Chapter 395: Taking It All Away!
Just how aggrieved Immortal Spirit Shangzhang was on that side, Lu Yang could guess a little, but he didn’t know the details.
At this moment, he had already withdrawn his gaze, no longer paying attention to Mu Changsheng inside the [Refining Arts Secret Realm]. He even decisively cut off the connection with the Ancestor of the Yun Family.
The reason was simple.
Just for a moment just now, I actually had the thought of whether I should seize the opportunity to manipulate the Ancestor of the Yun Family to recruit Mu Changsheng and take him into the Myriad Spirits Banner…
Just this single thought made Lu Yang choose to cut ties.
Whether he was being paranoid or making a mountain out of a molehill, the pit of Perfected One Primordial was simply too deep. It wasn’t something the current him could handle.
Only a Perfected Lord might be able to grasp it.
“The secrets of Dao Lords, Mu Changsheng… all of that is illusory! Only my own strength is the real thing. The priority is to continue improving myself!”
Lu Yang took a deep breath and sat upright in [Li Hen Tian].
Without him even needing to consciously will it, massive amounts of incense began to gather. Then, he was surprised to find that this incense was even more than he had imagined!
That makes sense. After all, besides the Unborn Venerable Mother, the White Lotus Sect also worshiped so many Divine Lords and Grand Divine Lords, diverting a large amount of incense into thin air. Now that I’ve killed them all and concentrated the incense… roughly estimating, I’m afraid I could support another two Foundation Establishment Perfection entities!
This was a pleasant surprise.
Since the White Lotus Sect had this kind of incense foundation, the City God system and the Imperial Ancestral Temple of the Imperial Court, which were comparable to it, certainly wouldn’t have a bad foundation either.
In other words:
Actually, as long as I repeat the same trick and find a way to usurp the incense foundations of the other two forces in the Seven Luminaries Heaven, I can assemble nine Foundation Establishment Perfection entities.
Thinking of this, however, Lu Yang’s expression gradually became calm.
But doing that is too slow.
The White Lotus Sect was already considered the smallest of the three forces, yet usurping its foundation still cost him ten years of time, not to mention the remaining two.
The ‘Era of Great Strife’ opened by Uncle-Master Chong Guang only lasts sixty years. Once the time passes and the Perfected Lords return, what use will it be even if I falsely-hold the Golden Position?
Only by falsely-holding the Golden Position before the Perfected Lords returned could he maximize his benefits!
Moreover, he had to consider his next life.
The Incense Offering Divine Dao was completely built upon the Dao Fruit of the Seven Luminaries Heaven. But if he restarted and left the Seven Luminaries Heaven, could these Banner Spirits still generate incense?
If they couldn’t, wouldn’t all his efforts be in vain?
With this thought, an even bolder idea suddenly jumped into Lu Yang’s mind— Perhaps… there is another way to solve these problems.
Seven Luminaries Heaven, Central Continent, Tianjing City.
This place was the core of the entire Central Continent, the center of the City God system, and also the location of the Imperial Ancestral Temple. At this moment, two consciousnesses awakened one after another.
“Unborn just disappeared for an instant.”
Of the two consciousnesses, one was naturally the lord of all City Gods under heaven, Capital City God Wu Ning, holding the Incense Divine Talisman title of [King of Bright Spirit, Who Upholds Heaven, Inspects the Nation, Governs the People, and Promotes Fortune].
The other was the Grand Ancestor of the Great Yan Imperial Court, worshiped in the Imperial Ancestral Temple.
Yan Taizu, the Capital City God, plus the Unborn Venerable Mother—it was these three Foundation Establishment Perfection Great Incense Gods who had single-handedly created the current situation of the Seven Luminaries Heaven.
Therefore, they paid the most attention to each other. Under the probe of their divine sense at this moment, they immediately sensed the shift in the world’s incense. However, the more they sensed, the more alarmed the two became, because they discovered that the incense originally belonging to the White Lotus Sect had now, without exception, changed its object of faith.
