Wei Qing's undefeated victory was due to God's luck, while Li Guang's lack of success was due to luck.
Since it was abandoned, it has decayed, and the world has been wasted and turned into a white head.
——Excerpt from "Veteran's Journey" by Wang Wei
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Just when Chang'an was making a fuss about Princess Qingluan's scandal, a highly confidential military meeting was being held in the Tang Army's naval camp thousands of miles away, and only a few parties involved were qualified to participate.
The participants did not exchange too many pleasantries and went straight to the topic.
Ma Daifeng said to the Persian general Alberts: "General, Al-Khwarizmi's sheepskin scrolls have benefited me a lot. The trebuchets and crossbows improved according to his methods have longer range and higher accuracy.
Here, I would like to thank the general again." After that, he bowed deeply.
Alberts hurriedly returned the gift and said with a smile: "Don't take it seriously. These parchments belong to General Bai. I just keep them for you."
The origins of these parchments involve Prince Yin Li Jiancheng, the secrets of the Chilong Cauldron Pill and the Zhuanlunzang, so Alberts did not dare to say more.
Ma Daifeng looked at Bai Fu in surprise.
Bai Fu smiled slightly and nodded, indicating that his words were true.
Ma Daifeng continued: "The parchment records a legendary figure called 'Hermes Trismegistus', who pioneered alchemy, astrology and supernatural powers.
The alchemy of Hermes gave me a lot of inspiration. Not only could mercury be easily extracted from cinnabar, but it also talked about the smelting of meteorite iron.
General Bai's soldier armor comes from meteorite iron, and is tailor-made for the general by the Tang Sect. I'm wondering if I can continue to smelt this armor and create a set of giant peerless battle armor."
Having said that, Ma Taifeng recounted in detail the scene in which Usa Hachiman transformed the human skin of an old woman into a giant yokozuna-level sumo wrestler.
This is the second time Bai Fu has heard about this fight, and he still finds it incredible.
Ma Daifeng said: "Among the master craftsmen, Han Zhineng can make wooden kites that fly hundreds of feet high, wooden cats that can catch sparrows and mice, and Yang Suo can make puppet monks who walk the streets to make alms. Their methods all rely on the transmission of core gears.
Move the puppet's limbs.
We can also use the core gears to nest the gears layer by layer to create giant-sized puppets for siege.
At the beginning, our initial idea was to imitate Yang Suo's begging puppet, let the soldiers control the core gear inside the puppet, and then use the winch to pull the gear connecting the limbs.
We worked day and night and designed countless puppet warriors, but all failed. Because we could not make the gears all over the puppet's body rotate at high speed and swing quickly like real hands and feet. Without fast swinging, the giant puppet's hands and feet would not have enough strength.
Destroy the city walls and destroy the city gates.
So, we once again imagined whether we could let the soldiers use their internal energy to impact the core gear, and then drive the limbs to swing through the gear transmission. In this way, although they cannot move and dodge quickly, they can generate huge force like a battering ram.
For example, a general can wield a black iron sword weighing seven to eighty kilograms. Through the transmission and superposition of gears, the general's internal strength can be amplified several times, allowing him to swing an iron hammer weighing five to six hundred kilograms.
If such a tin puppet is made, it can slowly move to the city gate without fear of arrows and flying stones, raise the big hammer high, swing it from top to bottom, and smash the city gate with one hammer."
Everyone looked at each other and marveled at Ma Daifeng's fantastic idea.
Ma Daifeng smiled awkwardly at everyone, shook his head, and said: "Our test still failed.
It wasn't until I saw Usa Hachiman's yokozuna sumo wrestler that I suddenly had a bold idea. Is it possible to control the puppet's limbs with my mind and turn it into another clone besides its real body?
I asked General Zi Che, and General Zi Che told me that if you deliberately cultivate a certain magic weapon while practicing Daoxuan, this magic weapon can become another clone, such as a resentful couple refined from evil spirits in sorcery.
, Shura Mysterious Armor made from talismans in Manichaeism.
Hide in the body of a giant puppet, connect your own limbs to the puppet's limbs, and control the puppet's limbs with your mind, just like real hands and feet. Regarding this idea, General Ziche said that it can be done with some Taoist spells, but
It won't last long.
As for allowing giant puppets to move and dodge according to their thoughts, and fight against enemies. General Zi Che said that this is something that only those extraordinary masters in Xuanmen who have the ability to penetrate heaven and earth can do."
Zi Chesai nodded and said: "Master said, Zi Buyu has strange power and chaos. Therefore, what I say next is only our Taoist sect's understanding of the world. You are not a member of my sect, so you don't need to take it too seriously.
Just listen to it, it's just an anecdote.
Our Taoist class divides all things in the world into saints, immortals, gods, humans, spirits, demons, demons, etc.
The saint is God Haotian, who controls everything. In addition, there are saints such as Shennong, Suiren, and Nuwa Fuxi, who are also called ancient gods.
