Shangyuque

Chapter 340 Twelve hundred years have passed, yet the moss on the cloud-covered steps remains ever new (1.15 views, please vote!)

Outside the core array of the Pure Water Dao Court, in the Immortal Realm, the elderly True Person of Sweet Water Enclosure was solemnly instructing a group of Foundation Establishment stage youths.

"Remember, the Pure Water Palace is not a palace, but Master's Daoist temple, a realm beyond the heavens, a place of immortals."

Only those of you who are among the most outstanding young disciples of the inner sect have the opportunity to serve under our master in the Pure Water Palace.

Therefore, we must seize the opportunity and maintain a profound sense of awe!

Both statements are warnings, but the warnings have not yet stopped.

That was a renowned Dao Ancestor in the world. If there were a ranking of Dao Ancestors in the Great World, the Pure Water Dao Ancestor would probably have a chance to compete for a place in the top ten.

Of course, no brainless, ultimate idiot would bother to compile such a ranking—it's suicidal.

"Remember, everything you have was given to you by your master."

If any of you make a mistake, it will not be the sect rules that punish you, nor will it be your master who punishes you.

Instead, everyone will punish you, punish your family—not just a massacre, but worse than a massacre!

The cruelest mechanism is not strict laws, but the absence of laws, the lack of safety nets, and the absence of compassion.

The Dao Ancestor bestows his grace upon everyone; those who are unwilling or unable to accept it will naturally have their grace snatched away by others.

If you are disloyal, I will be more loyal and more willing to dedicate myself to you. Therefore, I should take away the favor that belongs to you and gain even more favor. This is the survival logic of the lowest insects.

Under the warning from the real person in Sweetwater, these excited young people became extremely nervous.

The opportunity is the best of the best, but it also carries enormous risks.

Through systematic training, these young monks were instilled with the underlying code of loyalty and reverence during the first half of their cultivation at the Pure Water Daoist Temple.

Humans cannot easily transcend their origins and underlying logic—they can, but 'not easily'. For specific examples, see Qingrui and Xuegu.

Under such circumstances, as long as Jade Palace Immortal Venerable doesn't suffer a crushing defeat, his power will not collapse!
This is the significance of accumulation, the significance of profound knowledge.

"Alright, now follow me. After entering Master's dojo, no one is allowed to use divine sense to transmit messages or do anything behind the ancestor's back."

"Master is watching you. Master knows everything. Master doesn't like people who are two-faced behind his back."

Sweetwater Wai used the Great Array Command Talisman, and the Great Array opened a small door.

In fact, Jade Palace Immortal Venerable was not the kind of person who liked to eavesdrop on his subordinates; he never even expected to control everything, but he really disliked idiots.
Jade Palace Immortal Venerable has an instinctive aversion to fools, which may be part of the Immortal Venerable's underlying code, after all, the Immortal Venerable has seen too many fools.

Therefore, many fools who were sent to his training grounds were eliminated in advance by the Immortal Venerable, making it seem as if the Immortal Venerable liked to eavesdrop on his subordinates.

After discovering that the matter had been misunderstood, the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable basically ignored those fools.

It doesn't matter. Anyway, the overall efficiency of the water purification system is still the highest. So what if there are a few more idiots? Maybe they can even serve as functional idiots at times.

Zhijin and Zhiyin are a brother and sister. Both of them have been selected to enter the Pure Water Palace to serve under the Dao Ancestor.

Their surname is very special; the surname Zhi does not exist in the world.

However, their ancestor, Zhifa, was a disciple of the ancestor because of his talent in weaving and refining robes, and was given the surname Zhi.

Therefore, this brother and sister are actually pure and upright young soldiers.

Given this connection, they naturally had high expectations for their upcoming appointment at the Pure Water Palace.

However, once they returned to the Daoist Immortal Realm and waited for the ancestor's summons along with many young prodigies selected from the two million cultivators of the Pure Water Daoist Court, the brothers realized the vastness of the world.

The Dao Ancestor had twenty-eight disciples, all of whom were above the Celestial Realm. There were three Dao Ancestors in the Dao Court at the Transformation Realm: Chongliu Dao Ancestor, Maosun Dao Ancestor, and Heilong Dao Ancestor.

Besides these, there are more than 110 other True Persons in the Celestial Realm of the Dao Court.
Thus, there are approximately 150 great cultivators, which can be rounded up to a number similar to a small group of immortals or a small immortal alliance.

The disciples and descendants of these great cultivators would send people to the Pure Water Palace every so often.

They weren't hostages, because the founder genuinely gave his subordinates a chance—the king of internal strife could certainly suppress the inherent contradictions within his core base.

By constantly bringing the younger generations of his heroes and powerful figures to his side, the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's favors continued to grow, and the stability and unity of his power increased day by day. With the weakest foundation, he developed into a well-known Great Court in the Four Spirit Realms after 1,200 years.

However, this is a bit difficult for the brother and sister Zhijin and Zhiyin.

The Immortal Venerable's favor is boundless, but there are more than eighty core Foundation Establishment disciples who have come to serve in the Pure Water Palace this time. No matter how much favor is given, it cannot be divided up like this. The Great Battle of Loyalty is like this: the smartest, most talented, and most loyal disciples are selected from the core disciples and then vigorously cultivated.

