I am an immortal in heaven and earth

Chapter 298 The Difference Between Master Xu and Master Tongtian

Old Mrs. Bai was very shocked, but finally joined in.

All the monsters that have cultivated for more than a hundred years can set up a fairy hall. They gathered together as a group, seventy-two in total, and were brought by Ao Jin riding a cloud to see Xu Jia, becoming the first batch of disciples who swore an oath and made great wishes.

These monsters came to Sanqing Mountain and met Xu Jia.

Xu Jia's breath became calmer, and wisdom turned into beads behind his head, rubbing and rotating.

As the representative of the demons, Old Lady Bai asked Xu Jia, "You want us to swear an oath and make a vow. What oath and vow do you want?"

Xu Jia paused to think, and responded to Old Lady Bai: "There are many good qualities in this world, such as courage, integrity, wisdom, kindness, and the courage to sacrifice. I don't ask you to achieve all of them, but you must achieve some of them. The so-called vows are nothing more than vows to practice the precepts, and the so-called great wishes are nothing more than being true to your conscience. You are still cultivating yourself, but while you concentrate on cultivating for yourself, you can benefit others a little bit, that's enough."

"From now on, if you practice three points, I will be able to sense seven points. My wisdom will be your spiritual light, and I will also help you bear your tribulations."

“But this is not a trick. Only if you practice three-tenths of this way can I feel the seven-tenths of this feeling. If you cannot cultivate this mind and keep this precept, this feeling will disappear. Even if you commit sins and disasters in the future, you will be punished by the oath and your soul will be banished to the Five Directions Purgatory and will not be able to escape.”

When Old Lady Bai heard this, she felt that it was just empty talk, so she asked again, "After all, there is only one person. If there were tens of millions of people practicing cultivation in the world, would you be able to sense and support them?"

"Of course you can. If ten people are afflicted, a hundred will help them. If a thousand people are afflicted, ten thousand will support them. My role is to think. The ones who can truly support themselves are all sentient beings. They are me. If you come to the meeting according to your feelings, whether you are a good man or a good woman, there will be a helping hand and you will not fall into despair or suffering."

"I don't know."

Xu Jia smiled and said, "You can try it. If it doesn't work, you don't have to believe it."

"What if there are too many disasters and you can't bear it?"

Xu Jia said calmly: "Then I am ready to be torn to pieces."

Old Lady Bai was so moved that she said, "My family is good at treating difficult and complicated diseases. I am willing to worship Lingbao Tianshi!"

Then he made a vow: "I, Bai Qinghua, swear today to follow the great wish of the Heavenly Master, to help all sentient beings, to give magical medicines, to overcome difficulties, to cure all diseases, to cure all diseases, to not be greedy for gold and silver, and not to make money from plague and swine fever, to be honest and upright, to cultivate this merit and seek the right result. If I break this oath, I will suffer from plague and disease, and will not die a good death. If I break this wish, my merit will be gone and I will turn into a mortal!"

When Old Lady Bai made this vow, she felt as if a heavy yoke had fallen on her. But the next moment, a talisman flew out of Xu Jia's body, landed between her eyebrows, and entered her spiritual platform. With this vow, it turned into a covenant talisman, and most of the power of disasters was dissipated. The rest would depend on how she acted in the future.

On Xu Jia's head, besides the light of merit, black qi appeared. This was a calamity. When accumulated to a certain point, it would erupt. It was like a volcano, but one could also find a way to actively eliminate it, or actively detonate it, and suffer a calamity.

Other monsters included the Three Fairies of the Vegetable Garden. They made a wish that the common people could eat fresh vegetables. Xu Jia fully affirmed their wish and also gave them the magic spell.

The other monsters were also selected one by one, knowing how big a vow they made and how much treatment they would enjoy. Basically, none of them made big vows and wishes like Old Lady Bai. They all wanted to live in a corner, and the wishes and vows they made would not hurt their roots.

Of course, Xu Jia would not give them much support, but basically the two hundred years of catastrophe had been eliminated.

He let them choose a hall name and create a fairy genealogy, and Xu Jia stamped it with his seal before sending them to their respective posts.

After Old Lady Bai came out, she explained the situation to her descendants: "Our clan's chance has come. You all should strive to be the second batch to make vows. You will have great merits and great opportunities. I can't be selfish and worry about you anymore. You should develop well. I am going to the free clinic to treat patients and practice my vows with my own actions."

The younger generation of the Bai family asked again: "Grandma, what kind of talisman can really eliminate the catastrophe? Can you survive the 500-year catastrophe of the earthly immortals? If you can survive the 500-year catastrophe of the earthly immortals, our Bai family will also be considered a demon immortal family."

"I don't know either." Old Lady Bai said, "But I think Lingbao Xu Tianshi is a good person, and good people don't tell lies."

After saying that, Old Lady Bai carried a medicine box on her back, held a tiger crutches in her hand, and started shaking them against her chest.

From then on, Old Lady Bai provided free medical treatment during the day and compiled books on traditional Chinese medicine prescriptions at night. The herbs she used were all cheap and readily available.

Most of the time, she doesn't even need herbs. She has a set of silver needles that can cure diseases. They are made from plucked thorns. When she survives the 500-year catastrophe, the thorns on her body will automatically fall off once, and at that time, they will become a set of gold needles.

In addition to using needles, she is also good at massage, which can help people with back and leg pain to relieve pain. She was so famous that many people were willing to learn medical skills from her.

For example, Chen Liuxian.

