Historically, since the rise of the Murong family, the second largest chamber of commerce in the mainland, the Roland House Seven-Star Sky Lantern Auction has only been held five times in thousands of years. The fifth time was held by Liu Yueyue, the only foreign surname of the Murong family since ancient times, when she first ascended to the position of head of the family fifteen years ago, and the location at that time was the capital of the Holy Dynasty - the capital.

Now located in Wanzhou, the largest city in the south of the Yangtze River, only fifteen years apart, the sixth seven-star sky lantern auction was suddenly announced in an unpredictable way.

That's what makes this event so crazy.

The Murong family, as a super merchant family that masters the largest auction system in the world, any auction will be sought after by many cultivators. The lighting of the Roland Building has become a kind of auction preview exclusive to the Murong family. According to the number of lights, the auction is divided into four levels - a one-star green lantern festival, a three-star lantern festival, a five-star lantern festival and the largest seven-star sky lantern festival. Among them, the one-star lantern festival is the most ordinary, and it will be held irregularly in various places; the three-star lantern festival is only held once a year in larger cities; and the five-star lantern festival is almost one of the top auctions, and before Liu Yueyue became the head of the family, the five-star event could only be held once in decades.

Within fifteen years, two consecutive sessions of the Seven Star Sky Lantern Festival were held, which was unique in the history of the Murong family. Because the number of stars to be auctioned is not arbitrarily determined by the owner, but according to the treasures auctioned. In the Seven Stars Sky Lantern Festival, there must be a sufficient number of rare treasures or curiosities to be photographed. Just like the big axis of the grand event in the capital fifteen years ago, it turned out to be the original power of half of the holy soldiers, and finally fell into the hands of the holy court.

The auction in the capital was actually more than 400 years since the fourth sky lantern festival in history, so much so that most of the world's sect families only sent their disciples there with the attitude of watching the ceremony, and more wanted to meet the first foreign family head of the Murong family. It's just that when these sect masters really saw the treasures they had photographed, they didn't know how many sect masters who had failed to prepare in advance were furious, and how many family masters regretted their bowels! Seeing a large number of treasures fall into other people's cysts, they were overwhelmed with grief and indignation. Therefore, when the two Murong Family Tent Masters lit the Seven-Star Sky Lantern on the seventh day of the third month, the whole world was boiling again! Especially for the Great Gate Sect, any treasure that the Sky Lantern would obtain would benefit the sect immensely!

The moon was hanging high, and now that it was a child, Du Siyun pushed open the main door of the study, took off an official robe, and sat down on a chair. In less than seven days, the Suzhou Governor has lost a whole weight. Tomorrow is the time for the Lantern Festival, and so far the millions of monks in the city have not caused any trouble, except for some verbal arguments with each other. Du Siyun took a deep breath, and while secretly reciting the Confucian context meditation method in his heart to regulate qi, blood and mind, he laughed at himself that his cultivation was still too low. In order not to affect the rest of his wife and children, he still did the same as a few days ago, and after returning home, he did not choose to go back to the room to rest, but came to the study to rest. But he knew that at most, when the incense was burned, the lady would come to hear the news.

Sure enough, there was a slight knock on the door outside the study, and then Mrs. Du Shi pushed the door and walked in, holding a few long-prepared supper meals in her hand. Du Siyun looked at the dignified and virtuous lady who was a few years younger than herself, not only did she feel warmer in her heart, but she felt that a day's hard work was nothing.

Du Siyun has only one wife and has never taken a concubine. Du Siyun looked at the figure of his wife, a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, remembering that he and his wife met when they were studying and traveling many years ago, and the two of them have shared weal and woe in the past 20 years, and they are very affectionate. Du's mother died of illness at an early age, and his father was only a county magistrate until he returned to his hometown. After Du Siyun took up the post of Suzhou Governor, he took his father-in-law to Wanzhou, but the old man built a cottage on the outskirts of Wanzhou on the grounds that he was not used to living in this huge mansion, which seemed to be enjoyable every day, but in fact he did not want to let his son-in-law be distracted.

Du Shi looked at the emaciated husband, he felt very sorry in his heart, but he did not show a worried look on his face, and while putting a plate of food on the table, he said softly and gently: "You, you don't know how to rest when you are busy, I will make you this chain osmanthus soup, the teacher doesn't often say, 'Scholars drink lotus seed soup, just like drinking Haoran Qi for a long time', and these high-point side dishes, all of which you love to eat, you can taste it while it's hot." After Du Shi finished speaking, he turned his head and couldn't help but find that his husband was looking at him with a smirk on his face, not only his face was slightly red, but he pretended to take a sip, turned around and walked around the back, and gently kneaded his shoulders for him.

