Visitors from Beyond the Heavens

After the sect was founded, the Heavenly Dao Sect did not make a great show of itself.

Zhou Qing personally set strict selection criteria. The first intake accepted only nine "graduate students" whose temperament, aptitude, and merits were all first-rate.

Lin Yan was responsible for teaching orthodox Daoist classics, Foundation Establishment mental methods, and all kinds of practical Daoist arts.

His foundations were solid, and his explanations were profound yet easy to understand, earning the deep respect of the students.

Long Aotian, meanwhile, appeared only occasionally, and the content he taught was often as unrestrained as a heavenly horse soaring through the sky.

It covered experiences from the myriad heavens, comparisons between different cultivation systems, and even some cruel yet practical combat experience and philosophies of survival.

Each time, it left the students staring wide-eyed and slack-jawed, yet feeling they had benefited tremendously.

As for Zhou Qing himself, aside from handling sect affairs, he still spent most of his time in secluded cultivation, while also beginning to attempt to use the God-Beating Whip as a foundation to sort out a preliminary "Investiture of the Gods" framework.

Incense and wish power was the key to repairing the God-Beating Whip, as well as the foundation for conferring divinity in the future and exercising authority.

He was not eager for quick success. Only within the boundaries of Kunlun Mountain did he choose several Spiritual Veins nodes and set up simple "Heavenly Dao Steles."

On them, he inscribed simplified scriptures that guided beings toward goodness and upheld the wish to protect a region, attempting to guide and gather the power of faith and gratitude that naturally dissipated from the living beings nearby.

The process was slow, but the feedback from the God-Beating Whip was indeed strengthening bit by bit. Though it was minuscule, it