Fu Shifeng

Chapter 22
At the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, under the constant wind and snow all year round, the Tianchi Lake is rippling, and the shrine is carved out of the mountain. It is not only like a cave for Taoists in the Central Plains to practice, but also like a mausoleum for the emperor's corpse. Behind the stone gate is mysterious and deep, and you can't see the end at a glance.

Going deep into the mountainside, there is a mirror hall in the deepest part of the shrine. There are hundreds of mirrors made by unique techniques, with different concave and convex.The mirrors reflect each other, and when you are in it, you can see many figures, which makes people who enter this place feel in a trance for a while.

Ankati came to the mirror hall alone, and a square stone pile was erected in the center, with countless fine lines carved on the surface, extending horizontally and vertically to the ground.

Putting the black jade box on the top of the stone pile, the entire mirror hall itself reacted like a living thing. An Quti held up his hands and moved it from the air, and the rock formation in the center of the dome spread out like flowing water. , revealing a straight shaft that runs through the entire mountain, and the sky above can be clearly seen.

A ray of sunlight then shone down along the vertical shaft, and it happened to shine directly on the stone pillars in the hall, making the finely carved lines on the surface of the stone pillars also glow with light, flowing like water, forming cobweb-like light patterns on the ground of the mirror hall. Spread quickly.

The light streaks touched the surrounding walls, and went retrograde again, covering the rock walls and mechanisms behind the mirrors in a blink of an eye. Each mirror shone brightly, interlaced and reflected each other in mid-air, and each reflection multiplied the light.

As Antunti raised his hand to fiddle with it, the mechanism behind the mirror began to work, and the light weaved like a net, and finally condensed into eight strong beams of light, which once again irradiated on the top of the stone pillar in the temple, and all of them were focused on the black jade box.

The beam of light that has been reflected many times has become extremely blazing. If ordinary people are watching, their eyes will definitely be blinded by the strong light.Where the beam of light is focused, even fine steel will be melted into molten iron, but the black jade box is still not damaged at all, only Sanskrit gold characters on the surface are circulating faster, constantly protecting the black jade box.

Seeing that the strong light was unobstructed, Ankati sneered and said to himself: "Huh, use the ebony rock hidden deep in the ground to seal the star marrow, and then headed by the three great achievers of the Brahmayan country, hundreds of monks in the Sala Temple will hold Curse to form a seal, these thieves have spent a lot of thought."

Anquti looked up at the Tongtian Shaft, quickly calculating the movement of the sun, the moon, and the hour in his mind: "Although it will take some time, it is still acceptable. It's a pity that I didn't have time to kill those people from Baochang Society, I'm afraid it was an accidental change." .”

With this in mind, Ankati turned around and left the mirror hall, letting the beam of light focus on it, constantly wearing away the Buddhist seal on the surface of the black jade box.

"Congratulations to the leader for taking back the holy object!"

When Anguti opened the stone gate and walked out of the shrine, all the subordinates headed by Guo Lizhen congratulated in unison.

Facing these fools who were deceived by him, Ankty showed the demeanor of a pious person, with a majestic demeanor with a bit of detachment, his arms and wings spread like eagles, and he said loudly:
"People of Suluzhi! The sacred Mani beads have returned to the light of the Great Bright Lord. You have faced the vicious blades of the group of demons and sacrificed your blood and life, but your soul will always be with the Great Bright Lord , enjoy eternal peace and tranquility!

"But you have to remember that the demons who refuse to be illuminated by the Great Bright Lord will never give up. They will use all conspiracies, tricks and evil methods to confuse, sway, and persecute you. In the face of difficulties, you must persevere The devotion in my heart to the Great Bright Lord and the Suluzhi Supreme!"

"Follow the instruction!" Everyone responded in unison again.

Facing the prostration and worship of the crowd, Antunti was rarely happy in his heart.In the past, he always looked down on these people. They were either grassland tribes who failed to rebel, frustrated scholars who were demoted and exiled, or greedy landlords and profiteers.

But think about it carefully, if these people hadn't strayed from the public, how could I easily win over them?
Ankuti recalled that decades ago, he came to Daxia alone, and the completely different weather gave him an extremely strong shock.

What my subordinates don't know is that Anqi Ti has been studying various schools of culture in the Central Plains for many years. If it weren't for this, it would be impossible to use this Tianchi to activate the enchantment and suppress Buddhist and Taoist spells.

However, for Antty, the biggest trouble is none other than that his life is coming to an end.

Compared with the power and wealth that ordinary people look forward to, Ankhanti's real pursuit is to reach the kingdom of rationality and wisdom that does not belong to gods.He needs a longer lifespan to gain knowledge, preferably an eternity, before accomplishing his ultimate goal.