Du Dazhou Mu felt the softness on his shoulders, took a sip of lotus seed soup, and let out an extraordinarily satisfied sigh.

"Master, I've worked hard for you these past few days. Du Shi said softly.

Du Siyun patted her hand gently, put a piece of tofu in his mouth and chewed it carefully, swallowed it and said: "If it is not like this on weekdays, it is just that these millions of monks are in the state city together, and naturally there are a lot of things." As you know, when this kind of person is involved in a lot of cultivation, it is the overall situation of the abbot of the palace, and I can assist from the side. Don't look at my daily contact with the palace much, this is just to avoid any words in the court, in fact, there is the prestige of the prince, and I am really relaxed as a state pastor on weekdays. If it weren't for the prince being suddenly summoned to Beijing, the Shimen small residence would not be closed, and the palace guards would not all return to the palace. ”

"Hmm. In my opinion, the prince and his wife seem to be different from other officials in the court. Duch replied softly.

"It's not the same. Du Siyun didn't know why, and wanted to say more to his wife tonight: "Over the years, the sixteen god kings of the Holy Dynasty have been crowned, and there are three of the most noble and respected god kings - they are the king of Zhige who is in charge of Chuzhou and Youzhou in Western Xinjiang, the king of Dingjun who is in charge of Liaoyuan Canghan Prefecture and Bian Yun Prefecture, and our king of Yong'an who is in the fiefdom of Jiangnan Su and Ting Erzhou. They were followed by five Jin God Kings - King Boqian, King Jin Yu, King Liao Yin, King Wenxuan, and King Xiaoyao. There are also the last eight god kings, named after the eight dynasties of 'Qilu, Yan, Zhao, Han, Wei, Chu, Zheng' that were annexed by the Holy Dynasty. Of the three god kings, which one is not really a great feat? Just say that the old prince of Yong'an, who led the Huangquan battalion to kill thousands of miles of grassland in the past, his wife has been practicing medicine with the army for many years, and I don't know how many soldiers have won the heart of serving death. And in the former court, the prince is probably the only one who dares to point his nose and scold the Holy Emperor. So Madam, you said, there is such a prince in Suzhou, how can I not feel at ease?

Du Siyun said in a somewhat excited tone, as if he was suddenly not a state pastor of the first three grades, but became the young man who was full of righteousness when he was studying, these words that could not be expressed on weekdays, were told to his wife at this moment.

Du Shi listened to his husband's words, and the corners of his eyes were a little moist. In fact, the heart is not only the prince, but you have not been the same for so many years, guarding the well-being of the people. Since I married the man in front of me, I have only felt fortunate in my three lives, and I have never regretted half of it.

After a while, Du Siyun finished the soup, put the bowl on the table, and suddenly said with a smile: "Hehe, I'm afraid I need Mrs. to prepare an extra bowl of lotus seed soup tomorrow." ”

How smart Du Shi was, when he heard this, he immediately bowed down and looked at him, his eyes bright: "Could it be that the teacher is coming?"

"Hmm. Du Siyun smiled slightly, "The imperial court and the Lord of the Prison State, it's not really enough to put such a big matter on me alone, and they will send people here openly and secretly." Secretly it should be someone in the courtyard of the capital, and it is likely to be the history of the law, and the order has been sent to me today, led by the teacher, and it will be there tomorrow morning. ”

"You wouldn't have said such a big thing earlier!" Du Shi suddenly let go of his hands kneading his shoulders, and didn't ask his husband if he still wanted to eat, and quickly put away the dishes and bowls on the table with a cigarette, Du Siyun was a little helpless and funny. He lost his parents at a young age, and when he was studying at the academy, his teacher was also a master and a father to him, and his wife was like his own daughter, so his wife respected his teacher very much on weekdays.

"If you want to make lotus seed soup for the teacher tomorrow, then you have to go and sift through the ingredients now. Du Shi muttered to himself as he walked briskly towards the door, then thought of something again, and turned around: "Jing'er, do you need it?"

"No, just let him study in peace. Du Siyun shook his head and smiled, "The teacher said that this is the case, and he will stop by the academy to see the scenery." ”

After his wife left, Du Siyun sat in the chair, feeling some nervousness that he hadn't felt for many years, but he didn't know if it was because he would see his teacher tomorrow, or because of all the unusual things revealed by this sky lantern festival.

