Chapter 206: Tai Shang Dharma Edict Orders the Side Sect

Princess Princess Princess Yuzhen's carriage stopped in front of the Pear Garden Palace. A music official hurriedly came to greet them, but he didn't look at Princess Princess Princess Yuzhen, but first bowed to Sima Chengzhen: "Tianshi, I have already invited Li Guinian. He is inside now..."

"Go in and talk!"

A group of people walked into the Pear Garden Palace where the Xuan Emperor often came. The palace maids and attendants coming and going, seeing Sima Chengzhen, all bowed down: "Tianshi!"

A huge imperial palace had been replaced by Daoist sect people before Qian Chen and the others arrived.

Qian Chen observed the cultivation bases and musical instruments that these women were good at. They were all at the Penetrating Law realm, and there was no lack of those who had formed a core. In terms of musical instrument attainments, they were also quite worth watching.

These women guarded every tight position, and could even vaguely cooperate to set up a great array, guarding this palace strictly.

Qian Chen placed Phoenix Master outside the hall to guard, and a few people walked into the hall, seeing Li Guinian in official uniform, without a crown on his head, his hair scattered behind his back, closing his eyes sideways, tuning a five-string pipa made of mother-of-pearl and sandalwood.

He heard the footsteps of the crowd and said gloomily: "Chaoheng asked me to tune a pipa; he wants to take it back to Japan. He has wanted to return home several times, but was kept by His Majesty. This time, he is probably determined to leave!"

The music official who brought them in arched his hands: "That's a pity. His shakuhachi playing is extremely wonderful..."

Li Guinian suddenly put down the pipa in his hand, opened his eyes, and said sharply: "Sima Ziwei, Lei Haiqing, are you going to rebel?"

"We only want to kill An Lushan alone!"

Sima Chengzhen stepped forward: "I don't believe you can't see An Lushan's wolfish ambition? Now in the three towns of Hebei, he has one hundred thousand demon troops under his command, and how many millions of armored soldiers? Once he has the heart to rebel, the entire Hebei, and even the Central Plains will be rotten!"

"Outside Changancheng, I took action to assassinate An Lushan! But I was seriously injured by him. He has long since achieved the Undying Divine Demon body. Yang Guozhong wanting to open the Chang'an Array was also secretly instigated by An Lushan. Li Guinian, open your eyes and look, is the world of the Great Tang already in danger?"

Li Guinian sneered: "I only see a prosperous and flourishing age."

"Under this prosperous age, there is a hidden crisis that can turn the Great Tang upside down!" Sima Chengzhen said: "You are loyal to His Majesty and loyal to the Great Tang. But I am not asking you to rebel against His Majesty, but for the sake of the Great Tang, for the sake of Chang'an, to kill An Lushan! Can't you?"

"Sima Chengzhen..." Li Guinian whispered: "You go! Remembering a bit of incense friendship with the Daoist sect, I will treat this matter as if I don't know!"

"Li Guinian, this is the Tianshi's Dharma Edict!" Sima Chengzhen held the Tianshi Dharma Seal and said with a trembling voice.

The music official Lei Haiqing who led Qian Chen and the others in knelt down, but Li Guinian remained unmoved, just saying leisurely: "Although I am a disciple of the Daoist sect, I am also a minister of His Majesty. His Majesty and I are soulmates, so even if you are Tianshi, don't think about making me betray His Majesty! A Tianshi Dharma Edict also has three 'do not accept's! A Tianshi Dharma Edict that violates the will of the ancestors, the orders of the Son of Heaven, and the direction of the righteous path can not be accepted!"

"I am not asking you to betray His Majesty, but ordering you to remove this demon for the Great Tang!" Sima Chengzhen said sharply: "I, as the Tianshi of the Daoist sect, guard the Yu Yu Jiuyou rifts. Anyone who poses a threat to the Yu Yu Jiuyou rifts can be issued a demon-slaying order, ordering all Daoist sect disciples in the world to kill them!"

Li Guinian's expression loosened, but he still refused to accept the Tianshi Dharma Edict.

He casually raised the Heavenly Luo San, and the clear light isolated Qian Chen and Sima Chengzhen.

Qian Chen whispered: "Is it really impossible without him?"

Sima Chengzhen sighed: "Li Guinian is the strongest music cultivator in Chang'an. Only when he plays the pipa and leads the Pear Garden disciples can he exert the marvelousness of the 'Purple Cloud Song.' Although Lei Haiqing has also achieved the Core Formation Supreme Rank, his cultivation base is still a bit worse."

"Moreover, the Xuan Emperor has always trusted Li Guinian. If it weren't for him to arrange it, there would be many twists and dangers in our replacing the musicians to play the 'Rainbow Feather and Feather Garment Song'."

"Do you have any other way?"

Qian Chen's eyes were as calm as an ancient well, and he asked calmly with his hands behind his back, facing Sima Chengzhen.

