Don't mention Shang Ji's curiosity about the three brothers, just talk about the three Qing brothers.

Yuan Shi saw that the eldest brother was resolute, so he had to agree to the next attempt by the three brothers together.

is different from taking it by oneself and bearing the loss by himself, if he drags the two brothers into the water, Yuan Shi will be too careless, which is a responsibility.

Therefore, Yuan Shi must carefully think about the gains and losses of the first two times and sum up experience.

Not from the beginning, Taishang and Lingbao should also think carefully, after all, it is a major event involving the gain and loss of merit.

After the three of them thought for a long time, Taishang said: "Second brother, your first two attempts, one was that the root of Yu Yanlian withered after leaving dehydration, and the other was that it moved a certain range in the water and withered.

Yuan Shi carefully looked at the movement space of the two attempts, and shook his head: "The distance is different. ”

Taishang said: "But when you first moved the Jade Flame Lotus, the Jade Flame Lotus did not wither, why did it wither later?"

Yuan Shi thought about it carefully, and seemed to think of something, and in order to determine his thoughts, Yuan Shi returned to the bottom of the river and walked again empty-handed from the place where he had tried twice.

Yuan Shi said: "The distance is different, but the time is basically the same, and the time from Yu Yanlian leaving the river mud to withering is basically the same." ”

Lingbao interjected: "But this time is so short, doesn't it mean that Yu Yanlian can't be transplanted?"

Taishang didn't speak.

Yuan Shi looked up excitedly and said, "No, this just shows that the Jade Yanlian can be transplanted." ”

Lingbao wondered, "What do you mean?"

Yuan Shi said: "Transplantation is to move, first of all, to ensure that the spiritual value will not wither during the movement, if the jade Yanlian will wither as soon as it leaves the river mud, it means that the jade Yanlian cannot move, but it will wither after moving for a certain period of time, which just means that the jade Yanlian can move, but it must be planted immediately within a certain period of time, otherwise it will wither." ”

Lingbao said: "But, how far can it be transplanted in such a little time, and what is the point of transplantation?"

Yuan Shi said: "As long as we can move, we will definitely be able to transplant successfully, but we haven't found a way." ”

How? The three brothers pondered.

After a long time, Lingbao slapped his thigh: "There it is!"

Taishang and Yuan Shi looked at Lingbao.

Lingbao said: "We can only transfer the Jade Flame Lotus to a safe and mobile environment within the time that the Jade Flame Lotus is withering, and then transport it back." ”

"A safe environment that can be moved?" Taishang and Genshi wondered.

Lingbao said: "As far as I know, Yu Yanlian is a relatively common spiritual value, which is available in all kinds of waters, which shows that Yu Yanlian's requirements for the living environment are not high, as long as there is water and mud, can we make something full of water and mud, put Yu Yanlian in it, and then transport it back to the clan." ”

"Great idea!" the crowd applauded.

Do what you think.

The three brothers and Shang Ji began to do it.

After several experiments, Lingbao split the giant wood, split it into a straight plank, and then formed a circle, the bottom was also dragged with wooden planks, and then the river mud was collected to coat the gaps between the wooden planks, dried in the sun, and made a hollow thing with a bottom.

After completion, Lingbao said with a smile: "It's done, this is made of bamboo, this bamboo has grown for 180,000 years, and the bamboo body has been marked with eighteen meshes, I think it's called a box." ”

As soon as Lingbao's words fell, a wisp of yellow light flashed in the sky and fell into Lingbao Tianling.

"The light of merit?" Shang Ji was speechless.

What kind of person is my little uncle, just do something at will, and a ray of merit will fall from the sky.

This is a ray of merit, which is equivalent to 129,600 merits.

Is merit so worthless?

Shang Ji was depressed in her heart, but she didn't know that in a palace in the void, there was an ancestor who was even more depressed.

The old ancestor jumped to his feet angrily: "A few little guys, I know that you are very good, but can you not be so good, you can get some merits in three days, this is to let the whole world know your rhythm." ”

Old Ancestor thought for a while and said, "It seems that a few little guys have already touched a little mystery of the Dao, and there will be no shortage of opportunities to gain merit in the future." Forget it, just take it as the ancestor I owe you, and cover it up for you again, and if you gain merit in the future, there will be no vision of merit from heaven, so as not to attract the attention of the three old guys in the Demon Dao, and it will not be cost-effective to cause them to do the black. ”

After the ancestor finished talking to himself, he pointed to the void with his hand.

An inexplicable mystery fell into the body of the Sanqing brothers, but none of the three brothers sensed the abnormality.

Only in the void, in the rest of the palaces, several old men who closed their eyes and cultivated opened their eyes, and they all wondered in their hearts: Which old guy did this? What happened?

Only the two old men understood better.

An old man in a black robe said to himself: "This is a cover-up of heaven, so that the ancestor I can't see who and what is specifically targeted, even the old ghost of Hongjun can't do it, only the old man who cultivates the avenue of merit, merit protects the body, does not touch cause and effect, and all laws do not invade, it is indeed extraordinary, but the meritorious, the external force Xiaoshuer, I am cultivating the demon Dao at ease, not being confused by external objects, even if you have hundreds of millions of merits in your body, how can you stop my heart from moving." ”

The black-robed old man sneered, closed his eyes, and continued to practice.

