Seeking good fortune and avoiding misfortune starts from Tianshi Mansion.

Chapter 555. Looking into the Reality of the Cave (Two Chapters in One)

The brilliant starlight above Mount Longhu seems to have transformed into a cosmic starry sky.

It is still daytime, but the surrounding sky and earth have become dark, as if it is night.

In the central area of ​​the night sky, the stars are particularly bright.

The starlight vaguely gathered in the sky above Mount Longhu to form a huge illusory three-story altar, round on the top and octagonal in the middle.

At the topmost circular altar, there are more condensed and bright starlight pointing straight up, penetrating the night universe, like a pillar of light and a road to heaven.

The end of the heavenly road disappears into the sky, and no one knows where it is.

Everyone in Longhu Mountain and the surrounding areas witnessed such a magnificent scene and immediately understood it.

Following Yuan Mobai and Chu Kun, the Tianshi Mansion lineage has produced a new talisman school immortal.

The contemporary Heavenly Master, the Three Caves and Three Heavens Master, Longhu Zhenren, is outstanding.

All the disciples in the Longhu Mountain ancestral temple, regardless of their level of cultivation and seniority, now bowed together to the huge illusory three-story altar formed by the condensation of starlight.

After a while, the starlight faded, the surrounding night also disappeared, and the world saw the light of day again.

Zhuo Baojie looked no different from before. He was wearing a Heavenly Master robe, with a Heavenly Master sword and Heavenly Master seal hanging from his waist, and a Yuanshi crown on his head, as he slowly walked out of the Heavenly Master Hall.

His eyes moved slightly, and his gaze first turned to a villa in the mountains.

His gaze seemed to penetrate the void and meet Lei Jun's.

Lei Jun smiled and nodded in greeting.

Zhuo Baojie then calmed himself down, greeted other fellow disciples in the mansion first, accepted their congratulations, and set a time to start his lecture.

After all matters were roughly agreed upon and arranged, Zhuo Baojie went to the cave specifically.

He is very familiar with this place.

This was the cave where Lei Jun lived before he took over the position of Heavenly Master.

When Zhuo Baojie entered, he saw Lei Jun and his fellow apprentice Feng Ting looking at him with smiles.

"Congratulations to the contemporary Heavenly Master Dong Xuan for ascending to heaven and living forever." Lei Jun said with a smile.

Feng Ting beside him bowed with a smile: "Congratulations to the headmaster, Senior Brother Dongxuan, for ascending to immortality and living a long and healthy life."

Zhuo Baojie looked at the tall Taoist priest in front of him, who still looked like a young man and was wearing a yellow brocade robe. He opened his mouth, but no sound came out for a moment.

After he bowed down to Lei Jun like a golden mountain overturning a jade pillar, he was finally able to speak normally:

"It has been nearly three decades since I followed my master back to the mountain. Thinking about it now, it seems like a lifetime ago. I am grateful to my master for helping me get to where I am today."

Lei Jun raised his hand to hold up his eldest disciple, and asked him to sit down with Feng Ting:
"The master leads you to the door, but the practice is up to you. Just as Hua Ting is a genius among humans, you, Hua Jie, are also a natural spirit species, a genius among spirit beasts.

To be honest, practicing the human way has even wasted some of your time. If you were taught by other spirit beasts, you could practice according to the spirit beast method and perhaps become a fairy sooner than now."

Like Yuan Mobai, Zhuo Baojie practiced Taoism of the human race in the body of a spirit beast and spent some time laying the initial foundation when he first got started.

It was like Zhuo Baojie, who followed Lei Jun back to the mountain for more than ten years, that he was formally ordained and became Lei Jun's disciple in the winter of the year when Lei Jun ascended to the upper mountain for three days.

Later, during his practice, the master and disciple constantly discussed and coordinated with each other, and also paid attention to adjusting the progress of their practice, so that sometimes it seemed fast and sometimes slow.

Just as Lei Jun said, if he had lived in the Cang Huan since childhood like the True Dragon Hua Ming, the Phoenix Feng Ming, and the Blue Luan Zhu Yin, and had been taught and guided by other spirit beasts since childhood, with his qualifications, he might be able to open the door to immortality faster than he does now.

