The Ferry of the Heavens: Hong Kong Comprehensive Start

Ling Yaodong was wearing a county magistrate's hat with warped gauze wings on both sides, a green robe, and cloud boots. Behind him was a phantom of a city surrounded by water.

City God!

Lin Fengjiao, Taoist Chen You with four eyes, and Qianhe instantly understood that Ling Yaodong had become a city god!

The city god was originally the god of guarding the city, but later, with the development of the city and the times, the power of the city god continued to expand, and gradually evolved from a guardian god to a "yin official" corresponding to the "yang official" sent by the human government. Responsible for the affairs of the underworld in this area.

Looking at Ling Yaodong's attire, the three of them all saw that Ling Yaodong was a county-level city god.

In the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Hongwu divided the city gods into five classes.

The first class, Yingtianfu City God of Kyoto (now Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) is the "Mingling King", the highest rank, equivalent to the boss of the city god, and the most famous name-【Chengtian Jianguo Simin Shengfu Mingling King】.

The second class, the provincial city god is "Duchenghuang", named "Wang", there are five, Kaifeng Mansion, Linhao Mansion, Taiping Mansion, Hezhou, and Chuzhou.

The third class, the "Second Rank" city gods of various prefectures, is called "Wei Ling Gong".

The fourth class, the city gods of the "rank three" states, are named [Lingyouhou].

The fifth class, the city gods of the counties with "four ranks of rank", are named "Xian You Bo".

There is no City God below the county level, and it is managed by the Land Lord.

Ling Yaodong, who is wearing a green robe, is now a Xianyoubo, [Xianyoubo Xianyou in Xiangshan County], ranking fourth.

In the two choices of land righteousness and city god, he chose the road of city god.

Of course, rank four is only a rank given by the world, and in the divine way, Xianyou Bo Chenghuang is just a rank from seventh rank.

Ling Yaodong is now a seventh-rank Chenghuang. Although there is only a difference in grade between him and the eighth-rank Tudigong, the status and strength of the two are vastly different.

Like Di Digong is just a village head, a township head.

But Chenghuang, at least a county magistrate, has even greater power.

In Shinto, faith is the source of power, and authority is the foundation of power.

After Ling Yaodong became the City God, his authority expanded. Not only did he still have the magical powers of the Lord of the Earth, but he also mastered more of the magical powers that belonged to the City God.

But this is not the point.

The point is, how did Ling Yaodong become a city god?
This made Lin Fengjiao, Taoist Chen You with four eyes, and the three brothers Qianhe completely puzzled.

Shinto is strict, and the ranks are just like official positions in the human world. You can't be whatever you want to be.

As we have said before, there are two main methods for the promotion of Shinto gods to the divine position.

The first is canonization by the humane court.

For example, Xingtang City God.

He was originally a seventh-rank city god, at the county level.

But in the late Five Dynasties, Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was the commander-in-chief of the Houzhou Army at that time, and he was stationed in the Chenghuang Temple of Xingtang to command the troops to crusade against the Houhan.

The City God of the Tang Dynasty often appeared, enlightening Song Taizu's strategic deployment, and blessing the troops he led to win every battle. He quickly eliminated the Later Han Dynasty and unified northern my country.

Later, when Zhao Kuangneng became the emperor, he always missed the help that Xingtang City God had given him, so he filed a lawsuit for Xingtang City to build a temple grandly, build a golden body, and was promoted to one rank. The robe is named Dahongpao.

In this line of Tang City God, he was promoted from the seventh-rank city god to the sixth-rank city god, which is the so-called Zhou City God.

This is the canonization of the Humane Court.

Of course, there are also people who sacrifice spontaneously, agree to become a custom, and then the court recognizes it.

The other is the canonization of the Shinto Heavenly Court.

There are two main types of canonization in the Shinto heaven. One is that the deity does his job well and is appreciated by the superiors, and is promoted to a higher deity.

Among them, the one that is widely spread among the people is "Water Ghost Ascension to City God".

It is said that during the reign of Yongle, there was a water ghost named Qiu Yunrui. One day, he patrolled the rivers and rivers to see the surrounding area. save it.

Patrolling the river and seeing that it has kind thoughts in its heart, it sealed off the three bays of the river to govern the water monster.

Qiu Yunrui accumulated merits and virtues, and later it saved a woman who committed suicide.

This woman is also pitiful. Her husband was sick and bedridden. She took the roosters and hens to sell.So, I wanted to seek death.

Qiu Yunrui gave the woman a wooden pole to hold on to, and at dawn someone rescued her and gave her some silver taels.

Since then, Qiu Yunrui's merits and deeds have been complete.

