After Tang Wuzong's death, his uncle Xuanzong succeeded him. After Xuanzong succeeded to the throne, he regained Buddhism and ordered the restoration of Buddhist temples, but he did not abolish the tax on temples and Taoist temples.Whether the ruler supports the development of Buddhism or Taoism, or initiates a movement to destroy Buddhism (Taoism), it is all to consolidate their rule.

Tang Wuzong exterminated Buddhism because the development of Buddhist temples seriously affected the court's taxation and corvee. Tang Xuanzong regained Buddhism, not because he believed in Buddhism, but because the separatism of the Tang Dynasty intensified and wars broke out frequently. The court needed Buddhist teachings to appease the people. , to accept their fate of being exploited by their rulers.

The emperor will believe in seeking longevity, because Taoism pursues this life, and there are many people who seek longevity.Regardless of the effect of this alchemy or longevity technique, at least it is hope.If the rule is unstable, if you want to control the people, you will respect Buddhism, because Buddhism seeks an afterlife.Buddhism will teach believers to endure all the pains in this life and wait for the blessings in the next life.

Xuanzong revived Buddhism in order to ignorant the common people and consolidate the rule. He did not abolish the personal tax because it was in the interest of the imperial court to pay the personal tax for monks.The imperial court resumed Buddhism and preached the Dharma, but they would not want to see Buddhist temples holding a large number of slaves and land, occupying a large number of people and land, as before Wuzong exterminated Buddhism.

Xiaolongnv suggested that Buddhist temples and Taoist temples should pay the population tax. In the short term, Buddhism and Taoism will suffer losses, but in the long run, it can avoid large-scale extermination of Buddhism (Taoism).If Taoism and Buddhism want to develop believers, what they need are ordinary people who believe in religion, not monks and Taoists who become monks to avoid taxes.

As long as Buddhism and Taoism can be spread among the people and believers are still there, neither Lingshan nor Jiuchongtian will care about the number of monks and Taoist priests in Buddhist temples and Taoist temples.Gods and Buddhas compete for the power of faith of believers, not dishonest Buddhist or Taoist disciples.This is why Xiaolongnv instigated Wu Zong to collect a person tax from Taoist temples and Buddhist temples, but neither the Heavenly Court nor the Lingshan Mountain responded.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty began to decline. Although the later emperors wanted to rejuvenate, it did restore some vitality to the Tang Dynasty.However, there are no immortal dynasties in this world. Like those countries that have left a lot of color in history, Li Tang staggered towards extinction after all.

Small wars have never stopped. After the collapse of the huge empire, the flames of war once again spread all over the country.The world is divided and united, and it is not that there has been a change of dynasties in the past.However, from the prehistoric era to after the prehistoric era, the aura of heaven and earth has changed drastically.Later, after generation after generation of consumption, the aura between heaven and earth was further reduced.

After the spiritual energy became thinner and thinner, Mortal Realm's ability to recover was not as good as before.Large-scale wars create a lot of resentment, and if there is not enough spiritual energy to restrain the resentment, many evil spirits will breed.Especially in places that have experienced wars and are inaccessible, it is easy to breed powerful demons.

Perhaps he has long realized the consequences of the fading aura, just like the dragon, phoenix, unicorn, Taoist ancestor, and six sages were born in the prehistoric era, the Eight Immortals came into being in the era of spiritual retreat.The Eight Immortals did not fully appear, but after Lu Dongbin ascended, Xiao Longnu heard about the Eight Immortals.

The Eight Immortals came into being as the times require, that is, for the surge of evil spirits between heaven and earth.But now the Eight Immortals have not all returned to their positions, and Xiao Longnu has known some of them for a long time.The head of the Eight Immortals, Li Xuannai, is Xiaolongnv's great-uncle and a disciple of Xiaolongnv's grand master Daodetianzun Laozi.

