Tianluo Mountain.

This mountain is a famous Taoist mountain, ranking among the top ten among the 36 caves and 72 blessed lands in the world. The Purple Cloud Road in the mountain is known as one of the three major avenues in the world, and it is the leader of the Yue National Road.

There is such a Immortal Mountain Dao Vein, naturally, Peng Li Mansion near Tianluo Mountain is also a believer in the Purple Cloud Dao Vein.

When Lu Yuan and the others arrived near Tianluo Mountain, it was already late, and there were still dozens of miles away from the location of Ziyun Dao, so they couldn't get there today.

Seeing that it was getting dark, but there was no town inn around, I saw a small village nearby, so I walked in.

There are only a dozen families in the village, and there is not much population, and when he saw Lu Yuan and others coming in, he immediately attracted the attention of the villagers in the village.

At this time, a group of strong men in the village gathered, one by one holding sticks and weapons, and looked at outsiders vigilantly.

Now in the years of war, even if Yuzhang County is relatively peaceful, there are inevitably thieves in the local area.

Therefore, any village will be wary of outsiders.

Lu Yuan came all the way from Dongting County, and on the road of thousands of miles, he had seen many such villages.

Yuzhang County is okay here.

In a place like Dongting County, where they have been fighting for several years, I am afraid that before they get close to the village, there will be guards in the village who will shoot arrows first and expel them directly.

"Who are you? Why come to my village? "There is an old man with a half-white beard in front of a group of strong men, but although he is old, he is quite burly, and he knows that he practiced martial arts when he was young, and asked in a loud voice at this time.

"Back to the old man, I am a passing tourist, when I arrived here, it was already dark, and there was no town hotel near the left, so I wanted to come to the village to stay. Please rest assured, we will pay for room and board. Lu Yuan stepped forward and asked with a good attitude.

"Tourists?"

When the old man heard this, he was slightly stunned, and then he thought of something, and looked at the people on the side of the road. When he fell on Qi Yun, he was slightly stunned when he saw the other party's dark colored Dao robe, and then asked, "How many of you were invited by Ziyun Dao to participate in the Tianluo Festival?" ”

Lu Yuan was surprised, he didn't know how the old man guessed it, but he still nodded and said, "What the old man said is right, this time, we are indeed invited by Ziyun Dao to participate in the Tianluo Festival." ”

When the old man heard this, his face suddenly showed a little joy: "It turned out to be the Taoist who participated in the festival, and the old man was rude before. To be invited by the Purple Cloud Dao to participate in the Dharma meeting must be a master of the Dao.

Old Wei De, Tian is the head of the village. Our village can entertain a few people, it is a great blessing, just to be able to touch the immortal spirit, a few Taoist elders please come in quickly. ”

The villagers behind Wei De, after hearing that the few people in front of them were the Taoist leaders who were about to participate in the Tianluo Festival, their faces also showed respect.

not only got out of the way, but also followed Wei De and warmly invited Lu Yuan and them to live in their own home.

It can be seen that these villagers, as Wei De said, really want to invite these Taoist elders to their homes and get rid of immortal spirits.

Lu Yuan and the others felt this huge change in attitude, and they were also greatly surprised, and on the way to the village chief's house, they couldn't help but ask: "Wei Weng, are the villagers in your village so enthusiastic about every Taoist priest?" ”

The villagers who had just driven away Wei De had just snatched away from him invited all the four Taoist chiefs to his home, and at this time he was happy in his heart, and when he heard the Taoist chief asking, he said happily: "What the Taoist chief said is almost the same.

The villagers in my village, every family believes in Taoism, and naturally has a good impression of Taoist priests.

Especially the Dao Elder and the others, who were invited by the immortal masters on Ziyun Mountain, were even more distinguished guests, of course, they had to be warmly entertained. ”

Weide had a look on his face as a matter of course.

Hearing this, Lu Yuan and the others glanced at each other, all of them were shocked by the influence of Ziyun Dao in this place.

can make the people at the bottom so heartfelt, and even love the house and Wudao, and love the guests of Ziyun Road.

Let's not talk about the rest, just such a heart's desire is enough to make people amazing.

Qi Yun next to him didn't feel much about it.

He had already participated in the Tianluo Puja twice, and when he came the first two times, he had already deeply felt that Ziyun Dao was popular here.

Looking at it again at this time, the shock in my heart is much less, and it is not even much touched.

Seeing the expressions of a few companions, he couldn't help but whisper on the side: "Lu Daoyou, Shangguan Daoyou, near Tianluo Mountain, or in the entire Pengli Mansion area, the local wind of cultivating immortals to the Tao is very strong.

