A month has passed quickly, and after a month of fermentation, the Taoism conference held in Cangzhou has finally begun to show its subsequent impact.
The first place to be affected by this conference was naturally Cangzhou itself. Within a month, the aquatic creatures that had been wreaking havoc in the major river basins completely disappeared.
Most of these aquatic creatures are grateful to the White-Robed Divine Lord for returning the divine way to heaven and earth and are unwilling to attack humans again. In addition, the deterrent force of the Jidu Dragon Palace being suppressed by the White-Robed Divine Lord remains, so ordinary aquatic creatures dare not offend humans.
But there are so many aquatic creatures that even if most of them can remain peaceful, as long as some of them have bad tempers and want to gain benefits from the passing human ships, they can cause chaos in the river basins.
This kind of thing did happen in the first few days after the conference.
But as the water gods who tried to become gods through worship took action one after another, all these things took a complete turn for the worse.
The first one to stop the aquatic creatures from invading human ships was a great demon in the Qi training realm who called himself the God of Mingjiang River. He protected the passing human ships from the aquatic creatures and used the authority of the God of Water to help the human ships reach their destination quickly.
This action naturally attracted the ridicule of many water creatures, and many of them secretly called the Mingjiang Water God a fool who was trying to please the human race.
But just a few days later, during an incident in which the water tribes were robbing human ships, the Mingjiang Water God displayed his true incense and fire divine realm and single-handedly defeated two Qi-cultivating demons of the same realm, which immediately shocked the entire Jidu water tribe.
All the Jidu water creatures then discovered that the Mingjiang River God had accumulated a lot of fame and worship due to helping human ships, and had already stepped into the fourth level of Shinto, becoming a wild god and a true god.
Many humans even claimed that they wanted to build temples for the Mingjiang River God and offer incense and sacrifices to him, which made many water gods crazy.
Following this sensational information, more information appeared in the eyes of most aquatic creatures.
There are far more water gods than just the Mingjiang River God who want to gain worship and faith. Many water gods have long been secretly learning from the Mingjiang River God to escort human ships in order to accumulate worship and faith and fame.
This situation attracted countless water creatures to flock to it, and those water creatures who wanted to cause chaos quickly became tools for the many water gods to spread their reputation.
In the end, as long as there were water creatures trying to rob human ships on the Jishui River, the water gods would come to rescue them within a quarter of an hour.
In this way, the water tribe harvests the power of incense and ascends the incense road to return it to heaven and earth.
But it was not just the aquatic creatures in Cangzhou that were involved in this incident. As the Jidu Dragon Palace Sacred Road was returned to heaven and earth, the aquatic creatures in dozens of states and counties throughout the Jishui River basin all felt it.
Many powerful water creatures came from afar to the main stream of Jishui River in Cangzhou, just to fight for that opportunity of incense and divine way.
This led to a rapid increase in the strength of the aquatic creatures in Cangzhou.
In the past, water creatures in the Qi Transformation Realm could occupy a pool of water and set up shop on a hilltop to attract many small monsters to join them. However, as water creatures from various states and counties came to Cangzhou, the already limited resources were greatly compressed, and even a single Qi Condensation Realm monster would find it difficult to control a tributary.
Under such circumstances, many Qi-cultivating demons gathered together and began to build the Dragon Palace with several incense gods who had entered the level of wild gods as the core.
This is not the self-proclaimed Dragon Palace by monsters in ponds and pools, but a real Dragon Palace that has a large number of monsters and the support of incense and gods.
The tributaries of the Jishui River were occupied by these dragon palaces, and the prototypes of incense and sacred temples began to emerge.
Such a situation naturally made the Jidu Dragon Palace extremely angry, and it issued several decrees from the Dragon Palace Cave Heaven ordering the direct descendants of the Jidu Dragon Palace to attack these fake Dragon Palaces.
However, without the suppression of Jidu Shinto, the direct descendants of the water tribe of Jidu Dragon Palace knew that the decline of Jidu Dragon Palace was only a matter of time.
