When the Empress of Heaven paid homage to the Lucena Buddha at the Longmen Grottoes in Luoyang, Wang Yi, who had just climbed the snow mountain for the first time, became a monk at the fifth level of Qi Gathering in one day.
Even Ye Xiaoqian also broke through to the third level.
One day, the couple opened the door that had been blocked for many years.
Only then did he understand that Xiaoguang had been laughing at him and Jin Wuming as scum. Only then did he understand why he had clearly understood the sword intention, but could not use that momentum.
Or my strength is too weak.
Li Xiuyuan looked at him and smiled: "I don't have any expectations for you, as long as you don't become the second shopkeeper Wang, otherwise I will kill you with my own hands."
Wang Yi was startled and quickly replied: "That is absolutely impossible."
He knew in his heart that neither the former big shopkeeper nor the later shopkeeper Wang were the same type of people as him.
Ye Xiaoqian nodded and smiled: "Even if my husband can't be a great hero, he won't be a villain like the big shopkeeper."
Li Xiuyuan nodded: "There is a vegetable garden on the mountain, there is spiritual tea behind, and there are apricot trees on the mountain road. From now on, you and your wife can go up the mountain freely."
"In spring, you need to pick some flowers and beat some fruits from the apricot trees. In autumn, you need to cut off the excess branches and don't let them grow too tall. The same goes for the tea trees behind..."
Li Xiuyuan looked at He said seriously: "These are all about cultivating the mind and practice. The inn can train another little shopkeeper."
Now that the couple has embarked on the path of spiritual practice, Li Xiuyuan has no choice but to show them the way forward.
Wang laughed when he heard this: "Why don't you, sir, live in this magical place?"
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan said seriously: "The building in front is my place. You and your wife can live in the building at the back. The mountains are rich in aura and are suitable for practice."
Ye Xiaoqian was a little confused and couldn't help but ask, "Sir, are you going on a long trip?"
"That's not true. I just practice Buddhism at the Yuhua Temple in the Imperial City. If you have anything to do, you can go find me there. I shouldn't leave Chang'an in the next few decades."
If Juier is still in Luoyang, he will not leave Chang'an.
This was his promise to Jue'er, even though nothing unexpected had happened over the years.
But there is no guarantee that one day the scene in front of Weiyang Palace will appear. He wants to stay in Chang'an City so that the Queen of Heaven in Luoyang can find him when she encounters trouble.
And he didn't need to explain these truths to the couple in front of him.
It was Li Xiuyuan who helped Wang Yi and Ye Xiaoqian embark on the path of cultivation, but he still refused to let himself have any karma with the two of them.
Taking advantage of the good spring weather, Li Xiuyuan took Wang Yi and Ye Xiaoqian to the mountains to pick flowers.
All the way up the mountain, Li Xiuyuan pointed to the monastery at the foot of the mountain and said, "You can't eat all the apricots in this mountain. When the day comes for picking, let the monks from down the mountain come up and pick most of them."
Wang Yi thought about Li Xiuyuan practicing Buddhism in Yuhua Temple and nodded: "I remember this."
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From then on, the years of Wang Yi and Ye Xiaoqian practicing Taoism on the snow-capped mountains began.
Every month, the couple spends half of their time in the world of mortals in the imperial city, and the other half of their time returns to the mountains to practice.
Whenever Wang Fan encountered something he didn't understand, he went to Yuhua Temple to ask Li Xiuyuan for advice, completely treating Li Xiuyuan as his master and respecting him.
It's just that Li Xiuyuan has never agreed to the couple's status, saying that they are just friends.
Years passed by, and some changes occurred in Chang'an Palace and Luoyang East Capital, but they did not allow Li Xiuyuan to step out of Yuhua Temple.
In the second year of Yongchun, Wang Yi had been practicing on the snow mountain for more than ten years, and both the husband and wife had broken through to the golden elixir realm.
In this year, Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi returned to Dongdu from Fengtian Palace. His condition worsened and he died in December of the same year.
The last edict before his death: Prince Li Xian ascended the throne in front of the coffin. Military and state affairs that cannot be decided will be decided by the Queen of Heaven.
four days later
, Li Xian ascended the throne, which was for the Tang Dynasty
Zong, respected Wu Zetian as the empress dowager.
