I was forced to cultivate immortality when I just wanted to lie down

Chapter 417 The Twelve Capital Altars, A Grand Religious Atmosphere

On the way to Yuntai Mountain, Master Fuluan suddenly spoke up: "Since Brother Xu wants to gather all Daoists to fight against demons, he must have a legitimate reason for his actions."

Xu Qing raised an eyebrow, signaling Master Fuluan to continue.

“When we set up rituals to exorcise evil spirits and invite gods, we still have to use our power to intimidate people and summon thirty-six altar generals and seventy-two armies to protect the altar and carry out the rituals.”

"Now that you, my fellow Daoist, are going to conquer the demons of the Yin River, you must make a name for yourself and use an unprecedented spirit to suppress those evil spirits and monsters."

Standing nearby, Zhang Pingsheng echoed, “What Fellow Daoist Fuluan said is absolutely right. In the lineage of the Celestial Masters of the Zhengyi School, when disciples are ordained and promoted, they also receive the Supreme Three-Five Capital Merit, the Zhengyi Alliance Power, and the Three Caves Five Thunder Official Registers as ‘momentum’.”

"The so-called Heaven, Earth, and Law are all great. Such as the God of Wealth Talisman, the Heavenly Physician Talisman, the Wenchang Talisman, the Zhenwu Talisman, the Demon Subduing Talisman, and the Child Talisman, all of these talismans are intended to increase the momentum of our disciples' cultivation and provide more assistance for their future cultivation."

"These secrets and titles are not only for proclaiming one's lineage and status, but more importantly, for subtly aligning with the forces of heaven and earth, bringing spiritual benefits to those who uphold them."

Xu Qing fell into thought.

What Zhang Pingsheng and the Spiritual Master said reminded him of his own shamanic practice.

According to the two men, his lineage of immortals and the lineage of Baosheng Temple are also a kind of secret and name.

These specific titles can bring more concrete faith and aspirations to the people of the temple system, thus amplifying their influence on heaven and earth and on the Great Dao.
Now that everyone is trying to build a force to resist the calamity, they naturally need to come up with a name that will increase their influence.

Otherwise, when they go out to recruit like-minded people, if they are asked what faction or organization they belong to or what their beliefs are, they will not be able to answer any questions, which would expose the fact that they are just a makeshift group.

Sacrificing oneself to face danger is a life-threatening act. If you can't give everyone complete confidence, who will be willing to risk their life with you?
To put it bluntly, this thing is no different from recruiting soldiers, raising a flag, and starting a rebellion.

However, they definitely can't be rebelling, so what kind of pretext should they come up with?
Zhang Pingsheng, eager to try, said, "How about we call it the Heaven and Earth Alliance, and its doctrine is to act on behalf of Heaven!"

Monk Xinyuan shook his head and curled his lip, saying, "Vulgar, vulgar! It has no air of immortality at all."

"Then you tell me!"

"This humble monk would never use such a pretentious name. Otherwise, I would just call it a wine and meat feast, so that I, the monk, can drink and eat meat every day and live a carefree life."

Zhang Pingsheng glared at him, and the two started arguing again in no time.

Xu Qing ignored the two who were like oil and water. He had been running the Immortal Hall for many years and had a good understanding of various temple systems. If he really wanted to pull off a big heist, he would have to create a proper sect.

At least they shouldn't be like the master of the Little Water Curtain Cave, who could only shout "My children!" when facing the heavenly soldiers and generals.

That would be too undignified, wouldn't boost morale, and wouldn't give us the moral high ground.

Xu Qing thought about it briefly and the first criterion was that the person must have integrity and a dignified demeanor.

Putting aside other aspects, in terms of sheer grandeur and style alone, it surpasses Zhengyi Dao or his Cat Fairy Hall.

A shamanic shrine is ultimately a private sect and cannot be too ostentatious. However, a sect that unites all virtuous cultivators in the world to slay demons and monsters must have an imposing presence that can intimidate fellow practitioners and even gods and Buddhas!
If a newly established sect cannot even intimidate its own followers, how can it possibly suppress the arrogance of demons?
When they were still a hundred miles away from Yuntai Mountain, Xu Qing suddenly stopped high in the clouds.

