Qi Cultivation Starting from the Repair Panel

As his follower, talent was never the first choice, Yuan Dazun was his best option at present.

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After stepping into the Dao Embryo Realm, the speed of Chu Zheng's cultivation inevitably slowed down a bit.

The Heavenly Dao of this starry sky was extremely chaotically distributed, with countless small Taoist orthodoxies.

Moreover, with Incense Fire Deities in full swing and Heavenly Fate dispersed, what trickled down to the Qi Refining branch was very little. Chu Zheng wanted to compete for Heavenly Fate but had nowhere to exert his strength.

In ten years, Chu Zheng had managed to reach the step of Dao Embryo, which was a testament to his exceptional talent.

In a short time, it was difficult for this incarnation of Chu Zheng to make breakthroughs, so he focused his efforts on the path of the Incense Fire Divine Path.

Through Yuan Dazun, he issued a Divine Decree, instructing his many followers to search for some Spiritual Object Fragments, as well as some ancient relics.

Naturally, many followers were puzzled by this, but many deities had their own quirks, and the tributes during worship were mostly based on the deities' preferences.

Some deities favored blood food from livestock, others preferred young maidens, and there was an abundance of different desires.

Having a preference for collecting scraps, although many followers found it strange, was still arranged in an orderly fashion.

Soon, within thousands of miles, vast amounts of Magical Instrument Fragments and Spiritual Object Remnants continuously flowed through various temples into Chu Zheng's hands.

Among these fragments, Chu Zheng occasionally found some surprises, such as high-grade Magic Treasures or cultivation methods from some unique Taoist orthodoxies.

Chu Zheng selected a Qi Gathering Technique from them and passed it on to Yuan Dazun.

Yuan Dazun, originally a follower of the simple Martial Path with ordinary talent and average cultivation, had now switched to practicing the Breathing Technique, which at the very least could extend his lifespan and allow him to live longer.

Every time he collected a batch of high-grade Magic Treasures, Chu Zheng would personally take a trip far away to the other side of the Stars, exchanging them for a large amount of Spirit Stones.

In doing so, he naturally encountered many troubles, as there were plenty of cultivators with greedy intentions, but Chu Zheng had many tricks up his sleeve. He generally emerged unscathed, occasionally even gaining some extra income.

Exchanging for so many Spirit Stones was naturally for the development of his own followers.

Chu Zheng now had over a thousand true followers, and no fewer than a million false followers.

However, Chu Zheng was not satisfied with the current number of followers; his ambition was far greater.

A million followers could only cultivate a deity at the level of the Cold Pond Spirit Lord, not strong enough to advance further. To become a Higher Spirit Monarch or even a Celestial Lord, he needed to find ways to gain more followers.

As long as he accumulated enough Spirit Stones, Chu Zheng would soon show these deities what it meant to lose wealth and spirit.

In the struggles and conflicts between the Incense Fire Deities, no matter which side won, the mortal followers could not suffer significant casualties, as this was a regulation set by the Divine Court.

After all, followers were the foundation of a deity; causing extensive harm to them was tantamount to digging one's own grave, invisibly harming the interests of the Great Emperor at the Divine Court.

Moreover, many followers worshipped multiple deities at the same time, and it was even possible they included both deities involved in the conflict.

Therefore, to compete for followers, besides inciting small-scale wars, most of the time, it was direct confrontations between gods.

Just like the previous attack by the Cold Pond Spirit Lord, who went straight in, his actions aimed at cutting problems at their roots by destroying temples.

With the repair panel available, Chu Zheng could attack followers directly in another way.

With a large number of Spirit Stones cast out, Chu Zheng did not believe those false followers could remain unmoved. As long as the foundation of the followers was shaken, naturally, people would come looking for trouble.

As long as the Divine Court did not intervene, dealing with these rural deities was within Chu Zheng's grasp, and everything that followed would logically fall into place.

He needed more followers, more Incense Fire Willpower, to accelerate the progress of his cultivation, and the competition was inevitable.

