Chapter 489: Chapter 428: Taichu Golden Flower, Creating One’s Own Divine Court
Mortal city.
It was mid-month, and inside the city, gongs and drums thundered as the crowd carried a palanquin toward the temple of the Yin Yang Gods. Inside the palanquin, aside from a boy and girl, there were offerings of livestock and fruits.
Rituals were held at the start, middle, and end of every month.
Each time, a boy and a girl were sacrificed—six people a month, seventy-two people a year.
This was to honor Grandpa Yang and Grandma Yin.
It was not superstition; after the sacrifices, the weather was indeed favorable, and the rain came in due seasons.
The only downside was that human lives were used as offerings. Typically, names were drawn by lot—whoever’s family was chosen had no choice but to accept their misfortune.
The common people were pragmatic. Ever since they began worshiping the Yin Yang Lords, there had been no calamities, and, in addition, after each ritual, they felt spiritually refreshed and physically stronger.
Because of this, many high-ranking officials and wealthy individuals would secretly capture a few beggars or foreigners to covertly offer sacrifices to the Yin Yang Lords whenever they had troubles.
Although it was said seventy-two people a year were sacrificed, the actual number exceeded this.
In an enormous city with a population of over a million, it wasn’t unheard of for six or seven thousand people to die in a year for this purpose.
If there were slightly more deaths, no one would notice. Even if they did, what could they do about it?
"See? This is a truly refined approach. Just scaring people to extract faith isn’t sophisticated. This method of luring with small, incremental benefits is the work of a real master."
Song Lin and his companions observed from the sky.
"But your intel was wrong. This isn’t some Incense Fire God; it’s clearly an ancient human sacrifice ritual. Truly deserving of being called Ancient Immortals—it’s certainly a feral and brutish practice."
Song Lin sneered disdainfully; it seemed the Six Heavenly Old Qi of this realm were fated to be cleaned out by him.
With a single command, Feathered People descended with violent winds and thunder.
The Martial Saints below stood no chance and were instantly shredded into fragments by the fierce winds.
The city was conquered.
A charming Xi woman descended to heal the sick and perform a few tricks for the common folk, "exposing" the true nature of the Yin Yang Lords.
She quickly won the hearts of the people. Afterward, under Song Lin’s guidance, the Kunlun God System established City Gods, Mountain Masters, and Water Masters.
From then on, they began a campaign of conquest, capturing a hundred cities in a single day—so quickly that the Five Masters on the other side couldn’t react.
Initially, the Queen Mother of the West’s cultivation wasn’t weaker than the Eight Gods of Qi, and if both had clashed, the outcome would have been mutual destruction.
Now, with Song Lin’s assistance, the Queen Mother of the West had partially recovered, though she hadn’t reached her peak Harmony stage. However, she had advanced to the Primordial Spirit Peak level, comparable to the Spirit Treasure Celestial Masters.
The 50th year of the Eight Gods of Qi.
An army of two hundred thousand from the Undying Country, along with ten thousand cultivators from various paths of humanity, seized control of the southeastern corner of Dongsheng Divine Continent, equivalent to one-third of the Da Li Dynasty’s territory.
The 51st year of the Eight Gods of Qi.
The West Queen Mother Country was established, heavily appointing celestial deities and earth deities. With the added lure of undying medicine, many Human Immortal Martial Saints defected to the Kunlun God System, becoming formidable generals among the Acquired Immortals.
"Tsk tsk, having a foundation really makes a difference. Gaining mastery over mountains, rivers, and earth veins is this easy."
Seeing the Kunlun God System gradually taking on a primitive and wild form, Song Lin couldn’t help but sigh.
But it was only a sigh at their rapid start.
They were still tens of thousands of leagues away from a true divine system.
A true divine system involved thrones suspended above the Nine Heavens, ruling over the Ten Thousand Realms and observing the ebb and flow of countless tides.
What they had now was merely the starting phase of gods and mortals coexisting.
During this era, mortals often saw immortals. Some mortal warriors even climbed to the Divine Court and earned the Heavenly Emperor’s favor, ascending in one leap.
As mythology evolved, the distance between gods and humans grew greater. Hence, when people look at myths, they often see that in ancient times, gods and immortals were everywhere, but now they are exceedingly rare.
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The Divine Capital of the Da Li Dynasty.
Reputed as the most powerful expert under Da Li, Emperor Shenwu listened to his subordinates’ reports.
Salt Pond Palace.
Emperor Shenwu had a peculiar appearance: horns grew from his head, his skin was a bronzed hue, and it glowed with a metallic sheen—he looked like he had a Copper Head and Iron Forehead.
This Yang Immortal, the only one in the mortal world, listened as his subordinate made the report.
