From a carp to a dragon god

Chapter 409: Opening the Altar to Pray to the Stars in Heaven

Changliu Mountain is an eternal blessed land.

Twenty days had passed since Yang Fuzi returned to the lake island, and Li Taiping finally arrived at Changliu Mountain.

There were five monsters traveling with him, three of whom were Yu Shuyang's nephews, Huang Bashan, Bai Qillang, and Shiyillang, and the other two were Tu Liu and Yun Hua.

Yu Shuyang came out of the Eternal Blessed Land to greet him, and he couldn't help but complain to his junior fellow apprentice Li Taiping, "Why did you take so long to get here?"

Li Taiping has grown bigger, his back is as hard as a roof, his four legs are as thick as pillars, and his body is covered with thick and sturdy hair.

"Alas! You know what's going on in Tokaidoin. Master Yang went back and talked to Master Yin for a long time. Even if I wanted to come, I couldn't leave."

Li Taiping couldn't help but complain. Since coming to Donghai, Yu Shuyang had walked away several times, and he was the one who cleaned up the mess.

When he went to Qingqiu Country, he was the one who stayed behind to look after Hushan Island. Now that the East China Sea Road is being built, he is still the one who helps teach the foxes the Taoist scriptures.

Seeing Li Taiping's complaints, Yu Shuyang could only smile and say, "Thank you for your hard work, Junior Brother. I'm grateful for your help. How are Master Yang and the others discussing this?"

Li Taiping sighed deeply and said angrily, "Not very good. Yinshi is too biased and considers his own interests far more than the public interest."

These days, Li Taiping has tried to mediate a lot, but Yin Chenzi kept making excuses and refused to agree, just pretending to be stupid.

Seeing Yin Chenzi and Yang Fuzi quarreling fiercely, Li Taiping was helpless. He talked to Yang Fuzi privately several times and asked him to bring Shuiyue Wutong, the spirit of the Huangliang Taoist Palace, into the fight.

After all, the construction of the Tokaido Palace was a clear decision made within the Dao League. Li Taiping and Yang Fuzi were invited by Yu Shuyang to come to the Lake Heart Island to help.

Although all the students of Tōkaidōin are fox demons nowadays, it does not mean that Tōkaidōin only accepts foxes. The Daoist Alliance has never restricted the sects in its teachings.

"It's okay. Give Master Yin more time to think about the pros and cons. He will figure it out."

Yu Shuyang comforted Li Taiping and said that this problem was not unsolvable, as long as Tokaidoin was separated from his lineage.

All along, Yin Chenzi has been using Tokaido Temple to bind him, trying to make Yu Shuyang leave the lineage of Dharma in the temple.

In fact, Yu Shuyang did the same thing. He gathered his disciples and Taoist children on the island in the middle of the lake, and asked the ancestor of the Chi family to build nine courtyards. He also prepared the portrait of the ancestor.

If Li Zhen had not brought the uncle and nephew of the Yao family to find him, it is possible that Yu Shuyang had already been shaped by the Taoist Patriarch and officially started to teach the Dharma.

"Junior brother, let's go to the blessed land first. My sixth sister and brother-in-law are waiting for you. They have been suppressing their cultivation in order to wait for you."

Yu Shuyang was busy inviting Li Taiping to go to the Eternal Blessed Land. Along the way, he gave a general account of the relocation of the cave abode to the blessed land and the construction of the Desolate Sea Monster Fairy City.

"Brother, you always act on your whims. The Tokaido Temple hasn't even opened yet, and you're already planning to build the Demon Fairy City. Do you still have time to practice?" Li Taiping couldn't help but scold Yu Shuyang again.

He said this in a completely opposite way. When they met just now, he noticed that Yu Shuyang's cultivation level had actually risen to the early sixth grade. How could Li Taiping not feel jealous?

Yu Shuyang was so smart that he immediately understood that his junior brother was complaining about him, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, junior brother, I have arranged everything.

