The divine abilities the Great Mage had asked the Matchmaker to deliver came in two scrolls: one was Scatter Beans to Create Soldiers, the other Cloud Condensation Warrior. They gave Li Changshou a deep sense of the direction in which he would be specially cultivated from now on.
One man becoming... the combat formation of the Human Teaching's great army in the Primordial Wilderness?
This...
Still, any original divine ability would require vast amounts of time, effort, inspiration, and planning to undergo magical modification.
Li Changshou had not yet had the chance to open these two manuals, nor could he be sure whether they would prove useful in the future.
In any case, he could not waste the Great Mage's painstaking goodwill. Once he returned, he would study them properly. At the very least, he had to master the original divine abilities...
Over at the Sea God Temple, Li Changshou, through the old immortal-skinned Paper Daoist, had already finished writing the second memorial.
Afterward, he summoned two divine envoys from Bear Stockade and brought two half-witch bearfolk to a remote village.
Since the Heavenly Court's decree had yet to arrive, Li Changshou could not set up the Jade Emperor's Divine Seat within the Sea God Temple. Thus, he had selected a fishing village as a "trial site." While the villagers worshiped the Sea God, they also offered incense to "the man behind the Sea God"—the Jade Emperor.
By now, the Jade Emperor's Divine Seat here had received quite a bit of incense offering. It should be enough for Your Majesty Jade Emperor to sense it faintly.
Li Changshou entered a secret chamber, set up a barrier, lit three sticks of incense before the Jade Emperor's "spirit tablet," and gave a deep bow. "This minor deity has an urgent matter to