Holy Master (Happy Year of the Dog!)
Chapter 506: Holy Master (Happy Year of the Dog!)
Wenyuan Hall, Qin Mu looked around, the young ancestor's Wenyuan Hall seemed a little shabby compared to the halls of other sect leaders. It was probably because the ancestor had never been a sect leader, so his status was lower than that of the sect leader.
However, in Qin Mu's opinion, it was precisely because the young ancestor had never been the leader or saint master of the Demon Sect that he was able to let go of his burdens and achieve achievements that even those leaders had never achieved.
The young ancestor was half teacher and half friend to National Master Yankang. When National Master Yankang went to visit him, he took the initiative to show the Great Yu Tianmo Sutra to the National Master, and told him the general principles of the teachings of the Tiansheng Sect's Way of the Sage. Afterwards, he wrote a letter personally to recommend National Master Yankang to Taoism and the Great Leiyin Temple.
The fact that Master Yankang was able to achieve such great success had a lot to do with him.
Later, the reforms of Master Yankang were also closely related to him, and even the founding of Taixue Academy was deeply related to the young master.
He was the first Grand Master of Imperial College at the Imperial Academy, and Imperial Master Yankang often sought his advice when carrying out his reforms.
There are three reformist giants in the Yankang State: the national teacher and the emperor. These two giants are in the open, while the young ancestor is the third giant hidden behind them.
Judging from achievements alone, throughout the history of the Holy Religion, there have been no more than two or three leaders who have been able to achieve the same accomplishment as the Young Patriarch.
However, because the young ancestor had never been a leader, he did not receive the treatment of a leader in Fengdu, which made Qin Mu feel sorry for him.
"You still can't change your flamboyant nature."
The young ancestor took him into the hall, and the dragon unicorn with its big bones and hard scales rubbed against him all over. The young ancestor's clothes were torn and his thighs were rubbed red.
He pretended not to notice and said to Qin Mu: "What should we do now? All the past leaders have been beaten by you! Are they easy to deal with? They are the tyrants of Fengdu! After you die of old age, how will you gain a foothold in Fengdu..."
“Grandmaster…”
Qin Mu suddenly hugged him tightly, his voice trembling, and he was reluctant to let him go: "I miss you."
The big skeleton wanted to wipe away tears, but there were no tears to wipe away. He choked and said, "I didn't know you had intercepted the gods in Daxu. Later, I heard from Yunxiang that the guardian elder brought your ashes. I didn't make it in time to see you for the last time. I'm here to see you now! I have been hiding it from Long Pang and didn't dare to tell him, but I can't hide it from him anymore..."
The young ancestor was stunned for a moment, patted him on the back, and said with emotion: "I am just changing my way of living now. You see, I am now flesh and blood. In my eyes, you are the ones who are dead. Should I cry too? Okay, okay, Master Qin just scolded and beat up our ancestors, why are you acting like a child now... Enough, Long Qilin, you rubbed my thigh until it bled! Have you rubbed enough?"
Long Qilin wanted to lick his wound with his tongue, but then he remembered that he didn't have a tongue, so he reluctantly moved away from him. After a while, he couldn't help but come up and rub it again.
The young ancestor was completely speechless, he hadn't seen Long Qilin for a long time. When they first met, they were very affectionate and he even cried a lot. But this fat dragon kept rubbing against him, which really annoyed him and he wished he could send this guy far away.
"This time I also plan to come and see the woodcutter saint who preaches on the stone, the founder of the mountain, and the three holy kings."
Qin Mu asked: "Grandmaster, are they also in Fengdu?"
"You will never see the Three Holy Kings again. Their souls have been scattered."
The young ancestor said sadly, "They died in battle. Before they died, they forced the stone to pass on the scriptures to the next generation of leaders. They couldn't protect their souls and couldn't enter Fengdu. I originally thought that I would meet the founder here, but I never saw him. The woodcutter saint is not here either."
Qin Mu was stunned. Apart from Fengdu, where else could the woodcutter saint and the founder of the sect go?
The woodcutter's body turned into a stone statue, standing in Xiaoyujing, still looking towards Daxu. His soul left his body and went somewhere else. The founder of the school established the teachings and made his own teachings, but he never made any achievements, never became a saint, and he probably didn't become a god either. So he would inevitably die of old age. Where would he go?
The young ancestor hesitated for a moment and said, "You beat up all the past leaders..."
