After I left the sect, the entire sect knelt down and begged for forgiveness.

Chapter 339: Whoever Wants to Sacrifice, Sacrifice
After the number of ascendants reached a certain point, they were unwilling to let more cultivators ascend and take away their power, so they gathered spiritual energy in the outer heavens.

If there isn't enough spiritual energy left in the lower realm, then the number of people who ascend to immortality will be very small.

These Celestial Clan members occupy 99% of the spiritual energy of the Canghai Continent for cultivation. In order to break through the lifespan limit, they must transcend the Heavenly Dao and break through the rules.

The actions were so outrageous that they caused chaos, so the gods awoke and annihilated all the celestial beings.

One of them mended the sky, while the other blocked the path to ascension.

Lin Yan could also understand the actions of Heaven.

The consequences of having endless desires and not imposing limits on the lifespan of cultivators are terrifying.

Even if lifespan is limited, it doesn't directly reduce one to a mortal.

In her original world, people's lifespan was only about a hundred years, with the long-lived living up to two hundred, and the short-lived dying in their twenties.

So now that she's cultivating immortality, she's still alive in this world for two years and still feels that the lifespan of a cultivator is very long.

She couldn't imagine what immortality was like, so naturally she couldn't understand the greedy desire of these Nascent Soul cultivators for longer lifespans.

Sensing her thoughts, the sea god chuckled softly.

"Why do you think they want to prolong their lifespan, even if they live for a thousand or two thousand years, they still refuse to die of old age?"

She lived less than a hundred years in total across her three lifetimes, so she really couldn't understand the thoughts of those who lived longer.

However, she disliked the other person's blatant probing into her thoughts.

"Then tell me why?" Lin Yan asked in her mind, sounding annoyed.

"Because they are greedy. Once they reach the Nascent Soul stage, they possess too much! Power, status, resources, and so on. How could they be willing to die? Just like the celestial beings of the past."

"Should one cultivate immortality by purifying one's mind and reducing desires?"

The sea god's mockery grew even louder.

Have you ever seen a cultivator who is detached from worldly desires?

"..."

She couldn't refute those words.

Ultimately, her thirst for power stemmed from a desire to avoid being at the mercy of others.

It's laughable that someone who hasn't even achieved a state of purity and detachment from worldly desires would make such a claim.

Seeing her silence, the sea god continued, "Do you want to be a hero and save all living beings from suffering?"

"Do not want to."

"..."

This person refused quite decisively.

"Do you really want to watch your master and his sect perish?"

“I don’t want to,” she replied bluntly. “But I don’t want to be a hero either. Don’t tell me I should sacrifice myself to save millions of families.”

"..."

Poseidon felt there was no way to communicate with this person!
She continued her taunts, "I'm a useless person now, my spiritual roots completely destroyed, and you still dare to make advances on me? Is this what you call a god?"

"Whoever wants to sacrifice can sacrifice; I don't have that kind of awareness."

Lin Yan said it bluntly.

Isn't it said that with great power comes great responsibility?

This thing calls itself in her mind every day, and it collects faith, so why doesn't it sacrifice itself?
With that in mind, she set out her conditions.

"Didn't you want to build a statue of the Sea God in the Miaofa Sect? If you resolve the chaos, I will build a stone statue for you in the sect so that the disciples can worship you every day. Not only that, I will also build a temple for you."

How can gods be worshipped without sacrifice?
"Tsk, people only think of worshipping gods at times like this." Hearing this, Lin Yan found the other person's words quite amusing.

Who would worship gods if they had no requests?
Who acts without a purpose? Even gods are not immune to worldly desires, let alone cultivators who have not yet become immortals.

"If you can't do this and you can't do that, why should anyone worship you?"

While she was talking to the sea god, her master had already landed with her.

Everyone's attention was focused on the standoff. No one came over to offer any words of comfort or concern.

Knowing that her spiritual root was now ruined and she could not use spiritual power, her master told her to go back to her cave.

They said that having the sect's elders here was enough, and that a junior like her deserved protection.

The disciples of the Miaofa Sect with lower cultivation levels did not appear at the mountain gate, but instead did logistical work in the rear.

As the saying goes, even if the sky falls, those who enjoy the offerings will be the ones to hold it up.

"Master, please let me stay. I promise I will never put myself in danger."

"..."

When asked, Ningqing refused, took out two wooden puppets, and led the person away. She herself then squeezed to the front.

After looking around and finding that Jiang He was not there, she sent a message to inquire about the situation.

She was relieved to learn that the person was currently working in logistics.

Jiang He is both an alchemist and a physician, and it is reassuring to have her take care of the wounded.

The area in front of the Miaofa Sect's mountain gate was already densely packed with people. The defensive formation could not hold, and all the cultivators living on the Miaofa Sect's territory were evacuated into the sect.

Although they are weaker, they can provide some strength to the sect's protective formation, offering support to the cultivators fighting on the front lines.

In a short period of time, the attacking side was unable to break through the formation.

The only reason they could still argue with Miaoyin was because they couldn't break through the great formation for the time being.

Seeing that Wen Ningqing had returned unharmed, the three Nascent Soul elders looked rather grim.

So many people were sent over, and they couldn't even handle one?
Wen Ningqing noticed their gazes and went over to scold them.

"A bunch of old geezers spouting nonsense here! They're past their lifespan and don't want to die, so they sacrifice others to prolong their own lives. How dare they talk so shamelessly here!"

"Tsk tsk tsk, look at this pretentious act, thinking you're only 20 years old? You'd better stay away from us, I can smell the stench of death spots on you!"

They never expected that Wen Ningqing would not say any polite words and would start by mocking them.

They were all ancient monsters over two thousand years old, and to be scolded like that by a female cultivator who was only three hundred years old was enough to give them a heart attack.

Their faces were so pale that they only appeared ashen, making one wonder if they had kidney problems.

"What are you staring at me for? Do you think you'll be scared just by staring at me? You've been spouting morality and righteousness all this time, and this is the kind of thing you've produced. It's a good thing you have no ancestors, or you'd be turning in your grave."

"Raising the banner of rebellion against the inhumanity of Heaven to establish new rules, isn't it just that someone who's about to die is unwilling to accept their fate and wants to live longer? What kind of banner are you using as a fig leaf?"

"You old geezer!"

They were furious when Ningqing's insults were too harsh.

The mountain gate has protective magic treasures and protective formations left by the founding ancestor. These were left by the half-step ascended ancestor, and even the three Nascent Soul cultivators could not do anything about them.

They had assumed that the power of the formation would diminish over time, but they had miscalculated.

They reached the front gate but found they couldn't get in. Otherwise, they would have already ordered the massacre of the entire clan; they wouldn't have wasted their breath here.

"Miaoyin, as a supreme elder of a sect, are you just going to stand by and watch me spout nonsense here under the guise of an elder?"

Miaoyin looked at her like she was an idiot, "What are you talking about? Do you expect us to be polite to the bandits who are besieging my sect?"

They've only said a few words of insult, and these three old bastards can't even save face?