Chapter 175: God-Visualization Method, Visualizing the Sanqing?

Chapter 175: The Art of Contemplating Gods, Contemplating... the Three Pure Ones?

"The current villagers of Qingshui Village are indeed not strong, and they contribute very little to your growth, godfather.

But do not overlook this, godfather, for becoming a true god ties your strength, potential, and cultivation speed to the subjects of your domain."

Qi Qi said earnestly.

She harbored grand ambitions, determined to mold her godfather into an unparalleled true god.

"If I am strong enough, wouldn't that solve the problem?" Qi Yuan mused.

In the Flowing Wind Realm, he could still rapidly mass-produce powerful beings.

But in the Mortal Heart Realm, it was somewhat difficult.

"The realm of true gods is called the Seven Steps of Heaven.

The first three steps are Venerables, the last four are Great Venerables.

To become a Great Venerable, your domain must have at least one true god subject!

The more true god subjects, the stronger the Great Venerable's cultivation!" Qi Qi painted a rosy picture for Qi Yuan.

Anyway, the Great Venerable realm was not something to think about now; she mentioned it only to give her godfather some motivation.

After all, according to the villagers of Qingshui Village, her godfather had only recently been born, and many memories might not have awakened yet.

Hearing this, Qi Yuan slowly asked, "Does the same apply to the Yang God?"

Qi Qi paused, then said slowly, "This... your daughter does not know."

Qi Yuan looked up at the star-filled sky.

The brightest star now was clearly the Yang God.

As for the others, they might not be Yang Gods, but at least they were Yin Gods.

In the Canglan Realm, a great calamity was approaching.

According to the old man Wutian, two hundred thousand years ago, a supreme powerhouse had defeated the calamity, but then countless celestial gods descended, and that supreme powerhouse ultimately fell.

Behind that calamity were the Yang God and countless celestial gods.

If he had countless celestial gods as subordinates, why fear that calamity?

At worst, both sides would summon their forces, and it would come down to who could summon more and who could summon stronger ones.

"What you say makes sense." Qi Yuan acknowledged Qi Qi's words. "I want to rename Qingshui Village to Pei County."

He needed to cultivate these villagers.

But the question was, how?

By feasting every day?

That wouldn't be enough.

"What if I go plunder some treasures to boost their cultivation?" Qi Yuan asked, consulting Qi Qi.

Qi Qi replied, "That is one aspect, but more important is the Art of Contemplating Gods, which requires you to recover your past memories, godfather."

"Huh?" Qi Yuan was confused. What past memories?

Seeing this, Qi Qi continued, "Every ancient god is a spirit who died in the Battle of Hongtang.

In the Battle of Hongtang, true gods were generals, and Zifu cultivators were soldiers; perhaps tens of thousands of true gods fought.

And all those true gods fell in the Battle of Hongtang, unknown to the world.

You are an ancient spirit, godfather, and you have seen many true gods.

Once you recover your past memories, you can describe the true gods from your memories, condense them into the Art of Contemplating Gods, and bestow it upon your subjects.

Those subjects can then cultivate according to that art.

The stronger the god they contemplate, the faster their cultivation grows, and the higher their ceiling becomes."

Thus, the higher a god's cultivation before death, the more true gods they had encountered, and the more arts of contemplating gods they could condense.

Conversely, weaker spirits might have seen too few, so they could condense fewer arts.

Their subjects' strength would increase less.

"Currently, in the Mortal Heart Realm, most cultivators contemplate the Lord of Hongtang and his twelve Heavenly Guardians.

They are indeed powerful, but too many people contemplate them, and the descriptions are unclear, so the boost to cultivators is actually not very significant.

If you have ten true gods in your memory, godfather, and a few that no other cultivator contemplates, then... the villagers of Qingshui Village will improve quickly." Qi Qi continued reliably.

Hearing this, Qi Yuan thought and asked, "Can gods not from the Mortal Heart Realm be used for contemplation?"

He thought of the Yin Gods of the Canglan Realm.

