My version of Heavenly Dao is too old, so it's full of bugs.

Chapter 254 Establishing the Divine Throne—A Power Unparalleled in the Three Realms!

Zheng Youlan's words surprised Li Wei: "You three city lords in the Bewitching Forbidden Land actually have the qualifications to undergo tribulation and ascend to immortality, and even attract the tribulation of ascension?"

In ancient times
Once cultivators reach the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, they can ascend to immortality.

However, as the number of gods in the world increased, the Heavenly Court imposed stricter restrictions on ascension, and the difficulty of the Heavenly Tribulation increased. Eventually, the six elements of ascension that we have today were formed!

—Peak Nascent Soul cultivation, immortal techniques, immortal body, golden body of merit, laws, divine position.

To become an immortal, these six elements are indispensable.

Of these six elements, the simplest requirement is cultivation level. Because Nascent Soul cultivators have long lifespans, as long as they don't perish prematurely, they can generally rely on their lifespan to reach the Great Perfection stage, which is not difficult at all.

However, if you don't have immortal techniques, you can't break through the shroud of the Ascension Tribulation, and you'll never be able to penetrate it. Sooner or later, you'll be struck dead by lightning.

Without a divine body, one cannot withstand the impact of the tribulation lightning and will inevitably perish during the ascension process.

Without the crystallization of willpower, one cannot possess divine power, and the divine status will naturally collapse, leading to death and dissipation.

Without laws, if you become a god, you will be overwhelmed by the power of the Heavenly Laws, instantly lose your mind, and become a puppet of the Great Dao, thus being destroyed by the Heavenly Court and the human realm!
If there's no divine position, then it's even simpler.

Go forth and establish your divine position, young man!
As long as you can find the right place among the countless stars, find an unmanaged Heavenly Dao system in the Great Dao of Laws, or simply create a completely new Heavenly Dao system, you'll be fine.

Of course,
The path to condensing divine positions has long been explored by everyone throughout history.

Therefore, when you randomly establish a divine position, you will most likely accidentally wander into the divine domain of other gods and seize their divine authority.

Taking away someone's livelihood is like killing their parents.

You've already openly violated someone's divine authority and stolen their divine office. It's only natural that the aggrieved deity would come running and let you perish in the great calamity, right?
In summary,
I know that there are six essential elements to becoming an immortal, and each one is a necessity for survival and cannot be omitted.

The problem is that these six elements are extremely difficult to obtain.

For example, to transform the rudimentary form of immortal arts and the Dao body into immortal arts and immortal bodies, one must spend a massive amount of resources to purchase divine blood to baptize oneself.

To accumulate merit and goodwill, one either needs to possess a deceitful and charlatan-like reputation like Li Wei, or obtain a divine position at least at the mayor level in a celestial realm. Only then can one gradually accumulate sufficient merit and goodwill.

Mastering the laws goes without saying. To merge with the Dao, one must contend with the will of Heaven and vie for the authority over the laws. This is a compulsory course for all gods, including the Great Sage, and even immortals and gods dare not be careless.

As for divine positions, they are even more difficult to obtain.

Either you become powerful enough to create your own godhood, or you can only obtain a godhood from an existing pantheon. For example, the Immortal Lord Zhaoli Internet who launched the Heavenly Dao 7.19 version was able to ascend because he inherited the godhood of Immortal Lord Zhaoli.

Given so many restrictions, even a Nascent Soul cultivator, a powerhouse standing at the pinnacle of the mortal world, would find it difficult to gather all the necessary materials.

Even a top-tier Nascent Soul genius like Mu Tianshui had to borrow money from Zhongzhou Pharmaceutical Group to attempt ascension, but that was still considered good!

Even if most Nascent Soul cultivators wanted to borrow money from large corporations for gambling, they wouldn't have the connections or the qualifications.

Unsurprisingly, some people decided to take the risk.

During the Heavenly Dao 5.0 era, a wise man carefully analyzed the Heavenly Court's Ascension Tribulation system and quickly discovered the key point.

