Secular world: My destiny has no taboos

Chapter 373: North Sea (I)

Throughout the dynasties, Jingzhou.

The weather is clear and cloudless. People can see the clear sky just by looking up.

In a large Taoist temple with a lot of incense, an old man was standing in front of the library and cleaning.

He was wearing a simple single garment, with a bun on his head and two strands of gray hair scattered on his forehead. In this Taoist Zhengyi Sect, he looked both ordinary and common.

"rustle……"

The bamboo broom scraped the ground, sweeping the dead leaves that fell from the trees into a pile.

Just as he finished doing all this and was about to sit on the stone bench next to him, suddenly, as if he sensed something, his pair of gray eyebrows frowned tightly and his eyes looked in one direction.

"Why?"

In his field of vision, a wisp of grayish-white aura was connecting with him from afar.

The old Taoist counted with his fingers, and then an expression of sudden enlightenment appeared on his face.

"Hmph, old thing, you haven't come back for all these years, and I haven't even seen you yet, and you've made me bear the trouble for you!" said the old Taoist angrily.

He stood up and prepared to walk towards the study, but someone had poured water on the ground, which soaked the dead leaves and caused them to rot. The old Taoist seemed not to notice and stepped on them, staggering and falling backwards.

"I……"

Before the Taoist priest could finish his words, he had already lost his balance.

Just below where his head was about to hit the ground, there was a piece of broken ground with clusters of broken tiles as sharp as knife tips standing high, pointing directly at the back of the old Taoist's head.

If other people saw this scene, they would definitely be shocked. With the weight of a person's inertia and the back of his head hitting the sharp bricks, it would probably be time to prepare for the feast.

But at this critical moment, the old Taoist's body suddenly stopped, as if time had stopped, less than two centimeters away from the broken bricks.

"call……"

"Fortunately, I am still in good health, and I have learned a lot of skills in the past two years."

After a moment, the old Taoist sighed and stood up again in a strange posture.

"The opponent's Sheep Blade is so dangerous that I almost got caught by it without even noticing."

“We still have to take care of it!”

As he spoke, the old Taoist took out a yellow paper talisman from his arms, closed his eyes and silently recited a few incantations, then opened his mouth and swallowed the talisman without hesitation.

After completely swallowing the yellow paper talisman, the old Taoist took two tentative steps. Seeing that there was no abnormality, he went to his study in the library with satisfaction.

There are nine Taoist sects in the secular world: Quanzhen Sect, Zhengyi Sect, Southern and Northern Sects, Shangqing Temple, Lingbao Sect, Maoshan Sect, and Jingming Dao.

Among them, Quanzhen and Zhengyi are the most famous among the nine sects today.

The Zhengyi Sect focuses on alchemy and talismans, and pursues immortality.

The Quanzhen Sect focuses on inner cultivation and moral improvement, and pursues the harmony of body and mind.

As for the other seven meridians, they also have their own unique features.

The old Taoist used the talisman technique of Zhengyi Sect. He swallowed the talismans in order to dissolve and suppress the evil spirit of Yang Blade in his body.

"Haha, this is just a small trick, it can't embarrass me!"

The old Taoist priest smiled and went up the stairs to the second floor.

As a result, when he had just walked halfway, his foot suddenly missed a step and he fell down the stairs with a thud.

"Fuck, Ge Hong, you old bastard, you messed up Luozhou and you dared not come back, but the court's accountability is your own responsibility. And yet you even implicated me today, you are a real beast!!"

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Luozhou, in a dilapidated village.

Lin Beixuan silently retracted the Sanghui Knife that had stabbed into Ge Hong's body and said coldly, "Are you willing to talk about it this time?"

"I don't know what means and strength your friend with a strong fate has, but if he is entangled by the Sheep Blade every day, it will probably be very painful."

Ge Hong's face froze when he heard this, and the expression on his face that had been scolding Lin Beixuan before subsided a little.

At this moment, his whole body seemed to have collapsed.

"Well, before I die, let me tell you what happened at that time!"

Ge Hong struggled to get up from the ground. His disheveled hair and tattered clothes made him look even older and more pitiful.

As he walked towards the dilapidated village, he said calmly: "Although I am a Taoist priest, I do not completely belong to the Taoist lineage. I am actually a traitor to Taoism!"

Ge Hong sighed: "Ever since Lu Chenjiang started his rebellion, all dynasties have fought a long and drawn-out battle with him in order to crush his power."

"This battle caused the dragon spirit of the past dynasties to dissipate. Since then, the country's strength has declined and it has never lived up to its former glory."

"The interruption of the dragon vein is the fundamental reason why the dragon energy dissipates."

