Jiao Yao frowned on the cloud head and recalled. Unlike today's Tianxia, Shenxia had many consecrated gods at the beginning. There were indeed many divine officials and immortal officials, and they were easy to use. But later, all of these gods were destroyed.
It was eliminated because an accident occurred during a certain period of time.
This happened in the middle and late period of Ancient Xia. After the ancient Xia sects defeated many demons and ancient aliens, some of the natural gods born at that time still had a lot of power. Although they were not monks, they saw the monastic sects.
The power was strong, so I wisely chose to join forces with the Taoists, but still maintained a certain degree of autonomy.
The monks also feel that it is more convenient for some things to be controlled by the gods. The monks focus on cultivating the Taoism and ignore worldly affairs, and they are happy and free.
However, nothing in the world is eternal. People's hearts will change, and so will gods.
Especially after the exchanges between humans and gods became more frequent, the power of gods and humans gradually grew stronger and penetrated into every corner of the world. Naturally, the gods did not want to suppress those cultivators on top of themselves, so they colluded with some
The remnants of the ancient times tried to turn away from the guest and put the monks into this system of gods and men.
The monks will naturally not agree to this. It was I who defeated the ancient beasts and demons, and gave you the power to control them. Now you want to replace and enslave me?
At that time, the various sects had been fighting each other since ancient times. Each sect was not considered gentle, so they immediately decided to take action as soon as they sensed something was wrong. Once they took action, they were merciless and killed everyone. As a result, this war
It ended quickly, and ended with all the gods being wiped out.
However, as far as he knew, there seemed to be a vague shadow of promotion by a certain sect of monks...
After that, various sects also learned their lesson and believed that instead of entrusting governance to gods and causing such civil strife, it would be better to directly select some people from within the sect to control them, and let themselves be the "gods".
Although Jiao Yao was already present for this contest, at that time, not to mention that he did not have the level of cultivation that he would later achieve. Even if there was such a thing, he would have no time to avoid it, so how could he take the initiative to get involved?
However, the real dragons were divided into two groups at that time, most of them sided with the gods, and a few sided with the monks. The former were naturally wiped out together, resulting in a great loss of dragon power, which has never recovered since then.
vitality.
But in this era, as long as the method is correct and the investment is enough, it is particularly easy to believe in gods, which makes him have to think about it. Are the following cultivators trying to reshape gods outside of Tianxia? Re-
To establish a system of gods and men? Or simply to restore the divine dynasty?
He had to take a closer look at this and then go back to report it. Otherwise, if something went wrong, he would inevitably have to bear the blame. He sighed and said, "It doesn't look like the one I picked up this time was a good job."
After the Ling Taoist below stated his intention, the rest of the casual cultivators also started discussing, discussing with each other whether they should agree with this view.
Taoist Ling has always been brave enough to speak out. He said loudly: "Is it just to talk about this matter when my friend Ling Taoist calls me now?"
The spiritual Taoist nodded and said: "This is the only thing. However, if you believe in gods and talk about how to shape gods, it will inevitably cause disharmony. Therefore, I have to call you fellow Taoists here for discussion this time. I hope you will forgive me."
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The monks have been discussing here for a long time, and most of them think that this can be done, because if it can be done, it will only be one more believing god, but it will lose some of Tianxia's restraints, which is a good thing no matter how you look at it.
But there are also some who disagree and speak out against it, but their attitude is not very firm.
In fact, these people may not really oppose it, but they just have a secret intention. If they embark on a confrontation with Tianxia in the future because of this matter, then they can also say that they opposed it verbally at the time, but they were powerless to stop it.
The spiritual Taoist came down to discuss with the monks who were willing to do this, and patiently answered some details. In the process, many monks changed their minds and joined in.
Ling Taoist walked forward at this time and said: "Fellow Taoist Spirit, the key to the belief in gathering magical creatures is the sustenance. We all must find a sustenance. I don't know where this thing is?"
The spiritual Taoist said: "It has been prepared for you all." He took out a slender long bone from his sleeve, about the length of the forearm, and looked like the ribs of a living creature. He said: "This is the thing of sustenance.
." He took out another palm-sized stone slab with many strange words engraved on it, and said: "This is a prayer list."
The "Prayer Table" is a spell for the believers to see. When the believers communicate with the object of sustenance, they can naturally read out the content. Only they can understand the meaning, and others cannot.
The Taoist priest took it, played with it twice, and said, "What kind of bones are these? Can they be sacrificed to the God of Creation?"
The Ling Taoist said: "This thing is not simple. As for the details, I am sorry that I cannot explain it clearly. If my fellow Taoists want to know, you can ask the god yourself after using it for sacrifice, and you will be able to understand."
When the Taoist saw that he didn't want to answer, he didn't force it. Anyway, he would understand when the time came. It was up to him whether he would do it or not when he got the thing. If asked, he could try to drag it away. He put the thing into his sleeve and saw Lu Lu beside him.
The Taoist also put away his things, and then said: "Since the matter has been settled, I will leave first."
The Ling Taoist slapped him in the face and said, "It's good for you two to leave."
After a while, the cultivators gathered around said goodbye to him one by one. He also tried to persuade them to stay for the banquet, but most of the cultivators had no intention of doing so and declined to leave. Only a few of them came with him.
