There is a saying in the Tang Dynasty officialdom:

Immortals in the sky, and the king of freedom in the underground.

The prince who is happy on the ground in the sentence refers to Li Xuan, the king of Ruyang, who is feasting in his own mansion.

The book says that the king of Ruyang of the Tang Dynasty, who is listening to the story on the throne, is a very brilliant character himself, with royal blood, good looks, money, power, and is also very talented. It is said that such a near-perfect life should be absolutely carefree, and the fairy of the free race. But this prince who is envied in the officialdom also has troubles, he also has his own desires, and his desires are not uncommon to say, which is nothing more than to live for a few more decades, and it is best to live a long life, immortal and immortal!

The dwarf people who sit in the lower seat and are regarded as the guests of honor are often full, and they are indeed satisfied at the moment. This prominent prince shouted at him one by one, complimenting him to the extreme. Chang Zhiman himself also knows that most of the prince's kindness is because of his unfathomable master, and he himself is just a little light, if he really wants this prince to worship himself, it is not enough to praise the master, and he can't get the other party's true appreciation without showing his dazzling skills!

Chang Zhiman finished talking about how his master borrowed the river from the sky to break the monk's demon method, and accepted the dragon god as a disciple, King Ruyang was naturally overjoyed, and he continued to ask with a smile:

"King Gu once heard that Master Ye Xianshi seems to have been summoned by His Majesty to enter the palace, take the stage to practice, kill dragons and take meat, Xingyun and ask for rain, summon gods to exorcise ghosts, sword and fox demons, and also gave a lecture on the way of immortality, Gu is curious, I don't know if the master can tell more stories about his teacher, I am very grateful! Come on, take some more wine and delicacies, and serve Master Chang with your heart! ”

As soon as the prince's voice fell, Chang Zhiman hurriedly waved his hand and excused himself, and when he came in, many beautiful maids came in, and he changed a batch of banquets quickly, and the king of Ruyang was toasting and letting the dishes, and the guests and hosts enjoyed themselves for a while.

"Back to the prince, there is this matter. It was the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, and His Majesty the Emperor thought that the queen had no children for many years, so he ordered the master to play Zhang Yujing Emperor and ask the queen if she had a son? The master did not dare to slack off, and immediately opened the altar to start the hexagram, and after a long time, there were chapters from the sky. Criticism of the clouds: The word "childless" is very clear, His Majesty the Emperor still didn't believe it at the time, but today, the hexagram is indeed true. ”

The dwarf man Chang Zhiman thanked the King of Ruyang for his kindness while continuing to talk about his master Ye Jingneng.

It turns out that Emperor Xuanzong of Kaiyuan has been good at Taoism since he was a child, and he actually disrespects the Buddha in his heart, and he has not looked down on those bald donkeys, of course, the Li family royal family who recognized "Lao Tzu" as their ancestor does not believe that Huang Lao's way is disloyal and unfilial, and the Buddhist family is from outside the country in the final analysis. Later, the emperor did it for a long time, and understood the top secret of the Taishi Bureau, the emperor himself had just come into contact with the world of cultivation, and he was very interested in seeking immortals, and he was full of satisfaction to practice and become immortals, so he kept pestering the old doctors of the Taishi Bureau to introduce himself to the great monks, Ye Fashan Dan Qiusheng and others were helpless, so they unanimously elected Ye Jingneng, who was known as the first hermit master in the world. The emperor sent someone to summon Ye Jingneng, who was forcibly pushed by everyone, and after Ye Jingneng became a sensation in Chang'an, Li Longji was impatient to ask him for advice in the courtyard of the Great Deep Palace, to see if he had any good ways to help him cultivate the immortal law as soon as possible.

Speaking of this Ye Jingneng, he may not be as far as Luo Gongyuan in deducing the heavenly machine, he may not be as good as Ye Fashan in the relocation of luck, and he is unfathomable and not as good as that fruit, but when it comes to slaying demons and killing demons and hunting heavenly treasures, Ye Jingneng is the most powerful, and his fairy sword and talisman can be called the first in the world. He heard that the emperor wanted to cultivate immortals, but he actually disdained it in his heart, although the emperor in front of him was born with an emperor star and had the luck of the world, but in the end, the eye of heaven has been blinded, although he can enjoy the wealth of the world, but the body in this life will be fooled by the way of heaven after all! Therefore, his many inquiries to the emperor are always false and wronged, and he does not teach magic and magic, but talks more about governing the country, hoping that the arrogant emperor can do his job well and benefit the people.

