Chapter 1: Chaotian Palace
"Recording Ghost Book" is the first strange book in heaven and earth, from the ancient ghost fairy Bai Ze, and then fell into the world, causing the Three Realms to kill all beings continuously.
In ancient times, there were Xuanyuan Deshi four fields, Ze was the world, admired by all people, and studied from Rong Cheng Gong Dao for a hundred years, breathed and breathed, cast Ding alchemy, and finally cultivated into the fairy road, after hundreds of battles became the first generation of the Emperor of the Three Realms, respected as the Jade Emperor, he commanded the world, inspected the Quartet, traveled through the mountains and rivers, to the coast of the East China Sea, and had to meet the Rui beast Bai Ze to fall under his command, Bai Ze was originally a half-lion and half-sheep beast, with the demon body cultivated into a ghost fairy, ranked first of the three immortals of the ghost road, well-read and strong, know the feelings of all things, know the reason of everything, especially know the secrets of the ghost road.
The things of the ghost road, and the three Qing Daomen were born at the beginning of heaven and earth, since ancient times they are obscure, they don't know what they are like, the jade emperor Jun is the ghost class, and the three realms are safe, so he ordered Bai Ze to pick the jade of Kunlun Mountain, split the stone as a wall, cut the gold as a pen, and paint the ghost road object pictogram, set the stone into a array, and call it ten thousand ghosts.
The Jade Emperor passed this jade stone henge to the warlock Yin Qiangsheng, Yin Qiangsheng faced the wall for hundreds of years, from which he got the key to guiding and eating, and finally cultivated into the earth immortal, hidden mountains and rivers, he was jealous of the power and role of the Ten Thousand Ghosts An Great Array, so he carved the stone rubbing collection book, compiled it into a book, supplemented the annotations, and secretly passed it on to future generations, called "Record Ghost Book", and the jade stone formation was hidden by him and disappeared. The "Book of Recording Ghosts" not only records the names, origins, and cultivation methods of various ethnic groups in the ghost path, but also records all kinds of formations and utensils that are tired of winning and surrendering.
Qin and Han dynasties, ghosts, demons, spirits, monsters, the power is unforbidden, and Buddha, Tao, warlocks are divided, ghosts or for the cultivation of secret methods, or for evil escape, have to find and compete for the "record ghost book", the ghost fairy Bai Ze was forced by the righteous path and the ghost road, did not hesitate to sacrifice himself, with a thousand years of demon spirit to seal the "record ghost book", this book then psychic evil spirit, about a thousand years will only appear once in the world, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, "record ghost book" appeared in the hands of Tao Hongjing, a real person of the Taoist Maoshan faction Huayang, causing chaos in the world, gods and ghosts killed, and the people were devastated.
A thousand years later, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Jiangxi Longhu Mountain, Lingyun Temple, Chaotian Palace.
"Whenβ"
A bell rings in the cold air of the early morning, the aftermath of the bell is accompanied by the golden sunlight echoing in the valley, at this moment the tall and magnificent palace of Chaotian Palace is bathed in the morning sun of early spring, rows of carved beams and paintings, the eaves of the beast heads are lined up one after another, more and more golden, the plaque on the forehead of the royal royal gift is red on the gold letter, shining, people dare not face it, the golden couplet on both sides of the Zhu door is from the hands of the current emperor Ming Shizong Zhu Houxi, the font is vigorous, simple and square, its couplet says:
The three saints are concentric, compassionate, and open up good fortunes;
One Yuan begins to divide Qi, help the world and the people, and purify all sentient beings to realize the true sect.
In the wings inside and outside the palace gate, several inferior Taoists, men and handymen began to be busy, running endlessly at the door, sprinkling and cleaning the court, and preparing meals.
I saw a Taoist carrying a rice bag, panicked out of the wing, ran to the side of Chaoyang Palace, yesterday deliberately down the mountain to buy rice, careless, actually fell in the sleeping place, this morning the kitchen man made a fire to cook, found that the rice tank was empty, has been at the door to scold the street, the Taoist knows that the man scolds the street is small, if you miss breakfast, let the whole view of hundreds of people hungry, then stab the big Louzi, Zhang Zhenren's seven-star deer tail whip has not tasted human blood for a while, he doesn't want to feed it.
was thinking to himself, and his feet were in a hurry, but he collided with a figure around the corner, and the Taoist thought it was Liu Laodao, who was sweeping the floor, and he was angry in his heart, and pouted: "You don't have long eyes-ah--Guan-disciple should die!
