“Are they the Pure Land Divine Guards?” Yun Che whispered.
These three people were not wearing armor, but brocade clothes, and were obviously not Abyss Knights.
"Yes." Meng Jianxi replied in a voice transmission: "They have no power to judge, and they spend almost their entire lives in the Pure Land, managing everything in the Pure Land. Their status in the eyes of the world is not as high as that of the Abyss Knights. However, you must not look down on them because of this."
Those who fail to pass the Pure Land Trial and are not qualified to become Abyss Knights will be expelled from the Pure Land. However, if they pass the character test, they will have another choice besides leaving, which is to stay in the Pure Land and become a Pure Land Divine Guard.
If one merely becomes a Pure Land Guardian, one may very likely never be able to step out of the Pure Land again in one's lifetime, which is equivalent to giving up one's previous life and binding one's future life.
Most of the Pure Land Divine Guards came from here. Once they became Divine Guards, they rarely appeared outside the Pure Land, so the world naturally knew very little about them. Their freedom, power, and status were all lower than those of the Abyss Knights.
However, Yun Che had long known from Hua Caili that there was a small group of extremely special divine guards in the Pure Land.
The divine guards personally trained by the four Pure Land priests.
Below the True God of the Abyss, there are eleven people who are at the pinnacle of the divine realm, which is also the pinnacle of humanity.
Among the six divine kingdoms, the Pure Land occupies five.
Among the five gods at the pinnacle of the Pure Land, one is the Abyss Knight, and the other four are Pure Land Guards.
Under the High Priest: Dong Huang;
Under the command of the Ten Thousand Dao Priests: Chang Ying;
Under the command of the Spiritual Immortal Priest: Su Shang;
Under the command of the Six Laughing Priests: Yuan Ying.
Yun Che replied with a sigh: “In the Pure Land, no one dares to look down on even the most insignificant person.”
Even the most ordinary Pure Land Divine Guards are quasi-knights who have not passed the trial... and in order to be qualified to participate in the Pure Land Trial, a necessary condition is to cultivate into the realm of Divine Destruction.
In other words, the cultivation level of the Pure Land Divine Guards is no lower than the Divine Destruction Realm, and they are qualified to establish their own sect in any place.
This concept alone is enough to make people terrified.
Stepping into the world of light, the world suddenly changes.
At first glance, the feeling that Pure Land gave Yun Che was just two words: simple and plain.
It does not have the luxury and splendor that one would expect of an imperial domain, nor does it have the majestic and solemn presence of nature as the Supreme Land. At first glance, even the buildings are exceptionally sparse, but instead, all kinds of green trees and flowers can be seen everywhere.
All the air here flows exceptionally gently, without any uneasiness or restlessness from any living being. The light here is even gentler, as if it can reflect into the heart, enough to easily soothe away all negative emotions.
Yun Che looked around and could clearly sense that everyone’s breathing was unconsciously slowing down. The young disciples were amazed and astonished, and all of them were intoxicated.
Because this is a pure land, a world completely free of abyssal dust, and a fantasy realm that the creatures in the abyss endlessly admire and yearn for.
Meng Jianxi took a long breath, exhaled, and then sighed: "Although this is not the first time I've come here, I still feel like I've stepped into a fairyland... This is a world without Yuanchen at all."
"I heard about the 'Eternal Pure Land', where there is not a single speck of dust in the entire vast world. It is simply unimaginable, what a wonderful world that must be."
"In such a world, no living being would have to worry about the invasion of the Abyss Dust. Trees would grow naturally, beasts would run freely, countless species would be born, and even a newborn baby could cry freely... In such a world, living beings would be in a peace that we cannot imagine. There would be no fear, struggle, or crying. Even evil thoughts would be soothed by purity, and there would be no cruel fighting and killing."
Yun Che remained silent.
Meng Jianxi continued, "During this audience with the Pure Land Emperor, Emperor Yuan is likely to mention the Eternal Pure Land. Are you looking forward to it, Brother Yuan?"
