Sword of Coming

Cheng Shuidong waved his sleeve, causing the Purple Sun Residence to temporarily transform into a small world. He then retrieved the small immortal boat that he had used to travel to the starry sky in the past, and he stepped onto the wooden boat before gesturing for Wu Yi to follow him aboard. Only then did he ask, "Who do you think is the strongest being to have existed in the world?"

"The founders of the Three Teachings?" Wu Yi replied in a timid and uncertain voice. "And those powerful fourteenth tier cultivators who are unwilling to show themselves in the world? The former group of people are as omnipotent as the heavens if they stay inside their territories, while the latter group of people have already transcended from the notion of cultivation bases. They also possess incomprehensible mystical powers..."

Cheng Shuidong didn't comment on his daughter's answer, and he casually pointed at the Iron Plate River and said with a smile, "There's the incense temple, and located slightly further than that is the river goddess temple of the White Swan River. Even further than that is the residence of your brother, the river god of the Cold Food River. Several other mountain god shrines and river god shrines are also located in the surrounding areas. What is the common point between all of them?

"Forget about it, I'll just tell you the answer straight away. Otherwise, you're purely wasting my spiritual energy by making me wait for your slow brain to turn and come up with an answer. The common point is that mortal people in the world all expect deities to form a gold statue if they have a shrine dedicated to them. Regardless of how poor a deity's cultivation aptitude was in the past, they would all gain a gold statue after having a dedicated shrine built for them. In other words, they can ascend to the heavens in a single step.

"That being the case, will they still need to cultivate afterward? They can simply enjoy incense offerings, becoming more powerful as they receive more offerings. At the same time, their godly body will also decay at a slower rate. This is a separate Great Dao from the cultivation of Qi refiners, and it's because of this that it's often said that gods and immortals walk two different paths.

"And now looking back at that word, returning, do you understand it now?"

Wu Yi shook her head and replied, "I still don't understand."

Cheng Shuidong sighed with emotion and remarked, "If you suddenly disappear without a trace one day, it will definitely be because you died from stupidity. Do you know? In order to advance to the Nascent Tier, your younger brother was much harder on himself compared to you. He abandoned many innate mystical powers of flood dragons and directly chose to become a river god that faces many barriers and restrictions."

Wu Yi's eyes lit up, and she asked, "We need to become deities if we want to 'return' to the nascent form?"