Chapter 4: The Beginning of the Young Man's Journey
Spring has been coming for a while in the great new country, the grass is green, the flowers are red; in the spring breeze, the grass is swaying; from a distance, the new green, tender green, fresh green, emerald green converge into one, if you look carefully, there is a small insect in the sea of grass, crawling slightly...
Xiao Worm was actually a carriage that had just crossed the Xiyue Broken Mountain in Xinguo, and in the blink of an eye, he entered the famous frontier of the Western Frontier of the Great New Dynasty: the sea of grass to defend against foreign enemies. The vegetation in this area is abnormal, although it sways with the wind, but the roots are as tall as two people and stand tall, and people are lying in ambush in the grass, and they cannot be found at all. Therefore, this place has naturally become the second line of defense of the new country except for Xiyue, and no one knows how many troops sent by the imperial court and tunnels were built in this sea of grass. The common people only know that some poets once wrote poems: The life of the broken mountain is broken, the soul of the grass sea is not returned, the Cao family border army is here, and it is difficult to pass on Christ.
Cao Yuanpeng, the marshal of the border army, is the oldest and most powerful marshal of the Daxin Dynasty, he is an authentic inheritance of Buddhism, he has entered the realm of ascending to heaven, and has cultivated the position of a great Arhat, but he refused the invitation to ascend to heaven, and vowed to guard Xiyue for the world for 500 years, so even the Daxin Emperor is also respectful of him.
During the battle between Yilan and Daxin, among the four marshals of the Four Route Army, he was the only one who fought three Christ archangels in mid-air, two of which were angels, one of whom was cut off his wings and fell into the world, and the other was directly cut off and turned into ashes before he landed.
The carriage walked on the only official road in the sea of grass, pulled by an old horse, slowly, not fast.
There was a young man in the car, wearing a Taoist robe, with Erlang's legs crossed, lifting the window, looking east and west, as if a child in the village had entered the county town for the first time. From time to time, he muttered to himself: "Tut-tut, the terrain here is high, and the water over there can't hide the yin, oops, where did the stupid feng shui master invited by the imperial court, and the construction of the defense line actually broke the feng shui of the sea of grass, and the grass will not grow tall after two hundred years, and then wait until Generalissimo Cao ascends to the sky three hundred years later, there is only one mountain left in the western defense line." With that, he shook his head vigorously. I looked at the broken mountain that was already behind me, and shook my head vigorously.
The little Taoist priest didn't notice that the other young man lying in the carriage had just moved his fingers slightly.
Not long after.
After Wang Lin fell into the boundless darkness, he regained his senses for the first time, and tried to open his eyes, but what caught his eyes was a beautiful round face, his eyes widened, and the tip of his nose touched the tip of Wang Lin's nose, looking at Wang Lin vigorously.
Although Wang Lin was still tired, he had regained the ability to speak, and he was startled and asked, "Who are you?"
The young Taoist priest raised his head slightly, narrowed his eyes, stroked his face with both hands, and said, "I am ashamed every time I report my home." Listen, I'm Wu Chi, a Taoist priest of the Pure Yang Palace. ”
"Shameless?" Wang Lin frowned.
"Alas, it's Wu Chi, it's not shameless! It's the second and third from time to time!"
"What is the Pure Yang Palace?" Wang Lin continued, but his body had already begun to tass slowly, and if the Taoist priest had any strange behavior, Wang Lin would not hesitate to do his best to kill him.
"You don't even know the famous Chunyang Palace? Oh, it was the old man of Chunyangzi who spent money to make a little money, and built a few broken houses on Chunyang Mountain in Zhongzhou and named them Chunyang Palace, but no one came at first, so he went down the mountain to block the door of the book saint Wang Gongju's house, and as soon as he saw the book saint go out, he immediately hugged the book saint's thigh like a leper dog and cried:" Brother Gongju, the little old man is miserable, an apprentice has confiscated it over the years, and there is no one who even asks me to subdue demons and eliminate demons, or you write a few words to the little old man or something, even if it is just one word, I will post it at the door of the house, so that even if there are more people who come to my mountain for the words of Brother Gongju. The book saint was really impatient, and wrote a "roll" word with a stroke of the pen, and then the little old man took the word and returned to the mountain beautifully. It's this Pure Yang Palace," the young man said vigorously, spitting at Wang Lin's face.
