Chapter 1: Xu Xuan
A long, long time ago, there was no yellow sand bald mountain in the west of Taihang Mountain, and no one was digging coal everywhere, at that time the mountains and forests were luxuriant, the valleys were quiet and deep, the creatures were beautiful, the rivers and seas were clear, the aura between heaven and earth was vigorous, and the weather in the world was healthy and healthy.
Heaven and earth and man are one, below heaven and man, all kinds of cultivators and ordinary people get along with each other, there is no boundary barrier between immortals and mortals, human beings live together, blood is clear, the population is stable, and there is no difference in language, culture and skin color, the king is established by meritocracy, and the authority of the world is granted by God. At that time, the natural ecology had not been destroyed, the water, land, mountains and rivers were mostly in a primitive state, the deep mountains and wild forests, the distant sea and the distant islands were uninhabited, except for the savages, secluds, and cultivators occasionally set foot in, most of the places were still uninhabited.
Gao Shi Xu Xuan because of the grace of Mu Gu shooting goddess, all the way to visit, settled in the deep mountains of Luliang, and the Taoist cultivation cloth, Dan Xiu Fang Hui, the heart of the good volume, the lack of the four great monks and return, to the dew drop frost and snow for drinking, mountain fruits and wild grass for food, every day to appreciate the bright moon and pine wind, happy and fun, at the beginning of the month to call friends, have come to the peak of the goddess of Gu Shooting Mountain to listen to the ascension of the goddess of the goddess to tell the natural Taoism, down and their own Taoist law confirmed, often have a understanding, and then with three or five friends to urge each other, study and learn, cultivation is deep. The years in the mountains are endless, but they are free.
At this time, Di Yao, who supported the world, was nearly 100 years old and had reigned for more than 70 years. He has little life, and he is deeply afraid that there is no one in the world to trust. His eldest son, Danzhu, lost his mother at an early age, and as a father, he was busy with political affairs and failed to raise and teach him well. When he governed the world full of chaos and boiling public resentment, the country was stable, the floods subsided, and the politics were clear, he was already dying, and then he had time to return home to recuperate, and then he found that the lovely child born to him and his wife Lu Daughter-Danzhu had already grown up, but because of his indifference, the cold treatment of his stepmother, and the jealousy and hostility of his stepmother's sons, he became violent and stubborn, and he really couldn't take on the world and be a qualified successor.
Di Yao and Lu Daughter are a pair of Taoist couples with deep meaning, the same sect and the same master, just because Di Yao was born in the emperor's family, the elder brother is not virtuous and unkind, and acts arbitrarily, resulting in chaos in the world, and the people are not happy, Di Yao can't bear to abandon the world in the abyss, and resolutely responded to the invitation of the Taizheng Garden in the country to go down the mountain to practice the position, and to do his best for state affairs. Their master thought that Di Yao was a mortal and a plan for the deer girl's path, so he sent the deer girl to the nine-fold pagoda in the sect to cultivate, and did not let her out of the pagoda if she did not enter the realm of gods. He was also impatient to become the power of Emperor Yao, so together with the head of the sect and the elders of the sect, he moved the mountain gate to the depths of the mountains with his disciples and grandchildren, blocking Di Yao's visit.
Di Yao hugged Danzhu and his wife shed tears, at that time he vowed to cultivate Danzhu, who had mediocre qualifications and could not cultivate, into the first person in the mortal world, at this time, he saw Danzhu by mistake, and he couldn't help but feel a spine ache, and he was gloomy for a long time, but he had to discuss with the princes of the Quartet, so that they could each choose talents to assist Danzhu in governing the world.
The princes of the four directions recommended more than a dozen virtuous people, and Emperor Yao took these people to the national capital, stored them in the high-rise mansion, and treated them as national scholars, so that they could walk, sit and lie down with him and Danzhu, so as to observe the selection and appointment.
Three years have passed, Di Yao has been familiar with the respective talents and morals of the countrymen, although each has their own strengths and weaknesses, but it is finally unsatisfactory, according to their talents can be responsible for the management of affairs of various functional departments. It is said that at this time, he can try to entrust the authority of the world to Danzhu, but his heart that cherishes the world and protects his son still can't be let go.
