Chapter 255: Dharma Realm God Kingdom, Inheritance of the Daoist Lineage

Chen Gongming went to prepare for the matters of publicizing the opening of the Sanqing Mountain gates to recruit disciples.

Xu Jia, on the other hand, needed to prepare the "Daoist Citizen Register," or rather, the more fundamental "Register Tiers."

Xu Jia's Lingbao Register Method had a total of twenty-four tiers, with six tiers per stage: Human Immortal Register, Earth Immortal Register, God Immortal Register, and Heavenly Immortal Register.

As for himself, he had only unlocked eight tiers of the register method so far, which was firmly at the Earth Immortal level.

He was setting out to construct the Inner Landscape Blessed Land of heaven and earth; it now had a rudimentary form, accommodating three thousand six hundred heavenly humans, along with all sorts of Body Gods.

But for ordinary people, these were all too advanced.

The gap from a mortal to the Human Immortal tier might be something an ordinary person could never bridge in a lifetime.

It was just like in some novels, where a mortal must cultivate to the Pre-Heaven Realm to be considered a Qi Refining stage cultivator.

The Human Immortal stage, compared to the Qi Refining stage, was more like the Foundation Establishment stage, because the Earth Immortal tier was already roughly equivalent to the Golden Core realm.

Therefore, Xu Jia needed to set the register tiers preceding Human Immortal, much like the Dou Qi Nine Stages before formal cultivation of Dou Qi.

This part involved changes that were about shedding the mortal to become an immortal.

Xu Jia began to study the essence of the register tiers, especially the Human Immortal Register, breaking it down; perhaps it could also be transformed into prerequisite register methods like the Daoist Citizen Register, Daoist Follower Register, and Daoist Child Register.

The registers of ordinary Daoists were bestowed by Zongtan that had the qualifications to add registers, such as Longhu Mountain or Lushan.

Xu Jia's register was set up by establishing a Sanqing altar, descended from the Supreme Clarity Lingbao Heavenly Venerable.

When it came down to it, this was evolved from the "Innate Register Method."

Xu Jia quickly fell into an immersive state of deconstruction.

The register was an authority system, and the talisman was an application system; Xu Jia's research into registers was quite average, and his research into talismans was limited to Lushan talisman methods, as well as talismans from some heterodox paths and minor lineages, all of which belonged to "Civil Law."

That is to say, they were not methods of the Heavenly Court's proper system, or rather, not methods of the orthodox Daoist court; most were taught to mortals by Ghost Gods in the Dharma Realm, teaching them hundreds or thousands in dreams, and they would learn one or two upon waking.

Xu Jia dismantled them for a while and hit a bottleneck; his computing power was insufficient, or to put it another way, his wisdom was lacking; it seemed only at the God Immortal Realm could one complete such a major task.

Thus, Xu Jia summoned Yu Yaosheng.

As someone who came from the background of a Canal Commander of the Yellow Heaven Sect, perhaps he knew something about the register methods obtained by the followers of the Yellow Heaven Sect back then, which could be used for reference and development.

"When your Yellow Heaven Sect rebelled back then, coercing millions of followers, claiming that everyone learned the methods and everyone entered the Dao, was that true?"

Yu Yaosheng listened, fell silent for a moment, and sank into memories: "Replying to the Heavenly Master, our Yellow Heaven Sect originated from the Great Worthy Teacher Zhang Jiao. He received the method from the Yellow Heaven Emperor and possessed many inconceivable powers. For example, the Raw Rice Bowl was created by him; this bowl could turn one grain of rice into two, two into four... Most of the common people were like that because they had food to eat by following the Great Worthy Teacher in rebellion."

"As for everyone learning the methods and everyone entering the Dao, it was actually just a matter of organizing the households and the people. Those who joined our sect were issued a wooden tablet, on which the sect's doctrines and incantations were written, with the Daoist citizen's name and a talisman on the back."

"Those Daoist citizens who actually learned the methods were in the minority. The more they recited the doctrines and scriptures, the more they believed in them, and the easier it was for them to enter the Dao and learn the methods."

