Entry: I Secretly Cultivate Immortality in the Martial Arts World

60: Chapter 60 The Name of the Great Love Immortal!Time passed leisurely, and ten years vanished in a flash.

The phantom Dao seed of the Chaos Green Lotus before the entrance to the Longevity Peak Immortal Cave was no longer the shimmering, faint light it had been initially.

It now resembled a foot-tall green lotus phantom carved from jasper.

During these ten years, the pale green Innate Spiritual Qi mist had transformed from a thin layer into auspicious clouds enveloping the entire Taiyi Dao Sect.

Within the Sect, the water streams became increasingly sweet and clear, and the ancient trees grew ever more lush.

Even the most ordinary weeds faintly emitted a jade-like luster.

The cultivation speed of the Disciples was generally several times faster than it had been ten years ago.

Loosening Bottlenecks and frequent Epiphanies had become the norm.

After being reinforced and adjusted several times by Gu Yan, the Nine Luminaries Star Hub Great Array had effectively become a massive cultivation vessel for Innate Spiritual Qi, firmly locking this fortune within the Sect.

Furthermore, under such an environment, Gu Yan’s cultivation progress was terrifying.

In the past, within the Soul Transformation Realm, improving each minor Realm required patient, grinding effort, and it was common to spend decades doing so.

However, during the past ten years, nourished by the Innate Spiritual Qi, his cultivation had broken through consecutive barriers, going straight from the second level of Soul Transformation to the fifth level in one go!

Now, Gu Yan was two hundred and ninety-eight years old.

Among the Soul Transformation Old Ancestors who lived for thousands of years, he was excessively young.

”At this rate, I’m afraid that in a few more decades, I will be able to touch the threshold of the Late Stage of Soul Transformation...”

Gu Yan would occasionally look within himself and feel a sense of unreality.

”With this cheat enabled, even I feel embarrassed. However... it sure is nice.”

While the surge in cultivation was gratifying, Gu Yan’s state of mind remained steady.

He knew deeply that the further one progressed in cultivation, the more important Heart-Nature, Dao comprehension, and Opportunity became.

Therefore, besides Cultivating, his Divine Sense often covered ten thousand miles, overlooking the world landscape that had been turned upside down because of his good body.

The world, which was once filled with the smoke of war and numerous Dynasties, had now changed.

The source of all these changes stemmed from the thorough liquidation of the Great Qian Imperial Family by Gu Yan’s External Incarnation, his good body, Fang Yuan.

Come to think of it, the cause of that liquidation had a somewhat dark, humorous irony to it.

Gu Yan’s good body, Fang Yuan, originally had no intention of completely overthrowing the old order.

At first, he only promoted the Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance, equalized land, reduced taxes, and spread basic martial arts to give the common Mortal beings a relatively fair starting point.

The then-reigning Emperor Deqing of Great Qian, though not a brilliant strategist, could barely be considered a ruler who maintained the status quo and understood how to weigh options.

Under the deterrence of Fang Yuan’s absolute strength, he chose limited cooperation.

He was even once called benevolent and virtuous by the common people.

The incident occurred seven years ago.

The Crown Prince of Emperor Deqing, who appeared gentle and frugal, did not know if it was because of being suppressed for too long or being bewitched by the ambitious people around him.

He took advantage of the old emperor’s serious illness, colluded with court sorcerers and some frontier military generals, launched a coup, killed his father, and usurped the throne.

The new emperor ascended the throne, and before his seat on the Dragon throne was even warm, he began dreaming of ruling absolutely.

Seeing the Great Love Alliance growing day by day, he became suspicious and greedy.

He actually dreamed of using imperial power to control the world’s armies.

He even reached out to the Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance, attempting to incorporate it as an institution directly under the imperial family for his own use, hoping to recreate the absolute authority where all land under heaven belonged to the king.

What was even more ridiculous was that almost no one in the entire Great Qian imperial clan opposed it; instead, they cheered in support.

There was no other reason, only the two words: privilege.

The Great Love philosophy promoted by Fang Yuan, while giving commoners channels for upward mobility and basic guarantees, invisibly leveled the transcendent status of the imperial nobility.

They were still wealthy, but they had lost the power of life and death.

They lost the privilege of not bowing to officials, the privilege of being shown mercy outside the law, and the dignity of being surrounded by followers while treating the common people like grass.

In the words of some old clan members crying after drinking: ”If everyone in the world is one family, and there are no servants to serve us, is that still a life?” ”What is the difference between us and those mud-legged people?”

Thus, this group of old nobility, who had enjoyed privileges for hundreds of years and could no longer adapt to the word equality, saw hope in the new emperor’s ambition to restore their former glory.

They became unprecedentedly united, preparing to wrestle with Fang Yuan and the Great Love Alliance.