In February of the first year of Sisheng, Li Xian, Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty, listened to Empress Wei's advice and wanted to appoint his father Wei Xuanzhen as his minister, but Pei Yan stopped him.
In anger, Empress Dowager Wu Zetian deposed Zhongzong Li Xian as King of Luling and moved to Fangzhou. Instead, she made her fourth son, King of Yu Li Dan, Emperor Ruizong of Tang Dynasty.
From then on, Wu Zetian came to rule the dynasty.
In September of the first year of Zaichu, officials and people of the Tang Dynasty, clan relatives, leaders of various barbarians, ascetics, and Taoist priests petitioned Wu Zetian to change the country's name to Zhou and give the emperor the surname Wu.
Li Dan also asked to be given the surname Wu.
On September 9th, the Queen ascended the Zetian Gate Tower to grant a general amnesty to the world, changing the Tang Dynasty to the Zhou Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty to Tianshou. The capital was Luoyang, the divine capital, with Chang'an as the companion capital.
On Yiyou day of the same month, the emperor was named Holy Emperor, and seven temples of the Wu family were established in the capital of the gods.
Since the death of Emperor Gaozong, and the death of the honest monk at the hands of the big shopkeeper, the queen saw that her beauty was about to decline in old age, and she became as rude as the emperor.
Brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong were young and beautiful, often painted with vermilion powder and dressed in gorgeous clothes.
Time has passed, and the queen is in her twilight years. At this time, the queen cannot go to court for a long time, and her control over government affairs has declined, so she uses the two brothers as her eyes and ears.
Er Zhang gradually intervened in the government affairs and framed the prime minister Wei Yuanzhong. Not only did he have a grudge against the ministers, but he also reversed the situation of Wu Zetian returning to Li Tang and passing on the throne to the crown prince.
This complicated the political situation and made the relationship between monarch and ministers more tense than ever.
At this time, Wang Yi, who was already in the realm of Nascent Soul, had been living on the snow-capped mountains all year round. Even Ye Xiaoqian had invited the shopkeeper, and he only stayed in the imperial city for two months a year.
Even though Duo'er is getting old, Li Xiuyuan from Yuhua Temple still has no plans to go to Luoyang.
Until the first month of the first year of Shenlong, the queen was bedridden in the Jixian Hall of Yingxian Palace, with only brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong at her side.
Knowing that she didn't have much time left, the Queen finally wrote a secret letter to her brother in Yuhua Temple.
Prime Minister Zhang Jianzhi contacted the queen's three children: the third son Li Xian, the fourth son Li Dan, the youngest daughter Princess Taiping, and a group of civil servants and generals to force the palace.
Pretending that Er Zhang was treason. So he launched a coup and led more than 500 imperial troops to rush into the palace, killed two Zhangs, and then surrounded the Jixian Palace.
The queen was forced to live in Zen in Li Xian, and then moved to Shangyang Palace.
After Li Xian was restored to power, he led hundreds of officials to the Guanfeng Hall to inquire about Wu Zetian's daily life. From then on, he went there every ten days.
Wu Zetian was also given the title "Great Sage Emperor Zetian", and the Wu Zhou Dynasty came to an end. In February, the Tang Dynasty was restored. All officials, flags, uniforms, and characters were restored to the old system, and the capital was renamed the Eastern Capital.
On November 26, the first year of Shenlong's reign, it snowed heavily.
A black carriage drove into Shangyang Palace, and Li Xiuyuan, dressed in black, came on the snow and dismissed all the palace maids and eunuchs with a wave of his hand.
The heavy palace door slowly closed, and a rune separated the inside and outside of the hall into two worlds.
Arriving at the Queen's bedside, Juier reached out and held Li Xiuyuan's hand and asked, "Brother, is Juier going to die?"
Li Xiuyuan did not answer her question, but asked: "Do you still remember your original intention of practicing on the snow mountain?"
The Queen nodded feebly and replied: "Jue'er wants to be a king who is not inferior to men, and a woman who stands upright. Jue'er also has to do what men can do."
Li Xiuyuan poured a glass of spiritual wine and fed her to drink it slowly.
Then he smiled calmly: "So today, do you regret it?"
The Queen thought for a while and replied: "Jue'er has no regrets. If we really want to discuss this matter, Jue'er only regrets not being able to go to the desert with her brother."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and asked: "The scenery here has become lonely, what are your unfulfilled wishes?"