Those Yin Gods should be true gods.

Qi Yuan had seen many; if he described them for the villagers of Qingshui Village to contemplate, wouldn't that work?

"Have those gods ever received incense offerings?" Qi Qi asked.

"No."

"If they have never received incense offerings or become the faith of the people, it likely won't work." Qi Qi said seriously.

The true gods of the Mortal Heart Realm had all, to some extent, received offerings from a city in the past.

Only such true gods could be condensed into the Art of Contemplating Gods.

Hearing this, Qi Yuan felt his idea was unworkable.

Could he go back to the Canglan Realm, summon those Yin Gods, have them build temples, and receive the faith of thousands?

On second thought, that definitely wouldn't work.

Moreover, the number of Yin Gods he had encountered in the Canglan Realm was not large.

"Don't worry, godfather. Once your memories recover, you can condense the Art of Contemplating Gods." Qi Qi advised beside him.

Qi Yuan wanted to say that he had no memories to recover.

He had not participated in the Battle of Hongtang, had not seen true gods, and could not condense the Art of Contemplating Gods.

Suddenly, he was thoughtful: "These new gods also receive the worship of the people. If I condense them into the Art of Contemplating Gods, would that work?"

Hearing this, Qi Qi felt her godfather was being fanciful, but considering he had just been born and his memories had not fully recovered, she understood.

"Contemplating these new gods would lead to terrible things.

Your subjects might even be assimilated and become divine aberrations." Qi Qi explained.

This instantly dispelled Qi Yuan's idea.

"Don't think too much, godfather. For now, slay more evil gods and accumulate evil god spiritual power.

To condense the Art of Contemplating Gods, you need to consume your own divine spiritual power, or you can substitute it with evil god spiritual power."

"I have a little bit of evil god spiritual power." After slaying two evil gods, Qi Yuan had indeed obtained some evil god spiritual power.

But he did not know how to use it.

Now hearing Qi Qi speak thus, he finally found the use of the evil god's divine power.

"If I fabricate some true gods, can I use them to create the Divine Observation Method?" Qi Yuan couldn't help but ask.

He truly had never seen a true god of the Mortal Heart Realm.

Qi Qi, upon hearing this, smiled gently: "If godfather knows those deities well enough, perhaps you truly could create it.

This records how the Divine Observation Method coalesces; when father regains his memories in the future, he should also know these things.

Daughter now shows father the method of coalescing the Divine Observation Method in advance, so father can give it a try."

Failure in the attempt would not consume the evil god's divine power, only waste some time.

Thus, Qi Qi gave the Divine Observation Method to Qi Yuan with a clear conscience.

After speaking for a while, Qi Qi left the temple.

Qi Yuan sat alone in the temple, frowning deeply: "Could it be that I am only suited for fighting alone?"

He did not know any true gods who received incense offerings, so he truly could not coalesce the Divine Observation Method.

"Would fabricated ones work?" Suddenly, Qi Yuan seemed lost in thought.

On Blue Star, were there not many deities?

Such as the Three Pure Ones and Four Sovereigns, the Five Elders of the Five Directions, the Six Offices and Seven Stars.

Qi Yuan's eyes lit up.

These great beings—did they not receive incense offerings and the faith of countless people?

Only... they seemed to be fabricated.

Qi Yuan thought for a moment, then quickly opened the method for coalescing the Divine Observation Method that Qi Qi had given him.

It was a piece of black cloth, with white characters written on it, recording the method of coalescence.

"Before observing the divine, one can enter a divine world to exchange the Divine Observation Method with other deities?" Seeing this, Qi Yuan was stunned, a hint of anticipation in his eyes: "Could it be another chat group?"

He held the black cloth and began to circulate his divine nature according to the method on it.

A ripple spread across the black cloth.

In an instant, Qi Yuan's consciousness entered it.

A look of curiosity appeared in his eyes: "Indeed, the cultivation world also has technology, only the form of technology differs from Blue Star."

Different paths, but the same destination.