Just like back then, when Mang Xiang nurtured Wang Yulou.

At the very core of the Pure Water Dao Garden Wonderland lies a triple array.

The first level is Spirit Locking. Jade Palace Immortal Venerable has completely mastered the Forbidden Law of Spirit Destruction. Through this method, one can isolate the inside from the outside, achieving a tremendous improvement where one is in the same world but feels as if in a fairyland.

After passing through the first major formation, Zhijin could see the milky white spiritual energy visible to the naked eye.

The faint white spiritual mist drifted within the great formation. Like many other disciples entering the Dao Ancestor's dojo for the first time, he quietly circulated his cultivation technique, and then his eyes lit up.

The concentration of spiritual energy here is more than three times that of the outside world.

But what's even more exciting is that the water quality here is a staggering 20%!
The Daoist ancestral temple is indeed extraordinary; Zhijin has already begun to fantasize about the wonderful life of cultivating here.

The balance of the five elements in the Four Spirit Realms is still far from being achieved, but the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable has already achieved the balance of the five elements.

The principle of balancing the five elements first and then balancing the five elements is to be followed.

If even the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable, who focuses on hydration and the balance of the five elements, cannot achieve the balance of the five elements, then how can the others in the Four Spirit Realms achieve it?

Within the first array, besides the condensed, pale white spiritual mist, the most eye-catching feature was the enormous hemisphere lying upside down on the ground in the center of the array.

That was the second great formation.

It is entirely composed of spiritual materials, and different spiritual materials play different roles in the construction of the formation.

Zhijin, being from a prominent clan, immediately recognized that the cost of this grand formation was likely immeasurable—spiritual materials would be depleted.

However, the fact that the Ancestor still constructed the grand formation in such an extravagant manner can only be attributed to the fact that the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable had bestowed much kindness and received much in return.

The Pure Water Daoist Court has approximately 150 great cultivators. To support just one person with such a large force would be quite extravagant.

Master Tian Shuiwei led his disciples through the second great formation and entered the true core of the Dao Ancestor's court.

Four massive mountain ridges converged from four directions toward the very center of the second-level formation.

At the center, a pale blue sun is surrounded by four mountain ridges high above.

The spiritual energy here is so dense that one can hardly see the distant scenery, and the spiritual mist has solidified into a deep white color.

Zhijin absorbed the energy for only a moment, and then felt a slight change in her cultivation level.

The spiritual energy here is eleven times that of the normal spiritual energy in the Four Spirit Realms!
With such a high concentration of spiritual energy, even an ordinary person living here would gradually develop cultivation!
Some Foundation Establishment cultivators who had not yet shed their mortal empathy even began to doubt whether this great cultivator who stripped them of everything to support them was the legendary ancestor who treated his subordinates kindly and acted fairly, or a beast that sucked the blood of heaven and earth and exploited all cultivators.

It can only be said that their suspicions were not wrong.

The path to advancement is like this; if you can't stomach it, then don't bother cultivating this immortality or pursuing that path.

In fact, this was a complete cannibalism contest.

Whoever eats people most efficiently and quickly will progress faster in each stage!

But this isn't even the most brutal aspect of cultivating immortality from a mortal's perspective.

The crueler reality is that while Jade Palace Immortal Venerable devoured countless people and the power he built consumed countless others, the changes he brought about, everything he did, and the power he constructed also redeemed countless people.

To strip away everything, to control everything, to create everything, to influence everything, to redeem everything.

Endless changes, a stable era of 1,200 years, infinite creations under the lock of change—this is the cultivation of the Immortal Venerable.

The killer?
The rescuer?
Is the person killed by the changes brought about by the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable more noble, or the person saved by the changes brought about by the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable?
If the value of humans, and even all undifferentiated beings, comes from their own lives, then, between the constant and the impermanent course of nature, isn't the greatest enemy of beings destroyed by heaven and earth itself?

The process of taking revenge on heaven and earth itself will also have an impact on change and creation, becoming another individual that affects the life and death of countless living beings between constancy and impermanence. What is it then?

This is the essence of immortality; the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's every movement and stillness is an endless cycle of cause and effect.

Those who can bear these karmic consequences will enter the realm of Golden Immortals, become Top Golden Immortals, and transform into the Limitless; those who cannot bear them will have no reason to exist—thus betraying themselves in the concept of the individual.

Therefore, the moral concepts of the mortal world have no applicable value when it comes to immortals.

Sweetwater looked at the pale blue sun surrounded by four mountain ridges, and then gave some instructions.

"Alright, stop standing there like an idiot, keep up!"

Zhijin hid in the middle to rear of the group, and the younger generation of the Dao Ancestor's disciples were mostly in the middle to rear—they had received the true teachings of the Dao Ancestor.

Sweetwater led these junior cultivators up a mountain ridge. Because they were all cultivators, they were very fast.

Zhijin keenly sensed that the mountain ridge was not just a simple mountain; it was covered with countless mysterious array patterns, which seemed to be part of an array as well.

Before long, the group reached the summit, standing before the pale blue sun that was surrounded by four mountain ridges.

