I am devoted to the Tao

Chapter 146: It’s reasonable for a demon cultivator to be despicable and shameless, right?
"Refined into the Five Elements Heavenly Seal"

Jiang Chuan touched his chin and began to think.

"A Five Mountains and Five Elements Peak is still far inferior to the "Demon Embryo Transformation into Immortal Sutra". I can let you choose some medicinal herbs and spiritual materials." Gong Suxin spoke slowly.

Scriptures like "The Demonic Embryo Transformation into Immortal Scripture" passed down by cultivators in the eleventh and twelfth realms actually do not have a clear price.

This is because, even in thousands of years, there might not be a monk who would sell a copy, and the scriptures can be sold in large quantities.

The Five Mountains and Five Elements Peaks are equivalent to five ordinary mid-grade Taoist artifacts, and because the Five Mountains Immortals used too many spiritual materials to refine them.

Even a single mountain is much more powerful than an ordinary mid-grade flying sword.

Adding the elixirs and spiritual materials that Gong Suxin promised, the total value is no less than that of a top-grade Taoist weapon.

"The Five Mountains and Five Elements Peaks are indeed very suitable for me, but I yearn for the Great Dao. I wonder if Senior Gong could let me see the Dao stele left by Senior Taisu Immortal Palace?"

Jiangchuan reluctantly withdrew his gaze from the Five Elements Peak of the Five Mountains.

If it were in reality, Jiang Chuan would definitely agree, but in the simulation he still wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to gain enlightenment and practice.

"I need to discuss this matter with the Palace Master."

Gong Suxin did not immediately agree to your request, but instead took you and Patriarch Ziyun back to Taisu Immortal Palace.

[Upon returning to Taisu Immortal Palace, you will be met head-on by Elder Jingzhen and Elder Jingyun.]

"Jingyang."

When Elder Jingyun saw Jiangchuan, his eyes were filled with excitement and joy.

"Elder."

Jiangchuan was also very happy to meet Elder Jingyun.

Although he did not become Elder Jingyun's disciple, he remembered Elder Jingyun's guidance on his cultivation and the magical weapons and supernatural powers he bestowed upon him.

"Brother, I've long said that a scourge like Jing Yang would never die so easily."

Elder Jingzhen's eyes lit up, as if he had set his eyes on a big fat sheep.

"Jingyang, you are in the fourth realm and you can kill Yuan Tianfang and Wang Song. You must have extraordinary luck. Give me some. When I become the abbot of Bodhi Temple and sweep across the Qingyuan Realm, I will let you be the abbot of Bodhi Temple."

"Junior brother."

"What's wrong, senior brother?"

"Jingyang will be the abbot of my Bodhi Temple before you."

"."

No, brother, is there anyone like you who would sabotage something in public?
"I have entered the devil's way, but I cannot return to Bodhi Temple."

As Jiang Chuan spoke, he glanced at Gong Suxin beside him and reminded the two of them not to forget the contract between the three Buddhist and Taoist sects and the Maha Palace.

Elder Jingyun and Elder Jingzhen immediately understood what Jiangchuan meant.

Patriarch Ziyun nodded and said, "I also think Jiangchuan is suitable for practicing the magic path. He is even more insidious than Jingzhen. It would be a pity if he didn't practice the magic path."

"Grandmaster, could you please stop comparing Elder Jingzhen to me?"

"why?"

"Elder Jingzhen will definitely be purged by the future Star Lord Buddha Patriarch in the future. I, Jiang, am a dignified Immortal Emperor. Comparing me with Elder Jingzhen doesn't mean we are of the same kind."

Elder Jingzhen: ???

Is it that my fist is not strong enough anymore, or you are getting too proud of yourself?

Aren’t you the same kind as me?
You kid practiced magic skills and turned to the devil's way. If the ancestor knew about it, he would definitely purge you first!

"I suddenly feel that it's a good thing for Jiang Chuan to become a demon. If he really stays in Bodhi Temple, I'm afraid Bodhi Temple will never have peace in the future." Gong Suxin said quietly.

"Amitabha! Fellow Daoist Gong is worrying too much!" Elder Jingyun clasped his hands together.

Elder Jingzhen nodded: "Yes, I, Jingzhen, am not the kind of person who stirs up trouble."

"With Jingyang's talent, it won't take him many years to suppress his junior brother and prevent him from causing any trouble."

Elder Jingzhen: “.”

