Chapter 275: Golden Toad's Promotion (Seven Thousand Two Seeking Monthly Votes)

Xu Jia was very satisfied with this Lu Zhenqi, and immediately said: "Although I am about to set up an altar and establish a sect, besides the True Transmission Dharma Lineage, I also intend to gather the strengths of the Hundred-Family. If I have the ability in the future, I will refine the Daoist Canon. Your Shanju Guan Ancestor, Caiyu Zhenren, has now failed in his body-refining, is reborn as a child to cultivate again, and has also taken me as his master to become a True Transmission Disciple. Your Shanju Guan will be a branch sect established by a True Transmission Disciple, essentially remaining within my Lingbao Dharma Lineage."

"Since you have already cultivated the Tiangang Great Sage Thunder Law, I will pass on to you a proper Thunder Law to worship the Zhengyang Thunder General. This Zhengyang Thunder General is one of the two Thunder Lords who assisted us in subduing the Centipede Dragon and the evil City God last time. He originates from the Desire Realm. I once promised to help them set up altars and offerings, so you shall personally set up the Zhengyang Thunder Altar and cultivate the Thunder Law."

"Although the Tiangang Great Sage Thunder Law was improved by me, it is still very difficult for you to internally refine the Tiangang Secret Point. If you are not careful, the Thunder Sha will destroy your heart, easily leading to death and the extinction of your Primordial Spirit. The Zhengyang Thunder Law is much gentler. As for the Tiangang Thunder Law, we will only preserve the Tiangang Thunder Jiao as an altar ritual for refining gunpowder and cannons. The corresponding internal refining Thunder Law must wait until you complete the Human Immortal cultivation."

Lu Zhenqi was ecstatic upon hearing this: "The Tiangang Great Sage Thunder Law is indeed very difficult. Our foundation is the Genyue Qi-Absorption Method, and later we changed to the Five Earths Nourishing Ganoderma Method, but it is not suitable for cultivating this law. We cannot grasp the sun and moon, yin and yang, or even the Qi of the two kidneys. When we refine external thunder, we also rely on the simple altar rituals of the Tiangang Great Sage to perform consecration; essentially, it is for refining Magic Tools, not an actual internal refining method."

"If we can obtain the internal refining of the Zhengyang Thunder Law, it would be equivalent to having a transition for the Tiangang Thunder Law."

"That is indeed the case. The Tiangang Thunder Law is essentially the combination of yin and yang Qi into upright Qi, which is the Tiangang Upright Qi. If either the yin Qi or yang Qi of the human body is too strong or too weak, it will lead to the invasion of evil Qi, whether it be heat-evil or cold-evil. The essence of cultivating Tiangang Upright Qi is to support the upright and dispel the evil."

"The Zhengyang Thunder Law has the merit of supporting yang Qi. It is a pure yang thunder, suitable for men to cultivate, especially virgin men. Subsequently, when yin and yang complement each other, it will be very easy to cultivate the Tiangang internal refining Thunder Law, construct the Tiangang Secret Point, and visualize the Tiangang Great Sage, thereby personally commanding the Thunder Department Heavenly Troops."

"Combining one's own evil thoughts with yin sha creates Chang troops; combining one's own evil thoughts with thunder sha creates thunder troops."

Xu Jia passed down this Zhengyang Thunder Law, which in fact mainly consisted of the secret names left by the Zhengyang Thunder Lord last time. Xu Jia compiled them into a Register, which is the Zhengyang Thunder Register: "Once you obtain this Register and set up an altar to worship the Zhengyang Thunder General, he will naturally pass on his Daoist lineage to you, allocate troops and horses to the altar, and even teach you how to refine troops."

"From now on, you shall study the Thunder Law. Among the disciples under my tutelage, none are yet proficient in internal refining Thunder Law. If you achieve success in your cultivation, you can also open a branch of your own."

The rule here is that an Earth Immortal can open a sect and establish a lineage.

The Daoist gate is not a gang of thugs that must integrate a large group of people together.