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In the blink of an eye, years had passed.

Within tens of thousands of miles, the name of Daoist Venerable Zheng Chu became increasingly renowned.

A great number of the deities' followers had now placed a divine position in their homes, 'Initial Myriad Treasures Taoist Monarch'.

Before becoming a Dao Lord, the title 'Myriad Treasures' was added to his name, simply because this newly risen Dao Lord was indeed wealthy and generous; as long as it concerned the need for spirit stones, he nearly always obliged.

With daily incense burning and worship, the more sincere the devotion, the stronger the incense fire willpower offered up, and the more abundant the rewards granted would be.

Apart from spirit stones, occasionally there would even be magical instruments or magic treasures dropping down.

Such a financially powerful deity surely deserved the name 'Myriad Treasures'.

In just a few short years, the name of the Initial Myriad Treasures Taoist Monarch had even begun to appear in the caves of many true believers of other deities.

For many deities, this was undoubtedly an intolerable situation, as it concerned the very foundation of their own following.n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om

If left unchecked, it wouldn't take long before the followers they had accumulated over many years would be snatched away by this Dao Lord.

Over the past few years, the number of spirit stones, magical instruments, and magic treasures that Chu Zheng had thrown out was beyond counting.

If all these losses were added up, even an Upper Heavenly Monarch would be shocked and discolored.

However, these spirit stones brought about pleasing changes for Chu Zheng. The number of true believers had surged to more than double, approaching nearly three thousand.

The number of false believers had reached an astonishing five million plus!

The cultivation of the Incense Fire Divine Path was nearing that of a Higher Spirit Monarch, and the cultivation of his true form had already stepped into Divine Infant Perfection.

Such lavish spending had even made the Rainbow Heaven Spirit Lord somewhat restless, for he was the closest to Chu Zheng and the most affected in terms of losing followers.

Over these years, half of the believers Chu Zheng had expanded were originally his.

Although the willingness offered by false believers was the lowest in quality, their sheer number often constituted the largest portion.

Every morning, believers would worship the deity, offering up the vitality, qi, and spirit nurtured over the night as tribute.

For false believers, who worship multiple deities, the first deity they worship would be able to draw the most power.

And now, the believers of the Rainbow Heaven Spirit Lord had put the worship of him after that Dao Lord, or even stopped worshipping him altogether, only remembering to do so once every ten or fifteen days.

It was only by doing so that these believers could receive more spirit stones.

During these years, the number of followers of the Rainbow Heaven Spirit Lord had plummeted by nearly a million, a loss so great that it was almost equivalent to losing a divine battle.

The combat capability of spirit stones was alarmingly exaggerated, easily breaking the faith of many false believers.

Not only was the Rainbow Heaven Spirit Lord unable to sit still, but so were many of the Incense Fire Deities surrounding Heavenly Pool City.

Initially, some deities did not care about Chu Zheng's actions, even thinking that this Daoist Venerable Zheng Chu was somewhat foolish, wasting so many resources for an unsustainable gain.

Because followers gathered through spirit stones would not last long; as soon as the supply of spirit stones stopped, they would quickly disperse, which was considered the lowest strategy.

These deities did not believe that the Dao Lord could persist for long and soon the believers would return to them.

However, who could have imagined that this Daoist Venerable Zheng Chu would scatter wealth for several years, without the slightest sign of stopping.

This caused many Incense Fire Deities to curse aloud.

They all painstakingly spread the faith, increasing their followers bit by bit by fulfilling the wishes of many believers, while Chu Zheng did not play by the rules, spending so much resources just to gather the worship of some false believers.

According to normal logic, with so many resources, one could slowly nurture a tremendously strong believer, who would spread the faith on their behalf, which would be extremely profitable.

If the believer was strong enough, they could even directly suppress some Incense Fire Deities, taking all their followers.

This method would just take some time, but the benefits were completely foreseeable.

What these deities miscalculated was just how little patience Chu Zheng had, and he opted for a much more straightforward and brutal approach instead.