Although the Heavenly Court set up six thresholds for ascension, this at most meant killing and obstructing cultivators during the ascension process; in reality, it did not prohibit Nascent Soul cultivators from breaking through to ascension.

Many Nascent Soul cultivators still choose to undergo the Ascension Tribulation at the end of their lifespan, even though the outcome is not good, they do successfully attract the lightning tribulation.

As is well known, the Heavenly Court's tribulation system is not inexhaustible and still requires energy.

Then, this brilliant mind had a flash of inspiration and secretly connected with hundreds of peak Nascent Soul cultivators, allowing them to undergo tribulation from different parts of the Immortal Orb at the same time on the same day.

This move successfully dispersed the power of the tribulation lightning system, allowing hundreds of Nascent Soul cultivators to simultaneously enter the divine realm.

This event is historically known as the "Ascension of a Hundred Gentlemen"!
Just from the name, you can tell that these more than one hundred people died a terrible death.

Both the righteous and demonic forces acted simultaneously, killing all one hundred-plus "gentlemen," and made an emergency update to the Heavenly Dao, fixing the loophole that allowed everyone to ascend at the same time, and imposing numerous restrictions.

The most important requirement is that cultivators must possess all six elements in order to participate in ascension.

This effectively blocked the idea of ​​most Nascent Soul cultivators trying to take shortcuts and experience the thrill of tribulation.

If you don't have all six elements, you won't even be able to draw down the tribulation of ascension!

That's why Li Wei was so surprised when he heard Zheng Youlan's words: "I never expected that a small forbidden area could support three sets of ascension elements at the same time?"

"You have three divine positions here for them to choose from?"

Zheng Youlan said with a wry smile, "Although the Heavenly Court requires that those who ascend must have a divine position, it does not say that the divine position must be 'alive'. In other words, one can ascend using a dead divine position, but it is destined to be impossible!"

Upon hearing this, Li Wei's eyes widened immediately: "Of the three city lords, two of them have found the divine positions of the master of the Bewitching Smoke and his enemies?"

"That's right! When the two gods fell, their divine positions naturally perished as well, falling into the Bewitching Smoke Killing Technique. This is the reason why the Bewitching Smoke Killing Technique can form its own realm and become a forbidden area!"

"However, these two divine positions have already been abolished, and their divine duties and laws have long been divided up by other gods. Therefore, ascending to godhood through them would be certain death. This is probably why the Heavenly Dao does not prohibit the ascension of divine positions through death."

Li Wei asked with some doubt, "Even so, there are only two divine positions, yet you have three city lords. How could that be?"

Talking,

As if realizing something, he belatedly turned back to look at this rusty city: "By replacing the Heavenly Dao Advancement Permit with educational diplomas, you have created a completely new cultivation advancement system!"

A hint of admiration appeared on Zheng Youlan's face: "Lord Li truly lives up to his reputation as a prodigy from the outside world. It took me hundreds of years to realize this, but you saw it immediately." "That's right! Master Chu, with great perseverance and by exploiting a major loophole, successfully carved out a portion of the Heavenly Dao's power from the Heavenly Court's advancement permit, combined it with the laws of the Education Department, and forcibly created a completely new divine position within the existing divine position system of the Heavenly Court!"

"The God of Cultivation and Advancement!"

"This is a void that has never existed in the world before, and it is also a complete reform of the current cultivation system. If one ascends to immortality through this, it will definitely affect the interests of many people, and the teacher will surely die!"

Even though Zheng Youlan had never been to the outside world, she knew that the Heavenly Court would not allow such an important divine position to be placed in the hands of a forbidden person who had not received education from the Heavenly Court!

God of instruction and advancement!

Whoever can ascend to immortality through this means possesses the ability to change the landscape of spiritual practice. If this can be used as a divine office to popularize the integration and reform of education and spiritual practice, they will instantly gain immeasurable merit and blessings.

Therefore, he directly became the chief god.

Do not!
It's not impossible for him to even squeeze into the ranks of the Four Emperors and Five Elders.

Therefore, the influence of this divine position is truly enormous!

