Qi Cultivation Starting from the Repair Panel

Chapter 201 Divine Infant Perfection

The advancement in cultivation for an Incense Fire Deity was simple and crude, requiring only a sufficient number of followers; there was no need for the arduous practice that ordinary cultivators undergo.

As the number of followers increased, the cultivation of Chu Zheng's Incense Fire Divine Path expanded rapidly.

The Incense Fire Divine Path begins with the Divine Embryo and gives birth to the Soul. When the Soul transforms into a spirit, it enters the realm of the Spirit Lord.

Spirit Lords are ranked as Lower Rank, Middle Rank, and Upper Rank, corresponding to the Soul Condensing, Divine Infant, and Divine Transformation of the Immortal Path, covering Third Order through Fifth Order.

Higher up is the Heavenly Monarch, divided into lower and upper ranks: the Junior Heavenly Monarch is comparable to an Immortal Path cultivator in the Tongxuan Secret Realm, while the Upper Heavenly Monarch could be paralleled with the Immortal Tribulation.

Following the Heavenly Monarch is the Heavenly Venerate Realm, akin to a True Immortal of the Immortal Path. If prefixed with "Great Saint" before the title "Heavenly Venerate," it is equivalent to a Ninth Order Immortal Venerable.

After swallowing most of the followers of the Cold Pond Spirit Lord, Chu Zheng's cultivation skyrocketed. In just over a year, he had crossed two major realms and stepped into the Middle-Rank Spirit Lord realm.

The inflow of Incense Fire Willpower received by his original body was explosively increasing, and his cultivation was nearing Divine Infant Perfection.

However, as the number of followers grew, Chu Zheng gradually noticed something unusual. A large portion of the incoming Incense Fire Willpower was quite mixed.

Apart from some fanatical followers, most people worship deities for their self-interest, carrying their hopes with every worship.

This kind of wish would clearly enter the perception of the deity through the God-Worshipping Method, and Chu Zheng could hear faint whispers almost constantly.

The onslaught of vast information meant that the brain needed to expend a lot of energy to process it.

Moslty, many Incense Fire Deities were often in slumber because the information to be processed was simply too overwhelming.

Chu Zheng had tried to block out these messages, but it was impossible, as these messages were carried within the willpower, and abandoning this willpower was clearly not feasible.

Due to the distance, these messages had a minimal impact on his original body but significantly affected the Golden Body in front of him; hence, the Soul within this body could not remain awake at all times.

What puzzled Chu Zheng even more was that although his original body received the Incense Fire Willpower, his current incarnation seemed unaffected, as if he was not "Daoist Venerable Zheng Chu," but only his original body was.

This was somewhat baffling.

This Golden Body hadn't undergone any special changes. He had simply fabricated a backstory, and there were not many similarities with his original body, yet the Incense Fire Willpower seemed sentient, immediately sensing the existence of his original body.

Chu Zheng thought about this matter for a long time but still had no clues. His understanding of the Incense Fire Divine Path was still too shallow, likened to groping for stones to cross the river. It was difficult to comprehend the key points in a short time, but this was likely due to the "God Sculpting Method" of that Ancestral Dao.

Following the battle with the Cold Pond Spirit Lord, the name of Daoist Venerable Zheng Chu was already known far and wide.

This had little impact on the surrounding deities. They had been entrenched here for a long time, and the number and quality of their followers were far beyond what a newly risen deity could influence.

Furthermore, they spent most of their time in slumber, indifferent to minor changes in the outside world.

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For Chu Zheng, he entered a considerably long period of calm.

To increase followers, he sometimes needed to collaborate with Yuan Dazun, occasionally performing miracles to fulfill some minor wishes of the followers.

Besides these, most of his time was spent on cultivation, steadily progressing towards the Golden Core.

Influenced by the Incense Fire Divine Path, Chu Zheng's current cultivation was advancing extremely rapidly, making his entry into the Divine Transformation imminents.

Once he stepped into Divine Transformation, the rank of the Repair Master would naturally rise to Sixth Order, fulfilling his initial purpose.

The goal for his incarnation now needed to be set on a higher realm, such as the Returning to Void Realm after Refine Spirit.

The Incense Fire Divine Path could not be given up easily; at least, Chu Zheng planned to pass it down for a long time.

Even if this incarnation perished due to transformation, the Incense Fire Deity, Daoist Venerable Zheng Chu, must persist in this Chaos Starry Sea.

To ensure the survival of the Incense Fire Deity, followers were indispensable. Therefore, after weighing his options, Chu Zheng summoned Yuan Dazun and spent his Soul origin to bless him once.

A deity's blessing could forcibly elevate a believer's cultivation realm but at a great cost to the Incense Fire Deity, so few deities were willing to use this method.

After the blessing, Yuan Dazun's cultivation realm was directly elevated by a major realm, stepping into the Second Order.

Simultaneously, Chu Zheng granted Yuan Dazun access to core followers' privileges, bestowing the Mystical Method for Inviting Gods.

Core followers could practice the Mystical Method for Inviting Gods, and in critical moments, could invite the deity to possess them, borrowing the deity's power.

This was somewhat similar to the 'Divine Striking Art' in Chu Zheng's previous life's concept, with only a very few core followers having this privilege.

Simultaneously, using the opportunity when the Soul resonated, Chu Zheng, through the Golden Body, erased the name Chu Zheng from Yuan Dazun's memory, leaving only the title "Venerable."

From then on, his real name was unknown in this world.

Yuan Dazun was naturally overwhelmed with gratitude for the unexpected blessing. During his daily incense worship, the faith and willpower transmitted were increasingly strong, making him the first fervent follower of the Dao Lord.

Chu Zheng was uncertain how long this incarnation would survive; when the time came, a new Venerable would be needed to continue the legacy of Daoist Venerable Zheng Chu.