I am an immortal in heaven and earth

Chapter 307: Temporary Overseas Office of the Underworld

Due to the gunfight, the police arrived soon. After the weak Hong Xiuquan took some "Taisui Zhishen Pills" secretly made by Li Rentai, he regained some strength. He then made a phone call to the headquarters of the American Exorcist Investigation Department, and the police went back.

It was reasonable to make the exorcism look like a gang shootout. Besides, Hong Xiuquan transformed into a black angel, which ordinary people could not see. However, all the exorcists in San Francisco saw the battle.

"Master!" Li Rentai was very puzzled by Xu Jia's decision to accept Hong Xiuquan as his disciple. This master acted boldly and was unconventional, which made them feel that he was "heretical and caused the collapse of rituals and music."

If it is said that Buddhism occupies the African market, it would be fine, but the various Taoist sects all have a "clear distinction between love and hate". If they don't like Africans, they don't like black people, and there are many who openly express discrimination.

Could it be that before our Lingbao altar was even established, there was already a black senior brother? His name was Hong Xiuquan, and his Taoist name was the Heavenly King of Taiping? The American Black Dragon Master?

"We, the disciples and grandchildren, are able to inherit the master's wonderful teachings because the master has favored us. Perhaps our merits and virtues are not enough, but we have not yet accumulated enough moral teachings. However, you can accept him as your disciple, and we will worship him as the second ancestor... It is true..."

Xu thought about it and realized that if he was not there at ordinary times, the most senior person in Tongtian Temple would be Hong Xiuquan. It was really a bit of "forgetting one's ancestors" for many Chinese to worship a black man.

So he said to them, "Although he has received the talismanic teachings, he is an outward disciple and follows the path of Christianity. He is not of the same lineage as you. He runs his cathedral and you run your Tongtian Temple. His external identity is a priest and bishop, and you are Taoists. Naturally, there is no reason for you to kneel down and worship him."

"Whether it's practicing or doing things, the most important thing is to get the spirit and look at the form. You attach too much importance to the form. Don't you see that I accepted him as an outer disciple in order to make a big move in the Christian religion?"

"Besides, don't say you look down on black people. Black people in America also look down on Chinese people. You should be good at cooperation. You are good at making plans, and black people are good at charging into battle and using others' strength to fight against them. Only then can you have a longer-term future."

Li Rentai felt much more relieved when he heard that it was not their fault.

This is human nature. If there really were to be such subversions, with the Black Dragon riding on the Yellow Dragon's head, I'm afraid many people would be defeated. This is a side story, a time bomb planted in Christianity and the American national system. They can accept this much better.

It's a pity that they need to restrain their flattery, otherwise they would have started to make a fuss early on, saying things like "unparalleled strategy, brilliant calculations, reincarnation of Zhuge Liang" and so on. But even so, these disciples have come up with seven or eight plans in their minds, using Hong Xiuquan's identity as a black Christian bishop to do big business in America, such as contracting to open churches in various places, and then turning the churches into "chapels", using someone else as a substitute...

These aren't difficult anyway.

"Many years ago, I had a magic weapon, the Jiazi Golden Coin Sword, which was made of pure gold coins that were issued annually in China for sixty years. It was a weapon of national destiny. Where is it now?"

"After the master passed away, all the instruments and artifacts were transferred to China. The master's relatives inherited some of them, but they were not allowed to bury the body in a temple there, so cremation was required. So the disciples suggested that they should still be placed in Tongtian Temple."

"If the ancestor wants to retrieve the magic tools from his lifetime, we will go back to our country and see if we can bring them out."

Xu Jia nodded: "My magic weapons include the Jiazi Golden Coin Sword, the Five-sided Dragon-shaped Flag, the Jade Gourd for Collecting Evil Spirits, the Five Elders Seal... I can't remember the others, if you can still find them, then go find them. I haven't practiced them for so many years, I don't know if the younger generation has inherited them."

"I guess the Jiazi Golden Coin Sword is long gone. Those are all gold achievements, and they are also a set of Jiazi..." Xu Jia sighed: "Those magic weapons look more righteous. The magic weapons I want to refine now are all evil."

After saying that, Xu Jia shook his head and said, "The flesh and blood divinity of the Ogre Cult leader is still useful. I can use his five internal organs to enlighten the corresponding little demon gods and build a stable Five Hells Dojo for future disciples to break through the five hells and obtain the certificate."

"For the remaining ones, we can just follow the method we used last time and pass the letters of invitation to some disciples."

"This key is hung around the old demon's neck. It is the manifestation of his concept of entering the Dharma Realm Manor. I will teach you a method to enter it. There is a core in the manor. If you master it, you can master the entire Dharma Realm Manor. With this manor as the core, you can prepare to transform the blessed land. Although you are not earth immortals and only have ghost immortal achievements, you can also live forever in the manor."