Chen Liuxian learned the art of witchcraft from the witch, and gradually a great love was awakened in his heart. This was his foundation of the Nine Palaces Immortal Stage to set things right. He was abducted by bandits, and then had a big pot meal in Poyang. He saw the bandits who came with him, and his eyes were filled with tears. If there were three or four acres of good land, enough for three meals a day, to support mother and son, to marry and have children, who would want to go up the mountain to be a bandit?
With the bull monsters doing the hard labor, the speed of reclaiming wasteland was very fast. When continuous tracts of land were created in their hands, everyone had tears in their eyes. Even some older farmers, who got up in the middle of the night to pee, would think of running over to take a look.

The ancients said: He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world, and he who loses the hearts of the people loses the world.

Only Xu A feels that everything is not enough. A great wish means a great desire. He is never satisfied with the status quo and wants to develop faster and better.

"Although I have obtained the Lingbao Daoist tradition, I am actually following the path of Master Tongtian. Master Tongtian taught everyone, but why did he fail? It was because his orders were not truly carried out by his disciples. He said that we should recite two or three volumes of Huangting in silence, but not many disciples listened to him, because most of the outer disciples had never even met him. They just acted in his name but did not carry out his will." "Secondly, he did not give his disciples effective methods of struggle, so he was defeated one by one by the powerful class of the Jinxian of the Chan Sect."

"Thirdly, we didn't notice that the close believers in the church had thoughts of rebellion, which shows that we were not using the right people."

“Fourthly, since the flesh can become a saint, the flesh can become a god, the disciples should be allowed to occupy the Heavenly Palace first. Although they are ministers, the binary opposition between the monarch and the ministers is enough to abolish the Emperor of Heaven. The Master Tongtian can just create a clone of himself and become the leader of another place. This is not an accurate judgment of the general trend.”

"Fifth, although we have powerful formations and various magic weapons, they are always cracked by the enemy. This is caused by the lack of iterative upgrades."

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The more Xu Jia thought about it, the more he felt that he couldn't be the Master of Tongtian. However, his own family in America had a Tongtian Temple and followed the Lingbao Taoist tradition. Now he had made a great vow to save all living beings. There was indeed something "mysterious" about it.

So in his heart, he has actually considered himself to be a low-profile version of Tongtian Jiaozhu.

But maybe he is inferior in strength, but in terms of spirit and wisdom, Xu Jia is "kill gods if they stand in his way, kill Buddhas if they stand in his way" and does not think that he is inferior.

When he makes a decision, he must also have a magic weapon to pass on to his disciples, but it is not a material magic weapon, but a spiritual magic weapon, or a "spiritual treasure".

Laojun said: I have three treasures, and I hold on to them and protect them; the first is kindness; the second is frugality; the third is not daring to be the first in the world.

Kindness leads to courage. Frugality leads to generosity. Not daring to be the first in the world leads to success.

Now if you abandon kindness and pursue courage, abandon frugality and pursue generosity, abandon being behind and pursue being ahead, you will die. If you are kind in battle, you will win, and if you are kind in defense, you will be strong. Heaven will save you and protect you with kindness.

Ordinary people only know the first two sentences, but don’t know that the last sentence is the essence.

Let the army know who they are fighting for, and they will be invincible when fighting and will be impregnable when defending.

The same principle applies to missionary work today. For whom do they practice, for whom do they fight, and why are they willing to make such great vows and wishes?
With this charter, they can basically break away from the corrupt Jiejiao. As for the Huangtianjiao and Changshengjiao, they cannot even have anything to do with them and cannot try to deceive them.

Xu Jia's vow now is the general outline of this charter, and he will spread it to people, demons, gods, or various immortals, cultivators, and monks.

That means everyone has a magic weapon, which can make them invincible when used in battle, and can make them impregnable when used in defense.

But this is not the Boxer Rebellion, who firmly believed that they were "possessed by heavenly soldiers" and were invulnerable to swords and guns. Instead, it is that those who act righteously are "heavenly soldiers" or something else. In short, this is the "spiritual treasure."

Just like when Ren Tianshi was testing demons before, those wandering ghosts asked Xu Jia if he had any scriptures to pass on to them, rather than the nectar and Dharma food. Xu Jia's spiritual treasures might be more meaningful than these scriptures that could ease the soul.

What is my spiritual treasure?

Is it also kind, frugal, and not daring to be the first in the world?
Xu Jia fell into an indescribable enlightenment, which was not the way of heaven, the way of earth, or any other way.

This is the way of oneself.

"I will hide it in the talisman." Xu Jia thought: "Give the power of the spiritual treasure to every Taoist."

So Xu Jia began to create a method suitable for ordinary people, which could protect the health of parents, benefit the stability of the family, bring harmony to couples, make children smart, strengthen strength, and help people study to clarify their ambitions...

But these all seem to be just superficial, without getting to the point, just like those ordinary peace amulets, house-guarding talismans, and harmony talismans.

"They have to explore their own strengths, rather than appearing to have choices when in fact they have no choice."

Xu Jia then abandoned all these functional talismans, touched upon the most original innate spiritual light, and created the original and simplest Lingbao talisman, a Lingbao talisman with infinite possibilities and good at ever-changing forms.

Once you receive the ordination, you will be bound to the source of your innate spiritual light, helping to awaken the power of your self-nature. The ordination will evolve by itself based on each person's wisdom, cognition, and growth experience.

This is both the first level and the highest level, with infinite possibilities.

There is actually no necessary connection between the level of the celestial certificate and becoming an immortal. Those who receive the celestial certificate may not necessarily become celestial immortals, and those who do not receive the celestial certificate can also become immortals through cultivation.

Therefore, subsequent Taoists can add to their talismans without having to worry about the issue of “upgrading their talismans”.

(End of this chapter)