The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 852 Zhao Guizhen's Magnificent Life

Zhao Guizhen, whose original name was Zhao Fu'an, was born in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong, and was a son of a peasant family in Zhongnan Mountain.

Since his family was poor and unable to support Zhao Guizhen, his family sent him to the Taoist Temple, making him officially a boy of Xianyun Temple.

Perhaps because of his natural handsomeness and intelligence, Zhao Guizhen has been deeply loved by the Taoist temple since he joined Xianyun Temple, and his master even disregarded the rules and taught Taoism privately.

Of course, at that time, Zhao Guizhen hadn't joined the Dao of Talismans, and the Dao method he practiced was also the most basic method of Qi training.

However, it is this most basic method of Qi training that has laid the foundation for Zhao Guizhen's cultivation.

If it was in the pre-Qin period, a pure qi practitioner like Zhao Guizhen would be called a "qi practitioner".

Taoist practitioners and Qi refiners seem to be just a change of simple names, but they are actually fundamentally different.

Taoist practitioners include Danxiu, Jianxiu, and Fuxiu.

But qi practitioners refer specifically to qi cultivation, which has incomparable advantages in seeking good fortune, avoiding disaster, and predicting heavenly secrets.

Therefore, when the brothers of Xianyun Temple joined the world to practice, Zhao Guizhen also chose to leave the place where he grew up, and officially started the journey of seeking Tao.

During this period, Zhao Guizhen encountered many demons and ghosts, and met many practitioners of different factions.

It's just that these guys are different from the "immortals" in Zhao Guizhen's imagination, until he met Gui Xuanzi, who was immortal, with white eyebrows and shoulders.

As the direct lineage descendant of Fu Lu Dao, although Gui Xuanzi has unparalleled cultivation in Taoism, his unreliable character is also widely known.

Even accepting Zhao Guizhen as his personal disciple is because of his handsome face.

In Gui Xuanzi's words afterward, it is more handsome, with a more unrestrained temperament, and it is easier to walk outside and even get alms than other people.

Zhao Guizhen had suspected countless times that Gui Xuanzi accepted himself as a disciple in fact to let him run errands for him.

Fortunately, Gui Xuanzi is unreliable, but for his only disciple, he still tries his best to teach him.

Even Zhao Guizhen insisted on the Qi refining method of Xianyun Temple and refused to change the sect, he just laughed it off easily, and had no intention of forcing the other party at all.

From that time on, Zhao Guizhen knew that as a cheap master, he not only looked like a fairy, but also acted like a fairy.

During the days following Gui Xuanzi's practice, Zhao Guizhen felt an unprecedented ease.

Unfortunately, such days did not last long.

Gui Xuanzi, whose life was approaching, brought Zhao Guizhen back to the Zhongnan Ancestral Temple for the first and last time, and he left this world with a smile on his face.

Before he died, Gui Xuanzi's last words to Zhao Guizhen were - the choice of disciples from my lineage depends on fate and God's will. If you can't find a satisfactory disciple in the future, you don't have to force it for incense. The inheritance is all here.

Then, Zhao Guizhen, who was alone again, embarked on a journey around Kyushu again.

Only this time, Zhao Guizhen found his own "Tao", and he will no longer be confused.

So during the long journey that followed, Zhao Guizhen got acquainted with Zen Master Lingyou who had just come out of the mountain, and also encountered the vision of a white dragon soaring into the sky, and gained a great reputation on the land of Shenzhou.

But this is not enough, Zhao Gui really wants to see the end of this world, and wants to know what kind of world is outside Kyushu.

Heartbeat is not as good as action, let alone a Taoist with strong action like Zhao Guizhen.

Zhao Guizhen searched for the legendary Three Immortals Island on the coast of the East China Sea...

Zhao Guizhen saw the spectacle of "one whale falls and all things live" at the corner of Nanyang...

Zhao Guizhen has experienced the endless glow of the extreme day and the extreme night in the extreme north...

Zhao Guizhen challenged the everlasting sandstorm in Mobei beyond the Great Wall...

In the end, Zhao Guizhen also explored the ancient foreign gods on the glacier island in the far west...

If Zen Master Lingyou hadn't forced his way into Mount Zhongnan at this time and shocked the power of the various schools of Taoism, I'm afraid Zhao Guizhen's journey of exploration would have continued.

To be honest, after seeing the world outside of Kyushu, Zhao Guizhen was hardly interested in the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism in the Tang Dynasty.

Whether it's the mysterious pyramids, the lost civilizations in the Mesopotamia, or the exotic gods in the northern extreme...

Which of these things is not more interesting than the debate between Buddhism and Taoism?
However, even though Zhao Guizhen is a loner and has received Gui Xuanzi's dying entrustment, his root is still in Datang after all.

Therefore, when he received the news from the brothers of Xianyun Temple, Zhao Guizhen returned to Chang'an without any hesitation, and returned to his birthplace.

This is how Zhao Guizhen first intercepted Zen Master Lingyou in Zhongnan Mountain, and then became the master of the Tang Dynasty.

The former is just a matter of convenience, while the latter is the last wish of the master of Xianyun Temple...

Born in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and experienced the Anshi Rebellion...

The viewer of the Xianyun Temple watched the Tang Dynasty turn from prosperity to decline, so he especially didn't want to see his country decline.

It's a pity that the master of the Xianyun Temple is just an ordinary Taoist priest, and he doesn't have the ability to turn the building down.

In fact, let alone the master of the temple, looking at the entire Xianyun Temple, there are not many Taoist priests who are truly capable, wise, and enlightened.

As a matter of course, the last wish of the master of Xianyun Temple finally fell on Zhao Guizhen's shoulders.

For more than 20 years, Zhao Guizhen devoted all his efforts and exhausted all methods, and this was the short-lived glory of the Wuzong period.

After realizing that there was nothing to be done, Zhao Guizhen didn't hesitate to leave everything to Hui Ji, and returned to Mount Zhongnan with only Ziyang and Li Gang.

Yes, when Zhao Guizhen left Chang'an, he hardly took anything with him.

And less than a month after Zhao Guizhen returned to Mount Zhongnan, he died of exhaustion.

This kind of decline comes from the inside out, even if Zhao Guizhen cultivated into a Yang God and possessed the ability to transform into thousands, he still couldn't prevent this kind of death caused by mental exhaustion.

It was just like what Xuan told Zhao Guizhen when he was in Chang'an - he was courting his own death.

Only "The Cave in the Mirror" relied on its own particularity to retain Zhao Guizhen's last ray of immortality.

Regrettably, even with the existence of the last ray of Yang God, Zhao Guizhen did not take the opportunity to resurrect, but chose to let go completely.

Be it the Linglong Pagoda, or the future of the Tang Dynasty...

Zhao Guizhen was already tired, and he no longer wanted to shoulder such a heavy responsibility.

As for Pei Wende, the junior who "voluntarily" assumed this responsibility?

All Zhao Guizhen could provide him was the last clue about Xuan Jue's reincarnation.

——Dan Ding faction, Lu Yan, Taoist name Chunyangzi.

——Monthly ticket/recommendation ticket——

(End of this chapter)