Chapter 261 The Tang Emperor Wants to Recruit An Saint Monk and Break the Realm Two-in-One
The white jade capital in the sky, the city of Chang'an in the middle earth.
Li Xiaozhi woke up from her sleep, jumped up, rubbed her face, put on her clothes, and went to work.
After the first lunar month, the palace banquet hall at dawn was still filled with a festive atmosphere. The sky had not yet opened, and the sun seemed to be obscured by the fragrant gauze of the palace maid sister. Li Xiaozhi was also listless, but he still had to do the work he had to do.
Although the nobleman will sleep for at least another hour, soup, breakfast, and the nobleman’s favorite fruits and pastries must be prepared, including the blankets, mirrors, face makeup, and eyebrows paid tribute by hundreds of countries overseas.
Flowers in buns and gold and silver paintings should also be taken care of in advance.
His Majesty has been "seriously ill" for a long time. He has not visited his nobleman's bedroom for several months. He has not even shown up on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day. However, your nobleman has not slacked off at all about his makeup. On the contrary, he is even better than before. He does not know what he is looking forward to.
What.
However, in the past few years, he has finally come to understand that in the palace, whether it is a concubine or a servant like him, they have to work extra hard. Hard work is important, but luck is even more important.
"Ah...ah sneeze! Isn't it almost spring? Why is it still so cold?"
Li Xiaozhi rubbed her nose, pushed away from the hut, and was about to go through the courtyard with budding peach blossoms to light the big teapot.
Suddenly, he stopped.
In front of the Huating Xiang Tower, under the gray morning mist, a tall and thin old man faced south and looked at each other from a distance.
"This one got up quite early."
Li Xiaozhi just thought that he was a senior chamberlain, bending down and slapping his hands, but secretly thinking about how he could be so lively at such an old age, staying up at night and getting up early, and he didn't know which store in Xuanyifang bought the tiger and wolf medicine.
.
But just a moment later, Li Xiaozhi's expression suddenly changed.
The old man wears a flat crown on his head, with a crown hanging in front of the crown, and a dragon robe. His appearance and demeanor are all very familiar.
"ah……"
Li Xiaozhi couldn't help but let out a low cry and dropped the teapot to the ground, his face full of shock and disbelief.
Impossible! Absolutely impossible! Although no one in the palace mentioned it! But as a chamberlain in the palace, how could he not know... His Majesty had passed away long ago, but because His Highness the Crown Prince never announced the funeral secretly and hid it from the outside world, the whole world didn't know it yet.
, just pretend that His Majesty is still recovering from his illness.
The old man did not turn his head and said calmly: "You are so brave. How dare you lose your composure when you see me."
Li Xiaozhi's head was pounding, and he knelt on the ground, trembling, "Greetings... Your Majesty."
The old man ignored it and stared at the south, with a cold gaze lingering in his dark eyes.
"The fortune of the underworld in the south is skyrocketing? Who on earth actually managed to reopen the underworld before me? I have had the fortune of two dynasties. I was the Lord of Middle-earth during my lifetime, and the emperor of the underworld after my death. How dare I compete with me for the fortune of Taiyin?
,act recklessly."
Li Xiaozhi bowed his head and knelt down. The more he listened, the more panicked he became. He was sweating profusely and was horrified.
Before his death... after his death... was His Majesty indeed dead? Then what is he now? Is he a ghost? Why is he still in the palace?
The corners of Li Xiaozhi's eyes rose slightly.
Only then did he realize that it was still dark.
What emitted a faint light was an object hovering above "Your Majesty's" head. It looked like a bead or a piece of jade, which could not be seen clearly.
Suddenly, Li Xiaozhi felt like he was being grabbed.
The whole person flew high into the sky, and then suspended in mid-air, but his body became extremely light.
"It is fate that you can see me and hear these things. From today on, you will also come to serve me."
After saying this, "Your Majesty" turned around, and the palace attendants who did not know when they appeared, carried the sedan and the chariot, and sent "Your Majesty" deep into the palace.
Li Xiaozhi looked at the group of palace people and felt more and more creepy - among the crowd, there was a maid sister who had a good relationship with him, but she died before the Jiaping Festival last year.
He looked at the group of palace people again, and his body couldn't help but tremble violently.
Those are not people, they are clearly a group of transparent ghosts exuding a sinister black energy.
"Ghosts... ghosts... a bunch of ghosts!"
After a while, a cold voice sounded in his ears, "Stop screaming, aren't you a ghost too? Hey, your body will be discovered when dawn comes."
Li Xiaozhi lowered his head and looked at the body on the ground. A sinister smile gradually appeared on his face. It wasn't that he didn't know, but he didn't want to believe it.
