I use myths to create immortality

Chapter 77 Chapter 76: The Deacon of the Scripture Review; Gathering Clouds to Create Thunder Magical Treasure
When you comprehend the profound truth, you won’t even notice the passage of time.

In the blink of an eye it is already the end of the month.

In the thatched cottage, Ji Yuan opened his eyes, and there seemed to be a flash of lightning in his hazy vision, making the dark cottage appear white.

If someone saw this at this time, they would surely be frightened, or even lose their mind due to the shock of the lightning.

"It would be great if I could get all the treasure scrolls." The lightning in his eyes dimmed and subsided, revealing a look of longing.

But for such a treasure, it is considered a great fortune to be able to obtain half of it. To obtain the other half is like looking for a needle in a haystack, and the chances are slim.

This Kuiniu Treasure Scroll is made from the skin and fur of gods and demons, and is branded with the Road of Thunder.

It's like picking up the lifelong skills of a senior, and it's not a waste of effort to comprehend it.

But it is impossible to comprehend anything in just one month.

This kind of comprehension requires a very high level of Taoism, and it takes thousands or even tens of thousands of years to ponder before one can realize and figure out something.

Ji Yuan's realm is too shallow after all.

One can only observe the changes of the thunder in the treasure scroll, but cannot comprehend it.

Even so, after observing the changes in thunder, he did not comprehend the great way of thunder at all, but his attainment of the magical power of [Calling the Wind and Summoning Rain] was further improved and perfected.

Ji Yuan looked at the pine forest outside the window of the thatched cottage and flicked his fingers.

The whooshing wind brought in clouds and mist, which gathered into dark clouds dozens of feet high, hundreds of feet above the ground, floating above the pine forest.

"Swish!" Thunder roared, and arcs of electricity flashed continuously in the dark clouds.

"Boom!" A loud noise came, like a bolt from the blue, and the sound could be heard for thousands of miles.

The sound was so loud that all the monks in Tenghai Peak heard it and were surprised at the sudden thunder in the clear sky.

An arc of lightning as long as a chopstick fell on a thick fir tree as big as a bowl, causing wood chips to fly, and the tree was charred several feet long, and a raging flame started.

"It's quite powerful; it can be considered an unexpected success." Ji Yuan pointed.

The rain fell, extinguishing the flames on the tops of the old fir trees, and dark clouds dozens of feet high dispersed.

I was originally full of expectations and prepared to comprehend the innate great power of thunder.

As a result, the Thunder Avenue was not affected at all, but by observing the mysterious changes of thunder evolved in the treasure scroll, his ability to call the wind and rain actually became much more perfect.

It is said that one can obtain a method from the Tao, and one can obtain a technique from the method.

The Tao has not been realized.

But he understood the technique of gathering clouds to create thunder.

It's a small gain.

The power is similar to the religion's fire magic worth 2 million merit points.

It can also be considered a minor skill.

"Too many treasures is a nuisance. I don't have time to carefully cultivate and comprehend them one by one."

Now he is thinking about learning forbidden magic; he is thinking about proofreading scriptures in the Sutra Repository; he is thinking about refining the divine copper; he is thinking about comprehending the treasure scroll; he is thinking about finding the complete divine and demonic skills to refine the true blood of Tianwu, as well as practicing various spiritual treasures.

There were also the mysteries of the Xuanming Orb, the Bichen Orb, the Tianwu Divine Eye Orb, and the Emerald Coral in the bag, but he had no time to comprehend them in detail.

Now there are a lot of beads in my pocket.

Tianwu Divine Eye Bead; it is considered a rare treasure. If you cultivate it successfully, you may gain supernatural powers such as the divine eye and divine light.

The Dust-Repelling Orb is a rare treasure that can cleanse the mind. If it is fully cultivated, it can be used to hit people with considerable power.

The Mysterious Nether Orb is a rare treasure. Holding it in your hand can help you avoid some fire. If you cultivate it successfully, you can gain magical powers such as cold wind, and you can also throw it to hit people.

Emerald coral branch; a rare treasure that has the ability to avoid water to a certain extent; if it is fully cultivated successfully, it should be able to be practiced into a divine light spell for collecting treasures, or become a short weapon.

Some are similar to the Seven Treasures Tree.

Exotic treasures can also be considered spiritual treasures, but most of them are not innate. They are just acquired things that have been touched by innate spiritual power. Compared with innate spiritual treasures, they will directly have some simple supernatural powers, so they are called exotic treasures.

Innate spiritual treasures are completely embryos of equipment and magic weapons; they are either extremely powerful or directly covered in dust; they will not have such small supernatural powers.

