For ye Zan, the merit tablet is the bottom card and the killer mace, but it is not something that must be kept secret.
Some things, like concealed weapons, can only be used by surprise to defeat the enemy. In other words, these things are to kill the enemy, to kill the opponent at a critical moment. Naturally, the opponent should not be prepared in advance.
However, there are also some things that do not have to be really used, but can deter the enemy as long as they are put there for others to see. Just like the early nuclear bomb in the world of science and technology, it has been invented and used only a limited number of times. Its main function is deterrence.
When ye Zan''s merit monument is used, the merit consumed is basically proportional to each other''s strength. Of course, there is also the influence of merit. If the other party''s merit is very high, the merit monument will consume more merit. However, in today''s world, no one can have such merit as ye Zan, so this factor can be basically ignored.
In other words, in the face of those opponents with weak strength and low realm, ye Zan basically doesn''t care about the number of times he uses with his current merits and virtues. However, in other words, in the face of opponents with weak strength and low realm, ye Zan generally does not need to use merit steles. His strength is enough to clean up those miscellaneous fish.
If the enemy he faces is the heavenly power of the jiaosheng in the East China Sea, ye Zan''s merits and virtues can''t stand to be consumed. It may disappear after one or two or three or four times. In this case, the merit monument in Ye Zan''s hand can''t be used as a killer mace like a concealed weapon. It''s best to show it directly to frighten the opponent.
It''s like, you have a revolver in your hand, with only six bullets at most, facing more than a dozen or even dozens of enemies. Everyone knows that your pistol can kill up to six people. As long as you finish shooting, you will have no power to resist. However, when the other party is not so united and has no determination to die, who will be willing to be these six bullet consuming people?
If you face so many enemies, you don''t choose to light up the pistol, but hide it in your sleeve as a concealed weapon. Although you can shoot down one enemy at a time, the result is likely to be that after you shoot down six enemies, you will be attacked by the rest of the enemies.
Therefore, when the enemy is the power of the state of Dharma and the state of heaven, the merit monument in Ye Zan''s hand is like that revolver. When there are several "bullets", exposing this "pistol" will naturally play a greater role than hiding it.
It''s like when the jiaosheng of Donghai came to yuqingzong to plead guilty, ye Zan just relied on the deterrent power of the merit Monument and scared the other party away without any merit. As for the Outland supreme who came to seek revenge, his intention was to send the Dharma body to yuqingzong. Therefore, if he knew that ye Zan had a merit monument, he would not be affected.
Therefore, at this time, in order to gain the trust of elder Yu, ye Zan can say that he is trying to earn more merit.
In addition, ye Zan''s honesty also has a great advantage, which is to give others a reason to believe in themselves.
Sometimes, the more you say you don''t want anything and how much you don''t want, the more others will doubt it. After all, there are so few saints who have no desire and no desire. No one will believe that he can meet such a saint.
Moreover, the more you say what you want, the more you can make the other party believe you as long as it is not in conflict with the other party''s interests. The other party will "transpose thinking", will stand in your position and think, if you face such things, you can''t refuse at all.
Sure enough, when ye Zan said that in order to earn merit, elder Yu immediately showed a shocked face, but his vigilance and suspicion were obviously much less.
"Taoist friends said it was for merit?" elder Yu asked incredulously.
Of course, elder Yu''s suspicion now is completely different from that before. It''s just an instinctive reaction under shock. After all, this merit is still a kind of ethereal thing for ordinary people. Although people often say "accumulate merit", in fact, no one really regards merit as a pursuit.
The fundamental reason for this is that there is no standard for measuring merit, and no one knows how much merit they can get by doing a thing. Moreover, no one knows what specific benefits it can bring to itself after accumulating many merits. I don''t know whether to reduce disaster or add luck.
It is precisely because of this that the ancient immortals established the immortal court that year, they would come up with a merit monument, which can make people more intuitively know how much merit they have.
However, even at that time, only the immortals in Xianting used the merit stele, and ordinary monks were still not qualified to use the merit stele. After all, at the level of true immortals, every move will have a great impact on heaven and earth, and the increase or decrease of merit will be more obvious.
Even if ordinary monks have merit tablets, it is difficult to earn merit. Not everyone can be like Ye Zan, who has the opportunity and ability to earn a lot of merit. Naturally, there is not much demand for merit steles. Xianting probably saw this and didn''t spread the merit monument to the "lower world".
This leads to the fact that ordinary practitioners have no substantive concept of merit. At most, they just say it.
Therefore, hearing Ye Zan mention "merit", elder Yu is naturally a little incredible, or can be said to be difficult to understand.
"Not bad!" Ye Zan nodded, glanced at the Duobao Zhenjun next to him, turned his eyes back and said: "To tell you the truth, I found a different palace of martial uncle Xuanqing a few years ago and got a legacy of merit monument. It is said that the merit monument was found in a fairy court from an immortal demon battlefield when martial uncle Xuanqing roamed the endless void. It can measure the increase or decrease of merit and virtue of the owner."
This time, considering the face of the true king of Duobao, ye Zan didn''t directly ask elder Yu if he had already known, but introduced the origin of his merit monument to the other party from the beginning. You know, ye Zan used the merit monument when he stopped the invasion of extraterrestrial demons in the underworld. Later, it was used to scare away the jiaosheng in the East China Sea. Therefore, the Tianbao sect must also know The merit tablet in his hand is whether it has been sold to Outland.
