Clang! Clang! Clang!...
Outside Wanxiang Hall, following the nine celebratory celestial chis for Wang Yuan, another six bell tolls arrived in quick succession.
This signified that Cui Baiyu had also successfully registered in the Heavenly Records and secured a Divine Position in the Earth Departnt.
Soon, the figure of a young man in white strode out of the hall’s entrance, the shadow of a divine being flashing with thunder behind him yet to completely dissipate.
He resembled a powerful warrior—bare-chested, his abdon exposed, with two wings on his back, three eyes on his forehead, a face red like a monkey, a sharp, protruding chin, eagle-like feet, holding a wedge in his left hand and a hamr in his right, poised as if to strike.
Above his head hung five drums, amidst which thunder coursed back and forth.
This was none other than the Divine Position of Punishnt Evil Thunder God, one of the thirty-six Thunder Gods of Heaven, Earth, and Man from the Thunder Departnt.
Cui Baiyu indeed lived up to Cloud Lord’s initial great confidence.
This Divine Position ranks second among the Earth Thunder Gods, with just the Correction Good Thunder God standing between him and the Heavenly Thunder God.
Unfortunately for him, with Wang Yuan’s nine celestial chis, even the lowest rank in the Heavenly Departnt Divine Positions surpassed this Punishnt Evil Thunder God.
The bet between the two parties was thus settled.
"Hahaha, pay up! Pay up!"
Although Xu Zhenzhi and Great Fate were an old, dry man and a nation-seducing beauty respectively, at this mont, their rcenary expressions were strikingly identical.
With no other choice, Old Man Song and Cloud Lord gloomily coughed up the money.
In their hearts, they fiercely vowed to take their revenge in the next gamble, erasing the sha of this defeat!
Yet they never considered how they, from the Thunder Departnt Immortal Officials who were experts at straightforward ’boom, boom, boom’ confrontations,
would ever match wits with those from the Dou Departnt Immortal Officials who held command over the heavenly stars, each adept in divination and fortune-telling?
They were simply no match but yet too stubborn to admit it!
Great Fate contentedly poured another large drink for herself, ready to greet Wang Yuan’s return when she suddenly grew serious, and exclaid in surprise:
"What’s with this newcor? After receiving one Heavenly Departnt Divine Position, he even aims to take a second Divine Position?
And that second Divine Position isn’t among the Eight Immortal Officials?"
Cloud Lord, also in a dismal mood, quickly followed Great Fate’s lead in spotting the anomaly, activating his privileges to peer into the Myriad Phenona Heavenly Net.
"He’s headed to... the Underworld Yin Departnt? Impossible!"
The Divine Positions under the command of Nine Soldiers were naturally not as they are now from the start but were expanded and solidified over thousands of years by previous generations.
Eventually, around a thousand years ago, they fixed into the all-encompassing Eight Divine Positions: Thunder, Fire, Plague, Dou, Starry Constellations, Three Mountains and Five Peaks, Stepping Rain and Rising Cloud, and the God of Good and Evil.
Immortals were once mortals.
Even though many Ghost Dao Practitioners had joined the Nine Soldiers, they had always taken Immortal Official positions within the Eight Divisions, with no record of them taking up posts in the Yin Departnt.
After all, whether it was becoming part of the City God System as a clay statue or wooden sculpture, or the no-return journey of the Underworld Yin Departnt, they had all been occupied by Human Ghosts in the past.
The Eight Divine Positions of the Nine Soldiers are "Immortal Officials", whereas the genealogy of the Yin Departnt positions includes "Yin Officials" and "Ghost Gods".
"Could it be that from today onwards, the Divine Positions within the Nine Soldiers will expand from Eight to Nine Divisions?!"
Thinking of this, the two Corpse Dissection Immortals shuddered simultaneously.
Every founder of a brand new Immortal Genealogy was an exceptional figure.
Provided they did not falter midway, they could at least advance to the peak of Green Seal Sage, and even achieve longevity.
Even if they only practiced the Corpse Dissection Course with no prospect of eternal life, they could borrow from the Heavenly Departnt Divine Position, making a vow to repay Heaven and Earth through great rits, thereby gaining copious favor from Heaven and Earth.
And then forcefully break through the Corpse Dissection Immortal barrier!
With the stakes so high, both Corpse Dissection Immortals quickly took action while their minds raced, imdiately forming seals to close off the Myriad Phenona Heavenly Net from inside out, ensuring that no one else apart from the two of them could see what was happening inside the hall.
Great Fate watched intently over the Myriad Phenona Heavenly Net, her slightly hazy drunken eyes now filled with divine radiance, and her mouth curving into an involuntary smile:
"My fortune really is unparalleled in this world; treasures fall into my lap while I sit idly at ho!
Little Wang, no, Qianshan, my little brother, don’t you worry, your big sister here is the kindest and most considerate. I’ll surely treat you well in the future, hehehe..."
Within the Myriad Phenona Heavenly Net.
Wang Yuan, who had transford back into a whale, drifted through the San Tu River flowing across the entire Underworld, and looking up, he could see a massive black mountain covering the entire sky.
A mountain with no grass, peaks not touching the heavens, ridges without travelers, caves not harboring clouds, gullies void of flowing water.
Thorny bushes concealed monsters, rocky cliffs hid demons, no animal or bird noises reached the ears; the only sight was the procession of ghosts and goblins.
It was the birthplace of the Small Book of Life and Death—the Yin Mountain.
Of course, this Yin Mountain wasn’t physical but rather the projection of the Dao within the Myriad Phenona Heavenly Net.