"The army of three hundred thousand has been wiped out?"
Emperor Shenwu gazed calmly at the Great General of the court.
Cold sweat dripped down the General’s forehead; he didn’t dare respond.
"Useless trash."
Emperor Shenwu’s eyes widened in fury. A hint of killing intent obliterated the Great General before him into fine powder.
Boom!
A surging burst of blood energy erupted, staining a thousand-mile radius crimson.
The sheer force of the blood energy even exploded Emperor Shenwu into minute particles himself.
Of course, he wouldn’t perish from this. At this level of blood-qi cultivation, physical destruction wasn’t something that could kill him.
Instead, his particles began to recombine into a new body.
The pinnacle of martial arts lay not in the flesh but in the spirit. As long as the Martial Way Spirit existed, his body would endlessly regenerate.
Through the visualization of Martial Way Spirit, distances of thousands of miles could be crossed in an instant.
Of course, calling it martial arts wasn’t entirely accurate; Military Dao was its true essence.
"The ’military’ has run through the vast river of human history, bringing wars, weapons, martial skills, strategy, and even civilization itself."
This man was none other than the Warlord, Chiyou!
Unfortunately, no matter how quickly Chiyou moved, he was still one step too late.
East Sea, Penglai Island.
An army of three hundred thousand surrounded the island.
The island inhabitants—a race of golden-haired Feathered People armed with spears—specialized in wielding flames and hurricanes.
Both sides battled back and forth.
Boom!
Above Penglai Immortal Island, a three-thousand-zhang, radiant golden Three-headed and Six-armed Dharma Image clashed with a giant golden Mystic Bird.
All twelve Yuan Chen techniques were deployed, barely blocking the Great Sun Flames hurled by the golden bird.
The Queen Mother of the West transformed into her true form, a tiger-leopard beast, wielding the Great Witch Jade Axe to fight against a silver Mystic Bird.
Their combat lacked dazzling splendor; instead, it resembled mortal fighters exchanging blows with fists and legs.
Yet this made it all the more perilous. As the saying goes, simplicity is the ultimate sophistication; the most straightforward moves often concealed the deadliest killing intent.
Another reason was that their strengths were closely matched. They avoided using ineffective attacks, instead opting for deadly simplicity, making the battle even more intensified.
Training in the Nine-Transformation Indestructible Body of the Human Immortal Martial Way had rendered them immune to injuries from weapons and even fire or metal.
The Yang Qi of the Mystic Bird posed no threat to them. Instead, having acclimated to Yang Qi, Song Lin used the Transformation Technique to become a golden Mystic Bird, absorbing some of the Yang Qi himself. This only made him stronger as the fight continued.
Meanwhile, the Feathered People on Penglai Island had nearly been wiped out.
"Hahaha! So this is your true form?"
Song Lin gazed at the golden cloud suspended above.
He suddenly transformed into flame, flying upward to envelop the golden cloud in his fiery body.
He planned to refine it!
The golden cloud resisted fiercely, but Song Lin summoned the suppressive power of two Heavenly Master Seals from the Great Dao.
One Acquired Dao couldn’t conquer an Innate Force, so he used two. Furthermore, his opponent was already a half-crippled entity.
The Five Mountains Dao suppressed it, while the Xuanying Dao assimilated it. This was Song Lin’s ambition—to forcibly devour and assimilate Innate Yang Qi.
He transformed into a blazing sun-like entity.
After a long while, his efforts bore fruit.
Song Lin looked inwardly to inspect his Spirit Platform, where a golden cloud floated above his Pure Yang Primordial Spirit.
So it turned out the Yang Lord wasn’t human but was instead the first strand of Innate Golden Flower.
No wonder it was so cruel and devoid of emotion.
As for this golden substance, Song Lin named it the Taichu Golden Flower.
"An Innate Deity incapable of transformation is destined to have its spiritual wisdom erased by me."
Song Lin mused. These beings had brought their own ruin—how many human lives had they taken over the years?
Meanwhile, the Queen Mother of the West subdued the Yin Lord, which turned out to be a coffin.
Was this also Innate?
"Say no more; retreat first!"
The Queen Mother summoned her Immortal Realm, and their forces poured into it. Chiyou arrived too late.
Since he couldn’t locate their true forms, Chiyou had no choice but to rally his troops and prepare to attack the West Queen Mother Country.
After their return, the Queen Mother was the first to speak.
"Now that you possess a complete Innate Dao, you might consider creating your own Divine Court in a Small Thousand World."
"Small Thousand World? Divine Court?"
Song Lin was perplexed.
"Aren’t you from another world?"
The Queen Mother’s words were shocking.
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