In the nine states of Central China, Buzhou Mountain, Buzhou Mountain Taoist Temple.
The majestic peaks are majestic, the mountains are lush, the fairy spirit is misty, and the spiritual energy forms a waterfall.
Master Jiu Yangming, the Taoist master, looked at Fang Jian outside the mountain gate and immediately greeted him with a smile on his face.
"Master Hongqing, you are a rare visitor." Master Yangming came to Fang Jian, bowed his head, and then said to Fang Jian: "How come you have time to come to my Buzhou Mountain Taoist Temple?"
Fang Jian smiled and said, "Aren't you short of people here? I'll give you two little helpers."
"Oh?" Master Yangming heard this and immediately looked at Mei Xianzhang and Xuanying behind Fang Jian.
"Are Master Hongqing going to send them to the Taoist Temple to practice?" Master Yangming asked.
Fang Jian shook his head and said: "The two of them are no longer in compliance with the age requirements for entering the Taoist temple. I asked them to come to the Taoist temple to see if they have anything to do."
"There are many things to do." Master Yangming said: "But Master Hongqing, if you want them to enter the Taoist temple to practice, as the head teacher, I can specially recruit them."
"No." Fang Jian waved his hand directly and said, "Rules are rules, and laws are laws. How can they be changed at will?"
Fang Jian pulled Mei Xianzhang and Xuan Ying to his side and said, "This is my apprentice, and this is my junior. When I went to the heavens, I asked them to travel and practice in the great world of Jambudur. Now, I want to find something for them to do. If Master Yangming is convenient, you might as well help me arrange something for the two of them to do."
Master Yangming said quickly: "Yes, yes, there are many things. It just so happens that my Buzhoushan Taoist Temple is still short of a few handymen. If Master Hongqing doesn't mind,"
"Businessman? Okay, okay, I have no problem." Fang Jian said quickly, and then asked Mei Xianzhang and Xuanying, "Where are you two?"
Mei Xianzhang asked: "What does the handyman do?"
Master Yangming smiled and said, "You are just doing chores. In addition to teaching, you can do whatever the Buzhou Mountain Taoist Academy arranges for you, including delivering letters, picking up students, cleaning the mountain gate, taking care of the accommodation, etc." affairs."
"Okay." Xuanying said immediately, "I do." She used to sell tea in Penglaitian Street and did all kinds of chores, so naturally she wouldn't dislike it.
When Mei Xianzhang saw that Xuanying agreed, he didn't say anything more, but nodded directly and said: "Okay, I will follow Master's arrangements."
Master Yangming said with a smile: "Well, you two will now be the handymen of my Buzhoushan Taoist Temple." At this point, Master Yangming said to Fang Jian again: "Zhenjun Hongqing, please come to the Taoist Temple to take a rest. Let me fulfill my duty as a landlord."
"Okay." Fang Jian nodded and said, and then everyone walked into the Taoist temple gate. At this time, the Taoist temple had just been completed. Everything looked very new and there were relatively few people.
However, Fang Jian still sensed the Qi of several Taiyi Xuanxian and Jinxian in the Buzhoushan Taoist Temple. At this time, Master Yangming explained: "In addition to me, the master of the Buzhoushan Taoist Temple, there are other people who offer wine sacrifices." There is a courtyard master and a secretary. The so-called courtyard master is the master of a Taoist temple. Now there are only three courtyard masters, namely Bixia Yuanjun, the master of the Taoist courtyard, Manjusri Bodhisattva, the master of the Buddhist courtyard, and the master of the demon courtyard. However, the master of the Demon Academy is tentatively decided to be in charge of twelve demon gods in turn."
The original Twelve Demon Gods of the Demon Clan were originally members of the Golden Immortal Dao. However, after the Demon Clan surrendered to Heaven, with the help of Heaven, the Twelve Demon Gods had harvested the Taiyi Golden Immortal Dao Fruit. Otherwise, the power gap of the Demon Clan would have been too serious.
"I see." Fang Jian asked again, "What about Si Ye?"
"Siye also comes from the Taoist sect, the Buddhist sect and the demon clan." Master Yangming said.