Even so, a powerful force broke through the skies above Yin Mountain and once again blessed Wang Yuan, the "Yin Mountain Taoism" Taoist Master.
After receiving the Divine Position of "Gold Star Taibai," his already diminished body swelled again, and the pervasive pressure within the Yin Departnt dissipated imdiately.
With a gentle flick of his tail, he darted into the seemingly boundless river of San Tu like lightning.
Similar to what he had previously seen in the starry river, there stood statues within the San Tu River, so of bizarre shapes, so ferocious and terrifying, and so with an imposing gravity.
Mists swirled, creating an utterly somber atmosphere.
Different from what he had seen in the starry river, the Yin Departnt, as the last line of defense against the "Killing Tree" and the source of the "Dragon Qi Prohibition," showed no signs of weird erosion.
Wherever Wang Yuan passed, he first encountered nurous Yin Soldiers, then Ferryn, Bull Head and Horse Face, Black and White Impermanence, Day and Night Patrol Envoys, various Yin Generals and Commanders...
All of these he automatically bypassed, breaking directly through successive boundary mbranes to reach the deepest part of the San Tu River, the Heavenly Departnt.
The statues of the Yin Officials were indeed more direct than the stars.
A glance swept across them, and all the great deities of the Yin Departnt were present: Emperor Fengdu, East Mountain Emperor, Houtu, and the ghost emperors of the East, South, West, North, and Center, along with the Luo Feng Six Immortal Officials...
One imposing king, wearing a black Crown Robe, gave a slight nod to Wang Yuan, then, like Gold Star Taibai had done before, transford into light and entered his body.
Dang! Dang! Dang!...
Nine heavenly sounds rang out once more, but this ti, no one except the Great Fate and Cloud Lord could hear them.
Imdiately behind Wang Yuan materialized a visage, a figure dressed in a black dragon Crown Robe, dark as storm clouds, holding a brilliantly divine "Book of Life and Death" in hand.
It was indeed—Underworld Yama "King Yanluo"!
All Divine Positions in the world are personifications of mortal concepts of the divine spirit of heaven and earth. As tis change, the statuses of these Divine Positions naturally rise and fall.
At the earliest conception, King Yanluo was the undisputed master of the Underworld. However, as Human Dao evolved, King Yanluo’s status dwindled ti and again.
To this day, while still a part of the Heavenly Departnt, he no longer holds the supre position as master of the Yin Departnt and is but one of the ten Netherworld Monarchs.
Yet Wang Yuan, having gained another Divine Position, was very satisfied.
"King Yanluo, the Living Yama, a lineage uninterrupted; this Divine Position isn’t bad at all!"
Amidst his joy, he also imdiately realized that obtaining this Divine Position ant that apart from those [Yin Officials] with their own duties, the upper echelons of the Yin Departnt, serving as Human Dao’s stronghold, were very likely managed directly by the consciousness of the Heavenly Dao.
If he really advanced to beco a "Corpse Dissection Immortal" in the future, he wouldn’t need to battle his own faction’s elders for control over the Yin Departnt.
The process of annotation within the Heavenly Records finally ca to a complete close.
And only at this mont did Wang Yuan have the ti to distinguish and ponder the powers brought by his first Divine Position "Star Lord Taibai" and the second Divine Position "King Yanluo."
Having assimilated the "White Tiger Four Holy Seals," Star Lord Taibai gained the three most fundantal divinities: "Conquest and Transformation," "Exorcism and Disaster," and "Changgeng Enlightennt."
Like the Earth Departnt and Heavenly Departnt Dao Skill, each power cos with corresponding Divine Power Skill.
Within the powers, one can do as they please.
And Changgeng signifies longevity.
Under normal circumstances, a Magician could live 150 years, a Mage 240 years. Having received this Divine Position, Wang Yuan’s natural lifespan would be at least half again as long as those of the sa rank.
Beyond that, the most vital ability of Star Lord is—"Star Entering Life."
In critical monts, invoking the projection of one’s life’s star, one can temporarily obtain comprehensive enhancents from the primary star.
For Magicians, this is akin to ultimate moves like Daoist Soldier’s "One Drumming Spirit," "Fatian Xiangdi," and "Sea Accepts All Rivers!"
The powers of the second Divine Position "King Yanluo" are: "King of Ten Thousand Ghosts," "Commander City God," and "Heart Punishnt Hell."
The key point is the elevation in status within the vast Ghost Dao and Yin Departnt system.
If he ever encountered a Ghost Dao Practitioner like those from the "Five Organs Temple" again, they would likely have no power left to retaliate in front of King Yanluo.
Moreover.
Once Wang Yuan elevates to "Green Seal Sage," he could take over the entire Red County Shenzhou’s City God System in the na of King Yanluo.
And once he ascends to "Earth Essence" and transforms the "Small Book of Life and Death" into his "Lifebound Magic Treasure," he would almost be able to easily control the entire City God System of Yu State.
By then, deploying forces across the world, where King Yanluo passed, everywhere would be filled with his eyes and enforcers!
However, just as Wang Yuan was about to break free from the "Myriad Phenona Heavenly Net," the "Small Book of Life and Death" hidden within his Yin God suddenly shot out a beam of black-and-white divine light into Yin Mountain.
Imdiately, the whole Yin Departnt slightly trembled.
Nobody noticed that, from the Heavenly Departnt down, all the genealogical statues of the Yin Departnt underwent a subtle change.
Faintly, at the center of their brows, seed to appear an additional... "king" character.
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