Under one person: I, Zhang Zhiwei, the arrogant Zhang.

Chapter 633 Zhang Zhiwei patted his shoulder: Be calm and peaceful, it’s time to practice!

Zhang Zhiwei glanced at his master, and his first reaction was that of the Heavenly Master's salvation. However, he didn't know whether the Heavenly Master's salvation was the Dharmakaya or the Reward Body.

He didn't think much about this aspect, after all, he didn't know much about the three bodies of Buddha.

What he thought was, if Sakyamuni’s subjectivity became the same as the objective... that is, the Buddhist kingdom that is equal to the world.

The equivalent of the Patriarch Tianshi is the Dharma lineage.

Dharma lineage has many names in mythology, but ultimately it is the same thing as the Buddha’s kingdom.

Then, he thought of the example his master had initially used of the Tianshi Mansion.

Tianshi Mansion is an objective existence.

The Tianshi Mansion is also very big, but compared with the whole world, it is very small.

It is undoubtedly inappropriate to use it as a metaphor for objectivity.

But if the Dharma lineage is the subjective product of the ancestor Tianshi after polishing it to the extreme...

For these Taoists who have been ordained and converted, this subjective product is actually the objective world.

Therefore, the example given by the Master at the beginning was actually correct, but there were some things that he could not express clearly.

Immediately, he recalled the time when he was taking the assessment for his position in the Law Department and he had traveled to the Department of Thunder and seen those awe-inspiring thirty-six thunder generals, as well as the Great Emperor Zhenwu who had taught him some extraordinary skills.

At that time, he asked his master about this.

The master didn't say it explicitly, but told him a lot of stories about Zhang Sanfeng's past, as well as the relationship between Zhang Sanfeng and the Zhenwu Emperor.

Although it was not said explicitly, his words and deeds all pointed to Zhang Sanfeng as the real emperor Zhenwu.

Now that I think about it, could it be that the Great Emperor Zhenwu is the polished subjectivity left behind by Zhang Sanfeng?
He did not ask his master about this conjecture. Since his master did not explain it clearly at the beginning, there must be some unclear reasons. It would probably be useless to ask now.

He sighed in his heart that the closer he got to something, the more unreal it felt like he was looking at something through a fog.

He knew why this happened. He could not see the true face of Mount Lu because he was inside the mountain. He was in the Tianshi Mansion, so it was inevitable that he would be biased when he visited the Tianshi Mansion.

The underlying rules that the master talked about are all the same. Perhaps other schools can be used to reflect everything in the Tianshi Mansion. In that way, perhaps the answer can be obtained... Zhang Zhiwei thought to himself.

The first thing he thought of was the Quanzhen Sect. Although both were Taoist sects and required conversion to the Three Treasures, there were always some differences between Zhengyi and Quanzhen.

To join the Zhengyi sect, one must be ordained.

One must receive precepts to join the Quanzhen sect.

In fact, compared with Zhengyi, Quanzhen is more of a product that was born out of Taoism and the integration of the teachings of the three religions.

It's complicated and perhaps not a very good reflection.

Immediately afterwards, Zhang Zhiwei thought of Huode Sect.

Although this is a sect that plays with fire, most of the people in the sect are hot-tempered and reckless men, not at all as ethereal as the Sanyi Sect, but they are an orthodox Taoist sect, there is no doubt about it.

They worship a ball of holy fire, and after devoting themselves to the holy fire, they will have the ability of fire escape.

Zhang Zhiwei was not unfamiliar with the word "guiming". In the morning and evening classes at the Tianshi Temple, there was a sentence "zhixinguimingli" before each precious edict, which means "to surrender with all my life".

Compared with the Taoist ordination and precepts, the Huode Sect's is indeed simple and direct. Could it be that their ancestor, whose subjectivity has been polished to the same status as the objective world, is a ball of flame?
"So, the final result doesn't have to be a person, it can also be an object."