Yun Che showed a longing expression: “Who wouldn’t yearn for a world without Yuan Chen?”
"It will be so."
Meng Kongchan in front suddenly said in a low voice: "The land of fantasy is now within reach. Perhaps, in just a few decades, you will be able to stand on that eternal pure land and re-open and continue our dream-weaving future world there, hahahaha."
Amid Meng Kongchan's loud laughter, Yun Che and Meng Jianxi had the same expression, but they were experiencing completely different emotions.
At this moment, Yun Che’s expression suddenly froze, and his footsteps froze there.
"Brother Yuan, what's wrong?" Meng Jianxi stopped and asked.
“…It’s okay.” Yun Che shook his head, his expression calm: “I just felt a little dazed for some reason.”
Meng Jianxi understood and said, "This is perfectly normal. When you are used to the existence of Yuanchen, your cognition will be shaken when you suddenly enter a world without Yuanchen. When I first entered the Pure Land, I was in a trance several times."
When a person with profound abyss steps into the pure land, it is like a fish suddenly entering a clear spring from a stinking swamp that it has long been accustomed to. This will indeed cause a huge impact on cognition.
However, putting aside the aspect of the aura of heaven and earth, the pure land that looked like a holy land in the eyes of the Abyss Mysterious Master was nothing more than an ordinary world in Yun Che's cognition.
Just now, a spiritual consciousness enveloped him.
At that moment, his five senses seemed to sink into an endless ocean. He had no idea where he came from, where he was going, and no end in sight.
That mere divine consciousness seemed to be enough to overwhelm the heaven and earth and devour all the worlds.
That divine consciousness stayed on him for a moment, but it made Yun Che feel as if he had experienced a long lifetime.
"Just now...what was that?" Li Su's voice was very soft, carrying the deepest and heaviest worry she had ever felt since she woke up.
When she asked the question, she already knew the answer.
“He discovered me.” Yun Che was very calm, both in his tone and in his mood.
"Have you... really thought about how to face him?" Li Suo asked, every word revealing the worry that was hard to let go.
"Well, don't worry."
Yun Che's voice was calm, his heart was peaceful. He was speaking to Li Suo, but even more so to himself.
A stabbing pain came from the depths of the soul sea and gradually intensified.
They are the last two memory fragments from the evil god Nixuan.
They were actually triggered and shattered when touched by "his" existence.
And this tingling feeling was also telling Yun Che that the emotional fluctuations carried by this last memory fragment were far greater than the previous ones.
The Pure Land Divine Guards led them to a courtyard. The furnishings were extremely simple, without any elegant items for entertaining guests. There were only dozens of mysterious formations for meditation. The most eye-catching thing was still the lush green trees and flowers.
However, none of the noble people in the Kingdom of God dared to reach out and touch the flowers and trees here, as if they were afraid of desecrating them.
The Pure Land Guard said in a gentle voice, "It's still early. Please rest here for a while, Lord Wumeng and the other guests. When the time comes, Emperor Yuan will summon you. In addition, the Pure Land is strictly guarded and has many forbidden areas. Please do not walk around casually."
"Yes." Meng Kongchan nodded: "Have all the other divine kingdoms arrived?"
The Pure Land Divine Guard said, "We have already arrived at the Divine Kingdom. Only Zhimeng and Zhetian are here. The guests from the other four Divine Kingdoms and the Dragon Clan are still on the way."
The Pure Land Guards left without leaving any servants.
However, no one would think that Pure Land is disrespectful.
The stabbing pain in Yun Che’s soul sea became more and more intense, and he took advantage of the situation to let this feeling of uneasiness show on his facial features.
Meng Kongchan had already noticed this and said with concern: "When you first enter the Pure Land, it will be easy to feel uneasy, especially since you have only a shallow cultivation base. If it is unbearable, just concentrate and calm down for a while to adapt to the atmosphere of heaven and earth here."
“Okay.” Yun Che responded obediently, and then said in a low voice: “If Caili comes, please cover up a little.”
