In the sky,

Deep in the white clouds.

Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, the master and apprentice, went all the way to the west, and the sword flew.

Shangguan Li'er asked, "Master, aren't we going to Zhongzhou?"

Qiu Huaici said: "Before returning to Zhongzhou, let's go see some old friends first!"

Shangguan Li'er didn't ask again, but she was thinking in her heart that since the master came to the territory of Xiedun, he lived in seclusion in Aiju Mountain, and rarely interacted with people in Xiedun, and he had never seen the master have a deep friendship with anyone!

The master and apprentice flew for a while, recited a spell, and the flying sword landed on a barren mountain, collected the flying sword, and the two walked on the ground.

The master and apprentice walked between the mountains and fields for a while, without slowing down or slowing down, and there were barren mountains, trees, and rivers along the way, and after walking for a while, they gradually saw the cultivated land, livestock, and people.

Qiu Huaici passed by a village, bowed to an old man basking in the sun on the side of the road, and asked, "Old man, do you know where Pizhi Peak is?"

The old man has seen some of the world, seeing Qiu Huaici and handsome, Shangguan Lian'er is pretty, his clothes are clean, his bearing is extraordinary, he knows that he is not an idle person, his expression is respectful, he smiled, nodded again and again, and shouted loudly: "What? My old man is behind his ear, what are you talking about, I can't hear it?"

Qiu Huaici was stunned for a moment, asked again, and secretly used his magic power to cure the old man's ear disease and make the other party deaf.

The old man understood this time, thought about it, pointed to the west, and said with a toothless mouth, and said with a smile: "Venerable guest, you can be regarded as asking the right person today, my old man, when he was young, sold illicit salt, and ran to a lot of places, what you said about this, how far is Pizzle Peak from here, specifically, where is it, the old man has a bad memory, he doesn't remember anymore, it seems to be in the east...... No, no, no, it's in the west, yes, it's in the west, you go west, ask in front, you will, you will find it!"

Qiu Huaici arched his hand and thanked: "Thank you old man for showing you the way, excuse me, and say goodbye!" That is, he led Shangguan Li'er and hurried away in the direction of the west.

"Grandpa, who were you talking to?"

A little boy with snot and shoes running out of the house, glanced around, grabbed the old man's palm, and asked suspiciously.

The old man looked sideways at his little grandson, touched the top of his head lovingly, and said with a smile: "Two passers-by, ask grandpa for directions!"

The little boy glanced around again and asked, "Where are the passers-by?"

The old man smiled: "Let's go, let's go!"

The little boy smiled, suddenly stunned, glared at his grandfather, and asked in surprise, "Grandpa, you, can you hear me?"

The old man smiled: "I can hear it, I can hear it, I can hear it really!"

The little boy looked strange and asked, "Grandpa, aren't you deaf?" Why did you suddenly hear again? When did you hear again?"

The old man smiled and said, "Just now, the two honored guests asked me ......!" He remembered the extraordinary temperament of Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, it was really a fairy wind and bones, the thought flashed, and his expression suddenly fell, and he rushed to the direction where Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er and the master and apprentice left, bent his knees, bowed his head, knocked his forehead to the ground, his excited lips twitched, and his voice trembled and shouted: "Immortals, immortals, immortals!"

The little boy was startled by his grandfather's strange behavior, and shouted in his mouth, wanting to pull his grandfather up, but the old man ignored him, and still kowtowed like garlic in the direction where Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er left, muttering to himself, as if he was stunned, he couldn't do it for a while, so he had to turn his head and shout at the house: "Grandma, come out and see, come out and see, grandpa is crazy, grandpa is crazy!"

"What are you doing with your grandparents, what are you doing, I'm busy!"

A short and fat old woman walked out quickly, saw the old man's actions, and exclaimed in surprise: "Old man, you are idle, what kind of style is this smoking, what are you doing?"

The old man shouted excitedly at the old woman: "Old woman, come and worship the gods, I have met the gods, just now, two fairies with fairy wind and bones came to ask me for directions, and after that, my deafness will be cured, it will be fine!"

