Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

"can!"

Ao Bing readily agreed, saying that even if he didn't gain control of these main stars, just having them exist in the starry sky would still be a huge gain for him.

He had no reason to refuse such a good thing. Besides, it wouldn't matter if he refused; the people just didn't want to talk to the Heavenly Dao, not that they couldn't.

If people are truly pushed to the brink, to the point that they bypass themselves and try to negotiate with Heaven, then it will all be for naught, and they will gain nothing.

However, while Ao Bing agreed, his agreement was not without conditions.

He made everyone promise that after they cultivated to become Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortals, they must upgrade the main star he projected, raising its level from Quasi-Saint to Hunyuan.

The bonuses provided by thousands of Quasi-Saint Main Stars are completely different from those provided by thousands of Primordial Main Stars.

Ao Bing was genuinely afraid that these powerful beings would give up their power and abandon these main stars because he was forced to relinquish control of them. From then on, he ignored them completely.

Even after improving his cultivation, he was unwilling to upgrade their levels. If that were the case, Ao Bing would suffer a huge loss, so he needed everyone to give him a guarantee.

Moreover, this guarantee is needed not only by him, but also by the Heavenly Dao. Thousands of Primordial Chaos level main stars are coveted not only by Ao Bing, but also by the Heavenly Dao itself.

Therefore, it's fine if everyone doesn't project onto the main star, but since they've decided to do so, they must do it perfectly so that its level increases along with their own cultivation.

Otherwise, even without Ao Bing's intervention, Heaven would not let them off the hook.

"This……"

Upon learning of Ao Bing's condition, everyone hesitated.

Projecting stars is not difficult for them, but just because it's not difficult doesn't mean they don't have to pay a price for doing so.

To put it simply, if the projected main star is only temporarily transformed into a real one, then it won't have much impact on them.

But if they continue to exist, the impact will be enormous. It means they will have to constantly dedicate a portion of their resources to maintaining the existence of these main stars.

In other words, if these main stars are to exist permanently, it would be equivalent to them permanently "losing" a portion of their power.

If it's just about maintaining the Quasi-Saint Main Star, then even if a portion of its power is permanently lost, it won't have much of an impact, since the power isn't much anyway.

However, they wouldn't be happy if they had to maintain the Primordial Star forever. This would require too much power, at least a tenth or a twentieth of their total strength, or even more.

Therefore, they did not want to agree.

But things had come to this point, and they had no choice but to agree, because not only was Ao Bing watching them, but the Heavenly Dao was also watching them.

This is a perfect example of how one can trap oneself. Originally, their projection of the stars was not intended to contribute to the prehistoric world, but rather to cause trouble for Ao Bing.

But as it turned out, after Ao Bing's series of actions, they not only failed to cause trouble, but also put themselves in a difficult position.

If they don't speak up on their own initiative, Heaven can't force them to sacrifice their power to project stars.

But since they've taken the initiative to speak, Heaven's Dao won't be polite to them.

They've already handed over the evidence, and Heaven will not let it go no matter what; it will force them to do this, even if it means coercing them.

"A Primordial Golden Immortal only needs to entrust his own Great Dao to the Supreme Primordial Heaven to enter it for cultivation."

Just as everyone hesitated, Ao Bing suddenly spoke up and made a condition for them: to allow them to enter the Supreme Primordial Heaven to cultivate.

"Is this true?"

Everyone was shocked upon hearing this. However, before Ao Bing could answer, they quickly realized that it was indeed true.

If Ao Bing had no other option but to directly lift the restrictions of the Supreme Primordial Heaven and allow them to enter and cultivate there, then this whole thing is definitely a lie.

But since he added a precondition, it's probably true.

What does it mean to entrust one's own Great Dao to the Supreme Primordial Heaven? To put it simply, isn't it just using their power to promote the further evolution of the Supreme Primordial Heaven?

The Primordial Chaos Supreme Heaven is not a real world, but a Dao Realm entirely constructed from the Great Dao and its rules.

Therefore, its advancement mode is different from other worlds. It does not require strengthening the origin, but only continuously evolving the Great Dao to make it more and more perfect, so that it can naturally advance.