"I don't understand what you're saying at all, what a book saint, what a pure yangzi. Where the hell am I now?What the hell is going on?", Wang Lin wiped the foam from his face with his hand, Xingzi said anxiously.
"Blame me, blame me, you've been living in a small town before, but I really didn't expect you to have no knowledge of the outside world. Oh, my God. The young Taoist priest covered his face with pain with his hands again, and then said with a little seriousness, "You were knocked unconscious by the Buddhist Arhat at that time, well, it may also be the Great Arhat of the Buddhist Family, anyway, that person is not in the right state." Then you fainted, but the man didn't try to kill you. It just so happened that day that my master and I happened to travel to your town, and when we were about to leave, we suddenly felt the power of the Buddha Gate Vajra, and we were going to see the excitement, but who knew that looking at it, my unlucky master suddenly rubbed his hands wildly, and even said to me: 'Apprentice, the big knife of the master feels that he is already hungry and thirsty, you go and see the young man, I will cut a few knives at the man.' And then he fought with the man and kept fighting. Speaking of this, the young Taoist priest sighed and said mournfully: "It's like this every time, leave me as an apprentice to wipe his buttocks, and you will trap me." ”
"Then why am I here?" Wang Lin felt that this Taoist priest was not ordinary.
"Oh, yes, no, the point is here, my master's voice directly exposed me, you said that I am such a quiet and lovely little Taoist, where have I beaten so many horse thieves, so I had to pretend to be calm, report to my home, and then ...... directly" Wu Chi hesitated.
"How?" Wang Lin asked anxiously.
The Taoist priest shook his head and said, "What else? I bought you directly, two thousand taels, I even put up the coffin, and I fled with you after buying it." After speaking, he scratched his head in pain, and said to himself, "I have to tell the fortunes of many people at the foot of Chunyang Mountain to cheat the money back." ”
"And how long have I been unconscious?"
Wu Chi fiddled with his fingers and calculated: "It's about four days."
Hearing this, Wang Lin immediately got up, jumped out of the carriage, and stayed on the ground all of a sudden, and the endless huge sea of grass deeply shocked Wang Lin.
Wu Chi lifted the carriage curtain and said casually: "It's not that I won't let you go back, Broken Mountain is already under martial law, and you can't get through." ”
"How can there be martial law!?" Wang Lin looked at Wu Chi in disbelief.
“。。。 That's a matter of the imperial court, how can I know that a little Taoist priest, oops, I know you're worried about your little lover, but when I took you to escape from the town, I already saw the Daxin border army rushing to your town on the official road, so your little lover should be safe. ”
"No, I'm not worried, I have to go back. Wang Lin said stubbornly and began to walk back.
"Let me tell you in advance, martial law on the border army means that it is impossible to enter without a court document, if you sneak in, once you are caught, you will be beheaded according to the punishment of the spies. ”
Daoist Wu Chi saw that Wang Lin was still walking back, ignoring him, the little Taoist scratched his head with some annoyance, and muttered in a low voice: "Unlucky Master, you can also pick a good place to fight, you fight, Yilan saw that in addition to Cao Yuanpeng on the border, there were two more little saints at once, can you not send the archangels to the border to sit in town." Damn, I really fell into blood mold to worship you as a teacher. Then he shouted loudly: "Wang Lin, I know that there is another way to bypass Xiyue and go directly to the border!"
"How long will it take?" Wang Lin still didn't look back.
