Strongly Forcing a Shallow Humanistic Foundation, He Turned Instead to Stirring Tides in the Mortal World

"How could such a talisman be so easily broken? Leaving aside the Karma and effect, the backlash from the Dao Domain enveloped by the Domain of Law alone would be a considerable disaster!"

At this point, Cotton Water Earl finally couldn't hold back any longer, but he also felt it was too late to say these things.

As if to confirm his words, the ground shook as soon as he finished speaking, and the Karma flying everywhere seemed to be carried away by the wind and sink into the Shu Region.

Within these Karma, strands of luster condensed, each strand representing a change in divine power, remnants of the Mountain Envoy Talisman.

As a result, the Fortune and Karma of the entire Jiannan Shu Region were affected, and the high mountains trembled faintly, as if they were about to collapse at any moment.

This is a sign that the Domain of Law, having lost its ruler, is about to erupt out of control.

This outburst will not have much impact on ordinary people, but it will affect those who are extraordinary. Many Daoist Sect cultivators on high mountains and martial artists in the wild felt a sudden surge of excitement and a sense of oppression at this moment. They looked up at the sky with different thoughts.

At the source of all this, whether it was the anxious Cotton Water Earl, or the joyful Huang Jue and many other newly arrived deities, all were preoccupied by the changes in the world of Shu Region. Driven by Karma and effect, a sense of foreboding began to brew and accumulate in their hearts.

Huang Jue looked at Qiu Yan and asked directly, "Orthodox God, this is..."

Qiu Yan shook his head and said, "Don't worry, this ripple is just the beginning. There will be many more storms in the East Flower Continent in the future. Just keep it in mind and don't be alarmed."

As soon as he finished speaking, a Divine Sense flashed through his mind.

The next moment, the Humanistic Domain rose up with a roar, covering a radius of ten miles around the Stove Mountain. Several human villages not far away were also enveloped within it. Many people in the villages felt a stirring in their hearts, as if they had gained something on their bodies, and felt a warm feeling in their hearts.

At the same time, on that day, the causal Karma after the Mountain Envoy Talisman shattered were all enveloped, and the strands of divine power within the Karma were forcibly stripped away and slowly dissolved into the Domain of Law.

Immediately afterwards, an invisible Domain of Law gradually emerged, hazy and indistinct, like a thin mist at dawn, filling the area above and below the Stove Mountain and extending all the way to its foot.

"Hmm?" At this moment, both Cotton Water Earl and Huang Jue and the others were instantly dazed. In their dazed state, their minds were vaguely drawn by the thin mist, and they saw a wide net that was rapidly extending, with no end in sight. Their Domain of Law and Divine Sense were also being guided by an inexplicable force to converge towards the net.

Outside, as the Humanistic Domain changed, the divine power emanating from the Mountain Envoy was completely absorbed, and then, a huge pattern resembling the Mountain Envoy Talisman appeared in mid-air.

Qiu Yan stared at the pattern, took a step, and slowly moved forward. It was as if he was stepping on invisible stairs, and in no time he arrived at the edge of the pattern and reached out to grab it.

Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew! Whew!

Flames emerge from the five fingertips, revealing Literary Qi. The flames depict the myriad aspects of human life, and the flames spread across the pattern the moment Qiu Yan's fingers touched it.

Instantly, heat surged, the pattern burst into flames, shrank continuously, and finally turned into a speck of ash, which Qiu Yan blew away with a single breath, completely merging into the Humanistic Domain.

Boom!

The countless strands of Karma related to the Mountain Envoy and the mountains and rivers of Shu Region went completely berserk, emitting sharp hisses and roars, like ferocious pythons charging towards Qiu Yan from Eight Directions!

This surge was like a sharp sword piercing through, and like two or three strands of Karma twisting together, layer upon layer, like a net, trying to completely envelop Qiu Yan.

"Perfect timing!"

Qiu Yan remained calm. With Divine Sense, a pattern appeared in his Humanistic Domain. It was the pattern of the Mountain Envoy Talisman, which had been burned to ashes. The pattern shone brightly, freezing the Karma in the sky!

Collapse!

With a sudden sound, the Humanistic Domain and Karma intertwined, spreading along a single connection, with the mountains as its foundation, and in the blink of an eye, it swept across the entire Jiannan Circuit!

Instantly, within Qiu Yan's Divine Power Space, the complete outline of Jiannan Circuit gradually emerged, with a large net covering the outline, containing numerous artistic conceptions and faintly displaying the Hundred Schools Aura.

But the next moment, a surge of incense smoke erupted, originating from Qiu Yan's own divine power, instantly shattering the net that radiated the Hundred Schools Aura, leaving only a rough framework.

"A castle in the air is built on an unstable foundation."

Qiu Yan shook his head.

"By sealing the Dao City God Underworld Office and obtaining the Mountain Envoy Talisman Karma, I can barely be considered to have the power to suppress the Jiannan Shu Region. I can almost single-handedly confront the Jiannan Divine Path. However, the foundation of a deity is ultimately not itself, but requires external support. Whether this external force is the People's Wishes, nature, or the Human Path Order, it ultimately needs to gather a great momentum and fundamentally be in the hearts of the people. Now, forcibly constructing Humanistic Divine Path in Jiannan is even putting my own sacrificial foundation to the test!"

The moment a thought arises, the Li Trigram trembles.

"To accomplish anything, relying solely on divine power to implement things from top to bottom will ultimately have limitations; it also requires the assistance of human power to evolve. Therefore..."

