From the Carp that Brings Children to the Celestial Officials

Chapter 502 The Appearance of a Martial God
"Although martial arts are flourishing now, the source of heaven and earth is insufficient, and the path to the Dao is extremely difficult."

"Out of compassion for the people, I have built a spiritual vein, rooted in the bottom of the great river, so that all people under heaven may enjoy it together."

At the end of his sermon, You Ming slowly began to speak.

His divine manifestation instilled a strong sense of awe in the vast majority of martial artists and common people, who regarded him as the progenitor of martial arts, resulting in a great deal of incense offerings throughout the world.

The moment he uttered those words, a massive amount of incense energy began to surge between heaven and earth. Although mortals could not see the incense, they could feel the changes in the weather.

In the past, the power of incense offerings could only remain in the ethereal layer between heaven and earth, unable to be transformed into pure divine power.

Now, with the emergence of divine authority, these incense offerings continuously flow into the Dao [Meixi], and a large amount of incense gathers in the void, turning into a wide golden-red celestial river.

In the middle of this golden-red incense celestial river, a body of pure golden-red light gradually appeared.

Its interior has patterns resembling tendons and bones, like the flowing veins of mountains and rivers.

But as more and more places of worship gathered, a strange yet majestic deity gradually emerged.

It is ninety-six feet tall, and its entire body is like cast glass, with blood-red light flowing from the inside and golden light shining from the outside.

It has eight arms; the four front arms are outstretched, symbolizing killing; the four back arms are clasped together, representing protection.

On the broad back of the divine figure, a ring of divine wheels appeared, with countless flowing patterns on the wheel, as if each pattern contained the fighting techniques of martial arts.

The void trembled slightly, as if a bell was tolling. The deity slowly raised his head, and a vertical eye bloomed on his forehead, but there was no pupil in the eye, only a stream of light.

This divine form was constructed by You Ming using blank authority, combined with contemporary martial arts and incense offerings, to create a divine body.

The Supreme God of Suppressing Calamity, Xuanwu.

This is the title of this divine being. Although this is You Ming's own world, he dares not presume to use titles such as Heavenly Venerable or Heavenly Emperor. Such titles are too grand, and a mere seventh-rank official cannot suppress them; they might even cause trouble.

It's better to use a more ambiguous name.

Once the divine image was formed, a large amount of incense continuously entered the divine image's body. Immediately, pure and brilliant golden divine power spread around his body like colorful ribbons, making his body even more majestic.

Normally, every ten incense sticks can be converted into one unit of divine power.

However, in this world of illusion, because the beings are of low status, and because they are products born from illusion, the quality of their offerings is also insufficient.

It often takes a hundred incense sticks to transform into a single divine power.

A single offering of incense requires the combined faith of hundreds of people.

Therefore, even though You Ming made such a big show of it, he only gained three thousand divine powers in the end.

However, this number is already quite considerable for Youming at present.

Even if he stops manifesting his divine power later on, the amount of divine power he gains might be less, but it won't be less than 1,500 strands. That would amount to 45,000 strands of divine power per month.

The real value of the Yellow Millet World lies in...

Youming's [Nestling Flow Observation] can accelerate time by hundreds of times.

This is equivalent to the amount of incense offerings received increasing several hundred times!
Even with You Ming's composure, his heart skipped a beat when faced with such a reality.

This is basically like getting a channel to make a lot of money, which is just too awesome.

More and more incense offerings flowed into the body of the Wandering God, transforming into pure divine power.

A radiant divine power swirled around his body. Because the divine power was so abundant, a vast and magnificent light and shadow appeared between heaven and earth, and countless beings in the Yellow Millet World saw his great body.

The divine body was covered with dense patterns, each representing a direction of martial arts.

"So that's how it is... So that's how it is!"

Gu Sifan looked up at the "God of War," whose body was the ultimate goal he wanted to achieve.

No, the God of War's body was far more perfect than he had imagined.

Even his fully refined martial arts divine body seemed insignificant in front of this martial god's divine form.

However, this did not prevent him from diligently memorizing every detail of the God of War, which greatly shortened the time it took for him to completely refine his body into a divine form.

You Ming was calm and collected; he had almost fully recovered.

Without hesitation, he activated the cheat code [Silence and Flow] again.

In that instant, all the figures in the entire Yellow Millet World transformed into flowing light once more, and everyone moved at breakneck speed.

This was You Ming accelerating time in his consciousness by more than three hundred times in one breath.

Everyone's time was accelerating at an alarming rate, but his divine form remained unaffected.

Therefore, in everyone's eyes, this figure seemed to always be standing there, never moving an inch.

As consciousness time accelerated, although the amount of divine power he generated each day decreased, the amount of divine power You Ming actually obtained increased dramatically.

In just a short while, You Ming had accumulated more than 10,000 divine spirits.

What's the difference between this and having a money cheat?
As expected, there are no useless cheat codes, only cheat codes that are not used in the right place.

Even with cheat codes, unless you manually enter the numbers, it's still not as fast as this for making money.

However, when You Ming accumulated 50,000 units of divine power, his body suddenly trembled.

Then, a very tiny black dot appeared on his back.

The moment the black dot appeared, You Ming frowned inwardly.

The body is pure and vast, clean of dirt, so how did this black spot come about?
But the next moment, as more and more incense entered the divine body, the black spot continued to expand, and in the blink of an eye it became the size of a copper coin, with black marks on it, like ink stains, continuing to spread.

"This is... the power of the Black Tide?"

Looking at this black dot, You Ming quickly realized that the power of this black dot was exactly the same as the power of the Black Tide that the Mountain-Suppressing King had used to suppress.

"It turns out to be a negative thought that has infiltrated the divine form of the God of War, and it cannot be removed by conventional means."

You Ming now understood the cause and effect.

Because [Meixi] is a blank pantheon, it means that the complete pantheon has almost no influence on him. He cannot use the power of the pantheon to eliminate these negative forces and then suppress them under the mountain.

In other words, these negative forces will always exist and remain intertwined with his divine image.

Is this what is meant by "self-reliance" at the divine level?

(End of this chapter)