Chapter Ninety-One: Incense Invites Shinto
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Since Nuwa Niangniang created the path of cultivation, people in later generations have taken this spark-like inspiration as an opportunity to derive countless cultivation methods through the deliberation and evolution of countless wise men.
Although in every era, there are only a very few cultivators who can follow the path of cultivation and finally climb to the realm of the Yuan Shen True Immortal. However, with the huge population base of human beings, there is already a considerable number of people who have accumulated from generation to generation to the present day. This is also the main reason why naturally strong races such as dragons should obediently stay in the four seas.
However, in the thousands of years after Nuwa Niangniang, only the Yellow Emperor and Lao Tzu were able to set foot in the mysterious realm above the Yuan Shen True Immortal and get rid of the shackles of this side of heaven and earth.
These true immortal life wishes of the Yuan Shen are naturally to become the next Nuwa, the Yellow Emperor or Lao Tzu, so they rack their brains and painstakingly to find a way to touch and even truly step into a higher realm. Among them, spreading faith and gathering the power of incense and prayer are the most widely spread.
It seems that during a certain period of time, many Yuan Shen monks discovered that the power of incense prayers could not only help their cultivation, but even make them completely fall into the realm of cessation and slightly improve.
This discovery made them ecstatic, so they abandoned their previous habit of hiding in the footsteps and meditating on the natural life of heaven and earth, and rushed to spread their faith among the world, collecting incense and praying for power.
Later, some Jindan and even Qi cultivators also found that it was faster to borrow the power of incense and prayer to practice, so they also joined the ranks of spreading the faith.
Although the world is vast, it will eventually have its end, and although there are many beings, they are not infinite after all. When there are more people who spread their faith, it is inevitable that there will be conflicts of interest between them. Because of the differences between the monks and their relatives, the conflicts inevitably escalated, resulting in several extremely tragic battles.
On the one hand, these wars implicated most of the cultivation world, leading to the fall of many cultivators, including some Yuan Shen True Immortals, and on the other hand, they triggered the change of hands and the rise and fall of dynasties in the world.
After paying an extremely heavy price, these practitioners finally calmed down and remembered to sit down and solve the problem in another way. After a long negotiation of contention and compromise, they decided to form an organization to coordinate the spread of faith among the people and distribute the power of incense and prayers, which became the Heavenly Court.
Later, Buddhism spread eastward, and some Buddhist practitioners also discovered the beauty of the power of incense and prayer, and naturally wanted to get a piece of the pie. Although the overall strength of Buddhism was far inferior to that of Heavenly Court at that time, it had the only Venerable Shakyamuni who had already touched the realm above the primordial god and even stepped out half a step out, so that Heavenly Court had to accept the entry of Buddhism. What Heavenly Court didn't expect was that Buddhism was more sophisticated in spreading beliefs, and after thousands of years of open and secret fighting, it gradually became an anti-guest-oriented trend.
Besides, although the power of the incense prayer can promote cultivation, improve the realm, and even be used to refine the magic weapon array, it can be called infinitely useful, but it is not without drawbacks.
To know that the way of heaven and earth lies in the word balance, if you want to get something, you have to give something.
The power of incense prayer comes from the faith of the human world, and to obtain the faith of human beings, it is necessary to give something to human beings. Although it cannot be flooded to the level of "responding to requests" as in the legend, it is necessary to respond to the power of prayer that has reached a certain scale, otherwise with the loss of human faith in it, the power of prayer condensed by itself will also dissipate, and what is even more terrifying is that one's own cultivation and realm will also decline.
The true immortals of the Yuan Shen have the divine power of the differentiation of the Yuan Shen, and can rely on their own cultivation to differentiate a different number of Yuan Shen clones scattered in the world, in response to the power of the incense and prayers offered by the believers, while the Jindan Earth Immortals and Qi Cultivators can only stay in a corner of the place and respond with the manifestation of the Yang God or the Yin God.
The talisman used by Wang Daoling was called the "Divine Descent Talisman", which was a clever use of the power of incense and prayer by cultivators. Roughly speaking, you first gather the power of prayer, and then transform it into the power of your prayer to the god you worship, in exchange for it to respond to one of your own requests. The principle is similar to that of the world, where people spend money to hire bodyguards and thugs, and they work long and short, but the cost of hiring is too high, and it is difficult to hire people.
When he saw this "Divine Descent Talisman", Li Gongfu immediately understood the reason for Wang Daoling's swaggering and deception, which was naturally to collect the power of incense and prayer needed to stimulate the "Divine Descent Talisman". At the same time, he also thought that he should have worked hard for many years for this spirit rune, because it was not easy to collect the power of the incense prayer, and it would be a lot of loss to transform the power of the prayer he collected into the power of his prayer for the gods he worshipped, and the god he invited was the old Yuan God True Immortal Zhao Gongming, and the high cost of this "mercenary money" can be imagined.
However, this kind of thing is definitely a penny for a penny, as long as you can afford the price, then you can definitely invite a sufficient amount of gods. As if it was just a clone of Zhao Gongming's primordial spirit that appeared in front of him, it was difficult for an ordinary Jindan Earth Immortal to hit him with a steel whip.
At this moment, everyone had stopped fighting, and the clone of Zhao Gong's manifestation shouted to Wang Daoling: "Little Daoist, what do you want from the lower realm of the deity?"
Wang Daoling glared at Li Gongfu with resentment, and wanted to ask Marshal Zhao to kill this thief on the spot. But he accidentally learned the background of the "Heavenly Punishment Division", and knew that Zhao Gongming might not be willing to befriend the person behind the "Heavenly Punishment Division" for the power of this prayer. After all, there is a limit to the use of "divine descents", and if the invited god feels that the other party has to pay a great price for what he wants, he also has the right to refuse this reward.
After weighing the pros and cons in his heart, he finally forcibly put aside this thought, and bowed to Zhao Gongming's clone on the one hand, while pretending to be pitiful and pleading: "The disciple was killed today, I implore the gods to protect the disciple from this catastrophe!"
Zhao Gongming's clone nodded and smiled, and he was also satisfied with the little Taoist priest's acquaintance, and did not make a request that made it difficult for him. Then he turned to Li Gongfu and said, "That kid of the 'Heavenly Punishment Division', today the deity is in charge, let this little Taoist priest go, and you quickly withdraw your own people!"
Li Gongfu stepped forward slowly, put the police crutch on his arm, clasped his hands into fists and saluted the other party, and then said with a smile on his face, but his voice was extremely firm: "Marshal Zhao, this matter is difficult to obey!"