In August of the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing, Zhang Yangming, who was over seventy years old, submitted his resignation to the True Master Hall.

This Zhang family from the Heavenly Master's Mansion at the foot of Longhu Mountain, who has been in charge of the Ten Directions Jungle Niu Er for twenty-three years, finally felt that his body was exhausted and could not continue to shoulder the heavy responsibility.

Shen Yunjing and Zhang Yangming stood side by side of the Sandi Spring, looking at the waterfall formed by the confluence of Dayue Mountain and Wulao Peak, and were stunned.

After a long time, Zhang Yangming said: "It's just five years, and it can be regarded as a fulfillment of the contract." ”

Shen Yunjing shook his head and sighed: "Even if you use a monk as the abbot, it should be up to me, the abbot, to resign, now I have to go around in a circle and let me pick up your prison, what is this called." ”

Zhang Yangming smiled: "You know that is impossible, all the sects and factions in the world can't agree, so they can only do it." It's okay if I quit, I can finally retire for the rest of my life, but after working hard for you, I have to continue to operate, and I can't be idle. The only thing I can't rest assured about is that I'm afraid that the successor has no experience, if he is stable and does not toss, it will be fine, if he is blindly commanding and fooling around, even if he is a senior cultivator, you can't be ambiguous. ”

Shen Yunjing said: "I will help from the side, and besides, don't you have to follow the rules of the "Monk Performing the Ten Directions Jungle Edict"? If he comes nonsense, I will fight for my life and go to the True Master Hall, hehe." After two or three more years, everything will go well, and I will resign, and when the time comes, I will come to the Heavenly Master's Mansion to play chess with your brother. ”

"That's welcome!"

The resignation of a simple and lonely Guan Yuan was one of the most important events in the Ming Dynasty, not to mention that the situation this year was so different, which immediately caused an uproar.

As soon as a well-intentioned person received the news of Zhang Jianyuan's resignation, he immediately recalled the articles published by the two journals "Junshan Notes" and "Longhushan" a while ago, as well as the various discussions caused by these three articles.

As a result, many people are more sensitive to speculate that this time the person who was sent to take charge of the lower view was most likely a monk, and even deduced the next personnel change of the Jian Shan Guan: After Zhang Yangming resigned, Shen Yunjing was reassigned to the prison and vacated the position of abbot to be held by a senior cultivator, so as to coincide with the previous public opinion.

In the Lower Meditation of Simplicity, the two functions of the Prison and the Abbot are the True Masters who have the right to vote in the True Master Hall, and they are the same as the True Masters who sit in the Six Pavilions of the Upper Meditation Hall. The reason why they have always had a low status in the past and seem to have little say is entirely due to the fact that the incumbents of these two functions are the common way of the jungle of the ten directions.

If the new abbot is a monk, then the role of this office in the True Master Hall will be fully utilized, and it will be no different from the other True Masters who sit in the Hall of the Six Pavilions. No, maybe the power in your hands will be even greater!

It would be an eye-watering position for a monk, so who would be qualified to be the abbot of the lower view?

As we all know, the abbot and the prison were selected from Zhengyi and Quanzhen respectively, and since it was Zhang Yangming's resignation, the successor must also be the candidate for Zhengyi. In other words, who to recommend is up to the Zhengyi sects, and whether or not the recommended person can take office is decided by all the refiners together.

When Zhao Ran learned the news, he was inspecting the growth of crops in various farmlands in Long'an Mansion, so he hurriedly ended his inspection and rushed back to Dajun Mountain.

In Maoshan Mountain, Jiuxiao Wanfu Palace, and Lizhen Courtyard, Mrs. Pan sat next to Pan Yangshou, who was reading the Taoist scriptures, and reminded him: "How is the matter with Jinniang?"

Pan Yangshou turned the page and asked while reading, "What's the matter?"

Mrs. Pan said: "Jin Niang's family affairs." ”

Pan Yangshou put down the book "First Aid Fairy Prescription" in his hand and looked at Mrs. Pan: "How old is she? What is the hurry? Aren't you and I also close relatives who have passed 40 back then? What age are Jiang Tenghe and Zhao Liniang of Louguan who have cultivated both ways? The most important thing for cultivators is to cultivate, and if they go up, their longevity will increase by themselves, and their appearance will not be old, so what are you afraid of later! Look at Duanmu Changzhen again, don't people in their nineties continue to have children in the same way?"

Mrs. Pan said: "But you can't say that, if you meet someone you like, why bother waiting?"

Pan Yangshou said: "Where are you waiting in vain? It's been almost three years, Zhang Tengming's kid hasn't married Dan yet, how can he marry him? At that time, he said that he would marry after marrying Dan, and I would guard against this! Jin Niang also doesn't know anything, and a good character can't look down on it, and he looks down on such a waste!"

"So what? The child himself is satisfied, let's open our eyes and close our eyes. ”

"Don't worry, in a few years, Jin Niang will be able to see it, and when the time comes, she must be crying and don't want to marry, do you believe it or not? It just so happens that I am about to turn into a yang god, and I will retreat at the end of the year, and her family affairs will not be too late to discuss when I leave the customs!"

Mrs. Pan was immediately overjoyed: "It's time? ”

Pan Yangshou sighed: "Yes, it has been stopped in the refining realm for ten years, which is really not easy. ”

As he was talking, he received a flying talisman, Pan Yangshou groaned: "Uncle Sima asked me to go, if someone asks to see my father, you will block it, and say that my father is in retreat." ”

After getting off Damao Peak, Pan Yangshou climbed the south waist of Jijin Peak, went straight into the North Pole Building of Yuanfu Wanning Palace, and saw that Sima Tianshi was waiting in the building, so he stepped forward to ask what was going on.

Sima Tianshi said: "Your father is still in retreat? I invited him to come over to discuss matters, but he did not reply. ”

Pan Yangshou replied: "My father is indeed in retreat, and he once said that his understanding has become deeper and deeper over the years, and there seems to be a faint image of harmony. ”

Sima Tianshi was overjoyed: "If we can really join the Dao, my Maoshan will be able to catch up with Longhu Mountain and Gesoap Mountain, and the three mountains are also the three mountains! The reason why we have been dwarfed in the past hundred years is that there is no great monk of the Dao! But speaking of which, it should also be his way together, after all, the senior brother is one of the top five cultivators in the world......

suddenly frowned and said, "It's just that if you do this, I'm afraid that you will delay the big event." ”

Pan Yangshou was puzzled: "What's the big deal?"

Sima Tianshi asked, "Have you read the three articles in 'Dragon and Tiger Mountain'? ”

"I read it, those three articles are well written, I read them in "Junshan Notes". Do you have any arrangements?"

"I thought it was just ordinary preaching, but I didn't expect it to have a lot of meaning. Do you know that Zhang Yangming resigned......"

Pan Yangshou is not in the True Master Hall, and no one in the Jiuxiao Wanfu Palace is in the General View, so it is really not very clear, at this moment, I suddenly heard the news, combined with the three articles published by colleagues in "Dragon and Tiger Mountain" and "Junshan Notes", I immediately shook up, this is another vacant seat in the True Master Hall.

But for a moment, he shook his head again, even if his father was not prepared to retreat and impact the Hedao like this, it was impossible to fight, Maoshan did not have a Hedao monk in charge, and wanted to rely on the name of "Zhengyi Sanshan", one family occupied two seats in the True Master Hall, which sect would agree?

"It's a pity ......"