If one practices according to the method of refining spiritual treasures in this world, it would take at least tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years to successfully refine one of these rare treasures.

If one wants to achieve success quickly, one can only wait for Ji Yuan's Samadhi Fire to refine the divine copper and forge the supreme treasure, the Eight Trigrams Furnace, and forge these treasures in the furnace, returning them directly to their origin.

Fortunately, supernatural powers do not require special training, and their mysteries will naturally increase.

After putting away the treasures, he took out a thousand-year-old elixir from the treasure bag containing elixir, chewed it into pieces, and swallowed it into his stomach to refine it.

Now the magic power is approaching five hundred years.

Ji Yuan, on the contrary, did not dare to take the ten thousand year old elixir, for fear that he would exceed the five hundred year mark and the three disasters would befall him, turning him into ashes and causing him to die on the spot.

There just so happens that there are still a lot of thousand-year-old elixirs, and they take up space just by keeping them.

After several hours, the elixir was refined and the magic power increased over several months, to the 407th year.

He took another thousand-year-old elixir and swallowed it.

He continued like this for several days, and had consumed and refined all the common thousand-year-old elixirs in his bag.

The mana increased to four hundred and thirteen years.

Then he took another three thousand year old elixir, and this time he felt that the effect of the medicine was much stronger.

Ji Yuan, who had just cultivated his magical powers for 470 years, was shocked. He opened his eyes and counted with his fingers.

"Today is the time to report to the Sutra Library. I almost missed the deadline and am late on the first day."

This is the case for people who practice cultivation. The more profound their Taoism becomes, the more they become one with nature and man, and they naturally have all kinds of miraculous spiritual perceptions.

Just like people who are getting healthier, they will wake up naturally at a certain time after sleeping; some elderly people can tell when it will rain or stop.

If one achieves the Tao in cultivation and becomes one with the Tao, one will be able to sense it immediately even if someone is talking about him thousands or tens of thousands of miles away.

Where drought is coming, where rain is coming, where monsters appear, where treasures are found.

Just pinch it with your fingers and you will know the whole story.

The so-called immortals are extraordinary, they know the future and plan ahead, and they understand everything with their divine powers. This is the principle.

Seeing mountains as not being mountains and seeing water as not being water, one can observe the will of heaven and know blessings and disasters.

Who is going to be lucky, who is going to die, who is secretly sick, and who is going to be unlucky, you can tell at a glance who is going to be lucky, who is going to die, who is going to be unlucky.

After packing her clothes and tying her hair into a bun, Ji Yuan walked out of the hut and rode on the mist towards the Sutra Library on Kunwu Mountain.

As soon as he left Tenghai Peak, he saw Chen Hai holding a treasure bottle by the cold pond at the foot of the peak. He extracted wisps of cold mist from the cold pond and put them into the bottle.

He also saw Ji Yuan and greeted him from a distance: "Brother Ji, where are you going? Come down and have a chat."

"Report to the Tibetan Pavilion." Ji Yuan calmed down and walked to his side.

This cold pond is hundreds of miles wide, with swaying waves and an unfathomable depth. Wisps of mist float on the water surface, and even standing on the shore makes people feel chilly.

"Brother, you are so lucky. You have much more free time than me." Chen Hai's eyes were full of envy.

At the previous banquet, he knew that Ji Yuan was already the school deacon, and that was enough to surprise him.

"It's so hot out there; wouldn't it be relaxing and cool for you to collect essence in the cold pond?" Ji Yuan said with a smile.

There are only two people in Teng Haifeng who don't have to work.

One is the peak master Ling Miao, and the other is Ji Yuan.

Others either look after the medicine balls, or guard the entrance to the peak, or guard the storage cabinet, or clean Tenghai Palace.

Extracting the essence from the cold pond is the best job; after all, it is leisurely and no one cares.

This cold pond is a wonder of Kunwu; its essence can heal injuries to the soul and spirit and is extremely precious; refining a small bottle of it can earn one thousand merits.

It’s just laborious to collect. It would take at least half a year to collect ten drops into a bottle.

"Brother, you're joking. This damn place is so cold that I have to drink while tempering myself in the cold fog." Chen Hai smiled bitterly, shaking the bottle in his hand.

No wonder his face was red and he spoke with a slurred voice. I thought he was frozen.

It turns out he was drunk.

I don’t know if this guy has escaped the control of his family elders since he entered Kunwu, or if he opened his Ren and Du meridians after drinking with Ji Yuan one day.

Anyway, I always have wine with me every day, and I always find a reason to have a drink.

Plus, I vomited a lot at the banquet that day.