The person who spoke to him was a girl wearing a snow white dress.
She is only twenty-eight years old, but she is already as beautiful as the moon.
"Show...show your highness."
Li Xiaozhi hurriedly greeted him, but a strange look appeared on his face, "Your Highness... you have also become a ghost?"
"Puch."
The girl laughed out loud, but a palpitating melancholy flashed in her eyes: "Of course I am not a ghost. But even if some people are alive, they are no different from lonely ghosts. I know your name is Li Xiaozhi, enter the palace
You became a chamberlain because you have many brothers and sisters in your family, so you wanted to make a living in the palace. You have been working hard just so that your family can live a good life. Now that you are dead, your family's livelihood has also been lost.
"
Li Xiaozhi clenched his fists and lowered his head.
Yes, he didn't want to die, but if you want your subjects to die, they have to die, not to mention that he is just a small palace servant.
"I will send three taels of silver to your family every month. Although it is not much, it should be enough for them to live."
The girl said, spreading her hands, "After all, I am also in a miserable situation, and I really don't have any extra money."
Li Xiaozhi's body trembled, and he knelt down and sobbed softly, "Thank you... Thank you so much, Your Highness, Princess. I wonder if there is anything that Your Highness needs to do?"
"You have become a ghost, how can you help me? Go ahead, no matter you are a human or a ghost, you have to live well."
After the girl finished speaking, she waved her hand, turned around and walked back.
The Zhuqi Pavilion, the gold and jade platform, and the towering palaces on both sides cover the stars and moon above Chang'an City.
In the shadow in front, a middle-aged man wearing a Taoist robe with long hair untied, his hands in his sleeves, stared at the girl playfully.
"At a young age, you are good at showing favors and using tricks. Aren't you afraid of being discovered by 'Your Majesty'?"
The girl curled her lips first, then smiled: "He's just an old ghost who can't leave. How can he be the opponent of the majestic Ye Tianshi? It seems that Ye Tianshi has already secretly cast a spell to help Xiu'er cover up the secret of heaven, and the old man
The ghosts are in the dark. Thank you Heavenly Master for your help."
He saw the girl bowing to him.
Ye Tianshi subconsciously turned aside and said: "You, you, at such a young age, you are so good at scheming, and you don't even let the poor people off. But then again, the servant named Li Xiaozhi just now, with a body of extreme Yang,
The master of the six qi is a natural Taiyin ghost cultivator. Your majesty has good luck, so it is not surprising that you can see this. How did you see it? "
The girl said: "I think he is just pitiful."
Master Ye sighed silently.
The girl in front of me was a member of the royal family and the youngest daughter of the crown prince. However, she became a victim due to the dispute between Emperor Zuo and Zuo. She grew up in a small county town in Jiannan Road. It was not until half a year ago that the crown prince ordered a close minister to move from Guangyuan.
Junwen and the county took him back and hid him in a deep palace. His name has not been corrected to this day.
Speaking of being pitiful, Chen Lingxiu is also a pitiful person.
Ye Tianshi pretended to count with his fingers, and then said with a smile: "I thought that the princess did this because she was instructed by others."
A strange color flashed in Chen Lingxiu's eyes: "The Heavenly Master is testing me again. That person has never taught me these things."
"Yeah?"
Ye Tianshi smiled: "It's because of this person that you refused Pindao to accept you as his disciple. But what can he do to help you? If Pindao hadn't cast a spell secretly just now, you would have been discovered by the emperor ghost."
Chen Lingxiu said lightly: "How did you know that your secret casting was not what he expected? He is much stronger than you, and he is the most powerful person in the world."
And he is also the most handsome monk in the world, Chen Lingxiu thought to himself.
Ye Tianshi was stunned for a moment, and then he burst into laughter.
He faced the south and extended his gaze into the distance, "Looking at it like this, a remarkable existence has indeed been born in the south of Central Earth, which is enough to shake the entire land outside the country and even change the pattern of the world. So, what you said
That expert is not even the best in the South, let alone the best in the world."
Chen Lingxiu's face showed dissatisfaction, but she did not argue.
Half a year ago, on the Yuqing River outside Guangyuan County, the monk came on the waves, killed the big monster, gave instructions to the teacher, and finally deceived his personal servant in the name of "taking Buddhist scriptures", and left calmly on the waves.
But it also made it difficult for me to forget that obviously disgusting face no matter how I opened my eyes or closed my eyes.
But after entering Chang'an City, she discovered that monks were not the only masters in this world.
The man in front of me, Ye Tianshi, who claims to have come to the Heavenly Master's Way, can call upon the wind and rain, scatter beans to form soldiers, and has vast magical powers.