A faint blue sphere of light, with twinkling starlight on its outer layer. Zhijin was mesmerized, trying to make out the shape of the starlight.

Fortunately, the Immortal Venerable's Daoist temple array had no killing or deceptive abilities; it was purely designed for cultivation.

Zhijin was only lost in the moment before she woke up with a start.

With the Dao right before their eyes, and cultivators present in person, how could they not be greedy?

What surprised him even more was that those scattered points of starlight, covering the outer layer of the pale blue sun, were actually transformed from exquisite magical water sand.

The pale blue sun, with a diameter of over ten miles, had countless layers of exquisite water and sand on its outer shell.
The implication is clear to anyone with a brain.

This is the cultivation of an Immortal Venerable. What kind of Golden Core do you think I, the Immortal Venerable of the Eastern Jade Palace, am?
“Sweet Water Wai pays respects to Master. All the new disciples this time, except for the two who died in an accident on the way, have been brought here.”

Beyond the pale blue sun, Sweetwater bowed and reported.

Zhijin noticed that Tianshuiwei's forehead was pressed tightly against the ground.

This is the Dao Ancestor. He has more than twenty disciples, three Dao Ancestors at the Transformation Realm, and hundreds of subordinates at the Celestial Realm on the outer perimeter.

The illustrious and powerful Tian Shui Wei Zhenren was as docile as a dog in front of the Dao Ancestor.

Two were unexpectedly lost?

"Master, according to observations from the Wind and Rain Pavilion and the Dragon Seeking Sect, the number of cultivators undergoing tribulation has been increasing in various regions over the past hundred years."

Wang Yulou opened his eyes.

The idea that fate is hard to defy and that the waves of the sea are false; the Immortal Venerable's fate was gradually snatched back into his own hands.

But heaven and earth have never followed any particular order, ethics are not the fundamental principles, and the human heart is merely flowing against the current. This is indeed true.

Those who seize the greatest opportunity for change desire stability, a stable victory, and in that stable victory, they want their enemies to quietly march towards their most desperate death.

But there are always those who do not seize the greatest opportunity for change, who want to challenge the Tianxin who has been replaced by Wang Yulou and others, and challenge the ethical norms of the stable era that have been artificially constructed.

Because their hearts are set on lofty goals, and like the former Jade Palace Immortal Venerable, they also want to change their fate.

From the perspective of an immortal, from the perspective of a golden elixir cultivator, from the perspective of a Dao ancestor, transcending specific contradictions, transcending individual interests and individual demands, the underlying logic of the world is that simple.

Under the primary contradiction, everything else is merely an add-on and appendage, and does not play a decisive role.

Chaos is inevitable.

However, with the chaos erupting, even the stable cultivation of the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable will be disrupted.

Don't forget, Jade Palace Immortal Venerable is a 1,500-year-old cultivator. In any sense, he is an old man. As for why he can't be the ultimate old man, it's just because some old men are too outrageous.
Therefore, having such judgments and expectations is a basic operation.

"come in"

Jade Palace Immortal Venerable and his disciple Sweet Water discussed the situation, but outwardly, he directly summoned everyone in.

The pale blue sun opened a small hole, and the dense starlight kept twinkling, which was the wonderful power of the formation's transformation.

Just like the code on a computer operating system, the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable opened the core of his Daoist temple, allowing outsiders to access his website, but also had to maintain the stability of the formation.

Therefore, it is necessary to restrict permissions. What is revealed to Zhijin is that after entering the blue sun, she is covered with a layer of star robes.

But he didn't have time to be shocked by it.

Because the interior of the blue sun is filled with wondrous and mysterious water!

The spiritual energy here is more than fifty times that of the entire Four Spirit Realms.
Furthermore, water-based spiritual energy accounts for 90% of the composition of spiritual energy.
In fact, this is because Zhijin lacks insight and knowledge, and cannot understand the mysteries of the Great Dao.

The pale blue sun is the top-tier array 'Mystic Law Four Symbols True Unity Water Transformation Array' personally designed by Jade Palace Immortal Venerable. The spiritual water within the array is a mixture of Spiritual Beauty Water, Heavenly Water, Condensed Deathly Water, Mystic Law Profound Water, Moonlit Jade Dew Water, Nirvana Water, and Forbidden Law Extinction Spirit Water.

The Jade Palace Immortal Venerable has completely mastered the waterways brought from the Great Heaven and Earth.

Through the transformative power of the water element within the Great Dao, the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable constructed a unique 'True One Water Transformation Array'.

It is composed of water belonging to the Great Dao, taking the innate meaning of spiritual water and heavenly water, and combining the acquired power of deadly water, mysterious water of wondrous law, moonlight and rain water, water of annihilation, and forbidden water of spiritual destruction, thus creating a pool of extraordinary water.

The water here is both naturally occurring and naturally occurring. The Jade Palace Immortal Venerable cultivated here, practicing the Divine Illumination Method!
The "divine" in the Divine Illumination Method refers to a person who is like a god, whose life and spirit are perfectly complete.

The "illumination" in Shenzhao Fa refers to something as brilliant as the sun, possessing boundless and invincible magical power.

The Dharma of Dharma is about transcending the self and externalizing it. The solemn Dharma of Dharma refines heaven and earth, unites the power of a region, and draws upon the might of heaven and earth.

