Chapter 983 The system of various schools of thought
"By the way, the Map of Mountains and Rivers."
Suddenly, Jiang Chen remembered something and took out the map of mountains, rivers and the country given to him by Empress Nuwa at the time of offering sacrifices to heaven.
In the past few days, he has figured out the purpose of Nuwa Empress giving this treasure to him, which was to help him reshape the ancient world.
Although the absence of the Mountains and Rivers Sheji Map did not delay Jiang Chen's reshaping of the ancient world, having the Mountains and Rivers Sheji Map would undoubtedly make his plan go more smoothly.
The Map of Mountains and Rivers, an innate spiritual treasure, is simply a map of the prehistoric times, which records the landforms of the prehistoric times in detail. Using this treasure as a reference, Jiang Chen can reshape the complete prehistoric land when he reshapes it.
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"With the map of mountains and rivers, it has undoubtedly saved me a lot of effort."
A smile appeared on Jiang Chen's face. If there was no map of the country, he would have to deduce the landforms of the ancient world by himself. This was time-consuming and labor-intensive, and it was also extremely error-prone.
The emergence of the Mountains and Rivers Society Map undoubtedly saved Jiang Chen a lot of energy and time.
"Let it go for now. It won't be needed for the time being. I'd better deal with the affairs of the Divine Court for now. In a few days, I will be able to become a god."
Putting away the map of mountains and rivers, Jiang Chen finally focused his energy on business. In a few days, he would be canonizing the gods. This was the top priority.
"Let me first see how many of the Nine Provinces are qualified to become gods."
Thinking like this, Jiang Chen used his magical power, his eyes flashed with divine light, and he looked down at the entire land of Kyushu. Since he wanted to canonize the gods, he definitely couldn't just canonize one or two, but the more the better.
It's just that Jiang Chen doesn't have many people under his command now. If he just canonized them as gods, it would only be canonizing more than a hundred people, which is of no great use at all.
Therefore, Jiang Chen set his sights on the land of Kyushu and prepared to select talents from it.
Kyushu is not only vast and boundless, but also has a long history. Even if many talents have either ascended to heaven or become gods or been reincarnated, there are still not a few talents left.
Swish, brush, brush...
In Jiang Chen's eyes, the entire land of Kyushu has become different. In the boundless void, gods and goddesses emerge, like nodes. The divine light blooming from each other crisscrosses each other, forming a huge golden net, covering
The entire land of Kyushu.
The net of Shinto encompasses heaven and earth.
This is a net formed by Shinto rules, encompassing everything, including fate and cause and effect. The fate and cause and effect of all creatures in the net are all governed by Shinto.
The divine way is like a net, encompassing all living beings.
I saw that as the Shinto net took shape, bright or dark lights suddenly appeared in various places in Kyushu.
And the sources of these radiances are also different. Some come from living people, some come from dead people, and some are not even people, but the spirits of mountains, rivers and vegetation.
"Kyushu is indeed a land of outstanding people. Just a cursory glance reveals many seeds of Shinto."
A smile appeared in the corner of Jiang Chen's eyes. Under the net of Shinto, any creature whose soul can bloom with brilliance can be said to be capable of becoming a god.
The brighter the light, the stronger the qualifications, and the stronger the power you can obtain after becoming a god.
"It's a pity that most of these people are alive. Let's wait and see what their choice is."
Jiang Chen shook his head, but did not directly take action to arrest all these creatures. Now that he canonize gods, he will not canonize living people as gods except for his close followers.
Because the dead have no choice, but the living have more choices. They can take the path of immortality or the path of martial arts.
Shinto cannot be free. This is its biggest flaw, and it is also where Shinto is inferior to Buddhism, immortality, martial arts, and magic.
The rest of the cultivation systems pursue detachment, transcending heaven and earth, transcending things, and not being stained by the cause and effect of the world of mortals.
But only Shinto is special. It plunges headlong into the world of mortals and becomes entangled with all sentient beings. The cause and effect are endless, and there is never a chance of transcendence.
Therefore, those who are truly talented will not practice Shinto. Only those who have no escape route and cannot take other paths will choose to practice Shinto.
To put it simply, true geniuses will not practice Shinto. Only mediocre people will choose Shinto.
Just like the innate gods and demons who are the darlings of heaven and earth, they are extremely disdainful of Shinto. They don't look down on them at all, and they will never practice Shinto.