Ge Hong raised his head and seemed to have passed through the strange illusion of the dilapidated village and saw the original sky of Luozhou.

"Heh, I heard that Lu Chenjiang was forced to play the villain back then." Lin Beixuan said sarcastically.

"A disaster also broke out several decades ago. At that time, the successive dynasties did nothing, and people in various places had long been living in poverty. Everyone had no way to survive, so they chose to follow Lu Chenjiang in rebellion."

Ge Hong was helpless when he heard this: "Back then I was just a small Taoist priest with no status, but I have heard about this matter. In fact, the situation is not as the outside world says."

"I once heard from my master that Emperor Li Xi was not a foolish and incompetent person. On the contrary, he cared deeply about the people.

However, the entire court was controlled by the Queen Mother at that time, and there were also various forces entrenched in the court. Few people supported him as the new emperor. Even if he wanted to do something, he was powerless to do it.

The people's grievances cannot be heard by God directly, and there is no underworld to take charge. Even if they turn into wandering ghosts, they have nowhere to go.

I was born in that era, so I know how miserable people were back then.”

Ge Hong's eyes were dull, as if he was lost in some memories, but he continued to speak.

"In my opinion, this is not a reason." Lin Beixuan said lightly.

"I know, so Emperor Li Xi did not stop Lu Chenjiang's rebellion."

Ge Hong said: "Unfortunately, in the end, Lu Chenjiang still lost!
Indeed, he united the people's hearts and had many secular gods to help him.

But this big tree of the past dynasties has been growing for more than two hundred years, and its foundation is so profound that even the nine sects of our Taoism combined cannot compare to it.

Even though the tree was a little shaky at the time, it was not something that could be knocked down by human hands alone. It was precisely because Lu Chenjiang's rebellion was too huge that the Queen Mother and the ministers in the court united and used all the power of the royal family and the aristocratic families to suppress Lu Chenjiang.

Too many people died at that time. Lu Chenjiang lost, and in the end even their bodies could not be found. However, the imperial court and the aristocratic families did not win either.

The army led by Lu Chenjiang killed many important officials and aristocratic families who controlled the court, almost causing the court to run out of talent and plunging the national strength of the entire dynasty into an unprecedented stage of weakness.

As a result, the foundations of successive dynasties suffered severe damage and the dragon veins were cut off.

Fortunately, Emperor Li Xi stood up at this time and led the forces he had cultivated for many years to kill the Queen Mother. He took this opportunity to seize the imperial power and forcibly continued the life of the Li Dynasty at that time. "

Lin Beixuan listened silently. When he was fusing Lu Chenjiang's corpse, although he saw some fragments of the other party's memory, it was incomplete after all.

At this time, Ge Hong's words, combined with his memories of what he had seen before, helped him piece together that chaotic era.

"It seems that no matter which world it is, chaos has never stopped!" Lin Beixuan sighed in his heart.

Ge Hong turned his head and glanced at the expression on Lin Beixuan's face, then suddenly smiled: "Are you feeling sorry for Lu Chenjiang's failure?"

"Actually, you don't have to feel sorry. Although Lu Chenjiang lost, he also won!"

"What do you mean?" Lin Beixuan raised his eyebrows when he heard that.

"The dragon veins of the dynasties have been damaged, and the national strength has been drastically reduced. Even if Emperor Li Xi stepped forward at this time, he still couldn't save much. He was just holding on."

Lin Beixuan frowned slightly: "This has lasted for nearly sixty years?"

Ge Hong shook his head: "Emperor Li Xi died twenty years ago, he lived less than fifty years old.

After that, the current new emperor, Emperor Li Sui, succeeded to the throne. Because Emperor Li Xi had experienced the incident of imperial power being hollowed out, what he handed over to Emperor Li Sui was a complete dynasty.

At the beginning, Emperor Li of Sui was just like his predecessor, working hard to govern the country. In addition, the imperial power was completely in his hands, so he could give full play to his talents.

It is a pity that Emperor Li of Sui was still young and could not resist the temptation of the official group that had grown up in recent years. He gradually became arrogant and extravagant and slowly degenerated.

Seeing that the imperial court was declining again, the Sui emperor still did not wake up and only thought that it was due to the frequent invasions of the Central Plains by various forces. Finally, he pointed to the root cause of the problem as the damage to the dragon veins of the dynasties decades ago. "

Hearing this, Lin Beixuan sneered: "Then the dynasties have become what they are now, with the barbarians in the north eyeing them covetously, the evil spirits occupying the Jiangnan and Fujian provinces in the south, and a state occupied by the evil Zi Gu God, the people are living in misery..."

"Could this all be attributed to the damage to the dragon veins of past dynasties?"

