Chapter 1 Guoshi

"Guoshi."

Hearing this word, Su Zhou narrowed his eyes slightly.

*Really*, a familiar word.

Because he recalled something, he didn't answer the question immediately. He was silent for a while, then turned his head to look at the Kyoto people who were watching from the side, celebrating his arrival.

Without anyone organizing or forcing them, they came here spontaneously to wait, just to see his appearance with their own eyes.

These were all passionate people, most of them veterans who had lost parts of their bodies due to war, and the other part were mostly elderly people and their families.

Everyone was very enthusiastic, with faint wood-type auras flowing around them. Although most of them were only at the basic stage, they had indeed all entered the door of cultivation.

The Yin-Yang Rotation Undying Method is actually not difficult.

After all, that was a version designed based on the insect girl, Sara, as the prototype. It was truly something that everyone could cultivate.

Think about it, even a four-year-old child can cultivate it, so what reason or excuse does an adult have to say they can't?!

Therefore, even in just these ten-odd days, most of them had achieved the initial entry-level cultivation, adding a few years, a dozen years, or at least a few months to their lifespan.

Although, it doesn't sound like much.

But even so, it can allow a dying person to prolong their life, and then continue to cultivate, continuing to increase their lifespan.

The divine wood method... can extend life.

Therefore, for this world with the tribulation of immortality, this is probably a 'revolution' that surpasses all changes.

Surveying Kyoto.

Su Zhou could sense that after Ming Zhengde issued the invitation, the crowd around the square instantly quieted down. Everyone looked at him and Ming Zhengde expectantly. Some people were surprised, but after thinking about it, they nodded in agreement.

It wasn't just Ming Zhengde's own prestige, but Su Zhou's actions during this period were enough to make people have no objections.

At this moment.

Ming Zhengde also noticed Su Zhou's silence.

*Will he refuse?*

But, it doesn't look like he's going to refuse...

For a moment, even the Holy Emperor couldn't help but hesitate—if it were someone else, he might be certain of how the other party would react, but because the other party was Zhuzhou, and he was also meeting Zhuzhou for the first time, he didn't know what the other party was thinking.

Just as Ming Zhengde was thinking, he discovered that Su Zhou had turned his head to look at him.

"Good."

Su Zhou's voice was like thunder in spring, answering simply with a vigorous momentum, allowing all the surrounding people to hear this response: "I promise you."

The sound waves vibrated, even turning into wind. Su Zhou's voice returned to normal, and he smiled slightly: "I just didn't expect that one day, I would become a Guoshi."

"The future is always so wonderful."

"I hope it can be even more wonderful."

Feeling relieved, Ming Zhengde smiled and responded to Su Zhou, then reached out his hand, inviting the young man into the team, to return to the palace to continue discussing matters: "Let's go, Guoshi, there are indeed important matters to discuss today."

As the new dynasty's emperor and ministers welcomed Su Zhou's team into the palace, the crowds of onlookers gradually dispersed.

On the way back to the palace, Su Zhou was actually a little confused: "Although you decided to appoint me as Guoshi, I certainly won't refuse, but since we've signed the contract, I will fight for all beings and am willing to contribute my strength. I've already shown my strength, there's no need to make such a big show, creating a false name, right?"

"This is to give you authority."

As soon as Ming Zhengde spoke, the young man understood: "The Yingtian Chengqi Wude Great Array needs corresponding authority and wish power to be activated. The more people you publicize your name as Guoshi in front of, the more people will know and acknowledge your position, allowing you to freely enter and exit various areas, and control a portion of the wish power."

However, after finishing speaking, Ming Zhengde pondered for a while, then sighed with a smile: "Of course, in addition to that, I do need you to teach me some things, to be my teacher today."

Inside the palace, the Qintian Jian, below the Guanxing Tai, in the secret room.

This was the place Ming Zhengde used in the past to observe the stars in the sky and identify the movements of gods and demons, naturally shielding against the prying eyes of gods and demons.