Is it nostalgia for this imperial position? His uncles, rank sects, and officials may have this suspicion, but he himself knows that he is not. In the past three years of getting along day and night, Danzhu's undisguised straightforwardness and brutality, and the high-profile benevolence and filial piety of the countrymen always made him feel a kind of worry that he did not dare to let go of Danzhu and did not dare to fully trust the countrymen.
Perhaps there are more and better relics and masters in the mountains?
He has given up too much for the sake of this piece of heaven and earth and for the sake of the family and country handed down from his ancestors, and it is easy for him to try it casually now that the heavens and the earth are thick, the people's hearts are good, and he is far away and naturalized.
Only when he finds a true virtuous person in his lifetime, who is willing to take charge of the world without being tired, assisting Danzhu without being violent, and treating his stepwife and children well without being harmed, can he grow old and die with confidence.
This intention was born, and it took root in his heart. In the following 20 years, in order to visit the virtuous and seek the way, his footprints have traveled all over the mountains, rivers, land and sea.
This year, Di Yao finally visited Xu Xuan's profound morality, and he was a real master, so he investigated and chased all the way from Gushu, Fenshui, Peize, and Yingshui, even if Xu Xuan was unwilling to assist Danzhu, he would rather give up the imperial throne to Xu Xuan, and he must entrust the world to Xu Xuan.
Xu Xuan is the fourteenth descendant of Shennong's grandson, but he was born simple and carefree, advocating the nature of nature, bowing to the simple and clumsy, has always been to the emperor's strong implementation of benevolence, righteousness and virtue, etiquette often disagreed, although not to oppose, but also sighed many times in the era of the emperor, ordinary people will be farther and farther away from the avenue, the road of the red world is more and more bumpy and tortuous. But because Dao Fan was different, he had to watch coldly. At this time, seeing that this Di Yao was unrelenting, chasing him for thousands of miles and entrusting the world, although he thanked him again and again, Di Yao refused to give up, and he couldn't cry or laugh. He is born with natural spiritual bones, the root is different from ordinary people, and he has been walking for a long time, and the goddess has already praised him for the future avenue, at this time, how can he be contaminated with mortal dust and re-dearth his body in the mud?
He hid from the mountains to the Fen River, from the Fen River to Pei Ze, and from Pei Ze to Yingshui, Di Yao saw that he really had no intention, so he had to return to the imperial capital, and he couldn't help but be indignant in his heart, thinking that this world was originally the world of the people of the world, and it was not his Tang Yao's alone, why did he only have a family tired from generation to generation? What's more, thousands of years ago, the emperor's throne was passed down from generation to generation in his Shennong family, only when the last generation of Shennong was on the throne, due to the unfortunate early death of the emperor, he failed to leave adult children and grandchildren, so he had to be advocated by his wife Hua Xu to pass the throne to the adult and virtuous grandson at that time, that is, the ancestor of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor and Di Yao. Thinking of this, for Dan Zhu's plan, but also for the world's plan, Di Yao refused to give in to Xu Xuan, lame, and went straight to the emperor's edict, and sent a messenger to Yingshui with the edict, to summon Xu Xuan to be the governor of Kyushu to assist Danzhu.
At this time, the authority of the emperor of the world is not to be despised and blasphemed, whether it is a mortal or a monk, as long as you fail to ascend to the Tao, and you still need to be covered by the heavens and the earth, you can be regarded as a subject of the emperor of the world, so as long as you see the messenger and hear the edict, you will only have the share of being called.
Fortunately, Xu Xuan's friend was suffering from extraordinary refining methods and extensive travel, and he heard about it in advance, and ran to warn him, Xu Xuan, who was bathing by the Yingshui, had a shampoo foam, and hurriedly rinsed his hair, and accidentally poured water into his ears, which became an allusion to Yingshui's ear washing; These two things have been praised by future generations for thousands of years, and they all think they are noble, but how do they know that Xu Miao was at a loss back then?
After this incident, Xu Miao was afraid of Di Yao, and never dared to appear in front of the world, and only hid in the mountains to practice. After this incident, the monks were also awakened, in order to avoid the disturbances of the world, and to strengthen the hearts of all people to the Tao, several great monks worked together to lay down large-scale prohibitions such as mist, phantom array, and folding technique, completely separating the world of cultivating immortals from the mundane world, and from then on, all the different paths will not disturb each other.