Lantern rituals are very important to those who practice Taoism, and even powerful sword cultivators like Xuanyuan Mountain are no exception.
The function of the Xuanyuan Mountain Lantern Festival is to light up Xuanyuan Mountain with light, dissolve the evil spirits on sword cultivators, and prevent people in the sect from becoming possessed by evil spirits due to excessive evil spirits.
This is the dilemma of practicing Taoism. If a monk only meditates and practices all day long, he will not be able to obtain the heavenly materials and earthly treasures needed for practice.
Therefore, monks have to improve their own strength, slay demons and find treasures from heaven and earth to help them practice.
Another advantage of fighting is that it can hone one's Taoist mind and is also a good means of cultivating Taoism.
Therefore, during thousands of years of practice, traveling and seclusion have become important ways to practice in the world of immortality.
But killing too much will be contaminated with evil spirits, which will interfere with the pure heart of the ascetic and create demonic obstacles, making it easy to become possessed.
In the first few generations of Xuanyuan Mountain, many disciples were possessed by evil spirits. The master at that time came up with this method to use lamps to pray for blessings and dissolve the evil spirits.
This is also one of the few days that Xuanyuanshan, a sect that cultivates hard and abandons mundane entertainment, can have fun.
Tang Yue listened to her grandfather telling her about the Xuanyuan Mountain Lantern Festival, and thought to herself, no wonder Xuanyuan Mountain is like this.
They have given up on worldly pleasures, but they have focused their energy on being competitive, fighting for fame and wealth, and their interests have become more and more perverted. The master has become jealous of his disciples and has destroyed his entire family.
It seems that he has been suppressed for too long on weekdays, which has caused the person in the door to become abnormal.
Elder Shui said: "Chu Tianshu sent a message saying that he and Tang Wan invited you to go to the Lantern Festival. If you feel bored, just go and have a look.
Instead of following Chu Tianshu, follow Peak Master Gongsun. You are getting better and better these days, so he wants to go down the mountain to see the excitement."
Maybe there are too many things happening these days, and things in Huayue City are not going well. Peak Master Gongsun, who has always been staying in the meditation room, wants to participate in some festive activities to get rid of bad luck.
Tang Yue asked: "Chu Tianshu sent a post and invited me to the Lantern Festival? What exactly does he want to do?"
Elder Shui said calmly: "Zuo Guan wanted to take advantage of your injury to see if he could hurt you more seriously. It would be best if you no longer have the ability to compete with him for the position of city lord."
Tang Yue didn't expect her grandpa to speak so straightforwardly, "Then grandpa will let me go to the Lantern Festival?"
"I want you and Peak Master Gongsun to go and ignore them. I think you have never seen the Lantern Festival in Xuanyuan Mountain. It would be good to take a look. You have been bored in the cauldron for a long time."
Tang Yue thought for a while. Going out for a walk sounded very attractive, but there was still someone whose life and death depended on her.
If she had nothing to worry about at this time, she would definitely go and see her. She is now coordinating the two forces in her body. Her body has been repaired and is stronger than before. How can she be afraid of Tang Wan's machinations?
Rather, I want to ask them if they are afraid of the remaining divine and star power in their bodies.
"Grandpa, I still don't want anything unexpected to happen. In fact, Tang Wan and the others are not the only ones who have objections to me. They were in Huayue City before.
I also had a conflict with another disciple of Xuanyuan Mountain. It would be bad if he suddenly showed up to cause trouble. It only lasted for more than ten days in total, and I couldn't bear it.
After I recover from my injury, I will take a look at Xuanyuan Mountain."
Seeing that she had no intention of joining in the fun, Elder Shui didn't force it, "Okay then, you can rest, I'll watch over you and let the Peak Master go on his own."
Tang Yue nodded and went back to the cauldron to warm it up.
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"Senior brother, my sister has a grudge against me, and she also hates you. She actually doesn't answer your posts. I remember she was the most clingy to you when I was little."
Tang Wan had prepared sachets that could confuse people's breath, and was waiting for Tang Yue to appear and contaminate her body with the medicine, but received the news that she would not come.
