In the 602nd year of the Shenting calendar, Lu You and Guan Xuanyue finally found the star where ancestor Cangjie lived in seclusion.
The stars where Cangjie settled were very remote and far away from the New World.
Lu You and Guan Xuanyue received tips from Yu Zong, the son of the Red Emperor, and relied on the Galaxy to continuously tear the starry sky, and finally found a hidden star in the depths of the universe.
This hidden star was wrapped in thick clouds, making it impossible to see what was going on inside. But it has a special feature, that is, the clouds outside have thirteen colors, which completely matches Yugang's description.
Lu You circled around the clouds, opened his eyes, and saw a complex fairy formation hidden in the clouds, so he did not dare to cut into the formation easily.
After observing for a long time, he finally found the "Array Gate".
Immortal formation masters will leave formation doors when setting up a large formation, and there will be at least two, which are equivalent to the front and back doors of a house. When the immortal formation is about to be breached, you can quickly evacuate.
Lu You did not forcefully break the formation because his skill had only reached the late stage of Immortal Lord and had not yet advanced to Immortal King.
Ancestor Cangjie was once an Immortal Emperor. Although his physical body died, he practiced for many years and probably recovered the cultivation level of an Immortal Emperor.
Moreover, Patriarch Cangjie may have some powerful subordinates. With his reputation, wouldn’t it be easy to find several Immortal Lords and Immortal Kings as assistants?
Therefore, if Lu You forced his way in, it would be tantamount to seeking death.
He threw a jade slip into the formation through the formation gate as a greeting card, indicating that he came from China, found the tomb of Cangjie ancestor, and protected the stone tomb.
Then he waited patiently outside the clouds.
This wait lasted two years.
Two years later, the gate of the formation opened, and a tall Immortal King appeared.
This person is two meters tall, with a long upper body and a short lower body. His ears are back and close to his head. His body is leaning forward and slightly hunched over. He gives people a sense of humility and nobility, and looks like he has the world in mind.
He opened his mouth and said: "Who do you respect in Xia Confucius?"
Lu You was startled: "Master Kong Sheng? Are you always here? Junior Lu You, pay your respects to the saint."
Confucius smiled calmly and said: "You are talking about a saint. Qiu is just an ordinary monk. Which dynasty are you from? I heard that there was a Lu You in the Song Dynasty. Is that you?"
"No, I am a junior, born more than 900 years later than Lu You."
"Come with me. Patriarch Cangjie wants to see you."
So, Lu You followed Confucius through the clouds and landed on a vast plain.
Looking at it, the population living here is not large, probably no more than 100,000.
There is a square royal city on the plain. There are many villages dotted outside the city, where Linggu Lingdou is grown. There are palaces and bungalows in the city.
While observing the surrounding scene, Lu You seized the opportunity to talk to Confucius: "Sage Kong, the Confucianism you pioneered once ruled China for two or three thousand years. Even ten thousand years later, there are still people studying the knowledge you left behind. It's a pity that people only I know how to read the Analects of Confucius, but I don’t know how to practice.”
Confucius said: "Qiu didn't know the importance of it in his early years and compiled several books. It was spread to the world and led many scholars astray. I am ashamed."
"I would like to ask Saint Kong, how did you become an Immortal King step by step when you left China in 479 BC?"
"Qiu studied scriptures at the Beihai library and found the runes left by Patriarch Cangjie. He embarked on the road to immortality by studying the runes."
"Sage Kong, after so many years, have you revised the Confucian scriptures?"
Kong Qiu waved his hand: "I have no intention of doing this for the time being. After the great tribulation is over, if I can return to the Middle Earth, I may still try."
The two walked into the royal city and came to a palace.
Lu You only took a glance and found that the palace was a wooden magical artifact, well made, with carved beams and painted beams. He didn't know who made it.
Confucius walked in front and entered the main hall.
Sitting in the hall was a middle-aged man with long hair shawl, big square ears, and a black beard. The most peculiar thing is that he has four eyes! The four eyebrows look very weird!
Lu You was not too surprised when he saw it, because it was recorded in the history books that Cangjie had "four eyes with a dragon face". It was precisely because of his four eyes that he could clearly see the surrounding scene, extract countless runes from them, and create beautiful paintings. Chinese characters.
Behind the ancestor of Cangjie stood two beauties, one named "Gui Ye" and the other named "Tian Yu".
Confucius brought Lu You in, cupped his hands and said, "Master, this is the Lu You who submitted the invitation before."
Ancestor Cangjie nodded: "Lu You, do you still have the coffin I left behind?"
Lu You bowed and replied: "It is still here. I will move it to the Lu family's ancestral grave and let it enjoy the incense."
"You didn't open the coffin?"
"Never. I don't dare."
"Have you seen the talisman I left behind?"
"seen."
"How much have you learned?"
"It's not satisfactory. I'm not very qualified and have many things that I don't understand."
Ancestor Cangjie paused for a moment and said, "What is the situation in China now?"
Lu You replied: "I don't know either."
"How could you not know?"
