Chapter 352: San Francisco Blessed Land

Guo Zhanghai and the representatives of the various Daoist groups first visited the San Francisco Blessed Land, which Tongtian Temple has now constructed in America.

This Blessed Land is precisely the place where they cultivate the Divine Path; the Underground Lord and Underground Commander of You Ming, the heaven and earth of the Pure Dharma Realm, transform yin-evil into yang-harmony, gather sunlight and moonlight, channel the Water Qi of the vast ocean, aggregate the Vitality of the terrain, plant exotic flowers and herbs, and harmonize the Yin Yang Five Elements. Within this, they further used Flood Dragon Pearls, Flood Dragon Horns, and Heavenly Spirit Earth Treasures to arrange the feng shui and build sacrificial altars.

Besides this, they also drew the Dharma Realm Manor of the Cannibal Cult leader to this place. That Dharma Realm Manor contains a castle inside, and a garden courtyard as large as a village outside. Originally, it was planted with a type of addictive drug, "Devil Grass," but now all of it has been cleared away and replaced with spiritual herbs like Yarrow, Mugwort, and Calamus, which serve to enhance Dharma nature.

In short, although this place calls itself the "San Francisco Blessed Land," it has no Earth Immortal sitting in command and is mostly presided over by Ghost Immortals. In reality, it can only be considered a "Spirit Mansion," a semi-virtual, semi-real place in the cracks of yin and yang. The spirituality of the Dharma Realm here is more than ten times that of other places, making it easier to communicate with the Dharma Realm and practice cultivation methods.

As the saying goes, "Wealth, Companion, Land, Dharma"; this Daochang is already exceptionally blessed.

"How does this place compare to the famous mountains and great rivers of the Dragon Veins in our country?" Li Rentai asked curiously. "There are few who know how to Seek Dragon in America, and even fewer who know how to Dot the Acupoint. This place was the location of Ancestor Xu's San Francisco villa back in the day. Now we have bought it all up and developed it into a sanatorium and wellness hospital; it is actually a feng shui Daochang."

Guo Zhanghai sighed: "The feng shui of Dongda is wondrous and beautiful, but much of it has been destroyed. Here they insert an electric tower, there they set up a base station; it is difficult for feng shui to gather. Plus, there are too many people, and many famous mountains and great rivers have been designated as scenic tourist areas. The Red Dust Qi of the secular world is too invasive, and the Pure Land of the Dharma Realm has shrunk again and again. Even the Daoists within the orthodoxy find it hard to keep their original intentions and bottom lines, selling off the ancestors' things—who knows how much..."

Although he did not want to admit that the feng shui here was excellent, he could only acknowledge the fact: "Throughout history, how many people have fought over this feng shui? The good acupoints have all been used up; one can only wait for the Earth Dragon Turning Over, for luck to change and the divine to shift."

Li Rentai laughed: "America also has Dragon Veins, otherwise it wouldn't have dominated for so many years. This Dragon Vein passes through San Francisco, goes through Chicago, and enters the ocean from New York. It is just that devils are everywhere, polluting the Dharma Realm. The place that should hide wind and gather Qi has become a place that hides filth and gathers dirt; the yang ground has turned into a yin acupoint, the feng shui resort has become a Ten-Absolute Death Site, and the Blessed Land of gods and buddhas has become a Demon God manor. There is only one true Cave Heaven, and that is Heavenly Mountain, which is with the Church. After you return, fellow Daoist, you can try to persuade them to cooperate with us to establish New Maoshan and New Nanshan at other nodes of the Dragon Vein."

The members of the Daoist group stayed in the villa area of the Blessed Land for one night, practicing meditation. They only felt refreshed, with the Vitality inside their bodies interacting with the Vitality of the outside world. The outside Vitality was even more powerful, suppressing the Vitality within their bodies and pouring into them.

Living here for a long time, nourished by Vitality, one can extend their life by twelve years, with fewer illnesses and disasters. If one also eats healthily and exercises appropriately, living to a hundred without a decline in physical function is not a dream.

