Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 371: Three Five Six Merit of the Day After Tomorrow

Chapter 371: Three Five Six Merit of the Day After Tomorrow

Looking at these demons that he had converted, Jiang Chen said, "I am now imparting to you the methods of cultivation and prayer. From now on, you will pray for me day and night, generating willpower to assist me in my practice."

Incense willpower, also known as acquired merit, is incredibly profound, with various wondrous uses.

However, out of fear for the complex thoughts embodied within the incense willpower, Jiang Chen did not dare to casually absorb it into his body to aid his practices.

After all, if his mind couldn’t withstand the flood of thoughts, it’s easy to lose control, leading to endless distracting thoughts, and falling into a state of demonic possession.

Therefore, Jiang Chen believed that the incense was toxic and didn’t dare to touch it.

But now, as Jiang Chen has broken through to become an Innate Dao Monarch, his mentality has changed.

The incense is poisonous because its willpower originates from sentient beings, and the hearts of sentient beings contain too many mixed thoughts. The objective of their faith in gods isn’t pure either, which causes the incense willpower to contain all sorts of thoughts.

However, if those who worship gods have pure intentions, without too much complexity, and are completely focused on praying. Then, the willpower and faith they generate, will not possess numerous distracting thoughts.

It will become extremely pure and easier for people to absorb and use.

Jiang Chen used this reasoning to utilize the Great Salvation Technique, converting all the three hundred thousand demons to worship him day and night, wholeheartedly praying for him to provide the most refined incense willpower.

Although Jiang Chen’s idea was good, its success needed to be confirmed. After all, no one had practiced this way in the Three Realms before him, Jiang Chen could be said to be the pioneer of this path.

Success or failure would require further verification.

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What is the art of prayer?

It is dedicating oneself completely to the god they believe in, loudly praising him, expressing their reverence, trust, and gratitude towards the god.

This process is fanatical, does not seek rewards, and is willing to offer all of oneself for the god they worship.

The Great Prayer Technique is exactly what Jiang Chen has created based on this and passed onto these demons.

The demons, who had already been converted by Jiang Chen, whole-heartedly submitted to him and took him as their only true god and saviour. They are willing to give up everything, which undoubtedly made them the ideal practitioners of the Great Prayer Technique.

As soon as Jiang Chen transmitted the method to practice the Great Prayer Technique, many demons had an epiphany and mastered some mysteries, and started to use their divine abilities to pray.

As time passed, specks of light emerged from the bodies of these demons. At first, it was just a little bit, but more and more accumulated, gradually forming a colorless river flowing in the void.

Seeing this, Jiang Chen’s eyes lit up, exclaiming: "Success!"

As he spoke, Jiang Chen used his magic to attract this invisible force towards himself. In this invisible force, mysterious sounds of numerous people praying came through, forming an exceptionally grand chorus.

This is the thought of sentient beings, the power of faith, the most beautiful and sincere blessings of these three hundred thousand demons towards Jiang Chen.

When the willpower came before him, Jiang Chen used his divine sense to perceive it and indeed didn’t sense any distracting thoughts. All there was, were pure blessings.

However, despite this, Jiang Chen still wasn’t completely reassured. He used a secret technique while employing both the Sun True Fire and the Taiyin True Fire to continuously refine this incense willpower in front of him.

Yin and Yang forces are the roots of heaven and earth, the mother of all things. Even the incense willpower is unable to evade the refinement of Yin and Yang forces.

One could see that under Jiang Chen’s continuous refinement, the size of the incense willpower kept decreasing and condensing. However, no extra thoughts were ever purified out. This proved that this incense willpower was incredibly pure.

Under Jiang Chen’s patient and repeated refinement, the incense willpower gradually materialized and started to emanate a rainbow-like glow.

When the incense willpower was condensed to its limit, it completely transformed into a crystal, radiating an illusory rainbow glow. Sacred and peaceful, beautiful and pure.

This is the crystallization of willpower, the purest state of the incense willpower, without any impurities.

Although it’s all incense willpower, due to the different intents of the believers, the willpower they produce is different. Some contain the power of curses, some contain the power of resentment, and some contain thoughts of slaughter.

In short, these are the manifestations of the believers’ wishes. The kind of mentality they have when worshipping the gods will produce corresponding incense willpower.

If the gods use these incense willpower for their practices for a long time, they will inevitably be affected and undergo a substantial change in their temperament.

Therefore, even practitioners of Divine Dao dare not directly use the willpower for cultivation. They would first use incense to burn away the mixed thoughts and purify it, then slowly refine the incense willpower.

The words "incense" in incense willpower derive from this. They serve the function of burning away mixed thoughts.

Yet, even so, it’s still hard to guarantee that there won’t be anything that’s overlooked. Therefore, when gods cultivate, they would refine a portion of the incense willpower, then rest for a period before continuing the refining of incense willpower, after confirming that there are no issues.