Now, it is used as a place to discuss confidential matters.

The four walls of the secret room were inlaid with many secret-patterned spiritual marrow, simulating the power of the earth's veins, emitting gold and silver light. The top of the secret room also had an arched dome, which was dotted with thousands of stars made of various gems, seemingly simulating the distribution of the stars in the sky.

And in the secret room, Su Zhou finally understood why Ming Zhengde had specially come to visit him, and even wanted to appoint him as 'Guoshi'.

"You said, you want to popularize the Wude Shenguang?!" (Five Virtues Divine Light)

After hearing Ming Zhengde's words, the young man really felt that his ears were playing tricks on him. He even turned his head to look at Cangsong, who had just returned from the side, recording the conversation process with a jade slip, and said with a rather unbelievable tone: "What sudden idea is this again?"

"This is not a sudden idea, but a result I have thought about for a long, long time."

In response, Ming Zhengde's attitude was even more calm. He hid in his seat in the secret room, calmly stretched out his hand, and pointed out a piece of light curtain on the wall, on which appeared various formulas for inherited secret methods and the path of fundamental energy circulation within the body, and even the fundamental rune structure for the operation of magical powers was among them.

After doing all this, the man said lightly: "The Five-Colored Divine Light is a very powerful and all-round supernatural power. It has offense, defense, and escape light, and can refine weapons. It is almost a civilization in one. If everyone can learn it, then not to mention overthrowing the immortals and gods, at least they won't be powerless when facing the descent of gods and demons."

"So, I want to popularize it, so that everyone can learn it."

"Truly generous."

In response, Su Zhou naturally wouldn't say much—although the Wude Shenguang was the result of Ming Zhengde's hundreds and thousands of rebirths, it was naturally a good thing if the other party was willing to popularize it.

However, such a powerful magical power, if popularized at will, what harm would it cause... The young man couldn't help but think of those extraordinary patients in his world, and the many gods and demons in this world who didn't treat people as people.

He suddenly felt a little worried.

"Indeed, popularizing powerful cultivation methods may be harmful, but the benefits outweigh the disadvantages."

At this moment, Ming Zhengde seemed to be able to see through Su Zhou's thoughts. He looked at the light patterns on the secret room and said with a light smile: "As for the other possibilities, I have thought about them all, but, Wude, Wude, those who can cultivate the Wude Shenguang must have excellent morals, and those who cannot cultivate it will naturally not be a threat."

"If others learn it, they learn it. The inheritance of such things only has meaning if it is spread, otherwise, what was the point of creating the inheritance in the first place?"

"Maybe it was left to one's descendants."

Su Zhou replied casually, and Ming Zhengde also shook his head with a smile: "And the people of the New Dynasty are, in a sense, all my descendants."

Speaking of this, the man known as the Holy Emperor put away his relaxed expression and looked at Su Zhou seriously: "But, Zhuzhou Zhenren."

"The Wude Shenguang is really too difficult. It is not an ordinary cultivation method that anyone can practice, but a powerful magical power specially for Zhenren and even existences above Zhenren to use."

"Even a single color and virtue of such a powerful magical power cultivation method is difficult for ordinary Zhenren to learn, let alone five virtues."

"Therefore, for so many years, I have always been powerless and don't know how to make ordinary people learn it."

In response, Su Zhou naturally understood very well.

To put it simply, if the difficulty of one color and virtue is advanced mathematics, then five colors and five virtues is at least cutting-edge theoretical physics. It is difficult for ordinary people to understand even one virtue without reaching the Heavenly Tier.

The inheritance of advanced cultivation methods is so terrifying. Even if the formulas and key points are opened up for people to see, and others recognize all the words, it is impossible to understand.

Without any concealment, Ming Zhengde presented all the complete cultivation methods of the Wude Shenguang on the light screen on the wall.

He completely showed all the details of his fundamental cultivation method to Su Zhou.

For a cultivator, such behavior is no less than removing one's armor, giving up defense, and allowing people to peep at one's weaknesses at will.

