Chapter 40 The Ancestral Master’s Hall in the dead of night
In Luojing, not far to the east of the imperial palace, there is a Taoist temple that is elegant yet luxurious.
This is the Guizhen Temple where the main altar of the Guizhen Sect is located. Because the Xu family's fortune came from this, after the founding of the country, it was built near the palace to show respect for the Guizhen Sect.
But now the Taoist temple in Nuoda has been deserted for a long time. Clothes, tables, chairs, incense burners, ritual utensils, etc. are scattered on the ground. The door to the courtyard and the door, whether good or bad, upside down or upright, are all wide open.
It looked like it had been through a war, and it was very late at night, so it looked quite desolate, deserted, and chaotic.
When the emperor Xu Chenggao looked at the scene in front of him, the bitter smile on his face worsened, and he said to the queen and the little eunuch who followed him: "I thought that only those ministers were weak, and they were forced to fall against the wall.
Grass, I didn’t expect that the Guizhen Temple would also be like a tree falling down and the hozenes scattering, so it’s hard to see loyal and righteous people.”
"The strong wind knows the strong grass, and the rough waves know the loyal ministers. Your Majesty, you don't have to worry so much. There must be loyal and trustworthy people in the ten households of my Da'an Dynasty." There were still faint tears on the little eunuch's face.
There were no guards along the way. He walked from the palace courtyard to Guizhen Temple and saw the other maids and eunuchs scattered around. He actually slowly calmed down.
Xu Chenggao laughed: "You are a person who is familiar with poetry and books. Well, you can accompany me and the queen all the way here. You can be regarded as a loyal person. By the way, what is your name?" While talking, he and the queen supported each other.
Then, continue to the Patriarch's Hall.
"My name is Wei Jing." The young eunuch supported Xu Chenggao's other side and answered in a low voice.
The three of them walked through the hall and soon arrived at the Patriarch's Hall. When they saw the lights shining in the Patriarch's Hall, which looked quiet and solemn, they couldn't help but hold their breath, let go of their supporting hands, stepped lightly, and walked cautiously.
Go inside the palace.
Although the footsteps were small, they caused a reverberation in the extremely quiet Patriarch Hall. So when Xu Chenggao, Queen Ruan, and the young eunuch Wei Jing just entered the hall, they felt three eyes looking at themselves and others.
Come, with a little surprise.
It turned out that there were three monks in yellow, two men and one woman, kneeling down and repenting quietly and devoutly in front of the statue of the Patriarch. It was not until Xu Chenggao and others came in and broke the tranquility that they woke up.
"Ignorant Zhou Wei, please pay homage to the Emperor." Among them, the monk in yellow, who was in his thirties, had seen Xu Chenggao when he visited the Patriarch's Hall every year, so he stood up and bowed his head.
"The poor Taoist Wan Xue, pays homage to the Emperor." "The poor Taoist Xu Hongda, pays homage to the Emperor." The other two monks in their twenties naturally followed Zhou Wei and stood up to salute.
Xu Chenggao was stunned for a moment. He didn't expect that there were still disciples left in the Patriarch's Hall: "A few Taoist priests are exempt from courtesy. You, why don't you go with the others?"
Zhou Wei smiled faintly: "The poor Taoist was not abandoned by the sect. He was included in the door wall and taught the true method. From then on, he could have a glimpse of the supreme immortal way. It is difficult to repay the great kindness and virtue, so he could only choose to be with the sect.
We will live or die together. On the other hand, Junior Sister Wan, Junior Brother Xu, and Pindao have been urging them to leave, cherish this life, and leave some incense for the sect's inheritance, but they have not listened at all."
Wan Xue and Xu Hongda said in unison: "Am I the only one who flies away when disaster strikes?" The two of them had such a tacit understanding that they couldn't help but look at each other and smile bitterly.
After a pause, Xu Hongda said: "Although I am a distant relative of the royal family, my family members all died young. It was my clan who raised me and raised me. How can I escape at a time like this."
