Chapter 301: Mythological Center Altar

Xu Jia was refining the Raw Rice Bowl; this was the first magic treasure Xu Jia had ever obtained.

It was the "sect-suppressing" vessel of the former Yellow Heaven Sect Southeast Great Libationer, Huang Muchun. It had once suppressed and killed a thousand-year-old centipede dragon here, which was the Miao Dragon of the Miao people; it was said to be a formidable demon under Chiyou that could fight the Yinglong under the Yellow Emperor.

However, it was a fake after all, not the real thing.

This Raw Rice Bowl was the same; it was not a divine artifact personally refined by the founding Heavenly Master Zhang Jiao, but merely refined by Huang Muchun himself.

The Raw Rice Bowl had a miraculous ability: one could put in a single grain of rice, and it would turn into two; if those two were not taken out, they would turn into four, much like fission, eventually becoming a mountain of rice.

It was said that this bowl possessed: "the power of space-time, the power of destiny." It required overdrawing the fortune of the future to produce anything, belonging to the category of "eating next year's grain today"—what one ate now was the rice of the future.

There were also those who said that a person's lifetime ration of food was fated, and once eaten, they would die. Others said it was actually a transportation technique, stealing grain from granaries, much like the wealth luck of a Treasure Basin; it did not appear out of thin air, and there was inevitably a gain and a loss.

But these were all later legends, and no one knew the specific principle.

Yet, once Xu Jia personally refined it, he discovered that this bowl was actually a small "altar." The object of the sacrifice was the "Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable," and the method of sacrifice was the Yellow Heaven Sect's "Huangtian Secret Incantation Seven Chapters." As long as one offered faith, this Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable would almost always respond to requests; this grain was actually transported by the Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable from other worlds.

If ten people believed in the sect, there would be ten people's monthly rations; if a hundred people believed, there would be a hundred people's monthly rations...

This was actually equivalent to believing in Christ, where one could receive ten eggs or two catties of rice every morning...

The power of this Raw Rice Bowl did not come from itself, but from the "Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable." This great deity used this naked method to crudely spread his faith across the heavens and myriad worlds.

Believe in me, and you can receive grain.

Nowadays, if Xu Jia wanted to use this treasure, he would have to make the common people believe in the Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable, which was equivalent to being directly possessed and taken over by the Yellow Heaven Sect.

Back then, the Great Heng Dynasty relied on the Yellow Heaven Sect to establish the nation. After the founding was complete, they quickly turned to annihilate the Yellow Heaven Sect and destroyed all these Raw Rice Bowls to secure the national destiny; from this, one could see how much these Raw Rice Bowls were feared.

Later, the Great Heng Dynasty faced a massive backlash from evil sects, which were basically different branches of the Yellow Heaven Sect. It was even said that this Longevity Sect also had some connection to the Yellow Heaven Sect. However, according to Taishan Daiyu, this involved factional struggles within the upper echelons of the Heavenly Court—the faction of the Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable versus the faction of the Five Emperors.

This world originally belonged to the Five Emperors. Later, the Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable preached and usurped the foundation, which was then snatched back later. In short, the composition was complex.

As Xu Jia took over the refining of this Raw Rice Bowl, he analyzed and solved the problems with his wisdom, and suddenly had an inspiration: to transport grain from Amelika to here.

The Raw Rice Bowl itself was an anchor for the Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable. Through faith, it distributed rice and flour and absorbed believers; the principle was very simple and plain.

The Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable was a being of great divine ability who even challenged the Heavenly Emperor. He did not compare himself to him, but buying bulk grain in Amelika should not be difficult, and it could be produced through the secret arts of the Yellow Heaven Sect using the Raw Rice Bowl.

Transporting people or living creatures would certainly be difficult, but grain and the like might not be so hard.

It was just that Xu Jia had only obtained one-eighth of the Yellow Heaven Sect's orthodoxy from Huang Muchun, which included the Ritual of Sacrifice, Dream Coming True, and the Refining Falsehood to Cultivate Truth method; it had not yet touched upon such cross-world anchoring or the method of transporting materials between two worlds.

But if grain could be transported, couldn't weapons be transported too?

Xu Jia studied it carefully, attempting to refine a "Raw Rice Bowl" within the shrines of the two worlds specifically for sacrificing to himself.

The next moment, a large amount of Incense Wish Money was consumed, and a message appeared in Xu Jia's mind: "Consume 200,000 Incense Wish Money to generate an altar, which functions to receive offerings and provide rewards."

The Divine Path was always like this; it appeared high and mighty, but in essence, it was a transaction: sacrifice to the gods to receive blessings. Sacrifice boys and girls to get favorable weather, build a Golden Body for a Bodhisattva, and the Bodhisattva would bless you with wealth...

Hmm... it was entirely worshipping desire and making deals.

Could it be that because he himself made great vows based on great desires, he created something similar to a devil's bargain? Xu Jia was not short on 200,000 ordinary Incense Wish Copper Coins, but he had very few Incense Wish Silver Money and Incense Wish Gold Money.

However, recently these little demons had practiced the De Yuan Lu Method and made great vows, so these Incense Wish Gold Money and Silver Money had also increased.

Only when practitioners made vows and worked toward them would these Wish Power Silver Money and Gold Money appear; they could be said to have inexhaustible uses.

Ordinary wish money also had certain uses, such as converting into Dharma Power, improving cultivation, refining magic tools, or bestowing blessings on ordinary people and performing divine arts...

Xu Jia had believers in Yushan Dexing, and now there were quite a few believers around Poyang, with many making vows, seeking wishes, and fulfilling them.

