Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

Chapter 24: The Method of Substituting for Disaster
"Congratulations, Master, for gaining another disciple!"

After Ao Bing had completed his apprenticeship, the other disciples of Jiejiao saw this and stood up to congratulate Master Tongtian.

Then, they wanted to pay their respects to Ao Bing.

At this time, Master Tongtian suddenly said, "Wait for my fellow disciples, and come back to greet them later. Right now, the most important thing is to preach!"

After he finished speaking, he waved his hand for everyone to sit down and continued preaching.

Normally, each preaching by Tongtian would only last for a hundred years. But this time, he preached for a hundred and fifty years before it ended.

The extra fifty years were a favor given by Tongtian Patriarch on behalf of Ao Bing to the other cultivators who were listening to his sermon. In this way, the other cultivators would not only not bear a grudge for being interrupted by him during his sermon, but would instead remember his kindness.

If it weren’t for Ao Bing, how could the practitioners have listened to the teachings for another fifty years?
After the sermon was over, the Jiejiao disciples and the cultivators who came to listen to the sermon left one after another. Soon, only Tongtian Sect Master and a group of Jiejiao disciples were left in the Immortal Palace.

"Congratulations, junior brother!"

Without being disturbed by outsiders, the disciples of Jiejiao began to greet Ao Bing one by one and introduced their names to each other.

Once you join Jiejiao, you are all family members. You don't have to be close to each other, but at least you have to know each other. Otherwise, it would be so embarrassing if you couldn't call each other's names when you meet in the future.

There are only four true disciples, not only are they highly skilled, but their qualifications are also astonishing. They have been with Master Tongtian since before he became a saint, and they are all old antiques.

They said that they were of the same generation as the other Jiejiao disciples, but in fact they were not from the same era. It could even be said that many Jiejiao disciples were taught by them on behalf of their master.

Among the Jiejiao sect, who would not show great respect to them upon seeing them?
Ao Bing was just a young man, so he didn't dare to be impolite in front of them, so he took the initiative to greet the four people with an extremely respectful attitude.

After that, there were outer disciples including Zhao Gongming, Sanxiao, Ten Heavenly Lords, Shiji, Luo Xuan and so on.

They were of the same status as Ao Bing, but they were older than Ao Bing. Although Ao Bing was polite to them, he did not put himself too low and treated them as equals.

However, there are indeed more outer disciples of Jiejiao, as many as three to five hundred people. If Ao Bing did not have some cultivation, he would not be able to remember the names of so many people.

It took Ao Bing half a day to meet everyone one by one. At this time, he also roughly understood the situation of the outer sect of Jiejiao.

The outer sect of Jiejiao is headed by Zhao Gongming, who is the eldest senior brother of the outer sect and his status is second only to the true disciples. His strength has reached the level of Daluo Jinxian, the best in the entire outer sect.

After Zhao Gongming, it was the Three Nights Goddess.

They are Zhao Gongming's sisters. Among them, the eldest sister Yunxiao has unfathomable strength and is not necessarily weaker than Zhao Gongming. She is highly respected by all the outer disciples.

The second sister Qiongxiao and the third sister Bixiao are weaker, but they are both at the level of Taiyi Golden Immortal.

After them came the Seven Immortals, the Ten Heavenly Lords of Jin'ao Island, the Four Saints of Jiulong Island and others. They were all Taiyi Golden Immortals and had great reputation in the outer sect.

Finally, there are outer disciples like Shiji, Luo Xuan, and Lu Yue who practice alone outside.

Among them, the weakest one was a Golden Immortal, and there were quite a few who had reached the Taiyi realm. However, because they did not stick together, they were not very famous in the outer sect.

The strength of the Jiejiao disciples is roughly like this. The four true disciples all have the cultivation level of Daluo Jinxian. Among the hundreds of outer disciples, the top ones are also Daluo Jinxian.

The rest were either Taiyi Jinxian or Jinxian, there was no lower level. Fortunately, Ao Bing also had the cultivation of Jinxian now, otherwise, after he entered, he would undoubtedly lower the level of the Jiejiao outer sect.

"Renlong, how did you become enemies with Taiyi Zhenren?"

Since there were no outsiders here, Master Tongtian did not show any courtesy. After Ao Bing and his fellow brothers had introduced themselves to each other, he asked directly.

"So that Master can know, I am the Third Prince of Dragon Palace. I was doing nothing in Dragon Palace that day, when I suddenly felt the palace shaking..."

Ao Bing did not exaggerate and told the story truthfully about how he and Taiyi Zhenren came to have a feud.

When he talked about how he was skinned and had his tendons pulled out by Nezha and was almost killed, all the disciples of the Jiejiao sect present were extremely angry.

When he talked about his father, the Dragon King of the East Sea, who went to the Heavenly Palace to file a complaint, he was ambushed and beaten up by Nezha.

