"Could it be more than just a legend?"
Tang San now hated himself for not having learned more about the subject.
At that moment, the teachings of reverence for Heaven, Earth, sovereign, parents, and teachers from his previous life were locked in a furious struggle with his selfish nature, which had already begun to show itself.
"San, what's wrong?"
Yu Xiaogang had been watching Tang San all along and noticed something unusual about him.
"Nothing. I just think the gods of the Primordial World are a little strange."
Tang San forced a smile.
Yu Xiaogang nodded, taking him at his word. "Indeed. From what we've seen, the Primordial World is just as I thought. Apart from its pleasant environment, it has nothing else going for it. How could they allow an old woman to become a god? What utter nonsense."
"She doesn't have a shred of dignity as a god."
"Master is right."
Dai Mubai stepped forward. "This Earth Granny doesn't look like a god at all. There's nothing imposing about her."
Although he was a prince fallen on hard times, he still felt that gods had to be lofty and grand.
Zhu Zhuqing frowned at those words but said nothing from beginning to end.
A flicker of interest crossed Earth Granny's eyes.
"Oh? You actually have a magical artifact?"
Earth Granny took the Vast Sea Cosmic Shroud and examined it.
"No, it doesn't quite qualify as a magical artifact. Its effects aren't strong enough. It's more of a little trinket, but it's quite pretty. It would be nice to fiddle with to pass the time."
Qian Renxue immediately smiled and said, "Since you like it, Earth Granny, please keep it."
Earth Granny looked at Qian Renxue with satisfaction.
"You're a sensible girl. I won't take your things for nothing. If there's anything you'd like to know, you may ask."
"May I ask, Earth Granny, are you a god of the Primordial World? How can I become a god of the Primordial World?"
Qian Renxue steeled herself and asked outright. Her mission to infiltrate the Heaven Dou Empire had failed, and her only remaining goal was to become a god. It was just that her target had changed to becoming a god of the Primordial World.
The entire Douluo Continent fell silent at that moment, everyone watching Qian Renxue's livestream with rapt attention.
This was undoubtedly the most valuable topic since the broadcasts began.
"Becoming a god... will she succeed?"
"If we can learn how, we'll go become gods at the first opportunity too."
Many people had the same thought.
"Whether this succeeds now depends on whether the Heaven Dou Empire's national treasure carries enough weight. Damn that Heaven Dou Empire. You'd better pray your national treasure carries enough weight."
There was no time to grieve over the Heaven Dou Empire's painful loss of its national treasure. Everyone only wanted to learn how to become a god.
Qian Renxue is fairly clever. If she can obtain a method of becoming a god, I can spare her life when I take revenge on Spirit Hall in the future.
Tang San's already excited mood grew even more excited.
Beside him, Yu Xiaogang was writing furiously. Tang San glanced over and saw that Yu Xiaogang had written "Ten Core Competencies for Becoming a God in the Primordial World" in his notebook.
Noticing Tang San's gaze, Yu Xiaogang said with complete confidence, "With my summary, everyone will surely be able to become gods faster when the time comes."
"Wonderful, Xiaogang! Just what I'd expect from you. You must let me read it first when the time comes."
Flender clapped his hands and put an arm around Yu Xiaogang's shoulders.
"Naturally. Everyone will get a copy. A method of becoming a god ought to be shared."
Yu Xiaogang stood with his hands behind his back. If everyone used the method he had summarized to become gods, surely his name would resound throughout the continent?
He would be the teacher of gods. Who would dare call him useless then?
At that thought, Yu Xiaogang's gaze toward the livestream grew even more fervent.
On the screen, Earth Granny gave a slightly mischievous chuckle and reached out to tap Qian Renxue's forehead.
"You little girl certainly have big ambitions. You've only just arrived in the Primordial World and know nothing, yet you already want to become a god."
Qian Renxue covered her forehead in pain, looking every bit a young girl, which made Earth Granny's smile grow even kinder.
"Very well. I see you have yin virtue upon you. I imagine one of your ancestors in your original world must have been someone capable. Perhaps you really do have a chance of becoming a god. I'll explain it to you properly."
Earth Granny conjured two chairs and motioned for Qian Renxue to sit down and talk.
"For mortals like us without much strength, becoming a god depends on merit alone."
"Merit?"
Qian Renxue committed this important term to memory. She had not understood the earlier mention of yin virtue either, but now was not the time to ask.
"That's right. As the saying goes, Heaven watches what people do. Throughout a person's life, every good deed and every bad deed is recorded, entry by entry, in the Book of Life and Death."
"Good deeds earn merit, and bad deeds earn karma. If you want to become a god, what matters is your merit."
At this point, Earth Granny looked rather proud.
"Take me, for example. My allotted lifespan ended at ninety. During my life in the mortal world, I worked as a midwife for seventy years and delivered seven thousand nine hundred and eighty babies with these hands. I never killed so much as a chicken in my entire life. After I died and went to the Underworld, a Judge verified my record and reported it to the Ten Kings of Hell."
"And so I was appointed the Earth God of Qingshui Village, overseeing birth, aging, sickness, and death within several dozen li of here."
"Seven thousand nine hundred and eighty babies?!"
Qian Renxue could no longer remain seated after hearing that. It was simply too staggering.
She could not help looking at Earth Granny with respect.
No wonder she looked so kind. Earth Granny had spent her entire life welcoming new lives.
The people of the Douluo Continent also gaped in shock upon hearing those words.
"Even a midwife can become a god?"
"What kind of god is an Earth God? She can only govern an area of several dozen li?"
"Wait, she said 'during my life.' Doesn't that mean she's dead now? Even dead people can become gods?"
"The Underworld? Judges? The Ten Yama Kings? Another new power in the Primordial World has appeared!"
"How terrifying. Just what is this Book of Life and Death that can record everything a person did while alive? Would my hunting Soul Beasts be recorded in the Book of Life and Death too?"
Earth Granny's words sent the entire Douluo Continent into an uproar.
The information revealed was simply too astonishing. Rather than clearing up their questions, it only left them with more and more.
"Are they monitoring everyone's lives?"
Yu Xiaogang's face darkened. If it was true, didn't that mean everything he had done in the past had been recorded?
Even his forbidden romance with Liu Erlong would have been recorded. Would that count as good or bad?
At that moment, Yu Xiaogang truly began to panic a little. What he wanted most was for his name to resound throughout the continent, and what he feared most was someone exposing his true face.
Tang San did not know what Yu Xiaogang was afraid of, but he still reassured him. "Teacher, we haven't gone to the Primordial World yet. Our names haven't even been recorded."
Yu Xiaogang's eyes immediately lit up. "Right! San, you're right. We haven't been recorded yet."
Yu Xiaogang instantly sprang back to full health.
"I say these gods of the Primordial World are utterly out of tune. Who gave them the right to monitor our lives?"
Yu Xiaogang roared, fierce on the outside but hollow within, then wrote down the first entry under his Ten Core Competencies for Becoming a God in the Primordial World.
Become a god through merit; delivering babies earns merit.
Then he hurriedly turned back to the livestream.
"Earth Granny, what did you mean by the Underworld, Judges, and the Book of Life and Death? Is someone still in charge of you after you die? And what is yin virtue? Is it the same as merit?"
Qian Renxue asked the questions that concerned everyone on the Douluo Continent.
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