Chapter 269: Shoulder to Shoulder
Zhang Qian went out of the city along the secret road of the Emei Mountain Courtyard, and then changed his clothes, hid his whole body, and hunted a few pheasants and roe deer in the mountains, tied them with hemp rope and carried them on his shoulders, and pretended to be a hunter and swaggered into the city.
After walking around the streets and alleys of the city a few times, making sure that no one was paying attention to him, he walked along the secluded alley into the deserted City God Temple.
The cramped courtyard, a few houses that have just been painted with red paint, although there are no traces of dilapidation, but such a small temple can not even accommodate many pilgrims, and the statue of the city god in the shrine is also very simple, as if the mud is kneaded into shape, and the eyebrows and eyes are outlined with paint, Zhang Qian's eyes wandered around between the low houses, and only came to one conclusion, that is miserable, he has not seen how the temple before the city god of Pengcheng is broad and magnificent, but the city god temple in the remote town of Qingyang County is also much more than this wall, the vermilion wall and black tiles, The beams and pillars are towering, which one is the same place in front of him, if it weren't for the plaque hanging at the door, Zhang Qian really thought that this was a newly opened grain and oil shop.
The pilgrims were sparse, Zhang Qian threw the hunted pheasant on the offering table, and then avoided the eyes of others, and his figure flashed, and he entered the back hall.
Seeing this, Pengcheng Chenghuang immediately broke away from the statue, in the past, he was categorically not attached to the mud tire all the time, but now it is the end of the road, and this little bit of incense and faith will not let go.
And every night, to condescend to fulfill those messy wishes for the person who made the wish, are some small things that cannot be put on the table, either for whose livestock to see the disease, or for whose house to exorcise evil spirits, but also forced to be helpless, if nothing is done, these few remaining believers can not be saved, in the long run, he will have only one result, that is, he will be wiped out in the long river of time, today is the first time to see someone take livestock and poultry to worship him. Although the gods do not eat blood and food, but only worship with incense, livestock represent rituals, and for ordinary people, these are extremely valuable things, and they are used to worship themselves enough to show their sincerity, and the power of faith is even greater.
Pengcheng Chenghuang was incoherent with excitement, but what he never expected was that this man threw a few livestock on the offering table, but he didn't get any faith power.
Then I saw this man go straight into the back hall. Hurriedly detached from the idol, intending to see what was going on.
"Who are you waiting for? Pengcheng Chenghuang shook his body, and turned into the haggard fat man, dressed in an apricot yellow robe, dressed as a temple blessing.
Zhang Qian didn't have time to pay attention to him, threw the two bloody roe deer to the ground, and then wiped the blood on his face, the closed pores opened slightly, and the pure yang aura in his body was slightly released. This sudden change frightened Pengcheng Chenghuang to tremble, I don't know how this ordinary man became a master of the Daomen, and he leaned over and bowed without saying a word: "The little god doesn't know how long to come, how much offense." How offended. ”
The dignified Pengcheng City God, receiving the edict of the Red Book, the status is noble, and seeing the people in the Daomen is like seeing the mourning star. Even the identity of the visitor did not dare to ask, nor did he dare to look up at his face.
"What's the matter? I haven't seen you for a month, and Lord Chenghuang can't recognize the old man?" Zhang Qian casually pulled a piece of cloth curtain on the shrine and wiped his hands. Then he straightened his clothes and smiled coldly.
"Who is the Dao Chief?" Pengcheng Chenghuang was pierced by this voice with a chill in his bones, and he mustered up the courage to glance at Zhang Qian's appearance, only then did he feel familiar, and after thinking about it carefully, he was immediately overjoyed: "Taishang Dao Chief." ”
He didn't expect Zhang Qian to meet him in this way at this time, and the last way back for Emperor Dongyue to give him was on this person, but he tried to contact him a month ago, but he was a hot face and a cold ass, not only did he not get the slightest help, but he was reprimanded, so that now he has palpitations in retrospect, and he didn't dare to open his mouth when he looked at Zhang Qian.
"Do you know why I'm here?" Zhang Qian glanced at him and asked lukewarmly.
