Chapter 6: Ming History Settles the Heart

Yunqi woke up in the glow.

He drank a lot of wine last night and fell asleep when the eastern sky was white. However, the fine wine did not hurt the body but nourished the spirit. He slept for less than an hour, but his mind was very clear.

He opened his eyes and found that he was still in the courtyard. It turned out that he fell asleep on the wine table after getting drunk last night.

Looking at Feng Jihu, this young Daoist had already woken up and was exercising in the courtyard, dancing like a crane, climbing like an ape. Yunqi watched for a while and found that this exercise had the same effect as the Vessel-Clearing and Tendon-Stretching Technique he had practiced since childhood, and it should have come from the same source.

At this time, He Bingkun was still sleeping on the table, snoring like thunder.

Yunqi got up and also practiced the Vessel-Clearing and Tendon-Stretching Technique.

I don't know if it was because the spiritual Qi in the mountain was abundant, or because his state of mind had changed greatly, but at this moment, practicing the same routine, he clearly felt that the clear spiritual Qi in his body was thicker and more solid.

After two rounds of exercise, He Bingkun also woke up.

"You guys are quite early."

"Just woke up," Yunqi said.

The three cleaned up the courtyard, and He Bingkun was in a hurry to go to the Yingyuan Mansion to listen to the lecture. This time, Yunqi also saw the true appearance of that thunder bird:

This was a thunder sparrow, its silver claws hooked in the cracks of the stone wall above the courtyard, resting with its eyes closed. Hearing He Bingkun's call, the bird turned in the air with its claws, flapped its wings and flew, its wingspan was three or four feet long.

The thunder sparrow was covered in purple feathers, the feather shafts were silver-white, and its beak and eyes were dark gold, looking very majestic. It was just that a row of white vertical feathers grew on the top of the thunder sparrow's head, looking like it had exploded, looking a bit funny.

He Bingkun jumped up and landed on the back of the thunder sparrow. The thunder sparrow flapped its wings, turned into a flash of electricity, and quickly went away.

Feng Jihu also stopped exercising, released the cloud carriage, and said to Yunqi: "Yunqi, I am leaving the mountain today. This trip will take at least half a year, and at most a few years. I hope you have achieved success when I return."

Yunqi bowed and said yes, "I wish Daoist brother a safe journey and all your wishes come true."

Feng Jihu left with a smile.

After the two left, Yunqi first entered the house and carefully scanned the books on the bookshelf to see if the books Master Yu Su Kong mentioned yesterday were all there. After a circle, they were all there.

"Still missing a class schedule."

Yunqi stepped out of the door and walked back to the place where he received clothes yesterday. Seeing the old Daoist, he bowed, "Daoist Master, the disciple wants to get a class schedule and pack some food and dry rations. I don't know if I can get them here?"

Yao Jianming shook his head and pointed out: "Little Daoist Master, the class schedule is obtained at the Du Jiao Institute. Things like practice and knowledge belong to them. Go up the mountain. Food and drink are managed by the Du Chu Institute, down the middle of the mountain. Ask people along the way, and you will naturally find it. Only daily necessities need to be found by the old Daoist."

Yunqi thanked him and bowed away.

Subsequently, Yunqi successfully found the Du Jiao Institute and the Du Chu Institute. Getting the class schedule at the Du Jiao Institute was free, which made Yunqi very happy, but the food at the Du Chu Institute cost money. The cheapest white flour cake cost two Zhu of broken copper, and the most convenient Grain Bigu pill cost one tael of copper. Yunqi didn't dare to ask about the prices of other meals.

The white flour cake was also made of spiritual grain, and like the Grain Bigu pill, it was completely absorbed by the stomach after being swallowed, and there was no excretion. However, one white flour cake was only enough for one person to eat for a day, and the Grain Bigu pill could last for half a month, which was much more convenient.

But Cheng Yunqi was penniless now, so he only owed three white flour cakes and owed six Zhu of copper.

Carrying the class schedule and flour cakes back to the courtyard, Yunqi posted the class schedule on the wall after entering the room. This class schedule was written in white characters on black spiritual paper. According to the manager of the Du Institute, this was a rough talisman technique, and the spiritual characters on it could change, displaying the daily courses in real time.

