Longzang

Chapter 1154: How to Know the Great Dao
Looking at the "Overall Plan for the Resolution of Karmic Obstacles in the Azure Netherworld" in front of him, Wei Yuan was somewhat amused and exasperated.

This plan specifically addresses the karmic consequences of killing civilians or low-level cultivators during wartime. Originally, Wei Yuan personally handled everything during the war, from the initial missile bombardments to the later artillery barrages, thus accumulating most of the karmic consequences on him.

However, one day, after deep thought in her sleep, Feng Tingyu realized that this would place all the constraints on Wei Yuan alone, severely reducing Qingming's war potential. Therefore, a consensus was reached between the two most powerful computing units that it was necessary to change this situation. Upon waking up, Feng Tingyu led the Qingming Academy of Sciences to conduct specialized research on this issue.

After months of arduous research and collaboration with institutions such as the Institute for the War of Equality among All Beings, the Holy Hall of Battle, and the Institute for the Creation of Heaven and Earth in the bustling world, this plan was finally developed.

The plan is mainly divided into two parts: karma sharing and karma resolution. Karma sharing involves using a special command system and specially developed supporting techniques and skills. When frontline commanders execute orders, they must use the corresponding techniques and then issue the orders. This greatly increases the chance that the consequences will fall on them, thus making them tainted by the karma generated by killing.

This series of operations sounds complicated, and it's actually not simple either.

However, when the burden of karma is reduced to the level of a template Dao Foundation, and each Dao Foundation cultivator is only responsible for launching a few or even one high-powered missile, the karma will be quite dispersed, and even a template Dao Foundation cultivator can easily bear it without damaging the path.

If that were all, it wouldn't be considered excellent. This plan also provides a complete solution for resolving karma.

The method for resolving karmic debt is to cultivate merit, allowing cultivators burdened with karma to take up positions responsible for national welfare and people's livelihood for a period of time. As long as they work diligently and achieve results, they can accumulate merit and good fortune, which will naturally resolve their karma. Generally, within a few months to a few years, the karma will be completely eliminated, and they can return to the army.

Even a basic Dao foundation has a lifespan of over a hundred years, so a few years' delay is manageable. A Golden Elixir Dharma Form has a lifespan of over three hundred years, so a ten-year delay is also manageable. Furthermore, after being tempered by human fortune and having their karma dissolved, there will be a certain opportunity to improve their aptitude, perhaps even allowing them to advance further on their path of cultivation.

For a template-based Dao foundation, there is a possibility of cultivating it to the middle or even the later stages. If a template-based Dao foundation can be cultivated from the early stage to the later stage, not only will its magical power increase greatly, but its lifespan will also increase slightly, basically by ten or twenty years.

The plan also includes various welfare benefits, many of which are geared towards family members.

After carefully reviewing the plan, Wei Yuan agreed to its full implementation and forwarded it to the relevant departments in military supplies and logistics. Wei Yuan estimated that attacking the core counties and ancestral lands of the Lü family would inevitably result in significant casualties, and the resulting substantial karmic burden needed to be properly managed; therefore, this plan was imperative.

But what Wei Yuan valued even more was the process of developing the plan.

This was the first time in the entire process that Qingming and the Xinxiang World cooperated, and it went very smoothly. Cause and effect, karma, and fortune are quite mysterious and ethereal realms in the entire cultivation system, second only to various Great Dao origins, as well as time, destiny, and so on.

These fields are incredibly difficult for ordinary cultivators; many cultivators are completely lost in the fog, knowing only what it is but not why it is.

However, these areas, which are as difficult as ascending to heaven in the eyes of ordinary cultivators, were actually resolved clearly by the concerted efforts of genius Dharma Aspect cultivators such as Qingming Fengtingyu, Ji Liuli, Jun Weizhi, and Fuyao in the prosperity of various realms, and a system that can be promoted and used throughout Qingming was created.

Furthermore, many key breakthroughs in this process were achieved by some unknown Foundation Establishment cultivators. No one expected that these seemingly ordinary cultivators would have moments of brilliance.

Some of these junior cultivators had mediocre cultivation levels, but their comprehension was disproportionately high.

When they first encountered this subject, they were completely clueless. But after several months, their knowledge had become so profound that it was not much inferior to that of a great monk.

Furthermore, because they lack unique talents, many of the solutions they come up with are usable by ordinary people, which is a clear difference from true great cultivators.

For example, when encountering a defensive array, Immortal Lord Zhu Yan would say, "Why don't you just find a gap in the array's vibrations and get through?" In reality, if an ordinary cultivator tried ten thousand times, the only result would be that they would be reduced to ashes by crashing into the array.

Wei Yuan set the main text of the planning report aside and specifically selected the research process section and some research drafts, which he read through several times.

These materials were actually vast and numerous. Even with Wei Yuan's current speed of processing over 20,000 tasks simultaneously, coupled with the assistance of the bustling worlds, it took him a whole day to examine them in detail.

A day later, Wei Yuan finally put down the report in his hand, then sat in quiet contemplation. Several days later, he came to a conclusion: cultivators should also be enlightened. In this plan, which took several months and utilized the computing power of tens of thousands of cultivators and countless mortals, the contributions of junior cultivators had exceeded 30%. This was a highly significant figure, no longer dispensable, but crucial.

