The old demon of Montenegro wants to practice Taoism

Yan Chixia followed behind Shanyangze into the underground palace. The underground palace was really not big. There was only a stone platform inside, and on it sat cross-legged Yuan Tiangang, who was so shriveled that he could no longer see his face. His back was covered with long white hair. Hairy, with deep sunken eye sockets, the two eyeballs are extremely protruding, and I couldn't help being startled when I saw it.

Yan Chixia was much shorter than Shan Yangze, and to see Yuan Tiangang clearly, she had to lean half of her body from behind him. Although she didn't jump back in fright when she saw it, her body trembled, and she was also caught. Yuan Tiangang saw it.

Hearing a hoarse laughter from Yuan Tiangang's throat, he raised his arms and said, "I've been locked up for more than 700 years, what are you afraid of?"

Yan Chixia took a closer look and saw that there were two big shackles on his wrists, and his arms could only be lifted by three or four inches.However, it was also the first time he had seen this person who didn't know if he was still alive, and obviously not in the state of becoming a fairy, so the vigilance in his heart never faded.

He was just about to ask whether he should go up and bring in Shanyangze's black donkey and black dog, but he found that Shanyangze had already followed the little brother named Guo Qian to Yuan Tiangang's side.

Little brother, anyone who knows Yuan Tiangang is definitely not a little brother... The origin of Shanyangze?

Yan Chixia became jealous for a moment, instead of standing with the two of them, she stood closest to the door, holding the big sword tightly in her right hand, ready to make a move at any time.

This is because Yan Chixia misunderstood Shan Yangze, and he is also jealous of this... person who seems to have dried up. He stretched out his hand when Guo Qian wanted to go over, but Guo Qian ignored him, Shan Yang Ze had no choice but to follow.

Yan Chixia couldn't speak, he was fully on guard, waiting for the time to stab with a sword, Shan Yangze didn't speak, watching Guo Qian and Yuan Tiangang on the stone platform.

After a while, Guo Qian sighed quietly and said, "Master..."

It was this sentence that caused Yuan Tiangang to collapse suddenly!

His whole body suddenly trembled violently, there was a rattling sound in his bones, and even the iron chains on his hands and feet were rattling.The stone room was extraordinarily empty, and the sound sounded very scary.

"What did you call me?" Yuan Tiangang roared, "Master? Your master is a joke!" Yuan Tiangang first raised his head and screamed, and when he lowered his head, two drops of dirty tears flowed from his eyes. "Look at me, now I have become this inhuman and ghost-like appearance! Who would have thought that Yuan Tiangang, who was honored as the emperor's guest back then, would later be tricked by a woman and her apprentice!"

After hearing Yuan Tiangang's responsibilities, Guo Qian didn't say a word, as if he had acquiesced.

Shan Yangze looked at Yuan Tiangang, he was too thin to make any expression.Shan Yangze looked at Guo Qian again, is he Yuan Tiangang's apprentice?As far as he knows, there is only one apprentice of Yuan Tiangang, and that is the one who drew the picture of pushing back with him... and the name of that one is obviously not Guo Qian.

Guo Qian...why did he change his name to Guo Qian?Xuanzang's Journey to the West, the elixir of life, Wu Zetian's large-scale construction of temples, Guo Qian, who lost all his memories after his death, and even unable to reincarnate, and the remains of Zhang Sanfeng found a few days ago, what is the connection between them?

It's just that Yuan Tiangang is very emotional now, and Shan Yangze decided to wait and ask again.

Seeing that Guo Qian didn't answer, Yuan Tiangang turned his gaze to Shan Yangze, and said with a sneer, "I'm a good apprentice, you have to be careful, he might sell you at any time in the future." He stretched out his hands, Let Shan Yangze look at the iron chains on his hands and feet, and said: "I am a role model."

Guo Qian didn't refute, he shook his head very slowly and said, "I'm already dead."

"You must die!" Yuan Tiangang sternly said, and then he laughed at himself and said, "Anyone who knows the truth must die." After speaking, he said very gently: "Come and sit, now the two of us They have all fallen into this field, back then... I didn't expect it."

Yuan Tiangang probably hadn't spoken for a long time, although no one paid attention to him, he still kept talking, and before Shan Yangze asked, he narrated everything that happened back then, and looked at Guo Qian from time to time, He said that he had been imprisoned for too long, and he couldn't remember many things clearly. Guo Qian's words gradually increased, and occasionally he could say a few words from another perspective. Listen, Shan Yangze guessed what happened back then. I made a rough idea.

