As the stars and rivers shift and things change, so too do the stars and the stars move.
Today is the eighteenth birthday of Lianyao Divine Lord, the last disciple of the Ancestral God Honglin.
Honglin is the progenitor of the Daoist lineage of all realms. His thousands of disciples have all attained divine status and spread the Dao in various realms.
It seems unnecessary to make a big fuss about the birthday of a closed-door disciple.
But this Lotus Radiance God is different.
It is said that he was born with great fortune, enjoying smooth sailing and constant adventures. Breakthroughs that others could only dream of were as easy for him as eating and drinking.
In just eighteen years, this Lotus Radiance God Lord has achieved great success in his cultivation and obtained the position of a true god. He is only waiting to choose an auspicious day to establish his own divine realm.
This is the first time in billions of years that a god has been appointed to a divine position at such a young age!
There are countless immortals in the chaos, but only a few gods remain unchanged. Now that a new god has been added, it is a cause for celebration!
The main world created by the gods is far more advanced than the worlds created by immortal lords.
If one could catch the eye of this Lotus Radiance God and become his follower, residing in his newly created world to cultivate, or even connect one's own world with his world through a channel to exchange goods and resources, it would surely be an unparalleled opportunity!
On the eighteenth birthday of the Divine Lord Lianyao, the Ancestral God Honglin had been in seclusion for many years, so his senior brother Bai Ze, who was obsessed with his junior brother, took charge of organizing the grand celebration.
"The Flower Goddess, the ruler of the Flower Realm, has come with her twelve Flower Fairies to offer birthday wishes!"
"King Tai Guang of the Underworld and King Zhuan Lun of the Underworld, accompanied by Fairy Meng Po, have come to offer birthday wishes!"
"The Golden Crow God of the Solar Realm has come to offer birthday greetings!"
"The Moon Goddess of the Taiyin Realm, accompanied by the Jade Rabbit Fairy, has come to offer birthday wishes!"
"The Snow Realm's Lord, Goddess Qiongji, has come to offer her birthday wishes!"
"The two realm lords of the Xuan Realm, Lady Luo and Lord Yun, have come to offer their birthday greetings!"
"The Monkey King of Flower Fruit Mountain, accompanied by his twenty great demon kings, has come to offer birthday greetings!"
"The Fox Emperor of Qingqiu has come to offer his birthday wishes!"
"..."
Guests arrived in an endless stream, and the officials continuously called out names. The vast Dao Palace was occupied by powerful individuals qualified to open the world passage.
Besides these people from the Great World, there were also some powerful rogue immortals and demons who, having heard of this once-in-a-millennium event, managed to obtain invitations or ask favors from the various realm lords to allow them to disguise themselves as their attendants so they could come in and broaden their horizons.
The most outrageous of them all was the Monkey King. Not only did he bring all ten of his demon kings, but he also brought along ten wandering demons to freeload.
Right now, the Monkey King is being teased by a group of familiar deities.
The Monkey King protested, "Didn't Baihua also bring twelve flower fairies? I have a few more demon kings under my command! What's wrong with that?"
"Monkey! Are you asking for a beating?" The Goddess of Flowers glared at him.
The Moon Goddess, who was on good terms with the Hundred Flowers, said, "What is the relationship between the Hundred Flowers Goddess and the twelve Flower Fairies and Lord Lianyao? He was raised in the Flower Realm by the Hundred Flowers and all the fairies since he was a child! Today is Lord Lianyao's birthday, and it wouldn't be too much for the entire Flower Realm to come. How can you, a monkey, compare to her?"
"I'm on good terms with him! When he was a child, I even gave him a basket of peaches!"
"Great Sage, please stop talking about your peaches!"
The ever-straightforward Fairy Begonia couldn't help but tease him, saying, "That year, you gave Yao'er a whole basket of peaches, saying it wouldn't taste good eating them alone, so you wanted to share with him. Yao'er hadn't even finished one peach, and your basket was full of pits..."
"Hahaha..." The gods laughed uncontrollably.
The Monkey King felt he had lost face and was so angry that he jumped up and down, scratching his ears and cheeks.
The goddess Luo, always dignified and proper, scolded upon seeing this, "Even after becoming a goddess, you're still so mischievous!"
Her Daoist partner, Yun Shenjun, laughed and said, "I actually like Brother Monkey's personality."
This earned him a deadly glare from the Goddess of the Luo River.
As the gods were laughing and joking, they suddenly heard names called out:
"The Celestial Emperor and his wife, along with all the gods, have come to offer their birthday greetings!"
Suddenly, a large number of figures appeared in the square in front of the Dao Palace. The surrounding immortals looked at these gods who had taken a shortcut to godhood with envy on their faces.
"...This Immortal Empress and Queen Mother were originally a pair of Daoist boys in the alchemy room of the Ancestral God Honglin. One day, they were enlightened by the Ancestral God and voluntarily descended to the mortal world with their immortal souls to experience 490,000 small worlds, saving the world and helping people. Their merits were immeasurable, and that's how they were able to obtain a divine position from a minor first-order immortal and become the ruler of a world."
"That's not all. In the early days of the Immortal Realm, there were only him and the Queen Mother. Because the couple had little fame, no one was willing to serve under them, and the Immortal Realm was in decline and on the verge of decay. They went to the Ancestral God to plead their case, and only then did the Ancestral God agree to let them start the Investiture of the Gods in the Shang and Zhou Great World. Anyone who participated in the Investiture of the Gods could enter his Immortal Realm and obtain a divine position..."
