Chapter 522 The Root of Contradiction, Today's Jiushan
What happened to Xuanwei later?
The answer was so simple, but Zheng Fa didn't know how to start.
Since entering the Tao, he has had rich experiences. There have been times when he was on the verge of life and death, and even more times when he was the center of attention. However, he has never felt at a loss.
But at this moment, looking at these Tianhe disciples who were looking at him, and facing the expectation in their eyes, he was speechless.
But silence itself is also the answer.
The flying swords in the forest pointed to the sky and made a sound, the sound of the swords seemed to be full of injustice.
Venerable Tianhe looked at Zheng Fa for a while, then suddenly turned around and glanced at the disciples behind him.
Many people hung their heads, clenched their fists, and just stared at the ground.
Venerable Tianhe raised his head again and looked at Zheng Fa, but his eyes passed through his shoulder, as if he was gazing at Xuanwei.
There was a bit of determination in his eyes, and even the look he showed towards Zheng Fa became cold.
Zheng Fa's heart skipped a beat. He felt something was wrong. Venerable Tianhe looked like he was going to do something big.
Ever since he entered the Ten Thousand Swords Realm, he has been wondering why Venerable Tianhe left behind such a place.
Of course we need to commemorate our deceased disciples.
But this cannot explain this man's sudden death.
To put it bluntly, if Venerable Tianhe is fine, there will be no problem placing this Tongtian Sword Peak in the Xuanwei Realm.
Many people commemorate it.
Especially after chatting with the remnant soul of Tianhe for a few words, he discovered that Lu Yao's identity was not a big secret to Venerable Tianhe.
In his words, the evaluation of Lu Yao was a bit troublesome.
That being said, the possibility of him being murdered by Lu Yao is even smaller.
Then why Venerable Tianhe disappeared that year is even more intriguing.
Looking at Reverend Tianhe, Zheng Fa suddenly felt that he was waiting for the answer not out of reluctance, but because this answer would determine his subsequent actions.
And this action will affect the entire Xuanwei.
As if noticing the nervousness on Zheng Fa's face, Venerable Tianhe raised the corner of his mouth, as if approvingly: "You are quite clever."
This may sound a bit old-fashioned, but considering the identity of the person in front of me, well, it's reasonable.
"Your Excellency, or rather, what kind of future did the Tianhe Sect want back then?"
Zheng Fa couldn't help but ask, he was really a little curious.
Venerable Tianhe looked around and gave Zheng Fa an unexpected answer: "They don't know, and I don't know either."
Zheng Fa was stunned.
"The Tianhe Sect's strength in the early years was not worth mentioning. I was just a little better qualified. At that time, I was in danger of losing my job every day. My future was uncertain, let alone Xuanwei."
This is very true.
At the beginning, the Nine Nether Demon Ancestor wrote a biography of Venerable Tianhe, which included some of Venerable Tianhe's early deeds.
Although I am afraid that it may be beautified, distorted facts or hearsay.
But after reading it, Zheng Fa still felt that Venerable Tianhe was actually not much different from many other cultivators:
It is about practicing, seizing treasures, going to secret realms, refining equipment and earning spirit stones.
The special thing is that he has good qualifications, great fortune, and a strong ability to cause trouble.
Simply put, he is a traditional genius in practicing Xuanwei.
Later, the temperament and behavior of Venerable Tianhe and even the Tianhe Sect in his mind were quite different.
He was actually quite confused. Was this Tianhe Reverend possessed by a soul?
Otherwise it would be difficult to explain why this person had such a change.
Venerable Tianhe continued, "If it weren't for the Tianhe Law, I might not have broken with the Four Sects."
Tianhe Law? Zheng Fa's heart was slightly shocked, and he immediately realized what he had overlooked: "Venerable, is it the Tianhe Law that makes you unable to abandon the Tianhe Sect? Even unable to abandon your past thinking as a human being?"
Venerable Tianhe smiled and nodded slightly.
Yes.
Zheng Fa had long understood that Fa is Tao, and Tao is Fa. The practice of a Taoist cultivator is equivalent to the cultivator himself.