This time, the construction of the Desolate Sea Fairy City and the relocation of the Tōkaidōin are all handed over to Master Yang. You can focus on your cultivation."

It can be seen that Li Taiping's cultivation has been stuck at the early eighth level for a long time because he taught Taoist scriptures to three thousand foxes. Yu Shuyang saw it all and kept it in mind.

"Hehe, teaching Taoist scriptures to those foxes will also benefit me." Li Taiping couldn't help but feel proud when he saw his senior brother showing a guilty look.

A green lotus leaf appeared above Li Taiping's head, which was the secret method of moral lotus leaf deduced by Yu Shuyang.

"Junior brother, you don't have to sacrifice and refine the mysterious light of morality into lotus leaves when you collect it. Forget it, I think you know better than me."

Yu Shuyang looked at the moral lotus leaf and thought about how Li Taiping was refining the Moral Yellow Tower. He also thought that the Three Flowers Secret Art was taught to him by Li Taiping, so he should understand it better than him.

Li Taiping smiled without saying a word, and followed Yu Shuyang into the Eternal Blessed Land.

"You three should go see your mother first. You've been away for so long. Report to them how your apprenticeship is going." Yu Shuyang turned around and said to his three nephews.

Huang Bashan, Bai Qillang and Shiyillang all bowed respectfully to Yu Shuyang and Li Taiping. The three of them had learned a lot of etiquette from Yang Fuzi and Yin Chenzi, and no longer looked like children.

"The Eternal Blessed Land has just opened, and we need to balance the earth's energy and the five elements. You two should go to Lingtian to take care of the arrangements. I'll talk to you two when I'm done." Yu Shuyang said to Zhixian Tuliu and Tea Tree Spirit Yunhua.

This time, letting Li Taiping come back and bringing back his three nephews and two boys was also to put pressure on Yin Chenzi.

If there is no news after a few days, he will call back Feng Jing Qifeng, Jin Buhuan, Yu Lishui and Yu Zangfeng. I think Yin Chenzi will understand his intentions.

When Yu Shuyang led Li Taiping to the spiritual field, they saw a dragon-shaped green aura surrounding his sixth sister Yu Tienan and his sixth brother-in-law Shu Qing.

It can be seen that the effect of using cinnabar to cast the Yi Wood Cage is astonishingly good. The manifested Jia Wood Green Dragon becomes clearer and clearer, and many dragon scales and dragon claws are materialized.

"Junior brother, this is my sixth sister and brother-in-law. They have always wanted a child, but my sixth sister has Uranus in her horoscope and is also practicing the military evil spirit.

"I was wondering if you could perform a rite of passage to ward off evil spirits and help suppress or dispel the evil spirits for her," Yu Shuyang asked.

Li Taiping opened his mouth and spit out a peach wood sceptre. He raised the sceptre and flew it around Yu Tienan three times in both directions. A star symbol lit up on the sceptre.

"Qingyang Star brings misfortune such as premature death and blood poisoning. If you want to conceive, you must seek help from Tianfu Star.

As the saying goes: The Northern Dipper governs death, the Southern Dipper governs life. Tianfu is the first star in the Southern Dipper and the leader of the six stars in the Douxiu constellation. We can borrow vitality and good fortune from it."

The Xinggui in Li Taiping's hand was refined by the Zhoutian Xingchen Talisman. He learned it from Yu Shuyang, which was the Nine-Curve Yellow Sand Formation and the Five-Zhi Yaocao Sword.

Yang Fuzi had seen it once in Chaoju City, and told Li Taiping about it when he returned to the lake island. It just so happened that Li Taiping was angry because the star talisman was scattered and could not form a formation.

At this time, Yu Tienan and Shu Qing closed their eyes and ears, calmed their minds and suppressed their cultivation with all their strength, and cooperated with the Yimu Prison to absorb the magic power in their bodies. They were completely unaware of the arrival of Yu Shuyang and Li Taiping.

"Junior brother, that's good to have a solution. What are our arrangements for later?" Yu Shuyang's heart finally settled down.

