At three o'clock in the afternoon, Chen Zhe took the train and got off in the scenic Linping County.
Linping County is different from other county towns. Two of the three families here believe in Taoism, and they offer statues of the Three Pure Ones, the Six Imperial Kings, the Five Directions and Five Elders, the Three Officials and the Great Emperor. You can often see them even at the train station. There are real Taoist priests wearing blue and gray robes, and some are fake.
The state's policy towards religion has always been to neither promote nor oppose it, but allows it as long as it does not undermine stability and unity.
One of the reasons for the prosperity of Taoism in Linping County is that Tianxin Pavilion is located in Jiuding Mountain, 20 miles north of the county. There are nine mountains, and the tallest in the middle is Wuwang Peak, which is where Tianxin Pavilion’s meditation temple is located. Wang Ningfeng, the master of Tianxin Pavilion, explains it in simple terms. Practice there.
Before Chen Zhe walked out of the train station, he met more than 20 Taoist priests who were traveling in groups or on their own. Some of them had refined temperaments and looked a bit like beings from the world. Some had cloudy eyes, which made them look like fake Taoist priests.
Among them, a fake Taoist priest came to Chen Zhe: "This donor, I think you have a full heaven, a shiny spiritual platform, and thick earlobes. This is a sign of great blessing. It's a pity..."
The fake Taoist priest had a look of regret on his face, but his eyes secretly looked at Chen Zhe's face.
Chen Zhe was stunned for a moment and then smiled.
Isn't this Zhang Ruoling's usual method of defrauding money? The old man boasted to Chen Zhe about his method of cheating money through face-to-face interviews, which was similar to that of the fake Taoist priest in front of him, but Zhang Ruoling's method was obviously more sophisticated.
According to Zhang Ruoling, people who cheat money usually praise the deceived first and then kill them. They praise you a few words to make you feel happy, and then change the subject and scare you, saying that you will be in great disaster. He scares you out of your wits, and then he tries to help you out of trouble.
In short, there is no disaster, the money was defrauded, and no one can be found.
"Fellow Taoist, I am Chen Zhe, the master of the Tao of All Living Beings. I have already checked my destiny with the master at Tianxin Pavilion, so I won't bother you." Chen Zhe smiled slightly, and the Taoist priest's face changed, and he turned around with a snort. Just leave.
He didn't know that the sect reported by Chen Zhe was real and the name was real, and he thought Chen Zhe had figured it out and was teasing him.
"Damn, he's wearing Black Mamba's basketball shoes under the Taoist robes, they're fakes... If you want to deceive people, you have to at least get a pair of Shifang shoes," Chen Zhe curled his lips, not liking the fake Taoist priests here.
Taoist priests gathered near Tianxin Pavilion. Although there were fellow practitioners from other cultivation circles, and there were also many locals pretending to be disciples of Tianxin Pavilion to steal food and drink, Tianxin Pavilion always turned a blind eye and did not care about being impersonated in the territory.
On the contrary, no one dared to do this near the Methodists. If they were caught by the Methodists, they would end badly.
There is a widely spread legend in Linping County.
At that time, Master Yuanhua of Tianxin Pavilion built a thatched hut on Wuwang Peak to practice cultivation, and helped people see and treat illnesses for free. With Master Yuanhua's ability, within a year, he was regarded as a god by the people in the county. Later, Tianxin Pavilion has more and more disciples and his reputation is becoming more and more famous, and many people use his name to cheat.
When Yuanhua Zhenren was traveling around, he unexpectedly encountered a person who used his name to deceive people. By coincidence, he actually deceived him.
At that time, the liar also praised Master Yuanhua first, and then told Master Yuanhua with a mysterious face: "You are going to be in trouble."
Master Yuanhua just smiled faintly at that time and admonished the man: "You are handsome, capable, young and strong. If you want to support yourself, why don't you find a job? Why do you do such a deceptive thing?"
When the man saw that he had been seen through, he immediately turned around. Master Yuanhua stopped him with a smile: "I don't know if I am unlucky or not, but you are going to be unlucky these days. You will lose your only property, and There is also fear of life,”
The liar thought he had met a colleague and gave Master Yuanhua a blank look.
Master Yuanhua gave him a talisman: "When you are about to be burned by fire, swallow the talisman into your stomach."
Of course the man didn't believe it, but by some strange combination, he took away Master Yuanhua's talisman and put it in his arms. As a result, on the day he returned home, he met a good friend who coveted his family's ten acres of real estate and asked him to drink. He got drunk, stole his house's land deed, and set a fire to burn him to death.
