This must have been tempered by numerous ups and downs in life and numerous hardships.
Thinking of this, Tao Xiaowu burst into laughter and said: "It's the poor Tao who came here abruptly."
The Taoist said hurriedly: "Anyway, it's my two useless disciples..."
He glared hard at the two incompetent disciples again.
He had already seen that the black-robed Taoist in front of him had a high level of cultivation and an extraordinary demeanor. He was definitely something extraordinary and extraordinary, so he began to have a desire to have friendship with him.
At that moment, the two parties exchanged names. It turned out that Li Yanzhen's master was called Mu Yuping. He ran this charity village and did some business of, um, parking corpses and receiving Taoist exorcists who came and went.
But just as Tao Xiaowu had expected, the business of exorcising corpses has now become a mature industry here.
People of the world return their fallen leaves to their roots and are buried in the ground again.
If you die of illness or die in a foreign country for various reasons, you must return to your hometown for burial, so the body cannot be cremated.
As for transporting coffins back home, etc., the cost is too great and cannot be afforded by ordinary families.
Therefore, corpse exorcism came into being, which can be said to be cheap, high-quality, and with considerate service. It has been prospering for hundreds of thousands of years in this world, and it can be said to be a quite mature industry.
Although Tao Xiaowu had already made some guesses, after figuring this out, he still felt an indescribable absurdity.
As for Li Yanzhen, isn't he a disciple of the concept of impermanence? Why is he staying in Yizhuang... Tao Xiaowu is not surprised.
Not all Taoists will stay in Taoist temples.
Those who strictly abide by the palace system are Quanzhen disciples.
In the original world, the Taoist sect was too well-organized and incited rebellions several times, causing great chaos.
He became jealous of those in power and supported Buddhism and suppressed him all the way.
In order to survive, Daomen had to make changes, castrate themselves, give up the organization, and take the upper-level route.
Until the Song and Yuan Dynasties, many new Taoist sects emerged and a hundred flowers bloomed.
Just like Quanzhen, he imitated Buddhism and transformed it, organized it, and established a sect.
As for Zhengyi, its origins are even more complicated. Although it has been transformed and the three mountains have been merged into one, they are barely kneaded into one place. However, they are incomparable to Quanzhen!
This world is also in a similar situation.
Anyway, Mu Yuping invited Tao Xiaowu into the backyard to serve tea.
Tao Xiaowu discovered that there was a different world in this backyard, with a Taoist hall and a couplet: "Heaven and earth are eternal, but life is impermanent."
His heart suddenly moved, and he smiled and said: "Senior Brother Mu turns out to be from the concept of impermanence, so we are not outsiders either!"
Saying this, he stretched out his hand and flicked it, and a piece of talisman appeared in his hand, turned into a flame, and burned blazingly in his hand, lasting for a long time.
"It's the True Fire Talisman of the Sun!"
Mu Yuping took one look at this person, recognized him immediately, and said happily: "It turns out that he is really a member of his family, but he doesn't know who his master is?"
This time, it was Tao Xiaowu's turn to be embarrassed. Originally, he just wanted to take advantage of Li Yanzhen on a whim, and asked him to call his uncle for a few words, but he didn't expect to ask about the origin of his apprenticeship.
What did Tao Xiaowu say?
I racked my brains for a while, thinking of how to get through. But at this moment, there was an explosion outside, which made Master Mu Yuping and his disciples change their expressions.
"Coming!"
Tao Xiaowu suddenly understood in his heart that the so-called coming meant that the enemy was coming.
I suddenly breathed a sigh of relief. I came just in time to help myself out of trouble.
At that moment, he pretended to be indignant and shouted: "Who is so bold to come to senior brother's house to cause trouble? Let me go and see!"
With that said, he walked forward.
"Hey, junior brother..." Mu Yuping subconsciously recognized Tao Xiaowu as his junior brother and hurriedly followed him out.
Then I saw a few old men with high noses and deep eyes, red hair and blue eyes, wearing black robes, and led by a few evil-doing Chinese people, they kicked open the door and walked in.
Just looking at the coffins set up on benches in the hall, as well as the zombies standing against the wall, their expressions changed slightly: "Desecrate the corpse and play with the soul. This is the behavior of the devil!"
Tao Xiaowu was also slightly surprised and asked: "Brother, why do you have enmity with these foreign monks?"
Mu Yuping was also a little surprised: "No, I have some business conflicts with my fellow Taoists from Renshan. That's why I mistakenly identified the two lands.
But I don’t know these foreign monks, so I don’t know what they are doing...
But these foreign monks are definitely up to no good!"
Tao Xiaowu nodded slightly and heard a foreign monk say in awkward Mandarin: "You heretics, why do you want to desecrate the corpses of these people.
And turn them into dead souls? Don’t you know that this is not allowed by the Father of Light?”
"What nonsense are you talking about like a foreign monk? What's wrong with you here when we chase corpses? If you want to cause trouble, just come here!"
Before Mu Yuping could speak, his eldest disciple, Huang Yanming, jumped out angrily and said with a sneer.
These foreign monks were not angry yet, but the translators and attendants who followed them to show off their power were angry: "Mr. Henry is using the principles of the Father of Light to warn you, you native wizards still dare to do this..."
Then Li Yanzhen also said angrily: "We have been chasing corpses for hundreds of years. It doesn't matter what you people are doing, dogs are chasing mice."
As soon as they disagreed, both sides started yelling and were about to start a fight.
Only Tao Xiaowu came to his senses: "Brother, these foreign monks seem to be here to cause trouble. Maybe they will also open a branch here..."
Tao Xiaowu's prediction was correct. These clergymen were new to Gaobo Town and planned to rebuild the church here and educate the stubborn indigenous people here.
In this case, if you want to wrest faith from these indigenous wizards and become a loyal lamb of the Father of Light, you must first cut down mountains and destroy temples and defeat these evil and ignorant indigenous wizards.
So, of course, the first one came to Yizhuang!
Mu Yuping's face changed slightly, and he became a little worried.
Although he is not afraid of these foreign monks in front of him, the foreigners are so powerful that even the government obeys their orders. If he gets into trouble with these foreign monks, he will probably suffer in the end...
Mu Yuping's worries are by no means unfounded. This kind of thing has happened many times.
In the original world, there were so-called famous officials who had their heads shaved to destroy the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and recreate the situation of ZTE.
In the end, he was disgraced in the Tianjin missionary case, and finally almost lost his reputation. He was "ashamed of external affairs and guilty of God", and finally died of depression.
Even people like shaved heads are like this when facing foreign monks. It goes without saying how other officials grovel in front of foreigners.
Therefore, it's okay if things don't get too big, but if they get too big, you might suffer.