Peng Cheng Chenghuang's face trembled slightly, obviously he hadn't reacted yet, he shook his head very dryly, and confessed: "I don't know." ”
Zhang Qian took a hard breath, at first he only thought that this Pengcheng Chenghuang was a muddy person, but he didn't expect that this person was not only muddy, but also very stupid, there was a feeling that the mud couldn't support the wall, no wonder Emperor Dongyue would entrust this person to himself, with his power, it shouldn't be difficult to rescue his subordinates, but he just let him come to him, showing that he was troublesome, Zhang Qian frowned, held back the anger in his heart, and explained to him:" First of all, I have a great relationship with Emperor Dongyue, although I have never met, but it can be regarded as a divine friend, if I expect it to be good, he and my father should have a very deep hypocrisy, so he entrusts you to me, you can rest assured, I will never care whether you live or die. ”
"That Dao Chief, last time?" Peng Cheng Chenghuang listened to his direct and clear explanation, and was immediately relieved, but he became more and more confused.
"I am now the Elder of the Heavenly Keqing of the Yangshan Xiaodong, and now the righteous path and the gods of the earth are like fire and water, wouldn't it embarrass me if you stop me in person. Zhang Qian said angrily.
When Pengcheng Chenghuang heard this, he felt weak, and asked timidly: "Then Dao Chief, are you on the side of the Earth Gods or the Dao Gate?"
Zhang Qian gritted his teeth lightly, and had an urge to smoke him, since he had confessed so much to him, wouldn't his position be obvious? But this guy just couldn't understand it, and said to him patiently: "I am naturally on the side of the earth gods. ”
"There is a Taoist chief's words, and I will be relieved in the future. Peng Cheng Chenghuang patted the fat on his chest, looking relieved.
"Can you get in touch with Emperor Dongyue now?" Zhang Qian asked with a smile.
"I can go to the Dongyue Emperor's Mansion, but the Emperor has never had time to pay attention to me. "Pengcheng Chenghuang looked sad, although he Pengcheng is the number one in Shuzhou, but Dongyue Emperor is in charge of the three mountains and five mountains, ten thousand cities in the world, his Pengcheng Chenghuang identity compared with it, just like the generation gap between the county order and the emperor, the book is simple, and there are special contact channels between the gods and spirits, but the Dongyue Emperor has a lot of opportunities, and now it is difficult to protect himself, and he was invited to Sanqing Palace by the nine-day interview envoy who came down from heaven, and it is normal to ignore his small Chenghuang's recital.
"I'll repair a book, and you will send it to Emperor Dongyue for me. Zhang Qian didn't care about Pengcheng Chenghuang's worried appearance.
took a pen and paper and wrote a few very simple sentences - "My nephew Zhang Qian is taken care of by my uncle, and I would like to ask to see him today." ”
If his father really follows the example of the Houtu Immortal King, then Emperor Dongyue can be regarded as his father's old subordinate, and there is nothing out of place for him to be called like this, but Pengcheng Chenghuang is confused, when did this Taishang Daoist become Zhang Qian again, and he also became the son and nephew of the emperor. However, he didn't have the temper to ask more, took a stone book, used peach wood as a pen, dipped it in cinnabar, and wrote Zhang Qian's words on the stone book, but after a while, the bright red handwriting began to fade, as if falling into the depths of the stone book, the two waited for a reply, and sat for almost half an hour, without waiting for any text reply to appear on the stone book. There was a sudden change in the room.
A dazzling flash of lightning suddenly appeared in the corner of the wall, and as the arc flickered, the entire room was filled with a strong and domineering aura.
Zhang Qian's divine sense sensed the surroundings, but found that the place where the electric light shone had formed an isolated space, and his divine sense was all blocked within three zhang, and the violent tremor gradually intensified with the flashing of the electric arc, such a movement was not small, and the tables and chairs seemed to have left the ground. But Zhang Qian looked through the curtain, but found that several pilgrims in the hall outside were still babbling about their wishes, hoping that Pengcheng Chenghuang could bless his cows to give birth smoothly, as if he didn't feel what was happening in this back hall at all. He gradually reassured, and then saw the arc of electricity flash violently, and a strong white light suddenly spread out.
A black crack appeared in the dazzling white light, looking unusually eerie.
