Taoist Master Xuanhuang

"Does this concern us?" Liu Wenhe asked, puzzled.

"It's related, but it's not related either. In general, it's not related," said the sweeping monk.

Seeing everyone's shocked and thoughtful expressions, Liu Wenhe was a little confused and asked the sweeping monk in a low voice.

"It's because the Heart Tribulation might involve the various God Lords, but it has nothing to do with us subordinate cultivators. If the various God Lords are bewitched by the Heart Tribulation, then we will suffer calamities. If the various God Lords are not bewitched by the Heart Tribulation, then it has nothing to do with us. The main issue lies with the various God Lords."

“I understand now that you put it that way, but have the esteemed deities been misled?” Liu Wenhe asked.

"No, the treasures of creation have no wisdom and no mental tribulation, unless the world is complete and the world is undergoing a mental tribulation. But the world is not complete yet, it is in a state of distortion and chaos, so it can be said that it is always in a mental tribulation. If the extraordinary is not suppressed, it will be distorted. Isn't this a kind of mental tribulation?"

“I understand. That means it has nothing to do with us. But it’s really terrifying that the three Supreme God Lords are all in the midst of this calamity,” Liu Wenhe said.

"It has nothing to do with us, and nothing to do with the divine cultivators. Didn't you hear what the Supreme God of Life said? It's only related to the divine cultivators," said the sweeping monk.

“Divine cultivators come from the Dao Lord, so naturally they won’t have mental tribulations,” Liu Wenhe said.

"correct."

"Should we continue?" Liu Wenhe asked.

“Of course we must continue. It is their calamity, not ours, so it cannot affect our plans. Besides, we don’t need much,” said the sweeping monk.

After a while...

All the cultivators, except for the divine cultivators and subordinate cultivators, were immersed in the words of the three supreme gods.

Perceive the mental tribulations, understand the mental tribulations, and summarize the mental tribulations.

The cultivators were somewhat better off, having experienced such mental tribulations several times before; the most shaken were the realm's holy beings.

Originally, as holy beings, they were not subject to these tribulations. However, because they were involved in the Xuanhuang system and the main world, tribulations such as the Heart Tribulation began to befall them.

The world is generally just and fair.

They can use the power of Xuanhuang's will to become reality, thus obscuring the perception of the realm's origin and making many efforts with the help of Xuanhuang's will.

Correspondingly, calamities can come to them in accordance with the will of Xuanhuang, so that even though they are holy beings, they must undergo tribulations.

"Subordinate cultivators, what are your requirements?"

The Lord of All Beings broke the silence and asked.

"Reporting to the Supreme God, we are acting on the orders of the various God Lords. We have no other requests. Our only request is that if the realms created by the various God Lords are also part of the plans of the three Supreme Gods, we hope to have some decision-making power."

"Yes!" the Lord of All Beings agreed instantly.

He knew that subordinate cultivators wouldn't be interested in so-called divine positions; they were subordinate cultivators, but in fact, they were also a type of divine cultivator.

Their gods are the most precious treasures, and as a subordinate system, how could they tolerate a second person holding a divine position? This would contradict their system of cultivation.

Participation is to demonstrate our presence; we shouldn't divide up the realm without their permission.

They won't participate unless it involves their interests.

The Supreme Treasure is different from the three Supreme Beings.

The Supreme God pursues non-action, because he is invincible and therefore inactive.

However, in the midst of inner turmoil, there was an excessive desire to act, which, strictly speaking, demoted oneself and shouldn't have been the case.

The world is vast, but isn't it still my domain?

Wherever the original creator establishes a world, that place is their home.

Excessively pursuing one's own small family is a form of mental decline caused by being blinded by hardship; it's not something to be done.

Whether it's the conferment of godhood, true cultivation, or even divine cultivation and subservience, they are all within one's own jurisdiction.

The supreme treasures are different; they are independent entities. Although they are Xuanhuang supreme treasures, they are independent entities compared to the three supreme ones.

The three supreme beings are not independent entities; they exist in relation to Xuanhuang, or rather, they are Xuanhuang.

Since the treasures are independent individuals, they need to strive for their own future.

To create a new realm and create the chosen one is to leverage the power of the realm to gain more fortune and make more progress.

It is different from the three supreme powers.

The other cultivators are still undergoing mental tribulations and need further tempering, but the three supreme beings have already emerged.

That's right, the three of them have already emerged from this state. They just had a moment of enlightenment and emerged from it. It's very simple for the three of them, after all, Xuanhuang is there for them.

When they were undergoing their tribulations, Xuanhuang severed the protection of their will, but they will return once they realize it.

Meanwhile, the three cultivators they had warned were still in the midst of calamity.

