The Three Kingdoms: If you don't have money to buy an official position, you can only be the em

Chapter 115: Re-entering the Fire Cloud Cave

At this moment, Jiang Cheng was really confused and had no idea who was right: judging from experience, the Jade Emperor and Hou Tu, who had already merged with the heaven and earth, obviously had more say.

They warned against conforming to the Dao, most likely because they had discovered some drawbacks.

But Laojun had never achieved the Tao and had no experience.

There should be no disadvantages.

But what if they each have other ideas?

Is it possible that the Jade Emperor and Hou Tu are afraid of humanity? Or even more likely that it is not them who are speaking, but the heaven and earth who are speaking in their image?
Laojun is not completely trustworthy either.

Once Jiang Cheng merges with the Dao, he will no longer be distinguishable from the human Dao. Then, will he be subject to some shackles that did not exist originally, and be restricted by the heaven and earth itself?

Because humanity, after all, exists within the ancient world and is one of the three ways of heaven, earth, and man derived from the world itself.

It is not the Tao and cannot be transcended!

"Okay, listening to one side will lead to ignorance, listening to both sides will lead to enlightenment. Let's go ask a few more people, and then we will understand, right?" Jiang Cheng thought to himself, and turned into a stream of light, and came to the holy place of the human race, the "Fire Cloud Cave".

There are two Fire Cloud Caves in the Three Realms, one is the holy place of the human race, and the other is the demon cave of the monster Red Boy.

There is also a connection between the two.

This is because "Princess Iron Fan" is not the so-called "Princess Asura" at all, but a real princess born to an ancient emperor by the ancestor of the Styx, who imitated the dragon clan and allowed his descendants to reincarnate into the human race.

His son Red Boy must have been to Huoyun Cave and then copied the name.

After all, children will imitate.

In fact, Red Boy only had a group of little kids under his command, and no monsters, so whose kids were they? To put it bluntly, Red Boy's difficulty was just a prank by a group of naughty kids.

That's it.

Let’s get back to the topic. Let’s get back to the present.

When Jiang Cheng arrived at Huoyun Cave, he immediately saw Shennong fiddling with medicinal herbs on the hilltop at the entrance of the cave. Shennong also saw him and said with a smile, "Sun Thief, what's the matter?"

It seemed that he was completely unaware of the turmoil in the three realms of heaven, earth and man at this time.

But, the return of the saint is such a big thing, is it possible that he doesn’t know?
"I have some doubts, so I want to ask you for advice." Jiang Cheng said frankly, "Today I met three people. Two of them warned me not to join the Dao, and one warned me that I must join the Dao. I was puzzled, so I came to ask you, what do you think of joining the Dao?"

Emperor Shennong pondered over this.

After a moment, he suddenly smiled and said, "You have to ask Xuanyuan about this question."

"what?"

"I have never merged with the Dao, so how would I know? But Xuanyuan once merged with the Dao of Humanity and almost succeeded. Since then, he has kept silent about the Dao of Humanity. He must have realized something."

Shennong said this and stretched out his hand.

Jiang Cheng: “???”

"Where's the filial piety? You bastard!"

"This..." Jiang Cheng was stunned, then he opened the treasure house, picked for a long time, and finally took out an old-fashioned machine with relatively complete functions, and said: "Take a look?"

"I want a smart one, the kind that can see beautiful women!"

Jiang Cheng: “…”

Who is this monster who dares to impersonate Emperor Shennong?
But he reacted immediately, and after giving Shennong a smart phone, he packed up another one and sent it to Emperor Xuanyuan.

Emperor Xuanyuan seemed to not care at all about this.

But his attitude towards Jiang Cheng was quite kind.

"Nephew, what do you want to ask?"

In fact, strictly speaking, Jiang Cheng's original identity was the nephew of Emperor Huangdi. However, he had been reincarnated and his past was gone, so Jiang Cheng's current identity was a grandson of Shennong.

So in the mouth of Emperor Xuanyuan, he became the eldest nephew.

"My control over humanity has reached the point where we are almost indistinguishable from each other. Should I align myself with the Great Dao and become completely one with it?" Jiang Cheng asked directly.

The present humanity, integrated with his destiny as the Emperor of Man and his deification, has become "Huang Tian".

It is the cosmic will of the human world.

But just like that, he is just in charge, not in accordance with the Tao. He can do things through humanity, but he cannot directly exercise the authority of humanity. He must truly be in accordance with the Tao.

Once he merges with the Dao, he can become a saint of humanity, and from then on he will truly be on the same level as Hou Tu and Hao Tian. But it also means that he will be completely bound to humanity and can never be separated.

