Others follow advice and imitate celebrities, but you start by pretending to be a god?

So much so that on the journey to the West, she once thought about seizing Tang Sanzang's Yuanyang to help her own practice.

Taiyi Shangxian, also known as Taiyi Tianxian. Sun Wukong learned from Bodhi Patriarch and mastered the "Dapin Tianxian Jue", which directly made him a Taiyi Tianxian. Now, Yutu's goal is also to become a Taiyi Tianxian. But she began to wonder if Lin Nan had already succeeded before she did.

Little did she know that Lin Nan's goal was far more than that. His goal was to become a supreme celestial being, the highest level among celestial beings.

Jade Rabbit was extremely shocked, but the three great immortals were not surprised at all. Instead, they said as a matter of course: "As expected of fellow Daoist Lin Nan, anyone who goes into seclusion will gain something."

In the Sanqing Temple, Lin Nan, the three great immortals and the Jade Rabbit sat cross-legged. Lin Nan was telling the three great immortals about his insights in practicing the Golden Elixir Method. In terms of the Golden Elixir Method, Lin Nan was already ahead of the three great immortals and naturally had the ability to preach.

The three immortals benefited greatly from this story. Only Jade Rabbit was not impressed. Because what she practiced was not the Taoist method, but the method of demon cultivation. Therefore, Lin Nan's experience in alchemy was useless to her.

After this discussion, when the three immortals were about to leave, the immortal Huli mentioned one thing: "By the way, the old turtle that drifted to the river outside Chechi Country has not yet returned to Tongtian River."

"We once asked it, and it said it wanted to meet you, Fellow Daoist Lin Nan. But you haven't returned in these days, so the old turtle has been waiting. It is quite sincere." said the Great Immortal Huli. He did not give any advice, but just informed Lin Nan and let him decide for himself.

"I understand." Lin Nan nodded, indicating that he already knew about it.

After the three immortals left, Lin Nan couldn't help but become curious. Why did the old turtle wait for him? Did it want to ask him about its life span?

This old turtle was originally a monster born and raised in Tongtian River. When the Journey to the West passed by, it asked Tang Sanzang to ask the Buddha about its life span. But Tang Sanzang forgot to ask, which led to the last of the 81 trials.

Lin Nan wondered if the old turtle wanted to ask him this question. If so, he would go and see why it was waiting.

Lin Nan made up his mind and flew up into the air, heading for the river. Behind him, Yutu followed him. She was bored, so she decided to go with Lin Nan to have a look.

Although Chechi State is not big, its territory is quite vast. Strictly speaking, Chechi State's territory can even extend to the 800-li Tongtian River. However, the area in between is uninhabited, so the border is only this large on the surface.

Lin Nan followed the artificial river in Chechi and rode the wind all the way. Before long, he arrived at the tributary of Tongtian River.

Wow! Lin Nan landed and stood steadily by the river. Jade Rabbit followed closely behind him, like Lin Nan's personal maid.

"Old turtle, come out." Lin Nan called out, and the river in front of him immediately responded. A vortex of water slowly rose up, and soon a huge turtle shell floated out of the water. At the same time, the old turtle's head also stretched out from the turtle shell.

"Grand Master!" The old turtle was very surprised to see Lin Nan. It paddled on all fours and slowly came ashore. Then it bowed its head and saluted like a human, as if to pay respect to Lin Nan: "Old turtle greets Grand Master."

"I heard that you don't want to go back to Tongtian River, but are waiting for me?" Lin Nan asked calmly, "You are being so kind to me for no reason. Tell me, do you have something to ask for?"

The old turtle knelt down and kowtowed repeatedly, just like a human being kowtowing.

"After gaining wisdom, the old turtle has wasted a thousand years in Tongtian River. Although his body has been growing, he is still worried about his lifespan, and is even more troubled by his inability to transform. In the past, he saw the great master's divine power, and the old turtle knew the great master's ability very well..."

The old turtle kept knocking his head and said sincerely: "At this moment, I, the old turtle, am willing to submit to the great master, and I only hope to obtain the method of immortality and transformation."

After saying this, the old turtle kowtowed again and again. However, Lin Nan had no expression on his face, and said nothing, just standing there quietly.

Seeing that Lin Nan did not respond, the old turtle did not dare to stop and kept kowtowing.

After a long while, Lin Nan finally spoke:

"You are quite good at calculating."

His tone was calm, but with a hint of barely perceptible sarcasm, "Is it that easy to become my disciple?"

