Chapter 135: Western Region Daofu

The Western Region Taoist House is a very special Taoist house. Logically speaking, there should be a real person in charge here. However, because the Western Region Taoist House is too close to Yujing, if there is any big event, Yujing can just send someone directly, so in the end There is no real person in charge.

If Wu Niang becomes an immortal, and a position is assigned to her, she can be the Great Master of the Taoist House in the Western Regions. It will not be a waste.

Because the Western Region Daofu is a troubled place. Going east is the sphere of influence of the Golden Horde and the Rakshasa Kingdom. Going west is the sphere of influence of Buddhism in the Western Region.

The superficial reason for the war in the Western Regions in the past few years was that the Shamans wanted to recapture the Snowy Mountains.

Daxue Mountain was originally a holy land of shamanism and one of the four palaces of the Golden Horde Khan. However, in the eleventh year of Daxuan Taiping, it was conquered by the imperial court and the Taoist sect. The Daxue Mountain Palace became the location of the Taoist Palace of the Western Regions. In order to regain the holy land of the Snowy Mountains, the Shamans went to war with the Taoist government of the Western Regions several times.

The actual reason is not that simple. Shamanism alone cannot compete with Taoism. Behind shamanism is the support of the holy power of the Rakshasa Kingdom and the Buddhism of the Western Regions. The two Western religions have reached a consensus and even an alliance to a certain extent.

This was also the Holy Court's counterattack against the Taoist sect. The Taoist sect united local forces in the East Posas Continent and the Southern Continent to ruin the good deeds of the Holy Court. The Holy Court teamed up with Buddhism to repeatedly cause trouble in Nanyang and the Western Regions.

As a result, not only the land trade routes were almost cut off, but conflicts of all sizes continued, turning this place into a major military town.

However, there is still a certain tacit understanding between Taoism and Buddhism. The two sides will not directly conflict, at least there will not be a large-scale armed conflict. surface

In the past, the other two of the three religions still united around the Taoist sect.

It's not that Taoism is afraid of Buddhism, but because of the reasons mentioned earlier, Taoism feels it's not worth it.

The Buddhists in the Western Regions were driven to the Gobi Desert, which was very barren and had nothing to offer. The Taoist sect and the Buddhist sect are at war. It is natural that they will win, and nothing will be gained. If the battle is lost, the problem will be huge. If Yujing is compared to the Imperial Capital during the Wei Dynasty, and the Kunlun Taoist Prefecture is Zhili, then the Western Region Taoist Prefecture is the Nine Towns and Three Passes. Every time the Golden Horde army goes south, it breaks through the Nine Towns. With the defensive line, troops can reach the imperial capital. Even if the Buddhist sects in the Western Regions are unable to defeat Yujing, the Taoist sects will still be shaken.

Nowadays, the main focus of the Taoist sect is still on the east and south, focusing on overseas operations. As long as nothing happens to the Taoist government in the Western Regions, it will be fine.

However, seeking peace through compromise will not lead to peace. Only through struggle can peace be achieved. Although the country should not be anthropomorphized, this matter is exactly the same as human nature. It's like if someone bullies you and you give in, the bully will be more severe next time. But if you fight back hard and hurt them, they won't provoke you anymore.

In this case, Daomen decided to launch a war in the Western Region, and it was necessary to concentrate its efforts, build momentum, and show prestige.

Because it was the sphere of influence of Quanzhen Taoism, Donghua Zhenren personally led the army, and finally defeated the shamanism and forced the Golden Tent to move three times.

At that time, Qi Xuansu was still fooling around in the world and basically didn't feel anything. When he joined Tiangangtang, he only caught up with the tail end.

After this battle, there were no major wars in the Western Region, but there were still various minor frictions. With the support of the Holy Court, the Buddhist sects in the Western Regions continued to provoke Taoist sects, but they did not dare to fight.

, the two sides often develop into small-scale fights or secret back-and-forth situations.