So, you just watched Jingyang suppress me without any reaction?
No, I, Jingzhen, have even cultivated the twenty-four heavens. My talent is unparalleled in history. How could I be suppressed by a mere Jingyang?
After you had a conversation with Elder Jingzhen and Elder Jingyun, you returned to the palace where you were staying to rest.

【Half a day later, someone else came to visit.】

[The people who came to visit you were a little surprised. They were Nangong Chang, the first true disciple of the Yuhua Immortal Sect, and Song Fengchun, an elder of the Yuhua Immortal Sect.]

[Nangong Chang and Mu Bingyun had a sword fight at Danfeng Mountain, and both were injured.]

[His injuries haven't healed yet, and his face is still pale.]

[To express my gratitude for saving my life on the sixth floor of the underground abyss.]

[Nangong Chang and Song Fengchun found the Taoist Yuan Heng, the foremost immortal, and asked for a divination for you.]

[This hexagram is about your path.]

"What did Taoist Yuan Heng calculate?" asked Patriarch Ziyun curiously.

Nangong Chang replied, "Master Yuan Heng said that Daoist Jiang's chance to achieve enlightenment is not now, not in Qingyuan, not in the Demonic Path, and not in the Immortal Path."

"Where is it?" Jiang Chuan asked.

"It's in Ziyun."

"Purple Cloud?"

Jiang Chuan grabbed the Purple Cloud Ancestor who was lying on his head, and the man and the cat looked into each other's eyes.

"Old Ancestor, tell me, what secrets are you hiding from me?"

To attain enlightenment is to achieve the fruit of enlightenment.

It takes at least ten realms to condense the Dao Fruit.

"What secrets could I have?"

Patriarch Ziyun shook his head: "And if I really had the ability to help others achieve the Dao Fruit, I would have helped your previous life Taishan reach the Tenth Realm a thousand years ago."

"Fellow Daoist Jiang is actually the reincarnation of the great monk Taishan from a thousand years ago?!" Song Fengchun exclaimed.

Nangong Chang showed surprise: "No wonder Fellow Daoist Jiangchuan is the best of his generation, it turns out he is the reincarnation of a ninth-level cultivator!"

"I am not the reincarnation of Taishan, don't listen to the nonsense of the ancestor!" Jiang Chuan hurriedly clarified.

Shanhai Dao Sect's headmaster, Wan Qiangu, and others were about to arrive at Taisu Immortal Palace to attend the Taisu Immortal Meeting. If he truly became Taishan's reincarnation, he would likely not be able to leave Taisu Immortal Palace alive.

Nangong Chang nodded: "Fellow Daoist Jiang, you don't have to force Senior Ziyun. The future is uncertain, and the divinations told by our master may not be accurate."

"Previously, on the sixth floor of the underground abyss, Senior Gong asked Grandmaster Yuan Heng to calculate your whereabouts, and he deduced that you would go to the Jiuyuan Imperial Capital."

"As a result, you didn't go to the Jiuyuan Imperial Capital. Now that Master has deduced that your chance of enlightenment lies with Senior Ziyun, this divination may not be correct."

It would have been better if Nangong Chang didn't say it. Once he said it, Jiangchuan believed even more in the divination told by Taoist Yuan Heng!

Because in reality he wants to go to Jiuyuan Imperial Capital!

"Grandmaster, please hand over my chance of enlightenment, otherwise..."

"What else?"

Jiang Chuan raised the corner of his mouth: "Otherwise I will tell Senior Gao that after you are ready to become a supreme Taoist weapon, you will be the first to suppress her."

Ancestor Ziyun's eyes widened: "You are so despicable!"

"It's reasonable for a demon cultivator to be despicable and shameless, right?" Jiang Chuan said with pride.

Ziyun Patriarch clenched his claws: "That's reasonable, so reasonable that I want to beat you up right now!"

"Do you really think I'm afraid of you? You've killed me so many times, I've wanted to teach you a lesson for a long time!"

"A mere fifth-level cultivator dares to speak so arrogantly. I will suppress you."

Ancestor Ziyun raised his claws and slapped Jiangchuan directly, and Jiangchuan clenched his five fingers into a fist to meet him.

A big fight broke out between one man and one cat.

Nangong Chang: “.”

Song Fengchun: “.”

Sure enough, the master had calculated wrong.

The man and the cat are fighting. How could Patriarch Ziyun be the chance for Jiangchuan to achieve enlightenment?

[After a while, you and Ziyun Patriarch stopped fighting.]

[It's not because you feel you can't defeat Old Ancestor Ziyun, but because you're worried that the aftermath will destroy the palace, leaving you sleeping in the ruins tonight.]

