Merit is the merit bestowed by God after believers, monks, and immortals have done good deeds.
So who bestows merit? How does the information in so many departments and so many 'books' in the entire heaven appear?
It's very simple. Before there was heaven, this was done by the way of heaven.
After the establishment of the Heavenly Court, it was completed by the life-bearing treasure of the Jade Emperor.
This destiny-bearing treasure is transformed by the rules of heaven. It is given by heaven to the Jade Emperor and is controlled by the Great Heavenly Lord. It is a magic weapon that counts all things in heaven. It is the "Treasure of Heaven".
Since the Jade Emperor ruled the Three Realms, Heaven has handed over all affairs inside and outside the Three Realms to the Jade Emperor. Therefore, whether it is the jade plate of the immortal official, the "land book" in the hands of the earth god, the "book of life and death" in the underworld, or the "note of life" Books, etc., all the books used by Heaven to record all living things in the three realms, the source of their information is the "Treasure of Heavenly Way".
And the Jade Emperor will use the "Tiandao Baolu" to authorize the books in the hands of the immortal officials below, granting them the authority to modify or view them. For example, after Sun Wukong caused trouble in the underworld, the Jade Emperor took back the "Book of Life and Death" Modify permissions, only view permissions.
To put it again in our easy-to-understand terms, Heaven has transformed thousands of universes and trillions of living beings, but he has not interfered. Instead, he has chosen a master, the Jade Emperor, to maintain stability and given him the greatest authority under Heaven. The most precious treasure is the "Tiandao Treasure". At the same time, the Jade Emperor can use the "Tiandao Treasure" to divide countless related contents and permissions. The Way of Heaven is not a specific concept. If the Jade Emperor is the leader of the group, and the immortal officials at all levels are the administrators of all sizes, then the Way of Heaven is the 'group' itself.
When the Dao creates a 'group', then this is 'being'. But when this 'group' disbands, it becomes 'nothing'. But whether it is 'nothing' or 'existence', it is only within the movement of heaven.
So what is the avenue? It's very simple, the great road is the law and the method. It is the way to understand the way of heaven, so all three thousand avenues can be proved.
From the stars in the universe to the microorganisms, their rise and fall are all based on the "Tiandao Treasure", and the "Tiandao Treasure" will share this information with the books below and grant certain permissions.
So which one is the first copy of "Tiandao Baolu"? That is the "Jade Rules and Golden Seals Merit Book" in the hands of Jiutian Xuannv. Its copy is directly derived from "Tiandao Treasures" and has the highest authority under "Tiandao Treasures".
Therefore, the answer to the previous question is ready to come out. Merits are bestowed by "Tiandao Baolu" or "Jade Rules and Golden Seals Merit Book".
However, the "Jade Rules and Golden Medals Merit Book" can only bestow merits on immortal officials or people who have become immortals, because immortal officials have the "Immortal Official Jade Disk" and non-immortal officials have the "Immortal Gold Medal", which can be used. To undertake and trade merits.
People who have not become immortals do not have these two things. Their merits can only be recorded in the "Tiandao Treasure Array", and after they become immortals, they will be issued to the "Immortal Urn Golden Medal".
Xue Qingxia has not become an immortal, so now she has no merit that can be used to buy Penglai Xiancao. She can only go back and ask her senior brother who has become an immortal for a 'merit talisman' to buy Penglai Xiancao.
The so-called merit talisman is the Yuanshen talisman rubbed from the immortal official jade plate or the immortal urn gold medal by an immortal official or deity. It can be used to collect merit or pay in place of the immortal official jade plate or the immortal urn gold medal. merit.
Or to put it more simply, the merit talisman is actually a two-in-one version of the 'receipt code' and the 'payment code'.
However, Xue Qingxia did not ask for the merit talisman from her senior brother, because her senior brother came with her!
"To be honest, as a brother, I really don't believe that someone would sell you a thousand-year-old Penglai grass for 20,000 merits." Yan Haiping, the master of Yuhua Temple, was wearing a Liangyi Taoist robe, a sapphire vertical crown on his head, and a long beard. He was standing on the top of the clouds, and he turned around and said to his junior sister Xue Qingxia.
Xue Qingxia curled her lips and said: "Senior brother, I am over 800 years old at least, but I still have this in my heart!"
Yan Haiping sighed and said: "Yes, I haven't become an immortal at the age of more than 800 years. As a brother, I picked the True Immortal Dao Fruit at the age of 500."
Having said this, he said to Xue Qingxia: "You have to hurry up. I will be relieved if you become an immortal as soon as possible."
Xue Qingxia said: "After all, you are just worried, right?"
Yan Haiping said: "Of course I don't worry. If I can really buy a millennium Penglai grass, I can at least refine two Nine-turn Golden Pills. I have worried about you juniors and juniors since you were young. I have to watch you grow up one by one." I can rest assured if you are immortal."
Every time a monk's lifespan reaches a higher level, it is a qualitative leap.
The lifespan of a mortal is one hundred years, two hundred years of Qi training, 360 years of Xuan training, 500 years of spiritual training, 720 years of Void training, 999 years of holding pills, 1,800 years of Nascent Soul, and 1,800 years of Yang training. God's three thousand six hundred years, okay, let's stop here, let's start with the true immortals, not in terms of thousands of years.
The lifespan of a true immortal is 360,000 years, that of a mysterious immortal is 3.6 million years, that of a Taiyi mysterious immortal is 1.08 million years, that of a golden immortal is 7.2 million years, and that of a Taiyi golden immortal is 36 million years. Starting from Daluo Jinxian, there is no life limit.
However, since the Three Realms have been running so far, only a small number of the innate saints of Da Luo Jinxian have survived to this day in all the calamities, such as the Four Imperial Gods, the Duke of the East, the Queen Mother of the West, the Mysterious Lady of the Nine Heavens, and so on, less than fifty people.
