Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2968: Creation Green Lotus Sutra

Chapter 2965: Creation Blue Lotus Sutra

"Little Haitang..."

Seeing Shangguan Haitang fall into danger, Zhang Liang could not help but warn her, but before he could finish his words, Shangguan Haitang's jade crown was hit by a hidden weapon and broke.

The moment her hair was disheveled, forty-eight gold darts shot out from Shangguan Haitang's sleeves, instantly nailing five assassins, including the shadow assassins Jiu and Shi, to the pillars.

"Money raining down from the sky?"

Assassin Qi, who recognized Shangguan Haitang's hidden weapon skills, had to stop because of fear, but he sneered and asked: "Do you have enough hidden weapons on you for a second time?"

After saying that, Assassin Qi swung his sword to attack, but Shangguan Haitang was at a disadvantage because of too much energy consumed and the sudden approach of the opponent.

Just as Shangguan Haitang was about to give up and was about to die together with her opponent, a woman in a white Taoist robe dropped from the sky and deflected the long knife that was stabbing at Zhang Liang's heart with one palm.

Shangguan Haitang seized the opportunity and the long sword in her hand instantly pierced the throat of Shadow Assassin 8, and this was also the second Shadow Assassin who died at her hands.

Zhang Liang, who had narrowly escaped a disaster, did not panic as his life was hanging by a thread. Instead, he was about to step forward to express his gratitude, but was blocked by Shangguan Haitang, who looked alert.

"Thank you for your help, lady. I wonder which sect you are from?"

Shangguan Haitang did not trust the other party because of his rescue. Instead, she asked about his background. The other party did not care and said indifferently: "The head of Tianlian Sect, Jiang Qinglian."

"Tianlian Sect?"

Shangguan Haitang's face changed. Although the Tianlian Sect was an orthodox sect in Qingnan, its founder was an abandoned disciple of the White Lotus Sect. If it weren't for the fact that there were few disciples in the sect and it had not been adhering to the orthodox way for many years, it would never have been included in the ranks of the orthodox sects by the world.

Jiang Qinglian was no longer surprised by Shangguan Haitang's suspicion. She took action for two reasons, firstly, for the sake of the sect, and secondly, because she truly agreed with Zhang Liang's behavior and hoped that Qingnan would get better under Zhang Liang's governance, so naturally she would not care about Shangguan Haitang's attitude.

Like Baihu, Qilin and others, Jiang Qinglian also comes from "Assassin Wu Liuqi". He is the master of Jiang Huilian, the director of Chicken Island. After he was born, he possessed the strength of a mid-level master.

Jiang Qinglian didn't waste any words and went all out at the first move, directly using the Tianlian Sect's most powerful secret technique, the Blossoming White Lotus.

It has to be said that the founder of the Tianlian Sect was also a genius, and this move of White Lotus Blossoming was said to be created when he was still before he betrayed the White Lotus Sect. He was inspired by observing the grandmaster burning his inner energy, and then combined it with what he had learned from the first volume of "The White Lotus Sutra".

Although the amplification power of the blooming white lotus is not as strong as that of burning internal force, it is also one of the strongest amplification secret techniques under burning internal force.

Jiang Qinglian does not have enough talent to cultivate the White Lotus to perfection. If she were replaced by someone with stronger talent, her combat power might be able to temporarily reach the level of a high-level master.

But even so, Jiang Qinglian in the white lotus blooming state was strong enough, and his combat power soared directly to the peak combat power of the intermediate master. He single-handedly blocked the three shadow assassins, two, three, and seven.

After Assassin Three took Jiang Qinglian's palm, he asked in shock, "Is this the White Lotus Sutra?"

The core inheritance of the Shura Sect is the "Shura Sutra", and the founder of the White Lotus Sect, Qui-Gon, is also one of the disciples of the Demon Ancestor Rahu, so the White Lotus Sect naturally also has its own core inheritance skills.

Before his death, the demon ancestor Rahu divided the Rahu Sutra into three volumes: the upper, middle and lower volumes. The upper volume, the Blood Sutra, was given to Qui-Gon, the middle volume, the Shura Sutra, was given to Styx, and the lower volume, the Buddha Sutra, was jointly controlled by Zhunti and Jie Yin.

Although Qui-Gon obtained the "Blood Nerve", he was bewitched by the Styx before he had time to practice it. He wanted to join forces to kill Zhunti and Jie Yin and seize the second volume of the "Buddhist Scriptures". However, due to poor planning, Jie Yin acted in advance and stole the "Blood Nerve".

