Xiuxian: I use magnetic fields to prove my truth

Chapter 290 The truth of the world

Lu Pingzhenjun's account was completely different from what Zhou Qing had heard from others about the Dharma propagation site.

In other cultivators in the Western Continent, the Dharma Propagation Center acts arbitrarily, suppressing the development of cultivators in the Western Continent.

However, for Lu Pingzhenjun, the Dharma Propagation Dojo became the savior of the cultivation world in the Western Continent. He single-handedly suppressed the seventeen Demon Abysses and prevented the arrival of extraterrestrial demons.

What Lu Ping Zhenjun said corresponded to what Zhou Qing knew, so he did not believe that Lu Ping Zhenjun was lying.

However, he was not entirely satisfied with what Lu Pingzhenjun said.

Zhou Qing said, "Since your sect is facing such difficulties, why not inform your fellow cultivators about this crisis so that they too can feel the urgency and strive to cultivate diligently, so that a few Nascent Soul cultivators can emerge as soon as possible and share the burden with you?"

Lu Ping Zhenjun said, "This method is absolutely unacceptable."

Zhou Qing asked, "Why?"

Lu Ping Zhenjun asked, "Young friend, do you know why the world is divided into eighty-one continents, and why each continent is isolated?"

Zhou Qing said, "It is said that this world is a chessboard of a certain holy god in the upper realm. Each square on the chessboard is a continent, and the barriers around the continents are naturally formed by the rules of the chessboard."

Lu Pingzhenjun said, "There is such a legend."

"Whether the legend is true or not is now impossible to verify. I only know that the current world situation is not as the legend says, where rules naturally formed, but rather where artificial barriers were erected. The reason for this situation is that in ancient times, the ancient immortals widely proclaimed the threat of extraterrestrial demons, hoping that all cultivators would join hands to fight against the enemy."

"The result was that the entire world was polluted by the power of extraterrestrial demons. The ancient immortals could only divide the world into eighty-one continents to isolate each continent and prevent the pollution from spreading."

"As far as I know, more than a dozen of the eighty-one continents have been completely turned into demonic realms. This is news from over ten thousand years ago. No one knows what the scene outside Qionghua Continent is now."

Zhou Qing felt a chill run down his spine.

He had long anticipated the terror of those forces and sensed that they were constantly spying on this world and trying to find a way to descend upon it, but he never expected the situation to become so critical.

Zhou Qing asked, "Why would telling everyone the news have such a bad consequence?"

Lu Ping Zhenjun said, "Young friend, you are unaware of their power."

"Those beings are adept at sensing the fluctuations of human emotions. Ordinary people are fine, but if a cultivator indulges in emotions, whether it be desire, fear, greed, competitiveness, etc., as long as they are too intense, they will be detected by them."

“They are like anglers outside the fishpond, and the cultivators are the fish. The fish with excessively strong emotions will be noticed first, and then they will cast their hooks.”

Zhou Qing said in a deep voice: "Possessed by demons?"

Lu Ping Zhenjun nodded and said, "That's right. When a cultivator falls into demonic possession, it's because these demons have planted a seed in their body. The deeper the demonic possession, the more the seed sprouts. Once it matures, a bit of the cultivator's true spirit will be fished out, turning them into endless demons, great demons, and evil spirits in the demonic abyss."

"Then the body will become the vessel that bears their power, helping them to tear open the abyss between heaven and earth."

"The ancient immortals told the public the truth, but it only caused panic among the people, which led to more and more people being captured by them. In a short time, demonic abysses appeared everywhere in the world."

"There are even more people who deliberately sacrifice themselves to feed the demons and help them descend. Over time, this has led to the current situation." "The Qionghua Continent, which survived the calamity, established the current rules of the immortal path."

"Apart from seeking immortality, which is a desire that they will not notice, you must not cultivate immortality with any other thoughts, especially not with the goal of pursuing power. A competitive spirit is most likely to attract their attention."

"All of these are classified as demonic."

At this point, Lu Ping Zhenjun sighed and said, "But how easy is that? Who can resist the allure of the power of immortality? How can one not be captivated by the power to fly through the sky, move mountains and fill seas?"

“In the past, the Dharma Propagation Centers managed to suppress these evil forces, but as the number of evil abysses increased, the Dharma Propagation Centers devoted more of their power to these evil abysses and had no time to attend to them.”

"Therefore, in recent years, the atmosphere surrounding the Daoist path has become increasingly frivolous."

“When you were born, you challenged various sects and gained the admiration of young cultivators throughout the Western Continent. More and more young cultivators began to emulate you, becoming brave and fierce. In the last two years, the number of cases of demonic possession reported from all over the Western Continent is almost as many as in the previous forty or fifty years.”

Lu Ping Zhenjun made a point of mentioning this last point, clearly indicating that he still harbored considerable resentment towards Zhou Qing's actions over the past few years.

Zhou Qing smiled slightly, feeling no guilt because of Lu Pingzhenjun's words.

He smiled and said, "I can understand your temple's motives, but whether this measure is reasonable is debatable."

"The ultimate result of doing this is nothing more than making the immortal path weaker and weaker, merely existing in a state of mere survival."

"If a celestial path capable of resisting the extraterrestrial demons cannot be born, and we continue to live on in this cowardly manner, this world will be nothing more than meat on a chopping board, waiting for the other side to strike."

Lu Ping Zhenjun frowned and said, "We know this all too well. It's just that in ancient times, the immortal path was at its peak. Not to mention us mere Nascent Soul cultivators, even True Immortals often roamed the mortal realm. They were powerless against those beings from beyond the heavens."

"The world is now shattered, the immortal path is in ruins, and our strength has been reduced to less than one-hundredth. We don't even know if other continents still exist. How can we hope to see the emergence of something strong enough to rival them?"

Zhou Qing remained noncommittal and said, "Let's not talk about that for now. You haven't made it clear what you want from me."

"The Great Illusion Demon Lord is about to unleash his demonic power. Your Dharma Propagation Center has several True Monarchs at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, yet they could not stop him. How could I possibly stop him?"

Lu Ping Zhenjun smiled and said, "It is naturally the responsibility of our Dharma propagation center to stop him. Young friend, you only need to help us find him."

"The Great Illusion Demon Lord is nearing the end of his life and urgently needs to break through his realm. He is using the Demonic Descent technique to coerce us into providing the treasures for his breakthrough."

“If we help him break through, he will become a demonic being who has reached the Divine Transformation stage, and the entire Western Continent will groan under his demonic flames.”

“If we don’t help him break through, he threatens to unleash a demonic attack at the last moment, adding another abyss of evil to the Western Continent.”

"He knew that we would definitely plot against him at this time, so he left the Seven Emotions Sect headquarters and hid somewhere. He only said that if the treasures were ready, they should be placed in the location he specified, and he would go and retrieve them himself."

"We have no other choice now. If the Nascent Soul True Monarch insists on hiding, no one can find him."

"Only your methods are always unpredictable and mysterious, even we don't know them. Perhaps we can find a way to find him."

(End of this chapter)