Exploring Immortality Cultivation-Chapter 931 - 16: First Encounter [1]

At the highest platform within the Phoenix Tomb in the Forbidden City, there is a solitary room.

This is the Jinshen Hall.

The Holy Emperor Venerable sits here, fully concentrated on refining the divine spirits.

Suddenly, a point on the left shoulder of the Holy Emperor Venerable gently pulsates. The divine body of the "Tai'an Qingfu True God" is the first to issue a warning.

On the Shenzhou Continent, the Tai'an Qingfu True God is an ancient belief, one of the Daoist incense fire divine Tao experiments. However, with the destruction of the ancient Daoist sects at the hands of the Demon Sect, this divine spirit gradually became forgotten by people and lost its incense offerings.

But the research on the incense fire divine Tao in Shenzhou is too far behind. Even if the "collective theory" of Modern Cultivators is very close to the essence of the divine Tao, it cannot make up for their shallow insight into divine Tao methods.

For the divine Tao system, as long as this system still interacts with the entirety of the human collective consciousness, the divine body will not be completely eliminated.

In other words, as long as records exist, the divine spirit body is indestructible.

Reduction in believers and insufficient incense offerings can only cause the divine spirit body to wither but cannot make it completely destroyed.

The Holy Emperor Venerable has now refined more than 130,000 divine spirits. All these divine spirits are the remnants of cultivators who walked the path of the divine Tao. Among them, there are divine spirits like the Benevolent Father and the Holy Son Jingfeng King, which is the first divine Tao belief of the Holy Infant Sect through the ages, as well as lesser-known Mountain God, Earth God, City God, and even fictitious gods fabricated by small village shamans and witches were captured by the Holy Emperor Venerable with great power via the human Tao.

Every divine spirit has its own story, its own legend, all existing in "myths".

But now, they are merely sacrifices for the Holy Emperor Venerable's path!

"The Tai'an Qingfu True God is a deity mastering blessings and misfortunes, aligning with the innate merit Great Dao, and is the pinnacle among divine spirits, next to the Benevolent Father and the Holy Son Jingfeng King... What on earth is happening now?"

The Holy Emperor Venerable is slightly puzzled. At this moment, a strange sensation emerges from his heart and mind.

A warning sign, a warning sign not felt in many years...

"How could it be..." A gleam flashes in the Holy Emperor Venerable's eyes, and the will of the Banished Immortal spreads out.

Unlike the newly awakened Mei Gemu, the Holy Emperor Venerable has been on this path for more than two thousand years. The immortal remnant soul has long integrated with the mortal soul, polished to perfection. The immortal part has thoroughly assimilated the mortal part.

In a single thought, there seems to be the birth and extinction of thunder.

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"...Hey, kid, are you dumbfounded?"

Wang Qi vaguely hears these words as his thoughts intrude into the strange system. It's a sensation beyond the five senses of normal people. At this moment, he feels as if he has stepped onto an entirely soft surface, gravity tilting around him, with everything in chaos.

This is a world composed of unfamiliar algorithms...

At this moment, Wang Qi senses his opponent's hostility reaching its peak. Almost unconsciously, he uses Xiangyu Travel to cross numerous obstacles and directly attacks the opponent's body with the Heart Demon Curse.

"So noisy..." Wang Qi grumbles half a sentence, then focuses his attention on the human collective consciousness. At this moment, he realizes his mana is already exhausted, and the Two-Phase Transcendence Chapter cannot push the computational power.

"Damn it... The current mana is only enough for one Xiangyu Travel!" Wang Qi complains twice, then takes out a Nascent Soul Level recharge pill and swallows it. Gradually, his mana fills up. The Two-Phase Transcendence Chapter operates rapidly, continuously consuming mana for calculations.

Wang Qi casually grabs the enemy's storage bag, tainted it with the Heart Demon Curse, opens it, and throws it to Lian Xinjie, saying, "Sort out everything in here...all the elixirs that aren't poison and the heavenly materials and earthly treasures that can be directly absorbed. I have great use for them."

Saying this, Wang Qi feels the first clash of thoughts.

Or rather, the clash of the Heart Demon Curse with the immortal intent of the Holy Emperor Venerable.

Wang Qi's lifespan is just over a decade, counting his previous life only thirty or forty years, how can he compare with the heart and intent of the Holy Emperor Venerable refined over millennia? However, Wang Qi does not directly come into contact with the intent of the Holy Emperor Venerable, but rather drives the Heart Demon Curse Power, engaging in a yearly clash with the Holy Emperor Venerable.

This feeling is like driving a tank and colliding with a Tyrannosaurus Rex!

The heart demons in the hearts of the entire city's beings, hundreds of thousands of people, are like colorful glazed glass, rotating within the small human collective consciousness on Spirit Phoenix Island, producing voices of righteous indignation, righteous pressure... Everyone has a habitual flaw of seeking moral high ground in disputes. When this flaw is amplified by the Heart Demon Curse by tens of millions of times, it manifests as the will of tens of millions of fake moralists and hypocrites. This terrifying heart demon resonates subtly with the various negative and dark facets within the human collective consciousness system, making the human Tao system almost defenseless against the Heart Demon Curse.

However, the water is not deep, yet if there is a dragon, it becomes lively.

In this small human collective consciousness on Spirit Phoenix Island exists the powerful entity of the Holy Emperor Venerable!

