Chapter 344: Crusading Against Altars and Breaking Temples: The Voodoo Religion

These disciples in America, though numerous and powerful, are all small fry when it comes to cultivation; their foundations are poor, their aptitude is low, and they are swept away by material desires, making it difficult for them to calm their minds. They are not even as pure in heart as the widowed, orphaned, and solitary Out-of-Body Messengers of Xu Jia's Immortal Halls. Once those disciples receive the Register and establish an Immortal Hall, they can gain the blessing of the Dharma Realm's energy, increasing their cultivation speed tenfold. Even at their worst, after ten years, they would possess the equivalent of a hundred years of Daoist Practice of a demon, and after fifty years, while they might not necessarily break through their level to achieve the status of an Earth Immortal, they would certainly be the cream of the crop among Human Immortals.

Not to mention the young Daoist acolytes who entered the mountains to cultivate from childhood, such as those at Shanju Guan; Xu Jia dares to say that in the future, a large number of those with innate intelligence will be able to cultivate into Earth Immortals within twenty or thirty years. Although they cannot compare to him, it can be said that they will surely have achievements in the future and be recorded in the Immortal Register.

Now that he has retrieved the former Spirit Generals of his soldiers, they are still easier to use. With one yin and one yang, they will not be too "coerced" by these disciples to the point of becoming a relationship of equivalent exchange, where they only act with full effort when they want some reward to leak down from their master.

Xu Jia issued an imperial decree to confer the title of Great General of the Golden Blade, then opened his mouth and swallowed, taking the soldiers of the thirty-six caves and seventy-two stockades into his belly to refine them once more.

These soldiers were all found by Xu Jia as he traveled through mountains and rivers, searching ancient stockades in Jiangxi, Liangguang, the Qinling Mountains, and the Hengduan range, where he subdued these Wandering Master soldiers again. Those Wandering Masters were not enough to descend upon Shigong Shan, Lushan, and other places, so they were trapped in their altars, leading their soldiers to wander the Dharma Realm. With their Incense Fire cut off, they were desperate to find a disciple. Being incompetent themselves, they would then harm their disciples, much like the "troublesome immortals" of the Northeast.

Xu Jia had handled several such cases in his previous life, taking in both the Wandering Masters and their altar soldiers, only to find them quite useful. Thus, he stopped refining soldiers himself and instead sought out these Wandering Master soldiers to refine.

Generally speaking, the soldiers led by a single Wandering Master would never exceed one hundred. If they exceeded one hundred, they could occupy mountains and caves, and establish camps and stockades.

Xu Jia combined three groups of Wandering Master soldiers, ordered them to appoint one primary and two secondary officers, and supplemented them to reach three hundred soldiers; this was considered one cave. Or, he would supplement them to five hundred, which was considered one stockade.

Three hundred or five hundred, both are the number of one battalion. Even the most formidable Master could only lead five battalions of soldiers, totaling two thousand, which could be called a Colonel or a general of a scattered title.

The total number of soldiers in these thirty-six caves and seventy-two stockades of Xu Jia's reached forty-six thousand eight hundred.

Although most of them were low-level soldiers like mountain-wandering, water-wading, mountain-surrounding, or water-chasing soldiers, and the number of fierce soldiers was only a few thousand, it was enough to refine the Bingtian, let the Great General of the Golden Blade act as the Marshal to command them, and coordinate with the disciples in the Dharma Realm to conquer America, adding strength to the cause of eliminating demons.

This physical body of Xu Jia's also cultivated the Inner Landscape, and inside there was naturally a Blessed Land. It was just that the path of cultivation had gone astray, falling into the left-hand path, but for over a hundred years, it had not dissipated. Relying on Incense Fire, it still maintained the Inner Landscape, and even merged with the Tongtian Temple Daochang, with the Body Gods having a connection to the statues in the various halls.

After these soldiers passed through Xu Jia's belly, the Wandering Masters benefited the most. Having obtained the Water-Fire Refining Degree and the Incense Fire to condense their spirits, passing through the five viscera and experiencing the five prisons, they obtained the Ghost Immortal Register and the General Register. Combined into one, they became an "Underground Commander." This is the same thing as an "Underground Lord," only the Underground Lord is inclined toward management, while the Underground Commander is inclined toward military affairs.

If these Wandering Masters were good at management, they would not have ended up as altar soldiers. Xu Jia would not let them manage a Blessed Land; it is better to give the opportunity to the living, such as Li Rentai. He does not seek to be an Earth Immortal or a Human Immortal; he only seeks a Ghost Immortal Register to serve in the Blessed Land after death. Now, he is conscientiously presiding over the construction and creation of the outer Blessed Land.

