Chapter 1222 The 18th century when gods were globalized
After re-capturing a wealthy creature, Bailang instantly regained a familiar feeling and relaxed physically and mentally. Then he skillfully interrogated for information, starting with the identity of the other party.
This time Tang Fugui couldn't hide it, so he could only describe it bit by bit.
Compared with ordinary people who are honest and work hard, he has been bold and indolent since he was a child, unwilling to live his life in a down-to-earth manner, so he traveled around with the caravan, learned some unsystematic folk magic, and was half-foot on the road of spiritual practice.
Since then, he has made a living by cheating and exorcising evil spirits.
Because he was well-informed and his life was not improving as he got older, Tang Fugui felt unwilling and greedy. He not only longed to become stronger, develop real skills, and live forever; he also wanted to be prosperous and wealthy, and live a luxurious life.
a wealthy life.
In the end, after several inquiries, he settled on Bai Lang's identity. He was an abandoned son of a local wealthy family who failed in internal fighting. He was worth a lot of money. He got a treasure map and was expelled from the family. He was going to go to sea to find immortals.
To deal with such people, as long as you gain trust, you can deceive the treasure map and keep it for yourself, and then trick the servants and sailors into rebelling, killing people and throwing their bodies to feed the fishes on the vast sea.
Not only has he obtained the fate of immortality, but also seized wealth, and he doesn't have to worry about revenge in a foreign country. It's perfect.
After hearing Xunxian's question, Bailang felt awkward in his heart, what kind of immortality is '72 Demon Gods'?
He weighed the parchment in his hand and asked, "Is your information wrong? Do you know what this is? Can you bear these words? It's like a fairy tale."
Tang Fugui disagreed: "Although I don't recognize the characters, I have already found out clearly that this is a secret treasure that records the Bodhisattva of Great Food and Foreign Countries. What a pity, it would be even better if it were the secret treasure of the Bodhisattva of Poison and Evil!
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Bailang was stunned, this Fugui has some stuff!
"Is this foreign Bodhisattva considered an immortal?"
Fugui said in surprise: "Why don't you count it? Nowadays, foreign evil gods are prevalent in various places in Southeast Asia. Green Pharaoh, Black Tengu, Hermes, King of Angels, and the Virgin are all imported gods."
After Bailang's curious inquiry, he found out that the 'Green Pharaoh' is an Egyptian god developed by the Shia sect and has a market in the Middle East and North Africa; 'Black Tengu' is Anubis, whose IP has always been very popular; 'He
Mis' is Hermes among the 12 main gods of Olympus; 'King of Angels' is Michael, the first of the four double-red sticks in the Christian paradise; 'Miracle' is the village woman Mary.
These are all "first-line gods" who have proven their existence, performed miracles, and can spread faith across continents, but they are different from the mainstream gods in Bai Lang's impression.
After questioning, Lang discovered that this rich man was indeed well-informed. When he was young, he followed a fleet to the West to seek enlightenment, reaching as far as Europe. Although he ultimately failed in his pursuit of enlightenment, he experienced a lot along the way and learned a few simple foreign languages.
With a few simple spells, he successfully deceived "Bai Lang" and was treated as a guest, taking on the roles of "mage, translator, tour guide" and other positions.
When Lang asked about Yishu Great Heavenly Lord, God King Zeus, etc., Fugui said that these gods also existed, but they were not as high as Bai Lang imagined.
On the contrary, their popularity in Central Asia and Europe is not as good as that of foreign Bodhisattvas such as 'Angel King, Black Sky Dog'. Yishu Tianzun is okay, slightly inferior to his mother. But God King Zeus is miserable and was killed by Hermes.
Even Poseidon can't defeat it.
As for the gods and demons of Hinduism, they were annexed by the Ming Dynasty Buddhism, reshaped and developed in the style of a group of heroes competing for hegemony. The strongest 'Buddha' was not elected, but they were pulled against each other.