At that time, Yuan Tiangang was from the end of Sui Dynasty and the beginning of Tang Dynasty, and his father was an official in the Sui Dynasty. However, he had already seen the general trend of the world, and Li Tang was prosperous, and he had been working under Li Shimin's hand early on.Later when Li Shimin became the emperor, he became the number one Fengshui master under Li Shimin.

Yuan Tiangang is a Taoist priest. He is actually good at divination and geomancy. However, he works under the emperor and is the emperor's confidant. He also needs to improve his knowledge all the time. Besides, the emperor cares most about fate when he is not the emperor. , After becoming the emperor, everything will become immortal.

And this immortality is the source of everything.

There are many Taoist legends about immortality and immortality, but the legends are legends after all, and they all talk about becoming immortals, or in a certain place where the heaven and the earth are united, and the epiphany soars, but there are not many specific methods of operation.Strictly speaking, the prescriptions that have been handed down all use the thousand-year-old Polygonum multiflorum or the ten-thousand-year ginseng that has obviously become refined, so naturally they cannot be found.

However, there are also a lot of news about immortality in the royal collections. For example, Qin Shihuang sent Xu Fu to the sea to find immortals and seek immortality. For example, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty met the Queen Mother of the West and asked for it from the Queen Mother of the West. Everlasting, and the elixir of elixir.

The latter legend has been widely circulated, and many people believe it.For example, Dong Zhuo, according to legend, sent Lu Bu to steal Maoling just to find a prescription for his granddaughter to cure dumbness.But Fang Zi was not found, but a lot of funeral objects were brought out.

When Yuan Tiangang was looking through the history books related to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he found a clue, a clue about the elixir of life.

Leaving aside how the elixir of life came about, if Emperor Wu of Han really had the elixir of life, where would it be?Pass on to future generations?Or buried in Maoling.

Referring to the number of times Maoling was stolen, Yuan Tiangang felt that there might be more hidden in Maoling, but Maoling was stolen several times, even three years after it was buried.Even if there is something, it can't stay.

This road was interrupted for the time being, and he looked along to the emperors after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and inadvertently, he saw such a record in the records of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty.

At the beginning, Gaochang was the place where Li Guang garrisoned his troops to repel the Huns. Later, during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, he sent troops to garrison with his family members. This gradually formed a city and finally established a country.

In the list of personnel sent by Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty to Gaochang, Yuan Tiangang found a name: Zhang Manqian.No one may know this name alone, but this person's other name is well-known and well-known to everyone: Dongfang Shuo, who theoretically died in the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Yuan Tiangang didn't think it was a coincidence, and after several months of thinking, he made a decision: feign death and go to Gaochang to find out.

Yuan Tiangang left in a hurry, only to find out that Gaochang is a country that advocates Buddhism on the way, and he is a Taoist priest, so he can't eat at all.At this time, he happened to discover Xuanzang who had smuggled out of the Tang Dynasty. Yuan Tiangang said that he was a Taoist priest who traveled around and understood the way of heaven, and went with Xuanzang.

Yuan Tiangang's Taoist spells were among the best at the time, such as identifying directions, praying for rain, and so on.The two went together and helped a lot until they reached Gaochang.

Sure enough, King Gaochang admired the well-known Master Xuanzang very much, and even Yuan Tiangang got a lot of benefits.Yuan Tiangang sneaked into the palace while King Gaochang forced Xuanzang to stay.

There is no need to describe the process in detail. In short, he finally found a jar of pills, and there were no fewer than ninety pills in total. Unfortunately, the time was too short, and the recipes for pills were not found.

Master Xuanzang went west with all his heart and protested with a hunger strike. Yuan Tiangang took other people's things and wanted to leave wholeheartedly, so he begged for rain for Gaochang Kingdom, which relieved the severe drought for many days. In addition, Master Xuanzang was hungry. After waiting for several days and dying, King Gaochang let them go in desperation, and prepared luggage and entourage for them.

When Yuan Tiangang wanted to leave at the beginning, he was afraid that things would be exposed, but after walking for a few days, he didn't see King Gaochang sending anyone to chase him, and his worries gradually dissipated.Later, I felt that if I followed Xuanzang all the time, I would have a chance to go back to Gaochang in the future, and maybe I could see the alchemy formula, so I used the excuse of exchanges between the two schools to follow Master Xuanzang all the way west until he was going back to the Tang Dynasty. .

