The soft and ethereal singing was still ringing around the Merman Island. One after another, the shark girls held human heads in their hands, rubbed their ears and temples together, sucked out the soul, chewed it up and squeezed it dry, and then threw the stiff heads into the sea water.
In the middle, it sank to the bottom of the sea with a splash and disappeared.
The moonlight was so cold that the mist lying low on the sea stiffened and did not move.
Xu Dao looked at the beautiful and bloody scene in front of him. Although his eyes were calm, his mind was filled with thoughts, and all kinds of torrential thoughts were rushing through his mind.
After combing carefully and repeatedly, a gloomy look finally appeared on his face.
Although the Wu Kingdom Cave Heaven was shattered and monsters were prevalent in the Western Sea, Xu Dao didn't pay much attention to it before today. He only thought that it was necessary to kill more monsters and kill more Taoists.
But now that he understood the origin of the Xihai environment, he suddenly felt that things were becoming more difficult.
If it were just that the rituals and music were broken and people were in confusion, it could still be saved. But now that the world is in ruins and the spiritual energy is exhausted, how can we save it if we just destroy the demons?
I am afraid that the current scene in Xihai is not what the Taoists of Xihai want to see. After all, many books have slightly recorded the despair and sighs of the Taoists back then.
As his thoughts rolled around, Xu Dao thought to himself: "Thousands of years later, all these Taoists will have died, and no one will survive."
Despair and sighs are just last words, existing only in books.
He could even imagine that for thousands of years, especially in the early days of the destruction of the Holy Tang Dynasty, there must have been countless Taoists adhering to the afterglow of various Taoist traditions, trying their best to fight against demons and kill the demons who swallowed souls and refined money.
Among them, there must be Taoists, who really rely on the foundation of Taoism to successfully eradicate demons and demons from various islands and uphold morality.
It is a pity that when the spiritual energy is exhausted and the power of such a Taoist declines, he will either become a blood meal in the mouth of a vicious beast, or be eaten and killed by his subordinates, or he will have to fall into the situation of extracting his soul to refine money.
Those who fail to do any of the three will inevitably burn themselves to death, and the entire Taoist lineage, along with all the living people under their command, will burn themselves to death.
In the face of the cruelty and torrent of the times, individual will is ultimately unable to resist the will of God.
Xu Dao was silent in his heart. He turned his head and cast a deep gaze on the boatman in the corner of the black ship. He seemed to be looking through the deck at the hundreds of people on the bottom of the ship.
"Perhaps for ordinary people, such a path may seem a bit cruel, but it is still a way to survive."
Thinking of this, Xu Dao's eyes narrowed slightly.
There are many creatures in the world of mountains and seas, including shark girls, fox girls, snake girls, and all kinds of monsters and monsters. However, humans are the only ones who are born with good fortune and have spirituality when they are born. When they grow up, they can form a complete soul.
Intelligent creatures other than humans must condense demonic energy before they can gradually develop spirituality, and only after entering the realm of energy refining can they be born with souls and possess complete spiritual intelligence.
Among them, there are very few who possess demonic aura since birth.
In this end of the Dharma season, the spiritual energy is exhausted. Although the human race has been reduced to poultry, there is no need to worry about complete extinction. After all, there is only one kind of high-quality spiritual energy meat mine in the world, and anyone with any brains will feed it instead of killing them all.
Xu Dao can even conclude that as long as there is the last monk in the world of mountains and seas, no matter whether he is a human cultivator or a demon cultivator, at least before his death, there will definitely be a group of mortals who will continue to live.
As for other intelligent creatures, they perished like snow in this disaster. They are countless and difficult to estimate.
But after sighing for a few times, Xu Dao looked at the moonlit sky and frowned again.
He suddenly thought of himself. After leaving the Kingdom of Wu, his only expectation and joy was that the rich spiritual resources in the Western Sea would allow him to form an elixir!
But now Xu Dao realized that although the food in the West Sea was rich, it was all poisonous, and he suddenly became heartbroken.
You must know that it is not only the spiritual energy squeezed from the flesh and blood of ferocious beasts that is contaminated by evil spirits and poisonous. The spiritual energy squeezed from the souls of mortals is also poisonous.
In addition to the name "blood money", the talisman money refined by Taoists today happens to have another word: "incense talisman money".
Just as Xu Daoshang was worried about when he was in Wu State, incense is really poisonous!
Incense is the pure thoughts, or pure soul fragments, left behind when a living being dies and the soul dies. In this way, the stronger the obsession of a living being when it dies, the more it can gain.