But they had clearly misjudged the situation.

They also underestimated the patience and means of the Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance.

At the time, Fang Yuan heard the news, just shook his head gently, and sighed to the core members of the Alliance who came to report.

”I gave you a way to live, but you insist on seeking death. Do you really think my Great Love is a toothless tiger that only knows how to chant Buddha?”

”Fine, dust to dust, earth to earth; it is time to thoroughly liquidate this rotten wood of the old era.”

He did not take action personally, nor did he even leave his simple thatched cottage.

He merely issued a few short instructions.

The following three months could be described as a thunderous sweep.

The members of the Great Love Alliance, who had already infiltrated the government, the public, and the military of Great Qian, were led by several Grandmasters who had received low-grade Magical Artifacts and potent Martial Dao Medicinal Pills from Fang Yuan, and their actions were efficient and lethal.

The corrupt army collapsed at the first touch.

Hidden court retainers were targeted and eliminated.

The residences of clan members who attempted to coordinate resistance were surrounded overnight.

There were no large-scale wars, and no riots affecting the common people.

Everything was completed in a precise, fast, and even somewhat quiet rhythm.

When the new emperor was dragged off the Dragon throne, he was still shouting that he was the Son of Heaven.

The only response he received was a cold first article of the Great Love Alliance Law.

All beings are equal, regardless of status.

You have overstepped.

The core imperial family members who participated in the rebellion were strictly punished according to the law.

Most of the other clan members were stripped of their privileges, and most of their illegally accumulated wealth was confiscated.

They were scattered and resettled, given the status of ordinary wealthy households, and told to earn their own living.

The Great Qian Imperial Family, which had lasted for hundreds of years, vanished into smoke.

This matter was like a giant stone thrown into a lake, shaking all the major forces in this world.

The Huoluo Kingdom, the various tribes of the grasslands, the chieftains in the One Hundred Thousand Great Mountains, and the island masters of the Endless Sea Region had originally been watching and even had some small ulterior motives.

At this moment, all luck and hesitation were crushed by that efficient liquidation.

Fang Yuan took advantage of the situation to advance, and the banner of the Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance, through a combination of peaceful acceptance and limited military deterrence, was planted throughout the capital of Huoluo Kingdom, the royal court of the grasslands, the largest village in the deep mountains, and the hub islands overseas in the following years...

The entire world known to Mortals fell under the banner of the Great Love Alliance.

So, how does a behemoth that encompasses so many peoples, regions, and cultures, aiming for Great Harmony under Heaven, maintain its operation?

Human hearts are greedy, and selfish desires are eternal.

This is human nature; how could Fang Yuan not know?

His method was simple and effective.

Absolute strength as the Foundation, supplemented by a strategy of the stick and the carrot.

What is the stick?

It is Fang Yuan’s own absolute martial power.

As Gu Yan’s good body, he possesses seventy percent of the original body’s strength and the deterrence brought by sharing some profound Dao techniques.

It is the elite law enforcement team gradually established within the Great Love Alliance, which has cultivated improved versions of high-level martial arts and is equipped with some Elementary immortal-grade Talismans and Medicinal Pills.

Once the rules are set, they must be followed.

Those who commit crimes, oppress the good, attempt to restore the old system, or challenge the core authority of the Great Love Alliance, regardless of their past status, will be dealt with by the law enforcement team with thunderous means.

For serious cases, Fang Yuan will even intervene personally.

That sword of order hanging over everyone’s heads always glitters with a cold light.

What is the carrot?

It is tangible benefits, the improvement of interests that can be seen and touched.

First, the popularization of Martial Dao and the channels for promotion are completely opened.

The Great Love Alliance has established a complete system for martial arts teaching, assessment, and promotion.

Anyone, as long as they meet the basic conditions, mainly looking at Heart-Nature—the Great Love Alliance has its own set of evaluation methods—can learn more profound martial arts step by step and obtain cultivation resources.

Those who perform excellently even have the Opportunity to obtain low-grade Spirit Pills that have the miraculous effect of washing the marrow and breaking through Bottlenecks for Martial Artists.

A single basic Foundation-Cultivating Pill is enough to allow a first-turn Martial Artist stuck in a Bottleneck for many years to break directly into the second turn.

For Mortal Martial Artists, this is supreme temptation.

Secondly, it is the tangible improvement of productivity and living standards.

Some of the lowest-grade Talismans and simple Magical Artifacts that occasionally flow out from the Taiyi Dao Sect are cautiously and limitedly applied to key areas such as agriculture, water conservancy, medicine, and construction through the channels of the Great Love Alliance.

Although the quantity is small, the demonstration effect and actual production increase, as well as the disaster prevention effects, are amazing.