"Grandmaster, I am also a leader, and they are also leaders. Why should I be inferior to them? I am the emperor of men, and my status is higher than theirs. I cannot humble myself and please them."
Qin Mu said: "There is no hierarchy in the Holy Church. The wisest one is the teacher. Although they are the former leaders, they also have the character of a leader. If I don't beat them, they will say that my position as leader is not legitimate. After beating them, they will have nothing to say. Besides, the Holy Church is in their hands, and they are not doing anything. Their style is also corrupt. They should be beaten."
The young ancestor sighed and asked curiously, "How do you use your magic power when you don't have a physical body?"
Qin Mu said: "I once came to the world of the dead with the village chief. That time I realized that my transformation into a skeleton was just an illusion. My transformation into a skeleton was an illusion, the disappearance of my physical body was an illusion, and your coming back to life was also an illusion (for details, please see Chapters 86 to 89 of the Shepherd God's Record, which have detailed descriptions. The previous chapter was not written because it was already 4,000 words long. If I write more, the number of words will be even higher). Blind Grandpa's divine eyes allowed me to see through everything in Fengdu. From then on, I could use my magical powers in Fengdu, and I could sense my own physical body. Ancestor, you don't know, in my eyes..."
Endless sadness suddenly surged in his heart and he didn't say anything else.
In his divine eyes, the ancestor who was alive and well in front of him was just a pile of dry bones.
This was what he saw when he walked in Fengdu City.
In the entire Fengdu city, all the people coming and going are dead bones and ghosts. He is the only one walking with his flesh and blood in the city full of dead bones, all alone.
Even when he was chatting and laughing with successive emperors in the Five Suns Temple, he was still talking to dozens of dry bones.
Only between life and death did he see that the emperors of all generations had flesh and blood.
This was the scene that Qin Mu saw with the divine eyes taught by the blind man.
What he saw was completely different from what the ghosts in Fengdu saw.
The dead are in the world of rebirth, and life and death are reversed, but the ancestors and successive emperors and religious leaders, they all died in the end.
Qin Mu did not say these words. He was silent for a moment, then smiled and said, "Grandmaster, you, the Imperial Master, and the Emperor have carried out reforms. Now that you have come to Fengdu, how can this reform continue?"
The young ancestor walked side by side with him, so as not to be approached by Long Qilin again, and said with a smile: "The path of reform has begun, and it will not end. The national master's reform changes customs and servility, and changes the disputes between sects, so that the supernatural powers in the world do not have to fight between sects and waste their own strength. It is also to change the small egos of sects and let supernatural powers be used by people and serve the people. This is a big concept and a big framework."
He came to the back garden of Wenyuan Hall, handed Qin Mu a pair of scissors, took a pair himself, and carefully trimmed the branches, saying: "The most important thing about reform is to change the bad habits in the hearts of the people and overthrow the gods in their hearts. Breaking the gods in the hearts is not something that those with supernatural powers should do, but something that ordinary people should do. If everyone can break the gods in their hearts, then this will be a prosperous world, a prosperous world."
Qin Mu was trimming the branches of flowers, and he cut one flower into a shape that looked like a plucked dragon. Hearing his words, he stopped again, thought carefully, nodded and smiled, "People kneel before the gods and pray for good weather, good harvests, a happy family, and many children. If the supernatural being can fulfill their wishes, it will indeed help them break the gods in their hearts."
The young ancestor stared at the flowers that he had cut into a mess, and after a while he looked away and said, "I told the national teacher that to break the god in the heart, we must first reform the economy. The word economy means to manage the world and benefit the people, to manage the country and benefit the nation. When the economy is developed, the people's wisdom will be developed. In simple terms, the supernatural power holder uses his supernatural power to help the common people harvest rice, and the common people pay the supernatural power holder. The supernatural power holder gets the money and uses it to buy food and materials needed for cultivation, and the money will return to the hands of the people. They all have to pay taxes to the country, and the treasury has taxes, and the country is rich. When the country is rich, it can build water conservancy projects and repair transportation, which is convenient for the people. Therefore, when the country is rich, the people are rich, and when the people are rich, the resources are abundant. The supernatural power holder can buy all kinds of resources, and naturally the cultivation is much better than before, so the people are strong, and the country is strong."
Qin Mu was listening intently when he suddenly heard footsteps. He turned around and saw Sect Leader Zuyang, Sect Leader Yulian, Si Yuanwei and others rushing into Wenyuan Hall with murderous intent.
