After hearing Yao's words, Yan immediately thought of several of his relatives.
Although these blood relatives of his have always followed the path of practicing Qi and cultivating immortals, because Yan knew the power of the Great Sect and Heavenly Court in later generations, he consciously planned a path to Shinto for them.
Now it seems that their situation is very consistent with Yao's statement.
However, in just a blink of an eye, Yan suppressed the thought in his heart. After all, although he was consciously seeking divine status for several of his relatives, it was more for the purpose of future luck and merit, and he had no intention of actually converting several of his relatives to Shintoism.
Therefore, in addition to a few relatives, Yan carefully recalled the memories of his previous life, combined with the current situation, and finally set his sights on the Sheji Ancestral Temple.
In Yan's previous life, when it came to sacrifices, in addition to the gods of heaven and earth, there was another indispensable object of sacrifice, and that was the ancestors.
Legend has it that through the incense offered by descendants in the Yang world, these ancestral Yin spirits can open a house in the underworld, or even use it to build a ghostly underworld.
There are even legends that these ancestors who receive sacrifices from future generations can establish a divine domain in the underworld and become ancestral gods to protect their descendants under the worship of faith.
Through these legends, combined with what Yao said, it is obvious that it is possible to establish a humane temple by selecting people with meritorious deeds to build ancestral temples and pooling the power of the tribe to offer sacrifices for generations.
As for why you didn’t choose other divine residences that were widely circulated in later generations?
On the one hand, Yan wants to establish a humane divine residence in order to borrow more luck and merit from the human race in the future development of the human race, and then use this to boost his own cultivation.
Therefore, the humane divine residence he established must be based on the human race, and the divine residence he established must eventually be used by the human race and promote the development of the entire human race.
On the other hand, at present, the human race lives in tribal hunting groups. Due to the distance between the tribes in the wild jungle, communication and communication between tribes are extremely inconvenient. Therefore, the time to promote the belief in gods among the entire human race is not yet mature.
After comprehensive consideration, only the Ancestral God and the City God's Palace are left, but the City God's Palace still needs to control the power of the heaven and earth. In the current time when humanity is not smooth, it is obviously much more difficult to implement.
On the contrary, the Ancestral God's pardon is much simpler. On the one hand, He is a very pure humanistic god; on the other hand, He does not need widespread dissemination and promotion and can be rooted in a single tribe.
In fact, if the person who is granted the title can have humane merits, it will be even more effective.
"Fellow Taoist! You said that if you select a person with meritorious deeds in the tribe, and after his or her death, set up a sacrificial temple, declare his meritorious deeds, and enshrine him as a god, so that he can be worshiped from generation to generation. Is it possible to make him a god?"
With the thoughts in his mind turning around, Yan raised his head to face Yao who was sitting upright in the flames and asked in a solemn voice.
At this time, Yao could calmly treat the matter of becoming a god. After hearing Yan's words, he thought about it and said, "Theoretically, there is no problem."
"However, the essence of humane deification is to unite the will of all people to get involved in the Tao, which requires a lot of incense and faith. However, our human tribes generally have a small number of people. If you want to rely on the power of one tribe to become a god, I am afraid that it is not possible. Not caught."
Hearing Yao's concerns, Yan could only shake his head and sigh with a bitter smile: "Since Mother Nuwa created my human race, after thousands of years of reproduction, although it has gained a foothold in the ancient land, it is still generally weak."
"I have traveled to many tribes over the years, and most of them are still struggling to survive. The vast majority of tribesmen have never left the tribe in their lives. In this case, I want to spread faith among the entire human tribe. It is obviously unrealistic to establish a sacrifice."
"For this reason, if we currently want to pardon the gods among the human race, for the time being, we can only rely on the strength of each tribe."
"Hey! Fellow Taoist is right. Our human race is inherently weak. If we want to walk freely in the wild land, traveling and communicating is really unrealistic now." Hearing Yan's words, Yao could only shake his head. There was no other good way. .
"Yes! Now we can only build the ancestral temple, set the sacrifices, and see if we can use other methods to make up for the lack of belief in incense and shorten the time for worshiping the gods." Yanzui said, his eyes couldn't help but Looked at Yao expectantly.
There is no way, although he now knows something about Shinto, but compared with Shinto monks like Yao, he is far behind.
When there are difficulties and problems, naturally we can only hope and expect that Yao can come up with a solution.
Seeing Yan's expectant eyes, Yao smiled helplessly and did not shirk away. He frowned and thought for a moment, then shook his head and said: "The human way of deity can make up for the belief in incense, either through the power of merit, or through external forces conferring the divine way." The authority. Other than that, I don’t have any other good ideas.”
Yan Wenyan shook his head in disappointment, and then said with a helpless smile: "It seems that I took it too much for granted. Now even humanity has to be hidden and accumulated. Maybe this matter of becoming a god will evolve slowly over time. That’s the most appropriate way.”
Yao was a little disappointed at first, but after listening to Yan's words, he nodded thoughtfully and said, "Indeed! The general trend of heaven is like this, and human nature is not obvious. If you want to become a god with human nature, it might not be a bad thing to wait."
However, having said that, Yao looked at Yan with a hint of meaning and said, "However, speaking of it, it is not that there is no shortcut."
"Oh?" Yan looked at Yao expectantly and asked, "I wonder what you have thought of?"
"Haha! Isn't Taoist Taoist himself a good example?" Yao looked at Yan with a smile, "With Taoist Taoist's ability to make fire, plus the method of making fire is passed down to various human tribes."
"Not only does he lack merit, but he also has the ability to spread the name of God throughout the human tribe. It is not easy to become a god through this."
Hearing this, Yan shook his head helplessly, smiled bitterly at Yao and said, "Fellow Taoist knows that I have my own way, and it is impossible for me to follow the divine way anymore. Just don't make fun of me."
"I'm not joking!" Yao said seriously after hearing this: "I don't want fellow Taoists to change to Shintoism. What I mean is that the experience of fellow Taoists is very consistent with the requirements of humane Dao to become a god, and the shortcut comes from this."
Yan understood what Yao meant, but he didn't think it was a shortcut. After all, whether it was such great merit as drilling wood to make fire, or the ability to freely travel among human tribes, they were all very rare.
Moreover, if you really want to have these, becoming a god is no longer the best choice.
"This is just an example. It doesn't have much reference value." Yan shook his head at Yao and rejected the other party's suggestion.
Yao heard the words and did not insist. He nodded and said: "Then we can only rely on time to accumulate. By the way, does Taoist friend have a suitable goal of becoming a god now?"
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