The sight of thunder and fire surging and black mist filling the air is truly terrifying.
The people in the city of Jinling Prefecture had already closed their doors behind closed doors. The Taoist priests who were responsible for clearing the "gifts" in the city couldn't help but look up at the sky and were speechless.
Anyone can see that a huge change has occurred in Jinling City, and it is no longer as simple as the demons of Zhiming Cult spreading a curse.
Bai Yingqiong was very sure that this was indeed a divine gift.
As the chief deputy head of the Jiangnan Dao Mansion, Bai Yingqiong is not among the thirty-six real people who know the truth, but she is qualified to attend the Golden Palace. She is among the 108 people who can observe, and has already reached the upper echelon of the Taoist sect.
So I know many secrets.
The "Guxian" in the doorway means the gods of ancient times.
As for why it is a deity, rather than a heavenly deity, an earth deity, a human deity, a ghost deity or a zombie deity, it is because deities are the only ones who can stay in the human world for a long time.
As for other immortals, they will have to go through a tribulation after a hundred years. If they can make it through, they can stay in the human world for another hundred years. If they cannot make it through, they will die. If you are not sure, you should ascend and die as soon as possible before the heavenly tribulation comes.
Okay, so there are immortal people in this world, but there are very few immortal people who can stay in this world for a long time.
Even if we survive the catastrophe, the second catastrophe in the next hundred years will be even more fierce, and the third catastrophe will be even more ferocious than the second catastrophe. There will always be a time when we can't survive it. If the human world is
Or the way of heaven is regarded as a person, and its intention is probably very obvious. The human world does not allow the existence of immortal people, either leave or die.
The only exception is the gods.
Immortals are the only immortals who can stay in the human world for a long time, and they are also the only immortals who cannot ascend and die.
Immortals are an outlier among the five immortals. They use external wishes to transform into divine power, build golden bodies, and claim to be gods in the world. Then they open up the kingdom of gods and feed on the power of incense and wishes. There is no limit to a hundred years.
However, the gods are also extremely dependent on the power of incense and wishes. If the incense is cut off, their golden bodies will be covered with dust, and then they will gradually decay, and the divine kingdom will be ruined. They can only survive, and eventually their golden bodies will decay, the divine kingdom will collapse, and they will fall.
However, if the incense is at its peak, the gods will also benefit greatly. The golden body will not break down and the power of the gods will be immeasurable. If the believers can reach millions of people, they can even compete with the gods without falling behind in their own divine kingdom. Overall,
, gods and other immortals have their own advantages and disadvantages. Other immortals are the method of transcending the world, and they cultivate themselves. The gods are the method of entering the world, and they cultivate others.
Without the power of incense and wishes, the gods are like water without a source and trees without roots. No matter how powerful they are, they will eventually fall one day.
This involves another question - why did these ancient gods oppose Taoism?
Because the ancient immortals are all people who have returned from the dead. When they dominated the world, the Taoist sect had not yet flourished. When they returned to the world, the Taoist sect had already dominated the world and there was no longer a place for them. In order to compete for incense, they
He had no choice but to become an enemy of the Taoist sect. The Taoist sect was unable to recruit all the ancient immortals.
Immortals die three times.
The first death is the decay and collapse of the golden body. This is just a false death, just like the rivers drying up and the lakes drying up. As long as new incense and will power are injected, the golden body can be rebuilt in the kingdom of God.
The second death is the collapse of the Kingdom of God. This is true death, but it is not dead. There is still a trace of spiritual imprint left in the dark. As long as there are still people who remember this god, there will be a chance to return.
The third death is when everyone forgets about this god, and even the last mark is completely dissipated, and he will never die again.
From this point of view, gods are more difficult to destroy than earthly immortals, ghost immortals, and human immortals. Whether it is Wu Luo or Lord Siming, it is only the first level of death, that is, the golden body decays and collapses, but the kingdom of gods still exists.
, entered a state of suspended animation. Thousands of years later, due to certain opportunities, they reshaped their golden bodies and reappeared in the world again. At that time, Buddhism and Taoism were competing, which not only stalled Xuansheng's process of integrating the three internal paths, but also caused
These returning ancient immortals took the opportunity to develop and grow, and even Buddhism secretly supported the ancient immortals in order to restrain the Taoist sect. This can be said to have caused far-reaching disasters. Many Taoist sects gnashed their teeth when talking about Buddhism. If not for Buddhism, how could there be so many internal and external troubles today?
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As for why Buddhism secretly helped the ancient immortals to restrain the Taoist sect, rather than the Taoist sect supporting these ancient immortals to fight against the Buddhist sect, it is because the Shinto sect has declined among the Taoist sects, but has flourished in the Buddhist sect. The Buddhist sect is far superior to the Taoist sect in the attainments of the Shinto sect.