Therefore, he was nicknamed "Drunk Taoist"

"Junior brother is truly a wine immortal, worthy of being called the Drunken Taoist."

"What wine fairy? I still need your support, brother..." Chen Hai smiled bitterly.

As he spoke, he took out a wooden box and handed it to Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan opened it and saw that it was a thousand-year-old spiritual medicine. He looked up in confusion and said, "Brother, what are you doing? This treasure is too valuable. I can't afford it."

"This is my most precious thing, brought from home. Please accept it, brother. If you don't, you will look down on your younger brother." Chen Hai insisted on giving it to Ji Yuan.

"I came to see you; I actually had this intention a long time ago, but I couldn't say it out loud, for fear that you would think I looked down on you; after all, you are also a genius of the Immortal Clan, and if you also have this intention and don't mind being inferior to me, then that's perfect..."

Before he finished speaking, Chen Hai was pleasantly surprised: "Really? Thank you, brother! Brother, you are invincible in magical powers and martial arts. I have long been convinced. This is something I have been longing for. How could I dislike it?"

"Okay, then you can take this magic medicine back. My magic power is full and I don't need it anymore. Just follow me." Ji Yuan deliberately passed by the cold pond, and he really had the intention of subduing Chen Hai.

This drunk Taoist has many shortcomings, but there is one thing that is very good: he is bold, dares to do and think anything, and is extremely meticulous in his work.

His supernatural powers and Taoist strength are also not bad, and he has long had the intention of surrendering.

The key is to be sincere. The thousand-year-old elixir is just a weed to Ji Yuan, and he doesn't even want to look at it now. But to Chen Hai, it is indeed the most precious and important treasure in his body, and he will give it to Ji Yuan without hesitation.

Ji Yuan needs someone like him.

Chen Hai knew that Ji Yuan had great merits, so he stopped insisting and was filled with gratitude.

For Chen Hai, he had just started learning the ropes. He had hundreds of years of experience but didn't know where to start. He could only do hard and tiring work.

Not only does it waste time and delay cultivation, there is no hope of achieving true enlightenment or a path to advancement.

Ji Yuan has extraordinary magical powers, and he will sooner or later become a true disciple; he may even go higher, and he is willing to take me with him. This is a rare opportunity.

"Okay, let's not say anything more. Brothers, don't be polite and long-winded. Let's go to the Sutra Library."

Seeing his face full of gratitude, he was about to speak, but Ji Yuan interrupted him and raised his finger, causing wind and fog to rise, enveloping the two of them and flying into the sky.

Chen Hai could only turn all his words into gratitude and bury it deep in his heart. He said to Ji Yuan, "I'm still on the mission at Tenghai Peak. Why don't I tell Senior Sister Lingmiao?"

"No need to tell me. When you come back, you will be a member of the Sutra Library and I will be in charge of you."

Ji Yuan is the editor-in-chief of the Sutra Repository. According to the rules, he can appoint two subordinate officials.

This clerk also has a salary, which is paid by the sect every month.

Of course, deacons can actually have more assistants, but they have to pay their own salaries. The church only pays two assistants.

Soon, they arrived at the Sutra Repository on the back mountain of Jinque Peak.

But one can see an area of ​​tens of thousands of acres, with palaces and pavilions stretching continuously, with towers towering hundreds of feet high, palaces piled with gold and jade, door thresholds with pillars decorated with coiled dragons, and broad squares with incense burners emitting tall smoke.

The huge gatehouse with a width of several hundred meters has a plaque [Scripture Hall]

From time to time, disciples of Xuanwei Sect would come in and out to borrow books.

The clothes with a string of coin-sized yin-yang patterns embroidered on the collar and extending to the hem are the clothes worn by the disciples of the Sutra Repository.

The clothes of Xuanwei Sect disciples have no patterns; only the clothes of true disciples, deacons of various departments, peak masters, chief monks, elders, etc. have patterns.

The Hall of Merit is decorated with a picture of cranes, the Hall of Dharma Transmission is decorated with a picture of stars, the Hall of Treasures is decorated with a picture of clouds, and the Hall of Dharma Protectors is decorated with a picture of swords.

The Sutra Hall displays the Yin-Yang Bagua diagram.

Those with small yin and yang on their collars are ordinary disciples who do odd jobs like sweeping and cleaning. They are ordinary Xuanwei disciples who are hired for a few months at any time to take on a task and leave when the cleaning is completed, so they are not considered formal disciples.

Those who have the Bagua pattern on their cuffs are clerks or owners of inn.

The one with a yin-yang pattern embroidered on the back and hexagram text on the cuffs is a deacon.

