Half a month later.
"Is it enough for those children to only come for half a day every day?"
Looking at the children who left ignorantly, Senior Sister Yuan asked.
According to Zheng Fa's rules, these children come to Temple to study in the morning and will go back before lunch, which only lasts two hours a day.
Zheng Fa was silent for a while and said, "Senior Sister Yuan, Half-Mountain City people have short life spans. Not to mention five-year-old children, ten-year-old children can already be strong laborers... If Temple is here all day long, I'm afraid the family will be too busy."
Zheng Fa, who grew up on a farm, knows very well that full-time study is actually an extremely luxurious thing.
Even when Zheng's Father was not dead, he would help the family with a lot of work every day.
Not to mention that the conditions of Half-Mountain City are now not as good as those of Zhao Family Farm.
According to the average life span of Half-Mountain City, which is more than thirty years old, ten years old can be considered a young man...
Most Half-Mountain City children either have to help the family cook or follow them up the mountain and down the river.
However, Senior Sister Zhang understands the world a little better than Senior Sister Yuan. She said, "There is still too little food."
Zheng Fa agrees in his heart.
If you want some people to go out of work, there is still enough food.
Although the output of edible mushrooms exceeds Zheng Fa's expectations, it is still limited, and it is not a staple food.
Any development plan can only be implemented on the basis of a full stomach--
This point relies on domesticating crops and cultivating Spirit Plant.
Zheng Fa is quite open-minded. "Take your time. It takes ten years to grow trees and a hundred years to cultivate people. Education and farming are not things that can be done in a hurry."
Senior Sister Yuan on the side said with some disgust, "These children are also stupid..."
At this point, even Zheng Fa has to shake his head.
He didn't expect any genius among these hundreds of children...
But to be fair, it would be a bit too much for them to portray Xiao Qing as a genius.
But Senior Sister Zhang can see clearly:
"It's no wonder they haven't read a book after all."
"Secondly, they don't understand the benefits of studying."
"With neither a foundation nor a purpose, it is naturally difficult to make progress." Senior Sister Zhang's voice paused, and he looked towards Xiao Qing outside the temple, "But this girl, although her foundation is poor, is better because of her hard work."
Xiao Qing is holding a book in one hand and a branch in the other hand, writing and drawing on the dirt in front of Temple.
Among all the "students", she is the most diligent.
At least the only one who reviewed after class was Xiao Qing.
She frowned, obviously confused, and was thinking hard.
As if she couldn't figure it out, she threw away the dead branch, pursed her lips, and squatted on the ground in a daze, quite giving up on herself.
Zheng Fa thought for a while and said:
"Xiao Qing."
"Huh?"
"Have all those beans been planted?"
Zheng Fa asked.
Spiritwood Lightning, which he previously researched in modern times, can produce a kind of bean in the Heavenly Stele Realm.
Zheng Fa previously ordered Xiao Qing to carve out a piece of land to grow this stuff.
"Okay!"
"In the future, this bean will be used as a reward."
Xiao Qing asked in confusion, "Reward?"
Zheng Fa explained, "Reward children who study well."
After all, it is just a kind of scholarship.
Ordinary crops Zheng Fa will not be distributed. They are the basis for most people's survival and the necessities of life.
However, the production of Spirit Plant is relatively rare and it is impossible for everyone to have it.
Senior Sister Zhang said before that these children have no desire to study, so he thought of this.
Xiao Qing obviously understood.
"Then..."
She hesitated.
"Huh?"
"Do I have it?"
"Of course!"
Xiao Qing Upon hearing this, he picked up the branch again.
Seeing her interested expression, Senior Sister Zhang's tone was a bit strange. "Junior brother Zheng, you always have some wonderful but useful ideas."
This time, Zheng Fa didn't take any credit. He just smiled and said, "It's not that others can't figure it out, it's just that no one at the Xuanwei Realm is willing to invest so much in education."
Senior Sister Zhang is silent.
This is obvious. Apart from anything else, even Nine Mountains Sect's own Spirit Plant is not enough to eat, let alone for these uncultivated children?
Senior Sister Yuan seemed to have thought of something after listening to it, and suddenly said:
"Junior brother Zheng, actually I also love learning!"
"Senior sister..." Zheng Fa was speechless, "How about you find someone who is literate..."
"Nonsense, I have to be able to compete with those who are literate..."
Zheng Fa led the two senior sisters towards the Myriad Treasures Hall.
There were four or five monks in the hall who were exchanging spiritual materials. Their faces were full of interest and they were discussing with each other.
But when Zheng Fa stepped into the hall, the monks looked at each other and walked out of the door in unison. The smile on Zheng Fa's face as he passed by was polite and distant, even with a hint of fear.
It's like I don't want to stay in this Myriad Treasures Hall.
Senior Sister Yuan asked curiously, "Junior brother Zheng, are they afraid of you?"
"Senior Sister Yuan, if you had one hundred stones Yellow Sprout Rice, would you be happy?"
"Of course I'm happy!"
