(Fellow readers, don't say I'm going back on my word! Starting today, there'll be extra updates, one every two hours... When I was writing about the Northern Song, I said the protagonist was a player who never looked up guides and wouldn't check where history was headed. Plenty of people mocked me and said nobody like that existed... But there really are people like me who wouldn't right an oil bottle even if it fell over!)
"The Heavenly Court originally set aside three Heavenly Realms—Happy Tour Heaven, Azure Breath Heaven, and Wondrous Completion Heaven—as Daoist Grounds for the three Heavenly Lords, to shore up its defenses.
"But those three realms are much smaller. Is there anything else you'd like?"
Fairy Yunqing was plainly hinting that Tang Changsheng could have one made to his own specifications!
The other True Lords acted as though they hadn't heard. It wasn't coming out of their own pockets anyway.
Something stirred in Tang Changsheng's mind. "I do have an idea..."
He recalled a Deity in the Great Chu World whose origins were mysterious and whose existence had not been very long, along with the Heavenly Realm that Deity possessed: Seed People Heaven!
The "seed" meant the seed of the Dao!
The "seed people" were Believers who followed that Dao.
Between the Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Sui-Tang Era, a branch of the Daoist Tradition had preached that a great flood would destroy the world, and only those who believed in a certain god could be saved and ascend to Seed People Heaven.
According to legend, the renowned Lu Xun of the Way of Longevity, who lived during the Eastern Jin, had been influenced by this branch.
Later, the branch was likely suppressed and vanished without a trace. Yet in some teachings