In ancient times, only the gods of heaven and earth could enjoy the offerings of living creatures. Later, when Taoists gained the authority of the gods, they could also enjoy the incense and eat souls.
The reason why the gods of heaven and earth have perished, and the reason why incense is forbidden in Taoist sects, is because of this, even though the inspiration is pure.
But precisely because it is a thought, it contains the obsession of a living being before death. After being refined into the body, gods and Taoists will inevitably be affected until their own consciousness becomes alienated.
From the book, Xu Dao now knows the reason for the demise of the ancient gods: success is incense, and failure is incense.
The gods who are wrapped in incense are either stirred up by the emotions of mortals. The more powerful they are, the more they lose their own will and gradually become Taoist. Or they accidentally attract the resentment of mortals and fall apart in the blink of an eye.
Coupled with the existence of Taoist sects, Taoist priests cut down mountains and destroyed temples to seize spiritual roots. The remaining gods among the gods also perished one by one, gradually perishing between heaven and earth.
When the Taoists realized the dangers of incense, they banned incense and at the same time eliminated the possibility of the gods' resurrection.
Now that the sky is falling apart and the earth is cracking, and the Taoist priests have rushed to dig out the "incense" from the pile of old papers, I am afraid that there will still be no place for gods in the world.
With the bloody examples of gods in front of them, the Taoists racked their brains and thought of many ways to squeeze souls for thousands of years, and made countless improvements. The biggest result is the incense talisman money based on the talisman money.
Each incense talisman coin itself is like a wine jar. It has been passed down through the world and can withstand the precipitation of time and the polishing of the worldly atmosphere. This can make the incense in the talisman become pure, distracting thoughts subside, and get closer to the world.
Aura.
But on the black boat, Xu Daozheng was rubbing a blood coin in front of him. He compared it and sighed in his heart:
"This method is very embarrassing. Although the incense has been refined into talisman money, the Taoists still drink poison to quench their thirst. They just replaced it with chronic poison."
After all, the time that coins can circulate in the world is still too short.
If you want the incense inside to be completely transformed into non-toxic spiritual energy, the time must still be calculated based on thousands of years, and it is best to be exposed to the sun and rain, buried in the earth and roasted by fire...the more dirty it is, the better.
But the talisman money itself will also decay. By the time it is completely transformed into the spiritual energy talisman money, it will have been completely rusted and will have no physical form.
As a result, for Taoists, it is worthless. And not every Taoist is qualified to enjoy old money that is tens or hundreds of years old.
It can be said that the essence of blood money is still the same as the incense that the gods once enjoyed. Since it is incense, its negative effects are still there, it is just a matter of how much of each one.
As for the Taoists who rely on blood money to refine their qi, the blood money they take will naturally not be just one or two, but thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions... The more the Taoists progress in their cultivation, the more their spiritual energy will increase.
The greater the intellectual impurity, the more chaotic one's own thoughts will be, and the more inner demons will arise.
Although today's immortals are not in the same miserable situation as the ancient gods, compared with the Shengtang period, everyone can be said to be heretical, and both immortals and warriors are paranoid and terrifying, and they will fall into demonic madness if they are not careful.
Thinking of this, Xu Dao's mind did not get any lower. Instead, he thought of something and his heart secretly cheered up.
"Soul, incense, and spiritual energy are all from the same source!"
"From soul to incense, today's immortality has magic spells that can be used. But if you want to transform from incense to aura, completely return to nature, and eliminate distracting thoughts, you can only rely on the heaven and earth itself."
This method relies on all kinds of things such as thunder, wind, fire, earth and wood in the heaven and earth, wind and rain, and uses time to settle, to thoroughly polish away the distracting thoughts in the incense thought, making it pure, more thorough than the talisman, and integrating nature
The aura formed will have miraculous effects, and various miraculous objects such as spiritual iron and spiritual copper will be derived.
After thinking about this, Xu Dao felt even more emotional. He stretched out his hand and patted the railing, and couldn't help but chant:
"Heaven and earth are furnaces, creation is work; Yin and Yang are charcoal, and all things are copper." This voice is long and full of joy.
The Wu Liang Taoist disciples on the black boat heard this and looked at him one after another, with shock and shock on their faces, thinking that he was lamenting the process of the shark girl weeping on the sea.
After Xu Dao himself finished reciting this sentence, he closed his eyes slightly and placed his mind on the inner world-Xiao Huangtian. The reason why he knew the key to transforming incense into spiritual energy was, in addition to the information in this book,
In addition to the clues, what is more important is Xiao Huangtian's inspiration.