It's hard to say whether it's good or bad.

"That's it? What do I think?" Xuanyuan smiled and said, "Laojun asked you to merge with the Tao because he doesn't trust you. He thinks that you can't compete with the two ways of heaven and earth at present, and will drag down humanity and put the entire human race into an irretrievable situation. The Jade Emperor and Houtu asked you not to merge with the Tao because once you merge with the Tao, the Tao will be personified, and humanity will change from 'technology' to 'Taoism', and will no longer be pure!"

Hearing this, Jiang Cheng couldn't help but fall into deep thought.

What is the Jade Emperor's current situation?
The appearance of Haotian made Tiandu selfish and unable to get rid of his power.

As for Hou Tu, I haven't heard of any problems with her, but maybe she is also being suppressed and just hasn't erupted yet.

Ultimately, it is "personalization" itself.

Humans are a combination of good and evil, and have both good and evil sides. They are different from innate creatures and are much more complicated than demons. Although the "personalities" of the Jade Emperor, Hou Tu, and Jiang Cheng are all positive and negative, they all have evil thoughts and resentment deep in their hearts.

These negative emotions will no longer be able to be eliminated after they are in harmony with the Tao and will become nourishment for the Tao.

Once the positive personality cannot suppress the negative, then Tao will turn evil and become the most terrifying "devil" in the three realms.

"And the human way is the most special among the three ways!" Xuanyuan added, "Those who have achieved the Dao cannot fully master the human way. Instead, they are like a leader who will be swept away by the will of many practitioners. Just like many foreign wars are not the ruler's original intention, but are swept away by the will of the ministers and the people, once you achieve the Dao, you will also be swept away by the human way and do things that you may not want to do on your own."

"For example?" Jiang Cheng asked.

"Devouring the two paths of heaven and earth, annihilating all the gods and Buddhas in the sky, and breaking the reincarnation!" Xuanyuan paused when he said this, and then said: "Even flattening the Fire Cloud Cave, sweeping away all obstacles, and eliminating all opposing voices!"

This made Jiang Cheng fall into deep thought.

After a long time, he suddenly said, "Did you give up the opportunity to integrate with humanity, conquer the world, and become the master of the three realms just because you didn't want to be a 'lonely man'?"

Xuanyuan, the Human Emperor, is the most special.

Not only is he a "Holy Emperor" comparable to a saint, he also has the opportunity to conquer both heaven and earth.

Truly dominate the world.

But in the end he gave up because he didn't want to be alone.

"This is not a question of conformity with the Tao, but the greed of human nature. When a person sits on that seat, he is no longer a person, but an 'emperor'!" said Jiang Cheng.

To be in harmony with the Dao is to be crowned as the human being and to become the “emperor” of the “law”.

The kind that truly dominates the world.

The shackles do not lie in conforming to the Tao itself, but in changing oneself because of one's identity.

"But it may not be your own greed. Before you merge with the Dao, good and evil are determined by your heart, and what you do is up to you. But after you merge with the Dao, the thoughts of all living beings will invade your heart. Even if you are powerful, you will be polluted sooner or later." Xuanyuan said: "The greed of the human heart has no end. It will drag you down and corrode you."

Having said that, he thought about it.

He added: "For example, even if you covet Hou Tu's beauty, you won't do anything."

"Ahem, that's a bad example."

"Shut up and listen to me!" Xuanyuan said, "If you become one with the Dao, then all those who covet her beauty will have their inner desires focused on you. Your desire will become stronger and stronger until it can no longer be suppressed, forcing you to choose to act, even at the cost of provoking a war for it."

At this time, Shennong just walked in.

He interrupted with a smile: "Actually, this is acceptable. Hou Tu is a woman after all, and quite pretty. If you are coerced by those who like the Jade Emperor, then..."

He didn't say much after that, but Jiang Cheng's face darkened.

"Damn it, whoever wants to conform to the Dao can do so. I'm going to follow the Thirteenth Heaven of Primordial Chaos, the path of the gods and demons of chaos. I want to control the Dao, I don't want to be controlled by the Dao."

"Fuck you, who are you talking to?"

Shennong kicked Jiang Cheng back to the human world.

At this moment, Dian Wei suddenly ran in from outside and said, "It's bad, Your Majesty. A foreign monk broke in from outside. The Great Sage and True Lord Yang Jian were both defeated in one move. Now he wants you to come and kowtow to him!"

Jiang Cheng: “???”

"What's that man's name?" Wu Tian asked.

"He calls himself the Taoist Master Zhunti!"

(End of this chapter)