Chapter 42: Taoism
Although Chen Blade's expansion was rapid, it soon encountered bottlenecks, one of which was financial and material resources, although relying on the otherworldly trade between Earth and Orend, he made a lot of money, but compared to the millions of people in the northwest who lacked food and clothing, the money he earned was still not enough.
And even if the funds are abundant, the Earth Church can't give so much food, although the Earth Church may be the largest food supplier on the Orend continent, but Orlund doesn't have high-yield food, otherwise the Mother Earth wouldn't have paid so much attention to the new seeds provided by Chen Blade.
This time, it was really the landlord's family that there was no surplus food.
And trade also has a cost, and his large purchase of materials from the earth has also led to the rapid shrinking of his wealth on the earth.
The second is that there is a serious shortage of pastors, and the development of a church lacks a large number of grassroots clergy, and there are not enough pastors to guide believers.
But the cultivation of pastors is not achieved overnight, it can be said that the number of pastors is also the embodiment of the heritage of a church, this expansion is still because the Moon God Department is very optimistic about the development of Chen Blade, and secretly dispatched some priests from the Moon Church and the Wandering Church to temporarily assist in cameos, but this kind of help can only be temporary, and the normal operation of a church still depends on the pastors cultivated by itself, after all, faith cannot be replaced.
Moreover, in order to protect the nascent Food Order, Su Lun and Xia Lier did not dare to send more people, after all, they also had hostile forces, and exposing Chen Jian's relationship with them too early would expose him to some unnecessary dangers.
Therefore, in the end, Chen Jian could only shrink the battle line and consolidate his achievements in the Barony of Vinoa, and other places focused on gaining prestige and cultivating potential believers.
At the same time, it is necessary to solve the problem of only funds being able to enter and exit. It is not only necessary to sell the special products of the earth to the Oriente continent, but also to be able to sell the specialties of the Oriente continent to the earth, so that the two sides can develop in a balanced manner.
But it is not easy to sell the specialties of the Orient continent to the earth, in Chen Jian's view, the low productivity of the Orient plane leads to the high cost of manufacturing, and it is far from the opponent of the earth with developed industrial civilization, and it is still possible to dump things from the earth to the Orient continent, but selling Orient's things to the earth is a loss-making transaction.
And the magical items unique to the Orende plane, once transported to Earth, are like a dead mobile phone, useless.
So we can only start with the raw materials and see what can be used.
For this reason, Chen Jian returned to Earth again, in fact, in order to purchase materials, plan town construction and other things, in the recent period, Chen Jian has spent more time on Earth than in Orende, so he decided to see how the Oriente grass and wood ore samples brought to Luo Feng last time were studied.
When he came to Luo Feng's laboratory that was "out of the world", he was startled, Luo Feng described him as haggard, his eyes were red, and when he saw Chen Jian come in, he grabbed Chen Jian like a hungry tiger pounced.
"Where did you get these things?"
It was the first time for Chen Jian to see Luo Feng so out of shape, in the past, Luo Feng always said that immortal cultivators should be immortal wind bones, calm and calm, and go with the flow. And now he was clutching Chen Jian's shoulder like crazy, and even his voice was thirsty and hoarse.
"Found from Shennongjia." Chen Jian still uses the old routine to use Shennongjia as a shield.
"Impossible!" But Luo Feng categorically denied Chen Jian's lie, "In this ore sample, I found the element components that are not in the periodic table, which is by no means a stone on the earth, and these plant samples are even more magical." ”
Luo Feng held up a grass plant, which happened to be known to Chen Jian, which was the main material used to make straw paper in the Orlund Continent, this kind of grass is very easy to grow in the Orend Continent, whether it is the cold north or the hot south, whether it is the arid northwest wilderness, or the humid inland sea islands, the Sierra grass can grow.
"The growth year of this grass is only a few years, but the psionic activity is several times higher than that of ginseng and reishi. Do you know what that means? Luo Feng's eyes burst out with a strange light.
Psionic activity is an alchemy standard set by Luo Feng's own research, he believes that all things have animism, and alchemy is to extract the original spiritual energy precipitated in the raw materials into spiritual energy that can be absorbed by the human body, and the higher the spiritual activity of the material, the higher the efficacy of the finished alchemy product.
"What does that mean?" Chen Jian realized that he still underestimated Luo Feng. This aspiring scholar may really discover the secrets of these samples.
"This means that the environment in which these plants grow is full of aura, have you found any caves in the heavens? Have you traveled to some fairy palace? ”
Chen Jian hesitated for a moment, and still had the heart to hide it, after all, the Orende plane is not a safe place, after seeing the bloody battlefield, and witnessing the tragic situation of blood and fire, Chen Jian even regretted that he didn't have a good understanding of Orende's situation and pulled Jiang Jinjiu into this dangerous world together.
But Luo Feng is not easy to deceive, he immediately saw Chen Jian's hesitation, and sneered, "Don't talk about Shennongjia, maybe you don't feel it yourself, but you have changed so much in the past few months, you have begun to have a terrifying majesty in your gestures, and your words are more confident and decisive than in the past." I also asked Liu Haoren if anything had happened to you recently, but he said that although you have been busy a lot, all kinds of purchases, it seems that you are doing business, and there is nothing else special to do. But that doesn't explain the dramatic change in your temperament. ”
"I know that everyone has their own secrets, and I wouldn't force you if there were other secrets, but from these things, I feel unusual, if there is really such a blessed place with enough spiritual energy, maybe my enlightenment opportunity is there."
When Luo Feng's words came to this, Chen Jian knew that if he concealed it again, he was afraid that he would turn against him, and for those who were dedicated to cultivating immortals, what was more important than preventing people from becoming enlightened?
