Chapter 77: Searching for Paititi

Speaking of chronology, the Central Plains still uses the emperor's reign title. In fact, someone proposed a long time ago that the birth year of the Supreme Taoist Ancestor should be used as the first year of Taoism, and then the Gregorian calendar should be used uniformly.

However, there were great differences within the Taoist sect during the specific discussion.

Simply put, it is impossible to determine the birth year of the Supreme Taoist Ancestor. The Li family's opinion is naturally based on the birth year of Laojun. Laojun is Li Dan, also known as the Supreme Laojun, that is, the great ancestor of the Li family, which can further strengthen the legitimacy and sacredness of the Li family.

However, other Taoists have expressed different opinions. It is true that Li Dan is the Supreme Taoist Ancestor, but before Li Dan, the Supreme Taoist Ancestor had descended many times to incarnate, such as Guangchengzi who enlightened the Emperor of Heaven, and the Three Pure Ones who became the Three Pure Ones in one breath, all of which can be regarded as the Supreme Taoist Ancestor. There is also a legend that the Taoist Ancestor is the ancestor of the creation of the world. With so many Supreme Taoist Ancestors, why do they insist on using Li Dan's birth year?

In short, Li Dan is the Supreme Taoist Ancestor, and the Supreme Taoist Ancestor is not just Li Dan.

The Li family naturally does not recognize them. They admit that these are also the Supreme Taoist Ancestors, but the Taoism was founded during the Li Dan period, so Li Dan should be the main one. Moreover, in order to integrate into the Central Plains, the "Taishang Huahu Jing" written by Buddhism clearly pointed out that the Taoist ancestor who rode a cow out of the pass and turned into a Buddha was Li Dan. And the Taishang Xuanyuan Emperor conferred by the Great Qi Dynasty was also Li Dan.

Since it is the Taoist chronology, of course we have to choose the founder of Taoism.

Speaking of this, the Zhang family has something to say. It is true that Taoism in a broad sense was founded by Laojun, but Taoism in a narrow sense was established by Zu Tianshi. Zu Tianshi's teacher is the Supreme Taoist Ancestor, that is not Li Dan. After all, Laojun is no longer in the world at this time. He is another incarnation of the Supreme Taoist Ancestor. If we really want to choose the founder of Taoism, it should be the Supreme Taoist Ancestor who preached to Zu Tianshi.

The Li family and the Zhang family started fighting again, one was a "son" and the other was a "disciple", neither of them gave in.

At this time, Quanzhen Dao also had to speak. The so-called "Huang Lao", "Lao" is Li Laojun, "Huang" is the Emperor of Heaven, and the Emperor of Heaven was before Li Laojun, which shows that the origin of Taoism is earlier, dating back to the era of the Emperor of Heaven. At that time, it was Guangcheng Patriarch who enlightened the Emperor of Heaven. Guangcheng Patriarch was the incarnation of the Taoist Patriarch and was enlightened by the Three Pure Ones Patriarchs, so we should start from the Three Pure Ones Patriarchs.

The three parties quarreled fiercely, and finally the Li family took a step back. Since it was impossible to determine the Supreme Taoist Patriarch, then it would be okay to use Xuansheng. There was only one Xuansheng, so we simply counted from Xuansheng.

For Taiping Dao, Xuansheng also had the surname Li. If the Great Saint Patriarch was not good, then the Saint Patriarch would be replaced.

Xuansheng was the absolute correctness within Taoism. Zhengyi Dao and Quanzhen Dao certainly could not openly oppose it, so they put forward other reasons. .

Zhengyi said: Xuansheng is good, but Xuansheng is the founder of the revival. If we count from Xuansheng, wouldn’t it deny the history of Taoism before? It’s not appropriate.

Quanzhen said: Xuansheng is good, but if we count from Xuansheng, Taoism has less than 300 years of history. It can’t be compared with Confucianism or the Holy Court. It makes Taoism look like a nouveau riche and can’t highlight the profound heritage of Taoism. It’s not appropriate.

The three parties argued and argued, but there was no final conclusion in the end. They simply put it aside and used the emperor’s reign title.

In the 46th year of Jiushi, the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month had just ended, and Qi Xuansu officially started to find Paititi. He set up his base camp in Huen Manor outside Cusco. Cusco was the base camp of Huen Ahan in the past. He had a great influence here. Qi Xuansu naturally transferred Huen Ahan here to help him find Paititi.

However, Qi Xuansu did not mobilize too many people from other places, mainly because he did not want to attract too much attention, so Qi Xuansu nominally came to Cusco because of the matter of the human-faced fruit tree.

When leaving Tanxiu Mountain, Qi Xuansu specifically told Tan Taiying to leave Lin Bufan alone first and wait for him to confess.

Qi Xuansu said that he would leave Lin Bufan alone for three days, but in fact he left him alone for more than ten days, and did not pay attention to Lin Bufan until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

During this period, Lin Bufan was also somewhat desperate. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month had a special meaning, but the Gong family did not take any action. They did not rescue him before the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and did not even provide bail with restricted movements. Not only in the eyes of Lin Bufan, but also in the eyes of outsiders, they felt that the Gong family was going to give up Lin Bufan.

As for how Lin Bufan knew that the Gong family had not taken any action, the reason was very simple. The isolation and investigation of the Juesheng Hall was said to be isolated from the inside and outside, but with the power of the Gong family, it was not difficult to pass the message in.

Under normal circumstances, the message to be passed does not need to be complicated, as long as the people inside know that the rescue has been launched outside and the family has been arranged, there is no worry. The people inside naturally have the confidence to continue to hold their ground.

