Time is long, and the prehistoric times are vast. Yan has spent five years leisurely on this unknown mountain, and he is still not impatient at all.
Yan enjoys life like this very much. Every day, he either watches the heaven and earth, refining his energy, or talks with his friends about mysteries. Although he does not have the merits to eliminate evil and catch ghosts, he can still feel his own health every day. progress.
But on this day, Yao's loud laughter broke the tranquility in the mountains.
After five years of continuous divine fire refining, Yao finally completely refined the incense and divine resentment deeply embedded in his body, and once he got out of trouble, he returned to his original source.
Yan had already had a premonition about this and was not surprised. After hearing the commotion, he rushed to the scene immediately and saw Yao standing in the sacred fire, opening his arms in high spirits, looking up to the sky and laughing.
"Congratulations to fellow Taoist for escaping the calamity!" Yan stood outside the divine fire with a smile on his face. He waited until the other party stopped laughing and then said congratulations.
At this time, Yao's body looked much thinner than a few years ago, and his aura was correspondingly weaker. After hearing Yan's congratulations, he stepped out of the divine fire, stood still in front of Yan, and felt deeply. After bowing deeply, he raised his head and said carefully:
"The kindness of a Taoist friend is like a new life. I dare not forget this feeling and this kindness. From now on, whenever I need it, I will do whatever I need."
Yao's words completely tied himself to Yan, and following this, he completely gave up the initiative to Yan.
On the one hand, this is because the cause and effect between the two people is not small, and it is necessary to resolve the big cause and effect.
On the other hand, it was also because after several years of contact, Yao knew very well that Yan had great merits. After understanding that his own Shinto practice was difficult, he consciously tied himself up as an ally and supporter for future practice.
"Fellow Taoist, you're so polite!" Yan started to see Yao's actions and planned to evade him. After hearing the other party's words, although he was polite, he stopped evading and accepted Yao's salute, which was regarded as his acquiescence in the future. The relationship between the two people.
"Now that fellow Taoist has escaped the tribulation and is reborn, what are your plans for the future?" Yan asked casually as he reached out to take back the sacred fire that had been burning on the top of the mountain for six or seven years after receiving a salute from the other party.
Hearing Yan's words, Yao shook his head helplessly, pointed at his skinny body, and said: "Although I have successfully refined the divine resentment with the help of fellow Taoists, it has also consumed a lot of money. In the future, it will be I plan to practice in seclusion so that I can restore my basic cultivation as soon as possible."
Yan Wenyan glanced at the other party, nodded clearly, and said: "Fellow Taoist should recover as soon as possible. If you delay for a long time, it will damage your Taoist foundation."
As he said that, Yan thought that he had been away from the tribe for several years, and his cultivation had reached a bottleneck, so he just happened to go back to the Yan clan.
On the one hand, I would like to pay attention to Youyan’s development over the years. On the other hand, you also need to go back and retreat for a while to see if you can make a breakthrough.
Thinking of this, Yan opened his mouth and said to Yao: "That's good, it just so happens that I also need to go back to the Youyan clan."
"Then how to deal with the matter of conferring gods here?" Yao was not surprised by Yan's decision, and just asked about the matter of conferring gods on human nature.
In this matter, although Yan left the quota to his tribe, and he was also responsible for the perfection of the specific method of conferring gods, the leading right to confer gods for the first time must be given to Yan. This is between the two of them. A tacit understanding between them.
Regarding Yao's question, Yan did not reject it this time. Instead, he lowered his head and thought about it before saying, "I'll go to your tribe first before I leave."
"When the time comes, I will urge them to build a temple to offer sacrifices to their family now, start gathering incense and worship, and lay the foundation and introduction for the subsequent canonization of gods."
After hearing Yan's plan, Yao nodded and agreed: "That's fine. Gathering the incense in advance will make it easier and more convenient when it comes time to become a god."
"Fellow Taoist is now reborn, would you like to meet the clan members together?" Yan then smoothly asked the question he had asked before.
This time Yao didn't even hesitate, and said calmly: "Let's forget it. The tribe and I are both reborn from the past. The past is in the past, and we should all be well in the future."
A flash of thought flashed in Yan Wenyan's heart, and he did not force it, but instead said: "That's fine. However, in the future, fellow Taoists may have to waste this part of their incense and faith."
It turns out that Yao, as the former high priest of the tribe, is now the god who holds the authority over this rolling mountain range. The people of the tribe were originally his natural followers. Doing this now is equivalent to giving up this part of the incense belief.
"It's no pity." Yao looked at it indifferently and said calmly: "I became a god with the authority of rules. The belief in incense does more harm than good to me."
The Shinto practiced by Yao has been passed down to the ancient times. In that era when Shinto dominated the world, the gods did not lack the knowledge and application methods of incense belief.
Therefore, Yao naturally also knows some methods of using the belief in incense, and even the method of humane deification envisioned by Yan is based on this foundation.
Through discussions with Yao in the past few years, Yan naturally knows that incense belief is a real shortcut for Shinto, which can quickly advance the speed of practice.
However, in later generations, there was a saying that belief in incense was poisonous. Like all shortcuts, the distracting thoughts and complicated causes and effects of the incense belief are deeply ingrained and difficult to eliminate.
Although it can be used to promote Shinto practice, it also has endless poisons. Not only is it trapped by the power of incense and belief in humanity, but also as time and the belief in incense increase, it is easy to lose it under the influence of the power of humanity. Self-consciousness, Tao turns into the rules of heaven and earth.
In other words, those who believe in incense and become gods will not only find it difficult to achieve great liberation, but they may not even have the same life span as heaven and earth.
However, nothing is absolute.
Yan knew, however, that the saints and great sects of later generations spread their faith in the world and collected and divided the incense of all living beings. Obviously, it had a more important role or other means of use.
However, despite this, Yan was not surprised by Yao's decision. After all, they did not have the means of future saints, and rashly absorbing the incense faith would indeed do more harm than good.
Just like Yan, although he consciously promoted the matter of becoming a god, he had no idea of being tainted with the incense faith.
"In that case, I'll take my leave first." Seeing this, Yan didn't say much and said goodbye very simply.
"That's good! Take care, fellow Taoist!" Yao didn't hold back after hearing this. We were all immortals and gods with long lives, so we took the temporary parting very lightly.
"Okay! In the future, fellow Taoist should pay more attention to the matter of becoming a god. When the time comes, fellow Taoist remember to inform me." Yan nodded, and finally reminded Yao Dao.
"Don't worry, fellow Taoist! I will pay attention." Yao nodded and promised.
"Take care, fellow Taoist! I'm going!" Before he finished speaking, Yan had already taken a step forward, and when he reappeared, he was already dozens of miles away.
