In order to complete the Taoist heart, Xuan Qing, the great disciple of Taiqingtian, sealed up his immortal power, dispersed his memory, and entered the reincarnation for nine lifetimes. From Jiang Ziya fishing on the Wei River to Fan Li boating on Taihu Lake, from Zhuge Liang's five-foot-long Yuan Jingxing to Xuanzang crossing eight hundred miles of quicksand alone, from Su Shi's misty rain in a raindrop to Qiu Chuji's word to stop killing, from Liu Bowen's retreat in Qingtian To the solitary lantern in Yongzheng's Old Summer Palace - in every life, he made the choice he needed to make at a critical juncture of Chinese civilization; in every life, there was a woman in white who silently guarded him with different identities, but he never knew it.
In the ninth life, he was born as Jiang Xuan, a disciple of Yinxian Temple in Wudang Back Mountain. At the age of thirty, his spiritual consciousness awakened, and he was ordered by his master to go down the mountain to participate in the Chinese Dragon Ranking. From the audition stage to the Kunlun seal, he met a group of partners who shared life and death, repaired the seal left by his own hands nine thousand years ago, and finally recognized the person who had been waiting for him for nine thousand years. After ranking first in the Tianban, he devoted himself to the national promotion of the merit system, from the depths of Zhongnan Mountain to the alleys of Shanghai, from the ancient capital of Luoyang to the back mountains of Wudang, seeing, recording, and remembering every ordinary person who silently did good deeds but was not known to anyone. The patrol logs of the forest rangers for the past thirty years, the broken pottery pieces wrapped in old newspapers by the amateur cultural conservators, the ginkgo observation data of the hermit swordsman for forty years, the old man who has knelt under the bridge to pray for many years - every ordinary and long-lasting kindness has been solemnly collected by the merit system.
This is a long journey back from "asking" to "walking the road". The Tao is not far away from people, and people cannot be Tao if they are far away from others. After nine reincarnations, he finally achieves perfection in the fireworks of the human world.