Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2970 Luohou VS Hongjun (Part )

Chapter 2967 Luohou VS Hongjun (Part )

Hongjun knew that Luohou in the past was not a person who coveted power, but was very pure. Otherwise, how could he have become the first half of the Xuan Da Wan. However, he was not sure whether Luohou still had the same purity after seventy years.

Even if there is, Hongjun would not dare to gamble, because the cost is too high. If he gambles wrong, the worst that can happen to him is death, but the entire Han nationality will take the blame for him, and he cannot bear this responsibility.

Hongjun had also read the suicide note of the owner of the ancient tomb. Luohou had the idea of ​​collecting five complete volumes, and he naturally had the same idea. While looking through the vast number of ancient Taoist secret books, he actually found some information related to the "Creation Green Lotus Sutra".

In addition to the Ming family, Kunlun ancient village, and the owners of the ancient tombs, who have relatively complete scriptures, some ancient villages, ancient villages, and ancient clans with a long history also have some records of ancient scriptures. It's just that the content is too little, with some containing a few hundred words and some containing only a few dozen words, and it doesn't form a system at all.

But even so, every time information about the "Creation Green Lotus Sutra" appears, it will set off a frenzy in the world and attract various forces to fight for it.

King Zhou of Shang, King Wu of Zhou, and even Qin Shi Huang had all spent great efforts searching for it, but after searching the entire world, they could only find fragments of a few hundred words at most, and could not find even a complete volume, let alone all five volumes.

Those ancient emperors mobilized all the power in the world but couldn't find it, so how could Hongjun find it with just himself and the power of Taoism? So Hongjun took the initiative to give up the plan of looking for it, and also advised Luohou not to look for it, because it was a waste of time.

But what Hongjun didn't expect was that Luohou not only found it, but also found the other three volumes.

The Green Lotus Sutra of Creation has not appeared in the world for thousands of years. Whenever it appeared in the past, it was only fragments of a few dozen words, or at most a hundred words. But now all five volumes of the sutra have appeared in the world?

This can no longer be described as luck, it is simply great fortune and great opportunity.

This made Hongjun doubt his life and he also suspected that Luohou was the son of destiny of the contemporary era. If he was a Han Chinese, he would give him the Qinglian Chapter as a gift. But he was a foreigner and had already threatened the Han people, so naturally it was impossible for him to give it to him.

In addition to the above information, Hongjun also discovered that among the top martial arts in existence today, there are more or less traces of the "Creation Green Lotus Sutra".

For example, the Ancestral Dragon Art of the Qin Dynasty contains parts of the Black Lotus Chapter and the Golden Lotus Chapter. It is believed that this is a technique created by the Ying family based on the collected content and after hundreds of years of evolution.

In addition, some of the content in the Tao Te Ching left by Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, is exactly the same as the Qinglian Chapter.

From this, we can see the importance of the entire "Creation Green Lotus Sutra". It is not an exaggeration to say that this practice is the general outline of all practices.

“Although Luohou is stronger than me now, he is not able to defeat me easily. If I burn my internal energy, I am still confident that I can drag him down with me to death.

But if he gets the Blue Lotus Chapter and collects all five volumes of the Creation Blue Lotus Sutra, even if I break through to the semi-profound perfection, I won’t be able to die with him.”

After that, Hongjun explained to everyone present the origin of the "Green Lotus Sutra of Creation" and the importance of the Green Lotus Chapter, and made the Confucian and Taoist leaders realize the significance of handing over the Green Lotus Chapter.

Those who had previously advocated handing over the scriptures all shut up at once. After all, although they could give up the land of Jiangnan, they could not gamble their lives on whether Luohou would keep his promise after obtaining the scriptures.

When things developed to this point, it was no longer a problem between Luohou and Hongjun, but a dispute between the two major forces at that time. Therefore, Hongjun naturally did not intend to fight Luohou alone, but was preparing to find some helpers to deal with Luohou together. However, he did not expect that some problems arose within the Buddhist sect at this time.

