Chapter 1198: The True Method of Feeding the Divine, the Buddha's Palm Kingdom

Battlefield Demon King.

Demon King Protecting the Nation.

Door-Pounding Wrathful Ghost.

They sounded pretty sinister, but just thinking about them got the blood pumping!!

Each and every one of these nicknames packed a serious punch.

Wasn't it just some Hundred Dynasties War, Hundred Nations Alliance!?

Lu Ding had been wondering what the big deal was!!

Bring it on!!!

"Elder Shui, rest assured, I won't hold it against you. What Hundred Dynasties War, Hundred Nations Alliance? Looking at the big picture, I'm a man of the Great Han. For a better Great Han, this is what I ought to do."

"Looking at the smaller picture, the Great Han's care for me can't be faked. The Great Han holds my friends and family, that can't be faked. The Great Han's interests align with my future development, that can't be faked either."

"And the Great Han has you, Elder Shui. You can push things along the optimal timeline. Following this plan, combined with my growth speed and strength, victory is guaranteed."

"Great unification is inevitable."

"A unified nation would be enormously beneficial to me, that's also inevitable. By reason and by emotion, whether it's interests or loyalty, I have every reason to help the Great Han."

Elder Shui finally smiled.

After getting all of that off his chest, he felt much better inside.

In that instant.

Elder Shui's aura surged violently on the spot, shooting straight into the heavens. Beasts materialized as phantom shadows, all manner of ferocious, vicious monsters vying to appear across the sky. At this moment, Elder Shui's strength had advanced yet another major notch!

That pure feeling of combat euphoria.

Even fiercer than the typical Junior and Senior Uncles of Lü Mountain!

Elder Shui withdrew his aura.

Somewhat embarrassed, he said, "Xiao Lu, forgive me for taking some liberties, but the True Method of Feeding the Divine is genuinely useful. I went through considerable trouble and expense to obtain it."

"I've also run simulations myself and tried it out many times. It works, it really does. The most crucial point is, the Great Han has no sovereign. There's no one above the ruler to methodically distribute national fortune among civil and military officials."

"All of the national fortune will belong solely to the cultivator of the True Method of Feeding the Divine."

"And in the later stages, this thing will transform the Great Han into your divine kingdom. You exist within the Great Han, and the Great Han exists within you, much like a Klein bottle in the truest conceptual sense."

"Once you reach a stage of periodic perfection, the divine kingdom will give back to you, bringing you terrifyingly tremendous rewards..."

Lu Ding wanted Elder Shui to continue, but Elder Shui just smiled and kept his mouth shut.

Lu Ding said helplessly, "I can't guess, Elder Shui."

Only then did Elder Shui speak: "Within the divine kingdom, every citizen sheltered under your protection becomes a source point supplying you with power."

"Let me give you an analogy. Say the Great Han becomes your divine kingdom, and the Great Han has only a thousand people, all of them at Fifth Restriction cultivation. Then what the divine kingdom grants you equals the combined power of a thousand Fifth Restriction cultivators."

"If the Great Han has ten thousand people, you get the combined power of ten thousand Fifth Restriction cultivators."

"If the Great Han has a billion, several billion people, then you..."

Lu Ding: ?????

How could something this overpowered even exist!!!

Adding up the Second Circle and Third Circle populations right now, the Great Han's total population had to be over ten billion.

If all of that converged onto him...

Then...

Wouldn't he blow up the entire world!?

"Elder Shui, why didn't you use something this absurd, something even more outrageous than a taboo technique, yourself?"

Elder Shui smiled: "I'd love to use it myself, but my personal growth isn't fast, not like yours. This kind of thing can only maximize its potential when given to someone whose growth speed surpasses all schemes and machinations, someone who can lead the Great Han to soar straight up."

"Some of what I'm about to say, you might not believe, but my heart is wholly devoted to the Great Han. I want the Great Han to be better, and you're the one who can make the Great Han better. Without the Great Han, I'd have no family, no descendants, no friends or relatives."

"Without a better Great Han as my goal, I would become hollow."

Lu Ding understood now.

For Elder Shui to bring out something like this for him.

When it came to the Great Han, Elder Shui truly had no equal.

Lu Ding said, "Elder Shui, something this overpowered... where did you..."

Elder Shui replied: "It does indeed have connections to Great Zhou, but its origins are tied to the Buddha's Palm Kingdom mentioned in fragmentary records. As for what the Buddha's Palm Kingdom actually is, or what the specific connection is, I don't know. But I will search for leads."

Lu Ding wanted to say, no need to search, he already had his suspicions.

If things really were as he imagined.

Then Great Zhou might very well be that Great Zhou from the God Ascension legend...

And since it's connected to the Buddha's Palm Kingdom, and the Buddha's Palm Kingdom is the means of a Saint.

Currently, Lu Ding already possessed the relics of the three Saints of the Daoist school: the Proud Snow Defying Frost Tree, Golden Ao Island, and the Eight-Dragon Sandalwood Chariot.

Moreover, these divine abilities and secret techniques fit those three's personalities perfectly.

The Moral Heavenly Lord had a rather reclusive and mysterious nature. If this were the God Ascension primordial era, then the Moral Heavenly Lord had only one disciple, Grand Master Xuan Du.

So it made sense he'd drop the [Proud Snow Defying Frost Tree], something peripheral with no deep connection.

The [Eight-Dragon Sandalwood Chariot], on the other hand, belonged to the Primordial Heavenly Lord. That one didn't play by the rules, was fiercely protective of his own, somewhat hypocritical, and had a bit of a prejudiced eye to boot. So what he dropped was the Nine Dragons Agarwood Chariot, but Lu Ding had to synthesize it himself.

Finally, something massive like [Golden Ao Island] dropped completely intact, matching the Spirit-Treasure Heavenly Lord's grand boldness, his numerous disciples, and so on.

But these.

Compared to the Western Saint's Buddha's Palm Kingdom, that was an entirely different situation.

The Buddha's Palm Kingdom was the foundation of foundations for the Western school, something only the Buddha himself could master.

Immense power, versatile applications. Lu Ding's only hesitation was that this thing wasn't something he had dropped himself.

But his [Heaven-Man Unity] had stratified the True Method of Feeding the Divine.

It couldn't affect Lu Ding's foundation or his overall being.

Under these circumstances.

Lu Ding figured he needn't fear whatever risks this thing carried. Even if there were risks, he could excise whatever the True Method of Feeding the Divine brought.

In other words, if the True Method of Feeding the Divine had problems, then Lu Ding was the only one who could perfectly avoid them while still enjoying its benefits.

Pure profit without liability. He didn't shoulder the risk because of his [Heaven-Man Unity], but he still wanted the rewards.

Thinking it over.

Lu Ding laughed.

He'd turned himself into an existence like Wang Qingge.

Lu Ding spoke: "Then I'll trouble you, Elder Shui."

"By the way, Elder Shui, roughly how much longer until the Hundred Dynasties War?"

Elder Shui thought for a moment: "Judging by the current progress, it shouldn't be far off. Thanks to you, Lü Mountain has extended help to the Great Han. Under these circumstances, the Hundred-Year Ten Thousand Immortals Plan's advancement is going very smoothly."

"I estimate that the Great Han's intelligence dossier has already been placed on the desks of those nations' and factions' leaders."

"But precisely because of Lü Mountain's assistance, this Hundred Dynasties War will come fiercely, with almost no transition period from weak to strong. When the time comes, the flames of war will fully ignite the Second Circle, and might even stir the First Circle. However, with Lü Mountain standing in the way, the beings of the First Circle probably won't find it easy to descend."