Taoist Master Xuanhuang

Without him saying so, no one dared to offend him.

Those who dare to violate this rule are truly from the bottom rungs of society and don't understand the importance of this point at all. Any force or individual with a bit of power knows this taboo.

Ignorance breeds fearlessness, leading to reckless actions, but the consequences are always dire.

the other side.

The message was quickly relayed back, and all parties began to assess and observe the situation.

However, there is one special place: the territory of the Martial Temple.

This place brings together many illustrious figures from the history of the Xia Kingdom, truly a gathering of heroes.

The Temple of Martial Arts also has three main deities: the first is Jiang Shang, the ancestor of warfare, and the second is Sun Wu, the sage of warfare.

Strictly speaking, Jiang Shang is also known as the patriarch of all schools of thought, but his influence as the patriarch of military strategy is greater.

Since the Confucian Temple is called "Teacher," the Martial Temple, although not as shrewd as the Confucian Temple, can still learn to change and should also be called "Teacher."

It's a matter of adapting to local customs, after all, it's a new era different from their own.

"Teacher, should we do that too?" Wu Qi asked.

"What do you think?" Jiang Shang didn't answer, but asked for everyone's opinion.

“We must follow the teacher’s instructions and not fall too far behind the Confucian Temple,” Sun Wu said.

The Martial Temple is a bit different from the Confucian Temple; the martial artists here are not as easy to talk to as those in the Confucian Temple.

It's not their own problem, but rather that as generals and commanders, if they don't have the mindset of being the best in the world, they can't become outstanding generals and commanders.

Strictly speaking, they didn't quite agree with Confucius's idea; they preferred to be more independent.

After all, once Master Kong became a true domain lord, his students were truly like puppets.

Similarly, when the ancestor of soldiers became a true domain lord, they would also face the same situation. Their personalities and pride made them uncomfortable at the thought of being a puppet.

The kind of person you can't persuade no matter what you say.

However, everyone immediately understood Sun Tzu's words: they could not afford to fall behind the Temple of Literature.

This won't do; it's even more unbearable than being a puppet myself.

I can be a puppet, but the Martial Temple must be strong, at least it cannot fall behind the Confucian Temple.

It must be said that he was a military genius; with just one sentence, even a group of warriors could not tolerate him.

How could we let those Confucian scholars take the lead? That would be too insulting to a military general.

“That’s right, we can’t let them pull ahead of us, that’s absolutely unacceptable.” - Lord Wu’an

"I agree!" said the military genius.

"This disciple agrees!" Li Jing said.

A powerful elder spoke up, saying that since they all agreed, a matter could usually be decided quickly.

"Teacher, news came back from Peng Yue that the Martial Arts Alliance wants to know what happened and asked for our opinion, saying it's open to discussion," Wu Anjun said.

In terms of close relationship, the relationship between the Martial Temple and the Martial Alliance is even closer than that between the Confucian Temple and the Confucian School.

After all, warriors have a stubborn side, but also a heroic and unrestrained side. As long as they hit it off, anything is possible.

The tricks of the trade are fewer than those of the Confucius Temple.

"Yes!" Lord Jiang nodded.

Actually, he was under pressure too. He never thought of Confucius's approach, which was a choice he was suddenly forced to make.

Unlike Confucius, who was well-prepared.

To be honest, he was path-dependent; the path he planned to take was completely different from that of Confucius.

He intends to continue the process of deifying deities.

It has been studied for a long time and is well-prepared and confident. Strictly speaking, it is already a mature law.

Enlightenment comes from those who attain enlightenment through skill, from gentle scholars, from the True Man of Breaking the Mountain, and from the Lesser Heavenly Dao of the Three Great Gods.

It is a method of bestowing gods that combines the strengths of various schools.

Of course, it also draws inspiration from the divine beasts of Xuanhuang and the establishment of divine cultivators.

Mythical beasts can be deified, so why can't humans?

Moreover, this is his own new version of the Investiture of the Gods, not the old version circulating in the story. It is achievable and is a very remarkable technique, at least at the peak level.

His plan was to use the minor celestial paths of the three great gods to confer divine titles within those paths.

These deities in their own martial temple can all be deified.

However, this Investiture of the Gods is not the same as the Investiture of the Gods. It is not the kind where the soul of a god is influenced by the Investiture of the Gods and a single thought determines the life or death of a god.

He won't do that, and those holy men won't agree to it either.

I'm already under the control of the origin of this realm, my life and death are in someone else's hands. Why should I run to another place, where my life and death are also in someone else's hands?

Is this being a jerk?
I will never agree to that.

His new version of the Investiture of the Gods does not have this flaw.

The main problem is that it is very difficult for the saints to break free from the control of the realm, and the higher the level, the more difficult it is, just like he was born as a late-stage sixth-order lord.

Such a level of betrayal would cause the very source of the Martial Temple Realm to risk its life.

