Chapter 878: Selling and Tempting
For Ye Zan, the merit tablet is a hole card and a killer feature, but it is not the kind of thing that must be kept secret.
Some things are like hidden weapons, and only when they are used unexpectedly can they play a role in defeating the enemy. In other words, these things are just for killing the enemy, that is, to kill the opponent at a critical moment, and naturally the opponent cannot be prepared in advance.
However, there are also some things that do not have to be actually used, but can play a role in deterring the enemy as long as they are placed there for others to see. Just like the early nuclear bomb in the technological world, since it was invented, the number of times it has been used is extremely limited, and its main role is to deter.
Ye Zan's merit tablet, when used, the merit consumed is basically proportional to the strength of the other party. Of course, there is also the influence of merit here, and if the merit of the other party is very high, then the merit tablet will consume more merit. It's just that in today's world, no one can have such merits as Ye Zan, so this aspect of the factor can basically be ignored.
In other words, in the face of those opponents with weak strength and low realm, Ye Zan basically didn't care about the number of times he used it in terms of the merits he had now. However, having said that, in the face of opponents with weak strength and low realm, Ye Zan generally does not need to use merit tablets, and his own strength is enough to clean up those miscellaneous fish.
And if the enemy he faces is a great power like the East China Sea Jiaosheng, then Ye Zan's merits will not be able to withstand consumption, and he may use it once or twice or three or four times before it is gone. In this case, the merit tablet in Ye Zan's hand cannot be used as a killer weapon like a secret weapon, and it is best to show it directly to deter the opponent.
It's like having a revolver with a maximum of six rounds in it and facing a dozen or even dozens of enemies. Everyone knows that your pistol can kill up to six people, and as long as you run out of bullets, you won't have any power to resist. However, when the other party is not very united, and there is no desperate determination, who would want to be these six bullet-consuming people?
If, in the face of so many enemies, you don't choose to show this pistol, but hide it in your sleeve and use it as a hidden weapon. You can take down one enemy with a single shot, but you'll likely end up taking down six enemies and then being pounced on by the remaining enemies.
Therefore, when the enemy he faced was the power of the Law Phase Realm and the Heavenly Realm, the merit tablet in Ye Zan's hand was like that revolver. When there are a number of "bullets", exposing this "pistol" and making those powerful people jealous is naturally more effective than hiding it.
It's like when the East China Sea Jiaosheng went to Yuqing Sect to ask for guilt, Ye Zan only relied on the deterrent power of the merit tablet to scare the other party away without any merit. As for the foreign supreme who came to seek revenge later, his own plan was to send the Dharma Body to the Yuqing Sect, so if he knew that Ye Zan had a merit tablet, it would not be affected.
Therefore, at this time, in order to gain Elder Yu's trust, Ye Zan could also say without concealing that he was just to earn more merits.
In addition, Ye Zan's honesty has another great advantage, which is to give others a reason to believe in themselves.
Sometimes, the more you say that you don't want anything, how desireless you are, the more you will make others suspicious. After all, there are so few saints who have no desires and no desires, and no one will believe that they can meet such a saint.
Moreover, the more you say what you want, as long as it is not in conflict with the other person's interests, then the more you will be able to convince the other person to believe in you. The other party will "empathize", will stand in your position and think, and if you face such a thing, you can't refuse it at all.
Sure enough, hearing Ye Zan say that in order to earn merit, Elder Yu suddenly showed a shocked face, but his vigilance and suspicion were significantly less.
"Daoist friends said it was for merit?" Elder Yu asked in disbelief.
Of course, the suspicion that Elder Yu showed now was completely different from the previous suspicion, just an instinctive reaction under shock. After all, this merit is still a relatively ethereal thing for ordinary people, and although people often say "accumulate merit" and the like, in fact, no one really regards merit as a pursuit.
The fundamental reason for this situation is that there is no standard for measuring merit, and no one knows how much merit they can get by doing something. Moreover, no one knows what specific benefits they can bring to themselves after accumulating how much merit they have accumulated, and they don't know whether it will reduce disasters or increase luck.