"Oh?" Meng Kongchan was surprised, then laughed and said, "He is a stubborn boy after all. He really doesn't want to show any weakness to the person he likes. Don't worry, your father will take care of it for you."
Yun Che said no more, and quickly came to a profound formation and sat down, then deployed an isolation barrier, allowing his consciousness to sink into the fragment of memory that had just shattered.
…
The vast world is swept by a storm of disaster.
The sky was dislocated, the earth was shaking, and countless cracks appeared in space every moment, as if countless lightning bolts were raging wildly between heaven and earth.
Even though they were separated by an extremely distant era, Yun Che could still tell from the unique grayish-white color of the sky that this was the world of the Absolute Beginning Divine Realm.
However, what was presented in the Primordial Divine Realm was an ancient disaster that ordinary people could not even imagine.
Ni Xuan's long hair was dishevelled, and his once handsome face was now gray and covered with numerous overlapping and terrible scars. His coat looked like it had just been fished out of a pool of blood, stained with blood.
He slowly moved his upper body, and stood up with the difficulty of a withered old man. But immediately, he knelt heavily on the ground again, and the blood of the God of Creation flowed madly from the countless wounds on his body, soaking the primordial earth under his feet.
He was the elemental creator god, the supreme being of the world. No one could have imagined... not even he himself had ever thought that one day he would be so seriously injured, so embarrassed, and so miserable.
In front of him was a tall man dressed in gold.
His facial features give people a feeling of being carved by a sword with great clarity.
When people see his face for the first time, the word "upright" will appear in their hearts very clearly.
It seems that before this face, no laws can be violated, no rules can be trampled upon, no mistakes can be forgiven, and no sins can exist.
He is the leader of the four great gods of creation and the most supreme being in the world:
The God-Slaying Emperor - Mo'e.
In his hand, he held a large sword. The sword was bronze in color, with an ordinary blade, blunt and without any edge, and without any sword pressure or intimidation. Even if it fell into the mortal world, it would still be an ordinary iron that no mortal world mystic would look at.
However, it has a shocking name.
The Ancestral Sword of Heaven.
The first of the seven supreme treasures of Xuantian, the first sword in the world of chaos, and the ancestor of all the weapons in the world of chaos.
He held the Ancestral Sword in his hand, standing still between heaven and earth. Even though the sky collapsed and the earth sank, and storms filled the world, he remained as unmoved as a mountain that held up the sky.
He looked indifferently at the elemental creator god Nixuan, whose body was covered in blood; his expression did not change even for a moment from beginning to end.
"In order to defeat me, you actually used the might of the Ancestral Sword for the second time."
Ni Xuan's voice was so dry that it was hard to believe it was the voice of the God of Creation: "Is this also for the so-called 'righteous path' in your heart?!"
The power of the First Ancestor's sword, if wielded by a mortal, would kill instantly; if wielded by a true god, 90% of one's lifespan would be shortened.
Even if one is as strong as the God of Creation, it would still consume 30% of his lifespan to activate the might of the Ancestral Sword.
This was the second time he used the Ancestral Sword, and his life span had been reduced by 60%.
He did not hesitate, nor did he regret it.
He couldn't understand Mo'e's obsession.
Just as he couldn't understand why he had to kill Mu Su.
That was obviously his most beloved son! He was his Crown Prince Zhutian, the inheritor of his power and will that he had chosen.
Even if Musu violated a taboo, his crime did not deserve the death penalty... and he should not be executed by his own hands.
"You killed Mosu, harmed Jieyuan, and kidnapped my daughter... Now it's my turn."
Ni Xuan smiled miserably, his gray face showing a hopeless dejection: "Go ahead."
Mo'e spoke, his voice as light as smoke above the clouds: "Although I hate you in my heart, I have no reason to kill you."
"Ha!" Ni Xuan laughed softly, "You can execute anyone who goes against your 'righteous path' without mercy, even if it's your own son whom you love and hope for. What's more, I am someone who goes against you."