Over the years, although Tang Yue had spoken ill words against Senior Brother Chu many times, and even deliberately targeted him, she felt that her sister still admired Senior Brother.
In the past, she was the most attached to Chu Tianshu, always trying to please him. How could someone become so coldly targeted in just a few years?
What's more, Chu Tianshu is now the first disciple of Xuanyuan Mountain. His future is limitless, and he has such outstanding appearance. There are few women who don't admire him.
Even Yang Gulan, after his senior brother's accident, also turned his attention to his senior brother...
So this was all Tang Yue's strategy. She was playing hard to get to attract Chu Tianshu's attention. If she hadn't used some little tricks from time to time, I'm afraid she would have succeeded.
Chu Tianshu said expressionlessly: "She is so petty. If she doesn't come, she won't come. Let's go and see for ourselves."
In fact, he felt a little uncomfortable, especially when he saw Tang Yue's grown-up appearance that day. He felt that it was far beyond the woman he had seen.
After I came back, I would remember that face from time to time, and I would secretly think that it would be great if that face belonged to Wan Mei. It was really unfair.
Tang Wan was unwilling to give in, "Why don't we pick a lantern and give it to my sister after we're done? She missed the Lantern Festival because she was angry with me, so she feels a little regretful after all."
Chu Tianshu sighed, "Sometimes, I really hope you can think more about yourself instead of caring so much about others. If you insist, then so be it."
During the Xuanyuan Mountain Lantern Festival, colorful lanterns will be hung all over the mountain. Looking from a distance, it looks like the colorful stars in the sky are pouring into the world. It is indeed very beautiful.
These lamps are blessed with spiritual power and can emit a brilliance that ordinary lamps cannot. They also contain spices that can calm the mind and remove anger.
The Lantern Festival has a long history, and has been played in various ways by the monks of Xuanyuan Mountain.
The lamps that move and change color are the basics, as well as the lotus-shaped lotus lanterns that slowly float in the air, and there are also newly installed lamps with swimming goldfish, imitating the scene of a stream.
Tang Yue listened to Peak Master Gongsun's story and almost followed him. However, he used the Purity Sutra to stabilize his inner desires and continued to meditate in the room.
Now it's time for her to treat Senior Brother Lu.
Tang Wan took the goldfish lantern he picked and went to Taihao Mountain with Senior Brother Chu. Suddenly, a group of people ran towards them.
Chu Tianshu frowned and looked like a patrolling disciple.
After the team approached, the leader said to Chu Tianshu: "Is it Senior Brother Chu? Senior Brother, please go back quickly. There was a murder at the mountain gate. More than a dozen corpses of disciples appeared at the Lantern Festival. They were all deprived of their souls."
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Chu Tianshu's face became serious, "The murderer actually killed more than a dozen people this time?"
Xuanyuan Mountain has never been mentioned to the outside world. After the Huayue City incident, people who were deprived of their spiritual roots also appeared in Xuanyuan Mountain, and they were all killed.
There was one person on the first day, several people on the second day, and then on the day of the Lantern Festival, more than a dozen victims appeared at once.
The elders in the sect all believed that it was the remnants of the evil cultivators from Huayue City who had arrived at Xuanyuan Mountain. However, they were more concerned about face and thought they could solve it, so they did not publicize the matter and thought they could solve it themselves.
"Yes, the leader ordered the disciples on patrol tonight to search for suspicious people everywhere,"
Chu Tianshu said: "I will go with you to find the murderer."
He turned his head and said softly to Tang Wan: "Junior sister, the murderer is outside now. I'm afraid I can't accompany you to deliver the lantern. I'll take you back first. It's very dangerous outside."
Tang Wan took his arm and said: "Brother, let's take people to Taihao Peak to have a look. I'm not worried about where my sister is. She's already here. After searching Taihao Peak, you can send me back.
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The leader of the patrol said curiously: "There are few people on Taihao Peak, and there are several transformed gods and fusion elders sitting in formation. There is a closed mountain barrier on weekdays. No entry is allowed unless the leader of Taihao Peak allows it. I don't think the murderer will go in."