The comrades he had made friends with stayed a little longer, and after getting together for a while at night, they also left one after another.
Jiao Yao watched the whole process from above the clouds. He thought about it for a while, left a dragon shadow clone to continue to monitor here, and then turned back to the upper level.
Taoist Ling returned to the cave. He turned an isolation formation outside, came to the secret room, took out the statue of the Taoist, bowed and said: "Teacher, the matter has been dealt with, but just now...
No one from Tianxia has been found to arrive."
A light of energy was emitted from the statue, and the Taoist figure from before gathered inside, and he said aloud: "That's just because the person who came here has extremely high magic power, so you didn't notice it. I saw dragon energy hovering in the sky, and I thought it was probably
Which real dragon is here?"
"A real dragon?"
The spiritual Taoist couldn't help but be surprised. True dragons are natural spiritual species. Anyone who has achieved success in cultivation will possess upper-level power. Moreover, these dragon species are born with long lifespans. If they don't keep it together, they will know something.
The Taoist figure said: "Ignore him. Most true dragons are arrogant. If they had not been given a clear order, they would not bother to embarrass you, a junior of Dongnuan Pavilion. I will take care of the follow-up matters, and you don't have to worry about it."
No matter what, just do your own thing."
Master Ling Taoist responded respectfully and said: "Disciple, follow the master's orders and this matter will be settled as soon as possible."
After Jiao Yao returned to the upper level, he came directly to the gate of Qingxuan Dao Palace. The temple guard bowed to him and said politely: "The imperial minister is waiting for Jiao Shangzun, please come in."
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Jiao Yao did not dare to delay and stepped into the Taoist palace. When he entered the main hall, he saw Zhang Yu. He came up to Zhi Zhi and bowed to him, saying: "Jiao Zhi pays homage to Ting Zhi."
Zhang Yu returned the salute from his seat, raised his sleeves, and signaled: "Fellow Daoist Jiao, please sit down and talk."
Jiao Yao thanked him and sat down on his seat. He composed himself and said: "This time, the court ordered Jiao to investigate the gatherings and got some results. Most of these casual cultivators are not high in cultivation and can reach
Only a few of them are reflected by the primordial spirit, and the rest are only in the state of feeling the qi and touching the heart, and can reach the point where the primordial spirit is nothing.
As for the number of the Ling Taoist's family, Jiao was not able to tell at first, but later he brought up the idea of worshiping gods, which made Jiao think of something..." At this point, he added another sentence, "Jiao is just
Whatever you say, it may not be right."
Zhang Yudao: "Fellow Daoist Jiao just said it doesn't matter."
When Jiao Yao came down, he talked about the rebellion of gods and men in the ancient Xia Dynasty, and then mentioned something that seemed to be driven by Taoism. Finally, he said: "These are just Jiao's speculations, not empirical evidence."
Zhang Yuzhao said: "Fellow Daoist Jiao has a clear view of things and can identify the root cause. Sure enough, it is appropriate to leave this matter to Daoist Jiao."
Jiao Yao said hurriedly: "Don't dare, don't dare, Ting Zhi is ridiculous. Jiao really has no ability, he can only run errands."
Zhang Yudao: "You are too modest, Daoist friend Jiao. You have never done anything wrong and you are cautious in handling things. I will rely on you more in the future."
Jiao Yao didn't know why, but the more he heard praises for himself, the more he became panicked. He could only bow his head and say yes, and said: "Ting Zhi, if nothing happens, Jiao will leave first."
Zhang Yudao: "Okay, fellow Daoist Jiao can go back first. I will remember your contribution."
Jiao Yao thanked him and bowed before retreating.
Zhang Yuze thought for a while and asked: "Fellow Daoist Mingzhou and Daoist Jiao just mentioned that the god-man rebellion in Guxia was probably driven by a cultivator behind it?"
Taoist Master Mingzhou replied: "It is true that this sect is good at the method of 'using gods to consolidate the Tao'."
Zhang Yudao: "Fellow Taoist, please explain in detail."
Ming Zhou Taoist said: "In ancient Xia, most of Shen Xia's main lineages and Taoist biographies are available in Tian Xia, even if they don't exist, most of them will be downloaded for future generations to refer to, but this 'use of Shen Xia'
The art of Tao is not included in this.
This technique transforms Shinto into immortal Tao. It is believed that Shinto is also one of the great avenues. It emphasizes "cultivating the spirit and peeling off the killing". It uses the power of the gods to help people practice and treats the gods as supplies. At that time, the higher cultivators of the sects thought that this method was too inhumane and regarded them as inhumane.
God, humans are all pigs and dogs, and in the end they will surely lose all their power, so they abandoned the established teachings and only recorded a few words to serve as a warning to future generations."
Zhang Yu changed his mind and realized that he had never seen this method recorded in those Taoist books. It should only be left in some remote books. He thought for a while and asked: "Is this lineage still spread?"
Mingzhou Taoist said: "Reporting to Tingzhi, at that time, the ancient Xia sects were deeply jealous of this method and cut off all the inheritance and sects involved in this method. However, there is no guarantee whether it is still spread outside. Only after Shenxia came to my Tianxia