It is precisely because of this that when the ancient immortals established the immortal court, they would make such a thing as a merit monument, which can make people know how much merit they have more intuitively.
It's just that even at that time, only the immortals of the Immortal Court used the merit tablet, and ordinary cultivators were still not qualified to use the merit tablet. After all, at the level where the true immortal is located, every move will have a great impact on heaven and earth, and the increase or decrease of merit will be more obvious.
And ordinary cultivators, even if they have merit tablets, it is very difficult to earn merit. Not everyone can be like Ye Zan, who has the opportunity and ability to earn a lot of merit, so naturally there is not much demand for merit tablets. It was probably because of this that the Immortal Court did not spread the merit tablet to the "Netherworld".
As a result, ordinary cultivators have never had any substantive concept of merit, and at most they just talk about it.
Therefore, hearing Ye Zan mention of "merit", Elder Yu was naturally a little incredulous, or it could also be said to be incomprehensible.
"Not bad!" Ye Zan nodded, glanced at Duobao Zhenjun next to him, turned his gaze back and said, "I can't hide it, I found a separate palace of Uncle Xuanqing a few years ago, and got a merit tablet left from it." That merit tablet is said to be the immortal court thing that Uncle Xuanqing found from an immortal demon battlefield when he was traveling in the endless void, which can measure the increase or decrease of the owner's merit. ”
This time, Ye Zan considered the face of Duobao Zhenjun, and did not directly ask Elder Yu if he already knew, but introduced the origin of his merit tablet to the other party from the beginning. You must know that when he was in the Netherworld to prevent the invasion of demons outside the sky, Ye Zan used the merit tablet, and later used it to scare away the Jiaosheng of the East China Sea. Therefore, the Tianbao Sect must also know that the merit tablet in his hand is not known if it has been sold to the outer regions.
Seeing Ye Zan's gaze sweeping over, Duobao Zhenjun couldn't help but blush, and hurriedly said with a wry smile: "Wuji Daoyou, my sect is not so ignorant! Without the nod of Daoyou, such an important matter, my sect will not leak a trace of it no matter what." ”
Of course, Duobao Zhenjun said that, the real reason was because of the rise of the Yuqing Sect, and the Tianbao Sect could no longer ignore the feelings of the Yuqing Sect.
Ye Zan knew this very well, but the two sides were partners, and there was no need to let the other party not get off the stage, so he nodded and said: "Duobao Daoyou has thought about it a lot, I don't doubt the meaning of Daoyou, I just want to ask Daoyou to be a circumstantial evidence, at least let Elder Yu know that I am not talking nonsense." ”
"Wuji Daoyou is not like this, although the old man feels that this matter is a little unbelievable, but he will not suspect that Daoist friends are deliberately deceived. It's just that, after all, the old man doesn't know anything about the merit monument, so it's hard to imagine how to get the merit. If Daoist friends don't mind, I wonder if you can tell the old man a little bit more?" Elder Yu asked curiously, and did not question Ye Zan's words.
However, Elder Yu asked Ye Zan to elaborate like this, in fact, there was some meaning to inquire about the truth. If this person tells a lie, one or two sentences may not be flawed, but if he tells dozens or hundreds of sentences, it will be easy to show his feet.
Ye Zan didn't mind Elder Yu's inquiry, so he said very easily: "This, there is nothing bad to say, how to obtain merit, of course, I can't say a certain standard, so I can only talk about what I have done." ”
Regarding Elder Yu's inquiry, Ye Zan not only didn't mind, but could even be said to be unwanted. Since the other party asked, it means that the other party is interested, if he really doesn't ask anything, but Ye Zan doesn't want to see it.
"Fellow Daoists, please speak!" Elder Yu made a look of deafness.
