Tonight, the Yuxu Palace is brightly lit and full of blue and white. Against the backdrop of the stars in the sky, it looks like the immortal palace in the sky.

Among the Sanyuan Festival, the above Yuan Festival is the most solemn, followed by the Zhongyuan Festival and the next Yuan Festival.

Zhongyuan Festival is the name of Taoist sect, commonly known as the folk lunar month, the ancestor worship festival, and the Buddhist sect is called the Ullamban Festival. The main customs include ancestor worship, river lanterns, worshiping the dead souls, burning paper ingots, and sacrificing the land. This festival can even be traced back to the worship of ancestor spirits of the ancient witch religion and related time sacrifices.

The Book of Changes says: "Repeat the way, and it will take seven days to return, and it will be the way of heaven."

Seven is the number of yang, the number of days. After the yang energy between heaven and earth is extinct, it can be reborn after seven days. This is the way of heaven and earth's movement and the principle of the growth and decline of yin and yang. People believe that this day will open the gate of ghosts, so it is also called the Ghost Festival.

Because this festival is so special, according to the convention, the Taoist sect not only invites many guests, but also all the Shenzhi Zhenren in Yujing, Pingzhang Dazhen sect will participate, and even the great masters will appear in Yuxu Palace to enjoy themselves with many ordinary Taoist disciples and release the "river lanterns" together - this is the only opportunity among many low-ranking Taoist priests to enter the Purple Palace.

The river lanterns of ordinary people are just drifting along the water. There is no river on Yuxu Peak, so the Taoist sect changed to a prayer lantern, with the galaxy everywhere as the "river". Many Taoist disciples, regardless of their position, can participate in the lighting, and the great master personally selected a prayer lantern as the winner and rewarded the owner of the lantern 777 special worry-free money.

For the sake of rewarding money or showing their faces in front of the master sect, the competition is fierce. Various prayer lanterns are like flowers blooming, and there are more and more patterns. When they are released together, they are like a gorgeous sea of ​​lanterns, and even overwhelming the stars in the sky. The real people above are happy to see this. After all, this scene is in line with the prosperous atmosphere of flowers and can better demonstrate the grand demeanor of the Taoist sect.

Although the position of the Grand Master is now empty, the rotating Grand Master is still on his behalf and the lucky ones are selected.

There is less than an hour left now, and Yuxu Palace is particularly lively. Many low-quality Taoist priests arrived in advance with their carefully crafted sky prayer lanterns, surrounding them so much that they were scattered.

It is precisely because today is so lively that it is necessary to reflect "joy with the people", except for the rotating Dazhen people, all high-quality Taoist priests do not bring their followers and come on foot. Even the rotating Dazhen people who represent the great masters and Taoist corpses will also streamline the ceremonial guards and light cars.

The closer you get to Yuxu Palace, the more dazzling the lights are. There is even a temporary huge lamp building built in front of the palace gate of Yuxu Palace, which is more than 300 feet high, and thousands of golden lamps are dotted around you. The limelight even surpasses the protagonist of today's Yuxu Palace, which means that there is a formation in Yujing.

Only by covering it can such a lamp building be built. If there is no formation, just the sky wind on Yuxu Peak will blow it down.

During the Three Sects Conference a few days ago, there was no such light building here, because the light building was not built directly, but was first built in other places. After the construction was completed, it was moved to this place through the formation.

The celebration has not officially begun at this time, so the lamp building only lit some of the golden lamps, outlining a rough outline, far from being brightly lit. But even so, the aura of heaven has been fully demonstrated. I don’t know how brilliant it would be after all the lights are on.

According to the rules, the master will personally climb the tower and light up the golden lamp located at the highest point. Then the lights of this golden lamp will light up the other golden lamps in turn through the mechanism, and finally completely illuminate the lamp building.

At that time, the lamp tower will turn into the 33th level of the Taishang Daozu's Heavenly Palace, facing the 33th level of the Heavenly Tower deep in the Purple Palace and the statue of the Taishang Daozu in Taiqing City.

The guards of the Lantern Tower and Yuxu Palace are not strict, because in addition to the local Dao Palace, almost half of the Taoist people gathered here tonight. They are not only the power of the Taoist sect, but also the best in the realm of cultivation. Who dares to act rashly? Even if the ancient immortals come in person, they will fall here.

The master and disciple came not far from Yuxu Palace and separated. The true man Cihang wanted to meet with other true man Shenzhi, and then entered the hall with the rotating true man representing the great master. As a third-grade Youyi Taoist priest, Zhang Yuelu was not qualified to follow it yet, so she could only enter the hall by herself.

Zhang Yuelu stopped for a moment, looked up and admired the towering lamp building built imitating the Tower of the Sky. She had to admit that this lamp building is extremely grand and elegant, and beautiful. But she still disagrees in her heart. Not to mention how much it takes to build this lamp building. It would be fine if it could exist for a long time and have practical effects. I am afraid it will be demolished in a year or two. So what is the point? It is to show the face of the Taoist sect today? This is a bit different from whitewashing the peace, but it is not very different in essence. There is no need to use this method to inspire people. Now the Taoist sect has a strong and declining meaning. It is time to need change. This move may have a counterproductive effect. In summary, it is probably the four words "miracles that ruin the country".

Zhang Yuelu retracted her gaze and sighed: "How can there be any difference in meaning? How can she deceive the world with whitewashing?"

