Chapter 1287 Yang Taizhen
Woo!
The fierce wind whirled past the side of the helmet.
The gloomy world became even darker and more blurred when Zhang Fang drove his horse with armor on and galloped wildly. Zhang Fang was wrapped in this mountain-patterned armor with talismans painted on it, and he could feel a strong sense of security supporting him. He firmly believed that every word promised by the terrifying young man in the temple was true!
With this armor, he could be completely fearless.
The visor covering Zhang Fang's face shook slightly. Through the holes in the visor's eyes, he saw the rider in front of him, who was wearing a yellow and black robe stained with stains and some overlapping red and green geometric patterns on the robe. A scimitar inlaid with gems was hung on the side of the rider, and waves of sheep smell came from the rider into Zhang Fang's nostrils.
Westerners?
Zhang Fang thought of the somewhat stiff Chinese language that the other party had just shouted, and then saw that he was wearing exotic clothes and had a curved knife on his waist, and he had a basic guess about his identity.
This rider who was suspected to be from the Western Regions was tightly held in his arms wrapped in iron armor. The Western Regions people were not thin, but against the background of the armor draped on Zhang Fang, he looked particularly "delicate". Zhang Fang turned his head slightly to see the situation behind him.
The rider in front of him shouted to him: "Tang Army - I am the follower of the old king of Bakhanna. The Tubo army invaded our land and killed our king.
Their monk Vajra Tripitaka made a magic weapon from the top of our king's head!
We heard that Vajra Tripitaka was going to the Tang Dynasty - we came to take back the old king's top of the head... We have no intention of invading the Tang Dynasty..."
"Vajra Tripitaka..." Zhang Fang raised his eyebrows.
Recently, he often heard the name of this Tubo monk.
In the Tang Dynasty, all nations came to pay tribute. People from different regions and with different religions took root here. Among all religions, Buddhism and Taoism were the most prosperous.
Taoism was passed down from Laozi Li Er, who was also said to be the ancestor of Emperor Li Tang. Therefore, it had a high status. The management of Taoist priests was managed by the Tang Dynasty’s Zongzheng Temple.
The Zongzheng Temple was actually a place to manage the affairs of the royal family and clan members. It can be seen that Li Tang regarded Taoist priests as their own family.
Emperor Wu Zhou even promoted Buddhism, stipulating that “from now on, monks and Taoist priests who dare to slander Buddhism and Taoism will be punished with a stick and then ordered to return to secular life” and “Buddhism is above Taoism, and monks and nuns are before Taoist priests and nuns”, which established the status of Buddhism.
After that, Wu Zhou issued an imperial decree stating that "Taoism can facilitate the establishment of teachings, and Buddhism was born from Taoism", and established the system of "Buddhism is Taoism" with "Laozi's theory of converting the barbarians", so that the two religions could not compete with each other.
As for today, Emperor Xuanzong worships Taoism more and wants to add the throne of Laozi Li Er to the throne of emperor.
But Buddhism is popular among the people and its roots are getting deeper.
Buddhism is so popular among the people, and now there are Tibetan monks going to the Tang Dynasty, and the people naturally spread countless news, and "Vajra Tripitaka" has become one of the hot topics discussed by the people of the Tang Dynasty.
After all, since the competition between Buddhism and Taoism, the saints are about to establish the purpose of "ruling the world's tricks", which involves the interests of Buddhism and Taoism in the world, and the hopes of the people of Jiuzhou.
Zhang Fang left his hometown and went to Chang'an this time, not only to see the grand scene of the competition between Buddhism and Taoism, but also to win his own future in the world of "saints ruling tricks"!
"When Tubo and Daqin invaded our country, General Xiaosong led his army to Kucha for thousands of miles, captured hundreds of cities, and marched straight into our country. The Tubo and Daqin armies fled...
We dare not be enemies with the upper country. The upper country rushed to help our country and showed us great favors--" The Western Regions man kept talking, but Zhang Fang was no longer interested in what he said.
What Kucha, Daqin, Western Regions... The Tang people today have long been tired of hearing these foreign stories that were repeatedly defeated by the Tang army. At the moment, Zhang Fang's attention was all behind him--in the dark night, several shadows were floating in the wind, closely following the three riders.
Suddenly, a shadow rushed forward, and Zhang Fang took the opportunity to see 'his' appearance clearly.
--It was a Taoist priest wearing an ancient and simple pleated Taoist robe. The Taoist priest carried a dry peach branch on his back. The palms, neck, and face exposed outside the robe were all bluish-white.