This is not something that can be overcome with just a reminder; it requires personal insight and a certain amount of hardship.

The three of them only served as reminders; when one can truly emerge from this state is up to the cultivator to figure out for themselves.

So, although the cultivator was silent and seemed to understand, he was not. He was just shocked to go from not knowing to knowing. But what does it matter now that he knows?

Many things are done out of necessity, things we know are wrong but still do; this is a kind of mental tribulation.

To give a very simple example, let's use love to explain it.

How many people know that this love is wrong, but they just can't let go, they just want to hold on, they just want to go all the way to the end.

No matter how much I try to persuade or reason with them, I just can't get through to them.

Only when you are exhausted, when you are battered and bruised, when it is too late to turn back, do you realize that you were really wrong.

The tribulations of love, the seven emotions and six desires, are just another form of mental tribulation, merely a manifestation of it.

The most terrifying thing about mental tribulations is this: knowing you're wrong and in trouble, yet refusing to turn back.

I always felt I could do it, that I could achieve my goals, but the reality was a complete mess.

Unlike the three great gods, once the Xuanhuang God senses an error, his will returns and provides protection once again.

It's like instantly gaining ten thousand practical insights into various errors, enabling you to immediately correct them.

Once the cultivator is reminded, is it possible for him to break free instantly?

impossible.

Just like the divided Four Superpowers, like the Holy Ones who want to break free of their shackles, like the Eight Great Ones who want to rise from turmoil, can they give up? No.

Only by experiencing and overcoming tribulations can one become stronger through them.

Those who cannot overcome this will only perish with resentment.

……

The Investiture of the Gods ceremony has ended.

All parties left with mixed feelings of joy and sorrow, but generally speaking, joy outweighed disappointment.

Don't underestimate these cultivators; they have experienced many tribulations, not just once or twice.

Having risen from adversity, they will not be intimidated by a mental ordeal; they simply need to be more careful.

If you're afraid of calamities, what kind of spiritual practice is that?
"The plan can begin!"

At Confucius's command, the cultivators of the Confucian Temple, who had been prepared for a long time, began a massive operation.

In the sacred site of Nishan, a colossal statue that reaches to the heavens and the earth has been erected; it is none other than the statue of Confucius.

The cultivators who refine their spirit begin to awaken the spirit, which, in short, is to awaken the spirit of this statue, just like the statues that the Dao Lord has scattered in various places.

Once the spirit is born, Confucius, far away in the realm of the Confucian Temple, will be able to sense it and make a simple descent. When the heavens and earth are unsealed next year, he will descend into this statue with the strength of a fourth-order being.

This statue is just the first; gradually, statues of him will be erected in various places. And in each place where a statue is erected, just like the original statue of Xuanhuang, a simple divine kingdom network will gradually coalesce.

This version of the Heavenly Net, based on Confucius's version, is the source of his motivation to fight against the Confucian Temple's domain and the origin of the domain.

It will be connected to the Confucian Temple, which is equivalent to adding an external source of energy to the Confucian Temple.

It can absorb the incense, faith, and fortune gathered by cultivators who have refined their spiritual energy within the area covered by the statues of various gods.

These incense offerings, imbued with good fortune, will be incorporated into the Confucian temple, but these offerings are poisonous.

Each incense stick carries the will of Confucius, just as the three great gods of Xuanhuang sought the Lesser Heavenly Dao, just as…

It's no longer the same as before; it's just a simplified version of Xuanhuang's various methods.

Confucius and Jiang Ziya can be said to be the two people who studied the universe most deeply.

One studies the field method of Xuanhuang, and the other studies the will method of Xuanhuang.

They all made a small gain.

When Confucius spoke to outsiders, he referred to the Refining Realm, which everyone knows.

But what no one knows is how he did it; that is the true core of refining the realm.

When the incense carrying his will enters the realm, he doesn't immediately send it into the realm's origin; he doesn't have the power to do so directly.

Because sending it in like that is like throwing a meat bun to a dog—it's gone forever.

What use is a mere second-order true will?

It's not even enough to fill the gaps between the realm's origins, yet they still want to mix in toxins to devour the realm's origins—it's utterly delusional.

I don't have that ability.

Therefore, the incense and faith that entered the Confucian Temple's domain first gathered on the Jianmu branch that had already taken root in the domain.

As mentioned earlier, after Jianmu took root in the two realms, it became more like a god than these gods, receiving the treatment of a favored son.

It is possible to directly access the source.

It is directly nourished by the source, and it can mobilize the power of the source of the Confucian Temple.

There are many reasons why this can be done, but the main reason is the connection between Xuanhuang's natal treasure and the concept of Xuanhuang's will becoming real, which can reduce the origin of the dimensional realm.

