The Simple Truth
The legendary Nantianmen...
Xu Shulou was so bold that my heart skipped a beat at that moment.
Before she could take a closer look at the imposing building, her collar was suddenly lifted up by someone from behind.
With her current level, she didn't even notice anyone approaching, which was enough to show the difference in their cultivation levels. Xu Shulou held her breath and looked back, and an unexpectedly kind face appeared in her sight up close.
"Who are you?" The visitor was a handsome man who was looking at her curiously. "Your cultivation doesn't seem to be at the level where you can ascend."
"Who are you?"
"My last name is Yang."
Xu Shulou was stunned: "...Yang Jian?"
"No," the man laughed, "I'm just the gatekeeper of heaven."
"So," Xu Shulou extracted some information from his attitude, "there really is a Yang Jian here?"
The man nodded.
Xu Shulou clapped his hands and said, "I told you, folk tales are still of reference value." Of course, this does not include the legends from the demon world.
The man put her down and said, "Did you come here just to ask whether Xiansheng Zhenjun exists?"
"Of course not," Xu Shulou thought for a moment, "I also want to ask... Is there a Chang'e?"
The man nodded: "Lord of the Moon Palace."
Xu Shulou leaned over and said, "So, which of the two legends, Ying Hui stealing the elixir or the Valkyrie, is true?"
The guard named Yang frowned and asked, "Why are you asking so many questions?"
“…”
He glanced at Xu Shulou's wrist and frowned: "You shouldn't come here. I'll take you back."
The people here are still very reasonable, Xu Shulou thought. At least they don't want to send her to jail, or worse - kill her on the spot.
"Wait," Xu Shulou hurriedly stopped him when he saw that he was about to grab him again, "Where exactly is this place?"
"God Realm."
The divine world... Xu Shulou took a deep breath. It turned out that above the fairy world, there was the divine world.
There is a realm for cultivators called "transformation into a god". Now it seems that they are still far away from becoming true gods.
It seems that the more you see, the more you realize how insignificant you are in the entire universe.
Xu Shulou asked the purpose of his trip: "May I ask Guard Yang, do you know what the seal of the fairyland was a thousand years ago?"
"Oh, that," the guard nodded, "I know. Thousands of years ago, there was a dispute between factions in the God Realm. They thought that the newcomers would mess up their factions and cause trouble, so they banned them."
"..." Xu Shulou was stunned. When she was in the fairy world, she discussed plans with those "crazy people". They had put forward many arguments and speculated various dark conspiracies, such as keeping people like pigs and plotting to destroy the three realms... There was also a crazier one who speculated that the upper realm had been hijacked by alien species and needed them, the fairies, as nourishment... But the truth turned out to be just a coincidence.
"Why are you silent?"
"You...haven't you ever thought about reopening the passage?"
"We don't need to open it. As long as someone reaches the critical point of ascension and enters the light column, the seal will open automatically." The guard touched his chin. "But speaking of it, it seems that I haven't seen a newly ascended immortal for a long time."
"We...can't open it."
"Why?"
Xu Shulou met his curious eyes: "...What about the passage to the mortal world? Why is it also sealed?"
"There's nothing we can do. The two roads are on the same pillar, so we have to seal them both together. Wait, you mean, it's okay that the upward passage is not open, but you can't open the downward passage either?" The guard was very surprised.
“…”
Seeing her silence, the guard couldn't help but mutter: "The people in the fairy world are too lazy. Don't you practice?"
"How to practice?"
"Isn't there a method of cultivating the spirit in the library?"
A method of cultivating the gods? A library? Xu Shulou narrowed his eyes and said, "Can you take me to see the fairyland you mentioned?"
The guard sighed, "Well, I'll just take you back."
He let Xu Shulou hold his arm, raised his hand and clapped his wrist, activating some kind of magic weapon.
Xu Shulou stared at his wrist sharply.
After a while, the two of them floated in the clouds, and the guard pointed downwards: "Look, aren't we all cultivating the gods?"
Xu Shulou observed the immortals below. They all had alert looks on their faces as they walked, as if they were ready to fight at any time... Oh, not as if, someone had already started a fight. Xu Shulou looked carefully for a while and found that the people involved in the fight were all very powerful, but their faces were filled with deep hatred and bitterness, which was very different from the immortal world she ascended to. Looking at the broken walls and ruins all over the mountains, as if they had been violently destroyed by someone, she slowly shook her head: "This is not the immortal world I have been to."
"How come?" The guard took her to the end of the mountain and said, "Well, it seems... you wait for me here for a moment."