The emperor didn't understand the painstaking efforts of the Taoists, so he just asked about the cultivation: "The master respects the Tao method and is subtle, I don't know if there is a technique of immortality?" ”

Ye Jingneng was afraid of being attacked because of the fear of Heavenly Dao, and he couldn't tell the truth inside, so he could only play:

"There is a talisman that ascends to heaven and earth, except for its essence and charm, and the disease of demons and evils; He Chen Shendan, not blocked. If Your Majesty seeks the method of immortality, it will also be easy! ”

When the emperor heard Ye Jingneng's performance, he was pleasing to his temperament, and he used talismans to alchemize, and it seemed that there was hope for longevity, so he immediately worshipped the teacher diligently:

"I am willing to be a disciple of the teacher, and I also ask to respect the teacher and I as a teacher."

Immediately afterwards, His Majesty did not wait for Ye Jingneng to agree, so he arranged manpower to rebuild a Taoist temple for Ye Jingneng in the best location of Feng Shui in Chang'an City. Tianjia is busy in all directions, the Taoist temple soon began to build, all the layout in the temple is the top, all kinds of rare and valuable people do not need money to send here, the emperor then issued an edict to send people every day. The emperor himself is fortunate to be in the courtyard of Ye Jingneng every day, Ye Jingneng has no choice but to recognize this difficult and domineering apprentice, and since then the master and apprentice have often discussed Taoism. During this period of time, Ye Jingneng also showed his magic powers to the emperor, looking at those unbelievable immortal methods, the emperor was even more itchy, and many times he would rather leave government affairs and study spells. The emperor's actions teased those courtiers, ministers, civil and military officials, all of them were eager to follow the emperor's footsteps. When the common people saw that the dignitaries were so fanatical about the way of cultivation, they naturally chose to follow the trend, and since then, Chang'an City and even the entire Tang Dynasty have admired Taoism, and the whole people have begun to cultivate immortals.

"The Venerable Master is really good, no wonder His Majesty has been so respectful of the Venerable Master from the beginning, and he is really a master outside the world......"

King Ruyang listened to the description of the dwarf man, and praised him with emotion, and as soon as he finished speaking, the dwarf man shook his head and interrupted the words of the king of Ruyang rather impolitely.

"The prince's words are wrong, you don't know, although the master has a prominent reputation, but he doesn't know His Majesty, and the respected master was also respected before he was summoned by His Majesty, and he was not so favored from the beginning!"

"Oh? I want to hear about it! ”

It turned out that this Ye Jingneng was born in the third year of Zhenguan, and he was actually eighty-three years old when he was summoned by this emperor Li Longji in the early years of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, which was already extremely high in the secular people, but in the mountains and the worldly land without years, eighty-three years old was only in the prime of life. Ye Jingneng was very smart when he was young, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, and ink, and he was familiar with the classics, especially the study of Huang Lao, and he was fascinated by the law of the talisman at first sight, and then the family saw him like this, so he was sent to the Huiji Mountain Hui Ye Guan to study, he lived in the view as a child, and was a small Taoist child. After entering the view, he practiced day and night, studied hard, until he was twenty years old, he officially worshiped the Taoist door, and after becoming a Taoist priest, there was a famous teacher and his own outstanding talent, and the speed of cultivation was compared with his peers to the difference between heaven and earth. One day he was meditating in the cave, and in the chaos he felt the emperor of the Great Luo Palace, and the emperor liked his talent and loved his hard work even more, so he sent a god man and sent him a scroll of talismans, so that he was determined to learn and not send anyone to know.

Ye Jingneng woke up and told Shizun about the matter, and Shizun didn't know what the gods meant, but just persuaded him to practice the art of runes, so as not to spoil such an opportunity. Ye Jingneng was already devoted to the Tao, and today he has no intention of retreating from the gods and immortals. Then he opened the talisman to read it, the feet were clear, and the names of the ghosts and gods were all about the spirits and demons in the world. After practice, even a single rune can mobilize the heavens, earth, ghosts and gods, and move mountains and rivers and seas. Ye Jing can be convenient to meet Ji Mountain, refine the Taoism, study the talismans, go up to the gate of heaven, go down to the geography, and cultivate to the later, the ghosts and gods in the world want to call and call, and they must make it, and they all have their hearts.

