To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck

At its core, the power of Divine Spirits stems from Heaven and Earth. Once recognized by the Heavenly Path and granted a sliver of authority, they possess extraordinary power within their domain,

Their duty is still to assist the Heavenly Path and to manage Heaven and Earth.

During this management process, they naturally use their authority to gather the scattered destiny of Heaven and Earth within their domain.

By doing so, collecting level by level, amassing territory by territory, and gradually compiling, the destiny of an entire nation can be grasped.

This is the reason Immortal Sects confer Divine Positions on Divine Spirits.

They aim to use the authority these beings hold over Heaven and Earth to collect the scattered destiny.

As for the Talisman Charters of Divine Method, they contain a bit of the true spirit of the Divine Spirits conferred with and the core of the Divine Position, controlling the lifeline of all conferred Divine Spirits.

If any Divine Spirit dares to rebel, the Immortal Sect need only deploy the Talisman Charters of Divine Method, punish their True Spirit, and strip them of their Divine Position, easily toppling a Divine Spirit, capturing or slaying them.

With the Talisman Charters in hand, as long as the Divine Spirits are from the conferred charter, their life, death, glory, and disgrace are all controlled by others, with no possibility of resistance.

With such a countermeasure in place, it’s no wonder that among the Divine Method, there are many gods greater than Immortals.

Yet before the Immortal Sects, they still regard themselves as servants.

It is not that they devalue themselves, but a fact that they truly are servants."

Lu Yuan, perusing the information within the charter, couldn’t help but be moved.

Divine Method can indeed be mastered quickly; all you need is a powerful Divine Position and sufficient incense worship, and one can quite easily become immortal within a hundred years.

Faring much better than the countless Cultivators who have to go through harsh trials and still may not succeed in becoming immortal.

But success rests on the Divine Position, as does downfall.

The precondition for such rapid progression is to first serve as a dog to the Immortal Sects, from then on having a master above you, never to be free again.

The better or worse choice here simply depends on the individual.

If you crave power and lifespan, then this path is naturally an option.

If you wish to be free and unfettered, then you must cultivate slowly by yourself, betting on that slim chance of becoming immortal.

Either way, Lu Yuan would not choose the Divine Method.

Even knowing the mysteries of the Divine Method, he could entirely create a powerful Divine Position for himself, directly ascending in one leap to become a great god equal to an Earth Immortal.

And even if the Divine Position is self-created, free of the constraints of the Immortal Sect, he would not wish to take this path.

Because the Immortal Sect may be gone, but the Heavenly Path remains.

The Divine Position is both power and responsibility.

If you fail to fulfill the tasks of the Heavenly Path and do not perform your duties, you will be subject to heavenly condemnation and punishment.

Offending the Qing Immortal Sect, Lu Yuan could simply leave and they would not be able to do anything about it.

But if you offend the Heavenly Path, vast as the Immortal Realm is, there would be nowhere to escape.

This point alone is enough to deter people.

"However, I won’t walk the Divine Method, but cultivating a group of Divine Spirits to work for me still needs to be arranged. A bunch of subordinates who absolutely cannot betray me, this is truly wonderful for me,"

Lu Yuan had been an emperor for over a thousand years.

For an emperor, what kind of subjects are the best?

Obviously, those who cannot betray you, whose life and death you can control, are the best.

Compared to loyalty and competence, these take no significance.

The human heart is unpredictable; whether one is loyal or treacherous, who knows what’s real or false.

As for ability.

In the Divine Method, where capabilities are conferred, once you have a Divine Position, you have a realm.

Having the incense worship provides you with magic power.

They don’t need any particular talents; the Divine Position and the incense support will provide the basic Divine Powers and magic power of that realm.

There, you have ability.

"Rapid advancement, inability to betray, possessing basic strength; ignoring everything else, Divine Method is no doubt an excellent path, the best source for subordinates.

The only downside is that Divine Spirits can only ensure their full strength within their own jurisdiction.

Leaving their territory is like removing themselves from authority; the power of the Heavenly Path diminishes.

The further they are from their jurisdiction, the greater their strength declines, and they become incapable of long-distance expeditions.

This is also why Youxin Country, despite its numerous Divine Spirits whose overall strength is far superior to that of monsters, was still being pushed back by the demons at the Changqing Branch.

Since Divine Spirits cannot leave their territories, their vast numbers cannot converge in one place to form a collective force.

Scattered throughout Youxin Country, they are naturally defeated one by one.

The eventual situation of half the country being overrun is hence unsurprising.

Perhaps this is also one of the reasons why Divine Method cannot resist the Immortal Sects."

Considering how vast and longstanding the Immortal Realm is, Lu Yuan refuses to believe that through the years, there have been no Cultivators who created their own Divine Positions and shifted from Immortal Method to Divine Method.

With such tempting power to ascend swiftly, how could no one be moved?

But in the current Immortal Realm, Divine Method still subservient to Immortal Method must have its reasons.

The inability of Divine Spirits to leave their territory is perhaps the greatest reason.

Creating your own Divine Position might grant you rapid ascension,

But once a god, you also enter a cage of your own making, unable to remove yourself.

Trapped in one place, alone and weak,

While other Immortal Sect Cultivators can call on friends and gather in groups to besiege you.

After one round of that, who could withstand it?

Immortals being above gods, from this point of view, is an inevitability.

"But I won’t walk the Divine Method, so I needn’t consider these."

Lu Yuan just reflects on this for a moment before moving on, no longer dwelling on it.

How difficult it is to be a Divine Spirit is of no concern to him.

With the time spent worrying about this, it’d be better spent thinking about how to create his own secret Divine Method, which would be more useful.

"Now that I have the Talisman Charters of Divine Method, although I still don’t have the specific method to confer Divine Spirits, with this as a reference, it should take about a hundred years to deduce the prototype, and subsequent slow refinement would complete it."

Lu Yuan’s original body controls the Dao Fruit of the Heavenly Son Crown, an Earth Immortal Dao Fruit; on top of that, he has his millennium of accumulation in the Nine Provinces.

When he truly sets his mind to do something, results come quickly.

After all, Divine Method isn’t that difficult a thing.

Once you see through its facade, the principle is just so, nothing extraordinary.

Indeed, within the Immortal Realm, there isn’t an Immortal Sect lacking their own secret Divine Method,

Even some of the smaller Tao Inheritances with a longer legacy that have produced Immortals have mastered the method of conferring gods.

This is also why Yang Jihua gave up the Talisman Charters of Divine Method so carelessly,

In his view, it’s worthless; others have it, it’s commonplace, why hide and hoard it with such effort?

Embarrassing!