Fang Jian nodded, and then said with a smile: "With the Taoist Bixia Yuanjun and the Buddhist Manjusri Bodhisattva, plus the reputation of the twelve demon gods, it will be difficult for you to run the Buzhoushan Taoist Temple successfully."
"Yes." Master Yangming also looked happy and said, "I always liked preaching and running schools in the human world. I didn't expect that now that I'm in heaven, I can return to my duties."
Fang Jian smiled and said as he walked: "There is no good or disgusting body, and there are good and bad actions. Knowing good and evil is conscience, and doing good and eliminating evil is observing things."
"I think these four sentences are in line with the spirit of the "Articles of Heaven" and should be used as the instructions of Buzhoushan Taoist Academy." Fang Jian said to Master Yangming.
Master Yangming waved his hand and said humbly: "Compared with the mantras of Taoism and Buddhism to save the world, these four sentences of mine still have many shortcomings."
"There is no good or evil, there is good and evil, knowing good and knowing evil, and doing good and doing evil are the four realms of practice. There is good and evil is the first level, knowing good and knowing evil is the second level, doing good and doing good is the second level. Evil is the third level. Nowadays, most of us stay in the realm of "doing good and eliminating evil", and "no good and no evil" is the most original realm, and it is also the realm of returning to nature. For example, those Da Luo Jinxian, they have become They can achieve 'no good and no evil', because most of their actions are not related to cause and effect, so naturally there is no talk of good or evil." Fang Jian said slowly.
Master Yangming nodded slightly and said, "I didn't expect that Master Hongqing could understand these four sentences to this level. It's really an honor for me to be a low-ranking official."
"I'm afraid it's not in line with your original intention, right?" Fang Jian asked with a smile.
Master Yangming laughed, and then said to Fang Jian: "The moment these four sentences came out of my mouth, they no longer belonged to me. Everyone will get their own understanding from them, as long as all sentient beings can learn from my words If I realize my own right path of 'doing good and eliminating evil', what does it matter how the world interprets my words?"
Fang Jian was immediately in awe when he heard this. A god like Wang Yangming, who was born in philosophy and learning in the human world, is only higher than those great sects of Taoism and Buddhism. No wonder Heaven wants him to be the headmaster of Buzhoushan Taoist Academy. Offering wine.
While they were talking, everyone had arrived at a bamboo pavilion in the Buzhou Mountain Taoist Temple. After Wang Yangming asked Fang Jian to sit down, he ordered the boy to serve him spiritual tea.
"Is this Buzhoushan Taoist Temple surrounded by bamboos?" Fang Jian asked Wang Yangming.
Wang Yangming nodded and said: "Yes, I think cultivators should be pure in heart and have few desires, and should not be disturbed by the worldly world or trapped by worldly conditions, so I took some 'Gufengxieyuezhu' bamboo rice from the heaven and planted it in some places. It would also be nice to have a sense of tranquility and tranquility both inside and outside the mountain temple."
"Okay." Fang Jian nodded and said, "I have nothing to do recently, so I will have to bother you in this Taoist courtyard for a few more days."
Wang Yangming's eyes lit up when he heard this and said, "What an honor!"
Louguantai, Xuanzhen Pavilion.
Master Chiying sat cross-legged on the futon, holding a fly whisk in his hand, looking melancholy out of the attic window.
It had been three days since she had been locked up in Xuanzhen Pavilion, facing the wall and thinking about her past. However, after only three days, she had already started to miss her young men.
"Alas." Master Chiying let out a deep sigh. Thirty years, so many lonely spring nights without the company of those young men, how should she live?
When Master Chiying was melancholy, a fairy light suddenly flew from outside Xuanzhen Pavilion. The window opened after a while, and Ji Zhen'e, who was pure and pure, appeared in front of Master Chiying again.
"Fellow Daoist Ji." Master Chiying quickly stood up from the futon and called.
Ji Zhen'e looked at Master Chiying and said, "I have dismissed all those young men of yours."
"Ah?!" Master Chiying exclaimed, then with tears in his eyes, he looked at Ji Zhen'e with a look of resentment and said, "Fellow Daoist Ji, why are you so cruel to me?"
Ji Zhen'e said calmly: "You are uncertain, I think you should face the wall for three hundred years."
