Wet viviparity

Chapter 235: Yin De, Grandma Hu
On the road to magic weapons, Ji Ming finally took the first step. This step was also a step for him to continue his advantage and make full preparations for the next secret work of the "Toad Society".

Zhang Xiaoyuan personally informed Ji Ming of this secret mission. It was very unusual and risky, but the rewards were also great, allowing Ji Ming to accumulate sixty merits.

Fu Qian is the currency jointly issued by the righteous ways in the world of the living. It relies on the orthodoxy and credit of the Taoist lineage of heaven and is tangible wealth for practitioners.

Yin De has existed since ancient times and is shared by the three heavens. It can be obtained by doing good deeds, like the confession of sins burned in fire and sent to the netherworld. In essence, it is still consuming one's own shallow Yin De.

On top of it there is also a confession book for relieving disasters that is sunk in water and passed around to the gods of mountains, rivers and land, which consumes a little more good karma.

Why do those Taoists who earn money and merit by writing confessions for others sometimes have their confessions work and sometimes not? One of the reasons is that the person concerned does not have much good karma.

Therefore, when experienced Taoists write confessions for people to atone their sins or to help them get out of trouble, they usually choose people who have done good deeds.

These skills and knowledge do not appear in Taoist books, but are passed down orally by Taoists. Ji Ming only heard about them after he became a Taoist and no longer had conflicts of interest with the Taoist community.

Confession is only a small way to utilize hidden virtues. The main purpose of Taoists accumulating hidden virtues is to be able to avert disasters and resume their cultivation.

In Huoxu Cave, Ji Ming also heard a little joke about revealing the nature of Yin De: There was a farmer who wanted to accumulate virtue and become an immortal. The fairy crane told him that he should do good deeds every day, and if he did 100,000 good deeds, he could become an immortal immediately.

The old farmer was very happy to hear this and decided to give it a try.

From then on, the old farmer would "sweep the floor to avoid hurting ants, and cover the lamp with gauze to protect moths." After many years, after accumulating countless good deeds, he went to ask the crane when he would become an immortal.

The crane shook his head and said that there was still one thing missing.

Although the old farmer was frustrated, he decided to persevere and did many good deeds in succession.

But Xianhe still shook his head, and this time he said it was still a long way off!

The old farmer couldn't help asking what was missing, and Xianhe said with a smile that he only needed to donate all his crops and land. The old farmer didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and just said, "That won't work, I still have to rely on the land for food!"

Later, the old farmer told everyone he met that it was not easy to become an immortal and that filling one's stomach was the most important thing.

Although this joke makes no logical sense, it also indirectly illustrates that good karma cannot be accumulated by deliberately doing good deeds.

At Ji Ming's realm and level, the way to gain Yin De is to gain a certain amount of Yin De through his specific performance in previous years in office after the Yin judgement.

For example, after Judge Luo Man investigated the corruption this time, six of his good deeds were recorded in the local register.

He also had another way, which was to save the hungry ghosts from the Burnt-faced Ghost King. One starving ghost was worth one point of merit. In Huang Jue's reincarnation dream, he had a total of 1,181 points of merit.

At that time, he relied on Huang Jueshen's good deeds to exchange for Bao Ruyi's treasure refining technique from the Jiaohei Ghost King. He spent a total of 800 good deeds, and there were still 381 good deeds left. Thinking about it now, it really hurts.

At that time he was too young to truly appreciate the value of hidden virtues. It was not until now when he started to earn hidden virtues himself that he realized how difficult it was.

"It's too late to regret!"

Ji Ming sighed in his heart.

The day before August 8th, Ji Ming arrived at a sparsely populated deserted mountain in advance.

Here, there are four groups of ghost soldiers guarding the foot of the mountain, prohibiting outsiders from breaking in. Now the situation in Fangzhong is not very clear, and the evil ways of the independent people are becoming more and more rampant, and they seem to have smelled a hint of the coming storm.

In a spacious cave, hundreds of old corpses were lying there. They were built into a high platform, with gold powder on their skin, silver beads in their eyes, glass agate inlaid bones, jade clams inlaid teeth, and red pearls stuffed in their mouths. Each of these seven-treasure corpses was carefully made, and was much better than the Yin corpse fire altar that Ji Ming had built before.

Around the altar, dozens of prayer flags fluttered in the wind, circles of oil lamps glowed with light, and offering flowers bloomed enthusiastically. The arrangement of the altar this time was absolutely out of standard.

"It's better to have money!"

Ji Ming sighed, checked outside the altar, and corrected some details.

Then he stepped up step by step from the steps built by the seven-treasure corpses in front of the altar and went straight to the altar.

Here, there are three corpses that have turned into spirits, sitting back to back, hugging their knees, with their heads drooping, forming a pedestal that holds up a three-foot-tall statue of the god.

This statue is a fox head with a human body, narrowed eyes and a sinister smile, the corners of the lips protruding from the fox mouth extend to the ears, and the facial sculpture is extremely exaggerated. She is Hu Wu Tai Nai, the fox vein god of the world, and also a great power in Tianhuyuan.

This time, Ji Ming would use this altar to perform sacrifices and perform rituals at the same time, to ask the deity to chant some magic words. This was his first time to ask a deity from another sect, and he was quite nervous.

The difference between the side-door gods and the three-day gods lies in the rules and variables. The three-day gods generally follow the rules of the sacrifice, but the side-door gods do not.

The reason why Ji Ming chose this deity was mainly because of the compatibility of the altar. The Yinshi Dinghuo Altar was originally biased towards evil, and among the several deities that were compatible with this altar, Mrs. Hu Wu had the best reputation.

In addition, the White Bone Heart Bead he used for sacrifice was a Yin treasure, and could only be chanted by those professional gods of the side sects.

After checking that everything was correct, Ji Ming sat down here, patiently waiting for the auspicious time of the four yin for the sacrifice at 8 o'clock tomorrow, August 8th.

In the deserted mountain, in the cave, time passed little by little. Ji Ming sat still, his mind was stable, and there were no distractions. This was the state of mind brought by years of practice. When the time came, he reached behind his head and threw the white bone heart bead into the altar, and it rolled down in the gap between the seven treasures' corpses.

The next second, all the old corpses on the altar began to "breathe", their dehydrated and shriveled chests rose and fell slightly, and with the corpses' breathing, a cold wind slowly blew up.

The prayer flags, which were already moving without wind, fluttered even more vigorously.

The little flames on the circles of oil lamps outside the altar suddenly trembled together, and the warm light began to turn green, illuminating the altar and the area below it with a dark green glow.

"Hehe~"

A burst of snickering laughter suddenly rang out, and then stopped after three laughs.

Ji Ming subconsciously looked at the statue of Hu Wu Tai Nai with a sinister smile. The protruding fox mouth that stretched from ear to ear really made him feel creepy.

The formal rituals and offerings had not yet begun, but the statue had already shown strange things. Ji Ming was a little nervous, not knowing whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

He held the green skull in one hand, then threw down a fire talisman. With a "boom" sound, the Yin Fire spread on the altar in just a few breaths, and Ji Ming jumped and sat on top of the Void Warriors.

"Whee!"

A quick laugh rang out, this time it was not a snicker, but a sneer, which made Ji Ming furious.

Ji Ming regarded this as a real test from the gods. He gradually calmed down and began to walk in the Gangbu steps. At the same time, he raised the green skull in his hand high up. The skull emitted a green light that shone on the Yin Corpse Fire Altar.

The words of praise began to be sung.

(End of this chapter)