So how do we perfect the Great Dao and make it evolve continuously? The simplest way is to introduce more existing Great Daos and let them merge with the rules inherent in the Primordial Unsurpassed Heaven itself.

In this way, as different paths collide and merge, they will gradually evolve on their own and become more and more perfect.

The Primordial Golden Immortals, though called living beings, are in reality manifestations of the Great Dao. As long as they are willing to enter the Supreme Primordial Heaven, they can cause the Supreme Primordial Heaven to evolve further.

The more Primordial Golden Immortals enter, the better the evolution effect.

Once you understand this, you can clearly realize that Ao Bing's conditions are not empty words. He is indeed sincerely inviting everyone to cultivate into a Primordial Golden Immortal and then enter the Primordial Supreme Heaven for cultivation.

Of course, this only refers to the benefits they receive from the Primordial Supreme Heaven after entering it. Besides these, they also receive many other benefits.

It's important to understand that the premise of the common evolution of the Great Way is the sharing of benefits. There is no situation where one party enjoys all the benefits while the other party gets nothing.

This means that as the Primordial Chaos Supreme Heaven further evolves, the Primordial Golden Immortals who participate in this matter will also receive different benefits based on their respective contributions, and progress together.

This progress refers to the improvement of cultivation level. If nothing unexpected happens, with the blessing of the Primordial Supreme Heaven, the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortals who enter it will be able to advance further in the future and cultivate to the Supreme Creation Realm.

But for the great supernatural beings of the primordial world, this was an irresistible temptation.

Nowadays, becoming a Grand Luo Golden Immortal is no longer a difficult task for them. Given enough time, they are confident that they can reach this realm.

However, they were not confident in reaching the higher realm, the realm of supreme creation, which is the realm of the Boundless Golden Immortal.

To put it bluntly, reaching the level of a Primordial Golden Immortal is their limit. If they want to advance further, they can no longer do so with their own abilities and must rely on external forces.

Luck is an external force, and so is the Primordial Chaos Supreme Heaven.

The difference is that while fortune is mysterious, they aren't certain they can gather enough for a breakthrough. However, they can easily meet the conditions for entering the Primordial Heaven. "So what if I cultivate to become a Grand Luo Golden Immortal? Just watch, give me some time, and I'll break through right here and now!"

The matter concerned whether they could cultivate into the Limitless Golden Immortal, and one can imagine the excitement in everyone's hearts. They absolutely had to enter the Primordial Limitless Heaven.

Isn't it just entrusting one's hopes to the Great Dao? This is a trivial matter, and compared to cultivating to become a Limitless Golden Immortal, it's not a problem at all.

As for whether Ao Bing will take advantage of this, what a joke! Isn't this a clear case of mutual exploitation, or rather, a win-win situation?

They entrusted the Great Dao to the Supreme Primordial Heaven, allowing it to evolve further. Then, the Supreme Primordial Heaven fed back the results of this evolution to them, thus enhancing their cultivation.

This kind of mutual progress can hardly be considered exploitation; it's clearly a mutually beneficial arrangement. If it were exploitation, the great supernatural beings of the primordial world would only hope for as much exploitation as possible.

Of course, while they were excited, they also understood that Ao Bing's sudden offer at this time was clearly a plea for them to be sensible and stop obsessing over the matter of upgrading to a main star.

They agreed that the matter of entering the Supreme Primordial Heaven for cultivation could be settled now.

Conversely, if they are unwilling to be promoted to a main star, then sorry, entering the Supreme Primordial Heaven is none of their business.

There will be at least three thousand Grand Luo Golden Immortals in the future of the Primordial World. Even if everyone breaks through, there will only be a little over a thousand, which is only one-third of the total. There are still two-thirds left.

At worst, Ao Bing can wait a while and make a deal with the later-breaking-through Grand Luo Golden Immortals. They are not indispensable; the prehistoric world can still function without them!
Once everyone realized this, they agreed to Ao Bing's request without hesitation.

"good!"

"It is truly a great fortune for the primordial world to have fellow Daoists like you!"

Having benefited from the deal, Ao Bing was generous with his praises, showering everyone with compliments.

Well, this matter is judged by actions, not intentions. Regardless of their thoughts, their actions have indeed brought great benefits to the primordial world and all living beings.