When Li Xuan was not yet a fairy, Yuanshen went to the Huashan Fairy Meeting where the Taishang Laojun was held. He didn't want the stupid apprentice to burn his body because his mother was critically ill. Lame old beggar.Later, he gained the Tao with this body, so he got the nickname "Tieguai Li".

Li Xuanyuan is a person who attaches great importance to appearance, but he became a fairy with this appearance, which attracted many people to watch.After all, Lao Tzu has never had many disciples. It is rare to accept a disciple with a high seniority. It is strange that others are not surprised by his appearance.Back then Xiaolongnv, Huang Tianhua, and Nezha also went to Nantianmen to have a look, but they only thought that they were a Taoist immortal, and they didn't want to be the leader of the Eight Immortals.

The one who got the Tao after Li Xuan was Zhong Liquan who was taught by Emperor Donghua.Zhong Liquan took Lu Dongbin, the reincarnation of Donghua Shangxian, and led him back to his throne after his calamity was exhausted.Xiao Longnu knew all three of them by chance.The other ones who have already obtained are Zhang Guolao and He Xiangu, who became Taoists during the empress's time, and Han Xiangzi, a disciple of Lu Dongbin.

Six of the Eight Immortals have returned to their thrones, and now there are still two who don't know where they are.Xiao Longnv suspects that Master Yuding, the real master, recommended her to go down to the world to defeat demons and demons, and that is to fill in the vacancy before the return of the Eight Immortals.After all, the way of heaven prophesied that only when the Eight Immortals return to their thrones can the demons in all directions be suppressed.

However, Xiao Longnu is not quite sure whether the return of the Eight Immortals can suppress the demons in all directions.Now Jiuchongtian has a lot of powerful gods, and there is no shortage of people who want to guard the Quartet.Probably the gods of the Jiuchongtian were unwilling to go down to suppress demons, so they created eight earth immortals to suppress demons?

The matter of the Eight Immortals has nothing to do with Xiao Longnu. Regardless of whether the Eight Immortals can suppress the demons in all directions as expected by the Heavenly Court, her mission has been set and will not change.She has her catastrophe to overcome, and it's not that the Eight Immortals return to their thrones, so she'll be fine.

Unknowingly, Xiaolongnv has been down to earth for more than 100 years. One person and one tiger, she has traveled all over the mountains, rivers, lakes and seas of the East, and she has also traveled to Dongying.Xiao Longnv always loves to be lively, and it's not that she never gets tired of walking around the world alone.Then she touched the merit bag that was not bulging around her waist, and knew that she would live a long time like this.

Lu Dongbin once asked her jokingly, if she knew such a punishment, would she regret saving the people with her body.When Xiao Longnv thought about home, she had regrets, but regrets were only occasionally.If she hadn't done that, she would probably live in regret every day.

Hearing this answer, Lu Dongbin was silent for a long time, and never asked similar questions again.

Today, it was another day for Xiao Longnv to travel alone, because of rising in the daytime, she patted the black-spotted tiger and ran around, already missing the town.I thought I would take the sky as the seat and the ground as the seat, but I didn't expect that there would be an abandoned ancient temple in the barren hills.

The slanted branches and intertwined roots create a ghostly night scene.On the stone tablet that has begun to weather, the words Lanruo Temple are very clear.

The fog thickened little by little, and the intermittent whining sound of the zither was heard in the wind.

The black-spotted tiger carried the little dragon girl on his back, walking leisurely on this desolate path, as if walking in a garden.A blue lantern was floating in front to guide the way, and a little girl carved in pink and jade was sitting cross-legged on the tiger's back, eating a fruit.As the black-spotted tiger advanced, the silver bells on the little girl's ankles jingled, which was extremely sweet.

"Someone is coming!" The sound of the piano in Lanruo Temple suddenly stopped, and the beauty in white wore a bit of sadness on her face.