Jiang Chen's main target for becoming a god this time is still the dead, especially those ghosts who have been dead for a long time but are still unwilling to go to the underworld for reincarnation and try their best to stay in the human world.
Of course, the ghosts mentioned here are not ghosts such as fierce ghosts or evil ghosts. They are the souls of outstanding people, ghosts with the wishes of all living beings, or ghosts with a lot of merit.
These ghosts were all outstanding people during their lifetimes, or they were extremely wise, or they brought countless blessings and made extraordinary achievements during their lifetimes. They possess a large amount of wishes and merits from all living beings. This makes their souls immortal after death, staying awake all year round, and staying in the world.
world.
There is an underworld in this world. There are bull heads and horse faces in the underworld, black and white, and countless soul seducers. Normally, after a person dies, his soul will be taken into the underworld by the soul seducers.
Those who failed to go to the underworld either dissipated directly, or turned into evil ghosts and were hunted down by seducers. In addition, there are the ghosts mentioned earlier who have made great achievements in life and have merit to protect their bodies after death.
If such ghosts are unwilling to go to the underworld and force themselves to stay in the human world, neither heaven nor the underworld will be able to do anything about them.
In other words, it can be said that what the underworld hates the most are these people with meritorious deeds. They cannot beat them, nor scold them. They can only enshrine them like ancestors, and they must ensure that no one is wronged.
"Those who have meritorious deeds can enjoy glory and wealth if they are reincarnated."
"If you don't want to be reincarnated, you can also go to heaven, transform into an immortal body in the Feixian Pond, join the great sect of cultivating immortals, and learn the way to immortality."
"It can be said that heaven and earth take great care of these ghosts with meritorious deeds. But no matter which option is chosen, there is no reason to let them stay in the world for a long time."
Jiang Chen's eyes were slightly fascinated, and he glanced at all the ghosts lingering in the world.
The living have a world of the living, and the dead have a world of the dead. The two are like yin and yang in opposition, and they are in a mutually reinforcing and mutually reinforcing relationship.
After death, the soul enters the netherworld, which is a natural law. It seems that these ghosts are unwilling to go to the netherworld for various reasons and force themselves to stay in the human world. This is undoubtedly a disorder of the yin and yang ethics and violates the natural law.
It is true that those with meritorious deeds can receive preferential treatment, but this is not the reason for their misbehavior. Ghosts forcing themselves to stay in the human world is an act that violates the laws of nature and will inevitably be counterattacked by heaven and earth.
Therefore, ghosts who do not want to go to the underworld will continue to breed evil spirits and resentment as time goes by, and then turn into evil ghosts step by step.
Even those with meritorious deeds are no exception. However, the mysterious merits can delay this process. Ordinary ghosts will show signs of turning into powerful ghosts if they stay in the human world for more than seven days.
But ghosts with merit can extend this time to seven years, seventy years, or even seven hundred or seven thousand years...
"They are all ghosts of hundreds of years!"
Jiang Chen discovered that those ghosts with meritorious deeds basically came from the pre-Qin era and were at least hundreds of years old. There were also quite a few old ghosts that were thousands or ten thousand years old.
Only a very small number of ghosts were born in the past few hundred years.
"In the pre-Qin period, were there hundreds of schools of thought?"
"If my prediction is correct, these ghosts should be elites from hundreds of schools."
Jiang Chen thought for a moment and roughly guessed the origins of these ghosts. They were elites from hundreds of schools.
In the pre-Qin, Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, this can be said to be the last glory of the human race.
It was an extremely splendid period. With the confirmation of the protagonist's position in the world of the human race, the great supernatural beings who dominated the world reincarnated into the human race one after another, using doctrine as weapons, and fought a smokeless Taoist struggle.
Of course, in order to avoid contamination with cause and effect, those with great supernatural powers did not reincarnate themselves, but reincarnated into the human race with their spiritual thoughts, and they entered the human race, that is, the human race, and all the results achieved during this period also belong to the human race.
Come clean and leave clean, this is the choice of those with great supernatural powers.
It is also thanks to them that after absorbing the knowledge passed down by them, the human race's civilization has become more brilliant, and countless outstanding people have been born.
The human race, which was already showing signs of decline, even briefly recovered, created new glory. This is it, this is the last afterglow. This glory did not last long. With the passing of the disciples, the human race is irreversible.
Going into decline.