I saw in the little yellow sky, grains of incense that he had brought out from Wu State, settling in the soil, suffering from the evil spirits day and night.
It is attached to the grass, trees, earth, rocks and other objects in Xiaohuang Tian, and it is integrated with the essence of the sun and moon introduced from the outside, and transforms into spiritual energy very quickly.
Compared with the transformation of the incense in the talisman money, this process can be said to be a thousand miles in a day. Xu Dao estimated that he would be able to enjoy the first batch of spiritual energy in three months at most.
This speed is enough for him to turn around. And when his cultivation progresses, Xiao Huangtian expands, and the evil energy increases, the spiritual energy he can transform every day will be even more.
Looking at the round inner world of his home, Xu Dao thought:
"Compared with incense and talisman money, it seems that polishing with inner heaven and earth is the right way. More importantly, using inner heaven and earth does not require extracting the soul, and does not harm the heaven and earth."
If he wanted to, he could feed the person in the inner world, and when the person died of old age, his soul would be shattered in the little yellow sky, intercepted by the little yellow sky, and naturally return to spiritual energy.
This is not the case when other Taoists refine talisman coins.
As soon as a mortal dies, his soul will dissipate. If Taoists want to turn it into incense, they must either refine the talisman on the spot, or they must first refine it into a ghost and then store it.
The act of refining ghosts is not only cruel, but also consumes too much. Unless there are other reasons, it is not as cost-effective as Taoist people directly transporting living people.
A thought popped into Xu Dao's mind:
"In this way, in terms of its roots, the incense, talisman and money are similar to those of Inner Heaven and Earth... To be precise, they are similar to those of Xiao Huangtian."
His little Huangtian was created after he seized the power of a certain mountain ghost and connected his soul with his body. Later, he received a trace of Huangtian's rules from the Zhenlu and finally evolved.
Although this process is somewhat coincidental, the transformation from the inner world to the small yellow sky, and then to the fairy garden, blessed land, and cave heaven is a clear and well-organized process, which is definitely not an accident.
Xu Dao was suddenly surprised and surprised at the same time.
This not only means that his path of dual cultivation of life is a broad road. It probably also means that he is not alone. He is still walking on the path opened by his predecessors, but he is walking faster and starting from an earlier point. It seems that he is not alone.
There is another breakthrough.
Xu Dao's heart was excited, and his thoughts turned into human beings in Xiao Huangtian, and he couldn't help but smile.
He realized that no matter how fishy the West Sea was, with Xiao Huangtian here, he promised someone a chance to survive!
And if it is true as he expected, there is an inseparable relationship between the inner world and the incense, talisman and money, which means that the seniors of the immortal way have a backup plan, and the immortal way is still not an evil way.
Even if the West Sea is fishy, morals are corrupted, and heaven and earth are ruined, Taoists in this world will still have the possibility to change the world! In this case, it is not unreasonable for him to grant someone a favor!
For a moment, the depression in Xu Dao's heart disappeared, and the energy in his chest also surged.
He suddenly realized that if Huang Tian was really to be reestablished, it seemed that it was not just for the people of Wu, but also for the countryless people in the world.
With his heart racing, Xu Dao suddenly realized that someone was coming from outside, and he had to go out quickly. But he paused and did not escape immediately, but waved his hand.
Buzz! The blood money from the outside world was also beating and appeared in his little yellow sky. Immediately afterwards, all the blood money stored in the little yellow sky was shattered.
Wisps of blood-colored incense were released, and they sank into the soil of Xiao Huangtian. They were also eroded by the evil spirit, and accelerated towards the spiritual energy.
Xu Dao's heart was racing and he couldn't help himself. He also knew that his current goal was to accumulate resources and increase his Taoism as quickly as possible! Therefore, he had to put in a batch of incense as soon as possible, so that spiritual energy could appear in Xiaohuang Tian as soon as possible.
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As for whether the blood money is dirty or not, firstly, this thing was not made by extracting his soul, and secondly, even without him, what should appear will still appear, and there will not be a penny missing.
Using blood money in Xiaohuang Tian not only does not harm Xu Dao's Taoist heart, but also benefits the external environment.
After handling the blood money in his hand, his consciousness suddenly flashed, and he returned to his physical body and opened his eyes.
There was a figure swimming beside the black ship, it was the little shark girl. The figure had already finished fishing for pearls, and there were beads like silver beans hanging around her neck.
When the little shark girl came, Xu Dao did not avoid it. After several conversations, she slightly raised her eyebrows and said in surprise: