When the door of the temple was pushed open, what was behind it was no longer a ruin, but a vast palace with golden color as the main body, which looked extremely elegant and luxurious.
Inside, one can even see many immortal servants walking on auspicious clouds and shuttling back and forth, yellow-turbaned warriors guarding the palace walls, and the immortal gardens and pavilions inside the palace are guarded by gods.
At the core, you can see the vines gathering into an ocean-like palace. The vines like divine jade create a magical bright golden color. This is the immortal tree in its dormant state.
A fairy in moon-white feathered clothes led a number of fairy children transformed from spirits and stood in front of the palace, looking at the many gods who came to the fairy steps to pay homage and greet them.
The fairy took out a golden edict and waved it down. Then, a golden light swept down from the high palace gate like a vortex, covering all the gods below.
"From now on, you will be the gods of Hou Tu Star Palace, affiliated with Hou Tu Temple, and in charge of the order of heaven and earth within the Star Palace!"
"All gods must obey the orders of the Hou Tu Temple and accept the orders of the great god Hou Tu. If anyone violates this order, he will be sent to the underworld and suppressed in the underworld forever without reincarnation."
One by one, the gods knelt on the ground and obeyed.
The mountain master and the tree-herding god entered the temple through the door, stepped on auspicious clouds and floated through the palaces, and finally entered the fairy garden of the immortal tree, starting their true practice.
Li Jun, the mountain master from the capital of China, stood in the crowd, looking at the source of all the mountain god vines in the world, the immortal tree that almost refined the entire earth into one, and felt extremely longing and shocked.
"This is the real ancient sacred tree!"
"The power of the Golden Immortal!"
Here Li Jun truly felt the power of the Immortal Tree, as well as the various Taoist techniques that only the Mountain Master and the Tree God could use. As living gods, they also controlled the offspring of the Immortal Tree. Their power was far stronger and more powerful than they had imagined.
It’s just that before, none of them had truly mastered this power and developed this powerful potential.
Now that they have entered the Hou Tu Temple and stood before this real ancient sacred tree, they realized that after mastering the Mountain God Vine, they have mastered the attribute of immortality. They can use the ability to merge with the Mountain God Vine and the powerful power of the earth and the divine root to be reborn. No one can kill them unless the other party deprives them of the Mountain God Vine and their connection with the earth.
Not only do they possess the abilities of ordinary sacred tree roots, the ability to build small earth veins and create large forests, they can also develop water veins and even create special spiritual realms in the ocean.
They can cultivate spiritual plants, create spiritual springs, change the world, and create any environment they want and need.
"I got it! I have established a connection with the sacred tree!" A man who was sitting at the bottom of the steps of the hall suddenly stood up, shouting in ecstasy.
"I have realized a new ability, which is truly God's ability."
"Flowers bloom in your palms! Turn your body into a tree!" A female mountain owner from China stretched out her hand, and her entire arm turned into wood, which continued to grow around it. Even small flowers bloomed in her palms, emitting a faint fragrance.
The mountain masters sat in the temple, facing the immortal tree and the statues of the gods, feeling their own abilities. Everyone gained different things according to their own talents and perseverance.
From time to time, one could see someone in the hall emitting divine light, and a Taoist rune would float down from the Immortal Tree onto his body.
In the end, everyone finished their understanding and practice. Ling Ji, the Lord of the Immortal Palace, once again transformed into a fairy figure and stood on the palace.
She replaced the ancient golden immortal Xishen, the current great god Houtu, and granted them different divine positions and priesthoods according to their practice achievements and talents.
Only at this point can they be called true living gods, beings who control the order of heaven and earth.
After they return, they can even establish their own Shinto spiritual realm within the domain of law they control, and open up their own incense spiritual realm to accommodate their own divine servants and guards.
This is still an ordinary position and priesthood. When their merits are remarkable and their faith is strong enough to ascend to the position of a true god, they will be able to come to the Hou Tu Temple again to receive the imperial deification.
Even the status of a god is not impossible to obtain in the Hou Tu Temple.
This is a truly broad road, and each of these living gods has the hope of reaching the end and gaining eternity.
When they walked out of the gate of Hou Tu Temple, everyone seemed to see their own future and looked at everyone around them. These would be their future competitors.
Compared with those worldly practitioners, although they are powerful and numerous, they do not belong to the same system as these worldly gods after all, and have no existential competition with them.
But the people around him were different. The powerful priesthood and the divine position were all occupied by one person. If someone else occupied them, it would block their hope of moving forward. The cruelty of the competition in the way of the gods was, in some ways, even crueler than that in the way of immortals.
The Shinto order of hierarchy is extremely strict, and once someone occupies the upper throne, all hope for later comers is cut off.
Li Jun also benefited a lot from the opening of the Hou Tu Temple this time. He walked out of the Hou Tu Temple and looked at the tall bronze door that was slowly closing, as well as the bronze patterns carved with mountains and rivers.
"I will come again! By that time, I will be a living God!"
Many gods in the world left the Houtu Temple, but the ships and personnel from various countries waiting for them below had not dispersed yet. As soon as they came out, they immediately came to welcome them back to their country. There were heavy guards on the way back home, for fear that their competitors would come to assassinate and rob their mountain masters and tree gods. There had been precedents for this.
At this point, the opening of the Houtu Temple and the worship of the living gods have come to a successful conclusion.
Since then, a new order has been formed on the earth.
If the original White Harbor Sky City was a holy place for practitioners and the core of all supernatural systems, then the Houtu Temple today has become the ancestral home of the living gods and the center of energy and faith.
The emergence of the binary system allows everything to develop towards a more benign and stable situation.
In the Hou Tu Temple, in the deepest part of the palace surrounded by clouds, a large number of immortal servants and immortal children stood outside, each doing their own job, waiting to be called by the immortals inside.
A goddess in golden fairy clothes sat on a cloud bed, holding a fairy sword in her arms. Her fingers gently brushed across the sword edge. With a slight humming sound, one could feel the sharp sword energy crisscrossing outside the palace buildings and standing above the sky.
Beside the goddess, a young Taoist in white stood with his hands behind his back, watching the gate of the temple in the distance slowly close.
Then, the Taoist in white looked at the goddess: "It's almost done! Chen Jin, you will be the Western God of the ancient times and the Hou Tu God of this world. Hold the power of this world for me!"
"Wind Crow is also ready. I will leave for Clock City tomorrow!"
Chen Jin, who had transformed into a golden immortal, raised his head and glanced at Fang Xiu: "I will send you off with Heisha tomorrow!"
The Taoist in white nodded, and his figure disappeared into the void. At this time, Ling Ji, the Palace Master of the Immortal Palace, returned with the divine edict and stood outside the palace with her hands clasped.
"Ling Ji pays respect to the Immortal Lord!"
"The matter of the Shinto decree has been completed! The four gods of Hou Tuxing Palace have left, and Lingji has returned in compliance with the decree!"