On a sunny day, the warm wind makes the wheat grow, and the green shade and quiet grass are better than the flowers.

However, at the foot of Mount Yi, under the summer sunshine, a group of Taoist priests were working hard on their way.

In front were four Taoist priests in their prime, carrying a statue of a god on two poles. The path was too narrow and they often stepped into weeds. Behind them was a donkey, each carrying a cat statue in a bamboo basket on its back, and behind it were five younger Taoist priests.

Each carries a bamboo basket, which also contains a cat statue.

A group of cats and a fox followed them.

The one carrying the cat statue was okay, not too heavy. The four senior brothers in front were carrying human statues, but they were too heavy.

The statue was made in Yixian City and transported all the way from the city. Cars could only be used for the first part of the journey, and later on it could only be carried by manpower.

Even if it is a cat statue, it is not easy to carry it all the way.

"well……"

Cultivation is a matter of cultivating the Tao, neither practicing physical training nor becoming an immortal. This work is also somewhat torturous.

Lin Jue agrees more with the third senior brother in this regard——

There is obviously a mountain village at the foot of the mountain. You can pay the villagers to help carry it. The Taoist temple is not short of money recently. In this way, the villagers can make money despite working hard, and the Taoists can also feel relaxed.

Totally the best of both worlds.

But the elder brother doesn’t think so.

"Thank you so much for your hard work." A pimp cat walking in front took small steps and occasionally trotted for a while. "If we had to move it ourselves, we would definitely not be able to move it."

"Fellow Taoist's skills lie elsewhere." Lin Jue wiped his sweat and said.

"You can talk." Ma Mao looked at him seriously, "Now you are my third favorite Taoist priest in Fuqiu Temple."

"Who's number one?"

"It must be your master, he and I grew up together!"

"It turns out that Taoist friend is so old."

"That's right! Logically speaking, you should call me senior!"

"What about number two?"

"Huh? What second?"

"My second favorite person."

"Oh!! There is a second one in the middle!"

"..." Lin Jue was choked for a moment. He felt a little helpless, but he raised his hand and said, "Thank you, fellow Taoist, for your kindness."

"What is love?"

"..."

At this moment, a voice came from the front:

"It's almost there!"

Lin Jue looked up and saw that he was almost there.

A new temple appeared in the forest.

Fortunately, the temple is built at the foot of the mountain and does not require climbing.

Several Taoists were panting from exhaustion, but they did not rest and walked to the temple in one breath.

The temple has been repaired a long time ago and is very good. The plaques and couplets were also inscribed by Liu Gong, who was good at calligraphy and had good moral character and high respect in Yi County. Now only these statues are missing.

Several senior brothers placed the statue of the fourth aunt's grandmother in the main position, and Lin Jue and others also placed the cat statues on their backs on both sides below.

It was the Fourth Aunt Grandma who became a god, but as the saying goes, if one person achieves enlightenment, chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven. If the Fourth Aunt Grandma became a god, she would naturally bring her descendants into the temple to enjoy the incense.

Adjust the position and arrange it better.

Many cats watched them move.

Lin Jue finally breathed a sigh of relief and walked out of the temple.

"Congratulations to Grandma Fourth Aunt and fellow Cat Taoists, you can now be regarded as having attained the right level of cultivation." Senior Brother said from behind, "From now on, I will practice in the mountains and eat incense at the foot of the mountain. Grandma Four will be blessed with many children. If anyone asks for help, please come to me."

, just send a few descendants to deal with it, there are several mountain villages far and near here, and the incense is enough to maintain the god's status and body."

"Of course we know this!"

"If it is managed properly, maybe the reputation can be spread to further places. Then people from Yi County and even the surrounding areas will come to ask for help. Maybe more temples will be built and the incense will spread wider and wider."

"We know this too!"

Lin Jue heard the sound and looked up into the distance.

Villages can be seen faintly in the distance.

Although Yishan is remote, there are mountain villages at the foot of the mountain. There is Gang Village nearby, and there are several villages named "Keng" in the distance. There are many people there, and there is a temple fair every year.

Through this fourth aunt, he almost learned a little bit about the spiritual system of this world.