In addition, the ancestor of the water gods in the Dragon Palace Cave Heaven secretly conveyed messages, asking them to retain their strength and wait and see what happens. This further confirmed the situation for the direct water creatures of the Jidu Dragon Palace.
These direct descendants of the Dragon Palace, the aquatic creatures, all used their own lack of strength or pretended to be attacking to fool the Jidu Dragon Palace, which made the real dragons angry again.
Ao Yu, the leader of the true dragons, angrily demanded that a water god come to the world and kill all the rebels, but no water god accepted the order.
Except for the fallen Giant Clam Water God, all the other water gods present have a lifespan of at least several hundred years.
After enduring three thousand years of hardships and passing through a long period of spiritual energy depletion, he has arrived at this era of spiritual energy recovery, just to fight for his destiny and break through to the next realm to prolong his life.
Under such circumstances, who would be willing to risk certain death and come to the world just to maintain the so-called majesty of Jidu Dragon Palace?
Without the suppression of the gods, the people in Jidu Dragon Palace have long been in unrest. Even if there is a huge **, they must live to get it.
Such a scene made Ao Yu and several other true dragons extremely angry, but they were unable to force the God of Water to obey.
Without the authority of the Jidu Dragon King and the Jidu Dragon Seal, the gods of water had no subordinate relationship with them, and they could not truly restrict these gods of water.
Don't even think about threatening with force, the current situation is a matter of fact, unless all the water gods can be suppressed, there is no way to force any demon king to leave the Dragon Palace and come down to the world.
What's more, although the several real dragons in the Dragon Palace are quite powerful, they may not be able to suppress so many water gods.
Ao Yu knew very well that the reason they maintained superficial respect was because they were afraid of the elders in the ancestral land, not the real dragons standing on the stage.
It is impossible to drive the gods of water to suppress those fake dragon palaces, and there are only a few real dragons in the cave. It is also impossible to let the real dragons of noble status do something to die. The Jidu Dragon Palace can only allow the development of aquatic creatures outside.
This situation directly accelerated the development of the Cangzhou Shuizu.
Outside of Cangzhou, the other three dragon palaces, various demon realms, paradise on earth, and the Great Xia court all responded to it.
Although the Four Dragon Palaces are of the same blood, they still dare not act rashly when it comes to the decree of Heaven and the will of a suspected supreme emperor.
What's more, the other four Du Dragon Palaces are all in self-isolation and do not have much energy to take care of Ji Du Dragon Palace.
On the demon side, all demon realms launched investigations into the deity, but were unable to confirm his identity.
The connections between the various demon realms have been increasing in recent times. It seems that a large number of high-ranking demon clan members are plotting something big and have no time to care about things in the outside world.
As the first people to be present at the conference in person, all the blessed lands and caves had great respect for the White-robed Divine Lord and the Luo Yun Sect behind him. Many ancient sects tried to find any news about the Luo Yun Sect, but could not find any in the historical records.
Even when they asked the elders in the sect who had lived through two spiritual energy tide eras, they did not get any response, which made the powerful people in the many blessed lands extremely surprised.
The only person who seemed to know some of the secrets behind it, Rongcheng Dayutian, also kept his mouth shut. The Dongtian Patriarch ordered his disciples to inquire about the matter with an imperial decree, but even Rongcheng Dayutian was not allowed to enter.
As for the other party involved, the Great Xia court, its behavior after the conference seemed a bit strange.
The Great Xia court did not mention anything about the White-Robed Divine Lord and the Luoyun Sect, as if it had completely forgotten the existence of the White-Robed Divine Lord. Instead, it began to announce to the outside world that it would use the national treasury resources to train the younger generation of geniuses in the imperial capital in order to win national fortune for Great Xia for the next 500 years.
Among the many geniuses from the imperial capital's aristocratic families, Xue Mingzhi from the imperial capital's Xue family successfully ranked among them with his cultivation at the peak of Qi Transformation, and was trained by the entire country of the Great Xia court.