Under Sheng, there are three major religions, Humanity, Chanjiao and Jiejiao. The leader of Humanity is Taishang Laojun; the leader of Chanjiao is Yuanshi Tianzun; and the leader of Jiejiao is Tongtianjiao.
The followers of Chanjiao and Jiejiao practice in famous mountains and rivers. Only those who follow the great road and practice orthodox methods are qualified to become immortals. Once they achieve the right fruit of cultivation, they can become immortals. Even if they become immortals, they may not be among the immortals. Those who have not been recognized by heaven
The immortals are just the loose immortals of the last stream. The heaven recognizes that those who have entered the "true flow" are true immortals. Whether they are true immortals or false immortals, they have reached the realm of immortality and can travel around the world without restraint.
After talking about immortals, let’s talk about ghosts and gods.
The imperial court governs the human world; the underworld governs hell; the heaven governs heaven.
"Gods" are people who, after death, come to heaven or hell to serve the immortal world due to the wishes of the people or the edict of the emperor or heaven. Gods are not only one level lower than immortals, but they can only become gods after death.
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After death, those who performed virtuous and good deeds in the human world and were respected by the people can ascend to heaven, serve as officials in heaven, and become gods. Otherwise, they will fall into hell and become ghosts.
Ghosts are the souls that leave the body after death. Ghosts are extremely yin things, commonly known as ghosts. When the yang life span is over, the body in the yang world disappears, leaving only the soul. Ghosts are pure yin bodies, so they have some super powers.
But it is extremely weak and cannot even be called a spell. Ghosts can usually only move in the underworld. There are also some unresolved grudges in the underworld that will return to the underworld. Ghosts can only come out at night in the underworld, and their power is very weak.
, usually it can only scare people but cannot cause substantial harm to them.
If a ghost wants to escape from the current situation and get rid of the dissociated state, there are generally three ways:
One is to accept the judgment of Yama in the underworld honestly, reincarnate as a human or be reborn in the animal realm, and start another cycle of reincarnation;
The second is to stay in hell and suffer, to eliminate the sins accumulated during your lifetime bit by bit, and regain your innocence;
The third way is to rely on the blessings accumulated in the human world to be selected by heaven after death and disintegrate into "ghosts and gods".
The origin of "demon" is very broad. All animals and plants that can be cultivated into human form can be called demons. The only exceptions are Donghuang Taiyi and Fuxi Nuwa in ancient times. Although they are demons, they can cultivate themselves.
He also achieved Tao and Fruition and was regarded as the "Ancient God" or "Nature God" by the world, so no one in later generations would regard him as a monster.
As for "monsters", they are animals and plants that are practicing cultivation but have not yet taken human form.
Regardless of monsters or monsters, only those animals and plants that are dedicated to good can go further and further on the road of spiritual practice, and finally become immortals.
"Demons" are more widespread than "demon". Regardless of humans, animals, ghosts, gods, or demons, as long as they go astray in the process of practice, they may become demons. All practitioners who violate the Tao are demons.
Demons usually have humanoid or nearly humanoid forms and can be active during the day and night.
"Demons" have high magical power and are harmful to the human world. Demons are often experienced demons, and their magical power is much stronger than ordinary demons. Demons may also be immortals and gods who strayed into evil ways, rather than being directly cultivated by animals and plants.
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Due to their vast magical power and complicated backgrounds, ordinary gods are probably not a match for demons, and heaven usually has nothing to do against demons."
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Seeing that everyone's faces were getting more and more ugly, Zi Cheshai laughed and said: "
This is just our Taoist family's opinion, it does not mean it is correct, it is just for everyone's enjoyment.
Even if our Xuanmen is right, don’t worry.
Among the demons, ghosts, and spirits, ghosts are the most numerous, but due to limited mana, the number that cause trouble in the world is not large and will not cause substantial harm to people. There are also many monsters and spirits, but they usually hide in the mountains and forests.
They will not take the initiative to hurt people. The magic power of demons is vast and can harm people, but the number of demons is very small, so the chance of harming people is also low. Monsters will not easily come out to harass people and be fed by others.
The monsters are even very fun.
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After talking about our Taoist classification of all things in the world, you will understand what I mean.
This Usa Hachiman God is probably an octopus demon who has practiced for thousands of years. The old woman's human skin that can transform into a yokozuna sumo wrestler is the demon body she had when she was an octopus demon, just like the snake skin she shed when a python sheds its skin.
I guess that Usa Hachiman God risked divine punishment this time and came to the Tang Dynasty to stir up trouble and trouble in order to avert disaster.
Based on her current magic power, the calamity she faces this time may be very dangerous. It will not only destroy her thousands of years of practice, but also take her life.
Since it is a natural disaster, there is no way to escape it unless she can find a way to overcome it.
It can be inferred from this that the Tang Dynasty must have some mysterious magical power that can allow it to survive the catastrophe safely..."
When it comes to the secrets of Taoism, I won’t go into too much detail until I reach the critical point of Zi Che.