To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck

"All these demons causing trouble around must be eradicated one by one."

To accomplish this task, the cooperation of the old gods, who are the local powers of Youxin Country, was indispensable.

"This is a good opportunity to observe and sift through the old gods in the country—those who are submissive, those who are usable, those who are rebellious, and those who are incompetent..."

On the way to Sanhe City, Che Shidao was thinking this in his heart.

Although he agreed to accept the old gods from the previous dynasty, that didn’t mean he could tolerate some divine spirits who, while eating his rice, did the enemy’s work, playing both sides.

"I hope those old gods know their place and don’t force my hand to tear up the last semblance of peace with the Qing Immortal Sect."

...

After sending Che Shidao away, Lu Yuan pondered in the courtyard before instructing Yi Dancheng, "With Youxin Country left to Che Shidao, I will personally oversee it here, there won’t be any issues.

Now that the situation with Qing Immortal Sect has been dealt with and the overall situation is determined, you can start acting too. Go to Qingyang Country to begin the preliminary work for establishing our sect."

After initially taking over City of Yunlan, and learning the subtleties of Qi Luck, Lu Yuan had made plans to create avatars and have Che Shidao and Yi Dancheng each take control of a country, letting the avatars enjoy Qi Luck while the original body benefited from the Qi numbers.

Now that Che Shidao had taken Youxin Country, he had already accumulated the Qi Luck of an entire country.

Lu Yuan had already secured his basic benefits.

After another ten years or so of secluded cultivation, he would be confident in breaking through to become a Human Immortal.

However, it would not work for his two avatars.

Even if they survived until their 3,000-year lifespan was exhausted, solely sustained by the Qi Luck of one country, they would never be able to break through as Earth Immortals.

If they couldn’t break through as Earth Immortals and their time ran out, the meticulously cultivated External Tool Dao Fruits that were Che Shidao and Yi Dancheng would turn to ash.

This would be a significant loss for Lu Yuan as well.

Therefore, nurturing the two avatars into Dao Fruits akin to a Heavenly Son’s regalia before the exhaustion of their lifespan was the only path forward.

That brought up the issue.

How many resources had Lu Yuan expended to cultivate the Heavenly Son’s regalia to embody the foundation of an Earth Immortal?

The first was the Qi Luck of the entire Nine Provinces.

Although, in the later stages, only Central State remained of the Nine Provinces’ world, and as the Four-pole Heavenly Catastrophe threat persisted, its area continued to shrink.

But in fact, after Lu Yuan unified the whole Nine Provinces, he had already received the Heavenly Mandate and the favor of Qi Luck from the entire world.

No matter how much Central State shrank later, he always had a fixed and unchanged portion of the world’s Qi Luck.

With the support of the whole world, he was finally able to nurture the Heavenly Son’s regalia into an Earth Immortal Dao Fruit.

If one had to quantify with a concrete number the support that the nearly extinct world could provide,

the Qi Luck generated by three small nations in the Immortal Realm was about comparable to a collapsing Nine Provinces’ world.

So, if Lu Yuan wanted to continue nurturing his avatars in the Immortal Realm and have them make further breakthroughs, conquering three small nations was the best approach.

Of course, the two avatars already had their accumulated benefits and had broken through to mid-level Human Immortal status with the nurture of Nine Provinces.

The late-stage Human Immortal strength of Che Shidao and Yi Dancheng was bolstered by Magical Treasures, not their inherent realms.

From this point, some Qi Luck could be spared.

Beyond Qi Luck, one could also harness the unique Qi numbers of the Immortal Realm, which further reduced the need for Qi Luck.

But, no matter the reductions, the sustenance of at least two small Immortal Realm nations was still unavoidable.

Therefore, if Lu Yuan wanted his two avatars to continue developing, he had to conquer another small nation to use as sustenance.

And his target was set on Qingyang Country.

The Changqing Domain, ruled by the Qing Immortal Sect, consisted of thirty-nine nations.

Up to now, with Youxin Country already transferred to Taiping Dao, a total of eighteen nations had broken away from the control of Qing Immortal Sect, falling into the hands of other Immortal Sects or demons.

Of the remaining twenty-one nations, eight were in similar situations to Youxin Country, where the Qing Immortal Sect’s rule was on the brink of collapse, and they were on the verge of being destroyed at any moment.

The Qing Immortal Sect truly had effective control of only about thirteen nations near its Mountain Gate, Changqing Mountain, located in the central and eastern parts of Changqing Domain.

In fact, even considering those eight unstable nations, the Qing Immortal Sect’s controlled territory in the Changqing Domain was limited to the central, eastern, and some of the southern small nations.

Youxin Country was located in the southern part of Changqing Domain, essentially at the edge of the domain.

All the territories under Qing Immortal Sect’s control, according to the alliance oath, were naturally off-limits for Taiping Dao to further invade or seize.

Such actions would not only bring heavenly punishment but would also push the other party into desperation.

After all, the Qing Immortal Sect was the domain’s hegemon, and if truly provoked, their fury would be more than Lu Yuan could currently withstand.

One could not bully a simple person that way; it wasn’t right to keep plucking a sheep for wool.

Therefore, Lu Yuan shifted his gaze to the seventeen nations in the western, northern, and southern parts of Changqing Domain that had been abandoned by the Qing Immortal Sect and had fallen into the hands of other Immortal Sects or demons.

Out of these, the western part had seven nations overseen by several powerful Immortal Sects. All small nations there were tightly controlled by these Immortal Sects with no room for outsiders to intervene.

Within the Changqing Domain, the Immortal Sects opposing the Qing Immortal Sect were precisely them.

Having the capability to confront Qing Immortal Sect for thousands of years and expanding their influence step by step, their strength was not to be underestimated.

Lu Yuan had no interest in testing the sharpness of their Immortal Swords.

With the west off-limits and the northern nations too far away, which also meant passing through the central area that was Qing Immortal Sect’s territory, he had no way to intervene there either.

Looking around, there were only the four nations to the west of Southern Domain near Youxin Country, no longer under the control of Qing Immortal Sect, that were suitable for Taiping Dao’s expansion.

Among these four nations, one was being infiltrated by a great Immortal Sect from the Western Domain, one was controlled by an Immortal Sect with an Immortal among them, and one had been transformed into a monster nation by a Great Demon, leaving no humans alive.

Only Qingyang Country, under the control of three small Immortal Sects and with no Immortals within, was an appropriate target.

Therefore, this time, Lu Yuan had chosen it.

He planned to send Yi Dancheng there to open another Taiping Dao branch in Qingyang Country and establish another line of Tao Inheritance."