Chapter 1: Qingyang Sect's True Yang Son

  One hundred and fifty years ago, the Bald-headed people obtained the Mandate of Heaven and became kings, invading the Central Plains, occupying the world, seizing the divine artifacts, and becoming the masters of the Divine Continent!

  The bald-headed people were originally just a nomadic tribe on the grasslands. After occupying the world, they abandoned their original faith in the Long Life Heaven and declared: "All religions in the world that can pray for blessings for the Great Khan are orthodox!"

  From then on, all the sects and gods of the world had to preach in the Divine State. Regardless of whether it was the Cross, the New Moon, the Fire Worship, or the various Western religions such as the Radiant, they all invaded the Central Plains with great fanfare.

  Chinese Confucians made a distinction between Hua and Yi, stubbornly refusing to surrender to the shaved-head people.

  Toghon Temür ascended the throne, horses trampled Confucian temples, and arrows shot at Confucian classics. The imperial court once again abolished the imperial examination system for selecting scholars, completely abolishing Confucian learning.

  The Taoist sect split into two factions, the Da Zhen and the Da Zheng. The Da Zhen faction first surrendered to the Bald Dynasty and obtained their support, flourishing for a time and dominating the world.

  Thirty years later, the Bald-Headed announced that every ten years in Shangjing City, a debate on Buddhist scriptures would be held. All orthodox teachings are eligible to participate.

  The Taicheng sect had failed in debate for fifty years and its influence was greatly declining, so it united with the Zhengyi sect which had already been suppressed to stabilize the situation.

  At this time, the bald-headed imperial court has been sitting firmly on the Jiangshan for one hundred and fifty years, its power is deeply rooted, and it seems that it cannot be shaken again!

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  Liu Buji suddenly woke up, but what entered his nostrils was a pungent smell of rot and decay, mixed with the stench of feces and urine, creating an indescribable odor that made one suffocate.

  He looked around with difficulty, the damp ground was covered with moldy straw, and it turned out to be in a stinky and humid prison cell.

  "What's going on?" Liu was about to ask, but instead let out a scream.

  How did he end up here?

  Isn't he a man from another world? Just because he got the treasure jade pendant, when he returned to his house in excitement, he was ambushed by several thugs and beaten severely. When he returned home, he died on the spot.

  What about the jade pendant?

  Liu Bu-yi was anxious to find out what had happened to the jade pendant, and as soon as he moved his body slightly, his head throbbed with pain. All sorts of complicated emotions and fragmented memories surged into Liu Bu-yi's mind like a tidal wave.

  No, this is another person named Liu Bu Yi. Born into a scholarly family with a happy business. However, he was targeted by the bald-headed man, his property was stolen, and he was wrongly accused of colluding with an evil cult and thrown into prison.

  Then, just last night, he had just gone through a torture, his whole body was burning with fever, and finally lost consciousness. Even he thought he was dead.

  No, he's dead in both worlds. How did he survive now?

  "You're awake, kid. If I hadn't seen your exceptional talent and used the Reverse Creation Technique to save your life, you'd be buried in the ground by now!"

  The speaker was an old Taoist priest with silver hair, dressed in tattered clothes. Liu suddenly remembered that this old Taoist priest was none other than his fellow prisoner, the True Yang Sublime Taoist who had been locked up with him in the same cell. Was it he who had saved him?

  Vaguely remembered that this old Taoist was imprisoned because he cheated a certain wealthy family, and had never spoken to himself before.

  Liu Bu Yi nodded again, and the old Taoist said faintly: "I am the True Yang Son of Qingyang Sect."

  However, a faint green light emanated from his hand and enveloped Liu Bu's body, making him feel as if he was soaking in hot water, extremely comfortable.

  However, upon hearing the three words "Qing Yang Sect", Liu Bu Yi suddenly blurted out: "Qing Yang Sect?"

  This Qingyang Sect is indeed the heretical sect that was heavily suppressed by the Bald Dynasty. Not long ago, it even incited refugees to riot, but was quickly put down by the Balds.

  Liu Bu was framed for colluding with the Qingyang Sect...

  "What's wrong? Have you fallen so low that you're even afraid of our Qingyang Sect?" Zhen Yangzi said coldly.

  Liu Bu-yi shook his head. If it were the old him, the wealthy and arrogant one, he might have been afraid. But the new Liu Bu-yi, what was there to be afraid of?

