Chapter 1 The Gods' Unhappiness

The gods were not happy about Ji Xiang's "return."

If they had clear self-awareness, they would have used their magic to throw this scavenger, who had previously caused trouble in Fuli, heavily out of Dafuli!

The gods reacted so strongly because of the last time...when the Tai Xu Treasure Light invaded Fuli, Ji Xiang used the Tongtian Mingyan and the Art of Driving Gods to forcibly use them as a shield wall.

They, the dignified thirty-six Heavens of Gods, were actually piled up like bricks, and in the end...what was dispersed by the Tai Xu Treasure Light was not only their divine positions, but also their dignity as the thirty-six Heavens of Gods!

Even...this heretical Heavenly Devil who disrespected the Heavenly Gods, even caused the Yuanshi Tianzun to "wake up" for a moment!

If the Heavenly Laws could work on Ji Xiang, this heretical Heavenly Devil, if the gods had a clear and definite self-awareness and could act on their own initiative, then they would definitely tie Ji Xiang to the Thunder City of the Thunder Department, and make Yuqing Zhenwang and the Thunderclap Puhua Tianzun use heavenly thunder to bombard him in turn, so that Ji Xiang, this Heavenly Devil with "accumulated evil deeds," would pay a heavy price!

Heavenly Devil, you will definitely pay the pr....!

The gods' divine tablets shook, but their anger had not been fully vented. The divine tablet of the Fire Virtue Star Lord was already grabbed by the Tongtian Mingyan, as if it were a large hand made of white smoke, and it grabbed the Fire Virtue Star Lord like drawing a card without hesitation.

The Divine Tablets: !!!

You Heavenly Devil, don't be too presumptuous!

Didn't you just say you wanted to borrow?

Do you call your current behavior borrowing!

You bastard!

You take everything you can get your hands on, extremely overbearing!

"Thank you all for giving me face."

The divine tablets heard Ji Xiang's "thanks," but of course they were not happy, but instead flew into a rage!

Real "thunder"!

Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom!

Suddenly, thunder rumbled in Fuli, continuously and with a very high frequency! Vast lightning emerged from the distant depths of Fuli, and at the same time, several white lights also struck down from the azure sky!

The entire Azure Sky of Biluo and the Dafuli Earth were like a sea suddenly experiencing a seaquake, setting off monstrous waves, and those white lights that struck down were all divine tablets of the Heavenly Gods!

Going beyond your level to receive a spirit, not advisable, advise you to release the Fire Virtue Star Lord early....

Boom!

When they rushed out, trying to stop Ji Xiang from doing this ridiculous thing of receiving spirits out of turn, suddenly, a large amount of incense disappeared from these divine tablets, eaten by the floating Tongtian Mingyan!

The Tongtian Mingyan was something left behind by the nameless karmic fire on the Son of Heaven, and it could soar three thousand zhang into the sky. These divine tablets suddenly stopped, and then flew back to the depths of Fuli at an even faster speed!

Almost forgot!

This kid can steal their incense!

The divine tablets certainly "remembered."

The last time this kid came to Fuli to receive a divine position, he forcibly received Marshal Tian Peng out of turn, and then the other two of the Four Sages of the North Pole went to rescue him, but they were also captured by this kid and never returned.

Along with that, a large amount of their incense was also taken away!

Every time Ji Xiang returns to Fuli, a god always has to lose some incense, so why must that god be oneself?

This damned Tongtian Mingyan!

That damned blank divine tablet!

Why were these two things allowed to come together?

Who is the culprit?

She must be captured into Fuli and struck on the top of her head with heavenly thunder!

Thus, the scene became, the gods rushed out, the gods sent them off with the sound of thunder, the gods contributed a lot of incense, and the gods returned with hearts full of satisfaction.

The divine tablets disappeared, coming mightily with a large amount of Tai Xu Qi, and leaving in a vast expanse.

"Thank you everyone for going out of your way to send me off with a bit of incense. I won't thank you for your great kindness!"