The successive leaders of the Demonic Cult did not take action, but instead stopped and listened attentively.
"The people have been enslaved by the sects and families for too long. They have become servile and it is difficult for them to stand up again after they kneel down. The national master is now trying to make the people stand up. This takes time, but the reform has gradually produced results. The people now no longer kneel to those with supernatural powers."
The young Patriarch was so absorbed in the Reform that he did not notice their arrival. Recalling the past, he said, "I have seen the situation before the Reform. At that time, there were many sects and schools. Farmers had to kneel down and kowtow to the master when they were working in the fields, and offer meat. It took me and the Imperial Master one or two hundred years to change this servile mentality. Once the people stand up, it is difficult for them to kneel down again."
Qin Mu recalled the people kneeling down to worship the stone statue and said, "They will still kneel down to the statue."
The young ancestor had a strange look on his face and said, "The national teacher said that it is easy to make a god in a dilapidated temple, but it is difficult to make a god in one's heart. But in my opinion, it is not easy to make a god in a dilapidated temple. I once did a small experiment to test the people's hearts. I built a small temple outside the capital, and then enlightened a dirty mangy dog and let the mangy dog sit on the altar in the temple. Guess what happened?"
He sighed, "After a few days, the temple of the scabby dog became very popular. There was an endless stream of old men and women coming to burn incense and offer sacrifices. The donation box in front of the scabby dog was filled with money. Not to mention the scabby dog, even if you put a toad on the altar, people would give you money and burn incense!"
Qin Mu laughed loudly, and then he couldn't laugh anymore.
“So, in addition to developing the economy, we must also enlighten the people, so that we can destroy the gods in the temples and the gods in people’s hearts.”
The young ancestor said, "In order to enlighten the people, you still need to continue to reform the law, so that there will be more people with supernatural powers, so that supernatural powers will be more common, and so that people with supernatural powers can become gods. The supernatural powers that become gods will continue to serve the people, and the people will not go to worship the gods in the temples. When the people are enlightened, there will be more and more people with supernatural powers."
He continued, "To develop the economy and enlighten the people is the way to reform. What you are doing now is very good, and your magical powers are used by the people, but it will take time for the people to be enlightened and stop bowing down to the gods in the temple. This journey is difficult, and the interests of the sects and schools will be affected first, and then the interests of the gods will be affected."
"God is just a lackey of God. I'm afraid there will be greater dangers in the future."
As he trimmed the branches, he said, "The national teacher changed the method and added three moves to the sword method, which started the change of the heaven and earth law. You spread the method of becoming a god by repairing the divine bridge, and pushed the reform forward a step further. Not long ago, the little girl Yunxiang burned incense and prayed, and told me that you and Princess Yuxiu opened the method of Liuhe Yuanshen. On this basis, many supernatural powers in Yankang Kingdom added bricks and tiles to Liuhe Yuanshen and opened up many skills and supernatural powers. These are all great things."
He straightened up and said, "As the Taoist magic power improves day by day, there will be more and more gods in Yankang State. At that time, the gods in the people's temples will be destroyed. Once the gods in the temples are destroyed, it won't be long before the gods in people's hearts are destroyed!"
Qin Mu was shocked. He dropped the scissors and bowed to the ground: "The founder is indeed the Holy Master of our Tiansheng Sect!"
The young ancestor quickly threw away the flower scissors, supported him, and said with a smile: "You are the leader and the holy master, how can you call me the holy master? Get up quickly!"
At this moment, all of a sudden, Zu Yang, Yu Lian and other past leaders bowed to him and said in unison: "Holy Master!"
The young master only then noticed them and was at a loss as to what to do.
Qin Mu said sincerely: "The Saint Master is the Saint Master. All the past leaders are unworthy of the title of Saint Master. Only the Ancestor deserves this title and is worthy of the respect of all the past leaders!"
The young master was panicked, but suddenly he was moved from the bottom of his heart and couldn't help but burst into tears.
He had never been a leader and had always been excluded from the Tiansheng Sect's power circle. Only when the Tiansheng Sect was in danger did he shoulder the burden of the Tiansheng Sect.
He never thought that he would be worshipped by the religious leaders of all generations like the Woodcutter Saint!
The only one who deserves to be worshipped by the religious leaders of all generations is the woodcutter saint who preaches the scriptures on the stone.
————New Year is here, blessings are here, I wish you all a happy Year of the Dog! On the first day of the Lunar New Year, can I ask for a monthly ticket?