Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 371 The Voice of Prayer
"You cat."

Chu Tai reached out and hugged the cat, rubbed its belly that was exposed in front of him, and listened to the cat's comfortable purring.

Taiyi Xuanhui's true Qi was injected into it, carefully combing the cat's magic power and vitality.

As a little creature that has just become a spirit, although the cat has learned the method of cultivation, it is still more crude than a normal person.

The fragments of the Dao fruit in his body, whether [Spiritual Communication] or [Fertile Soil], could not be manipulated too finely, so under Chu Tai's strength, the condition of Mao'er's body was not very good, and a lot of his flesh and blood and meridians seemed a little blocked due to the rampage of magic power.

After Chu Tai had sorted out all of this, he touched the cat's head and asked about its feelings about what it had seen and heard along the way.

"Meow?"

Mao'er showed a shocked expression, as if he couldn't understand why Chu Tai, who only asked him to lead the way before setting off, would ask him about what he saw and felt on the road. This was different from what they had agreed beforehand, and there would not be such temporary additions.

Seeing this, Chu Tai patted the cat's head and said with a smile, "Just say anything."

The cat lowered its head, the cat was in deep thought, the cat raised its head, lowered its head again, continued to think, and finally thought of something. It raised its head, and a hint of joy appeared in its bright eyes. Just after it meowed, Chu Tai turned his head and looked in another direction.

Chu Tai frowned slightly and whispered, "Strange, someone actually prayed to me? Such an unconventional way, if I didn't have Shao Siming as my incarnation and inherited some of the perception abilities from the Guanyin method, I really wouldn't have noticed it."

The cat looked at Chu Tai who ignored it, and its fur stood up slightly in anger, but Chu Tai ignored it and closed his eyes slightly.

Then Chu Tai stretched out his hand and lightly tapped the void. Ripples appeared on the water and a water mirror floated in front of him. It first reflected a village, and then the scene gradually became clear and reflected the specific situation. It was a young man fighting with an evil cultivator.

The cat, which was originally still angry, saw the figure in the water mirror and immediately started meowing, looking back at Chu Tai from time to time.

"Okay, I got it."

Chu Tai stared at the scene in the water mirror, silently calculating the cause and effect of the matter in his hands. At the same time, his hands did not slow down, casting a spell to send down a clear light to help the young man stop the other party.

The young man who was fighting with the evil cultivator felt a sudden surge of pure and holy energy in his body. He immediately felt reassured and looked at the evil cultivator in front of him without any fear. Instead, he shouted at him harshly.

The evil cultivator was a man with a feminine face. Because he practiced the Mud and Water Alchemy Method improperly in his early years, his pure yang energy leaked out seriously, causing his own magic power to become feminine and turbid, and he needed the boy's pure yang essence to neutralize it.

He originally planned to find eighty-one boys in the nearby villages, take their essence and yang one by one, rebuild his foundation, and lay the foundation for achieving the sixth rank in the future, but he could not take his eyes off the young man when he saw him.

In the eyes of the evil cultivator, the young man in front of him was as good as hundreds of boys from ordinary families.

More importantly, this young man had obviously practiced some kind of mysterious method and had laid a solid foundation for his practice. If he could seize his Yuan Yang and then extract the mysterious method from him, his future achievements would surely be even higher.

Therefore, although he was surprised by the boy's emotional changes, he had no intention of stopping.

With a flick of his long sleeves, a small linen flag came into his hand, which he shook gently. Wisps of pink smoke spread out, and six slender women walked out, with only a piece of cloth covering their bodies. They danced gracefully in front of the young man, which was very seductive and intoxicating. Combined with the fragrance floating in the air, it was a very obscene scene.

Seeing this, Chu Tai stopped making hand gestures and became curious about what the young man would do next.

The evil cultivator's method was nothing more than combining the Yinhun Banner with the art of collecting and replenishing energy. Judging from his aura and the energy of those six women, he had been replenished by his own magic weapon a lot, so his yang energy was weak and he wanted to steal other people's yang energy.

But now the young man, with the protection of the cat's hair, the magic weapon given by Feifei, and the magic power blessed by Chutai, is not afraid of the influence of that evil magic at all, unless he is moved and unwilling to reject the influence of the other party's evil magic.

At the beginning, when Feifei and Wu Chaoxi tested the young man, they were reluctant to test him because he was still young and had a lot of experience in the boat tracker team. Now that he has been traveling for a while and has made some progress in his practice, they took this opportunity to explore the changes in his character.

Just as Feifei and the others had worried back then, the young man had seen too many loving scenes between boat trackers and their spouses in his early years, and had long been familiar with matters between men and women. It was just that because he was young in the past, no one gave him special guidance. Later, when he had hope in cultivation, everyone was even more unwilling to let him linger around, so they intentionally isolated him. Therefore, the young man had a great curiosity about this kind of things.

