Refining Qi starts from repairing the panel

The dark curtain was dotted with endless starlight, some of which were as bright as pearls, and some of which were like candles in the wind, ethereal and uncertain.

A ray of light passed through the starry sky and flashed away.

The vast universe was no longer unfamiliar to Chu Zheng, but every time he visited the universe, he would still be attracted by these celestial bodies with endless mysterious atmosphere.

Crossing the starry sky again and wandering in foreign lands was already a piece of cake for Chu Zheng.

In a flash, he had seen the starry sky covered by the power of incense.

Compared with the first time, Chu Zheng now had a little spare energy and could stay in the starry sky for a while longer.

Compared with the Tianyao Federation, this time, he could clearly feel the existence of destiny in the universe. This starry sky had a relatively complete way of heaven.

After a little hesitation, Chu Zheng chose a relatively large star.

The moment he passed through the barrier of stars, abundant spiritual energy waves came over, which was better than the Cangyun Realm before the great changes in the world.

The world was filled with extremely rich incense and vows. Chu Zheng glanced casually and saw countless shrines and temples.

Everyone worshipped the gods, and every family worshipped the saints.

In the void, all kinds of divine sounds echoed, and legends about various gods continued to circulate in the streets.

Powerful divine thoughts fluctuated between heaven and earth. Some divine thoughts discovered Chu Zheng's existence, but just swept past him and didn't care.

Chu Zheng began to search for a suitable body. This time, he still wanted to find a suitable body, preferably a child.

In the child's body, the innate qi has not dissipated, and the step of refining essence into qi can save a lot of hard work.

Last time he experienced the catastrophe, most of his consciousness was in the body, but that time, his cultivation still rose very rapidly, which shows the benefits of a child's body.

There are gods above this star, but wars still occur between tribes, and there are many bodies that have just died. Unfortunately, there are very few suitable choices for Chu Zheng.

Chu Zheng stopped when he passed by a river after crossing mountains, rivers, lakes and seas and ancient tribes.

This place belongs to a small tribe with a population of only more than 10,000. They live by the water, and the god worshipped in the tribe is a river god.

At this moment, this tribe is holding a sacrifice.

A ten-foot-high statue of a god stands by the river, with a human body and a fish tail, a burly figure, holding a steel fork, and a cold face.

On the altar in front of the statue, there are many offerings, including cattle, sheep, vegetables, fruits, and... a pair of sleeping boys and girls.

There is innate Qi in the body of a child, and men and women are divided into yin and yang. Whether it is for Yin gods and ghosts, or living goblins and monsters, it has a lot of benefits.

The high priest in a robe knelt in front of the statue and recited the "divine language" in his mouth.

After a while, the high priest slowly stood up and led everyone to retreat. There was a hint of sigh in his cloudy eyes.

Chu Zheng listened for a moment and learned some information.

This starry sky is governed by the God Court, which governs all the gods in the world. There are 36,500 god seats, which is the number of stars in the Zhoutian. Incense and wishes are offered layer by layer.

The top emperor god, who is in charge of the God Court, is called "Tian Shuang Mo Luo Ming Tian Supreme God Emperor" and enjoys the worship of the entire star field.

The title of the emperor is above the Tianzun. The power of this god emperor is probably untraceable, comparable to the giants above the immortal king.

This kind of sacrifice is held once a year in this small tribe, but there are no boys and girls in the usual sacrifices.

There are boys and girls, which is a great sacrifice once every ten years. For such a small tribe, a great sacrifice once every ten years is a rare event.

The boys and girls who were to be sacrificed would be prepared two years in advance.

First, healthy young men and women were selected from the tribe to pair up, and the genders were distinguished in the womb, and then the babies were born on the most yang day and the most yin day of the year.

After birth, the selected children would be taken away by the high priest to be raised on the spot to prevent their parents from being affected by the emotional ties and affecting the grand sacrifice.

The separation of flesh and blood is the most painful thing in the world, and this can also alleviate some of the parents' sorrow.

Chu Zheng was attracted by the pure yang energy in the boy's body. The child, who had just turned one year old and was born on the most yang day, was the most suitable body for him.

However, Chu Zheng did not intend to interfere with the grand sacrifice. This was the way of survival of this tribe. If he forcibly interfered, it would involve the cause and effect of tens of thousands of people.

By then, perhaps more people would die.

What's more, he was just a remnant soul now, and he was powerless to intervene.

At this moment, Chu Zheng just wanted to know the final outcome of this pair of boys and girls, and also wanted to see what the strength of the god who was accepting the sacrifice was.