Ankuti had changed his appearance many years ago and studied with a teacher in the Central Plains Taoist school, but unfortunately he had little success.According to those Taoists, one's own foundation has been established, and Taoist immortal methods cannot be learned.

Seeing that his lifespan was coming to an end day by day, Antunti had to find another way out.He picked up his hometown method again, which is a way to anchor the soul in the body, and then use various means to keep the body immortal, so as to achieve eternal life.

But this method of eternal life is actually extremely imperfect.One is that the soul anchors the body, but it cannot prevent the wear and tear of the soul; the other is that the immortality of the body itself is extremely difficult.

Many ancient monarchs in Ankti's hometown tried this method of immortality, which cost countless manpower and material resources, but the result was only a decayed corpse. The annihilation of the five sense organs made the soul tortured for a long time , and eventually fell into endless madness, only retaining the stubborn obsessions of his life, causing troubles and harming people in the desert.

Angryti traveled to many countries and saw various forms of civilization. He finally found out a way, which is to imitate the stars to transform his body and make it transform into a celestial body.In this process, one's own soul will undergo unprecedented sublimation.

It's just that if you want to do this, in addition to a lot of manpower and material resources as support, you also need the essence of the stars that really contain the principles of the evolution of the universe, which is what the Central Plains Taoist said.

Star marrow is very rare, but for a well-read person like Antty, in fact, various civilizations have obtained some more or less in the long history, and it is not completely impossible to find.

The more troublesome thing is that in the Central Plains, the star marrow was either collected and sealed by the imperial court, or it was collected by the high-ranking sect, and Anqiti could not grab it by himself.

Fortunately, after many investigations, Ankati learned that the distant Tianzhu also had star marrow falling from the sky.Moreover, the states of Tianzhu seem to be disgusted with this heavenly thing, and regard it as an evil thing, and try their best to send it out.

For this reason, Anguti set his sights on the Western Regions. Whether it was to seize the star marrow or prepare for the magic ceremony of immortal transformation, sufficient manpower and material resources were needed.Therefore, Antty used the name of Zoroastrianism to win over such a group of people. If things were revealed in the end, he could easily abandon this false identity and start over elsewhere.

"It's not in vain that I've planned for many years, and now I finally got the star marrow." Antty relaxed a little, looking at the group of congregants in front of him, whether he should continue to maintain his identity as the leader of Zoroastrianism after the immortal transformation ceremony is over, Do you really have a career?
"Master." The tall and thin old Confucian scholar Guo Lizhen said: "After Qi Jingyang, the chief of the four towns, returned to Quzhi City, he quickly quelled the chaos. A group of our spies were arrested and imprisoned. How to deal with it in the future, I also ask the leader to tell you .”

"I don't know what strategy Elder Guo has?" An Quti relied heavily on this old Confucian scholar. Even a scholar who had been demoted in the Central Plains' official circles was far better as a military adviser than those chieftains and merchants in the Western Regions.

"Qi Jingyang led a heavy army to protect the Western Regions. If my teaching wants to grow stronger, this person is the main enemy and must be eliminated." Guo Lizhen said with a twist: "It's just that Qi Jingyang is relying on the strength of the army at the moment, and it may be difficult to shake in a hurry. My sect has suffered a lot recently, so raising the flag rashly may not be a big deal."

At this time, a barbarian warrior wearing wolf fur was quite dissatisfied: "You also know that there are a lot of damages! It's all because of your random arrangements. You snatched the sacred objects before and let the black wolf department kill dozens of strong boys. If things go on like this, there will be no Black Wolf Department in the future!"

"Shi Tuojie, are you accusing Sang and Huai?" Guo Lizhen never looked directly at the other party: "It is the leader's arrangement to intercept the Maocai Society and seize the sacred objects. You accuse me of improper planning. Are you trying to question the leader?"

The Hu warrior was no match for Guo Lizhen when he was playing tricks, he was furious for a moment, he stretched out his hand and pulled out the scimitar, and exploded on the spot.

Everyone on the left and right hurriedly hid aside, Guo Lizhen faced the attack of the scimitar, calm and composed, did not dodge or dodge, raised his arms and swayed his sleeves, a wave of vigorous internal energy rolled out with the sleeves, like a huge wave on the ground, and the scimitar flew away. Thinking it wasn't enough, he knocked Shi Tuo out of the way.

This counterattack immediately shocked everyone present. For example, Kang Fudi and others originally thought that Guo Lizhen was just a frail scholar who was in charge of advising the leader, and never thought that he had such superb martial arts.