Thinking of this, he stopped forcibly condensing it, and instead gathered the Mountain Envoy Talisman and Karma that had been integrated with the Humanistic Fire Seed, and integrated them into the Domain of Law.

The thin mist that had enveloped Stove Mountain dissipated in an instant.

The dazed deity instantly regained his senses. Upon further thought, he had no idea what had happened. Only Cotton Water Earl remembered the terror of the shattered talisman. He urgently investigated, even using his Domain of Law, only to find that the extremely dangerous situation had vanished without a trace.

In his Domain of Law river, where demons once trembled and fish were now filled with fear, all has calmed down and transformed into a beautiful landscape. If any literary figures or poets were to come here, they would surely be moved to compose a poem.

"What's going on?" As he pondered this, he looked at Qiu Yan again.

Qiu Yan had returned to the stone chair, closing his eyes and remaining silent.

This appearance made Cotton Water Earl even more unfathomable, and he dared not say anything more.

Qiu Yan's series of actions were all astonishing. In the end, the Water Lord, who still harbored ulterior motives, realized the gap between them and had the idea of completely submitting.

Just then, Qiu Yan glanced at him seemingly unintentionally. This single glance sent a shiver down the spine of the Fifth Grade deity, a realization dawning on him. He was about to speak when he saw Qiu Yan look up at the sky and utter a single sentence—

"It's about to begin..."

"What's about to begin?" Cotton Water Earl wondered, but before he could ask, rapid ripples rushed in from the Void!

The ripples were intense, passing by like a raging wind, giving this Fifth Grade deity the illusion of falling into water and thrashing about.

"Why is such a huge storm rising in the Void!" Startled, Cotton Water Earl went to investigate again, trying to find the source of the ripples. Only then did he realize that the source of the ripples was not in Jiannan!

"It's not even within the territory, yet it's this intense! What must the situation be like at its source? Hmm? Even the surrounding Divine Path realms aren't responding. Could it be that the source of the ripples isn't in the surrounding realms either?"

As Fifth Grade deity, he resided in Jiannan, and his Domain of Law was also located in the rivers of Shu Region. However, since the rivers he belonged to eventually flowed into the Yangtze River, he could also utilize some Divine Ability. He sensed several scenes of Great Rui, which, although blurry, were undeniably real. But this exploration only made him more surprised, because the source of the ripples was no longer among the surrounding scenes.

"The ripples are coming from even further away, and they're so intense?"

With this thought in mind, when Cotton Water Earl looked at Qiu Yan again, he vaguely sensed that Qiu Yan seemed to know something.

In fact, Qiu Yan was at this moment elevating his perception, exploring the ripples in the Void from a more magnificent perspective. Unlike Cotton Water Earl, the source of those ripples was closely related to the Humanistic Divine Path, so he naturally found it easy to explore.

At this moment, not only the deities on Stove Mountain, but also countless other deities throughout Jiannan Circuit were startled by the ripples in the Void and began to investigate. Given the previous signs of chaos in the Karma Jiannan, many Daoist Sect were also hurriedly calculating to try to find out the cause.

Beyond the Shu Region, gods, cultivators, and Grandmaster from Eight Directions were also alarmed by this ripple and took their own actions.

The Order trembled. Looking down from the sky, one could see that the entire land of Donghua was affected by a ripple at this moment, and the source of the ripple was Dai Prefecture in the Northern Frontier, the border between the Central Plains and the Grasslands!

Daizhou City.

Hua She walked out of the Book-Printing Hall the Meng Clan had prepared especially for him.

After several days of experimentation, the first book printed using Movable-Type Printing Technique was finally completed and held in his hands.

"It's done, it's done..." Hua She was unaware of the enormous waves this seemingly simple book had stirred up, still immersed in the joy of success.

"Master, should we put the prepared Qiu Shi edition on the shelves now?" At this moment, a servant boy of about twelve or thirteen years old followed him out of the room and asked.

These words brought Hua She back from his reverie. He pondered for a moment, then shook his head and said, "There's no need to put it on the shelves. Printing a copy of the Thousand-Character Classic will save a lot of manpower. The printed book isn't expensive, so there's no worry about it not selling. Besides, it's elementary learning, so there shouldn't be much resistance. With the young master of the Meng Clan treating me so well, I can't delay."

"Yes," the servant said, and went back.

Hua She looked at the clear sky, feeling increasingly cheerful. The events of the past few days felt like a dream. His and his sister's circumstances had fundamentally changed, and Hua She knew the reasons for it all. He was filled with gratitude towards Qiu Yan, so as soon as the printing method was completed, he immediately named it "Qiu Master's Method," which was an implicit way of respectfully addressing Qiu Yan as his teacher and also named the creator.

In fact, although Qiu Yan wrote down the method of Movable-Type Printing Technique, it was only a concept at that time. It was ultimately Hua She who finalized it, and the Karma behind this were quite complicated.

But at this moment, as Hua She's thought settled, the first batch of movable type printing plates was about to be officially put into operation, and instantly, the ripples in the Void underwent a terrifying change!

Boom! Boom! Boom!

The ripples turned into giant waves, with lightning flashing within them!

Outside the Golden Hall in the Imperial City.

Qiu Yan's Fleshly Body waited outside. Suddenly, the Fortune above him trembled, and a dense Fortune gathered from the Void.

At that moment, a voice came from inside the hall—

"Summon Qiu Yan, Hanlin Compiler..." (To be continued...)

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