Refining the Dao into Godhood: A Tale of the Jie Sect
Chapter 292 - 266 【To Achieve Heavenly Dao, First Cultivate Human Dao】(Subscribe Please)

Chapter 292: Chapter 266 【To Achieve Heavenly Dao, First Cultivate Human Dao】(Subscribe Please)

"Transforming the false into the true!"

Xuanqing played with the crystal brought back by his avatar. Although the power contained within it was vastly different from the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World, the essence of their powers was the same.

The strength of "Changsheng Tian" alone was naturally insufficient to accomplish this feat. It was the collective belief of countless beings in the "Tianhai Realm" that fused into a sea, endowing this crystal with some characteristics of the Heavenly Dao.

In the "Tianhai Realm," the reason why "Changsheng Tian" could govern everything and even detect the whereabouts of reincarnators, was due to the Heavenly Dao Law Net constructed by the endless power of belief.

This is the prototype of the Heavenly Dao!

The net of heaven has large meshes but misses nothing—it is this distinctiveness of the Heavenly Dao’s will from the world’s will that enables it to actively monitor the creatures of a world.

Honestly, since Xuanqing had pioneered the path of the Divine Immortals, he naturally studied the Power of Incense. Before his breakthrough to the Daluo Golden Immortal stage, his avatar "Suiren" had used the "Sui Ming Tree" as a foundation to forge a Great Daluo Heaven of Incense Fire across the boundless spacetime.

However, this Great Daluo Heaven of Incense Fire could only harbor the True Spirits of those who had perished and nurture their souls, yet it was incapable of monitoring everything like the Heavenly Dao.

Even later, when the "Sui Ming Tree" devoured part of the essence of the "Fusang Tree" and broke through its shackles to become the top-grade Innate Spirit Root "Innate Sui Tree," the Great Daluo Heaven of Incense Fire still showed no signs of birthing a will of the Heavenly Dao.

At this time, the Great Daluo Heaven of Incense Fire was actually not inferior to the "Tianhai Realm," the only thing lacking was that Xuanqing had not formed a concept of "Heaven."

Yes, a concept!

Whether it is Transforming Void into Reality or Transforming the False into True, both necessitate first having a concept in order to transform something from an illusion into a real existence.

In the "Tianhai Realm," the reason why "Changsheng Tian" could possess some traits of the Heavenly Dao was because billions of beings regarded him as the true "Heaven."

"Perhaps, I can do the same!"

A thought struck Xuanqing, and he gazed deeply into the origins of the Heavenly Dao. Within the Primordial World, there was Hong Jun merging with the Dao and Yuanshi Tianzun intending to replace it, using their own hearts to substitute for the Heavenly Dao, which was not a suitable path for him to emulate.

However, beyond the Primordial World, there are the All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds, and countless Multiverses—these are areas that the Primordial Heavenly Dao has not yet touched.

He looked towards Minghe Daoist and inquired, "Daoist Minghe, how many worlds containing life have the reincarnators found out so far?"

Minghe pondered and replied, "Currently, there are three thousand seven hundred and forty Great Thousand Worlds discovered, seventy-six thousand five hundred and eighty-two Middle Thousand Worlds, and twenty-six billion eight thousand four hundred and twenty Small Thousand Worlds. As for the Dust Worlds and half-planes, they are beyond count!"

"About seventy percent of these worlds have spawned living beings, and among the remaining thirty percent, half are still in the stage of nurturing life, while the other half are gradually heading towards destruction!"

"And of those seventy percent that have birthed living beings, less than one ten-thousandth have embarked on the path of cultivation; many worlds simply lack the conditions for cultivation!"

"Therefore, for most worlds, we have only left a coordinate, and worlds smaller than the Small Thousand Worlds have no value for exploration."

