250: Chapter 250 The Great Emperor of Fengdu, Guiding the Way Forward

Upon the high platform in the center of the hall, a young man wearing imperial robes, his features obscured, sat upright. Behind his head, rings of divine law shone, manifesting sacred imagery such as the Netherworld, the Reincarnation Heavenly Lake, and the Reincarnation Purple Golden Lotus.

The vast and majestic aura of a Divine Path ruler emanated from him, washing over the room and instinctively making Councillor Simu want to kneel and prostrate himself.

Seeing this great figure before him, Councillor Simu set aside his usual playful demeanor and bowed respectfully.

"Subordinate, Judge of the Judgment Bureau, Councillor Simu, pays respects to the Lord of the Netherworld, Great Emperor Fengdu."

After speaking these words, Councillor Simu paused, as if waiting for a response from the Lord of the Netherworld.

Seeing the Lord of the Netherworld only nod slightly, Councillor Simu thought to himself, "As expected."

"This Divine Path Incarnation of the Lord of the Netherworld is extremely indifferent. He will not entertain such pleasantries from us."

Immediately, Councillor Simu stopped thinking about other things, bowed once more, and voiced the troubles he had faced over these years, requesting guidance from the Lord of the Netherworld.

"Great Emperor, I practice the transcendent profession of Exorcist Daoist, using the [Lunar Yin Spirit Talisman] as a foundation, yet the imagery of the Bright Moon I have comprehended is close to the Netherworld. I do not know if I should correct this imagery to align with the Taiyin, or continue to delve deeper into Netherworld-type imagery. I humbly request the Great Emperor to guide me out of my confusion."

Wang An's Divine Path Incarnation, condensed from the power of faith, although not possessing the capabilities of his true self, was inhabited by a Yin Spirit thought. It was equivalent to a great cultivator with a perfected Dao foundation and Zifu cultivation, acting on behalf of the Lord of the Netherworld to execute routine administrative duties.

Naturally, this also included guiding the way for those cultivators who were struggling on their paths.

Using his Yin Spirit thought to communicate with the status of the Lord of the Netherworld, he mobilized its immense realm-level computational power, deducing the general problems in Councillor Simu's cultivation in just a fleeting moment.

The Yin Spirit thought quickly organized its thoughts and, controlling the Divine Path Incarnation, spoke slowly. Its words carried immense weight, giving birth to boundless Dao essence.

"Your path has a great connection to my Netherworld, with many karmic entanglements. If you wish to return to the imagery of the living world, you would likely need to seek a method to sever this karma. For you, the cost and difficulties would be overwhelming and difficult to bear."

"If you were to completely transform this Bright Moon imagery into Nether Moon imagery, your cultivation in the Netherworld would have twice the result with half the effort. However, you must consider carefully; this Bright Moon imagery lies between the Netherworld and the living world. Once fully transformed, your future path will be inextricably linked to the Netherworld."

After saying this, Great Emperor Fengdu fell silent, waiting for Councillor Simu to make a decision.

Regarding this outcome, Councillor Simu had already vaguely guessed it before coming.

Ever since he was young and joined Maoshan, he had begun dealing with zombies and ghosts.

Although there was not as much dense cultivation energy then as there is now, most of what he dealt with were ordinary things.

Now that he had joined the Netherworld as a judge, he naturally would not give up these opportunities that others envied.

With a firm gaze, he bowed his head and said.

"Great Emperor, I have considered this matter clearly. I wish to convert to the Nether Moon imagery of our Netherworld. I ask the Great Emperor to guide my path forward and show me where to go."

Great Emperor Fengdu flashed a hint of admiration in his eyes at Councillor Simu's clear self-awareness and decisive choice.

"Good."

"Listen carefully from now on; how much you can absorb depends entirely on your own affinity, so do not force it."

