"So you died like this, leaving only a wisp of divine thought, right?" Ye Tianchen asked.

"Yes, but when I was about to die of both my spirit and body, many stories about "Taoism" appeared in my mind. These stories kept echoing in my mind, but I couldn't figure it out and could not comprehend it!" Zhu Tian sighed and said.

"Maybe after understanding these stories thoroughly and understanding something from them, you can get rid of this power that devours life's essence. Can you tell me these stories?" Ye Tianchen said to Zhu Tian.

"Of course, if you can survive and go out alive, please take care of my sister Zhuyou. It is very likely that she is the only one left in the Zhuyin clan..." Zhutian said sadly.

Then, Zhu Tian began to tell Ye Tianchen the stories he had heard in his mind:

Legend of Lao Tzu!

It is said that while my mother was washing clothes by the lake, a plum was floating upstream. She was thirsty at that time, so she picked it up and ate it, and then she became pregnant.

It is said that I was pregnant for decades before I gave birth to my son, and I would speak as soon as I came out of my life. I pointed to Li Zishu in my yard and said that this was his surname. Later, because his ears were very big, his family named him Li Er.

Another saying is that after seeing the decline of the dynasty, I decided to leave my hometown and wanted to travel around.

Yin Xi, the general of Hangu Pass, saw that the purple qi came from the east. When he saw that it was Laozi riding a green cow, he refused to leave, so he made things difficult for him to leave a book. Laozi really took it out, which was later "Tao Te Ching".

The green bull has also become a famous image in Taoist culture and is also the mount of the immortal Taoist priests. Lao Tzu is also known as the "Qing Niu Shi" and the "Qing Niu Weng".

After I left Hangu Pass, it was said that I became a god directly, and there was no record of his activities in the world.

Lao Tzu is the founder of Taoism. Many legends about him were left behind in later generations. Among them, Lao Tzu rode a green cow out of Hangu Pass and talked about it.

There is also a legend that when the general of Hangu Pass Yin Xi looked at the sunrise from a distance and looked at the east, and the purple air was surging for eight thousand miles. "The sunrise from the east, and the purple air came from the east"; Laozi rode a green ox, so he took Laozi as his teacher, resigned and followed Laozi west along the immortal road of Zhongnan Mountain in Qinling Mountain, traveling day and night, and came to the foot of the General Mountain in a few days. He saw auspicious clouds lingering here, spring, streams crisscrossing, fish swims in the shallow bottom, birds sing, dragons and phoenixes dancing, peony

The spring water is dinging, it is really a paradise. When I looked up, I saw a huge rock very strange, like a human figure, with a leopard head and a ringed eyes, a twisted hair, holding a sword in one hand and a fan in the other, five bats are flying, with righteousness and spirit. I sighed: "The Tao can be told, the extraordinary Tao, the creation of the universe, the beginning of the world, and the mother of all things. If you want to see its wonder, it is always there. Zhong Kui and Zhong Kui bless the house, and the top of the list is the true god..."

Five thousand words were recorded by Yin Xi, and it was called the "Tao Te Ching" in the world.

Later Laozi and Yin Xi married Afuquan, horses fled to Nanshan, Laoniupo, and preached under the pineapple of Nanshan, found the shortcut to Zhongnan, Houqingliang Mountain, and preached, Louguantai refining alchemy, casting the iron case of Nanshan, and enjoying the longevity of Nanshan. This is called the ancestral courtyard of Taoism, the hometown of Zhong Kui, and the best blessed place in the world.

The magical Zuo Ci

Zuo Ci's name is Yuanfang, a native of Lujiang, Jiangxi Province. He was proficient in the Five Classics and also understood astrology. He predicted from the astrological signs that the Han Dynasty was about to end, the country was declining, and the world was about to be in chaos. He sighed and said, "In this chaotic world, those with high official positions were more difficult to protect themselves, and those with more money were more likely to die. Therefore, the glory and wealth in the world must not be greedy!" So Zuo Ci began to learn Taoism, and was also very proficient in the "Qimen Dunjia", which could drive ghosts and gods to sit and turn into delicious food. He practiced Taoism in Tianzhu Mountain, and obtained a "Nine Dan Jin Liquor Sutra" in a stone cave. He learned the art of changing himself, and he could not remember many magical techniques.

After hearing about it during the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao of Wei State summoned Zuo Ci and locked him up in a stone house. He sent someone to monitor him. He didn't give him food for a year. He released him a year later and saw that he was still the same.

Cao Cao believed that there was no reason for people in the world not to eat. Zuo Ci actually didn't eat for a year. He must be the evil side and insisted on killing him.

When Cao Cao had the idea of ​​killing Zuo Ci, Zuo Ci knew about it, so he asked Cao Cao to let him go home. Cao Cao said, "Why are you in such a hurry to leave?" Zuo Ci said, "You want to kill me, so I ask you to let me go." Cao Cao said, "Where are, how could I kill you? Since you have noble ambitions, I won't force you to keep you."

Cao Cao held a banquet for Zuo Ci. Zuo Ci said, "I'm going to travel far away, and I'd like to drink with you." Cao Cao agreed. It was very cold at that time and the wine was soaked on the fire. Zuo Ci pulled out the Taoist hairpin from his head and stirred the wine. For a moment, the Taoist hairpin was dissolved in the wine, just like the ink dissolved into the water when grinding ink.

At first, Cao Cao saw Zuo Ci asking for a "partition glass of wine", thinking that he would drink half of the glass first and then give Zuo Ci the half of his leftover glass. Unexpectedly, Zuo Ci first used a Taoist hairpin to cut his wine glass, and the glass was divided into two halves, with wine in the two halves, several inches apart.

