Yellow Court Daoist-Chapter 158 - 149 The 2nd Heavenly Change [5th Update!]

Chen Country borders Zheng Country, Jin Country, and Wei Country to the north, resisting the three nations.

To the south, it faces off against the three major overlords of the former Eastern, Southern, and Western Territories of Jing Country. Behind these three overlords stand Yellow Robe Mountain Great Saint Mansion, Ma Tiliang Mountain Judge Star Sect, and Tiangu Mountain Purple Mist Palace, although not as powerful as Chen Country, but also not to be underestimated.

With so many opponents, the expansion of Chen Country was quickly halted.

Fortunately, in the land of the Seven States, the territory is large enough. The decree from Soul Searching Temple was passed down, ordering Chen Country to shift from expansion to guarding externally and stabilizing internally, focusing on governance.

Nourishing the population, there have been no major wars for six to seven years.

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"Hmm."

Lu Qingfeng listened and nodded slightly.

Upon seeing this, Ren Changsheng hesitated for a moment but couldn't help asking, "Elder Brother—"

"Will the Central Plains truly expand once again, like it did sixty-five years ago?"

Half a month ago, Lu Qingfeng summoned Ren Changsheng to inform him of the second expansion of heaven and earth, which surprised and puzzled Ren Changsheng. However, due to the long-standing authority Lu Qingfeng had established in the Soul Searching Temple, Ren Changsheng did not question it and went directly to Chen Country to issue the decree.

He had just returned to report.

His curiosity had accumulated over half a month and he finally asked.

"Indeed."

Lu Qingfeng nodded gently.

Recently, he had observed the stars at night and noticed the stars in the sky were increasingly brilliant. After several calculations, he discovered that the second major change in the Changqing Realm was imminent.

It could happen in as little as three months, or as much as three years.

A massive change in the realm, the expansion of heaven and earth, would bring disaster to mortal commoners and political regimes.

The seven countries that had stood on the Central Plains for hundreds of years were caught unprepared, leading to the decline of their political regimes. Apart from Zheng, Huan, and Jin Countries, the other four countries all vanished, no longer existing.

Chen Country is newly established, and if it cannot prepare early and respond appropriately, its vast territories might become a curse.

Civil unrest among mortals is not good for the Soul Searching Temple.

"The second Heavenly Change."

"I wonder what situation will arise after the Heavenly Change."

Ren Changsheng and Zhang Wenye, seeing their Elder Brother's certainty, exchanged glances and sighed.

During the first Heavenly Change of the Changqing Realm, they had personally witnessed the miraculous scenes of the land expanding, rivers widening, and mountains growing taller.

One by one, Spirit Mountains emerged, and over these decades, Spirit Rivers and Spirit Lands also continually appeared.

The path of cultivation opened, and cultivators emerged. Various Immortal Sects and Loose Cultivators scattered everywhere.

Such changes were overwhelming.

Now facing the second Heavenly Change, they suddenly look back and realize that they are already Foundation Establishment Cultivators, viewed as 'Immortals' by ordinary mortals.

The once declining Soul Searching Temple facing the brink of destruction had also leapt to become the leading Immortal Sect of the Central Plains.

Renowned across the old territories of the seven countries.

All of this indeed felt like a dream.

"The Heavenly Change is imminent, are all the properties of the Soul Searching Temple secured?"

Lu Qingfeng spoke up, snapping the two lost in thought back to reality.

Zhang Wenye replied, "Everything has been arranged. Two Spirit Rivers, three Shell Fields, and four Spirit Mountains of various sizes including Bao Du Mountain are all manned by Foundation Establishment Cultivators."

Years have passed.

Spiritual Charm sites around the world gradually increased.

In Soul Searching Temple, numerous Foundation Establishment Cultivators were numerous, and whenever a Spirit Land appeared within the borders of Chen Country, it would be occupied by a Foundation Establishment Cultivator sent by Soul Searching Temple.

Decades of accumulation, various holdings are enough to support the cultivation of 784 disciples and 27 Foundation Establishment Cultivators of the Soul Searching Temple.

After the second Heavenly Change, the realm of Changqing would expand again, and these Spirit Lands could grow larger, able to support more cultivators.

This is the foundation of Soul Searching Temple.

It must be maintained.

Mortal Chen Country, Spirit Land properties.