The Buddhists in the Western Regions also see it very accurately. The Taoist Sect and the Holy Court are restraining each other, and no one dares to move lightly. The Taoist Sect does not want to fight it with all its strength, and the Holy Court is constantly fighting for it, so it can swing left and right. Moreover, the Buddhist Sect of the Western Regions has always wanted to Taking back the Western Region, Tao Sect Yujing became a situation where the Grand Master was guarding the country, so all kinds of small moves continued.

If the Imperial Palace is busy with nothing to do all day long, then the Western Region Dao Palace is at the other extreme, with big and small things happening all the time. It has to guard against not only Western Region Buddhism, but also the Holy Court and Shamanism, and secret societies are also very rampant. Also needs cleaning.

Yao Pei was transferred to the Western Region Taoist House as chief, and it was relatively easy to achieve results.

Being the chief of a Taoist government in the Western Regions, you basically don’t have to consider economic matters. Unless the land trade route can be re-opened, it will not be comparable to Nanyang. The Taoist sect will not send any financial and tax tasks here, but will need help from other Taoist governments. Here, there is even funding from Yujing.

In this case, Yao Pei's role as the chief deputy palace master in the Western Region Taoist Mansion is completely different from Qi Xuansu and Zhang Yuelu's role as the chief deputy palace master in the Borneo Taoist Mansion.

What is Qi Xuansu concerned about? Leaving aside Chen Shuhua and Wang Jiaohe, the main ones are typhoon disaster, foreign trade, Nanyang United Trading Company, and Lion City.

What is Zhang Yuelu concerned about? Although there are many secret associations, as the secret associations become normalized, they are nothing. Zhang Yuelu mainly pays attention to the old Taoist priests. These gentry from the Taoist era formed an interest alliance and fought endlessly with Zhang Yuelu. Basically, To redistribute benefits

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What is Yao Pei concerned about? They are the Zhiming Cult, the Lingshan Witch Cult, the Buddhist forces in the Western Regions, the Shamanistic forces, the Goddess Society, etc. These are external forces, and the others are considered internal conflicts. This is the struggle between ourselves and the enemy. Moreover, the situation is complex, and we cannot blindly suppress or compromise blindly. We must use both suppression and appeasement.

The provocative behavior of Buddhism in the Western Regions is essentially cannibalization. Build a temple today and open a forum to lecture tomorrow. The Taoist side will send people to expel them, but the Buddhists will definitely not do it. The two sides want to fight, but they are more restrained. They cannot directly cover it with artillery, use flying boats to cover it, or deploy a large array of alchemist battalions to dispatch. It all depends on personal cultivation. Even one-on-one.

After Yao Pei came to the Western Region Daofu, he dealt with many such things, which were almost commonplace.

Under normal circumstances, Yao Pei only gave orders and did not need to show up in person, but today was an exception. This time, he was also relatively restrained at the beginning, but gradually the tempers got out of hand, and both sides kept seeking support, so the scale became larger and larger, and it was somewhat out of control. Yao Pei had to show up in person.

When Yao Pei arrived at the site of the conflict between the two sides, he saw that the two camps were confronting each other in a desert, and there was an unfinished simple temple not far away.

A Buddhist monk stood in front of the formation, with precious light flowing on his face. He was wearing a bright red monk's robe, with one arm exposed, and his skin was glowing with a faint golden light, like a golden Buddha statue in a Buddhist temple.

In addition to the golden bodies of the gods and immortals, Buddhist monks also have golden bodies. The two have some similarities, but they are not exactly the same. When the Buddhist golden body is completed, it is like a mountain and the earth, unshakable and unregressive. After practicing to the extreme, it is not inferior to the human immortal body

This monk has successfully cultivated his golden body, like a towering mountain, looking down on the people below from the top of the mountain.

On the monk's chest hangs a bone rosary as big as a fist. Looking closely, each rosary is actually made from a human skull using a secret method. The skull is filled with gems, agate and other Buddhist seven treasures, making each rosary sparkle.

