"This is the necessary environment to reach a higher realm, using the energy of death to impact a higher realm."
"A higher realm?!" Yang Qingyuan's eyes showed thoughts.
Before the change of heaven and earth, the boundary between the realm of heaven and earth and the realm of heaven and man was not obvious. Not many people in the world knew what the realm of heaven and man was.
The Dongxuan Realm at that time was like a natural chasm, blocking countless amazing talents.
At that time, the difficulty of breaking through the Dongxuan realm was even higher than that of Fa Tian Xiang Di, just like the Jiangsu and Zhejiang high school entrance examinations in later generations. Although the reputation was not as good as the college entrance examination, it actually blocked nearly 50% of the students.
But according to the records of Taoist classics, above the laws of heaven and earth, there should be a realm of unity between heaven and man.
Taoism believes that heaven and man are of the same structure, that the earth has nine states, and humans have nine orifices. The weather is windy and rainy, and people are happy and angry. There is thunder and lightning in the sky, and people have voices. Heaven has four seasons, and humans have four limbs. Heaven has five tones, and humans have five treasures. Heaven has six laws, and humans have six mansions. The sky has winter and summer, and people have cold and heat...
Taking the human body as a projection of heaven and earth, this is the law of heaven and earth. The next step is the unity of heaven and man.
Heaven and man are one, heaven and earth are connected, and all things are one.
Like-minded people seek each other, and like-like people respond to each other. If it goes well, it will be beneficial, if it goes against it, it will be harmful.
This is the true unity of heaven and man.
But it doesn’t look like this realm requires the energy of death to break through, right?
The upper body, heavenly mind, and the Tao are naturally the right way.
Soon the Dongxuan Chen Jiancheng of the Blood River Sect gave Yang Qingyuan an answer.
"Legend has it that my Blood River Sect's martial arts has another realm above the Fa Tian Xiang Earth. However, it is different from the ordinary unity of heaven and man. It is called Duan Sheng!"
"Destroying life?!"
When Yang Qingyuan heard this, he couldn't help but marvel at the tone of the Blood River Sect.
In addition to realm, Duan Sheng is also the name of the sword.
Duan Sheng is the sword of heaven and earth, the first sword.
Legend has it that the ancient swordsmith Xiangyuan took the source fire "Liaoyuanhuo" from the fire god Zhurong, the source gold "Fierce Eye Gold" from the gold god Yishou, the source water "Xuanming Water" from the water god Gonggong, and the source wind from the wind god Feilian. Made by "Qingpingfeng".
It is smelted by prairie fire, quenched by Xuanming water, and made of gold and iron. It has a wooden handle and a sword made of fierce pupil gold. It is three feet six inches and a half long and three inches wide.
The sword body is like a mixture of ancient black gold and meteorite iron, glowing with a faint light. A bright golden line crossed the sword body and flowed to the tip of the sword, becoming the heart of the murderous weapon. That golden thread is the Fierce Eye Gold that was melted and injected into the sword body. It is like a living snake, tightly imprisoned in the sword, and glowing faintly. I don't know if it's light flowing or gold flowing. When the light flows through the gold thread, the whole sword actually makes a faint sound of thunder.
After the sword body was cast, Xiangyuan used the blood-smear formation to forcefully strip away the souls of 17,610 prisoners and inject them into the sword. At this time, the sword has not yet been completed. In the end, Xiangyuan did not hesitate to use his own soul as a guide, and used his own life to die for the sword and enlighten the sword spirit. Only then did he forge the sword into a peerless weapon. The "life-breaking" sword is as its name suggests. The power of life in all things was carried out by Chi Youzhi to conquer the north and south, sweeping across all races in the world.
In the end, he was defeated by the Divine Blade of Heaven and Xuanyuan Divine Sword, leaving only half of it missing.
Of course, this is just a legend. It is too fantasy to peel off the soul and enlighten the sword spirit.
But this legend also proves the origin of Duan Sheng.
With the name of breaking life as a realm, the ambition of the Blood River Sect is so great!
"Is this recorded in the Blood River Sect's classics?!"
Yang Qingyuan tentatively asked Chen Jiancheng. After all, he was Dongxuan of the Blood River Sect and practiced the secret art of Blood River.
"Back to Marquis Yang, there are eight volumes of the Blood River Sect's secret book, the Blood River Scripture. With the sinner's status in the Blood River Sect, he can only practice five volumes. I really don't know the content behind it. The name of the life-breaking realm, Xiao People heard about it from the mouth of the great elder of the Blood River Sect.”
This is only a few words, and it is difficult to have precise information.
However, judging from the Blood River Sect's consistent behavior, this is in line with their style of painting.
The way of heaven brings light, and the way of devil kills and serves oneself.
The heavenly body is the upper body and the heavenly heart, and the human body and the heavenly heart are used to enter the realm of heaven and man.
The devil works alone, uses all living beings as food, and understands the method of ending living beings.
Cutting off all sentient beings' opportunities and becoming my own path is in line with the devil's approach.
"If there is anything else, tell me! I assume that you have performed meritorious service, and when the Dali Temple Judgment Department investigates your crime, you can be given a lighter or reduced sentence."