The Nascent Soul Method takes the self beyond itself, nurturing the Dao embryo, surpassing the limits, and in the explosive burst of the limit, one can achieve extraordinary strength, without having to depend on the whims of heaven and earth.

The Divine Illumination Method, on the other hand, takes the path of the superego, which unites the primordial spirit and the Dao body, achieving complete invincibility of life, nature, and primordial spirit.

Because the Nascent Soul Method's transcendence of self requires the nurturing of the Dao Embryo, that is, the cultivation of the Nascent Soul, it is less efficient than the Dharma Aspect Method, which borrows the power of others and the power of the Dharma Aspect to refine heaven and earth.

Therefore, the Nascent Soul method is considered by many great cultivators to be an insufficiently advanced path.

As for the Boundless Method, it was developed based on the mastery of the Great Dao by cultivators at the Golden Core level. However, in terms of the depth of power construction, it was far inferior to the other three methods, and thus it was indeed eliminated.

Normally, a Golden Core cultivator would first accumulate power gradually through countless methods, and only after gaining some strength could they seek to cultivate other methods.

However, Jade Palace Immortal Venerable bypassed this process relatively quickly, achieving a rapid breakthrough by using his power to replenish himself and seizing opportunities from major changes.

He now practices both the Dharma of Appearance and the Dharma of Divine Illumination.

The Dharma of Forms focuses on the 'external' aspects, and everything external can be categorized under the grand framework of the Dharma of Forms.

By borrowing the Dharma image, others, and power, one can achieve rapid spiritual practice and accumulation.

The Divine Illumination Cultivation is similar to the inner self, but it is not the kind of inner self that involves going through an extra step in the process of nurturing the Dao embryo. Instead, it is closer to the true self of the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable.

The perfection of the primordial spirit and the Dao body promotes the improvement of the cultivation of the Divine Illumination Method, thereby fundamentally strengthening the foundation, rather than strengthening the foundation with an external Dao embryo.

Through the True One Water Transformation Formation, the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable combined the spiritual water within into one, which was developed following the lineage of the 'Seven Spirit Water Dragon' divine power, and its upper limit and possibilities for effect are actually extremely numerous.

However, Jade Palace Immortal Venerable was a true great cultivator, and he knew exactly what he wanted.

Therefore, within this unified spiritual water, the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable did only one thing: reconstruct his Dao body.

A complete reconstruction transforms the fundamental Daoist body of human beings into the fundamental Daoist body required for one's own cultivation.

This isn't about being inhuman, because the Immortal Venerable has long ceased to be human.

His method of cultivation seeks the ultimate efficiency.

Now, after 1,200 years of accumulation, the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's Divine Illumination Technique has reached a minor level of mastery.

Because these methods of cultivation have no reference system, even if someone actually produces twenty-three pieces of low-grade Heavenly Rank spiritual materials, Jade Palace Immortal Venerable and any Golden Core cultivator who has truly embarked on the path would not be able to openly reveal their cultivation level and cultivation definition system to others.

Therefore, the minor success of the Divine Illumination Technique of the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable is similar to his definition of the four levels of the Great Heaven and Earth Golden Elixir, which was also defined by himself.

Beginning the practice of the Divine Illumination Method marks the initial step into the cultivation of one's life essence and primordial spirit shining like the sun, which can be considered the entry point.

Once one's life essence and primordial spirit have undergone a comprehensive reconstruction, achieving initial harmony and perfection in one's own path of cultivation, and realizing the initial realization of the foundation of the Dao body and the strength of the primordial spirit, it can be considered a minor achievement.

As cultivation and accumulation further improve, the Dao body is continuously strengthened and refined, and the primordial spirit also accumulates continuously, reaching the level where one can truly withstand the opponent's supernatural powers solely through the Dao body, which can be considered a great achievement.

A near-perfect iterative path has been fully constructed, with no upper limit or bottleneck for improvement; that would be considered a success.

Perfection is a process, not a result.

If there is no further perfection, then it is not the ultimate state, and one cannot reach the ultimate state—so what's the point of cultivating the ultimate state!

Having cultivated to this point, Jade Palace Immortal Venerable has fully embarked on the path of immortal cultivation.

Those bottlenecks in common sense are problems faced by ordinary people. If bottlenecks still exist in the cultivation of immortals, it proves that their path is not good and their cultivation is not good.

Then we'll have to change our approach and direction.

On the other hand, if the Divine Illumination Method has an upper limit, it contradicts the meaning of the Limitless.

Either the Divine Illumination Method's path of strengthening the ego is wrong, or the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's understanding of the Divine Illumination Method is wrong—both are possible, and both are far from the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's understanding.

He's only achieved minor success now, but he's thinking so far ahead simply because he has lofty ambitions.

The very basic requirement of 'no bottleneck' is a level that only the most outstanding cultivators in the endless world can pursue.

However, Jade Palace Immortal Venerable is indeed one of the most outstanding beings among countless cultivators in the endless worlds, endless time, and endless future.

He has the qualifications, and more importantly, the ability, to pursue these higher and farther paths.

However, lofty aspirations cannot ignore the quagmire of reality.

