Dao Cheng Gui Xian

Chapter 153 Devouring Gods and Practicing Immortality, Building a Divine Palace!

three days later

Mu Tong disguised herself and left Wufang City on a merchant ship returning to Wangxian City.

Accompanying him was Liu Mu from the Liu family. These past few days, he had been lingering in the western part of the city, indulging in his pleasures, but he had also managed to gather quite a bit of information.

Unfortunately, these messages were all too ordinary, so he decided to embellish them artistically.

While other aspects of Wufang City may be lacking, the storytellers there are quite skilled.

He had heard that there was a scholar named Wu at the "Youjian Teahouse" in Xicheng who could tell stories even better, and he wanted to invite him to Xicheng to give him a private lecture to find inspiration, but unfortunately the servant from the flower shop couldn't find him no matter how many times he went.

So he compiled a story: The newly appointed City God of the City God Temple, Mu Tong, handed over the City God Seal to a high priest named Li Wushou, who then unexpectedly destroyed the Burial Soul Forest.

After all, many people saw that person named Li Wushou carrying a head into the City God Temple that day. The people of Wufang City had all sorts of opinions about whose head it was, and there was no certainty.

Then why couldn't it be the Tree Goddess who was being watched by that extraordinary talent from the "Kong" lineage of Suspended Mountain?
As for when Mu Tong had not yet taken over the City God Temple?

Who says that one can only refine the City God's Seal after entering the City God Temple?
Liu Mu polished the version several times and finalized it. He then returned to Wangxian City with the merchant ship. As for the position of city lord, he didn't even look at it.

Another day later
Xiao Panshan halted the food delivery service from the City God Temple kitchen to the Three Immortals Restaurant.
Recalling the earnest instructions from the High Priest and the City God, he felt a great sense of responsibility.

The City God risked his life to leave Wufang City for the sake of the incense offerings, and the High Priest even set off for the Land of Misfortune.

He was supposed to go to the Land of Evil, but the High Priest refused.

"The Five Directions City is the foundation of the City God Temple. The Martial God is in a state of confusion. I wouldn't feel at ease without you!"

That day, at the western border of Wufang City, the high priest patted him on the shoulder with earnest words and gave him some instructions.

Even now, thinking about it still warms Xiao Panshan's heart, as if he has come back to life.

Therefore, he decided that even though he had entered the main hall and could eat incense and drink, he would eat as little as possible and save every penny to accumulate more incense for Wufang City in preparation for this year's tribute.

Who told the High Priest to say he was the most mature and prudent person in the Five Directions?

This feeling of being recognized brought tears to his eyes; he was deeply moved.

I wonder how the High Priest is doing now? Is the food in the Land of Calamity to his liking?
Land of Misfortune
Inside, there is neither sun nor moon, nor day nor night; there is only that unchanging grayness.

Li Wushou was neither familiar with this place nor unfamiliar with it.

This place is a completely different world from Wufang City. Yesterday, Xiao Panshan used the power of incense offerings to open a passage from the west side of the city.

This opening was left by Mu Tong through the City God's Seal before she left; it will disappear after being opened and closed once.

Mu Tong originally wanted to leave a secret door, but Li Wushou did not plan to return from here. After all, he still had a long way to go in the Land of Misfortune. He planned to go directly from the Land of Misfortune to Wangxian City to meet Mu Tong with incense offerings.

In that case, leaving a secret door might actually be unsafe.

Li Wushou, dressed in a Yin-Yang Taoist robe, sat cross-legged in a hollow of an ancient tree. An old beggar was picking his ears under the tree, watching Chen Gou'er lying on the ground sniffing around.

This location is different from where they sneaked into Wufang City last time, so they need to re-identify the direction.

Unlike before in Wufang City, Li Wushou and the other two had a cloud pattern etched between their eyebrows. This was what the old beggar prayed to the misty sky when they first entered the Misty Land.

In this way, Li Wushou and the other two would be transformed into natives of the Misty Land, and would no longer be regarded as outsiders.

