That's natural and serious, the monks don't speak, and the Xuankong Daoist doesn't disdain to prevaricate a mortal with lies.

There are not many ways in the Pangu world to make mortals become immortals, but it is not difficult to just pray for an immortal life. The easiest of these is to accumulate merit, and Xuankong already knows that the book of life and death in the underworld is the karma of all beings.

As far as he knew, the only thing that could suppress karma between heaven and earth was the golden light of merit.

When Geng Qu heard this, his face couldn't help but darken, what great merit could he make as a mortal?

Even if a mortal accumulates good relations with others all his life, it is at most just a blessing in the next life. Although it is said that the accumulation of this good fortune can also make people become gods on the earth, it will take too long.

What Geng Qu is missing now is time.

Xuankong nodded and said, "Yes, it is merit." The so-called merit can break life and death, can attain nirvana, can save sentient beings, and the name is meritorious. This merit is the work of one's own good deeds, so it is called merit!"

Miss Qingfeng also said: "But the little girl also heard that the Three Realms ** virtue is the most difficult to obtain. Although he can protect people from evil to good fortune and prolong his life, how can he get so many merits when he gets sick?"

Building bridges and roads is merit, and saving people's lives is also merit, and at first glance merit seems to be everywhere at your fingertips.

But in fact, if you want to make merit and give birth to the divine effect of changing your life and increasing your life, it is not a little bit that is still difficult to accumulate.

Xuankong had already been confident that he would come up with this method, and he opened his mouth and said with a smile: "Among the gods of heaven and earth, only the land and city god protect the people, and it is easiest to accumulate merit. "What he wants is to protect Geng to get sick and become an earth immortal, although the duties of the earth immortal are complicated, but as long as you do it with your heart, it is the god who can accumulate merit the most.

Geng Qu said with a sad face: "But Lord Chenghuang is a god in the sky, and he can't do it just by saying it." ”

Xuankong smiled and said, "Although I don't know about this, I can ask someone who knows how to ask for advice." ”

Miss Qingfeng was puzzled: "Someone who knows how to do it?"

Xuankong said: "I can see that the local Chenghuang of Ninghai County is a mortal god, I think he should understand what this says, right? And I also have a good relationship with him, although the Chenghuang of Ninghai County is a strict person, but he is a person who is cold on the outside and hot on the inside, he should not stand idly by." ”

Miss Qingfeng said softly: "The surname of the Xuankong Daoist is good, and you can make friends wherever you go." ”

Xuankong used a method to summon the local city god, and the city god of Ninghai County was still dressed in a Confucian robe. was summoned by Xuankong, and curiously looked at the layout of the room, and recognized that this was the Zhang family's compound outside the county.

He walked in front of Xuankong and saluted: "The little god is polite, I don't know what the matter is for the immortal to summon the little god?"

Xuankong was a little apologetic, and hurriedly held up the city god of Ninghai County, and said, "City God doesn't need to be polite, Xuankong just has some private matters that he wants to ask." He then said that he wanted to seek merit and prolong his life.

Chenghuang of Ninghai County saw Geng Quai, who was still kneeling on the ground in front of him, with only a stump arm left, and guessed that he might have survived the Zhang family's demon annihilation. Regardless of where Geng Quai's ancestral home is, as long as he comes to Ninghai County, he can't ignore it as a city god in one place.

Compared with the indifference to Miss Qingfeng, the Chenghuang of Ninghai County had a much better attitude towards Geng Quai. He smiled and nodded to Geng Quai, and muttered: "Sincerity is merit, and goodness is virtue, this is the meaning of merit." ”

"It is indeed possible for a city god who is fair and strict in his land, and who is faithful to his duties, and who keeps the land under his control in peace and tranquility, can indeed obtain merits that can prolong the life of mortals in a short period of time. ”

Geng Quai's eyes burst with hope, and Xuankong also smiled: "It's so good, but I don't know if there is any way for mortals to become City God?"

In fact, Xuankong is not very sure, but in his previous life, he seemed to have heard people mention that Yin Baozheng of Kaifeng Mansion in the Song Dynasty was a great Qing official who judged the Yang Shi and the Yin Cao at night. And in "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", there seem to be many stories of mortals serving as ghosts and gods in the underworld.

That's why the local city god of Ninghai County was recruited, and he had to give it a try.

The city god of Ninghai County hurriedly replied: "Whether it is the land or the city god, in fact, they are all ghosts and immortals, although they are in the human realm, they are under the jurisdiction of the prefecture after all. Because he is not in the roster of the righteous gods of the heavenly court, as long as the immortals can find a god of the earth and the yin to guaranture, they can recommend this scholar to take the Chenghuang exam. ”

Xuankong listened curiously, and blurted out, "It turns out that Chenghuang also needs an exam?"

How does this sound like the civil servant in the previous life, the righteous god of the heavenly court is a regular worker with an establishment, so the ** person who has survived the catastrophe and ascended to the immortal realm can take it.

And these Chenghuang land are temporary workers, who are only responsible for dealing with specific things, but there is a lot of room for work in the admission process.

Ninghai County Chenghuang Zhengse said: "The little god is like this, and he has become the local patron saint of Ninghai County. ”

Xuankong listened to it freshly, he first asked Geng Qu to get up from the ground, and then instructed Miss Qingfeng to bring the chair. Let Ninghai County Chenghuang speak slowly, then Ninghai County Chenghuang actually did a Confucian official in the Great Song Dynasty.

This Great Song Dynasty is a little different from the previous generation, in the ** realm, Buddhism and Taoism are parallel, but in the human world, Confucianism is not as prosperous as the previous generation.

As a Confucian official, he had the responsibility of organizing regular scientific examinations for Confucian scholars and obtaining excellent recommendations to enter the imperial court as officials. At that time, this Confucian official suddenly contracted a strange disease for some reason, and only felt exhausted and wanted to die.

And in this confusion, he saw a man dressed as a soldier leading a strange-looking purple horse to bring a piece of paper, and said, "Sir, come with me to the examination room to take the exam." ”

This Confucian official listened strangely, as an official of the Great Song Dynasty, he was the only one who organized other people's exams. When someone could come to inform him to take the exam, he took it curiously, and actually saw the inscription of the five-clawed divine dragon engraved on the disc.

He frowned and browsed, and said: "I have always been only for grassroots officials in the Confucian scientific examination, how can I work for the Son of Heaven? Moreover, as a Confucian official of the Great Song Dynasty, this official has never received the will to open the examination, so why did he suddenly ask me to take any exam?"

The servant did not say a word, but urged him to leave quickly. The Confucian official couldn't, so he reluctantly rode a horse with him with his illness.

Chenghuang of Ninghai County said: "Strange to say, I was already sick at that time, and I was so dizzy that I was almost dying. But after riding the strange horse, I felt that I had inexhaustible strength in my body, and my mind began to clear up. ”

Xuankong said beside him: "That's the night horse of the Netherworld Ghost Realm, with Yin Qi to protect the body. Ordinary mortals would only feel uncomfortable when they approached it, but the city god must have been dying for a long time, and the yin energy on the night pony was actually beneficial and harmless to the soul of the city god. (To be continued.) )