Chen Shi's heart blossomed with joy as Peng Jue, Peng Zhi, and Peng Ju in the Yuan Chen Palace banged gongs and beat drums, celebrating wildly to cheer him on and bolster his courage.

Little Dun Fairy kept her eyes tightly shut, shy and bashful, yet slightly annoyed, urging, "Did you see enough? Is it okay now?"

Chen Shi's heart trembled, his hands shook, and he couldn't help but want to move.

However, his hands acted faster than his mind. While his mind was still contemplating, his hands had already moved.

Little Dun Fairy suddenly felt a pair of hands touching her body, a strange tingling sensation coursed through her, as if she had been electrified.

She abruptly opened her eyes.

"Swish——"

Two beams of icy light pierced through the Little Heavenly Realms from her eyes, like two sharp swords, stabbing through the Little Heavenly Realms!

Chen Shi's body stiffened, all desires vanished, and drops of cold sweat involuntarily appeared on his forehead.

He dodged quickly, avoiding being pierced with two large holes!

"Take your hands off!"

Chen Shi hurriedly withdrew his hands.

Little Dun Fairy fastened her clothes, tidying up her attire, her face icy cold.

Chen Shi took the opportunity to turn around, attempting to sneak away.

A chilly voice came from behind, "Don't leave yet. I kept my promise to let you look, but not to touch. You touched, so I can't let that slide."

Chen Shi's heart skipped a beat.

Scholar Zhu and Black Pot guarded the wooden carriage, bored out of their minds. Scholar Zhu blinked and suddenly said, "Black Pot, guess what they're doing in there?"

"Woof?" Black Pot was puzzled.

Clearly, only Chen Shi went into the Little Heavenly Realms, so who are "they"?

Could it be that the Little Heavenly Realms had made contact with others?

Scholar Zhu sneered, "Silly dog. When have you seen Little Ten acting so sneaky? Surely his cultivation has advanced, he's secretly meeting with Little Dun Fairy, harboring some dubious intentions, wanting to do something indecent with Little Dun Fairy!"

Black Pot's eyes widened, exclaiming, "Woof woof?"

Scholar Zhu pitied its ignorance, saying, "Deserved to be single! That kid is cunning, always seizing every opportunity. This time, looking at the chest was just an excuse, then he wanted to make a move, then he wanted to touch, even kiss, and then have a wedding night in the Little Heavenly Realms..."

Just as he said this, he suddenly became alert, swiftly swinging to one side on a hanging rope, his body soaring up.

"Swish swish!"

Two beams of icy light whizzed past, nearly piercing him through!

Those two beams of icy light flew hundreds of miles, slanting across the sky, disappearing from sight.

Scholar Zhu's heart skipped a beat, muttering, "It seems things didn't go as smoothly..."

After a while, Chen Shi emerged alone from the Little Heavenly Realms, with one eye swollen, the surrounding area bruised.

"Yo, got beaten." Scholar Zhu laughed.

Chen Shi mumbled, "Teacher, please don't tease me."

Scholar Zhu chuckled, "After you left, someone tried to swindle our jade seal and canopy, got handsy, and got beaten up. Funny thing, it looks like they got hurt in almost the same spot as your eye."

Chen Shi sighed deeply.

Scholar Zhu said, "After being beaten, make sure to ask if they dare do it again next time. Little Ten, do you think they dare?"

"They dare!" Chen Shi declared resolutely.

Scholar Zhu laughed heartily, "Good, you have guts! We scholars act just like this, persevering relentlessly, never giving up!"

Chen Shi felt encouraged, his spirit invigorated, and continued on his journey, laughing, "Mencius said, 'Food and sex are human nature.' We scholars practicing Mencius should indeed be this way. Gosh, my Peng Jue has grown a lot!"

"This is the way of cultivation, Little Ten!"

Scholar Zhu sincerely said, "When you practice your studies, your cultivation improves. When you practice diligently and continuously, you surpass ordinary people."

"Teacher, I am enlightened!" Chen Shi bowed in gratitude.

In a small temple, Little Dun Fairy was both embarrassed and annoyed, thinking, "This master and disciple, both are incorrigible. By the way, did Mencius really teach this way?"

