Chapter 594: Identity Exposed, Merit Added
Zheng Fa stood in the void, his entire body enveloped in tangible merits.
He felt conflicted. The sensation on his skin told him that he was surrounded by a warm ocean, yet his mind was clear, transparent, and cool. His thoughts raced, and all sorts of thoughts surfaced in his mind:
Three Talents...
Creating humans...
Dao Fruit...
The difference between the Honghuang technique and the Xuanwei technique...
Question after question, answer after answer, appeared one after another, turning his brain into a mess.
Nuwa's voice echoed in his sea of consciousness: "The so-called ritual is actually a fusion of the three elements. Before, the human race was absent, and even for us, it was difficult to understand."
Yes.
With the great magical powers of Nuwa and others, even if they have never seen how to become immortal from mortals, they will not be confused.
Now, according to Nuwa, their previous doubts were actually due to their lack of understanding of one thing - humans!
This is just like being unable to solve a problem due to lack of necessary conditions. Without human beings, it would be difficult for Nuwa and others to understand the role of the ritual.
When the human race appeared in the world, Nuwa became a saint and had a deeper understanding of the way of heaven. Naturally, she immediately understood the essence of the Taoism of later generations.
"Rituals are born from the human race. The most important thing is to start from the inside out."
Nuwa said something vague again and then kept silent, as if she wanted Zheng Fa to figure it out on his own.
Zheng Fa felt as if spring thunder had sounded in his heart, waking him up from his hazy slumber. He finally understood what the Dao Fruit was.
Since the beginning of cultivating immortals, cultivators have been asking for things from heaven and earth, absorbing spiritual energy and spiritual materials from the outside to the inside.
It's like a plant, absorbing nutrients during its growth period.
But now, Zheng Fa is about to bear fruit!
For the monks themselves, what they should pursue at this moment is "one"!
The Dharmakaya, Yangshen and magic weapon are combined into one to form a fruit that encompasses his lifelong practice experience.
But to the outside world, this fruit of the Tao is like a seed!
He wants to be in harmony with heaven, earth and man, and spread his own teachings, his own beliefs and his own expectations, so that heaven and earth can bear witness and everyone can recognize them.
Zheng Fa opened up his sea of consciousness, his Yang Spirit, and his Jade Book of Creation, without hiding anything, allowing all living beings in heaven and earth to see him inside and out.
Merit flowed into his limbs and bones like water, making his whole body golden.
"He is not Shi Nandang!"
The moment Zheng Fa revealed everything about himself to all living things in heaven and earth, the "Transformations of the Heavenly Gang and the Earthly Evils" naturally could not be maintained.
In the eyes of Taoist Zaohua, Shi Nandang's figure seemed to have had its disguise washed away by the sea water in the Sea of Merit.
A strange, young face appeared before them.
Another question appeared in the mind of Taoist Zaohua - who is he?
"Zheng Fa!"
The Gu God and the Golden-winged Roc shouted at the same time, with the same hatred in their tone.
The Gu God thought of his Qiankun Ding.
The golden-winged Roc also couldn't forget his Yin-Yang Qi Bottle.
The two looked at each other and suddenly felt a connection between their hearts.
"He is Zheng Fa?" Taoist Zaohua asked in surprise, "How did he get in?"
The Bone Demon Ancestor shook his head slightly: "His method of transformation... I'm afraid it's not something he can learn from me."
By now, they still don’t understand that the person who appeared in Jiuyaotian at the beginning was Zheng Fa!
Bai Lian stared at Zheng Fa's unfamiliar face, as if wanting to memorize him. After a long moment, she said, "The one who has achieved enlightenment and is most likely to obtain the Primordial Purple Qi... is Zheng Fa?"
No one said anything, as they all thought it was outrageous.
All of them had been prepared for Jiuyaotian, but now they were beaten to it by an outsider, Zheng Fa!
Bai Lian's words were squeezed out from between her teeth, like a cold breeze:
"This person who pushed Hao Rishan into a desperate situation?"
"This is the person who stole your Qiankun Ding from Gu Shen and Dapeng's Erqi Bottle?"
"This person who repeatedly ruins Master's plans?"
He turned around and looked at the silent Zaohua and the others: "Are we just going to sit back and watch?"
The Taoist of Creation asked, "What do you think?"
"Stop him from achieving enlightenment!" Bai Lian said firmly, "Let's not talk about the Hongmeng Purple Qi for now. This person's strength far exceeds that of those at the same level. If he becomes a Loose Immortal, his strength will be extraordinary!"
This is true, but the problem is...
"How can this be stopped?"
Bai Lian turned around again and stared at Gu Shen: "This depends on you, Daoist Fellow Gu Shen!"
The Gu God was slightly stunned, then he understood: "Tie silkworm, painted moth? You already knew about it?"
Not only Bai Lian, but even the Taoist Zaohua had a calm expression.
The Gu God looked around, then at Zheng Fa, and after a long moment, he snorted, "I put so much effort into this, only to be performing for you like a fool?"
