“Merit and fortune?”
Looking at the nearby mass of seven-colored cosmic energy, Wu Ming reached out his hand without hesitation.
Buzzing!
The fortune immediately gathered around him, forming a nine-colored royal crown and robe, shaking the entire world.
“Accepting a position from another world recklessly will inevitably cause trouble. However, this Dazhou Xiyu Ji world is an illusory realm; its fortune and position are both illusory. Accepting them won’t cause much hindrance, and it will help me better comprehend the abilities of the next few major realms…”
Wu Ming smiled slightly: “But now, it’s still not advisable to interfere too much!”
Swoosh!
His figure flickered and completely vanished from the Dazhou Xiyu Ji world.
Inside the Temple of the Prime Deity, Wu Ming’s soul returned to its place, carefully contemplating the insights gained from creating the world.
With the Temple of the Prime Deity’s assistance, the Huangting Blessing Land could always accumulate to its limit. What was still lacking was his own cultivation.
“Even though my main cultivation manual, the Huangting Yin Fu Jing, only has the Earth Immortal Scroll…”
Wu Ming’s eyebrows twitched: “Human follows Earth, Earth follows Heaven, Heaven follows Dao, Dao follows Nature… Even if the Huangting Yin Fu Jing doesn’t have the Celestial Immortal Scroll, it doesn’t mean I can’t deduce it myself…”
Of course, the Temple of the Prime Deity’s power of creation was even more helpful in this regard.
He was confident that the path he deduced would break free from the constraints of the Huangting Yin Fu Jing, reaching a realm unimaginable to its founder, and simultaneously becoming the most suitable path for a ruler!
“Now that the Dazhou Xiyu Ji world has already taken shape, next is to recruit the reincarnators, right?”
Wu Ming stroked his chin, firmly memorizing the insights, and suddenly arrived atop the Prime Deity’s Hall.
The Throne of the Ten Thousand Realms was located at the highest point of the Temple of the Prime Deity. As Wu Ming looked down, it was as if he saw the many planes constituting the temple prostrating and trembling beneath his feet.
[Great Ruler, are you ready to select the reincarnators?]
At the flick of his mind, a prompt box appeared.
“Yes!”
Wu Ming unhesitatingly confirmed.
Boom!
In that instant, drawing upon the power of the Temple of the Prime Deity, his soul force expanded in an inconceivable manner. Centered around Wu’s Manor, it swept across Chufeng County, then swiftly to Dingzhou, and even the entire Dazhou world.
“…Within Wu’s Manor, nothing can be hidden from me. However, within Chufeng County, I can only generally sense information like gender and race. If the range continues to expand to Dingzhou, I can only sense signs of life. As for the entire world? Unless I borrow the Temple of the Prime Deity’s power and invest the world’s primordial energy, I can’t even think about it…”
Wu Ming’s thoughts expanded to their limits, comparing these different ranges.
Actually, this was already extremely terrifying!
Although he was the honored Earth Immortal, without the aid of the Prime Deity’s Temple, exerting his full strength could barely cover Yunping County, and even that would cause him to spit blood.
“However, Yunping is a large county. Selecting reincarnators there would be sufficient… but only a fool would do that!”
Without hesitation, Wu Ming expanded the entire selection range to the entire Dazhou world!
Otherwise, if a large number of reincarnators suddenly appeared in one region, it would attract the attention of those who are watchful, even without their identities being leaked, due to the frequent occurrence of various strange events.
Those Celestial Immortals and Ancient Gods, after so many years of investigation, Wu Ming refused to believe that they hadn’t figured out any patterns.
When it came to his own safety, no amount of scrutiny was excessive.
“Temple of the Prime Deity!”
Wu Ming softly called out. Ripples spread across the Primordial Pool, and a drop of purple primordial energy radiated out, transforming into thick purple energy to supply the Temple of the Prime Deity’s consumption.
With this powerful assistance, his spiritual consciousness instantly swept across thousands of miles, encompassing the entire Dazhou world.
Of course, it was only the native land of Dazhou.
The four wilderness regions and numerous blessed lands and caves could only be known roughly in location unless specifically choosing one to break through; otherwise, it was impossible to delve deeper.
“If I lock onto a specific blessed cave, I could forcibly break its barrier to conscript reincarnators, but doing so would greatly increase the risk of being discovered by the cave’s master…”
The Temple of the Prime Deity possessed the power of Great Immortality, capable of traversing worlds; how could mere semi-planes like blessed lands and caves possibly resist?
However, doing so would be time-consuming and laborious, so Wu Ming refrained from taking this route.
“Hmm…”
He painfully held his forehead, a consequence of a massive influx of information into his consciousness.
Even though he had tried to keep it vague, how many people and living beings were there in the entire Dazhou world? How many powerful auras? The numbers were as countless as grains of sand in the Ganges. Even skimming through them once was enough to cause a cultivator’s consciousness to rupture!
“This difficulty… even if I want to personally select the reincarnators, it’s somewhat of a luxury!”
Unless he limited the range to Yunping and Chufeng, Wu Ming might have the spare capacity to carefully choose, but now he couldn’t afford to be so meticulous. With a wave of his hand, dozens of star-like points of light vanished.