True fertile soil never exists; only individuals who can survive and thrive in the harshest environments can achieve transcendence.

"You will cultivate in the middle level of the temple."

The God of the Cauldron will comprehensively calculate your cultivation points.

A seven-year plan, eliminating half the population each time.

The last two became my disciples.

The Celestial Venerable's decree was issued, along with a genuine expression of gratitude.

Based on each person's unique talents, the Immortal Venerable bestowed upon each person a unique cultivation technique from his vast and accumulated knowledge.

Although it wasn't custom-made, with the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's expertise, personally choosing for them naturally resulted in a different effect, not much different from custom-made.

"What are you standing there for? Aren't you going to thank your master for bestowing this power?"

Sweetwater Wai felt a little anxious for these hotheads.

It's true that each generation is worse than the last. The current candidates are all from prominent families, and they are gradually becoming relatively mindless on a large scale.

Zhijin nervously bowed in gratitude along with everyone else. He didn't even see where the Immortal Venerable was before he was expelled from the center of the dojo by the formation and left the blue sun.

"Alright, don't be nervous, look at the picture."

The legendary cauldron god suddenly appeared, looking like a little baby wearing a bib, with rosy skin and two large earrings on her ears, looking extremely cute.

With a wave of its hand, a huge picture appeared before everyone's eyes.

The four mountain ridges, the Pure Water Palace where the ridges meet, and other areas in the second level of the Immortal Venerable's Daoist Temple are all on this map. Hundreds of lights are flashing on the map, which are the locations of the cave dwellings.

"Each of you starts with one hundred cultivation points. The annual point consumption varies for different cave dwellings, and the concentration and type of spiritual energy also differ. Choose one of your own."

"You all know the rules, and you don't need to worry about not having enough points. Hurry up and choose, I have other things to do," the chubby baby Ding Shen urged.

It had made an appointment to fight the black dragon and didn't have time to waste on these little brats.

Zhijin knew that cultivation points were the only criterion used by the Pure Water Palace to select core disciples of the Pure Water Daoist Court.

There are various ways to obtain them, such as improving one's cultivation level, taking on missions, going out to help the immortals, or even directly deceiving and robbing them, so they will not be easily exhausted.

Therefore, he immediately chose the most suitable cave dwelling for himself, which cost 35 points per year but provided a 17-fold increase in spiritual power.

This cave dwelling was one of several cave dwellings personally selected for him by the Ancestor of Zhijin. The treatment of the Pure Water Juniors is similar, and they can basically all enjoy this advantage. But that's all they have. Jade Palace Immortal Venerable really needs talent, so the spirit of the Two Elements Cauldron will be very strict in selecting these juniors.

"Brother, our cave dwellings are so far apart. The one that's closer to you and more suitable for me was snatched away by someone with quick hands," Zhiyin said with some regret.

"It's alright, we're basically safe. The Ancestor won't let us sell points."

Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's new disciples in recent years have all been selected through this method.

Therefore, many True Persons of the Pure Water Dao Court secretly buy and sell points to ensure that their disciples can enter the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's sect.

This actually aligns with the Celestial Venerable's will, because when certain individuals are capable enough to gain recognition and support, the Celestial Venerable can naturally provide these subordinates with more support and opportunities.

In any case, none of these people can turn the tide. After becoming disciples of the Immortal Venerable, they will only offer him more loyalty.

"Let's stick to the previous plan. We'll spend four years focusing on improving our cultivation, and then we'll start taking on missions. With the Ancestor's help, we should at least reach the level of a true disciple," Zhijin said to her sister.

Those who are not eliminated in the first round will be directly promoted to true disciples.

This is the only opportunity for a true disciple of the Pure Water Dao Court. Through this method, Jade Palace Immortal Venerable can achieve complete mastery and absolute control over the Dao Court while it rapidly expands.

After all, everyone who was a talent had trained under Wang Yulou, so there was a basic level of mutual trust between them.

Even for those true disciples, this was an honor—fourteen years of cultivation at the Immortal Venerable's dojo, and a lifetime of gratitude to the Immortal Venerable.

"If we can stay and cultivate for another seven years, we can basically guarantee a chance to break through to the Celestial Realm. The Dao Ancestor is really good to us juniors. Compared to other Dao Courts, he is much better."

Weaving Silver was something they were telling the Immortal Venerable, and it was a detail personally given to them by their family's Weaving Ancestor, who was a disciple of the Immortal Venerable.

The Immortal Venerable may not care, but you cannot remain silent.

"yes."

The brother and sister stood there praising the immortal for quite a while, almost to the point of shedding tears of emotion, before they each went to their caves to begin their cultivation.
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However, the Immortal Venerable barely heard a word they said.

He is discussing some things with Sweetwater Wai.

"Master, you don't need to say anything more. Xiaotian is willing to assist you in your path to enlightenment!"

Wang Yulou always felt that Sweetwater Town's self-proclaimed name "Little Sweet" was somewhat abstract.

A real person, but named Little Sweetie. Quite difficult to keep up with.

All I can say is that the cultivation world is so vast that almost anything outrageous is bound to happen.

"You should have two more days to live."

The conditions for becoming my teacher remain the same: you can choose another person from your clan.

