Siheyuan: Breaking up with Shazhu at the beginning

From north to south, the world, the blue ocean and the winding rivers are all filled with smoky aroma and steam.

These methods of practice are effective and improve rapidly. As long as one has a sincere enough faith and worships, they can gather powerful power. This power can be used to enhance the practitioner's mana, giving the artifacts and talismans greater effectiveness, and can also be separated and shaped separately, turning into precious incense materials, gold and silver, as a universal currency in the world of divine incense.

The key to this method is that the land is the core fortress:

With a vast territory and a large population, the power of faith will continue to gather.

The Great Shang Kingdom had a vast territory and had accumulated an immense amount of human vitality. Therefore, one could enter this country as an official, borrow the fortune of the human race to practice Taoism, which could rapidly improve the realm of even the most novice practitioners.

However, in the later stages of the non-orthodox path, it is very likely that one will be deeply entangled in the causal entanglement, and in turn be suppressed and dragged down by the human vitality and unable to reach the top of the divine world. Usually, only those cultivators with insufficient foundation in Taoism will choose this path.

Although Wen Zhong is gifted, he unconsciously develops an obsession with worldly affairs...or perhaps his character is too pure and selfless to tolerate even the slightest impurity.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, everything seems to be easy to deal with, but if he is in the human world and sees such worldly injustice or disaster, how can he stand idly by.

In plain words, cultivation is a path of selfish pursuit, and seeing through the rules behind it. Things in the world are ever-changing and turbulent, so how can we completely solve them?

Generally speaking,

Most of the ascetics choose to stay away from the hustle and bustle of the world in order to purify the realm of cultivation and the natural energy, so that the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can gather and the essence of all things can converge. They can concentrate on the path of cultivation without distraction.

People like Wen Zhong, who are full of a sense of justice, cannot escape the constraints of the world. They cannot sit idly by and watch injustice or turn a blind eye to injustice and disasters.

Therefore, this destined choice for him has long been one of the destinies in his fate and is inevitable.

Li Yi noticed this phenomenon and in order to prevent potential risks, he prepared various materials and equipment in advance and compiled them into a "super treasure book". He took it out at this time and explained the contents in detail.

He believed that this "super treasure book" was indeed a top-grade secret book, which would play a decisive role in helping Chen Xuande consolidate his territory and even in helping his power to gain a decisive position in Liu Bei's group.

Ever since he stepped into this ancient and mysterious land, Li Yi's attention has always been attracted by the people under Liu Bei's command.

The warriors in this world do not cultivate internal strength, but their physical quality and spiritual potential far exceed those of the humans in his memories. It is common for ordinary people to live for several decades, and they are not shaken at all even in the face of extreme cold and heat. Their physical endurance and running speed are far beyond the reach of top athletes in modern competitive sports.

The heavy pottery jars needed for daily cooking are controlled as easily as toys in the hands of women; a group of middle-aged and young people carry huge logs weighing thousands of pounds and still move forward briskly; piles of stones weighing tens of thousands of pounds can be smoothly moved to another place by just a few people... All of this demonstrates the incredible potential of human beings.

Despite this, after thousands of years of witnessing, the world's productivity and technology have not achieved significant progress, and it still basically relies on manual farming and manual labor. People rely on the mountains and water for food, and the situation of "depending on the weather for food" often occurs. Agricultural output is strongly affected by many external factors. In this world, even the most basic agricultural technologies, such as crop rotation and fertilizer application, have not been mastered; irrigation systems and intensive farming have not been popularized and applied. Farming work is simply the three steps of reclamation, sowing and harvesting. If you want to expect high yields, you can only fantasize; even if people offer sacrifices and pray for good weather, the actual annual grain output is still as thin as paper.

Take the land around Chencangguan Pass as an example. The plains here are extremely fertile and the environment is suitable for growing crops. However, the intelligence reported to the court showed the bleak reality. "For every 10 mu of farmland, the average harvest in a season does not exceed 40 hu of rice." In other words, only 1 hu of grain were produced per mu of land per year.

According to his estimation, the measurement of da hu in the whole Yizhou was roughly consistent with his memory, and 1 shi dou was equal to about 24 jin. So, if a fertile land only produced so much grain under the premise of good weather and good harvest, how much lower could the yield of other poor places be?

The "super book" passed to Chen Xuande contained a lot of knowledge related to agricultural production, water resource management, animal husbandry, architectural design, mathematics, and medical care. In his alien world, these were all new and strange concepts that he had never heard of.

These basic knowledge, which are no longer unfamiliar to modern civilization, are like long-treasured treasures in Chen Xuande's field, full of novelty and value.

At first, Jiang Wen didn't pay too much attention to this matter, but after thinking about it more, he couldn't help but feel surprised.

"If this lighthouse is built, won't it be able to guide the light no matter how the weather changes?!"

The biggest worry in the past was whether there would be anyone to ensure peace and harmony in this place after the evil spirits were eliminated.

