Taishang Laojun got the rice seeds and checked them carefully.
After confirming that there were no problems, he asked for the Jade Emperor's opinion. Then, he sent the rice seeds to the four continents through the Three Pure Temples.
That was a very direct method that could also increase the prestige of immortals.
Taishang Laojun had not appeared in the mortal world for a long time. At first, he hesitated.
However, rice could fill the stomachs of countless people. Taishang Laojun did not hesitate for a few days before he condescended to appear and distributed the rice seeds.
There was a Three Pure Temple in Zhongnan Mountain. A few Daoists and a tiger were gathered together and looking at the rice seeds on the ground.
"The one who appeared just now was Grandpa Taiqing?"
They were surprised.
Taishang Laojun appeared. Why did he not send down immortal pills and spirit dew, but ordinary rice seeds?
"Could it be that someone is pretending to be Grandpa Taiqing?"
The Daoists discussed.
However, the Daoist priest chose to believe them.
"Don't worry about the reason. Grandpa Taiqing has orders. Just do as he says."
The Daoist priest asked his disciples to bring the rice seeds and distribute them to the villagers nearby.
The tiger also ran to a village in the distance with the rice seeds in its mouth.
"Grandpa Taiqing appeared and gave us high-yield rice seeds. You have to farm them well."
It put down the rice seeds and returned to the Daoist temple.
The villagers picked up the rice seeds and discussed with each other, but no one dared to plant them.
Rice was different from other crops. If the harvest was not good, not only would they starve, they would not even be able to pay the taxes to the government.
Let's not talk about whether it was true or not. Even if it was true, what did it have to do with rice?
The villagers agreed that it was a lie.
In the four continents, the majority of people had the same idea — Taishang Laojun condescended to appear, but the effect was mediocre.
He was rather helpless and could only look for Monkey King.
Monkey King was entertaining four other immortals. They were the Mighty Miracle God, the Civil and Martial Qu Xing, and the Spirit Official Wang.
Mount Huaguo already had Taishang Laojun. Monkey King was in no hurry to look for other important immortals. Since Civil and Martial Qu Xing had spoken up for him in the Heavenly Palace, Monkey King took the initiative to look for him.
As for Mighty Miracle God and Spirit Official Wang, they were the close subjects of King Tota and Zhenwu Emperor. Monkey King planned to test the waters from them.
When Taishang Laojun found the Monkey King, he was entertaining the four immortals. Zhen Yuan Daisen was the one receiving Taishang Laojun.
Hearing Taishang Laojun's troubles, Zhen Yuan Daisen couldn't help but laugh. "Try using the name of Mount Huaguo."
Taishang Laojun was suddenly enlightened.
A few days later, Zhong Nanshan and the tiger came to the village again.
"Grandpa Taiqing has appeared again."
It said to the villagers, "He knows that you haven't planted any rice seeds, so he specially instructed us to tell you that the rice seeds came from Mount Huaguo."
"Mount Huaguo?"
The villagers immediately changed their attitude.
"We planted the Bloodclotting Grass. If the rice seeds came from Mount Huaguo, we should give it a try."
Hearing that it was Mount Huaguo, the villagers began to believe it.
The sage monkeys of Mount Huaguo were good at production and creation. This was something that many humans had heard of.
In the past, after the release of Heavenly Works Creation, irrigation technology was rapidly promoted and the labor needed for farm work decreased. Now that Mount Huaguo produced rice seeds, it wasn't strange.
At the foot of Zhong Nanshan, the villagers began to sow seeds.
In other places, after hearing that the rice seeds came from Mount Huaguo, people also began to sow seeds.
Taishang Laojun didn't expect his reputation to be inferior to that of Mount Huaguo.
He was a little unhappy, but he soon became happy.
After half a year, the rice was harvested one after another. Golden light filled the sky and flew towards him from the four major continents.
The merit created by the rice was beyond imagination.
The number of incense offerings in the Three Pure Temples and Three Pure Temples increased by a lot. The Old Lord was overjoyed. He hadn't seen the increase of believers in a long time.
The place with the most obvious increase of believers was the Wuji Kingdom. After several years of drought, the people of the Wuji Kingdom had no way to live.
Half a year ago, the Tai Qing appeared and planted rice seeds from Mount Huaguo in the non-drought areas. After the harvest, and with the increase of rice production in other countries, the Wuji Kingdom bought it from other countries.
The Wuji Kingdom's king was grateful and rebuilt the Three Pure Temples. The people of the Wuji Kingdom also came to the Three Pure Temples to burn incense and kowtow to Taishang Laojun.
Taishang Laojun was so happy that he couldn't close his mouth for a long time.
But the rice seeds were just the beginning. In order to make the rice seeds completely popular, Taishang Laojun appeared again and bestowed the three lines of rice seeds to the various countries.
This job was far more difficult than the rice seeds. Taishang Laojun borrowed the flower fairies from the Monkey King and used immortal techniques to send them to the Three Pure Temples.
The flower fairies were responsible for teaching the techniques and the Daoist priests learned humbly.
The success of the rice seeds increased the reputation of the Daoist priests among the people.
When the Daoist priests saw the increase of believers, how could they doubt Taishang Laojun's methods? They all learned seriously and treated the flower fairies as guests.
Many flower fairies successfully transformed during this process. The weak ones actually became the group of monsters that improved the fastest in Mount Huaguo.
Taishang Laojun was very happy. Not only did he take in some flower fairies as children, he also brought a gourd of immortal pills from the sky to the Monkey King.
The Monkey King didn't dare to take any more: "It's too much, I can't take it."
"This is what you deserve."
Taishang Laojun stuffed the immortal pills into the Monkey King's hands and said: "You gave me a pleasant surprise, I have to thank you."
After stuffing the immortal pills, Taishang Laojun walked away.
"Why is he so happy?"
The Monkey King felt it was a bit strange.
What had Taishang Laojun not seen before? He also had many merits, so why was he so happy because of the rice seeds?
"A Worthy Younger Brother, you don't know."
Zhen Yuan Daisen couldn't help but laugh: "He is thanking you for helping him reconstruct his statue!"
Because of the success of the rice seeds, the Three Pure Daoist Temples all became lively and many statues of the Three Pure Ones were reconstructed.
But reconstructing statues of the Three Pure Ones was something only rich daoist temples would do. Many daoist temples only reconstructed Taishang Laojun's statue first.
Reconstructing the statue in front of the other two Pure Ones was the reason why Taishang Laojun was so happy.
"So it's like this."
The Monkey King nodded. Taishang Laojun was like a child.
He took out the immortal pills from the gourd and ate them like they were beans.
Nearby, Oxen was tied to a stone pillar with a rope.
As it ate the grass, it enviously watched the Monkey King eat the beans.
This Monkey King was really lucky. He had been Taishang Laojun's mount for so long, but he didn't eat many immortal pills.
But the Monkey King treated the immortal pills like beans.
Oxen was filled with envy.
This was really infuriating.
But the grass here was not bad. It was refreshing and chewy, so the Monkey King didn't mistreat it.
"I wonder if these grasses are like the rice seeds, a hybrid."