Confucian Cultivator Under One Person

"Would you like to try shouting again?"

"Let's try..." Fu Yuan stretched out his hand, hooked his index finger, and shouted, "You, come here!"

The people from Northeast China have a bad temper, so a group of people rushed over immediately.

Including the one who was about to drown, he smashed down the ice pick and rushed over together.

Fu Yuan laughed heartily, and when they got close, he immediately rode away on his bicycle.

The remaining group of people cursed a few times and returned to the ice... Before they reached the ice hole, the ice near the hole cracked.

The iron spike also slid directly into the water.

A group of people looked at each other, and suddenly cold sweat broke out on their backs.

……

Fu Yuan was riding his bike in a good mood. Even though the snow was too thick and made riding difficult, Fu Yuan didn't care.

When the ground became really slippery, Fu Yuan had to get out of the car and push it towards the town not far ahead.

At the entrance to the town, an old lady in white clothes and with white hair was standing by the roadside with a hunched back.

A pair of small eyes the size of soybeans were staring at Fu Yuan who was pushing a cart from a distance. A smile appeared on his old face, as bright as the bark of an old tree.

Fu Yuan pretended not to see it and didn't even glance at her. He just pushed the cart past the old lady.

The old lady was a little anxious and quickly called out, "Young man..."

Fu Yuan didn't even turn his head, but just uttered three words: "Don't talk!"

The old lady was speechless and just watched Fu Yuan enter the town.

As soon as he entered the town, Fu Yuan found a restaurant, parked his bicycle, lifted the thick door curtain and walked in.

Suddenly a wave of heat hit my face, the heating was turned on very high.

There were only six tables in the restaurant, one of which was already occupied, plus the proprietress standing behind the counter.

Seeing Fu Yuan come in, the proprietress came up to him warmly with water and asked, "Warm yourself up quickly...what would you like to eat?"

Fu Yuan took a breath, stretched his arms and legs, found a place to sit down, and said, "Could you please give me a stewed goose in an iron pot and a bowl of rice?"

"Okay, I'll be right there!" The proprietress turned and went to the kitchen.

In just two sentences, Fu Yuan felt hot, so he took off his down jacket and hung it on the back of the chair.

When he turned around, another customer in the store had already stood up and walked to the chair opposite Fu Yuan and sat down.

The elderly grandmother, with short, curly silver hair, looked energetic, not tall and slightly plump, with two large gold earrings on her ears. She smiled and said, "Is it Brother Fu Yuan?"

Fu Yuan asked in surprise: "Grandma, who are you?"

The old lady said cheerfully, "My name is Guan Shihua, I'm a strange person, and I'm here to ask you for a favor."

This old lady has a very straightforward temper. She speaks without holding back and goes straight to the point.

Fu Yuan suddenly realized, stood up and saluted, saying, "It turns out to be Senior Guan, one of the Ten Lords!"

Guan Shihua waved her hands repeatedly and said, "It's strange, it's strange. You just said grandma was very nice."

"Then I'll call you Grandma Guan." Fu Yuan sat down and asked, "Grandma Guan, if you have anything to say, just tell me."

Guan Shihua paused, her expression becoming serious, and said, "Grandma wants to ask for your help to make her a god!"

Fu Yuan frowned and said, "Grandma Guan, respect ghosts and gods but keep your distance. You have to be cautious about this kind of thing. If you can't just confer gods on others, it will bring endless disasters!"

Guan Shihua said directly: "Brother, if you have any request, just tell me, grandma will never refuse!"

Fu Yuan shook his head and said, "It's not that I have any requirements, but the god you want to confer needs to be "serving the people." To put it bluntly, it must be useful to the common people..."

Chapter 30 On God

Is there a God in this world?

Confucianism emphasizes "ritual" and "sacrifice". The most important affairs of a country are war and sacrifice. "Sacrifice" means offering sacrifices, and what are worshipped are the gods and ghosts of heaven and earth.

The Yin people respected gods, served ghosts, and revered gods. They put ghosts first and then rituals, and punished first and then rewards. They respected but did not feel close to them. The evils of their people were that they were dissolute and disrespectful, and victorious but shameless.