The training resources include, but are not limited to, using precious spiritual objects to create natal spiritual treasures, opening precious books in the royal scripture library, providing precious spiritual medicines refined by the Dan Ding Division to help with realm breakthroughs, and even being qualified to comprehend an incomplete Taoist magical power.
The Great Xia court placed such a heavy bet on the young generation of geniuses that the entire Great Xia was shocked. Even many blessed places were jealous of the many rewards given by Great Xia.
Many of the aristocratic families in the imperial capital who had allowed their outstanding disciples to join the sect ahead of time in an attempt to play it both ways regretted it greatly.
In the eyes of outsiders, this was a gamble by the Great Xia court. No one knew that this decree was made by the Imperial Observatory and Emperor Xia on the day when the discussion conference ended.
His real purpose was to legitimately fund Xue Mingzhi, who was on good terms with the Supreme Taoist, and to use Xue Mingzhi as a medium to open important resources such as the royal Sutra Library to the Supreme Taoist.
The geniuses, including several members of the royal family, were actually just incidental gifts.
Originally, the influence of this discussion conference was far more than that, and the name of the White-robed Divine Lord should have spread beyond Daxia in these days.
But much of the impact of this incident was overshadowed by another incident that followed.
That is the Yuanqi tide that gathers outside the Xuanhuang Realm and spreads throughout the void realm.
A month is a trivial amount of time for the void. The tide of Yuan Qi gathered outside the Xuanhuang Realm has not dissipated yet, and it even has a tendency to intensify.
The tide of Yuan Qi constantly washed away the barrier that connected heaven and earth, but it was unable to shake the nine ancient bronze tripods that guarded Xuanhuang.
In the past month, the attention of the top powers in the entire Xuanhuang Realm has been focused on the Yuanqi Tide, and they have been speculating about the origin of the Yuanqi Tide.
The powerful people in the blessed land claimed that this was a sign that someone had attained the Great Dao and that it was a vision manifesting the Great Dao.
Some people also believe that this is another type of spiritual energy tide, which is the upper realm’s feedback to the Xuanhuang Realm’s several periods of spiritual energy depletion.
Some even claim that this is proof that the Xuanhuang Realm wants to return to ancient times, and that the path of Qigong practitioners is the true path that leads directly to the origin.
There are various speculations and different opinions, but due to the incomplete rules of heaven and earth in the Xuanhuang Realm, the real cave heaven powerhouses cannot descend, and no one can personally come to the world barrier to spy on the Yuanqi tide.
As for cultivators who have not yet reached the realm of Lianxu Zhenjun, they have no idea about the Yuanqi tides.
The Yuanqi tide washed the world barrier for more than a month. Although it failed to shake the world barrier, it also brought certain impacts to the Xuanhuang Realm.
At every moment, there is a faint Yuan Qi mixed in the torrent, which unexpectedly breaks through the world barrier and descends on the Xuanhuang Realm. Although these Yuan Qi are insignificant compared to the Yuan Qi tide, they are definitely a blessing from heaven for the Xuanhuang Realm, which is short of Yuan Qi.
During this month, the concentration of Yuanqi in the Xuanhuang Realm continued to rise, and the cultivators at the peak of the Qi Transformation Realm could more easily capture the Yuanqi floating between heaven and earth, and complete the process of drawing Qi into the body to become cultivators in the Qi Training Realm who were above the mundane world.
The increase in the concentration of Yuanqi even shows signs of triggering the next round of spiritual energy tide eruption in advance. By then, the heaven and earth will allow practitioners in the God Transformation Realm to be born.
The outside world has undergone tremendous changes in a month, but in this remote old town of Wencheng, everything seems so slow.
Nothing seems to have changed now compared to a month ago.
"Bu Yu, the fish you mentioned yesterday arrived early this morning. I kept it specially for you. It will definitely be delicious when you take it home to make soup!"
"Thank you, Aunt Liu."