"Then you suddenly meet someone and say he has ten thousand burdens. Are you still so happy?"
Senior Sister Yuan was stunned for a moment, and suddenly realized something. "Out of sight, out of mind!"
Zheng Fa nodded, sighing in his heart - this group of people acted too smartly this time, otherwise he would have been afraid that these Humanity's Dao would be heartbroken...
The first few times I came to Heavenly Stele, Zheng Fa could be said to be self-reliant.
This time is different, this time he brought two senior sisters with him!
The more than 20,000 Heavenly Merit among Copper Seal is the best tribute to the two senior sisters!
He had earned more than 10,000 Heavenly Merit in total before. The two senior sisters gave him a super double...
This is of course due to the fact that he developed two major categories of Thunder Method, Heavenly Tribulation Lightning and Cloud-Rain Lightning, but the dedication and hard work of the two senior sisters can also be seen in Zheng Fa.
"Senior sister, what do you want?" Zheng Fa turned around and asked a little embarrassed.
According to Zheng Fa's estimate, 20,000 of the nearly 20,000 Heavenly Merit are due to Senior Sister Zhang, and Senior Sister Yuan probably only accounts for a fraction. As for Zheng Fa...
Probably a fraction of a fraction.
Mainly because he puts most of his energy into educating children. The only source of Heavenly Merit may be the Spirit Plant beans spawned by Spiritwood Lightning.
Senior Sister Zhang shook his head and said, "These spiritual materials are useless to me."
Zheng Fa pursed his lips, how could anyone think that this Xuanwei Realm has too much spiritual material?
However, Senior Sister Yuan didn't seem to want to be polite to Zheng Fa. She was swiping back and forth on Jade Stele with great interest. When she saw some rare spiritual fruit, she had to stop and swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva...
She didn't even read it once, but read it over and over again.
It seems a little confusing.
Zheng Fa is waiting for her to choose.
After a while, Senior Sister Yuan put down his finger and said, "I've got it!"
"Well, senior sister, which ones do you want to choose?"
"I don't choose."
"..."
"I just want to take a look! Just take a look!" Senior Sister Yuan said confidently, "I've never been here before. I'm curious and want to play!"
"..."
Zheng Fa looked at Jade Stele who was a little dim, as if he was listening to Jade Stele scolding Senior Sister Yuan for being a scumbag.
Looking at the two senior sisters who refused to use any Heavenly Merit, Zheng Fa was silent for a while and selected Jade Stele for a while.
Twenty thousand Heavenly Merit is really a bit much... Even Zheng Fa took a long time to choose.
What makes Zheng Fa a little confused is that after Jade Stele flashed a few times, he didn't give any spiritual materials!
"What's going on?" Senior Sister Yuan scratched his head, "Did you mess with me? Are you angry?"
Zheng Fa was also a little confused, but the next moment, he saw a burst of silvery white light suddenly coming out of his Copper Seal, and he suddenly realized that this thing was going to be upgraded again!
Sure enough, the silvery white light led the three people and flew towards the main hall. The main hall opened without wind and slowly closed behind the three people.
This time, the palace became brighter.
The hall is very large. After the nine golden and jade steps, there is a high platform. On the high platform stands the tombstone of Zheng Fa that I saw last time.
There is something under the steps that Zheng Fa didn't see last time - twenty-four short tables, facing each other, with a futon placed behind the low tables.
"Are these the seats of the twenty-four statues of the gods in the side hall?"
Senior Sister Zhang said thoughtfully after looking around.
Zheng Fa nodded and said, "It can be seen that although the master of this palace is different from these twenty-four people, he still treats them with great courtesy."
"So, they withheld our Heavenly Merit?"
Senior Sister Yuan said.
Zheng Fa shook his head and looked at Copper Seal, who was still shining brightly in front of him.
A touch of silver gradually bloomed like an ink drop in water, covering up the slightly dull copper color before.
When Seal turned into silver, a voice echoed in the main hall:
"After the end of the Dharma Tribulation, Heavenly Court was covered in dust, the Immortal Emperor lost his throne, and everything collapsed."
"Today there are thirty thousand Thunder God Zheng Fa, Heavenly Merit, grant Silver Seal and Heavenly Palace Walker. I hope you will assist Heavenly Venerable, rebuild Heavenly Court, and reestablish Heavenly Dao."
Zheng Fa glanced at Senior Sister Zhang, there was a lot of information in these few sentences...
After these words fell, the evolved Silver Seal collided with Zheng Fa, and the three of them flew out of the hall involuntarily.
"This is..."
Standing outside the temple, he looked around.
Heavenly Stele Realm's Heavenly Palace originally had three main halls, and beyond that there was a void, covered with white mist, and nothing could be seen.
Some people have also curiously explored it. After walking three feet into the white mist, they will unknowingly return to the starting point and cannot go deeper at all.
But now it has changed.
The three main halls where Zheng Fa is located still look like isolated islands in the white mist, but there is no longer nothingness in the white mist - there seem to be several other islands, shadowy in the mist.
