I am an immortal in heaven and earth

Chapter 276: Thunder Mercury Taoist
"You are not familiar with this, and you don't know that, so why did your father contact you?"

Xu Jia pinched his chubby little face.

"My father asked me to help him. I have also achieved the Earthly Immortal level and condensed the first Water Virtue Dragon Scale. That also conforms to the Water Virtue ecology."

"The five virtues of water are divided into oceans, lakes, rivers and streams, wells, and frost, snow, rain, hail and other natural qi."

"Father controls the ocean, and the ocean has ocean currents. Ocean currents bring water qi, and water qi can lead to any place, it can be a lake, a river, or anywhere else."

"The one in charge of wind and rain points in the upper realm is Lady Pingxin Zhenhai. She was born in Heim. She is the one that my father wants to learn from when the ocean currents began."

"But ocean currents are rootless water after all. It is difficult to change the earth veins and water veins after landing. That's why father brought more than 3,600 of us brothers out."

"But there aren't many that have grown into good fish... Many of my brothers and sisters are just good at giving birth, and they gave birth to many ordinary carp species... Many of them were caught because of their delicious meat..."

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Xu Jia sighed, you dragons are really fertile. The old dragon from Poyang is breeding like crazy. You have come from the upper realm, but you haven't abandoned this tradition, right?

"There are actually not many people who have truly condensed any of the virtues of water... Most of them are still distributed in the north, such as the Yellow River, Wei River, and Luo River..."

Ao Jin followed Xu Jia and said, "We are actually outsiders who came later. In fact, there have been dragons in this world for a long time. There are several dragon nests... The most are mountain dragons, followed by poisonous dragons, and the least are feather dragons. However, we are the only carp dragons. We cultivate the virtue of water and are completely innate gods. We are the only ones..."

"My father asked me to assist him because he would bring a large amount of water Qi to us every year and asked me to prepare to receive it. This water contains a large amount of heaven and earth Qi. I can intercept some of it and store it in the Water Palace, or I can help push it to other places."

Xu Jia roughly understood the meaning, but he always felt that the Dragon King's efforts were in vain, or that he had taken the wrong approach.

Although the power of water is very important, it is also very good to strengthen the virtue of water and nourish all things, but everything is excessive or insufficient... In any case, it is better to have a balance between yin and yang and the five elements.

At least from Xu Jia's perspective, the universe is a big world and the human body is a small world, and the Dragon King wants to play the role of "bone marrow". The ocean currents rich in Yuan Qi are the blood it creates, and he also plays the role of the heart.

At least in Xu Jia's opinion, this is difficult to implement, unless a new "embryo" is conceived, and the new embryo then seizes the mother's nutrition to develop and grow, then it is possible to achieve net promotion as mentioned in Shinto. However, this method is essentially parasitism and possession, and the original will of heaven and earth will kill the embryo.

When the Huangtian Sect of the Daheng Dynasty sealed the gods, it should have wanted to activate the heaven and earth, but failed.

However, some legacy was left behind. At least there were people who ascended to heaven in this world, and there were enough for some people to practice. It even produced some rare treasures. The Dharma Realm was also relatively complete, and it was a world rich in spirituality.

But such a world is merely the lowest level of desire realm and cannot be considered a world.

According to Buddhism, it is one of the countless small worlds.

"Well, you can accept this Yuanqi ocean current. I guess it's impossible to hire your father. He may be reproducing his tribe in the South China Sea while suppressing the Sea Eye and breathing with the Sea Eye..."

Xu Jia has also studied it and found that both water magic and fire magic are used to communicate with the spiritual energy of the Dharma Realm, and spiritual energy exists only in the mind.

Perhaps when the real world is in sync with the Dharma Realm and absorbs enough energy, the conditions for "promotion" can be met.

Ao Jin tilted his head: "Do you want me to communicate with my brothers?"

"Forget it, your family is unreliable." After thinking it over, Xu Jia decided to rely on himself.

