Monster Chronicles: My Daoist Skill Comes from Mythology

After that, everyone continued their conquest, capturing various Ghost Kings of the underworld. Song Lin leveraged his experiences from his past life to successfully establish the Heaven, Earth, and Human Triple System.

Taoists lived in seclusion outside the secular world, detached from the concerns of the mortal realm.

Mortals practiced martial arts and maintained the order of dynasties; while Earth Deities and Mountain Spirits managed the underworld.

These three entities were independent of each other, with the Taoist School serving as their guide.

"Fellow Taoist, your method is somewhat similar to the Heavenly Court's. Could it be that you were born in one of the Heavenly Courts?"

"Not at all. It's just something I came up with myself. I believe the most important thing in the Three Realms is order, not how much power we hold."

Song Lin didn't have a Heavenly Court, but he certainly wanted to create one of his own.

For that, he had to align with the Innate Dao.

The Innate Dao is the threshold for establishing a Heavenly Court, while cultivators of the Acquired Dao can only roam as lone wolves or remain subservient to Innate Divine Beings.

Of course, even possessing the Innate Dao does not guarantee the creation of a Heavenly Court.

Song Lin estimated that he would need to comprehend more of the Great Dao to command the power of a Heavenly Court Master.

Song Lin had previously studied the operations of the Sanmao Heavenly Court.

The creator of this Heavenly Court was indeed Ermao, but its master was Yuan Shi Heavenly King.

Yuan Shi Heavenly King was an Innate Divine Being born from the union of many Small Thousand Worlds into a Middle Thousand World.

The Middle Thousand World is also considered a world; in terms of stature, it ranks higher than Small Thousand Worlds but lower than the Great Thousand World.

(There is only one Great Thousand World.)

Being the first divine being birthed by Heaven and Earth, Yuan Shi Heavenly King naturally became the master of the Heavenly Court.

Beneath Yuan Shi Heavenly King were the foremost among acquired beings, Sanmao, and the leaders of innate beings, the Three Emperors of Heaven, Earth, and Water.

The two sides engaged in no power struggles.

The order of Heaven and Earth was firmly established, and unless the Heavenly Court were to collapse, there was no chance of its alteration.

"This realm is growing better and better. Let's strive to subjugate all its demons and devils,"

Song Lin remarked.

The demons and devils of this world were indeed formidable, with the majority of underworld lords being at the Primordial Spirit level. If it weren't for his own power countering them, it would have taken much more effort.

All things going smoothly, he estimated that within ten years, he could transcend this realm.

Year Fifty of Zibu Yu.

Pure Yang Sect subdued the Ghost City God, Fire Evil, Wood Evil, Corpse Evil Spirit, and Drought Evil Spirit.

Year Fifty-One of Zibu Yu.

Pure Yang Sect disciples surpassed five thousand. Under Song Lin's suggestion, the sect established Taoist Temples, jungles, and the Taoist School within its three-tier system.

Year Fifty-Two of Zibu Yu.

Jinling City.

The new Emperor of the Chen Dynasty ascended the throne and officially designated Pure Yang Sect as the national religion, proclaiming it as the supreme vein of magic in the land. He bestowed upon Song Lin the titles of Spiritual Protector of the Three Realms, Lingying Grandmaster of the Nation, and Demon Extermination Grandmaster of the Three Realms. Mao Zhong was named Three Heavenly Masters True Monarch.

Lin Zhen stood atop the Heavenly Law Platform to assume the position of Heavenly Master of Pure Yang Dao, vowing to uphold righteousness, protect the opposition between virtue and evil, maintain eternal life, and safeguard the Human Clan forevermore.

Pure Yang Sect's influence extended westward beyond the Ten Thousand Great Mountains and ventured into territories untouched by humanity. These lands teemed with demons, yet lacked a demon lord familiar to the real world.

It made sense; after all, twenty thousand years could change far too many things.

The sheer number of demons made extermination impossible. Song Lin and Mao Zhong deliberated and decided to govern the Human Clan using the method of small clans ruling over larger clans.

After all, it was impossible to kill all demons. Any plant or creature in this world could potentially evolve into a spirit creature, so it was better to find demons that favored humans.

Of course, selecting a demon lord still required choosing someone relatively normal.

After rigorous testing, they finally chose Xiezhi and Spirit Turtle.

Xiezhi's personality was famously stubborn; once it decided on something, it would never change its mind in its lifetime.

It belonged to the type that pursued a single path to its end, refusing to repent even in death.

Song Lin killed off the brutal Xiezhi and raised its offspring to become upright and incorruptible messengers of justice.

Xiezhi could even discern people's hearts. When encountering evil people, it would gore them with its horn.

From then on, Xiezhi became a Divine Beast renowned for its incorruptible nature.

From a vicious and murderous Divine Beast, it transformed into a justice messenger acknowledged by the Ten Thousand Realms.

Besides this, Song Lin also arranged for the Spirit Turtle to assist Xiezhi in governing the demon clan for generations to come.

