The old man used to hide in Dongmeng Peak, and he already wore the blue jinglong with a view.
The old man now lives in Ziwu Valley, building a thatched hut alone on the cliff.
In front of the house is the ancient Xuandu Altar, where the blue stone desert is always windy and cold.
Zigui cries at night about the splitting of mountain bamboos, and the Queen Mother's cloud flags flutter in the daytime.
——Excerpt from "Xuandu Tan Song to the People of Yuanyi" by Du Fu
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Ziwu Valley, a hundred miles south of Chang'an, is one of the seventy-two valleys in the Qinling Mountains. It is also known as Ziwu Valley and Ziwu Mountain. It is located at the northern foot of the Zhongnan Mountains in the Qinling Mountains.
In the early Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty established Ziwu Valley as a place for worshiping heaven and praying, and built the Ancient Xuandu Altar in a perfect location, which was revered as the supreme "place of worship for the royal family."
At the end of the Han Dynasty, Ziwu Valley was connected by Wang Mang's Ziwu Road, which cut off Nanshan from the south of Duling, passed through Hanzhong, and placed Ziwu Guan in the valley.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Wei Yan, the Marquis of Tingdu, advised Marquis Zhuge Wu to head north at Ziwu.
In the Ziwu Valley, there is a vast virgin forest with dense forests, steep cliffs and few people.
In this hidden mountain col, nearly a hundred well-dressed warriors lurked in this dense forest. These warriors were the same assassins who assassinated Bai Fu in the imperial city.
After the assassination failed, these assassins used the cover of Lu Zi and Cui Jingwan to disguise themselves as the Fengxiang Tang Army escorting grain, grass and military supplies, and swaggered out of Chang'an City.
After leaving the city, they turned around and headed south according to their prior plan, hiding in the Ziwu Valley of Zhongnan Mountain not far from Chang'an.
The leaders of this group of assassins are Fu Yingshu, the eldest son of Fu Guan, the "sword master" of the Paektu Mountain Yijian Sect, and Pu Yinghuan, Fu Guan's first disciple.
Fu Yingshu and Park Yinghuan led their elite elites to the Tang Dynasty Dengzhou military port secretly to rescue the 80,000 captured Silla navy.
After the mission was completed, Fu Yingshu took several confidants and went straight to Chang'an to secretly arrest Fu Qingqi, the rebellious son who had taken refuge with the Japanese saint.
After Fu Qingqi met his father Fu Yingshu, he told him the reason why he took refuge with the Japanese saint: the Japanese knew the whereabouts of the Ninth Cauldron. In order to get clues about the Ninth Cauldron, Fu Qingqi gave up assassinating the Japanese saint and cooperated with her.
Fu Yingshu hurriedly sent the message back to Yi Jianmen through flying pigeons.
After Fu Guan got the news, he was overjoyed.
The ancestor Fu Guan came to protect his son was a general under Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, so he naturally knew the origin of the Ninth Cauldron: Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty, Yang Jian, carved the fragment of the Ninth Cauldron, the foot of the Chilong Cauldron, into a bronze seal and couldn't put it down. Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty
After Guang ascended the throne, the bronze Chilong Seal became his favorite thing and was inseparable from him.
Fu Guanxin said: "With my martial arts skills, if I can get help from the Ninth Cauldron, I will not only be very likely to become the best master in the world, but I may also have the opportunity to become a flying immortal."
Fu Guan ordered Pu Yinghuan to lead his elite soldiers to Chang'an to grab the bronze chilong seal.
After arriving in Chang'an, under the coordination of Fu Qingqi, Fu Yingshu and Park Yinghuan reached an agreement with Usa Hachiman and Fujiwara Rika: Yijianmen will help the Japanese assassinate Bai Fu. In exchange for finding the Ninth Tripod Dango, Usa Hachiman will general Ninth Tripod.
The elixir was handed over to Yijianmen, leaving only the "Vajra Conquering Demon Sutra".
Usa Hachiman and Fujiwara Rei will tell Li Chu the whereabouts of the Ninth Cauldron Pill and the "Diamond Conquering Demon Sutra" before they die. The two of them will assassinate Bai Fu as a condition in exchange for the "Diamond Conquering Demon Sutra" that Li Chu is about to obtain.
". With the whereabouts of the "Vajra Sutra of Subduing Demons", we can naturally find the Ninth Cauldron Pill.
Usa Hachimangami and Fujiwara Rika took advantage of information asymmetry and played a game of white wolf with empty gloves, playing the prince Li Chu, the Manichean Ming Zun Yun Guangming, and the Baektu Mountain Yijianmen in the palm of their hands.
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The hare was roasted and the aroma was fragrant. Park Yinghuan handed a roasted rabbit leg to Fu Yingshu.
Fu Yingshu said to Pu Yinghuan: "Brother, do you think Usa Hachiman and the Japanese witch can be trusted? I always feel that the words of the Japanese are unreliable.
It's a pity that my son Qing Qi was seriously injured by Bai Fu this time and will not be able to recover for a while, otherwise he could secretly monitor the whereabouts of the demon girl."
Pu Yinghuan said: "Junior brother, you can't rely too much on Qingqi. I see that Qingqi is quite obsessed with the demon girl. I'm worried that the demon girl will use Qingqi's weakness to deceive us."
Fu Yingshu was so worried that the rabbit meat in his mouth was hard to swallow.
