Chapter 196: Little Three Flowers Gathering at the Top

The Lantern Festival is finally here.

There is no need to say more about the importance of the three major festivals of Taoism, and among the three major festivals, the Lantern Festival is the most important.

First, the Lantern Festival is the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first lunar month in the mouths of the people, watching lanterns and celebrating the Lantern Festival. Second, even those who don’t know about the Lantern Festival have heard of the saying that the Heavenly Official blesses. Compared with the later Earthly Official pardoning sins and the Water Official relieving disasters, blessing is undoubtedly more festive and has better meaning. After all, no one wants to be guilty or have disasters. Third, the 15th day of the first lunar month is still in the afterglow of the New Year’s Festival, while the days of the Zhongyuan Festival and the Xiayuan Festival are not so good, especially the Zhongyuan Festival, which is also the Ghost Festival. According to legend, the gates of hell are open, and it has nothing to do with festivity.

There is also the reason for the name. Water flows to the lower place, but people’s hearts want to be higher. Naturally, the Xiayuan is not as good as the Zhongyuan, and the Zhongyuan is not as good as the Shangyuan.

For the Zhengyi Dao, the Lantern Festival is particularly important.

The Heavenly Official, the Earthly Official, and the Water Official just correspond to the Taoist Tianshi, Dishi, and Guoshi. Whether it is the name or the status, they are very matched.

The Heavenly Official corresponds to the Heavenly Master, who is the leader of the Orthodox Oneness. Therefore, the Orthodox Oneness has a feeling that the Shangyuan Festival is its own festival, so its grandeur is better than the Zhongyuan Festival and the Xiayuan Festival.

On this day, the entire Dazhenren Mansion and the Shangqing Palace next to it were decorated with lights and colors. Countless long-prepared lanterns were hung on every lamp stand, branch, eaves, lamp stand, and pole. Before the evening, the atmosphere was already very warm. After nightfall, the lanterns were lit, and the atmosphere was almost crazy.

Many young children ran in and out with lanterns.

The adults were particularly tolerant on this day.

Since it is the Lantern Festival, it is natural to eat Lanterns.

Those who are qualified to enter the lobby to enjoy the special Lanterns are all well-known people. Just like the Laba porridge the year before.

Last time, Qi Xuansu didn't have the chance to have Laba porridge. This time, he was invited to the lobby.

All such gatherings follow the ancient ritual of separate meals, one table per person. In the hall, the Heavenly Master sat alone in the central seat, facing north and south. The others were arranged in a left and right goose-wing pattern, facing east or west respectively.

The seating order was extremely important. Because before the Lantern Festival, Zhang Jucheng had reached a compromise with Zhang Yuelu. Zhang Yuelu promised to guarantee the status of the main clan, and Zhang Jucheng promised to support Zhang Yuelu to become the successor of the Zhang family. Therefore, this time Zhang Yuelu's position was extremely high. Not only was she the first person in the Yue character generation, but she was also the only one in the Ju character generation who was ahead of her. In addition, there were several Zhang family elders without character generations. This already showed Zhang Yuelu's status as the third-generation leader.

What Yao Pei and Li Changge had already obtained, Zhang Yuelu had gone through many twists and turns until today.

If the trip to the capital was successful, and Qi Xuansu's biggest gain was to be promoted to the third-grade deputy hall master of Ziwei Hall, then Zhang Yuelu's biggest gain was to gain the recognition of the Heavenly Master with this opportunity, and then, with the support of the Heavenly Master, he completed the compromise with the main clan and took a big step forward.

Although compromise is something that must be learned, everyone essentially wants to have it all, but they will compromise and give up some interests only when there is no other way. So compromise also has a threshold, it depends on qualifications. The Grand Master may compromise with the emperor, but he will never compromise with a fourth-rank Taoist priest.

In the past, Zhang Yuelu undoubtedly did not have the qualifications to make the Zhang family compromise. But now Zhang Yuelu is different. There is no need to talk about her own qualifications. There are mainly four reasons.

First, Cihang Zhenren clarified Zhang Yuelu's qualifications as a successor. Even if she left the Zhang family, she would be the next Cihang Zhenren, with the support of the Cihang lineage behind her.