"No matter how much intrigue we engaged in before, it's all just a small matter," Bai Lian said softly. "If Shi Nandang had taken the Primordial Purple Qi, it wouldn't have been a problem for Master and us. But if Zheng Fa had taken it... we would have no way of explaining ourselves!"
The Gu God looked very dissatisfied: "I'm the only one taking action, and you're just going to watch?"
Creation said: "This is not a good place to fight, your method is most suitable for Gu God."
The Gu God snorted, "Before, I would have believed that you were helpless. Now, do you still think I'm a fool?"
Zaohua was silent for a while, then he said in a muffled voice: "He has the goddess Nuwa by his side."
Even Bai Lian looked very upset.
He did have other ways to interfere with Zheng Fa's preaching, but there was one thing - those six powerful men were still there!
Judging from the attitude of the six people towards Zheng Fa just now, if they act rashly, who knows what kind of horror they will encounter!
The Gu God understood and became even more angry: "You are afraid, but am I not afraid?"
"Fellow Daoist Gu Shen, there's no need to attack now. We only need to secretly interfere when he's going through the most difficult period of his tribulation, and that will ruin his path." Bai Lian explained in detail, "We've all achieved the status of Loose Immortal, so we naturally understand the difficulty involved."
Taoist Zaohua nodded and said, "There are three kinds of calamities for scattered immortals: heaven, earth, and man. If one of them goes wrong, the person will die."
The Gu God was still a little hesitant.
Others could also see that she was afraid of being retaliated against by Nuwa and others if she stopped Zheng Fa from overcoming the tribulation.
Bai Lian explained, "I also learned about Fellow Gu Shen's magical powers from my master. I think that after entering the Nine Lights Heaven, Fellow Daoist must have left a way for resurrection in the outside world. Even if something happens in the Nine Lights Heaven, Fellow Daoist will not truly die."
The Gu God still sneered and still didn't want to agree.
"I promise that if you succeed, everyone in Leiyin Temple will definitely help you recover your cultivation, or even improve it further," Bai Lian advised. "Besides, we are not without help here."
Everyone was stunned and looked at Zhunti and the other person. The Gu God's expression was also moved.
Seeing that she was still hesitating, Bai Lian raised her voice a little: "Could it be that Gu God, you are just going to watch him become a Loose Immortal?"
"Are you not going to avenge the loss of the tripod?"
"Fellow Daoist, have you also forgotten the hatred of killing your son?"
The Gu God raised his eyes to look at Zheng Fa and said through gritted teeth, "You don't have to provoke me."
Seeing her expression, Bai Lian smiled gently, stopped talking, and just looked up at the sky.
In the sky, Zheng Fa's enlightenment ritual finally began.
At this time, he had already understood that the so-called ritual was actually a vow of Taoism.
"Heaven and earth bear witness, and all the saints bear witness."
"I, Zheng Fa, am a descendant of the human race. I inherited the legacy of the ancient sages, gathered the wisdom of all living beings, forged the Jade Book of Transformation, and created the Huangting Sutra."
"Today's merits are complete, and I have attained the Dao Fruition!"
The smoke and clouds in the Qiankun Cauldron were like a dragon, rising straight into the sky.
The six Nuwas who dominated the ancient world stood silently aside, as if they were willing to be a supporting role, and gave the attention of all creatures in the world to Zheng Fa.
Thousands of newborn humans were still kneeling on the ground, but they couldn't help but raise their heads and look at this strange yet familiar fellow.
The sea of merit in the sky was surging, and there seemed to be muffled thunder.
"My way is, first, humanity; second, the masses; and third, innovation."
"People, it is said that the way of humanity will prosper!"
"The majority is better than the minority!"
"The new is better than the past!"
Today, in Zheng Fa's understanding, the meaning of Jiuyaotian is actually only one:
Let future generations understand the significance of the human race.
Cultivating immortals is essentially a process of strengthening an individual, but the path to immortality for the human race is not like this. Compared with the myriad races in the ancient world, the advantages of the human race are one, their own wisdom, and one, mutual cooperation and communication.
The so-called test by Nuwa and the two words "please" she said before were essentially meant to make him remember this matter.
He looked at Nuwa and saw her smiling at him, as if she was somewhat relieved.
Even many things that were previously incomprehensible now have explanations:
For example, why are the methods of cultivating immortals in ancient and modern times so different?
The biggest reason is still the human race.
When Hongjun was preaching, the human race had not yet been born, and those skills were not suitable for human practice at all.
Even according to Tongtian, he had never seen a cultivator before he became an immortal.
Therefore, the methods of later generations were actually improved for the human race.
The first is to complete some low-level cultivation methods.
The second is to combine some of the essence of Hongjun’s preaching into the cultivation methods of the human race.
Simply put, based on the Taoism taught by Hongjun, a set of cultivation methods suitable for the human race has been developed.
Even Zheng Fa now looked back at those ancient legends, especially the so-called Taishang and others who founded the religion, and always felt that what they did was actually this:
Improve Taoism to make it suitable for the human race.
In this way, Taoism can grow and multiply with the help of the human race.