Anquti stood outside the stone gate of the shrine without saying a word. He knew Guo Lizhen's abilities very well. In the exercise of recruiting strength, one should pay attention to "going and not returning". Without the foundation of Confucianism to cultivate the literary quality, it is absolutely impossible to use it freely.

Although the Central Plains Confucianism school also has the study of praying, praying, and magic, but many of them were discarded in the past. In addition, the Confucianism school claims to be the authentic martial arts of the Central Plains, and Confucian scholars travel around the world. A martial arts and Confucian family who practiced martial arts and literature.

As for Guo Lizhen, he failed several times in the imperial examinations. Even though he was appointed later, he was honest and didn't like to flatter his superiors, so he gathered a group of martial arts scholars to make a public announcement in Chang'an, the imperial capital, and openly discussed all kinds of behaviors of the imperial court in the bustling wine shop. political inadequacy.

This move shocked the court, and Guo Lizhen was immediately arrested and imprisoned.After a long time of questioning, it was determined that he was not instigated by others, there was no crony collusion, and he was just an upright Confucian scholar.After His Majesty the Emperor found out about this, he was finally sentenced to exile in Suye City in the Western Regions to do hard labor for the soldiers in Suibao.

Such a person's attitude towards the Great Xia court can be imagined. When Anguti found Guo Lizhen, even though he was grey-haired, he still maintained the character of a Confucian scholar. Write home letters, quite respected.

However, perhaps the Emperor Daxia was well versed in the pursuit of Confucian scholars, and exiled Guo Lizhen to the frontier fortress, making it impossible for him to display his ambitions. Such setbacks are even more devastating to his mind.Therefore, shortly after Antunti pretended to be a Zoroastrian priest to preach to him, he even took the initiative to offer a strategy of encroaching on the Western Regions.

An Quti passed through Persia a few years ago and had a deep understanding of Zoroastrianism, but his purpose was to study the mysteries of Zoroastrian magic, and he had no respect for the Great Bright God and Su Luzhi believed in by Zoroastrianism.It's just that when he traveled to the Central Plains to show others his spells, he was mistaken for a master of Zoroastrianism, so he pretended to be the wrong one.

But Guo Lizhen was different. He came into contact with the Zoroastrian scriptures through Hu merchants in Suye City, absorbed the essence of them, and further studied them, so that he believed that the Confucian ethics alone could not restrain the emperor, but the majesty and dignity of the Great Bright Lord , Only then can the emperor's unscrupulous and bad temper be corrected.

When Anquti learned about Guo Lizhen's thoughts, he almost laughed out loud, thinking in his heart that this old Confucian scholar is really stupid in reading scriptures, if the pile of scriptures and precepts of Zoroastrianism can't save Persia, which is dying of decline, how can it change Great Xia? His Majesty the Emperor?
Perhaps out of revenge, Guo Lizhen is much more enthusiastic about the occupation of the Western Regions and the unification of Zoroastrianism than others, and it is not out of pursuit of fame and fortune.

So even if An Quti didn't have many strong troops, according to Guo Lizhen's plan before, by provoking conflicts and disputes among various tribes, it could cause turmoil in the Western Regions, making the Qi Dadu busy leading troops to quell the chaos, so that An Quti could Easily win the star marrow.

"stop!"

Shi Tuojie could not defeat Guo Lizhen by himself, so he called several disaffected tribal leaders to besiege Guo Lizhen together.Antty couldn't tell that this group of people was just demonstrating against him to express their dissatisfaction with the loss of the tribe's manpower.

But at the moment, they can't tolerate their nonsense, Anqi raised the eagle-winged copper staff, and the brazier on the top shone brightly, fixed the two opponents, and waved them away.

"I know you are in a difficult situation, but you can't fight with each other, otherwise you will allow the darkness in your soul to grow. Have you all forgotten the teachings of Suluzhi?" violated.

"At present, we still need to understand the movements of the chief guardians of the four towns. Only in this way can we plan the next step." An Qu asked: "Elder Guo, I remember that there should be believers who believe in the Daguangzun in the governor's mansion."

Guo Lizhen bowed slightly: "Master, these people's belief in the Great Bright Lord is far from pious, and they are nothing more than using this identity to seek fame and fortune."

"Those who voluntarily sink into darkness don't need to reach out to save them." Antty didn't have these scruples at all, but he still had to put on a gesture of compassion, spreading his arms and wings, and shining brightly all over his body, shining on everyone:

"But in order for the great light to shine on this land, we must take the initiative to approach the abyss and face the darkness. People of Suluzhi, you are the vanguard against demons. This eternal war will use your bravery as the clarion call , resounding in every corner of the world!"

(End of this chapter)