Chapter 14 The Three Powers of Heaven and Earth ()

Two days have passed since Zixuan Pavilion killed evil spirits. Sean has set off to Guangzhou to pick up Chen Fan. Chen Tao and Xie Ling are preparing to attend today's Zhongyuan Festival Water and Land Fair and Land Fair to go to Shanghai to propose marriage to the Xie family. On this day, the people of the Chen family will spontaneously cooperate with the Water and Land Fair, not killing animals, eat vegetarian vegetarian food, and everyone will put a brazier on their doors. When entering and leaving the door, they will burn some ingots and candles to worship the wandering souls from all directions. The Hundred-foot Golden Body Bodhisattva that appeared in the Chen family two days ago has become the most talked about by the Chen family in recent days. Many merchants who were originally just preparing to pass also stopped because they saw such an odd phenomenon and waited for the Water and Land Fair to continue their journey.

The Chen family held a water and land Dharma ceremony and rumors of the Golden Body Bodhisattva were not only circulated in Chenjiachong. With some vendors traveling to and from Shaoguan, the rumors have spread rapidly throughout the Shaoguan provincial capital and some surrounding big cities. Many believers have gathered day and night to attend this event and pray for their families. It is precisely because of this reason that there are two or three times more people entering Chenjiachong than usual. Fortunately, Chen Deshang had already prepared to build tents on some wastelands around Chenjiachong, so the people who came to sleep on the streets because the inn was full.

Since leaving the Chen family's house yesterday, Chen Deshang had already sent someone to guard Xu Changqing's Taohua Mountain to prevent some villains from disturbing Xu Changqing. After a long night of conversation with Xu Changqing, Chen Deshang's trust in Xu Changqing increased a lot. He did not doubt that his son was robbed because of Xu Changqing. Instead, he followed Xu Changqing's words, focused on the north, and began to prepare for some matters to repair his relationship with the man.

Xu Changqing was in seclusion in the charity village for a day and a night, and did not use any magic tricks to speed up the repair of his injuries. Instead, he slowly let the power of merit penetrate into the body with the wounds in the repair of the body with the wounds. In addition, as long as the merit is sufficient, he can build a golden body of merit that is not invasive. At that time, even if it is a great disaster in heaven and earth, it is impossible to hurt him at all. This is one of Xu Changqing's many methods to deal with the disaster, although he himself thinks it is a bit out of reach.

Xu Changqing did not sit there this day, but took out the Shi family's magic tricks and read them carefully. He once mentioned to the old Taoist priest that if the Shi family's side door followed the handwritten copy to practice Shi family's magic trick, he would inevitably suffer backlash from evil spirits. It was nothing else, just because there was a god invitation talisman passed down from the first generation of Shi family's magic trick in the Ming Dynasty in the cover of the last page of the Shi family's magic trick. According to the secret book of the classics in Xu Changqing's sect, although Shi family's magic trick claimed to be able to invite the true spirit power of the gods and Buddhas of the heavens, in fact, there were only three gods that the Shi family could actually invite, the first one was Emperor Guan Sheng, the second one was Zhong Kui, the heavenly master worshipped by many people among the people, and the third one was an evil god, that is, the Monkey King in Journey to the West.

Guan Sheng Emperor and Tianshi Zhong Kui are both Chinese gods, with the power to drive away evil spirits and destroy demons, while the Monkey King is completely different. His original form is an Indian monkey god Haluman mentioned in Tantric scriptures passed down from the Tang Dynasty. Later, someone built a monkey temple for him and worshiped him as a local Chinese god. It was not until the Ming Dynasty’s Journey to the West that this foreign monkey god had an official name and title of Central Plains China, and his divine power was also planned. At this time, the Monkey Temple was changed to the Great Sage Temple.

Xu Changqing and all the idle people of all generations remained skeptical about whether there were gods in the world. In his generation, he completely denied the existence of gods. Although the Shi Family Divine Knight could borrow the power of gods to make him unable to invade all things and have great power, according to Master Xu Changqing's view, it would definitely not be the power of gods. He traveled all over the country and personally went to the so-called places where gods became enlightened or were born. He could not find the deeds of gods before they became humans from the local county and townships. The so-called relics of Taoism were only added by later generations through legends.

Although he did not find the true appearance of the gods, he found that the several gods invited by the Shi family gods were the most popular gods. Among them, Emperor Guan Sheng and the Heavenly Master Zhong Kui spontaneously burned, there are also many believers among the folk. The Monkey King in the novel is almost equal to the Monkey King's Temple of Sending Children. Many people hope to get children as smart as Sun Wuzi. In addition, some Buddhist temples also worship the Monkey King, and many cult forces regard the Monkey King as a believer in the righteous god, which makes the Monkey King seem to have a little more evil spirit.

