Chapter 230: America's Tongtian Temple

The Body Gods received the many wishes and began to circulate; some distracting thoughts and desires were directly expelled from the body, and were immediately absorbed by the Three Sovereigns Ten Thousand People Umbrella above his head.

As for the remaining wishes, some that exceeded reality were transformed into official documents; after review, they needed to be rejected and were not to be fulfilled.

Only those that were practical, simple, and kind would enter the further approval process.

But these were not the most important things; what mattered was that Xu Jia had touched his Golden Body from his previous life at this moment, and this illusory body could actually merge with the Golden Body.

What kind of "God Descent" was this? With just a fleeting thought, Xu Jia's consciousness vanished and left this shrine space.

The next moment, what his eyes saw was a Dharma Realm wreathed in incense smoke; this Dharma Realm consisted of layers of palaces and temples, and the layout felt inexplicably familiar to Xu Jia.

"This is the temple built for my Golden Body from my previous life, the Xu Shigong Temple, constructed according to the layout of my Daochang, Tongtian Temple, in San Francisco."

Xu Jia's Tongtian Temple in overseas San Francisco had been built by directly transporting Ming and Qing dynasty architecture, restoring Song and Yuan dynasty murals, and placing antiques, calligraphy, and paintings everywhere.

By utilizing the "spirituality" of these antiques and paintings to harmonize the Feng Shui, with the back against San Francisco and the face toward a great river, it was built relying on the Dragon Vein of America to gather Vitality and solidify the foundation.

It was what Xu Jia had referred to in ancient texts back then, wanting to "achieve immortality through Feng Shui" and create a "Blessed Land" layout.

It was just that at the time, he was only focused on cultivating an "External Scene Blessed Land," not knowing that an External Scene Blessed Land required an "Inner Scene Blessed Land" to echo it; if the Inner Scene was not cultivated, the External Scene would naturally be difficult to achieve.

The so-called "San Francisco Blessed Land" could only be considered a Dharma Realm Manor, and could not be counted as a separate "plane."

Many "demons" had established such Dharma Realm Manors, such as those of the Demon Baron or Demon Count variety.

They belonged to the "territory" type; Xu Jia had gained an understanding of this when he was Destroying Mountains and Breaking Temples in San Francisco, and he had also been the famous "Number One Exorcist of San Francisco, America," a leader and a pioneer; among his disciples, besides overseas Chinese, there were also many local exorcists.

Apart from these, Xu Jia also saw many "Yin Masters" and "Roaming Masters" attached to the altar, living off his Incense Fire.

Now that he had descended upon the altar, these Yin Masters and Roaming Masters were all excited and trembling in appearance.

"The Ancestor has descended to the altar! The Ancestor has descended to the altar!"

Not only was the Dharma Realm Daochang trembling like this, with these Yin Masters kneeling respectfully, but in the incense burner of the Shigong Temple in the Yang realm, where incense had accumulated for many years, the incense Qi rose to the heavens, the incense ash formed a bridge, and those offerings all instantly lost their "color."

The Shigong guarding the offering altar was extremely excited and knelt down repeatedly: "Disciple respectfully invites the Ancestor to descend to the altar for an inspection!"

In the Dharma Realm, Xu Jia spoke: "Why have you all entered the altar to become Yin Masters and Roaming Masters?"

Those Yin Masters and Roaming Masters were all Xu Jia's disciples and grand-disciples from back then, only their faces were more aged than when Xu Jia had passed away, and they had undergone some degree of deformation.

"After the Master achieved Feathered Ascension, we felt nothing at the altar, so we cast lots and knew that the Master had ascended to the Shangjie and held a heavenly position, so we followed the ancient methods to prepare a Golden Body for the Master and established a Daochang..."

"..."

He felt inexplicably guilty; he had gone to work in the Underworld, not ascended to the Shangjie, and had even smuggled himself into a different world to undergo a second life of cultivation.

