Chapter 39 White Lotus Sect

The meaning of these few lines of Chuci is clear, mainly praising Yun Zhongjun.

The followers of Wusheng Laomu began to praise Yun Zhongjun, which was very strange.

However, this also indirectly verified Qi Xuansu's guess, and this place was indeed closely related to Yun Zhongjun.

Qi Xuansu hesitated for a moment, but decided to show up and try to communicate with these White Lotus believers.

When Qi Xuansu appeared out of thin air in front of a group of White Lotus believers, they were all shocked, but these people were obviously not like the rhinoceros, and did not take action directly.

Although the clothes and costumes in the outside world have changed a lot over the years, the clothes and costumes in the Central Plains have been passed down from generation to generation, and the general idea can still be seen. The key is that the shape of the lotus crown has not changed. It is still the same as it was in the past. The White Lotus Sect itself is a mixture of Manichaeism, Maitreya, Buddhism, and Taoism. Naturally, it is familiar with some things in Taoism. At a glance, it can be seen that Qi Xuansu is dressed as a standard Taoist priest, and the lotus crown is not something that ordinary Taoist priests can wear whenever they want. In the Taoism before the revival, even if the Taoism was in chaos, only the first-level real person could wear the lotus crown.

A Taoist real person who appeared out of thin air?

The White Lotus Sect members looked at each other, not knowing what to say.

Finally, an old man stood up and asked where he came from.

Qi Xuansu answered in detail.

Everyone wanted to go home, set up wine and killed chickens for food. When the villagers heard about this person, they all came to ask about him. He said that he came to this desperate place to avoid the chaos of the Golden Tent and never came out again, so he was isolated from the outside world. When asked what era it was, they didn't know about the Great Wei, let alone the Great Xuan.

Qi Xuansu told him everything he had heard, and they all sighed.

After a conversation, Qi Xuansu learned that these people were indeed the White Lotus Sect members recorded in the county annals. The strange thing is that the first group of people did not die of old age, but survived all the time. They have multiplied over the years, making their number continue to increase. There were only hundreds of people back then, but now there are more than 10,000 people, divided into dozens of villages, distributed in various places, and this is just one of the villages.

Qi Xuansu was not surprised. The Taoist sect called this phenomenon "passive integration with the Tao".

To talk about "passive integration with the Tao", we must first know what "active integration with the Tao" means. It's very simple. The integration with the Tao inherited by the Qi Refiner is active integration with the Tao. The initiative is in their own hands. They can integrate or separate as they want, and come and go freely. This is how Qi Xuansu temporarily integrated with the world to hide his body.

Passive integration with the Tao is not up to you, and the initiative is in the hands of the cave. It can also be said that it has been assimilated by the cave and become a part of the cave.

The advantage of this is that the three corpses cannot harm you, because you have become part of the cave heaven. The small three corpses can no longer harm your life. As long as the cave heaven exists, you can live forever. Even because the cave heaven is different, you will get some magical powers or a great increase in cultivation.

There are advantages and disadvantages. The disadvantage is that when the cave heaven is destroyed, the people assimilated by the cave heaven will not be spared. At the same time, you can't help yourself and can't leave the cave heaven.

You can also forcibly separate them through external forces, but if the passive fusion time is too long, it has been decades or even hundreds of years. Once the cave heaven is separated, the three corpses will immediately backfire, and you will have white hair overnight or die on the spot.

This large-scale passive fusion phenomenon last occurred in Kunlun Cave Heaven. At that time, Kunlun Cave Heaven had not yet landed. I don’t know how many Taoist masters suffered from it. They were immortals, immortal, and seemed to have killed the three corpses. People at that time called them "pseudo-immortals", meaning fake immortals.

This pseudo-immortal is not the pseudo-immortal of today. The two are not the same thing. However, the current "pseudo-immortal stage" is indeed extended from this "pseudo-immortal", which is also a typical example of different meanings in ancient and modern times. For example, the word "romantic" has changed from "outstanding and handsome" in ancient times to "frivolous and dissolute" now. It's the same reason.

In fact, the kingdom of gods and immortals also has similar principles. Those saints who go to the kingdom of gods to gain eternal life, whether they are saints or Buddhists, are essentially passively in harmony with the Tao and become part of the kingdom of gods. As long as the kingdom of gods has not perished, they will not die. Buddhism has even created a six-way reincarnation system to constantly cleanse the memories of these believers so that they can maintain their spirituality and not become numb.

But if the kingdom of gods collapses, the gods themselves may still be resurrected, but these believers who have become part of the kingdom of gods are ten to one.

Obviously, the previous rhinoceros or the believers of the White Lotus Sect have already passively merged with the Tao, so they will not die for a long time.

After getting familiar with it, Qi Xuansu found the elders in the village again, who can also be called the headmaster.

Although the White Lotus Sect was once very powerful, it had many factions within it. As the saying goes, there are thousands of white lotuses in bloom, but who knows which one will be born? They are divided into various incense halls according to the region, and the person in charge of each incense hall is called the "headmaster".

These White Lotus followers who hid in Yunmengze belonged to the same incense hall. Originally, there was only one headmaster, but later they entered the cave and dispersed to various places in the cave, and each of them reproduced and thrived. According to the regional division in the cave, one incense hall gave rise to more incense halls, and each incense hall had a headmaster.

Of course, this headmaster certainly cannot be compared with the great headmaster of Taoism, just like they are both called emperors, and the emperor of the Central Plains and the emperor of Fenglinzhou are not the same thing.