But Zhuo Baojie didn't think so.

After the great catastrophe at the end of the Han Dynasty, Cang Huan was closed for many years and never returned to the human world.

Moreover, Cang Huan later ended up in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, several decades after he was a teenager.

If he had not met Lei Jun, he could only cultivate his spiritual intelligence and practice for decades. Not to mention how fast his cultivation strength would improve, he might even face the risk of dying young. Even if everything went smoothly, his improvement would not necessarily be much faster than practicing the human Taoism.

"My disciple is where he is today because of my teacher." Zhuo Baojie repeated these words seriously.

The master and his two disciples were chatting when suddenly someone rushed in like a flash:

"Congratulations, senior brother!"

The purple-robed nun entered the cave, straightened her expression and bowed to Lei Jun: "Disciple greets Master."

It was Han Xiaofei, Lei Jun's second disciple who had previously left the mountain to travel far away.

After greeting her master and her third apprentice brother Feng Ting, she soon lost control of herself and looked at Zhuo Baojie in annoyance:

"We hurried back to the mountain, but we were still a little short!"

Zhuo Baojie remained calm and said, "Don't worry, I'll wait for you next time."

After Han Xiaofei was annoyed for a while, she soon smiled again: "Anyway, congratulations to Brother Dongxuan for ascending to immortality and living forever."

While speaking, her eyes began to roll around and she glanced at Zhuo Baojie slyly.

Lei Jun knew what his second disciple was thinking without even looking:
I wonder if the fur feels better after I ascend to heaven...

"Under Master's tutelage, Uncle Wang's situation is somewhat special, but he, Master, and Third Uncle have all ascended to the immortal realm, creating a good story."

Zhuo Baojie ignored Han Xiaofei's scrutiny and smiled at her and Feng Ting: "Shall we three try it too?"

Han Xiaofei quietly approached her senior brother and said, "Although there is still some distance, I must push open the fairy gate and see the scenery of the fairyland!"

Feng Ting smiled at the side: "I am not talented enough to compare with my senior brothers and sisters, but I will definitely practice hard, do my best, and follow you."

Lei Jun sat upright, looking at his three direct disciples with a smile.

After chatting and laughing for a while, Han Xiaofei remembered something: "By the way, Master, I remember you mentioned before that the one from Huang Tiandao...Master Kang, has he also been preparing for the Dongxuan Ascension in recent years?"

Lei Jun: "Not bad."

Han Xiaofei asked curiously, "I heard that he has a two-phase holy body and is practicing both the Taoist Fulu School and the Danding School. So when he ascended to immortality, did he cultivate into Dao Jing Xuan Yuan or Yuan Shen?"

Lei Jun: "In a short period of time, he cultivated the first level of Xuanling Yiqi of the Five Qis of my Fulu School and the Mingling Qi of the Five Qis of the Danding School. It can be said that both of their sects have cultivated to the ninth heaven Mahayana realm.

However, after that, he devoted himself to the inheritance and practice of the Taoist talisman school, and later achieved the perfect bridge of the Five Qis to the Mysterious Truth, and worked hard to achieve the Mahayana Dao Jing Xuan Yuan for the purpose of becoming a great immortal.

In addition, during this period, his two-phase holy body bones have been sublimated into a mixed primordial immortal body. "

"You have already reached the Hunyuan Immortal Body, so you can cultivate more than two Taoist traditions."

Han Xiaofei was a little surprised, but when she talked about Kang Ming and Huang Tiandao, her tone was calm: "I don't know when he can successfully open the door to immortality. If he ascends to immortality, I wonder if he will stay in the human world or go to the heaven and earth?"

Lei Jun looked into the distance calmly: "As for time, it's almost time."

He looked toward the north.

In the extreme northern wilderness of the human world, there currently stands another altar of the Talisman Sect.

However, due to the host's deliberate cover-up, the sect's altar is currently extremely secretive and difficult for outsiders to detect.

It was the Huangtian Sect Altar that was moved and finally arrived here.

Recently, most of the high-ranking elders of the Huangtian Dao, headed by Chen Ziyang, Xiahou Bo and others, have gathered here, waiting half patiently and half excitedly.

