Chapter 301 The Opportunity for the Great Development of the West
When the princes saw the power of incense, they felt that this thing was very mysterious. No wonder it could be called acquired merit, and Ao Bing had high hopes for it, thinking that it had the potential to replace the essence of flesh and blood. , becoming a new sacrifice.
Because the Chanjiao Jinxian has a higher vision and deeper knowledge, after seeing the mystery of the power of incense and vows, he thought deeper and more.
They immediately understood the bright future of the power of incense. The power that can replace spiritual energy cannot be exaggerated.
After all, although spiritual energy can be found everywhere, monks cannot live without it.
The emergence of incense and wish power is undoubtedly telling all monks that spiritual energy is no longer the only choice on the path of practice, and wish power can completely replace it.
Even in the Age of Ending Dharma, when all spiritual energy disappears, the power of incense and vows can still maintain the prosperity of practice.
Since the great changes in the ancient times and the heaven and earth have become increasingly weak, many monks have been thinking about what should they do if the prehistoric era completely enters the Age of End of Dharma?
You can’t really just wait for death in peace, right?
For this reason, many powerful people are looking for ways to crack it.
But after thinking about it, the solutions they could think of were still the same as before, trying to repair the damaged world in order to prevent or delay the arrival of the Age of Ending Law.
It cannot be said that this method is not good, but countless years have passed, and in the past few years, the situation in the prehistoric period has begun to get better, and in the rest of the time, it has become worse and worse. It can be seen that this method is somewhat unreliable.
But at this moment, with the emergence of the power of incense and wish, Chanjiao Jinxian suddenly discovered that a way to break the end of the Dharma era had appeared.
As long as there is incense and the power of the will, there will be no spiritual energy. With the power of the incense, the monks can still practice.
And, most importantly, the power of incense comes from all living beings, not from heaven and earth. This means that no matter how bad the practice environment becomes, as long as sentient beings are still there, they can get an endless supply of incense and aspiration.
Unlike spiritual energy, it is completely affected by the practice environment. Once the practice environment deteriorates, spiritual energy becomes a non-renewable resource and can only be used as much as possible.
“Damn it!”
“How come it was the human dragon who came up with such mysterious things and not me.”
Aware of the power of incense and wish The importance and influence it had caused Chanjiao Jinxian to feel envious and hateful towards Ao Bingna for a while.
In ancient times, the key to spiritual practice was not talent, but luck. If you want to become the strongest, you must have enough luck. Apart from that, nothing else is useful, no matter how good your talent is.
Among the three thousand mortal guests in Zixiao Palace, which one is less talented, but how many of them will eventually become enlightened? Do they lack talent? Wrong, what they lack is luck.
It can be said that luck is everything. If you want to become stronger, you must find a way to occupy more luck.
The wish power of incense can replace the role of spiritual energy, which means that as soon as it appears, it can gather endless luck for its creator.
There is no doubt that the luck generated by the power of incense can fully support the rise of a great supernatural being.
Thinking of this, how can Chanjiao Jinxian not be jealous? How can you not hate it?
They could not forget that Taiyi Zhenren died at the hands of Ao Bing. To them, Ao Bing was their biggest enemy, the one they desperately wanted to kill.
But now, seeing Ao Bing take out such mysterious things as incense and wish power, almost piercing the road to the realm of great supernatural powers, this is simply more uncomfortable than killing them.
The greatest pain in life is to see the gap between the enemy and yourself getting wider and wider, but you are powerless to do anything.
This is how Chanjiao Jinxian feels at this moment, almost dying of discomfort.
Chanjiao Jinxian felt very uncomfortable, but the other group of people, the Western disciples from the West, felt completely different from them at the moment, and their hearts were filled with huge surprises.
Where is the most beneficial place for the emergence of incense and wish power? There is no doubt that it is the West.
Even though the environment in the world has been getting worse before, there is still no shortage of aura in the East. The reason why the strong men in the East are worried about the Age of Dharma End is simply to be prepared for danger in times of peace.
But the West is different. Since the Dao Demon War and the destruction of the Western ancestral line, no matter how the world changes, the West has always been the age of the end of the Dharma in the East.
So, it is true that the East does not lack aura, but the West does. In this case, the importance of incense and aspiration to the West is self-evident, and it can completely solve the problem of lack of aura in the West.
The problem of lack of aura in the West has been solved, can we still be far away from Daxing? Thinking of this scene, it is difficult for the disciples of the Western Sect not to be excited.