The immortal's will gallops within the human Tao. Wang Qi doesn't know exactly how he does it. However, that formidable will is like a wandering dragon, akin to thunder. His own power collapses at the slightest touch with the opponent. This Holy Emperor Venerable even vaguely shows signs of reversing the refining of the Heart Demon Curse!

The battle within consciousness seems intense, yet occurs in a flash of lightning. At this point, Lian Xinjie finally has time to speak, asking, "What?"

"There's a tough battle ahead." As he spoke, Wang Qi took out the Divine Separation Stage Elixir he had just acquired from the sucker who bought the "Boluo Divine Flame," holding it in his hand, and said softly, "The Holy Emperor Venerable is about to make a move..."

Without giving Lian Xinjie a chance to react, Wang Qi shoved the elixir into his own mouth.

In an instant, multiple exceptionally strong spiritual powers emerged within Wang Qi's body. His foundation was simply not enough to completely refine them. However, Wang Qi was prepared for this. His own mana combined with the unrefined elixir's spiritual power burst out from the various major points in his body, establishing a new cycle of mana within, and then reintegrated into his body through several other major points.

This cycle of mana looked somewhat like an enlarged version of the human body. However, natural meridians always have some unreasonable aspects and redundancies. In this design, there were none of those redundancies.

One by one, Yin Yang Qi Vortices formed outside Wang Qi's body, and then condensed into Yin Yang Yao. One by one, these Yin Yang Yao, aided by Yin Yang Transformation, completed the determination of zero and one, swiftly incorporating into algorithms and deriving changes.

Then, under the amazed gaze of Lian Xinjie and the still conscious Hu Xuanjia, Wang Qi took out a strangely shaped sword box and retrieved a ring and a shoulder guard from it.

"Ghost Mysterious Fog, this old thing's sinister energy, combined with my Cave Heaven Robe, and the current chaos of Human Dao... The Holy Emperor Venerable shouldn't be able to sense us..." Wang Qi muttered, flipping his hand to retrieve the Fentian Book List fragment he held, supported by his ringed right hand.

At this moment, an overwhelming divine might, as grand as an abyss and mountain, spanned the heavens and earth, pressing down on Spirit Phoenix Island.

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In that moment, the Holy Emperor Venerable was genuinely somewhat outraged and shocked.

"Has Lord Hongtian gone mad from his grave injuries and outright torn up the agreement?"

The Holy Emperor Venerable recalled that Lord Hongtian hailed from a world where Divine Tao flourished in the vast ocean! Other than him, no one in this world's inferior Divine Tao realm should be able to achieve this...

At this time, the warning from Lord Hongtian that came from within that bell echoed once more in the Holy Emperor Venerable's ears — "Here's another piece of news for you. Those heterodox have also grasped the secrets of Daoist Morality. Very soon, the future will have nothing to do with you..."

"How is that possible! Are you kidding me!"

Shocked and angry, the Holy Emperor Venerable realized things weren't so simple. The other party's mysterious and entangled intent seemed almost endless, with origins unknown. If this continued through the void, battling via the Human Dao's lines of causality, he might not be able to safeguard his ventures.

The only way was to turn illusion into reality, and bring this battle nurtured by lines of causality to the real world!

"Turning illusion into reality, reign over the mortal world!"

With that shout from the Holy Emperor Venerable, a massive Divine Country manifested in the void.

It was a vast land, with contours resembling both the Shenzhou Continent and Spirit Phoenix Island. Though it clearly only pressed upon Spirit Phoenix Island, for some reason, everyone who saw it felt the divine image seemed infinite.

Cultivators within this vast map saw spirit birds soaring and auspicious beasts running, immortals flying with their swords. Mortals, on the other hand, saw plowing and fire-seeding, and Merit, and peace.

At that moment, everyone from the Human Clan on Spirit Phoenix Island, regardless of high order or low level, cultivator or mortal, knelt in devotion, reciting the title of the Divine Spirit aloud.

Strangely, they did not initially know which deity they should worship, but when their prayers emerged, they chanted in unison:

"Devotion, Infinite Divine Virtue, Supreme and Clear Holy Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable!"

In an instant, the battlefield changed.

Wang Qi felt that the indescribable illusion he sensed had suddenly mutated, dividing the heavens and earth as if creation unfolded, the clear rising, the turbid descending, dividing the world into two. Within this narrow illusion of the world, an immense, supreme shadow that defied understanding spanned the heavens and earth.

Simultaneously, innumerable voices emanated from an unknown place, attacking the Heart Demon Curse power harboring Wang Qi.

"Devotion, Infinite Divine Virtue, Supreme and Clear Holy Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable!"

"Devotion, Infinite Divine Virtue, Supreme and Clear Holy Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable!"

"Devotion, Infinite Divine Virtue, Supreme and Clear Holy Emperor Great Heavenly Venerable!"

The reverent chants resonated like a mighty drum, nearly dispersing Wang Qi's Heart Demon Curse power with one blow.

However, how could Wang Qi be willing for it to end like this?

"I've finally had the opportunity to probe your foundation, how could I let this opportunity slip?"

The Yin Yang Yao around Wang Qi flickered fiercely like stars. Amidst this flicker, Wang Qi pressed the Fentian Book List fragment in hand, calling upon the Artifact Spirit: "Little Yin, Confucianism, Innate Saintly Virtue..."

"Keywords confirmed." The inorganic voice of the silver-haired, white-robed AI, resembling a young girl, swiftly provided feedback to Wang Qi.