Xianye

Chapter 493 Enlightenment into the Principles of Movement and Stillness (Bonus Chapter for Brighton of the Silver Alliance)

Thunder is the ultimate meaning of Yin and Yang, the pivot of all things, in charge of things and people, and in charge of life and death.

From the highest heavens to the lowest earthly emperors, nothing can be done without thunder and lightning. From life and death to prosperity and decline, nothing can be governed without thunder and lightning!

This is an extremely powerful method that can make all evils avoid its path and demons be bound together; its power is so vast and immeasurable that it cannot be described!

Western Zen Buddhism also has eulogies, saying that thunder has the power to dispel delusion, the opportunity to enlighten, and the power to protect the Dharma. It can shake the entire universe and subdue all heretics, just as a vajra strikes the earth and splits mountains, burning away all the forests of afflictions!

In the ancient Dao Court era, the immortals and gods of the Thunder Department were always responsible for sweeping away misfortune in the universe and acting on behalf of Heaven.

Often, the moment the Thunder Soldiers and Spirit Officials appear, the yin and filth dissipate, and the yang and yang spread, causing the demons and monsters lurking in the shadows to tremble with fear and go mad.

If the generals and lords of the Thunder Department were to personally intervene, it would cause the conflict between Yin and Yang, and the upheaval between Heaven and Earth, so that even the ancient demons deep in the Netherworld would no longer be able to sit peacefully at home.

The Great Master of the Great Manifestation is the head of the Thunder Division of the Immortal Capital among the three divisions of the Thunder Department. His status is second only to the Supreme Lord of the Thunder Department. He is the leader of the Five Elders of the Thunder Department. The Heavenly Emperor personally bestowed upon him the title of "Great Immortal of the East Who Breaks the Prison and Subdues Evil," allowing him to reside within the Golden Palace of the Supreme Saints, command trillions of soldiers and generals, and freely enter and exit the Mysterious Heaven, which is also the Mysterious Tribulation Heaven. His power and position are high and secure!

The Taiyi Divine Thunder, painstakingly created by the Great Master, is naturally a supreme thunder technique of unparalleled excellence in the universe, and should not be lightly proclaimed or discussed.

When the Grand Astrologer Mei Xing cast the "Golden Seal of the Earthly Palace" in the past, the Taiyi Divine Thunder was almost given a "superior grade" rating by the celestial officials, ranking it at the top of the Thunder Law Department.

There are veiled rumors that when Mei Gongxing came to demand the "Taiyi Divine Thunder", he seemed worried that the Great Master would refuse to comply. So he led the immortals and gods of the Immortal Capital Thunder Division, who had long harbored resentment, to rebel. He then joined forces with the vast Thunder Department, adding fuel to the fire of the chaos at that time.

Mei Gongxing first used the Heavenly Emperor's Decree to secretly summon the True Martial Heavenly Venerable and the Wuxiang Heavenly Venerable at that time.

After the two important ministers from the outer city arrived with Wuyang troops, they surrounded several celestial palaces. Only then did Mei Gongxing enter the Thunder Division of the Immortal Capital alone and personally read the Jade Edict of the Heavenly Emperor to the Great Master.

However, most Yu Chen disciples believe that such rumors are unfounded and merely hearsay, not to be taken seriously.

Since the founding of the Yu Chen sect, and up until the collapse of the ancient Dao court, the Great Ancestor has done everything he could for the Dao court. It is unlikely that anyone could find fault with him.

Capture Teng Bing, slay the Red Demon, break the chaos of the Yin Spring's myriad demons, and relieve the siege of the Holy Law Master Tian Yi Xiao...

Whether it was personally leading his disciples to fight against Tianyi Yan's gang, or joining forces with the Eight Immortals of Doubu to repair the ancient, world-destroying raft.

His extraordinary achievements are unparalleled, and even within the vast Thunder Department, few immortals or gods can match him!
Otherwise, the Daoist court would not have bestowed the extremely precious "Plum Blossom Divination" to enrich the foundation of the Yu Chen sect, which was precisely to reward the great achievements of the patriarch.