Everyone who achieves success in cultivation is a dragon among men with a firm Daoist heart. If they cannot establish a Blessed Land on the spot or enter a Cave Heaven for secluded cultivation, they will likely travel and find a suitable place to cultivate.

The Ancestral Court is also happy for this; it is best if disciples and followers occupy the famous mountains and great rivers of the world, blossoming everywhere, and then communicate with each other.

Lu Zhenqi's eyes truly lit up. He happily thanked Xu Jia for passing on the law and went off to the Salt and Iron Bureau to set up the altar, feeling very cheerful.

Seeing this disaster leave, the Jingzhu Daoren could not help but feel happy. After all, there are few who believe that explosion is art, and the temple is, after all, a place for quiet cultivation.

He asked: "Does True Person Xu have anything that needs us to do?"

Xu Jia never visits the Three Pure Ones Palace without a reason; every time he comes, he treats the Daoists of Shanju Guan as tools. However, there is one benefit: the financial income of Shanju Guan has risen significantly, and the professional capabilities of the Daoists are top-notch. Having experienced many major scenes, their Jiao Rituals have become increasingly formal. Nowadays, the funeral rites requested by wealthy households to transcend their mothers have also risen in price; it cannot be done without a hundred or eighty taels of silver.

They supervise the construction of the Sanqing Palace and are responsible for assessing the recruitment of disciples. In addition to their own cultivation, the Daoists in the temple also take on various secular duties, but it does not hinder them, and they have no complaints.

"Chang Yu, who is the Yushan Mountain God, is the Earth Division Gouchen Troop Altar Marshal I appointed. He is currently undergoing the Five Hundred Year Great Tribulation of an Earth Immortal. I intend to help him successfully pass the tribulation and, with the help of his Mountain God power, open up the Yushan Blessed Land. I have already found out that the Yellow Heaven Sect once set up a Cave Heaven and a Blessed Land here. The Cave Heaven is one hundred and eighty miles in circumference, and the Blessed Land is over forty miles in circumference. However, this Blessed Land relied on the Yellow Heaven Sect Altar and was maintained by the faith of the sect members and the construction of the Divine Path. Now that they have been destroyed and the evil gods have been eradicated, there is insufficient faith to maintain the operation of the Cave Heaven and Blessed Land. Your Ancestor, Caiyu Zhenren, likely obtained a portion of the inheritance of the Blessed Land and Cave Heaven."

"Once Chang Yu wakes up, we can search for the remnants of the original Cave Heaven and Blessed Land. They must still be drifting in the Dharma Realm. Even if they cannot be used again for practitioners to reside in their Primordial Spirits, they can be used as camps for troops and horses, allowing them to be stationed within the abandoned Cave Heaven and Blessed Land."

Hearing that Yushan originally had a Blessed Land and Cave Heaven, the Jingzhu Daoren was overjoyed. If a Blessed Land is governed by an Earth Immortal True Person, it can exist between the Dharma Realm and the real world, accommodating a certain number of practitioners and isolating them from external interference. If a Cave Heaven is governed by a God Immortal, it can even adjust the passage of time internally, achieving the effect of 'a day in the Cave Heaven, a thousand years in the world' (an exaggeration). Of course, more importantly, Cave Heaven Blessed Lands can escape reincarnation. Although they cannot escape life and death, after death, the soul can continue to cultivate as a Ghost Immortal or practice the Corpse-Dissection Technique. This leads to many Blessed Lands actually being so-called 'graveyards', one feng shui tomb after another, which does not look very auspicious.

This is still very attractive to the Daoists of Shanju Guan: "Do we only need to set up a Jiao Ritual to worship the Mountain God?"

"To be precise, it is the Taiyin Dharma Jiao, worshipping the Taiyin Star Lord, and incidentally worshipping the Mountain God." Xu Jia said: "The Mid-Autumn Festival on the fifteenth of the eighth month is a good day. You can tell the common people in advance and let the people at the foot of the mountain participate in the worship together to pray for themselves, their families, and their ancestors."

"That will cost a lot of money." The Shanju Guan Daoist pondered: "It would be better to hold the disciple assessment around the fifteenth of the eighth month as well, with the same grandeur, doing two things at once, so the common people don't have to run back and forth several times, and we don't have to set things up several times."

