Jiuzhen County is located in the southern barbarians, with less development and not very prosperous in the first place.
In such a place, the population is naturally sparse.
Before the fall of the Jinghai Kingdom, it claimed to have an area of thousands of miles, with a household registration of 500,000 people and the ability to send out 300,000 troops.
However, just listen to such bragging. If you really take it seriously, you are stupid.
According to Lu Yuan's estimate.
Jinghai Kingdom's so-called household registration of 500,000 is mostly an exaggeration. It needs to be discounted in half. It would be considered good to have 300,000 households.
As for the 300,000 troops that can be dispatched, that should include all adult men.
Based on the above two sets of data, it is considered good to have a population of 15.6 million in the so-called Thousand Miles Land of Jinghai Country.
These populations are still the data before the destruction of the country. Now that this country has been destroyed and suffered from several years of war, the country's population is now estimated to be one million.
And among the millions of people, Lu Yuan still had to divide it with Baifeng Temple.
One person can hold up to the sky, which is a population of 500,000.
Half a million people...
When Lu Yuan thought of this, he was speechless: "Forget it, forget it. At worst, after I seal the country, I will develop people's livelihood and rest for decades. I don't believe that I can't raise the population to one million.
Anyway, with my lifespan, I can definitely afford to wait, so there is no need to rush. "
What is this!
After finally obtaining the immortal method, there are still many difficulties in practicing it.
Nothing in this world is easy.
"Fortunately, even if we can't gather a population of one million for the time being, if I want to become an immortal, there are still other ways."
Lu Yuan's brows furrowed, but he soon relaxed, then with a smile on his face, he took out a jade piece from his arms.
It was the fairy fate that I got from Sun Siwen.
It has been more than ten years since he got this fairy fate. But for such a long time, it has been stuck with no way out and has never been able to use it.
However, after obtaining the Taoist Book of Taiping and reading some of the immortal methods, Lu Yuan finally understood why he could not open the jade piece.
"Sure enough, as I thought before, this jade piece has been banned by the Immortal Family to protect the spiritual energy and information in the jade piece. If you want to open it, you must have special skills and divine consciousness."
Lu Yuan stroked the jade piece while flipping through the Taoist Book of Taiping.
This sect book contains many wonderful methods.
Among them, there are all kinds of methods such as incantations and spells, refining Qi and breathing, condensing spiritual consciousness, refining weapons, refining talismans, etc. It can be said that it is almost an encyclopedia of immortality.
Among these wonderful methods, there are records on how to open forbidden methods like jade pieces.
“However, to open the forbidden method, one must have the cooperation of divine consciousness.
Now that I don't have spiritual consciousness, even if I want to use it, it's hard for a clever woman to make a meal without straw, and I can't do it at all.
So I can only wait and wait until I break through the innate and condense the true meaning of martial arts. With this true meaning, I can rival the immortal consciousness.
Then you can try to open the jade piece. "
Lu Yuan and Yang Jing had a conversation before, and learned some descriptions of the true meaning of martial arts from each other.
At this time, when comparing it with the description of spiritual consciousness in Taiping Taoism, we found that these two spiritual powers are quite similar.
So it can be inferred from this that what the spiritual consciousness can do, the true meaning of martial arts should also be able to do.
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At that time, it will be natural to use the method of breaking the taboo in Taiping Taoism and use the true meaning of martial arts to open the jade piece.
“What can be confirmed now is that a large amount of fairy energy has been stored in this jade piece.
If I can open it, then relying on the energy of these immortal spirits, I may not necessarily need to gather millions of people to practice Taiping Taoism directly.
After all, the Taoist Book of Taiping says that it is necessary to gather a crowd, and the purpose is to use the power of bringing luck to the people, to offer sacrifices to the Tianzhu, and then to absorb the energy of the immortals and the essence of the sun, moon and stars from the sky, and use it for one's own cultivation.
Now that I have the spirit of a fairy, I can avoid this step. You can completely rely on the fairy spirit in the jade piece to directly practice Taiping Taoism.
As for the necessary power of gathering people and the power of luck when practicing Taoism, it is mentioned. I now have hundreds of thousands of people under my command, which is actually barely enough for cultivation. "
Lu Yuan was so deep in thought that his whole body became relaxed.
No matter what, he has many escape routes and many choices.
For him, there is a lot of room for solving the shortcomings of Taiping Taoism. He does not have to rigidly follow the rules and meet the requirements step by step before he can practice.