It's very difficult to achieve unless one pays a huge price, like Wu Anjun or the Taoist Chunyang Venerable.

This price can be paid by one or two prodigies, but one cannot expect all the saints of the Martial Temple to have this ability.

So he came up with a method called hedging.

Using the abilities of the three great gods of the Lesser Heavenly Dao, the origin of the Martial Temple Realm is balanced.

Conferring a godhood in the main world is equivalent to splitting the sacred primordial spirit in the Martial Temple Realm in two, with one half going to the main world and the other half remaining in the realm.

They escaped by using the repulsion and opposition of the two celestial bodies.

He likened the Lesser Heavenly Dao and the Origin of the Realm to two great celestial bodies.

Of course, this also requires a secret technique, a technique for distracting the mind, which he has been painstakingly studying in recent years.

This is the secret technique of creating a split spirit after studying the split spirits of the Holy Mother of Tushan, the split spirits of the Spirit Beast Sect, and various other split spirit information.

It is possible to split the sacred souls in the Martial Temple realm into two after the main world is conferred the title of gods, but without harming the fundamental nature of the deity.

At the beginning, the avatars in the main world were very weak. After all, it was impossible to appoint a god of the Venerable level right away. In that case, even the three great gods could not do it.

Therefore, newly created clones in the main world are very weak, but they have a special characteristic: they can grow on their own.

Generally, gods who are ordained cannot make progress.

Especially for self-cultivation, that's impossible.

The strength one possesses at the time of investiture will remain that level until further promotion, such as from White Pardon to Red Pardon, Blue Pardon, Purple Pardon, and so on.

It depends on whether the person who controls the Investiture of the Gods is willing to promote you; you are someone who can be manipulated.

Jiang Shang's new system of bestowing titles on gods avoided this problem. Although the clones bestowed by the main world were very weak, they had the ability to grow on their own.

You can level up through incense and faith, or you can level up through your own spiritual practice.

It possesses the qualities of both a puppet god and a true god.

This is very difficult. Jiang Shang's abilities have only been roughly developed over the years. He hopes that after spreading them, they can be gradually filled in with the help of all the sacred wisdom of the Martial Temple.

It's not that Jiang Shang lacked the talent of Confucius.

Rather, his plan was too ambitious. What I've described above only scratches the surface.

His new conception of deities is more extensive.

He combined the boundaries of various places, famous mountains and rivers, and unique geographical environments of each place.

You should know that these places are all giant fields. As Xuanhuang said in the beginning, the essence of cultivation is simply the cultivation of a field.

It's simply about how to make your own aura stronger.

Once you possess a field as vast as heaven and earth, then you are heaven and earth, you are at the level of the Dao.

Jiang Shang agreed wholeheartedly and conducted in-depth research.

His investiture of gods was not arbitrary; every deity was appointed as a mountain god, river god, or other such deity in various famous mountains and rivers.

It's like using a famous mountain or river as a breeding ground for a new god, like using a chicken to lay eggs.

This would give the conferred deity a third path to growth, allowing them to slowly grow even without incense offerings or the means of cultivation, within the vast environment of famous mountains and rivers.

Doing so would require a huge undertaking, at least integrating the energy fields of so many famous mountains and rivers into the Lesser Heavenly Dao.

Then there are the various realms. A realm is also an incredibly vast field. Many top-level realms exist because of famous mountains and rivers, such as the Yellow River, Mount Tai, and the Five Sacred Mountains.

His second step was to integrate the realm into the Lesser Heavenly Dao.

This is strikingly similar to Confucius. Confucius wanted to refine the Temple of Literature, while Jiang Shang wanted to refine all the realms, making each realm a realm, a world, under the Lesser Heavenly Dao.

He was confident that the three supreme deities would agree to his plan.

After all, it would be strange if the three great gods didn't agree to such a good thing, such a world-changing event.

Once famous mountains and rivers, various fields and realms are integrated into the Lesser Heavenly Dao, then who will be in charge of the Xia Kingdom?

Even if the Heavenly Dao returns in the future, it will still be difficult to deal with. It is equivalent to the Blue Star Human Holy Land, one of the five holy lands, and the Xia Kingdom on Blue Star belongs to the domain of the three great gods.

This is Jiang Shangxin's overall plan for becoming a god; it's roughly like this, but there are still many details that need to be perfected.

He is confident in integrating famous mountains and rivers from various places, but he is not yet confident in integrating various realms and needs to experiment.

It doesn't necessarily have to start with the Martial Temple; it can start with a small, micro-sized realm.

Once this plan succeeds, even if it's only half successful, the energy fields of all the famous mountains and rivers will be integrated into the Lesser Heavenly Dao.

The deities of the Martial Temple will no longer have to worry; they can be officially appointed and then embark on their path of cultivation.

The path of cultivation is simple; at the very least, one will be granted a divine position, which is at least the first rank.

