One Qi Chaoyang

Chapter 439 Guangyuan Temple
Xun Lanyin suddenly announced that she would go into seclusion in Lanyin Cottage.

The Lanyin cottage seemed to have turned into an ocean. Above the ocean, a faint light rose from the sea. Xun Lanyin sat cross-legged in the center, her body like a reflection in the water, and also like a reflection of the entire night sky.

The ball of light slowly rose higher and higher, becoming brighter and brighter, as if it was shedding its lead, revealing a bit of silver inside.

That bit of silver looked like a silver flame.

Her Xuanyin Pearl was refined into the Xuanyin Gem Pearl, and then into the Canghai Mingyue Pearl.

The ocean is now vast, and it is time for the bright moon to appear.

She transformed the dark yin into the vast ocean, and used the vast ocean to contain the bright moon, which symbolized the pregnancy of a baby in the elixir fetus.

She wanted to take advantage of the bright moon in the ocean to give birth to her own baby.

Almost at the same time, Zhao Fuyun was doing the same thing. He wanted to use the Golden Crow Bird on the Red Flame Divine Lamp from the myth deep in his memory to truly take root in this world and break the illusion, so as to become a true Dharma image in this world, so that his divine will could be fulfilled, and finally he could infuse the elixir into the fetus and give birth to a baby.

Zhao Fuyun's second Yuanying, Taishan Hercules, came to Guangyuan Prefecture.

Because Guangyuan Prefecture was close to Tiandu Mountain, not many people migrated to Duxia City. Despite this, many more temples were built here.

He came to the former government office and found that it had been renovated.

Guangyuan Prefecture has been changed into Guangyuan Temple.

The main gate is tall, but there are several doors. One of the big gates leads into the hall, where dozens of statues of gods are enshrined. Some are big, some are small, and they are arranged in order from top to bottom, left to right, and front to back. There is a tablet in front of each statue.

Most people are facing the god in the center of the main hall, whose name is Luo Tianshangshen of Yuchen Palace.

The statue seems to be carved from white jade, and its body is painted into a robe, with gold and blue as the main colors.

There is a protrusion between his eyebrows, like an eye, which seems to be open but not open, as if as long as it opens, he can see through everything in the world.

In front of the main hall, nine cushions were lined up for people to kneel and worship, and a large incense burner was placed in front of the Luo Tianshang God in the Yuchen Palace.

As for other statues of gods, there are no cushions or incense burners in front of them, but there are also tablets of gods in front of them.

People keep kneeling and praying for the well-being of their families, or for prosperity, or for the elimination of disasters and problems.

Next to him stood a man burning incense.

In the entire temple, there are people with official status, who burn incense, pray, recite scriptures, pass on classics, and sit in the middle hall. In addition to these, there are many lay Buddhists, who are further called Dharma protectors.

Here, every statue has believers. Zhao Fuyun doesn’t know what the situation is in other places, but here, there are thirty-six of them in this hall.

These thirty-six are called the Thirty-six Gods of Guangyuan.

Why are there so many gods in Guangyuan Prefecture? It is because Guangyuan Prefecture was influenced by the temple politics from the capital. At the same time, because it is far away, it is influenced by Tiandu Mountain, so there are too many gods enshrined in the temples here. And these are the temples in the county city. It is even more difficult to say how many there are in private.

In the county and prefecture auxiliary temples, the statues of gods enshrined are even more diverse.

This is because the emperor is far away, so everything has changed since it was handed down from above. The Lord Zhongtang here is not sent by the court, but a local deity priest, also known as the chief priest.

In order for the gods to enter this temple, there must be a certain number of believers, and at least one guardian and one priest.

The conditions seem to be very loose, but it is precisely because of this that being able to bring offerings here depends mainly on the ability of the chief priest, and it is entirely up to him to carry in the deity he is offering.

Of course, if the deity you worship is powerful, then the person who worships it will naturally be able to gain powerful abilities and be able to come in naturally.

Zhao Fuyun didn’t know who the Luotian God in this temple was, but he naturally thought of another name - Daluotian.

There is another one, the Daluo Secret Sect.

In Guangyuan Prefecture, which is not far from Tiandu Mountain, there is a deity that Zhao Fuyun feels may be related to the Daluo Secret Religion. He is the main deity of the prefecture. He couldn't help but wonder, does Tiandu Mountain know about it or not?

If he knew, then why did He still exist? Is it because they are actually not related, just have similar names?
Or maybe he didn't know, but it didn't make sense that he didn't know, because there was a Taoist temple opened in Tiandu Mountain in Guangyuan Prefecture.

All of this started when he was a teacher here. Over the years, the disciples of this Daozi Academy would naturally first choose to go to the lower academy of Tiandu Mountain and then enter the upper academy.

Of course, there are not many people who can truly practice to the level of Xuan Guang, but they can at least learn some basic spells to keep their homes safe. As long as they don’t encounter any evil spirits, nothing will happen, and they won’t rashly bring bad things back home.

However, since the introduction of this temple policy, almost every household worships gods, and some families even worship several gods.

Of course, some were invited back from the temple, some were just ancestral spirits, and some were encountered in dreams. It is often the gods that come to you on their own initiative, or those encountered in dreams, that are particularly effective.

Moreover, many people, after burning incense and offering sacrifices and communicating with the gods in the dark, will be able to 'carry spirits', which is also called 'inviting gods'. They will then be able to possess certain abilities, such as exorcising evil spirits and removing demons. Although this is somewhat harmful to oneself and often shortens one's lifespan, it is also a rare way for many people with low talent for cultivation to acquire magic.

For many people, taking a statue of god with you when you go out will ensure that you can return safely.

Zhao Fuyun mixed in the crowd and walked towards the back. There were fewer people worshipping in front of other statues. Although there were incense burners, there were no cushions.

He looked at the statues. There were all kinds of them. Some looked like scholars, some looked like fierce men, some looked like old men, some looked like boys, some looked like young girls, and some looked like pregnant women.

Of course, there are also some weird ones, some don’t even have faces carved out, some have eyes on their exposed bellies, and there are all kinds of them.

The names they gave were all kinds of weird.

His steps suddenly stopped because he saw a statue and a black coffin carried by nine black ghosts.

The tablet clearly reads "Lord of the Black Coffin".

This was what he had heard in the Hall of Rebirth. At that time, he almost involuntarily responded to the request and went to the human world. He helped the person who opened the altar to suppress an evil ghost and almost had his soul taken away by nine infant ghosts.

"There is actually a sacrifice to the 'Lord of the Black Coffin' here." A thought flashed through Zhao Fuyun's mind.

At this moment, a female nun came from behind. At first glance, Zhao Fuyun recognized this person. She was actually the sister of one of the Taoists when he came to Guangyuan Prefecture many years ago.

(End of this chapter)