But this time, things are not quite right.

In the 14th year of Zhenguan, Li Shimin sent troops to destroy Gaochang.

Hearing this news, Yuan Tiangang only felt his heart jump wildly. Could it be that the emperor discovered that he had faked his death.With this worry, he also felt that he was too hasty in asking for rain at the beginning, and it must be that time that he showed his feet.Gaochang is a country on the Silk Road, and it was the only way for merchants in the Tang Dynasty to go west. If the news came back to Chang'an, the emperor would definitely be suspicious.

Therefore, Yuan Tiangang said goodbye to Xuanzang on the pretext of finding a place to retreat.

What happened later, he went back to his hometown to live in seclusion, and hid for decades without being discovered, but in the end he was found out by his apprentice, and was suppressed by Wu Zetian to this dark place.

Speaking of this, Yuan Tiangang sighed, shook his head and said: "I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it." He kept staring at Guo Qian, and said: "I was caught later, and in a hurry, I ate the rest of the elixir. Seven seven eight eight, you took away the remaining ten or so grains." There was another sneer, "What didn't Wu Zetian reward you for?"

With a pale face, Guo Qian said, "The elixirs have been changed, and only seven of your seventeen elixirs are real. You really think Master Xuanzang doesn't know anything. He took relics on the way back to the Tang Dynasty. You didn’t find out that you changed the pill. Heh——” Guo Qian was also angry, “He offered the pill just before he died, and asked His Majesty to look for your traces, and he died after he finished speaking!”

Shan Yangze could see a look of astonishment from Yuan Tiangang's face that only had skin and bones left, and then he burst out laughing for the second time today, "Hahaha! He was destroyed for the sake of Gaochang Kingdom Shangfo, the king of Gaochang, sworn brothers with him, and they made an appointment to worship Buddha in Gaochang for three years on the return journey..." Yuan Tiangang's voice gradually dropped, "I'm also imprisoning him so that he can't leave Chang'an City until he dies. This is my fate... ..."

Guo Qian said again: "The elixir of life... the elixir of life." Repeated twice, his speech speed suddenly changed, and he said: "Wu Zetian was still the empress at that time, and she and Emperor Gaozong were offered by Master Xuanzang. I bought ten pills, and threatened me to find your trace by destroying the lecture hall of Louguantai. But she didn’t find it well..." Guo Qian thought for a while, and then said: "Later, Zhongzong Li Xian was reset, and she was put under house arrest, so she couldn't take the elixir, and died within a year."

"What about you!" Yuan Tiangang said: "My good apprentice, how did you die!"

Guo Qian looked pained and did not speak.

Yuan Tiangang said: "Let's think about it, is there any Taoist way to prevent people from being reincarnated, could it be—"

Before these words came out, Guo Qian stepped forward immediately, and grabbed Yuan Tiangang's neck with his right hand. Yuan Tiangang noticed that Guo Qian had already cultivated a physical body, and his eyes were vacillating between him and Shan Yangze, but the neck was pinched , Let alone talking, I can't even breathe.

Guo Qian didn't know what to think of, so he let go of his hand suddenly, took two steps back, and said, "Master, this is the last time I will call you Master. I have a new name called Guo Qian. From now on, there will be no—— "

Before Guo Qian could say his name, Yuan Tiangang suddenly became violent and rushed towards Yan Chixia.His hands came out of the shackles, and his ten fingers were sharp, as if they could be stuck in if they touched them.

Although Shan Yangze focused on Guo Qian's name, he reacted very quickly and swung out his palm immediately; the same was true for Yan Chixia, although she had been listening to the truth hidden under the surface of the facts, she did not forget Be vigilant, immediately stab with the sword in your right hand.With one palm and one sword, they hit Yuan Tiangang's body almost at the same time.

Shanyang Ze thought in his heart, did the shackles that locked him up now have to work now? Yuan Tiangang now only has skin and bones left on his hands, and the thick shackles can easily come in and out.When the three of them came in, Yuan Tiangang deliberately showed that he was locked up, but now it seems that it was just a tactic to delay the attack.

