Chapter 288 - Chapter 288: Before Heaven and Earth Opened, I Was Here, Enlightening All Living Beings Into Immortals
Chapter 288: Before Heaven and Earth Opened, I Was Here, Enlightening All Living Beings Into Immortals
Translator: Henyee Translations Editor: Henyee Translations
Venerable Bai settled his subordinates in the capital while he went up the mountain every few days to teach Jiang Tianming.
Other than training in martial arts, Jiang Tianming finally had more liberal arts classes. Other than training in the art of luck, he also learned the history of the human race and the history of the Sacred Dynasty.
With Jiang Changsheng by his side, Venerable Bai did not dare to deliberately flatter the Sacred Dynasty.
Under the guidance of so many masters, Jiang Tianming thrived.
In the blink of an eye.
Five years flew by.
Year 25 of the Yan Yuan Era!
In the past five years, many major events had happened in Great Jing. The Emperor, Jiang Liu, seemed to have awakened the bloodline of Taizong and Tianzong. He had even started to organize the dynasty and wantonly suppressed the aristocratic families and imperial relatives, causing many civil and military officials to be demoted. There were even several cases of an entire family being executed.
Of course, Jiang Liu had also been attacked several times, which was no longer a secret in Shuntian City.
However, this was a matter of the imperial court. It did not affect the people.
The martial arts world also had its own excitement. Geniuses came in large numbers, experts competed against each other, and the land of Great Jing became larger and larger, to the extent that countless citizens and martial artists felt that Great Jing was the sky.
Five years had passed, and Jiang Tianming had grown up a little. He looked to be two years old. Even though his physique was growing slowly, at least he was growing. Therefore, Jiang Changsheng was quite at ease.
Jiang Tianming was already thirteen years old, and he had matured a lot. He was no longer as willful as he was when he was young.
It had to be said that Venerable Bai’s teachings were still effective. Jiang Tianming was not as noisy as before. Every time he heard the story of the human race and the Sacred Dynasty, he would think about it, even though seeing a child like this seemed a little ridiculous.
[Detected that your incense value has exceeded 10 billion for the first time.
Activated the incense function—Heaven and Earth Incense.]
[Heaven and Earth Incense: Open up a dreamland in your dream for your worshipers. All your worshipers can enter the dreamland in their dreams. There is only one incense world, and all believers can enter it. In the incense world, worshipers cannot harm each other and can only communicate. You can manipulate the incense world at will and decide its rules.]
Finally, it exceeded 10 billion incense points!
The speed of its growth over the years had slowed down, and it was not as fast as before.
Jiang Changsheng suspected that it was because the human race lacked a sense of crisis, so they did not pray to him often.
He was not dissatisfied because of this. Instead, he was content.
It had only been 69 years since his last breakthrough, but he had already accumulated 10 billion incense points. That was fast enough.
With the Heaven and Earth Incense function, he believed that his incense value would usher in an unprecedented growth.
This function would connect his followers.
However, Jiang Changsheng was worried that the identities of the Xuan Bird and Pangu would be exposed. On second thought, it was just right. He wanted to instill the concept that immortals did not have a fixed race. As long as they believed in him, they could become immortal gods no matter what race they were. As for Pangu, he was an immortal god under his command. He was the leader of immortals and the ancestor of all gods.
It was quite exciting to establish an immortal orthodoxy in the martial arts world in order to pave the way for the future.
If Jiang Changsheng could break the rules of the martial arts world, he could lead the people around him and their followers to become real immortals and establish the Immortal Dao.
After all, the martial arts world was vast, and other worlds might very well exist in outer space. If he wanted to live forever, he had to be absolutely invincible!
If he could have the immortal gods under him protect his followers, he could cultivate in peace. This was a win-win situation for both sides. If he succeeded, what should his immortal path be called?
The Heavenly Court?
The Church of the Great Dao?
Jiang Changsheng fell into endless reverie. Soon after, he began to fantasize about the incense world. It could not be the same as the mortal world. It had to show the bearings of immortals. At the very least, it should make his worshipers yearn for it.
Fengtian Sovereign Dynasty.
It was rare for Lightning God Li Yi to rest. He was prepared to have a good sleep. Martial artists were not like immortal cultivators. Sleep was a must for the former.
Soon, he fell asleep.
The dream was a beautiful scarlet sky.
He looked up and was immediately stunned. He saw islands floating in the sky. Every island emitted multicolored light, making it look so sacred and magnificent. On the layers of Heavenly Islands, there was a huge city that emitted a myriad of rays of light that illuminated the world, but it did not seize the majesty of the scarlet cloud sky.
He looked down and found that he was standing on a cloud, not on the ground.
“Where am I?”
Li Yi frowned and muttered to himself.
At that moment, a loud voice echoed between heaven and earth.
“Before the world was created, I was here. The Great Dao is mine alone.’
“Lying high in the Nine Levels of the Mysterious Gate, enlightening all beings to become immortals.”
“This is a world I have created for beings who believe in the Great Dao. In my dream, I will preach the Dao to the heavens and provide opportunities and blessed lands. Every ten years, I will preach about martial arts and the Great Dao from the Nine Levels of Heaven. Those who believe in my Great Dao will obtain the fate of an immortal god. Anyone who leaks this world will be expelled by the Great Dao forever, never to escape the pain of reincarnation.”
This voice was…
The Dao Ancestor!
Li Yi immediately became excited and subconsciously flew upwards.
Soon, he saw other figures flying towards the huge city in all directions.
Jiang Changsheng’s consciousness looked down at the entire dream world. It was estimated that more than 200,000 believers had entered the dream world at the first instance.