Bailang: "What about those true gods in the Central Plains?"
"If we say that there have been miracles, there are too many! There are too many." Tang Fugui thought for a while, "But the one with the greatest influence is recognized as the most influential in Buddhism. The most popular incense in the Ming Dynasty is Guanshiyin Bodhisattva, and in the Northern Dynasty,
This is King Ksitigarbha. In terms of influence, Mazu was the most powerful in the Ming Dynasty, and Queen Mother of the West was the most prosperous in the Shun Dynasty."
After being stunned for a moment, Lang asked again: "What about Taoism?"
Fugui recalled: "There must be a Lingbao Tianzun. It is said that when the Ming Dynasty ruled the Central Plains, there was a Zhenyuan Immortal, but he died a hundred years ago and was swallowed by the Queen Mother of the West."
"!!!" Lang: "How strong is this [Queen Mother of the West]?"
Fugui: "Let's put it this way, there are many believers in the Queen Mother, and they are considered mainstream in the Ming Dynasty. Her statue was carried eastward by fleet to Fusang, and now there are temples in Beijuluzhou (North America). It extends southward to Nandanbuzhou (Australia)
), covering all the tribes along the coast of Xiniuhezhou (Africa) all the way to the west."
Bai Lang was shocked: "How can you be so strong? Do foreigners believe this?"
"Believe it! Why don't you believe it? The Queen Mother of the West is a real god, and she is in charge of the [Peach Peach]. Eating it will increase your life and make you immortal. How can the foreign barbarians not believe it?"
"It makes sense!" Bai Lang finally realized that if gods exist in this world, then [Peach Peach] is indeed a weapon for spreading faith. The previous fallen [Great Immortal Zhenyuan] also relied on 'Ginseng Fruit' to achieve enlightenment?
Lang: "So other foreign Bodhisattvas are also widely spread through methods similar to 'Peach Blossom'?"
Fugui shook his head: "That's not necessarily the case. According to the villain, [Mazu] can protect the fleet in the ocean. The Western Ocean Bodhisattva 'Hermes' also has similar abilities to prevent sailors from getting lost..."
In the description of wealth, not every deity has a powerful killing weapon like the Queen Mother of the West. Other deities have their own abilities, which are generally related to mythological records.
As the inquiry deepened, Bailang gradually understood the structure of this world.
The great geographical discovery has ended. The earth has been determined to be spherical. Has Antarctica been discovered? Bailang doesn't know, but other continents have been explored.
Because of its extraordinary power, the Celestial Empire was not closed. After the Ming Dynasty was driven to Southeast Asia, it began to colonize, enslaved the natives, and incorporated and transformed local beliefs. Buddhism flourished and transformed many weird "earth Bodhisattvas". Now it is actively spreading to India
expanded and extended Aboriginal trade to Australia.
Due to the rapid development of Nanming's maritime industry and its resurgence, the Northern Dynasties were stimulated and followed the great voyage. Now they have colonized Fusang and are actively exploring Beiju Luzhou (North America), but it is too far away and the ocean is too dangerous to achieve good results.
In addition, the belief in the Queen Mother was also successfully introduced to the Middle East and expanded to the world through the Maritime Silk Road, Land Silk Road, and Great Navigation Route.
As for world geography, it is also very different from the earth. This is especially reflected in the two places of Suez and Panama.
In Bailang's hometown of Earth in the 18th century, humans had not yet built these two canals. North and South America were supposed to be connected, and Asia, Africa and Europe were also connected on the ground.
But in this world, I don’t know whether it is due to rising sea levels or other reasons (the manifestation of gods). These continents are naturally blocked by the ocean. There is no need to open canals, but large ships need to be built to cross them.
In the seas around the world, there are a huge number of strange sea monsters and extraordinary creatures.
There are flying tentacle sharks, Kraken, Leviathan, zombies, mirages... ugly seafood people, radioactive mermaids, barnacle water ghosts, water monkeys, ghost ships, undead floating corpses... plus the unpredictable
The weather has made ocean navigation more difficult.
