Conferred God: Got cramped at the beginning

Chapter 952: The instruments of punishment are used by the gods.
The Jiejiao sect is famous throughout the world for its art of formation.

And in Jiejiao, almost every disciple of Jiejiao has mastered the ability of formation.

Among the Jiejiao, besides the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and the Immortal Killing Formation, there are two others that are the most outstanding.

One is the Nine-Bend Yellow River Formation.

The other one is the Ten Absolute Formations!
The Heavenly Formation.

The Earth Array.

Howling Wind Formation.

Ice array.

Golden light array.

Blood Transformation Formation.

Flame array.

Falling Soul Array.

Red water array.

Red sand array.

Even though the Ten Heavenly Lords had only made some progress in comprehending the Ten Absolute Formations, it was difficult for them to control their power as they wished. The Ten Absolute Formations could only exist independently and could not be linked together to become one. However, they were still the top-notch formations between heaven and earth and could not be broken easily.

That is already the first-rate method under Daluo.

If he could go one step further and unify the Ten Absolutes into one, then that would be the real means to the Daluo level - just like Empress Yunxiao achieved Daluo with the Nine Bends of the Yellow River method, and even crossed the boundaries of ordinary Daluo to become a thirteenth-level great supernatural being. The Ten Absolutes method is also a path to Daluo, or even a great supernatural being.

Ao Bing had already realized this when he was in Pan Tian.

But at that time, Ao Bing had a deep friendship with the disciples of Jiejiao, and the Ten Heavenly Lords had taught Ao Bing - so at that time, although Ao Bing had already noticed the mystery of the Ten Absolutes returning to one, he just pretended not to know. He neither pointed this out to the Ten Heavenly Lords, nor tried to comprehend the changes of the Ten Absolutes returning to one, so as not to deprive the Ten Heavenly Lords of their opportunity.

The same is true after coming to Yuantian.

However, at this moment, when the disaster was evolving and pushing the disaster to evolve, Ao Bing suddenly noticed another change in the Ten Absolute Formations.

It starts from the sky where the sky ends and ends with the earth where the earth ends.

The roar of the wind is the movement of wood thunder.

Ice is the visibility and disappearance of movement and stillness.

The golden light is the flickering of fire and gold.

Transform blood into the root of essence and energy.

The raging flame is comprehensive in both hot and cold.

The fallen soul is the soul of a living being.

Red water represents the change of yin and yang.

Red sand represents the unity of all things.

Therefore, in these ten formations, all things in the heaven and earth, the birth and death of the five elements, and the rotation of movement and stillness are all manifested within.

And the "absoluteness" it symbolizes just happens to correspond to the disaster!
"Take the Ten Absolutes as the foundation and transform the Yin and Yang of the Five Elements."

"The rise and fall of the five elements will then carry the changes in the fortunes of the five disasters."

"Falling five elements are releases, rising five elements are collections."

"With this Yin and Yang and the Five Elements, it is in accordance with the changes in merit and karma, and connects the roots of the Five Elements of Heaven and Earth."

"If karma rises and merits fall, it is what is called the cessation of the Way and the rise of demons. Then the five elements fall and the five disasters disappear. As merits rise and karma falls, the five elements rise and the five disasters disappear."

As he thought about it, the Ten Absolute Changes in Ao Bing's palm began to move accordingly, and the heaven and earth separated and combined, moving the Five Elements, transforming the changes of the Ten Absolute Changes into the rise and fall of the Five Elements.

Take the sky as the cover and the earth as the support.

The energy of "disaster" flowing between heaven and earth appeared in Ao Bing's palm.

As the phantom of the plague locust appeared, an inverted three-legged object that looked like a tripod or a cup also appeared. The three legs supported the sky, and the round mouth covered the ground - just enough to cover the ancient plague locust.

Amid the circulation of the wood disaster energy and the rampage of the plague locusts in the human world, the phantom of the ancient plague locusts and the phantom of the inverted three-legged Yuan Ding kept interweaving... Sometimes, the phantom of the Ding dissipated, leaving only the shadow of the plague locust.

From time to time, a shadow resembling a cup or a tripod would appear, completely covering up the traces of the locust plague.

And on the "body" of this inverted tripod cup, there are countless traces of knives and axes.

When the image of the inverted cauldron cup appeared in the Ten Absolute Formation in Ao Bing's hand, the endless golden energy in West Kunlun also gathered together and transformed into a real, inverted cauldron cup - exactly the same as the cauldron cup that appeared in Ao Bing's palm.

This is exactly the ultimate change in which the Heavenly Power manifested the Five Disasters as deduced by the Queen Mother of the West - the Five Disasters turned into instruments of Heavenly Punishment corresponding to the species.