Seeing that it has these three virtues, God granted it the title of Daxian (although it is called Daxian, but it is actually an official position in the Shinto water system), which is dedicated to saving lives.

Later, the City God of Huizhou Prefecture was promoted to Tianfu, so the City God was vacant, so he was ordered to take up his post.

In addition to this situation, there is another kind, that is, the Shinto will select people with meritorious virtues in the world, pass the examination and other models, and let them enter the Shinto and become a god.

This kind of thing is also spread in the world.

For example, test the City God!
According to legend, there was a student in Song Tao who was bedridden one day. Suddenly a petty official came to invite him, saying that he was going to take an exam.

Song Tao felt very strange. Before the imperial examination, what kind of test should he take?
But the little official urged him to go on the road, and Song Tao had no choice but to come to a big city with a serious illness and enter a palace.

There are many people sitting in the main hall of the palace, and there are two tables under the eaves. Besides Song Tao, there is another scholar who came to take the exam.

Among so many people, Song Tao only had an impression of one, and that was a red-faced man sitting in the hall, who looked very much like Emperor Guan.Maybe at this time, he has already guessed that this place is no longer in the human world.

The exam title is "One person, two people, intentionally or unintentionally".

Song Tao didn't dare to be negligent, and finished the answer sheet eloquently, the essence of which is-do good with intentions, even if they are good, they will not be rewarded; if they do evil without intention, they will not be punished even though they are evil.

The answer sheet was handed over to everyone in the hall for circulation on the spot, which aroused applause from the hall.

At this time, someone in the palace gave an order: "Song Tao, you have done a good job. Henan still lacks a city god. You should take up the post."

Song Tao was shocked, and finally recognized what this place was. He cried on the steps: "The gods love each other wrongly, I shouldn't have declined. But I still have a [-]-year-old mother in my family. Please allow me to take up the post after the death of the old man. Bar."

After he finished speaking, there was a man with the appearance of an emperor in the hall who brought Mother Song's life book and knew that she still had nine years to live.Therefore, Song Tao was given a nine-year leave to wait until his mother passed away before taking up the post of City God.

After Song Tao returned to Yangyang, he served his mother at home. Sure enough, his mother passed away in nine years, and he himself died. Surrounded by a group of city gods and officials, he went to Henan to take up the post of city god.

This is how Shinto selects people from humanity to be canonized as gods.

However, Shinto does not just canonize gods casually.

The first thing to consider is merit.

Only those with profound merits and virtues have this opportunity to be favored by Shinto.

Shinto also needs these people with profound merits to enter Shinto and enhance the luck of Shinto.

If it is a person with insufficient merit, after they enter the Shinto, the mistakes they make and the sins they do will reduce the overall luck of the Shinto and drag down the Shinto.

Therefore, Shinto is very strict in reviewing this aspect.

Song Tao and the scholar who took the exam were like this, so they were invited to take the exam.

The second Shinto consideration is whether the person is compatible with the relevant priesthood.

For example, Song Tao's examination of the City God.

The City God has two main responsibilities.

One is to protect people's livelihood, such as regulating the rain, repelling insects and animals, eliminating diseases and eliminating disasters, etc.

Another category is to uphold justice, such as punishing thieves and bandits, combating corruption, protecting virtuous people, etc.

The supernatural power needed to protect people's livelihood will naturally be given by a god.

But to uphold justice, the city god needs to have the ability to distinguish right from wrong, at least to have a certain amount of knowledge.

Song Tao and the scholar who took the exam were both scholars, so they met this condition and were invited to take the exam.

The above are the two ways to promote the god's position.

But Ling Yaodong obviously did not advance to the divine position through these two methods!

The first is the humane court canonization.

Ling Yaodong is now at odds with the Qing court.

The other party destroyed Ling Yaodong's temple belief.

Ling Yaodong was even more desperate, risking divine punishment and directly killing hundreds of Qing soldiers.

Neither side has room to turn around.

Today's Ling Yaodong, even if he is promoted to the county town god, but he is already wrapped in the dragon energy chains of the Qing court, but it has little influence on him.

Canonization by the Humane Court is impossible.

And the canonization from Shinto is even more impossible.

Not to mention that Shinto is now in decline. All the gods in the world are either sleeping or falling. There is no extra power to canonize and promote a new god.

Even in the era when Shinto flourished, it was impossible to confer and promote Ling Yaodong.

the reason is simple.

Ling Yaodong has deep karma!

He personally killed so many ordinary people, the punishment of God has been summoned!
Ling Yaodong can't be killed even if he is punished by God.