In another palace, an old man in a green robe smiled and said to himself: "Raise your eyebrows, old friend, thank you for taking care of my three juniors so carefully, since you value Taishang so much, let Taishang repay this cause and effect in the future!"

After the old man in the green robe finished speaking, he closed his eyes and didn't mention it.

Let's go back and talk about the Sanqing brothers, after building the box, they started the third attempt, this time, Taishang resolutely did not allow Yuan Shi to do it, and dived into the water with the box himself, and began to try the third transplant.

Taishang first filled the bottom of the box with a layer of river mud, and then, Taishang carefully selected a jade flame lotus, dug up the soil from around it, and quickly and steadily moved it into the box with the whole spirit plant and some soil that wrapped the lotus root.

Then Taishang carefully held the box and left the river.

The four people, including Taishang, were all nervous, the first attempt, Yuan Shi lost a ray of merit, the second attempt, the loss expanded to three, if the third attempt, what would be the result?

The Sanqing brothers don't know, but Shangji knows that if they fail again, no matter how much merit the three brothers have, they may not be enough to compensate.

The Shang clan belongs to the branch of the super clan, and the super clan has a great god in charge, and the clan members know a lot of secrets of the flood wilderness.

Shang Ji knows that there are two laws in the avenue of merit, namely the law of rewarding good and punishing evil, and the two laws together have a meaning: if you have the heart to do good, although you are good but not rewarded, you have no intention to be evil, although you are evil and you are not punished.

The first failure of the Yuan Shi and the destruction of a spiritual plant is an unintentional evil, so it is only the loss of the most basic ray of merit, which is not a punishment, this is what the Yuan Shi owes to the desolate world, it is to repay, it is to make up for the cause and effect.

However, Yuan Shi failed for the second time, and the desolate world judged that Yuan Shi had evil intentions, so the loss of merit increased to three times.

There is a saying that once and again, you can't do it again and again, and again and again.

This third defeat is just that, this is the second time, and the loss of merit may be comparable to the previous one.

But looking at the posture of the three brothers, either toss until the transplant is successful, or toss all the Yu Yanlian, if it still fails this time, the price paid by the three brothers will be great for the subsequent attempts.

So Shang Ji decided that once this attempt failed, he couldn't say anything to let the three brothers make a fourth attempt.

Just when everyone was worried, Taishang surfaced out of the river with the box.

The four of them stared at the box.

The jade Yanlian in the box swayed in the wind on the surface of the water, and after a stick of incense, the jade Yanlian showed no signs of withering at all.

Taishang smiled, and the other three cheered, and it succeeded.

Taishang put the box on the ground and said with a smile: "Now, what we have to do is to return to the clan as soon as possible. ”

Yuan Shi nodded: "Yes, now the Jade Flame Lotus has not withered, which means that transplantation is feasible, but we don't know whether this Jade Flame Lotus can survive forever, or if it can only survive a little longer than just now." So we have to hurry up and go back quickly. ”

Lingbao said: "Just take a jade Yanlian back, what about the rest?"

Shang Ji hated that iron could not become steel, and patted Lingbao: "Stupid, as long as the transplant can be successful, you can run two more trips, in case it is not successful, there is a problem on the way of Yu Yanlian, more than a dozen Yu Yanlian, can you afford to pay for your merits?"

"Oh, got it. Lingbao said aggrievedly.

Taishang said: "I estimate that the growth of Yu Yanlian is inseparable from water and mud, just in case, we will follow the river, in case something is wrong, we will immediately plant Yu Yanlian back into the river." ”

"Okay. The crowd answered.

As it turned out, Taishang's guess was right.

The group walked along the river for a while, about three days.

On the third day, the color of the Jade Yanlian was obviously yellow, and everyone obviously felt that the vitality of the Jade Yanlian had dissipated a lot.

Shang Ji, who was holding the box, put the box into the river, tilted it slightly, washed by the current, the box was replaced with new water, and Yu Yanlian regained her vitality at once.

Seeing this, Taishang sighed: "No wonder if there is no rain for a long time, many flood plants will die, it seems that water is the source of life." ”

With Taishang's sigh, Taishang felt his heart move, and the divine power that was already slowly growing, the growth rate of divine power was actually three points faster than the original basis.

Taishang's heart moved, he was already a median god, and the cultivation of the median god was different from before.

From the Mao God to the Middle God, what he perceives is a law of the Great Dao, which requires the companion law of gods and demons to be understood and then controlled.

However, the cultivation of the middle god to the higher god requires the gods and demons to understand the entire avenue, that is, all the laws of the entire avenue must reach the path of the lower gods.

Taishang clearly sensed that he had a better understanding of a certain law of his righteous path.

In the past, Taishang's perception of this law was vague, and he only knew about its existence, but he was not familiar with it and did not understand it, but this time, Taishang clearly sensed this law - the law of tracing the origin of the righteous path.

Taishang was surprised and delighted.