Yunqi scanned it roughly. The courses were varied, including those about practice techniques, alchemy techniques, magic tool identification, and spiritual grass maintenance. Yunqi felt that before listening to the lectures, he should read books first to figure out some common sense problems of practice, otherwise it would be in vain.

Subsequently, he stood by the bookshelf and pulled out a thick book titled "Ten Thousand Years General History—Sanqing Mountain Revised Edition—Ming 400th Year Edition".

The old saying goes, reading history makes one wise, reflecting on the past to know the future, not forgetting the past, and being a teacher for the future. He had always liked reading history. He also read the history books of the secular world. He knew that the unified dynasty in the secular world was the Ming Dynasty, which had been founded for more than four hundred years. The previous dynasty was Yuan, and before that was Song.

It was just that the changes from Song to Yuan and Yuan to Ming were like earth-shaking wars. Plus, the former Song Dynasty was said to have lasted for a thousand years, and many things could no longer be verified.

He held the book and sat behind the desk, stabilized his mind, and opened the first page.

The first page was the table of contents, saying:

Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors

Cheng Tang Replaces Xia

Qin Unifies the Warring States

Heavenly Han Conquers Chu

Three Families Return to Jin

North and South Stand

Sui Short-lived, Tang Long-lived

Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms

Two Songs Give Way to Yuan

Brightness of Sun and Moon

This was the first time Yunqi knew that there were so many dynasty changes before Song.

Subsequently, he turned to the first era, Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. This era was very short, and the events of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period were not well known, only some well-known events, such as Fuxi making the hexagrams, Shennong tasting herbs, and the Yellow Emperor casting the tripod. The general history guessed that the total time the eight emperors were in power was about five thousand to eight thousand years.

After reading carefully, he turned to the second era, Cheng Tang Replaces Xia.

It was roughly said that Emperor Yu the Great succeeded in flood control and gained extremely high prestige, naturally establishing the Xia Dynasty. However, King Yu overturned the abdication system of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors period and created the hereditary system. Another point significantly different from the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors era was that the human kings of the Xia Dynasty seemed to have the same lifespan as mortals, and the replacement of old and new kings for decades was already common.

The Xia Dynasty lasted for seventeen kings, passing the national destiny for 470 years to Jie. Jie was unprincipled, lost the world, and Cheng Tang's ancestors raised troops to crusade and destroyed Xia.

Five hundred years after the establishment of Shang by Cheng Tang, the then Shang King was called Emperor Xin Zishou. The book records that during Zishou's reign, he was a sage inside and a king outside, and the national strength was unprecedentedly strong. But at that time, a great vassal king, the Western Earl, suddenly rebelled and established the Western Zhou separatist regime. History books also called the Shang State before this as Eastern Shang.

The two countries fought, and the war lasted for fifty years. The book records that there were a large number of ancient gods participating in this human war. The gods in the sky and the gods in the human world fought, stirring up the world. There was also such a sentence in the book: At the extreme, a sage appeared, refining the earth, water, wind, and fire.

The book says that the gods in the human world finally won the victory, and the human world was self-governing. Since then, the four seasons of wind and rain were not controlled by the heavenly gods. This was the last clearly recorded manifestation of the Sanqing ancestor, and also the last immeasurable calamity.

The Shang State won the victory of the war. The Shang King enfeoffed a large number of vassal states and orthodox ancient gods, and also unified the whole world. After this, the Shang State lasted for another 1,500 years, historically known as the Imperial Shang.

At the end of the Shang Dynasty, the central government was powerless, the local government was strong, the vassal states rebelled, heroes rose together, and chased the deer in the world, historically known as the Warring States Era.

The Warring States was ended by Qin. But history books record that after Qin Shi Huang unified the world, he tried to break the convention that human kings could not live forever, seeking the method of immortality, wanting to establish an immortal dynasty that would permanently suppress the world.

However, this move angered the gods of all paths. After a battle, the First Emperor collapsed in Shaqiu in the land of Yan and Zhao, and the Qin Dynasty perished in the second generation.