In a hurry, after decades, Ye Jingneng's rune book technique was completed, and since then, all the names of the spirits in the heavens and on the earth have been left in the rune book for his use. If you want to talk about the most absolute talisman, in this universe, there is no one who has been able to purify the leaves of the universe. His master knew that his skills had been accomplished, so he went to the next life to practice, first, to exercise his magical powers, and secondly, to understand the world's various states and make good connections, and strive to soar as soon as possible. In the years that followed, Ye Jing was able to cross mountains and rivers, subdue demons and subdue demons, help the world, and made a great reputation in the cultivation world. As the so-called tree moves the wind, Emperor Xuanzong, who is at the top of the way of the immortals, ordered to recruit monks from all over the world, and Ye Jing can be such a dazzling figure, which is the most important thing! Although he was outside the square, he had never ascended in the end, and the orders of the emperor in the world still had to be obeyed, and he was not good at disobeying the order, so he could only arrange for the Huijishan Dojo to rush to Chang'an after all the incidents. On the way, exorcise demons and subdue demons, show strange spells, cultivators pay attention to fate, Ye Jingneng himself is a free and easy temperament, beautiful and clear, and his love is relaxed. There are 35,000 miles a day, and you can not move for 35 days. If you don't want to eat, you can skip water and rice for thirty or fifty days; If you want to eat it, you can eat sixty or seventy livestock in one meal. If you are happy, you will stealth the game in the world, and if you are unhappy, you will conjure up hundreds of yourself to scare others. He wandered around like this for ten days, and finally rushed to Chang'an City.

Coming to Chang'an, the imperial capital of the Eight Directions Dynasty, Ye Jingneng was not in a hurry to see the emperor, he just casually placed a Taoist bag in the Xuandu Temple. After a month, I didn't see him discharged from the hospital, and he just played the piano and howled on weekdays to smooth his feelings. The servants and maids serving in the Taoist temple secretly looked inside, and there was no kitchen to operate, and there was no place to sip, so he was so leisurely without eating or drinking, it was really strange. Someone came to the temple to ask about his Taoism, and Ye Jing could say that the power of the talisman and the disease of his spirit and demon were all unspeakable. In this era when the art of Wai Dan is prevalent and the law of Fu Gong is declining, Ye Jing can despise Wai Dan specializing in Fu Gong, just like an outlier, the mouth of one person of the people can enter the ears of ten thousand people, without Xinsu, the people of the two cities of Chang'an City, all know that there is a Taoist priest in the Xuandu Temple, who is crazy in speech, arrogant, boasting that he can solve medical charms, and has the ability of Fu Gong.

It just so happened that at this time, there was a resident named Kang Taiqing in Jixian Fang, and his daughter had a daughter who was sixteen or seventeen years old, and a good baby somehow laughed or cried, or walked or sit, or ran into the street. It happened that a neighbor had heard Ye Jingneng's gossip, so he ran to tell Nakang Taiqing and said, "There is a Taoist priest in the Xuandu Temple, who said that he could cure the disease of the wild fox. As soon as Kang Taiqing heard this, he didn't say a word, picked up his wife and went to Guan Nei to find Ye Jingneng together. When the husband and wife came to Ye Jingneng's door, they didn't go in, let alone ask if it worked, they bowed their heads, their heads banged, and they cried loudly into the house about their daughter's illness, praying that Ye Jingneng could save her life. The couple cried and shouted: "Surrender to the master for treatment, and die without grace!" ”

Ye Jingneng was sleeping indoors, and was suddenly disturbed, listening to the movement, he came to the courtyard immediately, and after some inquiry, he pinched his fingers and had an idea. He said to the couple, "This disease is the disease of a wild fox, and I want to be cured, but I will bring a collar of felt, and four large nails, and heal it immediately." Kang Taiqing was in a hurry to go to the doctor, and he didn't ask whether it was true or not, he went back immediately, brought four blankets and big nails as instructed, and tied his daughter to the temple together. Ye Jingneng saw the girl, his eyes flashed, he strode forward, with a move with his left hand, a sword immediately flew out of the house, only to see him holding a sword in one hand, clamping the arm of the daughter of the Kang family with the other, and without asking, he directly waved the sword, and cut the girl into three with two swords.