Taoism and Buddhism personally took action to help the ancient immortals get through the most difficult early stage. The ancient immortals also reciprocated and helped Buddhism fight against Taoism.
Because of this, the Taoist sect redeveloped Shintoism in the process of the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, established the inheritance of witchcraft and blessings, and expanded the group of spiritual officials.
In terms of Shinto attainments, in order to ensure the immortality of the Kingdom of God, Buddhism collects the souls of believers into its own Kingdom of God, allowing them to be reborn in the Kingdom of God, and live forever with the Kingdom of God. It may appear that they have immortality, but in fact they are not free.
It's just that ordinary believers don't feel restricted, but think it is a great gift.
Therefore, there are always countless Buddhist disciples in the Buddha's Kingdom. In Buddhist terms, they are as many as the sands of the Ganges River. These so-called Buddhist disciples chant sutras day and night to maintain the Kingdom of God from declining and constantly strengthen the Buddha's golden body.
However, the Kingdom of God is eternal. Whether you are a believer or a Buddhist, repeating the same thing for thousands of years will inevitably lead to insensitivity. Insensitivity does not mean piety, and the power of vows it can provide will be greatly weakened, so Buddhism created another
After the six paths of reincarnation, believers in the Buddhist country are constantly reincarnated, washing away the memories of the past, starting over, and rejuvenating, so naturally they will not be indifferent. This is the paradise world.
The whirling world goes a step further and allows believers to be born into the human world in the form of ghosts and immortals. After a hundred years of experience in the human world, they can then return to the Buddhist kingdom. The running water will not rot and the door hinges will not be beetrooted. And these people often have great wisdom and great ability.
A person with perseverance, after returning to the Buddha's kingdom, will no longer be as simple as an ordinary Buddhist, but will become a slave of the Buddha, and even become a vajra, arhat and the like.
Therefore, people in Buddhism believe in the afterlife. In a sense, this is indeed the afterlife. However, the difference between this afterlife and the eternal life without liberation is a matter of opinion.
Because of this, people in Taoism never believe in the theory of reincarnation. It is either the seizure of the body by ghosts and immortals, or the reincarnation of Buddhism. How can reincarnation come about? Therefore, Taoism always believes that after death, the soul returns to the earth, and the three corpses turn into
Ghosts, and being able to actively kill three corpses is an incredible magical power.
Back to Shintoism, because the human world does not allow immortal people to exist for a long time, so whether it is the Buddha of Buddhism or the immortal of Taoism, although they can stay in the world for a long time, they also need to abide by some rules of a hundred years, that is, before the expiration of a hundred years, they can still
You can appear in the world at will, but after a hundred years, you can't interfere in the world at will. Every time you take action, you have to pay a certain price.
This is the reason why the gods of many sects often performed miracles at the beginning of the establishment of the religion, but the miracles became less and less in the later stages.
Since Lord Siming is an ancient immortal, he has naturally passed the one-hundred-year period long ago. Therefore, if he wants to descend from the Kingdom of God to the human world, he must perform a grand divine descending ceremony.
Depending on the specifications of the divine descending ceremony, the power of the gods to descend to the human world also varies.
For example, at the Yulan Temple in Yishan City, it was the lowest level of divine descent. Wu Luo only gave down some divine power. But at Kunlun Pass, the level of divine descent was even higher. Wu Luo used the outline of the mountains and rivers to manifest the projection and broke it casually.
Flying boat. When they arrived at Cuowenbu again, Wu Luo came with more power. He no longer relied on external objects such as the outline of mountains and rivers for projection, but directly used his divine power to condense his divine body, destroying "Yinglong" and killing Shangguan Jing.
As for the arrival of True Lord Siming in Jinling Mansion this time, its specifications are only slightly inferior to the direct arrival of the golden body of gods to the human world and the manifestation of the Kingdom of God in the human world. It is located on the third level, that is, using a container to appear in the human world.
There are many kinds of containers that can carry gods.
It can be a human being, for example, a person who is very compatible with the destiny of the immortal. The higher the cultivation level, the better. If it is the remains of a dead immortal, that would be even better.
It can also be an object, such as a fairy object, or some special semi-immortal object, which can be used as a container. If it is a fairy object that has been used by gods, the effect will be best.
The quality of the container also determines the level of cultivation that the gods can achieve after they arrive.
The container chosen by the Zhiming Cult this time is the "Lord of Gifts" they have carefully cultivated and the "gifts" scattered all over the city, with Zhenwu Lake as the birthplace and "Xuanyu" as the introduction.
The power that the Lord Siming who descended like this could exert was far greater than that of Tso Wenbu's Wu Luo.