When Zhang Zhiwei saw this object, he thought of the sacred tree of Nathan.

He always felt that this tree was evil, or to be more precise, he disliked it, but he could not deny that this tree could reach the sky.

In other words, this tree is a product that reaches the sky.

In the plot, the power of the Nathan tree has not been directly demonstrated.

Only King Nathan and Guardian Nathan are shown.

King Nathan has no strength and is just a weak little girl.

Nathanwei and his men are nothing compared to Behemoth's modern Inhumans army.

It seems that the entire Nason Island is just a few big cats and small cats. It is not a dangerous place, let alone a place with great connections.

But if you think so, you are totally wrong. The power of the Nathan sacred tree can never be ignored.

This is a tree with self-awareness, or in other words, it is a tree with subjective consciousness.

It does not take action, or in its opinion, those kings and guards are not worth its effort.

If it takes action, the story of Nathan Island may have to be rewritten.

Because the Nathan sacred tree is a rare thing that has appeared directly in the plot and has the ability to destroy a country.

Although its introduction is just a few words, if it were released, it would be enough to shock the world.

The sacred tree of Nathan was not originally on the island. It was in Europe and was known as the god of the forest.

King Nathan at that time was not as powerless as King Nathan is now. King Nathan was selected through bloody killings. The necessary condition to become king was to defeat all those who wanted to become king.

In other words, the king must be the strongest.

Such a king can undoubtedly control more power of trees and is more aggressive.

This aggressiveness made the Roman Empire, which was at its peak at the time, feel uneasy.

As a result, the Roman Empire, which was at its peak, used the entire country's strength to defeat the Nathan Tree and its believers.

After this battle, the sacred tree of Nathan moved away from Rome, and an island of Nathan appeared in the world.

After this battle, the Roman Empire fell from its peak and never recovered.

The impact of this war is like that of the Anshi Rebellion in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. Although it was only a few strokes, it caused the decline of an empire. The cruelty can be imagined.

Zhang Zhiwei was not sure whether Rome launched a war against trees because of the so-called population red line or because of a war of faith?
Perhaps the two are essentially the same thing. After all, Rome and Christianity are closely related, and it is not uncommon for Christianity to launch holy wars and burn heretics to death.

Even the encirclement and suppression launched by ordinary people against aliens in order to maintain the population red line, which was talked about by people in later generations, had their shadows.

For example, in the witch trials in Europe, the instigators behind them were not so much ordinary people as they were Catholics disguised as ordinary people.

For example, the Three Wus and One Zong in Shenzhou destroyed Buddhism. Many people think that it was ordinary people who were targeting extraordinary people, but the people holding the knife behind the ordinary people were actually Confucianists, and they were the ones who gave the advice.

In essence, the population red line is more like something that is jointly maintained by several forces at the peak of extraordinary people and forces at the peak of ordinary people.

After all, there is a limited amount of cake. If too many people share it, there will be trouble and some of them will have to be killed.

Thousands of years ago, the sacred tree of Nathan disturbed the interests of Christianity and Rome, so it was defeated and forced to move far overseas, turning an island into a prison and binding itself for a thousand years.

Many rules were also set. For example, the challenge for the throne could not be initiated as before. King Nasen could only be chosen from weak newborns. This was why Li Muxuan's granddaughter became king.

A thousand years later, the Nasen sacred tree, perhaps fed up with red tape, or perhaps fed up with the weak king, it reopened the selection of the true king. This was a signal that it wanted to expand.

After receiving the signal, the scene that happened a thousand years ago was repeated. Forces from all sides came to the island, and Behemoth took action, uprooting it and revealing the roots under the sacred tree.

In Zhang Zhiwei's view, that root system is equivalent to a Dharma lineage, and the island where the Nasen sacred tree is rooted is equivalent to a "world".

The gods live on the island and are blessed by the sacred Nasen tree to become extraordinary people at birth.

After their death, they will return to the embrace of the sacred tree, and be absorbed by the sacred forest of the sacred tree.