Just as Zhang Pingsheng and the others were puzzled, they saw the young man's aura change. He then waved his sleeves, using the clouds as ink and the sky as a canvas, and began to outline a new sect lineage.

"Taoist rituals typically consist of twelve altars, each dedicated to a different deity and fulfilling a specific function. Since we are to deal with the twelve gatekeepers of the Yin River, we should set up twelve altars in accordance with the laws of heaven and earth, so that they can be in harmony with each other."

Xu Qing flicked his sleeves, dividing the surrounding clouds into twelve regions, occupying the four directions and eight positions, the twelve earthly branches, and at the same time, the twelve two-hour periods, the number of a year, a cycle, and a cyclical event, corresponding to the number of the cycle of heaven and earth, namely year, month, and event.

When all the ideas converge into one place, and each extends in its own way, a new grand view of sects appears before Xu Qing.

The twelve rituals encompass the entirety of time and space, reaching all three realms and ten directions. The twelve divisions divide heaven and earth into twelve regions, and the twelve stars govern human fortune and misfortune.
In addition, the various systems of scriptures and talismans naturally manifest themselves in accordance with the laws of heaven and earth.

Feng shui, exorcism, deliverance, pilgrimage, life and death, military affairs, and divine healing.
In a mere instant, a complete sectarian genealogy unfolded before Xu Qing's eyes.

Zhang Pingsheng was dumbfounded, unable to utter a single coherent sentence.

These deduced systems of religion are simply beyond the reach of small sects and their small-scale efforts.

From the grand panorama of the sects presented by Xu Qing, Zhang Pingsheng not only saw the essence of the ordination of scriptures and talismans, but also the evolutionary diagrams of the ultimate formations of the great sects, such as the Capital Heaven Formation and the Zhou Tian Formation.

Is this something a funeral director from Tianjin could pull off?
Monk Xinyuan was equally astonished. He had thought of joining forces with Xu Qing and fellow Daoists from all over the world to pull off a big heist, but he never expected that Xu Qing would do something so big!

They founded a sect, and it was a sect based on the grand view of the universe. In Xinyuan's memory, the last time such a sect was established was in the Heavenly Court of the Upper Realm.

Thinking of this, Xin Yuan's expression suddenly changed.

No! Not good!
Zhang Pingsheng and Fuluan Shangren also realized that the cause and effect relationship had exceeded their capacity to bear it when they came. They only wanted to open the Heavenly Road and accelerate the evolution of the tribulation so as to attain the Dao Fruit. They never thought of following Xu Qing to open a new Heaven and do the kind of rebellion and beheading!

The three men's hearts pounded. Monk Xinyuan made a quick decision and turned to flee the place, but he was still a step slower than Xu Qing.

Now that the great formation is complete, the sect has received the response of heaven and earth. Xu Qing's Dutian and Heluo formations are also complete. Apart from the Great Luo Immortals, no one else can escape this great cause and effect.

Da Yin Xisheng.

At this moment, all the noise outside the formation was covered by the primordial sound of the universe's operation. Xu Qing could only see Monk Xinyuan jumping up and down outside, his face red and his neck thick, as if he was shouting something.

Master Zhang Pingsheng kept waving his hands and shaking his head at him, while Master Fuluan was even more pale, showing a face of even greater terror than when he had accompanied the founding emperor to his bedchamber.

The Nuo Immortal only wanted to give Xu Qing a legitimate reason to start his business, but he didn't expect Xu Qing to lead them to claim Buddhahood and become patriarchs.

Xu Qing raised an eyebrow, taking it as a sign that he hadn't done well enough and had been disliked by the most senior and accomplished cultivators in the mortal world.

Otherwise, why would they all be so excited?
Ignoring the several fellow Daoists gesticulating wildly outside the formation, Xu Qing gritted his teeth and simply took out his long-stored 'ballast stone'.