The head of the sect, Kang Ming, has been in seclusion for some years.

He had already reached the perfection of the ninth heaven and was now striving for the fairyland.

Relatively young people like Xiahou Bo were fine, but older people like Chen Ziyang had somewhat complicated feelings.

In the past, Kang Ming's ascension to heaven was of vital and decisive significance to Huang Tiandao.

Because the Huangtian Sect Altar was formed by the transformation of the body of a high-ranking elder from the upper three heavens through a secret method, the Huangtian Sect Altar will also have a lifespan limit of eight hundred years like the cultivators from the upper three heavens.

The current Huangtian Sect still has a lot of "lifespan" left, and it is at least another six hundred years away from its deadline.

But if Huang Tiandao could produce an immortal and have him preside over the sect, the life of the sect could be greatly extended and they could live with the immortals.

The significance of this is of course extraordinary.

...It should be like this.

But today, all this seems to be meaningless.

The Longhushan ancestral temple restored its prosperity before the catastrophe at the end of the Han Dynasty.

The former Heavenly Master Xuan Xiaozi is in charge of the entire Taoist sect.

Huang Tiandao also returned to his clan twice.

The world is at peace and everything is settled.

Although there has been no explicit public announcement, all parties in the world, including Huang Tiandao, have gradually reached a tacit understanding.

Like the White Lotus Sect, although they are not as openly practiced as other Taoist and Buddhist holy places, they have also escaped the state of prohibition in the early years.

However, under Kang Ming's leadership, Huang Tiandao is even more low-key than the Bailian Sect.

The Huangtian Sect's altar can now be moved anywhere, but it is still located in a cold and desolate place in the far north, and it has not expanded on a large scale to accept new disciples.

Including Chen Ziyang and others, they all followed Kang Ming's instructions and only cultivated themselves every day.

It is like the snow plum blossom in the wild mountains, blooming alone, living alone, silently moving towards its destined withering, without any contact with the outside world.

However, even so, everyone was still excited about Kang Ming's hope of ascending to heaven.

How difficult it is to ascend to heaven.

Whether it is the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths that is gradually entering the heyday of Taoism today, or the Three Realms of Heaven, Earth, and Man during its heyday in the past, becoming an immortal is a goal that only a few people can achieve.

But this still gives Huang Tiandao and his people a glimmer of hope.

Kang Ming's ascension to heaven was not as high-profile as others.

When he appeared in front of Huang Tiandao and his men again, they were all a little dazed. Their first reaction was to be surprised as to whether their leader had taken that final step.

But as high-ranking elders, Xiahou Bo, Chen Ziyang and others soon noticed the changes in their own Huangtian Sect Altar.

If so, it means that Kang Ming succeeded!
"Congratulations to Master Dongxuan for ascending to heaven and wishing him long and healthy life!" Everyone in Huang Tiandao came to their senses and congratulated Kang Ming.

Kang Ming looked calm as he announced that he would give a lecture to answer questions and resolve confusion for his fellow disciples.

"Then I will leave this world."

Kang Mingyan said: "However, I will return to the human world regularly every year to take care of the affairs of the sect. I am sorry to trouble you all."

The implication of the master's words was that he would not give up Huang Tian Dao. Even if he left the human world and entered the heaven and earth, he would live in seclusion and hide his identity... Xiahou Bo took a deep breath.

Even though you are now an immortal, do you still insist on being Huang Tiandao's gravekeeper?

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Zhuo Baojie is a contemporary Heavenly Master. After ascending to heaven, he gave lectures to all the disciples in the palace.

Lei Jun left Longhu Mountain only after the head disciple of the sect opened the ceremony.

At the same time, he left the human world and went to heaven, entering the Three Pure Ones and Three Treasures Cave in the Penglai Sea.

My mentor Yuan Mobai is currently practicing here.

As the younger generation of the family grew up, the elders of the previous generation began to rest and practice. Yuan Mobai, who had been in Longhu Mountain for many years, spent most of his time in Penglai Sea in the heavenly realm after ascending to heaven, except for traveling far away from the mountain.