Wan Xue nodded: "I have also grown up in the sect since I was a child. The world is huge. Only here can I feel at ease. Besides, there are also some brothers who reluctantly left and kept the incense. I am not lacking."
After Xu Chenggao heard this, he laughed three times: "Okay, okay, okay. With loyal disciples like you, the Guizhen Sect will surely be revived in the future." Xu Chenggao's eyes widened at the chance to see such a person who never abandons him at this critical moment.
It was a little wet, and I felt very excited.
"I wonder what the emperor is here for?" Zhou Wei asked Xu Chenggao's purpose.
Xu Chenggao thought of himself and smiled sadly: "Those ministers and generals are waiting for the Dongyuan Sect's army to surrender at dawn. I have no choice but to come to the Patriarch's Hall to see if I can ask the Patriarch to appear and overcome this difficulty."
Regardless of whether people ask ghosts or gods, this sentence came to Xu Hongda's mind for some reason, but he was relieved in the blink of an eye. This crisis is not caused by the suffering of the people in the world, but by ghosts and gods. There is nothing wrong with praying to the founder, but it is just the three sects of the Guizhen Sect.
In more than a hundred years, only 2670 years ago, Patriarch Shi appeared once in Luojing. There has been no news since then, and there is almost no possibility of his appearance.
Zhou Wei, Wan Xue, and Xu Hongda are no taller than Xu Cheng. They have only begun to practice the visualization method in the "Gui Zhen Jing". They are also familiar with various Taoist classics. They know that the so-called ascension is just an advanced level of entrainment, and there are many realms beyond it.
, only then can you realize immortality, achieve spirituality, and become a truly carefree immortal.
And even if there are ancestors who are still alive, they practice Taoism, not Shinto techniques. They cannot sense other people's prayers, so how can they just happen to have something happen by chance?
However, at this time, they did not want to defeat Xu Chenggao's last hope, so they moved out of the way and motioned Xu Chenggao to kneel down in front of the statue of the Patriarch and beg: "Your Majesty, please."
Xu Chenggao straightened his clothes and walked solemnly to the statue of the Patriarch. He saw three lifelike statues standing on the platform. The one in the middle was an old man with white hair and white eyebrows, an immortal spirit, dressed in black clothes, holding a fly whisk in his palm.
, on the left is a young man in his twenties, with a green robe and a high crown, with an ordinary face but a sense of unrestrained and unrestrained, with cyan lightning on his feet. On the right is a delicate and solemn and holy girl, wearing a
Dressed in red, with a gentle smile.
Lighting nine pillars of incense, Xu Chenggao bowed nine times, inserted the incense into the furnace, and then knelt in front of the statue of the ancestors. While kowtowing, he prayed: "Ancestral Xu Chengye, Patriarch Shi Xuanshi, and Patriarch Xu Jinyi, may future generations of descendants
Xu Chenggao sincerely prays for this. At present, the evil heretics are using blind faith to attack cities and territories. The country is decadent and crumbling. If the evil heretics are allowed to succeed, the Da'an Dynasty will not be restored, the Guizhen religion will not survive, and the Taoist lineage will be cut off. Please show the spirit of the ancestors and save the peace of our Da'an Dynasty.
Return to the truth and teach in water and fire."
Xu Chenggao knew that the survival of dynasties in the eyes of immortals like the Patriarch was an ordinary thing, and he would not go down to earth in response to this. Only the Guizhen Sect involved the inheritance of the Patriarchs' Taoism, and the Patriarchs would manifest themselves, so he focused on the evil heretics and evil spirits.
In terms of ethics.
A gust of breeze blew by, causing the smoke in the incense burner and the burning incense candles to sway, but unfortunately nothing unusual happened after that.
Although Xu Chenggao fantasized about a miracle that would come as soon as he prayed to the Patriarch, he also knew in his heart that this possibility was slim, so after being slightly disappointed, he continued to kowtow vigorously, and at the same time said: "Please come to the Patriarch and save me Da'an."