The so-called ballast stone is actually a five-colored divine stone with a restrained brilliance and an ordinary appearance.

This stone was obtained by Xu Qing from the main burial chamber at the deepest part of the Populus euphratica mausoleum.

At that time, the tomb chamber that should have been used to bury the remains of the ancestors of Tushanji was empty, except for this stone, which was placed in the mausoleum as a treasure.

Based on the information obtained from the Tushan Collection, Xu Qing guessed that the stone was very likely a remnant of the stone used to mend the sky.

Although the five-colored stones are of high quality, they do not have the qualities to be refined into magical treasures.

For decades, Xu Qing had tried many methods, but in the end there was always only one result: this five-colored stone was indeed just an ordinary stone of a grade that surpassed the Heavenly level.

Apart from that, it has no other distinguishing features.

It can't be said that it has no special features at all; at least this stone is very heavy, and if placed in his landscape painting, it could easily occupy half the space.

If he hadn't given away the Imperial Purple Qi, Xu Qing really wouldn't know where to put the stone. "The Cat Immortal Hall has a rice bowl as its treasure, and the Baosheng Temple has the Living Man's Scripture as its foundation. Now that I want to establish a new sect, how can I be without a foundation stone?"

The five-colored stones cannot be refined, nor can they be used as magical weapons against enemies. Even if you use them to hit someone, they will never come back, and someone else might just pick them up.

Xu Qing had always regretted that the stone had no use, but he never expected that today, the useless stone could be of great use!
A boulder heavier than a mountain fell into the center of the formation. Taking advantage of the momentum, Xu Qing used the formations of Dutian and Heluo to transform the world and completely replenish the foundation of the great sect.

Outside the formation, Zhang Pingsheng and the other two looked even more excited.

Previously, Xu Qing's establishment of the new religion was merely a facade. After all, which of the truly great religions did not possess a precious treasure born from heaven and earth to protect the religion?
But no one expected that Xu Qing would have a treasure powerful enough to protect the sect.

The monk Xinyuan said with deep regret, "If I had known this would happen, I would never have come with you!"

Zhang Pingsheng held onto a sliver of hope, comforting himself by saying, "Brother Xu is a righteous man. As long as he discovers something amiss, he will stop and completely sever ties with us, thus preventing any trouble for you or me."

Beside him, Venerable Fuluan said with a gloomy face, "Where does his sense of righteousness come from? I think he never intended to let us go from the beginning. If he takes advantage of the rise of the new sect and pulls us into his sect, won't our lives and fates be completely tied to his from now on?"

As soon as Master Fuluan finished speaking, the three of them saw Xu Qing, who was holding the founding ceremony, recording names one by one on the Twelve Capital Altars.

Zhang Pingsheng and Monk Xinyuan both looked at Master Fuluan, wishing they could devour this jinx alive!
At this moment, the ceremony was complete. Xu Qing flicked his sleeve and parted the clouds in front of him. The thunder patterns and cloud seals gathered from the clouds recombined and became a unique register written in celestial script.

Unlike other fonts, once transcribed, the Heavenly Script cannot be easily removed.

For example, the Heavenly Divine Powers that Yuan Gong stole and copied onto the stone wall of Baiyun Cave can only be hidden again by sealing the cave entrance or by allowing a destined person to learn all the divine powers.

Now, by sheer chance, Xu Qing, in the gap between the severance of the Heavenly Road and the inability of the gods and Buddhas to perceive the anomalies in the human world, managed to stir up the great forces of heaven and earth without any hindrance and 'register' a new sect.

Even before the Heavenly Road was broken, no one would have dared to think of such a thing, let alone do it.

So much so that even the monk Xinyuan didn't know which heavenly law Xu Qing had violated for a moment.

However, he was certain that several more Heavenly Laws would emerge in the Upper Realm in the future, and he even had a name in mind for those extra Heavenly Laws: Xu Qing!
Amidst the five-colored clouds, various unclaimed immortal mountains and islands emerged within the Heluo Grand Array, but Xu Qing was not in a hurry to choose a place of practice for the new sect.