As he spoke, Lin Nan glanced at the old turtle and continued, "You old turtle, although you know some of my evil deeds, you have neither great merit nor great virtue, so how can you easily become my disciple?"

Being accepted as a disciple does not mean that one can become a disciple. Even a pet or a mount can be considered as a disciple's property.

But there was really nothing special about the old turtle. He had done nothing evil, but he hadn't done much good either. Moreover, he wasn't some alien species from heaven and earth, so Lin Nan naturally had no intention of accepting him as his disciple.

Hearing this, the old turtle's expression became noticeably gloomy.

However, at this moment, Lin Nan changed the subject and spoke again:
"If you want a chance to transform and live forever, you don't have to become my disciple."

The old turtle was overjoyed when he heard this. He raised his head excitedly and thanked him repeatedly: "Thank you, Grand Master, thank you..."

As he spoke, the old turtle kowtowed a few more times.

"You old turtle, you are quite clever." Lin Nan scolded with a smile, obviously seeing through the old turtle's thoughts.

When Lao Yuan heard Lin Nan's words, his first reaction was not to ask what this opportunity was, but to thank him immediately. His action was obviously to make sure that Lin Nan would not regret it.

Lin Nan saw through the old turtle's little thoughts, but he did not feel disgusted. Instead, he slowly explained the specific content of the opportunity:
"Your original body has some alien blood, so even if you don't practice all day, you can still open your spiritual wisdom and have a long lifespan. But if you continue like this, you will stop here and can only wait for your lifespan to run out and die, with no hope of transforming into a human form in your lifetime."

Lin Nan pondered for a moment and continued, "However, there is a glimmer of hope right now."

He spoke slowly, but the old turtle listened very carefully, afraid to miss any word. Behind him, the Jade Rabbit also pricked up his ears curiously, secretly wondering what the opportunity Lin Nan was talking about was.

The old turtle kowtowed and begged, "Please, Grand Master, give me some pointers!"

Lin Nan slowly uttered a sentence: "That is the method of 'conferring gods'!"

"The method of deifying?" the old turtle murmured to himself, obviously confused by the suggestion.

Jade Rabbit couldn't help but ask curiously: "How can this old turtle be deified?"

"Of course, we will follow the human way of deifying." Lin Nan replied as a matter of course, "Then, with the help of the human way, we can deify the old turtle as the river god of Chechi State and make him a vassal of Chechi State."

He continued, "The human way of deifying a god must be informed by the Chechi Kingdom to heaven and earth, and sacrifices must be made to Huang Tian and Hou Tu... At the same time, it can be reported to the Heavenly Court, and with the Heavenly Order, it can be legitimate and have authority." Jade Rabbit was full of doubts when she heard this. She wanted to ask why the Heavenly Court would recognize the decree of such a "wild god", but then she thought about it and remembered Lin Nan's identity. Under normal circumstances, this is indeed impossible. But with Lin Nan, everything is full of infinite possibilities.

"Humanity deifies..." the old turtle muttered to himself, obviously unfamiliar with the term. But he also astutely realized that all this was because of Lin Nan.

So he kowtowed repeatedly and said sincerely: "Old Turtle is willing to listen to all the arrangements of the Grand Master."

The method of deifying people is not a rare thing. Since ancient times, the East has had the tradition of worshipping ancestors. Therefore, there are gods such as "ancestor spirits" and "village spirits". Some world-famous figures, who are worshipped by hundreds of millions of people, will also be innately inspired and thus deified.

Just like the famous "Second Lord Guan", who was named "The Great Emperor of the Three Realms, the God of Power and the Heavenly Lord Guan Sheng". Later, Taoist disciples could activate the power of this god when they used the art of summoning gods. These are all examples of deification by humanity.

The Heavenly Dao Conferred Gods refers to the original era of conferring gods, a list of gods was drawn up to confer gods on all gods in the world.

In modern times, the Jade Emperor is the one who acts on behalf of Heaven, in charge of the gods and spirits of the world, and has the power to deify them. The power of humanity to deify people has not been cut off in this process.

Therefore, Lin Nan's proposal of "human deification" was not groundless. The opportunity he gave the old turtle was an opportunity to be deified by humanity!

With the power of humanity of Chechi State, the old turtle was conferred as a deity, and then presented to the Heavenly Court, which approved it with the approval of the Jade Emperor and granted it the divine post. This is a complete process of conferring a deity!