Said Cao Cao, Cao Cao arrived, the Taoist actually bumped into the real person of the Taoist who did not want to see him at this moment, and in a panic, he hurriedly bent down to arrange the long sleeves of the Taoist robe for the viewer, but in fact, the Taoist robe was originally fine.
"Song Weizhuang, why are you so flustered? Also, a cultivator, he is so impetuous that he opens his mouth and scolds?"
"The apprentice knows that he is wrong, please watch the Lord punish him. The Taoist put the rice bag on the ground, knelt on the ground and kowtowed, and his body was like a cake sticking to the bottom of a pot.
"Don't take it as an example, spare you this time, go. Zhang Zhenren waved his sleeves and spared Song Weizhuang a whip.
Song Weizhuang stood up with a thousand thanks, and quickly picked up the rice bag and slipped away, Zhang Zhenren turned around, stepped up the steps, and walked towards the palace gate.
Under a morning glow, the palace gate of Chaotian Palace is rising, the glow is ten thousand, Zhang Zhenren is wearing purple woven gold all over the cloud crane robe, wearing a purple cloud crown, he is more than 200 years old, still handsome, his face is like Wu Dan, his hair is dyed with frost, his eyes are blazing, his long beard is floating on his chest, there are some fairy wind bones, and the appearance of Heyi is loose.
At this moment, the real person stood proudly in the morning glow, like a god descending from heaven, and his spirit was radiant.
Zhang Zhenren, commonly known as Zhang Simu, has a strong practice, profound Taoism, and holds a Xuantan Divine Rune, seizing the opportunity of ghosts and gods, subduing demons and eliminating demons, and supporting the righteous way, which is a Taoist giant. Since the Yuan Dynasty to the first year of the year, he has been in charge of Lingyun Temple for more than a hundred years.
Lingyun Temple was founded in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the first generation of Heavenly Master Zhang Jiao saw the chaos in the world, the epidemic was raging, he saved the world with Fu Shui, tried to the altar, opened the door, gathered the crowd to collect disciples, all those who entered the Tao need to accept five buckets of rice, so it is called five buckets of rice Dao, also known as the Heavenly Master Dao.
After Zhang Tianshi traveled all over the world, one day came to Jiangxi Longhu Mountain, saw a water circulation here, the peaks are beautiful, and the elephant mountain across the river and looked, the nearby peaks hug, knew that it was the white tiger guarded, the vermilion bird led the way of the feng shui treasure land, and found the heaven and earth spiritual root of the avenue on the top of the mountain, so he stayed here, built a house to guard, in order to prevent ghosts from invading the spiritual root, cut off the righteousness of heaven and earth.
At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the 33rd generation of the Heavenly Master Zhang Siman entered the Tianfu (Nanjing) to meet the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, the brilliant Hongwu Emperor jokingly said: "Heaven is supreme and supreme, how can there be a teacher?" , the second rank is the second product, the jurisdiction of the Taoist Division, in charge of the world's Taoist affairs, and in charge of the world's Buddhism in the Linggu Temple of Tianfu, and called the two ancestors of the sect, directly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Rites, but later with the Ming Chengzu moved the capital to Beijing, the status of the Linggu Temple was gradually replaced by the North Zhili Tianjie Temple.
Since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there are generally four factions of Taoist forces in the world, Longhu Mountain is a league of mighty Dao, North Zhili Quanzhen Sect, Shaanxi Zhongnan Shanlou Guan School, Fujian Pavilion Soap Mountain Lingbao School, and the rest of the small sects, or stealing life in the cracks, or scattering and seeking truth, not seeking to be prominent, and discussing the forces of the sect, naturally not the same.
Needless to say, Zhengyi League has won the royal favor, has a prominent position, has guarded the spiritual roots of heaven and earth for hundreds of years, and has countless branches of Taoism, and its momentum is huge, which has never been seen in Taoism in previous dynasties.
