Chapter 212: Divine Dao Laws

Learning from Guan Huchen's approach at Hengsha Pass, calling for the active descent of Yin gods through large-scale sacrifices to ghosts and gods, was too troublesome and inefficient.

If she could summon a ghost god with a single piece of yellow paper, her ghost son could truly become a useful trump card.

"If it were before, if you were willing to put in the hard work and spend ten or eight years studying Daoist rituals, you might be able to invite one or two low-level Divine Dao minor gods to pretend to be gods and ghosts in front of mortals, barely making a living."

"But now, which god would dare to pay attention to you?"

The Dog-Meat Daoist sighed, "Actually, your personality is simply not suitable for inviting Immortals and supporting the planchette."

"Inviting Immortals and supporting the planchette is about trying hard to be an honest, obedient person who knows how to please the spirits."

"Whether you can invite a great god is not decided by your own skill."

"It depends on the god's mood that day, whether they are willing to pay attention to you... or in other words, the Daoist's skill is the degree of understanding and flattery toward the spirits."

"You ask yourself, who can you flatter?"

—Even the Heavenly Emperor she dared to insult in front of everyone, and she wanted to flatter other spirits...

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu asked, "Could it be that ghosts, gods, and spirits can only be 'invited' and not 'commanded'?"

The Dog-Meat Daoist looked at her with a surprised expression, then the "surprise" quickly disappeared, and he sighed, "This is indeed something you would say."

"Ordinary people only think about how to flatter and please the spirits, you..."

He paused, then sighed with emotion, "Actually, it's not just you; there are many arrogant mortals in the world."

"Even every person who can become an Immortal has the same idea as you."

"Without immense pride, there is no immense ambition; without immense ambition, how can one become an Immortal?"

"Once you have become an Immortal and an ancestor, who would still be willing to be subservient and flatter mere 'gods'?"

"Heavenly Immortals are incomparably more noble than 'gods'."

"However, the 'Art of Restraining Gods and Summoning Generals' created by gods and Buddhas is a supernatural power, an Immortal technique, which cannot be used without great magic power."

"Our 'Inviting Immortals and Supporting the Planchette', although it requires flattering spirits, has no threshold in terms of magic power and Daoist practice."

"You have seen it; I don't even have internal energy."

"If some street hooligan got agitated, they could knock me to the ground with one punch, and I could only lie on the ground and howl."

"At most, I could invite a minor ghost or minor god afterwards to make that hooligan's whole family have bad luck, bad luck for three lifetimes."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's mouth twitched slightly, "You just burned a talisman paper and determined that my ghost son didn't have his soul scattered. If you set up an altar and perform the ritual fully, can you determine his general location?"

"What are you doing? Braving the ghost den to save him back?" The Dog-Meat Daoist stared.

"What are you trying to do? Bravely charge into a ghost den to rescue him?" the dog-meat Daoist priest glared and said.

The Dog-Meat Daoist shook his head, "No, it's too dangerous. If he is really caught by General Bietou, the moment I set up the altar and perform the ritual, General Bietou of Guaizi Mountain will immediately know."

"A mere General Bietou, what are you afraid of? Afraid he will break into Tianmen Town and use his 'Bietou' (shriveled head) to bump your head shriveled?" Seeing Xiao Yu Yu sneered.

"You don't understand!" The Dog-Meat Daoist shouted, "When I set up the altar and perform the ritual, it doesn't matter if I don't find your ghost son, but if I truly find him, his ghost energy will inevitably be connected to the Dharma altar and my energy mechanism."

"I can lock onto your ghost son's position through the connected 'energy mechanism'."

"General Bietou can also slash over, and the blade energy, following the lock of the energy mechanism, will take my head."

"He might even directly pull away my soul, letting me also sink into Guaizi Mountain and become a ghost Daoist who helps the tyrant."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was surprised, "Can the 'energy mechanism' channel transmit General Bietou's blade energy, and can it directly pull my son back?"

"If you were a great Immortal with boundless magic power, of course you could, but you aren't, and neither am I," the Dog-Meat Daoist said.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu laughed, "Hearing you say that, I want to try it even more. Daoist, don't be afraid; I will protect you from the side. As long as General Bietou dares to swing his blade, I will definitely hit him with a Pure Yang Sword Qi."