"Now, in the Shenhua realm, there are not only these thousands of miles of gods, but also in secular countries, a set of things called rail transit has been designed for them. Just saying this below, maybe the elders are still a little difficult to understand, so it's better to look at the images brought below. Ye Zan first introduced the rail transit, and in order to make it easier for the other party to understand, he also used the holographic projector to release relevant images.
In the hologram, there is a bird's-eye view from a high altitude, and what I see is a very regular long line on the ground. Those long lines, some places are straight, some places are curved, but whether they are straight or curved, they are very regular, and at a glance you know that it cannot be a natural product.
Immediately afterward, the image in the bird's-eye view began to zoom in rapidly, as if a person was rapidly descending from a high altitude. And the lines on the ground are becoming clearer and clearer, and you can see that something is speeding along the lines.
"Elder Yu, this is the rail transit mentioned below, and the lines you see are not ordinary official roads, but a special kind of road, called tracks. On that track, the speeding snake-like thing is a kind of train dedicated to this kind of track. As you can tell from the name 'train', it's like a dozen cars connected into one. Ye Zan put the hologram on the side, and at the same time gave Elder Yu a detailed explanation.
Ye Zan didn't just want to push the Thousand Miles Transmission to the outer regions, after all, the Thousand Miles Transmission was for cultivators, and the merits that could be provided were actually not the highest. Among these things in Ye Zan's hands, the ones that can really earn merit for him the most have to be said to be those things that can benefit worldly mortals. For example, this rail transit, as well as those high-yielding crops, are things that can have a great impact on the worldly mortals and the world.
However, if Ye Zan wants to really push rail transit and high-yield crops to all the realms of the outer realms, he has to rely on the help of the great sects and sects of the various realms. At the beginning, Ye Zan was in the Shenhua Domain Realm, and he promoted the rail transit everywhere, and he also asked the sects in various places to help. In other words, even if they don't help, at least don't do anything, don't be like those sects in the Dajin Kingdom back then.
And the thousands of miles of spirit, as well as the network operation that Ye Zan mentioned to everyone in the foreign regions before, are actually also paving the way for these things later. Through network operation, Ye Zan can have some reliable partners in the outer region, and when the time comes, he will naturally get a certain degree of support and help to further promote these things in the region.
Among them, for Ye Zan, if he could bring the Moyi Sect in, then everything would really be perfect. First of all, the Moyi Sect has absolute dominion in this Moyi Realm, and it will be easy to promote those things in the Moyi Realm, and it is almost impossible to hinder any more. Secondly, the teleportation circle controlled by the Moyi Sect can also connect several realms in the outer realms. Ye Zan will also have the opportunity to go to those regions more conveniently, and then with the help of partners in several domains, he will promote rail transit to a wider world.
Therefore, Ye Zan is now very attentive to introduce Elder Yu, doing everything possible to let the other party see the benefits of this.
Moreover, compared to other realms, there is another advantage on the side of the Moyi Realm, that is, the cultivators of the Moyi Sect have not left the world. As I said before, the Moyi Domain is a bit of a ****, and the Moyi Sect is not only a sect of cultivators, but also a secular administrator.
In other realms, cultivators are all high up, treating mundane mortals as ant-like beings, and naturally they are not willing to do anything for them. The so-called battle between good and evil is not essentially to protect mortals, but only a conflict in the concept of cultivation. It is not uncommon for people on the side of the Demon Dao to take countless mortal blood sacrifice weapons, and after the people on the side of the Righteous Dao have eliminated the Demon Guardian Dao, they have taken the magic weapon in their pockets with peace of mind.
And here in the Moyi Domain, since it is the **** model, then even if the secular mortals are still ants, they are also ants or people under the management of the Moyi Sect. Therefore, whether these ants can reap the benefits and live a better life, from the perspective of the rulers, the Moyi Sect will be more or less concerned than other sects.
After listening to Ye Zan's introduction, Elder Yu looked at the speeding train in the hologram, nodded and said, "This thing looks like a land canal, but it allows secular people to go further, and it also facilitates the circulation of products from all over the world!" 2k reading web