Cultivating for a hundred lifetimes to ascension

Chapter 1606: Chapter 866: Wisdom Born of the Treasure Mirror, the Centennial Deadline Arrives

Under the peach tree in the courtyard, Zhao Sheng was leisurely drinking tea while quietly watching Zhao Tianyi, who had his eyes closed and was channeling his energy.

At this moment, a large fire cloud rose behind Zhao Tianyi, violently surging, as if a colossal beast was crashing headlong within it, repeatedly trying to break free from shackles and descend into the world.

However, it lacked just a hint of opportunity, and despite the fire cloud’s violent surges for a long time, it couldn’t merge his Divine Thought with his Will Heart Light.

After a long while, the fire cloud’s phenomenon slowly dissipated, Zhao Tianyi awoke from his meditation, and a hint of regret was revealed in his gaze.

Zhao Tianyi’s will was resolute, quickly shedding the shadow of failure.

He immediately stood up and bowed deeply, gratefully saying, “Thank you, sir, for bestowing—”

“Enough!”

He hadn’t finished speaking when Zhao Sheng suddenly interrupted him.

“It’s just a cup of tea. What’s the harm in giving you the whole pot!” Zhao Sheng’s expression was indifferent, casually pushing the teapot in front of him.

Seeing this, Zhao Tianyi’s face flushed with excitement, wanting to refuse verbally, but found his thin lips tightly stuck together, unable to open.

Zhao Sheng glanced at him and suddenly asked, “The thing I wanted, where is it?”

Hearing this, Zhao Tianyi quickly stood up, took out a Sumeru Ring from his chest, and presented it to him with both hands.

“Sir, there are three thousand six hundred and twenty Golden God Statues in total inside, all meeting your requirements. Among them, more than seven hundred eighty are over ten thousand years old, over three thousand are…”

Zhao Sheng reached out to take the Sumeru Ring, then released a wisp of Divine Thought into it.

In the next instant, the surface of the Sumeru Ring flashed with light, and golden god statues appeared from nowhere in the courtyard.

The sizes and expressions of these statues varied, but all were enveloped in an immensely dense incense aura.

The statues that had been bathed in incense for over ten thousand years even manifested various phenomena, some shrouded in golden light, some with terrifying divine power, some with halos behind their heads, some with Divine Light stretching into emptiness, or their brows and eyes lively, their aura lively, nearly transforming from dead objects into genuine Divine Spirits.

Looking at the courtyard filled with statues, Zhao Sheng nodded slightly and suddenly flicked a wisp of fire.

The fire landed on the nearest statue, instantly igniting into a blazing flame as if a spark met an oil pot.

The flames burned fiercely, soon spreading to several nearby statues, and in the blink of an eye, several statues were engulfed in flames.

Thus, the blaze was unstoppable, quickly spreading to all the statues.

The entire courtyard soon turned into a fiery sea.

Astonishingly, although the fiery sea was clearly close at hand, there was no feeling of heat whatsoever.

Zhao Tianyi gazed at the fiery sea filling the courtyard, his eyes glowing with a strange light, his gaze soon becoming mesmerized, wholly forgetting everything outside.

Under the blaze, the statues visibly melted into purest liquid gold.

Zhao Sheng’s brow radiated Divine Light, countless wisps of Divine Thought like Drifting Threads stealthily reaching into the gold liquid.

Suddenly, the Divine Thought transformed into thousands of complex runes, and in an instant, one ancient talisman after another quietly came into being.

Before long, large amounts of gold liquid successively transformed into pieces of new incense money, each round on the outside and square on the inside, rising into the air and radiating a faint Divine Light.

Zhao Sheng waved his wide sleeve, instantly taking thousands of incense money into his sleeve.

Then, he once more threw a batch of statues into the fiery sea, continuing to refine them into large quantities of incense money.

As time passed, more than three thousand Golden God Statues were successively refined, finally turning into a great quantity of incense money.

As dusk set in, the last wisp of flame slowly disappeared, and the courtyard returned to its former tranquility.

Looking again at Zhao Tianyi, he seemed completely reborn, his entire aura harmoniously flowing, as if he had achieved a state of Heaven and Earth Unity.

Every gesture was naturally aligned with some Fire Path, giving off a sense of Taoist Skill nature, life flourishing with profound mystery.

Zhao Tianyi silently stood up, profoundly bowing to Zhao Sheng, remaining down for a long time without rising.

This time, Zhao Sheng did not intervene but accepted the bow openly.

“Sir, your grace today with your skill, Tianyi will forever remember in his heart. If I ascend to Returning to Void in the future, I will come again to thank you for today’s grace.”

Zhao Sheng smiled slightly and said, “The ancients said yesterday’s cause, today’s effect! If not for your diligence in my affairs, I would not have cast my skill today. So the matter of gratitude needn’t be mentioned.

By the way, I need more Golden God Statues, that reward task needs to continue to be posted… It’s late, I won’t keep you. Go!”

“Tianyi will not disappoint what you entrusted.” Zhao Tianyi bowed again, then retreated backward, until out the door, where he activated his tunneling light and flew away from Hualong Island.

Shortly after his departure, Zhao Sheng took advantage of the night, silently leaving Ancestral Divine Land, heading to the Lower Realm’s various Spirit Domains.

Over the next half year, he traversed the Ten Great Spirit Domains of the Zhao Family, selecting cities with populations exceeding a million, gradually placing the incense money into the Red Dust Sea, slowly washing away incense distractions.

To prevent accidents, every time Zhao Sheng arrived at a city, he secretly found the highest cultivation person there, entrusting them with the task of overseeing the incense money.

Of course, giving those people a little benefit was naturally to be expected, no need to elaborate.

After half a year, Zhao Sheng returned smoothly, immediately entering the Scripture Pavilion, and remaining there for several years before emerging, returning to Hualong Island.

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“…Only those of genuine True Spirit in law can attain the ultimate realm. To awaken the Wisdom Light True Spirit, follow three essentials: First is to nurture the spirit. Warm the Magical Treasure with the Primordial Spirit, like sculpting and grinding without cease, allowing it gradually to imbue with spirit, and over time, sensing is born.