For a while, blood flowed all over the ground, and the people in the courtyard were all shocked, Kang Taiqing and his wife first froze on the spot, and it took a while to wake up, and the two of them collapsed on the ground with a clamour, crying and shouting, they shouted hoarsely: "Kill!" The Taoist priest has killed someone! Come on, my son, who will save my son! The onlookers were also retreating at the moment, and they were clamoring to go to the county government to report to the official, accusing him that the crazy Taoist priest of Xuandu Temple had killed someone with a sword!

Ye Jingneng, who killed people, was not in a hurry, only to see him cover the girl's body with a blanket, fix the four corners with nails, and blood flowed out along the blanket. Ye Jing can be busy, and the hundreds of people who are watching are also running to tell each other, all saying that in the imperial city, if they dare to do this, who will not shout. Ye Jingneng didn't look at the couple when he was done, let alone those who watched the excitement, he went back to the house by himself, and naturally didn't sleep, so he simply began to play the piano and howl, his demeanor was calm, and he looked like nothing had happened.

If you want to say that it has to be a Jingshi, after a while, the thief catcher came to Ye Jingneng's courtyard with the soldiers, and asked loudly: "Where is the evil man?" Ye Jingneng stopped the qin whistle when he heard this, and replied while walking out: "Here and here!" Why should the officials assert in a hurry! The poor road cures the disease of the wild fox, the idlers are ignorant and talk nonsense! The leader was also confused when he heard this, so he turned back to ask Kang Taiqing, and Kang Taiqing cried and replied: "Go back to the lord, don't listen to this demon quibble, what lies under this blanket is my baby's corpse!" Before he finished speaking, the couple hugged their heads and cried again. The leader heard the old couple crying as if they were about to lose their breath, and saw the blood flowing under the blanket, and the crowd of onlookers were shouting for murder, and immediately angrily reprimanded the Taoist who had come to the front: "I still dare to refuse when I see that people are in a bad place!" What a guts! Ye Jingneng still spoke calmly, he pointed to the felt carpet on the ground and said, "Why don't you uncover the felt and see it!" Don't neglect laws and regulations, and don't enforce the law strictly. The official was intimidated by Ye Jingneng's bearing, so he asked the soldiers to uncover the blanket and inspect it, and the autopsy looked at it for a while, and then reported loudly: "Kang Taiqing's woman is lying side by side for the wild fox, the woman is undamaged, and the wild fox is cut into three sections." When the thief catcher heard this, he was stunned, walked two steps quickly, and regardless of the tragedy of the scene, he lifted the blanket and looked around, only to see a woman lying on the ground, and there was also a miscellaneous fox that was cut into three pieces lying beside her, and the onlookers were dumbfounded at the moment, obviously watching the daughter of the Kang family being cut into three pieces, why was it intact at this moment, and where did the bloody fox next to him come from, everyone turned their heads and ears, and they couldn't understand what was going on for a while.

Kang Taiqing and his wife saw that their daughter was not dead, crawled over to wake up their daughter, the girl woke up like a dream, and did not know what happened, only to see her parents with tears in their eyes, holding themselves and not letting go! After crying for a while, the family of three knelt down and prostrate to salute, crying and thanking Ye Jingneng for saving their daughter, except for the demon fox and the ghost. The thief catcher saw that this was over, and knew that the Taoist priest in this view was not trivial, and immediately went back to report according to the truth. After Shang Yin went back, he immediately recorded this matter into a table, and heard about His Majesty the current Emperor!

Two days later, when the emperor saw this recital, he was already enthusiastic before he finished reading it, he just heard Ye Fashan and they said that there was a talisman mage in the mountains and wilderness who was extremely sharp in magic and was a hermit with great power, this person was named Ye Jingneng, since the emperor wanted to find great power, he could invite him to enter Beijing and make a good fate! It's just that a lot of time has passed, and I don't see the movement of this master, and today I looked at the watch to know that this person had already arrived in Chang'an City, and his reputation was not obvious for a month, but he used a little means to kill the fox demon two days ago, and he became famous for a while, and he was in the limelight. The emperor immediately summoned Gao Lishi and ordered him to send a team of Jin Wuwei to Xuandu to invite this Taoist named Ye Jingneng!