This move can be said to kill two birds with one stone. Once the deification is successful, the old turtle will no longer have to worry about the problem of life span, nor will he have to worry about the problem of not being able to transform. Because once the deification is successful, even if his body cannot transform, he can still condense a divine body with his divine thoughts.

On the other hand, ennobling the old turtle as a deity could also make up for the shortcomings of Chechi State.

Chechi State was just a small country. Although there were orthodox gods such as the land god and mountain god in the country, there were no river gods or water gods.

This was one of the reasons why Chechi Kingdom had been in trouble before. Of course, there were no big rivers in Chechi Kingdom before, which was also one of the reasons why there were no river gods or water gods.

But now it is different. Chechi State spent a long time to dig a river artificially, diverting the tributary of Tongtian River, making the river water in the country abundant. However, this abundance is only temporary, like duckweed, it is not stable.

Fundamentally speaking, there are no real water veins here, and there are no river gods or water gods to suppress them.

Therefore, Lin Nan had the idea of ​​enlightening the gods! And the object of enlightenment was naturally the old turtle.

To confer the gods means to confer the old turtle as a god, so that he can protect the Chechi Kingdom in the future and ensure good weather and harvest in the Chechi Kingdom.

Lin Nan's previous trip to heaven further strengthened his idea and made it possible for this idea to become a reality.

Lin Nan also expected the old turtle to be grateful to him and to let him do whatever he wanted.

After all, this is also a rare opportunity for the old turtle! Once the deification is successful, the old turtle will be among the gods of heaven and earth, and will be able to take advantage of the luck and incense of the Chechi Kingdom and cultivate gods from then on. This is much better than being a lonely old turtle in Tongtian River!

The old turtle knew this very well, so he had no reason or intention to refuse.

"In that case, you just wait patiently..." Lin Nan said calmly, "Once everything is ready in Chechi Country, we will start the enthronement ceremony."

"Old turtle will follow all the arrangements made by the great master!" The old turtle kowtowed repeatedly in great obedience to express his gratitude.

"Fellow Daoist Mingxuan, are you really going to deify that old turtle?" Jade Rabbit couldn't help but ask as he followed Lin Nan back to Chechi Kingdom.

"It's not about deifying the old turtle." Lin Nan shook his head and corrected, "It's about deifying the Chechi Kingdom!" As he said that, he lowered his head and looked down. At this moment, he was soaring in the sky with the wind and could clearly see the scenery of most of the Chechi Kingdom.

All I saw were rivers crisscrossing and connecting countless rice fields.

"Chechi Kingdom needs a water god or river god to ensure good weather and abundant water!" Lin Nan said slowly, "Only in this way can we fundamentally solve the water shortage problem in Chechi Kingdom."

Jade Rabbit seemed to understand what was said, she didn't understand the affairs of this world, but she understood the difficulty of becoming a god.

As they chatted, the two flew over the sky above the imperial city of Chechi State. Then, they landed directly in the Sanqing Temple in the imperial city.

"Hey, Fellow Daoist Mingxuan, Fairy Jade Rabbit, why are you back?" Immortal Huli and others had just returned and were surprised to see Lin Nan and Jade Rabbit coming in.

Lin Nan said directly: "I have seen the old turtle and I know what he means."

"It just so happens that I have an idea," he continued.

"What's your idea?" the three immortals asked in unison.

"Appoint that old turtle as the river god of Chechi Kingdom!" Lin Nan slowly expressed his thoughts.

As soon as these words came out, the three great immortals were all shocked: "This..."

At this time, in the royal palace of Chechi Kingdom, the king had summoned a group of ministers.

After the ministers arrived, they found that the four great state masters of Chechi Kingdom were standing next to the king. They often saw the three state masters, Tiger Power Great Immortal, Deer Power Great Immortal, and Sheep Power Great Immortal, and they often appeared in the court. But the great state master Lin Nan was not often seen, and he had a high reputation in Chechi Kingdom, like a legendary figure.

"Meet the Grand Master!"

"Hail the Great Master!"

The ministers all saluted Lin Nan, and some even seemed very excited. This was all caused by Lin Nan's sermon. After that sermon, countless people in the entire Chechi Kingdom considered themselves Lin Nan's "students", even the King of Chechi Kingdom was the same. Lin Nan's words and thoughts had a profound impact on them, so some ministers were so excited at this moment.

"Cough cough." The king coughed a few times, and the noisy court gradually quieted down.

The reason why I summoned all of you here today is to discuss an important matter, which was raised by the Grand Master.

my country is slow to develop and has long suffered from a shortage of water resources. (End of this chapter)