I Can Recognize Everything, But the Information is Wrong-Chapter 531 - 493: Establishing a Temple

It’s not entirely correct to say that all cultivators are selfish.

However, Monk Kongwu, who is unselfish, was sent away, leaving behind those who clearly didn’t want to share the dao seeds with others.

Tian Lin estimated the dao seeds on the ground and then glanced at the others in the cave.

Those who entered this cave were all Golden Core cultivators.

Among them were four True Disciples of the Goddess Sect, and nine Outer Disciples of the Goddess Sect.

Including himself and Mei Xianfu, there were a total of fifteen people.

"Each of us gets ten, and the remaining two dao seeds should go to the junior sister who discovered them."

With Monk Kongwu gone, who knew if he would bring others in.

Therefore, it wasn’t the time to be picky or haggle over accounts.

Tian Lin, along with Mei Xianfu, made the first move, sweeping his sleeve without looking. Twenty dao seeds on the ground silently slipped into their sleeves.

Seeing this, the others quickly began dividing the spoils, and in the blink of an eye, the dao seeds were distributed, leaving only twelve dao seeds for the woman who discovered them.

Just as that woman collected the dao seeds, Monk Kongwu’s voice indeed echoed, "Did you discover anything else?"

Accompanying Monk Kongwu were four or five True Disciples of the Goddess Sect, and those True Disciples cast scrutinizing glances toward Tian Lin and the other sisters.

But which person who reached the Golden Core Realm was simple?

No one could detect the slightest oddity from Tian Lin and the others, as Tian Lin shook his head, then said, "Although there’s nothing more discovered, this storage room left by the Daqi Dynasty can still be utilized."

Tian Lin pointed to the boxes and said, "Though the spirit grass inside has lost its medicinal properties and spiritual energy, it has fertilizing value. Those spirit stones over there, although their spiritual energy has been exhausted and are unusable, can be ground into powder and used as fertilizer."

Hearing this, Kongwu nodded repeatedly, praising sincerely, "With Mr. Tian here, there’s no need for the Southern State people to worry about hunger."

Tian Lin dared not accept such praise lightly, simply saying, "I can only do my best, and how many people can be saved is up to fate."

On four sides of the storage room were stone walls, one of which had been broken by Monk Kongwu, hence the walls lost their function of preventing outsiders from intruding and confining spiritual energy.

Even so, the stone walls were rare refining materials.

Tian Lin had the disciples of the Goddess Sect dig out the stone walls, then let Kongwu use his kasaya to transport them into the Goddess Sect.

He personally ground the damaged spirit grass and spirit stones into powder, and continued to let the disciples of the Goddess Sect dig holes and mountains.

A month passed like this, and the bottom of the mountain range outside the Goddess Sect was almost completely hollowed. If not for the array at the lower levels, and magical treasures supporting every mile, the mountain might have collapsed entirely.

Afterward, Tian Lin spent five days spreading the mixture of ground ’fertilizer’ across every corner of the underground space.

Those who previously joined the New Heaven Sect, whether Foundation Establishment cultivators or mortals, were also driven into the underground space by the female disciples of the Goddess Sect.

The underground space of the Goddess Sect was significantly larger than that of Beiyed County, but more cultivators participated in the farming than those in Beiyed County.

Tian Lin, already adept in using the Twenty-four Solar Terms underground, began evolving the seasons once personnel was settled, starting from the Spring Equinox.

Most people involved in the underground cultivation were followers of the New Heaven Sect; these people were neither servant disciples of the Goddess Sect nor ordinary folks free to leave the sect.

In essence, for survival, this group needed to find a reliance.

And that reliance lay, first, in Monk Kongwu, willing to face them, and second, in Tian Lin, not hostile towards them.

With Master Kong Wu hosting, these people didn’t need to be as focused on farming as the farmers in Beiyed County.

They not only had enough time to sleep but also had one or two hours of rest.

During this rest time, without much entertainment, they either listened to Buddhist teachings from Master Kong Wu or studied Daoist skills with Tian Lin.

Master Kong Wu was happy to spread Buddhist teachings, and in such turbulent times, the effects were particularly notable.

Especially numerous disciples of the New Heaven Sect, who had resorted to cannibalism recently, had begun burning incense and worshiping Buddha. They built temples voluntarily, starting to serve Buddha statues at home.

Yet many were unwilling to renounce all desires, disbelieving in an available pure land for mortals to ascend.

These people gathered together, learning farming techniques from Tian Lin.

This group wanted to be able to cultivate underground like Tian Lin, even after leaving the Goddess Sect.

Faced with such a situation, many people might conceal their skills, and those willing might still hesitate to teach a mix of Foundation Establishment and mortals.

But Tian Lin had no such thoughts; he never considered there to be a significant difference between cultivators and mortals. After all, he himself rose from being a mortal to a cultivator.

Especially in the following times, Tian Lin, while maintaining the cycle of seasons in the space, also broke down the Twenty-four Solar Terms into simple concepts to explain to these people.

He even had Cui’er, who had emerged from seclusion, help print booklets for agricultural knowledge dissemination—these booklets, Tian Lin tried to explain, focused on promoting agricultural progress without the reliance on deities.

For example, improving farm tools, and how to induce rain artificially.

However, this ’artificial rain’ referred to using spells to gather clouds and compel them to rain.

These booklets were not significantly helpful for spirit plant farmers but were very beneficial for the non-spirit plant farmers.

Two months later, elders from the Wenda Sect returned to the Goddess Sect gradually.

However, the Goddess Sect was entirely different from when they left—

Disaster victims gathered around the Goddess Sect, building houses in every nook of the surrounding mountains.

Some houses contained temples, which was understandable, but puzzlingly, beside the temples devoted to Buddha, there occasionally emerged a ’New Four Gods Temple.’

Having lived to the present day, the Great Elder and other elders heard of various Four Gods Temples dedicated to the gods of the four seasons or the cardinal directions.

But this ’New Four Gods Temple’ seemed like a cult innovation. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

"So, did Tian Lin create a new sect within our Goddess Sect?"

The Great Elder queried upon hearing his disciple’s report, unable to restrain his thoughts, "What was he thinking, to establish a temple and shrine for himself with merely a late-stage Golden Core cultivation?"

This True Disciple, already in conspiracy with Tian Lin due to sharing dao seeds, explained for Tian Lin, "It wasn’t Tian Lin who incited the people to build a temple for him—on the contrary, he advised those in the New Heaven Sect not to establish shrines for them. However, the effect seems limited."