Taibai had a lot of doubts in his heart, but seeing Laojun's appearance, he didn't want to talk too much about this issue with him, Taibai hesitated for a while, but finally suppressed his curiosity and didn't ask any more questions.
The Taoist ethos has always been free and easy, and most monks in the sect advocate freedom. Everyone has different ideas, so there are many factions in the fairy court. Leaving aside anything else, let's talk about Laojun himself, one of the six saints, he should be an immortal emperor in terms of cultivation, but he is detached from the immortal court and doesn't care about common things at all.
Detachment, but not detachment. Regarding the affairs of Xianting, Laojun's views and attitudes are still the focus of great attention of all parties.
Coming out of Tushita Palace, Taibai's brows did not relax, because he did not understand Laojun's position until the end. In fact, Taibai already vaguely understood in his heart that the chaos in the world this time seems to be different from the past.
In the past, some monks in the fairy court would also support other mortal princes to fight for hegemony. This sort of thing is common, but never successful. So Taibai didn't care about what Fairy Guanghan, Giant Spirit God and others did before. Now it seems that everything is different.
Looking at the sea of clouds and mountains on Xiandao, Taibai sighed leisurely, with a strong look of worry in his eyes, and secretly said: "The battle of the fairyland is already difficult. If there is another problem in the mortal world, the Xianting will suffer catastrophe." , that would be a catastrophe for heaven and earth."
Without the belief in the mortal world, the fairy court does not exist, but without the protection of the fairy court, how can the mortal world resist foreign invasion
But Taibai didn't think too much about this question.
Even though Li Ye's growth was unexpected, he did not think that Li Ye could really traverse Kyushu, break the layout of the Immortal Court in the mortal world, destroy the foundation of Taoism in Kyushu, and make the Immortal Court lose control of the mortal world.
After leaving Tushita Palace, Taibai returned to Xianya, and went all the way to the Privy Council to be on duty.
Not long after he sat down, a burly black-faced man resting his hands on an iron rod came up to him and sat down with a big horse and golden knife, sullen and sullen.
Taibai put down his jade pen and said strangely: "Why is the Heavenly King so angry?"
Although Li Jing has a fierce face, he is actually a Confucian general. He said in a deep voice, "Chen Qinghuai who was guarding Yili Pass was defeated, and Yili Pass was taken away by Mani! Now those barbarians are marching in large numbers. The Immortal Emperor was furious and ordered me to fight tomorrow." Let's go and take back Yili Pass in person!"
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Hearing this, Taibai was startled, and his face became serious.
The so-called Mani refers to Manichaeism, which is the sect that the Uyghurs believe in, just like the Tang people believe in Taoism.
More than a hundred years ago, during the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang court dispatched a large number of frontier troops to enter the pass in order to quell the Anshi rebellion, resulting in the emptiness of the defenses of the Hexi and Western Regions.
Since then, Taoist Immortal Court has been fighting against Immortal Master Mani continuously.
At the beginning, the two sides fought fiercely for a long time, but the result was that Xianting lost more than they won, and suffered heavy losses. The mortal world also lost a large area of land in the Western Regions and Hexi. Later, Xianting adjusted its strategy, and finally won consecutive battles, and Zhang Yichao in the mortal world also pulled up the rebel army, conquered the land of eleven states, and saved the battle in Hexi and the Western Regions.
A few years ago, Zhang Yichao returned to the court and was entrusted with the title. He no longer sat in the town and returned to the rebel army. The Uighurs began to launch a counterattack, and the fairyland was also fighting endlessly. Yili Pass is the most important town on the western front for the Taoist Immortal Court to resist Mani Immortal Master. Now that Yili Pass is broken, Mani Immortal Master is bound to drive straight in, and the situation is extremely unfavorable for Immortal Court.
Taibai said angrily: "Those bastards of Mingjiao received the kindness from my immortal court before, but now they don't want to repay it. They even repay their kindness and launch an offensive against my immortal court. It's really hateful!"