Luohou only wanted to obtain the Qinglian Chapter, and for this he even promised to let the entire Buddhist sect retreat to the south of the Yangtze River, but he was not the only one in Buddhism.

Just because Luohou is willing to go to Jiangnan for the Qinglian chapter doesn't mean others are willing to do so. They still want to stay and enjoy the colorful world of Central Plains, and Luohou's decision obviously affects the interests of everyone.

Luohou is a man of his word. Since he has already started the negotiations, the people below him naturally dare not disobey him. However, if the Confucianists and Taoists take the initiative to break the agreement, then they naturally cannot be blamed.

Under the leadership of Luohou's four major disciples, Minghe, Kui-Gon, Zhunti and Jie Yin, the messengers of both Buddhism and Taoism were intercepted and killed, which completely triggered the showdown between Buddhism and Taoism.

Luohou was also angry when he found out. All he had wanted was to collect five volumes of the Creation Green Lotus Sutra and break through the Profound Realm so that he could ascend to the upper realm. However, he found that it seemed as if the whole world was against him.

Not only did Hongjun refuse to exchange scriptures with him, but even several of his disciples, whom he had personally taught, held him back at the critical moment.

Luohou had thought about questioning his four disciples, but their interests were the same and they were already sticking together. It was obvious that he couldn't get anything out of them, and it would be useless even if he asked.

Besides, the war has already started, and it is too late to pursue the responsibility now, which will only make the relatives sad and the enemies happy. At this point, no matter how reluctant Luohou is, he can only swallow the bitter fruit he has sown. Under the influence of the general trend, he has to throw himself into this vortex of interests and human nature.

No matter whether it is Luohou or Hongjun, with their level of cultivation, no one can influence their will. However, under the influence of the world's situation, they still have to fight to the death, which fully illustrates what it means to be helpless.

Even if one possesses the cultivation level of Half-Profound Great Perfection, even if one has a lifespan of two hundred years, as long as one is still a human being and still has humanity, one is destined to be unable to go against the trend of the world.

On Hongjun's side, in order to defeat Luohou, he not only summoned all the great masters of Confucianism and Taoism, including his three disciples: Taiqing, Yuqing and Shangqing, but he also decided to awaken the four old Taoist masters, Qiankun Taoist, Wuxing Taoist, Dinghai Taoist, and Yangmei Taoist, who were in seclusion.

Yang Mei and the other four were all Taoist figures in the pre-Qin period. It was impossible for them to live to the present Eastern Han Dynasty, but in the "Empty Heart Sutra" created by Yang Mei, there is a secret technique specifically used for retreat, called the Turtle Breathing and Withering Merit.

The conditions for practicing the Turtle Breath, Withering and Flourishing Technique are naturally extremely harsh, but once it is practiced to a high level, one can enter a state of suspended death where one is neither withering nor flourishing, neither alive nor dead. If one secludes oneself in this state, the loss of lifespan can be at least one-tenth of the normal state.

Yang Mei was a man who had experienced the unification of the Seven Kingdoms, the chaos at the end of the Qin Dynasty, and the Chu-Han Contention. He did not want to wake up after a hundred years of seclusion without any familiar friends around him, so he passed this secret art to Qiankun, Wuxing, and Dinghai, three fellow Taoists of the same period. That's how the four of them were able to live from the pre-Qin period to the early Eastern Han Dynasty.

Yang Mei would go into seclusion for fifty years each time. When his skills were exhausted, he would automatically come out to restore his skills. He would continue to seclude himself when he was fully recovered, in order to fight against the passage of time.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Yang Mei went out of the border once and accidentally met Hongjun and Luohou who were traveling together.

Yang Mei was very optimistic about Hongjun, the younger generation, so she passed the secret technique to him, but concealed it from Luohou, the foreigner.

If it weren't for Luohou, after Hongjun's Zen skills were perfected, he would have gone into seclusion at the age of ninety and would not come out until the heaven and earth changed again. After all, if he couldn't break through the Xuan realm, he would just slowly grow old and die after coming out. But he still wanted to see the road after the Xuan realm.