  "Just said: 'Thank you, Taoist priest, for saving my life!'"

  Zhen Yangzi sneered: "Your life is really hard to save, those prison guards will come back today and give you a promotion!"

  "Promoted?"

  "That's right, promotion and ennoblement!" Zhen Yangzi's smile was filled with a kind of malicious coldness: "Don't you know? Even if it's just a piece of cowhide paper, wetted and stuck on your mouth and nose, layer by layer. Let's see how many layers you can take?"

  Liu felt a chill in his heart as he thought about it, and it seemed that in the barbaric ancient prisons, there were all sorts of ways for prison guards to torture people to death.

  What sticks to the official, carrying a sack of earth... are all able to make a prisoner die in a way that is imperceptible to gods and ghosts, without even leaving any external wounds.

  Compared with this, hide and seek is nothing!

  "Your family is the orthodox Confucianism of poetry and books, originally a thorn in the eyes of bald-headed people, a stab in the flesh. Don't you think they can tolerate you?" Zhenyangzi sneered.

  Liu bit his teeth, never expecting that he had just crossed over and encountered a desperate situation: "I know that Daozhang must be able to save me. As long as Daozhang saves my life, no matter what I do in the future, Liu will definitely obey!"

  As soon as these words came out, Zhen Yangzi was stunned. He had never thought that this bookworm would suddenly become so clever. He saw through his intentions so quickly!

  But it's also good this way, and it won't be in vain that I used the government office to push him to a dead end.

  "You want to worship me as your master and enter under the Qingyang Sect? Very well, I shall set the conditions." said Zhen Yang Zi.

  Qingyang Sect is a rebel that the imperial court is determined to capture, and anyone who has any connection with it will be destroyed without distinction, regardless of their guilt or innocence.

  If it were the old Liu Bei's timid personality, even if he was forced into such a desperate situation, he would still have hesitated repeatedly.

  But at this time, the new Liu Bu was not thinking so much, he made up his mind, knelt down on the ground and kowtowed eight times.

  Zhen Yangzi burst out laughing and was extremely pleased: "Good disciple, good disciple. Get up!"

  He was extremely pleased in his heart, although Liu Bu Yi used to be a useless fellow.

  However, the Liu family in Wu Zhong is a genuine Confucian school that has been passed down from the orthodox Kong Ang's family. It is not ordinary. This time, being able to include Liu Bu Yi into the teachings will naturally have great use in dealing with the bald-headed people in the future.

  Liu Buji stood up, slightly letting out a breath. The income was still in the prison of seeing ghosts, but just by looking at Zhen Yangzi's determined appearance, it could be known that escaping was just a small matter.

  Zhen Yangzi carefully took out an old oil lamp from his bosom. With a light touch, the lamp lit up. Liu Buji clearly saw that there was not even half a drop of oil inside.

  "Hiss......" Liu's pupils suddenly contracted violently, and with just one glance, he could tell that this oil lamp was extraordinary.

  It is just like the original world, the White Lotus and other sects. No matter how much the imperial court suppresses them, they can always change their appearance and revive from the ashes.

  Nothing else, just that there is a divine spirit behind. As long as the divine spirit remains, even if all believers are suppressed and killed, it will reignite after a period of time.

  "This is the treasure of our sect, the Green Yang Divine Lamp. Our sect has been able to keep up with the Bald-Headed people all along because we have this treasure, and it's what makes them unable to do anything to us."

  Zhen Yangzi said, his fingers slightly moved, and the Qingyang Sheng lamp emitted a layer of light, layer by layer, which was really beautiful.

  In the layers of light circles, countless fairies, Taoist officials, powerful warriors and divine generals can be seen appearing within. At the core of the flame, a heavenly palace can be vaguely seen emerging in the midst of colorful clouds.

  Liu Bu's eyes were dazzled and his spirit was mesmerized by the warm glow. When it shone on people, it felt as if they were soaking in a hot spring, their whole body feeling comfortable and relaxed, even the wounds on their bodies no longer hurt, healing at an incredibly fast speed.

  He almost shed tears, but it wasn't because of the injuries and pain on his body. It was because he had been determined to cultivate in another world, yet hadn't achieved anything at all.

  Today in another world, I finally saw the divine skill.

  "Good disciple, please sit down. I will pass on to you the highest mental method of our sect, the Seven Origins Great Way of Spiritual Light. The magical methods of my sect are unparalleled and boundless. You can enter our sect, it is truly a blessing accumulated over several lifetimes!" said Zhen Yang Zi.

