Chapter 302: Master Xu Discusses the American Investiture of the Gods

Xu Jia asked about the demonic atmosphere in America. Li Rentai said, "Ancestor, we have already successfully reached a cooperation with the Saint John's Cathedral opposite us. The Demon Slayer enterprise has also been launched and reached a partnership. Our Heavenly Stems Thunder Fire Consecrated Firearms have even gained the favor of the Demon Slayers, and our pills are selling very well here."

"To date, we have destroyed three demonic cult dens in San Francisco, seven mobile forces, and killed over seventy demon heads."

"It is just that here in America, ever since the founding of the nation, they have not cultivated morality, the laws are unfixed, and there is no power of legal order to suppress. Furthermore, with the development of the internet, the demonic atmosphere has grown increasingly powerful. Aside from the Satanic Demon Cult, there is the Heavenly Lust Cult, which specializes in licentiousness; the Yin-Yang Cult, which specializes in inciting men to become women and women to become men; and even the Black Witch Sect, a Black cult specializing in voodoo. In addition, there is Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism... almost every foreign cult and Evil Sect in the world can see its shadow here."

"When it comes down to it, it is a problem of the national system. They do not prohibit any Evil Sect from spreading its teachings, nor can they distinguish whether it is an Evil Sect. Before a cult incites a riot, they will not deal with it, but after a riot is truly incited, they cannot deal with it either. It can be called a nation of ten thousand demons, a holy land of the demonic path."

Xu Jia listened and understood that what Li Rentai said was not wrong. America is indeed like this. Counting from its founding, it has been about three hundred years. Founded by capital, these financial families and clans have developed for over two hundred years and have already become bloated and massive.

Otherwise, there would not be so much "thick wood lace" (fentanyl), and the biggest point is the rampant drug problem, comparable to the Great Qing Dynasty back then.

Back then, the various powers sold opium to the Great Qing. The Great Qing struggled several times, and after two Opium Wars, it completely gave up and immediately opened everything up. As a result, the Great Qing turned around and started growing opium itself, which was both cheap and in large quantities, selling it globally, causing the native lands of those powers to start voluntarily banning opium, which was the only reason they stopped selling opium to the Qing.

However, since everyone was growing opium, no one was growing food. After several Heavenly Disasters and military calamities, no one knows how many people starved to death. Added to that, it ruined the health foundation of the nation's people. To call it a century of humiliation is not an exaggeration at all.

It was only after the Instructor founded the New China that they comprehensively banned opium, banned it in the military, wiped out bandits, prostitutes, and opium dens, built a large number of re-education centers, and helped people quit smoking... there were countless battles, large and small.

Compared to today, America is a bit like the former Great Qing. Before the Great Qing was defeated, it was actually considered a great power. How similar America is to it.

Xu Jia pinched his fingers to calculate: "America has the trend of national collapse and division. It is just as the saying goes: when a nation is about to perish, monsters frequently appear. This is exactly reflected in this point. You must unite the overseas Chinese to form your own force. In the future, you may be able to occupy a state or a prefecture and achieve a Dao Kingdom."

Li Rentai was stunned upon hearing this: "Overseas Chinese are famous for being fierce among themselves and acting viciously toward their own compatriots. According to the moral requirements you set before, Ancestor, these people have no morality and no bottom line."

"Moreover, America has severe anti-Chinese sentiment and is proficient in raising 'sheepdogs'. If we unite these Chinese, not only will they not pull in the same direction, but they will also secretly cause trouble and report us to national security..."

Xu Jia said: "They are all people who help whoever is strong—two-faced. Moreover, now I can definitely give you some good things. As long as you can independently complete the Human Immortal achievement, I can give you an Immortal Pill to break through to Earth Immortal. Although once an external pill is cultivated, your lifelong achievement will be just that. You will have a Blessed Land and can reside in it for five hundred years, and every five hundred years, wind, fire, and thunder—the three disasters—will appear. If you cannot pass them, you will die. But you can also accumulate good deeds to eliminate the calamities. Every five hundred years, as long as you accumulate three hundred good deeds, you can maintain your achievement."

"However, to tell the truth, for a Primordial Spirit to reside in a Blessed Land for five hundred years is already long enough. Even without a Blessed Land, relying solely on the physical body, one can live to be one hundred and forty or fifty, with movements not decaying. After the body dies, the Primordial Spirit can also transition to a God Immortal achievement, building temples and establishing shrines to receive imperial edicts and titles."

"Does the Ancestor actually have such treasures?" Li Rentai's eyes grew hot; he did not doubt for a moment that Xu Jia was deceiving them.

Xu Jia still had the Thousand-Year Black Fish Essence Inner Pill. Once he entered the God Immortal Realm and the achievement of the Yang Spirit, he could prepare to collect some external medicines and use this as a foundation to refine external pills. Taking out a few grains to mobilize their enthusiasm was more than enough.