Soon, the sky gradually darkened, and the sky was dotted with stars.

After nightfall, the river water soon rose gradually. Not far away, the high priest led the tribesmen in the tribe and continued to watch.

Soon, the river water flooded the altar, and the statue seemed to come alive, with a faint light in its eyes, and it opened its mouth and sucked lightly, extracting strands of pure life essence from the two children.

Flesh and blood are useless to the Yin God, only this life essence is a great tonic.

[Zhenhe Lingjun (Level 3): Lingjun realm incense god, with more than 700,000 believers under his command. His predecessor was the mermaid tribe. After death, his Yin spirit is immortal, living in the clay fetus, receiving worship and spiritual communication. Under his rule, there are good weather and good harvests every year, and incense is flourishing. 】

In addition to the tribe in front of him, there are other tribes under the command of this god.

A third-level god must spend a lot of energy to ensure the survival of more than 700,000 believers under his command. The sacrifices offered by these tribes, minus the divine power lost by themselves, will not leave much.

Otherwise, no believers would be willing to offer sacrifices willingly. Without believers, the incense god cannot even guarantee its own survival.

No believers are willing to worship a god who only knows how to take without giving back.

Looking at the child on the altar, Chu Zheng sighed softly. His life essence was sucked away, and there was no way to save him.

I just don't know if the repair panel can make up for this ray of innate Yuanqi.

The great sacrifice was just halfway through, and suddenly, a sword light appeared in the sky.

Buzz——

The cold light was dazzling, and the void made a sharp whistle. The sword light swept across the statue and beheaded it with a sword.

The huge head was thrown high up and smashed into the river, splashing a wave.

Not far away, the high priest and a group of tribesmen were shocked. After reacting, they all looked terrified, facing the decapitated statue, kneeling and kowtowed repeatedly.

A figure came in the air and stopped above the river. He was wearing a white robe and was about forty years old. There was an extremely powerful energy fluctuation in his body.

[Tong Tianye (Level 3): A cultivator of Qi Gathering Dao, practicing "Bu Yuan Jing", bone age 93, also practicing incense and fire spirits, and is currently writing a book. ]

After seeing Tong Tianye's information, Chu Zheng frowned slightly. He didn't expect that he would meet a cultivator who practiced incense and fire spirits so soon.

Tong Tianye looked indifferent, looking down at the tribesmen kneeling on the ground, and said lightly:

"It is better to worship my Tianyue Sect's Changming Patriarch, 'Jiuxiao Changming Monarch'."

"My Changming Patriarch does not need you to sacrifice your children. You only need a tablet of longevity, three kowtows in the morning and evening, and a stick of incense in the morning and evening, and you can be safe."

Before he finished speaking, the severed head of Zhenhe Lingjun suddenly emitted a burst of intense divine light, and the severed head gradually grew completely, the color of the clay gradually faded, and turned into a solid body.

Once manifested, Zhenhe Lingjun did not say any nonsense, stepped on the waves and went straight into the nine heavens, raised the steel fork in his hand and stabbed, with great force, as if to pierce the void.

"You dare to be so presumptuous as a mere Lingjun!"

Tong Tianye sneered, unmoved, opened his mouth and inhaled lightly, and the surrounding heaven and earth energy surged and poured into his mouth. When his lips and teeth opened and closed, a hint of sword light was hidden in his throat.

The next moment, he suddenly vomited, and a sword light burst out from his throat, brilliant and dazzling.

Clang——

The sound of metal clashing exploded, piercing gold and splitting rocks.

Boom!

There were bursts of divine light in the sky, and two figures were constantly fighting.

Everyone around was paying attention to the battlefield in the air. No one noticed that the child and many sacrifices on the altar had fallen into the river after losing the divine power, floating and sinking in the turbulent river water, and drifting downstream.

Chu Zheng frowned slightly, and without further delay, he sank into the river and drilled into the boy's body.

As soon as he entered this body, Chu Zheng felt an unspeakable chill, and the yang energy in his body was completely dissipated, and his vitality was gone.

Not daring to hesitate, Chu Zheng immediately used the panel to repair this body.

However, this body was too weak and could only go with the flow, sinking and floating in the river, and gradually moving away.

Chu Zheng could only use the repair panel to maintain his weak vitality. He had no time to open his eyes. His mouth and nose were filled with water, and he drifted down with the river.

After an unknown amount of time, Chu Zheng followed the water flow and entered a shallow beach. His stomach was already filled with river water.

As a child who had just turned one year old, Chu Zheng had no strength in his limbs. He could only struggle to get close to the shore and lie down on a muddy shore.