"I don't need to do these trivial things. Although there are some minions and butcher ghosts in it, you should practice your skills. The hook letter has the ability to summon souls. There is no reason for you to be afraid of ghosts."

Li Rentai and others nodded repeatedly.

Then Xu Jia arranged it one by one. He placed the five internal organs of Hannibal the cannibal leader in five jars respectively. Each jar was filled with salt to prevent them from rotting. Secondly, salt also has the power to exorcise evil spirits. It then brought out the spirituality of the five elements of the little demon gods and drew out the illusion of the Five Hells of Lushan. Suddenly, there were numerous demon shadows and gusts of cold wind.

Not long after, a shadowy figure crawled out. It was the Judge of the Five Hells. As soon as he came out, he felt something was wrong: "What are you doing? Is this still under the rule of Heaven?"

Then he saw Xu Jia, and he was very respectful: "It turned out to be the Heavenly Master Gou Zhao."

Xu Jia waved his hand and said, "Judge, there is no need to be polite. I set up this hell not to summon you, but to create a portal so that my disciples can have a chance to pass through the five hells and obtain the summons."

The Judge of the Five Hells touched his chin and said, "If there are only a few quotas, I will do you a favor, but if you want to get a quota stably, there must be a threshold."

"I know that the underworld wants to recruit the lowest level ghost immortals. First, they must accumulate good deeds and merits, and second, it is best to practice in their lifetime. Or if they can lead a hundred evil ghosts, they can get it directly. I just don't know if you will accept these red-haired ghosts and golden-haired ghosts."

The Five Hells Judge counted with his fingers and said, "We will take in any ghosts. There are also gods from other mythological systems under the rule of Heaven. They will maintain a certain degree of autonomy, but they must still be naturalized."

"Although this place is not under the jurisdiction of the Heavenly Court, many people have been burning paper money recently. Among them are foreign currencies such as US dollars and British pounds, which can be of some use. It's just that it's too far away. The escort vehicles of the underworld can hardly be sent overseas to receive them. The Heavenly Master has established a religion overseas and converted the followers of the Barbarian Religion. This is also a great merit."

Xu Jia took the opportunity to ask: "I have observed the sky and this world has the potential to ascend. Where will it ascend to?"

"The number of races in this world indicates that at least three different world civilizations have merged. Perhaps the fusion period is over and the promotion has begun. This is not surprising."

"When the Heaven Court saved the world in the past, it was always done this way. Three or four broken small worlds, with no more resource potential, were merged, similar to merging villages and towns to integrate resources." The Five Hells Judge gave the answer based on his own experience and understanding: "Isn't it the same in the underworld? The five hundred desire realms were combined into one small underworld."

Xu Jia asked Master Huang again, and the Judge of the Five Hells said that Master Huang had accompanied officials from the Five Mountains Palace to other worlds for inspections, and it would take some time before he could return to the small underworld.

Then, a temporary office of a small underworld was set up outside this world, and efforts were made to bring America, which currently had no underworld, under the jurisdiction of the underworld. If the reincarnation could be sorted out in the American Dharma Realm and brought under the jurisdiction of the underworld, this would also be considered a great achievement for Xu Jia.

Before this, the souls of foreigners were collected in as many quantities as they wanted, and the paper money burned by foreigners was converted into currency circulating in the underworld, and they were also collected in as many quantities as they wanted. This was used in exchange for the opportunity to pass through the Five Hells (with a certain degree of water added), to ensure that Xu Jia's disciples could obtain the certificate through this stable method.

After negotiating with the Five Hells Judges, Xu Jia refined a magic banner with human skin and some small magic tools with his bones. He asked them to deploy them in Hannibal's Dharma Realm Manor. Then he selected some disciples and directly registered the certificate. Only then did he give up the idea and sat back on the altar.

Then his consciousness returned to his original body, and he completed his retreat amid the kneeling and worshipping of his disciples and the chanting of scriptures.

"When the altar of Tongtian Temple overseas is completed in that world, they can offer a continuous supply of grains to solve their urgent needs."

Xu Jia was confident in the methods, abilities and financial resources of those disciples.

As long as we use the name of this black man Hong Xiuquan and shout something about protecting the world's poor and hungry people, we can raise a lot of food.

The charity they do over there is fake charity. The money donated is not even enough to pay high salaries or many welfare benefits. But for Xu Jia, it is real charity. It is truly delivered to the mouths of the victims.

Putting the bowl of raw rice away and offering sacrifices to Huang Tian Shengzun in exchange for food is basically a waste. It’s not that Xu Jia has any selfish motives or something, what if it’s a cult trap?

