Mortals get a golden finger for immortal cultivation every year

"He has no relation to me whatsoever, and I hope the Heavenly King will not bring this up again."

Upon hearing Zhao Shuang's words, the Moon Goddess's face immediately showed displeasure, and she then issued a warning.

After all, this incident was a painful memory for him. Although it had alarmed the entire Heavenly Realm and Hell Realm, he had absolutely no interest in that pig. It wasn't because the pig was ugly. On the contrary, the pig wasn't ugly at all; in fact, it was quite handsome. But he simply had no interest in it whatsoever.

"I understand, I understand. I won't mention this to them again, don't worry. But that pig's feelings for you haven't changed at all. You didn't feel that emotional fluctuation just now. He's still deeply in love with you. It's just a pity that this pig doesn't understand what you need. He only knows how to be a pig. Sigh, what a pity. The lesson from back then wasn't enough. It's just that his identity is a bit special. I can't even slaughter him for a treat."

Zhao Shuang waved his hand, indicating that he knew, and then said with some regret, but there was no murderous intent in his tone. He seemed to be just joking.

However, others were more skeptical about the pig's identity, wondering what could possibly make Zhao Shuang care so much, even going so far as to say that she couldn't kill it because of its identity.

It was quite unexpected.

"Alright, your identities have been determined. You are now people of the Guanghan Realm. Remember, you are now people of the Guanghan Realm, but you have no merit at all, so your current merit is zero. Therefore, if you want to obtain good things from the Heavenly Court Ring, you need to gain merit. This is both easy and difficult to obtain. As long as you are strong enough, you can gain as much merit as you want. But if you are not strong enough, you can only become food for those guys in the Hell Realm. If you can die a quick and painless death, it will be a relief. If you are captured and live, it will not be a relief, but rather you will suffer endless pain, even becoming food for them. That kind of experience is unimaginable, so you had better be careful."

Zhao Shuang reminded again.

"Just how strong are the cultivators in the Hell Realm?"

Actually, Zhang Ruoji wanted to talk about living beings, but when he thought about how the underworld not only had living beings but also dead beings, he could only say the word "cultivator".

"Their strength is exactly the same as yours, basically varying in strength, but they also have some special and strange methods. If you encounter them, you must be extremely careful. You absolutely cannot be captured by them. If you are captured, commit suicide if you can. If you can't commit suicide, try to take them down with you. In short, you must escape as soon as possible, otherwise you will inevitably suffer endless torture and die. That would truly be worse than death. Alright, we should enter the Guanghan Realm now. After entering the Guanghan Realm, Moon Goddess, please find them a teacher to instruct them in cultivation."

Zhao Shuang concluded by asking the Moon Goddess to find them a teacher to help them cultivate. The Moon Goddess said nothing, but simply boarded the celestial vessel and led them across the Milky Way to the legendary Heavenly Court. At this moment, the Moon Goddess's Guanghan Palace stood atop a divine mountain sculpted from white jade. This mountain was called Moon Goddess Mountain.

It was not on the ground, but suspended tens of thousands of feet above the ground, shrouded in mist formed by layers of holy energy.

With the arrival of the Moon Goddess, the sacred mountain and its palace radiated an incomparably dazzling divine light, which radiated throughout all realms, announcing to the entire Heavenly Court that the Moon Goddess had returned.

"Brother, where is your temple?"

Upon entering the Moon Goddess Palace and seeing its magnificent splendor, Zhang Ruoji couldn't help but ask Zhao Shuang where the temple was.
He believed that Zhao Shuang must have her own temple in the Heavenly Court, and it was definitely more magnificent than the Moon Goddess's.

"My temple was sealed away by me a hundred thousand years ago. It's not in the Heavenly Court or the Hell, but in a mysterious place. When I reach the level of a god, I will naturally enter my temple. At that time, the entire Heavenly Court and the Hell will know that I have returned. Although many gods in the Heavenly Court know that I have returned, they probably don't take me seriously. After all, I am only a Saint now, and they don't care about me at all. However, they wouldn't dare to attack me openly, since I still have many friends. They are still alive, even though a hundred thousand years have passed. So I believe that as long as those friends are there, those who want to deal with me in secret will definitely not dare to make a move. In the open, they definitely won't dare to talk nonsense about me or try to harm me. As for the secret ones, if they dare to make a move, I will let them taste what is a method ten thousand times more cruel than the Hell."

"So don't worry, nothing will happen. However, the fact that you are the successor of that old bald monk will soon be known throughout the Heavenly Court, so your troubles won't be much less than mine. They want the legacy left behind by that old bald monk more than anyone else. Because what he left behind is just too good, too much. Not to mention them, even I am tempted. Once you get it, you must share some with me, especially the profound mysteries. That's a treasure, a treasure for me and for all the gods. Every god wants it. If you could get it, the control over your power would be unimaginable. That old bald monk almost mastered half of the mysteries of spacetime. This is a treasure that all the gods want. If they could get it, any god could reach the pinnacle of power and control the power of spacetime. It should be said that it's about everything related to spacetime. This is of immense significance to them, so you must be very careful. Although you have the protection of the Moon Goddess and me, it's not necessarily enough to be safe. On the contrary, those related to me..." That could even bring danger. Therefore, you must be careful, careful, and even more careful. Absolutely no mistakes can be made. After all, that old fox had high hopes for you. I originally thought I could get what that old bald monk left behind, but not only did he not leave anything for me, he even moved me aside in order to leave those things for you. I struggled a lot to get rid of the things he sealed me with. It's a pity I've become part of your Zhang family again. It's so frustrating. In that case, if I want to become a god in the future... "The first thing to break is that curse from back then. Alas, it's truly a heartbreaking thing. I guess that old bald monk saw that only you and me, brothers, could break that curse, so he devised a way to make me a member of your Zhang family. No one else could do that. After all, once you're tainted with the blood of your Zhang family, breaking through to the realm of gods is incredibly difficult, incredibly difficult. Of course, your father also succeeded, but he chose to become a monk, that is, an old bald monk. And so he became an old bald monk again."

