Chapter 52: The City God
After asking several passers-by, Bai Lu and the others found the so-called City God Temple. Compared with the ancient temples that Bai Lu had seen with golden and brilliant incense, this City God Temple looked a little dilapidated, but it was more quiet under the starry sky at night. "This is it, Sanshan, I'll go in first, you're outside. “
"Well, Sister Bai, I'll go first, see you later. After speaking, he smiled at Bai Lu and left. After all, she has been separated for several years, and now Shang Yushan is much stronger than the soft little girl before, and she is also used to the division and integration of the cultivation world, everything is fate.
Bai Lu shook her head and looked at the two wetness on the ground: "Little girl." "When you enter the City God Temple, you can smell the faint smell of incense, the faint sandalwood, which is very good.
The statue of the city god in the temple has peeled off the paint, and the old one can't see the color, but it does not affect the momentum of the city god at all, Bai Lu said hello, and smoked a few incense sticks on the desk and muttered a prayer: "Grandpa Chenghuang, the little girl begs you to help take me into the underworld." After praying several times, Bai Lu stopped and sat on the ground and waited quietly.
"Are you looking for me?" I thought of Qingyue's voice.
Bai Lu raised his head and saw a handsome man coming out of the statue of the city god, wearing a city god costume that showed his identity, and smiled at Bai Lu.
Sensing a faint coercion coming from Chenghuang's body, Bai Lu saluted respectfully: "Bai Lu has seen Lord Chenghuang. ”
"Oh, are you the Bai Lu from the outside world, who wants to go back to the world of Red Mansions?" Although he is just a city god, but because the incense in the capital is prosperous, his strength can be regarded as good among the existing gods, and he naturally knows that he has been busy with the major events in the cultivation world in the past few years, but as a god born by relying on the power of faith, it doesn't matter if he doesn't leave, he just happens to meet this Bai Lu, and he can also inquire about the news of the Canghai realm, and then decide whether to go or not.
"Yes, the junior is Bai Lu from the Canghai Realm, since the seniors already know, then the junior has the cheekiness to ask Lord Chenghuang to send me to the underworld. Bai Lu was a little confused, and he didn't know when his reputation became so big.
"Well, raise your hands, come with me!" the city god came to the statue with Bai Lu. In fact, the city god lives in the underworld, and it is very convenient to travel between the present world and the underworld through the golden body on weekdays.
Bai Lu also knew from the jade slips left by Chang'e that for the gods, the golden body was the equivalent of an incarnation, which was very important. There is generally a wisp of divine consciousness traction on the golden body, which is thousands of miles away, and it can be instantaneously reached through this wisp of divine consciousness traction. At the same time, the believer makes a wish to the golden body, and the gods can listen to the wishes of the believers and choose to fulfill the sex through the transmission of the golden body, and at the same time, the golden body can also receive the incense and the power of faith from the believers, and the gods cultivate through this. And the golden body of the city god looks old, clay embryos, however, for a soul body like Bai Lu, it is obvious that a powerful power different from spiritual power is stored on the golden body.
"Come in" Cheng Huang raised his hand and a black hole portal appeared, and he was the first to enter, followed by Bai Lu. It's a gray passage for a day, and there is a feeling of nine bends and eighteen bends.
"This channel is very unstable, you can only rely on walking, be careful, the slightest energy interference is easy to go wrong. Chenghuang said solemnly to Bai Lu.
"Well, the juniors know. Bai Lu nodded and walked cautiously behind.
"Little friend, since you are from the Canghai Continent, tell me about the Canghai Continent! We will probably have to walk for more than ten minutes. ”
Bai Lu was clear, no wonder he was so enthusiastic, "Lord Chenghuang wants to know something?" Bai Lu is just a small person in the Canghai World, and what he knows is what the people at the bottom know. ”
"Is there a god like me over there?"
"There are ghost cultivators in the Canghai world, but there are no gods. It was only when I came here that I learned that there is such a monk as God. ”
"Then how do you cultivate over there, are you just like the cultivators on our side?"
"There are many cultivation systems in the Canghai Realm, cultivating immortals, cultivating demons, cultivating souls, and spiritual cultivation is demon cultivation, as well as physical cultivation, illusion cultivation, Dan cultivation, Confucian cultivation, Buddhist cultivation and so on."
"Oh, that's a hundred schools of thought. Chenghuang's eyes flashed with excitement, and he suddenly wanted to go to such a world.
"What is the relationship between the cultivation realm and mortals over there?" Cheng Huang thought for a moment and asked a big question about his own cultivation.
"The cultivation realm and the mortal realm complement each other, and they just go back every few years to collect disciples. Immortal cultivators are not allowed to mutilate mortals at will, otherwise it will be very difficult for them to experience the thunder tribulation. ”
"How did you survive there?" As a god, you don't have to cross the thunder tribulation, but the tribulation is not easy either. Often, after each catastrophe, the gods fall in vain.
"Only in the Jindan period, there will be thunder tribulations in the Yuan Infant Period and the Tribulation Period. It is divided into 39, 69 and 99 thunder tribulations. Bai Lu said here, so he simply made it clear: "Most of the immortal cultivation stages in the Canghai Continent are acquired-innate-foundation-heartbeat-knot-knot-born-born-yuan-infant-distraction-tribulation-Mahayana." Further up is the level of immortals, but I don't know about it for a casual practice. Each stage is divided into three levels: early, middle and late. Demon beasts and soul cultivators and other internal cultivation systems are different from immortal cultivators, the demon pill period of the demon beast knot corresponds to the pill period, there is no fetal period, and the second phase is the transformation phase, and so on. Under the demon pill is the first-order, second-order, and third-order, which correspond to the class of cultivating immortals. I don't know much about soul cultivation. ”
Chenghuang nodded as he listened, and in this way, it was not much different from this world. Both of them were hungry and fast, but in a few words, the two arrived.
This is a gray space, the miserable moonlight, shining on the body of the white dew of the soul body for a while, the soul body that has been much thinner in the past few days has a tendency to rise. It's just that looking at Chenghuang, who was still a handsome and beautiful man, suddenly turned into a ghost man with a pale face and purple lips, Bai Lu still couldn't accept it.
Looking at the tall buildings in the distance, Bai Lu's face was surprised for a moment.
"Why, isn't it the same as you imagined the underworld!" Chenghuang teased. Bai Lu nodded, she came to this world to be well-read, and she was familiar with some mythological stories, who would have thought that the dungeon in those ancient stories would be like this high-rise modern city.
"Is the world progressing, in fact, because of the increase in the population above, the underworld is also overpopulated, but the managers of the underworld are still those few. In addition, the underworld not only connects the world above, but also connects many dependent worlds, and the people of these worlds all come here to reincarnate. Those wicked people can be said to be tortured in the underworld, and those who are not good or bad are the most, and most of them live in high-rise buildings over there, waiting for the opportunity to be reincarnated. And those who have merit can exchange their merits for the qualification to enter the small world, and the underworld will arrange the status they want and let them spend their lives. In this way, both merit is obtained and overpopulation is solved. ”
"What do you think of merit? I don't know if I have merit on me, and I can't go back without merit?" Bai Lu was a little anxious.
"You, it depends on what Lord Hades says, after all, you are different from them, your physical body is the person over there, and I don't know how you came here. It's not so easy to get from a small world to a big world. ”