Longevity and Immortal Cultivation: Starting from Controlling Your Own Essence.

Chapter 224 Good Merit System and Demon Den

"The group of old monks in Mani Temple sent this young monk to contact me, but they have some deep meaning..."

Zhang Yao's idea is not groundless.

He has a special status. Although he is powerful and famous, he is not a senior golden core expert of the older generation, so the identity of the person sent to contact him is very important.

There is no lack of late Jindan and perfect golden arhats in the Mani Temple, but at least they are not as suitable as this young monk when it comes to receiving Patriarch Qingxu, a guest from afar.

"Haven't you asked about the master's name?"

Zhang Yao said politely.

"The name of the little monk is Zhenhui."

The young monk clasped his palms together and performed a Buddha ceremony.

Zhang Yaoji bowed for the first time, and then said:

"It turned out to be Master Zhenhui."

"I just heard from the master that I was ordered by my master to observe my behavior. I wonder which eminent monk your master is?"

Upon hearing this, Zhenhui's face immediately revealed a look of reverence, and said sincerely:
"The master is the arhat who holds the hall in the 'Dajue Hall' of the Mani Temple, and his dharma name is 'Tongxing'."

Hearing this, Zhang Yao suddenly showed a hint of surprise:
"It's actually Master Tongxing? That's really a famous teacher who produces a great apprentice!"

He talked with Taoist Sansha for a long time, inquired a lot about the situation in Mani Kingdom, and also knew the names of many eminent monks and great virtues.

Among them, Tongtong Arhat is definitely the number one character among the many Arhats.

This man once roamed the Central Plains when he was young, and he became famous as "travel in all directions, unimpeded in the Central Plains". There was a legendary deed of one person defeating the five golden elixir.
The last person with such a title had already cultivated to the Nascent Soul Realm and achieved the status of 'Great Arhat'.

Today's Accelerated Arhat is recognized in the Mani Kingdom as the person who is most likely to become the next great Arhat, and he is also in charge of the Dajue Hall, which is known as the "First Hall of Enlightenment" in the Mani Temple, which shows its high status in the temple.

"The background of this true wisdom is very hard, but you can get in touch with it more..."

Zhang Yao originally inquired about his teacher's background, but he just asked casually, and after getting a definite answer, he inevitably had other thoughts.

Who knows how many years it will take to redeem the "Baoxiang Liujin Syrup" from accumulating meritorious deeds?This thing still depends on luck, and it cannot be settled by strength.

It would be much more convenient if one could rely on the internal relationship of the Mani Temple to go through the back door or obtain a little convenience. Although this is very difficult, it is still a way.

"Master Qingxu."

At this time, Monk Zhenhui took the initiative to speak:

"It's not convenient to talk here, why don't we move to another place?"

"Inconvenient? Isn't it very convenient."

Zhang Yao laughed, waved and shouted:

"Xiao Er, get me a box on the third floor, I want to treat you."

"Okay, wait a minute!"

The waiter immediately responded loudly, and hurried up to the third floor.

Monk Zhenhui, who was ignored by everyone in the restaurant, frowned slightly when he saw this, but didn't say much.

Soon, the waiter packed up the box and invited Zhang Yao to the third floor.

Inside the box:
The round table and wide chairs were empty, and the furnishings were full of Buddhist charm. There was only a pot of plain and elegant Yuhua tea and a few white porcelain cups on the table.

"Master, please."

Zhang Yao called Zhenhui to sit down and made him a cup of tea himself.

Seeing his familiar movements, Zhenhui felt a little curiosity in his heart, and asked:
"The layman is so familiar with the affairs of the world, could it be that he has lived in the world?"

He secretly observed Zhang Yao, not just started, but has been for three days.

He found out that this well-known patriarch Qingxu in the outside world actually lingered among the world after coming to the Mani Kingdom. The world of Nigeria.

