Chapter 246 Waiting for Someone (1/2)

Even with what Shen Lian said, the Empress did not look particularly agitated. She remained calm, like a lake at night, which did not have any ripple.

Since she was injured previously, the path to attain Dao had become a blind alley. As such, she gave up and handed her power to her children. She began to seek insight from Buddhism, and her previously sharp eyes had become soft. She looked like a sanctimonious lady in Buddhism, and she no longer carried the air of an emperor.

The Empress spoke slowly, ”Shen Lian, I know that there is no free lunch in the world. Immortality, or the wishes of the masses for a region of thirty thousand miles – what do I need to do to get that?”

What she subsequently said broke the image she had been let out all these whiles. She spoke slowly as if none of this mattered. Her domineering aura had now turned into the real aura of the emperor. She was at ease.

Shen Lian knew that it was not easy to persuade the Empress, but it was also not a difficult task as she was an extremely intelligent woman.

In Shen Lian's eyes, he thought the Empress was a better ally than Zhao Xiaoyu as she had the temperament that even exceeded many heroes in the world. She just lacked a little bit of serendipity.

”If I am right, Empress, you know 'Emperor Bestowment's Technique', which could bestow spiritual entities,” Shen Lian spoke slowly.

”Yes, but it is not that easy to bestow a deity,” The Empress replied.

The Emperor's Bestowment Technique was passed on since the ancient time. Some emperors made use of this to become deity after they passed away. There was a lot of luck involved, and the few emperors that succeeded then became the Yinsi Deity in the Nine Underworlds. It was only slightly different from the deity in the human's world, but it was considered another form of immortality.

”It is different for water region. Also, for thirty thousand miles of the region, it will affect two sides of the shores and billions of living creatures. With the vast amount of prayers, you will have an infinite mana. To achieve this, you need one item,” Shen Lian spoke softly.

The Empress said, ”You need a real dragon.”

At the same time, she felt slightly stunned about how much Shen Lian knew about the Emperor Bestowment Technique.

There were three types of deities, one was born naturally in the mountain and the rivers, who defended the area. This was the most powerful deity with the greatest potential. In ancient time, a great deity was a naturally born deity of the river and sea. It ruled ten thousand water regions and had almost no competition, not even a Daoist Master could handle it.

Secondly, was the deity bestowed by the Heavens, being under the control of the Heavens. It had less power, and to achieve it, one would need a powerful equipment. It would also involve several Daoist Masters, and people of the rank of Buddha. As the Heavens had disappeared for a long time, this type of deity too had been eliminated, or to say that in the flow of time, one could only tell they used to exist.

The third type was the emperor's bestowment. Since a long time ago, God had granted a Talisman order to the human ruler, and it could help them to bestow deities, as the representation of God in managing the mountain and river. It was apparently where the emperor originated from, but one could not tell whether it was the truth. Back then, the human emperor ruled the whole of the human world, and even cultivators served under him. It was nothing like the small dynasty now. Back then, the dragon clan was the human emperor's closest ally and there were even some of the dragon clans who became human emperors. It was the reason why the dragon clan could rule the rivers and seas and every wide water region. The dragon clan was the deity of every water region.

Since it had been a long time, to become the deity of the water region, other than Emperor's bestowment, one would need the permission of a real dragon. For some dynasties, all the rivers would be called the dragon's vessels, which one would attribute the fortune of the dynasty too.