Li Xuandu had seen the "Seven Birds and Five Fire Fans" more than ten years ago. At that time, he was only in the realm of the creation of heaven and man. He was forcibly brought into Xuandu by the earth master. He met a Taoist nun holding a treasure fan and could stir up a huge fire.

This Taoist nun is an elf born on the "Seven Birds and Five Fire Fans". It can already be transformed into a human form. It is also above other immortal objects. Li Xuan sent this immortal object, which shows his sincerity.

Dan Taiyun also kept his promise and soon led his troops to leave the Western Regions and continued to go west.

However, there were still some old subordinates of Dan Taiyun who were unwilling to leave. With Dan Taiyun's acquiesce, they surrendered to the Taoist sect and the Daxuan court.

Li Xuan did not make things difficult for these people.

However, the struggle in the Western Regions did not end with the departure of Dan Taiyun, but had just begun.

It is only the shamanism, of course, that cannot compete with the Taoist sect, but with the return of the ancient gods, the situation becomes complicated again.

The Western Regions cover a vast territory and the situation is extremely complex. Although it is mainly Buddhists in the Western Regions, it is also mixed with other sects, and even cults.

There are many people in the Western Regions who are traveling merchants and horse thieves, not the main people who farm like the Central Plains.

This is the easiest place to develop believers.

However, the believers do not have a strong belief. Perhaps they still believe in the Buddha today, but tomorrow they will change to the Heaven of Eternal Life. After entering the Western Regions, they will believe in the Supreme Taoist Ancestor, and even worship several gods and Buddhas at the same time.

However, for many ancient gods, these are nothing wrong. They did not think about establishing an incense inheritance that will last forever. They just wanted to harvest a wave of incense power in the shortest time, and then left. Places like the Western Regions are better.

As a result, a large number of ancient gods entered the Western Regions, called themselves gods in the world, and preached in large numbers, making the already complex situation in the Western Regions even more complicated.

This just violates the taboos of Confucianism.

After the Confucian school became the orthodox world, it established a rule that it would not be called a god in the world.

What does it mean to be called a god in the world?

That is, it is feasible to be shaped into a god after a person dies or dies, but when he cannot live in the human world, he calls himself a god.

If someone gathers a group to start a sect, claims to be the leader, proclaims that he is equal to God, and calls himself God and is worshipped by others in the world, that is a cult.

Because of this, when the Neo-Confucianism was later on, it did not even make the saints and teachers a god, but instead created a so-called "nature law" that was quite similar to the "Tao" of the Taoist sect.

Later, the Taoist sect gradually agreed with the Confucian sect's views.

This also led to fewer and fewer gods and fewer gods, and the path of gods was almost cut off.

However, the people in Shinto also came up with a solution, which is to earn incense and vows as subordinates.

To put it more bluntly, it means calling himself a divine envoy. If he is a Taoist sect, he will preach as a disciple of the Taishang Taoist ancestry, so as to earn incense and vows.

Strictly speaking, the Tianshi Sect started like this back then. Zu Tianshi used the name of Taishang Taoist Ancestor to attract believers, because Taishang Taoist Ancestor is not in the world, and most of the incense and vows fall into the hands of Zu Tianshi. However, Zu Tianshi did not choose the path of Shendao in the end.

This is a good path, and the same is true for Buddhists. The only disadvantage is that they are too slow to achieve results, and they cannot practice much faster than Earth Immortals, Human Immortals, and Ghost Immortals.

The ancient gods and immortals refused to do so, and they already had a name for gods, so how could they use their own names directly?

As a result, the conflict between the ancient gods and the Taoist sect became increasingly unreconciled, and the Confucian sect also stood on the side of the Taoist sect. Although the Confucian sect could not reach its hands to the Western Regions, it was also effective to be able to break the lewd temple in the Central Plains with its deep foundation.

Only the Buddhist attitudes among the three religions are ambiguous and do not agree with the positions of Confucianism and Taoism.