If I accept him as my disciple, I guarantee your family will prosper for at least another thousand years.

Also, you can think about this matter again, because I really don't want to force you to do anything.

As you know, I have no shortage of spiritual vessels.

The best artifact spirit is always a great cultivator's soul who willingly becomes an artifact spirit.
But this thing is hard to train.

However, thanks to the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's long-standing anthropomorphism, he is not actually lacking in artifact spirits.

Now, he has gathered seven enough spirits to support a celestial artifact.

Correspondingly, this also led to the deaths of seven disciples.

"Master, without your hydration, Xiaotian may never be able to see the Great Dao."

Without her master's help at the life-or-death ceremony, Xiao Tian would have died long ago.

Without her master's teachings, how could Xiaotian have had the opportunity to become a celestial being?

For 1,200 years, my master has bestowed upon me treasures twice and extended my lifespan three times. Being able to roam freely in the world for 1,200 years is already Xiaotian's good fortune.

Little Sweet owes Master a debt that can never be fully repaid, no matter how hard she tries.

Master, you don't need to say anymore, Xiaotian is willing.

As for families, those with talent and opportunity will naturally achieve the realm of a true immortal.

Those who lack talent and opportunity, even if given the chance, will not be able to handle it.

The Jade Palace Immortal Venerable is too lazy to distinguish between truth and falsehood.

Having cultivated for over 1,500 years, he had witnessed so much loyalty and sincerity that he had become desensitized to it.

"Alright, then pass away here. Leave me your water magic cultivation, and I will return to your family the same share of the Five Elements materials."

Sweetwater didn't speak, but silently bowed and sat down to begin dispersing his energy.

The cultivation method he practiced was given to him by the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable. When he passed away, he left the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable with water-based cultivation techniques, at least 70% of which could be directly absorbed by the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable.

In this way, the Immortal Venerable's foundation can be slightly improved, by about one-thousandth.

One person doing the work of three years seems incredibly efficient, but in reality, this relative conversion rate has been decreasing as Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's cultivation level increases.

This is another cruel underlying rule in cultivation—the stronger you are, the slower your strength increases.

It can be assumed that if ten thousand years pass, the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's strength will double, the Winnowing Basket Elder's strength will increase by 20%, while Bi Fang's strength may only increase by 10%.

Of course, different people have different starting points, which compensates for the relative differences in the speed of strength improvement.

The most difficult thing is that everyone's strength and cultivation methods will not be revealed to outsiders.

When preaching to subordinates, they often preach methods or paths that they themselves do not practice.

Above the Golden Immortal realm, everyone goes their own way, and they are all different. They never communicate with each other.

Sweetwater Wai originally had two days left to live, but because he was quite willing to remain loyal to the end, he voluntarily dispersed his energy, so he entered a state of imminent death in just half a day.

This cultivator, who appeared to be in his eighties, sat cross-legged beside the Immortal Venerable, his cultivation already transformed into a water spirit.

He barely opened his eyes, looked at his nominal master, opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

At this point, even the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable was slightly moved.

Until his death, his disciple did not break his promise; this was certainly not a transaction.

The title of master and disciple, which the immortal venerable one does not care about, is the glory of Sweetwater Wai for a lifetime.

Gently closing the eyes of the sweet water, the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable said.

"No need to make it sound like a life-or-death separation, Sweetie. If one day I attain the one and only fruit, I will share with you a great cause that will last for billions of years."

Unfortunately, Sweetwater Wai had already passed away, and his soul, protected by the power of the Great Dao, transformed into a deep purple spirit.

He glanced longingly at his aging body before throwing himself into the Soul-Nourishing Jade in the hands of the Immortal Venerable.

The most top-tier artifact spirit, plus one—
"With only one leg, how come your strength has increased again?"

Outside the Immortal Venerable's Daoist temple, the spirit of the Two Elements Cauldron, the Cauldron God, is battling the Black Dragon.

It wasn't that the two had any conflict; it was simply part of their daily practice.

However, it is clear that the Black Dragon at the Transformation Realm is naturally stronger than the single Yin-Yang Cauldron.

The cauldron god screamed in pain as he was beaten.

That is to say, the Two Elements Cauldron had already been refined by the Immortal Venerable into a half-step mid-grade immortal artifact, which is why it did not suffer a complete defeat.

"I'm not called One-Legged. Don't pretend you don't know what you're doing just because your master favors you. I'm also your master's mount!"

For many years, since the Black Dragon attained enlightenment, it has been called the Black Dragon Demon Emperor by outsiders.

But the cauldron god, relying on being the immortal's natal magic weapon, always referred to it as "one leg".

How can this be justified?

The black dragon couldn't very well, with its Golden Core cultivation level, complain to its master that it had been humiliated by the artifact spirit.
"One foot, one foot, one foot"

Seeing that the black dragon was getting anxious, Ding Shen immediately began to repeat the text with great joy.

Just then, Dao Ancestor Chongliu entered the Daoist temple. Seeing the two fighting so fiercely, he greeted them and headed straight for the core of the temple.

"Black Dragon, this Pure Water has ill intentions. Over the years, he has already recruited nine people who have reached the Celestial Realm."

"Master isn't worried at all. I can't leave. You should go out and have a go at his duel," the Cauldron God reminded the Black Dragon.