The old woman was stunned when she saw that the old man was not deaf, and when she came back to her senses, she listened to the old man's exaggerated description, and was convinced of it, so she was sincerely frightened and panicked, and quickly knelt down, and followed the old man to continue to kowtow in the direction where Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er left.

Children naturally have no ability to distinguish, listen to adults, they will follow the example, and follow their grandparents to kneel down and kowtow, and shout in a childish voice: "Immortals, immortals, immortals!"

With the support of the fact that the old man became deaf and deaf, and there was a magical description of the old man and the child out of nothing, adding oil and vinegar, everyone was convinced of the old man's family meeting the fairy.

The neighbors only hated themselves and regretted that they did not meet the gods and did not bless themselves, and they also hoped that the gods would come again and bless themselves.

So, according to the description of the old man and the child, someone actually pinched a clay figure at random, or drew a villain at random, or simply wrote a name and set up a shrine for Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er in their own home, and enshrined it, serving tea and burning incense every day, and the god of Qi blessed it.

The strange thing of the old man's family meeting the immortals has become a topic of conversation after tea and dinner in the neighborhood, and it has been passed on to the hundreds, the more it is spread, the more mysterious it is, the more it is transmitted, the more realistic it is, and everyone in a radius of dozens of miles knows it.

The people are vying to spread the things of the two immortals of Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, and slowly it is not only the old man's family who meets the immortals, but also many people who meet the immortals, so that the gods set up a god position for the immortals, and the blessing of the gods of Qi is not a matter of one family and one village, but has become a matter of the local people, and the belief in the two immortals of Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er has also become a party, and even the faith of the people in the whole territory.

There is a super rich person in the local area of Nickel City, called Qian Fugui, and he also believes in the two immortals Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, and he is very pious.

In order to show his respect for the two immortals, Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, Qian Fugui invited top painters from the capital, and the painters imagined the appearance of the two immortals, Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, who looked up the best and most like the immortals, and copied the portraits.

Qian Fugui invited a skilled carver again, and actually used gold to cast a golden body for Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, and then built a glorious temple for the golden body of the gods.

Because the world didn't know the real names of the two immortals, Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, they privately named the two immortals, Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, so that they could be worshipped.

Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er have many aliases in the mortal world, and the people who choose the names are really brain-opening, strange and strange, some have good names, some are acceptable, some are vulgar, and even some are obscene.

Qian Fugui decided to give Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er a loud and good-sounding rich and noble name, and he spent a lot of money to find a champion Weng who was an official outside and returned to his hometown to name the immortals.

According to the description of the world, Zhuangyuan Weng synthesized various opinions, he thought about it, thought about it, racked his brains, his hair almost turned white, and finally gave Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er a nice name.

Qiu Huaici called to kill demons, eliminate demons, destroy evil, and suppress all spirits and immortals; Shangguan Li'er called to save the suffering and save the difficulty, attract wealth and enter the treasure to send the child to the fairy girl: a fairy is responsible for blocking the town house to exorcise evil demons and keep it safe, and an immortal is responsible for giving wealth and luck to give birth to noble sons and promote wealth and nobility, in short, all aspects have been considered, and the idea is very beautiful!

Qian Fugui gave Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er a golden body, which became a sensational major event in the local area, built a temple, there were many believers, dragged their families with their mouths, brought their own dry food, rushed to volunteer helpers, and when the temple was completed, the day when the temple was opened to the gods, the devout disciples within a radius of dozens of miles came, that is, those squires and celebrities, and dignitaries also attended one by one.

Zhuangyuan Weng is also a believer in the two immortals of Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, he dare not accept the money and wealth, but he personally ran to the capital, and carried back a plaque in the dust, dedicated to the temple, it is said that the text on the plaque is still written by the imperial pen of the emperor of the dynasty, its level is precious, but it is amazing, and four golden characters are written on the plaque: Immortal Temple.

