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Chapter 1043: Cave Heaven Demon Spirit (1)

Looking at the collapse of the cave world, Xu Changqing let go of his divine thoughts and carefully searched for all the small clues around him. Soon, his divine thoughts were completely released and found some clues in a simple wooden house ten feet away from the wall of Huguo Temple. These clues were old newspapers. Most of these newspapers were scattered due to external forces, but the remaining words on these fragments could make Xu Changqing judge that this cave world should be intact during the Guangxu period, and that someone lived here because there was a well-preserved entry among the fragments of newspapers, and the content of the entry was written on a bus. It can be seen that the cave world was still connected with the outside world at that time, and it was able to bring some worldly supplies from the outside world.

Apart from these broken old newspapers, there was no clue worth paying attention to. However, there was a little abnormality that made Xu Changqing more guess. This situation was that there was no corpse within the scope of his spiritual consciousness. In other words, all the people living here had left before the disaster came, and they left very calmly. Among all the remaining daily necessities, there were very few clothes, paper and other items, and most of them were just some old furniture. It can be seen that the people living here at that time left after they were ready.

Under the interference of various external forces, Xu Changqing's divine thoughts swept back and forth several times, without finding any useful clues. After that, he tried to cast several magical magic similar to the heaven and earth's sight, but as he had expected in advance, as long as the magic power left the courtyard wall of Huguo Temple, it would be quickly crushed by the chaotic power force from the outside world. Even if he could use it with all his strength, he could not cope with this situation.

After finding further clues, Xu Changqing stopped stopping and turned around, walked along the stone steps towards the main hall of Huguo Temple above.

In the Cave Heaven and Blessings, the main hall of Huguo Temple is taller and more gorgeous than the main hall outside. Most of the architectural styles remain the same as the Ming Dynasty, and only a few expanded places are decorated with foreigners in the Qing Dynasty.

When you enter the main hall, it is very empty. When the hall was built, someone used a method similar to the universe in the sleeve. The area inside the entire building is much larger than the size seen from the outside. There are no gods or Buddha statues in this main hall, but there are thousands of altars densely placed like a mourning hall. Each altar has a tablet with no name on it, only a simple Taoist name. But one of the tablets is an exception. That is, the tablet placed in the middle and guarded by countless tablets around it, with the words "Three Treasures".

With such a special environment and such two striking words, Xu Changqing naturally easily guessed that the name on this tablet was Zheng He, a famous eunuch in the early Ming Dynasty.

Among the secular Chinese people, there may be many people who do not know the name of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, but few people do not know Zheng He’s real name, because stories about voyages to the West have long been written into various Romance stories by literati, and most of these stories are called Zheng He by the eunuch of the Three Treasures.

Zheng He's reputation was not only very famous in the secular world, but also in the cultivation world. Because the cultivation world was gradually declining because of Liu Bowen's killing of dragons, the talented and wise Emperor Yongle seemed to want to join the heavens and man worlds, so he was ready to take advantage of the decline of the cultivation world to control the various Xuanmen sects in the cultivation world. So while establishing the Dongchang, he also established a secret factory, and Zheng He was the supervisor of the secret factory at that time.

Because of Liu Bowen's killing of dragons, the Zhu family dynasty could be said to have offended the entire cultivation world. Therefore, at the beginning of the secret factory, except for some scattered cultivators who voluntarily joined in and accepted court worship, the other Xuanmen sects ignored the recruitment of Emperor Yongle. For this reason, Emperor Yongle could only think of another way. While forming a fleet to voyage to the West, Zheng He also asked some local wizards and Xuan Xiu. He had fought with the Chinese cultivation world several times.

Although they both lost more than they won, they also allowed the cultivation world to see some of the strength of the secret factory. This confrontation situation was not slightly relieved until Emperor Yongle's later years. The various sects of immortals and Buddhas in the cultivation world also sent some disciples to join the secret factory. Finally, when Wang Zhen was in power, the secret factory was disbanded. The connection between the cultivation world and the Zhu Ming Dynasty was completely disbanded. After that, even though the emperors such as Zhengde and Jiajing were willing to be in the Tao, they could only contact some secular outer sects.

The reason why Zheng He is famous in the world of practice is that in addition to being the first secret manager, he is also because he is not a practitioner, but just an ordinary person. This is recorded in many authentic classics of the Immortal and Buddha, and there is nothing to doubt.