The fourth aunt is the smallest god, that is, she can only have a legal identity, have a name in heaven, and have records in the human court, and can legally gather incense. As for the priesthood and responsibilities, it depends entirely on her own management and believers.

Lai Ding also relies on his own accumulation of divine power.

It’s quite hard for such a little god.

Work hard and be cautious.

If you don't do your job well, and a respected person like Mr. Liu in the city takes advantage and comes to demolish your temple, there's nothing you can do.

There is no other way, the monster's lifespan is also over.

The fourth aunt's life was about to end, so she had to seek the way of incense. After becoming a god, as long as the incense continues, she will live forever. Once the incense stops, it will gradually dissipate.

If we look back at history, we don't have to go very far. Just a few hundred years ago, there were many gods that no one worships anymore and have no names in the world. Most of these gods no longer exist.

Therefore, this is a method and a shackle.

If Lin Jue followed the path of the Fulu sect, even if he succeeded in practice, had perfect merits, and would be ranked among the immortals after his death, this would probably be the same.

"In order to increase the popularity of Grandma Four, we have to inform the villagers at the foot of the mountain and tell them that their temple has been built. They can come to Grandma Four to ask for help in catching mice and exorcising ghosts. If Taoist Master Masan is fine, we will

Let’s go first.” Senior Brother’s voice continued to come from behind.

When Lin Jue turned around, a group of cats had already jumped onto the altar, each looking at their own statues.

These cat statues are very simple and not lifelike, but the statues are all painted with oil paint, and you can roughly tell whether they are you or not by the color.

Of course, there are also those who find fault——

The two cats looked at the same statue at the same time, with serious expressions on their faces, as if they didn't notice anything wrong, and maybe they felt that the statue corresponded to their two cats.

"We have nothing to do. It's just that we have worked too hard and troubled fellow Taoists. I will definitely come to the door in person later to say thank you." Ma Mao said very politely.

"That's not necessary." Third Senior Brother said.

"I know." Ma Mao glanced at him, "I won't bring mice to you."

"Then we're leaving."

"Walk slowly."

Among the several cat demons, Ma Mao was the most polite. He jumped down from the altar and sent them off with his tail raised.

We walked around the village at the foot of the mountain, soaked in a hot spring to relieve fatigue, and returned to the Taoist temple in the refreshing evening breeze.

Lin Jue took out a wooden sculpture.

The wood carving is no higher than the palm of your hand. It is in the shape of a warrior, wearing armor and carrying a long sword. Except for the face, which has no facial features, the details are very good, and the body is also painted with oil paint.

The most important thing is that the wood carvings already have aura.

The third senior brother took the wood carving, inspected it for a moment, and then nodded: "Not bad, not bad. I said just the day before yesterday that the details were slightly different from the real person, and they have all been corrected today. Okay, okay, at this point, you can also meet the woman you love when you go down the mountain.

If you carve one in her likeness, you will surely win your heart."

"Third senior brother, let's talk business."

Lin Jue had long been used to it and looked calm.

"Why is this not serious business?"

"How about this statue?"

"well……"

The third senior brother sighed and shook his head, then said:

“That’s it.

"At this point, you have already mastered the 'carving' step, and you can start practicing directly.

"Sacrificial refining is a time-consuming job, and it needs to be refining every day. Over time, after the refining, every time the statue shrinks by one point, the bean soldier it transforms into becomes larger, until it can transform into a bean soldier that is as tall as a person.

, at that time the statue just turned into a round bean.

"Sacrifice must be done carefully, which determines the physique of the bean soldiers. The higher your Taoism, the deeper your attainments, and the longer the sacrifice, the stronger the bean soldiers will be. If you can become a powerful person, the bean soldiers can also fight against the heavenly soldiers."

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"As for how to change this wooden armor into iron armor, and how to change the wooden sword into steel sword, I will teach you slowly later."

Then he taught Lin Jue the method of sacrifice and refining.

Lin Jue also learned it in the book.

So every day when I returned to my house, or during my breaks in practicing in the mountains, I would worship this wooden sculpture whenever I had free time.