…
The secondary capital of Dazhou.
This was the capital chosen after the imperial court’s relocation. Despite the chaos, it remained prosperous, though its dark corners were also numerous.
In the dark slum area, this was the poor district of the secondary capital, with chaotic security and corpses occasionally seen on the roadside. Even the constables rarely came here unless absolutely necessary.
At this moment, in a stinking ditch by the roadside, a figure that seemed like a corpse suddenly twitched, then lay still again…
At the same time, in a lavishly decorated hall, a hoarse, heart-wrenching scream suddenly rang out: “Bad news! The crown prince suddenly fell ill and fainted…”
…
“Hmm? Compared to sending one’s physical body through, is it more convenient and less consuming to summon the true spirit?”
Wu Ming thoughtfully stroked his chin: “Moreover… the higher one’s cultivation, the more effort is required to summon them. Of course, below the level of a Celestial Immortal, it’s just a matter of increasing the investment a little, which is nothing significant…”
After selecting two individuals in the secondary capital of Dazhou, he immediately sent his spiritual consciousness flying to Qianzhou.
Soon, thirty reincarnators had been selected, and their information floated before Wu Ming.
Their identities were diverse, and their backgrounds were from all over.
Qianzhou, Yunzhou, Shangzhou, Mongzhou, Gzhou, Lingzhou, Yezhou, Qingzhou, Dingzhou… basically covering all nineteen provinces of Dazhou.
Of course, at the same time, dozens of sudden fainting incidents occurred one after another.
However, compared to the massive population base of the entire Dazhou world, these anomalies were barely a ripple on the surface, not to mention that in this chaotic era, the number of people dying every moment was far more than this.
“Welcome to the Temple of the Prime Deity! A place of infinite hope and despair, strive forth! As long as you complete your tasks, you can obtain everything!”
Wu Ming spoke in a poetic tone, his thoughts gradually sinking into the glowing orb formed by the Dazhou Xiyu Ji world.
…
[Welcome to the Temple of the Prime Deity!]
Zhu Si slowly opened his eyes, and a cold, mechanical voice came to his ears.
“What… where is this?”
He looked around in confusion, sat up, and stared at his intact body, suddenly stunned.
Zhu Si was his real name. In fact, the name he heard most often was Laidou A Si (Baldy A Si), and he was also called “stinky beggar,” “beggart,” and “bum.”
Before today, he was just an unremarkable beggar in the secondary capital, whose greatest wish in life was to have enough to eat, willing to wait for hours behind the gates of rich families for a bite to eat, and unafraid to fight with stray dogs, rats, or even his fellow beggars for food.
And just yesterday, he was severely beaten by the beggar leader of that street and thrown into a ditch because he secretly kept half a white flour steamed bun instead of handing it over.
Without any unexpected intervention, he might have died there.
But now, his unharmed body and the environment around him, so different from the muddy ditch, clearly left him bewildered: “Am I dreaming?”
“What’s going on? Where am I?”
“Where are Anxiang and Yilan?”
Beside him, a young man in fine clothes stood up, puzzled: “Where are Da and Er? Where are you?”
Zhu Si looked over and saw that the young man had red lips and white teeth, his skin as smooth as jade, even more delicate than the second daughter of Old Zhang’s tofu shop, which made him momentarily stunned.
“Temple of the Prime Deity, reincarnators? Who is playing this joke on me?”
After shouting a few sentences, the young man suddenly calmed down, muttering softly while looking at the people around him.
For some reason, under his gaze, even Zhu Si felt his scalp tingling, thinking that the young man’s official aura was even stronger than that of an inspector.
At this moment, Zhu Si saw that there were seven or eight other people around him, each with different appearances. When they all regained consciousness, the voice from before rang out again:
[Welcome to the Temple of the Prime Deity! A place of infinite hope and despair, strive forth! As long as you complete your tasks, you can obtain everything!]
[Ding! Scanning reincarnators, collecting information, assigning numbers…]
Soon, a glowing screen appeared before him, displaying several lines of ancient, mysterious characters, resembling both seal script and inscriptions. Zhu Si, who couldn’t read a single character, understood their meaning at a glance:
[Reincarnator Number: Gui Hai 45!]
[Name: Zhu Si]
[Cultivation: None]
[Equipment: None]
[Title: None]
[Your appearance and attire have been slightly adjusted. You are automatically equipped with the language of the scenario, allowing seamless communication with scenario characters. These adjustments will disappear after the mission… Note: Strictly forbidden to disclose information about the Temple of the Prime Deity and the real world to scenario characters. Violators will be eliminated!]
…
“This… ghost! Ghost!”
Startled, Zhu Si bit hard on his right hand.
The bite was quite deep, and soon blood appeared on the fresh tooth marks: “It hurts, so it’s not a dream!! Mother of mine…”
Compared to Zhu Si, who was making a spectacle of himself, the others managed to remain relatively calm, especially the young man in fine clothes who had spoken first. Looking at the distant scenery, he suddenly sighed.
This was because, apart from this circle, everything else was in a strange state of stillness!
[Ding! All reincarnators confirmed. The main mission is about to begin!]
The cold, mechanical voice rang out again in the next instant!
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