"My fellow ministers, please step back!" said the Jade Emperor Haotian.
After the great battle between the Jade Emperor and the human leader Yang An, the Jade Emperor returned to heaven with a gloomy look on his face, so Taibai Jinxing and others naturally did not dare to say a word.
Hearing the Jade Emperor's words asking all the immortals to leave, Taibai Jinxing and the others naturally did not hesitate at all. Fearing that the Jade Emperor would vent his anger on them, they hurriedly left the Lingxiao Palace.
Watching the immortals leave, the Jade Emperor Haotian, who was alone, couldn't help but sigh.
He originally thought that the Heavenly Court would definitely succeed today, but he did not expect that the human leader had such strength.
Leaving under the gaze of so many living beings made him lose a lot of face, and made him even more angry.
Today's result made him feel really frustrated as the Lord of Heaven. Originally, the name of Heaven was not well-known. After the destruction of the demon clan Heaven, all creatures in the prehistoric world forgot about Heaven.
In addition, those saint sects also looked down on him. They had violated the rules of Heaven several times and simply ignored him as the Lord of Heaven.
Now, even a small human leader can make him lose face, how can he still have the slightest idea of continuing to be the Jade Emperor? "Why not just go all out and go to Zixiao Palace to complain to Daozu!" Jade Emperor Haotian thought about it and finally only thought of this method.
Afterwards, the Jade Emperor Haotian, having made up his mind, left the Heaven and headed into the chaos.
I don't know how long I traveled in the chaos, but I saw a huge palace standing in the chaos. The boundless chaos kept rolling and washing, but it didn't shake the palace at all.
This palace is none other than the Zixiao Palace, the Taoist temple of Taoist ancestor Hongjun.
After transforming into a boy, Jade Emperor Haotian gathered his emotions and hurriedly knelt down in front of the gate of Zixiao Palace.
"Haotian asks to see the master!" Jade Emperor Haotian said sadly.
However, as the voice was uttered, there was no response from the Zixiao Palace, which made the Jade Emperor Haotian very nervous.
Seeing that there was no response, the Jade Emperor Haotian could only kneel in front of the Zixiao Palace, unable to get up from his knees, as if he would not leave until they met.
After a long time, a sigh sounded in Zixiao Palace, and the voice of Daozu Hongjun also came from Zixiao Palace.
"Come in!"
Hearing this, the Jade Emperor Haotian was delighted. He quickly stood up and pushed open the door of the Zixiao Palace.
Entering the Zixiao Palace, a feeling that was both familiar and unfamiliar once again surged into Haotian's heart.
The Zixiao Palace was empty except for him who had just entered and Daoist Patriarch Hongjun who sat on the first seat.
Upon seeing this, Jade Emperor Haotian hurried to the platform and knelt down once again.
"Please, sir, help Haotian!" The Jade Emperor Haotian's voice became more and more aggrieved.
This time he was not pretending, but was expressing his true feelings, for no other reason than that he was simply too uncomfortable being the Emperor of Heaven.
All of you saint brothers are high above us, and as saints, it is understandable that you don’t listen to him.
But the disciples under the tutelage of the saintly senior brother were all arrogant and did not take him seriously at all.
When Emperor Xuanyuan was attaining enlightenment, the Nine-Sky Mysterious Lady, whom he sent, was targeted by the disciples of the Orthodox Sect, which was clearly a slap in his face.
Even so, he could still endure it when he thought of the strength of his several saintly brothers.
But now, even the leader of the human race does not take him seriously, which makes him lose face in the prehistoric world.
"As the Lord of Heaven, you have the duty to rule the three realms. How can you behave like a child?" Daozu Hongjun comforted.
The battle between Haotian and Yang An caused quite a stir, and he was also paying attention to it.
He knew why Haotian came here, and he also knew the grievances Haotian had suffered.
“Master, you don’t know that I was ordered by you to be the master of the three realms, but I didn’t expect that all the saint brothers and disciples would disregard your dignity.
Not only did they despise the Heavenly Court, they also repeatedly violated the Heavenly Rules. Although I think that the Lord of Heaven is a match for several Saint Brothers? Now, the human race violated the Heavenly Rules, and the leader of the human race did not follow them, Haotian was still helpless.
Master, Haotian is incompetent, and being the Lord of Heaven is just a name without substance. It is better to choose someone else and let Haotian return to Zixiao Palace to continue serving you!" Jade Emperor Haotian burst into tears.
It was as if he was pouring out all the grievances he had suffered over the past countless years. Although there were some untruths in his words, they were ultimately full of true feelings.