And as time goes by, cultivation becomes more and more difficult. Many true immortals can't enter the Xuanxian even after living for 360,000 years.
"I'm afraid that the demon immortal will lie to you." Yan Haiping said: "Nine out of ten demon cultivators are evil. Besides, there is a demon immortal opposite you. How can I rest assured that you are coming here with a merit talisman?"
When Xue Qingxia heard this, although she was still dissatisfied, she felt no dissatisfaction in her heart.
After a cup of tea, the two finally arrived at Lingxia Mountain. Yan Haiping just glanced down and his brows jumped: "What a strong evil spirit."
"Senior brother, don't be alarmed." Xue Qingxia said: "Although the evil spirit here is strong, there is no bloody evil spirit. Please take a closer look."
Hearing this, Yan Haiping sensed it carefully again. Sure enough, although the demonic aura here was strong, there was no filthy evil aura. This meant that the demons here did not eat human flesh and blood or absorb human essence.
If it is a monster that eats human flesh and blood and sucks human essence, the evil spirit it emits must be filled with the evil spirit of blood evil and filth.
At this time, a ray of green light flew into the sky, and then Cen Biqing appeared in front of the two of them.
Cen Biqing was slightly startled when she saw Xue Qingxia. She thought it was a passing immortal, but she didn't expect it was Xue Qingxia, so she cupped her hands and smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Xue, you are finally here."
Xue Qingxia bowed her hands to Cen Biqing, then pointed to Yan Haiping beside her and said, "Cen is so polite. This is the master of my Yuhua Temple and my senior brother, Yan Haiping."
Cen Biqing then saluted Yan Hai again: "Good morning, Master Yan."
Yan Haiping stared at Cen Biqing for a moment, then bowed his head and said, "I have met fellow Taoist Cen."
Xue Qingxia asked at this moment: "Cen Shangxian, is that Penglai grass still there?"
Cen Biqing smiled and said: "I'm here, Master Yan, Taoist friend Xue, please come with me."
Then the three of them flew down into the sky and arrived at the medicine garden to the east of Lingxia Mountain.
When Yan Haiping saw the elixirs in the medicine garden, he was extremely shocked. The elixirs here were much more prosperous than those in his Yuhuaguan medicine garden.
There are hundreds of elixirs of various types and ages, many of which are common elixirs. But what is unusual about these common elixirs is that they are all at least five hundred years old.
This, this, this... such a treasure place, so many magical medicines, has no one discovered it in these thousands of years?
Yan Haiping found it a bit incredible. According to the monks' habit of scraping the land, it was impossible to leave such a great resource unexplored.
"Senior brother, senior brother?" Xue Qingxia was calling from the front. Yan Haiping came back to his senses, responded casually and walked up.
When Yan Haiping came forward and saw the Penglai grass with Qingzhixian roots, he suddenly took a breath of cold air, "Thousand-year-old Penglai grass, it is indeed the Thousand-year Penglai grass."
Cen Biqing smiled and said: "Two fellow Taoists, if it is confirmed that it is correct, please take away the 20,000 merits."
"Twenty thousand merits..." Yan Haiping looked at Cen Biqing meaningfully and said: "Fellow Daoist Cen, are you sure you want to give us this thousand-year-old Penglai grass for 20,000 merits?"
Cen Biqing nodded and said: "I don't know if I quoted more or less. If it is more, the price will not change again. If it is less, just make a friend. If you have any relatives or friends who need elixir in the future, you can introduce them to them." Come to Lingxia Mountain to buy it."
After hearing Cen Biqing's words, Yan Haiping finally understood. The cultivator did not pretend to be pretentious and said directly: "Okay, since fellow Taoist said this, poor Taoists will inevitably talk in front of fellow Taoists in the future."
After saying that, Yan Haiping summoned the Immortal Urn and Golden Seal and said to Cen Biqing: "Fellow Daoist Cen, please."
Cen Biqing also called out his Immortal Urn Golden Medal, and then Yan Haiping directly transferred 20,000 merits to Cen Biqing's Immortal Urn Golden Medal, and then asked: "Can we collect medicine then?"
Cen Biqing glanced at the merits in the golden seal of the Immortal Treasure, and then said with a smile: "Of course."
Then Yan Haiping took out a jade box, stepped forward and used immortal magic to pluck the thousand-year-old Penglai grass, and quickly sealed it in the jade box to prevent the medicinal power from being lost.
After putting away the jade box, Yan Haiping breathed a sigh of relief, cupped his hands and said: "Fellow Taoist Cen is a righteous and virtuous person. I am afraid that I will have to come to Lingxia Mountain to cause trouble in the future."
Cen Biqing returned the courtesy with a smile: "It's what I asked for."
Yan Haiping added: "Today we have collected the elixir. I have to go back to make the elixir, so I will leave first."
Cen Biqing nodded and said, "Okay, fellow Taoists, please excuse me."
Then Yan Haiping took Xue Qingxia to fly into the sky. When he was about to leave, Xue Qingxia saw a fairy light in the sky in the distance falling towards the main peak of Lingxia Mountain. "It seems like someone is here again." Xue Qingxia said.
Yan Haiping glanced at it and saw that it was a young man wearing a unicorn robe with stars painted on it, and a female monk holding a person in her arms. The two of them had similar cultivation levels to him, and they should both be true immortals. .
"They should also be here to buy elixirs. Ignore them, let's go back to the temple first. This thousand-year-old Penglai herb is extremely potent and requires careful preparation before starting to make elixirs." After Yan Haiping finished speaking, there was a flash of cloud light under his feet. It carried the two of them and flew away from Lingxia Mountain.
