Da Zaojun

Chapter 183 The Galaxy Shuttle
Master Bao and Huang Qiaoyun reported the matter of the Huang family compound to Song Wuji.

Song Wuji had expected this, after all, the demons who had gathered with the tiger demons back then had not been completely wiped out and had all retreated back to their lair.

Those spiders can produce silk and refine magical artifacts, which is indeed quite good, but there are no longer enough combat personnel to fill the Huang family compound.

Even the stove temples that Song Wuji promised to help build for the Wan and Lü families who were going to go out to build villages were not started because of a lack of talismans.

Some even considered searching for the ruins of those local earth god temples, using their supernatural abilities to enter the dilapidated temple's secret realm, and looking for similar talismans or objects to store evil spirits.

Therefore, he said, "Don't worry too much about the Huang family compound for now. That spider demon is no threat. As for the hemp field, after we finish planting this round of blood rice, we'll plant hemp during the second round of land reclamation. At least everyone will have clothes to wear."

Huang Qiaoyun said, "The city lord's spider silk can be used to make magical artifacts, and I have a vague feeling that there is something I have a connection with, which is very important. If I don't take it out immediately, I'm afraid something unexpected might happen."

After Huang Qiaoyun entered the city, she completed the corresponding ritual through the Heavenly Weaver Girl behind the Karma Money Shop in the Rakshasa Ghost Market. Perhaps there is something similar to "Qiaoyun's destiny" in this, since in classical mythology, silk threads are usually related to destiny and marriage.

That day, Luo Zhinu claimed to be the Weaver Girl from heaven, who had fallen to the mortal world. However, she also appeared as a spider with a human head, connected by threads of cause and effect and copper coins of karma.

Song Wuji remembered that when he played a mythological game, the celestial maidens who descended to earth also turned into spiders.

Adding to the legends and stories about the Huang Family Compound told by Huang Qiaoyun, Song Wuji decided to go directly into the Rakshasa Fruit Market, which he had previously been wary of, to ask the Heavenly Weaver Girl.

After all, Rakshasa Karma City is currently within the territory of Taichang and is under its own jurisdiction.

Upon entering the Rakshasa Ghost Market, there are still three paths: the Hungry Ghost Path, the Human Path, and the Bodhisattva Path.

Song Wuji thought to himself, "Last time I took the path of humanity, and this time I will take the path of humanity as well. However, I obtained the Bodhisattva's things from Bodhisattva Xiao in the Secret Realm of Offering to Monks. I wonder if I can make a deal here."

Entering from the Human Realm, one sees no peddler, but upon entering the Karma Market, one finds it somewhat more bustling than before. Inside, many phantoms wearing Rakshasa masks are walking and discussing buying and selling, seemingly not people from this time and space.

Perhaps the Rakshasa Ghost Market is like the "Half-Step Inn" in the Legend of the White Snake, a place where the human realm, the hungry ghost realm, and the bodhisattva realm meet, and it has more than just the Taichang Realm as an entrance.

Along the way, I saw some stalls doing business, and they were also using money for karma.

Song Wuji still has a "ten thousand taels of gold" karmic coin that he hasn't used yet. Magistrate Tian also carried the karma of the entire city's people before he went to take the exam to become the City God. Now, we don't know if he's still carrying it or what has become of him.

There were some martial arts manuals and weapons on the stall, but Song Wuji didn't really like any of them. He just walked around and stopped, eventually landing in front of a stall selling shrines.

The stall owner was also wearing a Rakshasa mask and his body was ethereal, but Song Wuji could still sense that this guy was cultivating the "Divine Path".

[Land God Shrine]
[Night Visit to the Shrine]
[Kitchen God Shrine]
What attracted Song Wuji was the shrine to the Kitchen God, which was very similar to the shrine depicted on the cover of the Kitchen God's Book.

However, there was no inscription on the outside of the shrine that read "[Fire God Song Wuji]", nor was there a statue of the Kitchen God inside.

"How much is the shrine?" Song Wuji asked.

"30,000 good deeds money per person."

When the man saw Song Wuji, he couldn't make out his face, but there was a halo of flames behind him, making him look like a deity.

He immediately tensed up: "Could it be a living saint?"

It's not expensive.

Song Wuji asked, "How do I use it?"

The vendor selling shrines breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed the person wasn't a saint, but someone who had stumbled onto the path of divinity by accident; otherwise, how could they not know how to use a shrine?

He said, “The shrine can be placed at the nodes of the earth’s veins to suppress the feng shui and re-establish the divine way. However, there is no statue inside the shrine. Therefore, one can burn mud mixed with one’s own blood essence into a statue to replace oneself in the shrine. In this way, one can slowly collect the divine authority scattered between heaven and earth and nurture divinity.”

"However, a shrine is not a real temple after all, and it will also attract those evil spirits to try to seize it, so it needs to be protected by a protective object."

Upon hearing this, Song Wuji knew that this person must have been in another city who had withstood the demonic calamity, but he couldn't ask directly, lest he be mistaken for a demon and cause a great misunderstanding.

But I heard him say that burning blood porcelain was commonplace, so I'm afraid that the city he lives in must have mastered the method of bestowing titles upon gods, and is probably not following the path of the mortal world.

Furthermore, what Song Wuji possesses is a remnant of the divine path, which is actually a remnant of the old divine path. Their shrine, located at a node of the earth's veins, absorbs the wandering authority and transforms it into divinity. This should be part of the reconstruction of the divine order after the great changes in heaven and earth.

Song Wuji nodded slightly, deciding to buy these shrines to see what their purpose was, and even wanted to order a batch.