Secondly, Zhang Yuelu repeatedly made military exploits and was promoted again and again, becoming the youngest third-rank Youyi Taoist priest. Even if she did not become Cihang Zhenren, she had the hope of becoming a Zhenren.

In addition, the Heavenly Master changed his attitude and no longer deliberately ignored Zhang Yuelu. He showed his support for Zhang Yuelu's promotion and even handed over the Purple Light Society line to Zhang Yuelu.

Finally, the marriage between Zhengyi and Quanzhen still depends on Zhang Yuelu. After all, the Earth Master is one of Zhang Yuelu's mentors, and this is not the first marriage between the two families. Quanzhen Dao certainly hopes that a Heaven Master who has a closer relationship with them will take the position. If Zhang Yuelu is regarded as a man, it is equivalent to her having a strong support from the Yue Family.

These four reasons put great pressure on the Zhang family, especially the Heaven Master's change of position, which makes it difficult for them to unite internally. So Zhang Jucheng judged the situation and decided to compromise. The price paid for compromise now is not heavy. Wait until Zhang Yuelu becomes a real person to compromise, and the price paid will not be today's price.

Qi Xuansu is not only benefiting from Zhang Yuelu's light, but also a guest, and in a sense represents Quanzhen Dao, so his position is next to Zhang Yuelu and above the Juzi generation.

This naturally attracted the attention of many people, but no one raised any objections. Because this ranking was approved by Zhang Jucheng.

Qi Xuansu is now rich, but he still comes from a poor family. This is the first time he has participated in a private banquet of this scale. He finally saw what it means to have a feast with a feast. Although there were no dancers to entertain him and he never really used a cauldron to eat, there was still music. It was not pre-recorded music, but live music. The musicians were in the two side halls on the left and right of the hall. The sound was loud and clear, but not noisy, so that people could not hear others talking.

Because it was a private banquet, there were not too many complicated ceremonies and no special ceremonial officials.

The Heavenly Master first raised his glass to toast the people present, and then everyone toasted back to the Heavenly Master.

A grand fireworks show had already begun outside, covering the entire sky above Yunjin Mountain.

Then two rows of female Taoists floated in like clouds, offering Yuanxiao to the people present.

Qi Xuansu had never heard of Yuanxiao stuffed with red fruit, let alone eaten it.

Qi Xuansu put a Yuanxiao into his mouth with a spoon, and felt a scorching heat flowing down his mouth, through his throat, esophagus, and directly into his stomach, as if a fire had been ignited. Because he had the physique of a heavenly warrior, he only felt warm. If it were an ordinary person, it would be like burning, not an adjective, but it could really burn all the internal organs. This was still the processed red fruit. To eat the red fruit raw without any damage, except for the gifted, only the pseudo-immortal level could do it.

This is also the reason why the Taoist Huashengtang has superb medical skills, but mortals still cannot escape birth, aging, illness and death, just because they can't bear it.

However, the effect was also very significant. Qi Xuansu clearly felt that his Sanren Zhenqi had grown a lot, which was equivalent to his three months of hard training.

One glutinous rice dumpling is equal to three months of hard training. This bowl has four glutinous rice dumplings, which is exactly one year.

Qi Xuansu ate all four glutinous rice dumplings without hesitation.

If he didn't get the fifth "Xuanyu" for a long time, it would take him about ten years to enter the Wuliang stage. Now there are only nine years left. This is the advantage of a big family. This kind of resources is very rich. As long as the talent is enough and the upper limit is high enough, it is never difficult to improve the cultivation.

However, Qi Xuansu is most concerned about Zhang Yuelu instead of his own realm cultivation.

When Zhang Yuelu left the Imperial Capital, he was only one step away from the Wuliang stage. After eating this bowl of Yuanxiao, he might enter the Wuliang stage on the spot.

Qi Xuansu was right. After a slight hesitation, Zhang Yuelu ate the four Yuanxiao in the bowl, and the aura on his body immediately changed slightly.

The Xiaoyao stage of the exiled immortal is the small five Qi Chaoyuan realm, which transforms the Zhenqi into Zhenyuan.