Since the formation of the "Myth" organization, they have been dedicated to exploring the All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds. Although the "Tongtian Jian Mu" is said to connect all these worlds, the Chaotic Universe is vast beyond measure, and the worlds it nurtures are as numerous as the sands of the Ganges—how could a single Chaos Spirit Root possibly cover them all?

What it connects is merely worlds nearby Primordial, mostly already explored. The "Myth" organization uses these explored worlds as bridgeheads, radiating farther into the deeper Chaotic Universe.

The "Xumi" organization established by Houtu and others is also undertaking this task, especially the Buddhist Sect which has a huge demand for the power of belief.

The Golden Body and Dharma Form of the Buddhist Sect are forged through Merit and Wish Power among other things.

However, Merit is hard to obtain; aside from a few Buddhas who can acquire Merit, other Bodhisattvas and Arhats merely settle for second best, crafting their Golden Body Dharma Forms with the incense and wish power of billions of beings.

Xuanqing nodded.

However, he did not set his sights on worlds with cultivators present, but instead focused on those worlds without Spiritual Energy.

No!

To say they lack Spiritual Energy is not quite accurate; since spirits exist in all things, and since these worlds can bear living beings, they must indeed contain Spiritual Energy.

It’s just that the level of the worlds, the upper limit for converting Spiritual Energy, does not meet the standards of birthing cultivators, which is why Minghe disregards those worlds.

After all...

Minghe is at the pinnacle of Quasi-Saint, just a step away from achieving Saint status, naturally he would not concern himself with worlds that lack even cultivators.

But, such worlds are the vast majority in the Chaotic Universe, and if one could preach within them, it would surely gather a massive amount of believers’ power.

The sick yearn for health, the poor desire wealth, and beings with fleeting lives naturally aspire to become cultivators of longevity.

Even if such worlds can only produce Qi Refiners, extending life by only one to two hundred years, it would be enough to make the creatures of that world flock to it.

The power of faith, or rather, the power of hope, where mortals cannot reach, those ordinary beings often seek the aid of Ghost Gods.

"Ascending to Heavenly Dao first requires cultivation of the Human Dao!"

Xuanqing had an epiphany: "In the Primordial, it appears that the Heavenly Dao was the first to recover. However, it was actually the Human Dao that Pangu first carved out. Pangu and the Chaos Demon Gods are living beings. It was during Pangu’s creation of the world that the concept of ’Heavenly Dao’ was first molded, which led to the later Heavenly Dao! The Human Dao was there even before the Heavenly Dao!"

His thoughts stirred, and immediately his consciousness connected with the "Innate Sui Tree" in his Inner Scenery Land, transferring it into his lower Dantian.

The three great Dantians of Pangu - upper, middle, and lower - evolved into the three Daos of Heaven, Earth, and Man. The Earth Dao serves as the soil that nurtures the Human Dao; the Human Dao is the support for the existence of the Heavenly Dao. The three Daos of Heaven, Earth, and Man are interconnected.

If the Human Dao can be likened to the trunk, and the Heavenly Dao to the Dao Fruit, then the Earth Dao is like the roots or the soil, and the very existence of the world is the foundation for the birth of the Heavenly and Human Daos.

That is also why, whether it is the Heavenly Dao or the Human Dao, even if there is a desire to suppress the Earth Dao, they would never allow anyone to destroy the Primordial World.

Without the Earth Dao, there would be no foundation for the existence of beings of the Human Dao. Without the beings of the Human Dao, the Heavenly Dao would lose its purpose of maintaining order.

Therefore, to ascend to the Heavenly Dao, one must first cultivate the Human Dao; to perform the Human Dao, one must first enact the world. This is also the reason why heaven is above, man is in the middle, and earth is below.

With this thought in his mind, Xuanqing immediately split into thousands of avatars, turning into streams of light, entering worlds where spiritual energy was extremely sparse.

At the same time, he merged the power of incense collected during his tenure as a divine position in the Heavenly Court into his Heavenly Soul.