It should be noted that there are people in this mysterious land, though that's not entirely accurate, as the people here are different from those in the Five Directions City.

Li Wushou composed himself, a golden light flashing in his eyes.

In the dim tree hollow, something shone brightly between his brows.

Through his own mysterious perspective, Li Wushou introspected and saw a golden light shining brightly from a divine aperture between his eyebrows, reflecting in all directions.

The divine aperture was filled with swirling mist, somewhat resembling the foggy sky of this bewildering land. Within it floated a low mountain, its body dark and half-hidden in the clouds, appearing and disappearing intermittently.

In the innermost part of the low hill, there is a small house with some rubble piled at its base, and a small courtyard surrounded by dry reeds.

On the south side of the courtyard, above a small gate made of dead tree trunks, hangs a flat wooden board with the words "Sanxianguan" written on it in charcoal.

The courtyard was overgrown with weeds and scattered with some pebbles.

Pushing open the door, a three-legged square table is placed in the main room. On the table at the head of the room, made of a wooden board and tree branches, sits a clay incense burner, which is currently burning incense.

Behind the incense burner were three wooden plaques, each inscribed with "Li Wushou," "Old Beggar," and "Chen Gou'er" in charcoal.

The low hill inside the divine aperture was remarkably similar to the low hill in the southern part of Wufang City, except that it lacked some houses and neighbors.

But the Three Immortals Pavilion on the low hill is exactly the same.

Because this was originally built by Li Wushou, who referenced the Three Immortals Pavilion in Aishan, piece by piece.

A few days ago, the old beggar, with the air of a grandmaster, told Li Wushou about the method of sealing spirits. He also knew a little about it, which immediately amazed Li Wushou!
He carefully helped the old beggar to a chair and asked him about the spirit-sealing technique that he had been longing for.

"As expected, having an elder in the family is like having a treasure. You're really something, old beggar. When did you get the Spirit Sealing Technique from Zhu Liuli? Was it in the River of Yin Qi?" Li Wushou asked the old beggar with a happy expression. The old beggar didn't answer, but just coughed a few times.

Li Wushou understood and hurriedly called out to the side room, "Paper Guanyin, quickly bring a pot of tea, the master is thirsty!"

After the table was filled with tea, incense, candles, and food, the old beggar, seeing that the paper Guanyin was exhausted and Li Wushou was on the verge of exploding, slowly opened his mouth, but his first words were: "Young people just can't keep their tempers up!"

Veins bulged on Li Wushou's forehead, and the old beggar quickly continued:

"What do you think this spirit-sealing technique is?"

Li Wushou slowly shook his head. He really didn't know much about this spirit-sealing technique. Moreover, according to previous information, the outside world seemed to have a unclear understanding of this spirit-sealing technique. It was even unclear whether it was a celestial or divine technique.
Seeing Li Wushou's bewildered look, the old beggar straightened his back even more.

"I've seen that little girl use this spirit-sealing technique before. It's quite ingenious, but fundamentally it's a method of devouring gods to cultivate immortality. It involves nourishing the spirit with incense and then using one's own spirit-sealing technique to create a divine palace, imprisoning the god within, refining the god's abilities, and thus becoming an immortal!"

"The idea is good, but their temple is too dilapidated and cannot prevent the erosion of incense offerings, so they are often devoured by the gods! That's why that little girl almost turned into a monster the night Zhu Sihai plotted to become the City God."

"Actually, it's not accurate to call it alienation, because it's just that the gods of the shrine have replaced us."

Li Wushou nodded. Given the old beggar's keen sense of incense offerings, he wasn't surprised that he could see through this.

This made him even more serious. He had initially thought the old beggar's persistent requests for things were a delaying tactic, but now it seemed he actually knew how to do it.

