I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 420 The New Dharma Realm, Incense Offerings of the Three Religions

The Great Luo Sect was in its early stages and was just beginning to flourish.

At this time, the number of worshippers within the sect was only a few thousand, and few people in the entire Great Yan Dynasty knew of the existence of the Great Luo Sect.

However, Xu Qing was not worried at all.

The beginning is always the hardest. The Great Luo Sect is like a new business, in its initial stage, just like when Xu Qing first established the Cat Fairy Hall and Baosheng Temple. Once this stage is overcome, it will naturally usher in a period of vigorous development.

In the following months, Xu Qing led Zhang Pingsheng and others to familiarize themselves with the business. At the same time, he also sought out some storytellers or opera performers from the Pingmen school who were experiencing a period of bad luck, and taught them the popular classic lyrics.

Those storybooks and lyrics naturally also contained a lot of private stories about the miraculous appearances of the Great Luo Sect.

These classic skills are naturally second nature to Xu Qing!
Even after having classic plays from Central China and storytellers recounting the deeds of the Great Luo Sect in helping the world and saving people, Xu Qing was still not satisfied with the status quo.

While Zhang Pingsheng was wandering the mortal world, displaying his divine abilities to save people, Xu Qing made a special trip back to the capital to use his dream-making skills to send a dream to the short-lived emperor of the Great Yan Dynasty.

In the dream, Xu Qing claimed to be Xu Xuan's grandfather and told him about the harm caused by the Yin River. At the same time, he explained to the other party the foundation of the Great Luo Sect, which was born in response to the calamity and will benefit thousands of generations.

After experiencing the series of adventures at the Two Saints Temple and the Little Water Curtain Cave, Xu Qing understood a principle—

One person's strength is ultimately limited. Only by borrowing all the power that can be relied upon can one have a chance to turn the tide and preserve the foundation he has built up over the years!
The Heavenly Emperor has many gods, the Lord of the Underworld has many corpses, and Xu Qing has many people in the mortal world, as well as the Scripture of Salvation which has saved countless dead people. These are his best helpers.

A zombie that is immortal and possesses a powerful physical body is not scary, but a zombie that possesses extraordinary cultivation, occupies the moral high ground, and wins the hearts of the people is beyond simple terror.

Xu Qing knew that he was 'deeply sinful', and the heavenly laws he had violated were probably as thick as half a book of heavenly laws.

When Xu Qing first broke the laws of heaven by privately establishing the Cat Immortal Hall, a kind of "wild temple," he felt somewhat uneasy.

Later, he established the Baosheng Temple faction, interfered in court disputes, killed the Emperor of Dayong, misused the imperial purple aura, refined the power of Baiyun Mountain, and secretly peeked at the Ruyi Heavenly Book.
Each and every single one of these incidents was enough to send Xu Qing to be beheaded a thousand times over on the Demon-Slaying Platform.

Strangely enough, after the violation of the heavenly law went from one page to a stack, Xu Qing suddenly found himself able to sleep and eat well, as if his Ren and Du meridians had been opened up and his long-standing ailments had instantly disappeared.

Not only that, every time Xu Qing did something against the laws of nature, he felt more refreshed than usual. Isn't that strange?
The establishment of the Great Luo Sect is also a good medicine for him.

Those with little debt are subservient; those with a lot of debt are the boss!
Xu Qing has come to a complete understanding that since the mistakes he made in the past cannot be undone, he might as well continue down the wrong path. As long as he accumulates enough merit, a great Confucian scholar will naturally come to his aid!
Besides using debt to resist the laws of heaven, Xu Qing had a deeper consideration in establishing the Great Luo Sect.

His temple's incense offerings mainly rely on the reproduction of the human race, and occasionally there are also some extra services related to marriage and matchmaking.

In general, the deities in Baosheng Temple are the gods who govern childbirth, protect children, and oversee marriage.