Ji Xiang did not expect that this time, divine tablets would rush out again, just like when he first received Marshal Tian Peng out of turn, except that this time, there was an even more powerful force that wanted to smash the receiving power of the blank divine tablet, but it failed in the end.

This time, that powerful force did not appear.

Ji Xiang thought for a moment.

He quickly discerned the situation.

The problem lies in the rank of the Heavenly Department. The imperial court has divided the barriers in the thirteen ranks of the Heavenly Department. Human cultivators cannot receive gods above the thirteenth rank unless they have obtained the permission of the imperial court emperor. This secret method may be related to the Great Dao of the Dynasty.

And the gap between the thirteenth rank and the twelfth rank is very huge. Ji Xiang recalled that when he received the divine position, the two Venerable Gods of the twelfth rank and the Heavenly God of the thirteenth rank brought a completely different sense of oppression.

Then, there is the tenth rank of the Heavenly Department, where many Demon Kings and Divine Kings, and myriad divine generals, are at this level.

As for Marshal Tian Peng, he is of the eighth rank of the Heavenly Department, above the tenth rank, and the other two generals of the Four Sages are all in the tenth rank.

But that is not important at the moment.

Because the Fire Virtue Star Lord is only a thirteenth-rank [Universal Celestial Phenomenon], far from reaching the level of a [Myriad Divine Generals].

"With the help of the gods' incense, my form and spirit can recover faster! It's good that there hasn't been any incense in the temple these past few days. The incense left by the gods this time can give me a lot of help."

Ji Xiang sincerely thanked the gods.

Where can he find so many staunch friends?

Although they cannot speak, Ji Xiang knows that they are all willing to help him, not only can they form a divine tablet shield wall at a critical moment, but they will also occasionally lend a helping hand in the snow and give him a share of incense.

Incense is coming.

This picking up of incense is truly a wonderful thing.

At the same moment.

The Silver Bottle Maiden, who had been watching the arrival and quick departure of the gods from the side, was already stunned.

This scene caused a violent shock in her heart, and for a moment, the thoughts in her mind began to become somewhat chaotic.

What, exactly, is going on?

The person holding the divine position of the Great Emperor Zhenwu actually exists, although...the name seems to be a little different?

Could it be that You Sheng Zhenjun from Mount Wudang?

But even a mortal cultivator...no, perhaps even an immortal in the Ascension Realm entering Fuli would probably not cause such a violent reaction from the thirty-six Heavens of Gods!

This is Dafuli Earth, a place where only immortals can truly enter and exit unhindered with their primordial spirits. People like her, a folk god, or cultivators, can only access the Great Fuli with their mental will when receiving a divine position.

"I haven't seen an immortal in the Ascension Realm...no, no, no, I've seen one now, it's this one, but, but what I'm seeing, I don't know why, but I always feel that, maybe, maybe other Ascension Realms, those powerful immortals who ascend in broad daylight, wouldn't cause such great turmoil in this azure sky..."

"The Heavenly Department's thirteenth-rank divine position, this immortal actually said he would take it and then took it. For this, even divine positions in the top ten of the Heavenly Department manifested to send him off...Aren't the thirty-six Heavens of Gods all inanimate objects? How could they behave so much like living beings?"

"Could it be that the Heavenly Gods actually have hearts, and are not just wooden or clay sculptures that give power, but truly possess life?"

The Silver Bottle Maiden regarded the situation when the top ten of the Heavenly Department rushed out just now as them "seeing off" the Great Emperor Zhenwu. This was a very polite behavior, which was indeed very consistent with the situation in various stories where gods and immortals greet each other and travel on clouds, except that the gods and immortals here were all flying tablets...

As for those thunderclaps and white lights, this should be the way the gods greet each other!

However, since he is the Great Emperor Zhenwu, the national protector god of the Ming Dynasty, it is normal to have such a grand display!

This...that makes sense!

