Opening a Grotto-Heaven

For deities, Merit and Incense alone were enough to sustain their cultivation. Their divine offices and authority depended on their performance, on the merits they achieved for Heaven and Earth and for living beings—not on what a Grotto-Heaven could grant them.

Take Gao Erqiang. What Grotto-Heaven had he ever enjoyed? Back when he built his temple, he had even borrowed money from Su Qing to mold his divine statue. Yet because he dared to fight and struggle, he now stood head and shoulders above the rest on the path of divinity. In the present age, he occupied the highest divine position, having already charged into the level of a Sixth-Rank Tianyuan War God and was striding toward the path of a Seventh-Rank Judicial Heavenly God.

Old Liang was doing fairly well too. After obtaining the divine office of Peach Deer Longevity God, whenever the Kaiyuan Immortal Kingdom held a major festival or celebration, he would hand out peaches online to heighten the festive spirit, bringing the authority of festival gods under the authority of the longevity god. Now, whenever there was a wedding, funeral, marriage, or similar occasion Within Tianyuan Realm, people would visit the Longevity God Temple to offer incense and pray for blessings.

On top of fulfilling his original divine office, he never hesitated to grant longevity peaches to those who had rendered service and made contributions, adding to their blessings and extending their lives. He had built an enormous foundation of faith among the common folk. After five or six hundred years, he had become a Fifth-Rank Deity, the God of Fortune, Prosperity, and Longevity. This had all been earned through his own efforts.

After looking at Erqiang and Old Liang, then turning to Ying Jue Shen, that man had been deified alongside Old Liang back then.