As long as you combine the three systems of the three invincible techniques of the Xuanhuang Dao Master when creating your new clone, you can cultivate a perfect first-order clone of the three systems.

They can start with the same invincible power from the beginning, and even based on their current experience, they can pre-set how to make the newly conceived clones have better talents and how to match them.

Those who are more confident can even set up a body for dual cultivation, or a body for cultivation of essence, energy, and spirit, etc.

Once the new clone is successfully conceived, it can gradually transfer its main soul to its body in the main world.

Although the avatars within the realm are stronger, they are like the avatars left by the Holy Mother of Tushan in the Liaozhai realm—they are beings that can be discarded.

To replace one's old with another, to use someone else's resources to achieve one's own goals, to deceive the heavens and the sea, and to swallow the world whole.

It is filled with the essence of military strategy.

This is Jiang Shang's plan, not Confucius's plan to refine the Confucian Temple.

So he was in a dilemma. His disciples suggested that he could follow the path of Master Kong, but that was not the path he wanted to take.

"Teacher, do you have any concerns?" Sun Wu seemed to have noticed Jiang Shang's hesitation.

He asked.

“If you have any plans, Master, please share them so we can discuss them together. We disciples simply don’t want to fall behind the Confucian Temple; we don’t necessarily have to follow the path of Master Confucius. If you have better methods, Master, we can do them just as well,” Sun Wu continued.

"Hmm!" Jiang Shang nodded: "To be honest, I am indeed different from Master Kong, and I do not wish to follow in Master Kong's footsteps. As the saying goes, those who learn from me will live, and those who imitate me will die. Following others' paths is ultimately not the right way. Perhaps the difference will not be apparent in the short term, but I believe that as time goes by, the gap will widen. Moreover..."

"Besides, how will others see us when we walk the path to the Confucian Temple, and how will we see ourselves?"

Jiang Shang said firmly.

"Please speak, teacher!"

"teacher……"

Jiang Shang's statement elicited enthusiastic cheers from his disciples, which was very much in line with their nature.

To become a bookworm?

Keep dreaming, I'm going to forge a new path.

"That's right, my method is only a half-finished product, which I call the New Conferment of Gods..."

When the disciples heard that it was a half-finished product and that it was called "Investiture of the Gods," they immediately panicked.

What is the teacher doing?

I know this is your specialty, but I can't let it harm your own disciple.

In mythology, none of the three religions wanted to be on the Investiture of the Gods list. You're not suggesting we be on it, are you?
but!

As Jiang Shang's story unfolded, everyone finally understood what it meant to be the ancestor of all schools of thought.

That's so apt.

It blends the best of various schools, as if the essence of each school had been thrown into a huge bronze furnace, and then refined and tempered to create the most refined and highest-grade treasure.

Moreover, the logic is sound, the structure is tight, and the overall perspective is broad...

That's just fantastic.

It is indeed a Investiture of the Gods, but it is a new Investiture of the Gods, with three main storylines of growth and progress.

Those who are capable can cultivate themselves, while those who are less capable can improve through the energy fields of famous mountains and rivers and through their own practice.

Even the worst approach can be improved by gathering incense offerings and faith, and by relying on the energy fields of famous mountains and rivers.

There are best, middle, and worst strategies.

Putting aside others, Sun Tzu was overjoyed, as it aligned with his own ideas.

In fact, not only Sun Tzu, but even if everyone here were outstanding individuals, it would be impossible to find any flaws in them at the moment. One can only marvel at how powerful the teacher is.

"It's a pity it's only half-finished. I'm confident I can contain famous mountains and rivers, but I'm not confident in fusing and refining the realm. I need to try. In addition, I only have a general idea for many parts and need to fill in the gaps slowly. Even if I try to do it all by myself, I wouldn't dare say it's perfect. I need you to fill in the gaps."

Seeing everyone's surprised and shocked expressions.

Jiang Shang knew that it had succeeded, which meant that all his disciples agreed.

Therefore, they spoke with more confidence and revealed another side of themselves.

On the other hand, it means that this is not my achievement alone; it requires everyone's joint efforts to improve the new Investiture of the Gods, and you all have contributed as well.

Upon hearing this, the middle disciple's eyes lit up even more.

Although the teacher was being modest, it was the truth. Some things were only general outlines and general principles, and require further research and practice.

How can this not be my own achievement?
I am also one of the founders of this law, although my contribution is not as great as my teacher's.

But even a small contribution is still a contribution, and he was one of the founders.

This greatly excited the warriors, who were very fond of this kind of thing.

It's a bit more difficult to manage than the Confucian Temple, but conversely, it's also a bit easier to manage, depending mainly on Jiang Shang's wisdom.

Clearly, Jiang Shang possessed the great wisdom of knowing when to take the bait, let alone anything else.

...(End of chapter)