On the top of Houtu Mountain, the gate of the temple was wide open, and the god Changde came with the order of the Earth Official Emperor Jia Yi. Of course, the treatment he received was different. The Lord of the Immortal Palace, Lingji, personally greeted Changde in front of the main hall.
Six yellow divine beasts stopped on the Cloud Sea Divine Mountain. Behind them, cloud vortices covering a thousand miles were flowing and spinning quietly. Under their feet were bricks and stones paved with spiritual jade. The God Lord Chang De got off the immortal chariot and went straight through the divine gate guarded by giant spirits. Under the guidance of several immortal children, he arrived in front of the main hall.
The main hall was not open, but Changde still went to worship at the bottom of the stairs.
"Changde pays respect to Hou Tu Tianzun!"
After standing up, he bowed again and said, "Greetings to the Immortal Lingji."
Ling Ji was far superior to Chang De in terms of background and identity. She simply nodded and said, "The Heavenly Lord has not come out of retreat today. However, since you are here with the talisman of the Earth Official Emperor, you are representing the Emperor. You can stay in the sacred mountain for a while, or go somewhere else."
"But after all, you are not a deity under Hou Tu Divine Palace, but you entered the realm with the Emperor's talisman. If you are moving around in Hou Tu Divine Palace, you'd better inform me in advance. And as a god in heaven, you can't stay in Hou Tu Divine Palace for a long time. Leaving your post without permission will delay your divine duties."
"In addition, you must not arbitrarily display your magical powers in the Hou Tu Fu Realm, and you must not violate the divine laws of the Hou Tu Fu Realm."
Hou Tu Tianzun is not in the temple at the moment, but is in seclusion in the fairy palace under the Immortal Tree. Although Chang De is a well-known god in both the Mountain and Sea Realm and the human world, he is not worth mentioning in front of this great god and Tianzun. Of course, it is not worth alarming the other party. It is already a great honor for Chang De to be received by the Palace Master of the Immortal Palace, the first Palace Master of the fairy palace under the Hou Tu Temple, to meet him.
Chang De did not hold back. Although it seemed that the immortal officials of Hou Tu Divine Palace were on guard against Lord Chang De as if they were outsiders, as if this Lord was not from Hou Tu Palace, he did not feel surprised.
After all, this is the custom in the heavenly court and the upper realm. After the practitioners from the lower realm ascend, they belong to the immortals of the upper realm and can no longer enter the mortal world. The creatures from other realms and caves ascend to the heavenly court and are conferred elsewhere. Their birthplaces and everything on the book of life and death are wiped out, and they are only counted as immortals. Of course, they are no longer people from the realms and caves.
He bowed and said yes, then asked: "Excuse me, Palace Master, when will the Heavenly Lord come out of seclusion?"
After thinking about it, Chang De decided to explain directly and make his purpose clear. After all, his return to the human world this time must have been noticed a long time ago. Everyone knows why Chang De came, so there is no need to hide it.
If he directly stated that his purpose was to obtain the position of the Lord of Mars, he would be able to seize the initiative in the Hou Tu Temple and let all the immortal officials and clerks in the Hou Tu Temple know that he was the first immortal god to petition Hou Tu Tianzun to deify the Lord of Mars. Then he could take the lead with the momentum of coming later.
It can also catch other competitors off guard, and bring the means used in the dark directly to the surface and in front of the great god Hou Tu Tianzun. He wants to seize the position of the lord of Mars with this upright momentum.
After thinking about it for a while, he blurted out, "I, the God Chang De, was listening to the teachings of the Immortal Lord at the Immortal Peach Banquet. I heard that the Heavenly Court wanted to open up a Taoist temple outside the domain. Chang De was eager to do so and was willing to be the pioneer to go outside the domain and open up a domain to expand the territory for the Heavenly Court."
"This time, Chang De came to see the Heavenly Lord for this matter, and is willing to renew the covenant with the ancient immortals."
The Palace Master of the Immortal Palace and the immortal officials and divine clerks of the Houtu Divine Palace behind him immediately looked up to Changde after hearing this. If he was just an ordinary immortal or god, she would certainly not take him seriously. Being able to go outside the domain and open up a Taoist temple outside the domain was a huge opportunity and blessing for them, which could not be snatched away. However, this Lord Changde was different.
His good friends are the Emperor of Heaven and the Emperor of Earth, his own Taoist partner is the True Lord of Earth, who ranks at the top among the Zhoutian Star Gods. He himself is also the lord of a star. He has many opportunities to stay in the upper realm, and his future is bright. Although there are more opportunities to open up the vast outside world, the risks are also great.
