Method to Repair the God-Beating Whip

"Do you want to repair that God-Beating Whip of yours?"

In the quiet room, Long Aotian suddenly spoke, breaking the silence over whether it was "classic" or not, his gaze falling to Zhou Qing's arms.

Zhou Qing stroked the cold cracks along the whip's body, sensing that dormant power. "You have a way?"

"Yes, but it's very difficult."

Long Aotian shifted into a more comfortable posture.

"This object was refined by the Yuqing Saint. It bears Heavenly Dao Authority, enfeoffs the gods, and lashes Immortals and Buddhas."

"Broken to this state, it cannot be repaired by ordinary artifact-refining methods."

"Speak human."

"Enfeoff the gods again."

"What?" Zhou Qing thought he had heard wrong.

"Deification."

Long Aotian repeated it, a look of reminiscence flashing through his eyes.

"In the War of Deification, the God-Beating Whip enfeoffed three hundred and sixty-five Orthodox Gods and governed the celestial circuit."

"For each god who received an enfeoffment, a thread of their source divinity and incense-wish power would connect to the God-Beating Whip. They were restrained by it, and in turn, they fed back and nourished it. That is the root of this whip's boundless might."

"Now the gods have vanished, and the Heavenly Court no longer exists, but the principle is the same."

"Using this as the foundation, you enfeoff deities anew and govern the incense offerings of a region."

"Those who receive enfeoffment borrow your authority to perform their divine offices and gather faith and wish power. The power they feed back can nourish this whip and slowly repair it."

Long Aotian looked at Zhou Qing. "Put simply, by establishing new gods, you gather incense and faith to repair an old artifact."

Zhou Qing frowned. "Enfeoff deities? What am I supposed to use to enfeoff them? I'm not Hao Tian Shangdi, and I'm