As for the sudden collapse of the Dao Court, although the Great Master used his great power to destroy all the Jade Palace Daoist methods recorded in the "Golden Chapter of the Earthly Palace" from a distance, leaving none behind.

However, this does not prove that the Great Master was ready to attack and kill the Daoist Court without any mercy.

Yu Chen was not the only one who did this.

The remaining Xuanpai Demon Sects of Xudu, the Taichang Dragon Clan, the Huangji Heavenly Palace, the Wuxiang Sects, and various pure Zen forests of the two great heavens of Wuliangguang and Jile...

At that time, all the major powers that had the ability to accomplish this acted in unison, and almost none of them were exceptions.

Even the old ministers, such as Duke Shangluo and the Great Mysterious Mother, who were regarded as the reliance of the Daoist court, secretly erased their own Daoist magic and supernatural powers from the "Golden Chapter of the Earthly Palace".

Compared to this, the actions of the Great Master are truly not surprising...

At this moment, Chen Heng felt as if he were enveloped by a thin mist, drifting upwards continuously.

All he could see was a deep abyss, as if he were in a dark void, not knowing where he was going.

In this situation, his thoughts gradually became scattered.

At first, Chen Heng could still recall some of the key points of using the Taiyi Divine Thunder, and then he thought of the famous and renowned Grand Master Daxian.

But in the end, he could barely muster any thoughts, his body was exhausted, and his strength was completely depleted.

In this way, half a year had passed in the real world, while Chen Heng, who was in meditation, had long lost his clear concept of time.

The joy I felt earlier faded, and it felt like only a short while had passed, or perhaps a hundred years had flown by.

This sense of uncertainty breeds fear in people's hearts, worrying that they have been misled by supernatural cultivation and will be stuck in the obstacles of the path until the end of their lives without being able to escape.

Even if one wanted to withdraw at this moment, it would be impossible; on the contrary, one would be truly deluded by delusions and sink deeper and deeper.

"If you try to stop the water, it will become even more difficult to calm it. Stillness is not true stillness, and movement is not reckless movement. The sacred way to control thunder is to nurture movement through stillness and to prove stillness through movement..."

In a daze, Chen Heng suddenly had a flash of inspiration and realized the meaning of this sentence.

As soon as this thought arose, the confusion in his heart vanished instantly. He simply relaxed his mind, and his thoughts immediately fell into a daze, making it difficult to perceive anything else. He seemed to be in a daze.

However, after several months, Chen Heng's mind suddenly cleared up, as if he had just woken up from a deep drunkenness.

He smiled to himself, not caring, and simply continued to wait.

His behavior seemed quite unbelievable to the outsiders, including Elder Fu and the old monk.

The latter put down the nectar of purification that he had brought to his lips, clicked his tongue twice, and couldn't quite describe the feeling in his heart.

"So this is what happens when cultivating the Taiyi Divine Thunder?"

The old monk looked at Elder Fu, who was sitting opposite him, and asked with a complicated expression.

In his view, Chen Heng, who had been sitting still, suddenly changed his aura, as if he was about to wake up from his meditation, or as if he was falling into an even deeper state of meditation.

His body was surrounded by lightning that appeared and disappeared intermittently, like a flower blooming and withering in an instant.

Its movements are unpredictable and elusive...

A fist-sized ball of pure essence surged from the fontanelle on the top of his head. As it rose into the air, it slowly dissipated, like drifting catkins, covering dozens of miles of mountains and rivers in one breath, and continuing to expand in all directions, with a majestic spirit that could invade the heavens and the earth and dominate the wilderness!

The old monk saw that the vast and powerful energy seemed to be both mysterious and profound, yet it could rival the sun and moon in its brilliance, both chaotic and majestic!
A rumbling sound emanated from the deepest part of the essence, causing heaven and earth to resonate, and valleys to tremble and mountains to shake.