"Back then, countless minor immortals and demons got wind of the news and secretly smuggled themselves into the Shang and Zhou Great World to participate in the Investiture of the Gods, taking the opportunity to obtain divine positions. You and I were truly born at the wrong time!"
"Yes, even if most of them only have a divine position but no divine realm, and are merely false gods, it is still a divine position!"
"After the War of Investiture of the Gods, it is difficult to obtain a divine position. We immortals have worked hard for tens of thousands of years, and there are countless worlds below, but the merits we have accumulated are not worthy of being granted a divine position."
"I remember, after that, only the Monkey King, who created the Flower Fruit Mountain world, was granted divine status, right?"
Fearing others might argue with him, the person added, "Not counting Lord Lianyao."
"Indeed, the Monkey King also has the courage to personally descend to the mortal realm to serve a mortal cultivator, protect his eighty-one great worlds, eliminate all evil spirits, and achieve perfect merit."
“The lifespan of a cultivator in a great world is at least several thousand years, and some even live for tens of thousands of years. Although there are eighty-one worlds, it is unknown how many years they have lived through... Tsk tsk, only that rascal can put down his pride.”
"You're all just backward, undisciplined immortals, busy tending to your own little corner of the world," one immortal sneered. "Besides the Great Sage and the Lotus Radiance Divine Lord, there's another newly promoted Divine Lord!"
"oh?"
Who is it?
All the immortals curiously surrounded him; the news of a new god's appearance was far too important.
This could very well mean a new path to godhood!
If they could understand this clearly, they might be able to avoid many detours.
"It is..."
Just as the immortal was about to speak, the master of ceremonies outside called out the names:
"The System Realm's Supreme God Zero, along with the Twenty-Sixth Sequence, Subsystem Number 001, has come to offer birthday greetings!"
The unusual and peculiar title of the song caught the guests off guard for a moment, and then they began to murmur among themselves.
"How did you manage to bring it here?"
"How dare those who follow heretical and unorthodox paths set foot on the noble grounds of the Dao Palace?"
"But that god who became a god by collecting scraps?"
"This is really disgraceful. It wasn't enough that they came alone, they also brought twenty-six others with them..."
"Keep your voice down. After all, that person has achieved godhood. We can't afford to offend them..."
"..."
"This is the one."
The immortal gestured to the scattered immortals surrounding him and said...
Then, they started whispering gossip about its deeds to the group.
Traditional immortal cultivation involves first cultivating the physical body and magical power, and then cultivating the soul and primordial spirit.
Once one has accumulated enough magical power through cultivation, one can carve out a world of one's own in the chaos, allowing living beings to thrive and multiply within it, accumulating merit and faith to nourish oneself and grow stronger step by step.
As long as the world under one's rule does not perish, with continued accumulation, one will eventually become a god.
This is the cultivation tradition passed down by the ancestral god Honglin, and it is revered as a divine scripture by all cultivators.
In addition, there is the path of becoming a god through tribulations.
But there are too many variables involved in descending to the mortal realm to undergo tribulations.
Like the Celestial Emperor and the Queen Mother, they were reincarnations of celestial souls. After descending to the mortal realm, they lost all memories of their past lives and had to start from scratch as ordinary mortals.
If they do not have the opportunity to embark on the path of cultivation to save the world, or if they die young due to an accident, then this life will have been wasted.
It's too lenient to come for nothing; the worst fear is that some powerful being in the lower realm might take advantage of their weakened mortal bodies and steal their immortal souls to refine.
If it weren't for the protection of the ancestral god Honglin, the Immortal Emperor and the Queen Mother would never have dared to risk descending to the mortal realm to undergo tribulations.
Isn't it better to refine pills in the Taoist palace?
Even so, they only dared to choose those small worlds with many restrictions to undergo tribulations; they dared not set foot in those worlds with extraordinary power.
The merits accumulated in the small worlds were meager. The Immortal Emperor and the Queen Mother went through a total of 490,000 small worlds before they barely accumulated enough merits to gain the recognition of the Heavenly Dao of the Origin Realm and achieve godhood.
Another type, like the Monkey King, directly descends to the mortal realm in his true form to undergo tribulations.
However, once the original body descends to the mortal realm, its power will be limited by the laws of the world and cannot be fully utilized.
If he goes to the smaller world, the Monkey King's power will be suppressed to the point that he will be no different from the mortals of that world.
Therefore, when the Monkey King descends to the mortal realm, he only chooses those great worlds of immortals and demons, where he reaches his peak upon descending.
He was lucky; on his first descent to the mortal realm, he encountered a relic from the Buddhist realm who was also undergoing a mortal tribulation.
Those relics were a great tonic for demons and monsters, and the Monkey King was born with a constitution that attracted demons. He waited patiently for the relic to come to him, guarding it for eighty-one lifetimes, slaying demons and monsters, saving all living beings, and finally achieving perfect merit and being enshrined as a god.
Tribulation in the lower realm is considered a quick path to godhood, but these rogue immortals have neither the protection of ancestral gods nor the formidable combat power and supernatural abilities of the Monkey King, so none of them dare to try it lightly.
After all, if you manage your own world peacefully, you will eventually become a god. Why take a risk?
Therefore, no new gods have been promoted in the past tens of thousands of years.
Except for this Zero God.
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