I stole divine power in Daxia

Chapter 527 Poison Scheme
The brilliant red auspicious clouds underwent new changes, the sound of the great Dao in the cauldron sounded, and countless methods based on the Red Emperor began to transform. All the people in the world who practiced the Red Emperor's methods could feel that their methods, which had been weakened due to the dispersion of the Five Emperors' luck, had a new 'pillar', but the source was no longer the Red Emperor, but the Three Qi Tianjun of the Southern Danling True Old Master.

As long as one can accept this source, the statue of the Red Emperor in the method will gradually transform into the appearance of the Heavenly Lord. This is all achieved through the peerless cauldron that contains the luck of the Five Immortals and covers the world. The Five Elders of the Five Directions are naturally among the Five Immortals, and they are the Daluo Heavenly Immortals and the masters of the sky.

Many of the Taoists from Xuandu Mountain present had practiced certain Five Emperors methods. For example, the Taoist who practiced the Lihuo Zuqi should have been happy that his path had been repaired and that he had the opportunity to move forward again.

But if he recognized that Chidi had transformed into Danling Zhenlao Sanqi Tianjun, then it would be equivalent to starting to integrate into Zhou Tieyi's Taoist lineage. Coming to stop Zhou Tieyi at this time, isn't it just like raising his hand and slapping himself?
He could only cross his legs in a hurry and use a Taoist forbidden method to seal the already shattered Red Emperor statue on the spirit platform to prevent it from transforming. However, this caused his already weak aura to further decline, and he completely fell from the third rank of Taoism, and no longer had the ability to participate in this battle.

Seeing this scene, even the Taoist Lishan was shocked. If Zhou Tieyi could really completely transform the Five Emperors into the Five Elders of the Five Directions, and then combine them with the Thirty-three Heavens covering the world, then their Xuandu Mountain would really have to surrender.

At this time, two great and righteous energies were like white rainbows, piercing through the red auspicious clouds and falling into the infinite pure Buddha light, transforming into two teachers. One of them was young, with a strong scholarly air, and also had a bit of Taoist elegance. He was Li Kegong, the current Taoist lecturer at Confucius Institute.

Although Confucianism does not seek immortality, because the methods of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism can be easily transformed into each other, some top Confucian practitioners, when they are unable to achieve unparalleled merits, will turn to Taoism or Buddhism, seeking immortality first, and then waiting for the opportunity to accomplish meritorious deeds.

This was the path that Ke Anran took at the beginning.

The same is true for the lecturer of Confucius Academy. He was a Confucian scholar who had won the first place in the imperial examination two hundred years ago. He had achieved the third Confucian level of "establishing words". However, because of his straightforward temperament, he was ostracized in the court and was forced to teach at Confucius Academy.

He was not successful in his political career and his Confucian practice was blocked, so he turned to Taoism. He was indeed gifted, and in just thirty years he reached the second level of Taoism, "Shou Xu". However, it was easy to stay in Taoism, but it was difficult to turn to the Confucian practice.

Although he always regarded himself as a Confucian and taught in the Confucius Institute for two hundred years, hoping to gain merit through this, he always lingered outside the door, let alone "establishing virtue" which is above the second-level merit. Therefore, he was called a Taoist Confucian by the world.

The other middle-aged man had black hair and beard, was meticulous in his attire, held a tablet in his hand, and wore a square scarf with mountains and rivers on his head. He was similar to the Taoist Heavenly Master of Xuandu Mountain, and was a descendant of the Confucian sage. He was called Sishenggong.

It’s just that the successor of the Confucian Confucius Institute has always been only the second-rank Confucian, and very few people have broken through to the first rank with their own talents. In the past, people didn’t understand why, and they just thought that it was because the Taoist Master was still alive and the Confucian Sage had died, so there was such a gap between the descendants.

However, after Zhou Tieyi touched the bones of the Confucian sage in the academy and confirmed that the power within them had been stolen long ago, everyone suddenly realized that since the power within the bones of the Confucian sage had been stolen, naturally there would not be much left for future generations.

Two streams of righteous energy fell into the boundless pure Buddha light. The Successor of the Holy Lord sighed, "Venerable Shengshan is right. When the head of the Blood Sea said that, everyone thought it would only apply to Buddhism. Who could have thought that the most ancient of the Nine Gods of the Ancient World would not die in an inert state? By the time we really realized the harm he was doing, he had already made up a huge lie and deceived the people of the world. If we are still not awake, the chaos of Shintoism will be inevitable again."

Taoist Li Kegong also nodded and said, "We were negligent. After all, he was not in the court. I didn't expect that in just half a year, he could confuse right and wrong and cause chaos in the hearts of the people..."

Then he couldn't help but complain, "Dong Xingshu is really disappointing!"

Seeing the two of them coming together, the worries in the hearts of the Taoists were slightly relieved. Taoist Lishan asked, "Since he has already exposed his wolfish ambitions, why hasn't the emperor sent anyone yet? Does he really want to revive the way of God?"