According to Master Xu Changqing's classification, there are three powers in the world that can use external forces to help people improve their own Taoist cultivation. The first is the common spiritual energy of heaven and earth, but today's spiritual energy of heaven and earth is like a sea and a lake compared to before the Sui and Tang dynasties, and cannot be compared. Because the spiritual energy of heaven and earth before the Sui and Tang dynasties was extremely strong, there were many people who could truly achieve enlightenment, and countless immortals and Buddhas had great cultivation. Regardless of Taoism, the several major sects of Buddhism were established at that time.

I just don’t know why after the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the amount of spiritual energy in heaven and earth was getting worse. The Song Dynasty was still good. In the next Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, there were very few people who truly had great cultivation skills, and almost five fingers could count them. Now, there are not a single person who wants to cultivate and achieve enlightenment by absorbing spiritual energy in heaven and earth. Most of them just touched a little bit of the edge of the great way and could be called masters. The spiritual energy in heaven and earth has become mixed and no longer suitable for practitioners to collect qi and refine their bodies.

The second is the method used by most righteous practitioners now, to accumulate merits and rely on the merits of heaven and earth to achieve immortals, Buddhas and Taoism. Although the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is about to disappear, the merits of heaven and earth always exist. The merits of heaven and earth cannot directly improve the realm of the practitioner's natal great Dharma, but it can speed up the practice of practitioners, and also make the mind of Taoism and Buddhas more stable, and will not be easily harmed by the inner demons. Moreover, if you can achieve the golden body of merit, you will no longer have to worry about any natural disasters and man-made disasters.

Unfortunately, although the merits are good, there are very few great merits that can really help practitioners. Moreover, merits are based on opportunities. They are not just wanted. If they force them, they will produce inner demons, and their cultivation will be ruined. The first generation of the Yi Manor's owner asked the Chen family to spend a lot of money to hold a grand water and land fair every year to save those wandering ghosts and ghosts in order to accumulate merit. However, he later discovered that the merits obtained by holding the Aquatic and Land Fair are far less than the merits obtained by killing an evil demon who harms the world, so he transferred the merits to the Chen family's yin house to continue the fortune of the Chen family's Qianlong Cave. The Qianlong Cave, which could only last for one generation, was actually for seven or eight generations by the first generation of the Yi Manor's owner. If the great disaster of heaven and earth has not yet come to a state of collapse, the mountains and rivers are broken, and the luck is exhausted, perhaps this Qianlong Cave could continue.

The third type of heaven and earth power is the most mysterious heaven and earth vows. The vows come from people's hearts' hope for the future. It has great potential and will never be exhausted, and there is no limit on quantity. But because the vows come from the most selfish side of people, this makes the composition of vows extremely complex, and it is uneven, and the evil spirit is forcing people. In the world, there are only two great methods that can be truly used to practice with the vows and practice without being hurt. The first one is Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva in the secret treasure of Mount Jiuhua to make a vow to spread the Heart Sutra, the second one is the Shi Family Divine Ksitigarbha, and the rest are Guanyin Taoism, Yihe Fist God Ksitigarbha, White Lotus God Ksitigarbha, etc., which are not considered great methods.

At this moment, Xu Changqing could not practice Shi Family Divine Beat immediately. In addition to his own vitality, he also lacked a divine object, that is, a divine statue. For divine objects, the longer the worship, the better. Xu Changqing had already thought about this. Yesterday, he asked Chen Tao to send a telegram to his third brother Chen Zhenshan, asking him to buy back the Guandi statue on the Qinggang Shanghai Incense Hall that had been worshipped for almost two hundred years.

Chen Zhenshan was originally named Chen Wenbin. He was the one who was the one who did not worry about Chen Deshang's five sons and two daughters. He had been fond of doing things like bravery and bullying the market since he was a child. Later, he despised his name too weak, so he changed the genealogy without authorization, changed the name to Chen Zhenshan, and was almost expelled from the family by his father. Later, he used his father's power in various places to make friends with gangsters such as Ruge Laohui, Hongmen, and Qinggang, and learned a lot of things in the world. In the end, he ran away from home and ran to Shanghai alone.

With his ability, he made a name for himself and became one of the few gangsters on the beach. After Chen Deshang learned about Chen Zhenshan's whereabouts, he almost lost his life. Xu Changqing casts a spell to save him. After that, Chen Deshang simply treats him as if he has never given birth to this son and does not allow anyone to mention this son. Therefore, few outsiders know that Chen Zhenshan, the general leader of the Xinglong family who dominates the thirteen docks of Shanghai, is the son of Chen Deshang, the leader of the Chen family, the largest force in Jiangnan.