So, did ghosts and gods exist first, and then people offered sacrifices to them, or was it the other way around, with ghosts and gods appearing only after the sacrifices?

Zhuangzi proposed the theory of "usefulness" and "uselessness", saying that "the uselessness of use" is also useful, but for ordinary people, why worship useless ghosts and gods?

Today, ghosts and gods must be useful to be worthy of worship... or, only useful gods are worthy of being enthroned.

The question is, in modern society, where is the need for "God" anymore?

Confucius said: If you cannot serve men, how can you serve ghosts?

……

Guan Shihua clearly didn't understand Fu Yuan's suggestion of "serving the people," and said, "Brother, in our area, every household worships a guardian deity, so how can it be useless?"

Fu Yuan smiled bitterly and said, "Grandma Guan, the guardian deity we worship at home is not the same as the gods between heaven and earth... Every household still worships their ancestors!

"Speaking of which, this immortal is doing well, why is he a "god"?"

Guan Shihua was silent for a moment, then said, "It's a shame to say this, but the tradition of the Exorcist has been passed down for thousands of years, and yet something strange happened in my time... Have you heard of the 'Eight Wonders'?"

Without waiting for Fu Yuan's reply, Guan Shihua continued, "I heard that you've been traveling around since you became an Extraordinary Person, and haven't been involved in Extraordinary People's affairs much, so you probably don't know.

The so-called "Eight Wonderful Skills" are eight incredible abilities that appeared out of nowhere in the year of Jiashen, that is, in the 44th year. These eight abilities completely subverted the concepts of all extraordinary people.

Among them is a school called "Conscripting Spirits and Sending Generals"..."

When this name was mentioned, Guan Shihua's expression began to change, with fear, hatred, shock, and envy.

Fu Yuan didn't say anything, just looked at her silently.

After a while, Guan Shihua finally calmed down and changed the subject, saying, "Brother, I'm afraid you don't know much about our "Chu Ma Xian" lineage. Let me introduce it to you."

Fu Yuan nodded and said, "Then I'll trouble you, Grandma Guan."

Guan Shihua paused and said, "There are spirits in this world. Some animals with great opportunities can open their minds when they have the chance. Animals with opened minds can get the opportunity to refine their qi and practice, and gradually transform into spirit forms.

In our area, those who have cultivated themselves to the point where they can appear in the form of spirits in animals are called "immortals".

The disciples of the exorcist have been worshipping the same immortal for generations. After gaining the immortal's recognition, they can borrow the immortal's power to fight for themselves, or even directly invite the immortal to their body and let the immortal fight on their behalf.

Ordinary wizards can usually only control one spirit, and they need to establish a good relationship with the spirit before they can control the spirit to fight for them...

But "Judging the Spirit and Sending the General" is different. It can find the unknown weakness of the spirit and use this weakness to make the spirit obey itself unconditionally!

No matter how high the wizard's cultivation level is or how powerful his spirit is, as long as he releases his spirit in front of the demon, "Spirit Constraint and General Dispatching" can forcibly snatch the spirit from the opponent and force it to obey regardless of the spirit's will!

Fu Yuan couldn't help but ask, "Isn't this a good thing?"

Guan Shihua was stunned: "A good thing? It is indeed a good thing for those who practice "Guling Ling Qian Jiang", but it is a disaster for us "Chu Ma Xian" lineage!

Brother, can you imagine that the immortals we have worshipped for a lifetime were taken away by someone with just a wave of the hand... Some immortals who have practiced for thousands of years are still not able to resist someone's flick of the finger.

Is this a good thing?"

Fu Yuan smiled and said, "Grandma Guan, since someone has found your weakness, then you should find a way to make up for it... You won't be allowed to cling to your flaws!"

Guan Shihua stared at Fu Yuan, his eyes suddenly filled with resentment. He said, "Brother, please don't make fun of me! Because of this crappy ability, I, as one of the Ten Lords, dare not even get involved in the affairs of the Inhuman World... This is too frustrating!"