Li Kegong and Sishenggong looked at each other. They were not good at political struggles back then, so even if they were of the second rank, they could only stay in the Confucius Institute to teach. But at least they were better than Lishan Taoist, who was a hermit who always lived a life of luxury.

Li Kegong coughed and said, "I'm afraid the emperor won't send anyone."

"Why?"

Taoist Lishan asked hurriedly, if the Emperor of Daxia did not object and suppressed the public opinion of the world, then even if they joined forces, the probability of a real breakthrough would be extremely low!

The Successor looked up, sighed softly, and then waved his sleeves. The light in front of him illuminated the scene within a radius of a thousand miles.

Even though there was thunder and lightning at Menshen Mountain and the second-rank masters were fighting in the clouds, rays of ghost immortal light were still pouring in from all directions. And not just the ghost immortal lineage, many small Taoist lineages, and even Confucianism, Yin-Yang school, diplomacy, Feng Shui masters, and physiognomists were all coming here.

I want to see if I can enter Taiyi Temple and listen to this mysterious method that can change the world.

It was truly an atmosphere of a saint preaching, with people from all directions coming to pay tribute.

"There are really many fools in the world."

The Successor of the Saint sighed, "The emperor wants to achieve enlightenment with the Theory of the Three Talents. He is the Supreme Sun and Moon Daoist Lord, commanding the Thirty-three Heavens, but in fact the Thirty-three Heavens' method has never been perfected. Even the Lord of Daming Palace has only let each family build the Heavenly Universe. This was revealed when they fought against the Western Paradise of Buddhism some time ago. Even if they used the fate of the Great Xia as a chain to stick the layers of Heavenly Universe together, it was only good for defense. They couldn't even deal with the traitor of the Mohist School, so how could they possibly build a path to sainthood?"

After the explanation from the Sisheng Duke, all the Taoists present realized instantly that the Lord of Daming Palace had only been able to protect himself with the help of the incomplete Thirty-three Heavens, and could not even break through the barrier of Buddha's light.

When they looked up again, the voice of Zhou Tieyi's preaching in the sky was still continuous, which not only covered the methods of cultivation, but also his philosophy of governing the world.

Heaven, earth, humans, gods and ghosts, the Five Immortals go from seeking immortality, maintaining their homes, replenishing the earth's veins, setting rules to establishing the universe, from the human way to the earth's way, and then to the heaven's way.

This is the true unity of the Three Talents. It is not only a way of practicing, but also a way of governing the world.

The rulers of the sky are no longer the high and mighty people who have renounced the world to practice Taoism. Their Taoist lineage also covers from top to bottom and from the way of heaven to the way of humanity through the gods, earthly immortals, human immortals, and ghost immortals.

The three elements are unified and blend with each other. This is the real method of the Thirty-three Heavens.

After listening to this quietly, many Taoists present began to waver in their resolve, because this method was really good. People in higher positions had the opportunity to become saints, and the common people below would be able to live and work in peace and contentment. They could not only seek their own transcendence, but also the happiness of all living beings.

Except for one thing. The one who preached this method was the Nine Ancient Gods, and this method would revive the Shinto in another form.

The suffering of the human race for thousands of years has shown one thing, that is, the revival of Shinto will definitely not bring any good things!

Wasn't it the same with the Tianyi Taoist lineage in the past? I heard that the Taoist leader of Tianyi even gained the recognition of the old Heavenly Master, and thus obtained the key to open the Heavenly Palace.

However, the result was that Taoism suffered severe damage. Not only did the Tianyi Taoist lineage die out, but even the old Heavenly Master died.

The old Heavenly Master was the master of the Taoist priest Li Shan. Seeing the Taoist disciples around him wavering, he said in hatred, "It's just another day of talking about a demon!"

But although he was determined, he also knew why the Great Xia Saint did not come. With the establishment of the Five Immortals Theory and the construction of the new sky, it was likely that the Great Xia Saint's holy path was advancing rapidly at this time, and he was about to surpass the third grade and achieve the second grade.

The third rank is when the Emperor of Great Xia is at his weakest. He can only stay in the palace and needs to compromise with various forces. But it will be different when he achieves the second rank. The Emperor of Great Xia will gradually transform from weak to strong.

If you take action to stop the Five Immortals at this time, it would be tantamount to destroying your own "Three Talents Response Strategy".

This brings us back to the core issue.

His Majesty the Great Xia had always had the opportunity to be a wise ruler, which was to die together with Zhou Tieyi and leave all the achievements to future generations.

But between practicing Taoism and governing the country, the Emperor of Daxia wants both.

If there really is a bias, for the Emperor of Daxia, practicing Taoism is naturally more important than governing the country, otherwise there would not have been so many changes last year.

After realizing this, Taoist Lishan said angrily, "How could His Majesty be so unwise! He actually placed the world's human race's Daoist tradition under his chance of becoming a saint!"