“What is going on?”
Yan Taizu was puzzled and also felt a bit uneasy. After all, Great Incense Gods like him liked stability the most and hated variables the most.
“Something’s wrong!”
The Capital City God looked equally grave. Following the pull of the incense with his gaze, he soon saw a figure sitting right in the middle of the sea of clouds, breathing in and out the incense.
Who was that?
It was a handsome young daoist, surrounded by endless swirling incense. Just by sitting there, he seemed to strip away the color of all things.
Where one looked, it seemed not like a person, but like a vast and boundless expanse of sun, moon, mountains, and rivers, making one involuntarily have their entire vision captured by him. More importantly, the incense lingering around him was incredibly massive! The entire incense of the White Lotus Sect had actually been gathered onto his body!
“He’s crazy!”
The Capital City God was the first to speak. Incense power contained countless distracting thoughts; the more one used, the greater the impact on one’s own mind. It had to be dispersed.
Otherwise, where did the City God system come from?
If not for this drawback, why didn’t he make everyone in the world believe in him, the single Capital City God, instead of appointing so many City Gods to divide the incense?
But the person before them actually didn’t care about the impact of the incense!
Why?
“No…”
On the other side, Yan Taizu noticed a clue: “That Daoist… he isn’t alone. Inside his body? It seems there are people inside helping him!”
Hearing this, the Capital City God’s heart stirred. Gathering incense fire into his eyes, he channeled his supernatural power to look toward [Li Hen Tian]. Only then did he finally see the scene clearly— amidst layers of mountain ranges, three figures sat cross-legged. They were the existences truly receiving the White Lotus Sect’s incense.
Patriarch Nether Whisper, the Banner Spirit Unborn Venerable Mother, and Long Yue.
Seeing this scene, both Yan Taizu and the Capital City God’s expressions changed instantly. Especially Yan Taizu, who couldn’t help but say in a low voice, “This is simply reckless!”
On the other side, the Capital City God also frowned tightly. “What exactly does he want to do?”
How could one personally bestow the incense offerings upon a deity?
Wasn’t he afraid that the incense gods he personally cultivated would betray him?
Besides, what was the use of cultivating so many incense gods? It wasn’t like they could really fight; otherwise, it would inevitably affect the populace, ending in mutual destruction.
Aside from creating others to compete with himself for incense, what was the point?
“Phew…”
Meanwhile, Lu Yang, who had re-manifested [Li Hen Tian] into human form, exhaled a deep breath of turbid air, a sharp glint surfacing in the depths of his eyes.
Success or failure, it all depends on this one move…
Up until now, Lu Yang had always thought of himself as just an ordinary person.
He had some talent, but not enough.
He had some will, but he also felt fear.
He had some skill, but it was far from sufficient.
Uncle-Master Chong Guang said that a person must rely on themselves, but I feel that human strength has its limits.
Ten lifetimes of cultivation, and this life gave him the deepest realization.
Scheming back and forth, losing his Immortal Spirit body, nearly scared to death by the World Honored One, and finally forced to leave his home… every step he took, he had no choice.
Clearly having a plan, yet forced to change it.
Clearly having a goal, yet forced to abandon it.
No matter how satisfying smurfing was, it was ultimately a form of escape. Afterward, he would only feel empty and lost, with no sense of accomplishment whatsoever. Besides, he hadn’t changed anything.
He was still that stray dog plotted against by Heaven and Earth until death, targeted by the buddha’s child sent down by the World Honored One, and finally forced to flee his home in a sorry state!
With this thought, Lu Yang had made up his mind.
…Take a gamble !
He wanted to refine the entire Seven Luminaries Heaven into the Myriad Spirits Banner!
Not just the incense of mortals, but including the source of the Incense Offering Divine Dao—the prototype of the Seven Luminaries Heaven’s Dao Fruit—he wanted that too!
He would take it all!
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