Li Wei swallowed hard, his mouth dry. "You're telling me something this important like this?"

If this matter gets out, the battle between the Heavenly Court and the Great Sage might be put on hold. Both the Blissful Demon Land and the Central Continent Immortal Palace would spare no effort to enter the Bewitching Forbidden Land and seize this newly opened divine position.

After all, with the cultivation transfer payment system now widespread, the only thing preventing cultivators from advancing is the advancement permit.

Therefore, whoever controls the advancement permit controls the overall situation.

The divine positions of the God of Instruction and the God of Advancement allow people to advance in rank, thus giving them the potential to influence the course of war and even the situation in the Three Realms!

Unbeknownst to Zheng Youlan, she had already drunk the entire cup of bitter herbal tea in one gulp. Amidst the bitter taste, her eyes gradually reddened, and she knelt down on the ground.
"A common man is innocent, but he is guilty of possessing a treasure. Whether it is a teacher, myself, or the Forbidden Land of Bewitching Souls, no one is worthy of such a divine position."

"That's why the teacher has never dared to ascend to immortality and can only sit here waiting for his lifespan to end!"

"Inspector Li, do you know what it feels like to know that you can ascend, and that you have the potential to become a chief god, or even one of the Four Emperors or Five Elders, but you don't dare to ascend?"

"I know!!"

“From the time I became Master Chu’s apprentice more than 400 years ago until today, I can see Master Chu looking up at the sky in this courtyard of the campus every night.”

"One hundred and forty thousand days and nights!"

"In the time I've witnessed it, he has kept watch for 140,000 days and nights! Before that, he had kept watch for tens of thousands of years!! More than three million days and nights!!"

Even though time is just a number, it still made Li Wei feel a little suffocated at this moment.

Ten thousand years.
It was just too long.

Zheng Youlan became even more agitated, and tears streamed down her face.

"Ten thousand years ago, Rust City was just a wasteland. My master was just an ordinary schoolteacher who was driven to desperation by loans in the outside world and had no choice but to come to Rust City to hide from his debts."

"He established private schools on this land and gradually developed Rust City to its current state. So, strictly speaking, everyone in this city is either his student or the descendant of his student."

"I know, the teacher has actually wanted to be free for a long time!"

"But unfortunately, he couldn't let go of this responsibility. He was afraid that after we died, we would be swallowed up by guys from other cities. He didn't want to see everything he had worked so hard to build destroyed."

"But unfortunately, the more afraid he was, the less he dared to ascend, and the less likely he was to succeed in ascending."

Speaking of which,

Zheng Youlan suddenly laughed bitterly: "The rust is both our strength and our weakness. The teachers have poured their hearts and souls into this place, changing us with education and also creating an unprecedented divine position."

"But the long passage of time has completely worn away his spirit, and the million students of Rust City have become shackles and chains, binding his feet tightly and nailing him to us!"

“I believe that Master himself knew that he could no longer ascend to immortality, so he placed his hopes on us.”

"But unfortunately, in this barren environment, we have no resources to cultivate, no laws to learn, and no terms to acquire! So let alone surpassing our master, we can't even grow to his level, let alone inherit his mantle, let alone take the key to opening up the divine position."

"The long lifespan of a Nascent Soul cultivator has long been a torment for my master!"

"Every day he longed to become a star, yet he feared being devoured by other stars before he became a god! But he wasn't afraid of death; he was afraid he wouldn't be able to save the millions of students in this city!"

"He didn't want to become a star to enjoy the power of the gods, but to save us all!"

“He has done enough for us.”

Speaking of which,

Zheng Youlan raised her head and stared intently at Li Wei, saying, "So, Inspector Li, I want to ask you a question: do you... want to become a god?"

"As long as you promise to relieve your master of this burden, promise to rescue the students in this city, and promise to take us away from this land that is destined to perish!"

"Then I promise."

"I can persuade my master to give you the key to the laws of Rusty City, giving you the possibility of establishing your own divine authority and advancing to the level of a god!"

(End of this chapter)