Her biological grandfather, His Majesty, who had died of illness, actually cultivated into the legendary Emperor Ghost and commanded all the ghosts in the underworld.
And her father, the current Crown Prince, often has a mysterious woman who appears around him. She can draw the moon out of thin air, invite fairies to come down to earth to dance, and once cast a spell from the air, using a bowl of water to turn into seven days of heavy rain, extinguishing the moon.
Fighting the fire in the Northland and saving millions of military rations.
Her father called her Fairy Taiping and had great trust in her.
As for the monk, although he can kill the big demon, he is only a martial arts master.
It would be great if he was really number one in the world. He still owes himself a... a big favor.
Chen Lingxiu curled her lips secretly and sighed in her heart.
Suddenly at this moment, a buzzing death knell was heard from the deep palace.
Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of crying, "Your Majesty has passed away..."
Buzz!
The entire palace suddenly became a mess, with stunned figures and loud cries.
Chen Lingxiu and Ye Tianshi had strange expressions.
After a long while, Master Ye raised his hand towards Chen Lingxiu and said, "Congratulations to Your Highness, Xiu. When the new emperor ascends the throne, he will definitely rectify the princess's name."
Chen Lingxiu asked in a low voice: "Why today?"
Ye Tianshi looked at the south and whispered: "Why don't His Highness want to announce it as soon as possible. It's just that... we didn't reach an agreement before."
Chen Lingxiu asked: "Now, is it considered an agreement?"
Ye Tianshi smiled: "Maybe so. That great master of the underworld in the south has really changed the general trend of the world. If the master behind you is in the south, you have to be careful."
Deep inside the palace.
A corner of the palace that cannot be illuminated by the moonlight and starlight.
The father and son stood facing each other.
A body is transparent and floating in mid-air.
A man with a solid figure, a majestic air, and the appearance of an emperor.
"I have a funeral today, and you will finally get what you want and become the emperor of China. Don't forget what you promised me."
"Father, don't worry, I will issue an edict, ordering the underworld in the south to submit to Fengdu in the north."
"not enough."
"What do you mean, Father?"
"Preach the decree to the Heavenly Master, and ask him to give orders to the sects of human martial arts, as well as to the mountains, rivers, city gods and other incense gods in the world. If the lord of the southern underworld does not obey the imperial edict, we will jointly attack him."
…
On top of the snow-capped mountains, there is a magnificent palace.
The five old men sitting cross-legged in the center of the magic circle shuddered at the same time, opened their mouths and spit out blood, and then opened their eyes weakly.
"Thank God, we have finally deduced it! The location of the underworld is at the junction of Jiannan Road and Lingnan Road... at the foot of Youdang Mountain."
"Isn't that the place where the underworld is located in the legend? Those who get the underworld will get reincarnation in the underworld. The rumors are indeed true."
"In less than seven days, three wandering immortals who have been hiding in the world for decades have come to inquire about the true identity of the person who reopened the underworld. Huh, none of them can sit still."
"The new emperor has issued an edict, asking me, an expert from the Celestial Master Taoist sect, to go to the south and deliver an edict to the underworld... What do you brothers and sisters think?"
"I dont go……"
"I won't go either! The person who can get the underworld and restart the underworld must be a powerful one among the ghosts in the underworld. How can he surrender to the emperor ghost of the north?"
"The old way is to draw lots."
…
"Why is it me again!"
"He San, those who are able can work hard. I will collect ninety-nine life-saving pills for you later. Go in peace of mind."
…
In the Yinchuan, there is no sun or moon.
In the gray mid-air, the six circles of light have begun to rotate at a constant speed. There are strange lights and shadows inside, as if there are three thousand worlds hidden inside.
Zhou Yi sat cross-legged, and under his drooped eyelids, streaks of light and shadow flashed from time to time, which actually vaguely overlapped with the scenes in the six realms of reincarnation.
And beside him, the old lady Cui Huchen, who has a bull's head and a horse's face, black and white, and Mrs. Cui Huchen, is also immersed in practice and enlightenment.
After this realization, time flew by, and more than a month passed in the blink of an eye.
The aura of everyone is also rising rapidly compared to more than a month ago. The bull-headed horse-faced white-faced impermanence has long been broken, and they have all been titled as prefects.
And Cui Hu and Mrs. Chen are not far away from the title of prefect.
Hei Wuchang Xiaoqian's aura is chasing Zhou Yi, and she is only one step away from breaking through the prefect realm and taking the title of Jiedushi.
Zhou Yi's eyes flashed, taking in the changes in everyone, and nodded secretly.
Except for Hei Wuchang Xiaoqian, the others were the first ghosts from the underworld to follow him.
