Chapter Seventy-Five: God Descends
The thunder and fire surged, and the black fog filled the air, and the sight was truly terrifying.
The people in the city of Jinling Mansion have long been closed to every house, and the Taoist priests who are responsible for clearing the "gifts" in the city can't help but look up at the sky and are speechless.
Anyone can see that there has been a great change in Jinling City, and it is no longer as simple as the demon of the Knowing Destiny Sect spreading curses.
Bai Yingqiong is very sure that this is indeed a divine descendment.
As the chief deputy head of the Jiangnan Provincial Mansion, although Bai Yingqiong is not among the thirty-six real people who are involved in the real people, she has the qualifications to attend the Golden Gate, and among the one hundred and eight people who can observe, she has already ranked among the upper echelons of the Daomen, so she knows a lot of secrets.
The "Gu Immortal" in the Dao Gate means the gods in ancient times.
As for why it is an immortal, not a heavenly immortal, an earth immortal, a human immortal, a ghost immortal or an autopsy immortal, it is because the immortal is the only immortal who can stay in the world for a long time.
As for the other immortals, they will have to cross the tribulation at the end of the hundred years, and if they can get through it, they will be able to stay in the world for another hundred years, and if they can't get through, they will die. If you are not sure, it is better to ascend and die as soon as possible before the catastrophe comes, so there are immortal people in this world, but there are few immortal people who can stay in the world for a long time.
Even if the Heavenly Tribulation is passed, the second Heavenly Tribulation in the next hundred years will be even more ferocious, and the Third Heavenly Tribulation will be even more ferocious than the second Heavenly Tribulation, and there will always be times when you can't get through it. If you look at the human world or the way of heaven as a person, its intention is probably very obvious, the human world does not allow the existence of immortal people, either go or die.
The only exception is the immortals.
Immortals are the only immortals who can stay in the world for a long time, and they are also the only immortals who cannot soar and pass away.
Immortals are the outliers among the five immortals, who use external power to turn into divine power, cast a golden body, and are called gods in the world, and then open up the kingdom of God, and feed on the power of incense, without the limit of a hundred years.
However, the gods are also extremely dependent on the power of incense, if the incense is cut off, the golden body will be covered with dust, and then gradually decay, the kingdom of God is dilapidated, and can only survive for a while, and finally the golden body decays, the kingdom of God collapses, and it falls.
However, if the incense is prosperous, the immortals will also benefit greatly, the golden body is not bad, the divine power is immeasurable, if the believers can reach millions of people, in their own divine kingdom, they can even compete with the immortals without falling behind. On the whole, immortals and other immortals have their own advantages and disadvantages, other immortals are the law of birth, and they are cultivating themselves, while immortals are the method of entering the world, and they are cultivating others.
Without the power of incense, the immortals will be like water without a source and a tree without roots, no matter how powerful they are, there will be a day when they fall.
This again involves the question of why these ancient immortals are against the Daomen.
Because the Gu Immortals are all people who have returned from the dead, when they dominated the world, the Daomen had not yet flourished, and when they returned to the world, the Daomen had already dominated the world, and there was no place for them to stand, in order to compete for incense, they had to be enemies of the Daomen. The Dao Sect was also unable to recruit all the Gu Immortals.
The gods died three times.
The first death is the decay and collapse of the golden body, which is just fake death, just like a river breaking off and a lake drying up, as long as there is a new incense and wish power injected, the golden body can be reshaped in the divine realm.
The second death is the collapse of the kingdom of God, this is really dead, but it has not died, there is still a little spiritual imprint in the underworld, as long as there is still someone who remembers this immortal, there is a chance to return.
The third death is when everyone forgets about the immortal, and even the last mark is completely dissipated, and he can't die anymore.
From this point of view, immortals are more difficult to destroy than earth immortals, ghost immortals, and human immortals. Wu Luo or Si Ming Zhenjun, but the first death, that is, the golden body decays and collapses, and the kingdom of God still exists, entering a state of suspended animation, thousands of years later, they reshaped the golden body because of some opportunities, and reappeared in the world again, when the Buddha and Tao were fighting, not only stagnated the process of integrating the internal three realms of the Xuan Sheng, but also let these returning Gu Immortals take the opportunity to develop and grow, and even the Buddha Gate in order to hinder the Daomen, but also secretly supported the Gu Immortals, which can be described as a far-reaching disaster, many people in the Daomen talked about the Buddha Gate, they are gritting their teeth, if it is not the Buddha Gate, How can there be so many internal and external troubles today.