Li Taiping repeatedly looked at Yu Tienan and Shu Qing and said, "Brother, this matter should be done as soon as possible. We need to build a star platform, prepare incense and money, and the most important thing is to have a rice bucket.

The deity of Tianfu Star, Si Ming, is in charge of life and rice. If you want to invite him to descend, you must use a weighing instrument, preferably a rice bucket or rice pot. "Yu Shuyang nodded and said, "Junior brother, not long ago, my father passed the tribulation and attracted the divine power of the Pleiades and Changgeng stars at the Fishtail Twin Peaks. You can go and see if you can use them.

I think we should be able to build a star platform. As for the incense, money, and rice, I will prepare them, and you just need to set up the altar and perform the rituals.

Does Sixth Sister have any plans? Does she need to come on stage to receive the Dharma?"

Li Taiping shook the ox head vigorously and said, "Don't worry while I cast the spell. I will absorb Sixth Sister's energy later. There is no need to disturb her anymore."

To set up the Star Platform and cast the spell, one needs to go outside the Eternal Blessed Land. Li Taiping didn't dare to take the risk. If the barrier of the blessed land was gone, Yu Tienan's life would begin to merge as soon as he went out, and he would no longer be able to have children.

Yu Shuyang did not delay any longer and sank into the divine pupil first. The incense pool of Tai Sui Dragon God was in it. If he wanted to refine incense money, he needed to draw incense power from the pool.

The Divine Eye is divided into three spaces, with the Incense Pool in the second. Yu Shuyang rarely used the Divine Eye to cast spells, and the few times he did, he was only using it to refine magical weapons and talismans for the monsters that tried to intercept him.

The incense pool is like a house, which accumulates a large amount of gold and red wish power, which are obtained through the worship of human believers.

There are five colors of vows, among which black and gray represent ghost grievances and evil thoughts. In the early days, the gray and black vows in the divine pupils were obtained through the worship of demons and ghosts in the underworld.

Nowadays, the gray and black wish power is almost invisible, and is obscured by the rich and colorful gold and red wish power. This should be the result of the efforts of Cao Xiaoshan and others.

While Yu Shuyang was drawing the power of incense and wishes into the water gourd, he was also sensing the temple of Tai Sui Dragon God, but he didn't find any trace at all.

This surprised him greatly. Logically speaking, Shinto monks needed to build temples to practice. Cao Xiaoshan and his companions had been in Menzhou for many years, but why did they only see the increase of incense and vows, but never saw any temples built to invite gods?

At this time, Yu Shuyang felt something was wrong. When he taught Cao Xiaoshan the Shinto method, because he wanted him to build a temple to collect incense, he made a soul-guiding banner for him.

He thought that when he got into trouble, he would summon demons and ghosts from the underworld, but he didn't expect that Cao Xiaoshan, Fan Liulang and others would delay in building a temple, but instead kept recruiting soldiers from the underworld.

He also realized that Cao Xiaoshan and his men had built an incense altar to intercept a large amount of incense and vows, and used it to refine demons and ghosts into Shinto magic weapons.

Yu Shuyang was so angry that he directly blocked the connection between Xuanming Netherland and the Soul-Guiding Banner, and stopped Cao Xiaoshan and the others from playing tricks. He quickly built a temple so that he could send down spiritual responses.

He didn't take the matter too seriously, but he was unhappy with Cao Xiaoshan and Fan Liulang's cleverness. After all, they could practice cultivation thanks to his help in inheriting and teaching the Dharma.

Now, seeing the divine pupils filled with the power of incense and vows, he still couldn't sense the Tai Sui Dragon Temple. It seemed that Cao Xiaoshan and the others had run into trouble, otherwise, they wouldn't have been unable to build a temple.

Yu Shuyang calmed down and secretly thought about it. He thought that after the Huanghai Sea Market was settled, he would follow the treasure ship to Menzhou to see what kind of changes had occurred.

After thinking this through, Yu Shuyang stopped drawing on the power of incense and vows, and instead activated the secret technique of shaking the money tree to press the power of vows in the water gourd into incense and money.

