Taoist sects, originally just some Jianghu sects, rely on spells to help save people, relying on divination and other spells to make a living is its original way of survival.

However, with the development of the times and the progress of society, many Taoist priests in the Han Dynasty were no longer satisfied with traveling all over the world, relying on other people's alms and hard work to make a living.

So in the Han Dynasty, many Taoists took the Han Dynasty's advocating Huang Lao's technique and entered the house to become officials.

Among those who were originally Fangshi, Zhang Liang was undoubtedly recognized as the most successful in the world. Liu Bang praised him for "strategizing and winning thousands of miles away", and he was one of the representatives of the miraculous military advisors who have been famous through the ages.

After the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Liang was named the Marquis of Liu, but he only sought one full and three down, did not seek fame and fortune, and did not covet too much glory and wealth. Letting go of this vested interest, he went to cultivate seriously. Zhang Liang entered Baiyun Mountain, studied in Huangshi, took a road name red pine nut at that time, and finally became an immortal and left.

Zhang Daoling, the first founder and organizer of Taoism, he is actually the eighth grandson of Zhang Liang.

In fact, the founder of the Dao of the Heavenly Master had countless relationships with the royal and official families of the Han Dynasty at that time. The biggest reason why he was able to start a foundation was that with the help of the royal family and those dignitaries, he was the first to open up a piece of farmland belonging to his sect in Longhu Mountain, and raised the sect members based on agriculture and mulberry.

Of course, not all practitioners chose to follow the path of Zhang Liang and Zhang Daoling in the Han Dynasty. By the end of the Han Dynasty, Hua Tuo, a generation of divine doctors, was actually a practitioner.

As a generation of famous Fangxian Taoist priests and Jian'an three divine doctors, Dong Feng, who is equally famous, is also a Taoist priest and is known as Xinglin Zhenren by the world. However, Dong Fengzhen lived in seclusion in the mountains and forests, cured and practiced, and finally died a good death.

If Hua Tuo Zhenren should not be a hooligan Cao Cao's edict, maybe the ending would be different. Although he sacrificed himself for righteousness and knew the trend of the times, he also left infinite regrets for the common people of the world and history.

Hua Tuo and Dong Feng are a stark contrast between their contemporaries and environment. Hua Tuo is famous for his art, but he is difficult because of his art. Dong Feng is a skilled person who hides deeply and devotes himself to cultivation all his life. Although in the end, he couldn't really ascend to Heaven and rank in the immortal class. At least people are also a good death.

So Hua Tuo was born and Dong Feng was hidden, what is the difference between the two except for the ending? That is two points, the first point is that Hua Tuo's medical skills have become the mainstream of Chinese medicine for many years, and have been praised and studied by later generations. And what about Dong Feng? All that remains on the rivers and lakes is his legend, and no one knows what magical medical skills he had back then.

The second point is that Hua Tuo actually accepted several apprentices during his lifetime. Those of his disciples spread all over the world because of their medical skills, and after being respected by some magistrates, they also opened up fields and orchards in some deep mountains and old forests, and became local tyrants.

When the troubled times passed, those cultivators of the Huatuo lineage donated their family property that had been run for several generations, joined some sects respectively, and became the elders and even sect masters of those sects.

As a result, even in the present Great Song Dynasty, there are still many Taoist practitioners who respect Hua Tuo as "the first Taoist person to carry forward Huang Lao and Qi Huang Shu".

In fact, to put it bluntly, those people are actually eating other people's short mouths. Because of those people. Most of them are good spells, and the medical skills are simply scum in Liu Xing's eyes, and they are not worth mentioning......

Of course, in addition to the contrast between Hua Tuo and Dong Feng, there is also a cultivator of the same era as Hua Tuo, who has been heavily colored and deified in history, that is, Zhuge Liang and Zhuge Wuhou.

Hua Tuo's descendants started a family business with the help of medical skills, and only reappeared in the world after the troubled times passed.

However, although Zhuge Liang's Taoist inheritance was almost destroyed in Jiang Wei's hands, from the Three Kingdoms to the Two Jin Dynasty, from the troubled times to the Tang Dynasty, and then to the current Great Song Dynasty. But it's always going on.

There are mainly two representatives of that faction. One is the Qingcheng faction in Shuzhong, which is still a super big landlord, and the other is the Quanzhen faction in Wangwu Mountain headed by Xue Shi.

Although the Wangwu Quanzhen sect does not have such a Taoist temple, all the fields are rented for tenants. However, the ownership of its mountains and forests is the largest among all sects today.

If Hua Tuo planted a tree of medical skills for his predecessors, his descendants operated for a long time before he reintegrated into the world. However, Zhuge Wuhou's lineage, since the Three Kingdoms, has been able to form a three-legged trend with Zhang Daoling and the Qingcheng faction. The root of this is that there is a large amount of land as a foundation.

Of course, it wasn't just the triumvirate, and that didn't last long. When it came to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Ge Hong, a descendant of Ge Xuan, a disciple of Zuo Ci, another cultivator of the Three Kingdoms, also carried forward Zuo Ci's alchemy. In Luofu Mountain, the first Luofu sect of the Southern School was added to the sequence of competition for the Tao Law.

