Merit is the virtue bestowed by heaven upon believers, monks, and immortals after they have done good deeds.
So who bestows the merits? How did the information in so many departments and "books" of the entire Heavenly Court come about?
It’s very simple. Before the existence of heaven, this was accomplished by the way of heaven.
After the establishment of the Heavenly Palace, it was completed by the treasure of the Jade Emperor.
This treasure of destiny was created from the rules of Heaven, bestowed by Heaven to the Jade Emperor to hold, and it is a magic weapon that counts all things within Heaven. It is the "Treasure Scroll of Heaven".
Since the Jade Emperor began to rule the Three Realms, the Heavenly Dao has handed over all affairs within and outside the Three Realms to the Jade Emperor. Therefore, whether it is the Jade Disc of the Immortal Officials, the 'Land Book' in the hands of the Land God, the 'Book of Life and Death' in the Underworld, or the 'Book of Birth', etc., all the books used by the Heavenly Court to record all sentient beings and things in the Three Realms, the source of their information is the "Treasure Scroll of the Heavenly Dao".
The Jade Emperor would use the "Treasure Scroll of Heavenly Dao" to authorize the books in the hands of the immortal officials below, granting them the right to modify or view them. For example, after Sun Wukong made a big fuss in the underworld, the Jade Emperor took back the modification authority of the "Book of Life and Death", leaving only the right to view it.
To put it in simple terms, the Heavenly Dao creates countless universes and trillions of lives, yet it does not interfere. Instead, it elects a sovereign, the Jade Emperor, to maintain stability. He grants him the greatest authority under the Heavenly Dao, the "Heavenly Dao Treasure Scroll." The Jade Emperor can then use this Scroll to create countless related contents and permissions. The Heavenly Dao is not a specific concept. If the Jade Emperor is the group leader and the immortal officials of various levels are the administrators, then the Heavenly Dao is the "group" itself.
When the Heavenly Dao creates a group, it is "existence." But when this group disbands, it is "nothingness." Whether "nothingness" or "existence," both exist solely within the operation of the Heavenly Dao.
So what is the Great Dao? It's very simple. The Great Dao is the law, the method. It is the path to comprehending the Way of Heaven. Therefore, each of the three thousand Great Daos can be verified.
From the stars in the universe to the microorganisms, their birth, death, rise and fall are all recorded in the "Treasure Book of the Heavenly Dao", and the "Treasure Book of the Heavenly Dao" will share this information with the books below and grant certain permissions.
So which copy of the Heavenly Dao Treasure Scroll is the first? It is the Jade Code and Golden Seal Merit Book in the hands of the Queen Mother of the Nine Heavens. This copy is directly derived from the Heavenly Dao Treasure Scroll and has the highest authority under the Heavenly Dao Treasure Scroll.
Therefore, the answer to the previous question is obvious. Merits are bestowed by the "Treasure Scroll of the Heavenly Dao" or the "Jade Rule and Golden Chapter Merit Book".
However, the "Jade Code and Golden Seal Merit Book" can only grant merits to immortal officials or those who have become immortals, because immortal officials have "Immortal Official Jade Discs" and non-immortal immortals have "Immortal Certificate and Golden Seal", both of which can be used to undertake and trade merits.
Those who have not yet become immortals do not have these two things. Their merits can only be recorded in the "Treasure Scroll of Heavenly Dao", and after they become immortals, they will be issued together in the "Golden Seal of Immortal Scroll".
Xue Qingxia has not become an immortal, so she has no merits to buy the Penglai herb. She can only go back and ask her senior brother who has become an immortal to ask for a "merit talisman" to buy the Penglai herb.
The so-called merit talisman is a talisman of the soul copied by an immortal official or god from his own immortal official jade disc or immortal talisman gold seal. It can be used to collect or pay merit instead of the immortal official jade disc or immortal talisman gold seal.
Or to put it simply, the merit talisman is actually a two-in-one version of the 'receipt code' and the 'payment code'.
However, Xue Qingxia did not get the merit talisman from her senior brother because her senior brother came with her!
"To be honest, I really don't believe that someone would sell you a thousand-year-old Penglai grass for 20,000 merits." The abbot of Yuhua Temple, Yan Haiping, was wearing a Liangyi Taoist robe, a green jade vertical crown on his head, and had long beard and hair, with a Taoist appearance. At this time, he stood on the cloud and turned around to say to his junior sister Xue Qingxia.
Xue Qingxia curled her lips and said, "Brother, I'm at least over 800 years old, so I still have some knowledge in my heart!"
Yan Haiping sighed and said, "Yes, he hasn't become an immortal even after more than 800 years, but I, your brother, plucked the True Immortal Fruit at the age of 500."
Having said this, he turned to Xue Qingxia and said, "You have to hurry up too. I will only feel at ease if you become an immortal soon."
Xue Qingxia said: "After all, you are just worried, right?"
Yan Haiping said, "Of course I'm worried. If I could really buy a thousand-year-old Penglai grass, I could at least refine two Nine-Transformation Golden Pills. I've been worrying about you, my junior brothers and sisters, since you were little. I won't feel at ease until I see you all become immortals one by one."
Every time a cultivator's lifespan reaches a higher level, it represents a qualitative leap.
The life span of a mortal is one hundred years. It takes two hundred years to practice Qi, three hundred and sixty years to practice Xuan, five hundred years to practice Shen, seven hundred and twenty years to practice Xu, nine hundred and ninety-nine years to hold the Dan, one thousand eight hundred years to be a Yuanying, and three thousand six hundred years to be a Yangshen. Okay, let's stop here. Let's start with the True Immortal, which will not be based on a thousand years.
The lifespan of a True Immortal is 360,000 years, that of a Mysterious Immortal is 720,000 years, that of a Taiyi Mysterious Immortal is 1,080,000 years, that of a Golden Immortal is 7,200,000 years, and that of a Taiyi Golden Immortal is 36 million years. Starting from the Daluo Golden Immortal, there is no limit to the lifespan.
However, since the Three Realms began to operate, only a small number of the innate sacred Daluo Golden Immortals have survived the various catastrophes to the present day, such as the Four Imperial Gods, the King of the East, the Queen Mother of the West, the Lady of the Nine Heavens, and so on, which are less than fifty people.
And the more time goes by, the more difficult it becomes to practice. Many True Immortals live for 360,000 years and still cannot reach the Xuan Immortal realm until their death. The same is true for Xuan Immortals. The higher you go, the more difficult it becomes, as if there is a natural chasm.
"I'm afraid that demon immortal will deceive you." Yan Haiping said, "Nine out of ten demon cultivators are evil, and the one facing you is a demon immortal. How can I be at ease if you bring the merit talisman with you?"
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