At the same time, this war also made the human king lose the power of conferring gods. Since then, there were only immortals and ancient gods in the world, and no new gods.

This battle of gods and immortals is historically known as the first killing calamity of gods and immortals. After Qin perished, heroes rose together again, and finally Han defeated Chu, establishing the Han Dynasty, historically known as the Western Han. The Western Han held the country for 800 years. At the end of the dynasty, it was precarious. Subsequently, there was the Han World Ancestor Guangwu Emperor's revival, re-establishing the 1,200-year foundation of the Eastern Han, and historians also called it Heavenly Han.

The book says that in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Ancestor Celestial Master Zhang Daoling came to a spiritual mountain in Yu Zhang to refine alchemy. The alchemy was completed and the dragon and tiger appeared, and the spiritual mountain was renamed Mount Longhu since then.

At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the world was divided into three, and then all returned to one family, achieving the Western Jin. Although the Western Jin unified the world, internal strife occurred frequently, the emperor was licentious, and the country had signs of destruction and division after 50 years of establishment. At that time, there was the Jin Tang Zhongzu's revival, sweeping away the filth from south to north, and extending the national destiny for 900 years, historically known as the Eastern Jin.

General history records that when the Eastern Jin was established, Ancestor Ge Hong founded the sect in Yu Zhang, which is Mount Sanqing. Ancestor Ge Hong himself was also worshipped as the contemporary immortal by the Eastern Jin Tang Zhongzu Emperor.

At the end of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the country was divided again, the Northern and Southern Dynasties stood, and then merged into Sui. However, the Sui Dynasty was founded by force, and the two generations of kings were extortionate, and finally perished in the second generation.

Tang Gaozu raised troops from Jinyuan, destroyed Sui and established himself, called Tang. History books record that during the reign of the second generation of Tang, Taizong Wen Emperor, the eight sects of Buddhism stood together. There was Tripitaka Master traveling west, universalizing Buddhist Dharma, and there was the Sixth Patriarch Huineng proposing to see the heart and nature, becoming a Buddha on the spot, greatly flourishing the Chan Sect, and its power overwhelmed the Daoist sect.

At that time, the struggle between the east and west orthodoxies of the Buddhist sect had become incompatible like fire and water. Cutting down mountains and breaking temples was just common, directly triggering the second killing calamity of gods and immortals.

History books record that there were no more Golden Immortals manifesting in the world after this killing calamity.

After the founding of Tang, it went through several emperors such as Gaozu, Taizong, Gaozong, Holy Emperor, and Xuanzong. The territory was unprecedentedly vast, creating an unprecedented foundation, historically known as the Prosperous Tang.

However, Xuanzong Emperor was muddled in his later years, greedy for power, favored border generals of foreign origin, and the country fell into internal strife. The rebel army counterattacked the capital, and Xuanzong abandoned the capital to avoid Shu. There was almost a danger of the country being destroyed.

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There was Xuanzong's youngest son, Tang Zhongzu Daoist Martial Emperor, who raised troops in Shu, walked the ancient road of no traces, crossed the Bashan and Qinling Mountains, and the divine soldiers descended from heaven to Guanzhong, recovering the capital. The book says that the reason Tang Zhongzu could lead strange soldiers and cross the ancient road was because of the full assistance of the Shu Daoist sect at that time.

Since then, the Tang Dynasty created a prosperous age again, and the national destiny lasted for 2,600 years, unprecedented, historically known as the Long-lived Tang. At the same time, the power of the Daoist sect overwhelmed the Buddhist sect, and the Shu Daoist sect was even more prosperous and difficult to block. At that time, it overwhelmed Mount Longhu and was called the Western Daoist Capital. The famous Mount Emei, Mount Qingcheng, Green Sheep Palace, and Mount Heming were all flourishing during the Long-lived Tang period.

Although the Long-lived Tang lasted for a long time, it still had an end. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, warlords were separated, a scene of chaos, truly the emperor took turns to sit, this year to my house, historically known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms.

