People in Conferred Gods: Rising from humble beginnings, I am the God of Wealth

Chapter 339 The Conferment of Gods is Decided in Biyou Palace, and the Tongtian Sect Leader Devises a Countermeasure!
Time passes.

Before we knew it, three thousand years had passed.

For three thousand years, the sound of the Dao has been constantly heard on Jin'ao Island, and all the disciples of the Jie Sect have fallen into a state of enlightenment.

Even the creatures of the East China Sea surrounding Jin'ao Island benefited from this.

However, they were too far away from Jin'ao Island, and could only vaguely hear some Daoist sounds, which was far from comparable to the Jie Sect disciples on Jin'ao Island.

However, this does not mean that their gains were necessarily less than those of the disciples of the Jie Sect on Jin'ao Island.

Although the Jie Sect was known for having ten thousand immortals paying homage, its members were of mixed quality.

Many of the outermost disciples of the Jie Sect withdrew from their state of enlightenment in less than a hundred years.

Unable to comprehend the Great Dao spoken of by the Tongtian Sect Master, they could only cultivate supernatural powers and practice techniques by relying on the extraordinary phenomena of the sage's teachings.

A thousand years from now, only the disciples of the Jie Sect outside Biyou Palace will be able to keep up with the Great Dao taught by the Tongtian Sect Leader.

Their gains were even greater; their auras became more complete, their cultivation more profound, and their cultivation showed signs of a breakthrough.

Two thousand years later, there are even fewer disciples of the Jie Sect who can still maintain a state of enlightenment.

Even Lingya Xian and others in the outer hall of Biyou Palace successively withdrew from their state of enlightenment.

They looked at Bixiao and the others in the inner hall, their eyes filled with undisguised envy and jealousy.

When they turned their gazes to Shi Ji and the other two, their expressions inevitably darkened, and a hint of murderous intent surfaced in their hearts.

Bixiao was able to enter the inner hall despite not meeting the usual requirements, which meant she was at least at the early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.

The Ten Heavenly Lords were qualified to enter the inner palace because they created the Ten Absolute Formations and had remarkable attainments in the Dao of Formations.

But Shi Ji and the other two have no cultivation and no expertise in array formations. So why are they allowed to enter the inner hall?

If even these three can enter the inner hall to listen to the Dao, they are at least Great Luo Golden Immortals, and their attainments in array formations are not bad. Why can't they enter the inner hall? Isn't this a bit too biased?

Especially Shen Gong, who has been suppressed by them for years without any room for resistance. His only notable characteristic is that his Dao heart has become more steadfast.

Now that they have been granted special permission to enter the inner palace, how can they feel at peace with this?

"If I had known this would happen, I should have made him leave the Jie Sect 'voluntarily' in the first place!"

Lingya Xian lowered her head, trying her best to suppress the killing intent in her heart.

As fellow disciples of the Jie Sect, he wouldn't dare to kill Shen Gong, but if Shen Gong left on his own, then he couldn't be blamed.

"now……"

"It's not too late!"

Lingya Xian's eyes flickered. Although he still couldn't understand why the Tongtian Sect Leader would make an exception and allow Shen Gong to enter the hall to listen to the Dao.

Ultimately, Shen Gong was merely a Golden Immortal, with a less than outstanding background and no particularly powerful supernatural abilities.

Lingya Xian is a Great Luo Golden Immortal, so it wouldn't be difficult for him to get Shen Gong to leave 'voluntarily'.

Five hundred years later, Shi Ji, Yang Jiao, and Shen Gong emerged from their state of enlightenment, unable to suppress the smiles on their faces.

If they had heard the teachings in the original place, they would probably have awakened more than a thousand years ago.

Now that I have come to the inner hall of Biyou Palace and listened to the teachings of more than a thousand years, the benefits I have gained are far greater than those I could have received outside Biyou Palace.

Yang Jiao and Shen Gong were both newly ascended to the Golden Immortal realm. After listening to the sage's teachings for over two thousand years, their cultivation level remained unchanged, but their Daoist attainments rose steadily, and they had already stepped into the threshold of the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm.

Shi Ji's cultivation level was higher; she was a Taiyi Golden Immortal. However, her cultivation level did not directly leapfrog a major realm like Yang Jiao's and the other two.

However, she actually gained more benefits than Yang Jiao and the other two. When a sage preaches, the higher one's cultivation level, the more one can understand.

Shi Ji's cultivation has now reached the perfection of Taiyi Golden Immortal. As long as she cultivates diligently for a period of time, she can prepare to face the Heavenly Tribulation after breaking through her realm, condense the Three Flowers on her head, and achieve the Great Luo Fruit.

The gains in just over two thousand years are greater than those in several previous eras.

This made her even more emotional and gave her even more respect for Yang Xuan.

She secretly resolved that even if she could not gain any merit, she would do her best to complete the task assigned by Yang Xuan and assist the ghosts and gods of the underworld in completing the construction of the Gate of Hell on Skull Mountain as soon as possible.

No matter who tries to stop her, she won't be polite!

Three hundred years later, Bixiao and the others also woke up one after another. They looked back at Shiji and the other two with a look of curiosity on their faces.

