Essence ofBringing Taxation to the Holy Land

By imbibing this Essence (based on Pretending To Be a Holy Place, I Was Signed For a Thousand Years), you gain the following benefits:

• You obtain the God-Level Anti-Sign-In System. This allows you to:

  • Disguise locations as "Holy Lands" with the trappings, ambience, and lore of your choosing. This is purely aesthetic, except:

  • Visitors (i.e. people other than you) are able to "sign-in" at these places to gain "divine blessings".

  • You are allowed to set a metaphorical tax rate to skim off your cut from their reward for yourself.

• Visitors can interact with the sign-in system however you want. It might be some booming voice that only they hear, a sudden light that spontaneously surrounds them, or even just a stereotypical "gamer" type panel with a button.

  • You can restrict who is able to sign in to whoever you want, if you do not want just everyone to get a reward.

  • After "signing in", the person will gain some great boon. These are almost always blatantly supernatural and often address some important problem in their current or future life.

    • This can be basically anything from a sword fit for a Daoist immortal, to a random super power, to a sudden breakthrough past several realms of cultivation, to healing an otherwise unstoppable curse.

  • Each person can only sign in once at each of your Holy Lands. Each Holy Land can bless any number of people though, and a single person can get multiple boons if they visit several Holy Lands.

  • As noted before, you cannot sign in to your own Holy Lands.

• As the owner of the Holy Lands, you have the right to impose "taxation" on any blessings right before they are handed out. You can set how much you take anywhere from 0% to 90%.

  • The overall blessing is split into two parts, both conceptually a subset or degraded version of the whole. Both pieces are always still fully formed blessings, albeit diminished.

  • The general potency or value of the boon will be based on the tax rate. A higher tax rate will yield you better results at the cost of the other person actually signing in.

  • The tax rate or even that any tax was applied does not need to be disclosed to visitors. You can simply choose for them to only see the fraction that they received, leaving them to think that was the whole gift all along.