After reading the Taoist book a few more times and pondering the key to cultivation, Lu Yuan did not indulge in it. Instead, he put away the book, then took the jade piece and poured his inner energy into it, starting to purify it again.
Cultivation as an immortal is no longer a problem for him.
But if you want to become an immortal, you must first break through your innate abilities. Without the true meaning of martial arts, if the jade piece cannot be opened, everything will be lost.
Therefore, the first priority is to purify one's own internal strength to the limit, and then break through the innate.
Lu Yuan has always had a clear plan for himself, and he will not lose his mind at this time and abandon the fundamentals.
At that moment, he started practicing slowly.
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After practicing for a whole night, Lu Yuan felt that his inner strength was somewhat pure again.
At this time, I looked at the sky. It was already white and hazy outside, and it was already early morning.
Today is the beginning of the Dharma teaching meeting.
At that time, all Taoist schools from all over the world, except the six main Taoist schools, will come on stage to give lectures.
Yang Jing has mentioned before that listening to more lectures is of great benefit to cultivating the state of mind and breaking through the innate.
Lu Yuan was busy breaking through Xiantian at this time, so naturally he would not give up on this meeting.
So after putting away the jade pieces, he washed up a little, then went out to the canteen prepared by Ziyundao. After having breakfast, he followed the other Taoists who had breakfast together and went to the outer square.
When we arrived at the square, a lot of people had gathered.
Everyone took their seats according to the original position arrangement, and Taoist Master Ziyun and others had already arrived.
Seeing this, many Taoists did not dare to make any noise. After hurriedly taking their seats, they waited quietly.
Lu Yuan also returned to his place, and then met Qi Yun again after being separated for three days.
When he saw this fellow Taoist again, he found that he had a slight smile on his face and was obviously in a good mood.
At this time, Qi Yun saw Lu Yuan coming and greeted him quickly: "Fellow Daoist Lu, come and sit down quickly."
Lu Yuan smiled and nodded, and after sitting down, he joked: "Looking at the expressions on fellow Taoists, I think I have gained a lot in these three days. I must have gotten to know a lot of fellow Taoists."
Qi Yun smiled and said: "It is indeed a great harvest. I met several Taoist friends I haven't seen in ten years, and I also met some new Taoist friends. I traveled with them, talked about mysteries and Taoism, and gained a lot."
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Lu Yuan praised: "It seems that the Taoist friend's state of mind may have improved again. This time the attack is over, I must ask the Taoist friend for advice on the way back."
Qi Yun laughed: "If fellow Taoist is willing, I will naturally discuss Taoism with fellow Taoist."
"Then I'll be waiting for this day." Lu Yuan nodded with a smile, and then saw many Taoists arriving around him one after another.
Taoist Master Ziyun and others at the high platform also stood up from their seats and stood forward.
When many people below saw this, they all stopped whispering, and Lu Yuan was no exception.
"Fellow Taoists, after three days of gathering together, I think you have gained a lot and made a lot of friends from the same Taoism.
Now that three days have passed, *** will enter the next stage, teaching the Dharma.
We all have different practices, Taoism, and concepts.
Although there are differences, they are all from the same Taoist sect and the same people who seek immortality.
Therefore, in order to increase the knowledge of fellow Taoists in the world, and to resolve the disputes among the various schools of thought in the world, this Taoist school holds a Dharma lecture meeting.
Anyone who is interested in this can go on stage to give lectures on the Dharma, discuss their own Taoism and Dharma concepts, and promote the name of Taoism.
This meeting will last for five days. I hope that we can be calm, make friends with the Tao, become famous with the Dharma, and refrain from arguing. "
Taoist Zhenxuan gave a lecture, then looked at the many Taoists below who were looking eagerly, smiled slightly and said: "Then the Taoist announces that the lecture meeting will begin."
After saying that, he led the other five real people back to their seats.
As soon as they sat down, some of the many Taoists below jumped out impatiently.
Only a few soft sounds were heard, and then the sound broke through the air. People were already on four of the ten high platforms in front of them.
"The poor Taoist priest Dao Qingying will give a lecture today on how to ascend to the priesthood. I would like all fellow Taoists to give you some advice..."
"Peach Fairy Way..."
"The poor Taoist path of the ten directions..."
"The poor Taoist Feixia Tao..."
On the four Dharma platforms, the four Taoist masters who came up first had already begun to speak the Dharma.
