lovenovelstory #339 - The tide of the times is rolling in (please subscribe)
#339 - The tide of the times is rolling in (please subscribe)
Chapter 337: The Tide of the Times Rolls In (Subscription Requested)
Wu Changming felt a bit bitter inside, but he didn't say it.
The Northern Territory, which he had painstakingly managed for decades, was about to change hands. Although it was still nominally under his control, Gu Mingyue was gradually stripping away his power through the Pingbian Royal Court.
Zhang Chen wasn't too concerned about Wu Changming's affairs; he only cared about the benefits he was due.
"The benefits that Master promised me..." Zhang Chen looked at Wu Changming with eager eyes, full of anticipation.
He was determined to extort at least the cultivation methods of Qi Refiners from Wu Changming.
"Hey, what's the rush!" Gu Mingyue said unhappily, "Your master is going to pull off something big. Will you get less benefits then?"
"Pull off something big?" Zhang Chen looked at Wu Changming curiously. This guy's lair was about to be gone, and he couldn't even defend his own home. What big thing could he do?
"What does a mortal know? This old ancestor has been comprehending the heavens and earth these days, and my mind has been cleansed. I have transcended into a wonderful realm. My mind is infinitely close to the legendary First Heaven," Wu Changming said.
As Wu Changming spoke, he glanced at Zhang Chen, waiting for his exclamations, worship, and other reactions.
"And then?" Zhang Chen asked.
Isn't it just the First Heaven of the spiritual world? He could have entered it long ago, okay?
"Do you know what it means for the mind to sense the First Heaven of the spiritual world?" Wu Changming looked at the expression on Zhang Chen's face, thinking that the other party probably didn't know the meaning represented by the First Heaven of the spiritual world.
"Of course I know the First Heaven of the spiritual world, but I don't know what it means for the mind to enter the First Heaven," Zhang Chen pretended not to know and asked curiously.
"Do you know how many people throughout history have been able to enter the First Heaven with their spiritual realm?" Wu Changming's voice was full of pride and self-satisfaction.
Zhang Chen really didn't know this, so he shook his head honestly: "I don't know."
Wu Changming held up five fingers: "No more than five."
Zhang Chen nodded thoughtfully: "And then?"
"My mind has entered the spiritual world. When I assist with the Yin God method, I will definitely be able to step into the eleventh level within thirty years. The incense divine path is quick, but the limitations are too many. Once you become a god, you will be confined to one place. What's good about that? Only by cultivating the Yin God method and exploring the mysterious spiritual world can you find the origin of mystery. You can gain great freedom and great ease! This mere Northern Territory, as long as I step into the eleventh level, I can easily take it back. Even the leader of the entire Yellow Sky Dao will be mine. What you've temporarily lost is just a Star God position. When I reach the pinnacle in the future, I can take everything back for you," Wu Changming was drawing a big pie for Zhang Chen. He knew Zhang Chen's abilities, and this disciple of his would definitely have great achievements in the future, so he had to win him over.
Hearing Wu Changming's words, Zhang Chen was full of curiosity. This Wu Changming really had some skills. His mind had actually entered the First Heaven of the spiritual world. This guy was truly gifted.
However, the blessing of the spiritual realm on the Yin God cultivation method was so powerful, it was truly incredible!
"But I still have to wait thirty years. How many thirty years does a person have in their life?" Zhang Chen blinked his eyes as he looked at Wu Changming.
Hearing this, Wu Changming heard something in Zhang Chen's words. He slowed down his speed of eating beef, and his eyes looked at Zhang Chen: "What do you want?"
"This disciple has heard that a Immortal Realm has appeared, and I am very curious about the methods of cultivating immortals and refining Qi. This disciple has heard people say that our Yellow Sky Dao excavated the methods of cultivating immortals from a large tomb in the past. I don't know if it's true. If I can obtain the method of refining Qi and cultivating immortals and go to the Immortal Realm to cultivate for a few days, wouldn't I be able to become an immortal?" Zhang Chen asked curiously.
Hearing Zhang Chen's words, Wu Changming glanced at Zhang Chen: "Your idea is not bad. Hearing the rumors of the Immortal Realm, you actually want to go to the Immortal Realm to cultivate immortals and try the methods of cultivating immortals. You are really a clever ghost. Unfortunately, your idea won't work. At the moment when the Immortal Realm first appeared, we had already secretly done experiments, and we couldn't cultivate the legendary mana at all."
Hearing Wu Changming's words, Zhang Chen was surprised. He didn't expect that there were no lack of clever people in this world, and someone had already done experiments.
But was he an ordinary person?
"This disciple wants to see the method of cultivating immortals! If I can't become a Star God, this disciple wants to come into contact with the mysterious methods of cultivation. I wonder if Master can allow it?" Zhang Chen looked at Wu Changming with eager eyes.
