243: Chapter 243 Changes, Yotsuki and Ikkyu

After this, Wang An's Incarnation continued to return to the Wisdom God Tree in the library area of the Bronze Academy, officially browsing through the countless knowledge of Daoist cultivation stored within the entire Bronze Academy.

The information involved—Law Runes, spiritual plants, spiritual medicines, spiritual materials, artifact refinement, exotic beast patterns, rites and regulations, and so on—was as vast as the ocean. Even with his current cultivation and attainments, he could only do his best to record most of it in his mind.

Time slipped away bit by bit, and in the blink of an eye, another 5 years had passed.

New Era Year 26, Blue Star.

A cargo spaceship was slowly approaching the interstellar passage constructed outside the atmosphere.

Daoist Master Sumu and Councillor Yixiu stood in the spaceship's control room, gazing out the window at Blue Star, which was wrapped in streams of pale blue water. The purification laws within them continuously dissolved the heavy pollution brought about by interstellar extraordinary industry.

Councillor Yixiu held a string of prayer beads emitting layers of spiritual light, and with a face full of compassion and emotion, he said:

"Amitabha! Venerable Tianhe is truly worthy of being the living Buddha of our Buddhist sect. By exercising great magical power and great divine abilities, he surely possesses great merit in the human world."

Daoist Master Sumu was also admiring this river in the sky circling Blue Star; the dense Tianhe mana and the true meaning of Daoism within it left him intoxicated.

Now, hearing that fellow Yi Xiu calling Venerable Tianhe the living Buddha again, his two thick eyebrows stood up, and he glared at Yi Xiu, who had returned with him from the Pluto interstellar trading market.

"Hmph, Yi Xiu. Perfected Person Tianhe has clearly stated that he is a Daoist practitioner; do not force your Buddhist ways onto him."

Yi Xiu's long, pitch-black eyebrows twitched, and a glint of shrewdness flashed in his eyes.

"Sigh, Daoist friend Simu. Perfected Person Tianhe must have an incarnation in the Buddhist sect, which is the [Tianhe Savior Meritorious Buddha]. Can there be any fault in me addressing him as such?"

"This..."

Simu thought to himself that he couldn't deny the saving merits of Perfected Person Tianhe, and for a moment, he was speechless, forced to change the subject.

"This time, our 5-year garrison duty has passed. I wonder if we will have the fortune to see the Perfected Person."

"I hear that his water-element Dao techniques have reached a level so unfathomable that ordinary Dao Foundation cultivators cannot even comprehend it. If we are lucky enough to observe a bit of that Dao aura, it would truly be an immeasurable benefit."

Yi Xiu pinched his prayer beads while chanting scriptures, recalling the Tianhe purification project initiated by the Perfected Person years ago.

"There will be opportunities. Years ago, the Perfected Person foresaw that our frequent use of extraordinary energy for large-scale engineering construction would sooner or later give birth to exotic beasts and elements that would pollute the extraordinary ecological environment."

"That is why our Human Federation now has a thriving Pure Land world. By utilizing the [Guitian Array Domain Tower] to call upon the [Nine Heavens World-Purifying Galaxy], all impurities in the world are washed away, returning to purity."

Simu suddenly thought of something and said, looking eager to try.

"A few months ago, when I was judging those wicked ghosts who had committed many evils in the Zhoujue Yintian Palace of the Netherworld Realm, I heard the ghost soldiers mention that the Netherworld seems to be planning to redraw the course of the Yellow Springs River. They intend to branch it into tributaries of different levels, reaching many newly born Yin lands."

"They are calling upon us, the judges and Ghost Immortals of the living world, to participate in refining the first-order Yellow Springs water. I wonder if you, Daoist friend, would be willing to go together?"

Although Simu and Yi Xiu had been neighbors for sixty or seventy years and often had conflicts and bickered, this was merely a clash of different concepts between Buddhism and Daoism; in private, the two had supported each other every step of the way to reach where they were today.

One had pioneered the Daoist cultivation system of [God-Driving Heaven-Informing Daoist], using spiritual Law Runes to build altars and carry natal talismans, and was particularly skilled at raising and training Daoist guardian deities and ghost armies.

The other had pioneered the Zen cultivation system of [Mahayana Wisdom-Heart Treasury Master], externally cultivating a Buddhist Golden Body. His physical cultivation was not to be underestimated, and the Pure Land Vital Qi he projected had the ability to purify the Netherworld, judge ghosts and gods, and pass judgment on karmic forces.

The cultivation systems they created were even more inclined towards the Netherworld, so they had long been granted the [Netherworld Edict] to help handle the judging of wicked ghosts and fierce souls, casting them into the lower hells.

Now that their garrison mission on Pluto in the living world had ended, it was time to focus on cultivation.

"We have served in the Netherworld for these years and have gained quite a lot of contributions. I think that if we participate in this refinement of Yellow Springs water, it should be enough to ask the Lord of the Netherworld for individual guidance once."

"I hear that the Martial Dao system already has 5 Celestial Beings. If we don't work harder to solve the problems in our own systems, not only will the road ahead be difficult, but these extraordinary systems will also be hard to pass on, and there will be few successors, which would be a disgrace to all we have learned in our lives."

Upon hearing this, Yi Xiu paused the rotation of his prayer beads for a moment, then continued his quiet Zen meditation.

Before long, the spaceship vibrated with a "hum"; it had docked at the local port.

The two passed through the port bridge and entered the interior of the space city directly.

As the Human Federation's first large-scale space port city, it not only served as a logistics transfer hub but, with the current use of extraordinary technology, already had hundreds of thousands of people living and working there.

This space port was about a dozen kilometers long. The two took an intercity transport spaceship and quickly headed to the space elevator to return to the surface of Blue Star.

"Whoosh... Whoosh..."

Four or five elevator compartments, each several hundred meters in size, plummeted downwards.

Below the space city, what connected it was the large-scale external communication structure commonly used by interstellar civilizations—the space elevator.

As the space elevator rapidly entered the atmosphere, a large island emerged before their eyes; it was Borneo in the Nanyang region.

"Hiss~"

The elevator station performed reverse deceleration.

In less than an hour, the two finally arrived at the space elevator ground transport station located in Borneo.

This place covered an extremely vast area, with countless buildings and goods piled up, stretching as far as the eye could see.

This time they did not take ground transportation, but instead piloted their own magical artifacts to head towards the Huaxia continent.

They did not head to the extraordinary interstellar metropolis on the Australian continent, which now accommodated over 4 billion mortals and cultivators.

The two rose to an altitude of ten thousand meters, where countless super-large ecological spiritual farmland areas, marine spiritual plant cultivation zones, and mountainous spiritual tree planting sections covered the entire land.

Except for a few major mountain ranges where large array domains were set up, where energy concentrations reached the first order and above, most areas had a level 8 Vital Qi concentration.

Now, the entire Human Federation was divided into two core areas—the interstellar extraordinary metropolis on the Australian continent and the Tianhe Dojo on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau—with multiple spiritual plant and spiritual medicine production zones spread across various continents of the world.

All events, resources, and management above the extraordinary level were directly handled by the Tianhe Dojo, while the interstellar extraordinary metropolis was a super urban living area for accommodating and cultivating mortals and cultivators.

With their cultivation of having refined two minor divine abilities, they piloted their magical artifacts and rode the high-altitude high-speed transit network, arriving at the Sanjiangyuan region of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in less than 30 minutes.