Although Zhao Shuang's earlier words were shocking, they were nothing compared to his last sentence: the fact that Zhang Ruoji's father had become a monk was such a huge blow to Zhang Ruoji that he was stunned and stood there dumbfounded. His words also made Yue Shen's face turn very ugly.

"Brother, what did you say?"

"What did you mean by your last words? Are you saying that my father became a Buddhist monk, just like a holy monk..."

Zhang Ruoji's face turned deathly pale, yet he wore an expression of disbelief as he stared intently at Zhao Shuang, desperate for a definitive answer. "This matter offers you no benefit right now; on the contrary, it will bring you endless danger. I can only tell you this: your father is indeed not dead, and he is still in the Western Buddhist Realm. Once you reach the level of a god, you will naturally be able to see him, but not now. The most important thing for you now is to increase your strength, break through your bloodline curse as soon as possible, and reach the level of a god. That is what you should be doing. As for other things, don't think about them anymore. Even if you knew those things, you couldn't change anything, because those things are beyond your reach. If you did, it would cause you great harm, possibly even costing you your life. And once you lose your life, everything that old bald monk plotted, everything your father sacrificed, and all the efforts our Zhang family made would be in vain."

"So, Ninth Brother, you must understand that all we can do now is cultivate diligently and break through to the realm of gods as soon as possible. This is the only means, the only way. If you want to change your fate, if you want to become the one who holds the chess pieces, the first step is to become a god. Although a god is only a slightly larger piece, much better than the small pieces we are now, even though I was once one of the Heavens, I am now just a relatively large piece. You could even say that my becoming one of the Heavens was arranged by others. I have no power to change anything, so I can only choose to struggle and break free from my fate through reincarnation. Do you understand now? All of this was arranged by others. The price you have to pay to change it is beyond your imagination. The price I have to pay, the price the Empress has to pay, the price the Kunlun Realm has to pay—these are all unchangeable prices."

"The most important thing is that since we have already paid these prices, what we need to do is make these prices meaningful, instead of gaining nothing, turning everything into nothingness, and becoming a useless existence. What we need to do now is to ensure that these sages who paid the price have no regrets. So now you and everyone else need to cultivate diligently."

Zhao Shuang patted Zhang Ruoji on the shoulder, and Zhang Ruoji was once again shocked by what Zhao Shuang said.

"The cultivation environment in the Heavenly Realm is now extremely good, far superior to other places, and you will grow very quickly. So you must cultivate diligently and not waste any time."

While Zhao Shuang was talking to Zhang Ruoji, all the Great Sages of the Guanghan Realm had already come to visit the Moon Goddess, or more accurately, to pay their respects to her. Because after the Moon Goddess left, the Guanghan Realm now only had the Tree God, the very root of heaven and earth, as its sole remaining deity, and thus its decline was extremely rapid.

In fact, if it weren't for the pig's secret protection, the Guanghan Realm would have disappeared among the many great worlds of the Heavenly Court Realm long ago. It is because of that pig that the Guanghan Realm has been able to survive until now; otherwise, the Guanghan Realm, relying solely on a single deity, would have already vanished.

Even so, if it weren't for the return of the Moon Goddess, the Guanghan Realm would have been completely destroyed this time, even with the secret protection of that pig.

After all, it had protected the Moon Goddess for a hundred thousand years, and the pig had done its utmost. Most importantly, the Moon Goddess's divine soul constellation had not perished, meaning the Moon Goddess was not dead, and the pig had been waiting for her all along. Under these circumstances, the pig was naturally willing to protect the Moon Realm in order to please the Moon Goddess.

Unfortunately, his special status prevented him from directly joining the Guanghan Realm. Or rather, joining the Guanghan Realm would only bring greater crises and attract more deities to target it.

Therefore, it was far less effective than secretly protecting the Guanghan Realm, but the protection lasted for a considerable period, a full 100,000 years. The Guanghan Realm has still fallen to its current state, ranking near the bottom.

This made the moon goddess's expression turn extremely ugly.

"Is the Great Sage of the Guanghan Realm still superior to that of the Kunlun Realm? It's just that the number of Sages in the Guanghan Realm seems to be less than that of the Kunlun Realm."

"It's because of me. If I hadn't worked so hard to help Kunlun Realm increase the number of Saints over the years, Kunlun Realm wouldn't be able to compare with Guanghan Realm at all. The gap between the two is still huge. However, even with so many more Saints, it's still unrealistic for Kunlun Realm to win this Merit Holy War. Besides, this time I need to help Guanghan Realm get first place in this Merit Holy War."

"You can't do it anymore."

Just as Zhao Shuang was about to begin his cultivation, the Moon Goddess's voice rang in his ears.

"Oh, is it those guys in Heaven who are against me participating in this Holy War of Merit? Are they afraid it will affect the fairness of the Holy War of Merit?"

Upon hearing the Moon Goddess's words, Zhao Shuang immediately understood and then smiled and said.

"That's right, indeed. The gods of the Heavenly Court no longer allow you to participate in the Holy War of Merit."

The Moon Goddess's voice was laced with anger. (End of Chapter)