"Of course...I can't!"

Ge Hong's body was completely hunched over.

As a witness to the ups and downs of the dynasties over the past few decades, he certainly understands that the current situation of the dynasties cannot be entirely attributed to the dragon veins.

Because during the reign of Emperor Li Xi, even though no one was specifically ordered to repair the dragon veins, the entire dynasty was still developing in a good direction, and there were even signs that the dragon energy was prospering again.

Ge Hong's eyes began to become depressed: "So, a few years ago, I was ordered to bring the royal treasure, the Nine Heavens Mysterious Yellow Pagoda, to Luozhou, intending to first repair the most severely damaged dragon vein in history.

Unfortunately, things are far from as simple as imagined.

I ordered the governor of Luozhou to cooperate with me to build an altar at the key point of this land vein, and then cast a dragon-suppressing pillar, hoping to use the energy of the Nine Heavens Mysterious Yellow to make up for the dragon energy that had been damaged and leaked from the dragon vein.

Everything went smoothly at the beginning, and the dragon vein had shown signs of being repaired, but as time went on, it became increasingly difficult to repair.

At first I thought it was someone's doing, so I took people to investigate everywhere and visited many temples dedicated to the secular gods of Luozhou and greeted these gods, but still found nothing.

I think since it’s not caused by external factors, it should be a problem with the dragon vein itself.”

Ge Hong stopped talking here. It turned out that the two of them had already walked into the dilapidated village.

In a field not far away, a group of thin people were working under the two huge suns in the sky.

Their clothes were completely soaked with sweat. They pedaled the waterwheel hard, continuously irrigating the land with water from the nearby stream. However, the earth was like a scorching iron plate. All the water irrigated into the land evaporated into white mist in a short while.

Under this extremely high temperature, some people finally couldn't hold on and fainted on the ground, but what greeted them was the whip wielded by the supervisor.

Lin Beixuan frowned when he saw this scene, but he did not step forward to stop it, because he knew that everything before his eyes was just an illusion from a few years ago.

Ge Hong looked at the man who was screaming in pain after being whipped, felt a little guilty, and continued.

"I set up the altar, built the dragon-suppressing pillar, and used the Nine Heavens Mysterious Yellow Pagoda to repair the damaged dragon veins. Everything went perfectly.

So, I tried to separate a wisp of my soul and entered the dragon vein to explore.

After searching for a while, I finally found the reason. It turned out that there was a sword cutting across the broken dragon vein."

Lin Beixuan asked: "So you pulled out the sword?"

Ge Hong nodded: "Yes, I pulled out the sword, but when I pulled out the sword and my soul returned to my body, I found that the previously stable ground energy in Luozhou seemed to have been punctured, and the turbid ground energy that had accumulated in Luozhou for thousands of years instantly poured out.

Under such a huge impact of the earth's energy, even a treasure like the Nine Heavens Profound Yellow Pagoda could not resist and was broken into pieces by the impact.

The dragon vein, which had not yet been fully repaired, was completely cut off, eliminating the possibility of regeneration.

That’s when I knew I had made a big mistake!”

Ge Hong let out a long breath towards the sky, with tears sparkling in the corners of his eyes.

Because he knew that his action would undoubtedly cost the lives of tens of millions of innocent people in Luozhou.

As a result of this sin, he immediately lost his status as a human immortal, and there was no possibility for him to improve his realm.

“After the incident, I immediately asked the governor of Luozhou to report what happened here to the court.

However, this dog official knew that with the new emperor's current temper, neither he nor I could bear such a crime, and our entire family would die.

I am alone, but he has a huge family behind him.

So he concealed the fact that he had reported it to the court, and secretly moved all his family members out of Luozhou. It was not until several months later, when I asked him again, that he told me everything. "

"Did you kill the Luozhou prefect in the end?" Hearing this, Lin Beixuan couldn't help but ask curiously.

Ge Hong closed his eyes and said, "No, he stayed to deal with the disaster in Luozhou for a while, and before the imperial envoy arrived, he committed suicide in front of the hall."

Lin Beixuan was silent after hearing this, and then asked: "Since Luozhou's thousand-year-old earth energy was accidentally released by you, causing Luozhou to suffer, why did the Xuanhuang hungry ghost come?"

"Besides the leakage of underground gas, the biggest problem in Luozhou right now is the problem of starving ghosts."

Ge Hong was stunned for a moment when he heard this, his eyes as deep as a deep ancient well.

"That thing... its origin actually existed before I came to repair the dragon vein!"

Ge Hong raised his head and looked around, taking in the entire dilapidated village.

"It is a ghost born from the resentment and despair of the people in this village. It has been lingering over this village for a long time."

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