"Wait a minute." After hearing this, Master Chiying immediately wiped away his tears and said, "Those people served me with lust and caused me to break the rules. They should be dismissed. Fellow Daoist Ji did the right thing."
After saying that, Master Chiying bowed to Ji Zhen'e and said, "Thank you, Taoist Fellow Ji, for helping me escape from the suffering of Slaanesh. I will devoutly devote myself to meditation and retreat in this tower for thirty years. Please rest assured, Fellow Taoist Ji." .”
Ji Zhen'e heard the words and glanced at Master Chiying indifferently, and said: "You should straighten your Taoist heart and abandon the seven emotions and six desires. You should know that our Taoist sect only has Xiaoyaoke, and there are no romantic seeds."
"Yes." Master Chiying bowed his head and said.
The next moment, the window was closed, a fairy light flashed outside, and Ji Zhen'e had disappeared without a trace.
Hezhou, Xiniu, Guqiu Temple.
The visitor of the temple, Qing Qingyu, the guest of the temple, was waiting outside the temple. Not long after, a fairy cloud fell from the sky and landed in front of the gate of the temple.
Upon seeing this, Fairy Zhongshou and Qingyu rushed forward to greet them. After the fairy cloud landed, they saw a group of heavenly soldiers and generals walking down from the fairy cloud.
However, the leader of the general is a bit strange. He is actually a young man with the head of a dog and the body of a dog. However, the dark and round dog head still looks a bit immature. When paired with the armor of the general, it looks quite different.
"General Black!" Chongshou and Fairy Qingyu immediately stepped forward and saluted the dog-headed general.
Yes, this dog-headed heavenly general is the current guarding heavenly general of Xitian Mansion, Hei Dan, who replaced the third-level job with the fifth-level rank.
Heidan returned the salute to Chongshou and Fairy Qingyu, and then asked: "Where is that evil spirit?"
Chongshou immediately said: "General Black, please follow me."
Afterwards, Chongshou and Fairy Qingyu took Heidan and a group of Xitianfu heavenly soldiers to a canyon outside Guqiu Guanshan.
As soon as he entered the canyon, Hei Dan felt an extremely strong aura of demonic energy and death.
Soon, everyone came to a pit in the center of the canyon. Purple-black demonic energy was constantly emitting from the pit. Heidan stepped forward and took a look into the pit, and immediately said in surprise: "Dead monk? "
It turned out that six corpses were lying in the pit, and they were all corpses of Buddhist disciples.
"They have become possessed by demons." Zhongshou said: "After becoming possessed, they hid in the Valley of Yin Skeletons. They were discovered by fellow Taoist Qingyu and attempted to attack fellow Taoist Qingyu, but he was palmed to death by fellow Taoist Qingyu."
"What kind of cultivation did they have during their lifetime?" Heidan asked Fairy Qingyu.
Fairy Qingyu replied: "Yangshen Realm is the cultivation level of Yangshen Realm, otherwise I would not be able to kill them all with one palm."
Heidan nodded, then turned around and said to the surrounding heavenly soldiers: "Seal the body with the Demon Suppressing Talisman, then take it back to Xitian Mansion, and then send someone to notify the Buddhists to come and identify the body."
"Yes." All the heavenly soldiers bowed and sang, and then walked towards the pit.
And the moment these heavenly soldiers stepped into the pit, the six corpses suddenly stood up stiffly, and then released waves of extremely strong demonic energy from their bodies. Then, under the support of the demonic energy, they 'squeaked' With a sound, he flew out of the Yin Skeleton Valley, turning into six rays of magic light and flying in six directions.
"Zombie transformation?!" Zhongshou exclaimed when he saw this scene.
And Hei Dan had already flown out of the Valley of Yin Skeletons, stood in the sky and glanced at the six directions where the demon corpses were escaping. Then he waved his command flag and said, "The heavenly soldiers listened to the order and immediately divided into six teams to pursue them. Demonic Corpse, there must be no mistake.”
All the heavenly soldiers also flew into the air, and immediately divided into six teams under Heidan's order, and then chased the demon corpse in the six directions where it had escaped.
(End of chapter)
