Chapter 135: The Taoist Palace of the Western Regions
The Western Region Taoist Palace is a very special Taoist mansion. Logically speaking, there should be a real person in charge here. However, because the Western Region Taoist Palace is too close to Yujing, if there is any big event, Yujing can just send someone directly, so in the end
There is no real person in charge.
If Wu Niang becomes an immortal, a position should be assigned to her, and she can be the Great Master of the Taoist House in the Western Regions. It will not be a waste.
Because the Taoist government in the Western Region is a troubled place. Going east is the sphere of influence of the Golden Horde and Rakshasa Kingdom. Going west is the sphere of influence of Buddhism in the Western Region.
The superficial reason for the war in the Western Regions in the past few years was that the Shamans wanted to recapture the Snowy Mountains.
Daxue Mountain was originally a holy land of shamanism and one of the four palaces of the Golden Horde Khan. However, in the eleventh year of Daxuan Taiping, it was captured by the imperial court and the Taoist sect. The Daxue Mountain Palace became the location of the Taoist Palace of the Western Regions.
In order to regain the holy land of the Snowy Mountains, the Shamans went to war with the Taoist government of the Western Regions several times.
The actual reason is not that simple. Shamanism alone cannot compete with Taoism. Behind Shamanism is the support of the holy power of the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Buddhism of the Western Regions. These two Western religions have reached a consensus, and even to a certain extent
An alliance was reached.
This was also the Holy Court's counterattack against the Taoist sect. The Taoist sect united local forces in the East Posas Continent and the Southern Continent to ruin the good deeds of the Holy Court, so the Holy Court teamed up with Buddhism to repeatedly cause trouble in Nanyang and the Western Regions.
As a result, not only the land trade routes were almost cut off, but conflicts of all sizes continued, turning this place into a major military town.
However, there is still a certain tacit understanding between Taoism and Buddhism. There is no direct conflict between the two parties, at least no large-scale armed conflict. On the surface, the other two of the three religions are still united around Taoism.
It's not that Taoism is afraid of Buddhism, but because of the reasons mentioned earlier, Taoism doesn't think it's worth it.
The Buddhists in the Western Region were driven to the Gobi Desert, which was very barren and had nothing to do with anything they wanted. The Taoists and the Buddhists went to war. It was natural that they would win, and nothing would be gained. If they lost, the problem would be huge.
Yujing is compared to the Imperial Capital in the Wei Dynasty. The Kunlun Taoist Prefecture is directly under Zhili, so the Taoist Prefecture of the Western Regions is the Nine Towns and Three Passes. Whenever the Golden Horde army goes south and breaks through the nine town defenses, it can attack the Imperial Capital. Even if the Buddhists in the Western Regions can do nothing,
If you don't want to destroy Yujing, you will have to shake the Taoist gate.
Nowadays, the Taoist sect's main focus is still on the east and south, focusing on overseas operations. As long as nothing happens to the Taoist government in the Western Regions, it will be fine.
However, peace cannot be achieved through compromise. Peace can only be obtained through struggle. Although the country should not be personified, this matter is exactly the same as human nature. It is like someone bullies you and you give in. Next time
The bully will be more severe, but if you fight back hard and hurt them, they will not provoke you.
In this case, Daomen decided to launch a war in the Western Regions and must concentrate on
Strength, momentum, and prestige.
Because it was the sphere of influence of Quanzhen Taoism, Donghua Zhenren personally led the army, and finally defeated the shamanism and forced the Golden Tent to move three times.
At that time, Qi Xuansu was still fooling around in the world and had little sense. When he joined Tiangang Hall, he only caught up with the tail end.
After this battle, there was no major war in the Western Regions, but there were still various small frictions. With the support of the Holy Court, the Buddhist sects in the Western Regions continued to provoke the Taoist sects, but they did not dare to fight. The two sides often developed small-scale fights or secret back-and-forth situations.
