Tie Quan Li was the earliest of the Eight Immortals to attain enlightenment. Tie Quan Li's real name is Li Xuan, and he was originally a reader with clear eyebrows and a polite temperament. Because of the corruption of the examination room, many examinations have fallen to Sun Shan, and since then he has been discouraged, saw through the red dust, ran away from home, and went to learn the Tao and visit the immortals.
Li Xuanxue was earnest, looking for a hut in the deep mountain valley, experiencing months of wind and food, sleeping, wading through the water, and finally settling down in a cave in a secluded mountain forest.
A few years passed, and Li Xuan felt that he had achieved little.
From his contemplation, he realized the reason for not growing up: practicing Taoism without the guidance of famous teachers, relying on his own one-sided views, doing half the work, and achieving Dao karma is difficult.
He suddenly remembered that Li Er, the Taishang Laojun on Mount Hua, was an immortal ancestor of the same clan, and if he worshipped him as a teacher, he would be able to become an immortal.
Li Xuan thought of this, so he went straight to Mount Hua and suffered all kinds of hardships, Li Xuan finally came to Mount Hua and climbed the Lotus Peak, Li Xuan was trying to rest for a while, but he didn't expect two Daoist boys coming from front of him to say to him: "Are you Li Xuan?"
Li Xuan felt very strange, "How do the two Dao brothers know my name?"
The two boys smiled and said, "Didn't you travel thousands of miles to Mount Hua to find Taishang Laojun?" We were sent by the Lord of the People to pick you up. ”
Li Xuan was surprised and delighted when he heard this, and secretly thought, "It seems that I Li Xuan and Taishang Laojun are still very lucky, otherwise how could I send a boy to meet me?"
So he went with the boy to the grass hall where Taishang Laojun lived in seclusion, only to see Taishang Laojun sitting on the hall, and there was another immortal sitting next to him, and Li Xuan went forward to meet him.
Lao Jun asked Ming Laiyi, "There is no teacher in learning the Tao, there is no innate fate, but you have to rely on yourself." If you just concentrate on practicing, there will always be a successful day. ”
Li Xuan listened to the teachings of Taishang Laojun, bid farewell to the two immortal ancestors, returned to the same place, and immersed himself in the study of Taoist classics. He often meditated for a day, and from time to time he went to a high place to breathe and breathe in the new. Over time, it was refined to the point of separation of form and god.
One day, Li Xuan's cultivation was finished, he strolled on the mountain to enjoy the tour, suddenly heard the xianle bright, looked up, the clouds in the air were ethereal, the light was mighty, and the crane flew closer, only to see the two immortal ancestors of Taishang Laojun and Wanqiu, hurrying to kneel and worship.
Lao Jun said, "Your Daoist skills have grown greatly, it is really not easy, Wanqiu and I are going to travel everywhere, and I want to take you with you to the place where you are in ten days. "Stop talking, and ride the crane away."
Ten days had passed, and he said to his disciple Yang Zi, "For the sake of the master's covenant of the master, the spirit has left, and the flesh remains here, you must take good care of it, and after seven days, if you do not see my spirit return, you will incinerate my flesh." Seven days, don't forget!" After saying that, Li Xuan sat cross-legged, running Dantian Qi, and the gods came out of nowhere and drifted away.
Yang Zi looked at his flesh inseparably, and on the sixth day, Yang Zi's uncle said that his mother was seriously ill and wanted to see him for the last time.
Yang Zi wept unceasingly, and after repeated urging by his uncle, he pointed to Li Xuan's flesh and said, "Master's spirit has traveled, and he told me to take care of it carefully, the deadline is seven days, and now that it has reached six days, who will come to take care of me now?"
The uncle felt that he was talking nonsense, and whoever died for six days could still return his soul, and he couldn't help but pull him away.
When Yang Zi didn't leave, his uncle said, "Quickly cremate your master's body and come with me!"
After saying that, he asked Yang Zi to work together, moved firewood and grass, and cremated Li Xuan's body.
When Li Xuanyu returned and said goodbye to Lao Jun, Lao Jun gave him a hand: "The valley is not open to wheat, and the car is also familiar with the road." To get the old skeleton, it is the new face. ”
Li Xuan knew the mystery of the mystery. Returning to the cave, li Xuan was shocked, went out of the cave to look for it, came to the hillside, saw the smoke and silence at the place where the body was burned, and realized that his body had been cremated.
The spirit had nowhere to go, the fairy road was cut off, at this time, he found the body of a beggar not far away, so he desperately threw his soul, waited up to take a picture by the river, and found himself in rags, unkempt, limpy, and on crutches.