In the dark cracks. The Five Elements Aura is chaotic, has no stability to speak of, and is endless. The unusually vast expanse of fire clouds formed in it, Frost, and even a lot of boulders, like meteorites in the universe, but there is no specific trajectory, and it is not affected by gravity, floating like a wandering ghost, and there are a lot of lights, colorful, looking unusually confused, seemingly light and substantial, but extremely dangerous, he saw with his own eyes a huge stone as big as a mountain and glowing with gold and iron, through a sea of fire, and was swept into it by a whirlpool formed by frost, it can be described as the nine heavens of ice and fire, but they were all unscathed, but accidentally broke into a purple halo, but it fell apart in an instant, turning into particles smaller than dust, the power of destruction, which made him nervous and had the feeling of being unable to make a sound.
Although the whole process was only a short moment, Zhang Qian was almost stunned.
This palm-wide crack is inconspicuous, but the world behind this crack is endless, and there is a kind of mystery and profundity that ordinary people cannot understand.
Everything you knew before can only be described as insignificant in the face of this vast, primitive, mysterious world.
It's like looking at the infinite galaxy universe from your fingers.
"Is this the legendary Tai Void World?" Zhang Qian muttered to himself, no wonder the cultivators can only truly glimpse the true face of the Great Dao by glimpsing the Gate of All Wonders and breaking it into the Anti-Void Realm.
Because the void world is a primitive world, and the world is a world that has been multiplied and developed, and the most primitive thing is the closest to the origin, everyone in the world says the avenue, but what the avenue refers to, I'm afraid no one can say clearly, there is only a general description, the ancestor of nature, the great sect of all differences, that is to say, any kind of thing in the world, any phenomenon is the embodiment of the Tao, this sentence is not wrong, but what is the use of the truth that everyone knows, or you have to start from the truth, so the time cultivator can only choose a method and cultivate, take a kind of natural power and understand from it, the method is also right, but it is somewhat similar to the blind man touching the elephant。
Three thousand avenues, different paths to the same end, this is not bad, but with these superficial insights to get a glimpse of the whole avenue in disguise, it is like a fool's dream.
The Taixu world is a more primitive and simpler world, there are no complicated things, the avenues in it are less differentiated, more complete, and easier for people to get a glimpse of the whole picture.
Therefore, anti-void is an indispensable realm in cultivation, and it is definitely easier to comprehend the truth than to comprehend the plan of the universe than to comprehend the wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and the growth of plants and trees, because the universe is older than the human world, and the void world is a more primitive and ancient existence than the universe and the starry sky. Every phenomenon contains the ultimate principle of the evolution of the Great Dao, but it is a pity that Zhang Qian can't understand it at all now, and can only look at it as a surprise, but he understands the relationship between the vast world and the starry sky of the universe and the void world, and his understanding of cultivation is also more profound.
If the world is an egg yolk, then the starry sky of the universe is the egg white, and the eggshell is the 'door of all wonders', smash it open. You can see a whole new world.
By observing the material changes in the void world, we can understand the development of life, how the sun, moon and stars form a specific trajectory, and even how a world is born, and how it is going to destruction step by step. Limited to the description of those flowery words in the Tao Sutra, now I feel his existence personally, although it is still hidden in his own untouchable place, but at least I know what the 'Great Dao' is, how to find him, and have a kind of enlightenment.
"If a cultivator wants to enter the realm of the Convergence of the Dao, he must allow himself to go through the process of change of the Great Dao, so that the physical body becomes an indispensable thing, and only the primordial spirit is cultivated. It will never be possible to join the Dao, even if he reaches the peak, he is just a speculator who plays with the power of heaven and earth with the help of the Great Dao Zhili, no wonder his father wants to leave himself a 'Dao Yuan Technique' for cultivating the flesh. and not Taoist texts. Zhang Qian suddenly thought of a lot.
My father was not only the Holy Emperor of Humanity back then, but also the Heavenly Court's Heavenly Immortal King, but he didn't teach him any Taoism, presumably because he wanted to tell him the importance of physical cultivation. It's not just about humanity.