On weekdays, many of the people here are commensurate with lay people and Taoist friends, and in every household, they also enshrine the portraits of several famous real heavenly masters in the Purple Cloud Dao, and the incense is continuous day and night.

The local gentry also often have Taoist friends who have been ordained and become monks and enter the mountains to practice. Even if they are not monks, they basically believe in Taoism, often hold pujas, and donate money to build Taoist temples.

This makes Pengli Mansion local, almost every city and town, and even every township and village, have built Taoist temples of different sizes. In the Taoist Temple, it is often from Tianluo Mountain to ask the Purple Cloud Dao to send down the Dharma to preside over the Taoist.

It can be said that hundreds of thousands of families in Peng Li Mansion are all believers of Ziyun Dao.

Especially during this Tianluo Festival, all the Taoist temples under the Purple Cloud Dao Gate will also give instructions in advance with the villages and towns where the Taoist temples are located, so that the believers can help receive Taoist friends from all over the world.

Therefore, here, as long as you hear that we are guests invited by the Purple Cloud Dao, all the believers of the Dao will warmly welcome us. ”

At this time, Shangguan Guangbai next to him also said: "The influence of Ziyun Dao is indeed so great, and it is even more than that. In fact, in addition to Peng Li Mansion, the nearby Linchuan Mansion, Yuzhang Mansion, and Xunyang Mansion also have Taoist temples of Ziyun Dao.

This time, I came with my father's march, and when I passed through Xunyang and Yuzhang, I became a Taoist temple that saw a lot of Ziyun Dao.

At that time, I heard my father say that in the entire territory of Yuzhang County, there are more than one million believers in Ziyun Dao, covering four and a half counties.

And not only is there a lot of faith, but the Purple Cloud Dao is also extremely respected in the various veins of the Yue Kingdom and even the world, and it is one of the three veins in the world.

The imperial court will also canonize the successive Purple Cloud Dao Lords, respecting them as real people, and the title of the third prince is more than the first grade.

In contrast, the national teachers canonized by the imperial court now are only the second grade. ”

Shangguan Guangbai's tone was a little complicated.

In fact, he still didn't say a word, that is, Shangguan Ming once said, don't look at their six surnames and seven clans in Linhai County, inherited for thousands of years, and the noble side. But when it comes to heritage inheritance, it is far inferior to Purple Cloud Dao.

It is also said that people in the world say that the innate grandmaster is the strongest in the world and can be regarded as a land immortal.

But in fact, in the eyes of the real Daoist masters, even if he is an innate grandmaster, he is not more than Erer.

The so-called immortal theory is even more ridiculous.

And such a Dao master, there is one in the Purple Cloud Dao, and it is the Purple Cloud Dao Master.

Therefore, the imperial courts of all dynasties respected and worshiped Ziyun Dao, and allowed it to be the name of a real person, and they didn't need to listen to the tune or the announcement, and they were almost in a hurry to lick it.

And not even just the imperial court.

Shangguan Guangbai still remembered that when his father talked to him about these things, he had told him in a serious voice that if he met the Daoist of Ziyun Dao in the future, he must not be offended, and he must have more contacts and woo him.

If you can make friends with one or two Purple Cloud Dao, then you may be of infinite use in this life.

The descendants of the six surnames and seven clans actually had to rush to make friends with some foreign Taoist priests, which made Shangguan Guangbai, who had been arrogant since childhood, of course feel uncomfortable.

But he was also a smart man, and it must have been useful to know that his father had said so.

Therefore, a few days ago, after Shangguan Guangbai heard Lu Yuan say that he was going to participate in the Tianluo Festival, he pulled his sister to stick to him and made a fuss about going with him.

This is not only to continue to befriend Lu Yuan, but also to take advantage of this opportunity to see where the Purple Cloud Dao, which is also highly respected by his father, is sacred?

After listening to the introduction of the two companions, although the expression on his face did not change much, he had already made waves in his heart.

Originally, Ziyun Dao had a very high status in his heart. After all, he is the leader of the Yue National Road, and his influence is very wide, which is predictable.

But now it seems that his original estimate is still a little smaller.

Millions of believers, what a terrible number.

Let's take the simplest example.

Now the Qiang people who have established the Shu State in Xichuan County are only four or five hundred thousand people. At this time, the Miao people who occupied the county seat and ravaged Dongting added up to only more than 100,000.

Even Lu Yuan himself, the two prefectures of Hengyang and Luyang that he mastered, the population was only about 400,000.