In the subsequent struggle, although Qui-Gon regained the second half of the "Blood Nerve", he did not practice it because he lacked the most important first half. Instead, he exchanged half of the "Blood Nerve" and the Styx for the remaining parts of the "Blue Lotus Sutra of Creation".

The origin of "The Green Lotus Sutra of Creation" has long been untraceable. Even recently, it can be traced back to the ancient Shang and Zhou dynasties. It is said that this is a method that can enable people to ascend to heaven as long as they practice it. There are only two known practitioners, namely the Taoist Hongjun and the Demonic Ancestor Luohou.

According to legend, when the Demon Ancestor Luohou first entered the Central Plains and had not yet preached, he became friends with the Taoist Ancestor Hongjun and many hermits in the Central Plains, and they also explored ancient ruins together.

The "Green Lotus Sutra of Creation" was taken out by the two from an ancient tomb from the Spring and Autumn Period, but each of them only got one copy, and both were incomplete.

There are five volumes in the "Green Lotus Sutra of Creation", namely: the Golden Lotus Chapter which focuses on refining the body, the White Lotus Chapter which focuses on refining qi, the Red Lotus Chapter which focuses on refining qi and blood, the Black Lotus Chapter which focuses on killing, and the last Green Lotus Chapter which focuses on refining the spirit.

What Hongjun got was the Qinglian Chapter of the General Principles, while what Luohou got was the Heilian Chapter.

After reading the Black Lotus Chapter, Luohou was immediately astonished. He couldn't believe that the ancients could create such a superb martial art. It was full of profound meanings and every word was precious. Even though the Black Lotus Chapter was missing a lot of content, he could still get a glimpse of the brilliance of the ancient spiritual practice civilization from it, which also made him fascinated.

According to the records of the tomb owner who left behind the blue and black scriptures, human practitioners in ancient times could ascend to heaven, and the "Blue Lotus Sutra of Creation" was the most advanced martial arts method even in the Shang and Zhou dynasties. It's just that after the changes in heaven and earth, many of its contents are no longer applicable to the present world. Even so, even so, the remaining fragments are still the most advanced Xuan-level martial arts method.

Therefore, the tomb owner believed that in the future after the great changes in heaven and earth, only by collecting all five volumes of the Creation Green Lotus Sutra and practicing them, would it be possible to break the limitations of heaven and earth, break through the Xuan level and ascend.

Although the owner of the ancient tomb was extremely talented, he spent his entire life only finding two volumes of scriptures, one in blue and one in black, and some of the contents were incomplete. The owner of the tomb was deeply regretful that he could not collect all the scriptures. He firmly believed that the five volumes of scriptures must have been preserved, so he left these two volumes in his tomb, hoping that people in later generations would inherit his last wish after discovering them, collect the entire "Creation Blue Lotus Sutra", break through the mysterious realm, and fulfill his ambition to ascend to the upper realm.

Luohou felt that he was the one who inherited the tomb owner's last wish. He came to the Central Plains from afar, just to break through the mysterious realm and ascend. So he also had the idea of ​​collecting the entire Creation Green Lotus Sutra.

Luohou didn't know whether the other three scriptures besides the two in blue and black were still in the world, but he, like the tomb owner, firmly believed that they must still be there.

But it was obviously impossible for Luohou to find it alone, so he began to preach in the Central Plains and develop Buddhist influence, with the aim of investigating the ancient secrets and collecting the five volumes of the Creation Green Lotus Sutra.

After more than twenty years of investigation, Luohou actually found some clues.

Luohou found out that the Ming family, a prominent clan in Mount Tai, inherited the fragments of "The Red Lotus Chapter", but the Ming family was exterminated by the Han Dynasty as early as the time of Emperor Gaozu of Han. Now two hundred years have passed, and there is no way to find it even if you want to.

In addition, Luohou also heard that "The Golden Lotus Chapter" was said to have appeared in an ancient village in Kunlun Mountain, but Kunlun Mountain is so huge that searching directly is like looking for a needle in a haystack.

As for "White Lotus", there is not even a clue at all.

Since Luohou could not find the other three volumes, he had to set his sights on the Qinglian Chapter of the General Outline in Hongjun's hand. He went to Hongjun in person to exchange the scriptures, thinking that he could get it easily, after all, he and Hongjun had a good relationship. However, he was rejected by Hongjun.

It is natural that Luohou cannot give up, but Hongjun is not weaker than him, and he is also the leader of the Taoist sect of the Han Dynasty. If he offends Hongjun and the entire Taoism, there will be no place for him in the entire Han Dynasty.

