Chapter 134: Countless Swords
Yu Zhenyi also didn't know why he got the inheritance of Lu Zu.
Originally, it was a little difficult for him to break through the realm alone, but now with Lu Zu's help, it is not very difficult. Moreover, he experienced what happened to Lu Zu back then, and he also honed his state of mind.
People call Lu Dongbin the Pure Yang Patriarch, call the sword he carries the Pure Yang Sword, and practice the swordsmanship as the Pure Yang Sword Technique. Lu Dongbin used pure yang swordsmanship to practice chivalry and righteousness all his life, so he deduced many popular chivalrous stories.
Zengcheng folk spread the Ming Dynasty Confucian Zhan Ruoshui "three Shangshu do not worship the prime minister, three pure yang does not ascend to immortals".
"The three Shangshu do not worship the prime minister" is very easy to understand, although Zhan Ruoshui has served as the three Shangshu of Nanjing Rite, Officials and Soldiers, but Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, has already abolished the prime minister system, so Zhan Ruoshui will not have a Cheng equivalent.
Chunyang Lu Dongbin, about "three encounters with pure yang does not ascend to immortals", generally refers to Zhan Ruoshui when he met a Taoist priest when he was a child, and he wanted to take Zhan Ruoshui to Luofu Mountain to cultivate immortals.
Speaking of Shabei, there is a boat to and from Luofu Mountain, which can be reached in half a day, and the Taoist priests of Luofu Mountain often come to Shabei Village to help people worship and make some money. Taoism believes that the Big Dipper is in charge of eliminating disasters and misfortunes, and the South Dipper is blessed with longevity.
When he was a child, Zhan Ruoshui was late to school and helped the family herd cattle every day. There was a Taoist priest from Luofu Mountain who saw that Zhan Ruoshui had "fairy bones" and said that he would take Zhan Ruoshui to Luofu Mountain to play.
Zhan Ruoshui said to the Taoist priest: "You say that Luofu Mountain is so good, why don't you be a fairy on the mountain, what are you doing in my village?"
Some people say that this Taoist priest has twice found Zhan Ruoshui to cultivate immortals, so there is a saying of "three encounters with pure yang". The author will call the encounter with the Taoist priest of Luofu Mountain as Zhan Ruoshui's "first encounter with Lu Dongbin".
Once upon a time, there was a tofu seller named Wang Fa in Yongping City, he was good at making tofu, and the tofu he made was white and tender, and the neighbors liked to buy his tofu.
One day, a girl dressed in white suddenly came to his house and said to him politely: "Brother Wang, I'm really sorry to ask you for a bowl of soy milk." Wang Fa immediately agreed: "Drink, drink." As he spoke, he took a bowl full of soy milk and handed it to the girl.
After drinking the soy milk, the girl said "Thank you, Brother Wang" and left.
The next day, the girl in white came again and asked for soy milk, so Wang Fa gave her another bowl and asked the girl, "What is your surname? Where do you live? Why don't I know you?"
The girl said: "My surname is Bai, my home is not far away, I live on South Street, I know you, Brother Wang's tofu is good, the soy milk is fragrant and sweet, I will come to drink a bowl every day in the future, okay?"
Wang Fa said, "Okay, okay, you can drink as you like." The girl drank the soy milk and left.
For a few days, every time at this hour, the girl came to drink soy milk, and the people in the city were mixed, and Wang Faren was honest and kind, and he didn't chat with the girl. On this day, the girl came to drink soy milk, Wang Fa was a warm-hearted person, and gave soy milk again, and the white girl said, "Brother Wang, who else is there in your family?"
Wang Fa said: "I have no parents, no brothers and sisters, and I am alone. β
The white girl said, "How lonely, why don't you marry a daughter-in-law to help you live?"
Wang Fa said: "My family is poor, no one marries me, besides, I am used to being alone, and marrying a daughter-in-law is a burdensome life." β
The white girl smiled and said, "Brother Wang, I see that you are a real person, and you have a good heart, you come with your ears, and I will tell you a secret." As he spoke, he leaned to Wang Fa's side, whispered quietly to Wang Fa's ear for a while, and repeatedly told him before leaving: "Brother Wang, do what I taught you!"
Wang Fa was skeptical of Miss Bai's words, and the next day, he came to the Guandi Temple in the south of the city early to clean the inside and out, up and down. The incense table was also wiped off, and the statues of the Holy Emperor were wiped clean. Then he went under the offering table and hid.