They didn't know what was so special about Shi Ji and the other two that allowed them to enter the inner hall to listen to the teachings, but now was definitely not the time to talk. They nodded to the three of them and then closed their eyes to digest what they had learned.

More than two hundred years later, as Daoist Duobao, Holy Mother Jinling, and others successively withdrew from their state of enlightenment, the Daoist sounds that had resounded on Jin'ao Island for more than three thousand years disappeared.

At this moment, the Tongtian Sect Leader slowly opened his eyes, his gaze sweeping over everyone before finally settling on Shen Gong, and he chuckled softly:
"Wake up from your dream!"

Shen Gong was slightly taken aback, wondering what the Tongtian Sect Leader meant by the 'Great Dream'.

But the next moment, a memory seed deep within the mind suddenly snapped, and countless strange yet familiar memories surged out from the seed, leaving Shen Gong stunned.

The Master of Heaven didn't pay much attention to Shen Gong. After offering a single insightful remark, he lightly tapped the hilt of his sword and said in a deep voice:

"Ten thousand years later, the dynasties of the Nine Provinces changed, the fate of humanity shifted, and the great calamity of the Investiture of the Gods descended upon the primordial world."

"This great calamity is aimed at the Xuanmen, Chanjiao, and Jiejiao. They have been favored by the primordial fortune, but they have not made the contributions they should have made. Instead, they have committed karmic offenses, which is truly regrettable!"

"Therefore, the Dao Ancestor, moved by the Dao of Heaven, used the conferment of gods as a pretext to settle the karmic debts during the Great Tribulation."

"If you can overcome this, your cultivation will greatly increase, you will not owe any karma to heaven and earth, you will gain great freedom and ease, and your status in the Xuanmen sect will become even more transcendent."

"If one cannot overcome this obstacle, one's primordial spirit will be listed on the leaderboard, one's cultivation will plummet, one will lose all spiritual treasures, and even the Jie Sect will become a thing of the past!"

Upon hearing this, everyone, from the outer disciples furthest from Biyou Palace to the elites of the Jie Sect such as Golden Spirit Mother, Daoist Duobao, and Zhao Gongming inside the palace, showed expressions of shock.

Over the years, as the primordial calamity energy in the world has gradually increased, these Great Luo Golden Immortals, although unable to sense the existence of the calamity energy, can still detect some anomalies.

They never imagined that this was a sign of an impending great calamity. Even more unexpectedly, they never imagined that this calamity would be brought down by the Xuanmen sect, the very target of their Jie and Chan sects.

In other words, all of them are the main characters in this great calamity of the Investiture of the Gods!
Many of them had experienced the Lich Wars, and even those who had not experienced it firsthand had heard of its terror.

They originally chose to join the Jie Sect because they could listen to the sages preach, practice the sages' skills, and receive the sages' protection, so they wouldn't have to be timid in their actions.

Unexpectedly, one day, a great calamity would befall the Jie Sect, making them all the ones destined to face it.

Even if the Tongtian Sect Leader said that if one fails to pass the tribulation, one's primordial spirit can still be listed, and one will not die or perish.

However, their cultivation level will definitely plummet, and they will lose all their spiritual treasures. Moreover, there may be some restrictions on their being listed, making them vulnerable to others.

As for hiding the spiritual treasure in advance to prevent it from being lost during the great calamity, they never even considered it.

The Great Tribulation is inherently dangerous, and for those who are destined to face it, the chances of survival are even slimmer. If they were to hide away their valuable spiritual treasures, they might as well find a propitious place to end their lives.

When all the disciples of the Jie Sect learned that the great calamity of the Investiture of the Gods was about to descend, they all showed fear and had different thoughts.

As the saying goes, a wise man does not stand under a crumbling wall. Since the Jie Sect is about to become the protagonist of the Investiture of the Gods, it is not a wise move to stay in the Jie Sect.

Many disciples of the Jie Sect have this idea, but they are all recent members of the sect, and their cultivation is low and their knowledge is limited.

Anyone with a higher level of cultivation and some understanding of cause and effect would not have such thoughts.

Once you join the Jie Sect, you become a member of the sect and have a karmic connection with the Tongtian Sect Leader. It's not so simple for them to leave the Jie Sect.

Most of the disciples of the Jie Sect were thinking about how to avoid the Investiture of the Gods calamity and face it head-on; they simply didn't have the courage.

Sages have attained the highest level of enlightenment. Since the Tongtian Sect Master was able to protect them for so many years, why couldn't he continue to protect them during the Investiture of the Gods?
A small number of disciples of the Jie Sect harbored resentment, but their resentment was not because of the Investiture of the Gods or the Tongtian Sect Leader; rather, it was because of certain fellow disciples of the Jie Sect.

The Tongtian Sect Leader just made it very clear that the reason why the Investiture of the Gods Calamity occurred was because the Xuanmen sect enjoyed the great fortune of the primordial world but did not make the due contribution. Moreover, as disciples of the Xuanmen sect, they committed a great deal of karmic debt.

This is karma, and they naturally know who committed the offense.