Once the Wandering Masters became Underground Commanders, these soldiers were no longer in the miserable state of looking like beggars and refugees. They gained clothes and shoes, and their faces became much cleaner. In Xu Jia's Wuzang Miao, they ate nectar and Five Elements magic food, slightly transforming from refugees into the appearance of "militiamen." The weapons in their hands also changed from rusted wood-chopping knives, bamboo poles, and hoes to proper knives, spears, and crossbows.

It is just that this still does not meet Xu Jia's expectations. These are all antique soldiers, completely incompatible with modernization. But to further update their weapons and equipment, he can only rely on the disciples here in America to burn equipment for them. Even if burned, these ancient soldiers might not know how to use them, so he would have to burn the instruction manuals along with them.

Immediately, Xu Jia spat these soldiers and Wandering Masters out of his mouth. He had consumed a lot of Incense Fire, yet he did not appear exhausted. He only commanded the Great General of the Golden Blade: "These soldiers shall all be commanded by you. Aside from refining their own soldiers, the disciples may also borrow troops from you for assistance."

He then refined a tiger tally Magic Tool and handed it directly to him. After doing this, it was time for the Gourd. This Gourd is a ghost-catching gourd. It cannot be said that this gourd is a heaven and earth Spirit Root; it was just something Xu Jia picked from a valley in Shennongjia. It gathered Evil Energy and condensed Yin, possessing some capabilities. After Xu Jia refined it, its innate ability became even better, having the power to collect Ghost Evil Energy, and it could also be used to store evil things like Gu and curses.

The Centipede Gu that was once inside is gone; it is estimated that some generation of disciples opened the gourd and let it out. That centipede could fly, loved to eat human brains, and was very fierce. Controlling it was like a flying sword; it would pounce on a face within a hundred paces. It was also one of Xu Jia's major lethal weapons back then.

There is no need to re-consecrate this.

These few Magic Tools were not yet complete, and Xu Jia could not pass them all to the four great disciples, so he gave them all to Li Rentai: "Rentai, you are steady and prudent. You shall take charge of these Magic Tools and temporarily act as the head of Tongtian Temple. Do not let me down."

Li Rentai was extremely excited and took the Jiazi Gold Coin Sword and the ghost-catching gourd.

Last time, when grinding the Demon God, he obtained a lot of Demon God Divine Nature and subsequently enlightened twenty Ghost Immortals. It is just that they all went to the San Francisco Blessed Land to cultivate the method of God Immortals, so they are not here at this moment.

Xu Jia felt that he could expand a bit more, so he said: "This time I am looking for a treasure. Before I obtain that treasure, I will not leave. You must do your best to help me search. If there are any difficulties, you can state them. It is just that I am, after all, an Yin body with a Yang Spirit, so it is inconvenient for me to go too far, hence I still need you to act on my behalf."

Li Rentai hurriedly said: "I do not know what treasure the Ancestor needs, and where it is located?"

"This item is the Thousand-Year Wood Core. It must be inside a wood demon with a thousand years of cultivation. In the American Voodoo religion, there is a Voodoo Wood that has lived for more than three thousand years. Thousands of years ago, it already accepted primitive worship, and to this day it is still the sacred tree of the Voodoo religion. I want you to destroy their altars and break their temples, eradicate the Voodoo religion, and replace its status in America with the faith of our sect, just like the Heavenly Master Zhang who crusaded against the six-day old ghosts back then. It is not just the Voodoo religion; for all demons and evil spirits that cause trouble, you must take action together."

"Hong Xiuquan!"

The black bishop hurriedly knelt down: "Disciple is here!"

"You have already been granted the Dharma Register, so you should do your best to do this. I hope you can also promote the strangulation activities against the Voodoo religion within the church."

Hong Xiuquan was a bit distressed: "The Fudu Jiao is a black faith, originating from Africa. This is asking me to take action against my own compatriots!"

Xu Jia was concise and to the point: "I can allow you to go further and permit you to be the Deputy Sect Leader, assisting Li Rentai in managing the affairs of Tongtian Temple."

Having said that, he gave him the Holy Spear refined from angel Divine Nature: "This item is no less than the twelve holy artifacts. It complements your St. John's Baptism, one for attack and one for defense. With the help of these two holy artifacts, you will surely be able to go further in the Vatican. Plus, by destroying your relatives for the sake of righteousness, eliminating the black Voodoo faith, and changing to Christianity, it is like a medieval holy war. You must learn to let others take the lead, understand?"

"Understood, find some white-left priests to be the pushers, intensify the black-white conflict, and then fish in troubled waters, jointly strangling and suppressing them."

(End of chapter)