This is a human bone rosary unique to the Western Regions Buddhism. After the monk passed away, he was buried in the sky, and his body was fed to an eagle to achieve the compassionate state of the Buddha cutting his thigh to feed the eagle. The remaining bones are used as ritual implements. Each of its bone beads is taken from the skull of a high monk. So the monk in front of him has a total of 21 rosaries, which requires the death of 21 high monks with heavenly cultivation to practice, which shows how rare it is.

The way of cultivation and inheritance of the Western Buddhist sect has always been very different from that of the Central Plains Buddhism. Even the Taoism after the merger of Buddhism and Taoism can hardly encompass all the Western Buddhist sects.

Although the Western Buddhist sect originated from the Buddhist sect, it was integrated with Shamanism after it was spread to the grasslands of the Western Regions. Shamanism is a branch variant of the ancient witch religion. After all these changes, the Western Buddhist sect developed a unique means of initiation. To put it bluntly, it is to pass on one's own cultivation to the next generation of disciples. The master passes it on to the apprentice, and the apprentice passes it on to the apprentice, and it is passed on from generation to generation. This allows the Western Buddhist sect to still stand firm when Buddhism is declining. Even after the Buddha was born, the Western Buddhist sect became the main force to counter the Taoist sect.

In Yao Pei's perception, the person in front of him, although he has the cultivation of the stage of heaven and man creation, presents a free appearance, not like the real creation of heaven and man, which is as round and flawless as one.

He relies on external forces to reach the current realm. I think this is the so-called inheritance.

This kind of practice method, which places all the cultivation in the physical body, goes against the principle of the Central Plains Buddhism that the physical body is a smelly skin bag and pursues the principle of transcending color and emptiness.

What is the physical body? The body of a person with nose, eyes, mouth, and other five senses and two hands and two feet, a round head and a square top, is called the physical body, which is the physique of the Wu Furen Immortals.

Because the Western Regions Buddhism paid too much attention to the physical body, it was regarded as heresy and even a side door by the Central Plains Buddhism. However, now the Central Plains Buddhism has declined, and the Western Regions Buddhism has become orthodox.

The Central Plains Buddhism regards the seven orifices as holes, the limbs as wood knots, the skin and flesh as pus cells, and the five internal organs as lumps. We must abandon this physical body and find another real body with invisible form and imageless image.

If you are confused, you will take this physical body as the truth, recognize the false as the true, and the false as the real. Six gates outside, six senses inside, attacking from both inside and outside, destroying the true essence.

All things in the world, all things with form will perish. If you love this physical body as false, and do not explore the true nature of life, when the deadline comes, who am I and who is my body, the body and I have nothing to do with each other.

In other words, if you cannot obtain an immortal body, the body is just a smelly skin bag, a piece of clothing that can be thrown away, so the Buddhist sect in the Central Plains despises the body and calls it the physical body.

The gods and ghosts of Taoism also despise the body and throw it away. The former casts a golden body of the gods with incense and vows, and the latter leaves the body with the soul and thoughts, just like taking off the clothes on the body. Even the earthly immortals and heavenly immortals have to be reborn and get rid of the mortal body, which is equivalent to changing a piece of clothing.

Only the Taoists

The immortals do not "take off clothes" or "change clothes" on the road to immortality, but use the body to break through the boundary between immortals and mortals, use the body as a boat, cross the sea of ​​suffering, reach the other side, and achieve immortality.

From this point of view, the Western Regions Buddhism can't be considered wrong.

After Yao Pei appeared, the monk first chanted a Buddhist name, and then said in the not very proficient Central Plains Mandarin: "I didn't expect that Yao Zhenren would come in person."

The monk's voice was like a loud bell, deafening, and the rolling sound was like substance.

This is the Buddhist magical power "Lion's Roar". After practicing to the extreme, it can not only shock the mind, but even hurt people's souls with just a roar. At the least, the soul is unstable, the mind is disordered, and it becomes a madman or a fool. At the worst, the soul is directly scattered, leaving only a walking corpse, which is quite similar to the human immortal blood roar.

However, Yao Pei was not affected at all, and there was not much expression on his face. He was lifeless and only said four words: "What do you want?"