Refining Qi starts from repairing the panel.

Chapter 198: The Golden Body, the First Taste of Incense and Spirits

As a god, without sufficient power, no believers would be willing to offer their own wishes.

On the long street, monks passing by are like fish in the river. With a glance, you can see many shrines and temples.

Some families worship more than one god.

Except for the truly core fanatical believers, the faith of most of the gods' followers is not pure.

For example, the Lord of the Divine Court, the Great Emperor, can be seen with just a few glances at the throne that belongs to him.

The basis for believers' willingness to trust gods is that gods can fulfill their wishes. This is a two-way choice.

Chu Zheng looked at the middle-aged man in front of him who was over 40 years old, and couldn't help but be silent for a moment.

Seeing that Chu Zheng had not spoken, Yuan Dazun lost his temper and said, "Little guy, I am not kidding you. As long as you have a wish, I can help you achieve it."

"really?"

Chu Zheng looked a little strange. It would be a pity if he didn't want this hard-working man who came right to his doorstep.

Seeing Chu Zheng finally responded, Yuan Dazun's expression eased slightly, and he nodded, "Of course."

How big an appetite can a baby who looks no more than four or five years old have? Picking up a believer for free, there is no better deal than this.

"let me see……"

Chu Zheng lowered his head and counted with his fingers, then said slowly:
"I want thousand-year-old ginseng, hundred-year-old pine ganoderma, moonlight condensed dew, and ground yin grass..."

In a flash, Chu Zheng reported more than a dozen old medicinal materials, most of which were yin and cold in nature.

This body was born at the time of extreme yang, and has abundant yang energy in its body, so it needs some yin and cold spiritual materials to balance it.

Considering Yuan Dazun's strength, Chu Zheng's request was not beyond his ability.

These things are the most basic spiritual materials, and those of the first level are rare. They can help him consolidate his foundation as quickly as possible. After a hundred days of spiritual transformation, his cultivation will also grow faster.

"Wait... wait a minute, I can't remember."

Yuan Dazun interrupted repeatedly, looking a little confused. He had never heard some of what Chu Zheng said before.

After thinking about it, he took out a pen and paper, asked Chu Zheng to repeat it, and then wrote it down one by one.

This is the first wish of believers. If this wish cannot be fulfilled, there is naturally no talk of the future.

The child in front of him did not have any divine aura, he was as clean and pure as a piece of crystal.

Children who do not yet have faith in gods are extremely rare in this world. With a little training, they can become fanatical believers.

One fanatical believer is better than hundreds or thousands of ordinary believers.

For a cultivator like him who has no foundation, it is particularly precious, and he would strive to get as many as possible.

By then, after his death, someone will help him build a shrine or temple and sculpt a golden statue.

As long as I can gain the trust of this child, it will be worth it even if it costs a little.

"The things you want are not difficult for me."

Yuan Dazun coughed lightly, put away the recorded list, and his expression returned to solemnity:
"Little guy, what's your name?"

"Chu Zheng."

Chu Zheng replied casually, looked up at Yuan Dazun, and touched his stomach:
"I'm hungry."

"Follow me, and you will never be hungry again."

Yuan Dazun smiled more and pulled Chu Zheng into a restaurant on the street.

It was not yet noon and there was no restaurant. There were only a few tables of individual customers in the restaurant. The air was filled with the faint aroma of liquor mixed with the aroma of oil, which made people's appetites grow.

When he smelled this scent, Chu Zheng's hunger instantly became several times stronger and he could hardly move.

This abnormal situation immediately made Chu Zheng realize that something was wrong, and his eyes fell on a portrait behind the lobby counter.

In the painting stands a bald old man with white hair and beard, kind eyes, and a white robe. Twelve kitchen utensils of different shapes are floating beside him.

[Food God Picture (Level 3): A portrait of a god of incense in the Heavenly Venerable Realm. After being worshipped for a long time, it has acquired a divine charm. It can influence the appetite of creatures of Level 3 and below, and at the same time, it can increase the mana of spiritual chef monks to a certain extent.]

God of food.

Chu Zheng's heart moved. It was incredible that a portrait could affect the senses of a monk.

There are who knows how many portraits of this kind there are in the world. For the restaurant, the increase in revenue brought by this picture of the God of Food is obvious.

The Spiritual Kitchen Dao is also one of the many minor paths. This God of Food can be ranked among the Heavenly Lords. I’m afraid that every restaurant will have his portrait hanging on the wall.

To the extent that, the luck of the Lingchu Dao lineage is enjoyed by him alone.

The restaurant business is good and many people are imitating it. The more popular the incense is, the more benefits the God of Food can get, and the more feedback he can give to his believers.