In order to obtain the most important Qinglian Chapter, Luohou also began to secretly develop Buddhist forces, preparing to accumulate strength to snatch the Qinglian Chapter from Hongjun. At the same time, he also increased his efforts to find the whereabouts of the other three volumes of scriptures.

In the end, it took Luohou another fifty years to find the three volumes of scriptures in gold, red and white.

The Red Lotus Chapter of "The Blue Lotus Sutra of Creation" came from the Ming family where the Ming River was, while the White Lotus Chapter was luckily picked up by Qui-Gon after he accidentally fell off a cliff.

Luohou accepted both of them as his personal disciples. Not only did he obtain the two long-desired scriptures, but he also gained two disciples with excellent qualifications.

As for the Golden Lotus chapter, it was discovered by Luohou’s other two disciples, Zhunti and Jieying, who had been searching for it in Jiangnan for ten years before they unexpectedly found it in Huangshan.

Up to this point, Luohou had obtained four of the five volumes of "The Green Lotus Sutra of Creation", and it was naturally impossible for him to give up the last and most important chapter, the Green Lotus Chapter.

As the power of Buddhism grew stronger, it naturally aroused the vigilance of Confucianism and Taoism. However, considering that Buddhism had Luohou who was able to rival Hongjun, if the two sides fell out, if Hongjun made a mistake, the cost would be too high, so they chose to endure it for the time being.

The tolerance and compromise of Confucianism and Taoism actually excited the various schools of thought.

Although the Han Dynasty at that time had "abolished all schools of thought and respected Confucianism and Taoism alone" for a full hundred years, the remaining forces of the Hundred Schools of Thought were still powerful. It was just that the Han Dynasty was still powerful, and with Hongjun as its pillar, the Hundred Schools of Thought did not dare to show up.

But with Luohou, who can compete with Hongjun, the situation will naturally be completely different.

The remaining forces of the Hundred Schools of Thought planned to nominate Luohou as their leader and join forces with the Buddhist forces to launch a major uprising. If they could overthrow the Han Dynasty in one fell swoop, that would be the best. If that is not possible, they would at least force the Han Dynasty to change its national policy of respecting Confucianism and Taoism alone, thus restoring the situation of a hundred schools of thought contending with each other.

Luohou doesn't care who is the emperor or who rules China, all he wants is the Qinglian Chapter. The Baijia schools want to use Luohou, and he can also use this opportunity to use the Baijia schools to achieve his goal of weakening Taoism and seizing the Qinglian Chapter.

In this way, under the intrigues of various forces, the Green Forest and Red Eyebrows Uprising broke out in the late Western Han Dynasty, but the speed of the change in the situation exceeded everyone's expectations.

What the Hundred Schools of Thought never expected was that Wang Mang, as the spokesperson of the Hundred Schools of Thought, could easily usurp power, and the leadership of the rebel army supported by the Hundred Schools of Thought fell into the hands of Emperor Guangwu, who had Liu Han bloodline.

The positions of the enemy and us were reversed. Such a reversal of fate and the situation of Tiangang was really jaw-dropping for everyone, but even more outrageous things were yet to come.

Wang Mang, who had absolute advantage, was inexplicably defeated by Emperor Guangwu because of a meteorite falling from the sky.

After the Han Dynasty rose again, the hundreds of forces had to retreat to the mountains to recuperate, and Luohou never showed his face during the entire process.

It was obvious that Luohou had fooled everyone among the Hundred Schools of Thought. He used the power of the Hundred Schools of Thought to consume the Confucianism and Taoism, while the power of Buddhism grew stronger due to the chaotic times, and had even reached the point where it was too big to be eliminated.

The nascent Eastern Han regime appeared powerful on the surface, but it had a host of internal hidden dangers.

In order to maintain national stability, Emperor Guangwu had to make concessions in his interests in order to gain the support of the aristocratic families and get rid of the control of Confucianism and Taoism over the Han Dynasty.

The Buddhist sect obviously also had the ability to launch an uprising and rebel against the Han Dynasty, but the Han Dynasty at that time was unable to match Luohu's fighting power.

In order to prevent Buddhism from following the example of the Hundred Schools of Thought and launching an uprising, Emperor Guangwu not only made Buddhism's status public, but also built the Baima Temple in Luoyang and allowed Buddhism to spread widely, hoping to appease the Buddhist sect led by Rahu.

On the surface, Liu Xiu's move was to worship Buddhism, but in fact he wanted to use Confucianism and Taoism to deal with Buddhism, a foreign sect. After all, as long as Buddhism continued to develop, the contradiction between the two sides would be irreconcilable, and there would be a war sooner or later.