The one wearing the Yin-Yang crown is the elder, and the one wearing the Ruyi crown is the chief elder.

Ji Yuan didn't have his robe or ID card now; he could only take Chen Hai through the normal procedures and, after numerous checks, enter the threshold.

Following the directions, we arrived at a side hall several dozen feet behind the threshold. There were two old men in the hall, playing chess, and next to them were desks and chairs with paperwork and a few young people busying around, looking extremely leisurely.

The two old men had relatively little magical power; neither of them had reached the state of enlightenment; but they both wore crowns.

Ji Yuan did not dare to neglect the matter and bowed his head to greet them: "I am the disciple Lingbao, following the order of the head monk, and I am here to serve as the scripture proofreader in the Sutra Repository. I am honored to meet the two elders."

The short-bearded Taoist priest in gray clothes and a yin-yang crown on the left said with a smile, "Okay, give me your identity token."

After taking Ji Yuan's token for confirmation, the short-bearded Taoist priest took out a pen, drew a talisman on it, and returned it to Ji Yuan.

"Old Taoist Xue Xuxia is the keeper of the Sutra Repository. The man next to him is Senior Brother Jiang Xuyun, the chief elder of the Sutra Repository." Xue Xuxia said, pointing at the old man opposite.

The old man opposite was wearing a purple brocade robe embroidered with the Yin-Yang and Eight Diagrams, and a Ruyi fish-tail crown; five long strands of beard hung down to his chest, and his face was as rosy as a baby's; he indeed had the appearance of an immortal.

Ji Yuan hurried to pay his respects.

"You're welcome. Mr. Xu, please make an introduction and arrangement for Junior Brother Lingbao." Jiang Xuyun waved his hand.

"Our Sutra Pavilion is vast; it is divided into the Yin-Yang Department, the Five Elements Department, the Yuanchen Department, the Beidou Department..."

The Sutra Library houses Buddhist scriptures, sutras, characters, inscriptions, geomancy maps, local records, etc., which are millions of years old. The number of scriptures exceeds 100 million.

Yin and Yang Department: The Yin Court stores 126,000 volumes of Golden Book and Jade Scripture, while the Yang Court stores 126,000 volumes of Red Characters and Bird Seal Script. They are two large halls covering hundreds of feet.

Five Elements Department: It consists of five buildings to store books, mainly recording the geomancy maps of the five directions. Each building is hundreds of meters long, with thousands of bookshelves and millions of volumes of illustrations.

The Yuanchen section has even more, divided into twelve areas: Zi, Chou, Yin, and Mao. Each area has hundreds of towers that are 70 or 80 feet tall. Each tower has hundreds of bookshelves and contains tens of thousands of scriptures and biographies.

The Beidou Department is like a star-shaped tower, each building contains more than 100,000 volumes of classics.

The chief monk Jiang Xuyun added: "Among them, no one is allowed to enter the two academies of the Yin-Yang Department without my permission; the things inside are all genuine books of the immortals, the Red Jade Book, the Purple Mansion True Text..."

The Red-lettered Jade Book and the Purple Palace True Chapter do not contain magic spells, but Taoist scriptures used by immortals when they preached.

If you don't reach a certain level of Taoism, it's like reading a book from heaven, which is almost like a piece of waste paper.

But to those who are above the Dao Miao level, these scriptures are the supreme treasures, far surpassing magic, secret arts, Taoist arts and the like.

Because this is the Tao!
Ordinary people cannot express the truth when they attain enlightenment, much less write it down on paper; they know the results but not the reasons behind them. This is called the practice of Hinayana Buddhism, which can only save oneself but not others.

When an immortal attains enlightenment, he can save countless people. He knows the reasons why, and can then write them down in words, enlightening people on the principle of conversion and guiding them to realize the mystery of their nature. This is called the highest level.

In other words, it is equivalent to turning the visual Kuiniu Baojuan into a text version, which is more difficult to understand, but the effect is the same.

The red jade characters of the Yin-Yang Department are considered to be the core, most important things and forbidden areas of the Sutra Repository.

After talking about some taboos and asking Ji Yuan to write them down one by one, Jiang Xuyun said, "You are mainly responsible for the proofreading of the Five Elements and Yuanchen Departments. There are two ways to pay you."

"Two kinds?"

"Well, one kind is based on the monthly basis. You have 26,000 merits per month, and your assistants have 4,000 merits per month."

"There is another way, which is to give you both the Five Elements and Yuanchen Sutras. The total is two million merits. You have to wait until you finish the proofreading, and you have to pay for the remuneration of your subordinates."