After a while, Du Siyun closed his eyes and took a nap.

In "Jinglun", it was said: Sleep and nourish yourself, and your eyes are full of grandeur.

The millions of monks in the city of Wanzhou come from tens of thousands of sects, families, and tribes in the world, and the world today is very different from the ancient times.

The Holy Dynasty of Mountains and Seas, the well-deserved overlord of the Great Wilderness World, sits on the land of 32 states, and there are hundreds of millions of monks and people. The territory of the Holy Dynasty is vast, and if you travel from the northernmost point of the Dynasty to the southernmost point, unless the Great Cultivator of more than twelve volumes forcibly crosses the void, or has the best cross-state transportation device, the cost of using the Giant Instantaneous Array Separation Teleportation alone is a huge amount.

To the north of the Holy Dynasty is a huge grassland that stretches for millions of miles, to the west is the territory belonging to hundreds of millions of demon clans, to the south is a hundred thousand mountains where the most mysterious witch clan has lived for generations, and the endless East China Sea is an underwater world belonging to the Divine Palace.

The land of the 32 states of the Holy Dynasty is divided into five major regions. The six states of Liaoyuan in the north - Jinding, Yingchuan, Huangchi, Fengyu, Bianyun, and Canghan are lined up from west to east, and these six territories, except for Canghan Prefecture as the first coinage state of the Holy Dynasty, the remaining five states are all important places for garrisons. Every year, tens of millions of soldiers and horses are ready to prevent the steppe cavalry from moving south.

The western and southwestern regions are collectively referred to as Western Xinjiang, which includes the eight prefectures of Ba, Chui, You, Hebei, Qinghai, Jiao, Jing and Liang. The western territory is extremely vast, and it is also the gathering place of the most sects in the world, and there are also heavy troops in the west and south to guard the holy dynasty from being violated by the demon clan and the witch clan.

The eight states in the south of the Yangtze River - the most fertile place in the Holy Dynasty, with many waters. In addition to the two prefectures of Su and Ting under the jurisdiction of King Yong'an, there are six places in Jiangzhou, Yangzhou, Taizhou, Binzhou, southern Anhui and Zhishui. The land south of the Yangtze River has been plagued by wars since ancient times, and it has developed rapidly after the unification of the Holy Dynasty, so the major state cities and towns are quite flowery, and those sect families that have taken root in the south of the Yangtze River are all behemoths that have been inherited for thousands of years.

Then there are the three regions near the East China Sea - Taihe, Chuanhai, and Langdie, as well as the three giant islands on the East China Sea - Penglai Prefecture, Fangzhang Prefecture, and Yingzhou. In addition to the above-mentioned thirty states, the holy state where the capital was located and the Yizhou as a guard were divided separately as the core area of the dynasty.

In a courtyard in the west of Wanzhou City, there are more than ten monks. The old monk headed by the head is thin, with white eyebrows and long beard, wearing a red robe, holding a peachwood staff in his left hand, lightly plucking the Bodhi Buddha beads in his right hand, and reciting sutras with his eyes closed. Beside him, there were more than a dozen monks sitting around, dressed slightly differently, but everyone sat on the futon, folded their hands into a Buddha ceremony, and tied their minds with the old monks. The strange thing is that when the moonlight shines into this courtyard, it seems that there is some kind of distortion, becoming layered, and it can get infinitely close to the monks, but it can never fall on them.

After a stick of incense, the old monk took the lead in opening his eyes, and a huge divine thought of tranquility and distance instantly spread throughout the entire courtyard, and then slowly dissipated. The surrounding monks got up at the same time and bowed to the old monks, and the moonlight fell on everyone again.

"Uncle Shi, you have worked hard. On the left hand side of the old monk, a middle-aged monk in cloth with an ordinary-looking appearance and a burly figure spoke softly.

"Hehe, it doesn't matter. The old monk waved his hand and responded with a smile, and his voice was peaceful, as if the sea was inclusive. "This time I came to Late State, the blessing and the misfortune are unpredictable. I, as a senior uncle, can improve your cultivation by a few points, and once the disaster arises, you will have a little more certainty in dealing with it. “

The middle-aged monk nodded and helped the old monk up.

"Where is Loulou now?" the old monk suddenly asked.

"Uncle Hui, Senior Brother Lou should still be in the palace, but the formation in the palace is very special, and the disciples can't find out the details. At a distance from the old monk, a young monk bowed down to answer with the Buddha in his hand.

