A certain person is the Heavenly Killer Li Gui.

Chapter 209 Immortal fate is in sight
  There are only two thousand-year inheritances in this world, one is the Qufu Kong Mansion, and the other is the Zhang Tianshi lineage of Longhu Mountain.

In fact, Buddhism also has a thousand-year heritage, but the abbot of Buddhism is not allowed to have children, so it cannot compare with the above two families.

Today, on Longhu Mountain, the [-]th generation of Celestial Masters is being passed on, with the Taoist name "Xu Jing".

Master Xu Jing was practicing that day. Suddenly, a Taoist boy came in to report that there was a visitor from Shandong who claimed to be Yu Yi from Dai Temple in Taishan. He had suffered a military disaster and came to the ancestral court to ask for help.

Zhang Jixian frowned after hearing this. This Dai Temple is the place where Zen is enshrined. How can any rebel dare to go there and cause trouble?
  Furthermore, the altitude of Mount Tai is quite high, so it’s really not worth going to it to plunder.

He put his hands in his sleeves and counted with his fingers, but found that the secret was obscure and difficult to understand, so he knew there was something wrong with it.

He thought about it for a moment, then nodded and said, "Please meet these fellow Taoists in the living room."

The Taoist boy turned around and left. He also simply tidied up his clothes and went to the living room to wait for him.

Not long after, a group of Taoist priests came in, lined up in separate rows, and bowed respectfully.

"All the San people in Mount Tai have seen the Celestial Master."

After some greetings, the guests were invited to sit down and served tea.

The Taoist leader's name was Qing Huanzi. After the polite gossip, he impatiently complained:
  "Master Tian, ​​all the temples in Mount Tai have been taken over by the Liangshan bandit!"

"What's even more disgusting is that the thief leader actually ignored the Taoist rules and interfered in foreign affairs at will. He insisted that all the temples on Mount Tai worship the true exorcist. It is really abominable!"

"When I go up the mountain this time, I want to ask the Tianshi Mansion to come forward and teach the leader of the thieves a lesson, so that he knows what it means to have a god with your head three feet high!"

After saying this, Qing Huanzi stood up and bowed down, and everyone behind him also bowed down, waiting for Zhang Tianshi to administer justice.

Zhang Jixian twitched his beard slightly and remained unmoved.

"Fellow Taoists, the old Taoist already knows what you are thinking, but we are all outsiders and it is inconvenient for us to interfere too much in mortal affairs."

"Especially since the change of the dynasty is determined by God's destiny and cannot be resisted by human power. Relying on immortal magic is in vain. That is the behavior of evil heretics. We and other Taoist sects cannot do such things."

"Fellow Taoists, you might as well stay here on Longhu Mountain, and listen to the Tao and practice peacefully every day. Things in this world will take their own course, and just wait patiently for it to end."

Hearing that Master Zhang was unwilling to intervene in this matter, the Taoist priests suddenly became noisy.

Before going up the mountain, everyone discussed how to persuade Zhang Tianshi if he refused to agree to go out to help. Qing Huanzi raised his hands and said:

"The Heavenly Master doesn't know something. The thief is not an ordinary mortal, but also an evil heretic."

"I thought that Li Gui was just a gangster in a small county town. He had been unknown for more than twenty years, and suddenly he turned into a fierce general in the world in one day, killing officials and rebelling, and he was invincible."

"This kind of thing is unreasonable. The leader of the thieves must have acquired some kind of sorcery and used it to commit murder."

"We have found out that when Thief Li first started his rebellion, he claimed that the Heavenly Killing Star descended to earth and deceived people's minds. Later, he made a big fuss in Tokyo, and he was nicknamed the True Exorcist Lord."

"According to those who have seen Li Gui fighting on the battlefield, Li Gui is completely invulnerable and can't be hurt by swords or spears."

"And those who burned him with firearms said that this thief can walk freely in the flames and is not afraid of the fire."

"There are even rumors that he is the disciple of Shuijun in Liangshan Po, and he can move faster than a fish in the water."

"Everything shows that this thief Li must be a monster."

"Looking at his various evil deeds in Shandong, he killed good gentry everywhere. Even the descendants of Confucius were not immune. Thousands of years of inheritance were destroyed in one day. It was clear that he was possessed by evil spirits and demons and was no longer human."

"The Heavenly Master's action to succumb to the demons is justified and no one can say anything about it!"

Everyone has considered it thoroughly. The reason why Longhu Mountain became the ancestral home of Taoism is inseparable from the time when Master Zhang Daoling subdued demons.

It is said that the ancestor of the Celestial Master surrendered the six demon kings, the ten ghost commanders and millions of ghost soldiers, and saved the world, which later made it so popular.

Nowadays, there is another demon appearing in the world. How can you, Longhu Mountain, ignore it?

Furthermore, the thousand-year inheritance of the Kong family has been destroyed. Your Zhang family also has a thousand-year inheritance. Aren't you afraid that it will also be destroyed?

Sure enough, Zhang Tianshi frowned after hearing this.

Zhang Jixian was also in a dilemma now. According to his true intention, of course he wanted to get rid of Li Gui, but when he heard the words "Heavenly Killer", he immediately changed his mind.

No wonder the good or bad luck of today's events cannot be calculated, it should be here!

These one hundred and eight demon stars were originally released from his Longhu Mountain. How could he not know the inside story?
  That day, he borrowed Lieutenant Hong's hand to release the demon star into the world. He knew that turmoil would happen in the future. However, the fate of the demon star was destined by God, and it was inconvenient for him to interfere, so as not to violate the laws of heaven.

