All realms have enabled me to achieve the Great Dao.

Zhou Yongcheng believes that using the power of faith to enhance strength has significant drawbacks.

Whether it's the incense offerings of Eastern pantheons or the power of faith in various Western pantheons, they all contain some unknown poison. That poison is a thought, a poison for all living beings. Although they use various methods to purify it, their true forms will still be tainted.

In this universe, every world is fighting for incense and the power of faith; isn't this a manifestation of poisoning?

Zhou Yongcheng felt that it was better to follow the path of pure cultivation. Although using incense and faith to improve one's cultivation level was indeed fast, it was not a long-term solution.

Just like the lives of ordinary people, it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but difficult to go from extravagance to frugality.

Many deities in the upper realms may have experienced the speed at which incense can enhance their cultivation, so they no longer want to cultivate diligently on their own.

Several years have passed, and Fu Xingchen and Xu Qian have cultivated to the early stage of Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation.

Besides having martial arts practitioners from the village below sparring with them on the mountain, Zhou Yongcheng also sent them to hunt monsters in the endless forest, so the two of them grew up quite quickly.

That day, Zhou Yongcheng summoned the two of them to the main hall.

"Master."

"You've been on the mountain for so many years, and your cultivation has reached the Qi Refining and Spirit Transformation stage. Now you should go down the mountain. After you go down, go see your families first. They miss you very much after all these years. After you've seen your families, travel around the world. You can only go back up the mountain when your cultivation reaches the Spirit Refining and Void Return stage," Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile.

"Yes, Master."

Having cultivated on the mountain for so many years, the two were already around sixteen or seventeen years old. Due to their cultivation, they both looked quite mature.

My two apprentices are going on a journey, so protective measures are essential.

Zhou Yongcheng gave each person a jade talisman. The talisman would not work unless there was a life-or-death crisis. It would only work when the person was in a life-or-death situation.

After the two disciples left, Zhou Yongcheng showed the mountain god the Daoist temple, and he also left Dragon Head Mountain. He planned to take in a few more disciples with good aptitude for training.

Train more disciples and let them break down the system of this world.

The giants in the upper realm mostly rely on incense offerings or the power of faith to improve their cultivation. I wonder what they would think if some cultivators could surpass them simply through cultivation.

The gods of the upper realm, the lords of the Heavenly Court, the Three Pure Ones, and so on, their cultivation levels are not high. The highest they can reach is only the Hunyuan Daluo realm. In order to become stronger, they only want to collect more incense and more faith power to improve their cultivation. They never thought of taking other paths.

Zhou Yongcheng traveled to even more remote mountain villages to find disciples with good aptitude.

With his cultivation level, he could find disciples with good aptitude simply by scanning the entire Great Xia Dynasty.

He just wanted to walk around and see the sights in the remote mountain village.

In these remote villages, every household worships statues of the Three Pure Ones and the Heavenly Emperor. In their education, these high-ranking figures from the upper realm are considered righteous gods of heaven and earth and should be worshipped by the people.

This is also why the powerful figures in the upper realm made the emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty do this.

Although the Great Xia Dynasty taught people to worship many gods and immortals, it did not force people to worship and offer incense every day; it was considered voluntary.

The situation was quite different in many countries outside of the Great Xia Dynasty. They practiced forced faith, and those who did not devoutly worship the gods and contribute their faith would be killed, which was quite cruel.

Zhou Yongcheng believes that if the emperor of the Great Xia Dynasty had not traveled from modern society, but was someone else, the Great Xia Dynasty would probably be like other countries, where ordinary people would become devout believers, offering incense and faith to the gods in the upper realm every day.

In many other worlds, the Eastern lands are just like the Western world, where ordinary people have been reduced to machines for producing incense offerings, waiting only for someone to rise up in rebellion.

As for those worlds that have already entered the Dharma-ending Age, they are slightly better off, but many have still become followers of various gods and immortals.

Zhou Yongcheng walked through the village, watching people practice martial arts and do manual labor in their spare time. They were living a pretty good life.

As Zhou Yongcheng passed through a village, an old man called out to him.

The old man was sitting under a camphor tree when he saw Zhou Yongcheng and invited him to sit down.

So Zhou Yongcheng walked under the tree, sat on a stone bench, and started chatting with the old man.

"This young man doesn't look like an ordinary person. Why would he wander around in the mountains?" the old man asked.

Although the old man lived in the countryside, he possessed Confucian and Taoist cultivation within him. However, his aptitude was poor, and he had only just entered the realm. Despite being only at the entry level, his cultivation was comparable to that of a martial arts master at the innate level.

"When I have nothing to do, I just wander around and enjoy the vast and boundless mountains and rivers of Chaoyang in the summer heat," Zhou Yongcheng said with a smile.

"It's good to be young. In the sweltering summer, I've only ever traveled to the surrounding provinces in this vast country of hundreds of millions of square kilometers. I don't have the time to visit other places, so I can only see them on TV," the old man said with some regret.

The old man was a Confucian scholar with extensive knowledge. He served as the principal and teacher at the village primary school, and he was basically never free during holidays, so he said he didn't have the time.

Zhou Yongcheng learned from the conversation that three Confucian and Taoist cultivators had emerged from their village, and the most accomplished one had become a high-ranking official in a province of the Great Xia Dynasty, something the old man was very proud of.

The two sat under the camphor tree and chatted for an afternoon when the old man's daughter-in-law came to call them for dinner.

The old man also invited Zhou Yongcheng to his home, and Zhou Yongcheng did not refuse.

After dinner, Zhou Yongcheng spent the night at the old folks' place.

When Zhou Yongcheng left the next morning, he left them a calligraphy scroll in Taoist script. The scroll contained the primordial energy of Confucianism and Taoism and the meaning of Confucian and Taoist scriptures. Those with enlightenment would understand the methods of Confucian and Taoist cultivation upon seeing the scroll and would also obtain a trace of the primordial energy from it.

This was the opportunity that arose when the old man treated Zhou Yongcheng. He had traveled to so many villages, and this was the first time someone had stopped him and invited him to stay for a meal.

When Zhou Yongcheng left the old man's house, the old man opened the calligraphy that Zhou Yongcheng had given him.

He was stunned by what he saw. He didn't recognize the characters, but he was captivated by them at first glance. He saw Confucianism and Taoism in them, the true methods of Confucian and Taoist cultivation, and he even obtained a trace of the primordial energy of righteousness, which reshaped his literary lineage and allowed him to go further in Confucianism and Taoism.

Due to his limited aptitude, the Confucian and Taoist cultivation methods he received were only at the beginner level. Even though some of the students he taught in the village had high levels of Confucian and Taoist cultivation, they dared not teach him higher-level cultivation methods at will.

Pulling his attention back from the calligraphy, the old man immediately felt a change in his body, which shocked him greatly. Such a method was simply too heaven-defying.

He never expected that a calligraphy piece casually given by a young man would contain a complete Confucian and Taoist cultivation method, and that the calligraphy piece also contained boundless righteous energy.

The old man then realized how right it was to have stopped the young man who was traveling yesterday.

At this moment, he suspected that the young man traveling was probably a great Confucian or Taoist sage in the Great Xia Dynasty, the kind who might become an immortal at any time.

The old man carefully put away the calligraphy; it would become a family heirloom, and his son could study it when he returned.