Fu Yuan couldn't help but laugh and said, "Grandma Guan, let me ask you something... You said that most extraordinary people practice Qi for half their lives, but in the end they are shot down by ordinary people... Isn't it frustrating?

Isn't it the same principle for you?

"When you are poor, you must change; when you change, you will be successful; when you are successful, you will be successful." You also said that the "Chu Ma Xian" has been passed down for thousands of years, and now it has met its nemesis, and it is time to "change."

Guan Shihua exhaled and said, "I just came here to ask my brother to help me change a little bit!"

Fu Yuan was amused: "Your 'transformation' is to confer gods? In the past, it was 'inviting immortals', and now it becomes 'inviting gods'... I remember that 'divine fighting' seems to be a tradition inherited by extraordinary people?"

Guan Shihua sighed and said, "There's nothing we can do about it. The 'Eight Wonders' have already surpassed the worldview of extraordinary people. Fortunately, my fairy at home lived long enough and thought about it for many years before coming up with this method.

Once you are deified, you have followers, and even the "Spirit Constraints and Generals" technique cannot detain you."

Fu Yuan asked curiously, "Are you saying that your immortal has witnessed the Confucian Conferred God Ceremony? What exactly happened and what was the process? Can you tell me?"

Guan Shihua was surprised and said, "You don't know? I just mentioned Conferred God, and you didn't say you couldn't do it. I thought you had learned it."

Fu Yuan spread his hands and said, "Where can I learn this? I just had some understanding a while ago, and I vaguely feel that I can do this, but I don't know if the specific steps are correct."

Guan Shihua suddenly realized something and said, "Then I'll invite the immortal over and you can talk to her?"

Fu Yuan thought about it, sighed, and said, "Forget it. If I learn it, I'll owe you a favor, and then I won't be able to refuse you... or not."

Guan Shihua was anxious and said, "Brother, what do you mean? What are you worried about? Tell me."

Fu Yuan rubbed his forehead and said, "Grandma Guan, to confer a deity means to hand over the heaven and earth of a place to the gods for management!

You say, how can I have that power? You know that too.”

Guan Shihua was stunned. She never expected that this would be the concern.

Fu Yuan spread his hands and said, "'Serving the people's interests', do you think I can do such a thing? Even in ancient times, if you wanted to confer a title on a land or a city god, you had to get an order from the government. As for the local petty gods... this is not ancient times!"

As he was talking, the proprietress came with an iron pot and called out, "Here comes the goose stewed in the iron pot..."

She placed it in front of Fu Yuan and turned to get a bowl of rice. The proprietress said, "If you don't have enough rice, add more yourself."

Fu Yuan took a pair of chopsticks and said, "Grandma Guan, would you like to eat something together?"

Guan Shihua shook his head, thinking, and suddenly said: "What do you think, if the immortal family is allowed to be the village chief... can it be sealed?"

As he was speaking, a white figure appeared behind Guan Shihua, with white hair, hunched back, and a pair of small eyes staring at Fu Yuan unkindly.

Fu Yuan was amused and couldn't help laughing: "Grandma Guan, you are so funny, letting an outlier be an official..."

Guan Shihua introduced, "This is Old Lady Bai, the family spirit I invited... People of different species can't be officials? Isn't it said that there is no distinction between the two in education?"

Fu Yuan pretended not to see it, picked up the bowl, and said, "Don't look at what is not proper, don't listen to what is not proper, don't say what is not proper, don't do what is not proper... To be realistic, "etiquette" is for people to use!

Anything that is not human, that cannot "serve the people's righteousness," is "unrighteous"! Don't listen, don't see, don't speak, don't move!

Old Mrs. Bai had a bad look in her eyes and seemed ready to make a move.

Guan Shihua laughed and said, "What about this 'god' you've been talking about for so long? Doesn't Confucianism say that a master doesn't speak of strange things, forces, chaos, or gods?"

Fu Yuan smiled and said, “It should be ‘The Master does not speak of strange powers, or of the gods’. Confucianism does not mean not talking about ‘power’, but about ‘strange powers’. It does not mean not talking about ‘gods’, but about ‘the gods’!

When he "serves the people and becomes a true god," then he will be "proper"!