At that time, I was still a monk with nothing in the world, with a low level of cultivation and no territory. But these few people were already devoted to me, like the Cui brothers and sisters with an ox-headed and horse-faced face. To be able to have such a good fortune now is considered a success.
It's cause and effect.
As for myself, after obtaining the underworld, restarting the underworld, and reappearing in the six realms of reincarnation, I finally obtained the richest amount of mysterious smoke in the past six months.
It took more than a month, and until today, it is about to be completely digested.
"The battle between dragons and monkeys seems to be about to begin. Pingjiang Jun and the dragon master are both titled Jiedushi. The notary's cultivation level cannot be too low."
Zhou Yi murmured in a low voice.
The last trace of smoke was finally completely digested.
The health-preserving power in the body has also reached a certain critical point that has been expected.
"Now I have obtained the Yellow Spring, realized the way of reincarnation, clearly understood the Four Truths, and finally reached the pinnacle of Hinayana.
No matter whether it is a wandering immortal or a titled Jiedushi, it is just one of the many methods.
I am my Dharma, and I am the Dharma.”
Following Zhou Yi's enlightenment, his eyes bloomed, his brows suddenly opened, and his heavenly eyes appeared!
Bursts of Buddha's voice came from the void.
The sky is full of incense and clouds.
But there is a figure of a monk with Buddha's beard, palms clasped together, looking at the heaven and earth with three eyes. It is the peak of Hinayana, the image of the holy monk in the Buddha realm.
Buzz!
The power of health-preserving power broke through the shackles of the human body and led Zhou Yi to the next more magical realm.
In the practice of martial arts, it is called the realm of divine wandering.
The soul has been formed, and it can ride on the wind and control the air. It is free and unrestrained, and its magical powers are in its mind. It is an immortal among humans, so it is also called a wandering immortal.
Monsters and ghosts are called Jiedu Envoys. Those who have this title can move mountains and rivers, hold cities and cities in their hands, and fly across the sea, even without the use of demons and ghosts.
As for Zhou Yi, he was created by the power of maintaining health and practiced Buddhism and Zen. All dharma have no form. He can not only be a titled Jiedushi, but also his soul can leave the body and live freely in the world.
Not long after, the old lady Cui Huchen, with a bull's head and a horse's face, black and white, and Mrs. Chen, sensed the changes in Qi and opened their eyes one after another.
They looked at Zhou Yi, who had just made a breakthrough and his breath was still surging, and they all looked happy.
"Congratulations to the holy monk for breaking through."
"Congratulations to the holy monk for attaining Taiyin!"
"From today on, I finally have a real king in the Netherworld!"
"Yes, in just one month, the number of ghosts and ghosts who have sought refuge in my southern underworld has increased dozens of times!"
"Hahaha, Master is no longer the great king of the underworld in the south, but the only great king of the underworld in the entire three realms!"
"In my humble opinion, the holy monk has reappeared in the six paths of reincarnation, and his merits are so great that he can be called the true Buddha and Bodhisattva of the underworld!"
Zhou Yi smiled and stretched out his hand to stop everyone's gushing compliments.
He opened his mouth and said: "After all, the young monk is a person in the upper world, and it is not convenient to stay in the underworld for a long time. However, the young monk will leave an incarnation here to guard the underworld. Now that the underworld has just been established, order has not yet been established, and you still need to pay a lot of attention."
As he spoke, Zhou Yi waved his robe sleeves slightly.
A turbulent yellow spring water appeared in the Yin River.
The big river rolls down the river and upstream, crossing the Yin River and connecting to the underworld above.
"This Yellow Spring is both a spring and a road. From now on, it is the only passage connecting the underworld and the Yinchuan underworld. If the ghosts in the underworld want to enter the underworld, they must pass through the Underworld Avenue."
Black and white are impermanent, and the bull's head and horse's face all speak loudly together.
Suddenly at this moment, Zhou Yiruo felt something and raised his head to look upward.
"Why is he here?"
As soon as the thought came out, Zhou Yi's spirit took off, left the Yinchuan underworld, and flew out of the Youdang Mountains.
Between the mountains and fields, the spring scenery is bright and the wind is gentle.
The magic cultivators from Mount Luofu have long since disappeared.
More than a month has passed, and Laojing Village at the foot of the mountain has also returned to peace.
The scholar surnamed Shen seemed to have forgotten all the strange things he had done before, and was at ease accompanying his wife who was about to give birth.
But at this moment, a clear old man in Taoist robes appeared at the door of Shen's house and knocked gently on the door.
"Who?"
"I have just arrived at Guibao Land and would like to stay overnight. Is it possible?"