The storm blew up a few strands of Mo'er's long hair, hitting her face and bringing up a deep sense of sorrow.
Mo'e did not raise his sword, nor did any aura emanate from his body.
After a long while, he slowly spoke, but in a tone that was completely unfamiliar to Nixuan: "Nixuan, do you know how much I have always envied you?"
Ni Xuan: "...?"
"The name given to you by the First God contains the word 'Ni', which means that your character is free and unrestrained. You never want to be bound by any existing rules, and you repeatedly rebel and change those rules and current situations that you think are rigid, absurd, unfair, and wrong."
"The world needs a creator god like you. Because the world evolves and the times change, it needs to constantly change. It needs to break the old rules again and again and get rid of the filth and shackles of each era."
"The world has gone from being a desolate nothingness to being prosperous with all living things and all the worlds. It has gone through countless corrections and changes."
Nixuan looked at Mo'er. Perhaps he couldn't believe that these words actually came from Mo'er's mouth.
"The world needs someone to keep changing." Mo'e also looked at Nixuan: "But at the same time, it also needs someone to keep it going."
“So,” Ni Xuan said in a deep voice, “Gods and demons cannot be tolerated. This means that you must adhere to this rule and never allow anyone to touch it? Even if it’s Mo Su, even if it’s the God of Creation and the Demon Emperor, even if it costs you so much of your life, you must eliminate them!?”
Compared to Nixuan's sadness, anger, grief and confusion...there was no ripple in Mo'e's eyes, like dead water.
Or maybe, it's because I'm extremely hurt but not sad.
He began: "The world is divided into birth and death, life is divided into yin and yang, when yin and yang are balanced, all worlds are at peace."
"The creation of the world by the first ancestor was based on 'balance' and began with balance. Without balance, people will stumble. Without balance, the world will inevitably collapse."
"So, at the beginning of the world, there were four great creation gods and four great demon emperors, not eight creation gods or eight demon emperors."
The God-Slaying Emperor had no expression on his face, and spoke in an almost wooden voice words that he had never said before.
"From ancient times to the present, both gods and demons are the supreme beings in this world, and can easily decide the fate of the heavens and myriad worlds. The gods and demons are minor disasters, but in other worlds, they are devastating natural disasters."
"The gods and demons each dominate one side, repelling and restraining each other, and forming a long-standing balance. Everything in the world can change, but this balance cannot be...touched... or...broken."
The disaster gradually subsided, and the roar of space also slowed down. Between heaven and earth, only the souls of the two great creator gods shook the world's winds and clouds.
Nixuan's voice pushed the storm towards the end: "You only know how to repel and restrain each other. But fusion is also another better balance."
"You're right. Fusion may be a better balance."
In Nixuan's cognition, Mo'e, who was always stubborn, actually gave him a response of approval.
"However, any major change should start with a small trial, let alone a conflict between two races that involves the safety of the world."
“It could be a mortal spirit from the world created by gods or the world created by demons, or it could be a god or a demon from the last plane… But, it can’t be you, Nixuan, it can’t be the Heaven Smiting Demon Emperor, and it can’t be… my son of Mo’e!”
Nixuan's pupils paused for a moment.
He realized that his heart and soul were actually touched by it.
“Even so…” These four short words showed that he did not completely reject Mo’e’s words: “Why must you be so cruel to Mo Su and yourself!”
Mo'e finally made a move. He bent his arms and slowly held the sword of the Heaven-Slaying Ancestor that was hanging on the ground across his body.
"The Four Creation Gods and the Four Demon Emperors are the highest level beings in the world, but they do not possess the power of the highest level."
"The ultimate power of the world is carried by the Ancestral Sword of Heaven-Slaying and the Evil Infant's Wheel of Myriad Tribulations."
“Nixuan,” he called the name of the elemental creator god softly, without sadness or hatred, without resentment or hurt: “Do you know why they, who possess the power of the extreme, are given such ominous names as ‘Heaven-destroying’ and ‘Ten Thousand Tribulations’?”
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