NOVPUB"Who would refuse to obtain a demon god projection that is stronger than their own combat power so easily?"
Just as Xin Hongzhang was about to agree, at the crucial moment, he had a sudden revelation and looked towards Li Fan.
"Then, what is the price?"
"How can there be such a thing as a pie falling from the sky in this world?"
Li Fan looked at the other party still stubbornly resisting and smiled seductively again, "Price? That greatly compassionate and merciful saint could have achieved a realm of transcendence beyond that of immortals, but now he can only transform into hell, suppressing thousands of demon gods..."
"Is that not a price? It’s just that the saint, in his mercy, has borne all the disasters for us. If those demon gods were still ravaging, summoning them would surely require the sacrifice of one’s divine soul."
"If you truly feel grateful, all you need to do is to praise the saint’s grace every day."
With that explanation from Li Fan, everything made sense.
All of Xin Hongzhang’s doubts were dispelled, and he couldn’t help but ask, "I wonder what the name of that saint is..."
"Learn [Descent of the Divine], and you will know," Li Fan said, and pointed lightly towards Xin Hongzhang.
The content of this mysterious and unpredictable secret technique appeared like a tide in Xin Hongzhang’s spirit consciousness.
"Indeed, it is an unparalleled mystique, truly extraordinary!"
Merely through the lines, Xin Hongzhang could glimpse the profound mysteries of [Descent of the Divine]. Compared to the spells he had practiced in his lifetime, it was like heaven and earth, incomparably different.
Immersed in the mystique, he was unable to extricate himself.
When Xin Hongzhang became lucid, Li Fan had already disappeared without a trace.
"Saving the suffering and the distressed, worldly compassion," Xin Hongzhang muttered to himself softly.
Having obtained the secret technique, the first thing he naturally did was to find a place for cultivation.
Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Xin Hongzhang returned to the Nine Peaks of Jiushan Province.
After spending a heavy sum, he rented the highest level of seclusion in the secret room for cultivation, and Xin Hongzhang sat cross-legged inside, practicing according to the method described in [Embodied Presence].
Darkness quietly descended upon the secret room.
Xin Hongzhang felt as if he were back in the boundless realm of the demon gods.
However, unlike the terrifying scene of howling winds and wailing spirits he had seen before, the realm was now in a state of absolute stillness.
Above the thousands of demon gods, there emerged a blurred figure full of pity for the world, radiating strands of warm light.
The fear in Xin Hongzhang’s heart gradually faded, and with excited and reverent emotions, he respectfully saluted the figure in the sky.
Afterward, his divine sense flitted among the thousands of demon gods, constantly sensing.
As he flew past one of the demon idols, his heart suddenly stirred.
Muttering to himself, in the next moment, the demon idol’s eyes snapped open.
The still realm of ghosts shattered loudly, and in reality, a demon god with eight heads and eight arms, with a majestic body, appeared before Xin Hongzhang.
"It’s actually She Tuoluo!"
Xin Hongzhang was immediately overwhelmed with excitement.
According to the record of the secret technique, She Tuoluo’s power was within the top one hundred of the thousands of demon gods! He could not believe his luck was this good!
Xin Hongzhang attempted to communicate with the demon god projection before him using his divine sense. A dark, viscous sensation followed along his divine sense, extending into his own spirit consciousness.
Xin Hongzhang was taken aback at first, but the feeling of control that came from She Tuoluo soon allayed his worries.
After manipulating She Tuoluo to attack, Xin Hongzhang couldn’t hide the surprise on his face.
"This newly summoned demon god is even stronger than the three invoked by Fellow Cultivator Fan Li,"
Xin Hongzhang suddenly found himself lost in thought.
"Mediocrities need not apply, the arrogant are unwelcome, and those without a conscience should not bother..."
He remembered the selection criteria Fan Li had mentioned to him and began contemplating suitable candidates.
Meanwhile.
Thousands of miles away, Li Fan, who could clearly see Xin Hongzhang’s every expression through She Tuoluo’s aid, revealed a satisfied smile.
The so-called myriad demon gods were nothing but incarnations of thoughts formed through Li Fan’s cultivation of the [Three Great Disasters and Hundred Calamities Scripture].
The secret technique [Descent of the Divine] was in fact using the cultivator’s own body as a vessel to summon and house the incarnations of Li Fan’s thoughts.
It seemed that the cultivators could command them at will, but in reality, these incarnated thoughts read the cultivator’s consciousness and acted on their own initiative.
It was as if Li Fan had entrusted a part of his own consciousness to other cultivators.
Using their divine senses, he nurtured and strengthened them.
They unwittingly made wedding garments for others. Such was the fate of cultivators who practiced [Descent of the Divine].
"Now that the strength of my divine sense surpasses even that of Unity-Path experts, if I were to use this method, thousands upon thousands of cultivators would become a nurturing ground for my divine senses..."
"The intensity would expand hundreds, even thousands of times. Truly an unexpected windfall."
"Moreover, what’s even more wonderful is that my incarnated thoughts, residing within these cultivators’ spirit consciousness, can subtly influence and change their thinking. Making them completely serve me."
"Hehehe..." Li Fan couldn’t help but let out a dark, low chuckle.
He seemed to have already seen how numerous cultivators within the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals would fall victim to this secret technique [Descent of the Divine].
"Its widespread distribution is sure to attract the attention of the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals."
"With such obvious characteristics, once Morubin becomes aware of it, he’ll definitely recognize it as the handiwork of my former Mystic Sky Sect comrades..."
"What I need to do is sow a few more seeds."
Li Fan’s form flickered, and he escaped from Jiushan Province.
After that, he returned to various states of the Immortal Alliance. He quietly tempted a total of eighty cultivators to practice [Descent of the Divine] before he stopped.
Including the initially solicited Xin Hongzhang, there were eighty-one cultivators in the first batch.
"Hmm? That youngster sure moves fast, there are already second-generation cultivators," sensed Li Fan, very pleased with Xin Hongzhang’s efficiency.
"In half a year at most, the number will become quite substantial."
"Soon, very soon," Li Fan returned contentedly.
During the time he diligently sowed seeds, exactly as Xin Hongzhang said, the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals announced the establishment of the first Free Trade State in Jiushan Province.
The world was shaken, and countless cultivators who longed for the Five Elders Organization, as well as those wishing to make a fortune and turn their lives around, flocked to Jiushan Province.
Alongside the announcement were many detailed regulations.
These included the development plan for Jiushan Province for the next hundred years, as well as rules for resource and power allocation and others.
The most attention-grabbing of all was the following clause: Ordinary cultivators were not qualified to buy cave mansions or land in Jiushan Province. Only those who made outstanding contributions to the development of Jiushan Province were entitled to this right. Moreover, to prevent the powerful from manipulating things behind the scenes, all land transactions had to be publicly announced through the Tianxuan Mirror.
If any underhanded dealings were found, any cultivator could report them.
An investigation by the Alliance of Thousands of Immortals would follow, with no mercy!
