Conferred God: Started from Swallowing the Heaven-Repairing Stone

Therefore, these two things are not contradictory at all, because the way of Heaven itself is contradictory.

Or rather, the Heavenly Dao seeks a balance, a balance between heaven and earth and cultivators. It is in order to maintain this balance that the Heavenly Dao appears so contradictory.

When there are many cultivators, then try to suppress them by bringing down numerous tribulations to weaken their numbers as much as possible.

However, when the number of cultivators is small, Heaven must find ways to support them to prevent their lineage from truly being broken.

After all, the cultivation civilization created by cultivators is extremely important to the Heavenly Dao, as it can drive the evolution of heaven and earth and make it constantly improve.

Therefore, cultivators have a reason to exist, but because they are essentially parasites living off the world, they can exist, but their numbers cannot be too great.

The so-called demon race, from the moment of their birth, is destined to become a weapon in the hands of Heaven, a weapon specifically used to deal with cultivators.

Rewarding cultivators with merit can incentivize demons to kill them. However, if demons are too powerful, it's also not good. Therefore, cultivators can also gain merit by killing demons, which is an incentive for them to eliminate demons.

This can be considered a kind of balance. In order to maintain this balance, Heaven has to use merit as bait to force the two groups into endless fighting, so as to reduce their numbers and prevent them from becoming a burden to Heaven.

This is the idea of ​​Heaven, which is very simple, but to outsiders who are unaware of the truth, Heaven's actions naturally seem extremely contradictory.

Conflicts don't necessarily arise from a question of right or wrong, but more likely from a question of perspectives. Once you understand the positions of both sides, those complex issues immediately become simpler.

From the perspective of the Heavenly Dao, His contradictory actions become immediately understandable. He wanted to suppress cultivators, but he couldn't suppress them too harshly.

It's difficult to control the degree of this, so that there are often cases of overdoing it.

In this situation, it becomes necessary to support cultivators. This, in turn, creates a contradiction between the previous suppression measures.

Therefore, the rise of the demon race is inevitable. If the demon race does not rise, how can it become a weapon in the hands of the Heavenly Dao specifically used to target cultivators?

Based on this principle, since Heaven favors the rise of the demon race, wouldn't going to educate the demon race at this time be the greatest act of following Heaven's will?

To act in accordance with Heaven is the right path.

Therefore, there is no need to bear moral pressure when trying to educate the demons at this time.

The Xuanmen (Taoist school) emphasizes acting in accordance with Heaven. My teaching of the demonic path is acting in accordance with Heaven. How can you say that I am wrong or that it is a degenerate act?
With the backing of Heaven, even if one teaches the demonic path, one will not have to bear moral pressure, nor will one have to worry about damage to one's reputation.

In this way, those powerful individuals who have no foundation in the Xuanmen can go to the Demon Realm to educate the demons without any burden.

If Heaven were to abandon the Demon Clan in the future and demote them to the evil path, it would be simple; everyone would just need to sever ties with them in time.

Their efforts to convert the demons were in accordance with the will of Heaven, and there was nothing wrong with that. Turning against the demons was also a matter of the will of Heaven, and they shouldn't be blamed.

Therefore, as long as the separation is timely, they will remain role models of the right path and will not be affected in any way.

Of course, if the cutting is not timely or not clean enough, then it's hard to say.

Failure to cut when it is time to do so is considered falling into evil ways, and one has no one to blame but oneself.

As for the demon race's rise to power and its potential to plunder the fortunes of the Xuanmen and the West, that was even less of their concern. They acknowledged that the demon race had become stronger because of their edification.

But they were also following the will of Heaven when they went to the Demon Realm to teach the demons. So, if we really want to blame someone, we can't blame them; we should blame Heaven.

It's all the fault of Heaven supporting the Demon Clan. If Heaven hadn't insisted on supporting the Demon Clan, where would they have gotten the strength to seize the Xuanmen's fortune?

Furthermore, how can it be wrong to follow the will of Heaven?

Therefore, even if the demons become stronger under their influence and cause great losses to the Xuanmen, the fault does not lie with them.

Knowing full well that it's Heaven's fault, they still insist on blaming them. Isn't this a classic case of bullying the weak and fearing the strong? They've lost all shame!
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The powerful beings of the primordial world were so shrewd that they all understood this point without anyone having to spell it out.

As a result, those great masters who did not pass on their lineage were immediately targeted by several sages.

If we were to name the people who least want the demon race to rise to power, it would undoubtedly be them. Because they are the saints of the Xuanmen (Taoist sect) and the West, the rise of the demon race would mean the loss of their destiny.

They suffered the greatest losses and naturally did not want the demon race to prosper.