Of course, the message can also be a threat, such as if you confess, your family will be in danger. Generally, it will be more subtle, telling the people inside that his family has been "taken care of", and the people inside will naturally understand and may find an opportunity to commit suicide.

For such a long time, the Gong family did not pass on any news, which itself is an attitude.

Lin Bufan will naturally be desperate.

The so-called stipulated time shows that the time is not infinite. If the time limit is exceeded, then it will be much heavier when it is dealt with in the future. For example, the return of stolen money is like this. If the stolen money is returned within the stipulated time, it can be dealt with leniently, but if it exceeds this time limit, it will be another set of standards.

This also adds a lot of psychological pressure invisibly.

What Qi Xuansu called leaving him alone was essentially putting pressure on him. This was also the reason why Qi Xuansu hurried to report to Master Gong. The key to playing the game of beheading first and reporting later was not "beheading" but "reporting". The established result had to be approved by the superiors. Qi Xuansu was not completely sure of convincing Master Gong, so he said at the time that this was a risky move. Fortunately, the result was good. Master Gong still had a pattern. For the sake of the overall situation, he approved of Qi Xuansu's approach.

On the other hand, Tan Taiying also went to Miss Gong's place. After all, they were "good sisters". Sisters were like brothers and sisters, and men were like clothes. Isn't it just a stinky man? At most, she could find another one. I don't know how Tan Taiying worked. It may also be that Miss Gong thought that Tan Taiying didn't have a man yet, so she felt balanced. Anyway, Miss Gong didn't come to trouble Qi Xuansu.

Qi Xuansu was really a little afraid that a female Taoist friend would come to block his door, which would make him look bad. There were already enough gossips about him. On one hand, people said that he was a gigolo, and on the other hand, they spread rumors that he had countless concubines. If there was another woman who made trouble, others would think that he had abandoned her after having an affair.

The key point was that Miss Gong was not an ordinary person, and she could not be beaten. It was also on someone else's territory, so it was not easy to drive her away. As for reasoning, based on Qi Xuansu's experience in dealing with Qi Niang, he did not have much hope. Many female Taoist friends might not be ignorant of reason, but pretended to be confused. You can't wake up a person who pretends to be asleep. There are still too few Zhang Yuelu.

If this happened on his own territory, Qi Xuansu would certainly not be afraid. His Taoist partner was the legendary Zhang Yuelu, his mother-in-law was the leader of female Taoist priests, Cihang Zhenren, and Qi Niang was also a woman. Without talking about the rules and systems of Taoism, any one of them could solve the problem. The key was not to leave any handle.

Although Qi Xuansu was ready to find Paititi, he did not give up on Lin Bufan. He could not put all his hopes in one direction. The line of Lin Bufan was left to Tan Taiying.

Qi Xuansu himself had to go deep into the jungle of Cusco.

Because of the scale problem, the approximate location marked on the map looked like just a circle, but the actual area was very large, so Qi Xuansu first asked Hu En Ahan to conduct some peripheral investigations to narrow the scope. Qi Xuansu did not say that he was looking for Paititi, but only said that he was looking for some relics of the past, which he suspected were related to the insect man.

Hu En Ahan did not know that Qi Xuansu had a map of Paititi in his hand, and did not know that Paititi was around Cusco. He did not suspect him, but sent people to look for various relics according to Qi Xuansu's orders. Hu En Ahan was the biggest local snake in Cusco, and he had many old subordinates and old friends here, so the search was relatively smooth.

When Hu En Ahan reported the locations of these relics to Qi Xuansu, Qi Xuansu marked them one by one on the map, personally surveyed them, and then eliminated them one by one, slowly narrowing the scope.

This method is not clever, but it is very practical. The only disadvantage is that it requires a large number of people to conduct large-scale investigations.

The people sent by Hu En Ahan are all locals. They are not only familiar with the terrain, but also familiar with various stories and legends. Many of them are passed down by word of mouth, such as where there was an abandoned temple, where there was a big tomb, where there was a trial place, and there was a general direction. If it were to be replaced by outsiders, such as the people of the Holy Court, in such a large rainforest, they would be headless flies.

This undoubtedly greatly reduced Qi Xuansu's workload. After others found it, Qi Xuansu went straight to the target to take a look, saving the time of searching in the middle, and could see several places a day. If you look for it slowly by yourself, it may take several days to find one.

It was also a lucky coincidence that some traces left by insect people were found in several ruins. This confirmed Qi Xuansu's words and made everyone believe it without doubt, and they did not doubt that they were looking for the legendary Paititi.

After searching bit by bit for about ten days, Qi Xuansu has roughly determined the scope. Paititi should be located in a huge valley surrounded by mountains. To enter it, you need to climb over the surrounding mountains. Such a place is okay when it is not developed, after all, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Nowadays, transportation has become the first factor in economic development, and such deep mountains and old forests will be eliminated, so the West Daomen has to build a new port.

As for Yujing, Daomen has forcibly established an air transportation system with many flying boats. Ordinary countries do not have such strength as Daomen. Even Yujing has begun to build the Acropolis in recent years.

At this time, Qi Xuansu no longer needs help from others. He personally searches the remaining area. He just tells Hu En Ahan to closely monitor the surrounding movements.

Although this rainforest is dense and dangerous, it can't stop Qi Xuansu. He just needs to fly over.

Qi Xuansu brought Wu Niang with him, flying low over many rainforests. There were many ferocious beasts in the forest, no less powerful than those born with innate powers. However, they were afraid of Qi Xuansu's strong blood, so they lay dormant and dared not show their heads.

Soon, Qi Xuansu saw the high mountains in the distance, towering into the clouds, with white clouds surrounding the tops of the mountains, as if they were wearing a white incense crown.

If they had walked over land, it would take a long time and effort.