She hadn't read Mencius' books and didn't know if that's what he said.

This time, with the refinement of Peng Jue, the Three Corpse Gods transformed into Three Yin Gods, Chen Shi's cultivation speed saw another astonishing increase, and the Three Corpse Gods continued to grow rapidly, advancing swiftly like a thousand miles a day.

Little Dun Fairy also benefited, her cultivation gradually recovering, and the injuries caused by the True King Nine Palaces lightened day by day. Little Dun's memories often mixed with her own, giving her a sense of memory confusion.

Once, she absentmindedly came out of the small temple, called Chen Shi "husband," and was mistaken by Chen Shi as Little Dun's sister. It wasn't until long after that Chen Shi realized the oddity.

She was, however, the first to realize it, her heart pounding, quickly retreating back to the small temple.

That day, Chen Shi revived a deity that had perished in the temple, and suddenly the back of his mind swayed, a third small temple appeared, one to the left and one to the right, with Little Dun Fairy's temple in the middle, forming a simple temple structure.

Chen Shi was stunned. Previously, the small temples grew because he absorbed powerful spirits into the temple, allowing it to flourish and grow a new divine shrine, adding a room. When the original temple had three divine shrines, a new temple would appear.

However, this time the deity he revived was Shi Gandang, the Martial Saint Venerable, whose divine image was forming. He had not yet incorporated Shi Gandang into his temple.

"Could it be that reviving all the deities, the ever-growing incense fire qi, caused the small temple at the back of my mind to grow into a new temple?"

Chen Shi pondered, he possessed the power of divine enthronement, not solely due to the West King Jade Seal. The West King Jade Seal represented royal power, and royal power alone was not enough to bestow divine authority; the small temple was divine authority.

Only by combining divine authority with royal power could they appoint the various land gods.

The land gods of the Huaxia Divine Continent revived due to the small temple behind his head, and the incense fire qi they gathered was partially allocated to the small temple, leading to the gradual growth of the temple.

Moreover, Chen Shi also noticed that as he revived more and more land gods, the incense fire qi allocated to the small temple increased, accelerating the growth rate of the third small temple!

"It seems that foster mother is about to awaken!"

He was extremely excited, finally able to see the true form of the stele foster mother.

The Ten Thousand Great Mountains, Gao Gang.

Chen Tang left the Qianyang Mountain Lord Temple and came near Gao Gang, looking up, he saw streaks of rosy clouds above the high hill, and the ancient willow tree was surrounded by a thousand auspicious auras.

The stele beneath the tree inexplicably rose from the earth, standing before the tree.

The stele shone brilliantly, and its inscriptions gradually became clear.

Simultaneously, the hill continuously shook, as if some colossal entity beneath the yellow earth was slowly shifting, poised to break free.

Chen Tang was deeply shaken, attempting to ascend this hill, to see what was inscribed on the stele, but as he stepped onto the hill, he was involuntarily spun around as if the earth was the sky, pressing down on him!

Someone of his cultivation realm unexpectedly could not stabilize himself for a moment, having to retreat.

"What on earth is buried beneath the stele?"

Just as he thought this, suddenly incense fire qi transformed into streaks of blue light, drifting over here.

This situation had persisted for some time now; since Chen Shi left, the hill gradually changed, with green qi swirling beneath the tree, gradually thickening, resembling incense fire qi. As the incense fire qi increased, it gradually transformed into rosy clouds and auspicious auras.

At times, one could even hear the faint whispers of divine beings in the void, like chants of the gods, obscure and hard to understand, praising the greatness of Gao Gang's deity.

Since then, Chen Tang kept watch on the changes of the hill, noticing that in recent days, the changes accelerated.

"Little Ten's foster mother might be about to awaken," he murmured.

Just as he was about to leave, suddenly a voice came from the sky: "Heaven Listeners noted the increasing rosy clouds here, and constant earth disturbances, confirming there is indeed a problem. Wujiu, stop the carriage."

Chen Tang followed the sound, seeing a carriage arriving in the sky, a Qilin as its mount, with a jade-green body, vermilion wheels, and a glazed glass canopy, an extravagant sight.