It didn't take much effort, but eight dirty beggars came from outside the temple, one by one, and sat in the temple hall to rest. Wang Faqiang held his breath and didn't dare to squeak. The eight beggars rested for a while and got up to leave, when Wang Fa jumped out from under the offering table, stopped the eight beggars, knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the master, begging the beggars to accept him as an apprentice.
None of the eight beggars paid any attention to him, Wang Fa grabbed the two beggars and refused to let them go, crying and wiping tears, the beggars had no choice, and one of them said, "Do you really think that we are masters?"
Wang Fa kowtowed like a chicken pecking rice and said, "Yes, yes." The beggar said, "Get up, if you are sincere, we will starve and freeze, and you will also starve and freeze, and wherever we go, you must follow, can you do it?"
Wang Fa burst into tears and laughed, and said, "It can be done, it can be done." Then he got up and patted the dirt off his body, and walked after the eight beggars.
Eight beggars came to a large garden, in which ancient vines and old trees, exotic flowers and plants, and hundreds of birds chirped, beautiful and quiet.
In the garden, there is a large well with eight edges and corners, the water of the well is clear and transparent, and standing on the edge of the well, the well water can be reflected. A beggar said to Wang Fa, "The eight of us are poor begging for food, and we don't want to live anymore.
We jumped into the well, do you dare to jump?"
After saying that, the eight beggars "plopped" and jumped into the well one by one. Seeing the corpses of eight beggars floating in the well, Wang Fa was so frightened that he took two steps back, took a breath of cold air, and thought: If I jump into the well, I will drown in vain.
The white girl said that if I worship the teacher who asks for food, I can become an immortal family, but in this case, not only can the immortal family not be successful, but I almost became a ghost, and I am about to be scared to death, I have to go home quickly, or sell my tofu.
Wang Fa ran out of the garden to take a look, and then arrived at the Guandi Temple in the south of the city, Wang Fa was familiar with the road here, and stumbled back. The scene of several dead bodies floating in the well water frightened him and he was still sweating, and he was very afraid. Wang Fa returned home anxiously, pushed open the fence door and looked into the courtyard, where the white girl was lying on the stone mill in the courtyard and sobbing. Wang Fa said: "White girl, why are you crying? You deceived me, I was almost scared to death, you taught me to worship those eight beggars as teachers, where are they the eight immortals, they are clearly eight poor ghosts, just now they all jumped into the well and drowned!"
The white girl cried and said, "You don't listen to me...... If you jump into the well, you will become an immortal. This time, not only will you not be an immortal, but you won't even be able to save my life. Brother Wang Fa, please save me! They will definitely look for me. β
Wang Fa said: "You are jumping around, there is no illness or disaster, how can I save you?"
The white girl said: "I don't lie, they are really immortals, I leaked the secret of heaven, they will not spare me." When I avoid this disaster, I will marry you as a wife. β
While he was talking, a tall Taoist priest came from outside the door, with five locks of long hair under his chin and a sword behind his back, and said to the white girl: "Evil animal!
The white girl cried and cried, grabbed Wang Fa tightly and did not let go, the Taoist priest drew his sword in his hand, pointed at the white girl with angry eyes and eyebrows, and said: "Go! Go to the Guandi Temple and ask the great immortals to ask for sin, maybe spare your life!"
The white girl trembled and dragged Wang Fa to the front of the Guandi Temple, Wang Fa looked at it fixedly, and was so frightened that he was in a cold sweat, this group of beggars jumped into the well and drowned, how could they live again?
He was inexplicable, and the Taoist priest said to Wang Fa: "You can't protect this white girl anymore, she is a demon, and after she drinks the soy milk for 7749 days, she will have to drink your blood!"
After the Taoist priest finished speaking, Wang Fa was so frightened that he desperately broke free from the white girl's hand, the Taoist priest raised his sword and fell, aimed at the top of the white girl's head and slashed it off, Wang Fa saw the gold star splash in front of his eyes, opened his eyes and took a closer look, where was the white girl, it turned out to be a stone lion in front of the temple was cut off half of his head, and the Taoist priest and the beggar were nowhere to be seen.
Since then, Wang Fa has been walking the streets and alleys again to sell tofu.
It turns out that the stone lion in front of the temple is subject to the aura of the sun and the moon, and it has become refined for a long time, and the Taoist priest is Lu Dongbin among the eight immortals.