As for why it was the Buddha Sect that secretly helped the Gu Immortals to restrain the Daomen, rather than the Dao Sect supporting these Gu Immortals to fight against the Buddha Sect, it was because the Shinto Way had declined in the Dao Gate, but it was carried forward in the Buddha Gate. Buddhism is far superior to the Daomen in terms of Shinto's attainments, and in order to contain the Daomen, the Buddhism Sect personally helped the Gu Immortals through the most difficult early stage, and the Gu Immortals also reciprocated by helping the Buddha to fight against the Daomen.
Because of this, the Daomen redeveloped Shinto in the process of the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, established the lineage of Wuzhu, and strengthened the group of spiritual officials.
In terms of Shinto attainments, in order to ensure the immortality of the kingdom of God, Buddhism includes the souls of believers in their own kingdom of God, so that they can be reborn in the kingdom of God, and with the kingdom of God, they will live forever, but in fact they will not be free. It's just that ordinary believers are foolish, and they don't feel constrained, but think it's a great gift.
So there are always countless Buddhas in the Buddha's kingdom, and in the words of Buddhism, it is the number of sands in the Ganges. These so-called Buddhas chant non-stop day and night to keep the kingdom of God from declining, and also to constantly strengthen the golden body of the Buddha.
However, the eternal nature of God remains unchanged, whether it is a believer or a Buddha, for thousands of years, it has always been repeated one thing, it is inevitable that it is insensitive, and numbness does not matter piety, and the willingness to provide is greatly weakened, so Buddhism has created six reincarnations, so that the believers in Buddhism continue to reincarnate and rebirth, wash away the memories of the past, start again, and rejuvenate, and naturally will not be insensitive. This is Elysium.
The world of Wo Sa goes one step further, so that believers can be born into the world in the way of ghosts and immortals, and then return to the Buddha country after a hundred years of training in the world. And these people are often people with great wisdom and perseverance, and after returning to the Buddha country, they are no longer as simple as ordinary Buddhas, but will become subordinates of the Buddha, and even become Vajra, Arhats and the like.
Therefore, people in Buddhism believe in the next life, and in a sense, this is indeed the next life, but how much difference there is between this kind of next life and eternal life without liberation, then it depends on the wisdom.
Because of this, people in the Taoist sect never believe in reincarnation, either it is the seizure of ghosts and immortals, or the reincarnation of Buddhism, how can it be reincarnated? Therefore, Daomen always believes that after a person dies, the soul returns to the ground, and the three corpses turn into ghosts, and being able to take the initiative to cut off the three corpses is a great supernatural power.
Speaking of the way back to Shinto, because the world does not allow immortal people to exist for a long time, whether it is the Buddha of Buddhism or the immortals of Taoism, although they can stay in the world for a long time, they also need to abide by some of the rules of the hundred-year period, that is, before the expiration of the hundred-year period, they can still appear at will, but after a hundred years, they cannot interfere in the world at will, and they need to pay a certain price every time they make a move.
This is the reason why the gods of many sects often perform miracles at the beginning of the religion, but the miracles become fewer and fewer in the later stages.
Since Si Ming Zhenjun is an ancient immortal, he has naturally passed the period of a hundred years, so if he wants to descend from the kingdom of God to the world, he must carry out a huge divine descent ceremony.
According to the specifications of the divine descent ceremony, there are also differences in the power of the gods to descend into the world.
For example, in the Yulan Temple in the Relic Mountain City, it is the lowest level of divine descendation, and Wu Luo only descended a little divine power. And in the Kunlun Pass, the level of divine descent is even higher, and Wu Luo uses the contours of mountains and rivers to manifest and project, and casually breaks the flying boat. Then to Cuowenbu, Wu Luo descended with more power, and no longer used the outlines of mountains and rivers and other external objects for projection, and directly condensed the divine body with divine power, destroyed the "Ying Long", and killed Shangguan Jing.
As for the arrival of the True Monarch in Jinling Mansion this time, its specifications are only slightly inferior to the direct descent of the Immortal Golden Body to the human world and the manifestation of the Kingdom of God to the human world, which is at the third level, that is, to appear in the human world through a container.
There are many kinds of containers that can carry immortals.
It can be a person, such as a person who is very compatible with the life of the immortal itself, the higher the cultivation, the better, and if it is a dead immortal, it is even better.
It can also be a thing, such as an immortal object, or some special half-immortal objects, which can be used as containers, and if it is an immortal object that has been used by immortals, the effect is the best.
The quality of the container also determines the realm cultivation that can be exerted after the arrival of the immortals.
The container chosen by the Zhimei Sect this time is the "Lord of Gifts" that they have carefully cultivated and the "Gifts" that are all over the city, with Zhenwu Lake as the breeding place and "Xuanyu" as the introduction.
The power that came in this way was far greater than that of Wu Luo of Cuowenbu.
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