The Heavenly and Earth Souls are usually external, only the Life Soul remains within the body. The Heavenly and Earth Souls, unbound and free, are most suitable to serve as the foundation for shaping the Heavenly or Earth Dao, ensuring that the Heavenly or Earth Dao sculpted by Xuanqing will not escape his control due to some reasons!

If his other selves are too powerful, they may backfire on his original self, but the Heavenly Soul, Earth Soul, and Life Soul are inherently one with him.

There is no risk of backlash!

...

Meanwhile, Xuanqing’s other selves, utilizing their infinite nature, also descended into numerous minor thousand worlds or dust worlds.

Minor thousand worlds can give birth to cultivators, with some deeper-rooted minor thousand worlds even possessing conditions conducive to cultivating up to the Heavenly Immortal Realm.

He only needs to pass down the doctrines.

For those worlds with sparse spiritual energy where cultivation is difficult, he manually induces a "Spiritual Energy Recovery" using various methods.

As a Primordial Daluo Golden Immortal, he has many methods to enhance a world’s spiritual energy to a level sufficient for the beings to cultivate.

For example, constructing large arrays using mountain and river ley lines or using the Celestial Stars to construct large arrays to convert Acquired Spirit Qi or Star Essence Qi.

As for why he doesn’t convert Innate Spirit Qi, it’s not that he lacks the means, but rather that forcing growth would not be beneficial for the cultivation of those beings.

Besides, he has studied the Dao of Spiritual Agriculture and also cultivated numerous Spiritual Roots and Immortal Woods that can transform Spirit Qi, providing enough Acquired Spirit Qi for stepping into cultivation.

He began sowing continuously, bestowing the species of Spirit Roots, and personally manifested his divine presence, reflecting his own and The Three Pure Ones’ image in these worlds.

However, when he manifested divinity, he always positioned himself as the "Heavenly Dao" of that realm, while The Three Pure Ones were revered Saints coming from beyond all worlds to pass down the law.

He was enlightened by The Three Pure Ones, became the "Heavenly Dao" of that realm, established the doctrines, propagated the Immortal Law, granting the beings of this realm the opportunity for eternal life and prolonged vision.

In less than a century, hundreds of thousands of worlds had a concept of Heavenly Dao and the Taoist doctrine, all worshiping The Three Pure Ones and the Heavenly Dao.

Of course, Xuanqing was not merely harvesting the power of faith. He merged his other selves with the world wills of these worlds, naturally mastering the various authorities like creating wind and rain, thunder and snow.

Among the methods he passed down, there were the granting of talismans, as well as fasting rites, ceremonial observances, astrology, divination, and several other methods capable of mobilizing the power of celestial phenomena.

As these Taoist disciples deepened their cultivation, they could continually gain more talismans, mastering more Immortal Technique Talismans, thereby mobilizing more of the power of Heaven and Earth.

The fasting rites and ceremonial observances had nothing particularly miraculous about them; the real force behind them was still the avatar bearing the title of "Heavenly Dao" from Xuanqing.

A continuous stream of the power of faith converged towards Xuanqing’s Heavenly Soul, and in less than a century, the concept of "Heavenly Dao" had deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

Seeing this method was effective, Xuanqing continuously split off more avatars. Over a period of ten thousand years, he created hundreds of millions of such avatars.

Their purpose was to spread the concept of Heavenly Dao and the saintly Taoist The Three Pure Ones in those dust worlds with sparse spiritual energy, manually guiding the "Spiritual Energy Recovery" and thus gathering the power of faith.

As long as beings who believe Xuanqing is the Heavenly Dao are plentiful, even the world will of that world could be assimilated by Xuanqing’s avatars.

Once that happens, what is false becomes real; he could conveniently ascend as the Heavenly Dao of that realm.

And this mysterious power would continuously merge into Xuanqing’s Heavenly Soul, aiding him in transforming falsehood into reality, morphing into a true Heavenly Dao.

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