"The disciple only sensed that the main body of the Linglong Pagoda seemed to have moved, and it should be the second time that the junior disciple opened the tower in these three days. The middle-aged monk continued, with a helpless smile. This middle-aged monk, who is not good-looking, is actually the chief disciple of the Mahayana Temple among the three major monasteries of Buddhism today-Zhiwu, that is, the nominal senior brother of the little monk Loulou. The white-eyed old monk led by him is the same disciple of the abbot Master Mikong, one of the few Buddhist monks in the world - Mi Jing.

"Amitabha. The old monk Mi Jing sang a Buddha name, "A few days ago, the abbot who practiced in retreat called me away, saying that he seemed to be enlightened by the Buddha in the dark. The world is impermanent, the great fate will follow the catastrophe, Loulou grew up in the temple since childhood, and is also the close disciple of the abbot's brother, who seems to be unscrupulous in words and deeds on weekdays, but in fact he is well versed in my Buddhist scriptures, and now he is the person in charge of the key of my temple inheritance to the treasure Linglong Tower. Therefore, no matter what happens in the building, you will definitely do your best to help you this time. ”

"Yes, Uncle Shi. The crowd responded.

After the monks returned to the room, they stayed and stopped talking.

"Are you worried that your little junior brother is too deeply involved with the palace?" Master Mi Jing looked at his nephew, who was usually respected by the disciples in the temple, and smiled slightly, as if he knew what he was thinking.

"Uncle Hui, if the disciple's guess is true, the young scholar who traveled with the junior brother should be the young man who has been meditating in the temple for 5,000 years, right? The disciple didn't know where the young man came from, but now he was deeply involved in the palace, so he was a little worried. ”

"Hehe, I realized. The old monk did not immediately answer the disciple's question, but called him a Dharma name.

"The disciple is here. When he realized this, he immediately folded his hands and bowed, because he knew that this was his uncle's intention to preach to him.

"My Buddhas practice, pay attention to the word 'view', view a flower and a leaf, a grass and a tree, a lifetime, a dust and a Bodhi, cultivate the heart of great goodness, and the Buddha nature of great penetration. On the day of enlightenment, in a blink of an eye, the six roots can observe all things in the world. If so, what about the young man, and why should he ask me?"

The old monk's few words seemed to be just ordinary Buddhist rituals, but as he exerted his preaching powers, these words were like a thunderstorm in the ears of the listeners!

"Uncle Xie taught. After a few breaths, I realized that my thoughts were incomparably clear, and my own cultivation was refined, and I had faintly touched the threshold of the twelve volumes.

"Huh. The old monk Mi Jing smiled with relief, "You, it's good anywhere, Buddhism and Buddhism sometimes even surpass my uncle, but only I lack some understanding of the red dust." According to the meaning of the abbot, this is the case, you will be a monk of my Mahayana Temple, and you will travel in the world for ten years, and then return to the temple after cultivating for the sake of refinement. ”

"Yes, Uncle Shi. "Realize and bow again.

The old monk Mi Jing stopped talking, holding a wooden staff and looking up at the moon.

"The moon is bright, the common people are studied, Amitabha, good and good. ”

In the northeast of Wanzhou City, there is a Taoist temple belonging to the Heavenly Master's Mansion.

The Shanhai Holy Dynasty was founded for thousands of years, and has always taken Confucianism as the foundation of governing the country, supplemented by the doctrine of the hundred schools of thought, and at the same time established the Wudang Mountain Taoist Taoism as the state religion to educate the people of the world. However, since Wudang closed the mountain a hundred years ago, the position of state religion was returned to the Holy Dynasty. In the following hundred years, I don't know whether it was intentional by the two generations of holy emperors, or the fierce competition for the rest of the five great avenues, the imperial court has not established a new state religion. Until the great dynasty changed five years ago, the contemporary holy emperor could not cultivate, and the superintendent Li Wang monopolized the power of the holy dynasty, and tried his best to set the Taoist lineage of the Heavenly Master's Mansion as the new state religion. After the establishment of the new state religion, in just one year, hundreds of Taoist temples of the Heavenly Master were established in major cities in the world, which were used to recruit believers from all over the world, and secondly, to facilitate the foothold of the disciples of the Heavenly Master's Mansion who walked the world.

