Journey to the West: Cultivation Begins at Jindou Mountain

Chapter 146 Immortal Ruins
Venus looked at Niu Yi and said with a smile:
"As for the incense offerings on both sides of the strait, Immortal Master Niu Yi doesn't need to worry too much. His Majesty has also stated that you can choose ten subordinate gods from the mortal realm."

Most of the gods in heaven are like this; those of higher status usually have some subordinate gods who help them with their tasks.

Niu Yi looked at Venus with surprise and said:
"This comes from the gods, but there are also celestial registers."

"Of course there is."

All deities officially appointed by the Heavenly Court, regardless of rank, possess this celestial register. This includes deities like the Earth God and all other deities in the Heavenly Court, including Sun Wukong, who later received this celestial register.

This celestial register is bestowed and recognized by the Heavenly Court.

There is another type of deity, the Grass-Head Deity. These are deities who have become disciples of the Heavenly Court deities, but have not received any celestial ordination and are not deities officially appointed by the Heavenly Court.

Erlang Zhenjun of Guanjiangkou, under Yang Jian's command, are Xiaotianquan, the six brothers of Meishan, and 1,200 grass-root gods. These grass-root gods are all highly skilled, but they have not received the celestial rank and can be regarded as Yang Jian's private army.

However, those who have not received the celestial ordination are not allowed to enter the Heavenly Gate or the Heavenly Palace without permission, and are not considered legitimate members of the Heavenly Court. Yet, he now has ten more slots for people to directly enter the Heavenly Court and become immortals.

Even if it's just through God, it can be said to be a meteoric rise to heaven, a tremendous opportunity that many people would rather die than obtain.

Is this considered one of the benefits?
After pondering this, Niu Yi cupped his hands towards Venus and said:
"Star Lord, does His Majesty the Jade Emperor have any other instructions?"

Niu Yi was actually quite uncertain. This person had come to see him twice and casually gave him two supernatural powers. Now, he had directly ordered Taibai Jinxing to come and deliver an imperial decree, ordering him to enter the Heavenly Palace and be granted the title of Divine Physician Daoist Lord.

But he's not a monkey, so why should this person treat him so well?

In his previous life, Niu Yi had clearly seen that many things had a price tag already set in secret, and those seemingly free benefits were often the most expensive.

But then Venus laughed and said:

"His Majesty the Jade Emperor only instructed me to tell the Immortal Master to practice his chess skills properly, and not to be such a terrible chess player next time we meet."

After Venus finished speaking, he slowly stood up and looked earnestly at Niu Yi, saying:

"Immortal Guangyi, I have something to say, though it may seem a bit presumptuous to speak so frankly to someone we've only known for a short time. If you disagree with it, please don't take it to heart."

Upon hearing this, Niu Yi immediately stood up, cupped his hands, and said:
"Please enlighten me, Star Lord."

"I dare not presume to offer guidance, but, Immortal Guangyi, His Majesty the Jade Emperor has cultivated since childhood, enduring 1,750 tribulations, each lasting 129,600 years. His thoughts are beyond our comprehension, and what we value is nothing more than this to His Majesty the Jade Emperor."

Seeing that the man before him was deep in thought, clearly having taken his words to heart, Venus stroked his beard, a smile on his face, as a cloud of auspiciousness lifted him up and carried him into the sky.

"Immortal Guangyi, if you ever come to the Heavenly Court in the future, you are welcome to visit the Qiming Hall."

Hearing the words in his ear, Niu Yi came back to his senses, only to see that Venus had already flown up into the clouds and left this place.

Niu Yi cupped his hands in the direction where Venus had left, then looked at the Jade Emperor's edict in his hand, which was radiating auspicious nine-colored light, and put it into his snake-skin pouch.

"In any case, since we've already accepted it, there's no need to dwell on it any further."

As Niu Yi pondered, a book quickly appeared in his palm; it was the supernatural power, "External Incarnation."

He had studied this supernatural power for a while before, and it wasn't very difficult. However, he had been focusing on cultivating the "Golden Light Across the Earth" supernatural power recently, so he had put this "External Avatar" supernatural power aside and hadn't paid much attention to it.

However, although the decree was delivered, no time limit was given, so it seemed there was no rush. He continued to follow the plan and complete the cultivation of the "Golden Light Across the Earth" divine power as soon as possible. As for the "Avatar" divine power, that should also be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

And after a few years, he will still have to make a trip to Tongtianjiang.
In the future, he used this avatar, condensed from the supernatural power of "External Incarnation," to receive incense offerings and be granted a celestial register to become a god.

However, he himself was still the Daoist Guangyi, cultivating his Golden Elixir Dao in the lower realm.

That divine physician Daoist would later become his celestial alias, and one personally bestowed by the Jade Emperor. Thinking about it this way, it would be extremely beneficial for him.

He will be able to know any developments in the Heavenly Court immediately, but he will probably have to try to keep these two identities separate in the future.

He practiced medicine under the name Guangyi Daoren, but he was most widely known as the Divine Doctor Daoist Master. Later on, everyone addressed him as the Divine Doctor Daoist Master.

After a hundred years, and several generations have passed, his deeds will become nothing more than legends, and no one will remember the name Guangyi anymore. Instead, every household will worship the divine physician Daojun from heaven.

Then, he can easily separate these two identities by concealing the cause and effect.

With these two identities, everything he does in the future will be much more convenient.

Time flies, and two years have passed in the blink of an eye.

For the past two years, Niu Yi has devoted himself to cultivating the "Golden Light Across the Earth" supernatural power on Rotten Peach Mountain. He has finally mastered this supernatural power and can transform into golden light, traveling thousands of miles in an instant, going up to the sky and down to the earth, and wandering in the blue sky.

At the same time, Niu Yi finally refined the Hunyuan Furnace and the Chaos Green Gourd to a preliminary level. The amount of precious energy he could produce each day surged again, reaching as many as twenty strands per day.

However, even if this precious energy is poured into the divination coins every day, it will probably still take decades for the divination coins to recover from the gold grade to the colored grade.

However, each time Niu Yi integrated the precious energy into the causal divination coins for repair, he would gain insights into the Great Dao of Cause and Effect, resulting in considerable progress for him in this area.

Besides this, Niu Yi's biggest gain in the past two years was that he comprehended a trace of the Great Dao of Primordial Chaos by using the refined Primordial Furnace.

........................

On Rotten Peach Mountain.

At this moment, Niu Yi was sitting cross-legged in the peach grove, looking at the purple-gold cauldron in front of him.

Inside the cauldron, a yellow Primordial Qi Fire was burning, and the cauldron itself seemed to be surrounded by a galaxy. The Yin-Yang Eight Trigrams, the Big Dipper, and all the constellations on it shone brightly.

All of this seemed quite complex and ever-changing, but in Niu Yi's eyes, all the changes within the Hunyuan Furnace were illustrating two words: Hunyuan.

The Primordial Furnace is a treasure that can carry the Primordial Dao.

After a long while, Niu Yi slowly closed his eyes, and the Hunyuan Furnace in front of him also subsided its extraordinary aura, just like an ordinary purple-gold cauldron.

After a while, a unified aura slowly appeared on Niu Yi's body, and he then opened his eyes.

"The difficulty of comprehending this Primordial Chaos Dao is far greater than that of the Earth Element Dao."

(End of this chapter)