Emperor Xuanzong was only twenty-eight or nine at this time, he had just praised his emperor father as the emperor, and he had to hold the power with high spirits, and he was suddenly attracted by the immortal magic of the Taishi Bureau, so he devoted himself to the good way, and devoted himself to seeking immortals, showing his courage and liver, and thinking of immortality. He is greedy for Luo Gongyuan's deduction technique, greedy for Ye Fa's goodness through the heavens and the earth, greedy for Zhang Guo's longevity with the sky, and later after seeing Ye Jingneng, he is greedy for the magic of the talisman, and every day he is thinking about how to learn all these magical spells to himself, when the time comes, fly away, thousands of miles of deduction, please God to eliminate demons, do whatever you want, how free. As for immortality, he didn't care much about it, after all, for a young man of twenty-eight or nineteen years old, death seemed far away!

As the so-called day and night dream, the emperor who is obsessed with the immortal law has a dream of a god man one night, this god man is three feet high, stepping on colorful auspicious clouds, wearing golden armor and holy clothes, the face is red, the tiger's back is bear's waist, the eyes are impressive, like an electric switch, the body is surrounded by thunderbolts and thunderbolts, the sky is mighty, the divine light is magnificent, and the true nature is majestic. Behind the god-man were many fairy children and jade girls, with fluttering feathers and fairy sounds.

This god man came to the emperor, gave a salute first, and then said that he was ordered to send dragon liver to the emperor of the world today! The emperor said to the man of God, "Where does this liver come from? The god man replied, "The Upper Realm Ziwei Emperor ordered the gods to send it!" Emperor Xuanzong was shocked, it turned out that this god man was actually the god general of the Ziwei Emperor, and the Ziwei Emperor was the highest-ranking emperor among the gods, with the full name of "Zhongtian Ziwei Arctic Emperor", ranking among the four emperors, second only to the Sanqing Patriarch, I didn't expect him Li Longji to be favored by the Emperor of Heaven and was given the divine dragon liver.

The god gave the dragon liver and ordered him to eat it immediately, Li Longji did not dare to disobey, took the dragon liver and swallowed it, its taste was very beautiful, deeply impressed, when Li Longji was reminiscing, he suddenly woke up from a dream and realized that there was nothing left in the golden armor god and the divine dragon liver, so he knew that it was just a dream. The emperor recalled the scene in the dream, so he ordered Ye Fashan to ask, after Ye Fashan came, he heard about such a dream, and he understood the reason in his heart, and he didn't hide it, and told the truth! It turned out that although the dream was a dream, it was not all a dream, and the gods and men in the dream and the dragon liver given to them were real. Ye Fashan told the emperor very definitely that the Emperor Ziwei and the Golden Armor God will indeed have their gods, and the emperor does not need to doubt it, this is the emperor's excellent virtue in the world, which has been recognized by God, and specially given the auspicious rui, Your Majesty can eat dragon meat!

The young emperor listened to Ye Fashan's explanation, and then stabilized his mind, but he couldn't help but be proud in his heart, it seems that he has done a good job as an emperor, even the heavenly emperor and gods know him and praise himself! Thinking back to the dragon liver in the dream, it tasted really good, and he couldn't help but move his mind, he asked Ye Fashan:

"The taste of the dragon liver I got in my dream just now is wonderful, I wonder if the Heavenly Master has a way to get it again?"

Although Ye Fashan has extraordinary powers, he has to kill the dragon if he wants to get dragon meat, and he is not very good at fighting and killing the dragon, so he told the truth immediately, and the emperor couldn't help but feel a little regretful when he heard it. Ye Fashan ancestor four generations of heavenly masters, to his generation is the Duke of Yue, he as the actual helmsman of the Tang Empire Taishi Bureau, is the most obscure pillar of the entire Tang Dynasty, but also because of the constraints of fortune, he has become one of Li Longji's most trusted people, the emperor has an order, almost will not refuse, after thinking for a while, Ye Fashan told the emperor:

"In fact, there is one person who may be able to grant His Majesty's wish!"

When the emperor heard this, he was immediately overjoyed, and hurriedly asked:

"Who is the person the Celestial Master is talking about?"

Ye Fashan replied very seriously:

"Ye Jingneng!"

The emperor trusted Ye Fashan, and when he heard this, he also fell into deep thought, muttering in a low voice, "It turned out to be him"! After a while, the emperor raised his head and continued to say to Ye Fashan:

"I was tired of the Heavenly Master running all night, and I was terrified, just as the Heavenly Master said. Just a few days ago, this person slashed the fox demon with a sword, and I saw it once, and he was indeed a very capable person, and tomorrow I will bother the Heavenly Master to go there in person, and then invite him to the palace! ”

The two top land immortals in the Tang cultivation world are finally about to meet!