As soon as he finished speaking, he disappeared in front of Xu Shulou. It was obvious that people from the divine world did not need to fly on swords. They just disappeared in one place and immediately appeared in another place in the next moment.
Xu Shulou captured his shadow flashing across the world and headed accurately in the direction he was coming back.
The guard stopped in front of her and noticed her gaze: "You are quite perceptive. Normally, with your level of cultivation, you would not be able to detect my figure."
"What did you see?" Xu Shulou didn't respond.
The guard was in a dilemma: "It's a long story."
"Please keep it short."
"In short, the fairy world was divided into two parts. Maybe something went wrong..."
The guard's words were a bit confusing, and Xu Shulou summarized and extracted the information he needed from his description.
The truth is much simpler than you think.
In short, the fairyland was originally divided into two parts, one part was for people to enjoy, and the other part provided various methods for practicing exercises. The two fairylands were connected by a cableway for the cultivators to travel back and forth, combining work and rest.
Back then, when the passage was sealed, the God Realm seemed to have accidentally shattered the ropeway, dividing the Immortal Realm into two parts. One part had a library and divine cultivation techniques, but there was no light column passage, so a group of people who had become gods had no way to ascend, and in the absence of entertainment, they gradually became irritable. This part of the Immortal Realm had been shattered by them, and it was estimated that if they worked hard for another 100 or 200 years, they might be able to open a way to the lower world.
There is a passage in the other area, but there is no method to cultivate the spirit. Everyone is just spending their days leisurely, not to mention cultivating the spirit. Even their original cultivation level is regressing.
"...What a sin." This is Xu Shulou's evaluation of this story.
"…Who says it isn't?" the guard agreed.
Xu Shulou frowned: "The fairy world was divided into two parts, and the fairies did not lose their memories. Logically, there should have been fairies who remembered this technique at that time." For example, Xi'e and the others.
"It's useless to remember. After you comprehend one level of spiritual cultivation techniques, you can enter the library and see the next level," the guard explained. "Unless someone has already reached the top level of cultivation, otherwise what you remember is only an incomplete technique."
"…Then how do we resolve this issue?"
"I will help you reconnect the cableway," the guard sighed, "and then return to the God Realm to turn myself in. As the guard of the South Heaven Gate, I should be punished for not noticing any abnormalities in the lower world for so many years. There are others who should be held accountable as well."
The realm of a person who can become a god is different. He directly said that he wanted to surrender himself, and did not have the slightest intention of killing Xu Shulou to silence him.
As if he could see what she was thinking, the guard said softly, "The divine world is not perfect, and we make mistakes... sometimes big mistakes, but we always try our best to do well."
"Humans, immortals, and gods, what exactly is going on with these three realms?" Xu Shulou couldn't help but ask.
"They are an interlocking ring. If they stay in the God Realm for too long, they will gradually become arrogant and forget the sufferings of the human world. They will not be able to govern the three realms impartially and selflessly. Therefore, the gods in the God Realm will occasionally choose to give up their godhood and reincarnate as mortals to experience tribulations in the lower realms," the guard patiently explained to her. "In the three realms of humans, immortals, and gods, everything is based on mortals."
"So that's how it is," Xu Shulou thought for a moment, "I've seen many stories of gods and immortals descending to the mortal world to experience the tribulations of love in the lower world."
"We have to go through more than just love tribulations. No one will specially arrange any tribulations for us. We just have to be mortals and experience birth, aging, sickness and death, pain and joy, sadness and happiness. There is no certainty about what we will encounter in our lives."
“…”
The guard pointed to her wrist: "Show me your magic weapon."
Xu Shulou raised his wrist as he was told: "Do you recognize this?"
The guard looked at the Xumi Ring and the bracelet, raised his hand and touched them, then nodded affirmatively: "It is the core fragment of the cableway that was shattered in the fairyland a thousand years ago. It has the function of connecting two spaces. Maybe it accidentally drifted to the mortal world a thousand years ago and was picked up by a monk. It was actually... huh? And it was polished into a beautiful shape?"
“…”
"It's inlaid with some random gems to curb its power. Otherwise, if this thing were to fall into the human world, it would really cause trouble," the guard sighed thankfully, "I have to take this thing away. I can't leave it to you."
Xu Shulou stroked the Sumeru Ring as a farewell to it, and then without saying a word, he took off the chain ring and threw it over.
"So straightforward?" The guard raised an eyebrow. "You know, this thing can allow you to sneak into the divine realm."
"If I want to go to the divine realm, I will always stand at the South Heaven Gate openly."
The guard finally smiled: "Okay, I'll wait and see in the God Realm."
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