Xu Jia nodded in agreement: "That's a good idea. Jin Chan has earned a lot of money recently. The gold sand and treasures stored in the Xin River Water Mansion have all been sent to him. You just need to write a budget and get him to approve the slip."

"That will probably exceed two million coins, estimated to be about three or four thousand taels of silver."

Xu Jia nodded: "You just handle it as you see fit. Don't be afraid of spending too much money. There will be many times when we need you in the future. Weren't those temples and Daoist temples in Dexing occupied by the Longevity Sect Dharma King before?"

"Later, some of the Daoist temple disciples and temple monks here came back and wanted to take them back."

"For those with land deeds and housing deeds, let them spend money to redeem them. For those with nothing, Jin Chan just gave them a sum of money and occupied those temples and Daoist temples. There are two or three of them. Although they don't occupy much land, with three or four rooms, they are still small Daoist Daochangs."

"I intend to turn them all into Three Pure Ones Lower Courts. Among these disciples, I will only recruit a portion into the Sanqing Palace to become disciples. The remaining ones actually have quite a few seeds for cultivation. You should cultivate them well in the temple, and then go to take over those Lower Courts. Arranging seven or eight people in one place to set up a private altar is perfectly fine."

"Not to mention a Daochang for every village, at least in the towns, there should be some to satisfy the needs of the common people to worship gods and make wishes, and some Daoists can also be arranged to preach and spread the teachings."

Xu Jia said: "At the very least, don't be like the previous few times, where we had to borrow forty-nine proper Daoists who know Jiao Rituals from other places. We are now the main altar of the Lingbao Lineage, so we must at least manage the local area well and pass down the Lingbao Method."

The number of resident disciples of Shanju Guan is less than twenty, and while there are many servants and volunteers, they are of little use. The others have gone to other places—wandering, returning to secular life after leaving the mountain, going home to marry wives... none of these are counted."

The Jingzhu Daoren said awkwardly: "Our incense money wasn't much before, and because we didn't know the evil god had defiled the Mountain God, many seniors died from Qi deviation, and the Yin Master on the Ancestor altar was also swallowed by the evil god, causing heavy losses... Before, there were actually more than fifty proper disciples... But this time we must seize the opportunity to recruit some disciples and young boys."

Xu Jia nodded: "That is exactly so. How can we grow without people? But... it seems I didn't give you the Register method last time, so you can't be considered proper Spirit Treasure Disciples. But it doesn't matter. Not to mention other Register methods, the Human Immortal Register method—I will pass it on to all of you, one by one! There is no time like the present; call them all over."

This was truly an unexpected joy for the Jingzhu Daoren. They knew what the effect of Xu Jia's Register method was. Last time, when building the Lingbao Altar and conferring the Celestial Master Register, Xu Jia gave out many, and even small demons got a Register, but the Daoists on their altar didn't, which was actually a bit disappointing.

Now that Xu Jia is making up for it, it means they are his own people.

"Actually, I wanted to wait for Cai Yu to grow up before conferring it to him, and then confer it to you after he becomes an Earth Immortal, so that the inheritance would be orderly. But it will take some time for him to grow up. Although he looks different every day now and his bone age has reached seven or eight years old, he needs at least a bone age of fourteen, fifteen, or sixteen to perform Human Immortal Foundation Establishment. I estimate it will be about the same time the Sanqing Palace is completed, but it's not fair to you, so I will pass the Human Immortal Register to you now. This Register method is specifically for assisting cultivation and has no other use. To cultivate his Register, you will have to wait until the next time the palace is completed and the ceremony of adding the Register is performed at the Lingbao Zongtan."

"The Human Immortal Register method is already very good!" Fearing that Xu Jia would go back on his word, the Jingzhu Daoren hurriedly summoned all the Daoists.

There were only sixteen people in total. Xu Jia conferred the Register method to them one by one. They were all sub-Registers branched out from the Register method within his own body. What was consumed was actually a portion of his own Daoist Practice, but the Register method itself is just a guide; the master leads the door, and cultivation still depends on the individual.