After saying that, she took a step again and was about to enter Yuxu Palace.

At this moment, several Confucian scholars invited came on foot, blocking Zhang Yuelu's way.

With these Confucian scholars taking the lead, Confucian scholars gathered over, and more and more, first there were more than a dozen people, then dozens of people, and soon there were hundreds of people.

The visitor is a guest. The so-called way of hospitality, and the Taoist sect has always advocated preferential treatment for Confucianism, but no one dared to take action as soon as possible.

So there was an extremely funny scene. Hundreds of Confucian people surrounded a Taoist woman in Yujing, the core of the Taoist sect, with great momentum, as if they were the masters here, and that woman was just an unpopular outsider.

Most of these scholars were young people who were invited to Yujing to participate in the Zhongyuan Festival celebration with their teachers. They had a sense of scholarly spirit. Some of their elders had entered the Yuxu Palace, while others were watching from afar. Although they also advised them a few times, they still watched coldly and even deliberately indulged them.

After all, since the dispute between Taoism and Buddhism, in order to win over Confucianism, Taoism has repeatedly raised its status as Confucianism and implemented the concept of connecting Confucianism to Buddhism, and treated Confucianism mainly with appeasement. If Taoist disciples have conflicts with Confucianism, the Taoism will not only not favor its own people, but will instead favor Confucian disciples. In everything, the Taoism and Confucian allies are the priority. Confucian scholars have long been indulged by the Taoism, which makes these young Confucian disciples still have confidence even in Yujing.

And that's true, if there is no one behind the scenes to secretly connect and fuel the fire, it's really unreasonable.

Collusion between inside and outside and attacking both sides put Zhang Yuelu in such a very embarrassing position.

Zhang Yuelu faced hundreds of people alone, without any panic or pitifulness, and she never became angry and embarrassed. She could only face it calmly, which was probably because she was calm when facing major events.

Zhang Yuelu stood straight and still without moving with her hands on her back.

The scholars of Confucianism thought that Zhang Yuelu would be afraid when she saw the momentum of her side, and then took the initiative to avoid it. They would win back the battle, but they did not expect that Zhang Yuelu would not retreat.

This woman is really bold!

It would be fine to speak loudly at the Three Churches Conference, but at this moment there was no sign of repentance.

This made the Confucian scholars even more angry.

Today I have to press the woman's head and let her swallow the words she said.

A Confucian scholar in the lead asked loudly: "Zhang Yuelu, just because you read some high-headed sermons and learned some slanderous things."

How dare you talk about the principles of Confucianism and guide benevolence, righteousness, propriety and wisdom?

Zhang Yuelu did not refute, and remained silent, but never lowered her posture.

In fact, many people have seen Zhang Yuelu for the first time. If Zhang Yuelu had not said the words of criticism of Confucianism when discussing Taoism, it would have been a coincidence of the common people, such a handsome appearance, and such a family background, which would have been shocking and even admiration. Especially today, Zhang Yuelu is wearing a third-grade Youyi Taoist Crown, wearing a Five Mountains Crown, also known as the Five Mountains Spirit Crown, with a "Five Mountains True Form Map" engraved on it. The phoenix eyes are shining, and the divine light shines on it, and has an inviolable majesty.

If it weren't for the large number of people and the powerful, but they were alone, I'm afraid I wouldn't dare to be so righteous.

Zhang Yuelu didn't look at the Confucian scholar, looked around, trying to find the person hiding behind the scenes to watch the show, but in vain, she couldn't help but sigh.

As the youngest third-grade Youyi Taoist priest in decades, she was too popular and too popular. As the saying goes, wood is outstanding in the forest wind, and someone will definitely suppress her limelight and cool her down. It is reasonable to have such an experience, and even more expected.

Fortunately, she is a woman, so she just found a group of Confucian scholars to block the road. If it were a man, it would be even more despicable.

For example, if it were Qi Xuansu, he would directly ask a woman with a child to rush over and hug his legs. The child called her father, and the woman scolded her for being unfaithful. In the end, she would be a big deal to admit the wrong person. Regardless of whether it is true or not, a bad reputation will be spread. In the end, it will be a unfaithful person who is criticized by the female crowns.

This is the benefit of a woman. You can’t find a man to bring a child to call her mother. You can’t hide it from others if you are pregnant for ten months.

Such practices seem absurd, but are actually easy to use. In the previous dynasty, with the strict etiquette of Confucianism and the strict rules of the royal family, rumors of "the black-hearted prime minister lying on the dragon bed" could be spread, just because the new policy hurts the interests of others. It can be seen that tainted reputation is really not difficult.

At this moment, another Confucian scholar shouted loudly: "Zhang Yuelu, you speak wildly, saying that you are crazy about ethics and scheming, deceitful and hypocritical. It can be seen that you are also a person who does not obey etiquette and law on weekdays. There is no monarch or father, and you abandon your country or family."

"It's really a great responsibility to have no king or father." Zhang Yuelu smiled, "That's why I said that you Confucian disciples always regard the world as a family, trying to turn all the relationship between people and people into a father-son relationship. Either find a father for yourself or be someone else's father. There must be someone kneeling down. If I force you to kneel down, you force me to kneel down. Haven't you ever thought that people can also sit and discuss the truth?"
Chapter completed!