Chapter 256: Yellow Heaven Dao Kingdom

With the Yellow Heaven Sect as a precedent, Xu Jia quickly thought of a method: using his own "Golden Body of the Spirit Shrine" as an anchor and his own Inner Scene Blessed Land as a core to create a Dharma Realm Divine Kingdom just like it.

The Golden Body possesses faith, and in another world—or two worlds—as long as the Daoist lineage is not extinct in any one of them, it can always rise from the ashes.

Zhang Jiao or Zhang Jiao might have done the same.

Xu Jia, relying on the connection of the talisman, sat cross-legged beneath the Three Sovereigns Ten Thousand People Umbrella. This Three Sovereigns Ten Thousand People Umbrella was protected by the willpower of ten thousand people and also had ten thousand demons as protectors; the Three Primitive Demon Rings served as a triple barrier, capable of shielding his own body so he would not become lost within the Dharma Realm.

His consciousness entered the Dharma Realm, intending to explore this Divine Kingdom of the Yellow Heaven Sect within the Dharma Realm a little.

Firstly, Xu Jia was interested in the Divine Kingdom itself; secondly, he was interested in the Yellow Heaven Sect's mechanical Ghost Gods; thirdly, he was interested in the founder of the sect, Zhang Jiao.

Previously, Xu Jia had only walked on the shallow surface layers of the Dharma Realm, and most of the ghosts, demons, and Dharma Realm creatures were also on the shallow layers.

But the dimensions of the Dharma Realm are variable, with deep layers and high layers; it is like a sea of dimensions, with waves layered upon layers, one after another, and also like a star-sea vortex in the universe.

In short, it is mysterious and unfathomable.

Xu Jia's consciousness projected into the Dharma Realm, appearing as if on a vast sea with a wooden raft; he sat upon the wooden raft, drifting toward the Yellow Heaven Divine Kingdom in the depths of the Dharma Realm.

The Immortal rode the wooden raft, drifting away with the waves.

In the deeper layers of the Dharma Realm, he did not see beings of the Hungry Ghost Path—they could not cross the heavy dimensions—but there were some Ghost Gods and Demon Gods that had flourished in past eras and weakened in the modern age; it was easy to encounter them causing chaos when crossing.

The closer one got to the Yellow Heaven Dao Kingdom, the easier it was to encounter monsters from that era.

"How fragrant!" A white bone claw suddenly appeared in the depths of the Dharma Realm sea, intending to drag the wooden raft away.

However, before Xu Jia could strike it, it was immediately intercepted by the three demon rings within the Ten Thousand People Umbrella. The three demon rings were like three ruthless cutting machines, crushing and grinding against each other, dragging this white bone hand out instead. It turned out to be a gray pottery jar; nothing could be seen inside the jar, only this single bone hand.

Xu Jia recognized what this was; this thing was a so-called "Human Pig Jar."

A human pig is someone whose hands and feet have been cut off and who is placed inside a jar. After the human pig dies, their Resentment Qi condenses into hands and feet, yet the body is not revealed; even if one pries the jar open, one cannot see anything, as if these hands and feet grew out of thin air.

Commoners occasionally worshiped it because this jar belonged to the "Evil God of Wealth" type, which could swallow wealth Qi, but it preferred to devour children; if children were curious and looked into the jar to see what was inside, they would be pulled directly in.

It belongs to the "Jar God" of folk mythology.

Once this jar was fished up, it became obedient and did not move at all.

Xu Jia kicked it, and it crawled back up, like a dead dog.

It had determined it could not beat Xu Jia; the hand it had just reached out had already taught it a lesson, but it wanted to hitch a ride on Xu Jia's raft.

How could Xu Jia indulge it? He revealed the Golden Flood Dragon Sword.

Only a "plop" sound was heard, and this Jar God voluntarily jumped off the wooden raft, rolling back into the deep sea of the Dharma Realm.

Thus, he did not know how much more time passed; Xu Jia also encountered some monsters he could not afford to provoke, using Daoist techniques to hide, and also encountered those wanting to hitch a ride, all of which he resolved one by one.

Finally, he encountered a natural port of the Dharma Realm, where heaven and earth were inverted and truth and falsehood were confused. It was anchored by pillars reaching into the sky that were inserted deep into the Dharma Realm's sea of dimensions, with chains pulling the massive space in the middle: the Yellow Heaven Divine Kingdom.

It looked exactly like the appearance of Heavenly Master Xu's Iron Pillar Suppressing the Flood Dragon.