"It's just that after the Master achieved Feathered Ascension, many of the divinities the Master previously worshipped were no longer efficacious when we worshipped them; we asked the oracles and only then learned that they had withdrawn their spirits."

Xu Jia said: "I took the wrong path when I cultivated the Inner Scene back then, sensing external gods and attaching them as Inner Scenes; the Taishan Niangniang, Qitian Dasheng, and all the others I worshipped were actually my own Body Gods. After my physical body died, they dispersed; this cannot be blamed on you."

"So that is how it is." The Yin Master sighed: "I thought it was because our worship was not refined enough."

"After all the methods became ineffective, many of us exorcist disciples met with disaster, hunted down by enemies we had provoked back then; we could only retreat step by step, and some disciples even left San Francisco, left America—some returned to the country, some went to Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan."

"We were lucky; we did not die in battle, nor did we leave, but grew old in peace. After death, we ascended to the altar to guide the younger generation, which can be considered a form of inheritance."

Xu Jia frowned: "My method of Inner Scene cultivation, although I cultivated it wrongly, was still passed down, and thirty or forty people achieved success. How so?"

"Alas, those senior brothers did not have the brilliant talent of the Ancestor, nor did they have the step-by-step guidance of the Ancestor; many practiced incorrectly halfway through, and when they reached the point of breaking through, they exhausted their essence, Qi, and spirit and died, or died suddenly from blood Qi rushing to the brain... they couldn't even become Yin Masters..."

"Seeing that there was no master to guide them, these senior brothers realized that forced cultivation only led to a dead end, so they gave up one after another and turned to studying other heterodox minor methods, or established their own altars, forming their own lineages, or running gangs and recruiting many disciples... In short, they violated the sect rules left by the Ancestor and are no longer considered disciples of our lineage." Xu Jia sighed repeatedly and said: "I never expected that my Feathered Ascension would become a catastrophe for the sect; truly, I rose alone, and I destroyed it alone."

He then said: "Cultivating in the Shangjie, I have already removed many errors and even obtained the complete Lingbao Register tier; thinking of you all, I have descended to the altar."

He then said to those Roaming Masters and Yin Masters: "Among these Register tiers of mine, they are either Human Immortal Registers or Earth Immortal Registers; there are no Ghost Immortal Registers yet, but this is not difficult. I shall create a tier of Register method myself and pass it to you. You can continue to cultivate in this Dharma Realm by relying on the Register method. It is just that without a physical body, you cannot cultivate the Inner Scene method again, but it will not hinder the Incense Divine Path. Learn from that Shamanism of the Northeast and establish a hall; becoming a Stele Immortal is more than enough. America has many streets; you few can occupy one street, find a few people with spiritual potential, and teach them Daoism; you can live comfortably for two or three hundred years. Two or three hundred years later, if I have not yet become a Heavenly Immortal, you can go to reincarnation; if I have become a Heavenly Immortal, you will ascend with me."

After speaking, Xu Jia pondered deeply, combining his two lives of cultivation, and since the Lingbao school places the greatest importance on matters of life and death, he soon condensed a "Superior Ghost Immortal Register" based on the "Lingbao Scripture of Salvation." This Register possessed the power of "Clear Spirituality," allowing them to transform Incense Fire into Dharma food and Dharma water by themselves, thus avoiding hunger and not being eroded by Yin wind, Yin fire, etc., and allowing them to move freely at night; they could be considered of the "Yin Spirit" class.

Having condensed this Register, Xu Jia passed it on to them one by one. The many Yin Masters and Roaming Masters, having obtained the Register tier, immediately felt their soul bodies become clear and spiritual; the toxins produced by Incense Fire and Desire Thoughts, as well as the deformations that had occurred, all vanished, and their bodies became more solid and their eyes more clear and spiritual.