"The connection with the Dharma Realm has actually increased by more than ten times, and our cultivation efficiency has also multiplied by ten!"

"Zhang Zhenji didn't pass on the Register? You didn't know the effect?"

"He exaggerated, how could we think it was true? Now that the True Person has conferred the Register, we know it is not false."

Xu Jia nodded: "Cultivating fast is not necessarily a good thing. The first priority of cultivation is to cultivate the heart, the second is to accumulate Merit, and the third is to polish Dharma Power. For example, you, your Daoist Practice is already at the Human Immortal perfection. Conferring the Human Immortal Register only condenses your Human Immortal Dharma Power; it cannot help you break through to Earth Immortal. How to break through still depends on yourself—passing through tribulations, completing a feat of Merit, or sudden enlightenment of Heaven and Man. Only after you become an Earth Immortal can I add the Earth Immortal Register to you, rather than me adding the Earth Immortal Register first so that you can become an Earth Immortal."

They all cultivate the Genyue Qi-Absorption Method. Although it was improved later, it still has a deep connection with the Divine Path, especially the Mountain God method. Once Chang Yu achieves Earth Immortal and is officially appointed as the Yushan Mountain God, their Mountain God Jiao Ritual will become a ritual for Chang Yu to increase his power, and Chang Yu will also feed his own power back to them through the Jiao Ritual, achieving an 'Immortal-God Complementary' mode and completing a positive cycle.

The Jingzhu Daoren sighed: "That is enough. The sooner you complete the Human Immortal stage of cultivation, the easier it is to enter the Earth Immortal stage, or you will have more time to accumulate Merit, to perceive the nature of heaven and earth, to experience, and to pass through tribulations. It's just a pity for the old temple master; he sacrificed himself. Otherwise, by today, he might have achieved Earth Immortal."

Xu Jia could not continue this topic and only said: "I will trouble you with these things."

After the other disciples of Shanju Guan obtained the Register method, they were also very excited and started to operate it. The Register method itself is a key, a key to improve the authority of heaven and earth. In the past, their perception of the Dharma Realm was hazy, but after obtaining the Register method, it gradually became clear. They could more easily draw what they needed from the Dharma Realm. For example, when drawing talismans, drawing them after obtaining the Register method was more effective and powerful. Even if they drew some meaningless strokes, they could gather the energy of the Dharma Realm to form a momentum, warning those ghosts and demons.

Of course, the moment they were conferred the Register was also the moment their names were recorded by the Three Officials, incorporating them into the regulatory system of the Heavenly Court and the Underworld, because they were sub-Registers under the Lingbao Register system.

This heavy regulatory system is what determines where they go after death, or when they reach a certain level of cultivation, the Three Officials' Office will arrange Demon Examination tribulations.

In short, there are both pros and cons.

Xu Jia explained these considerations to them, and they all felt that the advantages outweighed the disadvantages. They didn't think there was anything wrong with it; the price of freedom is becoming a Yin Master or a Wandering Master after death. Unless the ancestor has some status above, it is better to enter the system.

Xu Jia still has certain expectations for them, at least higher than the disciples and grandchildren of the Tongtian Temple in San Francisco, America.

The water in America generally has lead content exceeding the standard by many times, which can be considered as starting to take external pills of lead and mercury in advance... And this is just one of them; the other pollution is unknown how many times higher. Their aptitude is truly terrible. Xu Jia can only pull the seedlings to help them grow and has absolutely no expectation that any of them can achieve Earth Immortal.

"Wait for Chang Yu to wake up and establish the Mountain God Office, then you can take office. Of course, the largest office here is the Jiangnan West Circuit Demon Affairs Office, which is a Fifth Rank office in the Desire Realm, much better than the Seventh Rank Mountain God office in the Desire Realm. You can assist him in operating the Cave Heaven. Even if you can't cultivate to Earth Immortal, you will at least have a Ghost Immortal or Ghost God as a fallback."