The black dragon circled once in the sky, then transformed into human form, its face showing disdain.

"What do you know? Over the years, all the specific things about replenishing water have been done by him, the second water ancestor of the Four Spirit Realms, who took the lead in doing them."

We need to give him some benefits, otherwise he might feel resentful.

If I defeat him, who will be the first to replenish the master's water supply?

"What if he has rebellious intentions?"

"Go ahead and reverse it, Master has won so much that he doesn't even want to leave the house."

Even if the current situation is bad, it's still far, far better than it was a thousand years ago.

Gong Shande is a greenhorn; he'll never amount to anything.

The most insidious of them all, Mu Fan, was being closely watched by Mang Laogui and his master.

The other Dao Ancestors have already been surpassed by their master in terms of strength.

He simply rebelled; all he could do was throw away the jade pendant, he had no other choice.

With his abilities, it wouldn't matter whether Huanpei had him or not.

The Four Spirit Realms lack cultivation methods beyond the Golden Core realm, such as the Dharma Aspect Method, Divine Illumination Method, Boundless Method, and Nascent Soul Method. The native Golden Core cultivators' rate of strength improvement is far inferior to that of the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable.

Jade Palace Immortal Venerable has now reached the peak of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

Taking advantage of the new version of the Great Heaven and Earth, defeating the native half-step Golden Immortals of the Four Spirit Realms is as easy as killing chickens.

The power to control the opportunity for change is shared by Jade Palace Immortal Venerable and Mu Fan. With endless resources supporting one person, Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's relative cultivation speed is much faster than Mu Fan's.

Therefore, the advantage has already been created in fact in a stable era.

Aside from Huanpei, the only ones in the Four Spirit Realms who can completely suppress Jade Palace Immortal Venerable are Mu Fan and Gong Shande!
If the Immortal Venerable can take another step forward and master a new, unique acquired water-elemental Great Dao, he can directly break through to the Golden Immortal realm—at the limit of immortal cultivation, to walk a path unique to himself, that is the Golden Immortal.

At that time, even the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable would dare to touch her jade pendants!
It's just a large-scale White Dew; even the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable has that traitorous ally, Hundred Hands!
"Master, wasn't the Water Replenishment Conference just held once, only a little over ten years ago?"

Hearing that the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable had asked him to gather cultivators from the Four Spirit Realms for a water replenishment ceremony, Chongliu was somewhat surprised.

The Taoist patriarchs set a schedule of once every fifty years to exchange information on the progress of water replenishment.

But the time hasn't come yet.

"Over the years, I have made great progress in my spiritual practice and have come to understand new things."

The seventeen states, blessed with abundant water resources, deserve further development.

The core reason is that Bai Shou is going crazy, has fallen out of favor with Tianwaitian, and is being watched by Huan Pei.

In a stable era, Jade Palace Immortal Venerable and Mu Fan win without lifting a finger.

Compared to Jade Palace Immortal and Jade Pendant, Hundred Hands was very certain that it had won fewer battles, which made it even more vulnerable.

It has sent messages to the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable several times through the Wind and Rain Pavilion, requesting a meeting to discuss the matter.

However, the Immortal Venerable could not go to any of the places Bai Shou had pre-arranged to meet Bai Shou, so he could only use the Water Replenishment Conference to summon him over, so that some things could be discussed more conveniently.

We have to give it a chance to survive.

Otherwise, it was Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's own micro-management that led to his downfall.

The fact that the Hundred Hands did not explode back then was beneficial to Jade Palace Immortal Venerable.

However, the one who bears the cost of suppressing Hyakujutsu's explosion is Hyakujutsu himself.

Back then, Bai Shou couldn't understand it. A thousand years have passed. If Bai Shou still can't understand it, then he's a real fool.

Today, the first stable era in the Four Spirit Realms, shaped by the consensus on the water replenishment agenda, is collapsing from the bottom up.

Bai Shou was also on the verge of losing his composure, which probably meant that Huan Pei was finally about to make her move, and Bai Shou sensed it.

But in reality, the reason is not important, nor is it important whether someone is plotting behind the scenes. Whether Huanpei makes a move or not, the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable has long been prepared.

Essentially, the dominant position corresponding to the greatest opportunity for change in the past is being lost, and a new opportunity for change is brewing.

Human hearts are like a countercurrent, surging and impacting the stable position personally crafted by the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable.

In short, the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable can no longer cultivate behind closed doors; he must take the initiative to plan.

"Understood. Chongliu congratulates Master! Congratulations on reaching a new level!"

"Go ahead. By the way, Sweetwater has passed away. You can take on a disciple from his family."

Chongliu's head was bowed low, and he dared not show a trace of hatred in his eyes.

But the Immortal Venerable's schemes had him completely outmaneuvered.

All the True Persons with sensitive identities within the Dao Court, including Jade Palace Immortal Venerable, packed their bags and stuffed them into Chongliu Sect.

A good disciple is one who shares the burdens of their master.

But the more the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable blocked the way, the more afraid he became of the heavy current.

It can be said that Jade Palace Immortal Venerable clearly attributed any potential changes within the Pure Water Dao Court to Chongliu.