Suddenly approaching the horse Zhang Fang was riding, Zhang Fang saw his face clearly, which was also thin, with eyes like stars, clearly a normal person!
This is a Taoist priest!
How come he became a fierce and strange person in the mouths of the Western Regions people? !
Zhang Fang's mind was full of thoughts, and a clear light suddenly appeared behind him. Under the bright light, the thin and tall Taoist face in Taoist robes suddenly had layers of wrinkles and cracks -
Then a strong wind blew!
It directly blew away the wrinkled and cracked skin of the Taoist priest, revealing the hairy and cold and strange Li Gui under him, still wearing Taoist robes!
Zhang Fang felt a chill in his heart!
Before he could react, the armor on his body suddenly pulled the reins, driving the mount to turn around again, and led the other two riders into the dark world - this time, Zhang Fang and Li Gui "met" and finally understood that what the Western Regions people in front of him said was true.
He buried his head, wishing that his horse would grow eight legs and return to the small temple as soon as possible!
But the armor on his body seemed to have only the ability for the moment, so he could not completely escape from the pursuit of Li Gui. He kept those "Taoist Gui" hanging in this way, passively "seducing" a few Li Gui, and kept them in front of the dilapidated small temple.
The bright moon that had disappeared before now appeared outside the clouds, casting a bright light.
The white moonlight made the gate of the dilapidated temple look even darker.
The two gates were locked, and no movement could be seen from the outside.
Zhang Fang rolled off his horse with the foreigner in his arms and threw himself into the bushes in front of the temple. He looked at the temple gate that was as heavy and blocked as iron in front of him, and then turned around to see several fierce ghosts floating in from behind. A great chill enveloped his mind at this time-
I believed him after hearing only a few words from the young man!
What if he was lying?
I heard that there is a kind of "evil ghost of mountain king" that feeds on humans, but before eating people, it needs to make people experience all kinds of emotions, and use ghosts to make people want to live but not, and want to die but not, and finally make people consciously walk into the mouth of the "mountain king". Mountain kings also often appear in lonely temples in the mountains...
Could the young man in the dilapidated temple be the "mountain king"?
The few fierce ghosts in Taoist costumes following behind are its minions? !
Zhang Fang felt even colder when he thought of this!
As he was thinking wildly, the two temple doors in front of him suddenly opened - in the bright yellow light like jumping flames, a tiger with bright yellow stripes all over its body and as big as a mountain was sitting cross-legged in the lonely temple, and it stretched out a claw to the outside of the temple.
The claw also covered the sky and the sun, and instantly covered the open space in front of the temple!
Is it really a tiger? !
Zhang Fang's eyes were wide open, and the fear in his heart was even heavier!
At this time, the 'tiger king' in the temple looked at him gently, and the 'tiger king' turned into Su Wu in black clothes. Next to Su Wu sat an old man with white hair and knotted muscles. The old man put his hair into a bun and used a branch as a hairpin to pin up his hair. He did not even look at Zhang Fang, but his voice fell into Zhang Fang's mind, and let Zhang Fang know that this 'voice' was what the old man conveyed to him: "Your kidney essence is too abundant, so the virtual fire is too strong.
Therefore, there are often unreasonable thoughts and complicated and distracting thoughts.
These distracting thoughts are most likely to bring disaster to yourself. If you meet someone with a strong mind, a thought from others can make you have all kinds of unreasonable thoughts and make you fall into illusions - "Lovesickness" is the same as this. I will teach you a visualization method. This method will appear in your mind every two days.
You will visualize the figures in it at that time to relieve kidney essence and stop unreasonable thoughts! "
The old man's voice suddenly stopped.
Then, Zhang Fang heard the sound of pages turning. In the fleeting light and shadow of the pages turning, he vaguely saw a beautiful woman with charming manners...
Visualize this book to relieve kidney essence... When Zhang Fang thought of this, he suddenly understood something.
The book in his mind was completely closed at this time, and hidden in the depths of his consciousness. It can only be opened at a fixed time for him to enjoy it.
His eyes swept over the skinny monks, the white-haired old man, the square-faced middle-aged man, the beautiful woman holding a golden pheasant, and Su Wu in the temple. He felt that these people were very strange and their behavior was unorthodox. He felt that it was a bit unreasonable.
At this time, Su Wu glanced at Tao Zu and walked out of the two temple doors when they opened.
The fierce ghosts who had been chasing Zhang Fang and several foreigners suddenly saw Su Wu stepping out of the broken temple. The fierce ghosts who were still wearing human skin and dressed as Han Dynasty Taoist priests were all shocked and turned around to retreat at the same time!