  Liu had not yet gathered his thoughts, he had also studied various mysterious questions of the world in that world. As for Taoist magic, he would not be unfamiliar with it either.

  What a pity, his world was no longer suitable for cultivation. Now that he could change worlds and had the possibility of becoming an immortal or achieving enlightenment, Liu Bu was suddenly excited!

  Seeing a small trick to subdue Liu Bu, Zhen Yangzi smiled slightly: "The Taoist method of our sect is called Qingyang Shenguang Great Way, which is the simplest compared to other Taoist schools.

  Based on the divine and inspired manifestation of the true nature, through the empowerment of the ancestral gods, with the opening of the divine light as the core, nine turns and six returns, manifesting the true nature, manifesting images and objects, refining the one, wise intention, spiritual faith, revealing the original spirit, obtaining enlightenment, obtaining spiritual powers, transforming the body into a divine body, ascending to heaven in one step.

  This is the Shén Xiū Fǎ Mén (Divine Cultivation Sect), it's similar to the Orthodox Unity Sect... but without the ancestral spirits' blessings.

  "Come on, show me your meditation skills. I'm sure you Confucians have some impressive techniques for sitting still and looking serious," said Zhenyangzi.

  What Confucian stuff, he can't recall now. The memory of that Liu Bu Yi still needs to be slowly digested.

  However, Liu did not enter a state of calm, but it was not difficult either. A ray of light illuminated the land where the cows slept, and the entire person's breathing began to become deep, even, and long.

  In a daze, he suddenly saw a beam of light piercing through and entering, like a laser, blasting onto the ancestral aperture on his forehead.

  A deafening rumble, incessant and unrelenting, as sparks flashed forth one by one. After a long while, these golden stars stabilized, transforming into an extremely bright radiance at the center of his brow.

  "This is Tianxin's awakening!" Liu Buji was suddenly shocked in his heart, and he felt extremely delighted.

  Nature is called Tao. The Tao has no name or form, it is just one nature and one primordial spirit. The nature and life cannot be seen, they are entrusted to the heavenly light. The heavenly light cannot be seen, it is entrusted to the two eyes.

  Between the two eyes, it is the heavenly heart, or what is called the ancestral aperture mud pill, which is the most mysterious and esoteric. Those who can open the heavenly heart can practice the method of returning light.

  And this bright light at the Tianxin point, in the esoteric transmission of Taoism, this light is called Jinhua. Later, it was interpreted by Western mystics as: "Jinhua is light, heavenly light is Tao. Jinhua also has a mandala pattern..."

  In their descriptions, what is referred to as Jinhua is actually a golden flower, a yellow gold flower. Hua means flower.

  And before Liu Bu's eyes, this golden spark had already begun to appear. And even more strangely, the golden splendor in his heavenly heart seemed to be the flame of the Qingyang Divine Lamp...

  Then Liu Buji suddenly discovered that the flame of this lamp had a strange resonance with himself. As if with his own breathing and heartbeat, it was also constantly expanding and contracting, which was wonderful. The whole person fell into a very magical state.

  He didn't know how much time had passed, but Liu Bu Yi only heard a faint sound in his ear. It suddenly woke him up, and he felt that his head was suddenly empty, and his heart was hollow, as if something was missing.

  But found himself still in the house, the sky had darkened, and he had been sitting for at least two or three hours.

  At this time, Zhen Yangzi suddenly said with a smile: "It's done. The most important thing for me to send my disciples is to entrust a thread of divine soul in the Qingyang Divine Lamp. From now on, you have officially become a disciple of my Qingyang Sect!"

  Liu Buji suddenly came to his senses from the madness of just now. His face changed slightly, and only then did he remember that many cults had such means of controlling their disciples, such as a secret book of the White Lotus Sect he had read before, which had such records.

  He quickly suppressed his negative emotions, and in doing so, his life and death were completely at the mercy of Zhen Yangzi.

  But on the other hand, Zhen Yangzi would also completely trust him...

  "Don't worry about it either. This is a necessary procedure for cultivating the Tao, and all the famous sects in the world will do the same when accepting disciples. Without any spiritual connection with the divine, how can one achieve nine turns and six returns, and reveal their true nature?"

  "What Master taught!" Liu could only say this under the eaves of the house.