With them taking the lead, some Taoist masters who were still hesitating no longer hesitated and flew forward to occupy the remaining six altars.
Because there were so many people going up there, there were even some Dharma platforms, and several Dharma groups gathered there, all wanting to teach Dharma here.
Some Dao lineages even had grudges against each other. When they came together, no one was willing to give in and started arguing.
Fortunately, Ziyundao has held countless meetings and was prepared for this situation. Soon someone came forward to mediate and asked the extra people to step down.
In this way, the lecture went on smoothly.
The purpose of this Dharma teaching meeting is to let the Dao lineage in the world promote their own Dharma and lineage, spread their fame, and be recognized by the Dao lineage in the world.
In such a conference, it is naturally impossible for people to occupy positions on the stage casually, so *** has its own rules.
Anyone who takes the stage to give a lecture will take one hour as a round. After each round of lectures, many comrades in the audience will be asked to vote.
Ten Dharma platforms and a thousand spectators.
Anyone who can get up to 100 votes can continue to speak on the stage for the last round.
In this way, anyone who can win three rounds will be considered advanced, and the winner can then participate in the next discussion meeting.
Therefore, for many people who take the stage to preach the Dharma, if your Dharma sermons are not profound and wonderful enough to attract enough votes from the audience, then not only will it fail to make you famous, but it will actually embarrass you and make you lose face.
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After all, if someone else has hundreds of votes and you have dozens or even a dozen votes, and they are all compared in front of everyone, this huge gap is enough to make people collapse.
Therefore, generally speaking, one will never go on stage to teach the Dharma without having some confidence and grasp of the Dharma.
At this time, the lecture on the stage had begun. Lu Yuan and Qi Yun followed the crowd to the nearest Dharma stage.
The person preaching on the stage at this time was Chixing Dao from Linhai County, Dai Viet.
The Taoist master is a middle-aged Taoist who is in his forties. His aura seems to be quite strong, and he should be of first-class and medium strength.
Lu Yuan listened to his lecture on Taoism. What he should practice was the Tao of the Stars, and the main recommendation was a red star among the stars in the sky. At this time, he preached how to understand the red star and how to observe and perform the method of the stars.
I have to say that this Red Star Taoist master is indeed very accomplished in Taoism, and the Taoism he preaches is indeed mysterious.
But the method taught by the other party is still too limited.
After listening to it twice, Lu Yuan felt that it was not of much use to improve his mood, so he turned and left.
Qi Yun, on the other hand, was quite interested in understanding the stars and stayed to listen to the lecture.
Then Lu Yuan went to the remaining nine Dharma platforms one by one. After they all listened carefully, he eliminated six more Dharma platforms.
In the end, only Shenguan Road, Shifang Road, and Qianzhe Road were left, which he chose as the main places to listen to lectures.
Among these three paths, the priest path was his favorite.
I have to say that the Qingying Taoist Master of the Priestly Way was able to open up such a great line and was highly praised by the Liang Dynasty. He was really capable.
The way he thought about cultivating Taoism, after excluding those who advocated being promoted to heaven and becoming an official, and ranking among the gods, there were still some spiritual cultivation methods, even martial arts cultivation methods, and even some innate insights, which were extremely beneficial. .
Lu Yuan was at the time of his breakthrough at this time, and needed all the above-mentioned insights and experiences. What Taoist Master Qingying said was the most suitable for him.
In the blink of an eye, three rounds of teachings were over.
On the ten stages, the promotion spots were quickly determined.
There is no doubt that the Priest Dao received the most votes in the three rounds and now ranks first in teaching performance.
Then Shifang Dao and Taoxian Dao followed closely behind.
Feixia Dao, another player who came to power in the first round, survived two rounds before losing in the third round. It’s not just it, there are also many failures in other upper Dao meridians.
Some of them didn't even survive the first round, and were completely humiliated in front of their peers all over the world.
So after seeing such a tragic situation, some Taoists who wanted to go on stage to teach the Dharma became much more cautious, and the number of people on stage was greatly reduced.
These Taoists who want to compete for fame are making careful calculations in private, feeling uneasy and greatly distressed.
However, Lu Yuan and other people who listened to the Dharma were mesmerized and indulged in it.
During the five-day Dharma lecture meeting, Lu Yuan stopped at more than ten Dharma platforms one after another and listened to the Dharma lectures of more than a dozen Taoist masters who agreed with him. After that, his state of mind improved rapidly.
