Buddha is the Tao

Mount Emei in Sichuan is a famous scenic spot in Shu. There are hundreds of temples and monasteries on the mountain. The legend of the sword immortal has been circulated in Western Shu since ancient times. There are many people in the secular world who seek immortality and visit the Tao. There are indeed many people who go to Mount Emei to explore the wonders and encounter many strange things, but there is no sword immortal. Over time, people regard it as a legend. In modern society, there are no immortals and tourists, but the number of people coming to visit and travel has increased dramatically. The entire land of Shu, Emei, and Qingcheng have all been developed into tourist attractions. The temples of all sizes are prosperous, and the Taoist monks have no worries about food and clothing. They are all rosy-cheeked. There is no demeanor of a master. The back mountain of Emei is steep, with many cliffs and cliffs, which is extremely dangerous. The road to the top of the Golden Summit is even more like a knife and an axe, almost straight up. It is almost like ascending to heaven to go up by manpower alone. Most of the tourists take the cable car to the Golden Summit to see the panoramic view, and few people climb all the way up from the road that has been opened up now.

Xu Jiankong quietly raised his flying sword and used a small trick to smuggle his eyes. He raised his flying sword and rushed up to the golden top, disappearing into a sea of ​​clouds. Xu Jiankong was now very proud. After the three elders of Shushan taught him skills, he became a master of the Spiritualization Stage. His skills and skills improved by leaps and bounds, and he was faintly showing a tendency to surpass Kunlun's first disciple Yi Yunzi, becoming the first of the younger generation of the Taoist sect. Today was the day when the Shushan elder Lingxu Taoist came out of retreat. Xu Jiankong's master Qingxu Taoist asked him to wait in front of Taiyuan Cave in Ningbi Cliff early in the morning.

This Ningbi Cliff is the secret residence of Shushan. Thousands of years ago, the second head of Shushan, Qiankun Yiqi Miaoyi Zhenren, invited the scattered immortals from all over the world to jointly break through the space and open up the immortal cave house and the blessed land of the cave. I saw that the Ningbi Cliff was surrounded by beautiful peaks and mountains on all sides, and a waterfall in the sky fell down and merged into a clear stream. Beside the Abi Cen in front of the mountain, there is a big nan tree, which is only a few feet high, but the trunk is about 15 or 16 feet thick. The horizontal branches are very low, and the green shade is like a canopy, covering an area of ​​3 or 4 acres of ground. On the cliff behind the tree, vines are draped, and many unknown exotic flowers grow on it. In the green moss, the two characters of "Ningbi" are faintly visible.

All the elders and seniors of Shushan are in seclusion here and have not come out all year round. Therefore, this Ningbi Cliff is a forbidden area of ​​Shushan. Any disciple who does not have the flying sword talisman of the master is not allowed to enter. Those who violate it will lose all their Taoism and be expelled from the sect. The punishment is very severe.

However, low-level disciples can't enter at all. This cave opened by the ancient sword fairy breaking through the space is extremely magical. It no longer belongs to the human world. Without the cultivation of the God Transformation Period, let alone entering, even if someone opens the cave for you to enter, you can't find the door. It was also the first time for Xu Jiankong to enter the rumored Shushan Holy Land. Standing on the cliff, he looked at the unknown depth of the cliffs and the rolling sea of ​​clouds below. He knew that Ningbi Cliff was the space towering above the sea of ​​clouds on Mount Emei. He took a deep breath of spiritual energy, and his limbs were filled with true essence, and his spirit was a hundred times stronger. Only then did he know that the spiritual energy here was much stronger than Lingcui Peak where Shushan disciples usually practiced. Modern society is different from ancient times. In ancient times, practitioners who founded their sects often found a cave paradise with abundant spiritual energy and set up a forbidden formation. Anyway, some famous mountains and rivers are poor and bad, with wild beasts and long insects running rampant, and few people go there.