There is not much to say about the Yang Shen Method. It is a method of pure subtraction and forgetfulness of emotions. I am afraid that I regard my past as smoke.
The law of the gods is about addition. Desires are endless. The more you get, the more insignificant the previous experiences become.
Only the Tianhe Method, during the practice, increasingly strengthens the existence of "I", almost to the point of neither increasing nor decreasing, almost becoming an obsession.
To put it simply, although the Yang Shen method and the Dharma Body method cultivate the human form, they will become more and more inhuman.
Although Tianhe Fa has become a spirit of an artifact, he is unable to break away from the desires and emotions of an ordinary person.
Thinking of this, Zheng Fa asked, "So, the Venerable and the other immortal sects have different positions?"
"Standpoint?" Tianhe Reverend pondered for a while and said with a smile, "That's about it."
“It can be said that Daoguo and monks, monks and mortals, have different positions.”
"But I am a Dao Fruit who stands on the side of mortals."
…
In the Nine Mountains Realm, Emperor Tian and Senior Sister Zhang pondered for a long time before they sighed softly.
"If you put it this way, many things can be explained." Senior Sister Zhang whispered, "The root cause of the Tianhe chaos lies in the Tianhe Law. No wonder the four sects can even tolerate the Dharmakaya Law, but are so afraid of the Tianhe Law."
The Emperor of Heaven also nodded.
"I also overlooked the difference between Dao Fruit itself and cultivators. Loose Immortals and cultivators are essentially different species."
He has always said that cultivation itself is a kind of evolution of life.
But it was not until today that he deeply felt the true meaning of this sentence: After evolving to the level of Dao Fruit, is it still considered a human? Because of resurrection from the dead, Dao Fruit and cultivators can never be said to be the same species.
In other words, he has been intentionally or unintentionally ignoring the alienation that cultivation has caused to people.
Of course, most people are actually willing to accept this change, and even if Zheng Fa were to choose, he would not give up the opportunity to practice.
But there happens to be this freak called Tianhe Method.
This thing called the natal magic weapon can be cultivated in the Jindan stage. In other words, the thinking of the cultivator who practices the Tianhe method has already been formed.
The Emperor looked out the door, sighed, and shook his head:
“The Dao Fruits cultivated through the Yang Shen Method and the Dharma Body Method regard cultivators as cattle and horses, and ordinary people as grass.”
“The Dao Fruit cultivated through Tianhe Method is still on the side of cultivators and even mortals.”
“This contradiction is almost unsolvable.”
Simply put, Venerable Tianhe is an outlier among the Dao Fruits throughout history, and he is also the first Dao Fruit who regards himself as a human being.
…
Venerable Tianhe seemed to be recalling: "After I became a Sanxian, I found that I was not of the same path as those Dao Fruits."
"At the same time, people from the four sects also practiced the Tianhe Method, and they seemed to have discovered the problem."
"The Tianhe Sect and the Four Sects are drifting further and further apart."
"I want to kill the immortal, but the sect has already become disunited."
Zheng Fa listened carefully.
"Later, I understood that Xuanwei at that time was not suitable for Tianhe Law or Tianhe Sect, and failure was inevitable. But if you want me to tell you what kind of future and Xuanwei I want, I don't know. So they and I are waiting for an answer."
Hearing this, Zheng Fa couldn't help but ask tentatively:
"What if neither you nor the Tianhe disciples are satisfied with this answer, Your Excellency?"
Venerable Tianhe's eyes fell on Zheng Fa, with a smile on his face. However, the words he said made Zheng Fa's heart tremble: "When will the time come? You and I will both die!"
As expected, this venerable was holding back a big thing.
"What about the Xuanwei Realm?"
"The jade pendant in your sea of consciousness is the answer."
Ah? Zheng Fa was stunned at first, and then he suddenly understood what this venerable meant - he wanted to transform the Xuanwei Realm into the modern world.
In other words, the Xuanwei Realm was turned into a place without spiritual energy, cutting off the roots of the Daoguo cultivators.