He did not stay in the upper realm where the fairyland and heaven are located, but chose to go outside the domain. It can be seen that he has great ambitions and is not an ordinary person's ambition. No immortal or god can satisfy him.
"You are quite courageous. No one in the entire Hou Tufu world has dared to mention this matter in front of Tianzun."
"At the beginning of an ordinary month, Tian Zun will accept the worship of the immortals and gods in the palace as usual, and ask about all matters in Hou Tu Palace. You can see Tian Zun and ask him in person at that time."
After Ling Ji, the Lord of the Immortal Palace, finished speaking, she led all the immortal officials and divine servants away on auspicious clouds without ever looking at Chang De again.
Chang De smiled. He had indeed brought up this matter before anyone else and had taken the initiative. "Thank you, Palace Master, for telling me!"
Several fairy children led the docile Chenghuang divine beast to a Taoist temple in a side hall at the foot of the mountain. Ordinary free fairy servants and spiritual officials came to take care of Changde's daily life. This place is rich in spiritual energy and is a rare holy place for cultivation in the world. Changde stayed here to practice meditation.
When Chang De Anxin settled down in the Houtu Sacred Mountain, his actions immediately reached the ears of all major practitioners' organizations in the world, especially the owners of the five fairy mountain floating islands around the Houtu Sacred Mountain, who were the first to receive the news.
In a magnificent temple in a country in East Asia, a divine monk sitting high on a platform with Buddha's light shining all over his body is receiving worship. On the vast square below, more than 100,000 people can be seen kneeling on the ground, bowing to him and chanting Buddhist scriptures.
The entire city is built around the temple. It is a typical city of practice with Buddhist characteristics. There are only Buddhist practitioners, disciples and believers in the city.
The divine monk sitting high up at the head is called Monk Dingguang, he is not from this country, but came from China. However, he was welcomed here and worshipped like a saint. He used this place to gather the wishes of all the people to refine a golden body to the extreme, and practiced all the way to the Golden Body Arhat realm.
The reason why he could receive such respect and preferential treatment was that the identity of the monk Dingguang was not ordinary. He was the master of monk Hongyuan and could be regarded as one of the few monks with the highest status in Buddhism today. Especially after he entered the Western Paradise of the Three Realms to attain enlightenment and returned some time ago, he has been regarded as a living Buddha.
However, after he attained enlightenment, the Western Paradise did not assign him a bodhisattva or even a Buddha name, but instead allowed him to return to the human world, as if there were other plans for his future.
At this moment, a young monk came forward and knelt down, bowing to Monk Dingguang and whispering something.
Monk Dingguang's eyebrows moved slightly, but he didn't open his eyes. In the end, he just said: "Those who come are not kind! Those who are kind don't come!"
After that, he stopped talking, but changed the original one-day worship and chanting day to half a day.
"This Chang De really doesn't follow the rules. How can a low-level god who walks the path of the gods be so rampant?"
"Who does he think he is? Heavenly Emperor Fang Xiu or Earthly Emperor Jia Yi?"
Deep in the Mangdang Mountains, in a Taoist temple on a fairy mountain surrounded by a large formation and forests, the founder of the Corpse-Driving Sect angrily smashed the jade ruyi in his hand to the ground. The roar of the divine corpse in the corpse-raising cave in the back mountain was heard for thousands of miles, and a large number of birds and beasts fled in fear.
The Junzhishan Conservation Area of Weigang City is one of the most dangerous forbidden areas in the world. Near the Demon Locking Tower, Lu Wu, the ancestor of human immortals, is sitting cross-legged on the coastline, gazing into the distance.
In the dark Demon Locking Tower behind him, demons were dancing wildly, and their shrill roars could not be blocked even by the immortal formation. Since the beginning of the great era of cultivation, countless cultivators and demons and monsters have been imprisoned here. At this moment, a large number of martial arts practitioners stood behind Lu Wu, as if waiting for him to make a decision.
"I've known this for a long time, so let's fight for it!"
"Isn't that what a monk does? Fight with people! Fight with the earth! Fight with the sky!"
"He Changde wants to fight! How can I be afraid of him?"
In a blink of an eye, it was the beginning of next month, the time when the Houtu Temple was opened and Tianzun came out to receive the worship of the immortals and gods. This day was different from the previous ones. As early as a few days ago, the immortals and gods had arrived here one after another, waiting for the door of the Houtu Temple to open. The various immortals, earth gods, and cultivators looked stern, and there was a scene of impending storm.