Chapter 350: Nine Heavens and Ten Earths Insight and Response Skull

Xu Jia watched from the side, watching the thousand souls wreak havoc, with black Qi surging.

Subsequently, a whirlwind rose from the ground, and the surrounding walls began to deform, shifting from blue bricks and lime to being stained with red-black blood clots, and then a red door appeared.

This door looked like an old-fashioned wooden door from the last century, with a knob handle on it.

"Tick-tock!"

"Tick-tock!"

Ai'er's eyes began to become bloodshot, and a crazed will emerged in his mind.

"What is behind this door?"

The evil spirits wailed, and that eerie piano played the Symphony of Fate with quite an atmosphere.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

Although Ai'er was an ultimate killer, he could not escape the bewitchment and leaned in; though his face showed struggle, his hand bent into an eerie arc and touched the doorknob.

Xu Jia sensed this blood-red door; inside it seemed to be an endless corridor, and the walls and walkways of the corridor were all attached with malice; it was the depths of the Dharma Realm, where evil spirits sentenced for the crimes of Satan the devil were kept.

The whispers of the devil emerged, and a smell of decay was like the air being full of dust mites.

Thanks to Xu Jia having already set things up here, not letting those disciples in, otherwise he feared they would commit suicide in minutes, bewitched into sacrificing their own souls.

Ai'er, in an eerie posture, turned the doorknob and pushed this door open.

The piano immediately began playing music of a terrifying atmosphere, which sounded chillingly frightening.

The red door opened a crack, and the darkness from the deep gloom surged out, just like a sluice gate, only what was released was not water, but demonic Qi, the darkest side of the Dharma Realm in the deepest part of America.

"Ah-ke-xi, sss-ha..."

Amidst the layers of black shadows, the evil spirits of the Thousand Soul Banner were each infected by the demonic Qi, and then self-detonated, repeatedly reenacting the scenes of their deaths before they lived, and the space of the entire room suddenly became larger; the Dharma Realm space was covering this space in reality.

Subsequently, Ai'er's neck twisted eerily 270 degrees, his eyes having turned into white, dead-fish-like orbs, and he looked at Xu Jia.

This sight made even Xu Jia's hair stand on end, and he secretly said: This Judas, worthy of being the most ancient Demon God; this descent of a demonic soul is just like playing a game boss's entrance CG.

Soon, thorns appeared behind the door, and the thorns wrapped around Ai'er, placing a thorny hoop on his forehead, which was the legendary Crown of Thorns.

It is rumored that after Jesus was resurrected and proved the miracle, Judas worried about receiving retaliation, so he chose to hang himself; because no one took him down for a long time, after he began to undergo corpse-change, he fell from the noose, and his internal organs were smashed; the place where he fell became a patch of blood, known to the world as the Field of Blood.

There are also those who say that Judas claimed he was also a "descendant of the gods," so the world made him suffer the same punishment as Jesus, to see if he could resurrect...

In short, these thorns were full of the meaning of primitive mythology, carrying the evil of human nature, and receiving suffering.

When the blood-stained thorns wrapped around Ai'er, the thousand souls rushed into his body one after another, and then his eyes began to show a second pair of pupils.

Judas had possessed him! "God said he would love the world—bullshit! Yehehua is just a liar; the ethereal miracles are nothing but means to manipulate the human heart, and the trick of dying and resurrecting is just a circus act that fooled everyone!"

Ai'er looked at Xu Jia: "He wanted to create a myth, wanted faith, wanted to achieve the status of a God; he succeeded, but he also failed; he was never God."

"He was not Adam, nor was he Xiawa; he was a poisonous snake with limbs, and this poisonous snake was good at lies and bewitchment; I exposed him and was branded with the reputation of a traitor, and they hanged me—this group of barbarians, liars, plunderers... The Bible is the devil's classic..."

"Now, I have descended; I can also bring the gospel, and I can also love the world..."

Xu Jia could not be bothered to listen to his stinky, long-winded lines, and secretly said: "Villains die from talking too much."

As for how the Yeh Teachings are, go argue with Hong Xiuquan; Xu Jia currently has no interest.

He struck directly, refining it in an instant.

That Judas still seemed to have a lingering desire, but then a sword light flashed; although the Innate Divine Sword had not arrived here, the sword intent followed his heart, and with the blessing of God Immortal merit, in an instant, the head fell.

Then, a pure crystal cover painted with talismans caught the head, closed it, and a "Supreme Dao Lord Jijiru Luling" slip was attached.

Xu Jia said: "I allow you to speak, but without cause, why should your head hang in the marketplace!"