Seeing Li Wushou deep in thought, the old beggar secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Finally, they were fooled. Li Wushou's brain grew too early; he's not as cute as Chen Gou'er at all!
But he didn't dare to relax, so he pressed his advantage and said:
"So this spirit-sealing technique isn't very useful to you. Their slow, leisurely rate of devouring gods will probably starve you to death! But their method of building a divine palace is something you can learn from."

Li Wushou nodded again in agreement with the old beggar's statement. After the old beggar's analysis, it seemed to make sense.

"Then what is the method for building this divine palace?"

The old beggar lit a stick of incense, inhaled it all in one gulp, and then said solemnly, "I will!"

Li Wushou was overjoyed and quickly began to praise the old beggar again, which pleased the old beggar greatly.

So he had Li Wushou sit cross-legged on the prayer mat, and then stood in front of Li Wushou.

Li Wushou had thought the old beggar would impart some secret teachings, just like the Blood Buddha Scripture last time, but he saw the old beggar in front of him suddenly become solemn, bite off three of his fingers, and bow to him with a sorrowful expression!
Li Wushou's expression hardened. They actually want three fingers?

And isn't this method already in place?

Need it now? I don't have any!

Li Wushou was puzzled, and the old beggar slowly spoke:
"Please have mercy, Li Wushou is a pitiful man, please conjure up some magical artifact for him to play with!"

Li Wushou shuddered, and then a brilliant golden light burst forth from the acupoint between his eyebrows. His middle and lower dantian surged violently, with yin and yang power mixed with a vast amount of blood energy pouring into them.

As chaos opened up between his brows, like the birth of heaven and earth, a divine aperture slowly emerged.

Li Wushou felt that his special perspective was slowly merging with the perception of his own eyes.

This feeling is wonderful, just like the spirit in a storybook?
His brow trembled incessantly as Li Wushou diligently observed the changes within.

Seeing this, the old beggar breathed a sigh of relief, then secretly spat out the two and a half fingers from his mouth, caught them in his hand, swallowed two mouthfuls of incense, and began to repair them.

With Li Wushou's current qi and blood and yin and yang power, opening the divine aperture is not difficult, not to mention that Li Wushou's perspective makes it easy to capture the location of the divine aperture.

Therefore, the old beggar's efforts to get things moving were not very costly.

However, Li Wushou must not know this. No one will cherish what is obtained too easily, and Li Wushou is no exception.

After a cup of tea, Li Wushou opened his eyes somewhat blankly, looking at the weak and listless old beggar in front of him, and for a moment he didn't know how to vent his anger!

He wished Chen Gou'er would bite him to death. Unfortunately, without cash, Chen Gou'er wasn't in high spirits, and Li Wushou himself couldn't bring himself to bite him. The old beggar was truly a bit pathetic.

Because he discovered that this was just a divine aperture, unlike Zhu Liuli's bird's nest, which had a concrete physical object.

This divine aperture can only be considered a place to house the divine palace, but the real divine palace was never built at all!
But the old beggar used three fingers to create this half-finished product; if he had done it all at once, he probably would have died.

Li Wushou, feeling frustrated, asked the old beggar, "So what's next?"

The old beggar said nonchalantly, "The rest is very simple. The Three Immortals Pavilion on the hill was built by you, just build one like that!"

So Li Wushou neither ate nor drank, using his qi and blood as the foundation and the power of yin and yang as the stones, and piled them up for three whole days!

Fortunately, his perspective changed, and when he entered the divine aperture, it seemed to have a physical form, allowing him to cultivate the rocks and thus build it into its current shape.

He originally wanted to build the magnificent Three Immortals Pavilion in the West City, but he won't!

The sight of the hill had almost driven him to despair.

Li Wushou still feels lingering fear when he thinks about it now, but fortunately, everything from the Three Immortals Pavilion can be placed in this Divine Palace Three Immortals Pavilion.

This convenient way of carrying it around solved the immediate problem for the Three Immortals Pavilion.

Moreover, the functions of the Three Immortals Hall in the Divine Palace were quite beyond his expectations!
(End of this chapter)