Even the fierce ghost with hair all over his body retreated at the moment, giving up the foreigners they were chasing!
Su Wu had been waiting for them here for a long time, but he couldn't let them escape.
His mind turned, and a fire hole suddenly appeared behind his head. In the fire hole, the blazing charm of Dong Wanggong flowed endlessly.
All over the sky, scarlet lanterns suddenly floated up to the sky, covering the bright moon and scattering crimson all over the ground!
Those fierce ghosts were all fixed in this crimson light and could not move!
The Taoist robes and human skins they wore melted like wax tears under this crimson light, revealing their own fierce ghost forms!
When the red lanterns in the world suddenly "extinguished" and the surroundings returned to darkness, these three fierce ghost forms suddenly turned into three golden red talismans, trying to float away into the distant sky!
Talisman!
How did the fierce ghost turn into a talisman? !
Zhang Fang looked at this scene and was so shocked that he couldn't speak.
He couldn't connect the fierce ghost with the Taoist talismans that were specifically used to suppress and restrain the fierce ghosts - but Su Wu knew the cause and effect better.
Ji Xingzhou once said that when Xiang'er was imprisoned in the Heavenly Gate, he used the souls and talismans of the Taoist priests of the Han Dynasty that were collected in the Heavenly Gate to incarnate in the human world.
The "Longhu Mountain talisman granting incident" caused tourists to take home various talismans that claimed to have the effect of "eliminating disasters and increasing blessings", but in fact, they were all connected to evil spirits - the root of this incident was also in Xiang'er.
Xiang'er just used this method again.
But where is the root cause of these evil spirits wearing the clothes of "Han Dynasty Taoist priests"?
In the dark sky, a white skull suddenly appeared in the void where the three evil talismans were flying. The snow-white skull opened its teeth and swallowed the three evil talismans into its mouth in an instant. It bounced in the void, attracting the body and bones that came from nowhere, and bounced back behind Su Wu, disappearing.
Su Wu spat out the three strange and evil talismans, and the ‘Cause and Effect Divine Mantra’ suddenly turned around him——
On the three strange and evil talismans, the threads of cause and effect that had not yet dissipated were all exposed to Su Wu’s eyes!
The strands of causal threads outlined the faces and figures of three modern people, and then instantly passed through the three modern people and shuttled to a very far place...
The three strands of causality finally wrapped around the wrist of a little girl.
——That was ‘Xiang Er’ who had transformed into the appearance of the missing girl!
Su Wu looked at Xiang Er with his eyes, and saw countless causal threads wrapped around his wrist. Each strand of causal thread seemed to be connected to a ‘stealous talisman’!
‘He’ looked at Su Wu, and his figure suddenly began to shrink.
From a girl to a baby, she was finally wrapped in a satin swaddling cloth...
The baby looked at Su Wu, giggling, shaking her hands full of strange talismans that were transformed by the lives of tourists playing in the mountains...
Su Wu looked at the swaddling cloth held by the slender woman with her back to him, and suddenly a line of poetry rang in his mind: "The Emperor of Han was obsessed with beauty and wanted to conquer the country, but he could not get it after ruling the country for many years.
The Yang family has a daughter who has just grown up, and she is raised in the boudoir and unknown to the world.
It is difficult to give up her natural beauty, and she will be chosen by the king one day..."
Yang Yuhuan was born in the summer of the seventh year of Kaiyuan.
She once became a Taoist monk and worshipped in the Taoist sect, also known as 'Yang Taizhen'...
Now it is only the 'fifth year of Kaiyuan', and Yang Taizhen has been born? Or is this another misleading of Xianger?
Su Wu's thoughts were in a whirlwind.
The baby in the swaddling clothes broke the three causal threads that were pulling from Su Wu's side, and Su Wu could no longer see the situation on the other side.
Su Wu lowered his eyes and looked at the three evil talismans in his hand, and did not speak for a long time.
And the three foreigners who had fled all the way saw the people in the temple, and then stopped their eyes on Zhang Fang, who was wearing armor. They kept kowtowed to Zhang Fang, and spoke repeatedly, and they made it clear why they were chased by several evil Taoist priests from the Han Dynasty: "We passed by a big river, and a small boat floated in the yellow river.
There were these three Taoist priests on the boat...
They came by boat, and did not talk to us. They stepped on the water to the shore and killed more than a dozen of us... There were also more than a dozen Taoist priests on the boat. Our brothers who were killed by them came back to life later, but they scattered... Those evil people wore our brothers' skins and wandered around...
In the end, only these three were left, chasing us all the way here..."