Holding the five instruments of punishment, she used her own heart to replace heaven and earth to carry out the changes of the five disasters.

And what was revealed at this time was the vessel of wood disaster, the Golden Locust Cauldron - although it was a symbol of wood disaster, it was condensed from the gold energy of the Five Elements.

What it symbolizes is not the fundamental stability of the heaven and earth by the Five Elements, but the tyranny of the Five Elements' collapse... But the most fundamental thing among them is restraint.

It means that disaster has to happen as a last resort.

This is the ultimate mystery of the Five Disasters of Tianli - the most fundamental purpose of evolving the Five Disasters and comprehending the Five Disasters is not to release the Five Disasters, but to grasp the mystery of the Five Disasters.

In this way, uncontrollable disasters are transformed into controllable "punishments" to actively promote the operation of heaven and earth and the iteration of civilization...

In this way, the ultimate disaster will not fall between heaven and earth, and the heaven and earth will continue to exist for a longer time.

"The weapon for relieving wood disasters is the Cauldron of Golden Locusts, which uses gold to overcome the violence of wood."

"Then the fire utensil should be made of water."

In a trance, the voice of the Queen Mother of the West sounded in Ao Bing's ears.

But it turned out that they were two people who were also in charge of and controlled the disasters, and they were discussing the Dao from a distance.

This is the Queen Mother of the West taking another step forward on her path to becoming a saint.

When the five disasters and five punishments are revealed, that is the time when the Queen Mother of the West ascends to heaven.

"Since it is filled with water, it will leak."

"The fire is hidden in the leak, and when the leak is exhausted, the fire will come out."

Ao Bing talked about his idea of ​​the fire device.

As he spoke, an upside-down, crystal clear water leak appeared next to the Golden Locust Cauldron.

What was sealed under the leak was not fire, but anger. As the anger burned, the water turned into gas, which flowed from the bottom to the top of the leak, causing the leak to pour out bit by bit. When the leak was completely turned over, the anger turned into flames and rose up, burning everything to ashes.

It is the tool of fire, the balance of darkness.

"The soil disaster is simple."

"Earth disasters are revealed by thunder, so they should be sealed with wood."

"Transform it into a gourd."

Ao Bing said this as he drew a line in the air with his fingertips.

The wood element's energy turned into a gourd.

Inside the gourd, there was endless thunder surging.

The gourd was hung in the air, and the thunder in the gourd, together with the merits and karma between heaven and earth, struck the gourd mouth, causing the gourd to shake continuously.

As it shook, the gourd's mouth opened and closed, causing bolts of lightning to burst out from the gourd and turn into a thunder catastrophe.

This is the weapon for earth disasters, the thunder gourd.

When three of the five instruments of disaster and five punishments are manifested, the other two will also be manifested as well.

The manifestation of the instrument of flood, the four pillars supporting the sky.

And the manifestation of the golden disaster energy, the Chi Ming Bell.

Golden Locust Cauldron, Mingge Scale, Thunder Gourd, Four Poles Supporting the Sky Pillars, and Red Bright Bell.

After all five have manifested, their qi will be interconnected, and they will exclude and complement each other.

A cycle of birth and death appears between these mutual exclusion and complementarity.

——All things are full of greed, and the creatures that have already occupied the greatest benefits want to occupy even more benefits, so that other creatures are full of resentment.

Then the plague locusts under the Golden Locust Cauldron multiplied, pushed open the inverted Golden Locust Cauldron and rushed out, sweeping across heaven and earth, destroying all order and resetting all distributions to zero.

At the same time, within the Ming Ge Heng Dou, fire spread, turning the original order and the things "above" into ashes - the Golden Locust Cauldron also melted in the flames, turning into many weapons... and thus giving rise to a war disaster.

After the war, the order between heaven and earth was restored. Under the new order, the weapons used in fighting were collected, and the "bell" was used as a furnace to recast the "Golden Locust Cauldron". The disaster of wood was suppressed again.

Among the five disasters, whether it is the locust plague of wood, the leather plague of fire, or the war plague of gold, they are all interrelated and manifested at the same time - the manifestation of any one of them will affect the balance of the other.

After these three things, the natural disaster of water and the natural disaster of earth were disasters in another sense.

The first three, the wood plague of locusts, the fire plague of leather, and the metal plague of war, all come from "man", from the living beings between heaven and earth.

That is a change in the ladder of heaven and earth that benefits the "lower class" people, a change initiated by those who are unwilling to be oppressed. It is a change that makes the world more fair.

The latter two are different.

The Earth Thunder Disaster was originally a calamity that fell on the "upper layer" of heaven and earth, and it was a wake-up call for those who held great power.

The natural disaster of water is an even more terrifying one, a regulation from the outside to the inside.