"This disciple will strive to complete the achievement!" Li Rentai said joyfully.

Xu Jia nodded, then called them all over to lecture on the Lingbao Dao. Among them, those who looked qualified and were barely considered promising were given a Lingbao Daoist Citizen Register.

"This Lingbao Daoist Citizen Register is what I obtained after receiving the teachings of the Supreme Clarity Lingbao Heavenly Venerable and making the great vow to save the world. Its wonderful uses are infinite, varying from person to person, changing in a thousand ways, and can assist you on your Daoist path."

"After obtaining this Register method, you can consider yourselves the Lingbao lineage, widely promoting it globally, and attracting as many Lingbao disciples as possible. In addition, the matter of establishing a Zongtan must also be done as soon as possible."

Xu Jia had them build the altar according to the specifications of a "Lingbao Zongtan" and made a request: "After this Zongtan is built, I can recall all the soldiers and horses I refined during my lifetime. They are still scattered in the darkness of the Dharma Realm, and none of you have inherited them. After the Zongtan is built, these soldiers and horses can become the soldiers and horses that guard the altar and establish the sect."

In his previous life, Xu Jia was a Lushan Master and leader, inheriting many soldiers and horses from various Lushan altars, all of which were integrated together.

If calculated according to Lushan mythology, after Xu Jia died, his soul should have descended to Lushan to continue his cultivation. But Xu Jia went to the underworld, yet the soldiers and horses Xu Jia refined using the Lushan Method basically all returned to the Lushan Dharma Realm.

Xu Jia had forgotten about this before and only just remembered it now.

"With a Zongtan, those soldiers and horses of mine will have a place to reside. During my lifetime, I also refined two Guardian Divine Generals, both of whom are deities with Earth Immortal cultivation. I don't see them here; they must still be worshipped in some Lushan Master temple in Min. You can also invite their statues over. They were leaders of peasant uprisings who resisted the invasion of foreign powers during the late Qing period. As for those soldiers and horses, they were also refined from the souls of Boxer Rebellion soldiers I collected in the late Qing. They resisted the foreigners back then, and now that they have stepped into America, they can also be of help to you."

"However, these are merely the help of Ghost Gods. You still have to find your own way to defeat the foreign powers in the new era."

Li Rentai said: "In the new era, it actually mainly relies on financial warfare. If Wall Street is paralyzed, America is finished. But our Ghost Gods don't know how to manipulate stocks. Moreover, America actually has a Divine Path, which are some new pantheons. They are not interested in these old mythological demons; their domains are more abstract and intellectual things."

"However, we can try and try to harvest wealth as much as possible."

Xu Jia nodded slightly: "After the Zongtan is built, you can begin the Rites of sacrifice. For the sacrificial items, use the five grains. I am teaching in another world, and now I need a large amount of food, at least enough for a million people for a year. I will bestow blessings upon you, whether it be pills, Magic Tools, or some other things, such as a Flood Dragon Corpse."

"A Flood Dragon?" Li Rentai was astonished: "There really are Flood Dragons!"

"Naturally there are." Xu Jia said calmly: "This world has them too, it's just that you haven't encountered them. When I was in charge of intangible cultural heritage in China, I did come into contact with some things. There are still high-level practitioners. Not to mention anything else, just take the Immortal Master who taught me the True Method of Internal Alchemy at Qingcheng Mountain; I was able to achieve something, so I don't believe others have no way to achieve it. The Three Mountains and Five Peaks, the Thirty-Six Grotto-Heavens, and the Seventy-Two Blessed Lands passed down from ancient times are also real; they just sank into the depths of the Dharma Realm to avoid calamities. When the Daoist methods flourish, these high-level practitioners will also appear like crucian carp crossing a river." "Over there, I am not considered orthodox. Having arrived overseas, and now having obtained the Lingbao lineage after ascending, I am passing it on to you. In the future, once you achieve success, you can also use the identity of overseas Lingbao disciples to enter China for exchanges, and perhaps you will have more gains."

"If you want to accomplish things in America, you must obtain the support of China. If you negotiate well, you will gain assistance."

"But I have never heard of any sect altar where the Ancestor can directly descend to the altar after ascending. They all use cup-throwing and divination to get hints. You are actually descending with your physical body... It's fine for us here in America; demons and angels often descend here, and these strange things can be sent back to China..."

"This is the power of legal order. If you move my Golden Body back to the country, I will be unable to descend, or even if I do, I won't be able to operate my Dharma Power and Divine Abilities. I can only wait until after 2045, when the global dimension rises, the energy of the Dharma Realm fully recovers, and we enter a prosperous age of cultivation, for it to be like it is now."

"So it is you who invite them to come overseas. You must build a Zongtan overseas, establish a Blessed Land, and even open up a Dao Kingdom."

Li Rentai heard this, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "Then Ancestor, can we record you?"