Ao Jin thought about it and said, "Yeah, I'm not familiar with them either."

Ao Jin is an innate god who sits in charge of the water veins and breathes with the Xinjiang Water Palace.

But in fact, the "Incense God" of the Huangtian Sect, or the original demon god, can also achieve this effect, but the effect of a single one is average. It probably requires the god to be arranged at the "eye of the formation" on the spot to be successful.

But what is needed for deification is faith, and great faith requires great unification, and great unification necessitates strong military strength and logistical capabilities.

Using the false to cultivate the true is actually tied to the dynasty, but after the dynasty is established, the struggle between royal power and divine power will begin again. This is a vicious circle.

Xu Jia sent Ao Jin back to Xinjiang, then traveled through the Dharma Realm and came to Yushan. There were already signs of construction on the top of Sanqing Mountain.

Xu Jia was not concerned about the progress of the project. Even if there was enough money, it would take at least three years to complete the main structure of the Sanqing Palace. It might take five years to complete the interior decoration, murals, various statues of gods, flowers and plants.

Xu Jia summoned the two snake mothers Chang Yuying and Chang Yu'e to teach them the Huangtian Sect's Shinto methods. He let them sit in the Jade Mountain Spirit Cave and use the original Gen Yue Fu Qi method to awaken the mountain's spirituality.

The spirituality of the mountain is the mountain god, and the mountain god is Chang Yu who was conferred the title by Xu Jia.

Chang Yu stole too much of the essence of the dragon veins of Yushan Mountain. After becoming a mountain god, he endured five hundred years of tribulations as an earthly immortal, repaid the original energy of Yushan Mountain, and was petrified into a strange peak.

Two female snakes are coiled around the petrified Chang Yu. Chang Yu's petrified mountain is very spiritual. The first thing many people see is, "Wow! It looks like a snake passing through the mountain!"

This is also the strange peak scene of "giant python coming out of the mountain" in Sanqing Mountain today.

His soul is sleeping inside.

"How is Chang Yu? Can you sense it?"

"My husband's spirit is hidden under the earth, just like a newly born snake egg. It may hatch, or it may remain in the egg state. Even if we search for it in the Dharma Realm, we have not really found my husband's spirit."

Xu Jia listened and thought: "I have buried the earth soul of Caiyu in a Fengshui auspicious cave at the foot of Yushan Mountain. He was also in a state of rigidity, and then his corpse was transformed to achieve the sublimation of his primordial spirit. He almost failed, and now he is trying to make up for it."

"Now you can help make this remedy."

Xu Jia told them the method of Shinto practice: "Although you are not the mountain gods of Yushan, you are also the descendants of the Earth Virtue Gou Chen Teng Snake. Perhaps you can learn from Ao Jin and learn the method of Xiantian Shinto, inhaling and exhaling the earth's qi, and make new preparations for creating a blessed land in the future."

After saying that, Xu Jia took out the dragon-shaped imperial jade. Huang Muchun said that this thing was the core of the original Yuhua Cave Heaven. The cave heaven that was established could have ways to communicate with the realm of form and even the realm of formlessness. The primordial qi of the upper realm would sink into the cave heaven, and the immortals from the upper realm might also descend to the cave heaven to play. The immortals of the cave heaven, after practicing to a certain level, could also travel to the upper realm with their souls.

"The real purpose of this thing is to build a paradise and a temple. It is a true treasure of Shintoism."

"You can use this to practice and awaken Chang Yu's spirit as soon as possible. As long as the spirit is awakened, it means that he has passed the catastrophe. As a mountain god, he doesn't need a physical body. The innate primordial qi in the mountain, or the innate divine power, or the turbid qi of Genyue, based on the imperial seal and the resonance with the spirituality of Yushan Dharma Realm, will rebuild a body for him, so that he can embark on the path of earthly god."

