Saint Immortal Way

The front end of the Baisheng Taimiao, facing Baisheng Street, is the famous Taimiao group in the capital of gods. It enshrines the saints of the dynasty. At present, there are 91 saints enshrined, and only three have been added in the past century. Yang Huaxi, a very sage.

Compared with the era when saints were born in large numbers at the beginning of the dynasty, the number of Confucians who became saints can be said to have dropped sharply, or even to the point of extinction. However, in the reign of Emperor Wen, the art of alchemy began to prevail. With the weather of ZTE, it seems that the great masters are more hopeful to be promoted to the sage industry.

In Lu Yang's eyes, the Baisheng Taimiao is divided into two parts, the front and the back. The front part is the group of Taimiao temples where the city residents of the gods offer incense and pray for blessings. There are statues of nearly a hundred saints enshrined in them.

As the New Year is approaching, Baisheng Street is full of people. Men, women, young and old, devout believers, and students all flock to the Ancestral Temple to offer incense and pray for blessings.

Princess Shouyang and Lu Yang let the carriage stop on Baisheng Street, and the entourage was also sent away. The two walked into the Taimiao and looked around.

Most pilgrims choose only one or a few saints to worship. Among them, the most popular place is the Nine Holy Temple, where the nine great saints of the Kai Dynasty are enshrined.

The first sage of the Great Kuang Dynasty was Yang Yiren, who wrote the "Five Taishu of Xiantian".His true identity is the illegitimate son of Emperor Yin Shang, the last emperor of the Yin Ruins Dynasty.His mother is a member of the Hongnong Yang clan, and he followed his mother's surname since he was a child.It was this illegitimate son who opened up the holy way with the above perseverance and wisdom and established the Great Kuang Dynasty.

The second saint: Li Tianting.Yang Yiren's eldest disciple.Writing "The Great Dao Jing"

The third sage: Kong Ci, named Jimin.The seventh disciple of Yang Yiren, who wrote the books "The Great Book of Songs" and "The Little Book of Songs", is known as the sage of poetry. [

The fourth sage: Xu Hanlin, the first dean of the Taiyuan Academy in the Great Kuang Dynasty, returned to his hometown of Tongcheng in his later years, and wrote "It is this sage who is talented and accomplished scholars in the future. He is called Hanlin.

The fifth sage: Zhou Li, who wrote the book "Kuang Li"

The sixth sage: Wang Daotai, who wrote the "Thai Emperor Sutra", but it has been lost.

The seventh sage: Chu Tianhong, who wrote the book "Hong Le"

The eighth sage: Gongsun Baixiao, who wrote the book "Yin Ruins", also known as "Guangyin Shenzhao Jing"

The Ninth Saint: Li Xuanyu, by "

These nine sages were promoted to sages before the founding of the Great Kuang Dynasty. They are the existences admired by hundreds of generations, and future generations can only look up to them and never surpass them.Within a hundred years of the founding of the Great Kuang Dynasty, these nine saints ascended one by one.

Nine saints established the Great Kuang Dynasty at the beginning, and the people worshiped them. They broke through the karma of saints, entered the karma of heaven and man, and ascended to the sky.The world beyond the sky is really imaginative, but unfortunately, the real description of the world is only sporadically recorded in the classics, and the world knows not much.

Although the saints lived in seclusion in the Baishengtai Temple, they all established academies in various places in Dakuang in the early years, educating people on behalf of the heavens, preaching and teaching.Among the seven saints, there was one who had reached the peak of the third level the first time, and was expected to be heard by all saints. This was Saint Yang Xiyi.

For decades, there are only seven surviving saints, and six of them have reached the second level of sainthood, and have not yet reached the level of the third level of hundred saints. However, in recent years, Zhenjian saints have come from behind and promoted The third level of sainthood is the saint with the highest cultivation after Yang Xiyi.

The seven surviving saints are Yang Xiyi from Taiyuan Academy, Yu Wanlin from Bailu Academy, Zhu Xi from Songyang Academy, An Yushi from Lushan Academy, Liu Chenghe from Qingcheng Academy, Ye Zhaoyang from Kunlun Academy, and Zhenjian from the Stone Pagoda Sage Cui Bao.

Saint Yang Xiyi has the highest level of cultivation. After Lu Yang invented alchemy, he seemed to have sensed that the world of Da Kuang Zhongxing had arrived. He came out of closed doors. This saint Lu Yang had met before. Known as the first contemporary saint.

Princess Shouyang and Lu Yang paid homage to the Nine Saints first, and each saint offered three sticks of incense, and then turned to the statues of Saint Yang Xiyi and Saint Cui Bao, and offered incense to them both.

The moment the incense was lit with magic power, the two saints felt the thoughts of Princess Shouyang and Lu Yang.

Almost at the same moment, the voices of Yang Xiyi and Zhenjian Shengren came from the minds of Lu Yang and Princess Shouyang, calling them to meet them. [

"Your Highness, it seems that we are still highly valued by the saints. Just now we came in, and the two saints personally summoned us!" Lu Yang laughed.

Princess Shouyang was excited, and said solemnly: "My elder and your mentor are both legendary figures. To be summoned by them in person must be something important!"

Passing through several corridors, the guards guarding the pass recognize Princess Shouyang and dare not stop her.

The back garden of Baishengtai Temple is very vast, including several mountains, large forests, and several large and small flat lakes. This is the place where saints and masters retreat all the year round, and it is never open to ordinary people.Entering here, there is a feeling of isolation from the world, because the hustle and bustle of the gods has completely disappeared here, replaced by a mysterious and peaceful atmosphere of practice.

Lu Yang took a few breaths of air, and felt that his whole mind had calmed down, as if the calm Pinghu Lake could clearly reflect all phenomena of the world.

"Every time I come here, I feel that this is a rare and blessed place. If I can cultivate my life and focus on Taoism in such an environment with peace of mind, it would be a happy thing!" Princess Shouyang suddenly said with emotion.

Lu Yang nodded: "Your Highness is entangled in many things, it's hard to have a happy day, but after the Mesopotamia is pacified, can Your Highness leave everything behind and concentrate on practicing?"

"My hall would like to, but the world is unpredictable like a game of chess, hehe, who knows?" Princess Shouyang shook her head.Lu Yang frowned slightly. He felt that Princess Shouyang was too persistent. After all, there were not many people in the holy way who could have both merit and fame. He didn't believe that Princess Shouyang could have both.

Even Lu Yang himself is now seeking the ultimate in fame and fame, but now, Lu Yang feels that he has to make a choice, either focus on merit or fame, this is the choice, and it is also his future way out.

Let go of everything, just like an immortal in another world, escaping from the mundane world, ignoring the secular world, focusing on cultivation, focusing on the fifth rank of Dao karma, and obtaining the corresponding Dao karma, this is gong.

Gong is related to one's own most immediate interests, high merit, attaining longevity, and even achieving the ascension of heaven and man, this is the acme of Gong. Lu Yang yearns for such a path. Currently, some representatives who choose this path include Zhenjian sages and others.

The name is to write a book, or to be in charge of the government, to benefit thousands of people, and to study with this merit, or to achieve heaven and man to ascend to the sky. This is the ultimate name. Yang Xiyi, Yang Wensi, and several others chose this path The old man and others.

Lu Yang is now writing a book saying that with increasing fame and merit, when one's practice is low, one doesn't feel the need to separate paths for fame and fame, but to be promoted to a master, one must choose the path of practice.

From ancient times to the present, except for the Nine Sages, there are only a few Confucianists who can also cultivate fame and rise to the sky. After all, more saints choose merit rather than fame.