These hundreds of Taoist temples were directly managed by the Heavenly Master's Mansion. Most of these managers are disciples who have entered the sect late and cultivated to a lower level, and they are stationed in rotation for a period of one year. For these disciples stationed in various Taoist temples, although they seem to be far away from the sect and cannot always listen to the teachings of the master, this position of stationing is indeed a beautiful difference that new disciples want to get when they break their heads. Because in the sect, it is too difficult for new disciples to get the guidance of their predecessors, and the disciples stationed in various Taoist temples, as long as they perform well in front of the elders who come to the sect and do what they like, they can get some tangible benefits, and even be accepted as disciples by a certain great heavenly master, and their cultivation has been prosperous since then.

If you choose the happiest person in the evening boat city in the past two days, it should be Zhang Fist. Zhang Quan was born in a small city near the sea in Taihe Prefecture, eastern of the Holy Dynasty, and his family has been fishing for generations. In his grandfather's generation, the old man relied on many connections to start a fishing market business, and his father's generation was already small in Taihezhou. Zhang Quan is the only seedling in the family, and his grandfather didn't want him to inherit this family business, and he still worked as a businessman every day, so he used a large amount of money to open up a relationship with the Heavenly Master's Mansion. After many introductory selections, Zhang Fist turned out to be a little talented in Fu Qi and was able to successfully become a disciple of the Heavenly Master's Mansion. Up to now, after only two years of entry, he has obtained the management of the Taoist Temple of the Heavenly Master's Mansion in Late Zhou City by virtue of the method of "dealing with the world" he learned from his grandfather and father.

I didn't think that once the auction of heavenly lanterns would spread all over the world, and the person who led the team to participate in the grand event turned out to be the peak master of Fulei Peak, the most powerful peak master in the Heavenly Master's Mansion, the younger brother of the contemporary Heavenly Master's Mansion, and the Qingxiao Daoist who was known as the "first person in the world's Lei Fa"! In addition, there are many core disciples of the inner door true lineage. These fairy-like characters in his eyes on weekdays will settle in this small Taoist temple.

After receiving the message from the sect first, Zhang Quan was stunned for half a pillar of incense for a while, and then screamed, like a crazy demon, took out all the silver money he brought with him overnight, renovated the Taoist Temple of Wanzhou City up and down, prepared all the living places, and invited a famous chef in Wanzhou to make food for the seniors in the door. The only fly in the ointment is that the Taoist temple of the Heavenly Master's Mansion in Zhoucheng is a little small this night, there is only a main hall, a side hall, a few side rooms and a seven-story tower with Lai practice preaching, a building of this scale is inconspicuous in the huge Evening Boat City. There are also rumors in this area, saying that the old man of Yong'an Wang has been at odds with the Heavenly Master's Mansion since he fought for many years, so the Heavenly Master's Mansion was hindered when the late boat was built, and he only got this palm-sized territory, but it is not known whether this is the case.

Facts have proved that Zhang Quan's hard work was indeed not in vain, when more than 40 people entered the Taoist temple, even the Qingxiao Daoist, who usually does not speak much, commented on a sentence of "can", and the big disciples under the head of the sect, such as Yun Yu, the chief disciple of the Shifu Gate today, privately taught him two high-level Gong methods as a reward.

Tomorrow is the sky lantern festival, tonight Master Yun Yu called Zhang Fist to stop, gave him six seemingly ordinary golden futons, let him put these six futons on the top floor of the tower at the beginning of tonight, and then lock the main entrance of the tower. Although he didn't know what he meant, Zhang Quan didn't ask much. As soon as Zichu arrived, he hurried to the top floor of the seventh floor of the tower, arranged the futons in order according to the requirements of the senior brother, then extinguished the lights, locked the door and withdrew.

Not long after, the special green lantern of the Dao Gate that had been extinguished in the seventh layer suddenly lit spontaneously, and a golden futon that was originally empty on the ground suddenly emitted a fluctuation, and then a middle-aged Taoist with thick eyebrows and long ears, wearing a seven-star Taoist robe, wearing a seven-rank lotus crown, and holding a dust whisk sat in it!

Immediately afterwards, the futon on the opposite side also fluctuated, and a white-clothed Taoist priest with a fat head and big ears appeared, holding a pot of fine wine and pouring it into his mouth. The cuffs of the Taoist priest's sleeves were unusually wide, and after he sat down, he didn't look at the person who appeared first on the opposite side. After a few more breaths, two more futons moved, the former one was carrying a bamboo box and wrapped in a black robe, except for a pair of glasses, and the latter was actually a woman with a gauze scarf covering her face, a beautiful figure, and a fiery red glamorous robe!

At this time, four of the six futons were already occupied, except for the one facing due south and the one next to it. Fortunately, I didn't wait long, as if in the far void, a warm word came:

"Brothers, sisters, don't come unharmed?"