For a worshipped deity, this is undoubtedly a virtuous cycle.

Yuan Dazun took Chu Zheng to find a place to sit down and called the waiter.

Some people in the hall were talking about the legend of the God of Food. Chu Zheng listened to a few words and got to know a little about this God of Food.

The God of Food was originally a cultivator of the spiritual cooking sect during his lifetime. Later, when the emperor of the Divine Court entered the mortal world to undergo trials and tribulations, he came into contact with him and cooked an amazing dish that won the emperor's endless praise.

After the emperor returned to the throne, he canonized him as the God of Food, ordered people to compile books and biographies for him, built a large number of buildings, erected temples and sculpted a golden statue for him, and he enjoyed millions of incense burners.

From then on, the God of Food rose rapidly to the top and became one of the pillars of the divine court.

There are no less than a hundred stories about the God of Cookery circulating among the people, and this is just one of them.

No one knows the real situation except the God of Cookery himself.

"Eat as much as you can. Follow me and you won't be short of food in the future."

Yuan Dazun once again emphasized the benefits of following him, took the menu and handed it directly to Chu Zheng.

Chu Zheng had no intention of being polite with Yuan Dazun. He simply opened the menu, glanced at it, and randomly ordered a dozen dishes.

He now weighs no less than five thousand pounds, so naturally his appetite is extraordinarily big.

There are a lot of flesh and blood of advanced monsters in this restaurant, but Chu Zheng assessed Yuan Dazun's strength and found it was not too excessive.

Later I had no money to pay the bill, so I was forced to stay in the store to do odd jobs, which wasted some time.

Looking at the names of more than a dozen dishes, Yuan Dazun looked at Chu Zheng for a while with a suspicious look on his face, but in the end, he did not speak. Instead, he turned around and handed the menu to the waiter, only casually instructing him to serve the dishes one by one.

Some time ago, when traveling in the mountains, Chu Zheng had to eat raw meat and drink blood. Coupled with the influence of the Food God Picture, Chu Zheng naturally had a big appetite at this moment.

In just a few moments, more than a dozen dishes were all eaten by his stomach. His stomach was like a furnace, refining the food in an instant, and the essence was integrated into his limbs and bones. Some impurities were discharged from his body along with the sweat.

"Are you full?"

Yuan Dazun was not surprised but delighted, his eyes lit up, he felt like he had found a treasure, he quickly called the waiter and brought the menu:
"If it's not enough, order more!"

The fact that he can eat so much proves that Chu Zheng is not an ordinary person but a gifted person.

This kind of believer is even harder to find.

The stronger Chu Zheng becomes in the future, the more benefits he will get.

A great monk, as a believer, can be worth a hundred thousand young and strong men.

"almost."

Chu Zheng shook his head, stood up and walked out of the restaurant. After all, relying on these things for nourishment was not very efficient.

Yuan Dazun stood up and rubbed his hands, his eyes full of excitement. After leaving the restaurant, he waved his hand:
"Let's go and find you a place to stay. I'll find you a path to practice, and you'll be able to achieve immortality."

At this point, he suddenly reacted and looked at Chu Zheng with a hesitant look: "Where is your master?"

Since they met, Chu Zheng has behaved too calmly and doesn't seem like an uneducated person at all.

If Chu Zheng had some extraordinary background, all his efforts would be in vain.

"I have no family on this planet." Chu Zheng told the truth.

Hearing this, Yuan Dazun breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly:
"It will come later."

Chu Zheng did not comment. He turned around and glanced at the picture of the God of Food hanging in the main hall of the restaurant, as if thinking about something.

How to avoid cause and effect and gain the power of incense and vows is the only thing that worries him at the moment.

This road has a way to reach the sky, but it is also a way out.

If he died young on the road to enlightenment, he might have a chance to make a comeback through the incense and the golden body.

…………

…………

The dim sunlight hangs low in the sky, filling it with colorful clouds.

The setting sun shone into the slightly shabby courtyard and hit the child's face, adding three more shades of red to his already rosy cheeks.

Chu Zheng was holding a half-stalk of old ginseng in his hand, lying on the hammock, staring at the blood-red sunset in the sky, lost in thought.

click-

I finished the remaining ginseng in three or two bites. The sweet taste instantly exploded on the tip of my tongue, and the juice overflowed.

A abundant supply of plant essence flows down from the throat, passes through the five internal organs, rolls through the six internal organs, and finally disappears into the limbs and bones.

A towering building rises from the ground. This time, Chu Zheng wants to go further and step into the realm of spirit cultivation. Naturally, he has to proceed step by step. The Hundred Days of Spiritual Transformation is the foundation.

"Ancestor, slow down!"