If it is other types of disasters that can move slowly, can turn big into small, and decompose a huge disaster into countless small disasters and manifest them, then the appearance of floods is the ultimate catharsis for all living things!
That is the order between heaven and earth, which has decayed to a certain degree, but has also stabilized to a certain degree, so that the locust plague of wood, the military plague of metal, and the leather plague of fire, all rotate and move, are completely ineffective, and are unable to reconcile all spirits. At that time, it is the time when floods come violently - the pillars of heaven collapse, the Milky Way pours down, cleansing everything, and then starting all over again.

“This is the way of the sage.”

"Observe the changes of all things and judge the punishment of all living beings."

Seeing the five instruments of punishment connected into one, presenting only a false outline but not turning into the real one, Queen Mother of the West also stood up and threw the Kunlun Mirror in her hand forward. The power of time and space flowed out and turned into an endless river of time and space, carrying the outline of the five instruments of punishment, going upstream to the source of time, to the ultimate 'one'.

When the five instruments of heavenly punishment appeared, countless living beings between heaven and earth, including those Daluo, could not help but feel a chill in their hearts.

Everyone noticed the sudden appearance of a fierce aura between heaven and earth.

This "fierce energy" is not the "power" wielded by the Queen Mother of the West, but a "fierce energy" that is more unpredictable and more invisible than that "power".

——If we must describe it, this ‘evil spirit’ should be called ‘disaster’.

Those are the changes caused by the imbalance of the five elements during their movement.

Between heaven and earth, all the practitioners of Qigong who practiced the Five Elements had vaguely sensed that the heaven and earth were rotating and moving. The Five Elements, which were the foundation of heaven and earth, had undergone a new change in their mutual generation, restraint, success and humiliation.

This change seemed to be right before their eyes and within reach, but when they wanted to go deeper, an unfathomable terror emerged in their hearts, making them dare not take a step forward.

Even those Daluo in Daluo Heaven had the same feeling - it was as if, if they were exposed to the changes in depth, there would be some not-so-good changes in their Dao Fruits.

"Some fellow Taoists are already trying to take that step." In Daluo Heaven, Zhen Yuanzi overlooked the human world, and his vision merged into one with that of his incarnation on Wanshou Mountain.

——The ginseng fruit tree was swaying right before his eyes.

The ginseng fruit tree, which had been evergreen since the beginning of the world, now showed signs of withering.

The ginseng fruit tree is the spiritual root of the earth, and is born in accordance with the earth element of the Five Elements - as long as the five elements are stable, the ginseng fruit tree will also be stable.

As for the plague locusts, even if they landed on the ginseng fruit tree, they would only eat off a few leaves of the tree - but Zhen Yuanzi valued the ginseng fruit tree too much and didn't want even a leaf to fall off, so when the plague locusts spread over, they came directly to Wanshou Mountain.

In Zhen Yuanzi's understanding, there is actually only one real nemesis of the ginseng fruit tree: those wandering spirits traveling in time and space.

The damage done to the ginseng fruit tree by those wandering spirits can be traced back to before the river of time stabilized, and also to before the ginseng fruit tree and the 'Five Elements of Earth' were combined.

They are the real things that can hurt the roots of the ginseng fruit tree.

But now...

"In the operation of the five elements, there is another kind of change."

Zhen Yuanzi drew the aura of the ginseng fruit tree and calculated with his fingers.

It can touch the most fundamental changes among the five elements of heaven and earth, but does not show any external signs between heaven and earth - that is enough to prove that this is Daluo, who is at the same level as them, and is deeply rooted in the cornerstone of the five elements between heaven and earth.

"Disasters." Zhen Yuanzi opened his eyes, "Which fellow Taoist is trying to engrave the movement of these five disasters into the source of heaven and earth?"

Zhen Yuanzi's gaze swept across Daluo Heaven.

First of all, Ao Bing, who evolved the five disasters and five elements in his palm, was ruled out.

After all, although it is the protagonist of the current era - but precisely because of this, its unique power can only be demonstrated in this era!
Once he tries to go upstream along the river of time and space, his weakness will be revealed to everyone.

"Disasters are transformed into severe ones..."

"And then we go back through time and space to the source of heaven and earth, to change the changes of the five elements at the source of heaven and earth."

"Could it be Fellow Daoist Queen Mother of the West?" Zhen Yuanzi pondered.

Trying to use the ginseng fruit tree to sense the condition of the sacred peach tree.

At this time, Ao Bing, who was at the gate of Daluo Heaven, looked at the phantom of the Five Punishment Instruments manifested in his palm, and realized that when he and the Queen Mother of the West were discussing the Dao and working together to deduce the changes of the Five Punishment Instruments, a full eight hundred years had already passed within the heaven and earth!
(End of this chapter)