But the benefits of maritime colonization are also huge. It is not only about harvesting wealth, but also about pleasing the gods through preaching, gaining powerful power, and thus becoming immortal.
Under the driving force brought by the gods, the efficiency of large-scale navigation increased dramatically, and even the people of the usually closed China fell into madness.
Various local brands of belief in gods are constantly being exported, and most of them are unable to adapt to the local environment and die young, but a few have successfully taken root in foreign countries and created big families.
In the same way, the gods of the Celestial Dynasty can export, and the foreign Bodhisattvas can also import. After the involution and elimination of the Great Navigation, a large number of foreign Bodhisattvas also took root in the Ming Dynasty and went north to Dashun.
Although it is only the 18th century, this planet has taken the lead in completing the globalization of gods and being 'tolerant and accepting' of each other.
The war of faith that Bailang was worried about did exist, but it was completely different from the "life and death, life and death" he imagined.
Because there are so many gods in the Celestial Dynasty, and there are also many foreign Bodhisattvas in the world, they are all like a piece of loose sand. When mixed together, there will indeed be fierce conflicts, but they will be controlled in a local area and it will be difficult for the conflicts to escalate.
Moreover, when there are 'gods' and 'supernormal powers' in a world, then the belief changes and becomes more utilitarian. Ordinary people are not fools. When one god after another appears in front of them and they can choose, it is naturally more cost-effective.
The 'god' wins, who cares whether you are a native or a foreigner?
Therefore, the cost of conquering an ancient civilization, eradicating local beliefs, and colonizing forcefully is much higher than developing a new continent, bullying natives with backward culture and technology, and opening up new faith parishes. Therefore, "extraordinary colonization" has gradually become the new mainstream in the past hundred years.
It was through this "colonial craze" that Tang Fugui followed the fleet to explore the Western world. He saw white-skinned ghosts traveling eastward to Shunguo to obtain the true scripture [The Queen Mother's Sutra of Immortality]; he also witnessed foreign Bodhisattvas traveling eastward.
Regarding the extraordinary system of this world, Lang also learned something about it from Fugui, but it was more from the perspective of a low-level wild practitioner, which was not comprehensive enough.
Through Conglang's perception of the "Principles of Origin" and Fukimaru's narration, it can be determined that this world is a low-demon world for wild practitioners, ordinary people, and outsiders like him.
Power that exceeds the threshold will be crushed and obliterated by the rules of the world. But Tang Fugui, a rootless wild fox Zen, has a very weak upper limit for practicing evil and cannot reach this threshold at all.
Most of the abnormal events he encountered in his life, including exorcism and exorcism of evil spirits, were mostly at this level.
Supernatural powers, demons, monsters, and abnormal events of this level occur widely all over the world, and have almost become a part of daily life that humans are accustomed to.
And above this bottom 'safe zone (low magic level)', there are widespread powers such as gods and monsters that far exceed the threshold. This makes the power structure of this world appear abnormally abnormal.
For example, there are a huge number of survivors in the ocean and a wide variety of monsters and monsters, which is completely different from the peace and tranquility of the land. Human beings cannot sail safely with technology alone, and can only rely on the protection of various gods.
This kind of extraordinary power that exceeds the 'threshold' is invariably related to gods and demons. It often appears in the form of religions, sects, associations, esoteric religions, schools, etc. Only this kind of practice organization with gods and demons as its source can cultivate real
monk.
Conflicts will break out between existing schools, beliefs, and sects, rising to the point of divine war, and eventually the ‘gods’ behind them will devour each other, fall or grow stronger.
At the same time, new, strange, and unknown relics of gods and demons are constantly being discovered and reactivated around the world, becoming new 'sources of power'.