As one of the ten people in the Yellow Sky Dao whose status was second only to the Great Virtuous Teacher, Wu Changming must have the method of cultivating immortals in his hands. It just depended on whether he could pry it out of Wu Changming's hands today.
Hearing that Zhang Chen wanted to cultivate the mysterious method, Wu Changming was secretly surprised. Based on Zhang Chen's performance that day, he had already stepped into the mysterious realm. Why was he still asking him for the mysterious cultivation formula at this time?
"Could it be that this kid is deliberately testing me? Or is he trying to find an excuse through me, and then gradually show his skills in a natural way?" Wu Changming was secretly strange, and countless thoughts flashed through his mind. The only thing he could think of was this.
Wu Changming thought he had found the reason, and his eyes looked at Zhang Chen, secretly muttering in his heart: "Good kid, just pretend!"
The cultivation method was extremely precious to outsiders, but it was nothing more than that to insiders.
A visualization diagram was enough to make people step into the Yang God realm from the Yin God realm.
"You are my disciple. Naturally, you are qualified to cultivate the power of mystery. I will pass on the Yellow Sky Dao visualization method to you. You will carefully study it in the future and strive to step into the Yang God realm as soon as possible to vent my anger for me, Master," Wu Changming said as he took out a scroll from his sleeve and threw it to Zhang Chen: "This scroll is engraved with the fundamental method of my Yellow Sky Dao. I will lend it to you for three days of comprehension, and you must return the scroll to me after three days."
Speaking of this, Wu Changming sighed: "If it were thirty years earlier, it would not have been so easy for you to obtain the visualization method. You would have to make great contributions and undergo hundreds of tests. But since my Yellow Sky Dao established the path of incense, no one has cultivated this visualization method, and even the inheritance is about to be cut off."
"Why?" Zhang Chen was stunned when he heard this. The movement of taking the scroll paused, and his eyes were full of astonishment.
"To cultivate the Visualization Method, even with decades of diligent practice, one would still find it difficult to manifest the Yin Spirit without a great opportunity for enlightenment. Moreover, while the Visualization Method involves mysterious powers, its supernatural abilities for attack and defense are limited. The Path of Incense is different. As long as one finds believers to spread incense, one immediately gains the power of a god, and can obtain extraordinary strength. Furthermore, spreading the Dao is not difficult. As long as one finds the right method and expands the faith, one can contend with Yang Spirit experts in three to five years. If you were me, would you cultivate diligently or choose the path of incense? The Path of Incense is like a snowball; the more faith, the stronger the supernatural powers, and the stronger the supernatural powers, the more believers. This is a virtuous cycle. Especially since my Yellow Heaven Dao has now created the wonderful method of natural gods, the Visualization Method has been abandoned by everyone like worn-out shoes," Wu Changming sighed softly.
Hearing Wu Changming's words, Zhang Chen was also filled with emotion. Compared to the Divine Spirit methods, the Yin Spirit method is slow to take effect, requires talent, and has a very high threshold. The Divine Spirit method has almost no threshold. As long as one obtains the talisman and decree of the Great Virtuous Teacher, and then gathers faith, one can immediately become extraordinary. The difference between them is imaginable.
"Especially the Incense Method is a method that is easily achieved by those great nobles. Those great nobles have fiefdoms and people. With a little manipulation, they can immediately achieve the Dao. Now the Yin Spirit method is about to be eliminated! Some say that the Divine Spirit method is the method of the nobles, and the Yin Spirit method is the method of the poor. Even if one proves the Yin Spirit with the Yin Spirit method, one may not be able to fight a first-order god. The gap between the two is simply worlds apart. Only when the Yin Spirit method enters the Yang Spirit realm can it keep pace with the Divine Spirit method and make up for its shortcomings."
Wu Changming's voice was full of emotion: "Some call the Yin Spirit method the Old Method, and the Divine Spirit Method the New Method. Especially since Liu Feng was successfully conferred as the Water God of the Miluo River, with the emergence of the method of innate gods, the management of incense by the major nobles has already begun."
Zhang Chen gasped when he heard this: "In that case, wouldn't the tentacles of the Yellow Heaven Dao spread all over the world? All the nobles in the world will join the Yellow Heaven Dao and become a member of the Yellow Heaven Dao?"
According to Zhang Chen's knowledge, all current divine spirit conferrals are inseparable from the decree of the Great Virtuous Teacher. If the nobles of the world want to follow the path of innate gods, they must join the Yellow Heaven Dao.
"That's right!" Wu Changming nodded: "The Yellow Heaven Dao has swept the world, and the general trend has been established!"
Zhang Chen was thoughtful when he heard this, but he did not think that the Yellow Heaven Dao had established a general trend, because there was still the Dasheng Dynasty royal family.