Chu Zheng did not waste time and immediately began to look for the sense of Qi and tried to draw Qi into his body.

After a while, a warm current flowed into his body from the sky and began to grow rapidly.

In a blink of an eye, two days had passed. Chu Zheng had been lying on the shore, motionless, until the weakness of his limbs subsided, and he gradually stood up.

After absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon for two days, his physique as a one-year-old child was no weaker than that of an ordinary adult.

The feeling of hunger was shrouding his heart all the time. If it weren't for the repair panel, he would have starved to death.

Before entering the spiritual transformation, he couldn't eat qi to nourish himself, and he couldn't do without grains.

After jumping into the river again and catching some fish and shrimp to fill his stomach, Chu Zheng began to explore the surrounding tribes.

There were still many unknowns in this vast world in front of him. The first thing to figure out was the mystery of the incense and fire gods.

There were not only gods and believers here, but also many people who practiced the incense and fire gods.

From Tong Tianye's previous experience, it can be seen that the competition for believers here is quite fierce.

Moreover, Tong Tianye himself was practicing the incense and fire gods, but he didn't preach for himself, but expanded the believers for the ancestors in the sect, which made Chu Zheng a little puzzled.

After trekking in the mountains for a few days, relying on the daily increase in strength, Chu Zheng began to hunt wild beasts in the mountains to nourish himself. When he devoured a lot of flesh and blood, his muscles and bones began to gradually stretch.

By the time he arrived in front of a tribe, more than a month had passed. He had grown to the size of a five or six-year-old child, wrapped in animal skins.

Looking at the gate in front of him, Chu Zheng was a little confused for a moment.

Rather than a tribe, what he saw was more like a city, with a nearly ten-foot-high wall and a black gate covered with various patterns. On both sides of the gate, there was a statue of a god.

In front of the statue, there was an incense burner, burning three sticks of incense as thick as fingers.

The gate was open, and people were constantly flowing, making it very lively.

There were no soldiers guarding the gate, and people could come and go as they pleased.

Chu Zheng followed the flow of people and squeezed into the city, trying his best to collect information from the idle chatter from all directions.

Walking along the long street, Chu Zheng's thoughts gradually calmed down, as if he had some enlightenment.

On this star, there are many people who practice the way of incense and gods, but most of them practice both.

After these monks die, relying on the reputation they have established during their lifetime, someone will create a golden body for them, so that these people can return to the world with the power of incense and vows.

This is equivalent to resurrection from the dead, so many monks flock to the way of incense and gods.

There are people who achieve godhood with their flesh, but as time goes by, the flesh will eventually wither, and the Yin God is the final destination.

Compared with the flesh as a shackle, the Yin God's way of action is undoubtedly more flexible and changeable. With the golden body as a node, hundreds of millions of miles of mountains and rivers can be reached in an instant.

As Chu Zheng's understanding of the incense and spirits deepened, his expression became a little hesitant.

This is certainly a great way to reach the gods, and even to live forever in the world.

However, for the Qi cultivators, the more causes and effects involved, the greater the probability of sudden death.

For a moment, Chu Zheng suddenly thought of the Taoist ancestor again, and his heart was slightly shocked.

No one knows the real name of the Taoist ancestor, and the golden body he created has no fixed appearance at all.

As long as this golden body is crowned with the name of "Taozu", the Taoist ancestor should be able to receive the incense and wishes without having to bear too much cause and effect.

This method is undoubtedly quite against the will of heaven.

As his thoughts gradually dispersed, Chu Zheng accidentally bumped into someone's waist.

Chu Zheng raised his head and was about to apologize, when a wrinkled smiling face squeezed in front of him:

"It's okay."

[Yuan Dazun (first level): bone age 43, roughly proficient in martial arts, and also practiced incense and gods, with very few believers. ]

Another cultivator who also practiced incense and gods, Chu Zheng's eyes fixed, and subconsciously took a half step back.

"Do you believe in God?"

Yuan Dazun looked Chu Zheng up and down, and suddenly asked.

Chu Zheng subconsciously shook his head, and then nodded suddenly.

"Little guy, I see that you are born with a different appearance, not an ordinary person, and you will definitely be a dragon among people in the future. Do you want to practice with me?"

Yuan Dazun's expression gradually became serious: "If you believe in me, I can realize all your wishes."

Compared with those gods who have been famous for a long time and have their own fixed believers, those who have just started to practice incense and gods are undoubtedly very hard.

As gods, the easiest way to have believers is to prove one's own power by fulfilling the wishes of believers.