The Son of Heaven heard some mysteries from the mouth of the champion Weng, and the truth was really about the deeds of the two immortals of Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, Longyan Dayue, also like the blessing of the gods, blessed his family with eternal solidity, Guotai and peace, not only the imperial book and plaque, but also rewarded Qian Fugui and others with a fortune, exempted from local taxes for three years!

The people were exempted from paying taxes, and they did not thank the court for the benefits, but only thanked the immortals, and they believed in the immortals more and more; the people were exempted from paying taxes, and they did not thank the court for the benefits, but only thanked the immortals, and they believed in the immortals more and more, so everyone praised the good of the immortals and praised the goodness of the immortals.

When the literati with good deeds came to visit the temple of Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er, they looked at the handsome men and women on the throne of the gods, and their thoughts flashed, and they couldn't help but speculate about the relationship between the immortals and the immortals.

Some say that they are Taoist friends, and some say that they are brothers and sisters, but more people prefer to believe that the immortal and the immortal are a pair of lovers, or husband and wife.

Those literati who believed that immortals and immortals were lovers or husbands and wives also developed rich associations with the emotional world of immortals, collected ancient books, grafted legends, and opened their brains, deriving various versions of love stories for Qiu Huaici and Shangguan Li'er's master and apprentice.

The story has been sung by storytellers, and it has been widely circulated and has a far-reaching impact, and love has a happy ending and a sad ending.

The more people who believe in the gods, the more they have to worship the gods, the worship of the gods needs the temple, and the worship of the gods also needs things like incense, if the things needed cannot be self-produced, they can only spend money to buy, buy and sell, sell and buy, commodity trading, so that a profitable industry has been formed.

In order to show their piety, some people will build the fairy temple more and more brilliantly, and some people will build the fairy temple more and more magnificently in order to show their status;

Whether it is to show piety and status, or something else, once there is a comparison, it will be extravagant and wasteful, and there will be extravagance;

Some people use their private wealth to show their status with piety, while others use the wealth of the country and the people to show their status with piety, and as a result, a large number of illegal acts of corruption and expropriation have appeared in society.

Bad people take advantage of other people's beliefs and only want to make huge profits and act recklessly in the name of worshipping immortals and praying for blessings.

The so-called thing must be reversed, prosperous and declining, because of the matter of seeking immortals and praying for immortals, many places in the world because of the collusion of officials and businessmen, clever robbery, making the people miserable, unbearable, the people are precarious, unbearable, the people of Voltaic finally rose up, causing chaos in the world, known as the "volcanic rebellion" in history.

The Son of Heaven was shocked to learn of the people's upheaval, in order to keep the throne, he transferred troops to suppress the people, the officials and the people killed each other, fought for thousands of miles, and the blood flowed like a river, and a few years later, the country was unified and the people were at peace.

The flames of war are extinguished, and all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, and the source is cleared to ensure the safety of the society.

At this time, a great writer surnamed Liu, who assisted the prince, wrote to the imperial court, saying that the "Volcanic Rebellion", the source of its trouble, the root is in the worship of immortals, if you want to educate people's hearts and return to order, the top priority is to destroy immortals.

The Son of Heaven listened to the advice of the great writer surnamed Liu, thought it was true, and agreed, so the government used all its strength to launch a huge and overkill campaign to exterminate immortals in the world.

The statues made of real money were stripped of gold and silver, confiscated from the government, some of the idols were smashed and smashed, some idols were thrown into the ditch, some idols even went into the dung pit, only the small and simple ugly idols in private homes were hidden by some believers, and they were still secretly worshipped, praying for wealth and peace.

Qiu Huaici helped an old man and cured the old man's ear disease, a kind move, he didn't expect to cause such a big storm in the world and bring such a big disaster, and he didn't know it at all, if he really let him know, he might not treat the old man's ear disease, but directly strangled the other party.

A movement to worship immortals and destroy immortals is carried out among the people of the world, that is, annihilation, as parties and participants, they don't even know who the gods they worship are, it's ridiculous!

(This description is a story about superstition.) ）