Li Anran stared at the image of a green bull with a flat horn on the book of punishment, and the life of the green bull spirit emerged in his mind.
Looking south to Buzhou.
Chen Guoku County.
At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, the world was in chaos. Lao Tzu, the incarnation of the Supreme Saint in the mortal world, wanted to resign from office and go into seclusion. Because he was old and frail, he was not suitable for riding horses, so he chose a black-horned green bull as a means of transportation.
Lao Tzu traveled westward and traveled to various countries. Everywhere he went, he would give lectures.
Banjiao Qingniu has been by my side for a long time, and the more he listened to it, the more he gradually developed spiritual wisdom.
When Lao Tzu left Hangu in the west, Yin Xizhi, the official of Guan, asked him to write the "Tao Te Ching", causing flowers to fall from the sky, golden lotuses to surge from the ground, and purple air to come from the east for thirty thousand miles.
Banjiao Qingniu witnessed all this with his own eyes, and he also had the merit of carrying the Supreme Saint on his back.
In just one night, it changed from a green bull spirit that had just been born with intelligence to a demon fairy in the realm of true immortals, and its heels were also transformed from ordinary beasts into exotic beasts that were not inferior to the innate creatures. Unicorn Si.
When Lao Tzu's merits and virtues were completed and he returned to his true self, the green bull spirit also followed the chicken and dog to ascend to heaven, and together they came to the Eight Views Palace of the Great Luo Palace of the Supreme Sage.
"Is this the Bajing Palace of Da Luo Palace?" Li Anran opened his eyes wide.
Qingniu Jing is the first and only one among all the prisoners in the Punishment Book who has been to the saint's dojo and seen the saint's true face!
Li Anran was extremely curious and looked at the beautiful scenery in the Bajing Palace carefully.
I saw numerous pavilions and palaces, with strange grasses and flowers everywhere, streaks of purple air lingering, wisps of dense air rising, and the sound of the great avenue echoing vaguely could be heard.
In a place like this, even if you don't practice, your cultivation will be improved unconsciously.
And when Qingniu Jing's life moved forward, Li Anran's eyes left the Bajing Palace.
He could no longer recall the specific appearance of the Eight Views Palace, leaving only a vague impression that the Eight Views Palace was worthy of being a saint's monastery.
As for the Supreme Saint...
did not see!
When the life story of Qing Niu Jing came to him and he met the Supreme Saint, the picture seemed to be a large distorted mosaic. Not to mention the appearance of the Saint, even the outline of the Saint's figure could not be seen!
And even if it is Lao Tzu, the incarnation of the Supreme Saint in the mortal world, he can only remember the other person's appearance, but cannot describe it, or even recall it.
The only good thing is that he can still hear the sound of the saint opening the altar to preach!
The Green Bull Spirit only stayed in the Bajing Palace for less than a hundred years.
But, he was very lucky.
The Supreme Saint preaches once every eighty-one years, but he has listened to it exactly twice in the past hundred years!
It was these two sermons that allowed Qingniu Jing to understand the exercises that suited him, and his cultivation level also broke through from True Immortal to Taiyi Golden Immortal!
"A saint is the greatest opportunity!" Li Anran couldn't help but sigh in his heart.
He has the golden finger of the system, and it took him more than two hundred years to break through from a mortal to the golden immortal realm.
The Green Bull Spirit only listened to the saint's sermons three times, and then he broke through from a green bull in the mortal world to the realm of Taiyi Golden Immortal.
All I can say is that the power of the saint is so terrifying!
But from now on, this opportunity belongs to him!
"The Green Ox Spirit will stay in Tianlao Prison for hundreds of years. I can listen to it as many times as I want in the future. There is no rush!"
Li Anran suppressed his urge to listen and continued to read Qingniu Jing's life.
After the saints left the Three Realms with Taozu, Qingniu Jing followed Taishang Laojun to the Tusita Palace of Lihentian.
Since then, the Green Ox Spirit has been staying in Tushita Palace, eating celestial grass and spiritual fruits, drinking jade liquid and fine wine, and being served by cowherd boys. He lived a life of ease, but his cultivation level was no longer the same. Big breakthrough.
In the past ten thousand years, he has only been promoted from the first level of Taiyi to the sixth level of Taiyi Golden Immortal.
The time soon came before and after the monkeys caused havoc in the heaven.
The cowherd boy, the predecessor of Han Zhongli, was fond of gambling, lively and inquiring about gossip. Naturally, he would not let go of the monkey matter.
After asking about it, he also liked to tell it to the gold and silver boy.
While Qingniu Jing was dozing off beside him, he also listened.
However, he didn't take it to heart.
In the view of Qingniu Jing, Tushita Palace is in the Thirty-three Heavens of Lihen, and no matter how noisy the monkeys are, they cannot cause trouble in this place.
His only interest in the monkey came from the monkey's victory over Nezha.
The Green Ox Spirit likes to be quiet and not move, but after practicing for so long, it is inevitable that he will be curious about his strength and how he compares with other gods in the Three Realms.