There is also the Jianmu tree, which is the world tree and the yearning of countless spatial worlds.

In short, there are many reasons. Confucius used this diverter to mix his will into it, so that it would not be worn away when it entered the source.

When he gradually gains control over more origins than the origins of the realm, that will be the time for him to refine the realm.

It won't take long, because it still has the ability to act proactively.

The origin of a domain is non-active; it is a rule-based entity.

The will he infiltrated was different; refer to how Xuanhuang infected and eroded the Zerg Queen, also known as the Star Mother Yuanjun.

Therefore, studying the Xuanhuang Confucius is a professional endeavor.

Moreover, there is also the Xuanhuang Will Law.

Confucius has changed; he can no longer practice other methods within the realm, but his willpower can.

The cultivation of willpower is unrestrained, which is also the strength of willpower.

The origin of the realm can organize sacred cultivation, but it cannot prevent the sacred will from becoming stronger.

Therefore, Confucius linked the method of tempering the will of Xuanhuang to the origin of the realm.

The four gates and twelve pillars of Xuanhuang are the link between the power of heaven and earth. He connects with the origin of the realm and tempers himself through the origin of the realm.

The specific method of tempering is also to imitate Xuanhuang. As mentioned before, an undisguised will, that is, a will that has not been disguised by Jianmu and has entered the origin of the realm, will be instantly annihilated by the origin of the realm.

His plan was to proactively expose a portion of it, and what he proactively exposed were the four gates and twelve pillars of the realm for tempering will.

Use the origin of the realm as the power of heaven and earth.

While forging his will and growing stronger, he also corrupted the very source of existence...

It's a plan that kills several birds with one stone.

Moreover, even Jianmu's clones were caught in the trap.

After all, as long as the will is not real, it is impossible to maintain control after refining the realm; this is a law.

A top-tier realm that is completely under one's own control requires an equivalent level of willpower.

The true strength of the will of a top-tier realm, even without the realization of a fourth-tier will, requires the support of a third-tier limit will.

Otherwise, the moment he refines the realm would be the moment when his will is not in control and he loses control of the Dao.

How to do it?

One needs to comprehend the three invincible techniques of Xuanhuang and use visualized objects to suppress it, just like a cultivator.

However, apart from willpower, all other sacred practices are locked by the origin of the realm, making it impossible to comprehend the visualization diagram.

Therefore, his plan was to use the Jianmu tree's avatar in the Confucian Temple as a visualization diagram, a visualization diagram of the Jianmu tree reaching to heaven.

May I?
Of course it is possible, and it is even better than the visualization diagrams that ordinary cultivators comprehend, after all, it is an avatar of Jianmu.

When the time comes, the plan will succeed in building a tree as a suppressing object, which will also be the World Tree in one's dantian.

This is hundreds of times stronger than the spiritual items that ordinary cultivators refine into their dantian.

It wouldn't affect Jianmu much; it has plenty of clones. Going to Confucius's dantian is the same as being in the realm; the dantian is also a world.

If a cultivator's dantian is large enough, why not a world?

The World Flow is simply about turning your dantian into a world, isn't it?

Different paths lead to the same destination.

Various factors combined to give Confucius the ability to refine the boundaries of the Confucian Temple.

The ceremony has officially begun.

When the first statue was lit and the spiritual awakening was successful, some people frowned and felt dissatisfied.

It was a divine cultivator. There was also a huge city not far from Mount Ni. Wherever there was a city, there would inevitably be a Creation God Cult, and the divine cultivators led by Wei Qiancheng.

"Temple keeper?"

The divine cultivators in Qu City were very dissatisfied. They sensed the anomaly immediately: a divine nature different from that of the Dao Lord was faintly emitting light.

It looked as if it could be extinguished by a gust of wind. Compared to the radiant divine light of the Daoist master, the spiritual awakening of Confucius's statue was like a match.

"It's alright. The sect leader instructed us not to worry about it. This is the plan of the Confucian Temple Master Kong," said the temple keeper of Qu City.

"They're a bit of an eyesore, but it's not that we want to interfere," the group of cultivators said.

It wasn't that they were worried, but that it was an eyesore. Originally, their Creation God Cult possessed the unique divine light, but suddenly there was a small matchstick-like divine light that wasn't the Dao Lord's, which made them feel very awkward.

"It's just a plan of the Venerable Kong; it will disappear," the temple keeper said.

"Disappeared?" The middle and upper management did not understand.

"It's just about storing them in the dantian. After all, each statue is a rare spiritual object. Once Lord Kong's plan succeeds, he will naturally cherish them and store them away for use in suppressing the dantian, or for other purposes."

The temple keeper's words were largely clear.

...(End of chapter)