Most of the enlightened people in this world are aware of this matter. Only the third-rate people in front of them who are blinded by fame and wealth are still ignorant.

After a long time, Zhang Jixian sighed and said:
  "You fellow Taoists don't know something, but Li Gui is not possessed by an evil spirit or demon. He ascends to the heavenly star, but is the Heavenly Killing Star descending to the earth." "Because the sentient beings on the lower earth have committed too serious sins, they are punished to come down to kill them." .”

"Most of the people he killed were because of too many sins."

"As cultivators, it's better to avoid him. Just wait until he completes his catastrophe, and everything will naturally return to normal."

After everyone heard this, they immediately took a breath of air and said in a trembling voice:
  "Master Tian, ​​don't make fun of me!"

"Then what evil did the Kong Mansion commit?"

"He was completely wiped out!"

"We, the San people, have always served God devoutly, offered sacrifices to Heaven, and enshrined Zen. How have we ever committed any sin?"

Zhang Tianshi just shook his head after hearing this.

"How does the old man know these things?"

"However, he has never killed anyone indiscriminately and has his own rules. If you fellow Taoists have never committed evil, you don't need to be afraid of him."

A group of people looked at each other in disbelief, feeling quite unwilling. However, after whispering to each other for a while, they became excited again and asked again:

"If we obey the destiny and help complete the tribulation, can we accumulate Taoism and help ascend?"

Zhang Tianshi considered and said:

"There should be help. However, if the destiny is in chaos, who knows what the destiny will be. If there is anything wrong, I am afraid that the body and soul will be destroyed."

Everyone said impassionedly:

"Chao Wen Dao Xi can die!"

"We are different from the Celestial Masters. The Celestial Masters have already been enthroned and have Taoist qualifications. We only need to follow the steps. If we succeed one day, we will be able to join the class of immortals."

"I have been practicing hard for half my life and have no chance of attaining Taoism. When my life is over, I can only go to heaven and become a Taoist boy."

"Now that we have a chance to win immortality, how can we retreat in fear of death?"

This is a regular rule. On the first and fifteenth day of every month, the Tianshi Mansion in Longhushan, Jiangxi holds a Dharma transmission assembly.

Taoist believers who have passed through the teachings will become official Taoist priests.

In layman's terms, the purpose of transmission is to report the information about entering the Dao to Heaven, and to eliminate it from the list of the underworld. From then on, it will no longer be under the control of the underworld, but will be under the control of the heaven.

After being delivered, you will be a Taoist boy in the Heavenly Court. If you are reborn after being delivered, you will have a Taoist rank and be ranked among the Immortal Class.

In other words, after being conferred, a Taoist priest will have a Taoist position (that is, a priestly position for practicing Taoism) while he is alive, which is equivalent to having a name and position in the Immortal Palace. Through practice in the Yang world, In the end, you can become an immortal and return to that place.

Even if he fails to become an immortal, he will still be a Taoist boy in the Heavenly Palace when he dies. It’s just a different level.

In the Taoist system, after death, ordinary people have to report to the City God's Temple, publish documents to the underworld, and then go to the underworld to be judged by the judge.

However, after a Taoist priest dies, he does not return to the underworld and takes his place directly in heaven, either as a Taoist boy or an immortal official.

In the process of practicing Taoism in the human world, Taoist priests must constantly accumulate virtues and do good deeds, save people and help the world. Only after they have accumulated enough Taoist deeds can they obtain the Taoist position and rank among the immortals after death.

On the contrary, if you don't do good deeds, even if you are granted a gift, it will be useless to have a position in the immortal palace. Because your moral conduct is insufficient and your virtue is not worthy of your place, heaven will not reward you.

To put it simply, this Taoist position is equivalent to an indicator of good deeds. If a Taoist reaches this indicator, he will be rewarded with an immortal official. If he fails to complete it, he will not have it.

This is one of the reasons why Taoist priests come out to save people in troubled times.

There are five levels of Taoism, namely, Du Gong, Meng Wei, Wu Lei, Three Cave and Five Lei, Da Dong, and Shangqing (Sanqing) Three Cave.

But the higher the level, the better, because the higher the level, the higher the indicator of good deeds. Once it is set high, but the KPI is not completed, all rewards will return to zero.

The later Quanzhen Tao emphasized the dual cultivation of life and life, the internal alchemy technique, and the importance of not seeking externally.

In other words, although Quanzhen Taoist priests also advocated doing good deeds, they could still become immortals without doing good deeds, so they quickly developed and surpassed the Zhengdao.

　Xu Jing Celestial Master Zhang Jixian was the [-]th Celestial Master of Longhu Mountain, but in Water Margin, he was brought forward to the reign of Song Renzong, and he was the one who offered a memorial ceremony to Song Renzong in the opening scene. Let’s just pretend he lives a long time! The old immortal lived from the Renzong period to the Huizong period.

　　PS1: The word "negative" is a Buddhist word. Taoism talks about "bearing", but everyone is not familiar with this word, so they directly use "negative" to express it. The original text uses "karma", which is also a Buddhist term. Taoist priests use Buddhist terminology to preach, which is also a Chinese characteristic.

　　PS2: Personally, I feel that Quanzhen Taoism is closer to "immortal", while Zhengdao Taoism is closer to "god".

　　
  　
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