[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group":3,"chapter-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-239":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Infinite Faith System: Join the Divine Chat Group",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1373419,1815,"Chapter 239: Work Assignments Begin; Li Xiuning Reaches the Imperial Capital and Starts Stirring Things Up!","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-239",239,"\u003Cp>Tu Shanhonghong caught the change in God’s tone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even so, she still wanted to check on the Giant Tree of Misery’s current state. She had sacrificed it back then; it was only right to go and see it from time to time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After learning where it was,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they each went their separate ways.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Cui Yuling and Dongfang Qinlan hadn’t received any rewards,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>simply coming to the God Realm was already a tremendous gift.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Naturally, they didn’t dare ask for more.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now that they had entered the Shrine, their identities as goddesses were settled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All that remained was to cultivate step by step.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your name is Cui Yuling, isn’t it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The little girl looked up; Cui Yuling nodded quickly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other nodded in turn and said, \"Come with me. You’re assigned to the Life Department—lots of goddesses work in that domain.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Life Department,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the leader was Lin Qing’er,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>followed by Yu Xiaoxue,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>then Tsunade, Bai Xing, Shang Xiuxuan...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under Chu Yi’s lead, Cui Yuling reached the palace on the northwest side of the divine complex.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The moment they stepped through the main hall’s doors,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a rich medicinal scent washed over them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Heady, but not cloying—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>instead, it carried a crisp, bracing freshness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just a few breaths\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and Cui Yuling felt drowsiness creep in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the little attendant at her side reminded her, rousing her from the haze.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Careful. The goddesses here research divine medicine pills; some of the properties volatilize into the air. If you don’t shield yourself with divine power, you’ll end up drunk on the vapors.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes. Thank you for the warning.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cui Yuling’s cheeks were flushed; she forced herself to hold steady.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When she erected a shield,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she shed the medicinal power layer by layer, and the drunken weight drifted away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was less a hall,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and more a blessed grotto.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Cui Yuling walked a short corridor, her vision opened—countless chambers floated in midair,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>soft sunlight spilled through them—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>within a single room,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the sun rose,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and the moon as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sight was terrible and wonderful.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cui Yuling’s eyes widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Sis, do you refine Bi Luo Dan like this?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Mhm. This Yellow Springs pill needs Nether Qi,\" came a calm reply, \"but... you have to neutralize the destructive force within it, then amplify the power of reincarnation.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The voices drifted from overhead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cui Yuling looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Two women sat upon an isle of rock, floating slowly in the air.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Goddess Tsunade, there’s a newcomer...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"All right, I know.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In a blink, a woman with an extremely... exaggerated figure descended from the isle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Cui Yuling stared at the towering plumpness—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the corner of her eye twitched.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good grief—did you grow up eating nothing but papaya?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"In future, you’ll study under me. Since you’re assigned here, you must have some foundation in medicine, right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes, Sister Tsunade. I’m a monster—my medical arts have been accumulating for nearly a century...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A century?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not bad at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Teaching her would be easy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tsunade nodded, took Cui Yuling’s hand, and led her to the Life Department’s library. Pointing to the stacks, she smiled. \"Start with the fundamentals—understand the difference between god-level creatures and holy-level creatures. After that, the rest comes easy.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ten thousand volumes filled that library.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a solid base,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the rest would indeed be simple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These were all compilations Tsunade had put together herself—meticulous, painstaking work.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Elsewhere, Dongfang Huaizhu brought her younger sister to Shi Feixuan, patroness of the Floating Immortal Cultivators.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No fighting, no fuss.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The adorable little girl drew every eye at once.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Xueqi, in particular, took to Dongfang Qinlan in an instant—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>they made sisters of each other on the spot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing her sister so beloved,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dongfang Huaizhu felt relieved.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This fulfilled the girl’s wish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Next came diligent cultivation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>People had to work hard to live.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Goddesses were no exception.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had no desire to be a mere vase.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Everyone who’s come to listen—today’s tale is a fantasy, both beautiful and very sad...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the Plant God Star of the God Realm,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the Giant Tree of Misery spun a moving yarn like some miracle-monger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Ao Qian was a regular there. Whenever he had a spare moment, he manifested himself to attend the lectures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Otherwise, would he have gone into heat with the Destiny True Dragon that day?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Far away in the clouds,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Tu Shanhonghong listened to love triangles and court intrigue, and slipped away, rubbing her temples.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Good grief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>No wonder the God had worn such a strange look.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A tree with no gender,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>piping up day after day,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>pushing along the God Realm’s development—and the books it wrote were wildly popular besides.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What a peculiar thing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I came to check on it, and now I’m going to be in a foul mood...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Honghong, who had guarded her body like jade—this body already pledged to the God—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>listening to such tales felt sordid.