Becoming an immortal and ancestor begins with the golden toad spitting out money.

Chapter 186 Imbued with Divinity, High-Ranking Young Girl
After Su Ji returned from the Moon Palace, he immediately changed a plan he had previously devised.

"Xiao Lian, the Project Reflecting the Moon can be terminated!"

If Zhang Xiaolian wanted to break through to the Dongxuan level, she needed to master the root technique [Reflecting the Moon]. At that time, because they were worried about the Fairy of the Toad Palace, the two of them felt that they should reflect the Taiyin Star in the present world, so as to buy more time to deal with the Fairy of the Toad Palace.

Now that Su Ji has gone to the Moon Palace, he has learned some secrets about Zhang Xiaolian's past life, and has thus clarified the cause and effect.

The reason Mo Linglong was reincarnated in her previous life was because she had some shortcomings in the early stages of her cultivation and could not achieve immortality. Her purpose was to reincarnate and cultivate the Dongzhen method again.

In her previous life, Zhang Xiaolian was an invincible immortal general who possessed three Zhongxing Dao Fruits and held the position of Lesser Yin God of the Underworld. In addition, with her essence of Taiyin Star Moon Essence, she could easily live for tens of thousands of years.

The true purpose of the reincarnation of the Lesser Yin God was to escape the potential death threat posed by the Moon Goddess of the Greater Yin. The Path to Truth was merely a means to achieve this goal.

Zhang Xiaolian's surprised expression showed a hint of confusion, but she did not harbor any malicious speculation; instead, she chose to believe.

"Lord Golden Toad, if you will not reflect the Moon Star, then I will reflect the bright moon of the real dream as you wish!"

In Zhang Xiaolian's view, Su Ji was at least an ancient golden toad at the level of a divine general. At most, he had reached some kind of agreement with the Immortal Shadow of the Toad Palace, but he would not be bewitched or manipulated by the Immortal Shadow of the Toad Palace.

Su Ji couldn't bear to lie to her, and besides, Zhang Xiaolian had long been influenced by the will of her past life within the Human Dao Fruit, so it was time for her to know some of the truth.

Therefore, Su Ji revealed some of the information known in the Moon Palace, but he was rather vague about the matter of Zhang Xiaolian being influenced by the will of her past life.

Finally, Su Ji pointed downwards and said, "Besides the bright moon in the sky, there is also a space underground in the real dream world, which is the location of the Lesser Yin God Lord you served in your previous life. The blood-red moon in it is the object you will soon reflect!"

Although Su Ji listened to what the Fairy of the Moon Palace said, he did not believe it entirely.

After all, when people talk about things, they may bring their own subjective opinions into it, and they may only say things that are beneficial to themselves.

Not to mention, the Fairy of the Moon Palace might also be setting traps in some information, thus laying the groundwork for future struggles for the true self.

Therefore, the Moon Palace Fairy Shadow has her own plan, and Su Ji also has his own intentions. Now, having Zhang Xiaolian cultivate to a high level by reflecting the Blood Moon of the Underworld is the best choice.

"The Crimson Moon Over the Underworld..."

In fact, neither Su Ji nor Zhang Xiaolian had ever seen the blood-red moon underground. This was not only because the moon was hidden deep underground, but also because it contained the instincts of the Lesser Yin Divine Lord.

Instinct, also known as innate behavior.

Even when living things are unconscious, they still breathe; marine life knows to swim upstream during the breeding season; and swallows choose to migrate south in winter...

The instinct of the Lesser Yin God Lord should be the instinct of the Taiyin Star Moon Essence, and it is reasonable that he would eventually transform into a blood-red moon in the underworld space of the real dream.

"The Moon Essence is a spirit born from the Taiyin Star of Heaven and Earth. It instinctively wants to transform into a moon. In addition, it also carries a [Lesser Yin] Dao Fruit, which is the source of your confidence in resisting the Toad Palace Immortal Shadow in the future!"

Su Ji knew that Zhang Xiaolian was already influenced by the will of her past life. Although she was an independent individual in essence, she was still closely related to her past life. This was not a question of whether or not to accept the legacy of her past life, but a quality she possessed innately.

Just like a person is born with a portion of genes from both parents, whether good or bad, they have no choice after birth.

Since Zhang Xiaolian cannot escape the influence of her past life, she should try her best to maintain herself in a more effective way. If she wants to gain the upper hand in the battle of consciousness, she cannot ignore the Dao Fruit in the underworld that contains her past life's instincts.

Just as Zhang Xiaolian grasped the concept of the Blood Moon of the Underworld, the blurry human realm in the distance began to become transparent, and then a crimson light fell into the human dream.

