Chapter 1960: Heaven Opens the Apertures

He Pingsheng nodded: "Keep talking!"

"Yes!" Yusi continued: "Young Master, if you want to reach the God Emperor Realm, you must open at least thirty apertures in the Divine Lord Realm!"

"Thirty is a particularly important milestone!"

"In the entire Divine Realm, those who achieve great things basically all open more than thirty apertures!"

"I believe Young Master can definitely do it too!"

He Pingsheng smiled: "I hope so!"

"But Yusi, opening thirty apertures only gives hope to enter the God Emperor Realm—then… what about the title God Emperor?"

Yusi said: "Once you reach the title God Emperor, there's no fixed rule!"

"Because the title God Emperor and God Emperor are actually the same realm!"

"Naturally, the more apertures you have, the better, but it's said there are precedents of those who opened only thirty apertures and became title God Emperors!"

He Pingsheng asked: "Are there any with thirty-six apertures?"

"Yes!" Yusi nodded, "but they're all legendary existences!"

"It's said that the one who opened the three thousand and first Xiang Huo Dao had thirty-six apertures!"

"Others are very rare, or rather, nonexistent!"

"Young Master, what I've told you are all innate apertures!"

He Pingsheng nodded.

He already knew this common sense, no need for Yusi to explain.

Apertures are divided into two types.

One is innate apertures.

This type is fixed when one is in the Divine Lord Realm and cannot be changed for life.

But in extremely rare cases, some people open apertures.

That is, when someone attains the title God Emperor, they enfeoff their relatives, friends, children, etc., as assistant gods, and then the phenomenon of opened apertures occurs.

This happens during the enfeoffment.

For example, if one day He Pingsheng attains the title God Emperor, he can enfeoff his Dao Companion Kong Jiaojiao as an assistant god.

Assistant god is the God Emperor!

But what if Kong Jiaojiao's innate apertures are insufficient?

No problem—just enfeoff, and the power of the rules will fill Kong Jiaojiao's apertures; the excess is called opened apertures.

"As for omens!" Yusi shook her head: "When innate apertures open, there are no omens at all!"

"Perhaps it's to protect those with extraordinary talents!"

Hearing this, He Pingsheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, feeling at ease.

What he feared most was the appearance of heavenly omens.

For example, when treading the Immortal Realm and becoming a Golden Immortal, if one's fortune is sufficient, it will draw heaven and earth resonance, with heaven and earth moving seven, eight, or nine times.

This easily draws others' attention.

"By the way, I suddenly thought of another question!" He Pingsheng looked at Yusi, switched to voice transmission, and said: "Your father cultivates the Yin-Yang Cicada of the Dao Sacrifice—aren't you afraid?"

"For example, when this Yin-Yang Cicada was just planted, the title God Emperor didn't notice it!"

"But once time passes, this title God Emperor can still feel his Dao foundation damaged, and it's not hard to guess someone is cultivating the Yin-Yang Cicada of the Dao Sacrifice!"

"Then, in anger, the title God Emperor slaughters all assistant God Emperors cleanly—wouldn't that work?"

"Eliminate future troubles forever!"

"Hehehe..." Yusi chuckled: "Young Master, the powers of the Divine Realm are intricately intertwined, and it's not that simple!"

"For example, once the title God Emperor feels his Dao foundation damaged, his first thought won't be that a God Emperor is scheming against him; he'll think it's one or several of the twelve assistant gods joining forces against him!"

"Such things have happened many times in ancient times!"

"Basically, every newly appointed title God Emperor is almost always the former assistant god!"

"I've said this—Young Master should understand, right?"

"Furthermore..." Yusi paused, then smiled: "In the Divine Realm's three thousand great Dao, no matter which great Dao, there is one true god and twelve assistant gods; as for the God Emperor Realm, there are even more—fewer than a hundred ten, more than a thousand or even several thousand!"

"If all were slaughtered, it would hardly be possible!"

He Pingsheng said: "This is something I, as Young Master, hadn't considered…… but there's another problem: since the title God Emperor confers godhood and enfeoffs assistant gods who are his own people, is there really so much scheming?"

"Exactly!" Yusi said: "Upon reaching the God Emperor Realm, one is no longer bound by the heaven-earth covenant, meaning one won't become another's slave!"

"Put differently, if one day Young Master you attain the title God Emperor and enfeoff me as an assistant god, I will no longer be your servant, and our master-servant contract will be broken accordingly!"

"This adds the possibility of betrayal!"

"This isn't the most important—my father once said the powers of the Divine Realm are intricately intertwined, often just exchanges of interest!"

"Continuing with Young Master you as an example: if you are a fire-attribute title God Emperor, but Lady Huo cultivates the Creation Dao Law, you definitely couldn't enfeoff her as a fire-attribute assistant god!"

"You'd seek a title God Emperor of the Creation Dao, ask for a quota, and then yield one of your own quotas!"

"Thus, in the Divine Realm, mutual exchanges make the relationship between true gods and assistant gods actually very complex!"

"Thus, trust naturally doesn't exist!"

He Pingsheng said: "Understood…… forget these…… Yusi, guard my Dharma!"

"I will swallow the Nine Apertures Linglong!"

He Pingsheng walked to his own Dao field, and Yusi stood outside watching.

He first calmed himself for several days, letting his body and Divine Sense fully relax, then took out a top-grade Nine Apertures Linglong of Strengthening Fire and swallowed it in one gulp.

"Boom—"

At the instant the Nine Apertures Linglong was swallowed into his abdomen, a purple aura instantly generated from within him, then shot out from between his eyebrows: the First Aperture, open!

The second stream of purple Qi surged from the root of He Pingsheng's tongue: the Hai Quan aperture, open!

The third stream of Qi surged from the Jade Pillow at the back of his neck: the Lu Lu aperture, open!

The fourth stream of Qi surged from his throat: the San Yuan aperture, open!

The fifth stream of Qi pierced from his chest cavity: the Bai Hu aperture, open!

The sixth stream of Qi surged from the location of his heart: the Peng Xiao aperture, open!

The seventh stream of Qi surged from the location of his liver: the Qing Long aperture, open!

The eighth and ninth streams of Qi respectively surged from near He Pingsheng's tailbone: the Cui Wei aperture, the Yuan Men aperture, open!

Just when He Pingsheng thought the opening of the nine apertures was complete, another beam of light shot out from within his body.

The tenth, the Huang Ting aperture, open!

The eleventh, the Huang Zhong aperture, open!

The twelfth, the Su Hua aperture, open!

This...

He Pingsheng was dumbfounded!

Wasn't it said that after swallowing the Nine Apertures Exquisite Pill, one could only open nine apertures?

Why did I open twelve apertures in one go?

Is it because this old man possesses extraordinary talent, or is it because I swallowed a supreme-grade Nine Apertures Exquisite Pill?

He Pingsheng hadn't even had time to think further before his body slowly floated up.

Standing three feet off the ground.

Twelve apertures opened.

Twelve beams of purple divine light shot out from the different apertures of his body.

They lasted for a full ten-odd breaths of time before these lights slowly dissipated.