Chapter 177

The PS of the previous chapter, the setting of immortal blessings.

Immortal blessing is good fortune.

Good fortune is the reward beyond effort.

For example, if you plant an acre of land and harvest an acre of grain, this is the result of labor; there is labor and there is gain, which is fair and just.

If you plant an acre of land and harvest an acre of grain, and also pick up a piece of dog-head gold while plowing the land,

the harvest of grain offsets the expenditure of labor, and the dog-head gold is the benefit beyond effort, which is good fortune.

If it is changed to a cultivator, planting an acre of spiritual land, harvesting an acre of spiritual herbs and elixirs, and also picking up a thousand-year-old ginseng that helps with cultivation, this is immortal blessing.

It is not that one cannot cultivate without immortal blessing, but it is easier to cultivate with immortal blessing.

Immortal blessing is not obtained out of thin air.

The *Journey to the West* world emphasizes that good and evil are rewarded.

Ordinary people accumulate hidden virtue, and in the next life, they might be reincarnated into the Central Plains of Huaxia as commoners.

But what if it is the people of the Central Plains themselves who accumulate hidden virtue?

Some hidden virtue accumulated to the next life, having the opportunity to cultivate, might be transformed into immortal blessing.

Was that Prince of Qinghe a great benevolent person in his previous life?

Not necessarily.

Besides accumulating hidden virtue by oneself, immortal blessing can also be inherited from ancestors.

Wasn't there a fake silver case earlier? Jia Yintong did not have his lineage cut off because one of his ancestors accumulated quite a lot of hidden virtue.

If Jia Yintong did not make fake silver, but instead actively acted as a good person and encountered immortal fate, the ancestral blessing on him might be cashed out as a portion of immortal blessing.

In short, everything has cause and effect, and luck will not be generated out of thin air.

Either the price has already been paid in the past or present, or the price will be paid in the future.

Isn't Tang Seng a typical example?

Even if he is the reincarnation of Golden Cicada, he must first be a good person for ten lifetimes, accumulating a large amount of blessed fate.

Just relying on the blessed fate of these ten lifetimes of cultivation, let alone being Wukong's master, as long as he is willing to marry a wife and have children, the "Number One Tribulation-Passing Expert of the Three Realms," the Jade Emperor, would be willing to be reincarnated as his son.

Of course, the above is only an ideal state; the rules formulated by the sages are that good and evil are rewarded, but the people (immortals and Buddhas) who execute the rules below have selfish motives and may abuse their power for personal gain.

Let's use Li Jingyu as an example.

If he hadn't been implicated by Seeing Xiao Yu Yu and hadn't lost his immortal blessing, he might have become an immortal—assuming he becomes an immortal in the future, it would be much simpler for him as an immortal to repay the karmic debt of the "Prince of Qinghe" period.

When a tycoon is starting his business, he might harm someone to the point of disability just for a few tens of thousands of yuan; when he becomes a billionaire, would he care about taking out a few tens of thousands of yuan to offset the karma of the crime?

Hmm, this is just for easy understanding; a few tens of thousands of yuan certainly cannot offset the karma of a crime.

But if a billionaire takes out hundreds of thousands or millions as compensation and sincerely apologizes to the disabled victim, what is the probability that the victim will forgive him?

Hundreds of thousands or millions are just a drizzle for a billionaire.

A few tens of thousands of yuan are an opportunity to change destiny for a "potential tycoon" before he makes his fortune.

In *Journey to the West*, there is a similar story—after entering the Underworld, Li Shimin had no money to send away the resentful ghosts who were looking for trouble with him; with the help (cheating) of the judge, he borrowed the thirteen treasury gold and silver of Xiang Liang—almost equivalent to Xiang Liang's hidden merit.

After Li Shimin returned to life, he sent a large sum of money to the poor ghost Xiang Liang, and Xiang Liang used the money to build the Great Xiangguo Temple.

Xiang Liang also accumulated great merit for himself (for Buddhism).

Xiang Liang and Li Shimin can be considered a win-win situation.

But the key to the problem is not the happy ending, but the cheating behavior of using the hidden merit rules!

Uh, I've gone too far; in short, Li Jingyu's immortal blessing is gone.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu really didn't harm her foster father; she just folded some of her foster father's fortune.

PS2: Scattered immortals can be simply understood as "loose cultivator" immortals, referring to those without Heavenly Court official positions, not registered in the Heavenly Court, from wild paths, and not inheriting the lineage of sages.

Scattered immortals are not independent of the five immortals of human, god, ghost, heaven, and earth.

Heaven immortals, earth immortals, and ghost immortals can also become scattered immortals.

But if it is a Golden Immortal, it cannot be a scattered immortal.

To become a Golden Immortal, one must be a direct disciple of a sage.

Tomorrow I will post another chapter on Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's realm, strength, and the relevant settings of this book.)