The disciples of Jiejiao became even more angry, and some even shouted loudly: "Nezha deserves death! I wish I could kill him with my own hands!"

When Ao Bing talked about how he took revenge on Nezha, the disciples of Jiejiao couldn't help but smile. They all praised him for doing a good job and said that this is how cultivators like us should be, and we should clearly distinguish between gratitude and grudges.

After Ao Bing finished speaking, before Tong Tian Jiaozhu could express his opinion, Shi Ji stood up and complained: "Let Master know that Taiyi Zhenren not only has a grudge against Junior Brother Renlong, but also has a cause and effect with me."

Then, she told the story of how Nezha killed her disciple for no reason and she went to seek justice but was almost killed by Taiyi Zhenren.

"This villain is really hateful!" "This Taiyi Zhenren bullies my disciples, he really deserves to die!"

"Tolerating disciples to do evil is not what a Xuanmen disciple would do."

When they heard about Ao Bing's experience, the disciples of Jiejiao felt mostly sympathetic.

But after hearing what happened to Shiji, they were all furious and wanted to kill Taiyi Zhenren alive right away.

It was normal for them to have such a reaction. Ao Bing was just a new disciple, and although they were brothers, they did not actually have much friendship with each other, so it was naturally difficult for them to empathize with him.

But Shiji was different. They had known each other for tens of millions of years and had deep feelings for each other. Now that they heard that she was almost killed by Taiyi Zhenren, how could they not be angry! How could they not be shocked!

Besides, if Taiyi Zhenren dared to kill Shiji today, he might not dare to kill them tomorrow.

How can we keep such a person?
If Master Tongtian had not been present, this group of Jiejiao disciples would definitely have already started discussing how to take revenge on Master Taiyi.

But now in front of Master Tongtian, everyone cannot act on their own. What to do specifically has to be decided by him.

Therefore, everyone bowed to Tong Tian Jiaozhu and said, "Master, this matter cannot be let go like this. The disciple of the Chan Sect is so arrogant, we must give him retribution. Otherwise, if it gets out, people will think that we, the Jie Sect, are afraid of the Chan Sect."

"Hey, another one got into trouble!"

Master Tongtian did not respond to everyone's request, but sighed.

He could still tolerate his disciple falling into calamity, after all, they were not close. But his disciple falling into calamity was what he least wanted to see.

Therefore, he would preach in advance and tell everyone how to avoid the disaster, just to prevent them from being involved in the killing.

But who could have expected that one of his disciples would fall into disaster silently.

The one who fell into disaster was Shiji.

Like Ao Bing, they all committed the crime of killing, and the punishment was also upon Taiyi Zhenren.

Although Shiji was not killed by Taiyi Zhenren last time, the calamity energy was rampant during the killing period, and even traveling outside could cause him to be entangled by the calamity energy. What's more, fighting with others would cause him to have murderous intentions.

Once you start killing during the killing period, there is no turning back, and you will definitely be in the killing period. Without going through the killing period, there is no possibility of escaping the disaster.

No, not really!
As if he suddenly thought of something, Tongtian Patriarch suddenly cursed and said angrily: "Yuanshi, I thought you were a man of high moral character, but I didn't expect that you could come up with such a vicious method."

“You really know people, faces but not hearts!”

Tongtian Jiaozhu suddenly exploded and cursed Yuanshi Tianzun, which scared everyone present. They subconsciously held their breath and didn't even dare to breathe.

How can they judge when it comes to saints? They can't even agree with them.

"Master, what happened?"

Seeing this, Taoist Duobao asked hurriedly.

"Taiyi must have learned the method of abdication from Yuanshi Tianzun, which is why he taught his disciple to be so unbearable."

"Otherwise, no matter how bad Taiyi is, he is still the true disciple of Yuanshi. Even if the disciples he taught are useless, they would not be so cruel and ignorant."

Master Tongtian said with a grim expression.

The method of replacing the calamity, as the name suggests, is to find someone to take the calamity on your behalf. But the killing calamity is sent by the way of heaven, and it is very difficult to hide it from the way of heaven.

Therefore, the person who takes the place of oneself to bear the calamity must be the one closest to oneself. Only in this way can one possibly conceal the truth from the heavens.

For a monk, the closest person must be the successor. After all, the master and the disciple are one, their fate is connected, and they are closer than father and son.

Taiyi Zhenren accepted Nezha as his disciple, but instead of teaching him how to behave, he spoiled him in every way, causing him to get into trouble everywhere.

This is not the attitude of a disciple, it is obvious that he is using him as a tool to scapegoat.

Since he was a tool, he naturally had to sink as deep into the calamity as possible. In this way, when the calamity broke out, he would not be able to dodge it even if he wanted to, and could only honestly take the calamity on behalf of his master.

(End of this chapter)