In the year of Ji Chou, the world changed.

In spring, all things sprout.

Longhu Mountain, Shangqing Town, Jiangxi

People were coming and going in the Tianshi Mansion of the Si Han Dynasty, and it was a noisy and chaotic mess. There was no sign of the solemnity that a Taoist ancestral home should have.

Only within the three gates, the Tianshi Palace is still relatively clean.

A young Taoist priest with fine features is worshiping the statue of the Patriarch.

Zhang Muzhi is sixteen years old this year. He is wearing a green Taoist robe and has his hair tied into a bun. He is reciting mantras, burning incense, worshiping, and offering incense with a focused expression. His movements are slow and slow, and he is deaf to the noise outside the temple.

After paying homage to the Ancestral Master, Zhang Muzhi bowed and took a few steps back, turned around and walked out of the hall. When he reached the door and heard the noise in the courtyard, he suddenly stopped. He sighed and then turned back and found a futon.

Sit cross-legged under the incense table.

"Ancestor! Is our lineage really going to be cut off?"

Zhang Muzhi couldn't help but feel confused, and looked up at the statue of Zu Tianshi above the incense table.

The Ancestral Heavenly Master is sitting high on the altar, wearing a red robe, holding a sword in one hand and holding a magic weapon in the other. His eyes are angry and his beard is furrowed, as if he wants to scold this disciple for his disrespectful words.

As a close disciple of the contemporary Celestial Master, Zhang Muzhi is also a direct descendant of the Celestial Master's Mansion. He has sincerely followed the Tao since he was a child and worshiped the Patriarch for many years. As soon as he said the words, he realized that something was wrong and quickly lowered his head to confess to the Celestial Master.

Silently recite the mantra to purify your mind.

Taishangtaixing, constantly adapting to changes.

Exorcise evil spirits and bind evil spirits, protect life and body.

Wisdom is clear and the mind is peaceful.

The three souls are eternal, and the soul has no loss.

Zhang Muzhi recited it silently several times, and felt that all the uneasiness gradually disappeared, his heart returned to the right place, and his mind was pure, so he tried to move Qi and blood on the futon to move the heavens.

After about an hour of burning incense, a tall and thin middle-aged man came in from outside the hall. He had a straight back and wore a dark blue tunic suit. He looked very capable. He was none other than the contemporary Celestial Master Zhang Daosheng.

Zhang Daosheng entered the hall and saw his apprentice practicing martial arts under the incense table. He was slightly startled. After burning incense and paying homage to the Heavenly Master, he also found a futon and sat down, waiting for Zhang Muzhi to wake up.

The afternoon sun shone into the main hall, and the hustle and bustle in the courtyard gradually stopped.

Zhang Muzhi managed to run for several weeks, and when he opened his eyes, he saw his master sitting opposite, his eyes full of concern.

"Master!"

"How's your performance?"

"It has been able to make the true energy guide the energy and blood, but it cannot last long. It will be unsustainable after a few weeks of operation!"

"The end of the Dharma is coming, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is almost cut off. You are extremely qualified to be able to do this!"

Zhang Daosheng couldn't help but sigh.

"Master, although the current situation is turbulent, there may not be a day when the mountains and rivers will be peaceful. In this Dharma-ending world..."

Zhang Muzhi just said a few words, but Zhang Tianshi raised his hand to stop him:

"I know that you often read the Di newspaper and have some understanding of the current situation. However, after all, your practice time is short and limited by your experience, it is difficult to see through the secrets."

"I'm just asking Master to clarify my doubts."

"Although we cultivators strive for the way of heaven, we are still in the human way without realizing the immortality. Our words and deeds are closely related to the rise and fall of the human way."

"Since the Manchus and Qing Dynasties entered the country, we, the people of China, are no longer orthodox in this world. Later, the imperial court closed the country in isolation, causing the power of humanity to gradually decline, and the situation for us practitioners to become more and more difficult."

"At the end of the Qing Dynasty, overseas barbarians and Japanese Japanese invaders invaded our Central Plains. They burned, killed, looted, and committed all kinds of evil. As a result, the fields were filled with mourning and resentment. The three realms were isolated. We practitioners could not sense the gods, nor could we travel to the underworld. Many spells were ineffective.

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"Furthermore, due to the continuous wars and the smoke rising everywhere, the aura of heaven and earth has gradually become filthy. To this day, everyone in the world thinks that we are just like the barbarian sect, and that we are just like the ignorant people!"

"Although we can still practice hard now, we can only make the energy and blood circulate around the sky. Even if we have practiced hard for decades like me and achieved the realm of Yin Shen, we will not be able to leave the body because of the dirty spiritual energy, and many magical powers will not be effective. At the same time,

Ordinary warriors are not much different."

"After a few decades of this, people in this world will think that the teachings of gods and Buddhas are false, that those who do good will have no merit, and those who do evil will have no retribution. Then material desires will flow freely, and people will be impetuous. Even if the wonderful method of cultivation is made public, they will not be able to find it.

A person of inheritance!"

"Such a cessation of all paths can be said to be the end of the Dharma!"

When Zhang Daosheng talked about this, he looked pitiful and remained silent.

Zhang Muzhi couldn't help but ask: "How will master prepare to deal with it?"

Zhang Daosheng was silent for a moment: "I will take my ancestor's seal and sword and escape to Yizhou Island overseas. Maybe I can continue my Taoism for a few years!"

Zhang Muzhi was shocked and couldn't help but persuade: "Master! Although the mountains and rivers are still uncertain, the situation is gradually becoming clearer. King Jiang has lost the destiny of Qing Emperor, and the Red Emperor's subordinates have also crossed the river. Why did master abandon his ancestor's inheritance and follow him?