But obviously, neither Ming Zhengde nor Su Zhou would worry that the other party would have ulterior motives.

At this moment, Ming Zhengde's tone was quite helpless: "Although this magical power is strong, it is also too perfect to add or subtract a word."

"However, Zhuzhou Zhenren's 'Yin-Yang Rotation Undying Method' is very different!"

At this point, Ming Zhengde's helpless expression immediately turned into excitement.

He stretched out his hand, wood energy condensed, and showed it to Su Zhou.

It could be seen that in the man's palm, there were pieces of illusory emerald green branches and leaves, surrounding a flower bud that had not yet bloomed, full of vitality.

Creating flowers from thin air!

"Amazing!"

Seeing this scene, Su Zhou's eyes lit up immediately.

This proved that Ming Zhengde had actually cultivated the Rotation Undying Method to the realm of Undying Leaf Dacheng, and was about to conceive a Longevity Flower from thin air.

It had only been a few days? He was already about to cultivate this cultivation method to perfection. Ming Zhengde's experience in previous lives was indeed not false.

However, compared to Su Zhou's praise, Ming Zhengde's tone towards Su Zhou was even more admiring: "What's amazing is you—the Yin-Yang Rotation Undying Method is so powerful, yet even an almost illiterate old man can cultivate results... This is the truly amazing thing!"

"Ah, this..."

Hearing this compliment, even Su Zhou couldn't help but feel a little ashamed.

Sara's shadow appeared in his mind again.

After all, it was a template for a four-year-old girl, and she didn't even have the cultural background of Zheng Guo... In a sense, Sara had never even gone to school, she was a purely illiterate girl.

It was hard to say, although the Yin-Yang Rotation Undying Method sounded very powerful, in reality, it was a cultivation method that even the magic natives of an elemental world could learn.

In a sense, as long as a monkey can speak and read, then the monkey can learn it.

Coupled with the aura of the divine wood, and the power of the earth veins as a catalyst for driving the operation of the technique, the final result was just a cultivation method that had no other use except for prolonging life and serving as the basis for advancing to the divine wood cultivation method.

It would be strange if such a cultivation method were not simple!

However, this was precisely Ming Zhengde's goal.

"Simpler, weaker, it doesn't matter, as long as it can popularize the Wude Shenguang, then the hearts of the people will naturally be available, and everyone will be virtuous sages—and in the future, there will eventually be geniuses who can gradually comprehend the complete version of the Wude Shenguang from it."

The Holy Emperor said very seriously, he didn't mean to joke at all.

At this moment, Ming Zhengde transmitted his soul message, his tone carrying a hint of solemnity: "After all, I don't know how many times my rebirth will last... If I die once, then I won't be able to be reborn next time."

"Then I always have to leave something of value for future generations."

"After thinking about it, only this magical power is more suitable."

"Indeed."

In response, Su Zhou couldn't help but remain silent, and then nodded slightly.

The young man could still see that, from beginning to end, Ming Zhengde had never felt that his rebirth was something to be taken for granted.

He had always been fighting his enemies with the thought of 'If I fail, what should the beings in this world do in the future?' and considering the future as much as possible.

Every time he tried his best. Every time he was sincere. Every time he disregarded everything.

Very silly.

However, it was also a good thing.

Because only silly people will insist on walking a path where they can't see what's ahead.

"Okay, then I'll help you."

Exhaling a breath, he answered decisively.

Su Zhou even directly stretched out his hand and took out an insect girl who was cultivating from his personal space.

"Eh, eh?! Your Majesty?"

Noticing that she was suddenly brought to the Tianyuan Realm, Sara wasn't actually surprised at first.

But when she found a stranger nearby who looked very dignified, she subconsciously stammered and said timidly: "What, what's going on, where is this?"

"It's nothing, I need you to help, and then test some other kinds of techniques."

"What? Really?"