And the Ziyun Dao family has millions of believers.

Looking at the attitude of those villagers towards Ziyun Dao in the village now, there is no need to think much about it, if Ziyun Dao pulls the flag and rebels, these villagers will definitely follow without saying a word.

With the pious beliefs of these believers, it is estimated that they will directly turn into fanatical berserkers.

If the Dao Masters of the Purple Cloud Dao recite some more charms, divide some runes, and say that they ask the gods to bless and be invulnerable, then it is estimated that they will fight to the death and not retreat, and the battle will be crazy.

And that's not all.

Looking at what Shangguan Guangbai said, the real person position of the Purple Cloud Dao Lord canonized by the imperial court is at the level of the first grade. The national teachers canonized by those Jianghu grandmasters are also the second grade.

The real person is two grades higher than those national teachers.

From this point of view, that is to say, in the eyes of the imperial court, the strength of the Purple Cloud Dao Lord is stronger than those innate grandmasters.

Qi Yun Daoyou said that he had seen the Purple Cloud Dao Lord control the Heavenly Fire Dao Sound and perform the Immortal Family Technique.

Doesn't this mean that with an immortal cultivator of the level of the Purple Cloud Dao Master, his strength has already surpassed those innate grandmasters on the rivers and lakes. ’

Lu Yuan calculated this in his heart, and couldn't help but feel a slight chill.

For the Purple Cloud Dao Lord who had not yet met, his fear suddenly increased.

Now a congenital saintess of the Five Poisons Sect forced him to be unable to sleep peacefully every night, and he had to change his sleeping place every night.

At this time, facing the Purple Cloud Dao Master, who was stronger than the Innate Sect Master, how could he not be even more fearful and awe-inspiring.

And that's not all.

Since there is a Dao Master in the Purple Cloud Dao, who can guarantee that there will be no other immortal cultivators?

There is no need for these immortal cultivators, they all have the strength of the Purple Cloud Dao Master.

As long as it is worse, it can be equivalent to the innate grandmaster on the rivers and lakes, it is an extremely terrifying power.

Moreover, in the Daomen, in addition to the immortal method, there are also people who practice martial arts.

Just like Qi Yun Daoyou, he is the second-rate realm of rivers and lakes.

Qingyunguan is a small view, which can cultivate a second-rate master.

The Taoist temples of Ziyun Dao are all over the four prefectures of Yuzhang County, and how many masters of the rivers and lakes can be cultivated?

The strength and heritage that Ziyun Dao has, after thinking about it carefully, is really shocking.

"No wonder the imperial court gives Ziyun Dao such honor, it's not that those emperors and princes in the court advocate Taoism, it's really not okay if you don't give it." ’

Lu Yuan deeply realized the difficulties of the imperial court at this time.

If you don't serve the master of Ziyun Dao well, it is really that the throne is not stable, and you can't sleep.

The emperor has to worry all the time, one day the Purple Cloud Dao Lord will come to the palace to walk around and take away his own life in his sleep.

There is such a great immortal in the country, and the emperor is not easy to do.

Lu Yuan sighed in his heart, and he had arrived at the house of the village chief Wei De.

When he entered the house, he looked left and right, but he saw a cicogram in front of the dining table in the hall, on which hung an image of a god, and in front of the statue was an incense burner, and at this time incense had been lit.

Looking at the statue, I saw that it was painted with an old man in a white robe with a wooden cane in his hand, and a purple cloud behind him.

"This is Miaoyin Guangyuan Immortal Monarch, it is rumored that it is in the Purple Cloud Dao, a Dao Lord ascended thousands of years ago." Qi Yun saw his friend staring at the portrait, walked over and recognized it, and said with a smile.

"Ascension a thousand years ago?"

Lu Yuan noticed the word, looked at the portrait deeply, and then withdrew his gaze.

Thousands of years ago, could it be that at that time, the immortal cultivators in the world could still fly to immortals?

But thousands of years ago, didn't the decline of the immortal qi already be?

Or is it that when the aura declines, the world can also become an immortal.

Lu Yuan had a lot of questions in his heart, there was too much information he got today, but most of it was messy and scattered, and he couldn't get a clue at all.

So after thinking about it for a while, it was still messy, so he simply didn't want to.

No matter what the truth is, take your time to find it in the future, and you will always get an answer.

And in half a month, it will be the Tianluo Puja.

At that time, the Purple Cloud Dao Lord will personally appear to teach the Fa, and the immortal cultivators at that time are in front of him, if you have any doubts, you can wait until then to explore slowly.