The divine guards among them will transform into monsters that look like neither human nor human and connect to the roots of the trees.

And the king is at the core. They are entangled together, like a nightmare scene. Ordinary people will feel sick when seeing it.

These kings and guards who have become nameless can make sounds and have partial consciousness. They are not completely dead, but they also have no freedom and can only suffer endless pain and torture.

Now thinking back to Master's words, everything is clear. The reason why those Nasenwei did not turn into the Holy Forest but became half-human, half-monsters is probably because their polished subjective part and the objective tree are equal existences, so they were not absorbed, but remained and existed with the tree.

But they were unable to escape the control of the tree and were trapped in its roots for eternity, with no way of escape.

It’s like... the eighteen levels of hell after death.

The same goes for the kings. In fact, these kings are even worse because the Nason sacred tree randomly chooses babies to be kings.

They are not even like Wei, with a half-human, half-tree body, and can only survive like a pile of dog shit crumpled into a pile.

The more the subjectivity is polished, the more objectivity is gotten rid of, and the more subjective consciousness remains after death.

But what's the point?

No matter how much the subjective is polished, and how clear the consciousness is, if it cannot be completely equal to the objective, then it is still impossible to get rid of it? Will it not be rooted in the dark roots of the tree forever? !

And if one wants to be equal to the sacred tree, or even surpass it, how many people have been able to do it in the past thousand years?
This is also the reason why Zhang Zhiwei does not like the sacred tree. Converting to it will be an eternal torture.

What if we compare the sacred tree to the Tianshi Mansion...

The Taoist priests who received the ordination returned to the Dharma lineage and turned into nutrients similar to the holy forest. They might have a share of the power commanded by the talismans.

Perhaps it is because of the special source of this power.

Therefore, the ritual for drawing talismans is very complicated, including setting up the altar, offering pig heads, burning incense, and burning yellow paper; no single step can be missed.

One set will take several hours.

In fact, these steps are more like paying homage to ancestors and praying to God than performing rituals.

In the past, Zhang Zhiwei liked to skip these steps and draw talismans in the simplest way.

He now understood that these steps were not necessary, but were necessary to give this power the respect it deserved.

This is the fate of an ordinary Taoist priest. When a person dies, it is like a lamp going out, which is almost the same as that of an ordinary person.

The high-ranking Taoist masters will become guardian gods similar to tree people.

The higher the degree of subjective polishing, the higher the spirituality of these guardian gods will be.

The Heavenly Masters of every generation will become the core of a tree.

But most of the Heavenly Masters have high levels of cultivation, and they should not turn into a bunch of indescribable things like King Nathan.

All of this sounds like it is much better than the Nathan Sacred Tree, but the essence is actually the same.

Moreover, this is just his idea. What will happen specifically depends on the subjective consciousness of the Patriarch.

However, compared to the jungle law of the survival of the fittest on Nason Island, Tianshi Mansion is strictly speaking a family business, and the ancestor Tianshi may not be so cruel.

Of course, this is just wishful thinking, and the details are unknown for now.

So who I belong to now... Zhang Zhiwei recalled the ceremony many years ago when he was given his surname and granted the power of thunder.

Unlike most people, he was granted the power of thunder and his surname at the same time.

Now he thought that this should have two meanings.

Being granted the power of thunder by the Heavenly Master should be equivalent to the divine guard of Nasen Island.

Being given a false surname by the Heavenly Master should be equivalent to breaking the golden branch on Nasen Island.

It represents participating in the challenge to become the king and having the qualifications to become the king.

The difference is that to become king on Nason Island, one needs to fight a great battle with the Branch Breakers and kill the old king to complete the succession.

But this is not the case in the Tianshi Mansion. The new Tianshi is directly appointed by the old Tianshi.

It seems that the authority of the Heavenly Master is much higher than that of King Nathan.

Ordinary Taoists don’t know all this, not even the high-ranking ones.