The food in the granary was not yet exhausted. Jin Chan had previously stockpiled a lot of low-priced food to maintain stable food prices. For a while, the landlord also took out a large amount of food in exchange for cash to play this stock market game. It was enough for the whole county to eat for a year and a half, but as the number of victims increased, the food was consumed very quickly due to the need for disaster relief and construction projects.

When we entered mid-March, the weather was sunny for a few days, but in April it rained for more than half a month, nearly twenty days.

It was not until before Grain in Ear, close to May, that the sky became clear and sunny. However, Xu Jia could see that from this time on until autumn, there would be no natural rain at all. They were not afraid on their side, as too much rain could not clear up the sky. If there was less rain, Shunji Dragon King would make it rain immediately.

The people just started sowing, completely missing the spring and starting farming directly in summer. They farm in summer and mature in autumn. If they grow faster and the weather is more favorable and the fate is just right, the crops can mature in three months, which will be August by then. Even if they can plant another batch of seedlings in August, with the weather like today, there will be a cold wave before November, and the south will be like the north, and the north will be like a frosty plain.

If the crops are not harvested in time, they will freeze to death. We will have to change to planting other crops, such as beans or frost-resistant winter wheat. In short, we cannot waste several months.

After winter and spring reclamation, more than 5,000 acres of fertile land have been added around Poyang, and the seedlings are growing well. I believe it will definitely be a granary with a bumper harvest and increased production.

After transplanting the rice seedlings, except for a group of people who maintained the original rice fields, the others were divided into production teams to continue to reclaim wasteland and plant after reclaiming it. They didn't mind if it was too late, as long as they could harvest before winter came.

The situation in Jiangnan West Road was similar in other southern regions. Everyone started to farm happily, but they didn't know that there would be no rain in the south for the next five or six months.

On the contrary, the north entered the summer flood season, and there were more rebellions. The northern barbarians invaded, and the court was exhausted from the war. It could not afford to fight the war, and suffered a series of losses. The barbarians looted a large amount of food and wealth, set fire to villages, and carried out unlimited massacres...

This caused the people to lose confidence in the imperial court. Farmers were afraid to cultivate their land and fled south to escape famine and war.

The migration of disaster victims from the north to the south further increased food and security pressures in the south.

However, the Poyang model did spread, and many county magistrates and officials who wanted to get practical work started organizing refugees to open up wasteland.

However, many of them just wanted to use the refugees. Soon, the refugees finished clearing the land, and the local nobles occupied it on the spot. It was meaningless to file a lawsuit with the government...

Such accumulated public resentment soon led to an explosion. Within a month, Xu Jia heard intelligence of 17 or 18 cases of refugees revolting and rioting in other places.

Of course, the local big families colluded with the government and were still powerful in the local area, and most riots ended with successful suppression.

A centipede is still alive even after death. The current weather conditions are only for the first year. In the second, third, or even fourth or fifth year, it will be clear that the "national destiny is doomed" and the state will have a hard time surviving. The common people in the world will not be able to survive.

Why? Every natural disaster will inevitably lead to land annexation. If there is annexation once a year, after three years, the land of local wealthy families will expand like a snowball. A large number of farmers will go bankrupt, and they will become more and more proud, but they don’t know that the more they do this, the more life-destroying it will be. A landslide or a tsunami will sweep the entire dynasty, and all resources will be useless and have to be redistributed.

Xu Jia could feel the surging energy within it, the calamity energy piling up layer by layer until it crushed everyone.

What Xu Jia could do was to start recruiting "tuanlian", that is, local militia organizations, from among the refugees and local citizens.

Xu Jia’s goal was to reach 5,000 people in three years. At the same time, Shanju Temple also began to recruit the second batch of Taoist children from the refugees.

The first batch was recruited from good families. If we recruited more from local good families, there would not be many seeds left. It would be better to recruit directly from the Poyang refugees.

After this batch is ready, they will be sent there as well. Some of the first batch that went to Luzon will be replaced by some of them and come back here to serve as officers of the militia. Then, they will be formally trained as Taoist soldiers and ready for battle.

All of these were written into Xu Jia's plan one by one, but to do all of these, food was needed.

Fortunately, the first batch of food arrived soon. It was not from the altar built at America's Katian Temple, but from the fleet of Sun Bao and his men. After transporting the population from Luzon, they went all the way to South Vietnam, Annan, Siam and other places and purchased twenty ships of food.

They could have sold it on the way, and even had their boats checked by the Cao Gang several times, but Sun Bao thought that this was "the merit of following the emperor" and he should not give up the greater benefit for the sake of the smaller one. He wanted to be granted a title. After all, he had seen cannons and muskets, and Sun Bao believed that whoever became the king of the world must be decided by this Xu Tianshi. He was the mysterious figure in the vernacular novels who assisted the emperor to ascend to the top.

The twenty ships of grain really helped Xu Jia out of his urgent need, and also made Xu Jia fall in love with Sun Bao.

(End of this chapter)