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The Buddhists in the Western Regions also see it very accurately. The Taoist Sect and the Holy Court are restraining each other, and no one dares to move lightly. The Taoist Sect does not want to fight it with all its strength, and the Holy Court is constantly fighting for it, so it can swing around. Moreover, the Buddhist Sect of the Western Regions has always wanted to
Taking back the Western Region, Tao Sect Yujing became the leader guarding the country, so various small actions continued.
If the Imperial Palace is busy with nothing to do all day long, then the Western Region Dao Palace is on the other extreme. It is constantly involved in big and small things. It must guard against not only the Buddhism in the Western Regions, but also the Holy Court and Shamanism. Secret societies are also very rampant.
Also needs cleaning.
Yao Pei was transferred to the Western Region Taoist House as chief, and it was relatively easy for him to achieve results.
Being the chief of the Western Region Taoist Government, you basically don’t have to consider economic matters. Unless the land trade route can be re-opened, it will not be comparable to Nanyang. The Taoist Gate will not send any financial and tax tasks here, but will need help from other Taoist Governments.
Here, there is even funding from Yujing.
In this case, Yao Pei's role as the chief deputy palace master in the Western Region Taoist Mansion is completely different from Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu's role as the chief deputy palace master in the Borneo Taoist Mansion.
What is Qi Xuansu concerned about? Leaving aside Chen Shuhua and Wang Jiaohe, it is mainly about the typhoon disaster, foreign trade, Nanyang United Trading Company, and Lion City.
What is Zhang Yuelu concerned about? Although there are many secret associations, with the normalization of secret associations, they are nothing. Zhang Yuelu is mainly concerned about the old Taoist priests. These gentry from the Taoist era formed an alliance of interests and fought fiercely with Zhang Yuelu.
Lehu is fundamentally about redistributing benefits.
What is Yao Pei concerned about? They are the Zhiming Cult, the Lingshan Witch Cult, the Buddhist forces in the Western Regions, the shamanic forces, the Goddess Society, etc. These are external forces, and the others are internal conflicts. This is the struggle between ourselves and the enemy. And the situation is complicated, so we cannot
You can't just suppress, but you can't just compromise. You have to use both suppression and appeasement.
The provocative behavior of Buddhism in the Western Regions is essentially cannibalization. Build a temple today and open a forum to lecture tomorrow. The Taoist side will send people to expel
, the Buddhist people will definitely not do it. If the two sides want to fight, they are relatively restrained. They cannot directly cover it with artillery, use flying boats to cover it, or deploy a large array of alchemist battalions to dispatch. It all depends on personal cultivation, or even one-on-one duel.
After Yao Pei came to the Western Region Taoist House, he dealt with many such things, which were almost routine.
Under normal circumstances, Yao Pei just gave orders and did not have to show up in person, but today was an exception. This time he was relatively restrained at first, but gradually became angry. Both sides continued to seek support, so the scale became larger and larger, and some of them lost control. Yao Pei could not help but
Not showing up in person.
When Yao Pei arrived at the site of the conflict, he saw the two camps confronting each other in a desert. There was an unfinished simple temple not far away.
A Buddhist monk stood in front of the formation, with precious light flowing on his face. He was dressed in a bright red monk's robe, with one arm exposed, and his skin glowed with a faint golden light, just like a golden Buddha statue in a Buddhist temple.
In addition to the Shinto golden body of the immortals, Buddhist monks also have golden bodies. The two have some similarities, but they are not exactly the same. When the Buddhist golden body is completed, it is like a mountain and the earth, unshakable and unyielding. After practicing to the extreme, there is no
Inferior physique.
This monk has achieved great success in cultivating the golden body. He is like a majestic and motionless mountain, looking down at all living beings from the top of the mountain.
A bone rosary as big as a fist hangs on the monk's chest. If you look closely, you will see that each rosary is actually made from human skulls using a secret method. The skulls are filled with gems, agate and other Buddhist seven treasures, making each rosary beautiful.
The rosary beads shine brightly.