"Whether these talismans were drawn by oneself or printed, they all had a certain effect. When people looked at them, they would feel dizzy, but by looking at them often, they could increase their spirit to a certain extent, so they spread very widely."

"Once they entered the Dao, the Great Worthy Teacher would teach us the art of commanding ghosts. Having learned the art of commanding ghosts, one could become a heavenly soldier or general, impervious to blades and spears." "But the art of commanding ghosts was also very dangerous; harboring lonely spirits and wild ghosts in one's body provided no real power, and catching fierce ghosts easily led to backlash. However, our sect had specialized Spirit Binding Devices and rituals that could reduce the risk."

What Yu Yaosheng said was very similar to the system of binding Ghost Gods in the Mizang Yu.

"At that time, the world was in chaos, and there were fierce ghosts and evil demons everywhere. Yet our Yellow Heaven Sect could subdue evil demons and fierce ghosts, using the power of fierce ghosts for our own use, and since we also provided food, we gradually won the hearts of the people."

Xu Jia nodded: "Why did Zhang Jiao fail later?"

"I don't know," Yu Yaosheng said. "I was just one of the many Canal Commanders under the Great Libationer Huang Muchun."

Zhang Jiao... Zhang Jiao; both worlds had such a person. In his previous life, it was the Yellow Turban Rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty, which founded the Way of Peace. This one established the Yellow Heaven Sect; it was extremely similar.

This person wouldn't be working in multiple worlds at the same time, would he?

Then this Zhang Jiao was actually not a native of this world; at the very least, he was some kind of Immortal Truth from the Shangjie, or perhaps some "Heavens Zhang Jiao Template" or something similar.

Xu Jia thought for a while, didn't quite figure it out, and planned to think about this matter later, so he asked Yu Yaosheng for the wooden tablet talisman of the Yellow Heaven Sect citizens.

Yu Yaosheng himself had cultivated the Yellow Heaven Sect Daoism, so naturally, he had started from the basics.

He quickly drew the talisman for Xu Jia. It was actually not complicated; it was composed of a square, circles, periods, and some lines, forming a pictographic symbol that looked like a ghost mask.

Although this talisman was simple, it gave people a feeling of dizziness, yet it directly connected to the soul and strengthened a person's spirituality.

This power did not come from the talisman itself, but from connecting to another world, which was the "Dharma Realm."

Xu Jia suddenly had an epiphany; the Dharma Realm was omnipresent, vast, and unfathomable. If one could utilize the energy of the Dharma Realm, it would indeed be a great solution to the problem of ordinary Daoist citizens cultivating the Dao.

However, the Dharma Realm was a world of mental will, a world of idealism, and also a world of changeability.

To stably provide Daoist citizens with the mental energy of the Dharma Realm, this layer of the Dharma Realm needed to be very stable.

"So these incantations were all constructing a stable Dharma Realm. This Dharma Realm is the true Dao Kingdom, or rather, a God Kingdom."

Just like reciting the incantation of Amitabha, one could construct the Buddhist Pure Land in the Dharma Realm.

Xu Jia had already gained some understanding, because relying on this talisman, Xu Jia had already sensed a layer of the world within the Dharma Realm. It was the Yellow Heaven Sect, a God Kingdom created using the faith of the sect followers. This God Kingdom did not exist in the Shangjie, but only in the Dharma Realm; it was a sea of spirit, the collective consciousness of all living beings.

As long as someone mentioned the Yellow Heaven Sect, this Yellow Heaven Dao Kingdom would be anchored and exist in the Dharma Realm, unless everyone forgot about this place.

However, this Dao Kingdom might have been able to maintain its operation at its peak, as it was anchored by faith, but now the Yellow Heaven followers were likely few and far between; I fear it rose because of faith and declined because of faith...

Therefore, the continuation of the Daoist lineage was still very important for this kind of Dharma Realm God Kingdom where the spirit was immortal and the spirit existed forever.

Temples and Daochang were not necessarily important, but the Daoist lineage scriptures must be passed down, and it was best to spread and expand them.

No wonder the things of this Yellow Heaven Sect had come to me several times; it turned out they wanted to borrow me to pass on their Daoist lineage...

(End of chapter)