Wandering Gods of Day and Night
Chapter 301 - 199 Bai Gu Monk_2

Chapter 301: Chapter 199 Bai Gu Monk_2

"After mastering a small portion of the Space Law, one can rescue from a thousand miles away and teleport to kill enemies. Daoist, descend if you dare. If you dare touch the Heavenly God’s Fire, I’ll make sure you fall into Soul Shepherd City for eternity."

The painter tilted his head to look at the faint fire in the sky, as tiny as a bean, before gazing at the clear and washed blue Heavenly Dome, confidently speaking.

As the first Divine Office of the Bone Elder Association, the painter naturally understood the significance of lighting the Heavenly God’s Fire—it signified that Mingjiang Prefecture would usher in the Heavenly God era. Even if the Capital City’s Mysterious Sect predicted chaos on the horizon, Mingjiang Prefecture would remain unafraid.

Mingjiang Prefecture had a new master, a new protective deity, and even in turbulent times, it could safeguard its territory.

However, the Heavenly God’s Fire was still very weak, meaning the most perilous era was approaching,

Those at the God-level above the Heavenly Dome would take advantage of the Heavenly God’s weak state to once again put the Heavenly God into a slumbering condition.

...

At night, Yun Ziliang was fiddling with the phonograph, while Lv Mingkun played "Four Nations Bone Elder Chess" with Sister Cui, Mu Hua, and Little Fuzi.

This was a small game that Zhou Xuan had modified for them; the original version was "Four Nations Military Chess." To enhance immersion, Zhou Xuan replaced the "Commander" with the Heavenly God, and swapped roles like "Corps Commander" and "Division Commander" with the Divine Offices of the Bone Elder Association.

It worked surprisingly well,

The four played with great joy.

Zhou Xuan, meanwhile, was reclining on a chair on the second floor, sipping tea as he pondered over the new talismanic script for the Wash Away Injustice Talisman.

From the library today, he’d collected new talismanic scripts. In addition to completing the entire "Blood Well Enlightenment Scripture," he also noticed another talismanic script appearing in the Wash Away Injustice Talisman: its name was revealed.

The title of the new talismanic script was "Divine Silk Ascension Scripture," which focused on Daoists.

"Gods rarely descend, relying on Daoists as attendants. Daoists, people without incense or fire,

those above human demigods, upon death, are pulled by Divine Silk and ascend to the Heavenly Dome. Struck by five bolts of lightning, electrocuted, their soul is severed, their consciousness cleansed, their incense essence extracted, and crafted into a Daoist Corpse.

If ordered by the God, they are pulled by Divine Silk, and the Daoist Corpse is lowered to the human world.

When the Daoist Corpse enters the mortal realm, it randomly absorbs a stick of incense essence, thus transforming into a Daoist.

Daoists roam the mortal world, feeding on humans to accumulate incense essence and embark on the path to ascension.

Upper Soldiers ascend in seven days, Middle Soldiers in thirty days, and Lower Soldiers in three months."

Zhou Xuan could barely believe his eyes—so the bodies pulled to the heavens by Divine Silk are called Daoist Corpses, and only after descending to the mortal world do they become Daoists.

Daoists don’t descend with seven or eight sticks of incense essence like previously thought; they, too, must accumulate incense essence like mortals.

In life, they were individuals with extraordinarily high incense essence, so naturally, their incense accumulation speeds are remarkably fast.

But their method of gathering incense essence is brutally cruel—they feed on humans.

Zhou Xuan put away the Wash Away Injustice Talisman and went downstairs to ask Yun Ziliang: "Lao Yun, what exactly does ’ascension’ mean?"

"Depends on whether you’re talking about the broad sense or the narrow sense."

"Explain both."

Yun Ziliang placed the cloth he’d been using to wipe the phonograph aside and said to Zhou Xuan: "In the broad sense, ascension refers to stepping onto the path of communing with deities through shadow-walking—that’s ascension. In the narrow sense, it refers to reaching a level of eight sticks of incense essence. The divine powers of eight sticks of incense—they could call it ascending to be a small god, and it wouldn’t be an exaggeration."

"Then I understand—Daoists don’t descend to the mortal world with seven or eight sticks of incense."

Zhou Xuan shared the content he’d gleaned from the talismanic script with Yun Ziliang.

"Upper Soldiers ascend in seven days, Middle Soldiers in thirty days, Lower Soldiers in three months... feeding on humans... Daoists’ incense essence actually comes from this? So even within Daoists, there’s a hierarchy."

Yun Ziliang pondered for a while, then asked Zhou Xuan: "Kid, where did you hear this from?"

"I figured it out myself."

"..." Yun Ziliang.

Yun Ziliang frowned deeply, saying: "You, with only two sticks of incense essence, constantly contemplating this and that—can you not stop?

Two sticks of incense essence and you’ve figured out so much. When you reach four sticks of incense essence, won’t you start flying to become a god?"

"Lucky guess, just lucky guess." Zhou Xuan replied with a smile.

"Anyway, setting luck aside, let me tell you this: if Daoists were like we previously thought—descending to the mortal world with seven or eight sticks of incense essence—it’d be easier to deal with.

But if instead, they descend with no incense essence or fire, and then within seven or thirty days they reach seven or eight sticks of incense essence, that’s much harder to manage... Damn it, no wonder Gods always have Daoists handle their dirty work—truly despicable."

"Any theories?"

"Of course." Yun Ziliang explained: "Every state has monitoring tools like magic artifacts and arrays. Arrays are similar to inverted bowls that cover the territory of a state, while magic artifacts are hung at key checkpoints.

If a person with extraordinarily high incense essence enters a prefecture—no matter how—they will surely be detected. For instance, in Mingjiang Prefecture, the monitoring intensity of its magic artifacts and arrays is extremely strict. Anyone exceeding six sticks of incense essence will trigger detection, and all the top experts of Mingjiang Prefecture will immediately mobilize to confront Daoists."

Zhou Xuan understood and said: "But Daoists, when they descend, have no incense essence or fire, so the arrays and magic artifacts can’t detect them. They can quietly enter Mingjiang Prefecture and then quickly ascend within the prefecture."

"Exactly. Now tell me, are Gods despicable or not—for raising a bunch of freaks like this? No incense essence when they descend, yet feeding on humans to rise. If Daoists are this monstrous, the fire in the sky isn’t going to burn bright anytime soon."

"There’ll be a way."

Zhou Xuan decided to teach Li Chengfeng the "Divine Silk Ascension Scripture" tomorrow so the Bone Elder Association could set up defenses against Daoists in advance. The fire in the sky absolutely couldn’t be extinguished—it was tied to his "natural law."

Returning to the second floor, Zhou Xuan opened Wash Away Injustice Talisman again to read the completed "Blood Well Enlightenment Scripture."