In contrast to them were those great masters who did not pass on their lineage. Because they lacked a lineage, even if the fortunes of the Xuanmen (Taoist sect) and the West were damaged, their losses were not significant.

On the contrary, after the demons were educated, their fortunes soared, and they all gained tremendous benefits.

This alone is enough to put the two sides on opposite sides.

Unfortunately, even if a sage understood this, it wouldn't matter, because there were not just one or two, or even dozens, of those great supernatural beings who hadn't passed on their lineages; there were hundreds, and they simply couldn't keep an eye on them all.

If there were more than a dozen, the sage could appeal to their emotions and reason, persuading them not to go astray.

But a few hundred is simply impossible to stop; their journey to the Demon Realm to convert the demons is inevitable. Humans are inherently driven by self-interest, even those with great supernatural powers.

When the benefits brought to them by the Xuanmen (Taoist sect) no longer satisfy them, they will leave the Xuanmen to pursue greater benefits.

Isn't this why Western religions established their own sect? They were not satisfied with the benefits brought to them by the Taoist sect, so they decided to separate and go their own way.

"Indeed, the establishment of the Western Religion as a separate entity was the beginning of the split within my Xuanmen sect. We should never have allowed them to do so in the first place. Didn't their split set an example for the rest of us?"

"The people of the West are truly a scourge. No wonder Master was unwilling to accept them as disciples back then. It must have been that Dao Ancestor had already seen that these people had impure intentions and that they were the ones who would bring chaos to our Xuanmen!"

The Three Pure Ones' eyes flashed, their hatred for the two Western Saints growing even stronger.

Because they had already sensed that the split within the Xuanmen sect was an unstoppable trend.

It's easy to go to the Demon Realm to educate the demons, but it's difficult to get them to abandon the wealth and fortune they've built up there and return to the Xuanmen sect afterwards.

If they don't come back, what difference is there between them and leaving the Xuanmen sect to join the demonic path?
The example of a celestial being descending into demonhood is even worse than the Western Religion becoming independent. Even if the saints were dissatisfied with the Western Religion, they didn't deny that it was part of the righteous path. But the demonic path is undeniably evil; there's no room for debate on that.

Anyone who dares to refute this is simultaneously making an enemy of both the Xuanmen (Taoist sect) and the Western Religion.

Since the demon race is evil, the impact of the Xuanmen's great supernatural beings turning to the demonic path in large numbers is unimaginable; the reputation of the Xuanmen is immediately ruined.

With morale already low and the reputation of the Xuanmen sect tarnished, how could it possibly survive? A split was inevitable. Seeing the Xuanmen sect on the verge of collapse, why not divide the family while it still has the resources to maximize its gains? Or wait until the family fortune is completely wiped out before splitting up, leaving everyone with nothing?

As the saying goes, when the wall is pushed down, everyone falls. When the Xuanmen is strong, everyone is united and of one mind.

But if the Xuanmen (mystical sect) falls into trouble, the first to abandon it will be none other than these powerful cultivators within the Xuanmen. When they betray the Xuanmen, they will show absolutely no mercy.

From the birth of the Demon Race and its future rise, the Four Saints of Xuanmen—no, it should be said that the Five Saints—witnessed the scene of Xuanmen's division and couldn't help but feel a sense of sorrow.

No one expected that the most powerful force in the primordial world, the Xuanmen, would disintegrate in such a way.

It's not an external enemy, but internal strife!

Indeed, powerful fortresses are often destroyed from within. The once invincible Xuanmen sect ultimately fell at the hands of its own people.

Indeed, if the Xuanmen sect doesn't fall into internal strife, who can cause it to disintegrate? Not even all other forces combined, and even the Heavenly Dao itself couldn't do it.

The Xuanmen sect was so powerful that it was destined to perish only from internal strife, rather than from external enemies.

"The Two Saints of the West!"

Thinking of the day when the Xuanmen sect fell apart, the five saints of the Xuanmen sect glared angrily at the two saints of the West.

The split in the Xuanmen sect is said to have been caused by the rise of the demon race, but in the final analysis, the trigger for everything was the two people establishing their own sect.

The Xuanmen sect is so powerful, with seven sages presiding over it. If no one takes the lead in establishing their own sect, who would dare to be the first to speak up? No one would dare at all.

It was precisely because the two Western Saints took the lead in establishing their own sect and were not destroyed immediately, but instead made the Xuanmen unable to do anything about it, that the awe people had for the Xuanmen was shattered, which laid the groundwork for the later disintegration of the Xuanmen.

If the Xuanmen had swiftly and decisively destroyed the two Western Saints the moment they established their own sects, who among the remaining powerful figures would have dared to emulate them?
It was precisely because the two Western saints were not only unharmed but also alive and well that his mind became active and he had the desire to emulate them.