What about the next step of Tianhe Fa? No method works.
Zheng Fa was also familiar with this concept. When he first started learning, he met a senior brother named Zhuang, who had this idea.
Venerable Tianhe thought so, and he could actually understand it a little better.
This venerable is probably obsessed with two things: Tianhe Law and Tianhe School.
The Tianhe Sect that he cared about is gone.
Tianhe Fa was targeted again - Zheng Fa now knew the details and dared not reveal the secret that he possessed Tianhe Fa.
What are you still holding on to? Just flip the table. It's similar to the Nine Nether Demon Ancestor, but seems to be more powerful.
"I gave them a chance."
Venerable Tianhe's words came out of nowhere.
Zheng Fa was completely confused.
"Which one do you think is better?"
After hearing this, Zheng Fa's hands trembled, and he looked at Venerable Tianhe, unable to hide the waves in his heart.
After Venerable Tianhe asked this question, he realized that he might have underestimated the Venerable in front of him.
His choice was not out of hatred.
In other words, he restrained his hatred.
He gave the Immortal Sect a chance of an era to prove that they could govern the mysterious world better than the modern world without spiritual energy.
But the immortal gate is useless.
He thought too narrowly of Tianhe Reverend and this group of Tianhe predecessors - they seemed to be able to accept the decline of Tianhe Law and even the demise of Tianhe Sect.
This venerable one probably surpassed Zheng Fa's obsession.
There was actually only one answer he wanted.
Zheng Fa looked at the Tianhe disciples in front of him again and finally understood their eyes: give them a future where cultivators and even mortals can see hope, let them know that everything they have done is not in vain.
Their obsession is people.
…
“Master!”
The Emperor of Heaven suddenly said.
Old man Yuan was stunned when he heard the Heavenly Emperor say, "Master, please bring Senior Sister Yuan to show me the Nine Mountains today."
"……good!"
The old man understood and responded.
…
"Your Excellency." Zheng Fa said to the people of Tianhe Sect, "I don't have an answer."
"What I have is just a Nine Mountain Realm that was deeply influenced by the Venerable and inherited the Nine Transformations Golden Pill Method."
The Jade Book of Creation flew out from his sea of consciousness and shot out a curtain of light in front of the forest of swords.
Venerable Tianhe and his disciples looked towards the light curtain.
There were many pictures on the light curtain. This was Old Man Yuan, Senior Sister Yuan, and the disciples from the News Center, rushing to various places in the Nine Mountains Realm.
Now, in order to let Venerable Tianhe know the whole picture of the Nine Mountains Realm, the old man simply asked the elite personnel of the News Center to go out and run around everywhere in the sky and on the ground.
Venerable Tianhe watched with interest.
Zheng Fa pointed his finger at a small screen on the upper right corner.
This is a disciple who went to the Nine Mountains Realm to conduct an on-site interview.
In the picture, there are endless rice fields.
The rice in the fields has just begun to ear.
It was the busy farming season, and the fields were crowded with people.
Venerable Tianhe immediately noticed something was wrong: "There are cultivators in your field?"
"Yes, they will regularly instruct mortals on planting, and sometimes they will even help with pest control and breeding."
“Is this all ordinary rice?”
"It's still the case now. My Jiushan Sect can't afford to feed so many people with spiritual grains."
Zheng Fa's tone was a little embarrassed.
Venerable Tianhe and those Tianhe disciples looked at him with some surprise in their eyes, as if they thought he was pretending.
Reverend Tianhe didn't say much, but just looked at the light curtain.
Zheng Fa clicked on another disciple’s interview video.
This disciple went to Jiushan University in Xuanwusu.
"What did you learn?" The disciple being interviewed was a little confused. "Talismans, refining equipment, oh, I'm currently learning the Nine Mountains Golden Elixir Method, which transforms water into wood. I still have some questions."
“…”
The atmosphere was a little awkward for a moment.
Zheng Fa felt inexplicably guilty.
Reverend Tianhe glanced at him quietly, with a hint of smile in his eyes.
