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Chapter 336 Ascension (Part 3) (Please subscribe and vote with monthly tickets)
Qifeng Mountain, Qinggong Palace.

Gu Qing's return caused no ripples, or rather, in the eyes of the Qing Palace cultivators, he had never left.

However, one thing served as a wake-up call for Gu Qing.

An old Taoist priest passed away peacefully.

When Gu Qing first met the three old Taoists, they were already quite old, with an average age of nearly two hundred. Now, more than ten years have passed, and one of them has actually passed away. He is probably around two hundred and twenty-five years old now.

This illustrates a problem.

Before becoming immortals, mortal cultivators only live for a few hundred years, unlike the cultivators of Cangwu.

Besides reaping the benefits of Yin and Sheng virtues, he also ran the Qing Palace to give himself a proper background so that it would be easier to ascend to the immortal realm.

No matter how long he has been in this world, his bone age cannot be hidden.

Counting the days, Gu Qing is 198 years old. If he exceeds the "life limit" for mortal cultivators, it will become a problem.

According to the calculation of that lieutenant's merit, he was still half short.

When Gu Qing returned, he was relaxed but suddenly felt a sense of urgency. He never thought he would have to worry about his age.

The local monks are really pathetic; they're not strong at all.

Thinking about how to speed things up.

Gu Qing walked to the jade statue at the top of the mountain. It was a statue made in his likeness, used for believers and pilgrims to worship. With the current scale and reputation of Qing Palace, it was the best in the surrounding area.

Every day, many people burn incense and pray. There is even a sizable village at the foot of Qifeng Mountain that has spontaneously gathered in recent years and is gradually developing into a county town.

The new power that Gu Qing sensed was closely related to him.

This is the place.

"The power of incense offerings and prayers..."

Although there is no Buddhism in the Cangwu Realm, there is a concept of the power of vows. This is a versatile power that has the effect of granting wishes and can accomplish more things than magical powers.

As long as one doesn't directly absorb this power or become corrupted by the thoughts associated with it, the risk isn't significant.

It can be seen as a small, convenient wish-granting machine.

Although it was Gu Qing's first time using it, she already knew how to use it.

With a light tap of his index finger, multicolored specks of wish power detached from the jade statue and condensed in front of him into a wish power crystal the size of a human head.

"A pleasant surprise."

Returning to the secluded chamber, I placed the Wish Power Crystal in front of me.

After activating it with magic, Gu Qing used the treasure to make a wish.

"Give me the pure power of Yin and Yang."

The colored crystals of wish power began to dissolve, turning into colorful mist that seeped into the void. Countless faces containing various thoughts floated and sank within it, creating an extremely complex and varied scene.

Indiscriminate absorption may not be fatal, but it will taint a cultivator's self.

A moment later, a crack appeared in the void.

An endless stream of dense Yin and Yang energy surged down. Gu Qing's eyes shone brightly as he activated the Devouring Technique, swallowing it all into the Void Land in one breath and storing it there.

Thus, the stagnant cultivation level once again had the resources to improve.

The Wish Power Crystal only consumed one-tenth of its power, but the resulting Yin-Yang energy was enough for Gu Qing to reshape ten Yin-Yang Mystic Apertures, which was well worth it.

This is how the power of will is used.

It has the effect of a mini wish-granting machine, as long as it doesn't directly affect oneself, such as increasing magical power, healing injuries, improving comprehension, etc.

By indirectly utilizing the power of will, one need not worry about polluting one's own thoughts or Niwan Palace (the area between the eyebrows).

"In terms of assisting cultivation, the Wish Power Crystal is even more useful than the Devouring Method. It can replace many special resources without wasting time searching for them, which is of great significance to me." In the Cangwu Realm, there are twelve immortal sects suppressing it, so they can't do anything about the Wish Power faith. They don't even encourage it. Something must have happened.