The only person who knows is the Heavenly Master. This may be the meaning of the Heavenly Master’s salvation.

Of course, in addition to these powers, the degree of the Heavenly Master is definitely related to the subjectivity of the Ancestral Heavenly Master, and it is even possible to communicate directly with the Ancestral Heavenly Master.

Zu Tianshi is a saint. In theory, his subjective consciousness should be equal to the objective world.

So what secrets in this world are there that he doesn't know?
Therefore, even though the Jiashen Rebellion seemed to have nothing to do with the Tianshi Degree, in the plot, the old Tianshi still told Zhang Chulan that if you accept it, you will know everything.

Whether it is the complete thunder method, various secrets, the eight unique skills or any other unique skills, Master Zu Tian can give it to you. He also has the ability to give it to you, but the prerequisite is that he has to be willing.

Once you accept the Heavenly Master's instruction, it means you have taken on the subjective will and the will of the Heavenly Master.

The power of this will exceeds anything imposed on you by the objective world.

Zhang Chulan sensed it vaguely, so he called it a restriction that was countless times larger than the toad's blood. Once it was on the back, one would no longer be free.

Maybe there is something about Zhang Chulan, some secret.

But what are these things compared to the subjective consciousness of Zu Tianshi?

Before, although Zhang Zhiwei had been a little concerned about all of this in his mind, he had never analyzed it as carefully as he did now.

Of course, these are all his guesses, which may not be correct. If there is a definite answer, perhaps...

The Twenty-Four Sections of Tongtian Valley flashed through his mind, and then he shook his head. The situation there was still unclear. If that was the case, he might as well find some time to go to Nasen Island and pull up the sacred tree for research.

Of course, it’s too early to say this now... Zhang Zhiwei suppressed his thoughts and looked at his master.

He couldn't help but wonder in his heart, when he looked at his master, was the Master Zu Tianshi in his master's body also looking at him?
He didn't know. He felt that if Zu Tianshi was not a person who liked to look around everywhere, he would have only looked at him straight in the eye twice.

The first time was in the land of dragon veins, when the ancestor Tianshi descended and took a look at him.

The second time was when I was explaining the Golden Light Mantra to my master. I became curious and wanted to dig out the master’s secrets. As a result, I dug out a huge eye-shaped fireball, which glared at me. Then, I was pulled out by my master.

No matter what, it is better for the Heavenly Master's Degree to remain with the Master.

Zhang Zhiwei picked up the wine bowl, drank it all, and then put the bowl down heavily.

Ever since the master said that Wu Man had passed away and gone to the Western Paradise, there has been silence at the table. Everyone was thinking about their own things. Now that Zhang Zhiwei suddenly drank, the others looked at him in surprise. What was this guy doing?

Zhang Zhiwei patted Zhang Jingqing on the shoulder and said in a deep voice:
"Master, you told us before that we are not ordinary people. We are seekers of the truth. People who seek the truth value life the most."

"Have you ever seen a person who seeks the truth but feels that death is a kind of freedom before he has completed his pursuit of the truth?"

"I haven't finished my quest yet. No matter how painful it is, you must live on. I have passed on Qingxuan's sage's stolen book to you. You must practice well and polish your subjectivity."

"Even if one day, you can't stand the disadvantages of this saint thief, or something else, and want to pass on the teachings and be free."

"Jingqing! Please remember this to your disciple. That is the time for cultivation..."

After saying that, Zhang Zhiwei pointed a finger at Zhang Jingqing's brow and instilled the method packaged by Lan Hand directly into his master's mind.

Taking advantage of the master's distraction, he left without waiting for a response, ran out of the tavern in three or two steps, and disappeared in a flash.

The people at the table stared at the scene in a daze.

until……

"boom!"

Zhang Jingqing slammed the table: "What did this beast call me?"

He had a furious expression with his hair and beard standing on end, but there was no anger in his eyes.

(End of this chapter)