The Jingzhu Daoren pondered for a while: "Then we still have to cultivate to Earth Immortal. If we are not confident in internal refining, then we will persist in worshipping, setting up altars, and performing Jiao Rituals, and accumulate more external Merit to reach three hundred good deeds. Even without cultivating Dharma Power, we can directly achieve Earth Immortal. It's just that I can't see how much good I have accumulated and how much karma I have created."

"Transcending the Xin River water ghosts last time accumulated at least three merits."

Xu Jia knows the way to calculate Merit in the Underworld: "Solving a drought once is three merits, solving a flood and beheading a flood dragon once is three merits, saving over a thousand lives from a plague is three merits, transcending every hundred evil ghosts who are unwilling to reincarnate counts as one merit, and stopping an unnecessary war and massacre of a city counts directly as a hundred merits."

The Jingzhu Daoren pondered: "It seems I haven't accumulated much merit..."

Xu Jia said: "Is accumulating merit and doing good the goal, or the means? Or perhaps the original intention? You must first settle your heart before you can proceed."

Xu Jia let his disciples and grand-disciples from his past life perform merit; they directly said they would establish a charity foundation. Xu Jia did not even know if that counted, and it was not easy to remind them, so he let them toss and turn as they pleased.

The Scripture Master Daoist, however, was a person of insight: "So, you mean that if I perform one act of merit, it counts as one act of merit, and I will never be able to finish doing them all; but if I just let one count as one without calculating, it will naturally be accomplished, is that it?" "Correct, the most important thing is to follow the natural course of things. You must know that among the Eight Sufferings and calamities, there is the suffering of 'not getting what one seeks.' Life is full of Demon Examinations everywhere, and what is tested is the heart. Those examiners who specialize in Demon Examinations are the most eccentric and tricky, but as long as your heart is upright, you have nothing to fear."

Just as Xu Jia finished complaining about the examiners, suddenly a bolt of dry-land thunder struck the gourd on top of Shanju Guan, exploding with sparks.

"See? This is the True Transmission; otherwise, the heavens would not issue a warning. Do not spread it recklessly; just keep it in your heart."

Xu Jia ignored this warning.

The Scripture Master Daoist was suddenly enlightened: "So that is how it is. Truly, a single sentence of True Transmission is worth ten thousand volumes of false teachings."

After transmitting these Register techniques to these people, Xu Jia's Daoist Practice suffered some loss, but it was not much; he would cultivate it back in two or three days. However, getting Shanju Guan to focus their hearts and completely submit to working for him was well worth it.

"Old Immortal! Old Immortal! Your disaster has arrived!"

Xu Jia spent a few more days on the mountain transmitting techniques to the Daoists of Shanju Guan. They were all minor techniques, but they all suited them well. It was also a chance to experience in advance the feeling of being an ancestor of a sect and opening a mountain gate.

He heard Sparrow Queen relaying the message in a panic.

Xu Jia had also bestowed the Register technique upon her, and since she did not lack food or drink, he had already brought her to fifty years of Daoist Practice. It did not take much; she was now the Sparrow Queen, in charge of Yushan Dexing and the surrounding aerial intelligence work.

It was just that she worked sporadically, and most of the intelligence work was done by Kan Yinwu; her intelligence reports were all just gossip...

"What is the matter again?"

Sparrow Queen stood on Xu Jia's finger. She had grown much fatter and rounder, and there was a pheasant feather stuck in her tail. It was one of the life-bound feathers of the Inverted Feather Kun Yao, which she had already refined, and it had increased her flight speed significantly. Although she aspired to become a phoenix, she was still far from it.

"An old woman has come to cause trouble for you! She is very fierce! She raised a Wind Thunder Eagle that caught many of my little brothers to interrogate them for intelligence. After asking, she ate them, one bite each. If I hadn't run fast, I would have been eaten by her too."

Xu Jia pinched his fingers to calculate and knew that the Sect Master of the Lishan Sect's Fenglei Gate, Yuan Wenying, was about to arrive.