Carving beans into soldiers is a technique of wood and metal. Now Lin Jue has only learned wood. Before, he had taken the aura of wood in Tumu Jing and the peach gum given by the peach demon. Lin Jue also learned about the aura of wood.

I had some insights. Sure enough, every day of worship, the statue shrunk a little and became a little rounder. After a month, it had become a bean.

When he was called out, he was already a strong soldier.

It's just that the armor is a wooden helmet, and the long sword is also a wooden sword.

This soldier cannot move either.

Lin Jue took it to find the third senior brother again.

"Ouch! How did you practice so fast?" The third senior brother was a little surprised, but he continued happily, "If you want the bean soldiers to move, you still have the intelligence to know what to do and what not to do.

Then you need to invite a remnant soul to come in and be your bean soldier."

"Where to find it?"

Lin Jue had long known that the bean soldiers needed remnant souls, and also knew the general methods and precautions, but he still needed to ask him for advice.

"Don't be anxious.

"First of all, if you want the bean soldiers to be able to fight, in addition to training to make the bean soldiers stronger, you also need skills. Naturally, you have to find the remnant soul of a warrior.

"But you need to know the key reason why our art of 'carving beans into soldiers' is not classified as a witchcraft."

Lin Jue had naturally heard it once.

But listening to the third brother tell it again, there is nothing wrong with changing the angle, and there may even be gains. After all, the third brother majors in bean soldiers, and he is also very accomplished in this magic. He has great experience, so he may not lose.

To the one who recorded this magic in ancient books.

"Those are the three points:

"First, most of the bean soldiers only invite the residual souls to obsess, not the ghosts. Because the bean soldiers are small and cramped, and they lie motionless for a long time, the residual souls have no sanity and can endure it, but the ghosts have a hard time with it;

"Secondly, the bean soldiers have no binding effect on the remnant soul, so they say 'please' instead of restraining. It can leave at any time.

"The third is a spell where the caster has no restrictions on the bean soldiers. It can listen to you or not.

"Now you know why I respect my bean soldiers so much?"

The third senior brother smiled and said to him.

"knew."

"You must know that the remnant soul is not a ghost. Even if it is relatively intact through obsession, it is difficult to understand people's words and can only feel the emotions and character. Therefore, even the remnant soul lingers in the world and does not want to leave. You

If you want to invite them into the Bean Soldiers, you have to make friends with them attentively."

The third senior brother said this extremely difficult thing very easily:

"Thus, throughout the ages, those who have practiced carving beans into soldiers have mostly had soldiers with the same temperament as themselves: if you are a murderer, you will have to find those violent and bloodthirsty remnant souls, and if you are a gentleman, you will also have to find them.

Only those remnant souls who have perseverance in justice can be in tune with their hearts and minds, allowing them to voluntarily follow you and become your soldiers."

"What if I changed my gender in the middle?" Lin Jue asked.

"There is such an example. When you were young, you were upright and worried about your family and country, so you attracted the remnant souls who also died for your family and country to follow you voluntarily. When you get older and gain power, you change and become the young people you used to be.

The kind of person I have to deal with. The remaining soul senses this change and leaves naturally, and the bean soldiers who have been trained for half a lifetime are of no use."

"It's amazing..."

Lin Jue sighed sincerely.

"It's best to find the remnant souls of the Dou soldiers by yourself. Next month we will set off to hold a conference in Mingqi Mountain. If we can meet them on the way, it will be good. If we can't, it doesn't matter."

The third senior brother said to him very kindly:

"I know a hero. Decades ago, a great man with a great reputation was framed by a traitor and sentenced to death. Many knights in the world just heard about it, and out of loyalty, they went to rob him halfway. The bloody battle lasted for two hours.

If one person retreats, they will all die there. They are unwilling to die and turn into regrets. They refuse to leave and have nowhere to go. If you have some chivalry, you can try to invite them there."

"knew."

Lin Jue originally wanted to have a bean soldier before the Zhaijiao, so that he would have some confidence when encountering anything, but it seemed unlikely.

But seeing that this tall and mighty soldier like him couldn't move made me really anxious.

Thinking of Third Brother's bean soldiers, I became even more anxious.
Chapter completed!