An Luoyi knelt on the ground and walked in front of Liang Xingyang, almost begging: "Master! Those believers now... really can't do without the Golden Lantern Sect. Those rich people, without the Golden Lantern Sect, can they do other things? , walking birds, walking dogs and fighting crickets, they can convert to other religions, it doesn’t matter. But the poor cannot, many of them are sick, disabled, poor...
In some families, the parents are bedridden, and a girl has to take care of her parents and support her ignorant younger brother. She relies on the Golden Lantern Sect to survive. She told me that it was the golden lamp that gave her the hope of living and brought her light and warmth. Otherwise, she would have died a few years ago! She couldn't survive. There are many more like this. Master, once the Golden Lantern Sect is gone, tens of thousands of resentful souls will immediately appear on the land of Jiangnan! "
Liang Xingyang listened quietly without answering, as if deep in thought.
Seeing that he had heard it, An Luoyi quickly said: "And our masters who teach the Dharma, whether they are originally from the leader sect or trained by us, once we are gone, they will not disperse, they will definitely If we join together to form a new branch, then it will be like a split among the various branches of the Golden Lantern Sect, and the Jiangnan region will be even more chaotic!"
He took a few steps back and kowtowed to Liang Xingyang: "Master, really, my disciple, I am not saying this at all selfishly! I can stop being a leader and come to the mountains to practice Taoism with you, but you must send someone else to do it. You have to hold on, the golden lamp cannot be extinguished. Once the golden lamp is extinguished, the hearts of millions of people will die! Master! I beg you, disciple!"
Liang Xingyang stretched out his hand to help him up and said to him: "I'm worried that you will become like the Golden Lantern Cult Master in the past. The young man who slew dragons will eventually become an evil dragon. As the Golden Lantern Cult Leader, you will be supported by tens of millions of people and have fame and power. You can also gain the power of wishes and magical powers. This kind of temptation..."
"Master!" An Luoyi said anxiously, "I am not from a poor family. My family is already rich. It is not difficult for me to get a part-time official position. What kind of name, what power, what I don’t want supernatural powers. What I want is to fight with my sword to the end of the world and enjoy my grudges! Master, if you don’t believe me, I’m willing to die to make it clear, but please be sure to send someone else to take charge of the Golden Lantern Sect!”
As he spoke, he summoned the Bronze Bird Sword. Liang Xingyang grabbed the sword and said, "You bastard! Who told you to commit suicide?"
He threw the sword to the ground, let him sit on the stone pier, and then sighed and said: "Those who practice the immortal way, once they enter the divine way, it will be difficult to leave. First, fame, wealth, money and power can be easily obtained, and secondly, magical powers can be obtained without cultivating them. , but in fact, this is not the most difficult thing. The most difficult thing is the emotional connection you establish with the believer. The higher the magic power, the deeper the entanglement, the harder it is to let go."
An Luoyi didn't know what he meant and looked at him with worry, fearing that he would completely disband the Golden Lantern Sect.
"I thought about it on the way back from the northwest. There are so many poor people in the world. The imperial court is unreliable and the Bone Sect is unreliable. Who else can they rely on? Can we transform the Golden Lamp Sect into one that is reliable?"
Hearing this, An Luoyi suddenly changed his mind and nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes, yes! Nowadays, tens of millions of Golden Lantern believers in Jiangnan rely on the Golden Lantern Holy Ancestor both physically and mentally."
Liang Xingyang waved his hand to stop him: "I won't do it anymore, Holy Ancestor of the Golden Lantern. You, the leader of the Golden Lantern Cult, since you are willing, you can continue to do it."
"Master...I..."
Liang Xingyang asked him: "Tell me, where do all the gold and silver treasures in your Jindeng Academy in Quyang Mansion come from?"
"They are all donated by believers."
"Yes, we cannot produce or create these things. All money and food are earned by believers and then donated to us. So after these things are in our hands, what are we going to do with them?"
"Take it to help those poor believers."
"By the way, the key question is here!" Liang Xingyang was very satisfied with this answer. "The way of man is to make up for the loss. The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency after the loss. In a group, everyone will be in their respective positions. , use their own rights to gain benefits for themselves, and take more than they can from others. And the richer the rich are, the stronger their ability to plunder and exploit the poor.
As time goes by, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Towards the end of the dynasty, the wealth of the rich becomes more and the wealth of the poor becomes less. This is the nature of human beings.
road. Then what we have to do is to follow the way of heaven, take money and food from the hands of the rich and give it to the hands of the poor. In this way, the losses will be made up for the deficiencies. This is the foundation of governing the country and can be set as the first priority of our teaching. in principle. Otherwise, we will be just like the original Golden Lantern Cult Leader. "
"The way of man is to make up for the loss and make up for the deficiency. The way of heaven is to make up for the deficiency by making up for the loss." An Luoyi read it several times and nodded vigorously.