Nezha is the well-deserved number one god of war in heaven after the catastrophe of becoming a god.
The Green Ox Spirit heard many stories about Nezha's slaying of demons and monsters from the Cowherd Boy to the Gold and Silver Boy, and was very impressed by Nezha——
This is also the reason why he named Nezha to fight!
At this time, when he heard that a mortal demon immortal had defeated Nezha and became famous in the three realms, he couldn't help but feel a little itchy, and he had some thoughts of becoming famous all over the world.
After that, the monkeys made a big peach party and came to Tushita Palace drunkenly to steal the golden elixir.
At that time, Qingniu Jing was sleeping in the cowshed in the back hall. He also heard some noises in the alchemy room, but he didn't pay attention.
The success rate of Taishang Laojun's elixir refining is extremely high, but it is not always smooth. Occasionally, it is normal to make some unexpected noises.
It wasn't until Taishang Laojun came back and gave the gold and silver boy a severe lesson that he realized that the monkey had eaten up all the elixirs in the alchemy room like fried beans!
Qingniu Jing was stunned.
There are many types of elixirs made by Taishang Laojun, with different effects and different five elements. It is incredible that the monkey ate it wholeheartedly and was not killed by the conflicting power of the medicine!
At the same time, I was also a little annoyed as to why I didn't go up there and have a look, maybe I could compete with the monkeys in martial arts.
Li Anran's attention was on Taishang Laojun.
He didn't know if the monkeys guarding the peach garden and causing trouble in the Heavenly Palace was a plan of the Jade Emperor and Tathagata, but there was definitely no Taishang Laojun involved!
He clearly felt the extreme distress, anger and rage that Master Taishang felt when he learned that all the elixirs had been stolen by monkeys!
I also saw that Taishang Laojun's face was livid and murderous, completely different from his usual pure and stoic appearance.
After that, Taishang Laojun knocked the monkey over with a diamond sword. After the monkey was unable to be killed by swords, spears, halberds, thunder, axes, he requested an order to put the monkey into an alchemy furnace and refine it into ashes.
Qingniu Jing did not come forward in the back hall, but he also saw that the monkey's pipa bone was pierced by Taishang Laojun with a magic weapon, and all his magic power and soul were sealed, and he was escorted into the Bagua furnace specially used for refining weapons.
Taishang Laojun is determined to crush the monkey to ashes!
The green bull spirit saw this and felt that the monkey was doomed this time.
However, what he didn't expect was that after seventy-seven forty-nine days, the monkey was not dead, and even overturned the Bagua furnace. The blazing Six Ding fire directly burned the hall into a sea of flames.
"Daluo Jinxian?!" Li Anran looked at the monkey whose body was burning with golden flames, and was a little surprised.
After the monkey jumped out of the Bagua furnace, his monstrous magic power was not restrained at all and was released unscrupulously.
Obviously, it has exceeded the realm of Taiyi Golden Immortal and reached the realm of Daluo Golden Immortal!
However, when he was in Five Elements Mountain a hundred years ago, he saw the monkey struggling. At that time, the monkey's cultivation was only Taiyi Golden Immortal!
Li Anran thought for a moment, and immediately understood the reason, showing a look of surprise.
"No wonder the Tathagata didn't take action directly and used a trick to trick the monkey into the palm of his hand and press him under the Five Elements Mountain!"
When the monkey jumps out of the Bagua furnace, it is equivalent to passing through a death disaster. It is precisely "the heaven and the earth are all working together", and the luck is like a rainbow.
Although Tathagata was stronger than the monkey, he still had to avoid his sharp edges. He chose to fight with the monkey, forcibly cutting off the monkey's upward momentum, and even slapped the monkey to the ground with his backhand.
Not only did the monkey lose his freedom and was suppressed at the foot of the Five Elements Mountain, his luck plummeted, and his cultivation also fell from Daluo Jinxian back to Taiyi Jinxian.
After that, Tathagata asked the earth to reveal the truth and used copper pills and iron juice to kill the wildness of the monkey's mind.
The monkey's heart gradually loses its energy, and its luck continues to decline.
It is in line with the saying "There is no freedom until heroes are shipped away"!
Qingniu Jing also saw the strength of Monkey Daluo Jinxian, and retracted decisively into the back hall, pretending not to hear anything going on outside.
Later, the Shaohuo Taoist boy was angered by Taishang Laojun, so he was forced to live in the mortal world and went to the Flame Mountain to pawn land.
Qingniu Jing was fine and continued to live his happy and carefree life.
Until more than two hundred years ago.
Taishang Laojun rode Qingniu to Lingshan to participate in the Bon Festival. He passed by the southern part of Xiniu Hezhou and found a Brahman sect here. Its reputation in some mortal countries is as good as that of Buddhism.
Taishang Laojun had an idea at that time and wanted to use Brahmanism to create some trouble for Lingshan and restrict the development speed of Buddhism.
After some consideration, Taishang Laojun decided to leave this matter to Qingniu Jing.
Qingniu Jing likes to be quiet by nature, but it is related to Xuanmen Taoism and it is the Supreme Lord's order, so it naturally complied.