Now that she was aroused by the evil cultivator, she felt like she was burning in fire. Even with the pure and holy aura flowing in her body and the warm aura outside her body suppressing her, she was unable to curb the curiosity in her heart, and the desire that came with the curiosity.

The cat seemed to realize something was wrong and hurriedly called out to Chu Tai twice in a row.

Chu Tai just touched the cat's head and continued to stare at the changes in the water mirror.

The young man shook his head and silently recited the "Taiyi Jinguan Mantra" in his heart. A faint golden light appeared on the surface of his body, which matched the pure and holy aura emanating from Chu Tai. Then he lowered his body and gasped loudly. He imitated the whole process vividly and did not seem to be pretending.

Chu Tai didn't even need to calculate, he could guess that this was the result of the boy's rich knowledge and experience in the past. With a smile on his face, he shook his head helplessly and had a deeper understanding of the boy's thoughts and personality.

Then, when the evil cultivator approached, Chu Tai saw the young man throw out a dagger and directly chop off the evil cultivator's head.

Seeing this, the cat meowed twice, as if praising the boy's clean and neat movements without any delay.

Chu Tai touched the cat's head, telling it not to be so excited. The next moment, he saw the young man praying silently in the direction of Jinhua Sect, expressing his gratitude to the founder of Jinhua Sect who lent him strength.

"For now, I am considered a polite person."

Chu Tai nodded, stretched out his hand, and strands of golden light hung down, falling into the boy's body along the connection, helping the golden light derived from the Taiyi Jinguan Mantra to grow a little stronger, saving him three or four years of hard training.

The young man was grateful again, and then planned to return to the village, but when he turned around, he was inexplicably tripped by a branch.

Chu Tai silently withdrew his hand. The cat looked at him strangely, as if asking why he tripped the boy.

"Because the evil cultivator had some connection with the village, he is not yet my disciple. The golden light and reminders he gave are already beyond the standard of ordinary people. If I continue to give reminders, it will be useless... Hmm? This is strange. Why are everyone praying to me today, hoping to borrow my power?"

With a stroke of his finger on the water mirror, the scene originally reflecting the boy turned into another scene of a festival. Chu Tai looked at a group of people in front of him worshipping with their hands clasped together, and immediately recalled the origins of this group of people.

This is the inheritance left by Chu Tai when he was in Yong County on the border of the Central Plains.

Back then, Chu Tai practiced in the bamboo sea of ​​Yong County, refining the magic weapon Purple Bamboo Branch and condensing the magic of [Sound of Bamboo Sea]. While refining, it was inevitable that it would attract the response of the surrounding bamboo sea.

Especially when Chu Tai himself was bored, he also incorporated the meaning of [Mountains and Rivers] and [Flying Fairies] into it, and played wonderful music with the rustling sound brought by the friction of bamboo leaves. At that time, he was also using this to express his exploration of the meaning of [Xiao Yao].

The residents living in Yong County only knew that there were immortals in the mountains because of the branch of the Bamboo Mountain Sect originally stationed there. From time to time, people would go into the mountains to look for spiritual bamboo shoots to supplement their family income.

After Chu Tai moved in, more and more people came to look for spiritual bamboo shoots because he showed no intention of refusing outsiders entry.

This led to many people hearing the music that Chu Tai played in the bamboo sea with their own ears. Some people with spiritual intelligence and talent understood the Dharma meaning and comprehended some methods of cultivation, and then began to worship and offer sacrifices.

What's more coincidental is that the level of the Dao Fruit fragments on Chu Tai's body at that time was not high, and most of the incense and vows gathered were integrated into the [Wandering People] to construct local legends, which invisibly enhanced the influence of the music.

Finally, when Chu Tai found out, these people had already sorted out a simple but systematic method of cultivation from the music. They also built a mountain gate near the bamboo sea to teach and accept disciples. They regarded Chu Tai as the ancestor of the teachings and respected him as the "Immortal Master of the Bamboo Sea Waves".
This special name, coupled with the way many people worshipped with their hands folded together, left a deep impression on Chu Tai at the time.

Chu Tai at that time did not have any good way to deal with these people, so he started with the ability of [Wandering Scholar], combined with the magic of [Sound of Bamboo Sea Tide], and combined part of the power of the magic with legends to turn it into magic and pass it on to everyone. He also gave his own magic weapon, the Eight Trigrams Gourd, and left three commandments before leaving the Bamboo Sea of ​​Yong County.

Some time ago, Feifei and Wu Chaoxi, under the guidance of Mao'er, found this lineage of inheritance, helped to improve some of the methods, and left corresponding names.