"The descendants of hundreds of families only cultivate knowledge, not spiritual energy, or magical powers. Therefore, they all cannot live forever, and their longevity is similar to that of ordinary people. Even if they are knowledgeable, they will inevitably grow old and frail, and will die."
"However, they are highly knowledgeable and read to the depths of their souls. Their true souls are baptized by knowledge and sweep away all the dust. They are like mirrors hanging high, blooming with thousands of rays of light."
"This means that even though they are dead, their souls are immortal, and the innate aura around them is so radiant that not even the gods, let alone Yin gods, can enter their bodies."
Maybe he noticed Jiang Chen's gaze, and the brilliance of those souls became even brighter. Several of them were surrounded by clear lights, like the sun hanging high in the sky. Their power almost distorted the barrier between reality and illusion, and they wanted to shine on the human world first.
"Amazing!"
Seeing this scene, Jiang Chen was a little surprised. This power was close to the level of the innate Taoist.
What does this mean? It means that this is a person with real great knowledge. Just by doing knowledge, he has raised his level to a level close to that of the innate Taoist.
The innate Taoist here is not talking about the great Confucian scholars who can only inspire great righteousness, but the real innate Taoist who has jumped out of the long river of fate and always exists with heaven and Tao.
However, even if they are close to the realm of the Innate Taoist Master, they still have no power to match them. This is the special feature of the practice system created by the disciples.
The system of practice passed down by the masters only cultivated knowledge and nothing else. This resulted in the fact that although their descendants were at frighteningly high levels, their power was not much different from that of ordinary people.
If you want to show your special features, you must step into the realm of the innate Taoist. Once you enter the Taoist realm, your magical powers will immediately appear.
In other words, before reaching the realm of Xiantian Dao Zun, the descendants of hundreds of schools, no matter how profound their knowledge, do not have any magic power or supernatural powers.
It sounds outrageous, but it is actually quite normal, because the cultivation system passed down by the disciples was created based on the ancient martial arts of the human race, but it is even more extreme.
The essence of ancient martial arts is to exchange endless lifespan for powerful strength and rapid advancement.
The Zhuzi system is even more extreme, not only giving up endless longevity, but also giving up all power and magical powers in exchange for unimaginable cultivation speed.
According to the inferences of the Zhuzi, monks who practice the system of Zhuzi only engage in learning, and it only takes a hundred years to reach the realm of the innate Taoist, not a Taoist like a great Confucian, but a complete innate Taoist.
It took a hundred years to become a complete Xiantian Taoist. This cultivation speed is beyond description, it is simply unbelievable.
It's a pity that the ideas are very good, but in practice it is extremely difficult. In theory, as long as the knowledge is deep enough, it is not difficult to cultivate to the realm of the innate Taoist.
But theory is theory after all, but the reality is that in just a few hundred years, no one can master their knowledge enough to become an innate Taoist master.
Even the disciples themselves, who created this practice system, have not been able to do this. Similarly, over the past several generations, hundreds of schools combined have produced countless geniuses, but still no one can do this.
This is a system of practice that only exists in theory, and no one can do it.
However, just because no one can achieve it, it does not mean that this system of practice has no value. Later, the Confucian sages were able to create Confucianism and Taoism, which was inspired by the systems of the various schools of thought.
The Confucian sage cannot create something out of nothing. He was able to create Confucianism and Taoism, which was also the result of absorbing the essence of his predecessors.
"Amazing!"
"It's really outrageous!"
"If they can achieve this by just studying, then if they follow the path of immortality, there is almost a 100% chance that they will be able to become the innate Taoist master."
Looking at them, Jiang Chen couldn't hide the wonder in his heart. They only had a life span of a hundred years, and they had reached a state close to the innate Taoist master just by doing their studies. What kind of terrifying talent was this?
The road that was almost regarded as a dead end has been opened, and their talents can be imagined. It can be said that throughout the Spring and Autumn and Warring States era, their qualifications are among the top batch, and they are the essence of hundreds of schools.
It's a pity that they took the wrong path and embarked on a dead end path that was destined to be impossible to succeed. If not, they would at least be in the realm of the innate Taoist kings now.
"Is he the human king?"
Someone spoke, and although his voice was old, he seemed very energetic.
"it's me!"
Jiang Chen replied, and his figure disappeared from the spot and appeared in front of a ball of clear light. This was an old man wearing a high crown and a green shirt.
The bright clear light emanated from his spiritual platform. It was the purest innate spiritual light, without any impurities. It was as clean and bright as a bright mirror.