With the remaining life span of Hongjun, if he used the turtle's breath and withering power to stay in seclusion, he could have lived to the period of Ying Hao. However, due to the existence of Luohou, Hongjun did not dare to stay in seclusion even though he had mastered the secret technique to perfection, because without him, there would be no one who could check and balance Luohou.

Even Hongjun, who was 160 years old and had already achieved the half-profound perfection, was not sure he could deal with Luohou, who had collected four volumes of the Creation Green Lotus Sutra and also created the "Rahu Sutra" and reached the half-profound perfection. That's why he had to awaken Yang Mei, the Taoist senior.

Yang Mei's realm was the early half-profound realm when he was in seclusion. After being in seclusion for nearly three hundred years and consuming thirty years of his life, his realm broke through to the middle half-profound realm, but his actual age was only 155 years old.

Yang Mei is actually 5 years younger than Hongjun. He originally thought that Hongjun would also be in seclusion like himself, but he did not expect that after not seeing him for fifty years, Hongjun was not only older than him, but also at a higher level than him. This naturally shocked Yang Mei greatly.

Yang Mei's talent is actually not worse than Hongjun's, but his luck is not as good as Hongjun. He neither became the leader of Taoism and gained the support of the entire Taoism, nor did he accidentally obtain the outline of the Creation Green Lotus Sutra when exploring the ancient tomb. He also did not have an enemy who was as powerful as him and who was always spurring him on, forcing him to improve his cultivation every minute and every second.

Therefore, it is reasonable that Yang Mei would be surpassed by the junior Hongjun. After all, even Lao Tzu, the founder of Taoism, is far inferior to Hongjun now.

After hearing Hongjun's story, Yang Mei also realized Luohou's threat, and said with lingering fear: "At the beginning, I saw that Luohou was a paranoid person, so I did not pass on the Turtle Breathing and Withering Power to him. Now it seems that the original decision was indeed correct. If I really passed it on to him, then my China might not have peace for thousands of years in the future."

Hongjun couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this. He had always been confident that he could suppress Luohou, but what he couldn't understand the most was that Luohou's luck could be so good.

This ancient scripture was lost thousands of years ago, and you are lucky enough to find a complete copy.

But after Luo Hou found one volume, he was able to find three more. This is outrageous.
Seeing Hongjun's self-blame, Yang Mei immediately comforted him: "Fellow Daoist Hongjun, you don't have to worry too much. No matter how strong Luohou is, he is only one person. You, me, plus fellow Daoists Qiankun, Wuxing, and Dinghai, if the five of us join forces, even a half-profound great perfection will surely die."

Afterwards, Yang Mei helped Hongjun awaken the three Taoists Qiankun, Wuxing and Dinghai who were in seclusion.

Before the three of them went into seclusion, they were all in the quasi-semi-profound realm, but now Taoist Qiankun has broken through to the early stage of semi-profound, while Taoist Wuxing and Taoist Dinghai have both reached the peak of quasi-semi-profound, and are only half a step away from entering the semi-profound realm.

Hongjun had no friendship with these three people, he just knew that there were these three people, but Yang Mei had a close relationship with these three people, so he woke up Yang Mei first, and then asked Yang Mei to persuade the three people to help. Under Yang Mei's persuasion, the three people naturally agreed to help.

With two more half-Xuan and two quasi-Xuan-level helpers, Hongjun became more confident, but he still did not dare to be careless, so he secretly supported Liu Zhao in launching a coup.

In the fourth year of Yongyuan, Emperor Xiaohe Liu Zhao, who was fourteen years old at the time, launched a coup d'état with the support of Confucianism and Taoism, hunted down and killed Dou and his followers, and then took power himself, starting his extremely brilliant but short life of forcibly taking over the Western Regions, defeating the Kushans, destroying and burning the He Qiang, and conquering Qinghai.

The first order issued by Liu Zhao after he took power was to declare Buddhism to be an evil way, and he contemptuously called it the devil's sect, calling on all the people in the world to punish it.