"Huajie has successfully taken this step." Yuan Mobai had a warm smile on his face, much stronger than usual.

Lei Jun sat below him, also smiling.

When the news of the new Heavenly Master's ascension to heaven spread, it naturally attracted the attention of the entire world.

To the world, it was not just a new immortal of the talisman school emerging from the Tianshi Mansion of Longhu Mountain, but also three generations of the same lineage, Yuan Mobai, Lei Jun and Zhuo Baojie, all of whom had ascended to the fairyland.

This is the first case in the world since the great catastrophe at the end of the Han Dynasty. Naturally, it has attracted congratulations from all sides and is destined to leave a significant mark in history.

Yuan Mobai and Lei Jun, the master and apprentice, were indifferent in most of their dealings with others, but they were very pleased about this incident at this moment.

"Kang Ming has also reached the fairyland."

Yuan Mobai nodded slightly when he heard the other piece of news.

Lei Jun: "He intends to enter the underworld and temporarily live between the mountains and the sea."

He would not interfere.

Yuan Mobai: "This world has accumulated a lot of experience and now more and more people are ascending to heaven. It is getting more and more like the atmosphere before the great catastrophe at the end of the Han Dynasty."

There are a huge number of monks in the first level of the fairyland. As time goes by, there may be more monks in the second and third levels of the fairyland.

"Mr. Zhang and Fellow Daoist Shen have already begun preparing for the second level of the fairyland." Lei Junyan said.

Yuan Mobai nodded repeatedly.

It has been nearly eighty years since Shushan Sect's Shen Xi ascended to immortality. After his ascension, the miraculous effects of his Zhouguang Immortal Body have slightly weakened compared to before.

It’s not that the magical power of Zhouguang Immortal Body has disappeared, but the road to further advancement after reaching immortality is even longer.

But since getting rid of the burden from those years, Shen Xi has remained mentally stable and has been practicing diligently.

Back then, he was the first one to ascend to immortality after Lei Jun and others. Currently, he is also at the forefront of his peers, constantly advancing towards the second level of the immortal realm.

Master and disciple Yuan Mobai and Lei Jun are now accustomed to calling Zhang Wantong "Mr. Tianrui", while "Mr. Zhang" generally refers to Zhang Hui.

It has been more than sixty years since Zhang Hui became a saint.

He usually indulges in mountains and rivers. Since the world has generally calmed down, he has spent most of his time traveling around here and even in the Confucian scholars.

It seems that he no longer has the help of the Nine Heavens Perfection and Confucianism, but his natural talent is still progressing rapidly.

Although he ascended to immortality later than Shen Xi, Zhang Hui and Shen Xi are now both first-level cultivators in the fairyland, and are at the forefront, and are closest to the second level of the fairyland.

In recent years, both of them have begun to make final preparations to reach higher levels.

"Master and Third Junior Brother have also been practicing diligently over the years." Lei Jun smiled.

Zhao Qianran from the Witch Sect, Mu Chunyang from the Taoist Sect, and Xiao Yumen from the Confucian Sect opened the gate to immortality earlier, but on the road to reaching the second level of immortality, Lei Jun is currently more optimistic about his own master and fellow apprentice who are ahead.

Yuan Mobai smiled and shook his head: "There is still a gap."

"In addition, there is Venerable Huiyin of the White Lotus Sect who possesses unobstructed wisdom and his comprehension is far beyond his peers. If he works hard, he should be able to catch up with Mr. Zhang and Fellow Daoist Shen. However, Venerable Huiyin has his own plans." Lei Jun continued.

Yuan Mobai nodded.

Not only had they heard Wang Guiyuan mention related matters, they had also communicated with Venerable Huiyin himself when they were meditating and discussing the Dao together.

It’s not that Huiyin is lazy and not diligent, or that he is not suitable to concentrate on practicing and improving his cultivation.

It's just that he chose another direction.

Huiyin had previously practiced Buddhism and vowed to attain the golden body.

If he continued to cultivate the Buddhist tradition of vows in depth, with his qualifications and Buddhist supernatural powers, in recent years he would have the hope of attaining the second level of the Buddhist vow of golden body, and from "great use" to "great appearance".