"After converting your transcendent profession, life talisman, and Bright Moon imagery to the Nether Moon, you may pursue the path of Netherworld absolution. Use your life talisman as a foundation to bestow talismanic lineages, save evil ghosts and fierce spirits, and accumulate fortune."

"For your cultivation imagery, you may take the Nether Moon as the core, mainly interpreting the moon of our Netherworld. This moon is the Lesser Yin Nether Moon, possessing thousands of spiritual vitalities; it is the source of vitality for the countless living beings in our Netherworld, and it is a grand path that can lead to becoming a Zifu Loose Immortal."

"From then on, if you achieve success, you can grasp the mutual generation of Yin and Yang, then cultivate the Nether Sun imagery and the Yellow Springs Life and Death imagery, evolving the Dao of Yin-Yang mutual generation and Yin-Yang extinction; that would also be quite good..."

"As for specifically which talisman to use to forge your life essence, you must consider that yourself."

Councillor Simu was immersed in the deduction of his future path provided by the Lord of the Netherworld, Great Emperor Fengdu, as if unwilling to wake up, yet he was unable to record even a shred of Daoist knowledge regarding the second-tier level.

It was not until Great Emperor Fengdu stopped speaking that he suddenly woke up, feeling a sense of loss for a moment.

Seeing that he had regained consciousness, Great Emperor Fengdu waved his sleeve and sent him outside the main hall.

Immediately after, Councillor Yixiu entered, and Great Emperor Fengdu continued to deduce a path more suitable for Councillor Yixiu.

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On this side, while the Yin Spirit thought handled matters of the Netherworld, Wang An's true self had already begun to use the Dharma nature of [Illusion Heavenly Purified Water] to fuse the two law resources of vitality and death. He was completing the final missing laws of the Heavenly River Water Dharma nature, preparing for the next step of holding the Golden Nature ceremony.

At the same time, after he began to complete the Dharma nature, two orders were issued to his three disciples.

To further advance the coverage of the purification of the Heavenly River, connecting the two rocky planets, Venus and Mars, which had a large number of Transcendent Life forms living on them.

To popularize the methods of refining spiritual water that fit the Heavenly River Water imagery, which he had deduced over the years for the Qi Refining and Dao Foundation levels, throughout the entire Human Federation.

These methods were the necessary preparations for holding the Golden Nature ceremony.

Even though he had already deduced all the spiritual water refining methods from Qi Refining to the second-tier level 2, they still needed to be used by people to catalyze the corresponding imagery. He even wanted to borrow the infinite possibilities of civilized life to give birth to new Daoist knowledge related to Heavenly River Water that even he himself had not considered, thereby expanding the conceptual boundaries of Heavenly River Water.

In the final analysis, the wisdom and spiritual light of countless intelligent beings were what allowed the Golden Nature and the mysteries of the laws to withstand the erosive power brought about by the collision of thousands of laws in the universe after such rituals were achieved, and only then could it be called an Immortal Golden Nature.

Relying on this point of Golden Nature, the Great Universe and the Transcendent Dao Tree could even grant a bit of high-level status, helping him ascend to a higher level.

As for the disciples on the Incarnation's side, he had also made arrangements early on.

As more and more worlds surfaced, although high-level figures were handling it, Wang An keenly sensed that an era of great chaos was coming.

It was no longer appropriate for the disciples to follow him, so they would return to Blue Star on a second-tier warship from the exchange team dispatched by the Bronze Academy.

At his current rate of absorbing Daoist knowledge from the Wisdom God Tree at the Bronze Academy, he would not be able to complete it for decades or even a century.

However, he did not say anything about this progress to his disciples or the professors and mentors at the Bronze Academy, otherwise, their jaws would drop even further.

After all, although the Wisdom God Tree at the Bronze Academy only contained Daoist knowledge below mid-tier level 3, it was still extremely vast for a civilization with a history of over a million years; just memorizing it would take hundreds or thousands of years.

Let alone absorbing it all, transforming it into his own Daoist cultivation, and advancing his practice.