At the age of 175: As the effects of the Divine Position begin to manifest, with various Immortal Sect Disciples breaking through their former boundaries using the power of the Divine Position, the Immortal Sects begin to grow restless. They no longer satisfied with possessing only a handful of Divine Positions and desired to attain more of them. But all the rights to confer the Divine Positions were in Pei Xuanjing's control, making it impossible to bypass him in these matters.
In response to the Immortal Sects' demands, Pei Xuanjing didn't reject them outright. He didn't say he couldn't provide more Divine Positions. Instead, he told them that his capabilities were limited at present, and the size of the Divine Dynasty limited the quantity and hierarchy of the Divine Positions, thus he couldn't accede to their demands.
The underlying meaning of Pei Xuanjing's words wasn't lost on the powerful figures within these Immortal Sects. They understood that if they desired to acquire Divine Positions, they would have to pay a certain price, namely, assisting the Divine Dynasty to grow and become stronger. Otherwise, they wouldn't be granted Divine Positions.
Concerning Pei Xuanjing's proposal, these Immortal Sects hesitated, uncertain about whether to agree. Currently, the Divine Dynasty was already immensely powerful, and both parties had barely achieved a delicate balance. If they allowed the Divine Dynasty to continue growing, this balance would be broken.
Moreover, the news about Divine Positions had only been circulating within these Immortal Sects. If they decided to help Pei Xuanjing expand and strengthen his dynasty, other Immortal Sects would perceive it as a betrayal.
After all, their brief cooperation with Pei Xuanjing could be interpreted as a joint exploration of the Immortal Path. If they helped Pei Xuanjing strengthen the Divine Dynasty, it would shatter their alliance.
Pei Xuanjing wasn't rushing his deliberating Immortal Sects but calmly waited. He stayed true to his Open Scheme. Unless they could resist the temptation to strengthen their power, they would inevitably compromise.
At the age of 177: As Pei Xuanjing predicted, the Immortal Sects eventually compromised. Under the allure of fortifying their strength, they didn't hold out for long before agreeing to Pei Xuanjing's terms.
Given the prior widespread havoc caused by demons and the rise of Pei Xuanjing's Divine Dynasty, these Immortal Sects, who were the rulers of this world, had their share of conflict amongst them. Their unity was forged only due to common threats to their interests.
Now that the demons had been wiped out and Pei Xuanjing's Divine Dynasty posed not a threat but rather presented an opportunity for cooperation, they could benefit from joining forces. As such, compared to their frail alliance with other Immortal Sects, this newfound alliance could be easily forsaken.
At the age of 185: After reaching agreements with Pei Xuanjing, these Immortal Sects decisively began to incorporate their territories, countries, and cities into the Eternal Divine Dynasty. True to his word, Pei Xuanjing awarded corresponding Divine Positions to each Immortal Sect. With the growth of the Divine Dynasty, Pei Xuanjing became more formidable, and the other Immortal Sects speeded up their Cultivation and broke through their boundaries one after another due to the acquirement of the Divine Positions, leading to an increase in the number of powerful figures among them.
The only ones who suffered losses were the remaining Immortal Sects, but that was inevitable.
Pei Xuanjing's collaboration with these Immortal Sects increased, and their connections grew stronger. Sharing common interests, they all formed a community of shared interests.
At the age of 186: However, as time passed, the secret of the Divine Position finally leaked. These Immortal Sects had suddenly joined forces with Pei Xuanjing, and the increase in their power drew the attention of other Immortal Sects.
Upon discovering the secret of the Divine Position, the remaining Immortal Sects naturally kept a close eye on it. Regarding obtaining this Divine Position, they adopted two different attitudes.
Although Pei Xuanjing discreetly indicated that he wouldn't mind if they were willing to cooperate, these Immortal Sects, while desiring the Divine Position, didn't want to collaborate entirely with Pei Xuanjing. After all, they had always held a superior position and wouldn't easily lower their status.
The situation of these Immortal Sects laid bare before their eyes: they had a clear understanding that if they were tied together, they would likely become vassals, a concept they were reluctant to accept.