At that time, Zheng He's master, Monk Daoyan, had visited most of the authentic sects of the immortals and Buddhas in the cultivation world specifically for the sake of Zheng He's inability to practice. Because Emperor Yongle was only King Yan at that time, his relationship with the cultivation world was not as rigorous as it was. Monk Daoyan was a strange man in the cultivation world. He was the master of several Buddhist mythology. He had to cultivate Vajra relics in an environment that was not conducive to practice, and even developed the Bodhicitta and attained the fruit of Bodhi. If it were before Liu Bowen killed the dragon, his cultivation would have already broken through the barriers of the two realms and was led to the Buddha's light by the Buddha's realm. Unfortunately, the situation at that time made him have only a state of emptiness, unable to ascense, and wait for death in the secular world.

The practice world was extremely puzzled by the disciples about why Monk Taoyan wanted to accept a eunuch who could not practice, but they could see that Monk Taoyan attached great importance to this eunuch disciple, and took out many good things they had hidden privately, and exchanged some secret elixirs with the authentic sects of immortals and Buddhas, hoping to help Zheng He practice through the power of the elixirs. Unfortunately, no matter what kind of elixir Zheng He took in the end, he had no reaction like a mud cow entering the sea. After the establishment of the secret factory, during the period when the relationship between the practice world deteriorated, the practice world had repeatedly mocked Zheng He for being unable to practice as a stubborn stone. These things were also recorded in some autobiographical notes in the practice world at that time.

When Xu Changqing was young, he also collected books about Zheng He's records. At that time, he did not look down on Zheng He because of his eunuch status and inability to practice. Instead, he thought that this person was much greater than those of the authentic masters of immortals and Buddhas who practiced Zen and meditated, so he also had such a little respect for him.

Now that he saw Zheng He's tablet, all the deeds about Zheng He immediately appeared in Xu Changqing's mind. However, when he recalled the matter about Zheng He, he couldn't help but feel a little confused. Because according to his understanding, Zheng He was originally from the Green Sect, and he did not start to convert to Buddhism until he became a disciple of the monk Taoist monk. It was not until his death that he was buried in the form of a Buddhist, and he also secretly held a secret funeral with the Green Sect ceremony. However, looking at all the written records, no mention of Zheng He's conversion to Taoism. Although he had contacted various Xuanmen sects in the world of practice because of the secret factory's supervisor, this was just some official business.

At present, the Huguo Temple where Xu Changqing is located is in the style of a Buddhist temple in both appearance and architectural style, but all the tablets here are Taoist names, and the decorations on the altars are also the purest Taoist tools. It is obvious that both the person who set up the tablets here at the beginning or the successors thereafter are Taoist practitioners.

"Is it possible that the Xuanmen Sect's authentic sect has seized the cave of the Buddhist sect?" Xu Changqing couldn't help but have a guess in his heart, because only in this way can it make sense why such a strange scene occurred.

While Xu Changqing was full of doubts in his heart, his divine thoughts were also unfolded in the hall. Because there was no external interference, the effect of using divine thoughts here was much better than before. Xu Changqing could even clearly speculate from the remaining trace of natal magic power in those tablets which Xuanmen Dharma was practiced by the person to whom the tablet belonged to.

However, on Zheng He's tablet, Xu Changqing did not feel a trace of the breath of Buddha or Taoism, but instead felt a trace of the breath of weak but very pure divine power.

"Cultivate God?" Xu Changqing also realized at this moment that even though Zheng He could not cultivate immortality or Buddha, he might not have been unable to cultivate God. He had created such a great achievement in the secular world, which was enough to build a temple and a temple after his death. Even in Nanyang, some people still regard Zheng He as the God of Wealth, built a temple of God of Wealth, and worshipped with incense. It can be said that Zheng He had the most basic conditions for cultivating God. In addition to the folk sacrificial beliefs, Zheng He was also regarded as the guardian god by eunuchs from the Ming and Qing dynasties. Almost all eunuchs had tablets and gods in the temples, so it can be said that it was unexpected or reasonable to practice God after Zheng He died.

Just as Xu Changqing was suspicious of the reason for everything he saw, suddenly, within the coverage of his divine consciousness, an extremely weak aura flashed away. This aura can only be described in a moment from appearance to disappear, and the aura is extremely weak and almost unaware. If it were elsewhere, Xu Changqing's divine consciousness would have missed this aura, and even if he was aware of it, he would not think that this was an abnormal situation. However, in this blessed land of caves, Xu Changqing's divine consciousness was almost unsuppressed. Except for Zheng He's tablets, there was a trace of divine power in the tablets of the Huguo Temple. Although the aura of power that appeared now had the aura of Xuanmen, its roots were more like a demonic spirit. It was like oil mixed into the water, and it was difficult not to find it.
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