Unlike Chen Fan, Xu Changqing and Chen Zhenshan's relationship is the best among the younger generation of the Chen family. Chen Zhenshan is also one of the few people who were allowed by Xu Changqing to spend the night in Taohuashan Yizhuang. He is better at knowing the strength of Xu Changqing's Taoist Dharma than others and even Chen Deshang. Although the two are not very different in age, Chen Zhenshan is a registered disciple Xu Changqing's exception and taught him a lot of tricks and some secular martial arts. This is one of the reasons why Chen Zhenshan was able to gain a foothold in Shanghai alone, bare hands and create a foundation in Shanghai. Chen Zhenshan would never refuse Xu Changqing's request, so shortly after Xu Changqing sent the telegram, Chen Zhenshan replied that he had already obtained the Guandi statue and sent people to transport it from the Yangtze River. He could arrive in nine days.

In Yizhuang, Xu Changqing's mind retreated from the Daoxin Realm. He had evolved the third level of the Shi Family God and the cultivation process more than a thousand times in the Daoxin Realm. It can be said that now he knows the Shi Family God and is more clear than the Shi family. After waiting for the statue of Guandi to be sent over, he can start practicing. However, before practicing, he still has two things to do, one is to refine all the corpse energy in the hundreds of gourds in the room on the side of the house, and the other is to take advantage of the opening of the Ghost Gate tonight, and the bright lights of the Water and Land Dharma Assembly to guide the way, and send the more than 2,000 resentful souls that have been accumulated over the past few years into the reincarnation of the ghost realm.

Although the ritual village has all the complete items, there are still a few things that need temporary preparation. So Xu Changqing left the ritual village and walked towards the mountain city. On the way, Xu Changqing met a Chen family Chong who rushed back from other places to attend the water and land Dharma Assembly, so he got on his carriage and talked to him approachably to understand some current affairs in the outside world. For the people of the Chen family, Xu Changqing, the owner of the ritual village, was a big man on par with the head of the Chen family. Although he was not sure why the heads of the Chen family respected the owner of the Yizhuang family so much, the content circulated from the Chen family servants was vaguely spread from the servants of the Chen family. It can be seen that the owners of the Yizhuang family were all hermits with great ability. Seeing Xu Changqing greeting him so kindly and chatting, the Chen family Chong's businessman was naturally flattered and knew everything about Xu Changqing's problems.

Now the outside world can be said to be in chaos, and many people with military power have begun to disobey the Qing court, which has forced the Qing court to transfer the Beiyang army to the south, and use the strength of the Beiyang New Army to suppress their eagerness. Everyone knows that if it weren't for the Qing court with the Beiyang New Army, I would have known that if it weren't for the Qing court that had the Beiyang New Army in hand, I would have probably won't know how many people would be kings or emperors today. Although the Beiyang New Army was transferred to the south, there were still many revolutionaries of all sizes in the south. Although they were quickly suppressed and destroyed by the Beiyang New Army, their momentum was getting bigger and bigger. Anyone with discerning eyes could see very clearly that the Qing Dynasty was about to end, and the victory of the revolutionary party was only a matter of time. Many local forces were openly supporting the Qing court at this time, but secretly made friends with the revolutionary party in order to leave a way out for the future.

On the way to the city, many Chen family members saluted Xu Changqing, which made the businessman, who was the owner of the carriage, feel very honored.

After entering the mountain city, Xu Changqing got off the carriage and was about to look towards the paper shop at the north end. At this time, the merchant also jumped off the carriage, stopped him and saluted respectfully: "Mr. Xu, you are a master with great ability! Recently, a small business is a bit difficult, so the young man asked the gentleman to give a batch of villains, so that villains can turn bad luck into good luck."

Xu Changqing was stunned. It was the first time he encountered such a thing as stopping him from asking for comments on the street. He looked at the slightly fat businessman again and said, "You should have moved to the Chen family for a short time, right?"

The merchant hurriedly smiled and replied, "Sir, the young man has only moved here for two years, but he spends most of his time doing business outside!"

Xu Changqing smiled and said, "No wonder you stopped me from asking for a life-reporting criticism like this. As long as you live in the Chen family for a long time, I will not call a fortune and fortune-telling at other times in the year except for the Shangyuan Lantern Festival."

After hearing this, Xingshang was stunned. Unexpectedly, Xu Changqing had such a distance and didn't know what to say for a moment. At this time, the Chen family, who were surrounding him, shouting loudly towards the people, mocking him for not knowing the depth, which made him even more embarrassed.

"Enough! All the villagers have dispersed!" Xu Changqing frowned and said to the people around him. Those who watched the fun naturally did not dare to stay and disperse quickly. However, there were still a few little rascals who were hiding in the teahouse where they were resting, wanting to see how the merchants ended up for future discussions.

"I really don't know that sir has this rule. I'm really rude! sir no longer delay sir, so leave now! Leave now!" The merchant wiped the sweat from his forehead, looked awkward and panicked, quickly letting go, constantly bowing and retreating.
Chapter completed!