Currently, these Immortal Sects would probably already act against the Divine Dynasty and annihilate it to seize the Divine Positions if it wasn't for their fear of Pei Xuanjing's formidable power.
At the age of 189: The Divine Dynasty expanded day by day, and the power of these Immortal Sects continuously grew. Eventually, the remaining Immortal Sects disintegrated as they began to expand towards Pei Xuanjing's side.
Of course, there were also powerful figures among these Immortal Sects who tried to uncover the mystery of the Divine Position by other means. Unfortunately, all these attempts were limited by the Golden Book and Jade Scroll controlled by Pei Xuanjing. Any user of the Divine Position who suffered restrictions could be detected instantly by Pei Xuanjing, who would then make his sudden appearance.
If ordinary Immortal Sect Disciples took action, they would be suppressed by Pei Xuanjing. Even if top-level Cultivators acted, they could only retreat helplessly when faced with Pei Xuanjing's intervention.
Moreover, Pei Xuanjing wasn't someone who would only defend and not counterattact. Those who dared to steal secrets would face Pei Xuanjing's wrath and powerful counterattack.
In the past, if these Immortal Sects united, Pei Xuanjing might still have some restraint and would aid them if one of them were attacked.
But now, Pei Xuanjing has, with the allure of the Divine Position, united with numerous Immortal Sects, binding their powerful figures to his chariot. He transformed from being in minority to being in majority, and those Immortal Sects reluctant to cooperate became the minority.
Furthermore, currently, those Immortal Sects who cooperated with Pei Xuanjing to obtain Divine Positions have paid a price. Those Immortal Sects who didn't want to cooperate and pay the price desired to steal the Divine Positions and their secrets out of thin air. To them, this may be even more infuriating than Pei Xuanjing himself.
At the age of 195: Pei Xuanjing finally formed alliances with the majority of the Immortal Sects. A small number of them rigidly remained incomplete and refused to compromise, even attempting to blackmail Pei Xuanjing into sharing the secret of the Divine Position. This provoked widespread anger.
With Pei Xuanjing's coalition, a decisive battle began. He joined forces with the Immortal Sects he was allied with to attack the remaining Immortal Sects. After all, if the Divine Dynasty wanted to continue expanding, they had to destroy more Immortal Sects to acquire more territories and populations.
For their own strength, these Immortal Sects were naturally willing to act, and resolutely joined forces to ignite the flames of war.
At the age of 199: Pei Xuanjing's force completely eradicated the remaining Immortal Sects. Their top-level Cultivators perished in the battle, the remaining Cultivators surrendered, and only a small number of Cultivators escaped, but they no longer had the capacity to resist.
Thus, the era of the Immortal Sects ruling this world ended. Once again, the world entered the age of the Divine Dynasty's rule, with Pei Xuanjing becoming the sole ruler of the new world.
Year Two Hundred: Regardless of how the remaining Immortal sects viewed the situation, once they reacted, they found that the Eternal Divine Dynasty had completely unified this part of the world. It was possibly the first Divine Dynasty that had unified the world in countless epochs. Pei Xuanjing's power had thoroughly enveloped the entire world, unmatched by anyone.
However, just as the strongmen of these Immortal sects had not yet succumbed to the sorrow of the bygone epochs of sect dominance, Pei Xuanjing proposed a plan that swept away their despair, revitalising all cultivators.
Pei Xuanjing presented a plan to all the cultivators and martial artists, the Divine Court Plan.
The Divine Court Plan was a plan that Pei Xuanjing had genuinely prepared for long, a plan that encompassed the entire world and all its martial artists and cultivators. It was also an experiment for him.
According to Pei Xuanjing, they would gather the power of the entire world to open a Divine Court, then enact Heaven's will with the will of the people, grant Enfeoffment to true Gods, obtain Heaven and Earth's favor, then achieve co-existence and immortality with Heaven and Earth.
For these cultivators, this plan was undoubtedly one that shocked them. After all, despite countless years since the Immortal Sect's peak, even the Sect's top cultivators who possessed immense power, had the end of life. The only pursuit they truly sought was immortality.
Year Two Hundred and One: Pei Xuanjing began to gather intellectuals from all over the world to study and refine the Divine Court plan, dividing it into steps and assigning tasks.
