Chapter 188: Good and evil float in the realm of truth and falsehood, who knows it’s all just a dream!
The stars are sparse, the moon is faint, and the broken clouds are light.
Late at night, everyone huddled together around the fire, using the remaining charcoal to keep warm and prepare for sleep.
But what surprised the new refugees was that everyone else in the camp consciously placed an empty basin or large bowl next to their pillows.
Some people even enthusiastically invited them to join in the effort, and when they found that some of the new refugees did not have pots, pans, or utensils, they even gave them one or two.
"Brother, may I ask what the rules are?"
Finally, someone couldn't hold back their curiosity, stopped someone and asked.
The man who was caught was not angry, but smiled and said mysteriously: "Wait until tomorrow morning, and you will know!"
After saying that, the man continued to enthusiastically instruct others to place the bowls and basins. Even a small bowl was placed next to the children's heads, leaving no one behind.
Although these newly arrived refugees felt strange, they did not ask too many questions. Since they had come to this place, they naturally had to abide by the rules.
It's just putting a basin. Even if they have to knock out a tooth or shave their head, as long as they can have a meal, they are happy to do it.
Haven’t you seen that the monks in those big temples are all fat and bloated? It’s impossible for poor people like them to have such an opportunity!
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At night, everyone was asleep.
Zhonghuang Taiyi Taoist Lord held a nine-section staff and patrolled the camp with a few yellow-turbaned warriors.
This nine-section staff was different from the one at the beginning. There was a bright yellow banner hanging on the staff, with bright yellow as the base and ochre yellow as the pattern. There were three large characters "Huang Tian Banner" written in thunder script on it. It looked grand and upright, and quite extraordinary.
But if others really look at it, they will be unconsciously deeply immersed in it. Those Lei Wenyunlu that originally looked quite righteous suddenly became like strange characters with rugged turns, exuding an extreme distortion, bizarre and strange, like an illusion in a dream.
As he walked lightly, the Huang Tian Banner on the nine-section staff emitted a strange pale yellow divine light. Strands of colorful spiritual light were drawn out from everyone's mind by the Huang Tian Banner, and then recreated through the weaving of the Huang Tian Banner, turning into grains of corn that looked like golden balls and entered the pots and bowls beside everyone's pillows.
Zhong Huang Tai Yi Dao Jun stroked his beard and chuckled, "Good and evil float in the world of truth and falsehood, who knows it's just a dream!"
"Talking about yellow millet, dreaming about yellow millet, only yellow millet can fill your stomach. Eat this yellow millet rice, and from now on, you will be a member of my Yellow Turban."
The next morning, when people woke up, they looked into the bowls and saw that they were full of steaming rice, but there was no smoke around, as if the gods in heaven had sent them the rich millet.
Don’t think that yellow rice is inferior to refined rice, but in this year of famine, eating a bite of millet is a luxury.
Huangliang rice is not millet, but the shelled sorghum fruit. It is slightly larger than millet, light yellow in color, and very sticky after being cooked. Huangliang can be used to cook porridge, make cakes, rice and make wine.
Someone tried it out of disbelief. The corn was soft, sticky and sweet. The strong man ate it and shed tears unconsciously. If his mother were still alive...
Faced with the oppression of those country gentry, they were only destined to grow corn, but never have the chance to eat it!
In the past, such delicious corn had to be exchanged for coarse grains to barely feed the whole family, but even so, his mother didn't get to eat a single bite before she died.
Among these people, some were reluctant to eat the yellow rice and added water to make porridge, while others could not help but eat it directly. The people in the camp were already accustomed to this kind of situation.
After they stayed there for a long time, they realized that such yellow rice was available every day. As long as they devoted themselves to believing in the God Huangtian Taiyi and behaved well as citizens under the rule of Huangtian, they would not starve to death.
Faced with the miracles that occurred repeatedly, these newly arrived refugees naturally became devoted, and their gratitude turned to conviction, from conviction to worship, and from worship to madness.
Worship, belief, paranoia, and even willingness to sacrifice one's life for it in the end, this is what makes it scary, and why Zhonghuang Taiyi Taoist was called a madman by Lu Chun.
A dream comes true, turning illusion into reality. Whatever you wish for will come true.
The God Huangtian Taiyi displayed many miraculous powers and became the only true God in the hearts of these refugees!
The only thing that ordinary people value most, desire most, and are most persistent about is land. This has been an unchanging truth for thousands of years.
Yellow represents land!
Therefore, Zhonghuang Taiyi Taoist is known as a man of great virtue!
Huang Tian, also known as Emperor Tian, is the orthodox god revered by heaven and earth!
Taiyi is also Taiyi!
He is the noble god of the sky and the emperor’s star!