This...the way the gods greet each other is indeed very majestic and powerful! When humans have major events, they will also beat gongs and drums, and the source of gongs and drums originally came from imitating the thunderous sounds of the sky!

Legend has it...the Yellow Emperor made drums to boost morale!

This...it is worthy of being the Great Emperor Zhenwu, who subdues the demons and monsters of the world and is the protector god of a dynasty, to have such treatment!

"If I become a Heavenly God, and ascend in the future, reaching the top ten of the Heavenly Department, I wonder if I can have such a status?"

"As expected...the Great Emperor...is truly amazing!"

The Silver Bottle Maiden was truly impressed by the immortal who took action, the immortal who called himself "White-Faced Zhenwu." Of course, this was respect for the strength of this "immortal," and not a genuine willingness to be his subject.

However, she was watching with rapt attention, and after the gods retreated, she heard the roar of an angry dragon in her ear!

The Silver Bottle Maiden suddenly turned around. The ghostly fires that had been almost completely devoured by the incense given by Ji Xiang were burning once again!

Starting from the waist, they burned fiercely. The Nether-Blue flames represented the anger of the heavens, and the dragon of fortune, with three eyes as if it were bearing three magnificent stars, was glaring at itself!

The gods appeared, and for some reason, it briefly stopped its actions.

And when the gods left, it resumed its actions in an instant!

All of this happened in a short time. Ji Xiang appeared, directly passed the dragon of fortune, grabbed the divine tablet of the Fire Virtue Star Lord, attracted the attention of all the gods, and then the gods above the tenth rank of the Heavenly Department descended, and then suddenly left.

For the dragon of fortune, it was just that Fuli had changed slightly. Its actions had only stopped for a very short period of time, and just before, it had not attacked Ji Xiang's white smoke, but instead, the Heavenly Yin Fire in its mouth had been swallowed by the white smoke, which caused it to have a feeling of "anger!"

The first one to attack would naturally be the weakest Silver Bottle Maiden!

The flying dragon raised its head, and on the Great Fuli, the stars were dazzling. Suddenly, a streamer of light shone, turning into a huge ball of light burning with Heavenly Yin Fire, roaring from the Western Sky!

The Universal Celestial Phenomena was drawn by it!

"What...what power is that?"

The Silver Bottle Maiden looked at the huge ball of light flying towards her, drawn by the dragon's roar. Even more terrifying was that above the Azure Sky of Biluo, behind those colorful clouds, what was revealed was the eternally floating Milky Way and the stars.

The light of these stars gathered on the huge ball of light that was rapidly revolving in the sky. When the three bright eyes of the dragon of fortune blinked once, this huge ball of light had already completed its gathering of starlight and began to fall towards where she was!

"The thirteenth rank of the Heavenly Department...and above..."

"Known as..."

"Universal Celestial Phenomena!"

This dragon of fortune actually had the power to manipulate the divine power of many star lords!

And not only that, but the dragon of fortune spewed out violent storms from its nostrils. These storms cleaved the clouds of Fuli, and even the radiance manifested by the stars seemed to be faintly shaking!

Gale of the Nine Heavens!

The gale tore apart the clouds of Fuli, shaking the void, covering the sky and the earth, accommodating all things, so that the Silver Bottle Maiden had nowhere to escape!

And the wind aided the fire, and with the appearance of the gale, the Nether-Blue ghostly fire suddenly became extremely intense, gradually collapsing the form and spirit of the Silver Bottle Maiden. The consciousness of the Silver Bottle Maiden was entangled by the ghostly fire. At this time, her form and spirit only had a head left, and the last thought that appeared in her mind was a regret.

She had been too engrossed in watching the methods of that immortal...

The dragon of fortune was far too powerful compared to herself...

This time, she had really failed. It was clearly just a little bit away, although it was with the help of the Great Emperor...but she would just disappear like this...if her form and spirit were destroyed, her soul would also collapse...

But at this time, she only heard a faint reprimand in the void:

"Do not disturb the heavens and the earth!"

"Stop!"