In an instant, the bright moon hung in the sky like a millstone, and a blood-red moon on the ground was symmetrical to it as if it had existed since time immemorial. The two lights reflected each other, illuminating the somewhat blurry dream world clearly.

After confirming that there was no danger, Su Ji couldn't help but sigh, "The bright moon in the sky, the blood moon in the underworld, and the human world combined together make up the real dream!"

Originally, the real dream world only consisted of Zhang's small courtyard and Aunt Zhou's house next door. Now, illuminated by the light of the other two Dao Fruits, it has become a Dongsang and Xisang Village that looks just like the real world. Even the vague Jinfeng County and Baiyan Mountain Range seem to have been moved from the real world.

In response, Yan Tianchou analyzed, "The scale of the real dream has already surpassed that of a lower-grade blessed land!"

The ruined fairyland of the Golden Cave Sect was originally a medium-sized blessed land, only a little over a hundred miles long and wide. The real dream realm, encompassing Jinfeng County and Baiyan Mountain Range, is already comparable to the ruined fairyland of the Golden Cave Sect.

If a real dream were combined with the bright moon in the sky and the space of the underworld, its area would probably be comparable to a top-grade blessed land.

"The True Dream is indeed worthy of being the embodiment of the divine power accumulated by the Lesser Yin Divine Lord throughout his life and the three Middle Way Fruits..."

Without refining one of the three Middle Dao Fruits into a Great Dao Fruit, one cannot be called a Celestial Lord. However, Zhang Xiaolian was a true Lesser Yin Divine Lord in her previous life, and the divine power she had accumulated was enormous.

So much so that Su Ji felt a pang of emotion: "Back then, when I used my divine power to fuse and upgrade the magical artifact copper coin, I claimed it was an offering to the will of this world, but in reality, I was completely relying on Zhang Xiaolian's influence..."

Hundreds or thousands of strands of divine power are nothing to a real dream, but they are the key to awakening a wisp of will within a real dream. With the blessing of Zhang Xiaolian's will, it has such a remarkable effect.

While Su Ji was still reminiscing, Zhang Xiaolian had already recovered from her initial shock, and all she could see in her eyes was curiosity about the space where the blood-red moon was located underground.

Zhang Xiaolian even had a sudden thought: "When I accidentally manifested the lame demon, could the ancestral power that helped me fight against the evil demon have come from this underworld space?"

Even if Su Ji hadn't appeared, Zhang Xiaolian would still have had a concept of the underworld in her mind, but she would never have imagined that this scene would happen.

Su Ji's heart stirred, and he quickly used his avatar toad form to unleash his Lesser Thousand-Mile Vision ability. Then, his eyes lit up.

“In the underworld, there are actually physical figures. This is your grandfather, Lord Zhang; this is your father, Young Lord Zhang… This should be Grand Secretary Deng!”

Then one could see figures resembling terracotta figurines standing in the underworld space, surrounded by wisps of milky-white incense and prayer power, giving them a touch of divinity.

Even Yan Tianchou was surprised by this, saying, "I knew long ago that Zhang Xiaolian's incense stick was worth more than a hundred sticks of incense from others. I thought that the power of these incense sticks had flowed to the ancestors being worshipped, but I didn't expect it to fall into the underworld space of the real dream."

That makes sense. If Zhang Xiaolian's incense offerings and vows had landed on a ghost, the gods would have noticed something amiss long ago. Only when they landed in the real dream world of the underworld would they not arouse suspicion.

Su Ji even spotted a golden figure with his Lesser Thousand-Mile Eyes and couldn't help but realize, "So that's how it is. Even the incense offerings and vows that Yan Tianchou obtained from Zhang Xiaolian were only a portion of what he had retained due to his own characteristics; the majority ended up here!"

The golden figure was none other than a golden toad with a divine aura.

It wasn't that Zhang Xiaolian thought the ancient golden toad should also fall into the underworld, but rather that it aligned with some kind of mysterious principle of heaven and earth.

It should be known that a person has three souls. After death, the heavenly soul and the earthly soul disperse between heaven and earth, becoming the medium connecting the human world, the underworld, and the heavenly court. The ghosts and gods of the underworld and the gods of the heavenly court can receive the power of faith, incense, and prayers through these two souls.

Among the views of many, the Heavenly Soul returns to Heaven and Earth, and the Earthly Soul returns to Earth. The ancient golden toad's enormous physical body degenerated, and its Heavenly and Earthly Souls also dispersed. Thus, it transformed into an Earthly Soul Divine Body in the underworld of the real dream.