He did not deliberately guide them. Instead, he set up the rules of the dream world. That was, every believer would hear his words when they first entered the dream world.
Establishing the rules was equally simple. He only needed to imagine it. This dream world was his imagination.
Not long after, some believers came into contact with each other. At first, they were very cautious. But after knowing that they were all believers of the Dao Ancestor. they quickly became familiar with each other. The more they chatted, the more excited they became. The more they talked, the more they admired the Dao Ancestor.
Here, they could not see through each other’s realms, and they did not have to be afraid of getting hurt. They could transcend status and power and communicate freely.
This was the first time they had come into contact with such a dream world. It was too novel and exciting!
From Jiang Changsheng’s understanding, this feeling was similar to an earthling surfing the net.
Jiang Changsheng retracted his consciousness after watching for a while and no longer paid attention to it. He allowed his believers to do as they pleased.
He opened his eyes and saw Bai Qi coming over. He excitedly asked, “Master, was what I dreamed of true?”
Jiang Changsheng said, “Remember those words.”
Bai Qi became even more excited and nodded.
The others were curious and asked Bai Qi one after another.
Bai Qi proudly said, “I cannot say, but if you can dream, you can give it a try.”
She was excited because of Jiang Changsheng’s words in her dream.
Before the world was created, I was here!
Enlightening all beings to become immortals!
Master was not an ordinary immortal. Could it be that the Dao Ancestor’s name was not groundless?
She was not riding on the coattails of an ordinary immortal, but the thickest coattails of immortals!
Mu Lingluo, Ji Wujun, Ye Xun, the Sword God, Tai Wa, and the others looked at each other and forced themselves to sleep.
An hour later, the courtyard was bustling with activity.
Venerable Bai did not come today. Everyone was a worshiper, so there was no leak. They discussed excitedly, and even Jiang Tianming participated. That’s right, Jiang Tianming had also become Jiang Changsheng’s worshiper.
He just simply prayed for delicious food.
Previously, he had been praying in his dreams that his great-grandfather would bring him delicious food. As he knew that his great-grandfather was an immortal god since he was young, he felt that his great-grandfather was omnipotent.
Jiang Changsheng closed his eyes and cultivated. No one dared to question him.
As for him, he was secretly observing.
As expected, drawing a big pie would help to increase the incense points.
He was not afraid of being exposed, because he could truly display the methods of an immortal god that his worshipers couldn’t understand and could only worship him.
Ji Wujun sighed and said, “I finally understand why the Dao Ancestor looked
down on the position of emperor.”
The others nodded. So the Dao Ancestor was not only an immortal god, but he was also a transcendent existence that could enlighten immortals!
Seeing that they were getting more and more excited as they spoke, Jiang
Changsheng was worried that they would become arrogant. He then said, “Right now, I am still a mortal with a physical body. My soul has just descended to the mortal world to experience the mortal world. In terms of strength alone, I am not invincible in the mortal world. My body also needs to cultivate and become stronger. You have to work hard to cultivate. When you reach the peak of martial arts, you will have the hope to compete for the path of an immortal god.”
Everyone nodded in agreement.
Ye Xun smiled and said, “Dao Ancestor, don’t worry. It is our greatest blessing to have met you. How can we dare to rely on you for everything? You can cultivate in peace. We will not disappoint you.”
The others also promised, fearing that Jiang Changsheng would look down on them.
Bai Qi did not believe his words.
‘Master is acting again. He must be invincible in the world. He’s just afraid that we will trouble him!’
Even though Bai Qi did not believe his words, she still promised crazily. In any case, she would stay by Jiang Changsheng’s side and would not encounter any danger.
“Ancestor of All Immortals… I’m even more greedy… Master, when will you pamper me…”
Bai Qi’s gaze as he looked at Jiang Changsheng was as gentle as water.
Jiang Changsheng wanted to hit her because he could hear the dirty thoughts in her heart.
This wolf was too obscene…
Forget it!
Pretend not to know!
Jiang Tianming shouted, “I want to be an immortal too. I want to be a martial immortal and become an immortal with martial arts.”
Jiang Changsheng smiled and said, “Then don’t be lazy.”
The others smiled. They were full of expectations for Jiang Tianming’s future.
Ji Wujun smiled and asked, “Tianming, do you want to be the emperor and lead
Great Jing to become a Sacred Dynasty?”
As soon as she asked that, everyone quieted down and glanced at Jiang
Changsheng. Seeing no reaction from him, they looked at Jiang Tianming.
Ji Wujun felt uneasy. She was also testing Jiang Changsheng’s attitude.
The emperors of Great Jing were getting worse with each generation. If this continued, she really could not see any hope. If Jiang Tianming was the Emperor, it would be different.
“Emperor? Impossible! I don’t want to live a short life. What’s so good about being an emperor? Being so busy everyday. Didn’t Master Bai say that even the Emperor of the Sacred Dynasty has no freedom? I will never be an emperor. As long as I’m strong enough, I can enjoy everything an emperor has. Why must I be an emperor?”
Jiang Tianming said in a childish voice. He looked young, but he was already thirteen years old. He already had his own plans.
These words disappointed Ji Wujun, but she was also somewhat gratified. She was also Jiang Tianming’s master, so she naturally hoped that Jiang Tianming could live longer. She was disappointed that if the human race did not have a Sacred Dynasty, when could they recover their former glory?
The others exaggerated Jiang Tianming’s aspirations.
Most martial arts fanatics were not interested in imperial power. There was a
joke in the martial arts world that only those with insufficient talent would enter the court and become officials.
Jiang Changsheng did not express any opinions about Jiang Tianming’s aspirations and merely looked at him with a smile..