The "Tao Te Ching" and "Nan Hua Jing" contain a lot of content about governing the country, even more than those about self-cultivation. When Liang Xingyang was in the north, he was extremely desperate, but when he went to the south, he had hope again.
He is the "Golden Lantern Holy Ancestor". The statues of the Holy Ancestor are placed in the main halls of all the Golden Lantern monasteries in the south of the Yangtze River. For more than a year after his disappearance, An Luoyi continued to repair the Holy Ancestor statues, and did not intend to use the The identity of the leader robs him of his faith and will.
The wishes of so many people have continuously blessed him, and he can feel the call of believers and feel the psychological sustenance of believers.
What he said before was more to test An Luoyi and see whether his character was capable of practicing the way of heaven.
If the character of the mind is not good, there is no way to cultivate God. The character of the mind mentioned here not only refers to the ability to enter tranquility, but also includes the belief in the heart, whether it has a big enough heart, whether it has compassion for the world, and whether it is not greedy for power, money, fame and fortune. Your character... Without these as a foundation, sooner or later you will get lost in these endless temptations, both external and internal, and you will inevitably fall into the devil's path!
To put it bluntly, if virtue is not matched, there will be disaster. Virtue is ability. Without the ability to control such great fame, wealth and power, the result can only be madness first, and then destruction, bringing harm to yourself and everyone involved. Come a devastating disaster!
If An Luoyi fails, he will call An Luoyi back and let Xia Cunxu be the leader. In fact, Xia Cunxu is also a relatively good candidate. He is a prince and has received an excellent education since he was a child. He is rich in humanities, society, and economics. It's from Menqing.
But judging from An Luoyi's performance, he is still quite good.
Liang Xingyang said: "When I first appeared as the Golden Lantern Saint Ancestor, I made an oath to myself. After the Golden Lantern Saint Patriarch was eliminated, I would smash all the statues of the Saint Ancestor, return to the mountains and forests, and practice the immortal way. This oath will never change. It cannot be broken. After you go back, remove and destroy all the statues of the Holy Ancestors in the monastery. From now on, the faith and will of tens of millions of believers in the south of the Yangtze River will all be invested in you. You will be a veritable leader of the Golden Lantern Cult!"
"Master!" An Luoyi was stunned. That was tens of millions of wishes! With just one sentence, at least 10 million believers can be mobilized to donate money, materials, or even their lives! With the power of these wishes, the soul can be extremely powerful, holding up the sky and stepping on the earth. With a wave of his hand, the wind and clouds surge and the sky collapses and the earth breaks apart! Liang Xingyang actually said he didn’t want it, so he didn’t want it!
"Just do as I say." Liang Xingyang thought for a while and then said, "I also want to know, apart from my problem, what will you do when you become the real leader of the Golden Lantern in the future?"
An Luoyi said: "I will definitely abide by Master's teaching of 'make up for the deficiencies by making up for the deficiencies."
"To make up for the deficit is to give the rich's property to the poor. What should we do if the rich refuse to give in?"
"I have the blessing of tens of millions of believers, and I follow the law as I say. Who can disobey me?"
"Well, but if all the rich people run away, what will you do?"
"ran away?"
"Yes, the rich man has the secret recipe for alchemy, the blueprints for refining weapons, the experience of taming monsters, and the ability to build large ships at sea. If they all run away, what will you do?"
"This..." An Luoyi was stunned, and then he humbly asked for advice, "Master, then... what should we do?"
"As a leader, you must have the most advanced alchemy secret recipe, the most high-end weapon refining blueprints, and the most powerful experience in taming animals... You are stronger and richer than them." Liang Xingyang said, "I think, no matter the poor or the rich, If we truly believe in you, then we are all your believers. Our goal is not to kill all the rich and make everyone poor together in the end, but that the poor can also become rich and eventually become rich. The measure of this is, There are also specific means of operation, which I can’t explain clearly at the moment, and I have to explore them in practice later.”
An Luoyi nodded: "Disciple, I remember!"
"Finally, let me say one more thing. I have never practiced true Shinto. I used to be a fellow cultivator of immortals, but I was a believer in Qiu. Later, I got the secret book of the Golden Lantern Sect and changed my perspective. But this is a cult after all. I integrated and understood the two, and finally felt that as a leader, you should share the same aspirations, same heart and same mind, and practice together with your followers.
For example, we two have the same ambition, so we naturally got together and accomplished such a great thing. Now that you and I are of the same mind, we can work out the next strategy together and get things done together in the future. The so-called heart-to-heart connection, self-generated resonance, never forgetting, there must be an echo, are all like this. If you can be of the same mind as your believers, you can empathize with what they are going through and know what they need.