Although Chang Yuying and Chang Yu'e both have been practicing Taoism for two to three hundred years, they are mostly flesh and blood, with huge bodies. They cannot transform into humans, and their wisdom is limited. They do not fully understand Xu Jia's meaning.

But I also know that this imperial jade is a good thing.

"I will have the Taoists at Shanju Temple hold a ceremony to worship Changyu, during the Mid-Autumn Festival. When the moon is full, the Moon God will bless the world, the spiritual energy of the Dharma Realm will reach its peak, and Changyu will fully awaken."

"Mid-Autumn Festival? When is that? How long will it take?"

"It won't be long, so you have to hurry up." Xu Jia combined the Huangtian Sect's Shinto method with the Genyue Fuqi method. The Fuqi method is to only take in the Qi, not to spit it out, while the Shinto breathing method is to feed back, take it into the body, and then return it to the world. The two snake mothers then circled the giant python peak, the place where the jade was petrified, biting their tails with their mouths, turning into a circle, and the jade left by heaven and earth was in the center of this circle.

The Qi of Gen Yue goes in and out, circulates back and forth, gathering here and also gathering in the Giant Python Peak.

"Om."

"It works!" Chang Yuying was extremely surprised. After only the first cycle of operation, she felt her husband's spiritual joy.

Xu Jia also felt the increase in the spirituality of Sanqing Mountain. The gods of Yu Yu Fudi in his body seemed to be ready to break away from the inner scene and collude with the outer scene.

However, Xu Jia’s spiritual root of heaven and earth, the ginseng fruit tree, had never been used to build a spiritual bridge between heaven and earth.

The main reason is that Xu Jia doesn't want to sit here for hundreds of years without moving, just being an earthly immortal and managing such a blessed land.

Only others can provide for oneself, how can one provide for others? Opening up blessed lands and caves is what Chang Yu, the mountain god, should do, not himself.

As the resonance between Chang Yuying, Chang Yu'e and Yushan, or simply with the Giant Python Peak, deepened, the Giant Python Peak seemed to begin breathing.

Begin to sort out the geochi of the Jade Mountain earth veins, giving birth to vigorous vitality and auspicious energy.

After giving instructions for this matter, Xu Jia was not idle either, and came to the Shanju Temple.

But suddenly I heard a "bang!"

Then a small mushroom cloud appeared, and a Taoist priest came out fully armed. He was wearing a helmet and armor... but he still had blood and burns...

But it didn't matter. He just took off his armor, took out some medicine, and applied it on the wound, looking like he was used to it.

"What were you doing just now?"

"Ah? Master Xu!" This Taoist priest in the mountain temple was not the Taoist priest who was familiar to Xu Jia, or any other leader.

"We are refining external thunder."

Ever since Xu Jia obtained Cai Yu's Tiangang Leihuo Fa last time, Shanju Temple itself has also completed a part of its inheritance.

"Isn't the Tiangang Thunder Fire Medicine more stable after being refined? Why does it explode all the time?"

The Taoist said, "Last time I saw Master Xu, you used nitrate to make acid and dissolved silver to make medicine, so we thought about improving it. Later, we found that nitric acid and mercury plus distilled wine can be used to make gunpowder, which is a very good material for external mines. It is very powerful, but we have not found the most stable formula, so it always explodes."

"It's much better than ordinary black powder!"

Xu Jia was shocked: "You're just starting to do this?"

To be honest, the chemical industry that can produce nitric acid industrially is the beginning of all liquid and solid explosives. If you can make explosives, you can also make fertilizers.

Xu Jia had not originally intended for these Taoists to develop gunpowder technology so quickly, but think about it, they had already mastered this technology. When they were mining jade, they could refine jade porcelain divine thunder, which was about the same power as hand grenades. How could these disciples be bad? Each of them was multi-talented, and they could play musical instruments, brew wine, refine elixirs, and configure gunpowder external mines.