"Two million merits?" Ji Yuan was stunned.

He has never seen so many tasks?
"If we work fast and have enough manpower, it will take about three hundred years to complete the proofreading. This is a good job. It depends on whether you have enough courage, kid." Xue Xuxia said with a smile.

The chief monk Jiang Xuyun also laughed and said, "If you are timid, you will not be full. If I were you, I would choose the latter. Tsk tsk, twelve million merits..."

Ji Yuan always felt that the smiles of these two old guys were a little weird.

"I choose the former."

Ji Yuan chose the former without hesitation, which made Xue Xuxia and Jiang Xuyun stunned for a moment.

It would take at least three hundred years to accumulate two million merits, and by that time you might not even need this thing.

But he quickly covered it up and said nothing more: "Okay, the salary of your subordinates will be paid to you on your token every month. It is up to you how much you pay them."

"Can I get an advance?"

"Of course." Chief Jiang Xuyun did not ask any questions. The chief secretary Xue Xuxia waved his hand, and the deacon who was handling paperwork nearby immediately paid Ji Yuanxian two months' salary.

The chief is the boss of the Sutra Repository; the bookkeeper is in charge of the bookkeeping department, in charge of registration, borrowing books, cashiering, and salary payment.

In addition, there are the Summary Section, the Translation Section, the Palace Collection Section, and the Sutra Proofreading Section.

They are respectively responsible for cleaning and organizing the scriptures, translating and copying the scriptures, managing each area, and proofreading incorrect editions.

The other departments all have elders; the School Scriptures Department is the only one that does not have one. The current boss is Ji Yuan, who has two members and is directly managed by the chief seat, Jiang Xuyun.

"If you work hard, you will be paid 52,000 points as a two-month trial salary. If you don't do well, you will be fired and will have to pay it back," said Xue Xuxia.

Ji Yuan understood immediately and walked directly to the deacon who was handling the paperwork: "Brother, give me 10,000 points. I'm new here, please have some tea with you and the elders."

The deacon and Elders Xue and Jiang were a little surprised but didn't say much. The other disciples had already shown their delight.

"You're welcome, Senior Brother Lingbao. My Dharma name is Qin Lingshan. I promise to be the first to receive your remuneration from now on!" Qin Lingshan immediately changed his expression, bowed enthusiastically, and regarded himself as the junior brother.

The other disciples of the Bookkeeping Department also vied with each other to introduce themselves one by one.

In just a short moment, I became familiar with all these people.

Ji Yuan then brought Chen Hai, who was standing outside, in to introduce himself to everyone, and asked the elder to give him a token and make a seal for him. Then he retreated and entered the scripture pavilion area at the back.

After the two of them went out.

"This Lingbao nephew not only has extraordinary magical powers, but is also very sensible. He can be promoted!" The elder Xue Xuxia looked at the extra 'two thousand points' in his token and said to the chief Jiang Xuyun next to him with satisfaction.

Out of ten thousand points, Jiang Xuyun got seven thousand; Xue Xuxia got two thousand; Qin Lingshan got five hundred; and the remaining points were divided among the dozen or so people in the bookkeeping department. Everyone praised Deacon Qin for being very fair.

Praise Ji Yuan for being generous.

"Yes, Junior Brother Lingbao is so sensible, he must be a capable person; we can also have more rest; you can play chess with me more often in the future." Jiang Xuyun also praised.

This caused everyone in the bookkeeping room to praise him.

Upon hearing this, Xue Xuxia's expression remained unchanged, but his eyes darkened.

What does the chief monk mean by this? I am playing chess with you, so who will be the elder? Lingbao? This is ridiculous!

"Brother, Lingbao is modest and prudent. He is not tempted by the huge reward for the second type of mission. I think he is capable of taking on the important task and should be promoted as soon as possible." Xue Xuxia continued to praise him.

Jiang Xuyun's expression changed slightly, and he said with a smile: "Let's observe for a few more decades."

The church had long ago issued a decree that the Sutra Repository Hall should recruit more staff and, within ten years, compile the Five Elements and Yuan Chen scriptures.

Fifty million merit points were given to cover all remuneration including manpower for the renovation.

There are tens of millions of volumes of the two Buddhist scriptures, how can such a small amount of funds be enough?
Even if it is enough, how can I get more?
Now we urgently need a fool to take the blame and take over this hot project.

What's wrong with just giving Lingbao two million merits? You can just find someone to take the blame afterwards.

Take less for yourself, and get 10 million points; and use the remaining 30 million or so to take care of the headmaster, and the matter will be over and done.

Xue Xuxia is such a troublemaker.

(End of this chapter)