The incense at the Cat Fairy Temple is offered by deities who intervene in the affairs of the land, harmonize the wind and rain, and nurture the five grains. The Cat Fairy Temple is a god of agricultural abundance, as well as a god of granaries who helps the poor and relieves emergencies, and protects the people so that their stored grain does not spoil and their granaries are full.

Xu Qing currently possesses the incense offerings of two religions. The merit of the Yinhe Sect leader giving back to the secular world, resulting in abundant farmland and fertile land, belongs to the Cat Immortal Hall.

However, the merit of triggering spiritual energy tides and giving back to the mortal world is far more than just reflected in farming. Other merits generated during this period, such as incense offerings, are lost to the world because they do not correspond to any deities.

Xu Qing's other purpose in establishing the Great Luo Sect was to gather all the merits of purifying the Yin River and giving back to the secular world, so that the three sects could stand together and all the incense offerings in the world could be gathered in one place!
Inside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, Xu Qing was using his dream-weaving skills to enlighten the emperor. The short-lived emperor who currently held power was also a man of considerable wisdom.

When Xu Qing sent him a dream, the other party never displayed the demeanor of a ruler that an emperor should have. It wasn't until the dream was about to end that Zhu Yi made his only request.

“The Immortal Master is an elder whom I admire and respect, and also a close friend of my late grandfather. I trust the Immortal Master just as I trust my late grandfather.”

"When my grandfather was alive, I heard that the Immortal Master had given him a wise saying, which led to the establishment of our Great Yan Kingdom. Now that the Immortal Master has descended to earth, I humbly request that you also bestow upon me a single word of medical advice."

Although Zhu Yi was talking in his sleep, his face showed an expression of intense longing.

This little guy
Xu Qing was still moved when he saw the short-lived emperor slumped over the table, seemingly asleep from exhaustion.

He shook his head, offering no advice on governing the country, but instead gave the other party a strong boost of confidence:

"As the emperor, you are already excellent enough, and I don't need to teach you how to do things. As for matters of the court, just do your job. No matter whether the outcome is good or bad, I can promise you to preserve the Zhu family bloodline and prevent it from dying out."

"This is something I promised you. It has nothing to do with your grandfather or your father. Consider it an agreement between us, grandfather and grandson."

Although the emperor died young, he was an extremely wise ruler. It can be said that in those four or five years, Zhu Yi was not able to fully display his talents. This was Heaven's misfortune, for Heaven's mandate is predetermined and cannot be changed by force.
Xu Qing didn't need to tell Zhu Yi too much about the future, given that Zhu Yi only had four or five years left to live.

Since ancient times, even the most enlightened and sagacious monarchs could only control matters during their lifetime. Once their souls returned to heaven and earth, they could not influence the choices of their successors.

His words, if too profound, will only cause the other person unnecessary trouble and mental strain.

Instead, he might as well say something practical to offer some solace to this ill-fated emperor.

Inside the Yangxin Hall, the lights are brightly lit.

At one moment, the emperor, who had been sleeping soundly at his desk, suddenly opened his eyes. Before him were memorials and documents that urgently needed to be processed, and on his body was a 'thousand-gold white fur coat' made of two ounces of yellow paper.

Since the death of Emperor Hongcheng, Zhu Yi, who had not received any care from his elders, actually felt a bit of warmth.

"What I thought was just a pipe dream has now come to pass; it truly seems to be the arrival of a celestial master."

Zhu Yi pondered for a moment, then immediately picked up his brush and wrote down the imperial edict bestowing the title of Great Luo Sect on the silk scroll, and enshrined his grandfather and great-grandfather as the Holy Rulers of the sect, to be worshipped in the same hall as the sect leader Xu Qing.

The imperial edict caused an uproar.

Throughout the entire Great Yan court, princes, nobles, and officials from various states and counties began to enshrine the altar tablets of the Great Luo Sect in their homes.

At this moment, Xu Qing, who was far away in Yaozhou, sensed something. Behind him, in addition to the Blood Lake Dharma Realm and the Cat Immortal Hall Dharma Realm, a new Incense Dharma Realm appeared.

(End of this chapter)