Yuan Dazun, who was squatting not far away, felt his eyebrows twitch and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly. He had spent a lot of effort to ask someone to find this thousand-year-old ginseng. Seeing Chu Zheng eat it all in just a few bites, he couldn't help but feel a little distressed.

More than a month has passed since the day he picked up Chu Zheng. During these days, he has increasingly noticed that Chu Zheng is unusual.

He found many cultivation methods for Chu Zheng, but Chu Zheng never practiced any of them. However, his energy and blood became more abundant day by day. Although he was young, he was as strong as a dragon or a tiger, and he had already shown some extraordinary signs.

Yuan Dazun naturally had some doubts about this. Perhaps Chu Zheng had some kind of spiritual practice, but with his eyesight, he couldn't see the way.

Yuan Dazun had no doubt that at this rate, Chu Zheng would catch up with him in another year or two.

At a certain moment, Yuan Dazun thought about giving up. People like Chu Zheng were definitely not someone he could control, but for a moment, he was reluctant to do so.

In the past month, the cost he spent on Chu Zheng was really too high, almost spending most of the savings he had accumulated in the first half of his life.

The huge cost he had invested previously made it impossible for him to give up easily. If he ended up losing both his money and his life, he really couldn't afford it.

Therefore, he could only try his best to meet Chu Zheng's demands.

Chu Zheng came back to his senses, looked at Yuan Dazun's sad face, turned around and walked into the house without saying anything.

With the repair panel, Chu Zheng has many ways to earn spirit stones.

When he enters the spiritual transformation and has some ability to protect himself, he will pay back Yuan Dazun's expenses during this period tenfold.

After entering the room, Chu Zheng turned around and locked the door. Not far from the bed, there stood a clay statue.

The clay figure was seven feet tall, wearing a simple robe, and his face was blank without any facial features.

A statue of a great god.

Among the many ways of cultivation that Yuan Dazun had previously brought to Chu Zheng, there was the superficial way of worshipping incense and gods.

Every deity worshipped by the gods started out by compiling a biography and building up a reputation during their lifetime. After death, they relied on their golden bodies to gather the scattered three souls and seven spirits, and gathered the body of the Yin gods to return to the world.

The first statue is also called the divine womb, the place where the gods are conceived.

The Divine Embryo Realm is also the first realm of the path of incense and gods.

Looking at the formless golden body in front of him, Chu Zheng fell into deep thought for a moment.

He wanted to imitate the Taoist method, collect incense and vows, and see the effect, but he didn't know what to do for the time being.

No one knows the real name of that Taoist ancestor, and no one knows what he looks like. He is extremely mysterious.

But the Taoist's golden body was erected throughout the heavens and myriad worlds. Chu Zheng even had a vague suspicion that the most powerful deity in the universe might be this Taoist.

Zhao Tingxian follows the path of incense, gods and spirits, which must have been influenced by the Taoist ancestor.

"The Great Sage of Yin-Yang Mysterious Spiritual Demon Suppression..."

Chu Zheng recalled Zhao Tingxian's honorific title and seemed to understand something.

Perhaps he could first make up the name of a false god, one that is invisible and formless, and make up a legend for it to see where the collected incense and prayer power would eventually go.

This was just an attempt by Chu Zheng.

However, the biggest problem is how this deity, which does not actually exist, can find believers.

After pondering for a moment, Chu Zheng looked up at Yuan Dazun in the yard, as if he had realized something.

The person who is currently closest to him in this world is Yuan Dazun.

This living believer is right in front of you, it would be a pity not to try it out.

…………

…………

In the blink of an eye, nearly a month had passed.

As Yuan Dazun's family fortune was completely emptied, Chu Zheng finally completed the Hundred Days of Spiritual Transformation and entered the Spiritual Transformation Realm, where he could display many magical powers.

On the night of the spiritual transformation, Chu Zheng used the invisibility technique to quietly leave the courtyard and walk around outside the city.

Although the city was relatively peaceful, there were many battles taking place outside the city.

War means broken weapons and magic weapons. This is the simplest and most direct method Chu Zheng can think of at the moment.

After several hours, Chu Zheng found a small-scale battlefield. Most of the fighters were ordinary creatures that had not yet entered the rank. Fragments of magical instruments that had entered the rank were not common.

After searching for a while, Chu Zheng only found three incomplete magical weapons.

However, for Chu Zheng’s current situation, the fragments of the magic weapon are enough.

…………

…………

The next morning.

In the small courtyard.

Yuan Dazun looked at the magic weapon in Chu Zheng's hand that was shining with spiritual light and was stunned for a long time.

Chu Zheng coughed lightly, his expression solemn:

"Would you like to worship God with me?"

(End of this chapter)