The primordial era began with the Upper Cave Man.

Chapter 325 Faith Leads to Godhood, the Path to Immortality Begins (First Update)

In Luo Zu's deductions, the cultivation of deities is actually a rather interesting process.

Because this is equivalent to "creating" the Great Way, adding bricks and tiles to the heavens and earth.

As for how to "create the Great Way," it begins with establishing these rules.

Within the known rules of heaven and earth, a set of rules is derived and established. Then, these rules, which are imagined out of thin air, are implemented step by step and put into reality. Finally, they affect the entire natural environment and become a "convention" between living beings and heaven and earth. In this way, the rules become real and are thus granted by heaven and earth.

However, without great magical power, it is absolutely impossible to affect living beings, let alone heaven and earth.

However, practitioners of this path could not initially possess the great power to influence all living beings. Therefore, Luo Zu created a method to collect the beliefs of all living beings, which is faith.

One draws strength from faith and then uses that faith to influence others.

After this closed-loop self-circulation, one can become a god and directly transform into a Great Dao.

This is the process of being deified through faith, ultimately achieving a status comparable to a Golden Immortal, a smooth path to heaven.

That is why Yang is so grateful to Luo Zu.

However, despite her gratitude, Yang was also waiting for something.

Luo Zu transcended worldly concerns and thus ascended to the position of Heavenly Emperor.

Who can help but strive for progress? This applies to all living beings, to true immortals, and even to this Lord of the Nine Netherworlds.

According to the agreed time, Luo Zu will have another 800 years before he "transcends" his birth.

But for Yang, such a long time was just like taking a nap.

A true immortal in the mortal realm spends a hundred or two hundred years in seclusion, and even true immortals spend a hundred years in seclusion.

Moreover, he is a Xuanxian (a type of immortal).

After all, time has little meaning for those who live long lives.

However, even after they become true immortals, there are still some tribulations to come. Moreover, after experiencing many great calamities, the true immortals all understand that calamities are inescapable and they need to face them. Even if they hide in their caves to cultivate in seclusion, they will still be affected by the calamities and then throw themselves into the great calamity.

This is an inevitable encounter in their own cultivation. Born and raised here, they consume the spiritual energy of heaven and earth. When the spiritual energy of heaven and earth is consumed to a certain limit, calamity will follow.

This is a summary of their experiences after numerous major calamities.

Although it deviates somewhat from the truth, it is generally correct.

Given this deduction, they wanted to make changes and reverse this fate.

Therefore, there are many methods to replace calamity and techniques to avoid calamity.

Unfortunately, the results were not very good; Heaven and Earth will not let any cultivator off the hook.

However, cheaters will always find a way.

That is "ascension".

Ascending to the celestial realm allows one to avoid mortal calamities.

However, "ascending" to the Netherworld will exacerbate the calamities.

As for "ascension" to the Heavenly Demon Realm...

This is because they think they've lived too long. After all, no cultivator in the world cultivates the Heavenly Demon. Even those who have taken the unorthodox path and are called demonic cultivators are still essentially Qi cultivators, just different from other righteous paths.

Therefore, even if a demonic cultivator "ascends" to the Heavenly Demon Realm, their fate is to be devoured by the demons of the Heavenly Demon Realm.

They were overjoyed by these free snacks.

And the demon lords have thus made their own progress.

They spread false cultivation methods among mortals to disguise their "ascension" to the Heavenly Demon Realm, thus luring mortal cultivators to "ascend" to the Heavenly Demon Realm.

Of course, it might be difficult to lure cultivators from the mortal realm, but the demons discovered a new world in the vast, empty sea of ​​the void.

Dragon Realm!

This new world has not yet been "polluted" by the immortal realm, nor has it been developed by the demon realm.

This fertile land was something they were extremely envious of.

However, there are also great powers in this world, and the Heavenly Dao of this world is extremely exclusive, making it difficult for even the Demon Lords to develop it.

So the demon lords tried to lure the Heavenly Demon King into attacking this realm.

However, the Heavenly Demon King was only interested in the Immortal Realm and did not take any action against such a "small" world.

Later, the celestial realm also visited this realm due to the unexpected discovery by the demon realm.

The Dragon Realm became lively from then on.

After all, this is a different world from the human realm and the Nine Netherworlds.

New discoveries mean new developments.

However, the immortal elders of the celestial realm have consistently remained silent on this matter, showing no intention of "rescuing" it, so the celestial realm has not yet taken any concrete countermeasures.

However, competition with the Heavenly Demon Realm was inevitable, so the thirteen first-rank Heavenly Officials of the Immortal Realm issued important instructions on this matter.

To conduct a small-scale exploration of the new world, a team consisting of one second-rank celestial official (mysterious immortal), three third-rank celestial officials (ninth-rank celestial immortals), and twelve fifth-rank celestial officials (fourth to sixth-rank celestial immortals) was dispatched to exchange ideas.

Then, just like the demon realm, they were turned away.

The Dragon Realm is closed off and has no contact with the outside world.

However, unlike the demon realm, the immortal realm does not give up until it achieves its goal, so if it fails once, it chooses to wait for another opportunity.

News of the discovery of the new world also reached the human world.

The methods for avoiding calamity were also updated accordingly.

Ascending to the Dragon Realm to avoid calamity became an important research topic for cultivators in the human world.

To this end, they even consulted the seniors who had ascended to the Immortal Realm, hoping they could give them some pointers, such as what the Dragon Realm was like and whether they could be given the coordinates of this realm so that they could build their own raft to cross the void world sea and thus forcibly "ascend" to the Dragon Realm.

It can only be said that snakes have their ways, and rats have theirs; each follows its own methods and paths, that's all.

Those cultivators with extraordinary talent naturally choose to become celestial immortals and ascend to the immortal realm, while those with slightly less talent can only take the secluded path.

Against this backdrop, Yang discovered another benefit of having gods.

They remain untouched by great calamities.

In other words, one will be entangled in worldly tribulations when borrowing the beliefs of all beings.

If there is a constant response to help believers resolve their troubles, then this tribulation in the mortal world can be avoided.

Yang did not hide such a good thing, but he also knew that this method of cultivation still required a lot of "resources", so he did not announce it widely, but instead selected talents.

Having sat in the position of Lord of the Nine Netherworlds for too long, he finally developed selfish ambitions.

Furthermore, Luo Zu had promised him the throne of the Heavenly Emperor.

Therefore, he also wanted to build his own team.

This team could even help him quickly stabilize the situation in the Immortal Realm.

Furthermore, he believed that the method of bestowing divine titles was passed down by Luo Zu, and thus he thought that this method was also a bridge specially laid by Luo Zu for him to ascend to the throne of the Heavenly Emperor in the Immortal Realm.

Therefore, it was not spread around.

He selected capable individuals from among the ghost kings of various places in the Nine Netherworlds and passed down the methods of deification and faith.

As a result, a unique trend emerged throughout the Nine Netherworlds—the practice of bestowing titles of honor.

It seemed that the ghost kings were all ambitious and eager for glory, adding one strange nickname after another to their titles...

Regarding the situation in the Nine Netherworlds, Luo Zu, who was simultaneously observing the world within the pot and the Fire Cloud Cave, could only sigh and shake his head.

The central government is no longer of any use.

(End of this chapter)