Chapter 52: Secrets of the Ancient Immortals
The Dark Night Mountain is worthy of its name. Invisible Yin Qi permeates the mountain, and then turns into dark clouds. It is dark from morning to night. If you enter it rashly, you will feel drowsy and weak.
If you stay in a place where evil or Yin Qi is concentrated for a long time, you will be easily affected by it. At the least, your spirit will be dirty and you will have all kinds of hallucinations. At the worst, you will lose your soul and become a madman. Even your body will be gradually corroded, your Yang Qi will gradually decline, and your life span will be shortened.
As the name suggests, the "Yin Dividing Halberd" is used to divert these Yin Qi or evil Qi, just like a flood discharge.
After receiving the order, the alchemists took out a bag specially used for placing real estate powder from the saddle bag, and then took the bag to the mountain pass and drew a huge "Yin Dividing Halberd" with real estate powder. It was nearly 100 times larger than the ordinary "Yin Dividing Halberd". Only a "Yin Dividing Halberd" of this scale can divert the Yin Qi in a mountain.
As for sending warriors to block the earth's qi, it is also for the service of "Fen Yin Ji". If the earth's qi is not blocked and becomes dead water, but is allowed to flow continuously and "living water" is continuously injected, it will become a classic question in Wanxiang Dao Palace. How long will it take to fill or drain a pool by filling and draining water at the same time?
The warriors are very powerful and have abundant physical strength. Ten people can be equivalent to more than a hundred civilians. With the help of gunpowder, they quickly blocked and destroyed several key nodes according to Lingquanzi's instructions, forming a situation of closing the door and beating the dog.
The Qi Refiner who occupied the commanding heights sent a signal with a talisman.
Lingquanzi, who was guarding the mountain pass, waved his sleeves and stretched out his hand, raised his index and middle fingers, and drew in the air. A light red thin line gushed out from his fingertips, like ink marks under a pen. As the fingertips turned up and down, a pattern similar to a long halberd was written in a blink of an eye, just like this, floating in the air, spreading clear light and overflowing with spiritual light.
Then he waved his hand again, put two fingers together to form a sword, pointed at the long halberd pattern from a distance, and said the word "go".
Ordinary alchemists still need to use realite powder to draw, but Lingquanzi has a higher level of cultivation, and can already draw the "Fen Yin Ji" without using realite powder and other external things.
In an instant, Lingquanzi's "Fen Yin Ji" and the huge "Fen Yin Ji" on the ground merged into one, like the finishing touch.
The "Fen Yin Ji" is called a halberd, but it is actually more like a simple arrow. At this moment, it actually lit up with a faint fluorescence. Then the wind blew from the ground. This wind was not the spring breeze of peaches and plums, not the hot summer breeze, not the bleak autumn wind, not the biting north wind, but the cold wind. There were bursts of roars in the wind, like crying and laughing, and along the direction of the "Fen Yin Ji" arrow, it rushed out of the mountain, like a river that cannot be seen by the naked eye.
After this lasted for more than half an hour, the yin energy in the mountain was exhausted, and the dark night mountain, which seemed to be shrouded in a layer of mist, became clear, as if the clouds had been cleared and the sun was shining.
Arthur saw that the Taoist priests of Tiangang Hall had "purified" the place in an orderly manner, and he couldn't help but say to Qi Xuansu beside him in his half-familiar Central Plains Mandarin: "Qi, you guys are very good."
Qi Xuansu actually saw it for the first time, but he said: "We are doing this, how can it be not good."
As he was talking, Zhang Yuelu, who was standing on a big tree, floated down and ordered: "Master Lingquan, Deacon Qi, and Chief Bishop Arthur, you follow me into the mountain, and the rest of you follow the command of Deacon Zhou, and don't let anyone go."
Everyone obeyed the order, and the people whose names were called by Zhang Yuelu followed Zhang Yuelu and walked up the mountain.
Shangguan Dun heard that his name was not there, so he hurried to Zhou Bai's side. In the past few days, Shangguan Dun had become familiar with several deacons.
Among the people who entered the mountain, Qi Xuansu was undoubtedly the weakest in cultivation, but he was also the best in the Kunlun stage. The people walked on the rugged mountain road as if walking on flat ground, and soon arrived at the gate of Cimut Castle.
As Ellie said, this is indeed an abandoned castle. Part of the city wall has collapsed, and all the wooden structures have been destroyed, leaving only the basic brick and stone structure, but the gate of the castle is still well preserved and tightly closed.
Zhang Yuelu stretched out his hand and pressed on the huge city gate that was two feet high. There was only a "rustling" sound, like spring silkworms eating mulberry leaves. The two huge doors turned into pieces of fine sand and went away with the wind, leaving nothing behind.
This is exactly the "Six Void Tribulations" that Zhang Yuelu used to defeat Xu Kou in one move. It is the top magical power of Qi Refiners. The threshold is extremely high. Even after being simplified, ordinary Qi Refiners have to reach the level of heaven to practice, but the exiled immortal can control it at the level of manifesting infants.
This is the unreasonable part of the exiled immortal. Otherwise, the Taoist sect would not be so obsessed with copying the exiled immortal, and would not hesitate to create a strange person.
Arthur has a Xumi object, which they call a "space bag". In short, it is something similar. Arthur took out a two-handed giant sword from it and entered the castle first.