Pu Yinghuan saw that Fu Yingshu was not in a high mood and explained: "Usa Hachiman and the Japanese witch are both attendants of the Japanese god Zhuan. The blood oath they swore in the name of Amaterasu is the highest oath of the Japanese country and will not be broken easily.
To put it bluntly, even if they broke their promise and deliberately concealed it after obtaining the Ninth Cauldron Pill, the road back to Japan from Chang'an is long, and we can launch an attack at any time to snatch it back.
Master has already said that as long as we find the Ninth Cauldron, he will come down from the mountain himself.
Once Master takes action, few people in the world can stop him."
Fu Yingshu nodded and said: "What senior brother said is absolutely true."
While the two were talking, an eagle flew past the dense forest.
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At nightfall, the bonfire crackles and burns. Only a blazing bonfire can drive away wild beasts.
This kind of primitive old forest is extremely dangerous at night, and the Tang army's scouts did not dare to go out to investigate easily. Therefore, you can light a fire with confidence.
Except for the sentry posts, the warriors of Yijianmen were lying in tents or leaning under tree trunks, around piles of bonfires, sleeping in their clothes, and soon began to snore.
While sleeping until midnight, I could hear ten thousand hooves galloping in the distance, the sound of beating leaves through the forest, and the howling of wolves echoing in and out, which must be the formation of a pack of wolves surrounding a herd of deer.
Occasionally, the sound of hunting was heard loudly, and the howl of a herd of deer was heard. Next, there was the sound of tearing and disemboweling the prey. Just listening to the sound, one could tell that the scene was bloody and cruel, and the intestines were flowing all over the place.
The sound of wolves snatching food gradually arose.
In the darkness, dozens of black figures slowly approached. They moved quickly and lightly, and even if they stepped on dead leaves, they would not make too much noise.
The eyes of the first few people glowed brightly green in the dark night, like the eyes of a tiger and leopard looking for food. Their eyes swept over and they could see everything within a few feet.
The black shadows quickly surrounded the warriors of Yi Jianmen, but they were not in a hurry to launch an attack. Instead, they used iron caltrops, sharpened bamboos, tree stumps, and huge weapons to attack the outside.
Various traps and traps are laid out on the logs.
The peripheral agencies are set up and the checkpoints are cleared at fixed points.
A black shadow was like a giant python, silently spiraling down from the old tree vines, sliding down to the top of a sentry's head, suddenly taking action, twisting his hands, and breaking the sentry's neck with a "click".
The black shadow gently lowered the dead sentry to the ground, and then silently circled back to the top of the tree.
Another dark figure, covered from head to toe in leaves and turf, crawled silently on the ground, slowly approaching a sentry who was napping against a tree trunk.
A blowpipe poked out from the leaves, and with a "pop" sound, a poisonous needle shot out from the blowpipe, hitting the sentinel's throat. The poisonous needle saw blood and sealed his throat. The sentinel died immediately and lay limply on the tree trunk.
The black shadow covered with leaves and turf retreated silently and crawled under a dead tree, motionless, as if it were really a pile of moss.
Several black figures wearing tight-fitting water bodies walked up the stream, stopped a few feet away from the Yijianmen warriors, and slowly dived into the water, breathing through reed sticks, secretly monitoring the movements of the warriors.
Several black figures were like mandrills, shaped like ghosts, and came and went like the wind. They quickly gathered at the top of the big tree a few feet away from the Yijianmen warriors, and gently opened the crossbow's expander...
After the wolves finished eating, they dispersed. The sound of insects resumed, and the forest gradually became quiet.
The old man used to hide in Dongmeng Peak, and he already wore the blue jinglong with a view.
The old man now lives in Ziwu Valley, building a thatched hut alone on the cliff.
In front of the house is the ancient Xuandu Altar, where the blue stone desert is always windy and cold.
Zigui cries at night about the splitting of mountain bamboos, and the Queen Mother's cloud flags flutter in the daytime.
If I know that your plan will develop, the Zhicao Langgan will grow longer.
The iron lock hangs high and cannot be reached, and it will lead to a blessed place.
——"Xuandu altar song sent to Yuanyi people" Du Fu
Note:
Ziwu Valley Xuandu Altar was known as "the first Taoist altar in the world" in ancient times. Together with Longhushan Xuandu Altar and Kou Tianshi Xuandu Altar (Northern Wei Pingcheng Xuandu Altar), they were collectively known as the three major Xuandu Altars. Under the Ziwu Valley Xuandu Altar
The Jinxian Temple is also known as the "source of Haedong Dharma" and the "ancestral court of Korean Taoism". Jinxian Temple has also become a place where Taoist believers rush to worship, especially believers in Korea.
Jin Keji (?-858), a Silla native, was one of the important spreaders of Taoism to Korea. He studied in Chang'an during the Kaicheng and Dazhong years of Tang Dynasty in Huichang (i.e. the middle of the 9th century AD), and later became a "Bingong Jinshi"
Later, he did not seek career advancement and lived in seclusion in Ziwu Valley to practice Taoism. He was taught inner alchemy by Taoist immortal Zhongliquan and became the first person to spread Taoism in Korea. On February 25, 858 AD (i.e., the twelfth year of Dazhong in the Tang Dynasty), he went to Gunei Bairi
He left as an immortal. During his lifetime, he planted many flowers and fruits in the valley, hence the name "Guoyu". To this day, Jinxian Temple still has ancient ruins such as plank roads, cliff carvings, and Xuandu Altar.[4]