He looked at Zhang Pingsheng and the others, and spoke in a divine voice:

"Today I establish the Great Luo Sect, divide it into twelve regions, set up twelve capital altars, and appoint a master altar master for each altar, each with their own duties."

“I shall be the chief of the altar, in charge of the twelve altars, and oversee all religious affairs within the sect.”

There are also eleven branch altars.

Imperial Altar: Praying for national prosperity and peace;

Star Altar: Pay homage to the Big Dipper and the Southern Dipper to ward off disasters and prolong life.

Ancestral Master Altar: This altar is dedicated to the twelve patriarchs of the lineage.

Durentan: Collects and mortuaries corpses, and delivers souls from the dead.

The Altar of Gratitude: With the help of believers, it aims to repay their wishes.

Prayer Altar: Pray for blessings and good fortune.

The Disaster Relief Altar: Resolves all calamities and epidemics in the world.

The Earth Altar: Divided into twelve divisions of the Yin River, it establishes the Earth God and City God, deterring villains and restoring order between Yin and Yang.

The Altar of the Gods: It enshrines the Twenty-Four Gods.

Water and Fire Altar: Harmonizes Yin and Yang, prays for rain and stops floods.

The supervisory altar is staffed with guardian deities and mountain guardians to oversee rituals and administer punishments within the religious community.

With each altar Xu Qing spoke of, he would divide the cloud and mist in front of him into a section. When he finished speaking of all the altars, the entire Great Luo Sect began to take shape.

"Xu Sheng, listen to my command! This sect hereby appoints you as the head of the Gratitude Altar, decreeing that you fulfill the vows of the believers and also settle your own old debts. You must not fail in your duty!"

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Master Fuluan stared wide-eyed as he watched his name appear on the list of altars in the capital. At the same time, he also felt the close connection between himself and the Altar of Gratitude.

Among them, the first benefactor in the Altar of Gratitude is the First Emperor, and the second is the Demon Exorcist.

Master Fuluan was tense all over, and in the end, he seemed to have lost all his strength and almost collapsed on the spot.

Asking him to seek gratitude from the founding emperor is no different from sending a lamb to the slaughter.
On the high platform where clouds and mist gathered, Xu Qing was still issuing orders.

"Zhang Pingsheng, listen to my command! This sect hereby appoints you as the Master of the Disaster Relief Altar, responsible for resolving all calamities and epidemics in the world."

"Xinyuan, heed my command! This sect hereby appoints you as the Master of the Salvation Altar, in charge of collecting and burying corpses and guiding the souls of the deceased to the afterlife."

As soon as Xu Qing finished speaking, Shi Yue, who had been watching the commotion, suddenly stepped forward and asked expectantly, "What about me? What kind of altar master am I?"

"Why are you kids getting involved in this?"

Xu Qing's expression was unusually cold, giving Shi Yue no room for discussion whatsoever.

The Great Luo Sect is engaged in the life-threatening business of sacrificing oneself to enter the tribulation. As a zombie, as long as he can attain the merit of Kui Ba within the tribulation, he is not afraid of the punishment of heavenly law, nor is he afraid of any Dharma corpses pursuing him.

Kuiba is immortal and indestructible. Xu Qing will live or die at that time, and the worst outcome will be that he will be sealed away and become a prisoner.

But Shi Yue was different. Xu Qing still wanted to protect the immortal disciples in the Immortal Hall and Baosheng Temple from the bottom of his heart, leaving them more possibilities.

As for Zhang Pingsheng and others...
Zhang Shufang of the Celestial Master's Mansion, Chen Liuer of the Ancient Jue Temple, and the Exorcist True Lord after returning to the Void also need them to go against the current and strive for that sliver of transcendence.

It's a huge gamble.

If successful, even chickens and dogs will ascend to heaven;

若败
Ah! Those who achieve great things never consider failure.

Xu Qing put away the five-colored stone that had been successfully refined, his expression more resolute than ever before.

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