If he hadn't come down for three days in a row, a little impatient, and took the initiative to approach a little distance, I am afraid that the patriarch Qingxu might not have directly opened his mouth to reveal his whereabouts.

This kind of demeanor, which is very different from the other Jindan Patriarchs, made him curious.

"Correct."

Zhang Yao didn't hide anything, took a sip of tea, and said with emotion:

"I have indeed lived many years in the world."

"Everyone in the world thinks that gods are good, but I feel that the world is equally wonderful and carefree. If there is no fairy way in the world, maybe I will live a better life than today..."

Monk Zhenhui laughed when he heard the words:

"If there really is no immortal way in the world, at your age, layman, I'm afraid you would have turned into a pile of bones long ago."

"Haha... the master is right."

Zhang Yao laughed, raised his glass and said:
"Come on, I will replace the wine with tea and offer a toast to the master."

Upon hearing this, Monk Zhenhui raised his teacup to signal Zhang Yaoping, then took a sip and put down the teacup again.

"Lady Qingxu, let's talk about something serious."

"Okay, you say."

Zhang Yao also put down his teacup and gestured.

"Is such that……"

Monk Zhenhui looked directly at Zhang Yao, and said seriously:

"My country of Mani has always been adhering to the virtue of inclusiveness and inclusiveness, and welcomes all foreign monks—the premise is to abide by the system of good deeds."

"If you violate the system of good deeds, such as burning, killing, looting, slaughtering living beings, practicing evil magic skills, destroying the foundation of Buddhism... All these are regarded as enemies of Buddhism and will be hunted down by all Buddhist monks."

"On the contrary, as long as you follow the system of good deeds, you will be rewarded for good deeds. I don't think I need to say much about this."

Hearing this, Zhang Yao said in a joking tone:
"Master Zhenhui, I don't think there are any evil cultivators or devil cultivators. The old birthday star hanged himself and thought he had a long life, so he came to the territory of Mani to seek death?"

"Especially the Jindan cultivators like me, who trek across thousands of rivers and mountains, all come here for good deeds."

Monk Zhenhui heard the words, smiled slightly and said:
"The layman's words are reasonable, so let's get straight to the point."

As he spoke, he took out a round token from his bosom, handed it to Zhang Yao, and motioned:

"Lady Qingxu, this is your letter of good deeds, it will take effect after refining."

"Every Golden Core cultivator will receive the highest level of good deeds letter, which directly corresponds to the total list of good deeds in Mani Temple, and will record all the good deeds you have obtained."

"If you want to exchange good deeds, you also need to hold this letter and go to the Mani Temple to do it."

"Ah."

Zhang Yao nodded, directly refined the good deed letter talisman on the spot, and then wore it on his waist.

"Uh……"

On the other hand, Monk Zhenhui was taken aback when he saw Zhang Yao's swift action, and then couldn't help but said:
"Don't you want to ask me something?"

Zhang Yao asked back:
"Should I ask something?"

Monk Zhenhui touched his head, hesitantly said:
"Before I left, I heard from some old arhats that...many new Jindan monks are very uncomfortable with the existence of this token of good deeds."

"Even some Jindan monks with extreme personalities almost turned their faces on the spot, thinking that our Mani Temple is monitoring them, and saying that our good deeds system is not worthy of its name..."

In fact, he had already had similar worries before coming here.

After all, in his expectation, this Patriarch Qingxu was a Golden Core cultivator who covered the sky with one hand and was powerful in the southwest, and his personality was probably domineering and tyrannical.

But after getting in touch with him, he realized that this ancestor Qingxu was completely different from what he had imagined.

"Hahaha……"

Hearing this, Zhang Yao smiled and said:

"They care, I don't."

"Since it's a poor man who wants something from others, then he will take this good deed letter talisman if he takes it, why bother to be coy and pretend to be a child?"

Zhang Yao had actually thought deeply about the system of good deeds in the Mani Kingdom.