The barrenness of the West refers to monks who lack spiritual energy and cannot support too much. Just because you can't support monks doesn't mean you can't support mortals.
The West does not lack fertile land, but it lacks spiritual fields for growing elixirs. If these fertile lands were full of food, it would be possible to feed countless mortals.
The more mortals there are, the more incense and desire power can be generated.
The more Western disciples thought about it, the more excited they became, and the more they thought about it, the more they felt that this plan was feasible. I really wish I could return to the West now, practice the incense Shinto, and collect the power of incense wishes.
As for the task of preaching to the East, they no longer care. Since the power of incense and vows can bring great prosperity to the West, why take the risk of preaching in the East? Do you think your life will be long and deliberately seek excitement?
At this time, the disciples of the Western Sect were all focused on the power of incense and vows, and had completely forgotten about the conflict with Ao Bing yesterday.
What's wrong with a few curse words, what's wrong with changing the dragon into a snake, the Western dragon is originally a snake, and the dragon master is right.
In addition, let alone changing the dragon into a snake, as long as Ao Bing is willing to spread the incense and work in the West, that is to change the dragon into an insect, or even destroy them all, then there is no problem, as long as Ao Bing Can be satisfied.
Even if Ao Bing is willing to come to the West, the Second Saint of the West can make him the deputy leader and be responsible for the specific affairs of the Western Church.
The deputy leader here is not a deputy leader like Ran Deng who has an empty name but no real power, but a deputy leader who is truly powerful, with authority second only to that of a saint.
After all, Ran Deng joining Chanjiao will not bring any benefits to Yuanshi Tianzun, but will ruin his reputation. But if Ao Bing joins the Western Sect, the Western Sect will immediately gain huge benefits.
There is absolutely no comparison between the two.
Ao Bing obviously noticed the anomaly between the disciples of the Chan sect and the disciples of the Western sect. But at this moment, he had no time to pay attention to them, and his main focus was on the princes below.
If you want to change the sacrifices, abolish the method of human sacrifice, and achieve great merit, the key lies in this group of princes. As long as they are willing to nod, then half of the matter is settled.
On the contrary, if they object, then things will be in trouble.
"The power of the incense wish is indeed as mysterious as the rumors say. It can be directly absorbed and refined to strengthen the spirit."
The princes in the palace came to their senses one after another and praised the power of the incense wish from the bottom of their hearts. Although incense can only strengthen the spirit, it is actually very useful. After all, the path of cultivation is divided into four stages: refining essence to transform into Qi, refining Qi into transforming into Spirit, refining Spirit to return to void, and returning void to combine with Dao.
It can be seen from this that refining the spirit is extremely important. One step further can return to the void, and one step back can transform the qi. It is one step faster than refining spiritual energy directly.
In other words, refining the power of incense and vows directly eliminates the step of refining qi, allowing monks to start from refining gods.
Don't underestimate this step. The path of cultivation is always one step fast, step by step, and one step slow, step by step. If you start a step faster, it will only get faster and faster in the future.
That’s why it is said that the power of incense and incense is extremely important, and its potential far exceeds that of aura.
As for body-refining cultivators, don’t think that you don’t need incense and vows if you embark on the path of body-refining. On the contrary, body-refining cultivators need more incense and vows.
The monks can refine qi and transform into gods, and naturally they can also refine gods and return qi. Moreover, this kind of innate vitality obtained by refining spirit and returning qi is purer than the vitality obtained by refining external spiritual energy, and the body refining effect is better.
Of course, these are benefits that living people need to consider. Although the princes are living people, because of the overbearing human destiny, they are all unable to practice and can only hope for immortality after death.
In this case, the princes can be treated as dead people. Therefore, for them, it is not important what benefits the incense and vows have on the living, but what is important is what benefits they have on the dead.
The benefits of the power of incense to the dead are clear at a glance. After death, people will turn into ghosts, and ghosts are a group of spiritual power with the same nature as the power of incense.
The shortcuts for ghosts to become stronger are, first, to devour living people, and second, to devour their own kind. It's just that doing this has huge side effects. Falling into madness is one, and being disgusted by heaven and incurring divine punishment is two.
The way of living sacrifice is essentially the combination of these two shortcuts, that is, devouring the life and soul of a living person.
Therefore, this path cannot last long and will be banned by the righteous path sooner or later. The right way to replace them is the incense and fire way.
Although the power of incense and wish is not as good as that of living sacrifice, because it is spiritual power, it can be regarded as the same kind as ghost. Ghosts absorb the power of incense and wish, which is also a shortcut to becoming stronger without any future troubles!