In the Flowing Wind Realm, Ning Tao wore black stockings; in the Mortal Heart Realm, it was normal for something like a chat group to appear.

Before Qi Yuan was something resembling a chat group.

His gaze swept across the screen-like image of the chat group, and a message immediately caught his eye: "A newcomer? Have you observed the divine before? What level of true god did you observe?"

A triple question.

Qi Yuan looked at the speaker, named Dong Jianghe, who seemed to be the group owner, very enthusiastic and excited.

"No, this is my first time observing the divine," Qi Yuan answered seriously.

The group was full of ancient god seniors; he had to be humble.

"A newcomer!" Dong Jianghe seemed even more excited: "I recall back in my day, the first time I observed the divine, I observed a god of the Two-Step Sky-Treading level, and was called a young Heavenly Emperor by the gods here!"

Qi Yuan listened, filled with awe: "Awesome, big shot!"

"Do you want me to share some experience in observing the divine with you? I can definitely help you observe a powerful deity!" Dong Jianghe said warmly in the group.

"Young Heavenly Emperor? Just a fallen genius.

These two times observing the divine, you failed consecutively.

Hmph, I, the Divine Cat Venerable, visualized a Great Venerable!" The Divine Cat Venerable mocked the group owner in the group.

It seemed the two had a history of conflict.

"The Great Venerable you visualized—many people have visualized it; it's nothing special!" Dong Jianghe said discontentedly.

"But it's still a Great Venerable, more than enough to suppress a fallen genius like you!" The Divine Cat Venerable said arrogantly.

Instantly, many lurkers in the group surfaced.

"The Eastern Heavenly Emperor is about to fall; the Divine Cat Venerable should rise!"

"Eastern Heavenly Emperor, why did you have to mock him when the Divine Cat Venerable was about to visualize, saying his visualization that time was no good?"

Dong Jianghe ignored these remarks and instead asked Qi Yuan: "Newcomer, what do you plan to visualize? Tell me, and I'll give you some advice.

Generally, I rarely give advice to newcomers.

My advice can at least increase your chances of successful visualization by ten percent."

"I want to... visualize a divine dog," Qi Yuan said after a moment of thought.

"A divine dog?" Dong Jianghe grew anxious: "Newcomer, in the Mortal Heart Realm, there are almost no true gods that are divine dogs, and even fewer that receive incense offerings.

The more incense offerings a true god receives, the greater the probability of visualizing it.

This Heavenly Emperor advises you to switch to another true god to visualize, otherwise you'll just waste divine power in vain."

Qi Yuan hesitated upon hearing this.

Then he saw the Divine Cat Venerable say in the group: "Newcomer, you're set.

Last time, Dong Jianghe said here that my visualization was no good, and I immediately visualized a Great Venerable."

"Newcomer, you're set. Everyone that the Eastern Heavenly Emperor approves of ends up failing or having poor results.

Everyone he disapproves of takes off immediately!"

"Every time before we visualize, we come into the group and let the Eastern Heavenly Emperor comment on us. If he gives a good review, we don't visualize; if he gives a bad review, we visualize right away."

The group members chattered noisily.

Qi Yuan gradually understood some details about observing the divine.

The visualized Divine Observation Methods varied in value.

There were two criteria to judge.

First, strength—take a coefficient, for example, one to seven, representing One-Step Sky-Treading to Seven-Step Sky-Treading.

Second, visualization degree—that is, whether anyone has visualized it before, and how many subjects cultivate this Divine Observation Method—also take a coefficient.

Multiply the two coefficients; the higher the product, the higher the value of this Divine Observation Method.

The value was divided into seven tiers: Common, Elite, Rare, Uncommon, Epic, Legendary, and Mythic.

Somewhat like the classification of monsters in games, and each tier was further divided into one to three stars.

Once, Dong Jianghe visualized a Rare three-star Divine Observation Method and was full of pride in the group.

And the Divine Cat Venerable, whom he had mocked once, visualized an Uncommon one-star.

An Uncommon one-star Divine Observation Method, if not casually given to all subjects to cultivate, could suffice to create a true god—of course, provided one had a treasure to step into true godhood.