This Yuan Wenying cultivated the Wind and Thunder Technique and was skilled in the Wind Thunder Escape Method. She was also an "Extraordinary Person" who possessed a pair of Wind Thunder Wings. She could not fly in reality, but once she escaped into the Dharma Realm, she could transform. That Wind Thunder Eagle was precisely a strange spirit pet that she had possessed with her own thoughts, refined with Wind and Thunder Dharma Power.

But it was still no match for Xu Jia, who now used a flying sword to break through the Dharma Realm, arriving as soon as he thought of it, comparable to the Buddhist "Divine Foot Power."

Regardless, she came aggressively and soon found Ling Yun and Yilei outside Jinshan Temple.

Without a word, Yuan Wenying slapped each of them once with full force, instantly swelling half of their faces.

Her face was as cold as frost: "You two have truly lost all face. Even the Sect Master had to send me out to concede. Lishan has raised you too well; you cannot even handle such a small matter."

"Master..."

Ling Yun and Yilei lowered their heads, not daring to refute.

Immediately, Yuan Wenying looked at Chen Liuxian, who was guarding outside Jinshan Temple. She looked him up and down; he was indeed material for an Immortal, but he had already lost his spirit, like a walking corpse.

She frowned. She had also experienced this thing called Love Tribulation. She had cultivated the Dao as a farm woman; she had already been married and was nearly forty when she cultivated the Dao, and she had two sons.

At first, she could not bear to let go, but when she returned home, the villagers cursed her as a monster, even her sons were afraid of her, and her husband thought she had long since died and turned into an evil ghost...

In any case, she could not go back and could only continue cultivating on the mountain. Later, relying on the Wind and Thunder Technique, she swept away demons and monsters in the Qinling Mountains and eradicated evil gods. On the top of Taibai Mountain, she encountered a violent storm and was struck by lightning without dying; later, she became an Earth Immortal, which was considered quite smooth.

But after becoming an Earth Immortal, her potential was exhausted, and she could not advance further unless she ate another Wind Thunder Date like the one she had eaten back then, or was struck by heavenly lightning again without dying and fell into enlightenment. However, the more people cultivate the Dao, the more they fear death. Moreover, the power of heavenly lightning is infinite; if one tried to court death and succeeded, one would be struck to death directly... the risk was still very high.

"Where is that wicked obstacle Liu Ruyan?"

Ling Yun said: "She is suppressed by the City God Judge in the underground palace of the temple's pagoda. Unless she sheds her Yao body, she is not allowed to leave the pagoda."

"That is considered fair," Yuan Wenying said. "But it is not his place to judge. The Sect Master said that although you two have lost your primordial yin, it cannot be blamed on you. It is just that you are too stupid. You have certainly lost the opportunity to become the Sect Master of Fenglei Gate in the future. After returning, enter the Lishan Cave Heaven to cultivate for a period of time, be confined, and remove your worldly desires."

"How can one ascend to the Shangjie if one does not remove desires to leave the Desire Realm? My Lishan Sect is a thousand-year-old major sect with a long heritage; it is not something a small, insignificant sect can compare to."

The two remained silent, not knowing what they were thinking in their hearts, and they dared not look at Yuan Wenying, nor did they dare to look at Chen Liuxian.

Yuan Wenying continued: "Although the Sect Master has given orders, the two letters between you and him still do not explain things clearly. Tell me the story again. Do not lie to deceive me, or I will use the Seven Star Wind Thunder Whip to beat your faces to a pulp."

The two had no choice but to supplement the story of what had happened since they arrived here.

"In other words, you first determined that the Wealth God was an Evil God of Wealth, and then heard that this Evil God of Wealth was personally appointed by this person. You said a few words, which led to a verbal altercation and triggered a Calamity?"

"Yes." Ling Yun lowered his head even further: "Perhaps there really is some hidden story inside that we do not know... but Master taught us that when we encounter such evil gods, we should not hold back and must eradicate them completely..."

"I had a premonition when I arrived here. There are many licentious sacrifices and evil offerings, a lot of foul and stinking air, gathering the Red Dust Desire Thoughts of the Desire Realm together. Especially in Yushan County, the desire is like a sea, turning into Red Dust Turbid Qi. Someone like me who cultivates pure Qi is very wary of it and dare not enter, fearing being affected. However, these seven emotions and six desires are good fertilizer for watering the Spirit Root and the Passion Root Fruit Tree."