Zuo Ci drank half of the first and gave Cao Cao the other half of the cup. Cao Cao was not very happy and did not drink it immediately. Zuo Ci asked Cao Cao to come over and drink it himself. After drinking, he threw the cup on the beam. The cup was hanging on the beam, like a bird that was about to swoop to the ground, and it was about to fall but not fall. The guests at the banquet all looked up at the wine glass. It took a long time for the cup to fall, but Zuo Ci disappeared.

After inquiring, he said that Zuo Ci had returned to his own residence. Cao Cao wanted to kill Zuo Ci even more, and wanted to try whether Zuo Ci could escape death.

Cao Cao ordered Zuo Ci to be arrested. Zuo Ci got into the flock of sheep. The people who pursued him couldn't tell the difference, so he checked the original number of sheep. Sure enough, one more was found, and he knew that Zuo Ci had become a sheep.

The people who pursued him conveyed Cao Cao's meaning, saying that Cao Cao just wanted to meet Zuo Ci, so please don't be afraid. At this time, a big sheep walked up to him and knelt down and said, "Look at me, are you?" The people who pursued him said to each other, "This kneeling sheep must be Zuo Ci!" and wanted to capture the sheep.

But at this time all the sheep knelt down and said, "Look at me, are you?" In this way, the people who were chasing them really couldn't figure out which sheep was Zuo Ci, so they had to pull it down.

Later, someone who knew where Zuo Ci went to secretly report to Cao Cao, and Cao Cao sent someone to arrest him, and he caught him as soon as he was arrested. In fact, it was not that Zuo Ci could not hide and escape, but deliberately wanted to show Cao Cao his skills of change. So Zuo Ci asked the person who arrested him to tie him up and threw him into prison. The prison officer planned to torture Zuo Ci, but found that there was Zuo Ci in the house and Zuo Ci was also outside. I don’t know which one was the real Zuo Ci. After Cao Cao knew about it, he held a grudge and ordered Zuo Ci to be tied to the execution ground to kill him. Zuo Ci suddenly disappeared from the execution ground. So he ordered the city gate to close and searched. Some hunters said that they didn’t know Zuo Ci, and the officials told him that Zuo Ci was blind in one eye, wearing a green gilded cloth cloak and tied a gilded cloth headscarf, and arrested people like this.

After a while, the whole city became blind people wearing green gourd clothes and tied with scarves. No one could tell which one was Zuo Ci. Cao Cao ordered the scope of the search and killed as long as he caught it.

Later, someone saw Zuo Ci and killed him and presented him to Cao Cao. Cao Cao was overjoyed. When he was transported to see that it turned out to be a bundle of thatch. Then he went to the place where Zuo Ci was killed to find the body, but it was gone.

Later, some people said that they saw Zuo Ci in Jingzhou. Liu Biao, who was the governor of Jingzhou at that time, also thought Zuo Ci was a confusing demon and planned to capture him and kill him.

Liu Biao brought his troops out to show off. Zuo Ci knew that Liu Biao wanted to see what kind of Taoist skills he had, so he slowly walked to Liu's surface and said, "I have some small gifts to reward your army." Liu Biao said, "You Taoist priest are alone, and I have so many people, can you reward me?"

Zuo Ci said it again, and Liu Biao sent someone to see what the gift was. Seeing that there was only one dou of wine and a small jerky meat, ten people didn't lift it. Zuo Ci brought the dried meat himself, peeled the meat piece to the ground, and asked a hundred people to distribute it to the soldiers with the wine and dried meat. Each soldier had three glasses of wine and one piece of jerky meat.

The jerky tasted the same as usual. More than 10,000 soldiers had enough food, but there was no less wine in the wine vessel, and the jerky was not eaten up. Liu Biao was also drunk. Liu Biao was shocked and dispelled the intention of killing Zuo Ci. A few days later, Zuo Ci left Liu Biao and left.

When he arrived in Dantu County, Eastern Wu, he heard that Dantu had a man with Taoism named Xu Du, so he went to visit him. There were six or seven guests in front of Xu Duo's door, and six or seven ox carts were parked.

The guest lied to Zuo Ci and said that Xu Du was not at home. Zuo Ci knew that the guest lied to him, so he said goodbye and left. After Zuo Ci left, the guests saw the ox cart walking on the top of the poplar tree, climbed onto the tree and looked, but the ox cart disappeared.

After getting off the tree, the ox cart was walking on the tree again. Some ox carts had a foot-long thorn in the center of the wheels, which could not be cut, and the cart could not be pushed. The guests were shocked and hurried to report to Xu Du, saying that an old man who had a blind eye came to visit. When we saw that he was an ordinary person, we lied to him that the master was not here. After the old man left, such a strange thing happened to the ox and the cart. I don’t know what was going on.

When Xu Du heard this, "Oh, this is Mr. Zuo Ci who is visiting me. How can you lie to him? Hurry up and maybe you can get it back." So the guests scattered to chase him. After catching up with Zuo Ci, they kowtowed to him and apologized. Zuo Ci calmed down and asked the guests to go back. When they went back, they saw that the cow and the car had returned to their original state.

Zuo Ci paid homage to the monarch of Wu, Sun Ce, and Sun Ce also wanted to kill Zuo Ci. Once, Sun Ce wanted to give him a knife from behind. Zuo Ci walked slowly with a bamboo stick in wooden shoes. Sun Ce was chasing him with weapons in the back but could not catch up. Only then did he realize that Zuo Ci had Taoism and dared not kill him again.
Chapter completed!