Can a Sovereign Who Is Emperor Revere Heaven?

"Li Jian, Zhao Qi, Zhang He."

"You three were once Rogue Cultivators, with no access to true teachings."

"Only after entering this mountain sect did you receive true scriptures and glimpse the Great Dao. Now you have all shed your old selves and attained the Daoist Purple Mansion Realm. You can serve the sect."

In the Merit Hall on Jinhua Mountain, a steward handed a jade slip to Li Jian and the other two.

The three bowed in thanks. "Thank you, senior brother."

The Merit Hall stood to one side of the mountainside plaza.

As some of the first group of cultivators, including Shen Yao, entered the inner court and a second group was selected, Jiang Sheng used his great power to raise four halls on either side of the plaza.

They were the Merit Hall, the Spirit Treasure Hall, the Elixir Herb Hall, and the Stargazing Hall.

Jiang Sheng had poured immense effort into building the Stargazing Hall. One of his incarnations guarded it, while several ghostly deities worked alongside him, using geomancy to observe the heavens and discern events in every direction.

When they discovered calamity somewhere, they sent word to the Merit Hall.

The Merit Hall then assessed the calamity, selected cultivators, set the merit reward, and issued the mission. Those who succeeded received merit points.

Merit points mattered enormously on Jinhua Mountain. Buying treasures or pills, exchanging them for cultivation methods and scriptures, applying to cultivate in a Cave Heaven, or receiving instruction from the True Lord—all required merit.

Jiang Sheng had devised this entire system to keep Jinhua Mountain running, give its cultivators hope, and observe their conduct, ensuring they would not turn against the mountain.

He placed a great many cultivation methods from his collection in Jinhua Mountain's Scripture Pavilion for cultivators to exchange