In Chongliu's view, this was a trap set for him; perhaps his beloved master was hoping he would cause trouble.
The more they pile up, the more afraid they become; the more they pile up, the more loyal they become—this is the method of the Immortal Venerable.
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Two months later, at the Water Purification Garden, a new water replenishment conference has begun.

The Jade Palace Immortal Venerable's seat was to the left of Mu Fan, while Mu Fan sat on the left side of the center.

At the very center was Gong Shande, whose face was as cold as ice.

The position of leader of the Immortal Alliance is determined by the consensus of the Immortal Platform.

The water replenishment conference of the Four Spirit Realms did not have a solid consensus; it was merely about creating shared benefits, and the benefits were even distributed among the seventeen states.

The Water Replenishment Conference and the Immortal Alliance are completely incomparable!

Therefore, the seat that Gong Shande sat in was a position of honor that no one supported, but that he was forced to take.

It's far worse than going to jail; even jail can't fully describe how Gong Shande felt.

It's safe to say that anyone who sits in that position will find it hard to keep a straight face!

To Gong Shande's right is Bai Shou Dao Ting, representing the jade pendant.

The situation in the Four Spirit Realms is that simple.

Mu Fan, Yu Que, Shan De, and Huan Pei formed a team to play a competitive game, while the others were just sidelines.

Bai Shou's expression was remarkably calm—it had to keep a straight face.

Because Gong Shande hasn't lost yet, but he's already on the verge of losing!

Those who haven't lost have the right to show their displeasure, while those who have lost don't even dare to show it; they can only put on a show of 'I still have the advantage.'

However, only Jade Palace Immortal Venerable and himself knew the truth about Hundred Hands' defeat.

Because, in Gong Shande and Mu Fan's eyes, Bai Shou was still the person with the jade pendant, a member of the extraterrestrial forces.

From Mu Fan's perspective, by taking Bai Shou into his own hands and placing him in an important position, he could suppress Wang Yulou.

The somewhat naive Jade Palace Immortal Venerable still considers himself the master of the Seven Seas Palace, and is preparing to drag Hundred Hands to kill Huanpei and devour the Four Spirit Realms—at least that's what Hundred Hands thinks.

After we finish eating, we'll sell another batch to the Wuji Dao Master.
The situation was quite complicated, but in the eyes of the Immortal Venerable, it was really nothing special.

Damn it, back when I was weak and powerless, I was able to skillfully maneuver and break through the situation, ensuring that I could win relatively.

Now, after accumulating for twelve hundred years, I have achieved minor success in both the Dharma Form Dharma and the Divine Illumination Dharma, and have also accumulated a considerable amount of Immeasurable Dharma along the way.

Fighting against people like you is a piece of cake, isn't it?

Therefore, the Immortal Venerable's mindset was quite stable, and he even had some expectations.

A stable era allowed him to reach the pinnacle of the Celestial Realm.

If we can seize victory, we can maintain stability for another thousand or two thousand years.

The Golden Immortal has truly been achieved!

"Well, Fellow Daoist Jingshui, Fellow Daoist Jingshui, almost everyone has arrived."

Seeing that Wang Yulou was busy chatting with Houpu, Master Tianyin took the initiative to remind him.

Everyone's busy. You just held your hydration session not long ago, and now you're calling everyone together again. You'd better get to the point.

"Oh? Fellow Daoist Shande, Fellow Daoist Mufan, shall we begin?" Jade Palace Immortal Venerable belatedly looked at Gong Shande.

Gong Shande glared at him with eyes that seemed to want to kill him, and said.

"Yes, but you're the one who gathered us."

Clean water, the last water replenishment conference was not long ago.

So you've suddenly summoned all of you here again. What is the purpose of this?

Wang Yulou's gaze swept across the faces of everyone present, a smile on his face, but he remained silent.

Compared to 1,200 years ago, there are dozens more Dao Ancestors, but they are all from Xinhua Dao.

Those who can truly be considered strong players, and who are of value to the four players, are still the same few.

This is the beauty of a stable era.

Twelve hundred years have passed since then, yet the moss on the cloud-covered steps remains unchanged.

The gate that belongs to the Great Way has never been opened to those below.

The opportunity for the Golden Elixir is the opportunity for change, but change is happening all the time.

If you can't grasp the changes, there's no point in improving your cultivation.

Mangxiang, my dear master, you actually didn't attain enlightenment back then, but you didn't realize it.

Seeing that the Jade Palace Immortal Venerable remained silent, Mu Fan knew that this bastard wanted to take the initiative to organize the gathering.

Therefore, Mu Fan stopped pretending to be stupid and took the initiative to speak.

"In the Hundred Hands Martial Arts Academy in Jinzhou, there is a fellow practitioner whose name you may have heard of."

It's called a sand cow, but in recent years it hasn't been very active in replenishing water.

The Jade Palace Immortal Venerable beside him had a smile on his lips.

Is the opportunity for change almost gone?
Let's get right to team building!
Huanpei, I don't care what you're planning, just keep quiet for now!
If you don't drink enough water, you'll have health problems.

With the power of over two hundred Dao Ancestors at the Water Replenishment Conference, can you, a mere Golden Core cultivator, withstand it?

(End of this chapter)