King Jiang?"

Zhang Tianshi reached out and touched the top of his disciple's head, sighed, but stopped explaining.

"But I heard that the Red Emperor's benevolent government and caring for the people won the support of the people all over the world. However, the Jiang Dynasty court was full of corruption, and officials, big and small, were all rats. Wouldn't it be a dead end for Master to follow the remnants of King Jiang?"

"Master also said that we cultivators are closely related to the rise and fall of humanity. After the Red Emperor established the empire, humanity will definitely flourish and the people will live and work in peace and contentment. Is there no chance for our way to flourish?"

Seeing that the master was silent, Zhang Muzhi's tone became more and more anxious.

Zhang Daosheng sighed when he saw his disciple being so rude:

"The reason why our Tao can prosper is because our Heavenly Master's Mansion is a separate mansion set up by the upper realm in the human world, supervising and supervising the gods on earth for the heaven! In this way, heaven and human beings are mixed together, so that our Heavenly Master's Mansion can be passed down for thousands of years.

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"Nowadays, all the people under the Red Emperor are atheists and believe in materialism. Even if humanity flourishes in the future, how can there be any reason to merge with the way of heaven?"

When Zhang Muzhi heard this, his heart was filled with despair. After thinking for a long time, his expression became firm again, and he leaned over the futon and bowed:

"The Tao gave birth to the heaven and the earth, and it exists forever. Even if the magical power cannot manifest its sage, the Tao will never be extinguished!"

"Uncle! My nephew's parents passed away when he was young, and he was raised by you. He has never disobeyed your wishes, but this time I can't go overseas with you..."

When Zhang Daosheng heard his disciple call him uncle, he immediately knew that the child had made up his mind and sighed: "Idiot! Idiot!"

Zhang Muzhi raised his head from the futon, his eyes were red, tears were streaming down his face, and he was choked and unable to speak.

Zhang Daosheng took out a pair of handkerchiefs from his breast pocket and wiped his disciple's tears.

"Don't cry! Don't cry! Wait until I cast a spell to wish the ancestral master and see if there is a response!"

After Zhang Daosheng finished speaking, he stood up and came to the incense table. He closed his eyes for a moment and then picked up the Holy Grail and threw it.

Zhang Muzhi also stretched his head to check the hexagrams.

"Holy hexagram!"

Zhang Daosheng received the Holy Grail and looked a little pale.

"I forced the Yin Shen to communicate with the upper world, and the Ancestral Heavenly Master responded. You don't have to travel with me, but you can receive the Yang Zhipingdu Gong Seal and inherit the position of the Heavenly Master!"

Zhang Muzhi saw that his master looked bad, so he quickly reached out to help him: "Why don't you stay, master?"

"If I want to stay, the Taoist lineage will be extinct in an instant. Just when I go overseas to cover it for you, I can keep the remaining energy alive, and then only when you succeed in practice can you successfully inherit the Taoist lineage!"

As Zhang Daosheng spoke, he put the Holy Grail away, took a sandalwood box from the ancestral incense table, opened it, and motioned for Zhang Muzhi to come closer.

Zhang Muzhi came to the master's side and saw two seals in the wooden box: a Lilong button, made of white jade, two feet square; a square button, made of sapphire, one foot square.

"Everyone knows that the Yang Zhiping Du Gong Seal is the treasure of the heavenly masters of all dynasties, but they don't know that there are two of these seals!"

"This Lilong Niudu Gong Seal was refined by the second generation of Celestial Masters, and later was refined and blessed by the Celestial Masters of all generations. It is the treasure of our sect's inheritance. I will take it with me to Yizhou Island along with the Celestial Master Sword.

Delay my energy!"

Zhang Daosheng picked up the sapphire square button Du Gong Seal from the box and placed it in Zhang Mu's hand: "It is rumored that this seal was given to the Ancestral Master by the Supreme Lord, and it is the most powerful treasure of the alliance.

, with this ability to control the gods, it has all kinds of incredible power!"

"After I leave, there will be no one in charge in the Tianshi Mansion, and the inheritance on this mountain will surely attract everyone to fight for it. You are young after all, and you will inevitably be killed if you stay in the manor!"

"I have a villa in Jinling City. You can take this seal and the inheritance text of our religion and go to Jinling City for temporary refuge!"

"Although Jinling is the capital of King Jiang, it seems to be the center of turmoil. However, after King Jiang's defeat, the Red Emperor's army must first appease the people in Jinling City, so as to stabilize people's hearts. You can avoid trouble in Jinling!"

"Since the Ancestral Master agrees with you to inherit the Taoism, things will definitely turn around!"

"You have been smart since childhood, have a photographic memory, and have a firm mind. If you had been born hundreds of years earlier, you would have been someone like Master Xu Jing. It's a pity..."

"I'm going to Jinling. I'll prepare more gold and silver for you. If the real thing can't be done, you can spend your life in a down-to-earth manner..."

Zhang Daosheng was like a nagging old woman, giving endless instructions to his apprentices.

"This separation, I wonder if there will be a chance to meet again in this life..."

Thinking of this, Zhang Muzhi shed tears again.

When Zhang Daosheng saw his disciple crying, he couldn't say anything anymore.

After a long time, Zhang Muzhi stopped crying and took the Yang Zhiping Du Gong Seal with a green jade square button into his arms.

"Tomorrow I will arrange for someone to take you to Jinling. After you have settled there, send me a telegram, and then I will leave."
To be continued...