Ming Jiajing: Starting from Immortality

Chapter 48: Thunder strikes the demon, butterfly wings!

Ok Hee Palace.

Under the altar.

Lan Daoxing, the abbot of Chaotian Temple, is doing spirit writing.

Lan Daoxing waved his whisk, closed his eyes, and muttered something.

In a moment, his body trembled suddenly, and his eyes rolled up, as if he was about to die. He let out a low sound from the bottom of his throat, shook his head, and made a humming sound with his mouth. He slowly raised his hand, and the whisk turned upside down in mid-air, shaking and falling onto a piece of sand on the altar.

Zhu Houcong watched this so-called "asking for instructions from heaven" trick with great interest.

The handle of the whisk scraped across the sand, leaving traces. The more he moved, the more traces he made. Before long, eight very sloppy words appeared on the sand. Zhu Houcong took a look and saw that they were "The virtuous shall not be employed to the fullest, and the unworthy shall not be dismissed."

Looking at these eight words, Zhu Houcong looked meaningfully at Lan Daoxing, who stood there like a banished immortal, and asked, "What is virtuous and what is filial?"

Lan Daoxing continued to shake the whisk in his hand, and six more words appeared on the sand: "Following is virtuous, going against is evil."

The terms "virtuous" and "xiao" are difficult to understand, but "obedient" and "rebellious" are easy to understand. The policies for governing a country are all determined by the ruler, and may be influenced by his mood or emotions. However, since ancient times, the emperor has always refused to admit his mistakes, so there is a saying that "those who obey me will prosper, and those who resist me will perish."

The so-called "obedience is virtue" refers to the ministers who follow the emperor's will in everything, and are virtuous and capable ministers.

The so-called "rebellion is worthy of loyalty" refers to an official who keeps speaking out against his superiors and is an unworthy official.

Zhu Houcong's eyes were gloomy and he asked again: "Master, why don't you explain it clearly? Who is virtuous and who is unvirtuous?"

Lan Daoxing performed a series of rituals, and the eight-character answer slowly appeared on the sand: "The wise man is on the steps, the unworthy man is on the right side."

Song and steps.

That is Yan Song and Xu Jie.

Straight and arch.

That is, Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong.

If we talk about obeying the emperor's wishes, Yan Song and Xu Jie can be said to have followed the emperor's likes and dislikes in everything, had no sense of right and wrong, and did not care about the lives of the people of the world. Their slanderous words and flattery really made people happy.

Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong often spoke frankly in their memorials, disregarding their own safety or the emperor's wishes, and pleading for the people, with a sincere and courageous spirit that they would not hesitate to go forward even if there were tens of thousands of people against them.

Zhu Houcong had his own standard for judging who were treacherous ministers and who were loyal ministers.

Zhu Houcong agreed and sighed.

Chaotian Temple was ultimately unwilling to remain isolated from the world and wanted to intervene in the secular world.

With this little skill of playing with sand, he asked him to release Yan Song and Xu Jie, and demote Zhang Juzheng and Gao Gong. This evil Taoist really thinks he has the power to speak the truth as if he were a god.

As I recall, Taoism was originally the state religion because Taoist alchemists could establish connections with the gods of heaven and earth through secret and difficult-to-understand methods.

He sincerely took joy in good omens and took ominous omens as warnings, praying to heaven and earth for rain, snow, a good harvest, or to protect the border from harassment and invasion.

He was obsessed with communicating with the gods through the spirit board, hoping that the gods would give him the elixir of immortality.

Zhu Houcong remembered the former abbot of Chaotian Temple, Shao Yuanjie, who was awarded the title of the first imperial teacher during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty for his contribution in praying for the birth of the crown prince.

The credit for the birth of the crown prince was recorded as Shao Yuanjie's achievement.

Zhu Houcong, who had lived two lives, couldn't help but face darkening when he thought of this.

Except for those who are childless due to illness and benefit from doctors' miraculous healing skills after taking medicine, no one else can help them with other aspects of having a child.

When performing the Zhougong ritual, no one is needed to help push!

In addition, Shao Yuanjie's prayers seemed to have some tricks that could control wind and thunder. Zhu Houcong remembered that when a poem was sent to heaven, evil winds suddenly arose between heaven and earth, and thunder and fire were faintly visible in the clouds.