Chao and Gui Zhen teach in water and fire."
He understood that the most likely person to come was Patriarch Shi Xuan Shi. After all, he appeared once. However, at this time, the possibility of the other two appearing spirits could not be completely forgotten, so the title did not refer to any particular Patriarch.
Boom, boom, boom, Xu Chenggao banged his head against the futon, and soon it became red and swollen, but Xu Chenggao didn't care and continued to kowtow: "Please come down, the Patriarch, and save my Da'an Dynasty and Guizhen Sect from water and fire."
The Patriarch's statue still showed no response.
Xu Chenggao's forehead was broken, and blood flowed out, dyeing the futon scarlet. He gritted his teeth and kowtowed without stopping and prayed: "Please come down, Patriarch Shi, and save my Da'an Dynasty and Guizhen Sect from water and fire." He only had one thought in his heart, even if he knelt to death.
Here, he did not give up, and the title in his mouth gradually became Patriarch Shi.
Seeing this bloody and miserable scene, Queen Ruan and the young eunuch Wei Jing held back tears, covered their mouths, knelt down, and kowtowed together behind Xu Chenggao, but what they saw in front of them was not a futon, but green bricks.
"Please Patriarch Shi come and save Da'an Chao and Guizhen Sect from water and fire." The voices of the two people gradually overlapped with Xu Chenggao's voice.
Infected by this pious scene, Zhou Wei, Wan Xue and Xu Hongda looked at each other and walked to the side of Queen Yuan. They also knelt down and kowtowed and prayed: "Please Patriarch Shi come and save my Da'an Dynasty and Guizhen Sect from water and fire."
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In the stillness of the night, this sound echoed in the Patriarch's Hall, like running water, continuously.
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On the second floor of Tianya Haijiao Building, Shi Xuan was sitting cross-legged, with blood-red thin lines looming on his body, sometimes deep into his body and sometimes emerging from his skin.
After more than thirty years of slow blood transformation and integration, now is the critical moment for Shi Xuan's two physical bodies to merge into one.
Shi Xuan silently practiced the secret technique, and his whole body exuded a fresh, pure and vital light. As the red line rose and fell, Shi Xuan's face seemed to be constantly changing between two and one.
When the red line penetrates deep into the physical body, Shi Xuan's face and physical body are normal. When the red line penetrates the skin, another face appears on Shi Xuan's face, and the physical body becomes four arms.
Suddenly, countless clear light talismans and seal characters appeared on Shi Xuan's body, and one fell on each red line. Then the clear light burst out, and Shi Xuan seemed to be wrapped in a dense cocoon of clear light.
After a while, a purple light broke out of the cocoon, and then the clear light dimmed and gradually disappeared.
The purple light fell on the ground, and Shi Xuan's figure appeared. Shi Xuan looked relaxed and examined himself happily. Now this body is full of strength, which is a bit stronger than the master of refining the body. Even if it is a first-level Taoist
Even if the technique hits the body, it will hardly hurt the body at all.
There was no need to worry about physical problems before Shi Xuan passed through the catastrophe, so Shi Xuan walked back to the futon leisurely, sat down and closed his eyes to rest, but at this time, Shi Xuan felt that someone was calling him from somewhere.
"This feeling should be that someone is praying devoutly in front of my statue with his real name?" Shi Xuan thought to himself.
Normally, only the Golden Immortal Taoist Ancestor can be induced by his name when he thinks of it in his mind. The average Shinto monk can only feel the prayers of his devout believers.
After surviving the first heavenly tribulation, Master Yang Shen could not sense the whims of others when others read his name. After all, he was not a Shinto monk. Only by praying for a long time without stopping, with great piety and support, could he
Arousing such a faint feeling of heart and soul.
And Shi Xuan now has this kind of heart-blood sensing indirectly through the innate Bagua and Tai Chi diagram.