"I didn't mean to hide it from you, but that place is not a peaceful place." Chen Jian sighed.
Luo Feng smiled when he heard this, "The path of cultivation is not a smooth road, natural and man-made disasters, many disasters, and there are many disasters, if you don't have the determination to die and live later, how can you transcend life and death and become an immortal." ”
A young man who dreamed of becoming an immortal because he was afraid of death, but now he has grown into a seeker who is not afraid of life and death, compared to Luo Feng's consciousness, Chen Jian felt that he was a little too timid.
"Well, I'll tell you the truth." Chen Jian, who was also determined, simply said that he had accidentally met an otherworldly god who had fallen to the ground, and then had the ability to open the door of time and space in the otherworldly channel, and he could travel between the two worlds. He also talked about the difficulties he is encountering now.
Luo Feng's eyes lit up as he listened, and then he fell into deep thought.
"Cultivation is about the law, wealth, couples, and land. You have now occupied the land, as for the Fa, now in the era of the end of the earth, the cultivation method online can buy an electronic version of the Dao Collection for a few dozen yuan, and this wealth is indeed a problem. ”
"And the couple?" Chen Jian asked again.
"I don't have you."
"Huh?"
"With such a good environment for cultivating immortals, if you don't practice in vain, don't you say that there are dangers here? I think you will practice the thunder method, and you will not be pressured by many skills. At that time, we can learn from each other, make progress together, rest assured that when I become an immortal, I will definitely pull you, as the so-called one person has ascended to heaven. ”
", you're a chicken, you're a dog." Chen Jian couldn't help but complain.
But think about it, if the Oriente Continent is really a suitable place for cultivating immortals, you can't try it, after all, Taoism is a skill with Chinese characteristics, who didn't have a dream of immortals when they were young, calling for wind and rain, overwhelming mountains and seas, it's also enjoyable to think about. And I also have an electric field, I don't know how to use it further, maybe I can draw strength from the Taoist Lei Fa.
"Okay, think about this later, open the door quickly, let me see the world of the Orende plane." Luo Feng couldn't wait to go to the other world to have a look.
Chen Jian had no choice but to open the door of time and space in the laboratory, and Luo Feng saw a circle of light appear out of thin air in front of him, and a brighter light was refracted in his eyes.
Luo Feng stepped into the Light Gate without hesitation, and as soon as he stepped on the land of the Orient Continent, he took a deep breath.
"Sure enough, there's a powerful aura in the air here."
"But this is the wizarding world?" Chen Jian couldn't help but question.
"Magic, Taoism, just different understandings of the world, and different ways of using energy, on the earth there are still Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism and a hundred schools of thought contending, is Buddhism and Taoism the same? It's not a coexistence, so why can't magic and Taoism appear in the same world? ”
"Because of the different understandings of the world, the cognition of the same thing is naturally very different, and the magic elements in the eyes of magicians and the five elements of spiritual power in the eyes of Taoist priests may be essentially the same type of energy. Of course, whether it is the same or not must be verified by experiments. ”
Saying that, Luo Feng suddenly began to calm down and meditate.
", you really said that you can practice."
Fortunately, the location of the crossing was in the sacred canteen of Yier Village, and Chen Jian hurriedly asked people to guard the gate to prevent others from coming in and disturbing Luo Feng's cultivation.
Not long after Luo Feng entered the Ding, a vision began to appear around him, and a large number of small points of light appeared in the air, if it weren't for Chen Blade's high perception, he would not have been able to detect this abnormality.
And he also found that there is a source of this kind of light, and the source points directly, the holy spring outside the cafeteria that has been blessed by the goddess of spring water, and nearly ninety percent of the points of light float from there.
Chen Jian hurriedly sent people to fetch six buckets of spring water and placed them around Luo Feng.
At this time, Jiang Jinjiu, who rushed to hear the news, also entered the cafeteria, "Yo, you brought the madman too." ”
"Alas, I didn't expect him to deduce from the clues of those grass and stone samples of the Orende plane that I had discovered a cave blessed land that was different from the earth."
"You don't have to blame yourself, for people like me and madmen are far more suitable to pursue our ideals than the earth. Even if he doesn't find out, I'm actually going to let you find a chance to talk to him, we are too short of helpers here. ”
As he spoke, a hazy clear light appeared on Luo Feng's body, and a large number of light points gushed out of the spring water, throwing themselves into this layer of clear light like a moth to a fire.
"You see, Luo Feng is not wrong, this is indeed his blessed land, it seems that his harvest is greater than mine."
Luo Feng, who constantly drew light from the holy spring, practiced for a day and a night, and whenever the light gushing out of the spring water became less, Chen Jian and Jiang Jinjiu would rebuild a bucket of spring water to replace it.
After a whole day, the clear light finally dissipated, Luo Feng opened his eyes, as if a divine light flashed, his eyes were deep and distant, giving people the feeling of being able to reflect all things, and then returned to normal.
"Empty room? Have you succeeded in building the foundation? Chen Jian accompanied Luo Feng to study the classics for many years and saw what this vision meant.
Luo Feng nodded, his joy and excitement were hard to control, "If I were on Earth, I might need at least ten years of work, I didn't expect to build a foundation here in one day, this is not a cave heaven blessed land, where is a cave heaven blessed land." Knife, Brother Jiang, you can also practice together."
Jiang Jinjiu shook his head, "It's not my wish to become an immortal, but I want to be successful in martial arts in this life, and I am happy to be revenge." ”
Chen Jian was thinking about the immortals, and the way of the gods and the way of the immortals didn't know if they were compatible here.