Chapter 28 It's All Here
The night filled with darkness, and a thin mist slowly emerged, then disappeared without a trace, revealing the long-legged girl wearing a short-sleeved skirt.
"Little Pine Tree, I'm here again."
Yan Shuishui stood in front of the pine tree next to the calligraphy and painting shop with his hands on his back, and asked, "You can't remember me again, right?"
A face appeared on the bark of the pine tree, looking at Yan Shuishui in a daze. After a long time, he opened his mouth and said slowly: "Remember."
"Little Pine Tree, your master said that you will leave it to me to take care of you in the future and are willing to let you practice and become a human being. You must be obedient."
Yan Shuishui smiled and touched its bark, saying, "Wait a moment, I will build the altar of praying for heaven now, and pray to the 'filthy land and building wood' in the upper realm to give you the Dharma body."
"Thank you." Pine Tree said slowly.
Yan Shuishui just smiled and said nothing, then looked around and said, "Well, this open space is almost enough to build the Altar of Praying Heaven."
After saying that, with a wave of her hand, a square mahogany table appeared on the open space in front of her. The table was covered with a layer of thin gray-white bark, and strange patterns were painted on the bark. A large number of patterns were pieced together with resin as pigment, which seemed to form a shape similar to a tree figure.
She explained with a smile: "This is the altar of praying for heaven. My filthy land and building wood is the Taoist tradition. The altar required is to use wood as a case and carry the legal principles with tree bark. Only in this way can we communicate with the 'built land and building wood' far away in the heaven."
The pine tree's face was ignorantly looking at the patterns on the table.
"There are sacrifices."
Yan Shuishui stood in front of the table, stretched out a slender hand, and slowly brushed through the air above the table, and saw offerings starting to appear on the table.
Ginseng, licorice, Ganoderma lucidum, snow lotus, Polygonum multiflorum, etc., herbs, fruits and flowers, as well as three tree roots, and thirty-six leaves of each variety, a string of copper bells hung in the center.
"Three kinds of tree roots, eighteen kinds of flowers, plants and fruits, and thirty-six kinds of leaves... Well, these are almost all the offerings."
Yan Shuishui confirmed the offerings on the table and explained casually: "This is the first time I have set up the altar of praying for heaven. I just give you the Dharma body of the first day. The requirements for offerings are very low and basic. It is easy to cultivate these plants with modern technology, so I got them all in the day."
Then, she waved her hand again and placed a thick wooden board in the empty place of the table, and began to place wooden signs on the board.
The wooden signs contain the names of mythical characters, Fuxi, Nuwa, Shennong, Gonggong, Zhurong, Jumang, Rushou...
Yan Shuishui's eyes swept over these gods one by one and asked, "Little Songshu, has Senior Lin taught you the official history of the world of cultivation?"
A hint of confusion appeared on the pine tree's face, and shook its head, and the needles on its body also shook gently.
"Then I'll share some science with you."
Yan Shuishui smiled and said, "Actually, there is nothing complicated, maybe...
"A long time ago, a great disaster occurred in this world, causing great changes in the world, and external demons wandered around. The practitioners could not absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to practice, and were almost extinct by the external demons. Therefore, the immortals and gods in the upper realm came up with a new path of practice, which is the current "Dharma Body" path.
"The Dharma body can be said to be a miniaturized, simple-type immortal and god shell, uh... it can also be said to be a copycat version.
"With the help of the Heavenly Prayer Altar, communicating with the heavenly realm of immortals and gods can attract the attention of the will of immortals and gods. Once selected by a certain immortal god, the immortal god will descend to the power and transform its inherited power into a "Dharma Body" to the ordinary people. In this way, you can obtain a certain degree of immortals and gods' power.
"Although it is just a copycat version and is very different from the original version, it can still gain a glimpse of the magical powers of the immortals, and it is also a resource for the mortal world to fight against external demons."
Speaking of this, she found that the face of the pine tree was a little confused and seemed to be incomprehensible. She couldn't help but say in surprise:
"Uh, you only know modern vocabulary, right?