It is said that the White Lotus Sect is also divided into two factions, the southern and the northern. The southern side is used to call it "headmaster". These White Lotus followers were active near Yunmengze at the beginning, so they naturally belonged to the southern faction. The northern faction is called "old shopkeeper", "ancestor", "master", "big brother", "headmaster marshal", etc. For example, Jin Gong Zushi is a typical northern faction name, and "Da Dao Shou" is a later invention.

Whether he is an elder or a leader, this elder is one of the many believers who entered Yunmengze back then. He knows more things than the younger ones.

After the two of them sat down, before Qi Xuansu could speak, the old man took the initiative and said: "Back then, when we, the White Lotus Sect, rebelled against the Golden Tent, we had to fight with the Golden Tent people with swords and guns. I am the leader of the Xiangtang, and I have some magical powers. Later, I spent hundreds of years in this blessed land of cave heaven, and my cultivation improved slightly, so I can naturally see that the real person is not an ordinary person."

"To put it bluntly, even if the old idiot is hundreds of years older than the real person, if he really wants to fight against the real person, he may not be able to meet him three times. With the real person's cultivation, I am afraid that he will not enter this place by mistake like us, but enter on his own initiative. here."

"Even if the real person doesn't come to see the old man, the old man still wants to chat with the real person. We already know where the real person is, but we don't know why the real person is here?"

Qi Xuansu said: "I learned about Yunmengze's supernatural powers by chance. Every time there is fog, someone always disappears. I speculated that the cave here may be related to the legendary Yun Zhongjun, so I entered it to find out. But except for me In addition, there are several other people who are both enemies and have extremely high cultivation levels, no less than me. In addition, I also have a companion, but I accidentally got separated when I came in, and I don’t know where he went. "

The old man thought thoughtfully and said: "It turns out that when we came here, we were scattered to various places and thrived separately. It took hundreds of years to gradually restore contact."

Qi Xuansu said: "I already know my purpose of coming, and I also want to ask you a few questions."

The old man said: "It's okay to ask the real person."

Qi Xuansu asked: "Don't you believe in Wusheng Laomu? Why did you change your belief in Yun Zhongjun?"

The old man smiled slightly: "How about Vacuum Hometown, how about Wusheng Old Mother? Maybe the leader and saint have seen her, but we haven't seen her anyway. But we have seen the miracles of God Yun."

A very simple truth, facts speak louder than words. These people who originally believed in the White Lotus Sect were not necessarily very devout. They were more like lower-class people who could no longer survive and just hugged together for warmth. Naturally, there was no psychological barrier to converting at this time.

Qi Xuansu nodded and asked: "How did you see the miracle? Did you see Lord Yun Zhong with your own eyes?"

The old man hesitated for a moment and said, "I've seen it, but I haven't seen it before."

Qi Xuansu said: "It's better not to play riddles."

The old man smiled bitterly: "It's not that I mean to be wordy, but I really don't know how to describe it. From here all the way to the west, at the end there is a big mountain that is shrouded in clouds and mist all year round. The Cloud God lives here. Some of our companions once entered the mountain. After getting enlightenment from Yun Shen, his cultivation level increased greatly."

Qi Xuansu asked: "Has my father-in-law ever gone in? Have you ever seen Yun Shen with your own eyes?"

The old man shook his head and said: "No. To be honest with you, I have always felt something strange. This is just because people who are enlightened by the Cloud God will greatly increase their cultivation level in a short period of time, but as long as they are successful in cultivation, they will enter the mountain again. This time it’s gone forever.”

Although the old man has never seen much of the world and has been trapped here, he is a real country man, but he has matured with age, and he still thinks about some things clearly.

Qi Xuansu asked: "What is the standard for successful cultivation, and how does it compare with my father-in-law?"

Qi Xuansu could naturally see that the old man probably had the cultivation level of a carefree stage. There was no guidance from anyone, no systematic teaching, and no external assistance. It was really a cultivation level that he had earned through years of hard work.

The old man replied: "You can only be considered successful if you are better than the old man."

That is the infinite stage.

Qi Xuansu was not very surprised when he heard this.

Because this routine is so familiar. Isn't this the way He Luoshen plays with the insect people? These White Lotus cultists are essentially no different from the insect people, except that He Luo Shen is more generous and directly eats the insect people in the creation stage, and this so-called "Cloud God" does not seem to be as good as He Luo Shen.

From this point of view, Qi Xuansu had some doubts about the identity of the so-called "Yun God". You must know that Yun Zhongjun is a Second Tribulation Immortal, and the Second Tribulation Immortal cannot use this method, which is not as good as Luo Shen.

So is there a possibility that the real Yun Zhongjun is no longer alive? He may have ascended, he may have transformed into heaven and earth like the Qing Emperor, or he may have even fallen. In short, this ownerless cave was left behind, and later someone occupied it, pretending to be the "Cloud God", and doing some pretentious things.

After all, Long Xiaobai had seen the remains of immortals with his own eyes.

If this guess is true, then could the "thing" that Su Yuanzai, Zhou Mengyao and others are looking for be the so-called "Cloud God"?

For a moment, Qi Xuansu thought a lot.

The key is that Qi Xuansu has seen too much. A big country has a long history. No matter what happens, he can always find corresponding references in history. In the same way, although Qi Xuansu is young, he has rich experience and can always find references.

These are all leftovers from the games played by Horushen, Itsumna and others.

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