Above the Great Dao
Chapter 280 - 146: Picking Babies

Chapter 280: Chapter 146: Picking Babies

"Mazu, was she also a divine being who came from the Huaxia Divine Continent?"

Chen Shi stood in front of the temple gate, looking outwards. The sea was blocked by the split mountain peaks, allowing only the sound of the waves to be heard but not the sea surface itself.

However, he observed that the mountain across from him didn’t seem to have split in recent years, as many of the reefs on it appeared to have emerged from the sea.

And the mountain on which the Mazu Temple was situated seemed to be connected to the mountain across, yet its cliffs were exposing traces of being battered by the wind and waves.

"Actually, the two mountains are not one and the same, the mountain where the Mazu Temple is located faces the sea,"

Chen Shi speculated, "it’s just that one day, a mountain rose from the sea, blocking and merging with the mountain where the Mazu Temple was situated. The Mazu Temple, along with this mountain, fell into silence, until an earthquake one day split the two mountains, revealing the Mazu Temple once again."

This temple was extremely dilapidated, even more so than the previous Mountain Lord Temple. The Mountain Lord Temple was mostly just broken tiles and bricks with the main and rear halls relatively intact, shielded from the sun by ancient apricot trees, out of sight from the Outer Heaven True Gods.

But the Mazu Temple seemed to have gone through a battle, with much of the structure collapsed. Chen Shi recalled the scene of the earth melted and solidified at the cliff’s top; the Mazu Temple must have been at the center of the final battle!

"I climbed up from beneath."

The Red Mountain Lady came to the edge of the cliff, peering down.

Chen Shi also moved to the cliff edge, looking down. Despite many years having passed, he could still see the traces left by a massive creature crawling on the mountain rocks.

"Lady, do you have any memories of the Mazu Temple?" Chen Shi asked.

The Red Mountain Lady shook her head: "When the great mountain split open, I awoke, my mind a blank slate, without any memories. After I crawled out, I was bathed in moonlight, and then I turned into an Evil Spirit."

Chen Shi grew even more puzzled and asked, "How did you know how to Refine Moonlight?"

The Red Mountain Lady had refined moonlight with a peculiar flow of cultivation, a profound Cultivation Technique.

The Red Mountain Lady shook her head: "I don’t know either. The small city made me the Red Mountain Lady, and with the offerings of incense, the knowledge of cultivation naturally came to me."

Chen Shi wasn’t sure if she had any connection to the Mazu Temple but entered it nonetheless. The place was ruinous, yet still, an extremely strong and extraordinary force lingered around, covering the temple gate, main hall, incense burner, fish pond, altar, and the collapsed great hall with clouds and mist formed by this force.

It seemed that the incense offering must have been very prosperous back in the day.

However, like the Mountain Lord Temple of old, this temple too was empty, with no statues or any extraordinary force condensing into a divine shape.

Chen Shi tried to find something valuable but to no avail.

He came upon the Mazu Temple’s shrine and paused slightly.

The shrine faced the sea, and presumably, the statue that had stood there in times past had also faced the sea!

"That is to say, the Huaxia divine being worshiped here had to fend off demonic creatures from the sea and protect the vessels and fleets on it. Therefore, Mazu must be a divinity that guarded the ocean."

Chen Shi suddenly remembered, in the past when the eunuch Sanbao, following the Emperor of Ming’s order, led the Great Ming fleet deep into the dark sea. If there hadn’t been a Huaxia divine being to rule over the sea, how could they sail safely for seventeen years?

And later, when the Great Ming people came in an endless stream to the West Bull New Continent, they also needed a divine being to suppress the storms and huge waves of the ocean, as well as the demonic creatures within it!

So, it was the eunuch Sanbao who built her temple by the coast, letting her Divine Power protect the passing ships and migrating people.

Therefore, the incense offering of this temple must have been so prosperous.

"They established the Mazu Temple on the coast of the West Bull New Continent, and Mazu’s incarnation appeared on this New Continent. Logically, her Divine Power should only grow stronger, so why did the situation of the mountains sealing the temple arise later?"

Chen Shi was utterly baffled.

He glanced at the Red Mountain Lady by his side; the eunuch Sanbao should have enshrined the Mazu statue from the ship here, as statues were not flesh and blood. Yet, the Red Mountain Lady was clearly a Blood Taisui made of flesh, obviously not a statue.

"No matter what, since we are here, let’s offer incense before we leave."

Chen Shi took out incense, lit it, and placed it in the already extinguished incense burner, bowing to the empty shrine.

Seeing this, the Red Mountain Lady also bowed to the empty shrine.

The two left.

As the three sticks of incense burned, the Incense Fire Qi drifted slowly towards the shrine.

The Red Mountain Lady felt something and turned back to look at the Mazu Temple. Chen Shi, puzzled, asked, "What’s wrong?"

The Red Mountain Lady said, "I feel like there is some movement within the temple."

Chen Shi did not detect anything unusual; they climbed back up to the top of the cliff. With evening approaching, they prepared to return.

Yet in the suspended temple beneath the cliff, Chen Shi’s three sticks of incense, like stones thrown into a still lake, caused the extraordinary force that permeated the area to trickle steadily towards the empty shrine.

Divine Power quietly and imperceptibly gathered and transformed within the shrine.

The Red Mountain Lady was feeling tired and retreated into Chen Shi’s small temple, sitting atop the shrine.

Inside Chen Shi, his True Qi grew silently, the Golden Core breathing as it expanded and contracted, tempering his physical body.

He sat in the carriage, and without him realizing it, his breathing had ceased, his heartbeat stopped, his essence solidified like solid jade, his bones like Red Jade, his marrow Transformed into Mysterious Frost. It seemed as if celestial music was playing in his ears, as though he were within a Cave Heaven and Blessed Land.

After a long while, a dog’s bark woke him up. Chen Shi opened his eyes, his heartbeat resumed, breathing restarted, only to see that they had already returned to Gongzhou City.

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