Now, counting them up, there were exactly 200,000 and a few more Wish Power Copper Coins.

"Build the altar!" With a thought from Xu Jia, a three-story altar immediately appeared in the shrine, ancient and natural. Then, information followed: 200,000 Incense Wish Silver Money were needed to upgrade to a six-story altar, and 200,000 Incense Wish Gold Money could promote it to a nine-story altar.

The altar anchored all places of faith and was Xu Jia's Mythological Center. He could set a mythological model on the altar to reveal the state of other worlds.

If one planted a tree, the Mythological Center would be a World Tree; if it were a mountain, it would be a World Sacred Mountain; if it were a pool, then each world would be a floating island, or perhaps a cluster of bubbles where each world was a dream-like illusion, or even grains of sand and dust.

Setting the form of the Mythological Center was related to one's own mythological type. Xu Jia's mythology in his previous life was education, being proficient in Dharma teachings, having three thousand disciples, being able to calculate and predict, and opening Daochang overseas... In this world, it was slaying demons, controlling water, killing evil spirits, and making great vows.

The fitting Mythological Center form leaned toward "Water Virtue Mythology." Moreover, his current achievements were also in overseas expansion, building a Dao Kingdom... his previous life was also in overseas Amelika...

Xu Jia immediately set the form of the Mythological Center to be a vast ocean.

Suddenly, two ocean phantoms appeared on the altar, one ocean above and one below, with two small islands revealed, each possessing a Daoist temple palace.

One should be the world of his previous life, and one was the current world.

The previous world and the current world were at different latitudes, and the current world was clearly higher.

"Desire Realm Six Heavens—even if it is the same Desire Realm, is it divided into six different levels to distinguish them?"

In his previous life, Xu Jia had divined that the Earth would complete its global ascension in 2045, collectively rising in latitude. Looking at it now, perhaps it was possible.

Seeing these two layers of oceans and the isolated islands above, Xu Jia only felt that the altar had infinite uses; the 200,000 incense money was not spent in vain. This was still just a three-story mythological altar; if it were six, nine, or even higher at twelve stories, he did not know what the scene would be like.

"Does every god in the Heavenly Court have this? The water is truly deep."

However, even the Xiaodifu could manage the reincarnation affairs of five hundred worlds; when the gods of the Shangjie descended to the lower realms, they could also choose different Desire Realms. So, this did not need much questioning. It should be the Heavenly Dao set by the Heavenly Court; once one practiced the Divine Path to a certain degree, there would be this kind of feedback, encouraging multi-world development and the widespread dissemination of education.

Xu Jia immediately used the altar and the shrine, and his consciousness entered the Amelika Tongtian Temple of his previous life, descending onto the Golden Body.

Waking up from the Golden Body, Xu Jia discovered something different.

He saw that some disciples were already wearing white robes with crosses hanging on their chests; they were authentic Christians. These were Chinese disciples, and there were also Western disciples who, conversely, wore Daoist robes and were chanting the Precious Proclamation of Master Xu.

It looked completely "upside down," which was quite comical.

Seeing Xu Jia descend to the altar, Li Rentai looked him up and down. Seeing that Xu Jia had no wings this time, he was somewhat disappointed; last time they ate roast wings, and they all entered the Dao directly, becoming the Tongtian Temple Four Great Disciples.

These days, relying on Xu Jia's guidance, they were practicing Dao-Ye Dual Cultivation and were like fish in water. They even dared to fight against the uncle and eradicate the nearby Amelika Satanic Cult outposts, building Ghost Immortal sub-altars, setting up the Four Symbols Array, and forming the Four Spirits Barrier to resist any demons from entering.

Overall, it had already flourished quite a bit.

In addition, with the immortal teachings of the Yellow Heaven Sect, they were Seek Dragon and Dotting the Acupoint around San Francisco, buying those villas that occupied the Dragon Vein feng shui, sitting in them to breathe in the primordial Qi, and actually gradually feeling a sense of "Spirit Recovery," making great progress in their cultivation within them.

The environment here was just right, so they renovated a high-end nursing home to suck the blood of capitalists. When these rich people came here to recuperate, they touted Daoism, spiritual cultivation, and traditional Chinese medicine, making them believe in the sect and invest in the Tongtian Temple, establishing the "Tongtian Temple Charity Foundation," which specifically used funds to do good deeds, including poverty alleviation work within China, free breakfast work in rural areas... and afforestation work in desertified areas...

Xu Jia ordered them to do good deeds and accumulate merit and virtue; they relied entirely on fooling the rich into throwing money at it. As for what the actual effect was, only they themselves knew.

"In the days that this poor Daoist has not been at the altar, how has your cultivation been?"

Li Rentai immediately said: "In the two years since the Ancestor left the altar, we have been working hard and making progress."

"Two years?" Xu Jia was surprised. According to his own calculations, it had been at most half a year. It seems there was indeed some difference between the latitudes.

"Indeed, during these days, we have also held large-scale sacrifices, wishing to invite you, Ancestor, to descend to the altar, but unfortunately, there has been no response."

Of course there was no response; Xu Jia was over there dealing with a scorched head and flayed forehead.

Xu Jia did not bring up the main business directly; he first checked their cultivation progress and offered a few words of guidance, then immediately recalled that he should also expand the influence of his mythology in this realm and increase his believers and followers to accumulate more Wish Power Dharma Coin, so he said: "In America, the demons rise and the Dao wanes; have you slain any demon heads during these days?"

(End of this chapter)