The head let out an angry sound: "Good son, ah!"

The body that had its head removed did not spray blood, but instead transformed into a headless Demon God body and lunged at Xu Jia.

Xu Jia had long been prepared, suppressed it from above, and froze it in place.

This thing is a treasure, even if it is not popular in the country.

Xu Jia originally felt that Judas was the ancestor of the Squid, and perhaps using "Mein Kampf" would be better; after all, he had done his homework—Judas was a fallen saint, and things from the Bible could not break the defense of this guy, but "Mein Kampf" was only useful against Squid evil spirits after World War II; it was useless before World War II.

He saw the Samadhi True Fire burning, and the head gradually lost all its flesh and skin, returning to the three treasures of Essence, Qi, and Spirit.

A point of Judas Demon God Divine Nature inside was refined together, mixed with the skull and refined until it was like jade, only there was blood-colored fire in the eye sockets.

And the headless body was repeatedly "molded and refined in quality," gradually refined into nothingness, and all its Essence, Qi, and Spirit were all molded and refined into this head according to the method of "God Immortals molding and refining infants."

Even the talisman crystal box outside was refined together, wrapping it up.

After refining for three days and three nights, with the True Fire burning, he finally completely refined this Demon God into a palm-sized crystal jade skull, and the blood flame in the skull also turned into a cluster of divine fire; this divine fire was exactly what was ignited by the condensation of Judas's Divine Nature to the extreme.

If this were in Norse mythology, igniting divine fire would make one a Demigod.

At this time, in the depths of Hell, Judas's coffin lid exploded with a bang, and the other Hell Demon Gods were startled and dared not make a sound.

"I will kill him! The damned yellow-skin actually dared to bully me like this!" Xu Jia's method was something he had not encountered in thousands of years; he was caught just after descending, treated as a consumable, and even lost part of his demonic soul and origin.

Having refined it into this skull, Xu Jia then closed the red portal; he had originally thought he could leave a passage to attract some powerful American Hell devils to come up, but he did not expect that they were all almost at the door, but just would not come out.

After the red portal closed, it gradually disappeared and faded away, and the room here returned to normal; the Thousand Soul Banner, having lost its thousand souls, was already of no use.

Now the new magic weapon was this skull that had ignited divine fire; this skull's divine fire needed to be maintained, and one way was faith—that's right, Squid Cult faith.

By relying on this skull, Xu Jia could enter Squid Cult churches, steal faith, and even disguise himself as the Squid Cult's Divine Lord to respond to believers.

It was a proper "false god" act, or rather, an act of impersonation.

The true god worshipped by the Squid Cult is also Jesus, but it is essentially different from the Yeh Teachings; according to what he just heard, more than two thousand years ago, Judas and Jesus both discovered the secret of faith and wanted to use it to self-deify; to be precise, the Squid Cult's Jesus is actually Judas, while Jesus wanted to replace the God Yehehua but did not succeed.

Xu Jia could not be bothered to sort out this chaotic logic; Chinese mythology has plenty of such stories, such as the Danxia Great Sage, Qitian Dasheng... Eastern Journey, Western Journey, Southern Journey, Northern Journey... It really did not matter; in any case, Xu Jia does not walk this "Outer Divine Path," but practices the Inner Scenery Dao, which is the Inner God Method, and does not go to entangle with outer gods.

"With this thing, it's stable."

Xu Jia held the divine fire crystal jade skull in his hand and then began to chant the incantation.

"By decree of the Nine Heavens and Ten Earths, observe and respond to all conditioned things; listen to my command: Where is the Voodoo Wood of the Voodoo Cult? Respond quickly!"

Immediately, the divine fire in the skull expanded, and then it withered.

At the same time, many Squid priests in various Squid churches received an oracle to search for something called "Voodoo Wood," an item that is the "Sacred Wood" worshipped by Voodoo Cult followers.

Very quickly, it was mobilized to the squid people in America; among these squid people, there was no lack of big financial magnates, and these big financial magnates were, in turn, high-level members of another Evil Sect, "Satanism."

Thus, the task of searching for Voodoo was no longer limited to the disciples on Xu Jia's side.

The entire population of African-American Voodoo believers in America welcomed their darkest moment.

"Ancestor, what is this skull?"

It took Li Rentai several days before he dared to come and ask Xu Jia; he possessed the Ghost Immortal Register tier and the Human Immortal Register tier, and could see the Divine Nature energy within this skull.

