Becoming a Deity from Planting the Bodhi Tree-Chapter 526 - 220: Winning People Over with Virtue, Is Ancient Road in Chaos... (This book has reached a million words!)_2

Chapter 526: Chapter 220: Winning People Over with Virtue, Is Ancient Road in Chaos... (This book has reached a million words!)_2

Several months have now passed, and they have only managed to build a statue of the Divine Lord with much difficulty.

Xuan Youwei, being cautious, ultimately chose the Second God.

Gazing at the towering statue before her, Xuan Youwei took a deep breath.

This statue was of the Second God, crafted in the likeness of an old man with a face full of vicissitudes, etched with the traces of time, each wrinkle infused with endless wisdom.

His eyes, aged and compassionate, appeared to pity the suffering of all beings, pity the struggle of All Spirits for survival, pity the mortal world like a prison.

According to the doctrine of the Four Gods Church—

The Second God had once personally witnessed the suffering and tribulations beings endured in the mortal world; he pitied the All Spirits who fought fiercely for their own survival only to be swept away by the torrent of fate; he pitied more that the mortal world was like a fiery jail, incarcerating countless beings, preventing their transcendence...

Ultimately, the Second God made a grand vow to help the All Spirits transcend, to create an Eternal Paradise for them to dwell in.

Initially, there was a dispute within the Four Gods Church regarding the choice of the statue.

Kun Qianzhou insisted on creating a statue of the Fourth God, who seemed to believe he could receive divine grace once more.

However, considering his prior failure, Xuan Youwei directly ignored his persistence.

Now, she called the shots!

Standing in front of the statue, Xuan Youwei slowly entered meditation, attempting to communicate with the great and majestic Divine Thought of the Second God using the Power of Faith and Will she had condensed over this period.

Countless followers of the Four Gods Church and Martial Artists sat in meditation behind her, solemn and silent, jointly praying for the Descent of the Supreme Method’s divine power of the Divine Lord.

Suddenly.

A faint and formless will descended.

It was extremely weak, as if it passed through countless worlds, yet it still carried a dignified and profound weight, filled with endless Divine Power, entering the body of Xuan Youwei.

Xuan Youwei opened her eyes, having received the revelation from the Second God, with a face of uncertain expression.

The Divine Lord had spoken:

When the Ancient Road enters the second phase, the Three Thousand Yama linked to the Ancient Road will connect with the Nether Sea, at that time, all followers of the church can leave through the path, there are ones waiting to receive them.

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The Sun and Moon Plane.

"The number of Heart Lamps has already exceeded ten million; the spread is really getting faster."

"With such a serious invasion of the Nether Sea on the Ancient Road, I don’t know what the state of the Nine States is now."

Ji Jingqiu muttered to himself, witnessing the sight of Heart Lamps spreading like twinkling stars.

The vastness of this scroll had surpassed the specific number he could sense, he could only perceive a general estimate.

Accompanying his Transformation at the Extreme Realm of Divine Travel, his Innate Divine Ability had also been sublimated, with the Heart Flame All Phenomena Lamp being enhanced in certain aspects.

During this time, through various attempts, he initially grasped the Divine Skill.

Firstly, the third generation Heart Lamp also possessed the ability to separate the Heart Lamp Seed, which is to say, it has opened up the fourth generation Heart Lamp.

However, the derivation of the third-generation Heart Lamp no longer came without cost.

At the moment, the Heart Lamp Seeds sent out into the world were of the fourth generation that barely had the ability to ignore the Deceit Fog’s invasion.

The third-generation Heart Lamps were in the hands of the core members of the Sun and Moon Alliance and allied forces.

The so-called core members, that is, "our own disciples," and for the Sun and Moon Alliance, those were the Nine Palaces Disciples and the Purple Crystal Clan civilization.

And the real upper echelon all possessed the second-generation Heart Lamps.

This included the Yanhuang Federation, and most of the acquaintances were also second-generation Heart Lamps.

Only a few Martial Artists were third or even fourth-generation Heart Lamps, such as the Beicang Commerce Alliance that once allied with foreign forces to surround and kill him.

This was not him being petty.

On the contrary, he felt he was much too magnanimous, with a surge of compassionate heart.

With the spread of the Heart Lamp surpassing ten million, as the source of the Heart Lamp, Ji Jingqiu’s greatest gain was that a new lotus seed had appeared in the Lotus Pond of the Inner World.

The lotus seed intertwined with black and white, filled with the aura of Merit, causing the entire Lotus Pond to undergo a subtle transformation toward the legendary Eight Treasures Merit Pond.

He reckoned that if it continued, this black and white lotus seed might one day produce a Merit Golden Lotus.

—On another note, more and more lotus flowers were gradually appearing in the Lotus Pond.

The Bodhisattva World that originally nurtured from the Heart Lotus was now fostering the Tathagata Divine Palm and Great Thunder Zen Heart, revealing a Twin Lotus.

Added to this was the Merit Golden Lotus Seed, which was still in the seed stage, he anticipated the day when lotus flowers would bloom throughout the Eight Treasures Merit Pond.

The birth of this lotus seed was not only due to the spread of the Heart Lamp; the key was the Reincarnation Method acquired from Chi Ji.

As Hel put it, no matter how much Merit one accumulates, it remains something ethereal and intangible, beyond grasp in the unknown; if it can’t become real, it’s useless.

Hel gave an example, there was a mighty individual who had done countless good deeds in his life; his Merit and blessings reached an immense extent, yet when confronted with a life and death tribulation, he was destined to die regardless, and his accumulated Merit was like immaculate duckweed that could not save him, not even offering the slightest aid.

Whatever notion of cultivating Merit to get a better life in the next reincarnation was nonsense; ordinary people don’t have a next life.

The Reincarnation Method is this "root" that can actualize Merit.

In simple terms, the Reincarnation Method is based on the cultivation of Heaven and Earth’s rewards, starting with making grand vows, condensing Wish Power, and then relying on one’s own actions and inner qualities, adhering to the grand vows, to continuously align with a certain Dao of Heaven and Earth, the logic of its operation; through this process, one gets closer step by step, ultimately embodying the Dao and commanding it.

But to rely directly on grand vows, to ascend in one step, to achieve the ultimate Fruit Position, and then to repay the debt, is unrealistic.

This is not a Method that allows one to ascend instantly.

Because a person cannot bear, nor withstand, such grand vows.

Ji Jingqiu interpreted this Method as a "loan."