The premise of the good meritorious deeds system is the monitoring methods throughout the Mani Kingdom, as well as a very powerful and intelligent judgment logic.

To know:
In the entire territory of the Mani Kingdom, it is not one or two people who are doing good deeds and getting good deeds, but hundreds of thousands or millions of Buddhist monks and novice monks. This cannot be supervised by manpower at all.

The Mani Temple must have a means to monitor the monks in the entire Mani Kingdom at the same time.

And this method must be able to make specific and timely judgments on the words and deeds of many monks, and then adapt to their standards one by one to see whether they are in line with good deeds, whether they can obtain good deeds, and how much good deeds can be obtained...etc. .

Zhang Yao didn't know how the Mani Temple did all of this, but there was no doubt that it was a huge, complex, and extremely high-level perfect system, and Jindan cultivators were doomed to be powerless against it.

If you want to benefit from others, you must follow their rules of the game.

It was precisely after Zhang Yao wanted to understand all this that he simply and neatly accepted the letter of good deeds and refined it on the spot, without any unfounded worry at all.

To take a step back, even if there is something wrong with this thing, but his soul is protected by the "Thousand Souls Awakening Great Formation", and it is impossible to monitor his thoughts and influence his soul secretly, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

"The layman is indeed extraordinary!"

Monk Zhenhui praised sincerely, paused, and then continued:

"Since the layman knows something about the list of meritorious deeds, he should also know about the devil's lair."

"Currently, there are [-] foreign Jindan cultivators in the territory of Mani Kingdom, and there are still eight demon lairs left. I don't know which one Qingxu Layman wants to choose to suppress?"

The Devil's Lair, this is a special product in the territory of Mani Kingdom.

Under the vast land of the Mani Kingdom, there are countless turbid qi hidden, which are most likely to breed yin demons, combine demonic thoughts, and lure monks into demons...etc. It is a veritable land of demon disasters.

In the Middle Ages, this place was once a paradise for demon cultivators, with countless demon cultivators lurking here, and it is a well-known demon cave in the Central Plains.

Because no one can solve the environmental problems of natural breeding, so that the nine prefectures of Tianzhou ignored it-until the end of the Middle Ages, the founder of the Mani Temple came.

Regarding the patriarch of the Mani Temple, due to some difficult-to-find historical reasons, his origin and detailed life have not been investigated.

But what can be confirmed is:
The patriarch of the Mani Temple used unknown methods to suppress and relieve the evil disasters here, and finally formed 24 evil caves, which released the turbidity of the earth regularly, greatly reducing the impact of the evil disasters.

In order to suppress these evil lairs and continuously dredge the turbid air of the earth, he established the system of good deeds and created the Mani Temple, which has been passed down to this day.

To date:

The Mani Temple is already one of the most famous forces in the Central Plains, and it has long been able to suppress the 24 Demon Dens independently without the help of outsiders.

However, the long-term deployment of 24 golden arhats is a big burden for the powerful Mani Temple. Coupled with the continuity of the good deeds system, they still welcome foreign golden core monks.

The normal tasks of punishing evil and promoting good, chasing down demons and other tasks, the good deeds that can be obtained are completely useless for Jindan monks, and the gains outweigh the losses.

Therefore, suppressing the devil's lair is the main source of good deeds for foreign Jindan monks, and they can get [-] points a year. If there are Jindan level Yin demons that need to be encircled and suppressed, it's time to earn extra money, and one shot can top it several years.

"Suppressing the devil's lair is regarded as basic salary; paying off the gold-level devil is regarded as earning a bonus."

"The precious phase Liujin syrup I need is ranked seventh in the list, and I need a total of 150 million good deeds. If there is no special opportunity, I am afraid it will take many years..."

Zhang Yao thought of this, and after pondering for a while, he opened his mouth and said:

"Among these eight devil lairs, do you know if Master Zhenhui has any recommendations?"

(End of this chapter)