Chapter 1 Sanqing Mountain
It is said that there are countless spiritual mountains in the world, the seas and rivers are clear, there are often celestial beings showing saints, and the trend of seeking immortality and asking questions is prevalent.
Among them, Bashu and Yuzhang are the most impressive.
The territory of Yuzhang is rich in treasures and has outstanding people. Among the fairy mountains that are famous overseas are Lushan Mountain and Mingyue Mountain of the Jianzong Sect, and Dajue Mountain and Zhenru Mountain of the Zen Sect. As for the famous Taoist mountains, they are even more famous all over the world. Not only are the ancestral palaces of the great sects standing there, but also the Talisman Treasure Mountain is left behind.
Therefore, Yuzhang is also known as the capital of the world.
Yuzhang is the leader in Eastern Taoism, among which Longhu Mountain and Sanqing Mountain are the most respected.
Longhu Mountain was founded in the Han Dynasty and is the ancestral palace of Tianshi Taoism. It has been around for nearly 8000 years and is the best in the world. However, Longhu Mountain is the strictest in accepting disciples. There are few and noble disciples, so strangers should not approach the Tianshi Mansion.
The Sanqing Mountain was founded in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and was the ancestral court of Wanfa Sect. It has been around for more than 6,000 years. It also practices inner elixir, outer elixir, swordsmanship, talismans and seal scripts, formation diagrams, astrology, thunder method, and shape refining. Qihuang, how to raise corpses, etc., gained many disciples. In particular, one mountain and one temple were specially designed as the gateway to the world. The mountain gate was opened wide and there were endless pilgrims.
This gateway to the WTO is Yuxiu Mountain, which runs north-south. The east, west and north slopes are all extremely steep cliffs. Only the south slope is gentle and beautiful, with mountain roads carved out.
There is a large flat land at the foot of the mountain road, and a Jinsha River flows from east to west. There is a small town about ten miles south of the stream, called Zhangxiang Town. The town is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the opening faces Yuxiu Mountain. There are red camphor trees growing in the mountains behind the town, and there is a strange fragrance in the heart of the trees. Villagers in seven or eight villages near the town make a living by cutting down trees, harvesting tree hearts and selling them to the town. People in the town then use the camphor tree hearts to make incense and sell it to pilgrims.
The smoke of camphor incense is fragrant, with no black ash in the smoke. It is refreshing and can repel insects. Pilgrims who come to Yuxiu Mountain to worship Sanqing always come to the town to buy some. There are also some out-of-towners who would like to invite a lot of them when they come, take them home, use them, and put them in their family temples or ancestral halls.
In addition to making incense, the houses in the town are often rented to visitors who come to Yuxiu Mountain. Therefore, the people in the town are actually quite wealthy. The roads are paved with bluestones and every house is a brick house.
It was late that night, and a bright moon jumped out of the mountain behind the town. Its clear light fell in the town, and it reflected people's eyebrows.
There is an alley in the town, with green tiled courtyards on both sides of the alley. There is a young man in the courtyard at the end of the alley. He is handsome and tall, and he is carving in the moonlight.
What the young man was carving was the heart of the red camphor tree, and there were already a dozen finished products stacked next to it, each of which was a square tile.
The square tablets are exquisitely carved, and the young man's hands are dexterous. None of the carved patterns are repeated, including the wishful thinking pattern, the bat longevity pattern, the happy spider pattern, the goldfish pattern, the lion pattern, and the peony pattern, all of which are eye-catching. The words engraved on the card are also very beautiful, and they are all auspicious words such as safe travel, good fortune and wealth, Demen Jiqing, Shengqi Pianfu and so on.
The boy has been carving these wooden plaques for a long time. It has been almost four months since the first month of the year. Now he has completed sixteen of them and is still short of the last one. Hurry up and you will be able to finish the last one today.
When the moon was at its zenith, the young man completed the last one, which was engraved with the words "A hundred blessings are perfect, Ruiqidemen".
He breathed a long sigh of relief and returned to the house to take out the Huang Sui and luggage that had been prepared. He put his luggage on his back and put the yellow tassels on the wooden signs one by one. In this way, seventeen Ping An house numbers were ready.
The young man swept the courtyard and went out. There was also a house plate hanging on the outside of the eaves of his house, engraved with the eight words "The journey begins, the joy comes". It was handmade by his father and has been around since he was ten years old. It has not been replaced since it was hung up in 2016.
The boy hung a handful of wooden signs on the doorsteps of the other seventeen houses in the alley as his parting gift.
Tonight, he will leave the town, and he may not be able to come back within three to five years.