When the man woke up, he was surrounded by fire and could not escape. He remembered what Yuan Hua said and swallowed the talisman. As expected, he was unharmed when he was burned by the fire.
He understood the cause and effect, and knew that he had been harmed by his friends, so he went to settle the score with his friends.
The friend watched him being swallowed up by the fire, and then suddenly he saw a living person again. He had a guilty conscience and was cowardly, so he was frightened to death.
He was also frightened to death and ran away.
Later I found out that his friend's relatives reported to the police that he was responsible for his friend's death, and that the county magistrate had sent officials to arrest him.
The man had no choice but to go up the mountain and find Master Yuanhua who was staying at the inn. He kowtowed and admitted his mistake. Then Master Yuanhua told him: "You spent the first half of your life idle and did not miss your true career. You should have died early. Your friend In the first half of my life, apart from harming you, there was no big evil. You should have lived a long life. I couldn't bear that you died like this, so I saved your life. But this has already tampered with your fate. I'm afraid I will punish you if you go up the mountain. ,"
This man was frightened to death, so Master Yuanhua said: "I have a way, that is, you can borrow your friend's body to resurrect your life. From then on, when you die, you can continue to live in your friend's place. However, you have to be a Fangwai." A person who is not contaminated by worldly things,"
Of course the man nodded.
Master Yuanhua accepted this man as his disciple. Unexpectedly, this man later became one of Master Yuanhua's best disciples. His portrait is still hanging in Tianxin Pavilion, and he is called one of the five ancestors of Tianxin Pavilion.
From then on, Tianxin Pavilion did not pay much attention to the people from other small sects near the sect who came to make a living. Even if there were fake Taoist priests who cheated money, they would try to turn a blind eye as long as it was not too much.
After all, one of their five ancestors was doing this back then.
After hearing this legend, Chen Zhe felt that it was probably true, at least from a technical point of view, Yuanhua Zhenren could do it.
The talisman that can be put in the mouth to prevent being burned to death. Chen Zhe heard Qin Xin talk about a Tianxin Pavilion talisman called the fire-avoiding talisman.
As for borrowing a corpse to exchange one's life, Chen Zhe would definitely not be able to do it. This would require at least the calamity realm to be able to defy the will of heaven and exchange one's life without suffering retribution from heaven.
"From this point of view, Master Yuanhua's practice is truly earth-shattering," Chen Zhe smiled.
He found a cleaner hotel near the train station, got a private room, and wiped his face in the bathroom. What was reflected in the mirror was the face of a young man, but it was not Chen Zhe.
He wore a mask.
Two days ago, Jiang Yixin taught him the art of changing faces. Unfortunately, Chen Zhe was smart and talented, but he just couldn't learn it.
Jiang Yixin simply gave him the mask: "This mask is a magic weapon I got back then. It's called Face Comes from the Heart. When you put it on your face, you can change your face. Basically no one can see it. I know you will It will definitely come in handy,”
After Chen Zhe took over the mask, he was extremely grateful to Jiang Yixin.
He knew that Jiang Yixin was actually nice to him. Although it was for Jiang Xiaoqiao's sake, she was still nice to him after all.
Unfortunately, this mask cannot be changed at will, and there are still some restrictions. After all, a person's demeanor and behavior have been fixed, and it is difficult to hide it from people who are familiar with it. Furthermore, the appearance can only be changed for three days before it needs to be replaced.
Chen Zhe looked around in the mirror, and there was a completely different person in there who had nothing to do with Chen Zhe.
"This magic weapon is really good," Chen Zhe nodded with satisfaction: "It's a pity that Zhang Ruoling, Master Hu, Huang Zhen, Yang Hui and the others can't come to help me, and the path of sentient beings will not appear for the time being."
The Way of All Living Beings was the number one sect in the world of spiritual practice back then. Now that it has become such a shabby state, I am afraid that people will covet the sect’s magic weapons and secret manuals.
The Yueyang Sect cannot come out because they also have something that is coveted.
Chen Zhe sighed: "I have indeed boarded a pirate ship. What is the best sect in the world? In my opinion, it is just a rat crossing the street now, and it doesn't dare to show its face."
After leaving the house, Chen Zhe ate a drawer of steamed dumplings downstairs. After feeling full, he strolled out and walked around the county town to familiarize himself with the situation in the town.
Linping County is really strange.
