacon's arrangement.

(End of chapter)