The saying ’the incense is poisonous’ wasn’t made by Jiang Chen, but by someone notable and holds great credibility.

Therefore, even the practitioners of Divine Dao are extremely cautious when using incense willpower. As to why they even bother using incense willpower for cultivation?

Well!

Any method that can quickly boost strength, even if one knows it comes with drawbacks, will attract people. Not to mention, it is still debatable whether or not the method of incense wish-power has such drawbacks.

This is human nature; in pursuit of powerful strength, people often disregard everything and are willing to sacrifice anything.

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Looking at the wish power crystal in front of him that seemed fantastical as in a dream, Jiang Chen couldn’t help exclaiming, "It’s beautiful, pure, divine, and serene, like a thing of dreams. This is the acquired Merit, a true acquired Merit. Using it won’t bring any harm."

Jiang Chen felt that if there really was an acquired Merit in the world, it would be this. He deemed it impeccably pure and more profound than any incense wish power he had ever seen.

Steeling his heart, Jiang Chen started to experimentally cultivate with the wish power crystal in his hand.

Omm...

Under the stimulation of Jiang Chen’s mana, the wish power crystal started to glow, radiating a dreamy seven-colour-sheen, flowing around it like water, exceptionally dreamy and divine.

Then, the wish power crystal began to melt, transforming into a profound force that infused into Heaven and Earth.

Yes, it did not infuse into Jiang Chen’s body, but into Heaven and Earth.

The next moment, it seemed like the force transformed from the wish power crystal had connected with something, causing Heaven and Earth to start shaking, vaguely revealing the trajectory of the Great Dao.

Then, without any sign, Jiang Chen fell into enlightenment.

In his trance, everything in front of Jiang Chen changed, the mountains, the rivers, the void... everything in his eyes was different, no longer in their original form, but constructed entirely of profound runes.

At this moment, Jiang Chen seemed to have touched the essence of Heaven and Earth. He felt that he had never been so close to the Great Dao before. He had attained enlightening and immersed in the ocean of the Great Dao, unwilling to wake up for a long time.

After a considerable amount of time had passed, the wish power crystal in Jiang Chen’s hand suddenly shattered, turning into a trace of brilliance that dissipated into nothingness.

It was also at this moment that Jiang Chen ended this profound experience, waking up reluctantly.

"What a treasure, a real treasure." The now alert Jiang Chen could not help but praise.

The wish power crystal cannot be absorbed nor does it increase a person’s mana, but it can assist in enlightenment. This is its real purpose.

Just by using the wish power crystal, one can enter the deepest level of enlightenment and more intimately merge with Heaven and Earth, thereby understanding various principles of Heaven and Earth.

This advantage, this is the greatest advantage, an advantage that cannot be traded even for all the mana in the world.

After all, when practicing Dao, the realm is the foundation, and everything else is just a means to guard the Dao.

A treasure that can facilitate enlightenment is the real treasure. Compared to this, fairy stones and spirit drugs are beneath it and cannot be compared.

However, compared to the Profound Yellow Merit, this wish power crystal still fell short. After all, that Profound Yellow Merit was a treasure that could directly elevate one’s realm.

While the wish power crystal can also elevate one’s realm, the process of enlightenment is needed, necessitating slow realization by oneself. Therefore, it needed some extra time and naturally fell short of the Profound Yellow Merit.

But given the performance of the wish power crystal, it was entirely appropriate to call it the acquired Merit because it can assist enlightenment.

Its inferiority to the Profound Yellow Merit is also normal, given that one is man-made and the other is naturally generated, they naturally cannot be compared.

But even such a wish power crystal was enough to make Jiang Chen quite satisfied.

Looking at the incense wish power in front of him, Jiang Chen seemed somewhat excited. He knew he had succeeded. The acquired Merit that countless people wanted to attain had been refined by him.

With these incense wish powers, Jiang Chen dared not say that he could reach a saintly realm, but becoming an Innate Dao Sovereign was not difficult.

If his wish power crystals were abundant, Jiang Chen could immerse himself in the state of enlightenment at any time. Even if he did not have the aid of the Sun God staff, he was confident that he could step into the realm of Innate Dao Sovereign.

A day of enlightenment surpasses a year of practice, this speed has increased 365 times.

Said another way, if he cultivates in the state of enlightenment for three thousand years, then Jiang Chen could gain a million years of practice.

With a million years of accumulation, even if Jiang Chen was practicing ancient martial arts, he could still break through to become the Innate Dao Sovereign.

Moreover, the incense wish power was not Jiang Chen’s biggest gain. His greatest gain was using it to validate the conjecture in his heart.

"Since the Great Prayer Technique can be successful, couldn’t I also manifest other divine abilities?" Jiang Chen thought, somewhat excited.

The Great Prayer Technique was not baseless; instead, Jiang Chen deduced it based on the contents of a novel from his previous life.

PS: Damn, it was 35 degrees yesterday and fell to 15 degrees today, it dropped 20 degrees. I’m frozen stupid.