"Is this Spirit Recovery?" one member of the Dongda Daoist group asked, his eyes filled with confusion.

"No, this is the power of feng shui," Guo Zhanghai sighed. "I walked around the villa area and discovered the altar in the center. There is a huge Gourd statue, stone inside and gilded outside, inscribed with Talismans, and inlaid with a bead. That bead looks like the legendary Flood Dragon Inner Elixir."

There is also a Flood Dragon Inner Elixir in Dongbei. The Night-Shining Pearl in Cixi's mouth back then was this very object, obtained from Dongbei. After Cixi died, she wanted to use it to extend the life of the Great Qing, but Sun Dianying robbed the tomb, broke the dragon, severed the feng shui, and took this object out.

It is just that this Flood Dragon Pearl of Xu Jia is merely a pearl self-cultivated by the Poyang Small Flood Dragon; it cannot compare to a Flood Dragon Pearl nurtured by a Dragon Vein. It belongs to the youth version.

However, it is more than enough to maintain this Blessed Land.

"Outer Eight Trigrams and inner Nine Stars, Dotting the Acupoint and Flying Stars; this is a feng shui school from Hong Kong," Guo Zhanghai said. "It is very brilliant. This Gourd swallows and spits out the Spirit Machine of the ocean, transforming evil and nurturing spirit. It is not a common small layout; it has already cultivated a momentum."

"Living here, if one is not a person of heaven-reaching power among the American elite, they cannot suppress the luck. If they do suppress the luck and live here, they will instead borrow the momentum to nurture their own, becoming increasingly formidable. Although it is said that 'thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river,' this feng shui will not shift for at least sixty years, a full cycle. After one cycle, I fear it will have already become a Blessed Land, and someone will naturally cultivate into an Earth Immortal."

The disciples asked: "Why can't we in Dongda arrange such villa areas to gather and accept feng shui?"

"It cannot be arranged. There are too many jealous people, too many people who cause destruction, and too many people who understand it. It is not like America, where those who know about this aspect are in the minority, allowing for the possibility of long-term development. However, a Blessed Land Daochang is only a small help. The most fundamental thing is to look at oneself and the entire society. If the social atmosphere is good, then everywhere is actually a Blessed Land. If the atmosphere is not good, only then is it necessary to avoid the secular world and go into the deep mountains to nurture this opportunity for clarity and leisure."

After staying in the villa area for two more days and exchanging some magic, rituals, and cultivation experience, the time finally came to enter Tongtian Temple to pay respects to Xu Jia.

In fact, they had wanted to come to Tongtian Temple long ago, but Xu Jia had deliberately left them hanging for a few days while he was refining the Nine Heavens Ten Earths Investigating Skull, using the Incense Fire of the Squid Cult's faith to try to summon the souls of dead Squid people and cast them into the divine fire to burn, strengthening the origin of the skull.

Anyway, there is no Underworld office here yet, nor are there any City Gods or Earth Deities. Xu Jia must naturalize in America, establish institutions, and contact the Underworld before the Underworld can begin to govern the souls of those who die in America.

Of course, the distance for this skull to summon souls is limited to a radius of fifty kilometers. It can summon the souls of all the Squid Cult churches in the surrounding area, and even the souls of believers who have died, as well as their faith.

The gods in America are different from the gods in the Dongda Heavenly Court system. In the Heavenly Court system, gods grant wishes and receive repayment, thus producing Wish Power Dharma Coins, which are the currency of the gods. But here, there is no clear mechanism for granting wishes and receiving repayment. Most people are even gaslighted into believing they are born with original sin and that suffering is what they deserve... Therefore, there are actually very few Wish Power Dharma Coins here. There is only the power of faith, which can be turned into silver or gold divine power after being refined by divine fire. This is Dharma Silver or Dharma Gold, which is similar to Wish Power Dharma Coins and also possesses the power of Borrowing the False to Cultivate the True. One is fine processing, the other is rough processing; it is just that simple.