There are Immortal Emperors in the Immortal Court, and Holy Buddhas in the Buddhist Domain, and the Immortal Master Mani calls his leader "Ming Zun", so most outsiders call Manichaeism "Ming Jiao".
When the Uighurs were weak, they established the Khanate with the help of the Tang Dynasty. Now that they are strong, they attack the Daomen Xianting instead. Of course, Taibai is very angry.
Li Jing snorted coldly, appearing to be very disdainful: "Mingjiao is a pagan religion in the far west, and it is worse than those bald men who pretend to be heavy and show off mysteries in Shimen. How is talking about etiquette and morality with these barbarians different from playing the piano with cows? I Go back to Yili Pass and kill them all!"
The Shimen always say that the Buddhist realm is the Western Paradise, but compared with the birthplace of Mingjiao, Lingshan is still much "Oriental". Most Tang people may not have heard of the specific place where Mingjiao was born. The Tang people closest to that place may be Wang Xuance, who once "destroyed a country with one person".
Taibai was silent for a moment, quickly sorted out the battle situation in the fairyland in his mind, and frowned more and more tightly: "Now the Tang Dynasty is not peaceful, the Khitan in the north is developing and growing, the Uighurs are too big to lose, and the Tubo is still invading Hexi. Nanzhao used troops from Liangchuan and Lingnan from time to time."
"In order to deal with the gods of these four clans, our Daoist Immortal Court is short-stretched and has lost a lot of troops. If we can't quickly pacify one side and stabilize the general situation, the battle situation will be completely rotten! But at this time, there are endless wars in the Tang Dynasty, and Li Ye is born out of nowhere. , Stir up the situation and disturb the order, it is really hateful!"
"That guy Li Ye is nothing to worry about, this time Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan can destroy him!" Li Jing didn't take Li Ye seriously. , Nanzhao Quartet, none of them are good enemies, how easy is it to quickly pacify one of them?"
Taibai fell silent, if the situation in Xianting was like this, he also felt powerless.
In fact, facing any one of them alone, Xianting is sure to win, but right now all parties are advancing together. The court's incense offerings have decreased, and the situation can be described as difficult.
Li Jing stood up and bid farewell to Taibai, "Brother Li, don't worry too much. This time I go to Yili, and I will definitely recover Xiongguan. With Chen Jizhen and Huang Jingyuan in the mortal world, I will definitely win the secret, and then everything will usher in a turning point!" "
Taibai's surname was Li and his surname was Changgeng. When he heard this, he got up and clasped his fists to send him off: "I wish the heavenly king a triumphant return!"
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Buddha domain.
The vastness of the Buddhist domain is not inferior to that of the Immortal Court, but in essence, just like the place where the emperor's courtiers are located, it is just the capital city in the middle of the country, and the place where the five great gates are located is just one mountain and one temple. The land is just a Buddhist temple.
The difference is that this Buddhist temple is formed by countless temples surrounded by mountains, just like Chang'an City, where there are countless courtyards and tall buildings. The top of Lingshan Mountain is a majestic and precipitous building complex, and Leiyin Temple is here. In ordinary Buddhist temples, the main palaces enshrine Buddha statues, but here, all the palaces are just living places.
In a four-span pavilion halfway up the mountain, two monks in cassocks were playing chess. These are two monks who will make people feel extraordinary no matter how you look at them. Just like the sun, the moon and the firefly, there is a world of difference after all. Their cultivation and temperament are as deep as the sea.
This is the second of the four great Bodhisattvas in the Buddhist realm, Manjusri Bodhisattva and Samantabhadra Bodhisattva.
At the end of the game, Manjusri won, and Puxian lost the chess piece. He sighed, turned his head to look outside the pavilion, and said in a slightly low voice, "It's been a while since the secret realm of the Heavenly Dao of the River East has been opened, and I don't know if Master Feihong has succeeded now."
Manjusri smiled faintly, "If the secret has been obtained, you and I will know about it naturally. There is no news now, which means that this matter is far more difficult than imagined."