This is Yang Qingyuan's reform of Dazhou's criminal law. For criminal suspects who have a good attitude towards confessing, surrender, plead guilty and accept punishment, and have performed major meritorious services, lighter or reduced sentences will be applied.
A lighter punishment refers to a penalty that is within the limits of the statutory penalty; a mitigated penalty refers to a penalty that is below the limit of the statutory penalty; a reduction is a penalty that is lower than the statutory penalty. In terms of intensity, a lighter punishment is smaller than a reduction.
To give a simple example, for example, in the most typical three-year starting period, the death penalty is not a loss.
The legal penalty for this crime is to be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years. If there are aggravating circumstances, the penalty is not less than ten years of fixed-term imprisonment, life imprisonment or death.
During this period, the sentences imposed are within the limits of legal punishment and within the scope of the law.
However, if the prisoner has performed major meritorious service, his sentence can be reduced to less than three years. This is not stipulated in the Dazhou Law and is outside the limit, so it is called a reduction.
Of course, for the crime of Chen Dongxuan, even if he had meritorious service under normal circumstances, he would not be able to escape the death penalty. It would just be a normal hanging or beheading, or languishing or beheading. This has to be explained.
Immediately, Chen Jianming, the Dongxuan of the Blood River Sect, told everything he knew.
Including the blood river sect's great elder, who is old and has an eternal heart, and committed adultery with the wife of the right protector of the blood river sect... and a series of other things.
Although a lot is said, not much is useful!
After Yang Qingyuan sorted out the key points, he handed the place to Xu Baihu, took the key confession with him, and turned around and left the interrogation room.
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Not long after returning to the study, Sun Shichang came to visit with a bottle of pills.
"Qingyuan, this is a new antidote developed by Lin Hu, Shen Wei, and I. We have rolled it into pills. You can take it."
There is no need to go into details about how poisonous Jinbo Xunhua flowers are. And the medicinal power of Bodhisattva that has lasted for thousands of years is also extraordinary.
If these two medicinal powers are allowed to collide in Yang Qingyuan's body, they will inevitably have a certain impact on Yang Qingyuan's meridians.
Although Yang Qingyuan's cultivation level is very high and he has an innate body that can repair the hidden injuries in the meridians, he has to treat Xiao Yang as a human being.
What can be protected must be protected.
Therefore, Sun Shichang chose slow-release pills for his first batch of elixirs. The power of the medicine can reach directly to the spleen, and the medicinal properties are slowly released. It can reduce the toxin of Jinbo Xunhua in a silent and moisturizing way.
"I also added hawthorn and licorice."
Yang Qingyuan has not liked taking medicine since he entered Wudang, especially when he was blind when he first arrived in Wudang. Every time he took medicine, he had to take soup pills.
Therefore, when Sun Shichang later prescribed medicine to Yang Qingyuan, he would always make small changes to the prescription to make the medicine taste better without affecting the potency.
That is to say, the King of Medicine. Someone else might not be able to improve the taste of the medicine so easily without affecting the original efficacy.
"Thank you!" Yang Qingyuan took the jade bottle and poured out a hawthorn pill... No, it should be said to be the Bodhi Detoxification Pill, which he swallowed casually.
"By the way! Shun Shixiong, does Li Zhi know..." Yang Qingyuan asked while chewing pills.
"Swallow it first." Sun Shichang glanced at Yang Qingyuan angrily, "I don't understand what you are saying."
"I said, Senior Brother Sun, do you know that the secret book of the Blood River Sect records a realm called Duan Sheng?!"
Sun Shichang spread his hands, "You ask me this question, do you think it's appropriate?!"
Lao Suntou's martial arts is not weak. Although he has not deliberately studied martial arts, since ancient times, medicine and martial arts have always been indistinguishable. Now he is also a master of the Dongxuan Realm.
It's just that martial arts is just a bonus for Sun Shichang, and it doesn't arouse much interest in him.
"You should ask Lao Zhangtou about the Blood River Sect. He was the leader who put out the disaster of the Blood River back then. Even the Blood River Ancestor died in his hands. The rest include Bei Mingzi and Wang Chongyang, the two old and uneducated people, knew it. By the way, the old Heavenly Master of Longhu Mountain should also know it, but he might not know as much as the first three people. At that time, he was as young as me, and in this six-day event, Thirteen years ago, the war was dominated by soy sauce."
Sixty-three years ago, Zhang Xuanqing, the old heavenly master of Longhu Mountain, was only twenty-three years old and ready to break through to the realm of Yuanhua.
Yang Qingyuan naturally wanted to go back to Wudang to ask Lao Zhang, but when he left Wudang, Lao Zhang began to retreat again. According to his previous retreat time, it could be as little as one year or as long as three years. When I return to Wudang, I may not be able to find out anything.
But Bei Mingzi died at Louguantai, and Wang Chongyang was hiding in the Daming Palace in the divine capital. From this point of view, he still had to go to the Tianshi Mansion.
Longhu Mountain Tianshi Mansion is located in the southwest of Yangzhou, and the road is also the shortest.