The Dog-Meat Daoist said, "What is the point of doing this? Even if I lock onto your ghost son's position, I can only determine whether he is in the Guaizi Mountain ghost den or not; I can't be precise to a specific mountain cave or ghost hole in the ghost den."

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said, "I already said, I will bear the risk; you just need to set up the altar, chant the spell, and write the talisman. How much of your time will this waste?"

"Instead of wasting energy and saliva on prevarication, it's better to start quickly and finish early."

Locking onto Chi Miao would at least let her ghost son understand: she, this godmother, is working hard for him.

This kind of effort cannot immediately change the ghost son's situation, but it will definitely change his state of mind.

General Bietou's blade energy is one of the motivations for her to do this.

Li Xianzhi has decided to hold the Wu Lin Assembly; understanding the general strength of the "Guaizi Mountain Yin Ghosts" in advance can help her precisely determine her position in the "Ghost Elimination Suicide Squad": just cheering from the sidelines, being a slacker, or finding an opportunity to reap benefits...

Only by knowing yourself and the enemy can you win every battle.

Guaizi Mountain is only a hundred miles from Tianmen Town.

Even if she doesn't participate in the Hero Assembly at all, she still has to care a little about the crisis that is close at hand.

The Dog-Meat Daoist called two old Daoists and eight young Daoists... almost calling all the Daoists of the Leisure Cloud Temple over.

The Dog-Meat Daoist himself changed into a treasure-blue Zhang Tianshi robe, holding a Zhang Tianshi sword with a Taiji Bagua talisman on the hilt; the blade was bright and shining, but it hadn't been sharpened.

"Open the altar~~" the Dog-Meat Daoist said softly.

The eight young Daoist boys and young Daoists all obeyed; the two classes were arranged neatly, and with a 'dang' sound of the chime, they chanted a volume of the "Huangting Moral True Scripture" in unison.

The two old Daoists acted as the Dog-Meat Daoist's left and right protectors.

The Dog-Meat Daoist himself belonged to the "Main Altar Dharma Master," and the two old Daoists belonged to the "Vice Altar Dharma Master."

When the Main Altar Dharma Master waved the Zhang Tianshi sword and stepped on the Big Dipper, chanting words, the Vice Altar Dharma Master on one side blew the master horn (styled like a giant fishing hook), blowing it with a 'woo-woo' sound; the other Vice Altar Dharma Master shook the master sword, shaking it with a 'ding-ling-ling' sound.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu wasn't assigned any tasks; before opening the altar, the Dog-Meat Daoist only told her to stand honestly and not move around.

She was very obedient, constantly activating the Heart Sea Secret Art, using her spiritual eyes of the heart to observe the Daoists performing the ritual—except for the atmosphere gradually becoming solemn and dignified, there was no magic power fluctuation on any of the Daoists.

If she didn't know the Dog-Meat Daoist, she would definitely think that this group of Daoists with serious expressions and earnest chanting were swindlers.

"Taiji divides height and thickness, light and clear belong to Heaven. If a person can cultivate to the True Dao, the body becomes a True Immortal. Practice increases by three thousand, time lasts for ten thousand years. The Treasure Lotus opens on the Altar, the Golden Mouth leaves the water to pass down."

The Dog-Meat Daoist loudly recited a "Buxu Ci," and then faced the Three Pure Ones statue and played, "Ancestors, please observe clearly. Disciple has practiced the method of inviting Immortals and supporting the planchette for several years, always pious and respectful, without a single transgression. Now, in fear and trepidation, I bow my head and kowtow, asking you to descend with divine holiness, bless my body, and let me see the location of Chi Miao, the Deputy Police Inspector of the Western Shu Realm~~~"

The next instant, a sacred and vast fluctuation crossed the infinite distance and descended onto the Dog-Meat Daoist.

His eyes rolled back, his body was a bit unstable, and the corners of his mouth and cheeks were twitching slightly...

If it were an ordinary person, they would only feel inexplicable, because there were no sound and light special effects, and the supreme and great power could not be seen with the naked eye.

The moment she felt that sacred power, Seeing Xiao Yu Yu hurriedly looked over with her spiritual eyes of the heart—

She saw a divine general!

An illusory divine general outlined by golden virtual lines and silver talisman runes.

The face could not be seen clearly; it only felt incomparably majestic, but very sluggish.

The power was full of majestic aura, but there was no emotion; it was like wood, very sluggish.