According to the traditions of the cultivation world, mortals are like weeds, those with a foundation in cultivation are like ants, those with a Dharma form are like dogs and horses, and only those with a realm of cultivation are considered human. Immortals, on the other hand, are high above, looking down upon all living beings.

Each advancement in rank is practically equivalent to entering a completely different species, making even communication between them extremely difficult. Matters concerning the Dharma Aspect are kept separate from those of the Dao Foundation, and matters causing headaches for the Imperial Cultivator are only discussed with another Imperial Cultivator.

The differences between the various realms are vast. It is impossible for ordinary cultivators, except for geniuses like Wei Yuan and Zhang Sheng, to comprehend the mysteries of the mind-body world during the Dharma Aspect stage.
Therefore, if we follow the tradition and study topics such as karma, cause and effect, and destiny, with the Immortal Lord as the core and Yu Jing as the main force, the minimum participants must be genius Dharma forms like Ji Liuli and Feng Tingyu before we can even begin to study them. Often, it takes a hundred or eighty years of research to achieve even a little bit of results.

Who would have thought that a Dao Foundation cultivator could come up with a key breakthrough, and that a template Dao Foundation cultivator could make a contribution in this field?

Let alone immortals, even Wei Yuan couldn't escape this stereotype. He could easily see the effects of enlightenment on mortals, but it wasn't so easy for him to see through cultivators.

On the contrary, it was Feng Tingyu, who acted almost without thinking, who was able to bring in several thousand cultivators of varying ranks without considering the consequences. The results were unexpectedly good, and the scale of the research project gradually expanded, eventually involving more than 40,000 cultivators, most of whom were template cultivators.

Previously, everyone in Qingming believed that the template Dao Foundation was the cornerstone of the realm's development, the basic driving force for the efficient operation of every industry, indispensable for the bottom layer, and practically useless for the middle layer. As for those profound topics in the cultivation Dao realm, they couldn't even understand the titles.

But from this plan, Wei Yuan finally saw the potential of lower-level cultivators. And because of the sheer number of Azure Nether Template Dao Foundations, the total potential was simply terrifying!
Having figured this out, Wei Yuan knew what to do. So he spent half a day redesigning the entire Qingming Academy's education system.

Wei Yuan plans to establish specialized basic cultivation courses in all Qingming Elementary Academies, teaching fundamental knowledge in areas such as body tempering, the universe, the five elements, alchemy, and the primordial spirit. These courses will be included in the basic introductory curriculum, and children in Qingming can enroll from the age of five, first studying basic courses for a year, and then participating in an annual cultivation aptitude test at the age of six.

The qualification test is similar to the unified examination of immortal sects, but with a lower threshold. The test relies on the Zhou Tian Star Array and its accuracy is no less than that of the unified examination of immortal sects.

Subsequently, Wei Yuan established two new academies: the Azure Nether Elementary Cultivation Academy and the Water Moon Palace Outer Branch Academy. These academies were responsible for accepting disciples with sufficient aptitude and providing them with specialized training in the Body Forging stage. The two academies had different functions: the Azure Nether Cultivation Academy specifically accepted disciples with below-average aptitude who aimed to reach the basic Dao Foundation stage; while the Water Moon Palace Outer Branch Academy accepted disciples with above-average aptitude who were capable of cultivating to the ordinary Dao Foundation stage.

This outer sect branch is different from the outer sect disciples of the Water Moon Hall recruited through the Tai Chu Palace. They are not comparable in terms of aptitude, but their numbers are dozens of times greater.

Unlike the sects and immortal sects of the past, Wei Yuan plans to promote comprehensive and systematic basic knowledge education on immortal cultivation in all cultivation academies, thereby breaking free from the narrow-minded imprint of a single sect or faction.

In the past, even within the Taichu Palace, there were often disciples of the Shuiyue Hall who were completely ignorant of the principles behind the Jianmu Hall's cultivation methods. But from now on, the new generation of cultivators trained by Qingming will all possess comprehensive and systematic basic knowledge. Regardless of whether they can actually master the techniques, at least they will understand the underlying principles.

Finally, Wei Yuan established the Qingming Immortal Academy, placing it alongside the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering, and similarly establishing an academician system. The first task of the newly established Immortal Academy was to organize the basic knowledge of the Daoist path, compile introductory textbooks, and create various research tools and methodologies for the study of immortal cultivation.

After absorbing the research methods and knowledge systems of the outer world, and after many years of development, Qingming has long since formed its own set of research methodologies, which are highly developed and perfected.

To date, Feng Tingyu has processed over ten thousand missions, with Wang Hu closely following behind, capable of processing over nine thousand. While the other cultivators have processed fewer missions, they each possess their own strengths. With such formidable divine sense, what would take thousands of years to accumulate in those outer worlds without extraordinary powers could perhaps be accomplished here in just ten.

After the entire plan was completed, Wei Yuan deliberated on it repeatedly, and after it was perfected by the various realms, he confirmed that it was comprehensive enough. However, Wei Yuan still felt that something was missing.

After much thought, Wei Yuan suddenly realized what was missing. What was the purpose of all this elaborate effort?
Wei Yuan picked up his pen and added a general outline to this series of measures. The general outline consisted of only one sentence: "So that all cultivators, regardless of their cultivation level or age, can know what the Great Dao is."

As soon as these words were written, the heavens and earth trembled, and the sacred mountain underwent a transformation.

(End of this chapter)