As for the souls of the believers, that involves another concept: the fusion of primitive totems, natural Sacrificial Spirits, and ancestor worship.

The Squid Cult belongs to a single-ethnic faith, which is actually equivalent to an "ancestor," the common ancestor of the Squid people. Therefore, after every Squid person dies, the concept of "Squid" can return to the Squid God, enhancing its essence.

Xu Jia has stolen its Quanshen. In other words, as long as enough Squid people die and their souls are burned, one can extract Squid Divine Nature. Although this Squid Divine Nature has a single function and is directional, it can still be used to create Godly Talismans, but it can only confer titles upon Squid people with Squid attributes; those who are not of this ethnic group cannot be conferred.

But this is also very good; it is enough to divide them.

Xu Jia plans to take a Squid person who does not believe much in the Squid Cult as a disciple in the next step, grant him this Register, and help him cultivate, just as the old man said: one must use Magic to deal with Magic.

The Squid problem in America is almost unsolvable, so one can only let them fight among themselves and solve it themselves.

Moreover, this skull was originally refined after a wisp of the Demon God's soul descended into the human world as a carrier, so its essence is actually the same and it possesses certain permissions.

After separating the Divine Nature from the divine fire in the skull's eyes, Xu Jia stored it in a triangular pendant made of pure silver inlaid with crystal, with an eye inside. Afterward, he summoned a crow to take the pendant in its beak and throw it randomly into a street district where Squid people gathered, hoping it would be picked up by a young Squid person, allowing him to be an American protagonist.

When Xu Jia finished these things, the Dongda Daoist group had just arrived. Seeing the Tongtian Temple, which was pieced together with architectural murals and antiques from the Song, Yuan, Ming, and even Qing dynasties, they felt strange thoughts in their hearts: these were all snatched away, all stolen.

But then they thought again: they are protecting them so well, and they are using and maintaining them in their daily lives, rather than letting them enter a museum, lose their inherent charm and vitality, lose their Qi, and eventually die.

Immediately, Guo Zhanghai arrived at the Zushi Tang to pay respects to Xu Jia.

Seeing Xu Jia, Guo Zhanghai was also startled, because Xu Jia had deliberately removed the illusion and showed his true body: a shriveled mummified body covered in layers of gold, with long fingernails and black hair, yet in his deeply sunken eye sockets was an extremely bright eye.

It was like the Pharaoh mummy that came back to life at night in *Night at the Museum*, or like the state of the thousand-year-old female mummy, Xiaohe Princess.

This mummy just looked at him and made a sound: "You have come!"

A rush of blood surged to his head, causing him to lose his focus, not knowing how to respond.

Xu Jia gave a light shout: "Wake up!"

Only then did Guo Zhanghai recover from the chaos and bow: "Guo Zhanghai of the Dongbei Quanzhen Sect pays respects to Ancestor Xu! May the Ancestor enjoy immortal blessings forever and ascend to the Great Luo Heaven soon."

"I know your intention; there is no need for so much etiquette." Xu Jia flicked the Soul Banner and, with the help of the power of the Soul Banner, pulled him into a You Ming illusion.

Inside the illusion was the most real scene of the Dharma Realm, with countless American devils watching covetously, yet fearing Xu Jia. Among them were the leader of the Satanic Cult, Anthony, and his Daoist partner, the Satanic Witch, and even the Satanic Wizard, the Black Goat...

"When Heavenly Master Zhang set up an altar on Qingcheng Mountain back then to observe the Shu region and saw the Liutian Mowan and the Eight Great Ghost Emperors, was it the same as how I observe the American Dharma Realm?"

Guo Zhanghai had never seen the real scene of the Dharma Realm, but now he could clearly see that the places with light were like fireflies, but the darkness covered most areas. The brightest were Tongtian Temple and the neighboring Saint John's Cathedral.

"The demonic atmosphere in America is heavy; one can only use extraordinary methods to do extraordinary things. After you go back, you can tell them about this. Just like Dante traveling through Hell, I will also take you on a tour of the Dharma Realm."

(End of chapter)