For the princes, there is no doubt that the power of incense and vows is useful. However, many things cannot be implemented unless they are useful to them.
There are many types of usefulness, some are of great use and some are of minor use. Although the power of incense is good, it is still slightly insufficient compared to the method of living sacrifice.
Therefore, some forces may not be willing to give up the better method of living sacrifice and choose the slightly inferior incense power.
As for the risks of such a choice, of course they know it. But people are all lucky. Before the risk really comes, they will not regret it, they will only feel that they have not earned enough.
"The power of incense is very good and can fully meet the needs of our ancestors underground. Therefore, I support Duke Long and use the power of incense to replace living sacrifices."
While the princes were silent, Xibohou Jichang, the leader of the Western princes, took the lead. He opened his mouth to break the silence and expressed his support to Ao Bing in a clear-cut manner.
There is no doubt that Xibohou is a radical among the princes. He has long been tired of worshiping ghosts and gods from all over the world. Among all the princes of Dashang, the Zhou Kingdom where Xibohou is located is influenced by ghosts and gods. Minimum.
More importantly, Xibohou has publicly expressed his attitude more than once, proposing to directly abolish the sacrifices of ghosts and gods in all directions. His attitude is much more radical than Ao Bing.
“We also agree!”
"The way of living sacrifice has become an evil way. As descendants of the Holy Queen and taught by the sages, how can we associate with the evil way and harm our people."
After Xibohou, most of the other princes were under the control of the other three uncles. Led by Hou, they also expressed their support for Ao Bing.
As these princes said, if you look closely, the source of their blood can be traced back to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and even older sages.
In this case, Ao Bing brought the right way to suppress others, and it was really difficult for them to resist. They can't really go against the general trend, associate with the evil way, and let the glory of the Holy Emperor be tarnished on them?
They are not those princes who rose up by relying on ghosts and gods from all directions, or underground ancestors. Their roots are not underground, but in the human world. Naturally, you know what to do instead and what not to do.
Changing the sacrifices of ghosts and gods from all over the world would certainly offend them, but it was Dashang who bore the brunt and had nothing to do with them. I believe that if Dashang dares to do this, he will naturally have a way to deal with the ghosts and gods from all directions, so they don't need to worry about it.
As for replacing the ancestor’s sacrifice, they may be dissatisfied. But it doesn’t matter, I believe the ancestors underground will understand. Otherwise, we can't really be labeled as evil.
This will certainly satisfy the ancestors in the underground, but it will offend the ancestors in the sky.
The real heritage of the princes is not the ancestors who had limited abilities and ran out of life and went to the Netherworld, but the ancestors who made great achievements during their lifetime and were able to ascend to the Fire Cloud Cave to accompany the Holy Emperor after their death.
Therefore, when princes do things, they must first satisfy the ancestors in heaven, and then the ancestors underground. And when the demands of the two conflict, the ancestor in heaven will naturally take precedence.
There is no other reason, because the ancestor in heaven is stronger.
"We cannot bear the wrath of ghosts and gods, so we ask Duke Long to forgive us. We cannot agree to change the sacrifices."
If there are voices of agreement, it will naturally There are voices of opposition, and those princes who founded their country because of ghosts and gods cannot disobey the orders of ghosts and gods. Therefore, even if they wanted to agree to changing the sacrifices, they couldn't.
"Our descendants cannot bear the wrath of the Underground Ancestor. I'm sorry."
The princes who founded their country because of the Underground Ancestor also said with shame.
If you rely on others to build a country, you will inevitably lose some of your autonomy, and you will not be able to make the decision on many major issues. This is the helplessness of these vassal states. They are called princes, but in fact they don't depend on people's faces.
"Knowing that it is an evil way, but still doing it, how is it different from the evil god?"
"Furthermore, there is a difference between life and death. Since you have died, you should be reincarnated and interfere in the human world frequently. What's the point of this matter? Where will Queen Tu be placed?"
Ao Bing's face sank and he asked sternly.
What he said was justified, because he really made sense. Living sacrifices are evil, this is what Emperor Yu said. There is a difference between life and death. The dead cannot interfere in human affairs. This is part of the rules of heaven and earth.
The four ghosts and gods violated this point, and Ao Bing's identification of them as evil gods was not excessive, and the others could not refute it.
"The affairs of the vassal states are free for the princes to decide. Duke Long's hand is stretched too far."
The iron-headed princes said, obviously unhappy with Ao Bing forcing them to change the sacrifices. Very dissatisfied with the matter.
(End of this chapter)