It seemed as if a storm was about to break, changing the colors of the world.

Such a display of power was hardly enough to move the seasoned monk who was used to seeing the world.

Not to mention that his profound Buddhist treasure was already self-sufficient in supernatural powers and had considerable skills, when he followed Pure Treasury Bianji Buddha, he witnessed the magnificent scene of the sky collapsing and the void reopening no less than dozens of times.

However, within the celestial essence, there was a faint, terrifying aura that seemed capable of piercing through the primordial chaos and reducing all the stars in the heavens to dust. This suddenly reminded the old monk of some past events he did not wish to recall, and his expression unknowingly turned somewhat grim.

"The sun and moon have their own distinctions of light and shadow, cold and heat have their own energies of life and death, and thunder has its own cycles of rising and falling..."

Haha, only by looking like this can one be said to have grasped some of the secrets of the Taiyi Divine Thunder!
"It seems he has already grasped the use of the divine thunder's movement, and was able to break through this barrier so quickly. He truly deserves the honor of being a disciple of Yu Chen! It's a pity that the Dao Court has already collapsed and no longer exists, otherwise an imperial inspector would surely have reported this matter to the heavens, and this lad would have been rewarded with a fire date and a golden flower." Old Fu's face was filled with undisguised joy, and he felt honored.

Then he glanced at the old monk's face, as if he had remembered something, and suddenly clapped his hands, feigning sudden realization:
"I wondered why you looked so pale. Did you recall the time you were struck by lightning? When my master was fighting with the Pure Land Buddha, he didn't use the Taiyi Divine Thunder to attack you because he wanted to subdue you. But the Great Master is different."

It was your own stupidity to insist on getting involved in that mess.

Fortunately, the Great Ancestor only intended to sink Fang Zongjingtian; you were merely an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire. Otherwise, you wouldn't be alive today!

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In the past, when the eight sects and six factions joined forces with the Heavenly Venerable Xudu to quell the rebellion of Tianyi Yan.

Because the monk Da Huisheng and Tianyi Yan were accomplices, under the call of the monk Da Huisheng, many Zen Buddhist forces secretly joined Tianyi Yan's camp and carried out anti-Heavenly acts together.

At that time, the Pure Land Bianji Buddha was still going through a kalpa and had no time to attend to external affairs. The old monk, who had no one to restrain him, was tricked into going to Zongjingtian by a Zen friend.

At that time, the old monk thought that he was just doing his job in exchange for benefits, as usual.

However, he did not expect that the vast Zong Jingtian had already been refined into a boundary-breaking cone by the ministers of the Tiangong Department who followed Tianyi Yan.

They intended to use this object to break through Xu Dutian's "Taiyi Reversed Nine Palaces Reversal Formation," thereby seizing the initiative and establishing a foothold in the Ten Provinces and Four Seas.

The reason for summoning the old monk was to borrow his divine abilities to awaken the spirit and wisdom of that meticulously crafted Boundary-Breaking Cone.

Unexpectedly, this action was discovered by Xie Gongzai, the Heavenly Venerable of Xudu at the time.

At that time, the Great Master personally manifested his divine power and used his supreme power to activate the Taiyi Divine Thunder, which shattered Zong Jingtian's body!

Countless rebels who remained in Zongjingtian perished. The old monk, who was also in Zongjingtian at that time, naturally suffered greatly and almost had his true consciousness obliterated.

After investigation, it was found that the old monk had not participated in any rebellious act; he had simply been deceived.

The Daoist court dealt with him leniently, only issuing an edict to reprimand the Pure Land Bianji Buddha who was still undergoing tribulation, and then imprisoning the old monk in the Heavenly Prison to suffer a thousand years of torture, which can be described as painless and ineffective.

The old monk didn't care much about the torture, but the terrifying memory of his true consciousness being almost obliterated by the Taiyi Divine Thunder was something he couldn't forget for a long time.