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The beautiful divine fox turned into a stream of light, slipped through a portal,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>a faint scowl lingering across her face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It had not been a pleasant errand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Journey to the West world,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiuning and Altria moved less swiftly than Dongfang Huaizhu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The former headed straight for the Tang court,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>while the latter coordinated with Yang Jian to plan how best to expand belief in God to its widest reach.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Tang, at that moment, still prospered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shimin stood in his prime; the nations came to pay tribute.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Add to that the Bodhisattva’s appearance—and the emperor’s own brother reborn as a devout monk—and one could imagine just how radiant Li Shimin looked in those days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Li Xiuning reached the imperial city,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>she felt a gaze lock onto her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was the Tang dynasty’s imperial fortune—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>also the earth-vein’s qi.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even the Tathagata would not lightly slay an emperor, for fear of being bitten by that luck.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Heh... Even if I’m not the Eldest Princess of this era, I’m still a dragon.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiuning cloaked her presence\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and flew inward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dragon-qi surged out and crashed toward her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She did not dodge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She let the strike fall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then something strange happened—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the dragon-qi passed through her without effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Who goes there!!!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A roar split the air from the Heavenly Master’s Residence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Tiangang led his disciple aloft.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At sight of Li Xiuning, his expression grew complicated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She clearly wasn’t the Eldest Princess—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>yet her aura felt uncannily similar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What in the world was this?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Heavenly Master was dumbfounded—and his disciple, Li Chunfeng, no less so.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My name is Li Xiuning. I come from the Eternal God Realm. I’m here to meet a Li Shimin of another world. Will you step aside?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Eternal God Realm!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Tiangang’s pupils contracted sharply. She was a messenger of that Great God.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But why did she, too, bear the name Li Xiuning?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If one looked closer...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>it wasn’t hard to discover that master and disciple could not perceive the other’s presence at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I don’t suppose you could say what you want with the Tang Emperor?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Chunfeng forced himself to ask.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were Daoist insiders,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and Heaven stood behind them—\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>but against the Eternal God Realm, the disparity was too great.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiuning’s gaze sharpened; a moment later, Li Chunfeng spat blood and tumbled back. Dragon-qi still pooled about him, but it could not shield him in the least.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My business isn’t yours to question. Move, or die.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The chill in her voice made Yuan Tiangang’s scalp prickle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Please, then—but don’t harm the Tang Emperor, if you can help it?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Tiangang’s tone bordered on pleading.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that, the woman called Li Xiuning smiled. \"In another world, I also have a brother named Li Shimin. Don’t worry...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then she vanished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dragon-qi also subsided.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Ahem... Master, that woman is terrifying. She nearly killed me!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Chunfeng clutched his chest, coughing dryly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was too frightening.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Not even the same dimension.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By rights, so long as dragon-qi protected him, even gods could not harm him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unless the dynasty itself collapsed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yuan Tiangang snorted. \"And who told you to chatter? Mind yourself, or you won’t know how you died.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Chunfeng curled his lip and did not take it to heart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instead, he wondered—what did Li Xiuning intend?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She came to the imperial city,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>seeking the Tang Emperor. Was it orthodoxy she sought?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He recalled the rumors in the cultivation world: the gods did not like Buddhism!!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Perhaps the world was about to change.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If he could seize this chance, maybe he wouldn’t have to remain a mere gatekeeper—maybe he could rise to the heights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the rear garden,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shimin enjoyed a warm moment with his empress.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Your Majesty Li is truly at leisure—while beyond your walls, chaos brews...\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sudden voice\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>startled them all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They turned toward the sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A woman in battle dress stood there, smiling at their emperor.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Bold! Where did this maid come from, to spout such wild words!!! 1.4\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Maid? I’m no maid.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then who are you? And why claim my world is about to fall into chaos?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shimin narrowed his eyes without anger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Majesty flowed from the emperor toward the intruder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But she remained unmoved, and smiled. \"I am a goddess of the Eternal God Realm. Seeing your country enshrine the Buddha and keep tens of thousands of monks in state care—I feel a little sad.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eternal God Realm?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shimin murmured, his face changing greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At last he remembered the terrifying celestial phenomena of the past days.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It seems you understand who I am. But don’t be afraid. I won’t kill you, and I won’t force your hand. Only—are these monks, who produce nothing and live on others’ rations, truly of use to you?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One sentence,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>and Li Shimin’s innermost thoughts stirred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He waved aside those around him. The attendants withdrew from the imperial garden one by one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the empress tried to remain,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Shimin said, \"This goddess will not harm me. I don’t know why—but I have that instinct.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then Your Majesty must be careful.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Li Xiuning drew a wine-flask from her sleeve, poured for them both, and said softly:\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Curious about my name? I’m called Li Xiuning. In another world, I have a second brother named Li Shimin...\"\u003C\u002Fp>",1708,"2026-06-05T21:52:16.834Z",1,"novelbin.me","631d0c53dda0b04ff86da1d910a812bfad5f9a5c03ccdf889cad527bf5a9abaa","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-240","infinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-chapter-238",391,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Finfinite-faith-system-join-the-divine-chat-group-cover.jpg"]