In the 12th year of Taiping, after two years, the Daxuan court initially included some of the Western Regions into its territory, re-established the Xizhou Protectorate, and the Taoist Sect also established the Western Regions Daofu in the Western Regions.

However, the Daxuan court and the Taoist sect only nominally controlled Xizhou, and the bottom ranks were still mixed forces. In the past, it was said that the imperial power was not inferior to the county, but only to the level of the county magistrate. But in Xizhou, the control of the Daxuan court can only reach the level of the prefecture. It can only be said that no one dared to oppose the rule of the Daxuan court on the surface.

Under such circumstances, the ancient gods and immortals made trouble here, and many powerful figures from the Western Regions also became secret believers of the ancient gods and immortals, which brought great difficulties to the Daxuan court and the Taoist sect to attack the ancient immortals.

Time has arrived in the blink of an eye for thirty-five years of peace.

The situation in the Western Regions has only improved slightly compared to twenty years ago.

This year, Zhang Luanshan, a great master of Zhengyi, stepped down as the great master and decided to avoid the world's Qing dynasty. The Taoist sect held a grand ceremony for Zhang Luanshan in Xuandu.

It was also in this year that Yan Feiqing, who had just entered the immortal realm, replaced his senior brother to become the new Zhengyi Dazhenren. Before that, he had been in charge of the trade in the South China Sea with his wife Su Yunying and did not participate in the external battles of the Taoist sect.

Li Xuandu talked with this friend many times, hoping that he could be responsible for the affairs of ghosts and gods, and jointly solve the ancient immortal problem that has plagued the Taoist sect for many years with Li Taiyi, who is in charge of human affairs.

After several researches, Yan Feiqing believed that the Western Regions were the top priority.

So in the 36th year of Taiping, Yan Feiqing set foot in the Western Regions for the first time.

However, Yan Feiqing did not go to Loulan City openly as a great man, but disguised himself as an old man, followed a caravan as a Taoist Youfang, bypassing the most prosperous Loulan City and heading to the deep hinterland of the Western Regions.

The Taoist sect has a very weak grasp of this place, and it is also a place where the ancient immortals are rampant.

As the caravan gradually penetrated into the former Western Regions, the current Western Prefecture has become less green and more yellow sand. At first glance, there are all the remaining hills of the Gobi Desert, which are difficult to cultivate. The wind and sand are howling between the mountain passes.

In the era of Tian Khan, frontier poets emerged one after another. Later, when they were lost to the Western Regions, they were rarely seen.

The leader of the caravan looked at Taoist You Fang who was following the caravan. His hair was gray, his face was wrinkled, and his body was thin, and he was very inconspicuous. He said to the leader of the guard beside him: "I really don't know what to do when I have to go out to the frontier at such a age. I am not afraid of being buried in the yellow sand that I can't fall leaves back to my roots?"

The leader of the caravan's guard and the leader of the caravan have been intimate for many years. He shook his head and said, "Maybe he was from Kunlun."

This is a very interesting thing. The ancestral courtyard of the Taoist sect is in Kunlun, but the main forces of the Taoist sect are in the Central Plains, including the Taoist temples of the three real people. In this way, it is not difficult for the Taoist sect to stick to Kunlun. If you want to integrate the Western Regions, you still have to send people from the Central Plains.

In addition, the Western Regions are too vast, and even the areas between the Central Plains and the Western countries can be called the Western Regions. The Western Regions occupied by the Daxuan court is less than half of the Western Regions. The vast five thousand-mile Kunlun is only a small part of the vast Western Regions. With the limited personnel of the Taoist sect, it is quite difficult to be able to guard the five thousand-mile Kunlun.

While the two were talking, the extremely old Taoist You Fang walked towards them.

Both of them stopped talking. Now that the Taoist sect is powerful, they must respect the Taoist Taoist who holds the Taoist sect certificate on the surface.