Su Ji couldn't help but change his expression: "If a real dream can allow ghosts to enter, wouldn't this place be comparable to a blessed land for those who have manifested earth spirit divine bodies?"

In their quest for immortality, the ghosts of the Cai family transformed a large water vein spiritual realm into a place of rebirth.

In order to prolong their existence, the immortals of the Golden Cave Sect chose to merge with the Dao in a broken cave heaven and blessed land. The Dao Fruit of the Small Heaven and Earth is a great opportunity that the broken immortal realm must fight for.

If Little Zhang Gong, Academician Deng, and even the villagers of Dongsang Village come here in spirit form, they can rely on those earth spirit bodies to obtain the "divine power" of the real dream. At the very least, it can slow down the decay of the soul, and they may even have the opportunity to become ghost immortals in the real dream!
It's important to understand that even blessed cave dwellings possess their own miniature Dao Fruits, so it's not impossible for such opportunities to arise in this real dream world. After all, the existence of a Celestial Lord doesn't prevent other immortals on their respective paths from obtaining Dao Fruits. The only drawback is that the path above is blocked, and like the Lesser Yin Divine Lord's fear of the Greater Yin Emperor and the Moon Queen, their whereabouts are easily tracked…

However, those are things that only gifted people need to consider. Su Ji was referring to those people who were personified by Zhang Xiaolian. These people originally had no chance of becoming immortals or gods, but the real dream could give them that possibility.

Of course, although the true dream has now been revealed in its entirety, Zhang Xiaolian has not yet become an immortal. To reach the point where "one person attains enlightenment and all their relatives and friends ascend to heaven," she still needs to wait a while longer.

For Su Ji, there was no such restriction.

Even though Zhang Xiaolian subconsciously endowed the Golden Toad of the Underworld with some divinity, it was still related to the will and instinct of the Lesser Yin God.

Putting aside everything else, at least when Su Ji ascends to the rank of True God of Wealth, this wisp of divinity will play a significant role!
At this moment, Zhang Xiaolian had confirmed her connection with the Blood Moon of the Underworld and said, "I will now use the crimson moon of the Underworld to comprehend the [Moon Reflection] root method. I humbly request Lord Golden Toad to protect me!"

In a true dream, there is no one else; the so-called protector is naturally the celestial being in the moon palace above.

In response, Su Ji nodded and said, "Don't worry, I not only have a wisp of golden wind bestowed by the Immortal Lord of the Golden Cave Sect, but I can also mobilize the power of the will of the real dream world by sacrificing divine power. There's no need to worry about that Toad Palace Immortal Shadow!"

Su Ji wasn't talking nonsense.

The power of the Golden Wind is comparable to a low-grade perfect immortal technique. As long as the Toad Palace Immortal Shadow makes a move, Su Ji can summon it in.

As for the human will in the real dream, that is Zhang Xiaolian's greatest source of confidence.

Even if Zhang Xiaolian is unaware that she cannot mobilize much power, Su Ji can still use the divine power sacrifice to "leverage" more power with Zhang Xiaolian to fight against the Toad Palace Fairy Shadow.

Fortunately, just as she had said, the Moon Palace Immortal would not fight with the reincarnated Zhang Xiaolian at this time, but would simply watch this scene quietly from within the Moon Palace.

However, Su Ji did not let his guard down until a blood-red moon appeared above Zhang Xiaolian's head, at which point Su Ji finally breathed a sigh of relief.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaolian suddenly opened her eyes, revealing a look of sudden realization: "So the mysterious Lesser Yin of the Underworld corresponds to the Earth Soul, and the blood-red moon is a reflection of the life force of living beings..."

The concepts of Heaven, Earth, and Man naturally correspond to the Heavenly Soul, Earthly Soul, and Human Soul. The Lesser Yin of Heaven is the Immortal Shadow of the Toad Palace, the Lesser Yin of Earth is the Blood-Red Moon, and the Lesser Yin of Man is Zhang Xiaolian herself.

The Earth Soul is the origin of the Seven Souls, the foundation of bloodline cultivators who cultivate qi and blood, and also a missing part of the Moon Essence, a spirit born of heaven and earth.

As a result, Su Ji became increasingly convinced of some of the information the Fairy of the Moon Palace had given him.

Empress Taiyin wanted to cultivate the Yin Dao fruit using Lesser Yin and Greater Yin, but she couldn't come to the underworld and the human world herself, so she could only send her subordinates like Huangsu God and Lesser Yin God...

Yan Tianchou was somewhat excited and said, "The paths of Dongxuan, Dongzhen, Dongshen, and even Lishen are indeed interconnected. Now that Zhang Xiaolian has begun to comprehend the changes in the Lesser Yin Qi and Blood belonging to the Earth Soul, it will surely be of great use to the cultivation of the Golden Toad Divine Beast!"