The elder leader’s purpose was very clear, he went straight to Yan Wushuang.
"Interview me?" Yan Wushuang scratched the back of his head, completely unaware that he was being watched by his own ancestor. "What am I doing recently?"
"I haven't done anything. I'm studying the Tianhe Sword Canon."
"Ask me what my goal is?" Yan Wushuang was a little embarrassed: "After I finish learning the Huangting Sutra, I will combine it with Tianhe Sword Dao, innovate this method, and restore the glory of my ancestors!"
Venerable Tianhe raised his eyebrows and turned to look at Zheng Fa: "Who is he?"
"The younger generation of Tianhe Sect."
Reverend Tianhe had a look of disdain on his face: "You don't look very smart."
Judging from Reverend Tianhe’s attitude towards the Nine Nether Demon Ancestor, this... should be a compliment?
“What is the Huangting Sutra?”
Zheng Fa did not answer this question, but spoke to the Jade Book of Creation.
"Reciting the Huangting Sutra?" Yan Wushuang in the picture looked skeptical, "Is this program intended for entertainment?"
"How about I ask your senior sister to come?"
"I'll carry you!"
Reverend Tianhe listened to Yan Wushuang reciting the scriptures, and gradually became absorbed in it, with a strange light in his eyes.
"You created this?"
"This was created by the Jiushan Sect."
Tianhe Reverend asked again: "Is he from the Tianhe Sect?"
"Well, now I belong to the Jiushan Sect."
Venerable Tianhe looked at Zheng Fa deeply and said nothing.
Zheng Fa knew that Yan Wushuang had seen through his thoughts: on the one hand, letting Yan Wushuang tell him the Huangting Sutra was naturally to let Venerable Tianhe know the magic of the Huangting Sutra.
On the other hand, it is to let Venerable Tianhe see that the descendants of your Tianhe Sect have lived very well in my Jiushan Sect - I, Jiushan, am the orthodox Tianhe sect!
Reverend Tianhe didn't say much, but just continued watching the interviews.
The old man sent out dozens of disciples to visit every corner of the Nine Mountains Realm.
In the fields, schools, factories, towns and offices.
Because it was a spur of the moment decision, most of the interviewees were still confused, which made the interview more credible.
After reading it, Tianhe Zun suddenly asked, "What do you want to say by showing this to me?"
Zheng Fa said sternly: "I dare not say that the Nine Mountain Realm is better, and I dare not even say that it will definitely be better than Xuanwei in the future."
"Just like you have worked hard for Tianhe Sect and even the entire Xuanwei Realm."
"Countless people in my Jiushan Sect are also working hard in their own way."
Zheng Fa’s idea is very simple. The Xuanwei Realm is certainly not good, but that doesn’t mean the spiritual energy is bad.
Not to mention the Nine Mountains Realm, it is actually hard to say that the modern world is perfect, and spiritual energy can solve many problems.
For both public and private reasons, he did not want to see the spiritual energy truly cut off unless it was absolutely necessary.
Tianhe Reverend did not speak, but looked at the disciples behind him and asked, "How is it?"
None of the Tianhe disciples spoke.
In the Zhongtian Palace in the Jiushan Realm, Uncle Pang and others stood still, staring at the light curtain with nervous expressions.
The scenery on the light screen changed again, and Zheng Fa's eyes were filled with chaos.
Just as he was wondering, he was patted on the shoulder.
When he turned around, he saw a familiar cultivator standing behind him - he was a combined cultivator from the Tianhe Sect. The two had fought before when they were climbing the Tongtian Sword Peak.
"Come in!"
When Zheng Fa turned around, he saw a large hall appearing in front of him.
He followed the monk beside him into the hall, and the monk brought a cup of spiritual wine from somewhere and placed it in his hand.
Zheng Fa held the wine glass and looked around.
In the hall, besides Venerable Tianhe, there were the Tianhe disciples he met when he reached the summit.
They seemed to be waiting for him. When they saw Zheng Fa coming in, they laughed loudly and said, "Daoyou, you are so late. You should be fined a glass of wine!"
(End of this chapter)
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