The infinite stage of the exiled immortal is the state of the small three flowers gathering at the top of the head. In ancient times, "flower" and "hua" were interchangeable, and "hua" was the original word for "flower", so "three flowers" is "three hua", which means the glory of the human body's essence, qi and spirit. The so-called "gathering at the top" means that the essence, qi and spirit are mixed and gathered in the mysterious gate, without distinction.

Because there has always been a saying that the exiled immortal is a high-grade qi refiner and the scattered people are low-grade qi refiners, so the exiled immortal and the qi refiner have many things in common.

The human flower, refining essence into qi, people are born from essence, so essence is the seed of reincarnation. The heart of the cultivator must be empty in the lower part of the body, and the desire for lust must be abstained from. The essence is not discharged indiscriminately, so it is necessary to abstain from sex, then the essence is full and no lust is thought, and the lead flower is born.

The earth flower, refining qi into spirit, people's survival depends on qi, the heart must be empty in the middle part of the body, without fear, anger or resentment, then the qi is smooth, the way is unobstructed, the middle qi is full and no food is thought, and the silver flower is born.

The smallpox, refining the spirit and returning to emptiness, although the essence and qi are sufficient, if there is no spirit, then the body will be dull and the person will have no life, so the spirit is the master. Now the heart is empty at the upper part, not attached, not attached, the spirit is full and does not want to sleep, always clear and awake, then the shell is shed and returned to emptiness, returning to the state of emptiness, then the golden flower will grow.

The direct manifestation of the human flower and the earth flower is that the primordial yin is not lost and the grain is not eaten. The former erases human desires, which really only talks about feelings and not lust, leaving only pure spiritual love. The latter "not wanting to eat" says it all, not that Zhang Yuelu deliberately doesn't eat, but really doesn't want to eat.

After condensing the smallpox, even sleeping is omitted.

The small three flowers gather at the top of the realm, which integrates the six realms of refining essence, transforming qi, refining qi, transforming spirit, refining spirit, returning to emptiness of the Qi Refiner into one. The returning to emptiness realm corresponds to the stage of heaven and man.

After reaching this realm, the soul of the exiled immortal will be extremely powerful. After leaving the body, it is not inferior to the yang spirit of the alchemist. It can learn more methods of great success and obtain a natural supernatural power similar to the ever-changing martial arts of the warrior, turning the three flowers and five qi into a cloud of celebration.

The cloud of celebration is a further "five qi smoke net", which can be regarded as the strongest defense means in the infinite stage. Nothing can be defended, except for various spells, including "six extinctions and one thought sword" and the fist of the warrior. And it can be large or small, as large as several acres, as small as a piece on the head. If the cloud of celebration cannot be broken, the exiled immortal cannot be hurt anyway.

In addition, because the small three flowers gather at the top of the realm, many residual skills of people who cultivate the mind are integrated, such as the heart must be empty in the lower part, and the desire of lust must be abstained; the heart must be empty in the middle part, without fear, anger or resentment; the heart is empty in the upper part, without attachment, etc. And taking into account the theory of mind learning, the saint of mind learning believes that the human heart is the heart of heaven and earth. If the sky is not as bright as me, who will look up to him? The earth is not as bright as mine, who can look down upon it? Therefore, a major feature of the cultivation of the mind is extreme idealism.

The same is true for Qingyun. To defeat Qingyun, one must be a person with intention. The damage of dead objects such as cannons and firearms will be minimized, or even ineffective.

When Qi Niang fought with "Dongzhu", the reason why Dongzhu was able to hurt Qi Niang was because the martial artist in the pseudo-immortal stage had touched the true meaning of breaking the void. With one punch, he smashed a line of vacuum, targeting the void itself that carries all things, not all things, so that it can be shaken and scattered. Qingyun is naturally no exception. It is equivalent to firearms against cold weapons, not at the same level. If it is the ever-changing realm of the same realm, it will not be so easy.

Qingyun can also replace Yufeng, that is, flying in the clouds, faster, and even flying with people, and the word "immortal" is more worthy of the name.

If Zhang Yuelu enters the boundless stage, Li Changge and Yao Pei, who are only in the free and easy stage, are not opponents.