"I led my family to refine the mountain peaks on which we stood, and collected them together with the surrounding land a hundred miles into the magic weapon, and then fled the Middle-earth with the magic weapon, temporarily avoiding the catastrophe." Of course he would not say that he included Yuxu Peak Hongmeng Pearl, and then hide the Hongmeng Pearl in the shadow of the jade dish of creation.
Ancestor Cangjie sighed and said: "Chinese-Earth is a holy land. Once you leave, it is equivalent to admitting defeat. It is difficult to have a chance to turn around."
Lu You asked: "Excuse me, ancestor, will you restore the cultivation status of the Immortal Emperor?"
Cang Jie sighed softly: "What if you have recovered, so what if you have not recovered? In the last divine calamity, the Wu family has failed. The gods and demons used the power of victory to occupy the Holy Land of Middle-earth and establish themselves in an invincible position."
"Ancestor, why don't you contact the Five Emperors of Green, Red, Yellow, White and Black to join forces to counterattack and retake Middle-earth?"
"It's useless. The way of heaven is changing, and history is progressing. The past is gone, and there is no way to go back. As a book, you can't go far, and as a way, you have to move again and again. Changes are constant, there are six voids, up and down are impermanent, only change is suitable. .”
"Ancestor, are you willing to admit defeat?"
"Our generation is no longer good. There is no chance of restoration. But you are still young and carry a strange vitality. As long as you practice hard, you may have a chance in the future."
Lu You bowed and said: "Ancestor, I want to worship you as my teacher. Please teach me the magic so that I can broaden my horizons, seek innovation and change, improve my skills, and find opportunities to defeat gods and demons."
Patriarch Cangjie looked him up and down and said, "I have stopped accepting disciples a long time ago." He turned to look at Confucius and asked, "How about letting him become your disciple?"
Confucius shook his head: "Master, everyone knows that I have 72 disciples. I don't want to accept any more disciples."
Ancestor Cangjie said: "In that case, there is no need to become a disciple. Lu You, if you have any questions, just ask, and I will answer as many questions as I can."
Lu You said: "Thank you, ancestor, for giving me this opportunity."
So from then on, Lu You and Guan Xuanyue stayed here to learn runes and various classics from Cangjie and Confucius.
Cangjie mastered the classics including Three Tombs, Five Canons, Eight Suo and Nine Hills. Confucius was also a master of poetry, calligraphy, rituals, music, and Yi Chunqiu. Both of them have extremely deep backgrounds.
Lu You learned from them, not just copying the gourd, but like a sponge, absorbing things that are beneficial to him. Stones from other mountains can be used to attack jade. Only by accumulation can he achieve breakthroughs based on the work of his predecessors.
He was not a stingy person, and from time to time he took out the dragon seal, phoenix text, ghost talisman, and linjie obtained by the Lu family to discuss with the two immortal masters.
His skill improved very quickly. In less than a year, he broke through the bottleneck of the peak Immortal King and became the first-level Immortal King.
Here Lu You met Confucius' disciples Yan Hui, Liang Yu, Zeng Shen, Zigong, and Zixia, as well as the great scholars Zheng Xuan and Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty, and even the great scholars Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi, Su Shi, and Sima Guang of the Song Dynasty, and Lu Jiuyuan and Wang Yangming of the Ming Dynasty. .
He felt strange: "The Song Dynasty was already an era of spiritual catastrophe. Aren't these people all dead? Why did they come back to life after death? And they can still be found here?"
He took the time to get in touch with these people and learned that they had indeed died back then, but because they had cultivated awe-inspiring righteousness during their lifetimes, their souls remained immortal after death. They were cared for by King Yama, and were instructed by judges Wei Zheng, Zhong Kui and others to become ghosts in the underworld. The Immortal Queen returned to the human world without drinking Po Meng's tea, entered her mother's womb, became a human body, and then cultivated into an immortal.
The Tenth Palace of Hell also eats the fireworks of the world, and is also influenced by Confucianism.
For example, the king of hell in the first hall is named Jiang, who was Jiang Xin during the Eastern Han Dynasty; the king of hell in the fifth hall is named Bao, and it is said that he is Bao Zheng, who is familiar to the world. With these great figures protecting them in the underworld, it is not surprising that Confucian monks would be reincarnated into immortals. What's more, the time is long enough. The Shenting Calendar is 604 years, which is equivalent to 14,260 AD. Even Wang Yangming has been dead for more than 10,000 years. Such a long time is enough for various changes to occur.
Lu You learned a lot by staying here, and there was no fighting here, so it was suitable for quiet practice and improvement of skills, so he was in no hurry to leave.
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Qiniao State, Luming Villa.
As more and more fairy jade balls from the Lu family were buried in the soil, the fairy spirit veins continued to be derived, and the functions of the mountain protection formation became more and more complete. As of the 600th year of the Shenting calendar, it had reached 47 levels of prohibition.
Luming Villa became famous far and wide and became a famous forbidden place of death.
Its reputation extended outwards from Qiniao Prefecture, gradually spread to Eight Bird Prefectures and Nine Birds Prefectures, and reached the ears of ancestor Hongjun.
