Chapter 1041: The Dao of Earth Deities

"The Dao of Earth Deities?"

Upon hearing this, Su Fan and the other two were all quite curious.

After their discussion on the Dao, the Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi suddenly spoke of his recent seclusion, mentioning that after achieving a breakthrough in his realm, he had even deduced a Daoist technique based on the secret methods Su Fan had provided years ago—the Dao of Earth Deities.

"The so-called Dao of Earth Deities is the path of cultivation for Earth Deities."

It is similar to the Divine Dao, but ever since the Divine Dao of the primordial era gradually faded and the Immortal Dao flourished, the Divine Dao today is mostly the faith-based Divine Dao of the Heavenly Court. This is vastly different from the Divine Dao of those naturally born sacred beings of the primordial era.

"This Dao of Earth Deities focuses on the land, with earth veins as the foundation. First, one nurtures a spirit land, cultivating it until it takes form, turning it into a domain; then, the domain transforms into a world, eventually forming a Blessed Land or Grotto-Heaven."

"The Dao of Earth Deities lies in nurturing spirit lands, clearing earth veins, optimizing the feng shui of spirit veins, and enhancing the power of earth veins. It can transform ordinary lands into spirit veins and then allow one to control those spirit veins."

"Finally, after becoming an immortal, one merges oneself with this spirit land, slowly transforming the spirit land into a domain."

Zhenyuanzi slowly explained the Dao of Earth Deities.

However, as he listened, Su Fan felt that this was so similar to the Dao of Earth Immortals in the world of mythology.

This Earth Immortal is not that Earth Immortal.

In mythological stories, among the five immortals—Heaven, Earth, Human, Divine, and Ghost—the Dao of Heaven Immortals is equivalent to the Immortal Dao of this current world.

Earth Immortals are similar to the Dao of Earth Deities of Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi: using one's own magic power to control a spirit land, developing and nurturing it into a Blessed Land. Such Earth Immortals are almost invincible within their Blessed Land, and as long as the Blessed Land is not destroyed, the Earth Immortal is immortal and indestructible.

And in mythological stories, Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi is the ancestor of these Earth Immortals.

Therefore, hearing Zhenyuanzi speak of this Dao of Earth Deities now, Su Fan was extremely surprised.

Originally, he thought that the Dao of Earth Immortals would not appear in this world again, and that Zhenyuanzi would not become the ancestor of Earth Immortals from the myths.

Previously, Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi was merely a bigwig of the Daoist sect; the title of "Ancestor of Earth Immortals" had never been passed down.

As it turned out, he did not expect that Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi, who was almost on the verge of becoming a Saint, would do something like this. Even if he wouldn't be the Ancestor of Earth Immortals, he would at least be the Ancestor of Earth Deities.

However, Earth Deities are Earth Gods, which seems somewhat different from his status. After all, Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi is a bigwig of the Daoist sect, and the Daoist sect primarily cultivates the Immortal Dao.

The fact that the Immortal Dao could replace the Divine Dao of the ancient primordial era is actually due to the Dao Ancestor.

As a disciple of the Dao Ancestor, it is impossible for Zhenyuanzi to go back to practicing the Divine Dao. Thus, it is not impossible for the Dao of Earth Deities to transform into the Dao of Earth Immortals.

Thinking of this, Su Fan's heart stirred; it seemed that the mythological world was returning once again.

However, Zhenyuanzi has now reached the level of a Half-Saint, and his status in the Earth Immortal World is even higher; his strength is even a few notches stronger than the Three Corpses of Saints like Taishang Laojun.

Generally speaking, the Three Corpses of a Saint can exert the power of a Half-Saint.

Especially since the stronger the spiritual treasure used as the carrier for the Three Corpses, the stronger the power exerted.

However, since Saints like the Three Pure Ones have left the Primordial World and shed their status as Saints, I fear their Three Corpses can only degenerate into the Three Corpses of Quasi-Saints, with strength at the peak of the Quasi-Saint level.

In particular, Tongtian Jiaozhu was the most ruthless, directly severing his Primordial Purple Qi; it can be said that his strength and cultivation fell the fastest.