Pu Xian pondered.
Although his cultivation base is extremely high, he is one of the most powerful people in the Buddhist realm, and he knows the past and the future, but he is still powerless to calculate the things in the secret realm of the Dao of Heaven. Right now, if we want to know whether Master Feihong has obtained the secret, we can only wait for Master Feihong to send a message back.
After a while, Pu Xian suddenly said: "I heard that Mingjiao captured Yili Pass."
What he said was succinct, just a simple statement of an event, without even commenting, it seemed to be without beginning or end.
However, Manjusri understood what he meant, and said slowly: "Since getting the worship of the Uyghurs, Mingjiao has greatly increased in strength. Over the years, the Uyghurs have used troops everywhere, conquered cities and plundered land, and have become the biggest force in the Mobei Grassland."
Puxian's voice gradually sank: "Although the states in the Western Regions are all Buddhist countries, since Guo Xin was defeated in the Western Regions a hundred years ago, the frontier army of the Tang Dynasty was destroyed, and the countries in the Western Regions fell into the hands of the Uighurs. The expansion has already threatened my status as a Shimen!"
Manjusri fell silent.
The Western Regions fell into the hands of the Uighurs, and naturally fell into the hands of the Mingjiao. Although the people in the Western Regions still believe in Buddhism, this is only a transitional period. After some time, Mingjiao completes the "spiritual transformation" of the people in the Western Regions, and they will fully enjoy the beliefs and incense of the people in the Western Regions. That is the day when Shimen will withdraw from the Western Regions.
Puxian continued: "A hundred years ago, during the Anshi Rebellion in the Tang Dynasty, the Uyghurs took the opportunity to invade the Western Regions. The Frontier Army of the Tang Dynasty, led by King Guo Xin of Jagged County, resisted the Uyghur army with one enemy and a hundred for decades. Fighting. It is a pity that Hexi was invaded by Tubo and Uyghur, and the Tang court was unable to come to help, so Guo Xin's trilogy could only be defeated in the end."
He sighed lightly: "The blessed place in my homeland is still full of wars. A hundred years ago, the Western gods invaded, and the army was not good at fighting, which made the country weak. Now, the country is divided, foreigners invade, the mortal world is unstable, and the population drops sharply. The offerings of incense are lowered again and again... A hundred years ago, if we were not trapped by the invasion of the western gods, our Buddhist domain would not have allowed Mingjiao to take the western region!"
The "native cave heaven and blessed place" in Puxian's mouth naturally refers to the place in Tianzhu.
Puxian sighed heavily, "All the princes conquered each other and followed the way of kings and overlords. It is also a helpless thing for my teachings to be gradually abandoned by the kings... The foreign tribes invaded from the West, and the sect they believed in was Islam. , Now it has eroded the thoughts of our people! The land is unstable, the hearts of the people are scattered, and the beliefs have collapsed. In just a hundred years, the status of my Buddhist domain has been greatly reduced, and it is in danger... "
Hearing this, Manjusri interrupted Puxian, "It is useless to say these things now. Today's world is a truly chaotic world. We are all involved in the torrent of great conflict between heaven and earth. No one can escape. Only go against the trend." Let's do it. In the case of the local foundation being damaged, my Shimen must stand firm in the Western Regions and go east to the Tang Dynasty in order to survive and continue. This is the future of my Shimen!"
Puxian nodded, "In any case, the battle for the homeland is not over yet, and the Holy Buddha will soon fight against Allah, the Islamic God. The outcome of this battle is unpredictable, and it must be extremely dangerous. We must also accompany you. Datang over there. ... I hope Master Feihong can live up to everyone's expectations, get the secret, and kill Li Ye to help Li Keyong achieve great things. If not, the future of my release will be really unpredictable."
The so-called unpredictable future is because there is nowhere to live.
If people from the Taoist Immortal Court heard the conversation between Pu Xian and Manjusri, they would no longer be surprised why the Buddhist realm sent Master Feihong to go down to the river in person.