Su Ji's original goal was to cultivate the body of a divine beast. Even if he couldn't ascend to Taiyin Star because of Zhang Xiaolian, he still couldn't stop his plan.

Moreover, as long as Zhang Xiaolian's identity is well hidden, what impact would it have even if Su Ji's Golden Toad form truly ascended to the Taiyin Star?

Even so, Su Ji still had doubts about what the Fairy of the Moon Palace had said, and perhaps he would really have to go to the Moon Star to find out more in the future.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaolian said with even more excitement, "According to the information I obtained from that blood-red moon, if one cultivates this path to a certain level, one can actually use the soul to cultivate flesh and blood and obtain a true Lesser Yin Divine Body!"

Upon hearing this, Su Ji suddenly looked up at the bright moon in the sky.

Clearly, while the Fairy Shadow of the Moon Palace revealed a lot of information, she also concealed some details.

Just like what Zhang Xiaolian said.

Perhaps, what the Moon Goddess values ​​is the method of cultivating a flesh and blood body, and perhaps she already possesses the Moon God Body that constantly needs improvement.

The biggest problem with flesh and blood is that it needs to eat food to sustain its life activities...

"Could it be that the Lesser Yin God discovered the traces of the Moon Queen devouring the body of the Yellow Su God, which is why he was so terrified and chose to reincarnate?"

Su Ji had no idea, and didn't even need to think about it too much.

After all, Lord Shaoyin had already planned everything, and Su Ji's current task was to execute the plan from Zhang Xiaolian's perspective.

At this moment, Zhang Xiaolian had completed [Reflecting the Moon] and began to sit cross-legged, preparing to formally break through to a higher cultivation level.

Su Ji then told Yan Tianchou to be alert to their surroundings, and then he began to think for himself.

Zhang Xiaolian's situation actually served as a wake-up call for Su Ji.

His deviant path encompasses the Five Elements, the Four Symbols, Yin and Yang, and even Qian and Kun, with Qian and Kun representing Heaven and Earth, but lacking only one person.

To some extent, certain divine beasts born from heaven and earth, once they have cultivated to a certain degree, possess the ability to live forever, since what they cultivate is their life soul.

The human soul is the life soul, and it seems that there are quite a few requirements for the life soul if one wants to become an immortal lord through the path of deviation.

Fortunately, Su Ji had long recognized the importance of cultivation, and was especially cautious about cultivation in order to conform to the reincarnation of a cultivator, thus forging a perfect foundation for the Dao.

"In that case, Zhang Xiaolian lost her lunar essence body after reincarnation. If she wants to become a Celestial Lord, she must at least cultivate a true spirit!"

As the Fairy Shadow of the Moon Palace once said, in this life, one must use the inner world of cultivation to conceal the mysteries, and even use it to merge with the Dao and become the origin of heaven and earth, in order to escape the possibility of being devoured by the Taiyin Emperor.

The Taiyin origin of heaven and earth is on the Taiyin star, but there is no so-called Shaoyin star. Therefore, the Shaoyin Divine Lord imitated the ideas of some great beings and used the Dongzhen Inner Heaven and Earth to unite the Dao and condense the Shaoyin origin.

However, this is only a last resort, and Su Ji would not want this situation to happen if possible.

After all, just like the minor immortals in the blessed lands of the Golden Cave Sect, once they leave the small world, they will be reduced to their original form and lose their immortal power, which is why they are called minor immortals.

Similarly, according to the legends of this world, the Heavenly Emperor takes turns, but there is never a saying that the Taiyin Emperor has served as the Heavenly Emperor.

The reason for this is that while the Taiyin Emperor can be called an Emperor on Taiyin Star, once he leaves Taiyin Star, he may only be a Divine Lord in terms of combat strength!
Therefore, the Taiyin Emperor had the motivation to condense the Taiyin Fruit after the moon, and to gain the power to become a great being even after leaving Taiyin Star. This is also why Su Ji chose to believe the Toad Palace Fairy to the point of 80-90%.

Just as Su Ji was pondering, Yan Tianchou suddenly reminded him, "Zhang Xiaolian's aura is starting to change!"

Breakthroughs in Qi and Blood cultivation will repeatedly challenge bottlenecks until they trigger a qualitative change.

Breaking through the Dongxuan cultivation level is very simple: you succeed if you can circulate the Great Heavenly Cycle, otherwise you fail.

Clearly, the factor that caused the change in Zhang Xiaolian's aura was a sign that the Great Circulation of Qi had been successfully completed.

(End of this chapter)