But after Huiyin achieved the "great power" of the golden body he vowed to create, he turned to practicing Buddhism from other traditions over the years.

He had previously practiced the three branches of Buddhism, namely, Zen, martial arts, precepts, and hand seals, and had already achieved the Ninth Heaven Dharmakaya of Buddhism. He had continued to practice in seclusion over the years, and in recent years had successfully attained the Golden Body of the Buddhist precepts branch, and cultivated pure Nirvana karma.

In recent years, he has resumed his practice of Buddhist Zen and martial arts, preparing to attain the Buddhist Zen and martial arts golden body.

Following the king back to the origin to the world of demons to save all living beings did not delay the practice of Venerable Huiyin.

To some extent, this trip will be more helpful for his future practice.

The world of demons today has changed greatly compared to the past.

The Hundred-Eyed Demonic Tree simply escaped from the current world of demons.

Although the injured Demon Dragon Emperor has a strong recovery ability, if he is not at peace, he will find it even more difficult to resist Yan Aoyun's relentless advances due to his lingering injuries.

Eventually, it followed the Hundred-Eyed Demon Tree and escaped from the world of demons.

Only the Great Destruction Bodhisattva was relatively stubborn and resisted for a long time in the world of demons.

Among the three great demons, it is even superior to the Demon Dragon Emperor in terms of pure frontal lethality and destructive power.

Yan Aoyun's step-by-step advancing style of play was actually beneficial for the Great Destruction Bodhisattva to play to his strengths.

But since Yan Aoyun dared to do this, it was because he was confident that he was superior to his opponent.

Although the Bodhisattva of Great Destruction resisted for a long time, he eventually had to withdraw from the world of demons.

If the Demon Dragon Emperor had not come to his rescue, the Great Destroyer Bodhisattva would have been directly killed by Yan Aoyun and would not have been able to escape.

Previously, when the Demon Dragon Emperor was injured, the Great Destruction Bodhisattva did not take advantage of the opportunity to take advantage of him, and now the Demon Dragon Emperor is not returning the favor either.

Both sides are concerned about the danger of losing one's teeth.

However, the three great demons that once brought a long bloody and dark era to the demon world were eventually expelled from this world one after another.

Including the Hundred-Eyed Demon Tree which retreated first, the three demons were all injured by Yan Aoyun.

For the next period of time, Yan Aoyun traveled between the world of demons and the world of Confucian scholars, intimidating the three great demons so that they dared not make a comeback in a short period of time and could only lick their wounds in the outer universe.

Yan Zi did not want fame and credit for his achievements, so he did not show his prowess on a large scale in the world of demons. After expelling the three major demons, he retreated behind the scenes, leaving the front stage to more Buddhist masters and monks such as Wang Guiyuan and Huiyin.

Wang Guiyuan, Hui Yin and others did not disappoint everyone's expectations. They subdued demons on a large scale and wiped out the demons in the three realms of heaven, earth and man who had originally followed Damie Bodhisattva.

Although it no longer has the splendor of the Buddhist Pure Land of the past, and is still filled with evil spirits and virulent auras, there are signs that the Dharma Ending Age is finally coming to an end.

As time goes by, with the continuous efforts of Buddhist monks such as Wang Guiyuan, this world is expected to return to peace in the future.

Over in the Confucian Universe, great Confucian scholars such as Jiao Feiyang are currently focusing more on Tianmojing and Taiyi Universe.

After Yan Aoyun successfully expelled the three demons, although he still traveled between the world of demons and the Confucian world, he then paid more attention to the Taiyi world.

Yan Zi did not get carried away.

Although he was very successful in clearing up the evil and promoting good in the world of demons, the problems in the Taiyi Universe might be even more serious.

The manic and confused Hundred-Eyed Demon Tree was the first of the three demons to escape, and the reason was definitely not because of fear.

Instead, Taiyi Wu Zun was controlling it to retreat voluntarily and preserve its strength.

The preservation of this strength has enabled the demon world to be swept away by Yan Aoyun more quickly, while the Taiyi Universe has been strengthened.

Without passing through the Abyss of Time, traveling between the worlds is extremely difficult, and even top masters may get lost in the vast void outside the domain.