It is precisely because of this that they can gain merits like Nuwa.
After saying these three sentences, Zheng Fa felt that his spirit had become one with the world, especially the newly born human race.
Although these people had not even learned the language, they seemed to understand what Zheng Fa said. They danced with joy.
He looked at these humans and said softly:
"My path has two great aspirations!"
"I wish that the human race will inherit the legacy and integrate all laws."
"I wish that the human race will cut through the thorns and create a new world."
These ignorant and confused newborn humans seemed to have truly understood his words. They slowly stood up, stepped on the ground, held their heads high, and looked up at him.
At the same time, outside Kunlun Mountain, from all directions, from the nine heavens to the nine underworlds, wailing and crying sounds rang out continuously.
There were dragon roars, phoenix cries, and countless mythical beasts crying and wailing, as if they had seen the end of the world.
The two races of wizards and liches, who had previously fought for the position of overlord of heaven and earth, are now crying miserably and unwillingly.
For all the races in the ancient world, the birth of the human race was not a good thing, especially when Zheng Fa announced the way of the human race to heaven and earth, they did understand their situation in their hearts.
Not every race is willing to be a supporting role in the world.
No one is willing to become a so-called sage and become the nourishment for the development of other races.
Outside the mountain, blood rain was falling and the sky was white. In a trance, an era came to an end in the interweaving of red and white.
Taoist Zaohua watched this scene, silent for an unknown length of time, before speaking in a hoarse voice, "When you were achieving enlightenment, was there such a scene? Did all the races weep?"
Everyone was silent. It was obvious that they had never seen such a scene before.
"What does he want to do? The Dao Ancestor of the human race? How is this possible?" The Golden-Winged Dapeng said coldly, "I have never seen such an arrogant Dao Fruit oath!"
His expression was uglier than others. After all, he was not a human and was particularly sensitive to Zheng Fa's thoughts.
"No, how can a Dao Fruit of this kind of concept be recognized by all beings in the universe?" Bai Lian frowned. "A Dao Fruit like this, which concerns the entire human race, needs an audience of more than a billion people."
"This kind of Dao Fruit requires the recognition of all human beings in the heavens and myriad worlds!"
These words made everyone stunned for a moment, and then they realized that the audience was extremely important to the ritual. Without the audience's recognition, it would be impossible to achieve the Tao fruit!
Therefore, most Dao Fruit cultivators will establish their own forces.
For a Dao Fruit as ambitious as Zheng Fa, the requirements are even higher.
The Bone Demon Ancestor shook his head and said, "There's no way he could succeed! He wouldn't even need the Gu God to intervene."
The others also nodded.
They are all people who have attained enlightenment and understand this very well.
"If there aren't enough people to carry the Dao Fruit and connect heaven and earth, then the bigger the Dao Fruit becomes, the more empty it becomes!" The White Bone Demon Ancestor sneered, "This person must have had too much success in the past, and he's lost his mind!"
At this moment, the more than a thousand human beings couldn't help but repeat in a low voice the Daoguo oath that Zheng Fa had just made.
At first, their intonation was very awkward and their voices were uneven.
Later, they seemed not only to imitate, but even to understand, and they sang in unison, their voices shaking the valley.
Heaven, earth, and man seemed to resonate slightly with the chanting.
The aura on Zheng Fa's body became extremely mysterious in this vibration.
The smoke from the Qiankun Ding enveloped him, making him float like an immortal, as if he had become one with everything.
"The ritual is complete?" The Gu God's eyes widened and he asked angrily, "Could this be due to the Qiankun Cauldron?"
Taoist Zaohua was stunned and looked at the newly born humans: "Maybe it's the Qiankun Cauldron, but the most important thing is these humans!"
"...Human race?"
"In the future, the human race will have flourished. To achieve Dao Fruit, they will naturally need many followers." Taoist Zaohua's tone was full of disbelief. "But right now, here, these people are the entire human race."
“…”
"They acknowledged that Zheng Fa's Dao Fruit was successful."
After hearing the Taoist's guess, everyone looked at Zheng Fa and Nuwa and found it even more glaring.
Zheng Fa's Daoguo oath had indeed come true, and had even begun to trigger the fate of the scattered immortals:
The tribulation of a scattered immortal, or in other words, the tribulation of a Daoguo, is different from the previous ones - before, it was the three tribulations of wind, fire, and thunder, but after becoming a scattered immortal, it becomes the three tribulations of heaven, earth, and man.
According to the records in classics such as "Chixiao Jade Book" that directly point to the fruit of the Tao, among the three tribulations, the heavenly tribulation tests the heart of the Tao, the earthly tribulation tests the immortal body, and the human tribulation determines life and death.
Bai Lian looked at the Gu God with a cold voice, even with a hint of fear:
"The greater the Dao Fruit oath, the stronger the calamity, and the greater the test of the cultivator's character and Dao." He stared at the Gu God and said word by word, "This is your chance!"
The Gu God's expression was also very solemn.
"If you can stop him, even if you die here, my master will allow you to achieve enlightenment again!"
(End of this chapter)
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