Even now, when I think about it occasionally, I still feel a lingering fear...

This time, it just so happened that Chen Heng was trying to cultivate the Taiyi Divine Thunder. The old monk's heartstrings were touched, and he felt annoyed and frustrated. He wished he could slap away the strange phenomenon above his head and end it all.

"It's just fate playing tricks on us, oh well..."

There was no way to resist. The old monk knew that he was now only a wisp of energy, and his true form had long been firmly suppressed by the magic power of Elder Fu and Donggaozi.

No matter how unwilling you are, you can't change anything in the end.

"If you, disciple of Yu Chen, can succeed in comprehending the Taiyi Divine Thunder this time, wouldn't that be my achievement?"

With a change of heart, the old monk suddenly felt much better and chuckled coldly:

"If it weren't for me, how could he have achieved his future glory? In that case, he should also give me a generous gift and pay his respects to me!"

Old Fu glanced at him and shook his head: "If you were willing to help Chen Heng, I could grit my teeth and agree to your big talk. But you are only being forced by me. What kind of generous gift do you want? With such greed, you deserved to be struck dead by the patriarch's lightning in Zong Jingtian."

"And you think that without your help, Chen Heng couldn't cultivate the Taiyi Divine Thunder?"

The old monk stood with his hands behind his back and said proudly, "If it weren't for me, he would have been delayed for at least a hundred years!"
Such a precious treasure as mine, capable of helping people attain enlightenment, should be the foundation of any religion. While your Thunder Tablet may allow you to cultivate by chance, how could you possibly understand this aspect?

"If you are so capable, then Baoya Temple must be a great Zen temple where talented people gather?"

Mr. Fu made a joke:
"But until the collapse of the ancient times, Baoya Temple didn't seem to have any outstanding disciples?"

"..."

The old monk's face stiffened; he wanted to retort, but didn't know how to begin.

"His stupid nature remains unchanged. If he doesn't restrain himself, he might get struck by lightning in the future."

Old Fu chuckled and pointed at Chen Heng:
"Who knows, this person might be the one to chop you up in the future!"

The old monk chuckled, "This man may be worthy of the title of outstanding talent, but he's far from being able to oppose me. Don't boast!"

Old Fu waved his hand, too lazy to argue with him. When he returned to his seat, he looked up at the strange phenomenon in the sky and felt a sense of emotion.

"To be able to grasp the underlying meaning of the movement so quickly is something that neither I nor he himself could have anticipated?"

Old Fu thought to himself, "At first I thought five years would be just enough time, but now it seems that it might not even take five years?"

Just as Mr. Fu was pondering this...

At the same time, Chen Heng, who was in deep meditation, also saw another world.

He didn't know how much time had passed, but he finally emerged from that dark void, and before him, a bright, crystal-like light slowly shone down from above.

He was instantly swept up to a high place, and before his eyes, a flash of lightning appeared, followed by a torrential downpour of rain, causing thick clouds to gather.

Before he could gain any further insight, he unknowingly buried himself deep underground. With a thunderous roar in his ears, he suddenly broke through the soil and was the first to sprout new shoots.

He is sometimes rain, sometimes grass, sometimes scorched pine, and sometimes stony marrow.

Birds, beasts, insects, mountains, rivers, seas, sun, moon, stars, and the vast universe.

Amidst the rumbling thunder, he felt himself changing and shifting with it, experiencing endless and mysterious sensations.

He seemed to have forgotten his own location, and only followed the guidance of that mysterious force, and began to operate the method of Taiyi Divine Thunder on his own.

All things are influenced by Qi (vital energy), and are thus natural, existing alongside Heaven and Earth, each being a unique entity.

And so another period of time passed, and then Chen Heng suddenly realized that everything had fallen silent.

Only a powerful voice came from the sky, seemingly about to cleave this world in two, like a blade or axe striking down, booming and demanding:
"The Great Void originally contained nothing, so how could all things have come into being?"

(End of this chapter)