Secret Records of the Leader of the Beichen Sword Sect

Enough, why bother with other people's business? Besides, the Shen Family is a cultivation family protected by Honzan. Isn't that much better than your luck of freezing or starving to death, becoming a corpse on the roadside?

Better look after yourself first... Oh, almost forgot.

Then Tie Dan threw the woman he was holding onto the ground.

"We're already out of the city, scram."

"..."

The woman propped herself up, lying sideways on the ground, fiddling with her hair, gently looking at Tie Dan, displaying her beautiful figure before him.

She was indeed,

Her face was like a peach blossom with spring dew, her body like snow clusters of mutton-fat jade. Her eyes like autumn water, jade-like bones, brows like painted waves.

The Rui Palace Fairy exiled to the mortal world, the Jiuxiao Moon Goddess descending to the lower realm, distinctly the girl from the Moon Palace and Yaochi, it's hard to believe there's such an extraordinary beauty in the human world.

You have to admit, although both were top-notch in looks, the people from the palace had such elegant movements that outclassed those Jianghu women by far, surviving and thriving from the Hundred Flowers Beauty Portrait makes a difference indeed.

However, this bodily allure had no effect on Tie Dan. Hasn't he seen enough bodies of those he's killed? The human body is just fat and flesh. And this person didn't even have much True Qi, unable to engage in sword fighting or dual cultivation.

So Tie Dan couldn't be bothered with her, sat down right where he was, preparing to cover Jian Jia and the others for a while, and took out the Dharma Decree to study it.

Actually, upon previously seeing the appearance of this scroll drawing and the scene of the Five-Colored Spirit Qi erupting, Tie Dan had some suspicions in his heart. Now after pinching calculations and careful study, it was exactly as he expected.

It's the Dongxuan Taixu Realm.

Indeed, the Void Scroll.

It's the magic scroll he encountered at the Prince Nan Mansion before. According to Lord Xiao's narrative back then, in ancient times, using a secret technique to enter Dao by painting, extremely superior Mustard Seed Sumeru Divine Power, a Heaven and Earth Changing Skill, a door was opened to another space, the Void Realm.

Fortunately within this 'door', no Faceless Heavenly Demon came out to beat him like a dog. Moreover, on close inspection, this wasn't a landscape painting scroll, but a Dharma decree-like imperial edict, densely written with many names on top...

"Your Excellency sneaked into the Dragon Palace just to steal this Investiture of the Gods?"

Tie Dan was taken aback, raised his head, and looked at the woman crawling up to him like a cat.

"This is the Investiture of the Gods?"

The woman was bold, inching over, one hand supporting Tie Dan's thigh, another pointing at the ancient seal characters on the decree.

"Investiture, of, the, Gods."

Investiture of the Gods, huh...

Tie Dan consulted his memories of the Daoist Collection documentation in his mind.

The Immortal Records and Divine List, after the Immortal Palace established the Nine Provinces, was a treasured tool specifically used to register and manage all the cultivators of the world. The Twelve Countries' kings each held two registers.

One register named the Immortal Record, primarily for documenting each Spiritual Mountain in the Vassal States, the Cave Heaven Blessed Lands, the location and ownership of Sealing Demon Restrictions, to register and manage the legitimate heirs and sect traditions of various sects and schools, to plan which sect should oversee what demon seal, and which Spirit Stone Mine belongs to which sect.

Nowadays, the traditional practice of presenting Daoist certificates and talismans when apprenticing to the Mystic Sect is actually also part of the management system of the Ancient Immortal Palace. Those talismans recording the sect's generational disciple Taoist names all had to be sent to the Immortal Palace, the Immortal Record being registered in the archives.

Even the current Heavenly Earth and Immortal Thief Lists supplement the Immortal Record. Anyone not listed in the Immortal Record must be listed on the Immortal Thief List. Back then, the Immortal Palace was powerful to such an extent, managing all immortal records in the world.

The other register is called the Divine List, also known as the Investiture of the Gods, as the name implies, having your name registered on this list allows one to be conferred as a god.

Yes, directly transform into godhood.

Though with almost no combat power, with the power of a magic treasure, it can indeed strengthen a human's Primordial Spirit to the state of Divinity Transformation, becoming indestructible, even capable of aura spreading.

This Heavenly Official Dao is like holding the highest official position in the Immortal Palace and being granted a divine path after death.

The Vassal Kingdom Ruler uses the Divine List to credential and manage the hundred officials.

Starting from the Nascent Soul Pill and Divination Transformation Pill, it's when the King writes the loyal ministers' names on the Divine List, submits it to the Three Constellations, and after obtaining permission, grants the Immortal Pill for longevity, records the names on the Divine List, gaining protection from the Immortal Family, and free from the harm of the Primordial Spirit Method.

And once deceased, the King can also confer godhood to virtuous ministers and capable generals. Upon Ziwei Constellation's approval, they can be granted either Heavenly Official or Earth Official designation.

Earth Officials are like Mountain Gods, Land Gods, and City Gods, with shrines and temples, divine sanctuaries housing celestial spirits, and a Spiritual Spring Earth Vein nurturing divinity, enjoying incense offerings, continuing to protect local citizens, deterring evil spirits, and watching over wandering souls and ghostly demons.

Earth Officials who perform well, or who already had vast worldly achievements and repute, can be promoted to Heavenly Officials.

They are said to have their Primordial Spirit received outside of heaven, nourished upon stars, thus also known as Star Officials. This allows them to continue serving as officials in the sky, and when the Immortal Palace requires Heavenly Soldiers and Generals, they can reincarnate. The most common is the Wenqu Star, which descended to earth day in and day out...

Therefore, no matter how the Immortal Palace may falter, no matter how poor in combat power, it remains the leader of the Three Great Sects.

After all, to ordinary people, the allure of the Immortal Palace is immense.

After all, it's about immortality, ennoblement, earthly enjoyment, and even being enshrined as Heavenly Earth God official after death, benefiting descendants and families, continuing existence in the universe. Isn't that more joyous than the fighting and killing of the Demon Sect?

But of course, Tie Dan defines happiness differently, so he completely dismisses the Heavenly Official Dao.

"Even if your Excellency destroys this list, it's useless. This treasure is just a tool crafted by the Three Constellations, merely for inscription use.

Currently, in all of Hebei, only the Heavenly King himself can make it effective, so even destroying it is futile, as he still holds another."