Not to mention that under the general environment, there are more and more years with favorable weather, and the growth of ordinary crops is better than in the past.

Thus, under the combined action of the stick and the carrot, an unprecedented picture of Great Harmony under Heaven, under Fang Yuan’s meticulous sketching day after day for decades, slowly unfolded in this Mortal Realm, which is known as the Nanming No. 73 Mortal Realm by the Spirit Realm.

Those who till have their own fields, those who dwell have their own homes, and those who labor get their own food.

The Great Love Alliance used powerful means to re-measure and redistribute land, curb annexation, and encourage land reclamation.

It also organized the construction of a large number of low-rent public housing, water conservancy projects, and straight post roads.

Nowadays, beggars are almost extinct.

Wanderers are accommodated by the Great Love Alliance’s charity shelters and arranged for work within their capabilities.

The scene of starving people everywhere has become a distant story in the mouths of the elderly.

The young have care, the youth have education, the strong have employment, and the elderly have support.

Every city and town has set up Elementary schools, where basic literacy and moral education are free.

There is also the Martial Preparation Hall to select children and youths with Aptitude to teach basic martial arts.

Young adults, whether farming, working, joining the army, or serving in the Great Love Alliance, all have clear paths and promotion channels.

The elderly, if they have no children or relatives to support them, can enter nursing homes, and the Great Love Alliance provides basic living security.

The prototype of what is commonly known as Martial Artist pension insurance has appeared.

If one contributes to the Great Love Alliance when young, one can receive a fixed amount of rice, grain, and money when old.

The law is equal, without status.

The laws and decrees of the Great Love Alliance are higher than all old customs and laws.

The past practice of punishment not applying to scholar-officials and high-level Martial Artists has become a joke.

Landlords and gentry are forbidden to keep domestic slaves, and employment relationships must be contracted to protect the rights of the employed.

Civil disputes can be appealed to the mediation centers established by the Great Love Alliance.

They are mediated or adjudicated by trained mediators according to the law.

Mediators are often served by retired law enforcement officers or respected elders.

Cultural integration, all industries are gradually flourishing.

With convenient transportation, stable order, and basic survival guaranteed, communication and trade between various ethnic groups are becoming increasingly frequent.

The Great Love Alliance encourages craftsmen to improve their skills, merchants to operate legally, and scholars to write books, provided that the content conforms to the basic philosophy of the Great Love Alliance.

Although there is no modern technology, a classical prosperity based on Martial Dao, the application of Elementary immortal-grade items, and more efficient social organization forms is booming.

Of course, it is not without problems.

Human greed, laziness, regional prejudice, and remnants of old concepts are still surging in the undercurrents.

Signs of bureaucratization and execution deviations within the Great Love Alliance also occur occasionally.

But on the whole, this system, with absolute military power as the ballast, interest sharing as the driver, and detailed laws and organization as the framework, operates quite smoothly.

The vast majority of Mortals have truly felt the leap in quality of life and the acquisition of equal dignity.

Their support for the Heaven and Earth as One Great Love Alliance is from the heart.

However, it is worth mentioning that Fang Yuan did not teach the world immortal-grade Cultivation Techniques.

The reason is...

And the Disciples of the Taiyi Dao Sect are not stupid; they will not spread the Sect’s immortal Cultivation Techniques.

The Sect’s iron law hangs high, and no one dares to touch this red line.

What is circulated in the Mortal Realm is currently only Martial Dao and some of the most superficial health-preserving breathing methods.

The separation between immortal and Mortal, under Fang Yuan’s will, remains firm.

On this day, Gu Yan wandered through the world with his Divine Sense, taking in the changes in the Mortal Realm over the past ten years, and his heart could not help but ripple.

Looking at the scene of curling smoke, crisscrossing fields, noisy but orderly markets.

Looking at that guy Fang Yuan in the thatched cottage, while reviewing documents, muttering: ”Why is this more tiring than Cultivating? Can’t these guys find less trouble for me? If I had known, I would have been heavier in my hands back then and just physically transcended them...”

Gu Yan’s mouth could not help but turn up slightly.

”Great Harmony under Heaven, huh... Although it is still a rough prototype of a utopia, and although it relies on transcendental martial power to maintain, compared to the days when the vermilion gates reeked of meat and wine while there were frozen corpses on the road, it is ultimately ten million times better.”

”The good body’s action is of immeasurable Karma. But this name of Immortal Venerable...”

Gu Yan laughed and shook his head.

Because he heard that the core high-level members of the Great Love Alliance, after once again witnessing Fang Yuan quell a riot caused by remnants of the old nobility in a certain place with a flick of his finger, privately, with great awe and piety, crowned Fang Yuan with a new title: Great Love Immortal Venerable.