"Since it started because of this evil god, then let us first see this evil god. If he is truly a great evil god, then it means you were not wrong, and there is no need to apologize. This Daoist must be an evil practitioner; we will find a way to take him down."

Although she was hot-tempered, she was also protective of her own.

"What about Ruyan?"

"Let her be confined for now; we will take her when we leave."

Xu Jia, on his side, heard the intelligence from Sparrow Queen and calculated a few things, knowing that someone from the Lishan Sect had arrived.

This person could not be considered evil; the Wind Thunder hexagram was auspicious, and she was not a person who could not distinguish right from wrong.

Xu Jia also calculated the Golden Toad. The Golden Toad had sworn an oath that was related to thunder, but he thought he was not afraid of being struck by lightning. Now, someone who knew thunder had come.

Yuan Wenying did not bring her two disciples and entered Yushan County alone. She used a Dragon Tiger Wind Thunder Token to shield herself from the Red Dust Desire Thoughts, reducing much of the spiritual pollution and interference from the Dharma Realm.

Besides being the Sect Master of Fenglei Gate, she was also a devotee of the Daning Dynasty and a Fifth Rank Daoist Official of the Dao Record Bureau, the main force in suppressing the ominous in the Qinling Mountains.

In the Qinling Mountains, there were many demons and monsters. Inside, there were Yao Caves, which were equivalent to Cave Heavens, and at the same time, many cultivation sects were hidden and stationed there.

But when she looked closely at how Yushan was, she was stunned. Yushan County was not quite the same as an ordinary county; its prosperity was comparable to several direct-administered counties around Xi'an.

There were all kinds of restaurants and hotels, groups of vendors on the street, and the clothes worn by the common people rarely had patches.

She was an Earth Immortal, and an Earth Immortal was also known as an Omniscience True Person. She could deduce many things from what she already knew. With a thought, she saw several Wealth Treasuries floating above Yushan County, and the wealth Qi within the treasuries moved back and forth like a long river...

It just so happened that the Golden Toad's nine wealth treasuries were full, completing the most primitive accumulation of wealth, transforming evil into good, and beginning to ascend.

His promotion today was to become the True Wealth God.

The 7,200 Golden Toads croaked, spitting out countless treasures: ruyi, precious pearls, Golden Hairpins, gold ingots, silver ingots, copper coins...

"Good wealth, good use! Good wealth, good giving!"

The Golden Toads called out. The debt ghosts turned debt into capital; the debts owed in the past became their own capital. Not only were they not in debt, but they underwent a magnificent transformation...

However, the Wind Thunder Daoist only felt that there was something suspicious. The Golden Toad had drawn the wealth Qi from everyone in Dexing and Yushan. Ninety percent of the people with capital had learned to invest money, wanting to earn profits from the Golden Toad—in other words, "stock speculation."

The Golden Toad had completed several rounds of financing. The first round used fraudulent means to turn the 7,200 debt ghosts and the wealth Qi of the Treasure Basin's Yin Demon into his own use. The second round was to cheat those lazy people, gamblers, and hooligans, selling them as his slaves to reclaim wasteland and obtain fixed assets... The third round, under Xu Jia's guidance, used this part of the assets as collateral to open a pawnshop, issue Golden Toad bonds, and obtain the first round of financing. The fourth round was the Dexing flood; a large amount of assets were bought at a very low price, and then through disaster relief, they were turned into benign assets, continuing to issue bonds... expansion financing... and then it became unstoppable... a large number of merchants spontaneously invested funds and assets, joining this game and making it bigger... a huge capital pool was already beginning to feel like it was overflowing.

Yushan and Dexing can no longer satisfy the commercial activities of the Golden Toad; financial expansion is about to begin. The promotion is also about to begin...

To become a True Wealth God, even if it is only Ninth Rank, he is still a True Wealth God! (End of chapter)