Prologue
Legend has it that in ancient times, thousands of years ago, there was no chaos and nothing. Until one day, Pangu split the clear and turbidity with an axe, which opened up the heaven, earth and the universe, and all things were born.
At that time, the five mountains and four rivers had not yet formed. The powerful gods and monsters and fierce monsters were rampant everywhere. There was the evil god "Qiuanqi" who suppressed good and promoted evil, and they were dedicated to killing good people for pleasure; there was the greedy and greedy "Taotie" who ate whatever they saw; there was the "Zhulong" in the land of no sun, open his eyes during the day, close his eyes at night; there was the "Kunpeng" that flew thousands of miles; there were the nine-tailed fox, the horizontal fish, and the Chaos...
They have good and evil, or they are hundreds of feet tall, or they are faced by humans, or they are flying in the clouds and fog, or they call the wind and rain, or they spit fire and create flames, or they roar to the sky. They cannot be explained clearly one by one.
At that time, although humans were the most spiritual among all things, they could only struggle to support and were on the verge of extinction. Fortunately, not long after, the sages were born one after another. They led the ancestors to fight against demons, and the battles changed color, the mountains and rivers were shaken, and the heaven and earth were broken! Fortunately, humans won consecutive victories, either completely eliminated them, or drove them to those wilderness and out of the country, and then built their homes.
Fuxi, Nuwa and Shennong, from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, to Shang Tang, King Wen of Zhou, King Wu of Zhou, and Laozi, Confucius and others... From establishing the Eight Trigrams, repairing the cracks of the sky, tasting hundreds of herbs, creating writing, talking about morality, and talking about benevolence and righteousness... In this way, under the enlightenment of the sages, humans who once ate raw meat and drank blood gradually entered civilization and gradually pacified the world, and thus became the most precious of all things.
However, as the saying goes, "The saints will not die, and the thieves will not stop." Although the demons were defeated, the human race had never stopped fighting for internal struggles due to various power, fame and fortune, and various theories and ideas. In addition, the demons were unwilling to give up their former dominance. For millions of years, whenever they had the opportunity, they would gather all their tribesmen, and even colluded with the traitors in humans, igniting the war, intending to subvert the world...
Therefore, the appearance of China's China in Central China is always breaking and reuniting, and it is constantly turning around.
It is said that there was another chaotic world more than 150 years ago. Fortunately, the Emperor Li of this dynasty raised an army and summoned the power of the three sages of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and swept away the chaos in the world. The demons and thieves fled back to the wild and barbaric world. Today, they dare not step into China.
The Great Li Dynasty was blessed by the heavens and passed down to four generations. The emperors and children were all wise rulers, and there were many Confucian wise ministers and generals. The two high-ranking monks from Taoism and Buddhism have been continuously ruled and finally achieved a peaceful life. The once desolate land can now see prosperity everywhere.
Although the world today is not as shattered and broken as in ancient times, it is also lively.
This means that a group of people who have been respected as "real people" and "immortals" from ancient times to the present are one of the sage powers of human beings to defeat demons. These people either flew into the clouds and flew without wings; or rode dragons and cranes to heaven and earth; or turned into birds and beasts, sneaking through rivers and seas, and soaring in famous mountains; they gathered and formed shapes, and when they dispersed, they became qi. One thought turned into millions, traveling around the world but the people did not recognize it.
Who doesn’t want to be such a real god?
In order to educate our ancestors, the Book of Changes? Zhuan Biography says: "The sages use the way of gods to teach them." Now there are many religions, and there are three religions competing for power.
Which three religions? Naturally, they are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism.
Because people in the world pursue becoming immortals, Buddhas, and sages, the three religions are prevalent in the world. Whether it is the monarch and minister in the court, or the old ladies and wives in the fields, they all like to talk about Xuan and Zen, and countless practitioners are even more likely to be pious. However, even though those people look very pious, they don’t like each other. They use each other and destroy each other for many years.
The three religions are constantly fighting each other, and the same is true in each religion. Confucianism has a struggle between ancient and modern times, and Neo-Confucianism and Mind studies; Buddhism has a total of ten sects of exoteric and esoteric Buddhism, and one side has the ultimate truth, but the other side is empty; Taoism is the submissive school, the talisman school, and the alchemy school and the alchemy school.