In particular, he asked about the shrine to the God of Wealth, "Are there shrines to the God of Wealth, the God of Literature, the God of War, and so on?"

"No."

The man said, "These are all I have. I dug them out from a secret realm. It's a place specifically for storing 'exorcising' statues. It's very eerie."

Upon hearing this, Song Wuji immediately waved his hand and said, "Alright, I'll take them all."

Song Wuji took the 10,000 taels of gold karmic money and exchanged it for loose change. One tael of gold was worth 10,000 taels in this karmic money shop, so the three statues were only worth nine taels of gold karmic money.

This was the first time this person had ever seen gold karmic coins. Karmic coins in the Rakshasa Ghost Market were all based on a hundred-coin system, with one hundred coins exchanging for one silver coin, and one hundred silver coins exchanging for one gold coin. However, there was a rule that the value of a karmic coin varied depending on its karmic affiliation.

Humans, ghosts, cause and effect, can only be represented by copper coins.

The karma between demons and cultivators can be exchanged for silver.

Only celestial beings, bodhisattvas, and Buddhas are considered to possess money. This is similar to some theories about "golden bones, silver bones, and cheap bones."

In any case, the money representing sacred karma is very precious.

The man accepted the money and said, "With this karmic reward money, I can make more incense, and perhaps I can bring out the shrine you need from that secret realm..."

But Song Wuji didn't say much to him, only saying, "Keep this Kitchen God shrine. I have a ball of fire here that I'll trade to you. You can place it in the shrine and perhaps then you can communicate with me."

"Kitchen God?"

The man thought to himself, "As expected, he also has a disability, namely the [Qingfu Disability]."

If it weren't for this blessing, the mysterious [Minor Heavenly Blessed Land] he entered would have killed him long ago. However, he never awakened the ritual of the God of Fortune. Instead, he awakened the ritual of the [Nine-Rank Divine Spirit Medium], a spirit medium who can disguise himself as various gods.

Now that the gods and deities have lost their authority, he can seize power like a monkey becoming king in the absence of a tiger...

These shrines were unclaimed shrines he stole from the [Minor Heavenly Blessed Land]. Even the spirit-repelling statues that were originally in the shrines were used as objects for his spiritual practice.

Song Wuji didn't say much, he just kept passing on the fire.

That person obtained Song Wuji's stove fire and felt a great deal of power from it.

He murmured, "He has more than one remnant of a divine path within him... no, he can devour remnants..."

For a moment, he felt somewhat apprehensive.

After leaving the stall, Song Wuji entered the interior of the Karma Money Shop and found the Faceless Weaver Girl, who was still hanging on the web woven by karma.

Upon seeing Song Wuji, she said, "I already know why you've come. My past body is in that secret realm."

The Weaver Girl said, “Back then, before I joined the Buddhist Twelve Links of Dependent Origination, I was a weaver girl in the Heavenly Palace responsible for repairing the Heavenly Net. Later, the Heavenly Palace was in chaos, and the gods lost their status. As a minor god or immortal, I was also filled with fear. One day, the Queen Mother of the West summoned me to the Jade Pool and sent me down to the mortal world, and bestowed upon me a Milky Way shuttle.”

She sighed, "No one knew it would turn out like this."

She said, "I turned to Buddhism and joined the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination, weaving a net of cause and effect, and thus survived in this world in my current form. Only by hiding here can I avoid calamity."

"That remains were where my immortal body once resided, but when immortals and gods descend to the mortal realm, they become demons."

Song Wuji knew this, for example, in Journey to the West, most of the demons came from heaven or Buddhism.

"My original form was a silkworm moth under Leizu's command. I gained this by accumulating Leizu's merits."

"Now transformed into a spider, it is Leizu who observed spiders weaving webs and then wove cloth, a celestial moth in the sky and a demonic spider on the ground."

"If it were anything else, my Milky Way Shuttle was a gift from the Queen Mother of the West, and I also have a seamless celestial garment that can be used to restore the Weaver Girl's ritual."

“My remains… though they lack the nourishment of immortal spirits, I fear they will turn into demons and wreak havoc. You are not a seventh-rank cultivator, so you cannot deal with them.”

The Weaver Girl paid a price to become the manager of this Yinye Money Shop, thus escaping the so-called great calamity of heaven and earth.

But when Song Wuji asked her what the Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth was, she knew nothing.

Song Wuji then asked why there were so many illusory shadows in the Rakshasa Karma City.

The Weaver Girl said, “The Market of Cause and Effect is naturally not a single market. Wherever the Twelve Links of Dependent Origination intersect, there is a Market of Cause and Effect of Rakshasa.”

Think about it, the area around Taichang Realm does indeed contain these three paths. Taichang Realm belongs to the human realm, and there was previously the Hungry Ghost Wood and the Secret Realm of Offering to Monks, which contained hungry ghosts and bodhisattvas.

Song Wuji took out the prophecy given by Manjushri Bodhisattva: "What can this be exchanged for?"

“Things from the Bodhisattva path.”

The Weaver Girl manipulated the silk threads, searching for the cause and effect, and found a treasure among the densely packed cabinets.

"This Bodhisattva's prediction belongs to the lineage of Manjushri Bodhisattva's prediction."

"You can exchange it for this one."

She took out a page of a recipe.

Song Wuji immediately recognized that this was the missing part of the magic treasure, the Stove Book.

The internal organs and the internal organs are both stirring restlessly.

"Change!"

Song Wuji said.

"This matter is still entangled in some causal relationships. If you are at the seventh rank, you should be able to resolve it."

(End of this chapter)