"This thing is called fulminate of mercury, and it is extremely unstable. First of all, our alcohol cannot be anhydrous. It requires extremely high-purity alcohol to be refined."

"That's not a problem. We have already prepared it using the method of alchemy. We need to collect its Qi and use its spirit... It's the same as collecting the Qi when refining the elixir. As for the fire wine, let alone drinking it, just dripping it on your skin will make you feel like you're being burned by fire."

Good guy!
Xu Jia looked him up and down and said, "You guys probably don't need to blast mountains to mine jade anymore, right? Why are you researching this?"

"If you don't mine jade, you can mine iron ore, copper ore, any ore will do... It will definitely be useful."

Fulminate mercury is suitable for small-scale use, such as primers for bullets or cannons.

But modern craftsmen certainly cannot produce many guns and cannons. Fortunately, Xu Jia has already obtained the drawings of the lathe. Once the craftsmen have made the three-barreled musket, he can use it as a seed for enlightenment and make deeper improvements. It will definitely not work to copy what is in America, so he can only make what is available here.

But in addition to technology, industry also requires energy. For example, the craftsmen in the Salt and Iron Institute used coke to smelt copper and steel.

Although there was no shortage of coal in Jiangnan West Road, and it could even be said to be very abundant, the excavation technology was still not sufficient.

The history of coal use in ancient China, such as in the previous life, can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. Li Daoyuan's "Water Classic" had already written about coal-fired blast furnaces.

However, coal has a high sulfur content, which makes it brittle and hard when used to smelt iron.

Smelting iron is not difficult, but smelting steel is difficult. What Xu Jia wants is to smelt a large amount of high-quality steel.

Steelmaking is not that easy, otherwise the primitive steelmaking movement would not have been declared a failure.

However, the Ming Dynasty discovered that coal could also be calcined, just like burning charcoal. The sulfur content of the burned coal was greatly reduced, and it became coking coal. It was also discovered that in addition to lime, fluorite is also a good flux.

However, during the Qing Dynasty, these smelting technologies fell into decline.

The industrial technology developed in the Da Ning Dynasty here is worse than that of the Ming Dynasty, and even worse than that of the Song Dynasty... It is very likely that humans, ghosts, monsters and gods live together in chaos, so it is more or less possible for individuals to pursue power, and the court and religion also possess extraordinary powers.

Ordinary firearms have limited damage to demons and monsters. The power of Tiangang Thunder and Fire is not bad, but not everyone can learn the Tiangang Great Sage's external thunder method.

"Let Jinchan allocate money for your research. Go and spend the money!" Xu Jia said, "What you are researching is very useful, but your knowledge is not systematic. I can teach you something in this area."

The Taoist's eyes lit up. "Really? I want to make a cannon that's more powerful than the Jade Porcelain Divine Thunder of our ancestor, and more powerful than the Weiyuan General Cannon of the imperial court. They all use lead bullets that can shoot far but won't explode. It would be great if they could shoot and then explode..."

Good guy!
Are you still a heavy truth fanatic?
The firearms used during World War I were generally not considered very advanced, but by the time of World War II, they were already considered weapons of mass destruction.

It is a pity that Yushan Dexing does not have the industrial strength yet, because Xu Jia has not yet completed capital integration, land mergers, or nationalized it, and then concentrated his efforts on doing big things.

The current economic model is still a small-scale agricultural economy, without an industrial foundation. Xujia still relies mainly on the traditional industrial technology of artisans. Even if it is fully produced, it can only arm a small number of people.

"Let's go to the Salt and Iron Department." Xu Jia said, "What's your name? I'll remember you."

"Ah? Master Xu, you've been talking to me for so long, but you don't even know my name? I treated you as my confidant. After all, the improved version of the silver nitrate jade porcelain divine thunder you refined earlier is also very powerful!"

"I am Lu Zhenqi, whose Taoist name is Lei Zhenzi."

Very good, they are all from the Yu generation.

(End of this chapter)