The two are collectively called Huangtian Taiyi, which means the orthodox Taiyi Emperor of Heaven, the supreme god!
Some refugees often say that it is because of the blessings they received in their previous lives that the God Huang Tian came down to earth to save them, relieve their hunger and suffering, and turn this area into a blessed land, a paradise on earth where there is no fear of worries or sorrows.
Futian?
Dream field?
Or a meat field?
Zhonghuang Taiyi Taoist Lord cultivates and nurtures the seeds of the spirit with the spirits of the people, transforms all the people into seedlings, and inadvertently casts his gaze to select qualified rice and millet.
Then he would gather the hearts and minds of all the people, turn them into his own food, continue to strengthen himself, and replace the heaven!
The two sides benefit each other. Zhonghuang Taiyi Daojun provides them with material food, and these refugees also offer spiritual beliefs to Zhonghuang Taiyi Daojun.
Compared with ordinary worship of immortals and gods, this kind of interest relationship spreads faster and more widely among the refugees, and the beliefs are more fanatical. In a sense, it is even somewhat similar to the White Lotus Sect!
It's just that one is all talk and no action. The so-called Mother of No Birth and the True Vacuum Homeland are illusory, while what Zhonghuang Taiyi Taoist Lord brought to them was real food and life-saving things.
His actions are actually no different from Haotian in the Ever Night world, who uses all living things in the world as food, but compared to Haotian, Zhonghuang Taiyi Taoist is much gentler.
He will guide believers to dedicate themselves willingly!
According to Lu Chun, Zhonghuang Taiyi Daojun is born with the ability to influence and manipulate the minds of all living beings and make them close to him because of the supernatural nature of his status and intention.
And one can use a breath of innate Qi to create all kinds of images, all kinds of wonders, and even thousands of worlds, and they are all real!
The way is:
The world is hidden in a grain of millet, and mountains and rivers are boiled in a two-liter pot.
In the hands of Zhonghuang Taiyi Taoist, a tiny grain of millet can hold the universe. As long as he wants, the millet can be like a miniature of mountains and rivers and can be as heavy as a thousand pounds.
When the false becomes true, the true becomes false; when there is nothing, there is something and there is nothing!
Among the magical powers of Zhonghuang Taiyi Daojun, we can see the shadows of many skills, such as singing and dancing, or the method of weighing a thousand pounds of corn, but these are all methods and the extension of Tao.
The most fundamental thing is his unique use of mental thoughts or spiritual power.
To sum it up in one sentence, you can bring your thoughts and ideas into reality and materialize them, whether they are someone else's or your own.
The upper limit of this ability is very high. The so-called thoughts are actually a kind of will of all living beings, the embodiment of spiritual power, the extension of people's consciousness, and the power of the mind.
And the heart is within the spiritual realm!
If Zhonghuang Taiyi Daojun's ability is further improved, from manipulating thoughts to being able to tamper with anyone's memory and consciousness, then it can distort a person's self-perception in a certain sense.
You can also control time and space in other people's consciousness world and build a world belonging to Zhonghuang Taiyi Taoist.
Just like the other gods and Tsukuyomi in a certain anime, the effect is even more terrifying, reflecting the damage in the spiritual world into reality.
Its power is simply unimaginable!
And its potential goes far beyond that.
Going a step further, if we can peek into the dreams of all living beings through our thoughts, then is it possible to convert people's dreams into reality and replace reality with dreams?
The spirit is converted into real matter, thereby influencing the world, changing reality, and making wishes come true. The saying of drawing cakes to appease hunger is no joke. In fact, Zhonghuang Taiyi Taoist has been able to do it and is already putting it into practice.
It's like a reality editor that can edit everything in reality at will. There are actually many paths suitable for Zhonghuang Taiyi Taoist.
Apart from other things, there is the story of the Yellow Millet Dream, the Great Dream of the Spring and Autumn Period, Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly and the butterfly dreaming of Zhuang Zhou. These are all precedents set by the ancestors. As for Buddhism, there is also a way to guide people to attain enlightenment in dreams.
It is almost equivalent to the powerful means in myths and legends!
One thought can make you a Buddha or a patriarch, and one thought can make you an evil god or a demon!
However, because of his special status and nature, Zhonghuang Taiyi Daojun chose to take a path that even Lu Chun could not predict.
A terrifying existence that cannot be looked at directly, cannot be seen or heard, cannot be known, cannot be expressed in words, cannot be understood, and cannot be described.
The believers' minds are twisted, and when they think of its name, it will be sensed and there will be a response; the infected people will become corrupted and mutated, and develop in unpredictable directions.
Zhonghuang Taiyi Taoist Lord?
The virtuous Huangtian Taiyi God who saves the world?
The answer is unknown!
(End of this chapter)