The young man left a letter in his house, which was addressed to his neighbors. The letter made it clear that if he worshiped in the Immortal Mountain, he would have to wait until he had completed his studies before he could go down the mountain to visit his relatives. If you can't get to the fairy mountain, you go out to study and read thousands of books. Naturally, you have to travel thousands of miles.
The boy walked on the smooth stone streets and gradually moved away from Qingwa Lane and Zhangxiang Town, feeling reluctant to leave.
He grew up in Zhangxiang Town, but he was not born among the locals. He was an abandoned baby. When he was half a year old, he was carried in a farmer's bamboo basket padded with old cotton cloth and sent to the first home in Qingwa Lane, Zhangxiang Town, Mr. Cheng Tingxian's house.
Cheng Tingxian is a teacher in Zhangxiang Town. He is a visitor from out of town and once served as a local official. The husband knew the truth well, so after resigning, he took his wife to settle at the foot of Sanqing Mountain. The couple had a deep love for each other. Although they had no children, Mr. Cheng never took a concubine. The couple had a free and easy personality and were extraordinary. Even when they were in their sixties, they had no children.
Until fifteen years ago, the couple settled in Zhangxiang Town. When they had nothing to do, they would enlighten the children in the town. Villagers nearby would not refuse children who came to them. The husband was scholarly and knowledgeable. It was far beyond the reach of the local old masters, so his reputation gradually grew.
One day two years later, a child suddenly appeared in front of the door. The couple thought it was God's will and took him in.
The gentleman is good at Taoism, so he named it Yunqi, which is taken from the poem of the Immortal White Jade Toad on the inner alchemy road in Wuyi Mountain in the south:
“Floating on the clouds, looking down at the world.”
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When Cheng Yunqi was eleven years old, the old lady passed away due to congenital physical weakness and internal organ failure. The fact that the old lady was over seventy years old was really due to Mr. Cheng's careful care.
One month after the old lady passed away, Mr. Cheng became ill due to longing for her and passed away immediately, leaving Cheng Yunqi with only a house and a lot of favors in the town.
The reason why Yun Qi chose to leave tonight was because there was news in the first month of Yuxiu Mountain that there was an immortal leader in Sanqing Immortal Mountain who was preparing to accept a disciple. There was only one spot and he would take the exam on Guyu day.
Sanqing Fairy Mountain has a unique way of recruiting disciples. It is not like the Sword Sect, where masters search for disciples all over the world, and they have to ask about the sword as well as the heart. It is also not like Longhu Mountain, which opens its gate once every few hundred years. , setting up hundreds of levels.
Sanqing Fairy Mountain provides pilgrims with a guided health-preserving technique through Yuxiu Mountain, called the Tongmai and Meridian Gong. It is free of charge. If ordinary people get it and practice according to the diagram every day, they will have good health. It has the effect of nourishing blood, replenishing organs, dredging menstruation and activating collaterals. If there are people with extraordinary talents, they can also cultivate a fresh air in the body, which has the wonderful effect of eliminating toxins and eliminating diseases.
The first requirement for accepting a disciple in the Fairy Mountain is to have this pure spirit. Secondly, the age must not be more than sixteen years old. Only those who are satisfied can take the exam in the Fairy Mountain.
The exams in Fairy Mountain have always been irregular. If you are lucky, you can meet them three or five times a year. If you are not lucky, they have never happened in two hundred years.
The last time Sanqing Mountain openly recruited disciples was twenty-eight years ago.
Cheng Yunqi has excellent talent and luck. Under the guidance of his father, the young man has to practice this guidance technique every day. However, his father has been practicing it all his life. Although his body is very healthy, he still has no clear vision. Qi, and Cheng Yunqi started practicing at the age of two, and developed Qingqi at the age of five. He is fifteen this year, and he just happened to meet it. If he passes next year, it will never be possible again. Now that he was alone and without worries, Cheng Yunqi, who had been practicing Taoism since childhood under the influence of his father, naturally wanted to give it a try.
Tomorrow is Grain Rain, and Yun Qi is worried that everyone will be too sad when seeing each other off, and will be unable to control themselves, so they will leave overnight.
In the Grain Rain season, rain and fog slowly drifted in at night. Cheng Yunqi walked from the bluestone road to the gravel road, then to the country dirt road, and finally stopped in front of a green hill.
There is a slope protection made of pebbles around Qingqiu. There is a pine and a cypress on the left and right in front. There is a stele between the pines and cypresses. The inscription on the stele can be seen clearly under the moonlight: "Xian Kao Cheng's court is virtuous and his concubine Zhu is shown." The joint tomb of Shi Mingjun".
