[Transitional chapters, you can watch it or not, it's better to look at it, and I'm confused when I read it later. 】

To put it bluntly, 'merit red spirit' is a way of storing merit.

Taoist priests, monks and other people pray for ordinary people on weekdays, and do things is actually a way to collect merit for themselves. The above two similar models are similar to commercialization, selling the merits of 'blessings and rituals', and slightly changing the trajectory of destiny a little bit, which is based on the fact that it is absolutely not allowed to change the main lifelines, such as life and death, fortune, power, and other major lifelines.

If the number of lives is compared to a big tree, then the main pole is the above three types: life and death, wealth, and power. Subsequently, the tree will have some branch institutions like branches, and separate on this, such as marriage, talent, whether it is smart, how is it in life, whether it can get the guidance of famous teachers, etc., in addition to these, there will be some lives like leaves, such as losing things today, going out to pick up money, the time of weddings and funerals, whether the name is in line with the five elements, etc. ）。

Taoist priests and monks usually only use their own merits to influence these leaves, but they will never touch the main poles and branches on the tree of fate, and if they want to move these things, they have to bear too many consequences, after all, the merit is also on them. There is a very popular saying, which is quoted by Taoism and Buddhism...... Causality.

Everything has a cause and must have an effect, and no one can escape.

Once you use merit in vain to change the number of lives of others, when you supplement others, you will pit yourself, and it is often calculated by several times, unless you meet the immortals, the kind of 'superman' who does not touch cause and effect!

When the monks of Buddhism and Taoism pray for the blessing and safety of others, the person who is prayed for will automatically send some merit and give back to the monk, so that the two sides have a kind of unequal transaction.

This kind of transaction, which can also be called a monopoly transaction, seems to be fair, but in fact it is a profitable transaction!

The main reason is, why do monks and Taoist priests like to do things, and the more people, the better? For the time being, merit is compared to a measurable banknote, priced at the cost of 100 merits for a single ritual.

Then, each person who is blessed will give back a merit ranging from 1 to 10 to the practitioners, that is, the practitioners.

The more you feel the reward of this merit, the greater the benefits the cultivator will receive! This premise is people...... Be sure to have more.

This is why Taoists and Buddhists all need temples and ancestral halls, do gods and Buddhas really need merit? No! In ancient times, did the ascetics and ascetic monks need temples to worship the gods? There is no need at all, immortals do not touch cause and effect, and they are a two-level life system with ordinary people.

So they don't need it, and later there is the spread of Taoism and Buddhism, and there are a large number of believers before they are slowly formed, from the totemic belief in the obscurant period to the religious belief, it is a kind of convergence of merit beliefs.

There are too many of these things, and without a container to carry them, they will naturally drift away and return to heaven and earth, forming a kind of balance.

But in fact, I don't know who invented the magic container of the temple, when the faith gathers between the temples, with the help of the power of merit to imitate the power of natural mountains and rivers to promote, you can lock the merit, when you accumulate enough merit, you can make an ordinary person soar in the day, after the physical sanctification technique appears. Temples began to spread all over the world, and the so-called 'formations' gradually appeared in front of the world.

To get to the bottom of it, whether it's a formation or a spell, energy is simply this merit that cannot be seen or touched.

The Taoist priest who has achieved cultivation uses merit to make a state of confusion, and ignites the spirit bird to become a mount.

The practicing monks turned the use of merit into another form, forming a variety of methods, but the efficacy was no worse than that of Taoism.

Even in terms of demagogy, monks are willing to waste capital (merit). Furthermore, it has to be said that Buddhism pays attention to cultivating the afterlife, which is a means of accumulation, while guiding people to goodness, a large number of believers are accommodated, just like the points accumulated by consumption in the supermarket are exchanged for gifts, the difference is that the supermarket is a gift, and the monks are redeemed for detachment and eternal life.

Taoism is a little worse in this regard, after all, Taoism does not cultivate the afterlife, the love of the landscape, and the immortal saying of great liberation and freedom, although ethereal, more in line with the way of heaven, but also more difficult to figure out.

This is also the 5,000 years of Chinese history, the immortals are universal, and there are more Taoist immortals, while the Buddhist immortals seem to have jumped from Taoism.

It may be better understood with the modern young mind.

Taoism is a ladder to obtain greater value, if you want to become a Buddha, I don't know how many lifetimes it will take, and then you will still be yourself? This Buddhist family said that it is possible to open the wisdom root of the previous life, but after all, there have been many lives, and the perception is different, and only those who have not gone crazy can be considered successful.

Taoism is not, if you want to achieve it, you can do it all at once, absolutely do not pursue who you were before, with such a stupid question to bother yourself, most of them are either crazy or stupid, I don't believe you think about it carefully, the most widely spread Buddhism is not the crazy Jigong monk, or 250 one Tang nagging.

What about Taoism? Mo said that the hostile forces in Journey to the West are all Taoist immortals, or the mounts of immortals, it is a battle of schools, in that era, the victors are monks, and they naturally have the right to arrange the rights and wrongs of the Taoist priests, and arrange the Taoist priests in the decent role or the villain role in the book.

At most, the fans of those monks still have a bit of a conscience, knowing that those little immortals, mounts and the like can be bad at will, and they really get the truth that immortals can't be offended.

Otherwise, in the "Journey to the West" that people of later generations see, it should not be the monkey who fights any lions, tigers, and elephants, but ruthless characters such as Taishang Laojun and Bodhi Ancestor.

The topic is a bit far, back to the topic of Buddhism and Taoism just now.

Don't say that Buddhism and Taoism are selfless, how to do it for others, as long as they are living beings, they will have a selfish side, even saints want to spread their own thoughts. There are many people who can really ignore death, but there are very few masters who can ignore cause and effect, almost none!

Because the consequences of cause and effect are terrible! Examples will be given later.

However, there is one kind of person who is peculiar. They don't need to use merit to cultivate this life and the next life, let alone learn the so-called Fa, feel the Tao of heaven and earth to feel merit, and learn to use this gift of heaven and earth.

This kind of person is extremely rare, they can collect merit at any time, this kind of person is mysterious, talented, is God's favorite, is the pride between heaven and earth, has the ability that ordinary people, demons, and immortals do not have, and has a special mission and responsibility.

This category of people is collectively referred to as ...... Spirit Man.

Such people are both lucky and unlucky.

Through the continuous accumulation of merit, the ability will become stronger and stronger, and in the end it can even be comparable to the gods who are invincible, but after all, they are troubled by the word merit, and finally they can't escape the death, and finally go to death like mortals, just like the most beautiful and crazy splash bursting out of the river of time.

Liu Shoucai is this kind of person, when he and Xiaobai met for the first time, the moment he saw the book in that thatched hut, he knew that even if he could be beaten by a fairy, he would eventually die, unless what was said in the last page of the book was true.

But is it really possible? Liu Shoucai didn't know, he only knew that according to that statement, he might become the first immortal spirit man in history, once he crossed that hurdle, how would heaven and earth treat him, but the speculation in that book gave two answers very exaggeratedly.

The first is to become the top kind of immortal, incomparable.

The second is to lose the ability of this spirit master, become an immortal, and start pursuing it again on the long road of life.

It's ironic!

You must know that once Liu Shoucai accumulates enough merits, he can already become a powerful figure who abuses the gods and Buddhas all over the sky. But because he became the most scummy category after crossing that hurdle, this huge gap ...... Well, not to mention whether I can bear it, I believe that if I really get to that point, it is estimated that there will be no fewer offended immortals, and I will definitely die ugly when the time comes.

If you don't get it, you don't even have a chance to be reincarnated, and you are directly dusted by others.