Subsequently, Song Taizu unified the world, which was the Northern Song. The Northern Song enjoyed the country for 170 years, everything was exhausted, the national border shrank, and the emperor fled. At that time, there was Song World Ancestor's revival, creating great achievements during the flight, extending the 1,500-year national destiny of Song, historically known as the Shaosong.

During the two Song Dynasties, the Daoist sect flourished. There was the Chongxu Miaodao gentleman Wang Wenqing who founded the Shenxiao Sect in Bingfeng Mountain, Yu Zhang, opening another Dharma lineage for the practitioners of the world.

At the end of the Song Dynasty, there were northern alien races going south, searching mountains and seas, establishing the Great Yuan. The Yuan Dynasty was established for a hundred years, the people complained, at that time there was Ming Taizu raising troops, breaking through like bamboo, driving the alien races to the North Sea, unifying the Central Plains, which is the brightness of the sun and moon.

Now the Ming Dynasty has been established for more than four hundred years, the world is peaceful, and it is a prosperous scene.

After reading, Yunqi let out a heavy breath, closed the book, and a feeling of hunger came from his abdomen. He subconsciously reached for the cake on the desk, but touched nothing. He looked up and found that the cake had been eaten, and he didn't know when a lamp had been lit on the desk.

This lamp was very beautiful. The lamp base was milky white, looking like stone. The lamp was the image of a white crane standing, one foot on the ground, four toes spread, the other foot lifted, four toes gathered. The crane's wings were gathered, its neck was slender and curved, its head lowered, and the crane's beak held a long-necked bottle, which contained clear lamp oil, and the flame hung outside the bottle mouth.

The oil lamp was very bright, but soft, emitting white light, as if the moon of the 15th had been picked down. He realized later, looking out the window, it was already deep night.

Getting up and coming to the window, the moonlight was brilliant, contrasting with the lamp on the desk. He looked at the bright moon that shone through the ages, and his mind was still churning with the magnificence in the history books.

Thinking carefully, it seemed that every time the dynasty rose and fell, the shadow of the forces in the mountain could always be seen, but it was blurry and general, making people unable to see clearly. Even his own ancestor seemed to have a great connection with the establishment of the Eastern Jin, but this connection was always unclear, giving people the feeling that it could not be publicized.

Even at present, the Ming Dynasty, the royal family seemed to have a different worship color for Mount Wudang and Master Sanfeng, adding various titles, one longer than the other.

Look at those who were deeply involved in the dynasty struggle, the war of ancient gods in the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, the war of the immortal dynasty in the Qin Dynasty, the struggle between Buddhism and Daoism in the Tang Dynasty, fighting and fighting, these great gods had no news. The recent example was Tang Zhongzu leading Daoist soldiers out of Shu to win the world, but the book says that after Tang Zhongzu left Shu, it rained continuously in Shu for half a year, an immortal mountain withered, and after the Daoist soldiers who left Shu entered Guanzhong, there was no news.

The joints in it are chilling to think about.

Yunqi had already made up his mind that when he walked in the secular world in the future, he must be careful about the temple, not provoke secular disputes, and touch less karma.

It's just that his mother's surname is Zhu...

"Yunqi!"

A shout interrupted Yunqi's reverie. He turned his head and saw that the door was open. It turned out that He Bingkun was standing in the courtyard.

Only to see him open his mouth and inhale, a group of cold mist collecting the Tai Yin moon essence was swallowed by him. He smiled and said: "You can finally wake up, do you know how long you have been watching."

Yunqi was puzzled: "Isn't it from morning to night?"

He Bingkun shook his head, "No, it's already the night of the third day."

Yunqi was surprised, it had passed so long?

"If you don't wake up, I will call you. If it takes too long, it will hurt your heart and spirit."

Yunqi nodded.

"Since you love reading, the lamp on the table is for you. The method of refining is written on the paper note pressed under the lamp. Wait until you eat Qi and refine it to try."

Yunqi was a little surprised, "Daoist brother, no merit, no reward."

"What merit or no merit, take it if I give it to you. It's not worth much money. It's a greeting gift."

Yunqi accepted it and bowed to thank him.

Received a signing invitation.

The new book is presented. Please leave more messages and comments.

(End of this chapter) ===== CHAPTER 7 =====