To achieve immortality, I cultivate using Qi Luck

Lu Yuan was well aware of this point.

Therefore, at this time, he was in no hurry to jump in.

He never intended to clash with those who possessed the combat power of a True Immortal.

When expanding, he deliberately avoided countries with Great Demons and Immortals’ sects and chose Qingyang Country, which lacked them.

The purpose was to avoid unnecessary troubles and complications.

Being immortal and possessing the Way of Control Pneuma, with the Immortal Realm having the Path of Fate, what an advantage this was.

How foolish would it have to be to risk a confrontation?

Lying low for now and then stretching out the time, the chance to achieve great things increased with each passing millennium.

After accumulating ten thousand years, he would become unbeatable in Changqing.

This Great Domain could henceforth be renamed Peaceful.

Peaceful Domain.

Listen, just the name itself is comforting.

Yi Dancheng had left.

Carrying its body’s mission, it silently headed for Qingyang Country.

According to the plan, it would lie low for ten years, figuring out the details of that place and making thorough preparations.

Then, once the body in Youxin Country achieved immortality and gained the power to protect itself, it could split off an Earth Immortal Avatar as a second layer of disguise and as a fallback.

Then, it would take direct action, topple the three Immortal Sects of Qingyang Country, and establish the second branch of the Taiping Dao in the Changqing Domain, or call it the head Mountain Gate.

By then, Qingyang and Youxin, resonating remotely, the Taiping Dao could accumulate and develop over two thousand years, potentially sweeping the entire southern domain.

Thus began Lu Yuan’s plan to infiltrate the Changqing Domain.

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While Lu Yuan arranged for Yi Dancheng to head to Qingyang Country.

Meanwhile, Che Shidao had also reached Sanhe City.

Riding the auspicious clouds, he flew to Sanhe City.

He had just reached the city walls and had yet to descend when a mass of golden clouds converged around him, and hundreds of figures in golden armor or official robes, all dignified and imposing, bowed to him.

"Greetings, True Person."

The crowd of divine spirits loudly congratulated him, recognizing Che Shidao’s identity from the True Person’s visage previously issued by the Changqing Branch of the Taiping Dao.

"Are you the divine spirits assigned to remain in Youxin Country?"

Che Shidao nodded slightly, looked around, and asked, "Who is in charge now?"

Among the many divine spirits, one with the strongest magical presence and the richest golden divine light stepped forward, "I am Long Water River Lord, the leader of the gods here, and I have seen the True Person."

In Youxin Country, there’s a major river called Long Water, which traverses the country east to west — a true mother river.

As the lord of the Long Water River, he naturally is the leader of all river and lake gods within Youxin Country.

Che Shidao scrutinized Long Water River Lord and frowned, "As the god of Long Water, why is your divine power not at perfected gold, marked with flaws?"

Since he planned to take control in Youxin Country, he had gathered information about it prior to the handover.

In Youxin Country, there are three divine positions that can reach the realm of Five Qi Towards Primordial.

First is Long Water River Lord, as the leader of the river and lake gods.

Second is Mi Yun Mountain God, as the leader of all mountain gods.

Third is Sanhe City Marshal, as the leader of all local and city gods.

The three major divine spirits – one governing water, one mountains, and one people – all have enough authority and incense offerings to achieve the Five Qi Towards Primordial and perfect golden divine power.

"Perfected golden divine power" denotes the most significant and obvious distinction in a divine spirit’s realm of power.

From gathering one Qi to Five Qi Towards Primordial, the divine power is golden, the denser and purer the gold, the higher the magic realm.

Once reaching Five Qi Towards Primordial, it is known as perfected golden divine power.

Perfected golden divine power, advancing further, equals the Heaven Monarch level, transcending human immortals, turning from golden to cyan color, implying the favor of heavenly will.

Cyan divine power also ranges from light to pure, the richer it is, the higher the cultivation and magic power.

Above cyan is the purple divine power.

From cyan to utmost purple, divine spirits are considered blessed by heaven, mighty on par with Earth Immortals, commonly referred to as Heaven Monarchs, lords by heavenly mandate.

Each is a well-known great god of the Immortal Realm by the Divine Method.

Purple divine power progressing further, is said to reach even higher realms, comparable to Heavenly Immortals.

But in this flourishing Immortal Realm, such divine beings, surpassing Heavenly Immortals, have yet to appear.

Thus, people are unsure about its true essence, with various speculations and no firm conclusions, and it isn’t discussed further.

Now, only referring to Youxin Country’s present divine spirits as seen by Che Shidao, each one’s golden divine power was mixed, even the best amongst them, Long Water River Lord, had clearly impure power with visible defects.

This did not match his status as the chief of the water gods.

"Answering, True Person,"

Facing the query, Long Water River Lord, with a sorrowful face said dolorously, "Since the monstrous disturbances, the peace in my Youxin Country has vanished, and the region has increasingly become chaotic, showing signs of troubled times everywhere,

Demons roam unchallenged, slaughtering villages, towns, and cities, making living beings suffer and turning thousands of miles of fertile land into wastelands.

The majority of my jurisdiction over Long Water has been occupied by these demons,

The human populace living above also fell victim to these demons.

Thus, I failed to perform my duties over more than half of my jurisdiction. With more than half the incense offerings cut off from their source,

With diminished authority and dwindling incense offerings, my perfected golden divine power could no longer be sustained.

Therefore, although the divine position remains, my cultivation level has decreased, barely maintaining the peak of Gathering Four Qi, significantly weaker than before."

The majority of a divine spirit’s strength comes from external forces,

And these external forces are composed of their divine position’s authority and the faith of incense offerings.

This Long Water River Lord, having lost more than half of his jurisdiction, therefore losing half of his power and half of his incense, it is quite normal for his realm to fall from Five Qi Towards Primordial by one level.