Since the two Western Saints were fine after establishing themselves, wouldn't it be fine for them to do the same? Although they are not as powerful as the two Western Saints, they have more people.

The saying goes, "The law does not punish the masses," but they didn't believe it; they thought a sage would dare to eliminate them all.

"This is not our fault. It is all the fault of the human dragon. If he had not opened up the demon realm and created the demon race, causing everyone's minds to waver, there would have been no future disaster of the Xuanmen splitting apart."

Suddenly being glared at by the Five Sages of Xuanmen, the Two Sages of the West immediately understood their meaning: they wanted to shift the blame onto them.

If the cause of the Xuanmen's split is entirely attributed to those two brothers, then the Five Saints are naturally not at fault. They are not the sinners of the Xuanmen; the Two Western Saints are.

With this in mind, the two Western Saints naturally wanted to explain; they didn't want to take the blame for the Five Saints. Besides, even if they were wrong, wasn't Ao Bing, who created the Demon Realm and the Demon Race, also at fault?
The reason everyone fell into demonic ways was because of him. So if anyone has to take the blame, Ao Bing should definitely bear the brunt of it, and the others should only bear a small part of the responsibility.

"Human Dragon, do you know that your creation of the Demon Realm and the Demon Race will lead to the future division of the Xuanmen sect?"

"As a supreme immortal, you disregard the life and death of the immortal path for your own selfish reasons. Do you live up to the trust that the immortal path has placed in you?"

Without giving the Five Saints a chance to retaliate, Saint Zhunti directly attacked Ao Bing, focusing all his attacks on him.

"Ok?"

"What nonsense are you talking about."

"On the contrary, the emergence of the Demon Realm and the Demon Race will not lead to the division of the Xuanmen, but will instead make the Xuanmen more united."

"The country has perished even without external threats, and the Xuanmen sect has been invincible for too long. It has reached a very dangerous state, and if it is not careful, it will be destroyed."

"In this situation, the appearance of the demon race is also an encouragement to the Xuanmen, so that they can understand that the Xuanmen is not without enemies."

"In order to deal with the impending threat, the entire Xuanmen should work together."

"Otherwise, if they really are heading towards division, they should ask themselves honestly: apart from the sages and their lineage, who among them, weak and alone, can withstand the demons' attack?"

"The Daoist temple was breached by the demons, the lineage was destroyed, and the fortune was seized. All the hard work of the past years was for nothing but the demons' benefit. It was inevitable."

Knowing that Zhunti had ill intentions, Ao Bing deliberately looked at him with the eyes of someone looking at an idiot, as if he was very surprised that he could ask such a stupid question.

Is it possible for the Xuanmen (Taoist sect) to split up?
If there are no external enemies, then it is very likely. Even if there are external enemies, there will still be division, and some powerful individuals will inevitably abandon the path and turn to demonic possession; this is unavoidable.

However, due to the surrounding external enemies, the remaining powerful individuals will undoubtedly become more united in order to protect themselves.

Therefore, the birth of the demon race has both advantages and disadvantages for the Xuanmen (mystical sect). But overall, the advantages definitely outweigh the disadvantages.

Because division is better than complete disintegration. Without the demon race, the Xuanmen sect is destined to collapse and disintegrate into three thousand forces.

However, with the threat of the demon race, the banner of the Xuanmen will not fall. All forces belonging to the Xuanmen will be firmly united under this banner to jointly resist the powerful enemy.

Besides, those powerful individuals who chose to leave the Xuanmen sect were either opportunists or lacked willpower.

Their departure is actually a good thing for Xuanmen, as it can purify the internal structure and further enhance Xuanmen's potential.

In the short term, the potential of the Xuanmen sect may be diminished. However, without their hindrance, the Xuanmen sect's development momentum will inevitably improve.

That's why, all things considered, the existence of the demon race is more beneficial than harmful to the Xuanmen (Taoist sect).

But Ao Bing didn't mention any of these points; he only emphasized the advantages and not the disadvantages. Just as he said when the Sage Zhunti questioned him, he only emphasized the disadvantages and didn't mention the advantages at all.

When the sage Zhunti criticized him for his shortcomings, he naturally refuted him with his own advantages.

"Strong words!"

Zhunti was furious at Ao Bing's gaze. If he weren't outmatched, he would have already attacked.

"This……"

Meanwhile, the powerful cultivators of the Xuanmen felt a chill in their hearts after hearing Ao Bing's words, and their newly formed sense of independence immediately shrank back.

Yes, without the banner of Xuanmen, how can they resist the siege of the demons?
The Xuanmen sect's ability to crush the demon race doesn't mean they can do the same, especially with many like-minded individuals joining the demon race in the future. If they were to join forces and attack, who could stop them? (End of Chapter)