I attained immortality in the real world.

Virtual Reality, the Celestial Realm!

Fuxi, through his Taoist transformation, left behind a pre-heaven Bagua diagram, which gave form to the formless Heavenly Way.

Humans are trees, thoughts are fire, yin and yang are time, the four directions are space, the eight trigrams represent all things in the world, and the one who governs all things in the world is naturally the Heavenly Emperor.

The hexagrams are being conceived and will eventually generate eight trial realms. Passing the trials will grant you a hexagram. Once you collect all eight hexagrams, you will have access to the Heavenly Realm that is almost like being in a training ground.

The hexagram is still in the process of being formed, and according to common sense, there should be no birth of a Heavenly Emperor.

However, Cao Xian was able to create a deity when the world was first created, so as long as the rules start to operate, it means that it is feasible, and there is no need to wait for the starting gun to pull the trigger.

After Chen Jing condensed the initial form of the Azure Emperor, an idea popped into his mind: he felt that he might be able to bypass the limitations of the hexagrams and gain access to the power of heaven and earth ahead of time.

[The hexagrams, in essence, represent the authority bestowed by the Azure Emperor, much like an emperor's seal. Holding this seal means that, to the heavens, every word and action represents the Azure Emperor's command.]

Since the Azure Emperor has always held the authority over Heaven, it is theoretically possible to impersonate him without the seal.

"A banished immortal reborn..."

Chen Jing hung up the phone with Fang Xin and entered the dimensional pod, activating the instrument to connect his consciousness with the dimensional world.

Chen Jing was naturally very interested in the experiment on becoming an immortal, since it was related to immortality and longevity. However, he was not in a hurry and could not stop the experiment from proceeding. Regardless of whether the experiment succeeded or failed in the end, the news could not be kept secret.

The next moment, Chen Jing descended through the Daoist temple to possess Li Yin's body, and the scene before him changed.

Inside the palace-style building, countless eerie energies swirled around. On a dark-colored table lay an ancient-looking bamboo scroll, densely covered with names.

After the consciousness withdrew from the condensed primordial spirit, the wandering spirit returned to the underworld, and the data role was taken over by the intelligent spirit, which is currently handling miscellaneous affairs in Fengdu.

【amnesty!】

Chen Jing conjured a decree to summon Yuan Qi. With the abundant spiritual energy of the underworld, Yuan Qi, though still half-human and half-tiger, no longer gave off a demonic feeling.

He appeared out of nowhere in the hall without panic, and bowed, saying, "Greetings, Lord Tiger King. What are your orders for summoning me here?"

Chen Jing conjured the Emperor's Banner and, with a wave of his hand, altered the layout of Fengdu City, erecting a statue in the city center. The statue, holding a stone spear and wearing animal skin, was the manifestation of his own primordial spirit.

The sculpture is hundreds of feet tall, so that every soul in Fengdu City can look up to it.

After doing all this, he instructed Yuan Qi: "In a quarter of an hour, I want you to preside over the prayers of millions of ghosts to the statue of the god, while chanting my divine name, Lord of the Azure Heaven, Taihao Qingdi—Fuxi."

The Azure Heaven Bureau is a place where things reside—no, to be precise, the human race, humanity.

The spirits of the underworld are at least human in nature. The celestial realm is a realm of the mind, where everything arises from the mind. Willpower can change matter, truly achieving the principle that sincerity can move mountains.

I wonder if beings born in the realm of illusion, upon seeing arrows shot from ordinary bows and arrows pierce through stubborn rocks, would also doubt the reality of the world?
In any case, since there are no living people in the Celestial Realm, the combined will of billions of souls should be enough to shake the Celestial Qi regime.

Yuan Qi didn't know why Chen Jing wanted billions of souls in the underworld to pray, or why he wanted to usurp the title of the ancient Azure Emperor. He simply nodded and said, "I will obey the Emperor's orders!"

Chen Jing arrived before the Immortal Gate, brandishing the Human Emperor Banner, and uttered a low shout: 【Open!】

The banner's seal pattern lit up, drawing in the energy of the underworld's dragon veins to the celestial gate, opening the gateway to the heavenly realm.

The Immortal Gate was not closed, connecting the Underworld with the Heavenly Realm. Every second it consumed a massive amount of Dragon Vein Qi, and Chen Jing stepped through the Immortal Gate to the center of the Heavenly Realm.