Of course, his combat power was extremely strong back then. Even if he did not follow the Shangqing Dao, by using the Sword Dao and the blessing of being the Master of a Dao path opened in the Earth Immortal World, his strength among the Primordial Golden Immortals would certainly be in the top tier.

Moreover, combined with the most powerful Zhuxian Sword Array, even if he left the position of a Saint, in terms of combat power, he would definitely not lose to a Half-Saint.

It is true that their Three Corpses will certainly decline to some extent, but compared to other Sages, the magnitude of this decline will certainly be very low.

Furthermore, Tongtian Jiaozhu is the most decisive; perhaps after severing the cage of Primordial Purple Qi, he directly condensed his Dao Fruit with the Sword Dao to become a Sword Dao Saint—that is not impossible.

But in any case, Zhenyuanzi's breakthrough to Half-Saint status in the Primordial Earth Immortal World is unquestionable.

So, would he cooperate with the Western Buddhist Sect to put on a show like in the Journey to the West story? Su Fan does not think so.

In fact, even if Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi had not broken through, Su Fan would not think that the other party would put on a show with the Western Buddhist Sect and eventually swear brotherhood with the monkey.

What is this? Lowering one's own status to elevate others.

Let alone the monkey, even if it were Rulai, the Lord of the Buddhist Sect, if it weren't for his status as the Lord of the Buddhist Sect, he would be a generation lower than Zhenyuanzi.

Therefore, Su Fan has always felt there was a problem with Journey to the West, and with the addition of the world of the Journey to the West Sequel, the problem became even greater.

A Demon Lord actually overturned the Three Realms, and in the end, it relied on Sun Wukong transforming into a sarira to save the world.

Did he really think those Fighting Departments in the Heavenly Court and those Great Gods were dead?

That Demon Lord Wutian is not Luo Hou. If Luo Hou were resurrected, then overturning the Three Realms might be somewhat possible.

After all, this Luo Hou was a ruthless person who contended with the Dao Ancestor and only lost by a hair. Even so, his transformation into the Demonic Dao was still not much worse than the Dao Ancestor.

What kind of thing is Wutian? Perhaps he is just a Demon Lord of the Demon World. To be able to overturn the Three Realms, unless those Great Supernatural Beings of the Three Realms had all left the Primordial World, and the ones remaining—the Lord of the Heavenly Court, the Lord of the Buddhist Sect—were all just clones left behind.

Then, in that case, it would be somewhat possible.

If it were like this, it would not be impossible.

But even if it were possible, Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi could not possibly lower his status to swear brotherhood with the monkey. What is the monkey's status? A disciple of Tang Seng, a grand-disciple of Rulai.

Changing it to a disciple of Bodhi Patriarch, that is also a junior generation.

Therefore, there must be some secret in this.

However, now that Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi has become a Half-Saint, would he still enter the fray? Even if the path of Journey to the West has great merit.

But this thing, for those below the Great Luo Golden Immortal level, might have some attraction, but for Zhenyuanzi, what does it count for?

Zhenyuanzi is not like other bigwigs of the Daoist sect who, after establishing a sect, need to think about the disciples below, so they would plot some merit.

What is Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi? One person eats his fill and the whole family is not hungry, so he would definitely not care much about this merit.

Furthermore, the two Western Saints have always owed the karma of Zhenyuanzi's good friend Hongyun. If Hongyun were completely dead, then the karma would dissipate.

But Hongyun has not completely fallen; his true spirit is still there, and there will be a day of return, so Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi and the West will always be in a state of hostility.

Hongyun's fall also involved the schemes of the two Western Saints.

Zhenyuanzi himself is even more hostile to the Buddhist Sect, so how could he cooperate with the Buddhist Sect to add flowers to their brocade, unless the Buddhist Sect paid a huge price.

This price would be used on his old friend Hongyun.

"So if Journey to the West really exists, and Great Immortal Zhenyuanzi really cooperates, it is very likely because of that old Daoist Hongyun!"

Su Fan thought secretly in his heart. ===== CHAPTER 1042 =====