Longevity Chronicles

Chapter 929 - 597: Wild Gods Drive the Tiger to Devour the Wolf, Tao Buddha’s Son Feeds the Heavenly Dao

Several days after entering the realm, the little divination worm has started from the "Earth Evil Ridge," devouring many secrets and glimpsing some truths of the Soshen Realm.

For instance, the seemingly naive transaction between the Soshen Realm and the Great Abyss Deities.

To save itself, the near-shattering Heavenly Dao Origin pinned its hopes on the "Deities," specially opening many permissions, tolerating the Deities to come and go freely within the Soshen Realm, allowing them to plunder greedily, almost without any restrictions or backlash.

The Soshen Realm's Heavenly Dao originally thought: since all the Deities gathered in the realm, surely they would leave behind ample Divine Origin Qi and endless resources, which might help the Soshen Realm overcome its crisis and repair its origin.

Such was the reasoning, yet none of the deities from the Great Abyss were easy to deal with.

They plundered diligently when entering the realm and left heartlessly when departing.

They abandoned even their believers and clans, leaving no benefit for the Soshen Realm itself.

The most typical of the God and Demon!

None more so than the old familiar God [Mysterious Corpse] encountered by Tao Qian when descending on the Earth Evil Ridge.

Except for a deserted altar and a group of villagers driven insane by its pollution, nothing was left behind, utterly shameless.

Of course, the rest of the God and Demon were similar, many even more ruthless and vile.

For example, after the Mysterious Corpse, Tao Qian encountered the [Red Rope God] and [Seven-Massacre Bodhisattva], etc.

Yet the Thirty-Six Heavenly Gang Divine Generals, and the Land God, these God and Demon, behaved slightly better in their conduct.

And what Tao Qian was doing at that moment was contrary to the Deities.

He was to act as a "judge," forcibly making the Deities pay a price.

Of course, as an intermediary, taking a share is very reasonable and indisputable.

As soon as the transaction was concluded, benefits immediately flowed in.

Hundreds of Slaughter Ghosts were refined to death within the array, all reverting to the Soshen Realm; although the Divine Nature of the Seven-Massacre Bodhisattva contained within was minimal, it was better than nothing.

According to the contract, the next moment indeed dropped another batch of mana from the heavens.

Although it couldn't aid Tao Buddha's son in stepping into the "Foundation Establishment Realm," this outcome indicated the transaction was successful, bringing great joy at once.

While refining the mana, as previously promised, two streams of Mana Source Qi were split and transformed into two warm currents, injected into the Jiang sisters' bodies.

The slight mana did not offer much help to Tao Qian.

Yet it occurred just right for the two sisters' bodies to undergo transformation again, feeling light and spirit-like, instinctively leaping as if like peach blossom petals, floating in the air.

"How divine and wondrous!"

"My God did not deceive me; refining evil spirit monsters with the Peach Blossom Array can yield rewards."

...

Tao Buddha's son exhausted himself appearing as a saint numerous times, coupled with exchanges in dreams, eventually completely converting the Jiang Sisters.

After tidying up, the two directly took Prince Li Xuan and Princess Li Qing, also joining the Peach Blossom God Sect, and in front of Tao Qian's deity statue, they pledged to build a Peach Blossom Temple for the Peach Blossom God in the future.

And the female general called Shi Beiniang, from benefiting from the Peach Blossom Rain, was determined to worship the Peach Blossom God as well.

Exactly!

The Soshen Realm allows believers to follow multiple Gods and Demons, and permits spiritual cultivation to set up various God Demon rites.

The rules being such, as the Gods and Demons plunder heartlessly, believers, naturally too, act with scum-like justification.

Thus Shi Beiniang primarily cultivated [Mother of Lightning], while moonlighting as the Peach Blossom Girl.

It's a pity that this female general joined the sect due to the Peach Blossom Rain, little did she know that Tao Buddha's son at the time could only produce two peaches, and the so-called rain was actually a healing technique performed by a Yin Body Demon Child, with extraordinary effects, yet it also carried some unmentionable hidden costs.

By rights, Tao the Great Deceiver should have been satisfied by now.

Entering the realm as a destitute blacklisted figure, he had gained valuable benefits and developments in just a few days.

Sadly, such "benefits" could hardly satisfy the appetite of Tao Buddha's son.

Especially as the Jiang Sisters and Shi Beiniang both decided to flee to the temporarily stable Tang Country, a decision good as it may be, was not what Tao Qian desired.

"My starting point was already significantly behind the other Secret Demon Children, and those Daoist Inheritors, Descendants of Gods and Demons, etc."

"If I don't adopt a plan of swallowing up, how can I grow quickly?"

"The chaos in Liang Country is precisely to my advantage."

"Peach Blossom Temples ought to spread throughout this country, these few useful beauties cannot escape."

In doing things, Tao Buddha's son naturally wouldn't be as indecisive and overly concerned as his main body.

Once an idea arose, he acted immediately.

Simple and crude, yet extremely effective stratagem.

The "Divination Worm" hovering above Tao Buddha's son's head acted instantly upon receiving his master's command.

The insect silk, which was already extending infinitely, began its large-scale invasion of Langya County, and the first to be covered was naturally Cold County at the foot of the mountain.

Tao Qian had long known that the Soshen Realm gathered All Heavens Gods and Demons, both Innate and Acquired, famous and obscure, mainstream or fringe, encompassing all.

Under his control, the Divination Worm did not contact those slightly stronger Gods and Demons, specifically seeking out non-mainstream Wild Gods like Python the Immortal, General Wu, Sheep Head Eunuch, Earth Cave Grandma, Pox Immortal, who have some believers but are easily overlooked, planting the scene of refining Slaughter Ghosts into their minds, and then silently influencing them with Extraordinary Power.

Eventually, a consensus formed in the hearts of all Wild Gods:

"The Seven-Massacre Bodhisattva is ferocious; if he were to dominate Langya County, he would certainly topple all the other Gods and Demons' temples, and slaughter all heretics clean."

"We are too weak to contend against the Seven-Massacre Bodhisattva; if it continues like this, there is no path to survival."

"However, Divine Thought sensed the arrival of another [Peach Blossom God] at the border."

"This God Demon has an extraordinary origin and is quite kind, moreover, the pair of Peach Blossom Goddesses under its command were once the Liang Country's Empress and Imperial Concubine, and the Crown Prince and Princess of the fallen state are also by their side... We might dispatch believers to blockade, accept it as Lord, assist in restoring the state, using this as a legitimate pretext, surely the Peach Blossom God will take action and defeat the Seven-Massacre Bodhisattva."