This is a human bone rosary unique to Buddhism in the Western Regions. After the monks passed away, they were buried in the sky. The corpses were fed to the eagles to achieve the compassionate state of the Buddha who cut off his legs and fed them to the eagles. The remaining bones were used for making utensils. Each bone bead has a unique
It was taken from the skull of an eminent monk. Therefore, the monk's rosary in front of me has a total of twenty-one rosary beads. It requires twenty-one eminent monks who have cultivated as gods and humans to pass away before they can practice it. This shows how rare it is.
The practice and inheritance of Buddhism in the Western Regions has always been very different from that of Buddhism in the Central Plains. Even the Taoist sects that merged with Buddhism and Taoism could not encompass all the Buddhism in the Western Regions.
Although Buddhism in the Western Regions comes from the lineage of Buddhism, after it spread to the Western Regions on the grasslands, it merged with Shamanism. Shamanism is a branch and variant of ancient shamanism. After all these changes, Buddhism in the Western Regions developed a unique method of initiation. To put it bluntly,
Passing down one's own cultivation to the next generation of disciples, from master to disciple, and from disciple to disciple, from generation to generation, Buddhism in the Western Regions can still stand firm even when Buddhism is declining. Even after the birth of the Lord Buddha, Buddhism in the Western Regions has become a sect that can compete with Taoism.
the main force.
In Yao Pei's perception, although the person in front of him has the cultivation level of the human being in the stage of creation, he still appears...
The appearance of dissociation is not as harmonious and flawless as the real creation of heavenly beings. Instead, it relies on external forces to reach the current state. I think this is the so-called inheritance power.
This kind of practice method places all the cultivation on the physical body, which goes against the principle of Central Plains Buddhism that regards the human body as a stinky skin and pursues the transcendence of form and emptiness.
What is the physical body? A human body with a nose, eyes, mouth, and other five senses, two hands, two legs, a round head and a square top.
Precisely because Buddhism in the Western Regions paid too much attention to the physical path, it was regarded by Central Plains Buddhism as deviant and heretical. However, now that Buddhism in the Central Plains has declined, Buddhism in the Western Regions has become orthodox.
Central Plains Buddhism regards the seven orifices as holes, the limbs as knots, the skin and flesh as pus cells, and the five internal organs as lumps. We must abandon this physical body and find another formless form and a true body without images.
If you are in a daze, take this body as true, recognize falsehood as true, and regard emptiness as true. There are six doors from the outside, and six consciousnesses from the inside. Attack internally and externally, and destroy the true essence.
All things in the world, everything with form, are corrupted. If you love this form and body as false and do not exhaust the true nature of life, when the time comes, who am I and who is my body? The body and I have nothing to do with each other.
In other words, if one cannot seek immortality, the body is just a piece of clothing that can be thrown away. Therefore, Central Plains Buddhism despises the body and calls it the body.
The immortals and ghost immortals of the Taoist sect also despise the body and abandon it. The former use the power of incense and vows to create a golden body of the Shinto, while the latter uses the soul to leave the body, as if taking off the clothes on the body. Even the earthly immortals and heavenly immortals have to be reborn.
, getting rid of the mortal body is equivalent to changing clothes.
Only the Taoist immortals do not "take off their clothes" or "change their clothes" along the way. Instead, they use their bodies to break through the boundaries between immortals and mortals, and use their bodies as a boat to cross the sea of suffering, reach the other shore, and achieve immortality.
From this point of view, Buddhism in the Western Regions cannot be wrong.
After Yao Pei appeared, the monk first announced the Buddha's name, and then said in the Central Plains Mandarin, which was not very proficient, "I didn't expect that it was Master Yao who came in person."
The monk's voice is like a bell and a bell, deafening and deafening, and the rolling sound is like substance.
This is the Buddhist magical power "Lion's Roar". After being cultivated to the extreme, it can not only frighten the mind, but even hurt the soul with just one roar. At worst, the soul will be unstable, the mind will lose its mind, and the person will become a madman and fool, and at worst, the soul will fly away.
, there is only one walking corpse left, which is quite similar to the human immortal Blood Roar.
However, Yao Pei was not affected at all. He didn't even have much expression on his face. He was lifeless and only said four words: "What do you want?"