"I think... well... in modern terms, this altar of praying for heaven is actually a job fair. Each Taoist dynasty is a company that recruits talents. I build a building in the land, the Infinite Heaven, the Spirit Mountain, the Taiyin and Tianyuan... and so on can all be understood as various companies.
"And you are now in an interview. The interviewer is my Taoist tradition of building wood. As for the interviewer, it is the will of the immortal god represented by these wooden signs and gods."
After Yan Shuishui said this, the a little demented pine tree was stunned for a while, and finally nodded as if he suddenly realized.
She then breathed a sigh of relief and said, "So, you understand now. This altar of praying for heaven is to help you apply for the inheritance of the 'Dharma Body'. If any immortal god likes you, you can start practicing Dharmakaya."
The face on the pine tree thought for a while and asked nervously: "What if there were no immortals and gods who liked me?"
“No.”
Yan Shuishui shook his head and said, "In the history of the cultivation world, there has been almost no failure in the Heavenly Altar. Even if the immortals and gods with high gods look down on you, there will be one more time, one more time, one more time... They will always be selected by the immortals and gods, and you are still a pine tree, and you are also a powerful immortal like Senior Lin. Maybe they are a hot item."
"What if many immortals and gods take a fancy to you?" Songshu said in confusion again.
"That's okay." Yan Shuishui smiled and said, "If you want to choose any fairy god, choose which fairy god you want. This is your freedom."
Pine Tree thought for a while and wondered: "Is there any difference between a high god position and a low god position?"
“There is a difference, but not too big.”
Yan Shuishui hugged his arms with his hands and explained carefully: "Generally speaking, of course, the higher the god of the god, the stronger the magical power of the Dharma body, but it is not too exaggerated. After all, the biggest difference between the immortals and gods in different gods is the 'upper limit'. In the mortal world, this limit is actually meaningless, because even if the peerless master who has broken the fifth heaven level and has a perfect Dharma body, he cannot compare to the real immortals and gods."
"Oh, then just choose something that pleases you, right?" Pine nodded a little bit.
"Uh...you can say that."
Yan Shuishui nodded hesitantly and said, "But it is always right to try to choose a high-level immortal god. Although you are a tree demon, there are many immortal gods and Dharma bodies that I have built wood in filthy land, such as the Qing Emperor among the Five Emperors, or the Wood God Jumang."
"Of course..."
She paused and said, "Your ideal Dharma body is Shennong, one of the Three Emperors. It's a pity that the Three Emperors are too high. There are few inheritors of the Three Emperors' Dharma body in history, and the possibility is very low."
"Oh, I get it." Pine Tree said with some thrills, "Then let's start."
Yan Shuishui smiled and said, "Okay, this altar of praying for heaven must at least have a practitioner who has passed the first day of the Tao to preside over it. I just meet the requirements."
The pine tree couldn't help but wonder: "Where did the first Dharmakaya practitioner come from?"
"How do I know this? It's the same as the problem of chickens with eggs and chickens, it doesn't make any sense anyway."
Yan Shuishui shrugged and without saying much, he walked to the altar of praying for heaven, chanting the mantra lightly, and tapped his fingertips on the edge of the bark spread on the table, which happened to be the root of the tree diagram.
Not long after, there was no special movement on the Qitian altar, but the wooden signs on the second floor began to tremble slightly.
She knew that the will of the immortals and gods had noticed this at this time.
"go."
Yan Shuishui shouted lightly, and while his magic power was constantly integrated into the altar, he also transferred this invisible will to the pine tree behind him.
Her eyes were paying attention to the rankings of many immortals and gods, and she was looking forward to it.
I don’t know which immortals and gods will appear after taking a fancy to the little pine tree?
The next moment, the wooden signs on the table gradually became quiet.
Then, after a brief silence, blurred shadows slowly emerged from the wooden divine position and projected in mid-air.
At this moment, many phantoms were floating in the air, and each phantom exuded a heart-shaking grand aura.
The three of them are the phantom of a woman wearing a feathered dress and smiling with a loving face, the phantom of a majestic man holding a strange book in a star map, and the phantom of an old man wearing a hundred herbs and smiling with a kind and easy-going smile.
Headed by these three, the phantoms were all staring at the young pine tree not far away.
"How...how is it possible..."
Chapter completed!