Unfortunately, Shao Yuanjie has died and had no chance to verify the wind and thunder technique again. The current abbot of Chaotian Temple and the Ming Dynasty’s national teacher is the immortal Lan Daoxing.

The reason why Lan Daoxing succeeded Shao Yuanjie was that in the 18th year of Jiajing, when Zhu Houcong was on a journey to Fengtian to bury his biological mother, the Empress Dowager, with his father, Lan Daoxing, as an attendant, accurately predicted a fire in the palace. To this day, the reason why the palace caught fire has not been found out, but Lan Daoxing, the evil Taoist, has caused a lot of trouble in the palace.

Eliminating demons in the palace, collecting the virgin blood of young girls to make elixirs, and even killing palace maids’ bone marrow to make elixirs...all these events emerged in Zhu Houcong’s mind.

After a long silence, Zhu Houcong slowly stood up from the round bright yellow cushion. Lan Daoxing was still pretending to be profound.

"Master." Zhu Houcong walked slowly and said to himself, "I haven't seen the wind and thunder method of Master Bingcheng Zhiyi (Shao Yuanjie) for many years, but the master has passed away. I wonder if you can let me see it again?"

Although it was a question, it revealed a meaning that no disobedience would be allowed.

Lan Daoxing frowned and said, "Your Majesty, I am not good at thunder magic, so I might as well be sincere to a real person."

"It's okay, just give it a try, Taoist priest." Zhu Houcong looked at Lan Daoxing and encouraged him further.

Lan Daoxing had no choice but to answer, "Please allow me to go back to the temple and prepare. Your Majesty, please prepare an altar for me. After nightfall, I will close the door and pray for wind and thunder."

夜？
Zhu Houcong suddenly laughed.

It seemed that Shao Yuanjie performed the wind and thunder technique at night.

It seems that this "night" hides many tricks.

and.

The specific place called "Forbidden Gate" seems to be worth pondering.

The specified time and place are interesting!
interesting!
……

The moon at midnight on the fifteenth day of the third lunar month was high and round, shining obliquely on the towering tower of the forbidden gate of Yuxi Palace. The reflected moonlight was cool and dazzling.

With the joint efforts of the eunuchs, the altar was set up and Lan Daoxing ascended the altar to perform the ritual.

It is almost the same as when you are writing with a planchette. You first close your eyes and mutter something, but the next action is different. The green words and yellow talismans for praying for wind and thunder are burned one after another, and a wisp of green smoke goes straight up to the blue sky.

There seemed to be a faint wind between heaven and earth. Zhu Houcong looked towards the northwest in surprise. Decades ago, Shao Yuanjie's "wind" also came from the northwest.

The same wind, the same wind direction, Zhu Houcong carefully thought about what was in the northwest of Xiyuan.

Chaotian Temple suddenly popped into Zhu Houcong’s mind.

But Chaotian Temple is far away from Xiyuan, so what is the connection between them?

"Ok?"

Zhu Houcong was just below the altar. When he looked up, he saw a few rays of "faint blue" light appearing in the clouds.

Why does this light look so much like a ghost fire?

Moreover, there was no reference object in the sky, and the "faint blue light" seemed to be in the clouds when viewed from low to high. However, Zhu Houcong, who had three divine titles, could clearly distinguish that it was far away from the clouds.

As Lan Daoxing's sleeves fluttered, the "lightning lights" appeared more frequently, and the wind in Xiyuan also tended to grow stronger.

But Zhu Houcong's eyes became colder and colder. He swung his Tai Chi robe, and a ray of lightning rushed straight into Lan Daoxing's sleeves, and the "thunder fire" suddenly exploded!

Lan Daoxing on the altar fell into fear, and slapped it desperately to put out the thunder and fire, but it was a flame attached to the bones, and it could not be extinguished unless it was burned out completely!
Lan Daoxing, who had turned into a man of fire, rolled on the altar, making inhuman howls.

"Escort!"

"Escort!"

"..."

The imperial guards protected Zhu Houcong and watched Lan Daoxing vigilantly as he suffered "divine punishment".

The wind from the northwest fanned the flames, burning Lan Daoxing and the altar to ashes!
(End of this chapter)