Yuan Tiangang's bones were broken by Shan Yangze, and Yan Chixia nailed him to the wall with a sword in his chest. A stream of blood that had become thick and black slowly flowed out. Medicine, I have lived for so many years, and I have lived enough..."

not good!He is going to commit suicide!

Before Shan Yangze could make any move, Yan Chixia subconsciously pulled out the sword, Yuan Tiangang rattled all over, and his voice became lower and lower, "I've had enough..."

Suddenly, Yuan Tiangang's eyes burst out, and he shouted: "It's you! It's you! It's you who made—" The voice stopped abruptly. It turned out that at this time he had lost his breath and could not make any sound.

Yuan Tiangang died just like that?

The three of them looked at each other in blank dismay, a little in disbelief.

After a while, Shan Yangze stepped forward first, and he found that there seemed to be something on Yuan Tiangang's head.

When the three of them came in, Yuan Tiangang was sitting there with a Taoist bun on his head that was so loose that he couldn't see its shape. After some violent movements just now, his hair was completely loose. Something reflective is exposed.

Shan Yangze gave Yan Chixia a wink, and he came forward and swiped the big sword, wondering: "Tianling cover nails? Soul-destroying nails?"

"Impossible." Shan Yangze continued: "As soon as the soul-destroying nail is released, the soul immediately disappears. No matter whether it is a living person or a soul, no one is spared. If it is really a soul-destroying nail, how long can he live?"

Guo Qian stepped forward quietly, with a trace of pain in his voice, and said: "This is the method of the Buddhist school. The Buddha cultivates the afterlife, and the Tao cultivates the present life. If he is alive, the nail will not have half the effect. Once the body loses vitality, three The seven souls dissipate immediately, and there will be no afterlife. They said that since they want to cultivate this life, it is better to cut off the next life."

As soon as these words came out, the underground palace suddenly became quiet, so quiet that Yan Chixia confirmed one thing, Guo Qian is a ghost!

His earlier conversation with Yuan Tiangang made Yan Chixia sure that Guo Qian had been dead for a long time. Now that he observed carefully, not only was he not breathing, but he was not bullying at all on his chest. He was completely a ghost!

Yan Chixia didn't think much about it, she took out the talisman from her arms with her sword in hand, and wanted to paste it on Guo Qian's body.

"What are you doing!" Shanyangze said angrily, pulling Guo past him to the area behind him, and at the same time slapped Yan Chixia staggeringly for two steps.

Yan Chixia raised her sword, hesitated a little and said: "I, Longhu Mountain, take it as my mission to subdue demons..." The last few words were a bit vague.

Shan Yangze was not very sure when he saw him, and said: "Your senior brother wants to leave the cat ghost I caught." In fact, he and the old Taoist priest caught it together, but first, Shan Yangze can handle it alone, and second Presumably the old Taoist would not speak so carefully, so let's lie to him first.

Yan Chixia's straight brows immediately turned into inverted brows, with a sad face. Although the cat ghost hates it, but every time the senior brother mentions it, he always complains happily. Xu went out, and when he went back, he was appointed to kneel in front of the patriarch all night.

"Either another one?" Yan Chixia whispered.

"I bought the two urns for you from Yujianzhai in Beijing, eight taels each, and the boss gave a discount for the two together, a total of 15 taels."

Yujianzhai is a well-known antique shop, and sometimes they have business contacts with Longhushan. For example, sometimes when they receive something full of grievances, they will ask them to do something, and they can be regarded as acquaintances.So Yan Chixia knows a thing or two about the price level there.

Yan Chixia suddenly felt that Shan Yangze's face became hideous, and he wanted to curse.

You go to an antique store to buy an urn, and you buy such an expensive one with flowers on it!The workmanship is even more exquisite than the brother's bowl that is said to be ancestral and bestowed by the emperor!

"Okay, okay." Shan Yangze said, he felt that Yan Chixia didn't want to subdue demons and catch ghosts, but just to find an excuse for himself, so he said very considerately: "Either way, cat ghost Just stay here at Longhushan, your senior brother has taken good care of it anyway, I don’t want any money, so I will treat the two urns as gifts to you, how about it?”

Yan Chixia didn't think it was quite right, so could I exchange it for a gift like a dog's blood and a black donkey's hoof?But before he could say anything, Shan Yangze said again: "In this case, you should keep quiet about his affairs. It's the same thing, and I'm at a loss when I talk about it."