The Divine Court Plan incorporates your Divine Domain Divine Kingdom and the information about the human race's Heavenly Court left by Zhu Houji, it's a plan deduced from many things. According to your speculation, after the successful realization of this plan, even if it cannot achieve true immortality, the lifespan of those residing within it would substantially increase.
Once the Divine Court Plan was passed, the whole world began to turn. Under the decree of Pei Xuanjing, the lord of the Eternal Divine Dynasty, countless martial artists and cultivators began to prepare with all their ability.
At the same time, a merit list was established to record the achievements made by all cultivators and martial artists across the world. It would serve as a certificate of qualification for them to receive their Enfeoffed Divine Positions once the Divine Court Plan succeeds.
Year Two Hundred and Twenty-Nine: Pei Xuanjing had thoroughly digested these realms, and then the Eternal Divine Dynasty had risen again. Pei Xuanjing, taking advantage of this plan, gathered even more power into his Jade Purity True Monarch divine position.
The Divine Court Plan continued its steady progress…
Year Two Hundred and Thirty-Eight: Pei Xuanjing continued to promote the Taoist Academy, persuading these Immortal sects to join and teach more disciples, hoping to produce more cultivators.
Year Two Hundred and Fifty-Six: The Divine Court Plan was being implemented stably. For the opening of the Divine Court, the various sects exhausted all their resources, training a backup of manpower with everything they had.
Year Two Hundred and Eighty-Six: After more than eighty years of preparation, Pei Xuanjing was ready to cooperate with many top cultivators to open a Divine Domain Divine Kingdom as a future residence for the Divine Court.
Year Two Hundred and Ninety-Seven: Pei Xuanjing, in collaboration with many top cultivators, finally opened a Divine Country in the Divine Domain. Although it couldn't compare to the Small Thousand World he created in the Daming World by chance, the vastness of this divine country in the Divine Domain exceeded expectations.
However, on second thought, this world was a world that was no less inferior to the Daming World, with a high level and an abundance of strong people. Moreover, the Divine Dynasty united the whole world, and it wasn't surprising to imagine the vast amount of Power of Incense Fire that gathered from all the martial artists and cultivators that congregated. Thus, the opening of such an expansive Divine Domain Divine Kingdom was expected.
The opening of the Divine Domain Divine Country also signified the success of the first step of their plan. It proved that the plan proposed by Pei Xuanjing wasn't mere lip service. This made the ordinary cultivators and martial artists of this world even more firm in their belief, and the Power of Incense Fire surged in continuously, causing the Divine Domain Divine Country to expand and strengthen at all times.
Next, after Pei Xuanjing felt the desire of the Heaven and Earth for the Divine Domain Divine Country, he decisively chose to integrate the Divine Domain Divine Country into the Heaven and Earth, making it a part of the Heaven and Earth. As the originator, he also received more favour from the Will of Heaven and Earth and had Qi Luck added to him.
This was one of Pei Xuanjing's plans. Only by first integrating this Divine Domain Divine Country into Heaven and Earth could he be in better harmony with this Heaven and Earth and carry out the next plan.
This trial also confirmed Pei Xuanjing's original hypothesis.
Initially, after Pei Xuanjing had established the Longevity World, he felt the longing of the Daming World for the Longevity World, and guessed that if he integrated it into the Daming World, he would receive the Karma of Heaven and Earth, which would make his Jade Purity True Monarch position stronger. However, because he declined, it was never validated.
Now that he integrated this Divine Domain Divine Country, he indeed gained more Heavenly Authority. The position of the Jade Purity True Monarch rose, almost truly reaching his idea of ruling the Dao on behalf of Heaven.
The Divine Domain Divine Country was not only established by Pei Xuanjing alone. Other strongmen also participated, and they too gained varying amounts of authority. This made them more convinced of Pei Xuanjing.
Year Three Hundred and One: Although the Divine Domain Divine Country was integrated into this world, it was still influenced by the Heaven and Earth, existing as a separate space far above in the sky.