Ji Xiang used his magic. This power came from the Immortal Artifact he had absorbed: the Imperial Heaven Banner Staff.

The Imperial Heaven Banner Staff had four kinds of divine might, one kind of creation, and the first divine might was that it could interrupt the opponent's spellcasting, issue the anger of the heavens, and any spell that the opponent was casting, or had already cast, would be immediately interrupted and disappear!

And that kind of creation was that it could restore the form and spirit of the dead to its original state, and...obtain the body of a god!

In addition, Ji Xiang had originally obtained the *Central Jade Book* of the Yuanshi Emperor from the world of the True Spirit Seat Chart, which could help people or gods, or lonely ghosts, to fabricate new forms and spirits!

And as expected, the Imperial Heaven Banner Staff was also a possession of the Yuanshi Emperor. This master of the Heavenly Heart Realm, or rather, a half-step Heavenly Heart expert, was good at the path related to gods!

Ji Xiang's palm moved the colorful clouds, and Yue Yinping's about-to-collapse form and spirit instantly returned to its original state, and it possessed initial divine power!

In this Dafuli, the magic power of a god was restored!

She had the magic of a god, but no divine name or position. At this time, the divine tablet of the Fire Virtue Star Lord would be handed over to her!

The Silver Bottle Maiden blankly looked at her restored form and spirit!

This was as if a broken mirror was reunited, and spilled water was recovered!

The dragon of fortune, seeing this scene, was naturally even more furious!

Ji Xiang's voice, with the intention of explanation, all pointed to the dragon of fortune, and in the Silver Bottle Maiden's bewildered gaze, he roared forward to disperse the rolling wind and smoke:

"In the eighth month of summer, the Morning Star appears, to the west of the Heavenly River. Now the Comet Star appears to the west of the Morning Star, and its light reaches eastward to the Heavenly River."

"The light of the Comet Star, in the astronomical books of the Jin Dynasty, is written as a kind of comet, but the disasters it brings are even more fierce than those of a comet. And the light of the Comet Star will not emit without a reason, its brilliance must have its source of stars."

"You see the Comet Star appearing from the west, pointing to the Eastern Heavenly River, then it must be the power of the Morning Star that is emitted."

Ji Xiang's voice rang in her ear:

"Alright, although, the gods of the heavens, gave me this face, allowing me to take the divine tablet of the Fire Virtue True Lord, to be used for you...."

"But!"

His tone paused:

"The power of this Star Lord is truly grand, and since ancient times, it has been used for the change of dynasties in the human world, the execution of ministers, the uprising of the myriad people, and so on, and so on, all kinds of omens! The fortune it carries, good or bad, fortune or misfortune, you must grasp it yourself!"

"Go down to the lower realm! Use it well!"

After saying that, Ji Xiang manipulated the Tongtian Mingyan, grabbing the Silver Bottle Maiden and the divine tablet of the Fire Virtue Star Lord. Within an instant, the divine tablet of the Fire Virtue Star Lord could not resist, so it was easily integrated into the Silver Bottle Maiden's soul!

As for those ghostly fires, of course, they were once again happily accepted by Ji Xiang. Now that Ji Xiang had the Purple-Gold Pill, he could be said to accept all the powers within the fire element, without refusing anyone who came, and they were all treasures for his cultivation!

Yue Yinping was thrown out of the Heavenly Gate in astonishment, and her mental consciousness instantly returned to her body. All the flames in the Silver Bottle Maiden's temple all floated up!

At the same time, Ji Xiang was still using his magic within the Heavenly Gate. Having reached the Dafuli, he could fully use his Ascension Realm cultivation. When immortals ascended to the upper realm, the big hand transformed from white smoke steadily caught the oncoming gale!

"Gale of the Nine Heavens, enter my hand!"

Ji Xiang was very happy. He had seen such a thing as a gale before, but that was just a Green Sky Gale set up by the great demon Tao Zhongwen, and it had never been triggered.