"Although you have obtained the Register method, you must know that Ghost Immortals must also cultivate in sequence. In my Lushan Great Method, there is a Lushan Five Prisons Great Method, which is the method of passing through the Five Prisons to become a Ghost Immortal. I will point out the Five Prisons here; if one day any of you cultivate through the Five Prisons, I can recommend you to the Underworld to hold an Earthly Official position and accumulate Merit."

Xu Jia was not making empty promises; he was giving them a real path.

Then, Xu Jia manipulated the Incense Fire divine power within the Golden Body and his Dharma Power from his previous life, gathering the Qi of the five viscera, and immediately manifested five hells in the Dharma Realm: the Mountain of Knives Hell, the Huohai Diyu, the Thorns Hell, the Cold Ice Hell, and the Earth Pit Hell.

The five great hells were distributed in the five directions of the Dharma Realm, forming an array that connected to the true Hell to guard this Daochang.

Because Xu Jia could not stay here forever and had to return to his physical body's consciousness, he could at most come occasionally, leaving behind an order for them to search for information, burn it over when found, or transmit the method in a dream.

After all, this was not his physical body, and Xu Jia was not descending with his Primordial Spirit, but merely a strand of consciousness.

Xu Jia had summoned the Five Elements Hells of the Central Plains, but this alarmed the native hell demons of America. America was rife with Evil Sects, and in the Dharma Realm, there were portals everywhere linked to Hell; demons often ran out from Hell, descended into the Dharma Realm, and then influenced reality through the Dharma Realm, eventually descending.

Among them was an old friend of Xu Jia from back then, a "Demon God" of Satanism. This Demon God was the spiritual leader of the Cannibal Cult, "Hannibal." After Hannibal died, his soul turned into a demon and directly achieved the status of "Demon Baron."

Many of his admirers held cannibalistic rituals one after another, and even remade his story into movies. Some people felt disgusted after watching these movies, but they also acted like a seed, subtly spreading to more people and letting more people know about the "Cannibal Cult."

These Cannibal Cults also had "discrimination"; they discriminated against Black people, did not like to eat Black people, feeling they were stringy, and did not like lower-class White people either, feeling they were too fat.

However, they were very fond of Asians and vegetarians. Young Asians were generally tender-skinned, and vegetarians were like the difference between "grain-fed beef" and "grass-fed beef"—grass-fed was more fragrant.

Of course, none of these compared to those who "cultivated the Dao."

When Xu Jia was over there, cultivating until he reached the Human Immortal stage, there were "strange phenomena," and his physical body emitted waves of fragrance, inexplicably attracting spirits, monsters, and ghosts.

Even more so here.

Although Xu Jia had been an eighty-year-old man bravely venturing into America back then, he had encountered a cannibal cultist just after arriving on the other side of the ocean.

This cultist had a keen nose and smelled the "Dharma fragrance" on Xu Jia and his disciples.

Thus, he plotted; at first, he did not target Xu Jia, but rather the young disciples around Xu Jia.

He even succeeded with one, but fortunately, he did not have the ability to destroy the soul.

Later, Xu Jia discovered that this disciple was missing, so he cast a lot and knew that he had died, which was why he summoned the soul to ask questions.

Only then did he know that America was full of demons. He was shocked for a moment, and subsequently, firstly to avenge his disciple, and secondly to follow the Ancestor Heavenly Master in sweeping away the Six Heavens Old Qi, he directly re-emerged in the world, uprooted several demon sacrificial altars, and sealed many passages between the Dharma Realm and Hell.

He even captured many small demons, refined them into demon slaves on the altar, and forged fierce and evil Yin-Sha weapons like the "Yin Mountain Demon Ghost Banner."

In the end, he provoked the "Hannibal" himself, who had become a Demon God and held the rank of Hellboy.

Xu Jia fought him and narrowly won, sealing him in his own Demon Manor.

He did not expect that seventy or eighty years later, this old demon would have broken the seal and even reached a higher realm, sensing Xu Jia's descent when he summoned Hell.

(End of this chapter)