However, now he was still an endless distance away from that step, and just the step of opening the door of all wonders stopped the footsteps of countless cultivators in the world. What an amazing and brilliant person the Infinite Demon Venerable was, he was a famous earth immortal a thousand years ago, and now it has been a thousand years, and he still hasn't taken that step.
How can the barriers of the world be so easily broken?
Although the realm of the Yuan Shen has the ability to tear apart the void for thousands of miles, it is not to break the eggshell, but to break the membrane under the eggshell, so that it is temporarily not bound by the rules of the world, and the immortals who have truly entered the realm of anti-void are only the most basic means, and the endless terrifying power in the void can be attracted between the waves, and the destruction of the world is as simple as a child building a sand castle, and the void world can be glimpsed in this crack in front of him, obviously the person who came is a figure in the realm of heavenly immortals, and now in the world of the world, except for the Sanqing Palace Donghua Zifu Fu Yuan Li Jidao King Xuanfu, there is only one Dongyue Emperor。
Zhang Qian took a deep breath and prepared himself to see what kind of character this Dongyue Emperor who had been friends with him for a long time was.
Heavenly immortals, it is really a mountain-like existence.
Even in the heavenly court, it is also a prominent existence, not to mention in the world, even if the power of the gods of the earth is declining now, but once the news of the arrival of the Dongyue Emperor in Pengcheng spreads, the high-spirited Zou Tianshi may only kneel to greet him, fortunately, the Dongyue Emperor is his father single-handedly promoted and created, Zhang Qianxin eliminated some of the gap with him, but he was still a little nervous in his heart, so that he tried his best not to be frightened, he is now not seeking the protection of the Dongyue Emperor, but as the Holy Emperor of Humanity, Chengtian imitated the identity of the Hou Tu descendant to talk to him, and naturally he couldn't be underestimated, otherwise his own plan would easily be ignored by him as a joke.
Zhang Qian had already thought of the rhetoric in his heart, and even imagined the scene of talking to him in advance in his mind, but he didn't expect that after waiting for a long time, there was no figure in the crack, and only half of the painting scroll was exposed.
The frontispiece has appeared outside the cracks, and the end of the scroll is still in the endless void, like a giant dragon lying in the darkness, and those mountains and rivers are also unusually huge.
Therefore, it gives people a very strong contrast, Shu Zhi can be in Liuhe, but the volume is not in a hand, which also produces a kind of earth-shattering artistic conception, high and boundless, Unfathomable, as if there is really an endless world hidden in this picture scroll, Zhang Qian's exquisite Liuhe Pagoda has a radius of twenty miles, which is close to the existence of immortal weapons, but compared with this picture scroll, there is a kind of earth-wide difference, Zhang Qian swallowed a mouthful of saliva, only to see a figure suddenly floating down on the picture scroll, nine feet tall, square face, two sarcomas on the forehead, extremely majestic, but wearing a heavy armor, and holding a giant blade in his hand.
Seeing his face clearly, Zhang Qia knew that this person was not Emperor Dongyue.
Although he has never seen the true face of Emperor Dongyue, the existence of an emperor will never be the appearance of a martial artist, wearing armor is understandable, but carrying a machete like a door panel, this image is too outrageous.
When Pengcheng Chenghuang saw the characters coming out of the painting, he was immediately stunned, slipped from the chair, knelt down numbly, and bowed verbally, "The little god Pengcheng Chenghuang has seen Lord Shoulder." ”
"Taishan Mountain God Shoulder?" Zhang Qian heard Pengcheng Chenghuang like this, and immediately knew the identity of the person who came, and was slightly disappointed, the person he met now was Emperor Dongyue himself, not a general under his command, and it was inconvenient to tell outsiders about some secret things.
Pengcheng Chenghuang naturally didn't know Zhang Qian's plans, thinking that it would be good if the Dongyue Emperor's Mansion could make an exception and give an echo, but he didn't expect that the Taishan Mountain God, the Dongyue Emperor's hand, who sat in the first chair, actually came in person, and his face was so frightened that his face was colorless, but out of the corner of his eye, he caught a glimpse of Zhang Qian sitting like a wooden stake, without any etiquette, he was so frightened that he didn't dare to speak, just a strong kowtow. (To be continued......)