How did Ge Hong make the Luofu faction rise? That's because he understands both medical skills and Taoism, and he also perfectly integrated the two after Hua Tuo, so that the set of alchemy originally created by Zuo Ci became orthodox and formal.

Of course, people with profound Taoism and good alchemy are not uncommon in the history of the Central Plains. Ge Hong's success. It is definitely not just that its magic is strong, its medical skills are exquisite, and it is pure alchemy.

The biggest reason is still his background, before Ge Hong returned to Luofu Mountain, he was a nobleman who would be sealed as a marquis.

His family itself has a solid background, coupled with its prestige among the government and the opposition. Even after he returned to Luofu Mountain, he became the biggest "mountain master" in the Luofu area in just a few years, in fact, he became the king of the mountain by legal means.

And in addition to the human Dao officialdom and the royal power, Ge Hong also had a background behind him that other sects could not match, that is, his ancestor Ge Xuan Ge Heavenly Master, who was a Taiji Immortal in the Immortal Class......

Zhang Liang is the originator, Zhang Daoling and Hua Tuo and others are just following in their footsteps. Following closely behind, there was no shortage of cultivators in the past generations who left their names in history.

For example, the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi was born in a family of Heavenly Master Dao, and his family was one of the largest backstage of Heavenly Master Dao at that time. The great mathematician Zu Chongzhi is also a person from a family of Heavenly Masters and Daoists.

Tao Hongjing of the Liang State of the Southern Dynasty founded the Maoshan faction and became the fifth largest sect of Taoism. Wei Zheng, a famous minister of the Tang Dynasty, also worshiped Xie Yingdeng as a master in his early years, and he was a fellow brother of Liang Xing.

Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, founded the Songshan faction, and was actually the real founder of the Leopard Forest Valley faction. The great painter Wu Daozi, following Sun Simiao, pushed Songshan to the position of the sixth sect of Taoism.

Hengshan Taoist Sect Li Mi, with the help of assisting the three generations of emperors of the Tang Dynasty, laid the foundation in the Hengshan generation and established the foundation to have the seventh Hengshan faction.

The astrology god is Li Chunfeng, although he has not established a sect himself, and his astrology has now even become one of the housekeeping skills of this "nondescript" old monster. Its influence has already penetrated into the demon spirits and ghost paths outside the six realms, and its influence can also be imagined.

In the Great Song Dynasty, the writer Su Dongpo and the painter Huang Gongwang were all practitioners of the Quanzhen Dao. Su Huang's promotion allowed Quanzhen to always echo with the east and west of Zhengtian Shidao in the Great Song Dynasty, and achieved the double heroic scene of East Quanzhen and West Zhengyi.

It wasn't until the generation of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty that the situation of the two leaders of Quanzhen and Heavenly Master Dao was truly broken.

And who is the one who broke that situation? It was the founder of the Shenxiao Sect, Wang Wenqing, who had already ascended, and of course the participation of the Seed Master Dao and others, which led to the pattern of today's so-called "Nine Great Sects".

However, these "nine major sects", even the Leopard Forest Valley have been relying on the support of the people where their sects are located, renting their fields or forests, or tea gardens and orchards, so Liu Xing thinks that it is time for these sects to feed back to the people.

However, what Liu Xing didn't expect was that this time he said that he would let the sect help Zhao Huan dig the imperial tomb under the dark river as a feedback, and he had been digging a pit for others, but he pushed the pit into the pit for the unequaled poison Shihui.

Before Liu Xing's words were finished, Hui suddenly smiled strangely and said, "There are nine sects in the world, and the four factions are under your sect." Stinky boy, since you have decided to let those sects feed back to the people, why don't you just unite the four factions, wouldn't it be more conducive for you to manage and coordinate the manpower of the sect to help you complete the great cause of going against the heavens and changing the way of heaven? ”

"Four factions in one?" Hearing Hui's words, Liu Xing was slightly stunned.

Immediately, his head shook like a rattle, and Liu Xing said: "Although most of the four factions are based on the magic of thunder, they are all from the root of the family. However, the views on the Dao and even the way of practicing the Dao are very different. The unity of the four factions will make me hook up with the pipe. ”

After a pause in his words, Liu Xing looked at Hui with a helpless expression and continued: "But there have been mustards and prejudices among the disciples of the four sects for generations. Old monster, your ideal is very plump, and you are destined to do that ideal thing, but it is extremely skinny in reality. I don't think about it, and I don't dare to think about it. ”

"A palm spread out is a slap, and it won't hurt to smoke someone."

Seeing Liu Xing say this, Hui suddenly changed into a serious look, and said like an old gentleman: "Only by gathering those five fingers and turning them into fists, and guessing that it will hurt when you hit people, will you kill people with one blow." ”

After a pause, his tone became a little serious: "There are prejudices and mustards among the various sects, but now they are still under your disciples. If Juan Guo wants to make trouble, you can kick him to the cold bench. Why is it that when it comes to the sect, you kid has lost the ruthlessness of his evil nature? ”

Hu Anguo's faction and troubles are indeed a trivial matter compared to the prejudices and mustards between sects. (To be continued.) )