After all, the effect of the power of will directly on cultivation is even more terrifying, and it can also fulfill special needs such as prolonging life and giving birth to children.

Gu Qing suddenly had other thoughts about the human world.

Even if he ascends to heaven, the power of the ancestral master's vows will continue to gather around this precious thing, and he can still reap a great reward if he comes to collect it occasionally.

I couldn't help but think of Yu Ziqi from five years ago.

"It seems that the Four Great Immortal Sects no longer have any reason to exist."

Considering the accumulation of Yin and Sheng virtues, Gu Qing did not follow his usual practice of killing them all, but instead used a more lenient approach.

The first step was to send disciples to make contact with the Emperor of Yan.

Find a way to establish Qinggong as the state religion, then build Qinggong temples throughout Yan Kingdom, send disciples to reside there, and erect jade statues and golden bodies of him, making it easier to collect incense offerings and prayers.

To achieve this, it is crucial to eliminate the survival environment of the four major immortal sects.

Ever since.

Taking advantage of the lack of cultivation knowledge among cultivators in the mountains and seas, Gu Qing created the "Qingyang Daodian," which uses the laws of this realm as a foundation to derive 108 techniques.

This greatly enhances the strength of the Qing Palace disciples.

It can be said that he underwent a complete transformation and truly became the patriarch of the Qing Palace. As disciples of Qifeng Mountain were successively sent out to settle in local Taoist temples, other sects became targets of suppression.

Gu Qing began to recruit disciples again.

Times have changed. There is no need to go down the mountain to find children willing to cultivate the Tao. As long as the news is spread, countless powerful and wealthy people will be willing to send a child to Qinggong to cultivate.

In this way, Qinggong accumulated a network of connections among bureaucrats and dignitaries, which facilitated the establishment of the state religion.

Less than three years.

The local immortal sects were squeezed to the point of no return, and unable to fight back, they had no choice but to take a risk. A large number of senior cultivators "visited" Qifeng Mountain at the same time, just like the six major sects besieging Bright Peak, and they wanted to give Gu Qing a hard time as soon as they arrived.

He naturally retaliated by suppressing the rebellion.

Those who yielded were thus incorporated into the Qing Palace, and their own family traditions were taken and modified by Gu Qing, becoming a branch of the Qing Palace.

Even though Gu Qing was unwilling, he didn't kill them. Instead, he drove them out of Yan Kingdom and sent them to other remote countries to establish their own sects.

They were unbelievably kind.

This move brought him a great deal of spiritual merit. Gu Qing's teaching of disciples grew larger and larger. Of the 30,000 cultivators in the human cultivation world, 29,000 were his disciples and grand-disciples.

Moreover, by using array artifacts, he gathered a large amount of spiritual energy from the human world, almost absorbing it all and bringing it to Qifeng Mountain.

This has led to the rapid advancement of the spiritual veins in this area, which have already reached the standard of a seventh-grade blessed land. Among the disciples, some have cultivated the Azure Yang Spiritual Body and have begun to follow in the footsteps of their ancestor, starting to do good deeds and accumulate merit.

They set their sights on ascension.

Without external obstacles, Yan Kingdom became the place of Gu Qing's aspirations, except that Gu Qing was not satisfied with the population, which was only over 100 million.

As a result, the disciples of Qinggong were able to summon clouds and rain, use magic to fertilize the soil, reclaim wasteland on a large scale for the people, solve problems in war, and so on.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

They established schools and taught all kinds of advanced knowledge; even the crown prince of the dynasty entered the Qing Palace to study Taoism.

The population of Yan Kingdom began a period of rapid growth, presenting a thriving scene.

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This caused Gu Qing's gains to increase dramatically, with countless holy virtues descending upon him, even condensing into the character "Saint" in his Niwan Palace.

This greatly changed Gu Qing's aura, making this ruthless demonic being appear as a saint descended to earth, inspiring respect in others at first glance.

(End of this chapter)