There is a thousand-year-old tree demon grandma in Lanruo Temple, and her subordinates control a group of beautiful female ghosts to lure men for him and absorb the essence of primordial spirit to practice.Nie Xiaoqian is one of the female ghosts. She doesn't want to hurt people, but her bones are controlled by her grandmother and she has to obey orders.

"Sister, wouldn't it be good for someone to come?" Another beauty sitting outside the pavilion, stretching her feet out to play in the lake, smiled sweetly, "If there is no one to dedicate to grandma, we will be in trouble!"

"Xiaoxue~" Nie Xiaoqian sighed quietly, but did not say anything after all.

An unshaven Taoist priest sat on the roof of Lanruo Temple, put down the wine gourd in his hand and couldn't help but sigh: "But I don't know that unlucky ghost came to Lanruo Temple to die again."

"The bright moon is bright, the night is clear and bright..." The crisp singing broke the tranquility of the barren mountain and wild temple.

After eating the fruit in her hand, looking at the moon above her head like a silver plate, Xiao Longnu felt that this scene was very suitable for singing, but why did the piano sound stop?

"It's a child!" The Taoist was a little surprised, "No, it's impossible for a child to walk to Lanruo Temple alone in the middle of the night."

The Taoist priest grabbed the saber beside him, stood up, and saw the little girl riding a tiger leaving the temple.

The little girl said in a milky voice, "Xiaodeng, it's so quiet here, can you sing?"

"Naturally, my master!" A green light led the way, and a beauty suddenly appeared on the light pole. The beauty lightly opened her lips and sang a little Japanese song.

"Since you have come to the Central Plains, you should also learn our Central Plains songs." The little girl muttered.

"Yes, my master!" This green lantern beauty is called Qing Xingdeng, a monster subdued by Xiao Longnv when she was traveling in Japan.

Qing Xingdeng is neither a human nor an ordinary demon. He was originally a hellish imp who wanders at the gate of the underworld.One Hundred Stories is to light 100 white candles. Everyone tells a weird or scary story one by one. Tell a story and blow out a candle. When the hundredth candle is blown out, Qingxing Lantern will pull all the players out hell.

"Xiao Deng, I want to eat a cup of sweet soup and then rest." Xiao Longnu rubbed her eyes and said.

"The concubine prepares it for the master!" Qing Xingdeng turned around and prepared the sweet soup and bed for the master to eat.After scanning the deserted temple, his eyes fell on the pavilion with white gauze floating by the lake, and he walked over.The entire Lanruo Temple seems to be the only place that is cleaned up.

"Monsters are rampant in this world. This monster is so powerful that it will treat the little girl as its master? Could it be that the little girl is a more powerful monster?" The Taoist took a sip of wine and murmured, "There is a trace of monster in her body. Not at all, if it is a demon, I am afraid it will be more difficult to deal with than the millennium tree demon here."

"Sister, that little girl looks really good-looking!" The female ghost named Xiaoxue returned to the pavilion at some point, leaned over to Nie Xiaoqian and said with a silly smile.

"Go!" Nie Xiaoqian picked up Qin and said.

"Sister, why are you leaving?" Xiaoxue was a little reluctant.

"Don't go!" Xiao Longnv said majesticly with her waist in her hands, "Since the two of you live here, you must be very familiar with this place, so you can stay and be my little servant girl!"

"Such evil spirits are not worthy to serve their master." Qing Xingdeng said coldly.She could feel the bloody smell from these two female ghosts, and she was afraid that they would harm many people in normal times.

"But, I want to stay here for a few days. Look at the mess here, how can I clean it up without some maids and servants?"

"In that case, let's keep them!" Qing Xingdeng's expression softened a bit, "This place is full of monsters, I'm afraid there are a lot of ghosts, just catch a few more little monsters to work tomorrow."

"No need!" Xiaolongnv pointed her finger at Lanruo Temple and said, "Just tidy up as many rooms as you want, as long as you can live in them."

When Nie Xiaoqian and Xiaoxue heard the master and servant talking about deciding their affairs, they looked at each other and wanted to float away.

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