However, seeing all the "secrets" given by Jiang Xuan, everything seemed not so difficult.

In Jiang Huan's home, backed by the Yangtze River, all that was needed was to build a lighthouse and a secret passage system.

Whether it is wind, rain, drought or flood, it can guide and drain water in time!

Is there still a need for a water god?

After thinking it over, he couldn't wait to share the news with his fellow tribesmen on the shore.

Jiang Xuan shook his head and said with a hint of reproach: "The construction of the lampstand is not a one-day job. It requires a lot of labor and materials... Don't be impatient about this matter. Let's worship the gods first."

When Wen Zhong heard "worship the gods first", he showed a puzzled expression and didn't quite understand what this meant.

"Follow me." Jiang Xuan waved his hand slightly and arrived at the temple of the "God of Lamp".

Here is a tall, magnificent, luxurious and glorious temple.

Because the Jiang God was killed, there are no more people offering sacrifices to the gods at this altar. Only the statue in the main hall is still sitting there, with colorful paint carved on its surface.

Jiang Xuan waved his hand casually, and the statue cracked, and small glittering copper plates flowed out. They looked like yellow cast copper, but they all exuded a strong and fragrant fragrance.

Jiang Wen looked at the small metal coins covering the ground with a puzzled look on his face. He was not an ordinary person, so he could certainly see that the copper coins were unusual.

"This is..." Jiang Wen asked.

The moment he stepped into the temple, he was shocked to see the ground covered with copper coins.

"These are incense-cast objects, called incense copper."

Jiang Xuan said calmly, "The humans in Jiang Huan's homeland here continue to burn incense as a sacrifice, and the power of incense faith gathers inside the statue of the god to form this item!

According to the strength of belief, it is divided into three levels: incense copper, earth silver, and heaven gold. One hundred incense coppers can be exchanged for one earth silver, or half a heaven gold...

When we face the belief in gods in the future, we will have to do more homework in this regard.

Thank you for your advice, Senior Brother!"

Wen Zhong nodded earnestly and then raised a question. "With the incense copper, can we become the water god?" Jiang Xuan shook his head in response. "We still need to find something that can create clouds and rain and regulate the flow of rivers."

As soon as he finished speaking, a green light rushed out from the door, revealing a young man with double horns on his head, in the shape of a dragon, like a jade sculpture.

He held a square jade plate tightly in one hand, and the smooth surface emitted a faint and elegant light.

"Reporting to the clan leader, according to my arrangement, we have found this artifact from the demon cave and recovered it. At the same time, we also rescued more than 40 ordinary human women and killed the ferocious demon beast that harmed people..."

After hearing this, the leader of the Xuanwu tribe finally understood where the roar of protecting the village came from. At the same time, he felt a little guilty. His brother always considered things comprehensively and far-reachingly. On the contrary, he acted on intuition.

The jade token was passed randomly to subordinates. Now Black Turtle took it in his hand and poured a slight spiritual power into the jade token. The surrounding water began to flow as if responding to the master's command, presenting a scene of being controlled.

This is the artifact that controls the waters in the Demon Sea. As long as a little spiritual power is applied, the rainfall in a radius of hundreds of miles can be adjusted at will.

In the final analysis, if you hold this magical object and add a little spiritual energy, you can be called the new "tribal god" who governs this area of ​​water.

Touching the square jade in his hand, Xuangui examined its details, from which he could see the unique characteristics of the spirit tablet - this was a mass-produced piece, not a custom-made one.

It is hard to believe that this was not the work of a famous big fish in the Demon Sea. It was more likely that it was created by some person with ulterior motives, who used a specific method to allow this seemingly ordinary fish to obtain the power of God, so that it could pretend to be a god and thereby absorb incense offerings and faith.

Just like the "big fish" from the sea of ​​monsters, this so-called "tribe god" is also a liar. His true identity should be an ancient great god - Wuzhiqi. With extraordinary strength, as the leader of the four river gods, he once led the monster tribe to challenge the authority during Dayu's battle to confer the gods, but was suppressed by Dayu with his iron shackles and fetters. In the end, he was hung at the foot of this mountain with a copper chain around his neck and imprisoned forever.

After recalling the power imagination brought by Fang Yupai, Xuangui knew that this was not the right time to find out what kind of power the manipulator behind the scenes had, so he made up his mind.

He brought the artifact to Xuanwu, and asked him to experience its power. "The spice stone has the function of transforming spiritual energy. When combined with this jade token, it gives a person the power of the water god. You can select a new water god in the Linhai Pass." "Select a new god?" Xuanwu's mind was boiling after hearing this, and he recalled the legend of distant history:

In ancient times, there was an emperor who was wise and selected elites from the people, appointed them as the Lord of the Yangtze River, the Lord of famous mountains, and even the spirits of prefectures and counties, and made them the cornerstones of the country's patron saints.