In the following time, Pei Xuanjing handed over most of the affairs to others. He led a part of the cultivators and began to continuously modify the internal structure of the Divine Domain Divine Country to make it as originally envisaged.
Pei Xuanjing's design for this Divine Domain Divine Country was extremely simple and crude. He directly divided it into Nine-fold Heavenly Palace. As the lord of the Divine Dynasty and the future lord of the Divine Court, he naturally resided above the Nine-fold Heavenly Palace. The rest of the cultivators lived in different palaces according to their strengths, while ordinary mortals lived in the original world.
Of course, this did not mean that mortals had no chance of ascending. Pei Xuanjing did not intend to sever the path from mortal to immortal. Mortals could ascend to the Divine Court and become a part of it through continuous cultivation, as long as they reached a certain Realm.
This kind of separation between gods and mortals was actually a form of protection for mortals; they would not have to face the oppression of the top powerful, and could gain more freedom.
Year Three Hundred and Fifty-One: The foundation of the Nine Heavens of Divine Court has basically been sorted out, and then it's the division of other divine positions besides Pei Xuanjing's well-deserved Lord of the Divine Court.
This was a feast, an opportunity that no cultivator or martial artist would want to miss. After all, obtaining a Divine Position represented their status and strength.
Moreover, everyone was clear that if the Divine Court plan could truly give them immortality, missing this chance would mean it would be very difficult to advance in future.
At the age of 355: As for the future struggle for divine positions in the divine court, Pei Xuanjing did not intentionally show too much interest. After all, apart from the people who originally followed him, the rest, whether they are Immortal Sect Disciples or Martial Artists, made no difference in Pei Xuanjing's eyes.
Perhaps to those Martial Artists, Pei Xuanjing, as a founder of Martial Arts and the master of the Divine Dynasty, would bestow more grace and attention to them. True that this idea isn't bad, but even if Pei Xuanjing focused on them, his assistance would not be too biased. Because from then onwards, he isn't just the master of the Divine Dynasty, he is also the master of the Divine Court, and he must rule over the living beings of the world.
Regardless of these Martial Artists or Cultivators, once Pei Xuanjing ascends to the position of master of the Divine Court, with a few exceptions, Pei Xuanjing must maintain an impartial posture, treating all beings of this world equally.
This is an obligation. Since he's using humanity to substitute the will of the heavens, to impose his own will in place of the Tao of heaven, then he must learn from the impartiality of the great Tao. Otherwise, even if Pei Xuanjing ascends to the position of master of the Divine Court, he won't last long.
At the age of 376: Everything progresses in an orderly manner. The development of cultivation in this world is getting faster, and in this year, someone finally stepped into the realm of the strong in Martial Arts. Although they are still far inferior to the top powerhouses who have been living in the Immortal Sect for countless years, the strength they can exert with the divine investiture would not be inferior to those top powerhouses in the Immortal Sect.
Even though Pei Xuanjing, as the founder of Martial Arts, has also developed Martial Arts to the extreme, many Cultivators from the Immortal Sect believe that Pei Xuanjing, who was originally from an immortal sect, cannot be regarded as a pure Martial Artist.
This is a day worth remembering. It signifies that Martial Arts have finally confirmed that one can ascend to the top. It provides a clear path for comparison to the cultivation of the Immortal Path.
But this is merely a debate between ordinary Martial Artists and Cultivators. For those who are truly in higher-level positions, Cultivators, and Martial Artists, their focus doesn't lie here.
Unity of Immortal and Martial Ways, Unity of Fairy Gods, Unity of Gods and Martial Ways, Unity of Fairy, God, and Martial Ways. These are the topics that the top Cultivators and Martial Artists are most concerned about because they found out that Pei Xuanjing, the strongest one at present, has already gone far on this path.
At the age of 377: Indeed, Pei Xuanjing is constantly trying to explore the unification of Immortal Way, Martial Way, and Divine Tao.
The Immortal Path, Martial Arts, and Divine Tao, such similar paths would subtly combine with essence, energy, and spirit. Since Pei Xuanjing's Golden Core Dao could refine the path of essence, energy, and spirit, why can't the Immortal Path, Martial Arts, and Divine Tao be unified?