The Divine Dao Heavenly Court might even send out heavenly soldiers and generals to attack Ling Yaodong, arrest him and take him to the altar to behead him for public display!

That is to say, the decline of the Shinto, so the Heavenly Court of the Shinto ignored it.

And Yin Division is very reluctant to maintain the cycle of yin and yang. People like Ling Yaodong who interfere in human affairs, they all pretend not to see it.

of course.

It's also Ling Yaodong's small troubles now, which have little impact.

If Ling Yaodong made a huge mess, then Yinsi would not just sit idly by.

What is the big basket?
For example, Sun Wukong breaks into the underworld and randomly changes the book of life and death, which is a huge trap.

With Ling Yaodong's current ability, he couldn't poke such a big hole.

But well.

There is ample time!

Ling Yaodong, who has a golden finger, might be able to poke him one day!
anyway.

Lin Fengjiao, Qianhe, Chen You, the four-eyed Taoist, were very surprised by Ling Yaodong's sudden promotion from Land Lord to City God amidst the scourge of God!
This goes against their common sense.

The three of them looked at each other in shock.

"Could it be that he is really the reincarnation of the Great God?"

Ling Yaodong saw the meaning of their eyes, but he didn't mean to explain. Instead, he looked at the four-eyed Taoist Chen You with a half-smile, and said it again.

"Four-eyed Taoist, are you talking... bad about me?"

"Be careful, I will send you to the underworld to meet your ancestor!"

Ling Yaodong is in a good mood now. The depression in his character caused by the various restrictions of the earth has dissipated for a long time, so he said to Chen You, the four-eyed Taoist, in this tone.

This is Ling Yaodong's humanity, which has defeated divinity.

It was also at this time that Ling Yaodong discovered that, from the moment he transmigrated and possessed himself on the Lord of the Land, the [Shinto Talisman] on the Lord of the Land had already affected him.

No wonder he has become much more cautious in his deeds and deeds!
Incense is indeed poisonous!

Divinity...hehehe...From this aspect, what is the difference between it and demon nature?
Fortunately, Ling Yaodong was promoted to City God.

It's not that after being promoted to City God, Ling Yaodong got rid of the influence of divinity.

It was Ling Yaodong who discovered this by using the [Hundred Times Amplification] to improve his merits and make his mind clear.

But when he was promoted to City God, Ling Yaodong used up a lot of merit, resulting in a lot less merit.

If Ling Yaodong wants to maintain this clear state and not be eroded by divinity, then the power of merit is indispensable.

"It seems that there is another reason to earn merit." Ling Yaodong thought to himself.

On the other side, Chen You, the Taoist with four eyes, was so frightened that cold sweat broke out on his back when he heard Ling Yaodong's ridiculous words.

You know, this guy Ling Yaodong is a ruthless person who killed hundreds of people directly, oh no, it should be said, ruthless god!

He is not sure now, has this guy Ling Yaodong become a demon and become an evil god?
If that's the case, if you can't answer in one sentence, did this guy even kill him?
This guy came to kill practitioners, but he didn't even spare the soul.

The souls of those dozens of lamas of the Yellow Sect are still in the hands of those errants!
"This...I..." Four-Eyed Taoist Chen You hesitated and was speechless.

He is usually such a bad mouthed person, but he behaves like this in front of Ling Yaodong, which shows how much pressure Ling Yaodong puts on him.

Seeing this, Ling Yaodong stopped teasing him.

In fact, he had always seen and heard the performance of Four-Eyed Taoist Chen You.

This guy's words are a bit ugly, but he really has his own interests in mind.

"Find an opportunity to reward him in the future." Ling Yaodong thought so.

"Hahahaha..." He laughed and ignored the four-eyed Taoist Chen You and others, but turned his attention to the Xiangshan County government office.

The county magistrate of Xiangshan County ran away in a panic after Ling Yaodong took action, brought some yamen servants back to the county yamen, and dispatched arresters to protect the county yamen.

The magistrate was completely frightened. He hid in the magistrate's room, shivering, and kept chanting Ling Yaodong's name, begging him for forgiveness.

forgive?

Ling Yaodong sneered.

When he assisted the bat mage and others, destroyed his temple, cut off his faith, and persecuted his believers, did he ever think about letting him go?
If it weren't for Ling Yaodong's golden finger, which was different from other earth monsters, just these few measures would be enough to make an earth monster fall!

forgive!

In the next life, Ling Yaodong will forgive him again.

With a sudden change, his body turned into a statue of the city god. Black dragon energy chains were tied to the statue, and he flew towards the county government office. The servants surrounded him and turned into a cloud of black clouds. (end of this chapter)