For the guests who came to participate in the Tianluo Festival, the Weide family was very enthusiastic. He even specially killed a few chickens and took bacon from home to entertain guests.

Lu Yuan and the others enjoyed a dinner, and then they each went to the prepared guest room to rest.

At dawn on the second day, a few people left a tael of silver in Wei De's push, and then continued to ride their horses to say goodbye and rush to Ziyun Road.

After walking more than 30 miles along the official road, a small town at the foot of the mountain in the distance came into view.

Before driving the horse into the town, he saw that the town was already full of people, and it was full of Taoist priests from all over the world.

At the entrance of the town, there were a few Taoist priests in green robes, waiting with a few tables.

Seeing Lu Yuan and the others coming, they immediately greeted them.

When one of them performed a Taoist salute, he immediately smiled and said, "A few Taoist friends, but you were invited to participate in the puja?" Mu Hongying, Poor Dao Ziyun Dao, was added to pick up guests and was ordered to welcome the participants. ”

Qi Yun stepped forward at this time, first returned the salute, and then took out the jade plate seal letter from his bosom and handed it over: "Qingyun Guanguan, Hengyang Mansion, Dongting County, Poor Dao, was invited to come this time, and asked Daoist friends to check it." ”

Mu Hongying took the jade disc certified by the government, as well as the seal letter that symbolized the identity of the main vein of Ziyun Guanguan, carefully checked it to confirm, and after confirming that it was true, he said with a smile: "It turned out to be a Taoist friend of Qingyun Temple, and there have been two invitations in your vein, and the town has prepared a corresponding residence, and the two Taoist friends can move in with this brand." ”

As he spoke, Mu Hongying took two bamboo plaques from the side and handed them to Qi Yun. After the latter accepted it, his eyes looked at Lu Yuan and the three again: "How many Taoist friends are?" ”

"Poor Dao Lu Yuan, I am with Qi Yun Daoyou." Lu Yuan walked directly to Qi Yun's side, and then took the bamboo card from the other party's hand and identified himself.

Mu Hongying nodded slightly, then looked at the Shangguan brothers and sisters.

Although the Tianluo Puja of the Purple Cloud Dao invites the world's Dao veins to participate, not everyone can participate.

If you are not a person of the Tao, you don't even have a threshold for joining.

Qingyunguan has two places, but there are three people in front of him, and there are two left, if there are no other invitation places, but he can't enter the town.

Shangguan brother and sister are such shrewd people, they naturally saw the meaning of this Ziyun Dao pick-up, only to see Shangguan Guangbai take a step forward, then take out a jade pendant from his arms, and hand it forward: "In Shangguan Guangbai, this is my sister Shangguan Haiyue, my brother and sister are from the Shangguan clan in Jintan." ”

Hearing the Shangguan clan on the golden altar, Mu Hongying's expression changed slightly, took the jade pendant and looked at it carefully, and carefully confirmed that this was the identity jade plate of the descendants of the Shangguan clan, and his expression also paid attention to it, and he saluted and said: "It turned out to be the son of the Shangguan family." Two of you, please come in, this is the brand of two of you. ”

Mu Hongying personally took the bamboo card and sent it to the Shangguan brothers and sisters, and his attitude was much better than that of Qi Yun.

But he doesn't blame him.

The Shangguan family is one of the six surnames and seven clans in the Yue Kingdom, and this year, there is a congenital grandmaster. Now he is worshiped as the general of the expedition to the west, the county guard of Dongting, the orthodox leader of 100,000 troops, and went out to quell the Miao rebellion.

This kind of background and power is certainly not comparable to the small view of the mountains and fields like Qingyunguan.

The four of them each took their name tags, registered their names, and then entered the town together.

When you enter the town, in addition to the residents of the town, there are countless Taoist priests.

These Taoist priests speak with various accents, wear all kinds of Taoist clothes, and even some strange costumes, which makes people wonder where they came from.

"Several Taoist friends, every time they come to participate in the festival, they come from more than a dozen countries in the world, and even from overseas. Countries and regions have different customs and customs, and naturally there are differences. ”

Qi Yun looked at a few Daoists who were a little stunned, explained with a smile, and then looked at the name card and said, "If you want to walk around the town, or discuss Taoism with other Daoists, you can come back later."

Now that there is still half a month before the festival begins, we will all be living in the town during this time, and it will be time for us to mingle with fellow believers.

For now, let's go to the accommodation we have arranged and put our luggage. ”

At this time, several people were holding packages and leading horses, which was indeed not a costume for lounging, so all three of them nodded yes.

Then he took the name tag and followed Qi Yun to find a place to live.