When a gourd of wish power was pressed into half a gourd of gold coins, he left the eternal blessed land and flew on the wind to the steamed bun shop next to the cave halfway up the mountain.

If you want to find rice, besides going to the grain store, you can only go to places like noodle shops. There just happens to be a steamed bun shop on Changliu Mountain.

You can see steam from a long distance away. This is the moisture from steaming buns, coming out from the steamer in streams.

Senior Brother Fathead Fish leaned against the chopping board, dozing off with his eyes half closed. Ever since Mofang switched to using the gray mouse spirit and the mallard spirit, Fathead Fish also found a few people to keep the fire, so he had time to slack off today.

To be honest, it wasn't that he was lazy. After all, he was the only one in the steamed bun shop. He was busy from beginning to end all day long, trying his best to steam the Wuzhi steamed bun fish.

Although it was done in order to improve his pastry skills and to accumulate resources for his practice, it was too boring.

Especially after doing this day after day for several years or even more than ten years, it's a good thing that the fathead fish is a monster and its reaction is a bit slow, otherwise it would not have survived until today.

Even so, ever since he started studying the Five-Ingredient Steamed Bun Fish, he has become increasingly impatient with steaming buns. He has been thinking about finding an opportunity to discuss with his master's wife and exchange them with some of his fellow apprentices in the noodle shop.

The resources he has accumulated are almost enough. All he needs to do next is to comprehend a new recipe, and then he will be able to break through to the sixth or even fifth level.

These days, Fathead Fish has been studying the secret method of boiling white stone, trying to comprehend the so-called "harmony of nature", but he still can't find the way.

"Brother, do you have a rice measure? Give me one. I need it urgently."

Yu Shuyang shouted as he entered the room, startling Fathead Fish so much that he almost jumped up, but fortunately he was blocked by the noodle table.

"Junior brother, why are you here?"

Senior Brother Fathead Fish was dazed and asked subconsciously, then he reacted and said hurriedly: "Wait a moment, I'll get it for you."

The steamed buns in the steamed bun shop have always been made with wheat flour. There is no rice bucket at all, but there is a flour bucket for wheat flour.

The flour bucket and rice bucket are similar in length, both are square "dou" with a small bottom and a large head.

Yu Shuyang took the flour bucket and flew to Shuangyuwei Peak. He saw that the earth was piled up between the two peaks to form a platform, and a three-story altar was built.

Li Taiping stood in the shape of a human, holding a peach wood scepter in one cow's hoof and a handful of paper flags in the other, and he kept hitting star symbols on the paper flags.

Li Taiping threw paper flags branded with star symbols into the air, and they were constantly inserted into the three-layer earthen platform, gradually forming an altar for warding off evil spirits.

During this time, Li Taiping glanced at Yu Shuyang and couldn't help shaking his head and said, "Why is it a flour bowl? This is not as good as a rice bowl."

He just sighed and said nothing else. After all the star flags were planted, he took out the altar, incense burner, and candlesticks one by one.

He began to purify the altar, water and fire according to the rules. After the water and fire were done, he burned incense and played the ritual. Then he got up and took out a piece of straw from the Dharma bag and put Yu Tienan's breath into it.

This piece of straw usually needs to be woven into a human shape, and the name, birth date, and birthplace must be written on the back. The more detailed the better, so that it can be used to represent the person receiving the Dharma.

Li Taiping is a ritual inheritor. He carries the contract between the Taoist Alliance and the gods. He can directly command the gods to obey his orders, but he needs to worship the gods.

Therefore, unless it was an emergency, he would not call upon the gods, but would always follow the rules, open the altar, make offerings, and offer incense and money.

As Li Taiping burned the memorial, the God of Life from Tianfu Star sent down a spiritual response, which fell into the face bucket.

Yu Shuyang hurriedly handed over the water gourd. Li Taiping opened the water gourd, poured all the money into the flour bucket, and threw the thatch into it.

(End of this chapter)