The body was not only illusory, but there were no details like skin or armor on it at all; it was just a "line person."

The divine general descended from a higher "Divine Dao" dimension and was seen by her in the underlying "Divine Dao"—Seeing Xiao Yu Yu's spiritual eyes of the heart could not see the higher Divine Dao dimension, but could see the process of the divine general descending to the underlying Divine Dao.

"Ah, General Bietou, don't be too arrogant—Yu Fengxian~~~~~"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was still observing and pondering the "line person divine general" when the Dog-Meat Daoist stepped on the Big Dipper, and with a few nimble movements, actually arrived behind her in an instant.

An inexplicable crisis struck her heart; Seeing Xiao Yu Yu didn't even think, and immediately drew her sword to stab at the source of the crisis—the Dog-Meat Daoist and the top of her head.

"Clang~~~ Dang-dang~~~"

The Pure Yang Sword Qi tore through the air and collided with an extremely sharp force that carried a cruel and evil aura in the void.

"Crack~~~" Half a blade fell to the ground.

"Why were you dazed just now? I warned you early on that after setting up the altar and performing the ritual, you must be ready to face the enemy at all times."

The Dog-Meat Daoist let out a long breath; there was still complaint and lingering fear in his face and tone.

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu calmed down and said, "I wasn't dazed. Just now, a god descended onto your body, and I was wondering... I didn't expect you to immediately capture Chi Miao's spiritual opportunity; the efficiency was too high and the speed too fast, and I couldn't react in time."

Almost as soon as the "line person divine general" landed on the Dog-Meat Daoist, he started shouting.

There was no process of activating divine power or searching for Chi Miao's energy mechanism.

The divine descent was completed, the energy mechanism lock was completed, and the divine descent ended in an instant.

"It's just searching for a ghost official of the Underworld, and I had already searched for him before; shouldn't the energy mechanism be locked immediately?"

The Dog-Meat Daoist bowed to the old Daoists and young Daoists, took off the Zhang Tianshi robe, handed it to the old Daoist along with the Zhang Tianshi sword, offered a stick of incense to the Three Pure Ones bronze statue, bowed three times, and pulled Seeing Xiao Yu Yu away from the temple.

Before Seeing Xiao Yu Yu left, she bent down and picked up the half-blade on the ground.

Her expression was very strange; she was very familiar with this blade, which reminded her of a certain old friend from the sand dunes.

Arriving at the backyard, the Dog-Meat Daoist first looked at the half-blade, then asked, "Can you see 'gods'?"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu said, "I seem to have seen a divine general composed of lines and runes enter your body."

"That is a 'Talisman General'; the supernatural power 'Flying Talisman Summoning General' summons this type of divine general."

"Although it is a divine general, it is also not a divine general."

"At the beginning, it was merely a technique cultivated by the Dao Ancestor or some other great Immortal or god."

"The technique gave birth to spirituality, fused with the energy of Heaven and Earth, entered the Divine Dao order, and became a part of the Divine Dao rules."

"From a certain aspect, you can treat it as a rule of Heaven and Earth born after the fact."

The Dog-Meat Daoist looked at her with surprise, "But why can you see Divine Dao rules?"

Seeing Xiao Yu Yu was also surprised, "A technique cultivated by a great Immortal can give birth to spirituality, become a divine general, and even fuse into the rules of Heaven and Earth, to be summoned by you at will?"

The Dog-Meat Daoist said, "You have comprehended many kinds of sword intent, haven't you? Sword intent is equivalent to the soul of a sword move; with sword intent, the move seems to come alive."

"I heard there is a higher realm above sword intent."

"You, a mere mortal martial artist, can make moves 'come alive'."

"Is it hard to understand that great Immortals and gods make their techniques become 'living supernatural powers'?"

"If one day in the future, you become a great power who refines emptiness and joins the Dao, even your sword intent can be transformed into living people, or real landscapes."

"If you strike them into the Heavenly Dao, they become rule-based powers that can be perceived and borrowed by the world." ===== CHAPTER 213 =====

Is it hard to understand that Great Immortals and Great Gods allow their own techniques to become divine generals possessing spiritual intelligence?

If one day in the future, you become a mighty figure who has refined emptiness and merged with the Dao, even your sword intent could manifest as living people or realistic landscapes.

If they are integrated into the Heavenly Dao, they become rule-based powers that can be perceived and borrowed by the people of the world."