  Liu couldn't help but show his discontent, while Zhen Yangzi was overjoyed: "You take a rest first, Master will teach you some magic tricks. Tonight, Master will help you avenge and then leave!"

  Although he knew it was a carrot and stick approach, Liu Bei really felt some gratitude. In his memory, there were still remnants of how the prison guards had inflicted various forms of torture on him.

  Just thinking about it makes me furious. Even if it's the real Yangzi's big stick after feeding him carrots, he's still very grateful!

  It wasn't until then that he smelled the bloody smell in the air. The cell was very dark, and the air was also very turbid, with all kinds of strange smells mixed together. Liu Buji's body also had many wounds left by torture, and for a while, he didn't notice it.

  At this time, he subconsciously looked in the direction of blood. He saw several corpses lying on the ground outside the prison cell, all of whom seemed to be dressed as prison guards.

  Liu was shocked and exclaimed: "Master?"

  Zhen Yangzi smiled faintly: "You are my disciple, how can you be bullied? Killing these few prison guards is nothing. Even if it's the several corrupt officials who framed you and put you in jail, I'll help you kill them!"

  Liu Bu-yi was really surprised this time and asked: "Master, are you going to guard the tree stump and wait for a rabbit?"

  Zhenyangzi smiled slightly: "The child can be taught!" In his heart, he suddenly became very pleased with Liu Bu's cleverness.

  That's right, he really killed all the prison guards, but refused to leave. He wanted to lure all those who should be killed into the prison and kill them all at once!

  Anyway, as long as it's a bald-headed person's dog leg, it's a good way to die.

  "You rest here for a while, I'll be right back! Let's wipe out those people outside first!"

  Liu Buji lightly leaned against the wall, no longer caring about the dirtiness. In fact, people can adapt to their environment at a terrifying speed. Having stayed in prison for so long, Liu Buji's sense of smell had completely disappeared, and even the most pungent smells no longer affected him.

  The injuries originally suffered from severe torture on his body have completely healed, demonstrating the extraordinary power of Zhenyangzi's Taoist methods.

  He began to abandon all other thoughts and recall the memories of this Liu Bu Yi, adapting to this identity as soon as possible.

  Liu was unexpectedly reminded of his own Confucian heritage.

  This world's Confucianism is vastly different from the Cheng-Zhu School that rose after Southern Song, and instead resembles the pre-Song Confucianism.

  Moreover, the inheritance is almost the same as that of his original world's Han and Jin dynasties, and it is also inherited by family.

  In his original world, the Hongnong Yang family had been studying Ou Yang's "Shang Shu" for four generations and all became three dukes. The Ru Nan Yuan family had been studying Meng's "Yi Jing" for four generations and had five dukes, etc.

  This world is the same, Confucianism was monopolized by families. The Liu family in Wu Zhong is one of these big and small Confucian schools, although it is not among the top Confucian schools, but only a local school.

  However, the "Zhēnyuán Lǐ" passed down in the family is actually the orthodox Confucian Gongyang school. The learning is extremely orthodox.

  If it were before the bald-headed people invaded China, the Liu family had a great influence in the local area. Throughout the dynasties, there have been people who entered the imperial court to serve as officials, and those with high ranks and fat salaries are not uncommon. Moreover, many of the world's greatest scholars emerged from this family, and even ghosts and gods were intimidated by them.

  It's just that with the invasion of these bald men, everything has become yesterday's yellow flower. The Liu family fell so much that even the last descendant almost got framed and died in prison with great injustice.

  Liu Bu Yi tidied up the memories in his mind and found that although this Liu Bu Yi was weak-willed, he had a solid foundation in learning and came from a family with a strong academic background. It wasn't fake!

  Only when the Confucian temples were destroyed and suppressed by various gods, even with the strongest power, it could not be exerted.

  In memory, when Confucianism was at its strongest, it summoned the winds and rains, suppressing all ghosts and gods under heaven.

  "Ah," while rummaging through the sea of memories, Liu Buji suddenly felt a jolt and actually found that jade pendant.

  That legendary jade pendant with the great secret of immortality, wasn't it snatched away from me just as I got my hands on it? How did it appear in my own mind?

  He couldn't help but think more, yet saw that piece of jade pendant vividly appearing in the sea of consciousness, just like a real object.

  Liu Buji's heart was filled with a thread of wild joy, could it be that this jade pendant was indeed a treasure? Was it because he had this jade pendant that he was able to cross over?

  So, can I still go back?