As Yang Jing said, listening to the teachings of those Taoist masters is really of great benefit to breakthroughs in innateness.
At this time, Lu Yuan listened to the whole scene and felt that his innate confidence in breaking through had improved a lot.
If it was said before that he only had a 60% chance of breaking through Xiantian, then now it is at least 70%.
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Although it only increased by 10%, this was a breakthrough!
Being able to increase the probability a little bit when breaking through this realm is something worthy of joy and celebration for a warrior.
What makes people even happier is that this Dharma lecture meeting is not just the end.
After the lecture, there is a more exciting discussion session.
So after listening to the Dharma lectures for five days and going back to rest for a night, Lu Yuan was full of energy and full of expectations, waiting for the next round of Dharma discussion meetings.
In the previous five days of lectures, nearly a hundred Taoists came to the stage, from twenty-three countries in the world, as well as from overseas regions. However, in the end, only a handful of companies were able to successfully survive the three rounds and advance to the Dharma Discussion Conference.
As for the meeting on Dharma, the Six Dao Lines also ended up in person. In order to reflect the respect of the Six Dao Lines, they all had a fixed Dharma platform and did not need to participate in the previous Dharma lectures.
So in other words, if there are eleven families left, if they want to stay on the Dharma platform, they can only fight for the remaining four Dharma platforms.
From eleven to four, seven companies need to be eliminated, with an elimination rate of more than 60%.
In order to ensure that their own Taoists could stay and gain the reputation of being among the top ten in Dharma theory, the eleven Taoists who were promoted naturally used all their abilities and fought hard.
Such a battle between dragons and tigers naturally made the audience watch it wonderfully, especially some of the exquisite Taoist theories, which made people secretly amazed and amazed.
The Dharma discussion meeting lasted for six days, with one Dharma discussion every half day, and there were four Dharma platforms, for a total of forty-eight sessions. The audience watched forty-eight wonderful discussions.
As for the Six Great Principles, naturally no one is ignorant and dares to play games.
But in order to show their own strength, no one from the Six Great Paths came to discuss the Dharma, but they would also explain some of their own Dharma practice experiences.
However, the experiences they talk about are different from those of other Taoists. They move away from the real to the imaginary, and are more mysterious and mysterious. Just like the Taoist scriptures, there are always some things that people cannot understand.
Lu Yuan heard from the audience next to him that the Tao and Dharma taught in the Six Great Principles are all based on the experience of cultivating the mind.
This is a true fairy tale, so it has gathered many listeners.
Those who came to the meeting were all people from Taoist sects, and their lifelong practice was to seek immortality. Now that someone was talking about the magical method of the immortal family, it naturally attracted everyone to gather.
But no matter how many people gather together, there is no immortal magic in their hands, and there is no immortal spirit in their hands. So what can they do if they hear it?
There is nothing I can do except make myself even more disappointed and sad.
Lu Yuan, on the other hand, secretly became worried when he learned that this was a Taoist from the Six Great Paths who was talking about his experience in cultivating immortals.
The Taoists around him couldn't cultivate immortality, but he could.
For Lu Yuan, being able to listen to other people's experiences in cultivating immortals at this time would undoubtedly help him avoid detours in his future cultivation.
So he didn't even look at the noisy and heated debates next to him.
Lu Yuan cheered up and began to listen to the other party's experience of the immortal magic under the altar of the Six Great Paths.
Then I listened to it continuously and was confused.
As mentioned before, these experiences of cultivating immortals are really like Taoist scriptures. If you don’t practice them specifically, you have no idea what the other person is talking about.
Even if you can understand some nouns, you can't understand the subtleties.
But even so, Lu Yuan did not give up, but continued to listen carefully, trying his best to write down everything he heard, and then went back and compiled it into notes.
Such a forced memorization of what the Six Great Principles said allowed him to memorize five, five, six, six, and write a thick book, which was a great harvest.
And under this painful and busy schedule, the six-day Dharma discussion meeting finally passed.
Time has come to the last day and the last link of ***.
Proclaim the law.
At this time, all the real people from the Six Great Paths will perform on the stage.
Demonstrate to the many Taoists in the audience what the true immortal method is, and declare why you can sit in this position.
Who wouldn’t envy the Taoism and methods of the Immortal Family?
To put it bluntly, countless people come here to participate in the ***.
So that day.
Lu Yuan, like many other Taoists, led them to the square.