[Nangong Chang and Song Fengchun then said goodbye and left.]

[Before leaving, Nangong Chang reminds you to be careful of the Maha Palace.]

[Maha Palace also came to participate in this Taisu Immortal Meeting, as Qi Daoming's injuries have not yet healed.]

[The elder leading the Maha Hall this time is Ximen Qing, a Seventh Realm cultivator.]

[Ximen Qing is a cultivator of the same generation as An Yunyi, and was once ranked among the top three geniuses among the outsiders.]

[Although he has not yet broken through to the eighth realm, his strength is still among the top among all the seventh realm cultivators.]

[The most important thing is that Ximen Qing has inherited the teachings of an old man who is a Tenth Realm Immortal and is very skilled in various curses.]

You thank Nangong Chang for the reminder and secretly become alert.

[The next day, Gong Suxin found you again.]

[After she and Taisu Palace Master Luo Jiuxi agreed to let you comprehend the Dao Stele of Taisu Palace, but you can only do so for two years.]

"Two years is a bit short."

In the previous simulation, Jiang Chuan spent one or two months comprehending the teachings of the Redemption Demon Lord and the Black Car Heavenly Demon, who were once at the eleventh or twelfth level cultivators.

The speed of comprehending the Dao through the Dao tablets will only be slower, and it may not be possible to comprehend ten tablets in two years.

"In that case, I will prioritize comprehending the Dao stele that contains the Five Elements, Life and Death, and the Dao of Creation."

Gong Suxin shook her head: "There are only Dao tablets containing the Five Elements and the Dao of Life, but no Dao tablets containing the Dao of Death and the Dao of Creation."

Jiang Chuan looked surprised. "Senior Gong, you are kidding, right? The Taisu Immortal Palace has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years. How could it be that it doesn't even have the Dao tablets for the Great Dao of Death and Creation?"

Gong Suxin asked in return, "The Dao Monument is a stone tablet inscribed with the Dao rhyme laws of the predecessors. So, let me ask you, what is the Dao?"

Jiang Chuan recalled the records in the Dao book and blurted out: "The Dao gave rise to heaven and earth and is the mother of all things."

"In fact, in my opinion, there are only two kinds of Tao."

Gong Suxin raised her hand and pointed at the distant green mountains: "One is what you said, the great way that structures and generates all living things in the world. The other is my way."

"I wonder?" Jiang Chuan was slightly stunned.

"Some people take the Five Elements as the Tao, some take Yin and Yang as the Tao, and some take Qi as the Tao. This is what they call learning from heaven and earth and following nature. That's what it means."

Gong Suxin paused and continued, "For example, the founder of Haoran Palace, Wensheng, although he comprehended the great Dao of heaven and earth, he used teaching as his way and eventually became a supreme being in the Fourteenth Realm."

"The great way of enlightenment is not innate; it was created by the sage of literature."

"Most of the Dao tablets in my Taisu Immortal Palace were left by predecessors who found their own Dao. Only a small number were left by predecessors who took the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth as their Dao."

"I see."

Jiang Chuan suddenly realized: "I don't know what my own Tao is?"

After discussing with Gong Suxin, you finally decided to first comprehend the Dao Monument containing the three great Daos of the Void, the Five Elements, and Life.

[Under the guidance of Gong Suxin, you come to the Wudao Palace in Taisu Immortal Palace, where the Dao tablets are stored.]

[You are the first to begin comprehending the Dao stele containing the Great Dao of the Void.]

[The surface of the Dao Monument inscribed with the Great Dao of the Void is a vast ocean.]

[As your mind becomes absorbed in it, you feel as if you have become a wave in the vast ocean of emptiness.]

[Follow the void sea, surge continuously, and swallow up everything that dares to stand in your way.]

Your mind gradually becomes immersed in it, and just as you are about to completely merge with the void and the sea, becoming one with the Dao, Gong Suxin awakens you.

【Through your conversation with Gong Suxin, you realize that a month has already passed.】

[A month of contemplation will give you a deeper understanding of the Great Way of Emptiness.]

You didn't continue your contemplation because the Taisu Immortal Conference officially convened.

[With anticipation, you and Patriarch Ziyun arrive at the legendary Taisu Immortal Meeting, where even Immortal Kings and True Immortals have visited.]

[As soon as you arrived at the palace where the Taisu Immortal Meeting was being held, you ran into Abbot Kongming and others.]

(End of this chapter)