Seeming to see what Zhang Chen was thinking, Wu Changming said: "Many members of the royal family of the Dasheng Dynasty have begun to gather faith and embark on the path of divine spirits."
"Although those bloodline families possess powerful bloodline power, bloodline power cannot make them immortal. No matter how powerful the bloodline ability is, it is only a fleeting hundred years. But after becoming a god, the shackles of lifespan have been broken. How can those nobles not be crazy? Moreover, the high-level members of the Yellow Heaven Dao are originally from various families. Otherwise, how could the Yellow Heaven Dao have the ability to spread the Dao throughout the world?" Wu Changming's voice was full of emotion.
Zhang Chen gasped when he heard this. He suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart. The prevalence of the Path of Incense was definitely not a good thing.
He thought of the Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio world in his previous life, and the proliferation of small temples in the countryside in his previous life's novels.
Now that the Yellow Heaven Dao controls the power to confer gods, it can still restrain the order of the divine path, but one day all the gods will be unwilling to be controlled by the Yellow Heaven Dao and will study the key to bypassing the conferral of the Yellow Heaven Dao.
"Does the Yellow Heaven Dao have the ability to control the gods it has conferred?" Zhang Chen asked.
"Of course, the power to confer gods is in the hands of the Great Virtuous Teacher. Since the Great Virtuous Teacher can confer gods, then of course he can also depose them," Wu Changming said.
Zhang Chen suppressed the fear in his heart, and slowly opened the Visualization Diagram. What came into view was a monster, a panda head, a qilin body, with three thousand palms all over its body, each palm with a mysterious rune.
As soon as he saw this picture, Zhang Chen felt a majestic and vast artistic conception coming towards him. The creature in the picture seemed to come alive, and the runes in the three thousand palms turned into three thousand tentacles, reaching out to capture Zhang Chen.
At this moment, the Pangu Stone in Zhang Chen's spiritual world vibrated slightly, and then the illusion disappeared. The picture in front of him was still the same picture, where did the monster come alive?
"When you first observed the Visualization Diagram, it actually aroused the Yellow Heaven's induction. You are truly gifted," Wu Changming said with a surprised expression.
"This Visualization Diagram doesn't seem quite right," Zhang Chen muttered to himself, but he didn't dare to continue looking at the Visualization Diagram. Instead, he rolled up the Visualization Diagram and looked at Wu Changming with his eyes: "Although this disciple is interested in the Visualization Method, what I want more is the method of cultivating immortality and refining Qi."
"You still haven't given up on the plan to go to the spiritual world to cultivate immortality? I've already tried it, and it's impossible," Wu Changming advised while eating beef.
Zhang Chen knew that the opportunity was rare, but he was unwilling to let it go, and stubbornly pestered him: "This disciple always has to try it himself to know."
Wu Changming was helpless when he heard this, and could only say: "Then I will teach you the first three levels of the incantation, you go and try it."
"Master is too stingy, what's the use of the first three levels of the incantation? Why not pass them all on to me?" Zhang Chen said with a smile.
Wu Changming shook his head: "If you want more incantations, that's impossible, because I only know the first three levels."
Zhang Chen was surprised when he heard this, and tentatively asked: "It's just an incantation to play tricks, how can Master not get the full truth?"
"It's not that the Great Virtuous Teacher is stingy and unwilling to let me see it, but this incantation for refining Qi and cultivating immortality is just a thing to fool people. What's the use of me remembering it? I was just curious back then, and I secretly studied the first three levels," Wu Changming said.
"I wonder if Master can return to the main temple to get the remaining incantations, and then bestow them all?" Zhang Chen asked with a smile.
"That will have to wait until I meet the Great Virtuous Teacher and get the Great Virtuous Teacher's permission before I can copy the scriptures at the Great Virtuous Teacher's place. All the incantations for refining Qi and cultivating immortality are carried by the Great Virtuous Teacher for daily enlightenment. If we want to obtain the incantations, we still need Master's approval," Wu Changming said.
Hearing Wu Changming's words, Zhang Chen was a little disappointed, but thinking that he could still get one more level of cultivation incantation, he was also happy in his heart.
After all, his Qi refining is already complete, the second realm has also been successfully cultivated, and the next step is the cultivation of the third realm.
Wu Changming continued to eat wine and meat. After he was full, he copied the scriptures in Zhang Chen's house, and after copying the first three levels of the Qi refining incantation, he staggered back to sleep.
Inside the house, Zhang Chen looked at the three levels of Qi refining incantation left by Wu Changming, his eyes becoming brighter and brighter: "Jade Liquid Returning Elixir!"
It turns out that the next step of the One Aperture of the Heavenly Cycle is the Jade Liquid Returning Elixir.
This shocking realm is divided into two levels, just like the One Aperture of the Heavenly Cycle, divided into the Heavenly Cycle and the One Aperture. This realm is also divided into the Jade Liquid and the Returning Elixir.