"Why do you need to be polite to your Aunt Liu?"
In front of a stall in the small vegetable market, Gong Buyu reached out and took the fish that the stall owner had packed.
At this time, she was not wearing the eye-catching blue palace dress, but had changed into light casual clothes.
The white T-shirt and jeans outlined her beautiful figure. The long hair that fell to her hips turned into normal black under the cover of magic. She exuded a cool and refreshing feeling like an orchid in a valley.
The beautiful figure seems out of place in this shabby vegetable market in the old city.
After paying for the fish skillfully, Gong Buyu turned around and walked towards home with a few dishes.
This was not the first time that Gong Buyu came to the market to buy vegetables. Her cultivation at the peak of Qi training and the ten thousand years of freezing time had almost made her lose the ability to eat.
But she doesn't eat, but Snow White does.
During the days when Shen Yuan was in seclusion, Bai Xue finished her remaining snacks and began to ask Gong Buyu for food in the name of the senior sister.
Although Gong Buyu was somewhat puzzled as to why the senior sister did not need to eat due to her cultivation, he did not dare to neglect her.
It so happened that her cultivation level had already reached the peak of this world. All she needed was to condense her Yin Spirit. The time required for daily practice was not much, so she began to learn how to cook on the Internet and went to the old city market to buy vegetables every day.
Bai Xue was deeply moved, and naturally returned the favor by using her saved pocket money to buy Gong Buyu some clothes for his travel convenience, and also told Gong Buyu some common sense in daily life.
During this month, the man and the cat got along quite well.
Pushing open the gate of the courtyard, Gong Buyu habitually glanced in the direction of the Yellow River Spirit Pond. The dragon carp had entered hibernation half a month ago, and its body, which was originally only the size of a palm, began to grow continuously, with the appearance of a real dragon.
After skillfully putting the purchased vegetables into the kitchen, Bai Xue stood bored in front of the door of the training room, looking into the training room from time to time with her wandering eyes.
Above the sky, the starry bodhi tree that seemed to be transformed from stars continuously dropped the light of awakening spirits into the training room. Except for the occasional wisp of clear and spiritual air escaping, there was no movement in the training room.
Seeing this, Gong Buyu couldn't help but stop in front of the training room.
A whole month has passed since Shen Yuan went into seclusion.
When Shen Yuan just started his retreat, Bai Xue seemed to be reborn. She ate snacks and watched TV every day, living a carefree life.
However, as time went on, Bai Xue gave up her favorite TV and snacks, and except for eating, she spent the rest of her time waiting in front of the practice room door for Shen Yuan to come out.
Gong Buyu looked at the kitten in front of the training room, and couldn't help but feel distressed. He said softly:
"Big sister, I bought your favorite fish today."
Bai Xue raised her head and glanced at Gong Buyu, then lay down again in a depressed mood, glancing at the tightly closed door of the training room from time to time.
This day was no different from any other day, and Bai Xue's waiting still seemed to be in vain.
At this moment, the light of the Starry Sky Bodhi suddenly dissipated, and a rich and clear aura instantly spread throughout the courtyard, and the empty courtyard seemed to have welcomed spring.
The withered jujube tree sprouted new branches in an instant, and between the tender buds, which contained a trace of the true meaning of the great way of refining Qi, were born precious spiritual fruits that had never been seen before.
The emerald green vines on the wooden corridor continued to extend like living things, as if turning into crystal jade roots that spread into the earth.
In the spiritual field opened up outside the courtyard, the seeds of low-level spiritual medicines continued to mutate under the nurturing of the pure spiritual energy, giving birth to precious spiritual medicines with properties far exceeding their own.
Even the Starry Sky Bodhi transformed from the Enlightenment Array seemed to have received feedback from the pure and spiritual energy, and more array nodes began to extend continuously under the gathering of the pure and spiritual energy.
In an instant, all things come back to life!
And in the midst of this change that gave birth to vitality, a hand slowly pushed open the door of the training room.