From a Zhengyi Taoist Child to a Master of All Laws

Chapter 458: Ten Years of Change
As dusk spread over the green cliffs, the shadows of cranes flying over Baiyun Mountain broke up the clouds.

The plain white Taoist robe was soaked by the mountain mist and became cool. Chi Yanhong lowered his sword slightly and looked sideways at Li Yang who was standing on the bluestone.

"Ten years? If something difficult to deal with happens on the mountain within ten years, what should we do?"

"I believe in them." Li Yang smiled faintly: "The next ten years will belong to them. I look forward to when I come out of seclusion ten years later, there will be more people in the world who can stand shoulder to shoulder with you and me."

"Before this, China's cultivation world was my era. I want to see whose era will be in the next ten years."

"Of course, if you really need me for something, I will pass down a jade pendant. After you crush it, I will be able to sense it."

Chi Yanhong's expression was complicated, and all his emotions and words finally turned into one sentence:
"May the immortal path last forever!"

"May the Qi of the heavens be vast and my Taoism prosper!"

Admiring the evening view on the mountain again, Li Yang also showed emotion, and responded to Chi Yanhong's voice with his eyes gradually firming:

"May the immortal path last forever!"

"May the Qi of the heavens be vast and my Tao...prosper!"
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On November 2, the first year of the Lingli calendar, Wang Shuhuan returned to Baiyun Mountain with a peace amulet tied around his waist. Three days later, he came down the mountain holding the Qingshuang Sword and rushed to the southeast coast to deal with the beast plague.

In December of the same year, Li Yang and Chi Yanhong summoned Yubao, Zhu Ling, Wang Xin and Zhao Ziyao to have a secret talk in Yuchan Hall for a day and a night, announcing the retreat and the ten-year development plan for Baiyun Mountain.

In the first month of the second year of the Lingli calendar, Li Yang rushed to Lop Nur and set up the Dragon-Slaying Formation with Zheng Zhaoyuan. They used the Moon Essence Wheel to cut off the spiritual veins of Lop Nur, and the spiritual energy concentration of the entire Lop Nur dropped to 0.8 in an instant.

In March of the second year of the Lingli calendar, Li Yang returned to Baiyun Mountain and summoned two classes of disciples from Baiyun Taoist Academy. He and Chi Yanhong announced a retreat at the same time.

As thousands of disciples waited eagerly, Li Yang used the male and female Ziwu Zhanxie swords to carve out two caves on the steep cliffs of the mountain behind Baiyun. He pressed the other half of the jade into the crack in the stone wall and gave the other half to Zhu Ling. Then, the two of them flew into the cave in the rolling clouds.

Instantly the stone cave closed, swallowing up the two figures with a buzzing sound.

In the last ray of daylight, Li Yang's final voice, soaked in the scent of smoke and haze, floated in:
"After my retreat, I hope you will maintain a "non-dual mind" and a "no-doubt will", establish your life with kindness, and cultivate the Tao with virtue. Nourish the foundation of practice and abandon the idea of ​​taking shortcuts. If you are overly greedy for "branches and leaves" such as breathing and supernatural powers, and ignore the root of tranquility, your practice will eventually dry up."

"May the immortal path last forever!"

"May the Qi of the heavens be vast and my Tao...prosper!"

As the last note fell, the steep cliffs were once again covered by clouds and mist.

Zhu Ling and Wang Xin took the lead in bowing their heads, followed by Liu Ming, Yang Jiaqi, Yang Xinwu, Li Linger, Xiao Zhuoma... Thousands of people cheered like thunder:

"Follow the command of the True Lord!"

Amid the ticking sound of the stone marrow, ten years of time curled up into a cocoon in the clouds.

When the morning light pierced through the clouds one day, two dead pines on the cliff suddenly grew green, and where the roots were entangled, half a piece of broken jade was glowing with a warm blood-red light.
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The news of Li Yang's retreat quickly spread throughout the country and abroad.

In April of the second year of the Lingli calendar, the old Australian wizard Gu Rui announced that he had broken through to the S-level and became the fifth master of the seeding way on Blue Star.

Since then, many foreign masters and secret supernatural organizations have emerged like mushrooms after a rain. One after another, the fighting is life and death, making it a mess, which is very lively.

No matter how turbulent the outside world is, the main theme of the entire China is still that the years are peaceful and tranquil.