The Spirit Turtle was originally a part of the turtle clan, used by ancient kings to discern fortune and misfortune. Due to years of exposure to the Great Dao, it evolved into a powerful monster.

Song Lin discovered the last Spirit Turtle in the abyss. It had an exceptionally long lifespan and was well-suited to aid Xiezhi in ruling over the demon clan.

Afterward, the West Jade Demon Country was successfully established, forming a brotherhood alliance with the Human Clan's Emperor, and the demon clan vowed to never set foot in the Human Clan's territory for eternity.

Thanks to decades of effort by the Pure Yang Sect, humanity experienced unprecedented peace. Its population and economy soared, and its territory expanded to 1.5 times the size of Wu Country in Song Lin's previous life.

In the void, Song Lin stood alongside Mao Zhong.

Gazing at the unicorn overseeing the demons below, Mao Zhong couldn't help but sigh, "With this, we can ensure peace for millennia."

"Millennia should be fine, but eternity might rely on luck,"

Song Lin responded.

Coming from the future, Song Lin hadn't heard of the Demon Emperor Xiezhi or the Pure Yang Dao Alliance.

Perhaps they perished amid the wars to come.

Separated by over two hundred thousand years, Song Lin couldn't predict the future.

This world bore traces of Sword Immortal heritage, but the Seven Great Taoist Alliances and the Four Heavenly Courts seen in the future showed no signs of existence here, possibly entering during later epochs.

In the following years, the two focused on developing the Pure Yang Sect, and the Human Clan's cultivation grew increasingly powerful.

Eight Drought Evil Spirits were captured, along with eight Ghost Kings.

A total of sixteen Primordial Spirit-level protectors were acquired.

This wasn't the end; the rise of Demonic Qi allowed many Flying Sky Zombies to evolve into Drought Evil Spirits.

Song Lin hoped to double the numbers, with half retained by the Taoist School and the other half assigned to the Heaven and Earth Xuan Sect.

Meanwhile, the whereabouts of the Dragon Talisman Key remained unknown. Despite questioning countless demons, the key was still nowhere to be found.

Searching for a single key in such a vast world was no different from finding a needle in a haystack.

"Where on earth could it be?"

Mao Zhong grew restless. It was his negligence that caused the key to be lost; now, how could he return to the Heavenly Court?

"Haha, no need to worry—at least most of the task is completed,"

Song Lin said.

Song Lin glanced at the progress panel. Karma exceeded eighty percent, with the remaining twenty percent involving finding the key to summon the Heavenly Court's people and completely conquer this realm.

At this stage, it was like an isolated island, constantly at risk of being submerged by the great seas.

Song Lin returned to Jiufeng Mountain to continue refining his Nine-Transformation Golden Core.

This batch of pills had been undergoing alchemy for several years, slower than when the Grandmaster made his pills. After all, it was his own crafting.

The duration wasn't important; once the Nine-Transformation Golden Core was complete, it signified that his alchemy technique had reached its peak.

Of course, this didn't mean the path had ended; it was merely the culmination of technique.

Medicinal pills were categorized as ordinary pills, spirit pills, treasure pills, immortal pills, and Tao Golden Pills, among others.

At the moment, he could barely craft the Nine-Transformation Spirit Pill, while the formula for immortal pills remained elusive.

Higher-tier golden cores were even rarer. The current so-called golden cores weren't genuine golden cores in the purest sense—true golden cores were imbued with indelible, eternal gold properties, capable of enabling someone to attain the Dao instantly upon consumption.

Besides pill refinement, Song Lin occasionally returned to the real world to handle Taoist School affairs.

...

The wars at the border continued.

Zhonghuang Zi and Lingying led the Four Great Ghost Kings in resisting the enemy at the frontier.

Since the addition of the Shipeng Turtle and Teng Snake, the pressure on everyone had increased significantly, prompting the Taoist Alliance to implement a rotation system. Battles against demons would become a regular occurrence moving forward.

Xuan Yu City.

Taoist Bai Mei meditated, adjusting his breathing, with twelve Cloud Seals suspended above his head.

Since his last contribution, he had gained the position of Taiji Left Official in the Taoist Alliance as recognition for his unwavering loyalty.

The Cloud Seals had already integrated into his cultivation system.

Not only him, but most individuals in the Taoist Alliance had learned Cloud Seal techniques, successfully incorporating them into their cultivation techniques and fixing previous flaws, eliminating the need for certain cruel and bloodthirsty methods.

"Everyone! Stop a moment! Stop a moment!"

At that moment, Shi Yinhua rushed over in urgency.

"What's going on?" Zhengxin asked.

"There's intel from the frontlines. The Shipeng Turtle demon clan seems to have discovered ruins near the East Sea Extreme Cold Abyss, and it appears they sensed the presence of the Ancient Demon True Body."

"This Ancient Demon is about to reappear?"

Everyone's faces turned solemn. No wonder the two clans seeking Harmonization had recently gone missing—they must have been digging into the ruins.

If they were to obtain ancestral treasures, wouldn't their strength surge exponentially?

For the Heaven and Earth Xuanmen Alliance, it would be a catastrophic disaster.