The 18th day of the fifth lunar month is the birthday of the Taoist patriarch Zhang Tianshi, and it is also the most solemn fasting ceremony held by Taoism in recent decades.

This fasting ceremony Wudang invited fellow cultivators and friendly sects from all over the world, of course, including 'Shaolin, Emei, Hengshan' and other Buddhist sects.

In the Zixiao Palace under the Wutian Pillar Peak, at this time, the crowd had squeezed from outside the gate of the palace hall to the outside of the palace for as much as half a mile, because there were too many people who came to participate in the excitement, Wudang only allowed the main figures and celebrities of various sects to enter outside the hall to participate this time.

At this time, a sacrificial table is set up outside the majestic hall, there is a large bronze incense burner in front of the table, there is a stone statue of the ancestor of the heavenly master behind the table (the stone statue is naturally temporarily moved), there is a pig's head in the middle of the table, and there is a cow's head and a sheep's head on both sides, the pig's head is naturally auspicious, the meaning of longevity, and the other two will not say much.

Not far from the sacrificial table, there was a purple Taoist priest wearing a purple Taoist robe and a black long bearded Taoist priest standing on the left, and behind him stood two white long-bearded Taoist priests who were nearly seventy years old and fat and thin (these three people were naturally the purple-clothed Taoist of Wudang who appeared before, and his two uncles).

On the right side of the purple-clothed Daoist is his former senior brother Wang Yangming and the four disciples behind him.

Because Wang Yangming's reputation is too great in the rivers and lakes, and he is the head of the purple-clothed senior brother, he naturally lives opposite the purple-clothed Taoist.

The purple-clothed Taoist chief was naturally surprised when he saw Wang Yangming coming, but he didn't expect Wang Yangming to be so fateful, and at this time he was thinking about the countermeasures after the ceremony.

At this time, on the top of a tile house in the main hall, Du Bu did not forget to be with Feng Niang, Xiaojiao, Zhu Er's brothers and sisters, and Liu Shuzhen, who were lying on the eaves and secretly looking down.

The five of them couldn't get into the hall because they didn't forget to go into the hall with Feng Niang, and they were afraid of meeting the couple of Song Sanniang and Brother Tuesday yesterday, so they had to secretly climb up to the eaves and peek at it.

At this time, Du did not forget to point to the bottom of the sacrificial steps, leaning on the left, the first person on the left, holding a Zen staff, thin, wearing a robe, about sixty years old, and a kind monk, whispered to a few people:

"This master must be the Shaolin abbot Phantom True Zen Master."

On the side, Zhu Er said:

"Yes".

Then Du did not forget to point to a middle-aged woman dressed as a nun opposite the Zen Master of Phantom, but with a very good temperament, and said:

"This nun must be the head of Emei, Master Jinguang."

Then several people nodded their heads as well.

At this time, Du did not forget to point to an old Taoist priest who was about seventy years old and very thin next to the Zen master of Illusion and said:

"This is the head of Kunlun, the real person."

On the side, Zhu Er replied:

"I didn't expect that my eldest brother hadn't been out much, but he still knew a lot."

Du did not forget to reply:

"I listened to the braggart shopkeeper in our town."

Zhu Er said again:

"Although he loves to brag and is greedy for money, he is not useless."

Du did not forget to say:

"Don't mention him, I will be angry when I mention him, I have made friends by mistake in my life, and I have met a greedy and unrighteous person like him."

At this time, Zhu Sanmei spoke, and then pointed to the monk opposite Xumi Zhenren and said:

"Isn't that the eagle monk who crossed the river with a bamboo pole that day?"

A few people looked at it, and sure enough, it was.

Naturally, the monk of Eagle Disease came to participate in this fasting ceremony on behalf of the head of Hengshan.

At this time, on the stage, the purple-clothed Taoist first walked to the middle of the stage and said to the audience:

"Today is an honor, welcome all Taoist friends, heads and friends, to participate in the Wudang fasting ceremony, let the poor Taoist I first pay tribute to today's master Zhang Daoling Patriarch Touzhu incense."