When Xu Jia abandoned the raft and went ashore, in a trance, he entered another layer of space, and everything around him began to move.

"Kill!"

"The Azure Heaven is dead, the Yellow Heaven shall stand; the year is Jiazi, great fortune under heaven!"

He saw a large group of insurgent soldiers wearing yellow vests and yellow turbans, a vast, swarming mass, charging toward another great army. "Taiping Clear-Leading Art! Heavenly Generals descend to the mortal world!"

In the army, there were Altar Carts being pushed by the insurgents; on the altars were Daoists with disheveled hair holding swords, and with every wave, ripples spread outward.

Instantly, those insurgents all inflated as if filled with air, appearing like Giant Spirit Gods descending from heaven, each one a zhang tall.

The battlefield on the other side was no worse; as military Qi and the Qi of weapons gathered, Ghost Gods appeared directly above the army—this was the so-called "Master of Soldiers."

This Master of Soldiers had a tiger's head and a human body, with fierce fangs and boundless Black Qi circling him. With a great roar, the army on his side turned into beings like saber-toothed tigers, beginning to fight with the Yellow Turban giants.

Although the giants had inexhaustible strength, the pouncing saber-toothed tigers were also top-tier hunters.

"You uncivilized barbarian god, you still dare to show off! This poor Daoist is a Libationer of the Taiping Dao under the Yellow Heaven Emperor, specifically here to subdue you Six Heaven Demon Gods. Why not surrender quickly? I will grant you a divine position in the Earth Court, and this Libationer can help you seek a Tao Fen to become a sixth-rank Mountain God!"

"Fart! You giant thieves who stole the authority of the Azure Heaven, don't even think about subverting the faith!"

"The Azure Heaven is nothing more than that. Now, His Majesty the Yellow Heaven has ascended the throne as the Heavenly Emperor. The Shangjie has already surrendered to the ten thousand worlds; you marginal, tiny realms in the corners of the world actually dare to disobey the royal transformation!"

"Presumptuous!"

The two sides began a war of words, and having lost their tempers, each unleashed their Divine Abilities and Daoist techniques.

The Master of Soldiers summoned the four Demon Gods of Wind, Fire, Mountain, and Forest: the Wind Demon God Great Peng Bird, the Fire Demon God Fire Qilin, the Mountain Demon God Giant Rock Turtle, and the Forest Demon God Heaven Green Python.

The four Demon Gods all respected the tiger-headed Master of Soldiers, lining up in the four directions to form an array.

The Yellow Heaven Sect Libationer sneered coldly: "Wind, Fire, Mountain, and Forest, if you join my sect, you can be granted the positions of the Four Heavenly Kings, guarding the Four Heavenly Gates of the Earth Court. Do not ruin yourselves!"

"Who wants to be your Earth Court watchdog!"

The Yellow Heaven Libationer pulled out a giant yellow flag, and suddenly the universe turned mysterious yellow; the Yellow Heaven Sect troops moved according to the flag signals, instantly arranging themselves into a fierce array.

"Behold my Central Yellow Heaven Qi Array!"

One could see yellow Qi surging in the array, and turbid Qi filling the air... hiding murderous intent.

Xu Jia was also surprised:... Shouldn't this Yellow Heaven Dao Kingdom be the paradise of the Yellow Heaven believers' ideals? Why is there so much killing and fighting?

But thinking carefully, the Yellow Heaven Sect had been denounced by public opinion for years. In the world of the living, when the Yellow Heaven Sect is mentioned, it is compared to the "Longevity Sect," listed among the Evil Sects. Historical records also classify them as one of the rebels who paved the way for kings.

In folk novels and stories, when Yellow Heaven Sect members occasionally appear, they are also a type of villain.

The Dharma Realm reflects the world of the living; because their lineage is not orthodox and they have no foundation in the living world, their projection into the Yellow Heaven Dao Kingdom naturally turned from a paradise into a chaotic world of constant rebellion, constant struggle, and war.

Thinking of this, Xu Jia stopped watching from the sidelines and began to cast spells to assist the Yellow Heaven Sect Libationer in suppressing the Master of Soldiers.

"Lushan Five Hells Array!"

The next moment, the sky and earth changed color, ghosts wailed and wolves howled, and five portals lined up in five directions; five types of evil ghosts crawled out from within and entered the battlefield...

"Where did this evil Daoist come from!"

The Libationer was pleasantly surprised: "Fellow Daoist, which branch of Libationer are you from in our sect? Why have I never seen you before?"

(End of chapter)