Accumulated clouds form the sky, supported by firm Qi, stepping on it is like cotton, but ten thousand jun can be supported!

The gale was extremely powerful, and it still wanted to resist after being grabbed by the Tongtian Mingyan, and Ji Xiang also felt for the first time that the Tongtian Mingyan had met a "opponent" that could stalemate with it!

As for fighting against the Tai Xu Treasure Light, that did not count as an opponent, that time it was crushed.

The Gale of the Nine Heavens crashed wildly in the Tongtian Mingyan, and bursts of dragon roars constantly resounded, rolling up the clouds and smoke into tornado vortices, with the gale inside and the smoke and clouds outside, swirling violently, even covering the stars in the sky!

"It's a bit stubbornly resisting...but you little dragon, you can't stop me. This gale was left behind by the Divine Firmament Sect, with the Qi of the Nine Heavens rotating within it. Since you have already spat it out, I must obtain it!"

The dragon of fortune seemed to understand Ji Xiang's words. At this time, it actually made a magical move, opening its big mouth and emitting a powerful suction, wanting to suck this vast gale, along with the Tongtian Mingyan, back into its belly!

"You little dragon! Bullying me because my form and spirit are not here, so I cannot open the Avatar of Heaven and Earth?"

Ji Xiang suddenly raised his eyes: "You are formed from the national fortune of the Great Ming Dynasty, and you are also transformed by the Great Dao of the Dynasty. I originally didn't want to hurt you, after all, harming you might cause the national prestige and national fortune of the Ming Dynasty to decline, but since you are so arrogant, I must let you see my true colors!"

"I have to teach you a lesson!"

After saying that, with a thought, a nine-colored treasure light flew out of the Heavenly Gate!

Tai Xu Treasure Light!

The treasure light cannot be used to take away the abilities of others. This thing and the blank divine tablet are incompatible. If something is eaten by the Tai Xu Treasure Light first, it cannot be spit out.

Storage is only a temporary ability, it cannot be sustained for a long time, otherwise things will "mysteriously" disappear.

The treasure light flew out, transforming into a divine sword. In just an instant, one of the dragon's eyes had already been pried off, dissolving into nothingness. At this time, the dragon of fortune also discovered the extraordinary nature of this nine-colored light, and quickly closed its mouth, but it still wanted to fight. The Tai Xu Treasure Light rushed again, and this time the dragon of fortune did not know what power it used, but it actually briefly blocked the Tai Xu Treasure Light!

But it was only a brief block!

Its form was too huge, and the Tai Xu Treasure Light broke off one of its dragon horns and took it away!

Ji Xiang then took advantage of this instant to open the form and spirit of Marshal Tian Peng, replacing the normal state of the White-Faced Zhenwu. In an instant, the forms and spirits of 360,000 heavenly soldiers appeared in the Great Fuli!

"Heavenly soldiers, listen to my command, trap the gale! Push it towards the Heavenly Gate!"

The forms and spirits of 360,000 heavenly soldiers resisted the Gale of the Nine Heavens, and the dragon of fortune, fearing the Tai Xu Treasure Light, did not rush up immediately. Therefore, Ji Xiang's spirit and Tongtian Mingyan, with the help of the power of 360,000 heavenly soldiers, grabbed the Gale of the Nine Heavens and disappeared into the Heavenly Gate with a bang!

The dragon of fortune, with a broken dragon horn and a blind eye, could no longer find Ji Xiang's trail, so it could only retreat and return.

And not far from the dragon of fortune, also in the Great Fuli Earth, in the area east of the dragon of fortune, a huge eight-headed snake appeared. This eight-headed snake was缠着 a weak yellow-skinned tiger. This tiger was skinny, and the national fortune it possessed was gradually being devoured by the eight-headed snake.

The eight-headed snake suddenly saw the dragon of fortune with a blind eye and a broken dragon horn.

And its existence itself seemed to be different from other "symbols of national fortune," emitting a strong atmosphere of decay and chaos from the inside out.