Stabilizing these two, all is without concern.

Ren and Zhang withdrew. Lu Qingfeng sat in the Ancestor Master's Hall in meditation, silently waiting for the second Heavenly Change to arrive.

In the blink of an eye.

September.

...

This day.

Lu Qingfeng stepped out from the Ancestor Master Hall and looked up at the sky.

Clear sky and bright sun.

Stars scattered across the sky, half-hidden.

Suddenly, streaks of light crossed the sky, resembling stars falling from heaven, disappearing into the Changqing Realm without a trace.

"This is—"

Lu Qingfeng calculated with bent fingers, sensing the Heavenly Mechanism in total chaos, utterly incomprehensible.

A sign of an unusual celestial phenomenon indeed.

"A Heavenly Change?"

Lu Qingfeng muttered, thoughts yet unformed, when suddenly he felt the ground shake and mountains sway. Strangely, on closer inspection, there was no feeling of vibration underfoot. Standing on the ground felt as plain as usual.

Truly bizarre.

This disturbance was not confined to the space beneath Lu Qingfeng's feet, nor to General Ridge alone.

The entire land of Central Plains, the entire Changqing Realm shuddered at once.

"Heavenly Change."

"The Changqing Realm is about to expand once again!"

To the younger generation of the Central Plains, the Heavenly Change was merely a legend, never witnessed firsthand.

After all, it was a tale from sixty-five years ago. Those who experienced the first Heavenly Change have mostly passed away.

This younger generation did not realize that they were about to witness an awe-inspiring celestial might.

With a light step, Lu Qingfeng landed lightly as a swallow on the peak of Thunder Mountain, overlooking the entirety of General Ridge.

In General Ridge, streams widened, and mountains rose visibly before one's eyes. Lu Qingfeng saw clearly, in front of Thunder Mountain not far away, a small mountain thirty zhang high stood like an Arhat, magnificent and graceful.

At this moment, however, it grew inch by inch, foot by foot, climbing continuously.

In the blink of an eye, it had already risen several zhang and continued to ascend.

Looking down at Thunder Mountain beneath his feet, this mountain, the main peak of General Ridge, was only a hundred or so zhang high before the first Heavenly Change. When Lu Qingfeng saw it, it had become a mountain thirteen hundred zhang high.

At this time.

Thunder Mountain, on the basis of thirteen hundred zhang, was changing again.

Boom, boom, boom!

Endless roaring sounds echoed from somewhere, startling birds and beasts on the mountain. The thousand zhang high mountain surged even higher with each blink.

Lu Qingfeng focused his gaze, the Daluo Cave Temple spell deployed revealing an immense Immortal Mountain in the void, brimming with Immortal Energy, standing outside Thunder Mountain, relentlessly approaching it.

As the Immortal Mountain drew nearer, Thunder Mountain grew even taller, its 'character' shifting towards a more ethereal and celestial transformation.

"Divine Skills from the Upper Realm!"

"God of the Thunder Department!"

"So terrifying!"

Like all mortals and cultivators under sixty-five in the Changqing Realm, Lu Qingfeng was seeing the dramatic changes of the world for the first time firsthand rather than just speculating or hearing stories about them.

Even employing Divine Skills, he saw much more than a regular cultivator.

Seeing with one's own eyes makes a world of difference.

"The first Heavenly Change lasted for three months. After three months, the rivers of the Central Plains expanded tenfold, the land extended tenfold, mountains heightened tenfold."

"How long will this one last, and to what extent will it reach?"

Lu Qingfeng thought of the information received upon first arriving in the Changqing Realm—

"Five thousand six hundred years ago, the Changqing Realm was shattered by a battle. Traces of the Evil Dragon were everywhere, the Changqing Realm tainted with the evil Demonic Qi, threatening to plunge into the Demon Abyss. The deities of the Thunder Department refined it with Nine Heavens Thunder, purifying the shattered Changqing Realm and consolidating it once again."

"Since then, the territory of the Changqing Realm has contracted, with ten thousand li compressed into one li."

...

"Ten thousand li compressed into one li."

"Now, it seeks to reverse this, through one Heavenly Change after another, to restore the original territories."

"One li to ten thousand li?!"

Lu Qingfeng's pupils constricted slightly.

In light of such a notion, what indeed would amount to the tenfold increase of the first Heavenly Change?