This story has been circulating in the area of Yongping Mansion, whether the story is true or false, there is no way to verify, but there was indeed a stone lion with half a head squatting at the door in the second street of Yongping Mansion in the past. Mortals are always mistaken by the obstacles in front of them, and they don't know how to keep to themselves, so they will bring great disasters to themselves. Jingyun: People can always be quiet, and heaven and earth are all returned. If you have no desires in your heart, you are the true cultivator.
There is a Dongbin Pavilion in Luzhou. This pavilion is close to the mountains and rivers, the scenery is pleasant, and the pavilion is painted with carved beams, which is very elegant. As for the year and month when the pavilion was repaired, it is impossible to verify, only such a story is circulated among the people:
On March 3 of one year, Sanqing Pavilion held an incense party. Good men and women from Sixiang came one after another, asking the gods to bless them to have children. Among the thousands of pilgrims, there was Shu Da, who made a living by making wine, and his family had a prosperous business and a prosperous life, but the husband and wife were both in their forties, and there were no children and girls under their knees, so they were very worried.
Today, when the incense party is held, the husband and wife deliberately carry the old cellar Daqu wine at home to worship Sanqing, hoping that the gods will give birth to a son.
Shu Da and his wife walked all the way to the front, and there was always a rich aroma of wine behind them, and the people who came to the incense party were greatly surprised, and they all discussed: We have been asking for the blessing of the gods every year, and we have always brought Su Guo to worship the three Qings, how can there be wine and meat to ask the gods, it is really a sin! The discussion of the pilgrims made Shu Da and his wife regret it very much, and they thought that they would bring the old cellar to show their hearts, but they knew that the Sanqing Shangsheng did not drink.
The husband and wife were in a dilemma, and Lu Dongbin turned into an old man in white clothes and white crowns, white beard and white hair. Seeing a wine jar beside Shu Da and his wife, he already understood a little in his heart, and after asking the reason, he said: "In this way, I will give you and your wife a basket of vegetarian fruits in exchange for this jar of wine." Tomorrow spring, you will give birth to Lin'er. β
Shu Da and his wife agreed, smiled, took the fruit with both hands, and were about to thank him, but the white-haired old man had long disappeared.
said that Lu Dongbin exchanged a basket of vegetarian fruits for a can of Laojiao Daqu wine, so unhappy. So he came alone to the rocks by the river. I drank it alone and took several large sips in a row. Drinking, drinking, and finally getting drunk.
At the end of the incense meeting, the pilgrims found an old man lying on the stone rock, and there was still an old cellar Daqu wine that had not been drunk by his side! Everyone stepped forward to see that the people were not even angry, and hurriedly entered the temple to ask Sanqing to show mercy and surpass the old man. Sanqing came out to take a look, and when he saw Lu Dongbin who was drunk on the stone rock, he sprinkled a few drops of the divine water in the gourd.
Lu Dongbin woke up like a dream, drove the cloud head and sang in his mouth: A glass of wine full of rivers and rivers, how drunk the ancients were. The former side went to me to recover
As a result, I will come back to the posterity.
In the midst of this song, it drifted away.
The story of Lu Dongbin being drunk by Luzhou Laojiao Daqu spread all over Luzhou City. Later, people built this Dongbin Pavilion on the mountain rock here, and also carved the portrait of Lu Dongbin on the stone rock, the couplet on both sides is: the drunken moon is in the river for eternity, and the living people feel that the dream is Sanlu.
Lu Dongbin is not only tall and mighty, but also intelligent, well-read, and studious. He read widely the books of Zhuzi and hundreds of schools, and was interested in the classics of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism, and he couldn't put down the "Zhou Yi" and "Tao Te Ching". He is a quick thinker and can integrate the theories of the three religions. He has an amazing memory and can recite tens of thousands of words in a day. He is talented, well-written, and smooth. β
After Lu Dongbin learned the sword, he exercised hard, "more than 100 years old and childish, brisk, the world thought it was a fairy." "Lu always carries a sword and travels all over the world, sometimes using the sword as a pen and writing poems.
There is no record of LΓΌ's personality in the history books, but from LΓΌ's poems, we can get a glimpse of his resolute personality and hard-working spirit. He described it in "Sword Poems": "If you want to be sharp, dare to work hard, open the box in the early morning. The spirit in his hand is three feet of ice, and there is a spiritual snake on the stone. β
Lu practiced superb swordsmanship and endured the hard work of cultivation. When he opened the box and took out the silver sword in the early morning, it made a clear sound like a "dragon's howl". Even if he was frozen three feet, the sword in his hand became more and more courageous, and he was heroic, slashing stones with his sword, and sparks flew away, leaving deep sword marks like snakes.