Sima Chengzhen sighed: "Li Guinian is only loyal to the Xuan Emperor. It is truly difficult to get him to deceive the Xuan Emperor and help us assassinate An Lushan. But I do have a second preparation... imprison Li Guinian and replace him with Lei Haiqing."

"I will use the method of conferring the talisman to grant my life-bound true talisman to Lei Haiqing, making him achieve the Yang Spirit!"

"But in this way, your half-life of hard cultivation will be washed away!"

"After the cultivation base is lost, the remaining lifespan will be less than ten years, and wanting to cultivate the life-bound true talisman again will be ten times more difficult than before. The Dao path of this life will be destroyed in one day..." Qian Chen turned his head and said: "Is it worth it?"

Sima Chengzhen looked up slightly, meeting Qian Chen's gaze, his voice low but firm: "It's worth it!"

Qian Chen did not continue to speak, but there was a trace of sharpness in his eyes. He withdrew the Heavenly Luo San and stood in the hall in silence for a long time. Li Guinian still picked up the pipa beside him and slowly tuned it. Yan Shu, Ning Qingchen, and Si Qingguo were still waiting quietly for Qian Chen's decision.

For a time, there were only a few pipa sounds in the hall.

Sima Chengzhen took a deep breath and was about to stand up to prepare for the talisman-conferring ritual when Qian Chen suddenly opened his mouth: "Today, I will take charge of the Tianshi position on your behalf!"

The pipa played by Li Guinian suddenly missed a note!

Sima Chengzhen was silent for a few breaths, then suddenly bowed down and offered the Tianshi Dharma Seal: "Follow the Tianshi's Dharma Edict!"

The pipa in Li Guinian's hand made a "zheng" sound, and a main string was actually plucked and broken by him! Facing Sima Chengzhen's aggressive pressure, he had been unmoved, stubborn, and dead-brained, but this time he was finally moved and looked up.

He stared at Qian Chen, who had followed Sima Chengzhen in, looking like an inconspicuous Daoist sect junior.

An unbelievable look appeared in his eyes!

Qian Chen held the Tianshi Dharma Seal and ordered: "Order the Daoist sect disciples and believers to mobilize all the resources in Chang'an, all the families, sects, Daoist temples, and even side sects, non-mainstream ones influenced and controlled by the Daoist sect..."

"I want all the information about An Lushan's life!"

"The personnel he can mobilize, his forces in the Demon sect, his subordinates in the court, his life experience, and every trace he has left in this world. I want to know everything about him!"

Qian Chen's tone was resolute...

Sima Chengzhen placed the whisk in his hand on his elbow and formed a Dao seal with both hands. Then he unfolded it like a scroll, and thousands of talisman summons floated in it.

He wrote Qian Chen's order into a talisman decree, and golden cloud seals were written on the talisman decree, finally presenting it to Qian Chen for inspection.

Qian Chen glanced at it and raised the Tianshi Dharma Seal in his hand, pressing it flat on the talisman decree.

A purple seal script was stamped on the Dharma decree, which read:

"Zhengyi Alliance Might"!

At this time, the Dao Dust Bead where Qian Chen's soul origin was located moved, and another Dharma seal appeared beside the purple seal script...

It read:

"As Tai Shang Edict"!

Sima Chengzhen saw this seal script and showed an extremely horrified look, but also a trace of understanding.

He knelt on the ground and bowed: "Follow the Tai Shang Dharma Edict, Tianshi Dharma Decree!"

Li Guinian finally put down the pipa in his hand tremblingly, staring at the two gold and purple Dharma seals...

The two seal scripts on the talisman decree stood side by side, and when the talisman decree was collected, it turned into a golden light, transmitted to the thousands of talisman summons floating in the scroll.

At this time, Li Guinian, Lei Haiqing, Si Qingguo... all the Daoist sect disciples who were in Chang'an and had received the Zhengyi talisman, all felt their life-bound true talismans shake slightly.

Li Guinian knelt down on both knees and bowed to the Dharma decree that appeared in his life-bound true talisman!

Far away in the East Palace, Li Mi, who was meeting the Crown Prince; in the Flower Hall of Bodhi Temple in Pingkang Ward, He Zhizhang, who had been staring at Chang'an for a long time; the Golden Immortal Princess who was meditating next to the Princess Princess Yuzhen Temple; Chaoheng, the Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty in the Secretariat; the Daoists in all the Daoist temples in Chang'an; including the monks in Zhao Jinggong Temple...

All stared at the Dharma decree that appeared on the true talisman they had received.

Li Mi, under the Crown Prince's puzzled gaze, bowed to the east: "Li Mi of Louguan, respectfully follows the Tianshi's Dharma Edict, as the Tai Shang Edict!"

In the East and West Markets, the bustling crowd did not notice, and the shouting on both sides suddenly became inexplicably quiet for two breaths.

The vegetable vendors, butchers, fishermen, wealthy merchants, the beautiful women standing in front of the wine shops, and even the wealthy merchants with millions of family wealth, the giants who held the money cabinets and flying tickets, and even the great merchants with Hu faces, all paused slightly, and then returned to normal.

