Cultivating Immortality in a World of Chaos - Chapter 784

[Chapter 782 Shinto]

“I came to see you, sir, and I dare not be disrespectful.”

Gan Yu put down the bamboo basket, stood aside with the courtesy of a disciple, and asked after a long while, “What book are you reading, sir?”

“Oh, it’s just a folk story. It’s called Guanglin Zhiyi… It’s a miscellaneous record. You have to study for the imperial examination, so you can’t be distracted. It’s better to just read the Taoist scriptures.”

Fang Xi picked up the teacup beside him, took a sip of the rough tea, and lectured.

This crude tea is just ordinary, made casually in the market, but it also has a unique wild charm.

“Sir, you are right.”

Gan Yu bowed his head and accepted the instruction.

“When you present a gift to someone, you must be asking for something… I already know your intention.”

Fang Xi turned around and walked into the house. Not long after, he came out holding a few thread-bound books. “The Daoist Scripture has 36 volumes, and I only have 18 volumes here. You can borrow three volumes each time… Remember to return them immediately after borrowing them. After all, I still need these volumes of the Daoist Scripture to teach the children of my host family!”

“Thank you very much, sir…”

Gan Yu’s tone was choked with tears. Mr. Fang’s willingness to lend him books without hesitation was a great favor to him…

…

“Scholars… huh…”

After Gan Yuzhen left with the three Taoist scriptures in his arms, Fang Xi smiled and continued reading some miscellaneous books.

From these miscellaneous books, you can learn more about this world.

Although most of them are just conjectures and rumors, after peeling back the layers, we can still see some of the truth…

For example, in this book “Guanglin Zhiyi”, there is a record of the anecdotes of a “Wei prefect”. It is said that he was “prefect during the day and city god at night”. Because of his divine duties, Taoism could not approach him. A monk who practiced wild fox Zen deliberately blocked the official sedan chair, wanting to show his magical powers and spread Buddhism. As a result, he was held down by several yamen runners and beaten to death…

“This world is quite strange. The imperial court is not called the imperial court, but the ‘Dao Court’. However, the ruler is still the emperor…”

Fang Xi turned to another page, which told the story of a filial son named Wang Liulang, whose filial piety moved heaven and earth, and was eventually deified after his death and ascended to heaven.

Before that, he had also read an interesting anecdote from unofficial history, which said that in the previous dynasty, there was an emperor who was incompetent and tyrannical, and all the officials died in protest against the emperor, which was known as the “Hundred Righteousness” and became a famous story at the time.

But according to Fang Xi’s understanding, they all probably hold divine positions. Death is not a fear to these people, but a relief. Therefore, they all strike together and ascend to become gods!

Bang!
Fang Xi put down the book in his hand. All the strange stories and interesting stories he had read these days… just like peeling off the silk threads of an onion, a whole new world was revealed to him.

“In the Shinto world… therefore the ruler is called the Son of Heaven, not the Human Emperor.”

“In addition to this, there are legends about heavenly messengers, heavenly decrees, and ascending to godhood from time to time… It seems that any mortal can do it. As long as there is a spirit after death and the ghost is not ignorant, it is possible to be deified?!”

“Heaven? Heaven governs the world, Taoism governs people…”

Fang Xi inexplicably thought of that huge middle thousand world. Now it seems that it should be the location of the thirty-three heavens in the legend.

There doesn’t seem to be any strong interface between this heaven and this human world.

Whether it’s the ascension of gods or the decree of heaven, although it’s not uncommon, it’s not rare either.

In comparison, the barrier between the human world and the earthly immortal world is extremely terrifying.

“It seems that this is the special feature of the Thousand Worlds in this area… can it communicate with the subordinate small worlds at any time?”

“Moreover, the mainstream system does not seem to be about refining qi and cultivating immortals… but about ‘granting talismans’, and the path is ‘divine’…”

‘Practitioners in this world must pass the imperial examination and become a ‘Jinshi’ in the Dao Court before they are eligible to be listed in the Dao books and be taught Dao talismans. From then on, they will be listed in the Heavenly Court and have a Daoist position… Only when they have a Daoist position can they be appointed as officials!’

Fang Xi thought of the “Guang Lin Zhi Yi” he had read. In the story, as long as the person was an official, the demons and ghosts would be afraid of him, and it was even more difficult for some monks and sorcerers to display their supernatural powers in person.

They claimed that they were protected by the power of the officials, blessed by the dragons, and suppressed the five elements, and prohibited all laws!
In fact, it was because they themselves were gods! They had divine duties! Therefore, they could achieve the state of saints in power, and the ghosts were not gods!

“Officials of the Dao Court rule people during the day and ghosts at night…Even after death, their spirits are immortal and merge directly with the divine duties. They truly become righteous gods with golden bodies. Those with great merits can even directly ascend to heaven to serve as officials…Therefore, death is a relief worth looking forward to for them…There are hundreds of officials who died directly to protest. This is not because they are loyal and brave, but because they all have a way out…”

“The Shinto system? That’s interesting…”

Fang Xi touched his chin.

He observed the Earth God day and night and had already gained some understanding of this system.

Specifically, it is to gather the power of incense and offerings from all over the place through the Shinto talisman, shape a golden body, and extract divine power…

“In this way, it is almost equivalent to being bound to the believers, and being infected by the poison of incense, and having the misfortune of ‘losing myself’. Moreover, due to the responsibilities, it is difficult for me to be free and at ease…”

“Even though there are so many disadvantages, the good thing is that there are no qualifications or other requirements. Once you achieve success, your cultivation will be so strong that it will almost surpass that of other cultivators of the same level…”

After all, a cultivator only has the strength of one person, while Shinto gods have the combined strength of many!

