Translator: Dj22031
Editor: Dj22031
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Little did Xie Lingya know that his image in the eyes of others had unknowingly changed a little. He was concentrating on Zhang Daoting’s rituals.
Zhang Daoting wore a cassock and used a needle to tap the eyes, ears, nose, mouth, hands, and feet of the statue. Then he also used a brush dipped in cinnabar to tap the facial features again, which meant enlightenment and psychic communication.
The believers were all kneeling on the worship benches on both sides, but because the side hall was relatively small, the outside was full of people, both with believers and onlookers.
The last consecration ceremony was organized by Xie Lingya himself. This time it was a bigger one, so there were many smaller statues placed on the altar table.
Baoyang Temple did not have a distribution center for Dharma materials, but based on the requests of many believers, some small statues of gods custom-made by local factories were placed during the consecration ceremony. They were also contaminated with spiritual energy during the consecration ceremony, and they could then be associated with believers.
“After the consecration, all gods will respond. I would like to ask, is the world bright?” Zhang Daoting said loudly.
Liu Bohe and others were also performing religious rituals together in the hall. At this time, Xie Lingya recited in a low voice along with them: “The world is bright, the divine light shines everywhere.”
This shout made the believers feel clear, and they watched Zhang Daoting’s next ceremony even more attentively.
After the consecration ceremony, everyone moved the small statues on the altar table to the room, and Cheng Jie and his wife came to say goodbye.
In fact, they had discussed just now whether they should take a god statue back, but after thinking about it, they decided not to do it.
Although the true gods were different from the evil gods, they were really scared by the One-Legged Wutong last time. Moreover, they were usually busy with work, and so they were afraid that they would not be able to guarantee the incense for worship and would instead neglect the god.
“Are you leaving?” Xie Lingya said hello to them, “See you next time.”
“Well, haha, see you next time…” Cheng Jie said, unable to help but gossip, “You and Daochang Shi… …the relationship is good, huh?”
Fan Fang rolled her eyes vaguely. She just told Cheng Jie that she didn’t know if they wanted to make it public. They could see it but shouldn’t make any noise. But this Cheng Jie was eager enough to gossip.
“Ah?” Xie Lingya didn’t understand, “Okay…”
Did he and Shi Changxuan looked like they had a quarrel?
At this time, Xiao Dian came over with the express box, “Teacher Xie, this is the express delivery for Daozhang Shi. Should I put it in your room?”
“Well, go ahead.” Xie Lingya responded.
Cheng Jie’s eyes suddenly widened, “You guys live together?”
“Yes, the Taoist temple is too poor, hahahaha.” Xie Lingya was still joking. The current Baoyang Temple may be much worse than many Taoist temples, but they couldn’t really say it was poor. It was just that the accommodation conditions were not that good. Wasn’t this also being improved?
Cheng Jie and Fan Fang: “…”
Xie Lingya didn’t laugh a few times before shutting up dryly. The two of them didn’t laugh either, which made him very embarrassed.
Cheng Jie gave Xie Lingya a meaningful look and patted him on the shoulder, “Brother, come on.”
Xie Lingya said carelessly: “Thank you, I will.”
He will definitely work hard to make Baoyang Temple bigger and bigger.!
….
Two days later, the Municipal Taoist Association notified another meeting at Taihe Temple. Originally, Xie Lingya wanted to ask Zhang Daoting to go, but there was a special notice to let him go. There was no other way, so Xie Lingya had to go out. He was unwilling to go to the meeting by himself, so he dragged Shi Changxuan with him.
Anyway, now Shi Changxuan had worshiped Wang Yuji as his teacher, and he could truly be regarded as a person from their Baoyang Temple.
Hai Guanchao watched them go out and greeted them with a smile: “While coming back, help Master buy some toothpaste. I want mint flavor.”
Xie Lingya: “…”
Shi Changxuan: “…”
…Speaking of, there was nothing else bad about Shi Changxuan worshiping Wang Yuji, except that Hai Guanchao finally took the opportunity to get another disciple.
Xie Lingya also tried to argue that Shi Changxuan had not learned the Pulse technique, but Hai Guanchao had already admitted this identity himself, and kept saying: “Given the relationship between you and Shi Changxuan, shouldn’t you call me Master too?”
“Go, go, no one recognizes you!” Xie Lingya wanted to say this, but hearing him talking to Shi Changxuan, he was stunned. Instead he walked out and said, “I will watch you next time. If you meet Shi Changxuan’s parents in the future, do you dare to ask them to call you uncle?”
Hai Guanchao: “…”
Hai Guanchao looked at his back and muttered, Sponge Spirit really refused to admit defeat!
….
When they arrived at Taihe Temple, Xie Lingya saw many other Taoist priests who came to participate in the meeting. The scale of this meeting was quite large, and Taoist priests from various county temples were present.
“Xiao Xie, we meet again.” This was the Taoist priest who greeted Xie Lingya enthusiastically. It was obviously not the first time that Xie Lingya came to the meeting, but everyone was particularly enthusiastic this time, and Xie Lingya became the center of the crowd.
Thinking about it, it might be because of the retrieval of the Du Gong Seal. This incident made the entire Qiyang Taoist community feel proud.
“Xiao Xie, come back to our temple and talk about Taoism.”
“Hey, come and visit us first. Recently we invited a famous mage from our sect to give lectures.”
Xie Lingya had been busy recently with the expansion of Baoyang Temple. How could he be in the mood to communicate? After he finished prevaricating, he felt something was wrong. So, he whispered to Shi Changxuan: “Why do I feel weird? They are all coming here to enlighten me.”
A smile appeared in Shi Changxuan’s eyes, it was exactly like this, there were hints being received from top to bottom. These Taoist priests were holding back their thoughts and wanting to convert Xie Lingya to Taoism, so they wanted Xie Lingya to transfer to the religious studies major…
The meeting began, and the person presiding over the meeting was the Taoist Association’s Vice President Shi Daochang, who holding a document, said: “Fellow Taoists, the rapid development of new media such as the Internet has provided a larger platform for the dissemination of our Taoist culture. The theme this time is how to make better use the Internet to promote the creation of a Harmonious Temple.”
Xie Lingya: “…”
He found that he still didn’t know much about this industry, and even the Harmonious Temple came out.
However, he did know that in larger city temples, there were dedicated new media managers, and larger Dharma conferences would also be broadcast live on mobile phones.
Qiyang was relatively small and did not have such a high awareness of publicity. Now it seemed like they wanted to encourage everyone.
Sure enough, what Taoist Master Shi said next was to encourage everyone to cultivate social platform accounts, use the Internet to listen to the voices of believers, and spread ancient culture.
There were also some modern facilities, such as scanning QR codes to listen to temple explanations, which must be implemented in all Taoist temples. Previously, they were only available in the Taihe Temple as a scenic spot. Now they need to be unified in writing, recording and production.
Xie Lingya thought to himself, this was okay. He even made up a story for the book published by the Cultural Affairs Bureau before, so he could just use it.
“In this regard, Baoyang Temple is better.” Suddenly, Taoist priest Shi mentioned Baoyang Temple.
Xie Lingya looked up and heard Master Shi say: “I heard that Master Zhang Daoting of Baoyang Temple is quite famous in our local forum.”
Quite famous, he could even be called the number one internet celebrity model in Qiyang!
Needless to say, this guy was influenced by what he saw and heard. Xie Lingya asked him to take a photo of the appearance of the Baoyang Temple that day. He even knew what lighting to adjust and what composition to modify.
The Taoist Association had already had a public account, and this time it asked everyone to set up one too. They also created a WeChat matrix to connect the entire Jinyang temple circuit.
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