After the Queen drank a glass of spiritual wine, she seemed to have regained her former vitality, and the skin on her face that looked like a dead tree gradually became smoother.
It's just that she can't see it yet.
Think about it, female
The emperor sighed and said: "Jue'er thinks about it before returning to the snow mountain. Even if
If I want to leave this world, I have to go to the wooden house where I once lived..."
"as you wish!"
Li Xiuyuan smiled and said: "I will take you home right now..."
A piece of talisman paper fell and a piece of talisman paper was attached to the Queen's body. Li Xiuyuan reenacted the scene in the Great Zhou Palace that year.
With a gust of breeze, the palace door slowly opened, and Li Xiuyuan, dressed in black, walked away on the snow.
On that day, a burst of mournful cries came from the Xianju Hall of Shangyang Palace. The Empress of the Tang Dynasty and the Empress of the Zhou Dynasty passed away at the age of eighty-two.
The imperial edict omitted the imperial title and called it "The Great Sage Queen of Zetian", and pardoned the relatives of Queen Wang, Xiao Shufei and Chu Suiliang, Han Yuan and Liu Shi.
In May of the second year of Shenlong, he was buried in the Qianling Mausoleum with Gaozong.
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Above the snow-capped mountains, the cold wind blows.
Li Xiuyuan asked Wang Yi to take Ye Xiaoqian down the mountain back to No. 46 early. Travel in the snow-capped mountains was prohibited.
After lighting a charcoal fire and brewing a pot of spiritual tea, Jui'er, who had regained her vitality, looked at the blooming winter plums in the garden and was speechless for a moment.
Li Xiuyuan looked at her and smiled: "Your master will return to Chang'an soon..."
Jue'er, who is no longer the queen, nodded and said with a wry smile: "Brother, Jue'er seems to have had a dream, woke up from the dream, and returned to here."
Li Xiuyuan brought her a cup of spiritual tea, and he also picked up the cup and took a sip.
Pointing to the plum blossoms in the garden, he said: "Even these winter plum blossoms that bloom in the wind will wither one day, let alone the emperor, the honest monk you once liked, the Zhang brothers and countless other handsome men..."
When Jue'er heard this, she immediately lowered her head.
After a long while, he replied: "I'm just not willing to be a woman. Why can't I do what the emperor can do?"
Li Xiuyuan chuckled: "So what about the emperor? Emperor Gaozu had not abdicated when I came, and now even Emperor Gaozong is no longer here."
"And you are still here, I am still here, this world is still here, and even your senior sister left the mortal world behind and went to Penglai to practice."
Li Xiuyuan sighed and said: "In front of the Avenue of Immortality, the imperial power and wealth in the world are just a passing cloud."
After thinking about it, Li Xiuyuan said to him again: "I have a friend who was once the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty. He almost died in the Buddhist temple on this snow mountain..."
Jue'er was stunned when she heard this: "So the monk in the desert was the emperor back then? No wonder my brother didn't want to go back to Chang'an after going to the desert."
Li Xiuyuan chuckled: "It's not because of him. That is a very long-standing story. That guy is just a drop in the ocean in the long river of time."
Li Xiuyuan didn't tell her the story of Da Qin. It was too far away and couldn't be told in three days and three nights.
The two drank two courses of tea. Li Xiuyuan looked at her and said seriously: "The Queen Mother of the Tang Dynasty is dead. You are now Jui'er and no longer the queen of the world."
"Jue'er understands. Brother, do I want to go to Penglai with the master?"
Now Juerru has returned to his youthful days, and just wants to stay on the snow-capped mountains and practice with his brother.
"It shouldn't be necessary."
Li Xiuyuan took out a space ring and handed it to Duo'er, teaching her how to use it until Duo'er's face showed a look of shock and joy.
Li Xiuyuan then said: "I have placed the guqin you placed in the palace here, as well as some spiritual stones and gold coins..."
Jue'er was shocked and couldn't help complaining: "Why didn't brother give me such a fun thing earlier?"
Shaking his head, Li Xiuyuan shook his head and said, "These things should not appear in this world. If you are in the palace, I will naturally not give them to you."
Jue'er nodded: "What about junior sister? Has she had one before?"
"I didn't give it to her, and your master wouldn't give it to her either. Qingyu will give it to her after we go to Penglai."
Li Xiuyuan said: "Now you should understand what is a passing cloud, right?"