After speaking, he turned around, walked a few steps forward to the incense burner, and immediately a middle-aged Taoist priest lit three incense sticks and handed them over, the purple-clothed Taoist took the incense, bowed three times to the statue of Zhang Tianshi, and then inserted the incense in his hand into the incense burner, and then returned to the original place.

After the purple-clothed Taoist worshipped, Wang Daochang also went to the incense burner to start worshipping, and it was not until noon that these people outside the hall finished worshipping one by one.

Because there were too many people outside the main hall of Zixiao Palace, they naturally couldn't enter the main hall, so they could only worship in private and devoutly.

At this time, after everyone had finished worshipping Master Zhang, the purple-clothed Taoist chief announced that it would be time to preach the Taoism after fasting.

At this time, Du Buyi and a few people were also a little hungry, Du Buyi asked the others to go back to the palace to rest, and he and Feng Niang secretly came to the roof of the kitchen, uncovered the tiles and peeked at the dishes prepared by Wudang for the guests, and prepared to steal some for lunch.

At this time, several people opened the tiles and secretly looked down, and several middle-aged Taoist priests in the kitchen were nesting together eating chicken thighs, eating with a mouth full of oil leakage.

The little Taoist priest next to him stopped the knife in his hand at this time and said to a few people:

"Uncles, today is the birthday of the ancestor and the first day of fasting, you break the vows here, if you are found by the ancestors, what should you do?"

At this time, a middle-aged Taoist priest with a fat face and a scrap of meat showing the corners of his mouth turned his head to the little Taoist priest who cut vegetables and said:

"We are the disciples of the head of the family, the uncle, the law enforcement elder, Xuan Su, who dares to say that we are not, the nephew, you shut up."

The little Taoist priest who cut vegetables naturally didn't dare to speak.

Du Buyi and Feng Niang saw two little Taoist priests walking not far away at this time, who must have been urging vegetables.

Feng Niang pulled Du Buyi to the top of the eaves of the two little Taoist priests and jumped behind the two. While the two of them weren't paying attention, they covered their mouths, put them into the empty room on the side, knocked them unconscious, and then changed into their robes and came to the kitchen.

As soon as the Taoist priest saw two Taoist priests walking in, he said:

"The two senior brothers must have come to urge the food, and it will be fine soon."

Then he motioned for a group of people eating chicken legs to come over to help, but those people ignored them.

Du did not forget to settle down at this time, and said to the fat Taoist priest just now:

"The master in charge asked the two of us to check the kitchen, and by the way, to urge the dishes, uncle, you and a few others broke the vows on the first day of fasting, aren't you afraid of getting grandpa?"

A few people around eating chicken legs stopped at this time, and looked at the little Taoist priest dressed up with Feng Niang with disdain.

At this time, it was the fat Taoist priest who first said:

"Where are you a little Taoist priest, why haven't I seen you, and you still claim to be the head of the family, even if the head brother comes, you don't dare to talk to us in such a tone."

At this time, Feng Niang quietly pulled down Du Forgetful. Motioned for him to take the food as the main food.

Du Bu Bu immediately replied:

"We are the disciples of the novice master, so you naturally haven't seen it, uncle, we are here to take the food to the head and uncle first."

At this time, several people calmed down.

Then the fat Taoist priest said:

"Forget that today is the ceremony, I won't care about you, if you say this on the other day, I will make it difficult for you."

Then he said to the little Taoist priest who cut vegetables:

"Go and prepare three meals and dry rice with him."

The vegetable cutting Taoist priest immediately went to prepare, and after a while, he brought three suitcases over, and Du did not forget to walk out with Feng Niang with three suitcases.

When he walked out of the gate of Zixiao Palace, someone asked:

"How could the food of the head and the uncle be sent outside the palace."

Du Buyi replied:

"The head of the house ordered to send it to a quiet place outside the palace to wait for the head to go to dinner."

Naturally, a few people didn't ask, after all, the meal was not a big deal.