Yun Qi knelt down in front of the monument and kowtowed deeply. Sobbing sounded in the wilderness, accompanied by intermittent whispers.
The bright moon moved a little further to the west. The young man stood up, wiped the monument carefully with his sleeve, then circled around to check the slope protection, and then followed the path and left in the direction of Yuxiu Mountain.
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On the second day, the rain was still pouring down, and the sky was a bit strange. It was gloomy above the head, but it was bright in all directions. Cheng Yunqi was walking on the mountain road on the south slope, but there were more and more people. When he reached the Yuze Peilin Temple on the top of the mountain, he was already rubbing shoulders with each other.
Yuze Peilin Temple, referred to as Yulin Temple, also known as Yuling Temple, is a Taoist temple set up in Sanqing Mountain specifically for the secular world. On weekdays, the pilgrims pray for blessings and interpret their dreams, make talismans for medical consultation, or soothe their souls, and the incense is very prosperous.
On weekdays, there are many pilgrims and believers in the temple, but today is a rare event. Cheng Yunqi never held an umbrella, but when he walked under other people's umbrellas, there were no rain stains on his body.
There is a huge bluestone square in front of the Taoist temple. In the middle of the square is a huge red copper incense burner, glowing with a faint glow. At this time, the whole square was crowded with people, and the umbrellas formed colorful clouds.
The gate of the temple is wide open, and the temple owner, the old Taoist Master Zhenwei, who is rarely seen on weekdays, stands at the door, as if waiting for something.
Of course everyone in the square was waiting. When the scheduled time came, an extremely young Taoist walked from the temple to Taoist Master Zhenwei. He looked like he was only twenty years old, and he was very majestic. But the appearance was unfamiliar, it had never appeared in Yulin Temple before, and the dark blue feathered uniform on the Taoist had never been seen before.
Taoist Priest Yuyi bowed his head and said:
"I'm really sorry for all the lay people who came to offer incense. Today is the day when the master in the mountain accepts disciples. There are really many people. Please All the laymen will wait for a moment, and after seeing off the destined ones, it will not be too late to come in and pay homage."
The crowd suddenly became noisy, and they replied: "Don't dare, don't dare."
"Please come with me to the young layman who is under the age of sixteen and has pure spiritual energy."
There was another commotion in the crowd, and some boys and girls walked out of the crowd, about a hundred or so people in total.
Yun Qi walked out of the crowd without an umbrella. Fortunately, the rain was not heavy.
A hundred or ten people were divided into several lines and stood side by side. After forming a line, most people turned back to look at the crowd, presumably where their closest people were.
Yunqi never looked back.
"Yun Qi!"
"Little Master!"
"Cheng's son!"
Suddenly a familiar shout came from behind. Yun Qi turned around and saw Zhang Xiang. All the acquaintances from the town came!
The Zhang family's aunt, the Li family's uncle, and Mrs. Wang's wife are all very old. Yun Qi raised his hand high and waved it vigorously.
At this time, the team also moved, and everyone was extremely reluctant to leave and did not dare to stop for a moment. Yun Qi waved them back again and again. He didn't bother to wipe the tears from the corners of his eyes, and hurriedly followed the Taoist who had just spoken out into the Taoist temple.
The Taoist temple runs north-south, with the gate in the south. After passing the gate and walking in, you will find the Wang Lingguan Hall, followed by the four temples of Thunder God, Dian Mu, Feng Bo and Rain Master on both sides, passing by the Bell Tower and Drum Tower. It is the Xuandu Master Hall, Guangcheng Daojun Hall and Doumu Yuanjun Hall are separated on the left and right. The last Taoist temple is of course the Sanqing Hall.
To the west of Sanqing Hall, there is another hall called Gexian Hall.
Everyone entered the hall. There was a stone statue enshrined in the hall, which was the image of an old man. The old man stood with his arms folded, wearing a green Taoist robe, full of heaven, and with a kind face.
No need to be introduced by the Taoist who leads the way. Everyone knows that this is the founder of Sanqing Mountain, Ge Hong, whose Taoist name is Baopuzi.
The leading Taoist priest guided the boys and girls around the statue of the ancestor and stood in front of the back wall of the hall.
When everyone was confused, the Taoist who led the way made a hand seal and recited a spell. Suddenly, the white wall rippled like a lake, and in the flash of light, the wall disappeared.
In the astonished eyes of everyone, a surging, boundless sea of milky white clouds appeared in front of everyone.
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