Knowing the origins of their ancestor, everyone held a grand sacrificial ceremony after careful preparation for a period of time.

Even though the distance between the sacrificial site and Jinhua Dongtian was much greater than the distance between the young man and the Dongtian, the devout wish, under the influence of special rituals, still connected Chu Tai and allowed Chu Tai to exert influence from a distance.

Chu Tai calculated the past information as usual, and after confirming that this sect adhered to the three precepts, he looked in the direction of Shao Siming.

Shao Siming, with a kind face, gently waved the purple bamboo branch in her hand, and the sound of the tide echoed all around. At the same time, the bamboo leaves in the bamboo sea of ​​Yong County also made rustling sounds in response to the sound of the tide.

The people who were performing the sacrifice felt their minds become empty, as if they had a closer connection with the land beneath their feet. The power of many spells that could only be performed near the bamboo sea was enhanced, and they also changed from only knowing how to perform the spells to knowing the specific methods of practice.

The most important thing is that Shao Siming not only blessed them this time, but also taught them many healing techniques, which greatly improved their ability to protect themselves.

In contrast, Chu Tai simply reached out to attract a little fate, and with the help of "fate" stabilized everyone's beautiful wishes on the Bagua Gourd, giving it more powerful power.

Finally, Chu Tai used his ability of [Jijiu] to consolidate the connection between the Eight Trigrams Gourd Whisk and the Three Disciplines.

"In the future, as long as you do not violate the three commandments and continue to accumulate virtue and do good deeds, the power of this treasure will continue to increase."

Chu Tai's voice echoed in everyone's ears, and the remaining wish power turned into a faint ripple between his words, sweeping across everyone, slightly purifying their magic power and repairing some of the old injuries left by past practice and battles of the monks.

After doing all this, Chu Tai was about to retract his drooping power, but the cat started to cry again.

"What's the matter with you?"

Chu Tai looked at the cat and saw it jumping and jumping, sometimes pointing at himself, sometimes pointing at a corner in the water mirror.

Chu Tai looked at it and couldn't help laughing. It turned out that when those people saw that the cat brought Feifei and Wu Chaoxi, they believed that the cat was a spiritual animal in the mountains and a lucky animal that brought good news, so they worshipped it on the side of the altar.

The original meaning was to hope that the cat could bring their wishes to Chu Tai, and also hope that the cat could bring good news again.

Now, Chu Tai has given blessings, help and promotion. Logically, the wish of offering sacrifices to Mao'er has been fulfilled, but Mao'er feels that he has not done anything yet, so he wants to seek some more benefits for these people.

"So what do you think I should give them?"

Mao'er thought about it, and suddenly his eyes lit up. He shook his body, and the strange appearance that he had originally retracted in order to meet Chu Tai reappeared.

The cat meowed several times in succession at the phantom of the goddess that manifested itself through the law, and the meaning was obvious.

"You want me to teach them the talismans derived from the Dao Fruit fragments?"

Chu Tai's words made Mao'er's eyes brighter and he nodded repeatedly.

Unwillingly, Chu Tai shook his head and rejected Mao'er's request.

"That won't do. Although these talismans have been processed by me and are theoretically fine, their essence is still based on the power of the immortals. Most of you have been in contact with me on a daily basis, and you have also cultivated yourself. Even you, a cat, are accumulating your own magic power, so there won't be any major problems."

Chu Tai looked in the direction of the water mirror and whispered, "They are different. Although their cultivation method is systematic, it is not sophisticated. At most, they can steadily cultivate to the seventh level. If they want to achieve the sixth level, they can only rely on their luck. Once the talisman gets out of control, they have no ability to resist, and I will not be able to rescue them in time."

The cat meowed twice when he heard this. Chu Tai picked it up and said with a smile, "It's not impossible to teach them the sixth-grade cultivation method, but the method is not easily passed on. According to my original idea, they should accumulate virtue and do good deeds every day, and then strengthen the local legends through repeated sacrifices, and then gradually improve their own cultivation, and finally form a cycle of local legends, self-cultivation, and character."

"I am teaching them the Dharma now. If they lose their current ideals due to their improved cultivation, then it would be my fault. So be it."

Chu Tai stretched out his hand and found a volume of cultivation methods from the sect's classics that was more suitable for people who perform sacrifices. He extracted the cultivation methods related to the sixth level and made simple modifications to them with the ability of [Jijiu] to make the two more harmoniously connected. He then integrated them into the Eight Diagrams Gourd and left a magical ban.

"That's good. Next time they offer sacrifices, as long as they still keep their current ideas, some people will naturally be able to comprehend the specific methods of cultivation and hopefully enter the sixth level. This can be regarded as the benefit you have fought for them. How about it, are you happy?"

(End of this chapter)