Time flies, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye.
It was 853 AD, which was also the seventh year of Emperor Xuanzong's reign.
After seven years of continuous governance, today's Tang Dynasty has restored some of the style of its heyday.
The country is peaceful and peaceful inside, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there are few famines and locust famines.
The country has paid more than 9.25 million yuan this year, of which more than 5.5 million yuan is for rent, more than 820,000 yuan for wine, and 2.78 million yuan for salt.
Externally, there is the powerful general Zhang Yichao who regained the Hexi states and made the Hexi Corridor unobstructed.
At the same time, the Japanese monk Yuan Zhen came to the Tang Dynasty to seek Dharma, and seemed to be restoring the majesty of the Tang Dynasty.
However, only Pei Wende, who knew the history, knew that this was most likely the last time the Tang Dynasty returned to glory.
Fifty years at most, that is, around 907 AD.
A large-scale peasant uprising will completely destroy the foundation of the Tang Dynasty and eventually lead China to fall into the darkest Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period in history.
It wasn't until Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin and Chen Qiao mutinied and the Yellow Robes were adopted that the divided China was reunited.
Of course, what will happen fifty years later will not have any impact on Pei Wende now.
At this moment, Pei Wende was concentrating on the most important breakthrough in his life at the waterfall in the back mountain that was renamed "Miyin Temple".
Even if there are no visions of heaven and earth, there will be no shaking of earth or mountains...
When Pei Wende opened his eyes again, he had successfully broken through the limits of the Yin Shen Dharma and passed through the sea of suffering that countless practitioners have never gone through in their lives.
As has been emphasized before, the so-called "sea of suffering" is not a bottleneck, but a brand new unknown.
It is a process that countless practitioners continue to explore the unknown after they have cultivated the Yinshen Dharma and understand that the road ahead is endless.
Before Li Xuan became the Yang God, most practitioners believed that the Yin God's Dharma was the limit of living beings.
If you want to go further, you must abandon your knowledge of being a living being and use the power of incense belief to forcibly transform yourself into a member of ghosts and gods.
Although most ghosts and gods may only possess Yin Shen Dharma-level power, no one can deny that their upper limit is indeed much higher than that of ordinary creatures.
Powerful ghosts and gods that are almost like natural disasters are not uncommon among the entire group of ghosts and gods.
It wasn't until Li Xuan found another way and took a path of "refining the void and combining the Tao" that he was able to gain powerful authority as a mortal that ordinary ghosts and gods could not reach.
The most important thing is that Li Xuan's Yang Shen broke the boundary between life and death and became a being that even ghosts and gods would envy.
Even under the influence of Li Xuan, the strongest ghosts and gods such as Taishan Fujun gave up their lofty positions and reincarnated into living beings, intending to use the path opened by Li Xuan to break through the limits of ghosts and gods.
Even Li Xuan, a mortal, was able to grasp the power of nature from scratch.
So the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth, who are part of nature, naturally want to expand their scope of authority and become the almost omnipotent true gods before Jedi Tiantong.
Before Zhuanxu destroyed heaven and put an end to promiscuous heirs, all living beings had not yet sprouted the dawn of civilization in the true sense.
With their wisdom at the time, they were completely unable to understand the trajectory and logic of this world.
Therefore, they believe that there is an omnipotent Creator in the world, who controls everything in the world, and who is the master of all spirits and living beings.
This is the first ghost and god, and also the first true god.
However, with the advancement of civilization and the understanding of all things by all living beings, they began to distinguish between things that they could not understand.
As a result, original ghosts and gods such as the fire god Zhurong and the water god Gonggong were born.
Although these ghosts and gods also condense the faith of all living beings, they are no longer as omniscient and omnipotent as the original Creator.
In other words, all living beings at that time had instinctively realized that there was no truly omniscient and omnipotent being in this world.
Therefore, after Zhuanxu eliminated the power of heaven and eliminated adulterous heirs, the gods on the land of China were no longer lofty.
All the creatures and civilizations born on this land are no longer lambs raised by God.
As history has developed to this day, the level of civilization is still improving, and the wisdom of all living beings is also constantly improving.
Naturally, the original ghosts and gods that were originally regarded as "sacred" gradually lost their sense of mystery and became entities that were deciphered and analyzed in the process of the rise of civilization.
In fact, nowadays, except for gods like Taishan Fujun who control "life and death", most of the original ghosts and gods have had their authority dismembered.
This is inevitable and the price of the rise of civilization.
From ignorance to understanding, from confusion to clarity, from ignorance to awareness...
As human beings understand the laws of nature more and more, one day, even the power of "death and life" will be taken back from the hands of Taishan Mansion Lord.
Born in the belief of all living beings, but do not want to die due to the belief of all living beings.
Some of the original ghosts and gods who had already been personified began to take action, and the myth and legend that the Lord of Mount Tai was reincarnated every five hundred years and that the God of Haotian endured tribulations for eternity came into being.
Those are ghosts and gods who have seen through the direction of history and are carrying out self-saving actions again and again.
"The so-called Yang God is the power of civilization!"
Whispering softly with an indifferent expression, Pei Wende could feel that Mohu Luojia in his body was turning into "light".
To be more precise, the soul, which has already reached a certain extreme, is constantly collapsing and transforming inward, changing from pure energy into particles with certain special properties.
This special particle is a kind of energy, a wavelength, a magnetic field, or a particle.
"The wave-particle duality of light is the essence of Yangshen."
There was no sudden enlightenment. Pei Wende was just trying his best to use the knowledge he had learned to create opportunities and conditions for the transformation of the soul.
When Pei Wende reached the conditions for transformation, a special "light" was born.
Different from ordinary light particles, Yangshen is a kind of "light" with its own will, and a life form that exists close to the form of energy.
This special form of life possesses Pei Wende's wisdom and memory, and at the same time can differentiate into countless forms and appear in any corner of the earth.
Because it moves and thinks at the speed of light, with only a little adaptation, Pei Wende can achieve thousands of incarnations and be everywhere.
But this is not enough. Pei Wende does not want to repeat the old path of his predecessors.
Since Li Xuan was able to open up a new path at the end of his practice, Pei Wende also wanted to go further on the basis of his predecessors.
And this step is also the step that Li Xuan dreams of - the merging of the three religions!
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