Hearing this, Sara, who had already tasted the benefits of the Rotation Undying Method, immediately lit up, and she clapped her hands excitedly: "That's great!"

On the other hand, Ming Zhengde and Cangsong were a little confused about what was going on with Su Zhou suddenly calling out his maid.

"This is..." Ming Zhengde looked at Sara in front of him somewhat inexplicably, and then turned his head in confusion to look at Su Zhou.

The young man's words were concise and comprehensive: "Experiment subject."

"No matter what kind of supernatural power, as long as it is simplified to the point where she can learn it, then I think more than 90% of the people in the Tianyuan Realm can learn it."

Hearing this, Ming Zhengde turned his head, glanced at the insect girl, and suddenly understood, nodding slightly: "I see."

Sara, who was originally excited, was now confused: "?"

——Is, is he saying I'm stupid?!

The answer was no. The main points that Su Zhou valued about her were that she was young and didn't understand culture.

Just like a poem has to be understood by old ladies to be called popular, a supernatural power has to be taught to someone who doesn't understand anything and let him learn it to be considered simple. As for whether she's stupid or not, that's too subjective. Sara also has the blessing of the Tree of Wisdom, so she can't be considered stupid anyway.

Su Zhou and Ming Zhengde both had decisive personalities.

After determining the general goals and processes, the related simplification research on the Five-Colored Divine Light began.

And this research, it took more than a week.

During this period, Cangsong went in and out of the secret room, asking Ming Zhengde for instructions on some important matters related to Zheng Yang Kingdom, and Yan Chili would occasionally wander around, seemingly to confirm the work of the two, and after confirming that there was nothing wrong, he would quietly leave.

In the secret room, Su Zhou's solemn voice rang out.

"So, the most difficult part of this [Tianren Pishi Wude Shenguang] (Heavenly Human Creation Five Virtues Divine Light) is this - its foundation is too high, so it cannot be simplified for general use at all."

"So if you want to popularize it, you must remove some things... First of all, the Tianren Pishi part should be removed first, that's at least a magical technique at the level of immortals and gods."

"Secondly, this five-color and five-virtue should also be completely split, gold, wood, water, fire, earth, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faith, all of them are split apart and regarded as separate techniques."

"But even so, one color and one virtue are things that only Zhenren can dabble in, so we continue to split them, and decompose and deconstruct all the characteristics of 'Taibai's Gold' such as 'firmness', 'sharpness', and 'tearing', into independent small magical powers, such as the Xiao Bing Shou (Weapon-Melting Hand), Fa Jian Zhi Shu (Sword-Releasing Technique), and Jingang Ti (Adamantine Body), etc."

"Then, continue to split..."

At this moment, Su Zhou, after reading all the fundamental techniques of the Wude Shenguang and spending time to fully understand it, began to comprehensively deconstruct and split the Wude Shenguang with his own understanding.

This set of operations was smooth and flowing, as easy as peeling off the outer shell of a Matryoshka doll.

Simplify supernatural powers?

To put it bluntly, it's just modularizing it!

Simple, simple!

In addition to modularizing the true body, Su Zhou is also very good at modularizing supernatural powers!

However, although the young man was very happy to split it apart himself, this series of operations left Ming Zhengde stunned in place, not knowing what to say.

"No, wait a minute."

Seeing the end, when Ming Zhengde saw that Su Zhou had directly transformed the supreme supernatural power at the level of immortals and gods from the Wude Shenguang that dominated the five elements and swept across the heavens and earth, into a magic trick that ordinary human-rank cultivators could easily use, but the result was only to strengthen the metal weapons in their hands, or to heat up the palms of their hands and condense a little drop of water.

He even saw Su Zhou perform a wave of wood-type stunts that made bean sprouts sprout quickly on the spot, and then couldn't help but say: "Zhuzhou Zhenren, if you split it into this way, what's left, is there really any relationship with the Wude Shenguang?"

"Such spells... are simply the most ordinary magic tricks. Learning these is of no help at all in mastering the Wude Shenguang!"