"This is what Heavenly Palace Walker means?"
Just when he had a clear understanding in his heart, Silver Seal was beating again and again, as if inviting him.
Zheng Fa Put his finger on Xi's body a little, and felt a soft wind suddenly coming from the soles of his feet.
The wind lifted him up and flew towards one of the "islands".
He was caught off guard. When he turned around, he saw Senior Sister Zhang two people behind him, and he felt relieved.
Not long after flying, a few people landed on the nearest island.
"This is..." Senior Sister Yuan's eyes widened, feeling like his eyes had been opened.
Senior Sister Zhang said, "Like Medicine Garden."
There is a bare hill in the center of this island. It is not high. The hill is surrounded by various spirit medicine.
No, it's not just spirit medicine, Zheng Fa also saw many spiritual beasts moving around in it.
All kinds of spiritual materials he saw on Jade Stele are growing in it.
"So the spiritual materials that Junior Brother Zheng wants to redeem are all grown here?" Senior Sister Yuan scratched his head, "But these are all seedlings..."
Zheng Fa is also puzzled.
Although Medicine Garden is large, there are many kinds of spiritual materials, but there is one thing - whether it is spiritual materials or monster beasts, they are still young, far from reaching the level of hundred or even ten thousand year old spiritual materials shown on Jade Stele.
Just in a strange room with a few people.
Silver Seal in front of Zheng Fa suddenly flew over Medicine Garden, and actually made a lot of human voices:
"The Immortal Mushroom given by Master Thunder God is so delicious!"
"Thanks to Mr. Thunder God, I caught another fish today..."
"It's a sunny day again, I feel much better..."
"I'll go to Master Thunder God's temple tomorrow to worship..."
"Good deeds and evil deeds will be rewarded. Don't do bad things..."
"..."
The voice was full of gratitude, reverence or fear for Zheng Fa - what surprised the three people even more was that as the voice sounded, the originally inconspicuous hill shook slightly and slowly flew up.
The rocks and soil on the mountain gradually fell off, and golden dots overflowed from the soil.
Only then did they realize that the hill was actually a big golden bell, and the bell wall seemed to be engraved with patterns of the sun, moon and stars.
The big bell flew higher and higher, and grew bigger and bigger, and finally enveloped the entire island.
The various human sounds emitted by Silver Seal seemed to resonate with the big clock, which trembled slightly in the void.
Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
A sound of bells sounded in all directions.
With the sound of the bell, the sun, moon and stars on the bell wall seemed to come alive, rotating around the big bell.
When a bell rings, the sun sets, the moon rises, and the stars rotate.
In one rotation, some of the vegetation and spiritual beasts in Medicine Garden grew one year older!
Not to mention Zheng Fa, even Senior Sister Zhang on the side looked at this scene blankly.
"So that's how it grew..." Senior Sister Yuan also murmured to himself, as if he understood.
The so-called Heavenly Merit is used to exchange spiritual materials. In fact, these "human voices" in this Silver Seal are used as nutrients to stimulate this Treasure Bell, thereby using this Treasure Bell to give birth to Spirit Plant and spiritual beasts.
Zheng Fa gradually became silent.
At first, he always felt that the so-called Heavenly Merit, the so-called exchange, was too nihilistic, and even made him feel like a game at first.
Now he finally understands the origin of this exchange.
Heavenly Merit...
He thought of the various information books and even novels he had read in modern times. Could it be the so-called Incense Power?
He looked at Senior Sister Zhang on the side. Senior Sister Zhang also frowned, seeming to be thinking about something.
"Sister?"
Senior Sister Zhang was silent for a moment, then suddenly said, "You should still remember that I told you at the very beginning that Xuanwei Realm had at least five Spiritual-Energy Decline..."
Zheng Fa was suddenly startled and understood the hidden meaning of Senior Sister Zhang.
The theory of Spiritual-Energy Decline five times was mentioned by Senior Sister Zhang when they first met him. At that time, Senior Sister Zhang said that the last two times can be traced -
The fourth time ended with the destruction of the Demonic Sect.
At the end of the fifth time, Venerable Tianhe raised his sword to open the sky.
Only the first three times cannot be taken.
"Sister, are you saying that this should be the legacy of the previous three Spiritual-Energy Declines?"
Senior Sister Zhang nodded. "If there are only five times, judging from the words End-Law Tribulation said in the hall before, it should be the second or third time..."
Zheng Fa nodded and said:
"Although the language in the Heavenly Stele Realm has some accent, the grammar is very similar to the Xuanwei Realm, so it should have the same origin."
"I don't know if it's the second time or the third time..." Zheng Fa looked at Treasure Bell on the sky and seemed to understand why Senior Sister Zhang frowned so much.
This treasure can actually interfere with the passage of time. Among the Xuanwei Realm, Zheng Fa has never heard of such a treasure...
This shows how powerful the so-called Heavenly Venerable is.
The problem is...
The tombstone and the twenty-four empty chairs told them clearly that they too had failed.
(End of chapter)