Since the benefits are tangible, their actions deserve to be celebrated. Our world desperately needs this kind of dedication; creating more role models like them will inspire future generations to learn from them.

With these ready-made examples, if someone cultivates to become a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal and wants to enter the Supreme Hongmeng Heaven for cultivation, would he dare to ask for it without projecting a Hunyuan Main Star?

Even if he had the nerve, Ao Bing had a reason to turn him away.

Yes, Ao Bing intends to make this a routine practice, requiring anyone who wants to enter the Supreme Primordial Heaven for cultivation to project a Primordial Star as a ticket.

With each additional Primordial Star, the foundation of the primordial world is strengthened.

If there were three thousand Primordial Stars, it would be enough for the starry sky to undergo another transformation and evolve into a second half-step Eternal Realm.

"You flatter me, Star Lord!"

Upon hearing this, everyone appeared happy, but inwardly they all felt a pang of regret.

Projecting a primordial star sounds easy, but in practice it would be a massive drain on their resources, enough to cripple them and leave them with no chance of recovery.

Such a price, in exchange for a chance to become a Limitless Golden Immortal in the future, is entirely worthwhile, but headaches are inevitable.

Because the losses are immediate, tangible, and readily felt, while the benefits can only be experienced in the future, are visible but intangible, and therefore lack a real sense of reality.

Moreover, the future is uncertain. Who can guarantee that they will live peacefully until the day they cultivate to become Limitless Golden Immortals?
If something goes wrong along the way, he might be sealed away, perish, or be replaced by a Chaos Demon God...

This is not impossible, and if it happens, all the current efforts will be in vain. Therefore, it is understandable that everyone is worried and feels the pinch.

Even so, they still had to agree. It concerned their future breakthrough, and unless they were certain something bad would happen to them, they had no reason to refuse.

“I know what you fellow Daoists are worried about, but there’s really nothing to worry about. Incense and the divine way can relieve your worries.”

"The incense smoke extracted from the wishes of all living beings has the power to turn the illusory into the real, and can help those projected main stars to become real instead of you."

As if he could read everyone's thoughts, Ao Bing smiled and offered them a solution.

The power of incense and prayer transforms the illusory into the real. But transforming the illusory into the real and refining the false into the true are essentially no different; both are methods second only to creating something from nothing.

The main star projected by everyone, including the endless world projected by the Dao Ancestor, are essentially illusions and do not exist.

What should have been illusory now appears as real as if they were real. The reason for this is that the Dao Ancestor and the others have contributed a portion of their power to maintain their existence, making them appear as if they were real.

However, if everyone withdraws their power, then what is fake will be fake and will disappear in an instant, vanishing into nothingness.

This shows that the reason these projected worlds and stars exist is because someone is providing them with the power to maintain their existence.

In other words, it doesn't matter who provides them with power; what matters is that someone provides them with power.

If that's the case, why seek strength externally? Why not seek it internally?

They inherently possess the ability to create something from nothing and draw power from chaos. Coupled with the blood transfusion from the Lesser Primordial World, as well as the enhancement of the Sixfold World Vortex and the Sixfold Star Ring, they are able to continue to exist even after breaking free from the Great Divine Power.

On this basis, if there is further assistance from incense offerings and vows, it will be enough for them to transform from the illusory into the real, gradually turning from something illusory into something real.

In other words, given the current operating mode of the primordial world, even without those powerful beings providing support, the stars they projected would not simply disappear.

With the help of incense offerings and prayers, they will not only not disappear, but will also transform from nothingness into reality on their own.

The world and stars are illusory, but the beings within them are real. Therefore, the incense offerings from all living beings can completely transform the illusory into the real.

This raises a question: under the existing model of the primordial world, since these worlds and stars can exist normally even without those powerful beings, why don't they just give up and let them exist independently?

That's obviously not going to work. Giving up these worlds and stars and letting them exist independently means giving up their ownership. Who would do that unless absolutely necessary?
These worlds and stars are ultimately projections of them, born from them. Therefore, they naturally possess ownership of these stars.

Unless they are willing to give up voluntarily, even if they die, outsiders can only temporarily take away control of these stars and worlds.

But with their resurrection, they can reclaim their lost control at any time, if they so choose. (End of Chapter)