Tang Fugui is a low-level wild cultivator who longs for a true 'cultivation tradition', but has encountered obstacles every time in his life. Finally, he set his sights on Bai Lang, hoping to develop a 'secret of gods and demons' to break through that threshold and truly
The method of transcendence.
Those 'sects, sects, and churches' that already exist all over the world also have a strange characteristic, that is, while they are crazily expanding their faith in the secular world as much as possible, they are inevitably rapidly dividing themselves and splitting into many sub-groups.
The body lacks cohesion.
Take the [Western Queen Mother], which has the most influence in the world in the Celestial Dynasty, as an example. It should be a world-class ‘large religion’ similar to Bailang’s hometown on Earth and the three Semitic cults. With a huge group of believers, it can control the wind and rain on the earth and do whatever it wants.
But in fact, as the Queen Mother of the West continues to travel eastward, spread to the west, and move to the south... As her influence expands, every time she goes to a new place, the sects worshiping the Queen Mother of the West will quickly divide into new schools, no longer influenced by their ancestors.
Court (upper family) control.
And the source of the belief in [Queen Mother of the West] is unable to control those younger brothers who decide to fly solo. This leads to a mainstream god that will form many schools around the world. As it spreads farther and farther, the alienation becomes more serious, and eventually
None of them can be described as 'heresy'.
And a new ‘church faction’ can support new ‘great practitioners’. This is the truth behind the ‘spiritual colonial boom’.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! In order to obtain extraordinary power, you must join the 'Sect Church', gain recognition and practice orthodox methods, and break through the invisible 'threshold shackles'.
If you want to go further, you have to open up a new territory of faith to worship the gods. After completing the colonization and making great achievements, they quickly differentiate into independent 'new faction' leaders, gain the favor of [God], suddenly understand the new method, and become a new 'great practitioner'
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For this reason, although there are many 'famous sects' in this world, and their influence is so huge that it covers the whole world, there are very few people who can truly master the 'high-end extraordinary power'.
It is not in line with the virtuous cycle of the wider the faith, the stronger the gods, the more magical feedback, and the increased number of monks (priests) in strength.
On the contrary, when the number is limited, the more powerful gods can cultivate more powerful extraordinary beings. The number of true practitioners can never be increased.
The practice system in this world is very niche and private, and secular communication can only support a very small number of great practitioners. There is no middle layer, and then there is an overflow of wild little garbage.
The gods show their holiness, but they are not too obvious, they are not overly public, they appear in the world in a high profile, they send down divine punishments to interfere with the operation of human society, and they only show their power through spokespersons (major monks).
This strange tacit understanding keeps the world at a "low-demon" level on the surface. Mortals are not surprised by strange powers and chaotic gods, but they are elusive and hard to find when they want to get close to them.
And those rare great monks have the power to overturn mountains and seas, dominate the world structure, and dominate. However, it is difficult to influence beyond a corner. Therefore, the "globalization of gods" was realized, and the local gods of the Celestial Dynasty took root in foreign lands.
Foreign Bodhisattvas settled in the Celestial Empire.
The conflict has escalated, but it cannot escalate comprehensively. High-quality idols can always take root in the local area and be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
This strange practice system has created an extraordinary structure similar to the "city-state system". This is also the reason why there are many small coastal countries on the sea map in Bailang's hand.
Only a country like the Celestial Empire, which suffers from the problem of "great unification", can maintain a huge territory, accommodate many "spiritual factions", and have many sects in the country.
Those small foreign countries, under the influence of the extraordinary structure, became fragmented and became large and small 'god states'. If ships docked for supplies, they had to pay tribute (protection fees) to different countries and different gods.
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And the best tribute is the spiritual "people", so there is an irresistible reason for the popularity of great voyages, the native trade!
Not only are the white-skinned ghosts selling nico crazily, but I, Ming, are also looking for natives everywhere.
Do you want to get wealth, power, strength, immortality...? What are you waiting for? I have put the best quality natives in the New World, go find them! Go colonize!