After the Taoist greeted the two, he spoke, "There is a banquet that will be over in the world. If you have to take care of the two of you along the way, today the Taoist will say goodbye."

The leader of the caravan was a little surprised, so he naturally tried to keep him. However, Taoist You Fang refused the leader of the caravan to keep the guests, walked into the vast wind and sand alone, and finally disappeared.

Taoist You Fang was Yan Feiqing. Along the way, he followed the caravan to see the situation in various parts of the Western Regions and felt very worried. It has to be said that the situation in the Western Regions was worse than he expected.

Although the ancient immortals, Buddhism, and shamanism dare not fight against Taoism on the surface, they keep making small moves in the dark.

After Yan Feiqing left the caravan, he knew that this place had entered the gaze of the ancient immortals. Although the ancient immortals fell to the realm, various magical powers were still there. Many of the mysterious things that even the immortals could not be underestimated, nor could they be regarded as ordinary masters of the heavenly realm.

So Yan Feiqing walked with normal feet, drinking water when he was thirsty, and when the wind and sand came, he searched for the ground to hide from the wind and sand. After walking for about three days, Yan Feiqing finally arrived at Shule City.

Shule City is a city within the territory of Cheshi Kingdom in the Western Regions. It is located on the northern foot of Daxue Mountain and is next to a deep ravine. The terrain is dangerous and guards the north-south passage of Daxue Mountain.

In his early years, it was just a military fortress. After years of expansion, even though it was not as good as Loulan City, it was also a very prosperous city.

There are nine temples, temples and Taoist temples in the city today.

The first is the Kalan Palace of the Western Regions Buddhists, which worships the Great Sun Tathagata and the East Buddha.

The second is the Taoist Tianxing Temple, which has just been built, worships the Supreme Taoist ancestor. However, compared with the Buddhist sect with deep roots, it has a meaning of setting up a vase.

In addition to the Buddhist and Taoist schools, there are the ancient gods and immortals who have descended.

The seven ancient immortals set up a sacrificial place here, and the divine light shines.

Yan Feiqing did not enter the city immediately.

With the spiritual sense of the immortal, he felt the weakness of the seven ancient immortals.

Most of these ancient immortals are not much different from Wu Xian in the ninth year of Tianbao. They are higher than ordinary masters of the creation realm of heaven and man, and lower than those of immortality. They are even unable to compare with Zhang Luxu in the Nether Valley.

However, after all, they have truly entered the realm of immortality, or in other words, at this time they should not call it a state of falling, but a serious injury. As long as they are well recovered, the realm will naturally recover, and there is no such thing as a threshold.

After all, Yan Feiqing is not Li Xuandu. He is not sure to deal with the seven ancient immortals with his own strength, and he has no intention of conflicting with them from the beginning. He plans to observe for a while first.

At this moment, a bloody smell suddenly came from the city.

This breath is not a real smell, but an invisible aura similar to murderous aura.

Yan Feiqing was a little surprised and walked quickly towards the city.

Shule City had nominally surrendered to the Daxuan court, so after Yan Feiqing showed the certificate, the city gate guards were relieved and even confiscated half of the copper coins.

After Yan Feiqing entered the city, he found that there were many people who were proficient in the Mandarin of Central Plains. He asked someone for some information and then realized that it was a blood sacrifice in the city.

Yan Feiqing was even more shocked because the blood sacrifice was only popular in the ancient witch sect. After the Taoist sect defeated the witch sect, the blood sacrifice was soon abolished. In the Central Plains, any blood sacrifice act would be regarded as a cult.

Unexpectedly, in this remote place, someone actually restored such brutal means.

Yan Feiqing followed the crowd and saw the blood sacrifice ceremony that was about to be held in front of a temple filled with wilderness.

The high-mounted magic platform, the sacrificial priest wearing a mask, and the sharp long sword, looked like a execution ground.

Yan Feiqing stood among the crowd, his face as deep as water, and fell into deep thought.
Chapter completed!