Chapter Seventy-Two: The Visit (7th of the 515 Reward for the Starting Point)
Marshal Zhao Gong's surname is Zhao Minglang, a native of Zhongnan Mountain, and then lived in seclusion in Shu, and refined to the Tao. When the ancestor Tianshi was refining the pill in Qingcheng Mountain, he collected it to guard the pill room, and after the pill was completed, he divided and ate it, and thus became enlightened. Because of taking the pill refined by the ancestral heavenly master, its shape resembles that of the heavenly master. The Heavenly Master then ordered his Yongzhen Xuantan, called the Marshal of Xuantan, and led Zhaobao Tianzun, Nazhen Tianzun, Fortune Messenger and Lishi Immortal Officials, etc., to control all the gold and silver treasures in the world.
Zhao Ran looked up at the statue of Marshal Zhao in the main hall of Xuantan Palace with the abbots of the same advanced training class, and saw that the statue was like a black pot, riding a black tiger, holding a silver whip in one hand and an ingots in the other, and there were jewels everywhere on his body, and he couldn't help but be a little funny.
I also listened to the abbot of Xuantan Palace explain his life experience to everyone, and talked about his appearance, and secretly speculated that maybe Marshal Zhao was also made of a great demon, just by looking at which pill he ate, his appearance resembled which, you can know it.
Suddenly, I was worried about Linghe Baishanjun, she had been impacting the transformation by the side of the Longyang Patriarch, would the Longyang Patriarch let her take drugs and become the second Xiaolongyang? That would be a bit bad......
Xuantan Palace is in the capital, and it is next to the downtown in the city, so it does not occupy a large area, adding up to more than ten acres of land, much smaller than the Jiming Temple under the jurisdiction of the Daolu Division, only the main hall of the God of Wealth Temple, as well as the Cihang Palace, the Patriarch Hall two side halls, and the rest are the eight deacon rooms such as the Liao Courtyard, the Jing Hall, and the Yunshui Hall, and even the specifications of the prison house and the abbot's house are much smaller than the White Horse Courtyard where Zhao Ran stayed, not to mention compared with the Wuji Courtyard and the West Zhenwu Palace.
However, although this Taoist palace occupies a small area, there are many Taoist priests, more than 130 Taoist priests, and the same number of fire workers. Where do so many people live? The Taoist priests crowded into the squatter courtyard, and the fireworkers lived in rented houses outside, so the neighborhood around the Taoist Palace was also called Xuantanfang, and basically every household was involved in the Xuantan Palace.
Most of the abbots in the advanced class came down directly from the mountain, and they couldn't compare with Zhao Ran, Jiu Girl and others, including Pei Zhongze, the content of the visit and explanation was the course they had to understand to take over the position of abbot, and they all felt very novel when they listened to it.
The cold prison of Xuantan Palace took everyone to the scripture hall to sit down, invited the eight deacons out one by one, and briefly talked about their duties and daily affairs one by one, which made everyone quite rewarding.
In the afternoon, the abbots witnessed a ceremony in which a merchant from the county below came to ask for a statue of the god for the newly opened shop. After the ceremony, Gao Gong, who presided over the ceremony, said ashamedly: "Xiaodao's body is powerless, and all the mages are smiling. ”
The Daolu Division who led the team Zhengyin Jinghui said: "This is exactly where we want to learn from you fellow Daoists, even if we don't have mana, we are still conscientious and meticulous, and it is precisely because of your persistence that we have maintained the credibility of the Daomen for a long time." ”
When the sun is about to set, the day's field visit and study is over, the abbot surnamed Hou led the crowd out, someone asked when the Xuantan Palace will send monks to settle in, the abbot said with a wry smile: "It's always fast, since the heir sect Heavenly Master took office, the movement is very great, the old Tao I am already old, I have survived for a few more years, and I can't hold on, and I will be ready to write and resign in a few days." ”
Although Abbot Hou is old, looking at him today, where can he talk about 'can't hold up', and there is no problem in working for another five or six years. Just listen to the meaning of Xiao Suo in his tone, and you can hear the unwillingness in it.
But what can you do if you are not reconciled, complete the replacement of all the abbots of the palace within three years, this is the trend of the times, and the personal future has to give way in the face of this general trend, not only him, but also the secular abbots of the more than 100 Taoist palaces left in the Ming Dynasty, among which he is younger and more energetic, I don't know how much, and the position must be vacated within two years.
This abbot Hou is better, since the Jiajing 20th year Song Fan Tianhe Palace was upgraded, in the 22nd year, Jiangxi Jiujiang Mansion and Nanzhili Ying Tianfu were also promoted by half a level, therefore, Tianhe Palace, Sansheng Palace and Xuantan Palace have become the three sub-provincial Taoist palaces of Daomen. As the abbot of the Xuantan Palace, he is a high Taoist at the level of the three capitals of the provincial view, and a straight priest of the Lushan Dian Academy, no matter how he moves, even if he finally resigns, such a Taoist priest will always be concerned and taken care of by the general view until he dies.
The abbots of the other state capitals and palaces are different, just half a level apart, and the treatment after resignation is very different.
After going to the Xuantan Palace of Yingtianfu, after that, you have to go to several surrounding state capitals, such as Zhenjiang Mansion, Guangde Mansion, Yangzhou Mansion, Taiping Mansion, Changzhou Mansion, etc., to the end of December, it will also be mainly for the advanced class of high Taoists, and hold a big Lent Jiao in Wenchang Temple. Wenchang Temple is the provincial view of Nanzhili, and the Jiao Festival is held here, which is a graduation practice drill for the abbots.
As the refresher class entered the second half, the noisy cultivation ball competition also came to an end, seven rounds of battles, Zhaozhen Pavilion Xing Tenghe won the first place in the Grand Mage Group, Lingxu Pavilion Du Xingyan won the first place in the Jindan Master Group, and in the Huangguan Group, Zhang Tengming won the championship in the last round, which made everyone feel incredible.
Regarding Zhang Tengming's victory, Zhao Ran was also speechless. When he was in a key round of duel with Yan Shifan, a thunderstorm suddenly fell in Tianfu, and coincidentally, Yan Shifan was showing off his latest fancy hitting method because of the big score lead, which borrowed from the Shenxiao Heavenly Thunder Talisman, so the tragedy happened, and a heavenly thunder was "led" down by him......
Fortunately, Yan Shifan is only in the Huangguan realm, because the control of the exercises is not strong, in order to avoid the extremely small probability of splitting himself, he has already worn protective gloves in advance, so that he did not cause the tragedy of being killed by the thunder. But even so, his club was damaged on the spot, and at the same time, his body was paralyzed to a certain extent, unable to complete the next game, so he had to withdraw with hatred.
After this incident, the cultivation ball competition made clear regulations on the material of the cue, and it was not allowed to add gold and iron to the cue, and at the same time, this matter also led to a lot of rumors in the capital, and many people applauded, saying that Yan Ge had done too many bad things, and the retribution was on his son.
In this way, Xing Tenghe, Du Xingyan and Zhang Tengming will become the champions of next year's spring competition, waiting for others to attack. The detailed biographies of the three of them have also been published in major journals, and they have become the stars of their cultivation with extremely realistic character illustrations.
What's more, after discussion, the organizing committee increased the rewards for the participating monks, especially the three champions gave the season a heavy reward, Xing Tenghe was rewarded with 5,000 taels, Du Xingyan was rewarded with 4,000 taels, and Zhang Tengming was rewarded with 3,000 taels. As soon as such a reward came out, it immediately aroused the attention of the world.
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