Only then did the Qingniu Jing become "frightened" by Tieguai Li's ugly face, break free from the reins and escape to the mortal world.
During the two hundred years since Qing Niu Jing disappeared, he was in the southern part of Xiniu Hezhou, where he mingled with Brahmanism, helping Brahmanism spread its faith and competing with Buddhism for believers.
Brahmanism itself is a sect founded by three innate beings. It was born in the southern part of Hezhou, Xiniu. It has been passed down for tens of thousands of years and can be said to be deeply rooted.
It has also had a long-standing dispute with followers of Buddhist teachings.
Wu Tian fell from Kinnara, the great protector of Buddhism, to Mara because he went to preach in the southern part of Xiniuhezhou 30,000 years ago on the order of Buddha Upratha.
Xuanmen used to be a dominant family, and could only barely keep a Western sect under its radar, so it didn't pay attention to the Brahman sect.
At this time, in order to cause some trouble for Lingshan, Qingniu Jing took the initiative to join Brahmanism and fully helped Brahmanism spread its teachings and develop followers.
Because Vishnu, one of the three gods of Brahmanism, is the innate bull god, the Green Bull Spirit was easily reused, and relied on his own abilities to make progress along the way.
By the time it faked death and left Brahmanism, it was already one of the few gods under Vishnu.
And the effect of this operation is also very significant.
Originally, Brahmanism had been eroded step by step by Lingshan, and its sphere of influence had shrunk from covering the entire southern part of Xiniuhezhou to only a few small countries in the far south.
With the support of Qingniu Jing and the Xuanmen behind him, Brahmanism had the effect of resurrecting the dead, and its power expanded outward again, causing a lot of trouble for Lingshan.
However, Qingniu Jing was also targeted by Lingshan.
After realizing the danger, the Green Bull Spirit decisively chose to feign death to escape, which in turn intensified the conflict between Buddhism and Brahmanism.
Later, he found a small country in the north of Xiniu Hezhou and became the king, and deliberately exposed his identity, attracting Tieguai Li's attention.
Qingniu Jing was originally going to follow Tieguai Li back directly, but because Tieguai Li made rude remarks, he changed his mind and taught him a lesson.
Only then did Li Jing go down to earth to capture the demon.
"So that's what happened."
Li Anran finally figured out all the causes and consequences of the matter.
Looking at the Brahmanism in Qingniu Jing's life, he couldn't help but think of Asan Kingdom in his previous life.
However, this world is very different from the Blue Star in the previous life. Brahmanism is very similar to the Brahmanism in the previous life, but they cannot wait for the same.
According to Taishang Laojun's evaluation, the three innate beings worshiped as the main gods by Brahmanism are all side sect monks in the Daluo Golden Immortal realm. Although their strength is not as good as that of the Xuanmen authentic sect, they are still somewhat peculiar.
In addition, they also have several Taiyi Golden Immortals, more than ten Golden Immortals and dozens of Xuan Immortals under their command.
Although this strength is not as good as Xuanmen and Lingshan, it is still the overlord of one side.
Lingshan was also worried that the Brahmin Church would be defeated, so he did not use force. Instead, he chose a carrot and a stick, hoping to integrate Brahmanism into Buddhism from top to bottom.
But, obviously it hasn’t been done yet.
After sorting everything out, Li Anran reopened Qingniu Jing's life.
In Qingniu Jing's life, the most valuable thing is the three sermons given by the saint. To be more precise, it is the time when the saint incarnated in the mortal world and wrote the "Tao Te Ching" and the two sermons given by the Supreme Saint.
The Tao Te Ching is not a cultivation method, and it can even be said that it has nothing to do with cultivation.
However, it expounds the Taishang Sage's understanding of the way of heaven, the great road, and the way of humanity. It can be said that it points directly to the origin and is far more precious than all other techniques.
However, it is not easy to understand it.
Li Anran fully understood the principle of sharpening the knife but not chopping wood, so he was not in a hurry to read the Tao Te Ching.
As I traveled westward, I would give sermons to people wherever I went. The contents were consistent with new changes.
This is actually the process of Laozi thinking about and perfecting the Tao he has understood.
It is also the process of the "Tao Te Ching" from its initial shape to step-by-step perfection and finally to its final publication.
And Qing Niu Jing’s life contains exactly these contents!
Li Anran took a deep breath, sat cross-legged, and cleared all distracting thoughts.
Following Lao Tzu's thoughts and steps, I gradually understood the foundation and differences between the way of heaven, the great road, and the way of humanity.
Time flies very quickly at times like this.
In just a blink of an eye, half a year passed.
In the past six months, Li Anran did nothing but read Qingniu Jing's life over and over again.
He was not greedy for more. He only waited until Lao Tzu completed the Tao Te Ching at Hangu Pass, and was not in a hurry to listen to the two sermons of the Supreme Saint.
Finally, he felt that his understanding of Tao had reached a certain level.
It’s time to read the Tao Te Ching!
(End of chapter)