Lingquanzi followed closely behind, and at the same time took out two talismans, which were suspended around him and slowly rotated around him.
Zhang Yuelu took out his "Dragon Hand Gun" and a bag of fixed bullets, and handed them to Qi Xuansu: "I don't need this thing, you take it for self-defense."
Qi Xuansu took the "Dragon Hand Gun" and put the bullets into his shoulder bag. For the first time, he did not thank him, but just said: "I remember it."
Zhang Yuelu then walked into the castle.
Qi Xuansu hung the "Dragon Hand Gun" and "Blue Bird Hand Gun" on the left and right, tightened his short sword, and then entered the castle last.
The light in the castle was very dim. There were twelve columns arranged vertically in the hall at the entrance, but half of them had collapsed, making the place shaky.
Lingquanzi waved his hand, and many wall lamps lit up again.
Arthur very skillfully and quickly explored the entire castle hall and found some human skeletons, some of which were old, and some of which were newly deceased. This undoubtedly confirmed Ellie's speculation from the side.
After Zhang Yuelu came in, his eyes immediately fell on a tattered tapestry with a strange symbol painted on it.
This is a popular decoration in the Western Regions, also known as tapestry, woven with wool, while those in the Central Plains prefer to use screens.
Qi Xuansu followed Zhang Yuelu's gaze and asked, "What is this?"
Zhang Yuelu said: "That is... the mark of the ancient immortals."
So far, the war between Daomen and the ancient immortals has lasted for more than two hundred years. Daomen once had the opportunity to completely end this war, but it failed because of Buddhism's intervention. This directly led to a series of wars between Daomen and Buddhism in the Western Region. It wasn't until the face-to-face confrontation between Xuansheng and Lord Buddha that it came to an end.
This also led to the so-called "post-Three Religions Era".
The so-called "era of the first three religions" refers to the era when Confucianism dominated the world. At that time, Taoism and Buddhism joined forces to compete with Confucianism and eventually defeated Confucianism. After Taoism replaced Confucianism and became the world's orthodoxy, it made Confucianism and Buddhism its vassals. In the past, Confucianism took the lead and promoted the unification of the three religions. Nowadays, Taoism is the leader and continues to promote the unification of the three religions.
At a certain stage, Taoism has become the de facto leader of the three religions. The three great priests of Confucianism, Xinxue, and Qiology chose to be loyal to Xuansheng, which is equivalent to the deputy head of Taoism, Da Zhenren.
The "Later Three Religions Era" turned into Buddhism challenging Taoism's dominance, and Taoism teamed up with Confucianism to suppress Buddhism. Eventually, Buddhism was forced to have a truce with Taoism and recognize Taoism as the leader of the three religions.
However, Buddhism still disagrees with Taoism on many things, and frictions continue. Especially regarding the Ancient Immortal, Buddhism publicly supported the Taoist sect to eliminate the secret societies, but secretly supported the Ancient Immortal to contain the Taoist sect.
The ancient immortals develop believers in the form of secret societies, causing Taoism to spend a lot of energy every year to eliminate various secret societies.
Qi Xuansu asked: "There are traces of the ancient immortals here, which shows that this place is a stronghold of a secret association. In other words, the reason why those sinners collect living souls is because they want to please the ancient immortals and then obtain Ancient Immortal’s help?”
"That's understandable." Zhang Yuelu nodded.
Qi Xuansu finally couldn't help but ask: "Who is the ancient immortal?"
Zhang Yuelu hesitated for a moment and said: "In the context of Taoism, 'ancient immortal' is not a compliment, but is similar to 'evil god' or 'devil'. It is a powerful existence that Taoism must eradicate. The reason why it is called They are called 'immortals' because the methods they use are not magic... some of them are even the founders of Taoism."
Qi Xuansu was startled and lowered his voice subconsciously: "Taoist Patriarch!?"
Zhang Yuelu continued: "There is a saying that says, 'When a righteous person uses evil methods, the evil methods are also righteous; when evil people use righteous methods, the righteous methods are also evil.' The Taoist sect does not completely agree with this sentence, but it has to admit that the ancient immortals It’s the existence of ‘evil people using righteousness’.”
Qi Xuansu asked again: "Why did the ancient immortal betray the Taoism?"
Zhang Yuelu did not answer directly, but asked instead: "Flying swords are more powerful than fire guns, and many powerful spells are far more powerful than artillery. But why do the Taoist sect and the court vigorously develop firearms? Why can the Quanzhen Taoist sect be able to compete with Have you ever considered this issue? "
Qi Xuansu was startled.
Zhang Yuelu obviously knew many Taoist secrets that ordinary Taoist priests could not touch, and said softly: "If one day all magic and magical powers in the world disappear, then where will we go?"
Qi Xuansu frowned: "What does this have to do with the ancient immortal?"
Zhang Yuelu sighed and said: "Of course it does matter, but the Taoist sect has regulations. This is not something you can know now, so I can't tell you directly. When you become a third-grade Youyi Taoist priest, or become the deputy palace master or deputy hall master , you will understand naturally.”
Only then did Qi Xuansu understand that the reason why Zhang Yuelu knew the secret was not because of his status as a fourth-grade wine-sacrifice Taoist priest, but because of his status as the deputy hall master. Lingquanzi, Sun Yongfeng and others were also unaware of it.