"You can." Xu Jia said: "Later I will lecture on the true Lingbao Dao. You can record it and spread it, put it on the internet, widely propagate the lineage, and screen for new disciples. You can release it all together after the Zongtan construction is completed. Those who believe will naturally believe, and those who do not will naturally not."

Xu Jia is not afraid of the methods being spread chaotically and causing trouble. In this era, large batches of Daoist methods are spread on the internet. Who can distinguish what is true and what is false? Only true practitioners will be attracted when they hear it.

This is completely different from the Great Ning Dynasty. Over there in the Great Ning Dynasty, Xu Jia would have to be a bit more careful.

Li Rentai heard this and immediately ordered his disciples to bring the highest-definition filming equipment, all of which were at the level of Hollywood movie production.

Xu Jia then lectured in detail on Lingbao and what he had realized. After hearing this, the disciples' expressions became strange: "Why does it feel similar to the Instructor's theory?"

Xu Jia said: "I don't know if you have heard of Maitreya of the Buddhist school?"

"Sakyamuni attained Buddhahood in our world, the Saha World, and gave a prophecy to Maitreya, saying that he would attain Buddhahood in the future. After cultivating the Bodhisattva path, he would enter nirvana, his soul would ascend to the Dharma Realm, and he would preach the Dharma in Tushita Heaven. After the Dharma is exhausted, Maitreya will descend to the world and preach three times under the Dragon Flower Tree. His Dharma Power will transform the world at the time of the Dharma's exhaustion into a Pure Land world."

"When the Instructor liberated the Mizang Yu, the Tibetan people said that the 'Golden Pearl Army' had arrived, which is the Bodhisattva Army. From this, it can be seen that the Instructor is the incarnation of Maitreya in the Buddhist school. Once his ideal is completed, the human world will inevitably become a Pure Land."

"He completed the first preaching under the Dragon Flower Tree, but it was not enough to make the whole world transform into a Pure Land, or rather, there were Heavenly Demons obstructing it."

Xu Jia said: "When I was in the Middle Kingdom, there was a prophecy that the Purple Star would descend to the world and reopen the Investiture of the Gods. In fact, besides the Shang-Zhou Investiture of the Gods recorded in the Investiture of the Gods, there was the Qin-Han Investiture of the Gods, the Sui-Tang Investiture of the Gods, and even the Ming Dynasty Investiture of the Gods... even the Opium War in modern times was the most recent Investiture of the Gods, which has lasted for a century."

"Why reopen the Investiture of the Gods? Because the Purple Star that transforms the human world and the various Star Lords saw that the human world had changed color, so they couldn't help but descend to the world again. Without corresponding deities, it naturally has to be reopened once more. This time the scale is extremely large, involving not just the Middle Kingdom, but the entire world. You can understand it as the Third World War."

"After this Investiture of the Gods, the world will be unified, there will be no more war, and the Pure Land of the human world will be truly realized."

"So you must achieve success as soon as possible to complete this Investiture of the Gods achievement."

Xu Jia's words were like those of a charlatan, and even like those of an Evil Sect leader.

However, it was indeed extremely seductive.

Li Rentai asked: "Then how do we determine who the second Maitreya preaching under the Dragon Flower Tree is, or who the Purple Star descending to the world is? Are they the same person, like Mr. Sun or the Instructor?"

"In all likelihood, yes. This governance of the world is the governance of a Saint King, settling the world through inner sagehood and outer kingliness, recreating the moment when the Hundred Schools of Thought contend. As for who exactly will be this Sage, I cannot calculate it either. But as long as you have some 'merit of following the dragon', my Lingbao Teaching Altar can break away from the Orthodox Unity and become the third major sect besides the Complete Perfection and Orthodox Unity—the overseas Lingbao lineage."

Li Rentai heard this: If the Investiture of the Gods is really restarted, can we also get a divine position? The path of cultivating gods passed down by Xu Jia is really too slow. Sitting on a mountain and breathing, sensing the breath of the mountain spirits—to build a Blessed Land, at least an Earth Immortal must preside over it, assisted by a dozen Human Immortals cultivating the God Immortal method, to build a small Blessed Land, and it would only be as big as a village.

Even if Hannibal the Old Demon were refined and his Dharma Realm Demon God manor were used, it would still require purifying the demonic atmosphere and planting Heaven and Earth Spirit Roots.

If it really comes to conferring gods based on merit and performing the merit of following the dragon, it is indeed not bad.

Then contacting China to act as a troublemaker in America overseas, promoting America's fall into division, and then occupying land for autonomy—with eight million overseas Chinese, plus the weapons and strategic cooperation aided by China, it is entirely possible to found a nation.

The next thing to do is "Tian replacing Qi". Then the only object to fight against is the "Jewish financial clique".

Li Rentai had no idea how many histories, schemes, and allusions were floating in his mind like a revolving wheel.

There is never anything new in history; by drawing experience from history, Li Rentai discovered with surprise that the success rate of this matter was not small at all.

(End of this chapter)