"Two months at most, but it's better than you dying in the mountains, I can tell you that Xiyue is now three steps and one sentry, five steps and one post. ”
Wang Lin stopped, thought for a moment, looked at the injuries in his body that had almost completely recovered, and silently turned around and said: "I can recover, it must be thanks to your treatment, I believe you, if you can really go back to the town." Wang Lin raised his fists, "Da En is toothless and unforgettable"
The young Taoist priest hurriedly waved his hand and said, "There is no big favor or small kindness, we are both unlucky children who were pitted by my unlucky master, and we can be regarded as sympathetic to each other." Get in the car quickly, we have to get out of the sea of grass before night, otherwise it will be troublesome, we will say in the car specifically. ”
Wang Lin did not hesitate, got back into the car, and the old horse pulled up the car again and drove slowly on the official road.
"We will arrive at the nearest to Xiyue in the evening, and it is also the main county of Xixia Prefecture, Broken Water City, because the Broken River flowing down from the Broken Mountain of Xiyue has raised the people of this land, so in order to be grateful for the river, the main county of Xixia Prefecture is called Broken Water City. In other words, this broken mountain has come from a big place. Legend thousands of years ago Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism bloody battle, my Taoist king accidentally was the Buddha head sneak attack, knocked down the dust in his hand, but where will the king's thing be mortal, when falling into the mortal world, just fell on this Xiyue, the mountain was broken in half by the waist, forming a huge natural danger, from then on only the ropeway, no longer the possibility of climbing the mountain to cross, and then our family that the king did not take away the dust, but used the earth-shattering Taoist method, the dust and white whiskers turned into river water, raising a piece of land. Wang Lin, is the king of heaven exploding? The young Taoist priest said with a yearning on his face.
Wang Lin was a little embarrassed, and finally asked Wu Chi: "Wu Chi, what is the Heavenly King?"
Wu Chi opened his big mouth, speechless for a while, and then stretched out his trembling hand and pointed at Wang Lin, "You, you, you don't even know this." ”
"Nobody taught me ... Wang Lin smiled bitterly.
Wu Chi sighed heavily, "Then you can listen well, alas" Wu Chi Taoist shook his head and said: "I have built a new country for a thousand years and occupy five continents: the new country Kyoto is located in the Central Continent controlled by Confucianism, which is also called Shenzhou, the place where we are standing now is called Xixia Prefecture, the prosperous Taoist is Dongwang Shenzhou, the Buddhist temples are widely spread in Nantianzhu Prefecture, and the Northern Cold Boundary Prefecture is cold for thousands of miles in the north. And we monks have four realms: mountain climbing, which is the entry stage, the starting point for all monks. Then there is the top realm, which is the most common top master in the interpretation novel. There are very few people who can reach this realm, and then there is the realm of ascending to heaven, which is also called the realm of little saints by mortals, my Taoist Tianzun, the great arhat or Bodhisattva of Buddhism and the great Confucianism of Confucianism are the titles of the realm of small saints, and people in this realm can fly into the sky at will, from the world into the sky, appreciate the new world, and can feel the rules of heaven more deeply, so it is extremely difficult to squeeze into the final heavenly realm in the world, and achieve the legendary king, Buddha and the great sage of Confucianism, that is, the gods that the people believe. So, for thousands of years, those Confucians have been shouting that they are only human beings and not gods. Speaking of this, he stretched out three fingers, "There have been three saints since the founding of the church. And my Taoism has already appeared ten heavenly kings. In the end, the Great New Kingdom was born in response to the way of heaven, and Confucianism was established as the ruling platform, and Taoism and Buddhism are both state religions and have the responsibility to protect the country. The current Xixia Prefecture is the great arhat Cao Yuanpeng of the Buddhist Ascending Heaven Realm.
"What about those birdmen in Yilan?" Wang Lin seemed to think of something, and asked seriously.
"You mean their angels of Yilan, if they are divided according to our realm, those little bird people in the sky can be regarded as the pinnacle realm, the seven archangels, oh no, two were killed by Cao Pengyuan, and now they are the five great angels and it is said that the twelve students of Christ have all ascended to the heavenly realm. ”
"Who is Christ?" Wang Lin continued.
"Christ is the spiritual leader of the Heavenly Dao Realm, and he is the foundation and belief of the Elam Empire. ”