The best products sold here are not luxury goods, cosmetics, or food, but various Taoist supplies along the street, Taoist robes, Shifang shoes, whisks, and even peach wood swords, compasses, flags, or simple charms for safe entry and exit. , it is conceivable that due to the influence of Tianxin Pavilion, the Taoist thoughts here are really deeply rooted in people's hearts.
Of course there are fakes among them, but Chen Zhe actually found a few magical artifacts with traces of true essence. They were probably made by real practitioners, but they are of no use to him now.
After wandering on the street for a long time, Chen Zhe strolled out of the city and first boarded a tourist bus north to Jiuding Mountain.
Jiuding Mountain is really nine well-proportioned peaks. They are all the territory of Tianxin Pavilion. Chen Zhe was very envious when he saw it: "When will I have such a large territory? I can make a lot of money just from the admission fee."
But to his surprise, Tianxin Pavilion did not charge admission fees.
But they were stricter than charging admission fees. Standing at the gate at the foot of the mountain was a sixty-year-old Zhike Taoist.
This old Taoist Zhike stood guard at the foot of the mountain. He glanced around and pointed at a few of the pilgrims: "You, you, you, you, these few can go up the mountain, but the rest cannot go up the mountain. Please change." The sun is coming,"
The pilgrims who were chosen by the Taoist priest all cheered and were even more excited than if they had won a multimillion-dollar jackpot.
Those few guests who were not allowed to go up the mountain did not dare to cause trouble. They just nodded and smiled politely. It can be seen from their temperament that their status in the world is not simple.
"No matter how high the status is, people are still afraid of gods." Chen Zhe sighed. He casually asked a guest who was not allowed to go up the mountain: "Brother, why are you not allowed to go up the mountain? It's so unreasonable. Let's find them." It makes sense, I worked so hard just to go up the mountain and have a look, what’s going on,”
The guest who was not allowed to go up the mountain glanced at Chen Zhe nervously: "Shh, don't talk nonsense, you will be blamed by the Sanqing Patriarch on the mountain. That old Taoist priest has clairvoyance and can tell whether a person is pious at a glance. Only the pious will give way."
Damn, there is still this rule.
Chen Zhe's eyes widened. He was not good in front of such a prestigious sect as Tianxin Pavilion... He didn't dare to cause trouble and just followed the queue obediently.
When it was his turn, the sixty-year-old Zhike Taoist's eyes fell on Chen Zhe. Chen Zhe immediately felt his body light up, as if all his thoughts had been read through by the Zhike Taoist.
This must be a magic similar to clairvoyance.
Chen Zhe's heart shivered and he immediately restrained himself. If his thoughts were seen at a glance, he would be in bad luck. Let alone go up to save Qin Xin, Zhike Taoist waved his hand and took out the Tianxin Pavilion Taoist priest who was patrolling nearby. He immediately pounced on it, and even Chen Zhe had to walk around without being able to eat it.
Fortunately, he reacted quickly. The Zhike Taoist priest was stunned for a moment: "Brother, your Taoist heart..."
Zhike Taoist priest frowned, and Chen Zhe felt nervous: Could it be that he saw something wrong?
"What's wrong? What's wrong with me? Am I not allowed to go up the mountain?" Chen Zhe pretended to be disappointed. Not to mention, he was quite pretending.
The Zhike Taoist shook his head: "I can't tell, I can't tell... There is nothing wrong with your Taoist heart, but I secretly feel that there is a tight twist and pull between you and me in Tianxin Pavilion. What is it? Whether it's good or bad, I can't tell."
Chen Zhe didn't understand luck, and couldn't explain it.
In the world of spiritual practice, there are some sects that specialize in watching luck, while others do not practice.
"So... is it good or bad?" Chen Zhe looked at him anxiously: "Whether you want me to come in or not, please give me some happy advice."
The Zhike Taoist hesitated for a moment: "I can't say, well, I can't make the decision, so I'll ask."
Chen Zhe thought that the Zhike Taoist priest would make a messenger charm or something to report to the leader, but who knew that the Zhike Taoist priest would take out a walkie-talkie from his pocket.
"Xiao Zhao, Xiao Zhao, there are some strange... pilgrims here. I can't tell whether they are pious or not. Come and take a look."
Not long after, a young Taoist priest came down. Judging from his clothing, he had more white patterns and more blue patterns than the Zhike Taoist priest at the foot of the mountain. Don’t underestimate these simple patterns. The pattern decoration proves that this new young man is a serious disciple of Tianxin Pavilion.
Compared with the old man who has been a Taoist priest all his life, this young man has much better luck.