“But… the biggest disadvantage is that if you don’t have a boss to promote you, you will never be able to advance to this level in your lifetime!”

“With so many levels of enfeoffment and support…how terrifying will the Emperor of Heaven be in the end?”

Fang Xi suddenly thought of the powerful threat he felt when he was about to go to the Middle Thousand World.

With the tight network of Shintoism, even if one casts a spell to summon a rain of divine power, the God of Land would notice it.

If you stir up trouble in the middle thousand worlds of the Heavenly Court, you will be discovered by the “Emperor
of Heaven” in an instant! This is equivalent to unifying the earthly immortal world and the existence of the three thousand worlds, and you are still a local snake of the Shinto!

Fang Xi even suspected that even if a true immortal descended, this “Emperor of Heaven” would be able to suppress it…

Therefore, it was definitely the most correct decision for him not to choose to go directly to the Thirty-three Heavens where the Heaven is located at the beginning.

“It seems… the harvest from this world should be a brand new Shinto cultivation system?”

Fang Xi murmured.

“It’s just that… the Shinto must be granted… the restrictions imposed by the superiors are too terrifying.”

“I’d better find a guinea pig to do the experiment on my behalf.”

He was indeed quite interested in this Shinto method.

This is not for self-cultivation.

Fang Xi only wishes to become an immortal and live a carefree life. He is too lazy to do the hard work of becoming a god.

But… he thought of his subordinates from the Jiuzhou Realm.

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Without even using the Taiyi Sutra to analyze it, he knew that this Shinto system was a perfect match for the Nine Provinces!
Even the Dao Court, the people it ruled, had never exceeded 100 million.

There are tens of billions or even hundreds of billions of people in the Kyushu Realm. This is the convenience brought to civilians after the great development of science and technology!

Moreover, there are billions of people who have received basic education and are quite outstanding in all aspects, which can be regarded as high-quality believers!
Not to mention, in the Earthly Immortal Realm, after occupying Xiankong Island, they can also carry out environmental transformation and encourage childbirth. The population of Jiuzhou Realm can completely usher in an exponential surge!
How terrifying would the gods born from such a power of faith be?
“Strong enough, can be easily and quickly cultivated… More importantly, it is easy to be clamped by superiors… It is indeed quite suitable for my system, and can easily cultivate a large number of subordinates comparable to Return to the Void and Combined cultivators… At that time, even if it is to cleanse the scum of the human race in the Earthly Immortal Realm, avenge the vengeance of the Taoist Master Fangxian, and reverse the atmosphere in the world of cultivation, it will be enough…”

The death of Taoist Master Fangxian is a pain in the hearts of cultivators in the Jiuzhou world.

However, if the killing turns into a river of blood and the two demon races take advantage of it, they will become the sinners of the entire human race.

The best thing would be to kill those who should be killed and have a large number of high-level monks immediately take over.

Even with the development of the Jiuzhou Realm, it is unrealistic to accumulate so much top-level combat power without thousands or tens of thousands of years of accumulation.

But now, with the Shinto system, everything is different.

The leapfrog development of Kyushu is right before our eyes!

Of course, everything will have to wait until Fang Xi personally investigates it before a final conclusion can be made.

But judging from the information collected now, this Shinto road does have some exquisite aspects.

At least, Fang Xi felt that in the future, while he was cultivating himself as an immortal, it would be a great thing to raise a group of gods as subordinates to supplement his various chores.

“The first one, shouldn’t we choose Ganyu…”

Above Fang Xi’s head, the sixth-order luck Gu lay listlessly on the side.

With the help of this Gu, he had checked Gan Yu’s luck before, and it could only be described as average.

Although he still had some ancestral virtue, it had been almost used up. Now only a trace of it remained, and his literary energy was not very abundant.

It is quite difficult to pass the examination and become a ‘Tongsheng’.

As for studying hard?

There are many people in the world who study hard, and some even study day and night until they vomit blood.

But if you are supposed to fail the exam, you will fail.

“One is fate, two is luck, three is feng shui, four is accumulating good deeds, and five is reading… There are only a few ways to change your fate in this world.”

“Since we are dormant in this world, we should not use too many unconventional methods, but try to solve the problem within the framework first…”

It is actually not difficult to help Gan Yu pass the examination to become a student.

Fang Xi is now playing the role of a benefactor, sponsoring the other party’s studies.

After you have thoroughly read all thirty-six volumes of the Daoist Scriptures, you can give it a try.

“Judging from the luck Gu, this person’s luck is still a little off… but it doesn’t matter.”

Although Fang Xi was not very good at divination, he could find opportunities that could help Gan Yu’s luck based on the luck Gu, and then with some advice, everything would come to fruition.

“Actually… if we use the secret technique directly to make the luck poison feed back luck, it will also work…”

“But this is a bit troublesome… After all, it is the method of the demons from the outside world…”

His spiritual sense swept across the land of the village, making it impossible to detect it.

Fang Xi’s consciousness left Baigan Village and spread to the outside world…

Not long after, his eyes lit up, and he found an opportunity that could just improve Gan Yu’s fate…

The second one will be later

(End of this chapter)