Seeing ye Zan''s eyes sweeping over, DUBAO really was also unable to get a face red, and smiled bitterly, saying, "no way friends, I will not be so unaware of what I have done! No novice nod, such an important thing, I will not leak a bit in any case."
Of course, that''s what Duobao Zhenjun said. The real reason is the rise of yuqingzong. Tianbao Zong can''t ignore yuqingzong''s feelings anymore.
Ye Zan knows this very well, but both sides are partners. There is no need to embarrass each other, so he nodded and said, "Taoist friends of Duobao think more. I don''t doubt the meaning of Taoist friends, but just want to ask Taoist friends to make circumstantial evidence. At least let elder Yu know that I''m not talking nonsense."
"Taoist friend Wuji doesn''t have to be like this. Although I think it''s incredible, I don''t doubt that Taoist friend intends to deceive. However, I know nothing about the merit monument after all, so it''s hard to imagine how to obtain merit. If Taoist friend doesn''t mind, can you tell me more about it for me?" Elder Yu asked curiously, not questioning Ye Zan''s words.
However, elder Yu asked Ye Zan to elaborate in this way. In fact, he also meant to inquire about the truth and falsehood. If he lied, one or two sentences might not leak flaws, but if he said dozens or hundreds of sentences, it would be easy to show his horse''s feet.
Ye Zan didn''t mind elder Yu''s thorough inquiry, so he said easily: "it''s nothing to say. I can''t say a definite standard on how to obtain merit. I can only talk about what I''ve done."
Ye Zan not only doesn''t mind elder Yu''s thorough inquiry, but even wants it. Since the other party asks, it shows that the other party is interested. If he doesn''t ask anything, it''s what ye Zan doesn''t want to see.
"Taoist friend, please speak!" elder Yu made a look of listening.
"Now, in the Shenhua realm, not only are there thousands of miles of inspiration, but I have also designed a set of things called rail transit for secular countries. If I say so, maybe the elder is not easy to understand. I''d better look at the images brought by me." Ye Zan first introduced rail transit, and in order to make it easier for the other party to understand, he also released relevant images with the holographic projector.
In the holographic image, there is a bird''s-eye view from a high altitude. What you see is a very regular long line on the earth. Some places of those long lines are straight and some places are curved, but whether they are straight or curved, they are very regular. You can see at a glance that they can''t be any natural product.
Then, the image in the bird''s-eye view began to enlarge rapidly, just like a person falling rapidly from a high altitude. The lines on the ground became clearer and clearer, and something could be seen flying along the lines.
"Elder Yu, this is the rail transit mentioned below. The lines you see are not ordinary official roads, but a special road called track. On that track, what is flying like a long snake is a train specially used for this track. You should also see that it is like more than a dozen cars Ye Zan gave a detailed explanation to elder Yu while placing the holographic image.
Ye Zan doesn''t just want to push the thousand mile sound transmission to the Outland. After all, the thousand mile sound transmission is for monks, and the merit that can be provided is not the highest. Among these things in Ye Zan''s hand, those that can really earn merit for him are also those that can benefit secular mortals. For example, the rail transit and those high-yield crops are all beneficial to the world Common people and the secular world can have a great impact.
However, if ye Zan wants to really promote rail transit and high-yield crops to all regions in other regions, he still needs the help of a large number of big religions in various regions. At the beginning, ye Zan didn''t let the local sects help in promoting rail transit in Shenhua region. In other words, even if they didn''t help, at least don''t do anything, not like the ones in Dajin kingdom The door stopped me from doing that.
And the network operation mentioned by Ye Zan to the Outland people before is actually to pave the way for these things later. Through network operation, ye Zan can have some reliable partners in foreign areas. If he wants to further promote rail transit at that time, he will naturally get a certain degree of support and help.
Among them, for ye Zan, if he can bring in the Moyi religion, everything will be perfect. First of all, Mo Yi religion has absolute rule in the Mo Yi domain. It will be very easy to promote those things in the Mo Yi domain, and it is almost impossible to have any obstacles. Secondly, the transmission Dharma array controlled by Moyi religion can also connect several domain boundaries of the outer domain. Ye Zan also has the opportunity to travel to those domains more conveniently, and then with the help of partners in several domains, push rail transit to a wider world.
Therefore, ye Zan now introduces elder Yu carefully and tries his best to let the other party see the benefits.
Moreover, compared with other domains, there is another advantage of the Moyi domain, that is, the practitioners of the Moyi religion are not separated from the world. As I said before, the world of Moyi is a little * * * * meaning. Moyi religion is not only a sect of monks, but also a secular manager.
In other realms, monks are high above the world. They regard secular mortals as the existence of mole ants. Naturally, they are not willing to do anything for mole ants. The so-called dispute between right and evil is not to protect mortals in essence, but there is a conflict in the concept of cultivation. It''s not uncommon for people on the right side of the path to take countless mortal blood sacrifice magic tools. After removing the magic and defending the path, they put the magic tools into their bags.
In the world of Mo Yi, since it is the model of * * * *, even if the secular mortals are still mole ants, they are mole ants or children under the management of Mo Yi religion. Therefore, whether these mole ants can get benefits and live better, Moyi religion will pay more attention than other sects from the perspective of rulers.
After listening to Ye Zan''s introduction, elder Yu looked at the speeding train in the holographic image, nodded and said, "this thing looks like a land canal, which enables secular people to go further and facilitates the circulation of local products!"