In fact, on the other hand, if your believers are of the same mind as you, their will will be stronger and their resonance will be stronger. If you can understand this truth, it will be extremely helpful whether you are running a religion or practicing Shinto in the future. After you go back, you can use this as a basis to compile another sutra for believers, so that you can have the same aspirations and practice together. In the future, you may really have the opportunity to enter that world full of infinite light together. "
An Luoyi thought for a while: "Is there really a paradise?"
Liang Xingyang smiled: "If you turn this world into a paradise, won't it be over?"
An Luoyi suddenly realized that he suddenly understood many problems intuitively. Originally, he, the Holy Son and the leader of the church, was also a fake. After the Battle of Phoenix City, he became the leader of the church and was in charge of tens of millions of believers in Jiangnan. However, he was still empty in his heart, because He has Liang Xingyang and the Golden Deng Saint Ancestor to rely on. Now Liang Xingyang has provided him with an ideological foundation that can serve as the foundation for him to formally cultivate God and officially become the leader of the Golden Deng Cult!
"Thank you, Master, for your guidance! My disciple understands!"
"Go and take care of those who believe in you and are willing to follow you. I, the Golden Lantern Saint Ancestor, have always been imaginary. Only the Dharmakaya has appeared two or three times. To them, you are the real one. You are more reliable than me, more suitable to be their support, and more able to give them light and warmth." Liang Xingyang explained, "There is no need to give any more money to the court in the north. We have given enough, and there is no need to give more. Instead of using it, it is better to use it to build bridges and roads, improve the land, build schools, and do some practical things. Chaos is about to break out in the north. You need to prepare early and send more people to Jiangbei to find out the news. In addition, there is Jiangnan’s intricately connected aristocratic sects, you come up with a complete plan to deal with them.”
An Luoyi agreed to all this one by one, and then returned to Quyang City. Before leaving, Liang Xingyang handed him the Tian Gang Di Sha Map: "These aristocratic sects in the south of the Yangtze River are all ruthless, greedy and ruthless. , you have to be careful if they attack you, this picture will help you defend yourself for the time being, and the one hundred and eight star gods on it can also... be used as protectors for you."
An Luoyi left with the Tiangang Disha Tu. After returning to Quyang City, he immediately began drastic reforms. He first removed and destroyed the statues of the Holy Ancestors in each monastery one by one, replaced them with his leader's statues, and followed the believers It is said that the female cadre of the sect in this world has been killed, and the Holy Ancestor has gone to inspect other worlds. It has been tens of millions of years since the Holy Ancestor left. Everyone should practice well and meet the Holy Ancestor again in the bright world in the future.
Many believers couldn't accept it and went to the temple to worship and pray: "Even if the Holy Ancestor is no longer here, there is no need to take away the Holy Ancestor statue... Just leave it here and we will continue to worship!"
A large number of believers guarded the statue of the Holy Ancestor, holding it up and blocking the door frame, preventing the Golden Lantern Warriors from carrying it away.
When the Golden Lamp warrior finally carried the statue of the Holy Ancestor outside, poured oil on it, and asked the Golden Lamp Master to set it on fire, another believer jumped on the statue of the Holy Ancestor, opened his arms and hugged it, desperately protecting it to the death.
So later, An Luoyi issued an order to move at night and quietly move the Saint Ancestor statue. Originally, he wanted the believers to say goodbye to the Saint Ancestor, but now he could only do it secretly. When the believers found out that the Saint Ancestor statue was gone, It's too late.
In just one month, all the statues of the Holy Ancestors in the monasteries in various places in the south of the Yangtze River were removed. The statues of the Holy Ancestors that were originally placed in the side halls or front halls were moved to the original positions of the Holy Ancestor statues.
However, many believers still have small statues of the Holy Ancestor in their homes, either half-foot, one-foot, or bust. They are afraid of being confiscated and destroyed, so they hide them carefully. They kneel in front of the statue at night and pray, vowing to die. Shou
Protect the Saint Ancestor.
There are also those families where Liang Xingyang showed up as a saint to save people and left his mark on other people's walls. They all built another wall outside to block the original wall inside to prevent others from tearing it down.
In fact, An Luoyi didn't care about that at all. He just took down the statues in the academy.
However, in the back hall of the Quyang Mansion Academy, there is also a large statue, made of pure gold, three feet high, with ten arms, each holding a different magic formula, majestic and solemn.
Whenever An Luoyi felt depressed, he would come here, kneel in front of the ten-hand statue, and meditate silently...
Just in front of this statue, he compiled another scripture called "The Holy Patriarch of the Golden Deng Speaks of the Way of Heaven", in which he wrote the words "The way of heaven, if there is more than is damaged, make up for the deficiencies", and also wrote "The Golden Lamp" The leader made one hundred and eight great wishes, the first of which was that the world would be filled with light. The second article is that I wish all sentient beings to be free from troubles and enjoy ultimate happiness...
