Doing things requires a combination of effort and reward. Unilateral effort, or doing nothing and just waiting for the pie to fall from the sky, are abnormal and even go against the principles of heaven and earth.
If you do good deeds, you should be rewarded.
Of course, the good things mentioned here do not refer to the communicative behavior between "people", but to the intersection between living beings and this world. Only in this way will it involve "merits", which can be regarded as unrewarded rewards from heaven and earth.
concept.
"But it seems that the way of heaven and earth in the wilderness is very different from that of the earth." Zhang Yan secretly made a comparison in his heart.
According to the sporadic records in the Longhu Mountain classics, although the "merit" is not detailed, it generally falls on a "protective body", which is more like an "talisman" given by heaven and earth to protect you from great evils.
disasters. For example, ordinary people can live a long life and have many children and be blessed, monks can have a smooth journey without being disturbed by external evils, and even have a greater chance of getting an opportunity than others.
And if Zhang Yan’s guess of the “merit” in the Wild Sky Realm is not wrong about the previous golden brilliance, then it seems to be more direct and practical than the “merit” on the earth. And the benefits will be given immediately.
The kind that can be seen and touched.
Although it is hard to say which of the "merits" of the two worlds is higher or lower, but based on Zhang Yan's current situation, he prefers the way of realizing the "merits" of the Wild Sky Realm. After all, he has just entered the path of cultivation now.
, the improvement of his cultivation is his core concern. Being able to use the "merit" of the Wild Sky Realm to speed up his cultivation is undoubtedly more suitable than the "talisman".
And this also opened a door for Zhang Yan that he had never imagined.
In the past, people who studied Taoism on earth were just to earn a living. After all, the job he could find with a Pheasant University diploma was not as profitable as him traveling around with his master as a Taoist priest. Although he often encountered dangers, it was considered a high risk and high reward.
Later, he traveled to the Desolate Heaven Realm, and his abundant spiritual energy allowed Zhang Yan to pick up the secrets of Longhu Mountain and embark on the path of spiritual practice to become a monk.
But now, the sudden appearance of the "merits" of the world in the wilderness gave Zhang Yan the idea of becoming a Taoist priest again.
Being a Taoist priest in the Wild Sky Realm, the benefit you seek is no longer money, but the "merits" given by this side of the world. They are just six wild ghosts. They used up nearly 30% of their spiritual energy in exchange for the equivalent of enough
The spiritual energy harvested from half a month of hard work. How many ghosts are there in this world that Zhang Yan can save?
I can’t say a lot, I can only say that it is definitely enough to save Zhang Yanchao for a lifetime.
There is no martial arts cultivation in the Wild Sky Realm, and there is no Shinto. The warriors here admire their own strength and practice martial arts. In the early stages of martial arts, the concept of ethereal souls and yin and yang is very vague, even if the martial arts are advanced later.
After that, it was very troublesome to fight against the ghosts, so the warrior could only use the warrior's tyrannical energy and blood to attack the evil spirits of the ghosts and break them with force.
However, martial arts cultivation and Shinto cultivation have been yin and yang going hand in hand from the beginning, so the methods have a direct and effective effect on ghosts.
Therefore, Zhang Yan can boldly affirm that there will definitely be no shortage of ghosts in the Wild Sky Realm. And when the number of ghosts increases, there will definitely be existences such as fierce ghosts and even ghost kings. It is an inevitable fact that quantitative changes lead to qualitative changes. These are all
His "merit".
Thinking of this, Zhang Yan's face was full of smiles. It seems that the time for him to attack the Qi-entraining barrier can be greatly advanced. And there seems to be more expectations on the way home.
His heart was racing and he couldn't calm down, so Zhang Yan simply took out the yellow paper and cinnabar from his bag and started drawing talismans. He never expected to meet a ghost so quickly, nor did he expect that he could gain "merits" and improve his cultivation by escaping a ghost.
There are not many talismans, and most of them are talismans for sexual intercourse. Now Zhang Yan is going to draw some talismans specifically for ghosts, just in case of emergencies.
At dawn the next day, Zhang Yan packed up his things, got off the mass grave, and prepared to go into the city for some sightseeing. On the way, he found a carriage company heading northeast for a ride.
But when Zhang Yan just walked to the foot of the hillside of the mass grave, he saw several people wearing yamen robes and a coachman driving a carriage slowly coming over.
None of the people were sitting in the carriage, including the driver, who was all walking. After getting closer, Zhang Yan saw that the reason why these people were not sitting in the carriage was because there were three corpses lying flat on the carriage, without even a white cloth to cover them.
Moreover, the bodies in the car were only in tattered clothes, and even obvious dirt could be seen on the face. In addition, besides the government servants, there were no family members traveling with them, and the direction they were going was a mass grave. Zhang Yan felt that this
The three corpses were probably homeless people or beggars before they were alive.
When the yamen officials saw Zhang Yan coming down from the mass grave, still carrying a baggage, he came forward to question him warily. It wasn't until Zhang Yan took out the paperwork for his return home that the wariness on the faces of the two yamen officials relaxed. But they were also curious.
Why did Zhang Yan appear at the mass grave early in the morning?
"Why else? Yesterday I went to drink as soon as I entered the city. Unexpectedly, I had not drank for more than two years and my alcohol capacity was reduced. After three or four drinks, I was so drunk that I couldn't find the north. I left the city in a daze. When I arrived,
Over here, I was so startled when I woke up in the middle of the night. It was so late." Zhang Yan said with an annoyed look on his experience yesterday, but he didn't tell any lies.
Although Zhang Yan's statement sounds a bit strange, he has only been in Xuanhua City for a day after being discharged from the army. Besides, besides bones and sticks, what else can make people make trouble in the mass graves? There are even grave diggers here.
Thieves won't come, and there's no oil or water.
"Huh? You're going to die with your eyes open!" Zhang Yan narrowed his eyes and paused when he looked at the three corpses on the carriage.
"You're not afraid. Oh, that's right. There are many more dead people in your Yubei Mountain Fortress than in ours. It's weird to be afraid." After a pause, the officer continued: "Isn't that right? A few refugees died inexplicably there.
In the alley, Wu Zuo said he was scared to death. It was strange, what could happen to scare people to death?"
After a brief chat, Zhang Yan watched these people go up to the mass grave. There were no more pits at the foot of the mountain and they had to be dragged up.
After a few people walked away, Zhang Yan also left the mass grave, but he had other thoughts in his heart. Because there was something wrong with the three corpses. Others couldn't see the problem, but he could see that the corpses were extremely dark.
, not at all what a normal corpse should look like.
"It seems more like the Yin energy entered the body while alive. Because the time after death was too short, the Yin energy in the body had not had time to dissipate and some of it remained.
But, what kind of thing can bring such strong Yin Qi? And it can also get into the body of a living person?"