It is different in modern times. A piece of land as big as a palm has been set foot by people. All the mountains of any sect of cultivation are in turmoil. Except for the cave opened up by breaking the space, no sect has its own mountain. Except for Kunlun, Maoshan, Shushan, Longhushan Tianshidao, and other major sects, which all have caves opened up by their predecessors, the other sects that have been passed down by the immortals have either disappeared or integrated into society.

With a light sound of jade, the whole Ningbi Cliff was filled with clear sounds, and the sea of ​​clouds below rolled. Xu Jiankong faced the towering mountain respectfully. A soft green light suddenly burst out from the cave at the waist of the mountain. A Taoist priest in a green Taoist robe floated in the air for no reason and slowly flew towards Xu Jiankong. "Xu Jiankong greets his uncle!" Xu Jiankong bowed hurriedly. The person who came was Lingxu Taoist, the elder of Shushan, one of the four great masters of Taoism in the world. This Lingxu Taoist had three strands of dark long beard, stepped on the void, and flew in the air without the help of any flying sword or magic weapon.

Seeing Xu Jiankong bowing and kowtowing, Taoist Lingxu flicked his sleeves, and a huge invisible force pulled Xu Jiankong away. He laughed and said, "No need to be polite! Jiankong! What does your master want you to come to me for? Yesterday, your master sent a message with a flying sword, but he didn't explain it clearly. He was very mysterious." Taoist Lingxu was radiant, and his skin was as smooth as a freshly peeled chicken egg. He didn't look like an old Taoist who had practiced for many years. Instead, he looked like a middle-aged cultivator with long black hair and beard. When Xu Jiankong looked up and saw this appearance, his whole body was shocked. He said with an ecstatic look, "Uncle Master, have you broken through the level of transformation and reached the realm of returning to the void where the body is immortal?" There was a lot of disrespect in these words, but Taoist Lingxu didn't blame him at all: "Jiankong, your cultivation has made great progress, and your knowledge has also reached a new level! It seems that my Shushan has a successor." He was very pleased with his words. "Master said that in a few days, Shushan will hold its once-in-a-century founding ceremony, and will invite fellow Taoists from all over the world to attend the ceremony. Now all Shushan disciples have been sent out to send out invitations. Master wants me to come to Ningbi Cliff to see Master, saying that he wants to seek a chance to become an immortal! However, Master has broken through to the highest realm of Taoism this time, and will definitely overwhelm the other three great masters and become the world's number one master. This time, our Shushan founding ceremony is just an opportunity to overwhelm Kunlun, become the number one sect, and recreate the style of the founder when he founded the sect!" Xu Jiankong was excited just thinking about it.

"It's good that you can think of this! Uncle Master also has this idea. We old guys have not been idle. Although we have been in seclusion in Ningbi Cliff for the past few years, we have also gained a lot. Kunlun was founded by the Three Pure Ones and has a high status. It has always been the leader of Taoism. Unfortunately, now is not the time to talk about origins, but strength. After so many years of accumulation, my Shushan has now reached the time to soar into the sky. You are the eldest disciple of Shushan. Since the head wants you to encounter the immortal fate, Uncle Master will naturally not let you down. Now it is the world of you young people. The stronger you are, the better!" Lingxu Taoist waved his sleeves and asked without waiting for Xu Jiankong to speak: "What can our Shushan rely on to carry forward?"

"The sword cultivation of our Shushan is extremely powerful, far superior to the flying sword stabbing techniques of other sects. The speed of cultivation is also second to none in the Taoist sect. The magic weapon of the mountain, the purple and green twin swords, is extremely powerful, and the two-element dust formation is mysterious and exquisite. By the way, I have only heard that the two-element dust formation is an ancient immortal formation. The method of setting up the formation was accidentally obtained by our ancestor, Changmei Zhenren, and it became the sect-guarding formation of our Shushan. However, our disciples have never learned it, and have not even seen it. Why is that?"