Many of them had even been suppressed by certain people because they refused to enjoy certain foods and were unwilling to be "carefree immortals," causing them to encounter obstacles everywhere in the Jie Sect.

This is one of the reasons why many disciples of the Jie Sect chose to leave Jin'ao Island and cultivate in their own dojos.

Now they are following the rules and not creating karma, so they don't have much karma on them. But they are facing tribulations because of the karma created by their fellow disciples. How could they not have resentment?

Even inner disciples like Jinling Shengmu and Duobao Daoren frowned slightly, harboring dissatisfaction.

On the contrary, Lingya Xian and his group seemed unaware of this, focusing entirely on how to use the Jie Sect to avoid calamity and how to get the Tongtian Sect Leader to intervene and protect them.

The Tongtian Sect Leader sat upright on the cloud platform, sensing the reactions of the disciples of the Jie Sect. His expression remained unchanged, but in his heart, he sighed helplessly.

Even if the Tongtian Sect Leader didn't have the ability to read people's minds, he could still guess some of their thoughts by observing changes in their auras.

Although the Tongtian Sect Leader and most of the outer disciples only had a slight master-disciple relationship, since he had taken these beings under his wing, he regarded them as his disciples and was willing to seek a sliver of karma for them.

Unfortunately, many disciples of the Jie Sect only regarded him as a powerful figure and did not feel any sense of belonging to the sect.

Even before the great calamity has arrived, many disciples of the Jie Sect, having just learned that the Jie Sect will be the protagonist of the calamity and that its disciples will be the ones to face it, are already trying to sever ties with the sect before the calamity descends.

If it weren't for the protection of the Jie Sect, they probably wouldn't even need the Great Tribulation to officially descend; the tribulation energy in the prehistoric world alone would be enough to kill them and annihilate them!
The Tongtian Sect Leader wanted to offer these disciples of the Jie Sect a glimmer of hope, but they seemed somewhat ungrateful.

"What does it have to do with me!"

But soon, the Master of Heaven calmed his mind.

He wanted to seek a glimmer of hope for the Jie Sect because he was the leader of the Jie Sect, a sage of Shangqing, and also to verify his own Dao.

Whether these disciples of the Jie Sect are grateful or court death is none of his business.

It was people like Lingya Xian who had dragged the Jie Sect into this predicament, yet they showed no remorse whatsoever. Instead, they were preoccupied with how to continue dragging the Jie Sect down with them, which chilled the Tongtian Sect Leader to the bone.

He was more aware of the hidden dangers of the Jie Sect than anyone else.

The reason he let it go was not only because he wanted to verify his own Dao, but also because Lingya Xian and other beings were also part of the Jie Sect, and he didn't want to just watch them die from the backlash of karma.

Now that the great calamity is about to descend, Lingya Xian and the others show no remorse whatsoever and even think of continuing to drag the Jie Sect down with them. Anyone in their position would feel chilled to the bone.

"So be it..."

The Master of Heaven remained silent for a long time, then made a decision and stopped thinking about it.

His gaze swept over the group of disciples of the Jie Sect, and he said in a deep voice:

"From this day forward, the great calamity will inevitably descend. This is the cause and effect that the Xuanmen owes to the primordial world. All disciples of the Jie Sect are those who are destined to face this calamity."

"The Dao Ancestor said that disciples of the Xuanmen sect must settle their karma during the Great Tribulation, and sages must not interfere."

"Fortune and misfortune have no fixed gate; they are brought about by one's own actions. The great calamity is approaching, so you should firmly guard your faith and refrain from causing trouble and creating unnecessary karma!"

These words chilled the hearts of all the disciples of the Jie Sect once again, and Lingya Xian and the others looked particularly unwilling.

They were just thinking about how to use the great principles of the Jie Sect to get the Tongtian Sect Leader to intervene and protect them, the disciples of the Jie Sect, during the great calamity.

As a result, before they could come up with an explanation, the Tongtian Sect Leader blocked that possibility.

If they were to continue asking the Tongtian Sect Leader for help, it would be going against the Holy Will and questioning the Dao Ancestor's decision. They wouldn't dare to do that.

Moreover, the Tongtian Sect Leader was issuing a notification, not seeking advice. After saying these words, he admonished the disciples of the Jie Sect to stay in their caves as much as possible during the Great Tribulation.

Then, the Tongtian Sect Leader waved his hand, dismissing the disciples of the Jie Sect, but leaving Shi Ji, Yang Jiao, and Shen Gong behind.

There are some things that are not suitable to be revealed in front of the disciples of the Jie Sect, especially after seeing the attitude of some disciples towards the Jie Sect. The Tongtian Sect Leader would not be able to reveal all his plans.

But just after Duobao Daoren, Jinling Shengmu, and other inner disciples had all left Biyou Palace, Bixiao ran back.

She approached the Master of Heaven, took out a jade box from her sleeve, handed it to him, and said mysteriously:

"Master, this is what my younger brother asked me to bring. He said it can be lent to the Jie Sect for a period of time, perhaps giving the Jie Sect a glimmer of hope..."

(End of this chapter)