Longevity Chronicles-Chapter 584 - 385: Debate Between North and South, Spiritual Treasure Gives Birth to God

Chapter 584: Chapter 385: Debate Between North and South, Spiritual Treasure Gives Birth to God

In Wutong Temple, atop the White Jade Tower, Tao Qian had, in a single day, successively broken through both Preserving Essence and Absorb Qi barriers and went straight toward the Divine Communication Barrier.

If he could also break through that one, he would truly live up to his somewhat inflated title as the First Heavenly Pride among Daoists.

After all, this was akin to a session of cultivation that allowed one to leap an entire major realm, a feat not even the likes of Duobao True Monarch could achieve.

However, the "Divine Communication" barrier was not easy to overcome; the first two barriers were difficult to break because they came with a heavy cost that ordinary cultivators could not afford. Tao Qian was best at this and easily exempted himself from it.

But the third barrier was actually a kind of transformation through a profound understanding of one’s own life.

What is divinity?

The Innate Supreme Saint, unfathomable and not to be looked at directly.

After Preserving Essence and Absorb Qi, a cultivator’s Taoist Body could undergo a change and potentially grasp a strand of Divine Mechanism; if they could take the opportunity to glimpse the subtlety of Divinity, then they would achieve Divine Communication.

And once this barrier was broken, the path ahead would suddenly open up.

Not only could one extend their life by a thousand years, but they could also obtain many splendid and extraordinary powers.

This is why it is commonly said in the Cultivation World: only those who achieve Divine Communication can attain Longevity and Ultimate Happiness.

Tao Qian, because he cultivated the Spirit Treasure Daoist Scripture, found breaking through this barrier even more difficult, and it wasn’t something that could be overcome by talent alone.

The factors deciding whether one could break through depended first on one’s mental state and second on opportunity.

Yuan Gong, containing his emotions, estimated:

"Although this lad is a genius bestowed by heaven, to glimpse a trace of the divine charm of the Spirit Treasure Dao within that vast Source Sea, even if he really could do it, it would undoubtedly take a considerable amount of time."

"At best several months, at least one month."

It seemed like Yuan Gong had guessed correctly.

Tao Qian, who had continuously broken through two barriers without any halt, showed no further activity after that.

Seated in the Divine Palace with that profound demeanor, his Dao Seed shining and his wonderful body Absorb Qi. Each time his Lifebound Scripture circulated one cycle, the mana inside his body became thicker.

Back when he was still at the Perfect Transcend Mortality stage, his mana was already more vast than ordinary cultivators in the Cavernous Mystery Realm.

According to the conventional ranking used in the Cultivation World, Tao Qian could already be considered in the Late Stage of Cavernous Mystery.

Among his peers of such talent, speaking solely of mana, perhaps no one could compare with Tao Qian.

Even Taishang Wang Zhan and Spirit Treasure Xu Xun could not compete.

It was hard to imagine what Tao Qian’s mana would look like when he emerged from seclusion, with the rate at which he was Absorb Qi to refine mana?

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While Tao Qian was in closed-door cultivation, he was unaware that because of his involvement in the New Moon Uprising, the Longevity Heavenly Dynasty was again set into a great uproar.

Don’t look at the Ancestor Dragon Society as lacking strong people backing them; going through the members, not even one in the Ultimate Happiness Realm could be found who took down the entire New Moon Province, and that too was accomplished with the aid of much external force.

But because of the unique nature of the Ancestor Dragon Society, which was utterly different from the Northern Land factions, this uprising held an exceptional significance.

Since the Yang Sui Uprising!

The seventy-two provinces, driven by various complex factors, gradually developed a divide between the North and the South.

The Southern ten-odd provinces each had different rulers.

Some were warlords in control of vast armies, like the Great Governor Lu Qianjun of Yundian Province.

Others were major sects, like the Infant Sect in Southern Yue, Guanyin Temple, and Daughter Country in Fumin.

Though vastly different, they shared many similar principles; they leaned more toward the Righteous, did not consider the Human Clan merely resources for cultivation, governed their provinces well, and treated All People kindly.

On the other hand, dozens of Northern provinces veered toward the Evil Path, dark and closed off.

Those renowned Northern Land warlords nearly all saw the Human Clan as pigs and dogs, as two-legged sheep, exploiting the populace as they saw fit.

Even worse, such as in Tiannan Province, was completely dominated by the Beast Clan of the Gao Family.

With the organization of "Alchemists" stirring things up behind the scenes, the division between North and South was practically laid bare for all to see.

Owing to this trend, the likes of the Demon Buddha Temple, Taishang Demon Sect, Evil Sect, Blood God Sect, Netherworld Sect, and other demon sects extended their reach into the Northern Land, further deteriorating the conditions of these dozens of provinces.

Seeing these signs, many informed heroes fell into despair.

But at that moment!

The New Moon Uprising succeeded.

The actions of the Ancestor Dragon Society directly tore a hole in that dark canopy shrouding the Northern Land Provinces.

Suddenly, the Southern provinces sent congratulatory messages, praising the cultivators of the Ancestor Dragon Society as noble heroes saving the country and people, urging them to hang on, promising to send support troops, starting with the New Moon Province to counterattack the Northern Land, to make the Evil Demons and Heretics that had ravaged the Northern provinces pay the price, and to thoroughly overthrow the Longevity Heavenly Dynasty and its decrepit imperial system.

Though the North was not as united as the South, the contents of those widespread Cloud Scrolls and mechanical secret messages were viewed as provocations by those Evil Demon Great Demons.

While they sent messages to refute, they also began to collude, planning a joint invasion of the New Moon Province to forcibly remove the "thorn" that was the Ancestor Dragon Society.

The already far-from-calm world situation once again became tumultuous.

In this hubbub, one particular little secret scroll stood out and, due to some factor, became the most widely circulated. Read by both the Righteous and Demonic factions, it sparked endless debates. Even Penglai Sea and Doushuai Temple sent for a copy each.

This document was jointly authored by the world-renowned three special sects.

Divine Ear Sect, Ting Di Sect, and Ten Thousand Miles Sect had cultivators who participated in the ultimate battle of the New Moon Uprising.

After that day, they wrote a piece called "The Record of New Moon Uprising."

The title wasn’t particularly eye-catching, yet the content revealed within touched off a heated debate in the seventy-two provinces:

"This... how could this be possible? Ying Qingdi, is an alien species born from an Outer Realm Evil God and a human woman? His promotion of the uprising was to swallow the New Moon and assist the descent of the Outer Realm Yellow Robes to our world, turning us all into Yellow Robe Evil Slaves?"

"Hahaha, utterly laughable, I still remember not long ago when many notables from the South were assessing heroes and Talent Hidden Dragon, many had chosen Ying Qingdi as the first. Now that the truth has come out, I imagine their faces must be swelling from embarrassment."

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