In July of the second year of the Lingli calendar, Baiyun Daoyuan recruited the third batch of disciples. The number of students for Chunyang Class A and Yanfa Class A was determined. Chi Yanhong came out of seclusion and taught the two classes the "Jade Leaf and Golden Tablet" method, and then went into seclusion again. In September of the second year of the Lingli calendar, Wang Shuhuan returned from the southeast after killing monsters. After Wang Xin and Zhu Ling discussed, he was allowed to enter Chunyang Class A with 36 inner pills of awakening monster beasts and was given the "Jade Leaf and Golden Tablet".

In the third year of the Lingli calendar, the Taoist Alliance restarted the inheritance and selected 108 thousand-year-old Taoist temples to set up "Xuanmen Training Institutes" to teach the methods of nourishing qi to the people. At the same time, it started to transform the South-to-North Water Diversion Project into a "water vein guiding channel" in order to balance the difference in spiritual energy concentration between the north and the south of the country.

In the fourth year of the Lingli calendar, Taoist Master Wu Peng personally led his disciples to build a "Lei Fa Energy Storage Station" at the Northwest Nuclear Base, with an annual power generation of 300 billion kilowatt-hours, equivalent to the power generation of three Three Gorges hydropower stations in the same period.

In the same year, the Huaguo Dao League held a grand ceremony in Wudang Mountain to re-record the "General Book of Cultivation Sects" and include folk Dharma lineages. They promised that no matter what the origins and old grudges were, as long as there was a legacy, people, and they were willing to surrender, it would be an authentic sect and could be legally practiced. It took three months and a total of 96 folk Dharma lineages were included.

In the fifth year of the Lingli calendar, the public conducted the fourth large-scale search for new sword masters. Taoist Master Yubao was recalled to the Yuanjun Temple on Yaji Mountain. He went into seclusion in September of the same year and came out in December. He became the fourth Taoist master in China and the seventh Taoist master on Blue Star.

In the ninth year of the Lingli calendar, Taoist Wu Peng drew lightning from the "Thunder Energy Storage Station" in the Northwest Nuclear Base to infuse his body, becoming the fifth Taoist master in China and the ninth Taoist master on Blue Star.

In the tenth year of the spiritual calendar, China launched the ninth national spiritual energy exploration, and in the same year conducted a national census to register the country's masters of cultivation. Since then, the number of Chinese monks with innate cultivation has exceeded 100.

In the eleventh year of the Spiritual Calendar, China publicly announced for the first time that it had completed the reorganization of the psychic combat forces in the five major war zones, and had established the first army on Blue Star composed entirely of monks...

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Baiyun Mountain.

Winter comes and summer goes, time passes by.

The red fruits on the mountain bloomed three times, and the spiritual grass withered nine times. When Yang Yingying stood in front of the bluestone of Shiyang Village at the foot of the mountain, moss had covered the sword marks from that year.

The sundial's copper clock is covered with dust three inches long. Only when I look at my face in the mirror can I tell that the frost on my temples is not snow.

More than ten years ago, he and his cousin Wang Xin were among the first people in the world to see modern Taoism.

Now, his cousin Wang Xin has become one of the people who have a say in external affairs at Baiyun Taoist Temple. Two years ago, he practiced inner alchemy and achieved a breakthrough to the innate realm.

The convoy behind her passed through the main road of the village.

Although it is called a village, Shiyang Village is now more prosperous than many cities.

There are crowds of pedestrians and shops on both sides, with signs reading "Baiyun Meditation Room, warmly recommended by Fairy Zi Yao, ten days to calm your mind", "New Oriental Education, train the mind and body, so that your children will not lose at the starting line" and so on.

Music was playing in the square, and middle-aged women were dancing in groups; machines were roaring at the construction site, and auxiliary police were standing at the intersection to direct traffic. A couple was leaning against each other and walking past a fortune-telling stall that was doing a booming business...

Everything was as if nothing had happened.

The convoy passed through the village and soon arrived at the foot of Baiyun Mountain, where Wang Xin and his disciples had been waiting for a long time.

"Ten tons of green jade rough material, three tons of finished jade, twenty tons of spiritual stones, one thousand eight hundred spiritual beads, one hundred kilograms of Longhu Mountain nourishing heart tea, and three hundred and sixty sticks of tranquilizing incense..."

After verification, Wang Xin sent his disciples to move all the materials back to the mountain.

The Second Global Monks Cultural Exchange Conference will be held in Qianshan soon, with Baiyun Taoist Temple as the main organizer.

(End of this chapter)