Only in places where there was no one...

In the largest flower building in Pingkang Ward, the flower girls knelt on the ground, and under the leadership of the procuress, bowed to the east: "Yin-Yang Harmony Sect, respectfully follows the Tianshi's Dharma Edict! As the Tai Shang Edict!"

In the Chang'an Disease Ward, countless beggars, lepers, and disabled people also knelt on the ground, bowing: "Eight Residuals Seven Sufferings Sect, respectfully follows the Tianshi's Dharma Edict! As the Tai Shang Edict!"

The Japanese envoy to the Tang Dynasty, Chaoheng, also known as Abe no Nakamaro, led a group of Japanese envoys to bow to the east: "Japanese Yin-Yang School, respectfully follows the Tianshi's Dharma Edict! As the Tai Shang Edict!"

In the gambling dens, the knight-errants who ran horses and fought chickens in Chang'an...

In the Pear Garden where Qian Chen was, the musicians and singers knelt in a row...

In the Great Ming Palace of Chang'an, the eunuchs also knelt and bowed in the empty palaces...

By the side of the garden path, where there were no other people's sight, those small music officials wearing green, gray, and purple official robes; the doctors in the Astronomical Bureau who calculated yin and yang; the soldiers of the Southern government office Sixteen Guards who guarded the palace; the military marquis and bad people on the streets and alleys...

The scholars and officials in the various wards such as Pingkang and Ban; and even in the houses of the nobles in the noble wards, many of the civil and military officials wearing vermilion and purple bowed and knelt in their rooms!

The knight-errants began to visit door to door, forcing those city foxes and social rats, and those city foxes and social rats, while dealing with them, and even the interrogation of the military marquis and bad people, also wrote down what they knew one by one, attached the talisman summons, and burned them with fire.

The rumors in the folk, the whereabouts of various people with Hebei accents...

Various news in the palace...

Various information about An Lushan in the court...

Including the archives of the imperial court about the three towns of Hebei, were copied one by one by the small officials in charge, and then the backup was left, and the original was divided into two parts by the historian's secret arts, and one part was transmitted to the talisman summons.

These pieces of information were continuously summarized on the scroll in Sima Chengzhen's hand, and he processed them one by one.

"Check... An Shouzhong, Li Guiren, Cai Xide, Niu Tingjie, Xiang Runke, Cui Qianyou, Yin Ziqi, He Qiannian, Wu Lingxun, Neng Yuanhao, Tian Chengsi, Tian Qianzhen..."

"Check... Zhang Tongru, Li Tingjian, Ping Lie, Li Shiyu, Dugu Wensu..."

"Check... the whereabouts of the people of the Lulong Army who entered the city today and followed An Lushan!"

"Check... Liu Luogu!"

At this time, Sima Chengzhen finally looked up and turned the various information he had organized into talisman books and handed them to Qian Chen for inspection. Qian Chen read through the information line by line, regardless of whether it was detailed or not. He closed his eyes, and in his sea of consciousness, he constantly compared those complicated and chaotic, and even contradictory information.

And compared it with the information he had left in Changancheng, those demon lords manifested through Yin demons, tracing the clues after he swept away the demons last night, and tracing the movements of the remaining divine demons.

Finally, he locked onto one of them—

"Often ordered his general Liu Luogu to stay in the capital to spy on the court's direction, and report all movements..."

Sima Chengzhen and Yan Shu and others had been waiting quietly on the side. After a while, Qian Chen opened his eyes and whispered: "Dealing with Liu Luogu alone, the goal is too obvious! Then mobilize the Daoist sect's forces, and send all the Lulong Army captains who stayed in Chang'an and just followed, and those who are suspected of being his demonic sect forces... to ascend in full!"

"Issue a demon-slaying order for everyone related to An Lushan!"

Li Guinian, who was kneeling on the side, trembled all over when he heard this, his head sweating profusely...

He heard Qian Chen say gloomily: "You want evidence, and I will give you evidence!"

Sima Chengzhen began to write the second talisman decree. After he finished writing the difficult cloud seal talisman script, he suddenly whispered: "But we still need to use that 'As Tai Shang Edict' Taiqing Dharma Seal..."

"The three Tianshi seals, the Three Pure Dharma Seals! Both are complete, and can summon the Daoist sect's side sects, and even some Daoist lineages that have entered the demonic path. Now that we have two seals, can we bypass those unreliable characters and mobilize the hidden strength of the left path..."

Qian Chen closed the talisman book and whispered: "The Thousand-Autumn Festival is approaching, and tonight is the decisive battle! The matter should not be made too big."

He smiled coldly and said: "Just do it cleanly!"

Sima Chengzhen took the Dharma decree stamped with Qian Chen's two seals and sent it to the many side branches of the Daoist sect, the side sects of Chang'an! ===== CHAPTER 207 =====

Sima Chengzhen took the imperial decree that Qian Chen had stamped with two seals and distributed it to the various branches of the Daoist sects, and to the—heterodox schools of Chang'an!