Sun Shichang felt his eyes flash as Yang Qingyuan disappeared into the study, and his voice had not yet dissipated in the air.
"Senior Brother Sun, I'm going to Longhu Mountain."
Yang Qingyuan is also ambitious. He is now the deposed envoy, Jiedu envoy of Yangzhou, and the highest military and political officer in Yangzhou, so he just left.
However, after careful consideration, it does not matter. The governor of Yangzhou, the naval commander of Donghai Sea, and Yang Guo, the xuanfu envoy of Yangzhou, are still in Yangzhou, and military and political affairs can be handled by the three of them.
Yang Qingyuan, the deposed envoy and imperial minister, can be understood as the leader of the anti-epidemic prevention and control team of Jinling Prefecture in Yangzhou. Now that the epidemic has been eliminated and the truth is known, Yang Qingyuan will be fine even if he doesn't work.
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Normally speaking, if you want to run long distances during the Great Zhou Dynasty, a post horse is definitely the best choice.
Dazhou's post station has a complete rapid transit system, which is dedicated to the transmission of important intelligence and news, which is often called "eight hundred miles express" among the people.
The inns are all equipped with fast horses. These horses have average sprinting ability, but are good at running in the middle. After arriving at the next inn, they will be replaced with new fast horses.
Yang Qingyuan is a first-class official of the imperial court, and his superior martial arts skills can naturally commandeer the fast horses of the post station.
It's just that these fast horses are still not as fast as his Qinggong, and his BMW was left in the middle of Shu and handed over to the people of Emei to take care of.
So Yang Qingyuan chose to walk to the Tianshi Mansion in Longhu Mountain.
In less than two hours, Yang Qingyuan rushed from Jinling to Jiuhua County, Danyang County. This kind of light skill is beyond the scope of ordinary people's understanding of people.
This was still the case when Yang Qingyuan was poisoned by the Jinbo Xunhua flower, so he couldn't use Qinggong with all his strength, otherwise one hour would be enough to reach here.
It was noon at this time, so Yang Qingyuan found a restaurant to sit down, intending to satisfy his hunger first.
"Boy, what are the most famous dishes here?! Serve me four! And a bowl of rice."
As he spoke, Yang Qingyuan slapped a small ingot of silver on the table, about five taels in size.
Seeing Yang Qingyuan's generous move, the waiter immediately smiled.
"The guest officer doesn't need so much, just three taels of silver is enough!" After saying that, the waiter in the shop excitedly introduced Yang Qingyuan.
"Then let's have the most famous Luo Han Zhai in our restaurant, and then have a Buddha Jumping Over the Wall..."
"Just these four!" Yang Qingyuan discovered that most of the names of the dishes here were related to Buddhism, and then patted his head, "I forgot, this is from Jiuhua Mountain!"
This Jiuhua Mountain is one of the four famous mountains in Buddhism. It is the legendary dojo of Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. Emperors of all dynasties gave gold and jade seals to Jiuhua Mountain Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva. Each gold seal is engraved with "Ksitigarbha's Golden Seal of Benefiting Life". Six words.
According to official statistics from the Zhou Dynasty, there were originally 170 Buddhist temples on Jiuhua Mountain, all of which were large temples with recognizable names. Later, during Yang Qingyuan’s rectification movement to unify Buddhist and Taoist temples and temples across the country, 53 temples were abolished. , there are still 117 places.
One-third of his family was crippled at once. Look at what Lao Yang did. Buddhism didn't send anyone to assassinate Yang Qingyuan. He was really well-educated.
After a while, all the dishes Yang Qingyuan ordered were served.
In particular, the Buddha Jumping Over the Wall is soft and tender, rich in meaty aroma, meaty but not greasy, and has a savory taste.
The altar was opened and the fragrance of meat floated around. The Buddha heard that he had abandoned his Zen and jumped over the wall.
However, this shop owner is also a bit interesting. He sells Buddhas and jumps over the wall in a restaurant at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain. Isn't this a clear sign of attacking Buddhism? !
Why didn't the master monk from Jiuhua Mountain come and show this shop owner some Buddhist teachings? ! Could it be that this store owner is still a hidden master? !
However, looking at the shop owner's sloppy steps and shortness of breath in a hurry, it doesn't look like he has any martial arts skills. Maybe it’s because of the official background behind it!
Yang Qingyuan didn't think much about it. He was just passing by here to have fun while eating and had no intention of going into details.
However, not long after, Yang Qingyuan's question was answered.
After about a stick of incense, a fat-headed monk wearing monk's robes walked into the shop holding an alms bowl.
"Waiter, as usual, three dishes will be served!"
"Okay, Master Jingxiu, please come inside." The waiter brought him to a nearby wine table, and then loudly announced the names of the dishes, "A cup of Buddha jumping over the wall, a braised pork knuckle, and a steamed sea bass!"
The name of this dish makes Yang Qingyuan call him "good guy". There is not a single vegetarian dish among the three dishes. No wonder this restaurant at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain dares to sell Buddha over the wall! It turns out that a monk really jumped over the wall to eat!
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