Prince of Song Dynasty

Chapter 12 The Four Schools of Taoism and Buddhism
His hair was tied in a big bun on the top and covered with a Taoist crown. He looked clean, and his appearance was not annoying. He still had a kind expression on his face that seemed to be ready to make jokes at any time. It seemed a bit funny, only him The sparkling purple eyes hidden in the thin eyes let Ye Chen know that this person must be a powerful character and not to be trifled with.

The fat Taoist turned around, laughed and said, "Brother Dao has been following me for three full hours, do you still want to continue following?"

Ye Chen's heart moved, and he wondered if the person the fat Taoist said was the woman next to him, but after thinking about it, he felt otherwise.He was watching the movement of the fat Taoist priest intently, when a woman's deliberately low and seductive voice sounded in his eardrums: "Looking fat like a pig, it should be Si Luoyi, the proud disciple of Chen Jingyuan, the leader of Taiyi. This pig came to look for the Heavenly Star Jade Pendant."

Ye Chen felt strange, he didn't know why this woman said these words to him.You must know that these words are not idle chatter, they clearly contain a big secret.Ye Chen really wanted not to hear these secrets, so as not to be killed by others.However, the woman deliberately said that she might have some ulterior purpose, and it might even be the same reason as why the woman spared his life instead of killing him.

But then Ye Chen's heart moved, and when he remembered the various current information materials collected in Yongle Border Town, he grasped some information about the current religious forces.

In the past ten years, the religious forces in China have said that there are two religions: Taoism, one south and one north, and Buddhism, one righteous and one evil.

Among them, the two Taoist religions are Taiyiyi in the south and Taiping in the north.

Both of these two Taoist sects claim to be orthodox Taoism, and it is said that they originated from the Taiping Dao founded by Zhang Jiao at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Tianshi Dao of Zhang Ling.

Both belonged to the initiators of the Yellow Turban Uprising at that time, but they were just two systems with different teachings.

The rise of Taiyi in the south is known as the combination of Taiping Dao and Tianshi Dao.According to folklore, its leader, Chen Jingyuan, possessed profound kung fu, and was able to call the wind and rain. He was known as the No. 1 Taoist in the South, and he was also the national teacher of the Southern Han Dynasty.It has a god-like status in the hearts of some folk believers.

In the north, the Taiping Sect, which enshrines the Taiqing Xuanyuan Tianshi Taoist master Zhang Ling as the ancestor, is the most prosperous. It is also said that its religion advocates Wumeng and spreads the North under the name of the God of Heaven and Five Thunders. For many years, it has competed with Chen Jingyuan for Taoism. Inheriting the fame and position of Datong is like fire and water, incompatible with each other.

In the half a year since he came to this world, Ye Chen has heard many times about the religious disputes between Taiyi and Taiping Sect, especially some magical Taoism and supernatural powers, while chatting with others.However, Ye Chen, who came to the current world from a society with highly developed science in the later generations, has always dismissed this, thinking that it is just a rumor spread by the foolish people.

In the land of China, Buddhism, which has always had a fateful dispute with Taoism, is called one righteous and one evil. As far as Ye Chen knows, it is because there were also two big Buddhist sects at that time. Like the Taiping Sect, it is equally powerful among the people in various countries and has far-reaching influence.

However, Buddhism is slightly different from Taoism. Buddhism is outside the orthodox Buddhist sect. In recent years, there has been a newly-emerged Maitreya Sect. It has a wide number of believers, and it is said that there are as many as 10 people.However, it has always been regarded as heresy by orthodox Buddhism.

This information flashed through Ye Chen's mind, and Ye Chen guessed that most of the women next to him were also from Taoist forces, but they didn't know whether they belonged to Taiyi, Taiping sect, or neither.I just didn't expect to meet him.

Why did this woman come to this barren and chaotic place?
Thinking like this, Ye Chen pretended not to understand what the woman said, not to mention that he had been hit by this woman and couldn't make any sound, so he just stared out the window.

The woman ignored Ye Chen's reaction, and after she finished speaking, she stopped talking.

Si Luoyi stood on the street with a leisurely look, as if he could wait like this until the end of time.But no one else appeared except him.

(End of this chapter)