But the Hundred-Eyed Demon Tree is closely related to Taiyi Wu Zun. If it wants to go to the Taiyi Universe, it naturally has the clearest signposts.

Sure enough, news soon came that the Hundred-Eyed Demon Tree had also appeared in the Taiyi World.

Of course, it didn't dare to invade the Confucian world through Tianmojing and face Yan Aoyun directly.

But if Yan Aoyun wants to enter the Taiyi World again, the difficulty will also increase sharply.

Taiyi Wu Zun's own strength has always been strong.

The tug-of-war between the two sides over the portals to Tianmojing and Taiyi Universe has continued over the years.

Xu Yuanzhen still stayed there with great interest.

Tang Xiaotang recently returned to the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths and came to the Three Pure Ones and Three Treasures Cave in Penglai Sea.

She will strive for the third level of fairyland here and reach the state of returning to nature in three days.

"Hua Jie has also reached the immortal realm, which is cause for celebration!" Tang Xiaotang said with emotion, "Junior-disciple Hua Wei, Rong Rong and Fei Er will still need some more years. Maybe Xu Hai will be able to take this step faster."

Yuan Mobai smiled: "Just proceed step by step."

Tang Xiaotang was ready to go: "Little Uncle Master is right, but we should proceed step by step, and it won't affect our momentum. This time I will try to rush all the way up, and I will go all the way to the Mysterious Purple Star Realm, and return to the True Self in three days. Anyway, I must be faster than Senior Sister!"

Lei Jun did not object: "The best way is the one that suits you."

After all, there are differences between people.

What works for others may not work for you.

For example, Tang Xiaotang, Han Xiaofei, An Buzheng and others have always made great progress, constantly strived to improve themselves, and paid attention to making concerted efforts.

People like Wang Guiyuan, Yuan Mobai, Chu Kun, Feng Ting, etc., always put "stability" first.

As for Lei Jun, Zhao Chanyang, Xu Yuanzhen, Cheng Rongrong, Chi Haifeng and others, they are relatively "showy"...

Tang Xiaotang suddenly narrowed his eyes, glanced at Lei Jun beside him, and coughed dryly:
"Lei Jun, how far are you from Dong Zhen?"

The Taoist talisman school customarily regards the mystery gained when one reaches perfection in the fifth level of the ninth heaven of the cave god as the bridge to the mystery.

This stage is also called the cave god's profound enlightenment.

It refers to the fairyland on a higher level, which is the realm of Dongxuan, so opening the fairy gate is called Dongxuan ascension to immortality.

The final stage of the three levels of fairyland or the three levels of Dongxuan is called Santian Guizhen, also known as Tongxuan Guizhen.

What it refers to is the legendary realm of truth, which is yet another level higher.

Returning to the truth is not the real truth after all.

The monks of the Talisman School have always been on the path of comprehending the nature of heaven and earth and constantly improving their own lives.

When one reaches the eighth level of Cave God, one cultivates the Divine Court Universe. From then on, the universe in the body turns into the Divine Court, then into the Mahayana Dao Scene, and from the Dao Scene into the Three Heavens Mysterious Wall, perfecting step by step until the cultivator himself, who has finally achieved the state of practicing with his life, becomes like another real heaven and earth.

When one reaches the realm of profound truth and returns to the original simplicity, the universe of Taoism disappears and becomes completely in harmony with one's nature and life.

Those who are transformed are called the Three Caves and Three Pure Realms.

The three Qis of Yuqing, Taiqing and Shangqing flow within it, their spirits are mysterious and pure, they create heaven and earth, their merits are unfathomable, they are of the same Tao and share the same profound meanings.

When fighting with external enemies, while basically ineffectiveizing all means of the opponent, he himself is ethereal and unpredictable, with infinite changes, as if he is one with the universe.

Not only the Taoist talisman sect's monks, in history there have also been true Taoist alchemy sect masters who achieved return to emptiness and merged with the Tao, and the situation was similar.

At this level, all paths lead to the same destination, and all things return to one. Even if there are still some differences, they are limited, almost like two sides of the same coin.

Taoist practitioners who have reached such a state are conventionally called Tianzun.

(End of this chapter)