Over the years, while Pei Xuanjing was sorting out the Divine Kingdom, his mind was studying these paths of cultivation.
At the age of 401: After two hundred years of preparation, during which some ordinary Cultivators and Martial Artists have passed away due to the end of their lifespan, luckily, they didn't disappear completely but temporarily preserved their existence with the power of the Divine Kingdom.
After two hundred years, everything was ready for the final plan of substituting human heart for the heart of heaven.
Unifying the entire world in the Eternal Divine Dynasty, on the towering altar, Pei Xuanjing, dressed in a crown and emperor's robe, began to sacrifice to Heaven and Earth…
At the age of 402: The approval of Heaven and Earth descended, acknowledging the merits of Pei Xuanjing and all living beings, bestowing the divine investiture upon Pei Xuanjing's divine position, substituting the heart of humanity for the heart of Heaven.
From this point forward, the world entered the era of Divine Court ruling Heaven and Earth, with gods in the heavens and man on Earth.
The Eternal Divine Court resides in the highest of the nine heavens, with the Shenxiao Yuzhen King, the Eternal Divine Monarch, in the Shenxiao House of Jade Purity, leading the gods in overseeing the Earth.
The Eternal Divine Dynasty governs the mortal world, and the master of the Divine Dynasty maintains the order and lawfulness of the mortal world. The people live and work in peace. No matter whether Martial Artists or Cultivators reach a certain realm, they can ascend to heaven and become gods.
At the age of 403: After Pei Xuanjing, the Jade Purity True Monarch, appointed the divine investiture of group gods, he began to close the door of the Shenxiao House of Jade Purity, linking Heaven and Earth, ordering the gods to oversee Heaven and Earth.
The gods oversee Heaven and Earth, everything runs smoothly, without any problems. Moreover, because they are rid of concerns about lifespan, these top powerhouses began to cultivate leisurely, losing their former urgency.
At the age of 453: Pei Xuanjing closed himself off for fifty years. For mortal humans, this is a long time, two or three generations have passed. However, for the gods in the Divine Court, this period was relatively brief. They were still immersed in the joy of their initial divine ascension, finding everything fresh and novel…
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At the age of 500: Pei Xuanjing continued to seclude himself, and many powerful gods also began to do so. They handed over some authority to their subordinates to maintain the operation of Heaven and Earth.
At the age of 505: In the 202nd year since the establishment of the Divine Court, finally, a human being reached the peak of cultivation, joined the Divine Court, and became a part of it. This is the first mortal existence to ascend to godhood since the establishment of the Divine Court.
From then on, Cultivators or Martial Artists would ascend to the Divine Court to receive divine investiture at regular intervals.
At the age of 657: The mortal world, governed by the Eternal Divine Dynasty, was prosperous and peaceful, without disputes. All Martial Artists and Cultivators could cultivate peacefully. Their objective was clear: to ascend to the Divine Court, become gods, and gain eternal life.
However, since the first mortal ascended to godhood, more and more Martial Artists and Cultivators began to ascend, and the number kept increasing. Someone discovered that if this trend continued, plus the fact that gods were immortal, it was possible that one day the gods would completely fill the entire Divine Court.
When this conclusion was made public, it surprised many, but most people did not pay it any mind. After all, the Divine Court was constantly expanding. The increase in the number of gods could not keep up with the speed of the expansion of the Divine Court.
At the age of 757: The number of gods was increasing rapidly, already exceeding the speed of the expansion of the Divine Court. To change this situation, some gods believed that the number of gods entering the Divine Court needed to be controlled, and this could not continue.
The concept of the Ascending God Tribulation was proposed. Some believed that there should be restrictions and tests for Cultivators and Martial Artists ascending to the Divine Court. It was not right to let them join the Divine Court at will.
At the age of 805: After the establishment of the Ascending God Tribulation, the increase in the number of gods had significantly decreased and temporarily alleviated this crisis.
However, over the years, these gods, staying in the divine domain, had gradually become bored. Add to this the flourishing development of the mortal world over the centuries, these gods started thinking about descending to experience the different mortal world but dared not leave due to the prohibition of the master of the Divine Court.