Thus, the Divine Cat Venerable had the confidence to settle scores with Dong Jianghe.

“Newcomer, don’t listen to their malicious slander against me. Trust me—switch to visualizing a true god.

This one—you’re very likely to fail at visualizing it. Even if you barely succeed, it’ll only be an ordinary one-star.” Dong Jianghe pleaded earnestly in the group.

“To be honest, I’m not optimistic about visualizing the Divine Hound either, but since East Heavenly Emperor opposes it, I think, newcomer, you’ll definitely succeed. Visualize boldly—we’re rooting for you,” someone said.

“Thank you all for your kind intentions. I’ll go visualize now.”

Qi Yuan left this spiritual space and arrived at the Visualization Ground.

The Visualization Ground was a mountain—a mountain in the spiritual world.

A visualizer needed to conjure the god from their visualization and ultimately carve it onto the mountain.

Then, a visualization method would emerge.

The first god Qi Yuan attempted to visualize was not too powerful—first, for fear of great karmic consequences, and second, to test whether he could actually cultivate.

He gazed at the mountain.

All memories of Blue Star surged into his mind.

Possessing the primordial divine ability, the Great Forgetfulness Heart Sutra, he could fully recall and remember every single sight from his past.

When Qi Yuan was ill, living alone, he had flipped through many miscellaneous books out of boredom.

At the time, he hadn’t remembered them, but now he could recall everything.

In Qi Yuan’s mind, a majestic divine hound appeared.

“Form like a white elephant, force like a dragon, golden wings soaring, dazzling the sky.

One bark startles heaven, splitting divine courage; three howls cut rivers, letting ghost souls pass!”

A terrifying three-eyed celestial, wearing a Three-Peak Hat, solemn in a red robe, with a sword horizontally tucked at his waist, rode clouds and rain, while a fearsome divine hound followed beside him, exuding a dreadful aura.

In Qi Yuan’s mind, a terrifying image of the divine hound coalesced and emerged.

At that moment, from within the Visualization Mountain, a deep voice resounded in Qi Yuan’s heart.

“Have you ever seen this god?”

“Does this god truly exist?”

These two voices were majestic and terrifying. Upon hearing them, Qi Yuan instinctively wanted to answer truthfully, unable to lie.

But then, he looked up at his golden core.

Instantly, the Great Forgetfulness Heart Sutra took effect at that moment.

Qi Yuan’s gaze grew resolute.

“This god exists!”

“I have seen two celestial gods battling, from the Ninth Heaven down to the Eighteenth Hell.

This divine hound stood by, seizing the chance to ambush!”

The Visualization Mountain fell silent.

Qi Yuan’s answer had already been absorbed into it.

After about a breath’s time, the Visualization Mountain spoke again.

“Without incense offerings, this visualization method may fail. Do you wish to condense it?”

“Yes!” Qi Yuan looked at the Visualization Mountain, his face full of curiosity.

His heart was also somewhat tense.

If it condensed successfully… it would be unimaginable!

Recommend a new book by a master, link below: “My Dantian Is a World.”

Recommendation: A Xu’s cultivation talent was less than ideal, but he still managed to open his dantian and get into the martial arts class of the Second Municipal High School.

Only, the dantian he opened seemed a bit different from others’.

Inside his dantian, there was actually a world!

The creatures in his dantian world provided him with unparalleled power and unprecedented cultivation speed!

[You ate the meat of a first-tier demon beast, Flying Spirit Fish. Your world species +1]

[You bathed in a spiritual herb spring. Your world gains a hot spring.]

[You consumed the spiritual object, Vermilion Fruit. Your world gains a Vermilion Fruit tree.]

[The species diversity in your dantian world has increased. You receive a gift from the Heavenly Dao.]

From then on, A Xu’s cultivation was like a fish entering the sea, a bird soaring into the sky, unbound by nets or cages!

“Comparing true qi with me? My dantian is an entire world!”

(End of this chapter)