On the carriage were two people, one of whom Chen Tang had met before, a disciple from Despair Slope, Zhuang Wujiu.

The other was a young man, dignified, splendidly dressed, his robe featuring sumptuous embroidery, quite reminiscent of the elegant style of the Great Tang period.

Though not appearing much older than Zhuang Wujiu, Chen Tang keenly sensed an overwhelming pressure!

This pressure made him immediately reach for his little wooden box, ready to open it at any moment!

His other hand gripped the scabbard of the sword at his waist, the Xuanwei Sword, yet its true blade was not the sword itself, but his Void Great Realm.

He had nurtured the sword for years, cultivating Sword Qi to shatter the void, opening great realms, hidden in its sheath, unstoppable.

Yet facing this young man, he felt no confidence whatsoever!

This young man exuded a pressure unlike anything he had ever felt before!

"Is it an Immortal?"

Chen Tang's expression remained unchanged, but his heart guessed that only an Immortal or a perverse creation like Creation Little Five could exert such fearsome pressure, but he immediately dismissed the thought that the young man was an Immortal.

For he noticed the halo behind the young man's head.

This faint blue halo was this young man's Void Great Realm.

Refining the Void Great Realm to the point of a halo behind his head indicated that it had reached Mahayana, on the brink of Harmonization and Immortality!

Chen Tang had never seen such a perfect Void Great Realm!

"A master from Despair Slope! Not an Immortal, yet greater than an Immortal!"

Chen Tang thought, "From what I gather of his intentions, he seems to threaten Little Ten's foster mother. Can I stand against him? I only have thirty-seven Talisman Heavenly Machines, uncertain if I can suppress him with the Ghost God Domain of the Fu Shen Tianji."

The young man also noticed someone below, nodded slightly towards Chen Tang, and smiled: "Daoyou Chen Tang, there's no need to worry, I harbor no ill intentions toward you. If Daoyou would not mind, please join me in the carriage for a chat."

Chen Tang hesitated for a moment, then flew up to the Glazed Tile Chariot, holding his box, entered the chariot and sat down, still holding the box, and said, "How does the gentleman know of me, Chen?"

The young man was unconcerned by his caution, and said, "The Heaven Listeners have been monitoring the increasingly intense changes at the hill in the underworld, observing its transformation alongside keeping records of Daoyou. Before I came, I reviewed your dossier and discovered you are exceptionally talented, and most of the Heaven Listeners' recorded information was incorrect."

Chen Tang slightly bowed, "Thank you for your praise."

The young man smiled, "My surname is Yu, name Changbai, from Despair Slope. This is my disciple Zhuang Wujiu, who once suffered a loss at your hands."

Zhuang Wujiu's gaze was sharp, staring at Chen Tang, "Yet this meeting, disciple shall not suffer again. Disciple is eager to challenge Mister Chen again!"

Yu Changbai chuckled, "There is no need for haste. Daoyou Chen, do you know the origins of this hill?"

Chen Tang shook his head, "I've heard it's the True King's Tomb where kaolin clay was taken to make porcelain, piled here."

Yu Changbai looked towards the stele and old willow tree, shaking his head, "Kaolin clay doesn't form high hills. This hill is entirely yellow earth, with no stones except the stele. It's said in the time of the True King, Emperor Cheng Zhu conferred a Zhu scion as the True King of the West Ox New Continent, forging the West King Jade Seal to exert royal power. Royal power governed the common people, the surface matters. But simultaneously, Emperor Cheng Zhu sought a great deity to oversee all the land gods, as well as managing the underworld."

"He invited this Lady's clone to descend on the West Ox New Continent, forging the map of fifty provinces' gods to exert divine authority, where all deities obeyed her command."

His gaze fell on the imposing stele, "This Lady, in contrast with the Celestial Emperor, commanded thirty-six Earth Emperors of the Nine Fortresses, all the gods of the state and national entities, mountain gods, city god land gods, well gods, and door gods, and gods of the Underworld Netherworld City, wielding unrivaled power."

"She was known as Emperor Houtu of the earth, also called Earth Mother Lady, Earth Mother Primordial Monarch, and Lady Houtu."

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