What is the law of nature, what is the principle of mind, what is the principle of being in line with ordinary people, what is the dual cultivation of nature and life, what is the rebirth with karma, what is the realization of becoming a Buddha... Ordinary people really can't figure it out.
They all have their own theories and their own pursuits!
In the scriptures and classics of the two teachings of Taoism and Buddha, the Immortal and True Ghost King came out casually. Bodhisattvas and Buddhas often gave a long speech! The world could not determine whether the heavens in the fairy world they talked about existed, but although those high-minded monks were not as powerful as the legendary gods, they were many people with great supernatural powers.
Furthermore, all things have developed to this day, from mountains, rivers, to pigpens and chicken coops, there are gods who are the masters; while people die as ghosts, and worshipped by the world in temples and worshipped as gods, especially those in remote and remote areas, and the number recorded in the imperial book is small to ten thousand! At the same time, there are both folk legends and literati who make pens, creating many characters out of thin air...
I don’t know which ones are true and which are false, which makes this world “there are gods three feet tall”, and there are ghosts without gods.
There are more than 109,000 sects in the world? There are countless other sects and left-wing sects. There are witch doctors on the other side, and they can use needles to observe the celestial phenomena and look at the phenomena. The sword immortals on this side take the head thousands of miles away in a snap of their fingers, focus on swordsmanship and become a saint; they cannot forget those passionate fox fairies and ghosts, Hu Shenling Monsters from foreign lands...
The world is spent every day in endless troubles. Isn’t it more lively than in ancient times?
If we want to say that the most lively and richest place in the Great Li Dynasty, the capital Chang'an would be Jiangnan.
And in the south of the Yangtze River, there are Jinling.
It is the fresh autumn equinox season. Jinling City is bustling with people on the streets, and pedestrians are full of energy. Even if their clothes are not all gorgeous, they are at least clean and decent. There are shops on both sides of the street, restaurants and restaurants are crowded, and the traffic in front of the mountain gate of the Taoist temple is full of traffic, and the sound of reading comes from the academy and school hall, which is really lively.
There is a Taoist temple called Chaotian Palace on Yecheng Mountain in the city, but it belongs to a mountain gate of the Southern School of the Taoist Danding Sect. At this time, the Taoist temple hall was full of people, and the people in the gate were busy walking around, and there was a tense atmosphere.
Under the noisy sound, there was a loud chanting of a young man in Xishan Taoist temple:
"I've been running around all day just for hunger, and I'll think about clothes when I'm full. Both food and clothing are enough, and I want to be a beautiful wife. I want to marry a beautiful wife and give birth to a child. I hate that I have no land and little foundation. I buy a countryside, and there are no boats and few horses to ride. I have mules and horses to get a trunk. I sigh that I have no official position and I'm bullied. The county magistrate and the magistrate are too weak, and I want to hang purple clothes in the court. If I want people to have enough hearts, it's just a dream in Nan Ke.
Good poetry... It seems that there is still a little lack. 'If you want the world to be in your heart', let's add a few more sentences: 'Purple clothes are worn in old yellow robe, and the beauties in the harem are collected 3,000 yuan. After becoming an emperor, I want to be immortal, and I want to ascend to heaven and become a god.' Haha, this is just a sign of it. A gentleman has the beauty of becoming a human being. Am I the same? Puff... haha... don't laugh!
Having said that, why did I still not know how to satisfy myself when I grew up in Nan Ke Yimeng? I don’t want to be an emperor, but even if I can become a god in the future, I seem to have many wishes...
‘Riding a flying dragon and riding a Kunpeng, sprinting outside, resting inside the world, candles rise for ten days and wind and rain, Lei Gong becomes a minister, Kuafu serves as a servant, Mi Fei serves as a concubine, Xuanniao serves as a wife. How can he keep his ambition between heaven and earth?’
A real man should be like this! Ah, but the problem now is money, how can we raise enough money!! You can't sell the entire Taoist temple with people and animals, right? It seems... we originally sold our skills but not our bodies..."
Chapter completed!