Ancestor Hongjun summoned his disciples Yuanshi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun and Taishang Laojun, and told them: "This great catastrophe is in the ascendant and has not yet ended. I want to keep all places in a state of disorder, rather than drawing the ground as a prison." Separate regimes. For example, Luming Villa is like a nail stuck in the center of Qiniao State. Its existence affects the direction of the great catastrophe. There are similar nails in Liu Niao State, Qiniao State and Eight Bird State. I You need to send someone to pull out these nails!”
The Shenting Tribulation carefully planned by ancestor Hongjun used nine jade discs of good fortune as a medium to collect as many immortal souls as possible. According to his idea, at least 70% of the immortal souls must be collected and the nine good fortune jade discs should be collected. Only when the jade plates are put together can the purpose of integrating the order of the world of immortals, Buddhas, demons, demons and ghosts be achieved.
And more importantly, after the nine jade discs collect enough souls, after a long period of decomposition and evolution, they can extract various laws of heaven and even refine some strange elixirs. As long as Patriarch Hongjun swallows the elixir and the laws of heaven, he can achieve a breakthrough in his own realm.
The problem was that his plan was disrupted and five jade disks of good fortune were lost out of thin air. As a last resort, he copied several more jade plates of good fortune, hoping to continue the tribulation of Shenting.
Existences like Luming Villa have brought about the death of a large number of immortals, but in the images of immortal immortality formed after their deaths, their souls have not been included in the jade disc of creation!
This result was not what Patriarch Hongjun expected. Therefore, he issued an order to have three disciples pull out these nails!
As a result, the next few Jiazi, Yuanshi Tianzun, Lingbao Tianzun, and Taishang Laojun each sent a large number of disciples to attack Luming Villa in turn.
In the 605th year of the Shenting calendar, Zhang Daoling, a registered disciple of Taishang Laojun, led 500 immortals to attack Luming Villa. The result was like a meat bun beating a dog, they all fell into the formation and died inside!
In the 606th year of the Shenting calendar, Master Du'e, the third disciple of Taishang Laojun, led his disciple Zheng Lun and 630 immortals to jointly attack Luming Villa.
Du'e Zhenren practices in the Eight Treasures Cloud Light Cave in Jiuding Tiecha Mountain. He has profound Taoism and is a high-level immortal king. He possesses the Immortal family's magic weapon, the Wind-fixing Bead. During the Conferring God War, he lent the Wind-fixing Bead to San Yishenghe. Taoist Cihang helped Jiang Ziya break the Wind Roar Formation, one of the ten unique formations, and also broke the wind bag of Jie Jiao Han Zhixian.
Master Du'e once taught Zheng Lun the magic of breathing white light into the nose, and taught Li Jing the five-element escape technique. Both apprentices went down to the mountain to become officials and became generals under King Zhou of Shang. However, they later turned against Shang and protected Zhou. King Wu's army defeated Zhou, and later Li Jing became a disciple of Taoist Ran Deng, who taught Chan, and became the famous figure, the King of Tota.
This time, King Tota did not come. Because after he joined Buddhism, he was enlightened by Taoist Ran Deng, and deliberately stayed away from Jiu Niao State, the core of Xianmen. He even mortgaged the artifact pagoda in exchange for gold powder to improve his skills, and hid in the Western Paradise for meditation.
Master Du'e led the immortals to attack Luming Villa. The immortal formation he saw at first seemed very simple, with light wind and calm clouds, and calm waves, just like a silent lake.
However, after he led the immortals into the great formation, he was like peeling an onion, layer by layer, getting deeper and deeper, and gradually fell into the mud. His eyes could not see objects, and there were countless filaments of laws around him, which looked like Like a mess.
630 immortals were trapped in the formation, unable to advance or retreat. They were frightened and confused.
At this moment, a big cauldron suddenly flew over and hovered above their heads; there were hundreds of flying swords flying around in the formation; there were tiny sun needles, seamless and without drilling; there were fairy ropes and dragon bindings. They appear and disappear in the great formation; there are eight-view palace lanterns and Bailing banners to restrain the escaped souls...
These immortals didn't even see what their opponents looked like, and they fell one by one!
Master Du'e threw the Wind-fixing Pearl and hit it towards the center of the formation!
His Wind-Fixing Bead is of a very high level, with 42 levels of restrictions. He has defeated many Immortal Lords and Immortal Kings with the Wind-Fixing Bead.
However, this time, the Fixed Wind Bead penetrated the multi-layered formation and disappeared!
He chanted the spell again and again, but failed to summon the Fengfeng Pearl back.
Seeing the immortals falling one after another, he realized that something was wrong, so he turned around and wanted to leave. However, it was already too late. Three golden dragon scissors flew from the air, cutting the neck at the top, the waist in the middle, and the feet at the bottom. He continued to attack.
Master Du'e was restrained by the formation and moved very slowly. In the end, his legs were cut off. Unable to bear the humiliation, he roared and exploded his body!
There was a "boom" sound, and the formation was affected, just like waves on the lake. It took a long time to calm down.
Because it self-destructed in a large formation, not even the smoke pillar of the Immortal Meteor Elephant rose up.
(End of chapter)