Quanzhen Sect is a great religion in the north, the first leader Wang Zhe in the Yuan Dynasty to establish a sect, for hundreds of years, the Quanzhen Sect is full of talents, still contemplation and concentrating, breathing guidance, Jiuding Dan Method, the aura of mountains, rivers and stones, is also a leader in the north.
Louguan school has a long history, when the ancestor of Taoism Lao Tzu sent a letter to Guguan, the person who guarded the pass Yin Xi begged Lao Tzu to leave the "Tao Te Ching" 5,000 words, after Yin Xi enlightened the Tao and cultivated the truth, founded the Louguan school, this school is located in the foothills of the South Mountain, outstanding people, good at observing astronomy, measuring the wind angle, especially the number of purple micro buckets, taking the opportunity of the operation of heaven and earth, unique in the sect.
Lingbao faction is located at the foot of Wuyi Mountain, according to legend, it is the end of the Tang Dynasty created by the blacksmith Liu Feiluan, Liu Feiluan made iron for a living, met a stranger to teach the "Lingbao Sutra" six articles, then abandoned home into the mountain, cultivated into the earth immortal, founded the Lingbao faction, this faction is good at refining things for treasure, psychic wonderful, flags, bells, bells, swords, wonderful combination of magic machines, the true sect of the sun and the moon and the five elements, although the power is not as good as the other three factions, but also dominates the southeast world, no one dares to underestimate the rivers and lakes.
Only the Maoshan Shangqing School founded by Tao Hongjing, a real person in Huayang during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, experienced the glory of the Sui, Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties for hundreds of years, and suddenly disappeared in the Yuan Dynasty to the Zheng period, and the only successor, Liu Guquan, did miscellaneous work in the Lingyun Temple of Longhu Mountain, serving tea and sweeping the floor, carrying water and chopping firewood, and it has been 20 years in a flash.
"Senior Brother Liu, get up early!"
Zhang Zhenren stood at the gate of the palace with a glimmer of light and golden light, looking at the back of the rickety sweeping the floor under the steps with a smile.
"Whew-Whew"
The sweeping action did not pause, and the old man only turned his back slightly, revealing an old, slender face, with a short white beard, and his eyes were as deep as still water in an ancient well.
"Watching the Lord early. β
After a slight salute, Liu Guquan, an old man who swept the floor, continued to bow his head and sweep the floor seriously.
"Whew-Whew"
"Oh, Senior Brother Liu, you stop for a moment, the old man has something to say to you. Zhang Zhenren rolled up his long sleeves and stood still with his hands crossed.
Liu Laodao stood up with a bald broom and saluted with one hand, "There is something to watch the master, but it is to say." β
Zhang Zhenren frowned slightly, and said: "Maoshan Shangqing faction, the patriarch Sanmao Zhenjun is a true immortal, Ge Xuan, Ge Hong, Sima Chengzhen under the door of the real people, all dynasties are the people who hold the bull's ear in the Taoist gate, calling for wind and rain, longevity and long-term vision, who doesn't know, who doesn't know, especially the thirty-eighth generation of patriarch Nan Jiyun, the original Tianxin Five Thunder Righteous Law, the power is amazing, can enslave the ghosts and gods, drive all spirits, and have the ability to penetrate the heavens and the earth, but unfortunately he traveled here, unfortunately the immortal died, causing the Maoshan faction to collapse, sad, sad!
Cultivation in the Dao Gate is divided into three realms of monks, refiners, and true monarchs, and each realm is divided into nine layers, and those with mediocre qualifications will stop when they reach the second and third layers of the refiners, only the rare cultivation wizard Nan Jiyun broke through the seventh layer of the refiner at the age of twenty-five, and reached the realm of the true monarch at the age of thirty.
Liu Laodao pondered for a while, and said: "The world is impermanent, and those who cultivate the Tao have long seen through the rise and fall, and they don't care about honor and disgrace, and their major cultivation is profound, so they shouldn't mind." β
"Yes, yes, speaking of which, the old man and Nan Jiyun also have a relationship, it's a pity, in the past hundred years, the Taoism of the Maoshan sect has not been preached, the sect has declined, and Senior Brother Liu can still be humble and indifferent, it's really rare, rare!"
Zhang Zhenren said that, he didn't say anything again, his face was embarrassed, and he seemed to be observing Liu Laodao's reaction.