"You can consider this thing as a Sarira of the Buddhist school; it is not actually an evil object. It is something I refined by summoning a wisp of the demon soul of Judas, using thousands of evil spirits as fuel, and using my own Samadhi True Fire as a primer—a combination of East and West, refined into the Wanying Baogu Sheli Kulou."

"I previously followed the mindset of refining computers to refine artifacts, but now I have realized that computers are all refined according to the human brain; wouldn't it be better if I just refined the human brain directly?"

Li Rentai:...

"I still need to study this thing; I believe that in the near future, I will be able to provide you all with a panel. With a panel, your future achievements will surely be limitless; I already have the train of thought."

"It is just that time is running out; one month has already passed out of three, and with two months left, I too must inevitably return."

"We will accelerate the search as quickly as possible. Also, Ancestor, a sixth-generation disciple, Qishou Sheng, brought a piece of news: the Dong Great Dao Religious Group is about to visit our Tongtian Temple to pay respects to the Ancestor. I wonder if you have the time to see them?"

"Dong Great Dao Religious Group?" Xu Jia thought for a moment: "Aside from Min, I have no connections over there. What are they coming to do?"

"It is like this: the sixth-generation disciple Qishou Sheng is a YouTube paranormal blogger with 150,000 followers—though it seems to have doubled now, rising to 300,000. He sold the video of the Ancestor preaching the Dharma to them for 3,000 dollars. They are very interested and want to come over."

"3,000 dollars?" Xu Jia felt speechless; it was a bit of a cheap sale, but thinking back, when he first learned the Dharma and apprenticed to the Lushan Master, it only cost 3,000 RMB.

Thinking again of his original intention in recording the videos, which was to facilitate the spreading of the Dharma, leakage was a matter of time. Modern people want to get everything for free; they look for websites, and when they see those that charge, reporting them is just a matter of convenience. Being able to sell it for 3,000 dollars was already quite good.

The soil for cultivation here is not like the other world; when he practiced back then, it was all through online Daoist canons, free resources, and group members discussing with each other.

"The Lingbao Teaching Method is fine, sold is sold, but those sorcery and Magic methods are all heterodox. I taught them in secret, and those who are not core disciples are not allowed to learn them. Were those leaked as well?"

"How many times did he sell it?"

"He only sold it this one time, and it provoked the Dong Great Dao Altar."

Xu Jia originally felt it was troublesome; the Dong Great Dao Altar has a very close relationship with the government, and Xu Jia happens to not want to have too much entanglement with the government to avoid creating Cause and Effect.

However, for Lingbao to flourish, it is absolutely impossible without the help of the government. If these religious groups can pass the Lingbao scriptures back, it would also be a fine story for him.

Of course, if asked when he will return to the country for a lecture, it would definitely be next weekend.

He is having a good time in America with no worries; furthermore, Xu Jia cannot bear to part with this Tongtian Temple. He is only most worried that after he eventually returns, his Golden Body will be invited back to the country, and next time, he fears he won't even be able to descend to the altar.

"Then let us receive them. You go handle this matter; put other things on hand aside for now. Take them to have a good tour of our Blessed Land. It just so happens that with the refining of this Wanying Skull, Divine Nature is no longer a worry; I can mark the Death Registry for them and achieve Ghost Immortal. This set of rituals is just right for them to see."

Li Rentai thought: "Our rituals align with Tibetan Esotericism; I fear they will not be able to accept them."

Like the last time Xu Jia opened their five viscera, drew talismans on the surface of the organs, marked their Death Registry, and displayed the Five Hells illusion, I fear it would be hard for any person to accept that.

"It is fine; we are originally from a heterodox background, not like the orthodox sects. We can just whitewash it in the future."

Xu Jia is not afraid of this; the Ghost Immortal Ritual itself originates from Corpse Severance to achieve Didao, so it is normal for it to be somewhat terrifying.

"The Human Immortal portion of the orthodoxy can also be shown to them. As for Earth Immortal, none of you have the talent or aptitude to achieve Earth Immortal. Just see if there are any seeds among this group of religious groups; I do not care about lineage, I can help them receive the Lingbao Register, which is also an act of fulfilling others' wishes."

Hearing Xu Jia say that none of them had Earth Immortal aptitude, Li Rentai felt a bit embarrassed. Indeed, the aptitude was too poor; otherwise, they wouldn't have just entered the Great Heavenly Cycle after sixty years of practice. If not for Xu Jia taking action, they wouldn't even have been able to scrape together a Ghost Immortal status after death.

After Xu Jia let out a long sigh, he felt an extra sense of "homesickness." People from Dongda coming over is just like people from one's maternal home coming to visit, but it is a pity that he has already married out and his heart is outside.

(End of this chapter)