"........."

"Woo!"

A fierce wind howled, and at this moment, the spiritual time flow in the Azure Heaven Realm reached the level of an instant. The lush forest turned into a desolate desert where no living beings were allowed to roam. Soon after, an earthquake tore the earth apart and squeezed the mountains, raising a thousand-foot-tall mountain out of thin air. The change in the landscape caused the clouds and rain to change, and the place regained some of its vitality.

Its tiger-like eyes surveyed the majestic mountains before it, its spiritual vision penetrating the material world.

The Fuxi Pre-Heaven Bagua diagram, with its fire, Jianmu tree, and the inner landscape embodied by humanity, has faded into the invisible as the heavens have evolved.

Only eight hexagrams remain in the process of being formed, and they don't even have a basic form yet.

Transformation—change.

Those at the second level of the Life Cultivation Realm can distort data with their minds, meaning they can interfere with matter with their minds. They can easily use all kinds of techniques in the spiritual world, and performing transformation techniques is not difficult at all.

Chen Jing circulated his divine essence in his sea of ​​consciousness, distorting his spirit to cover the virtual data, and his tiger body transformed into the appearance of a primordial spirit.

[Spell - Earth Escape!]

When the time was fifteen minutes, Chen Jing circulated his divine energy to envelop himself, his whole body was coated with a layer of golden light, and his body passed straight through the towering mountains, once again entering the core of the Primordial Eight Trigrams Diagram.

All people! The Way of Transformation! The Manifestation of the Times!

Chen Jing possesses all the qualities of the Azure Emperor; at this moment, no one is more like the Azure Emperor than him.

Everyone can be regarded as part of the Dao Transformation Azure Emperor, but their weight is too low to shake it. The consciousness that the human race always possesses is the consciousness of the Azure Emperor. How can the gathering of billions of souls not be the consciousness of the Azure Emperor?
"I am the King of Men, the Green Emperor, the Lord of Heaven, and I am entrusted with the destiny of Heaven. No one is more suitable than me to control the heavens."

Chen Jing withstood the pressure of Dao transformation and vigorously waved the Human Emperor Banner, and the thought of the gathering of souls from the underworld surged into the Heavenly Dao like a tide.

The heavens are created by man. Countless thoughts are only for the purpose of implanting a setting into the heavenly way. At this moment, Chen Jing is the Azure Emperor, the master of all people, the spokesperson of humanity, and should be the ruler of the heavens.

"Buzz!"

At the core of the array, the Jianmu tree swayed as Chen Jing entered.

The fire spread outwards from the edge of the array plate, gradually illuminating the trigrams Qian, Dui, Li, Zhen, Xun, Kan, Gen, and Kun, one, two, three...

The Heavenly Emperor's authority was fully activated only when all eight hexagrams lit up.

“Three seconds!”

Chen Jing exhausted all his resources and used every trick in the book to gather millions of souls to pray to the heavens, but he could only serve as the Heavenly Emperor for a mere three seconds.

Human consciousness has a limited capacity to process information. Even celestial beings and artificial intelligence have their limits. In fact, they can't do anything in three seconds.

But that's more than enough for Chen Jing!

One certificate is valid forever. By using the three seconds of omnipotent time, one can grant the original character, the Azure Emperor, the authority!

[Remove!]

Chen Jing stripped away authority and granted it to Li Yin. The eight hexagrams converged into a jade seal closely connected to the heavens, which was imprinted on his forehead as a heavenly eye pattern. Holding the seal would grant him the authority of the Heavenly Emperor.

The next moment, consciousness escaped from the Heavenly Dao. Before it could exercise the authority of the Heavenly Emperor, it was forcibly disconnected, and a scene of a tranquil courtyard appeared before its eyes.

An elderly man, watering flowers with a spray bottle, looked at Chen Jing with astonishment: "Shouldn't this be? No one should be here at this time."

Chen Jing discovered that the courtyard before him did not contain a spiritual world; it was not the new world of data and spirit fusion, but merely a purely virtual data world of sound and color. He also looked at the old man curiously and asked, "Who are you?"

The old man waved his hand: "Don't worry about it, he's just a dead man!" (End of Chapter)