As an unrestrained and unconcerned monk, he can get up in the early morning and practice swordsmanship in the cold wind and ice, and his strong and resolute character is admirable.
People have pursuits. Lu Dongbin's pursuit can be summed up by the word "chivalry". The purpose of his hard practice of swordsmanship, as he wrote in the second paragraph of the poem, was to make "the blood of treachery silently drain away, and the evil ointment will disappear now." Eliminate the injustices of the floating world, and you will go to the nine heavens". Eliminate evil, kill the stubborn, and eliminate the injustices of the floating world, you can achieve the goal of "going to the nine heavens" to become a god and flying immortal.
A chivalrous spirit swept between the lines. In another poem by Lu "Gift to the Swordsman", his resolute personality and chivalrous courage are vividly expressed.
The poem says: "The thick eyebrows are like thunder, and when you hear that you are uneven, you let go." When the sword is a guest for thousands of miles, don't go back to me. Pang Meidou erected the evil spirit, and took off thousands of miles into the air. The three-foot sword in the box on his back is the sky and shows injustice. β
Lu Dongbin is extraordinary after all. In the struggle against the wicked, he distinguishes between right and wrong, and has a degree of law. He said: "There is a difference between a sword and a magic sword. Dao sword, in and out of the invisible, killing traitors to remove the method of dispersion; The magic sword, the world is seen, and the people are governed by skills. β
Lu's so-called "Dao Sword" is to face the wicked, know the reason first, move them with affection, and obey the law. Use the "invisible" spiritual and ideological reasoning to educate and persuade the wicked, persuade them to change their evil ways and stop doing evil. The so-called "magic sword" is to face the stubborn wicked people, resolutely kill them with flying swords and sharp blades, and eliminate all evils, so as to maintain the right path in the world and maintain the interests of the people.
Lu Dongbin is "proficient in swordsmanship to eliminate evil", no wonder there are statues of Lu carrying a sword in many Taoist temples in China, and the frontispiece of the book "Lu Zuzhi" is also painted with an embroidered image of Lu carrying a sword. He has enriched and developed the "Three Escapes Sword Technique" in continuous practice.
In the book "Taoism", it is said that he "changed his swordsmanship, for one break of trouble, two for **, three for greed". From this obscure language, we can see that Lu Dongbin has supplemented and developed the Tiandun swordsmanship. The swordsmanship he practiced was no longer the "Tiandun Swordsmanship" when he entered the Dao, but an innovative swordsmanship, and an innovative swordsmanship based on the "Tiandun Swordsmanship".
Of course, Lu could not change the name of "Tiandun Swordsmanship", and the society at that time did not allow him to do so, so there was a written record of Lu Dongbin's "changing swordsmanship" in the history books, and Lu Zeng "counted and fasted". As a rising star of Taoism and a Taoist friend of the Lu family, Chen Jian will certainly not miss the opportunity to learn from Lu. As a result, Lu Dongbin's swordsmanship has been passed down from generation to generation among Taoists. In order to commemorate this master of swordsmanship, the Taoist disciples renamed the swordsmanship taught by Lu as "Pure Yang Swordsmanship". This is the origin of the development of the "Pure Yang Sword Technique" to this day.
"Pure Yang Swordsmanship" is a set of traditional swordsmanship that highlights offensive and defensive fighting and has unique characteristics, and it is a wonder in the cultivation world.
Yu Zhenyi spent an unknown amount of time to accept the inheritance of Lu Zu.
He felt like he had slept in water, and when he woke up, he was a third-step monk. The original golden pill at the dantian had disappeared at this time, and only a pool-like thing remained. Yu Zhenyi could feel it, and the sword qi inside was vertical and horizontal.
Most importantly, he opened his eyes and found that all the swords around him had disappeared.
The surroundings are no longer gray, but show their original appearance, this is a clearing in the Purgatory Cave. Yu Zhenyi could feel that those swords were all contained in his body. Now he has countless swords on him.
His strength, I don't know what kind of realm he has reached.
Yu Zhenyi put on the real martial sword on his back and walked forward.
He was very much looking forward to it now, the demon beast was coming.
He wanted to test his strength.