Taoist Li Kegong said, "Now is not the time to dwell on these issues. We must come up with a solution. We cannot watch him continue to perfect the so-called Thirty-three Heavens Method. Although His Majesty will not stop him, he is happy for us to hinder him, so he will eventually side with us and provide a lot of necessary help."

"Right." Shengshan also reacted at this time, "He tied the Way of the Five Immortals and the Thirty-three Heavens together, which made the emperor hesitate to act rashly. But the Thirty-three Heavens is not just the Way of the Five Immortals. Our thinking just now was wrong. We are not trying to break these Thirty-three Heavens, but to fight for them!"

Shengshan found the key point.

Then he looked at the Taoist priest Lishan and asked, "How many of the Taoist thirty-three heavens are under construction now?"

Although the Lord of Daming Palace cast a spell and evolved twenty-three layers of the sky that day, some of the sky were not fully manifested. Only the most core figures of Taoism knew which sky were under construction and which had been built.

Taoist Li Shan said, "Originally, the Lord of Daming Palace first informed us of the method of building the thirty-three heavens of the various Taoist sects in the world. Each layer of the sky only needs a second-grade Taoist and many third-grade Taoists to be in charge. The method of construction is to re-open up the original kingdom of God, use the Taoist method of guarding the void and nourishing the real, fill it with one's own Taoist tradition, let the guarding of the void connect, and use the first-grade Taoist to 'give birth', and transform it into thirty-three heavens covering the world."

Taoist Lishan revealed the most core secret: there are very few first-grade Taoists in the world, and Taoists could not gather thirty-three first-grade Taoists before, but they could gather quite a few second-grade Taoists.

"Of course, even if we include our Taoist lineage, we can't build 33 celestial palaces at once, so there are five celestial palaces in the palace, namely the Sun and Moon Realm of Zixiao Heaven, the Fengchen Realm of Baohuang Heaven, the People's Realm of Taihe Heaven, the Mingdu Realm of Youjing Heaven, and the Military Soul Realm of Bingyuan Heaven."

When Taoist Lishan said the names of these five heavens, Buddhists and Confucians instantly found the corresponding people. Zixiao Heaven must be ruled by the Great Xia Emperor himself, Baohuang Heaven should be ruled by the palace worshippers, Taihe Heaven should be ruled by Ke Anran, who is based on the people of Tianjing, Youjing Heaven is ruled by the Queen of Heaven, and the last Bingyuan Heaven should be rebuilt by the military strategists based on Bingzhong. In the last war, Bingzhong had been severely damaged, and no way to restore it has been found yet. If it can be integrated into the Thirty-three Heavens to suppress the things in Bingzhong, it would be a very good thing.

"I have the Three Heavens of Xuandu Mountain, the True Realm of Zichen Heaven, the Old Realm of Huanyu Heaven, and the Lishan Realm of Dongxiao Heaven that I am building."

The three are Tianshi, Li Qinghua, and Lishan Taoist. Compared with the former two, Lishan Taoist is much weaker, so it is much slower for him to build the sky. He originally thought that this was his chance, but now he is deeply worried.

“The Daming Dao Palace has two days, the Yunzaitian Fenglei Realm, and the Kongshengtian Yuanzai Realm which is under construction.”

"In addition, the Zuo General's Mansion and the frontline soldiers are responsible for building one sky, the Ning Wang Mansion is responsible for one sky, the Chongshan Wang Mansion and the Qingdi lineage are responsible for two skys, the medical family Yaowang Valley is responsible for two skys, the Yin-Yang family is responsible for two skys, the Taoist Nanming lineage is responsible for one sky, the Jinmu lineage is responsible for one sky, the Taoist Qingpingzhou lineage is responsible for two skys, and finally the Great Scarlet Heaven Taiqing Realm that he opened up with the academy. This is the twenty-three heavens in plain sight."

Taoist Lishan told everyone in one breath what he knew about the layout of the twenty-three celestial palaces. Everyone looked solemn when they heard it. These twenty-three celestial palaces were all contacted by the Lord of Daming Palace. In just half a year, he convinced so many Taoists or Taoist sects closely connected with Taoism to jointly invest resources to build twenty-three celestial palaces. He was indeed a first-class talent in the world.

After listening, Li Kegong clapped his hands and said, "This is the solution. We will split our forces into two groups. One group will contact many Taoist sects and explain the pros and cons. They will not help Zhou Tieyi and will unite to fight for the dominance of these thirty-three days."

Everyone nodded.

"The second way is to open up the sect suppressed by Luoshui as a backup."

Everyone looked stunned. "The one that Luo Shui suppressed... who are you referring to?"

"Man-killer Jiang Taiyi!"

Li Kegong raised his head and looked up at the sky. "He has carefully planned and used his desire for human benefits to deceive the eyes of the world. Whether he can occupy more sects, none of us knows. Therefore, we need a method. If he really occupies more sects, then use this method to destroy all sects in the world. In addition to releasing the sect of Jiang Taiyi, the butcher, I really can't think of any other way. Otherwise, the chief lecturer of Nanda Temple would not even leave the temple gate."

(End of this chapter)