He knew that if he wanted Daozu to take him seriously, he could only magnify what his saintly brothers and the human race had done.
"This is simply nonsense. The Lord of Heaven, isn't this a joke?" Hongjun scolded.
As the boy who has been with him for countless years, how could Haotian not know what's going on in his heart?
But when he saw Haotian’s red and swollen eyes, he couldn’t help but feel a little emotional.
"This matter is indeed difficult for you. I will make the decision for you this time. You can go and ring the golden bell and ask your senior brothers and sisters to come." Hongjun waved his hand.
Upon hearing this, Jade Emperor Haotian wiped away his tears, walked to the big golden bell in front of the Zixiao Palace, and knocked on it hard.
In an instant, with a dong sound, the sound of a bell came from the chaos and spread to the ancient world.
The sound of the bell was very strange. Although it entered the ancient times, it did not ring between heaven and earth.
Instead, it was transmitted to the Taoist temples of all saints and heard by all saints. All saints knew that it was Master Hongjun who was calling the meeting, so they naturally did not dare to neglect it and left the Taoist temples one after another and rushed to Zixiao Palace.
Even Nuwa in the Queen Nuwa Palace heard the bell calling for help.
At the same time, Yang An, who was among the human race, also heard the bell sound that was supposed to be heard only by saints.
Then, a voice suddenly came to his ears, the voice was cold and mechanical, like the manifestation of the way of heaven.
"Yang An, as the leader of the human race, please come to Zixiao Palace as soon as possible!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he already felt a kind of guidance from the unknown, guiding him to a certain direction in the chaos.
After hearing these words, he already knew the source of the voice. The voice belonged to the master of the six saints, Taoist Hongjun, who was also the master of Zixiao Palace.
He had assisted the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in achieving perfection in their merits. When these eight emperors achieved perfection in their merits, he had also heard the voice of Taoist Ancestor Hongjun. Naturally, he was very familiar with this voice.
He was not surprised that Daozu Hongjun summoned him, and he guessed the reason.
He suddenly summoned me, probably because he and Jade Emperor Haotian were complaining to Taoist Hongjun. Hongjun summoned all the saints on this ground, it must be because of the deification he had been waiting for.
Logically, this matter only requires the convening of all the saints, and does not require him, the leader of the human race.
However, he had expected that he would be summoned, and it must be related to the battle not long ago.
Following the guidance from the unknown, Yang An had already found himself in the chaos and arrived at the gate of Zixiao Palace.
On the first seat, an old Taoist appeared from virtual to real, with white hair and beard and a calm expression. Next to him was the Jade Emperor Haotian who had transformed into a boy.
"Greetings, Master!"
“Greetings to the Taoist Ancestor!”
Inside the Zixiao Palace, the seven saints including the Taiqing Saint and Yang An bowed in unison.
Although the six saints saluted respectfully to Daozu Hongjun, their attention was all attracted by Yang An.
Several saints were very surprised at Yang An's appearance. This was the first time that the Taoist master had taken the initiative to summon the six saints since he achieved unity with the Tao. Moreover, the last time the master appeared was because of the great calamity of the liches.
When the master summoned them this time, they had already made some guesses. Long before that, they had sensed that a great catastrophe was about to come.
Now that the Master has taken the initiative to find them, it is probably the prelude to the beginning of the catastrophe, and also a sign that the catastrophe is about to happen.
Summoned again today, not only the six saints, but also Jade Emperor Haotian and human leader Yang An.
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Except for these two, the other six are saints. They were not surprised that Haotian came here. After all, Haotian was the master's boy and had lost all face not long ago.
However, they could understand Haotian's appearance, but they completely couldn't understand why Yang An was summoned together.
Daozu Hongjun naturally noticed the attention of the six saints, and then he also deliberately observed Yang An.
He already knew the reason why his six disciples were curious. They were simply curious as to why Yang An, who had the cultivation level of a quasi-saint, was summoned together.
Logically, he was not planning to ask Yang An to come along, but Yang An's performance in the battle with Haotian not long ago forced him to call Yang An to come along.
This human leader who had grown up unnoticed was indeed somewhat unexpected and could be called a variable.
In the battle not long ago, he felt that all the luck of the human race was concentrated on Yang An alone.
In the ancient world, although the way of heaven is dominant, the three ways of heaven, earth and man have always been restraining each other.
All the luck of the human race is concentrated on Yang An, which is equivalent to Yang An occupying one path. From the perspective of status and identity, Yang An, who almost controls the human way, is naturally not weaker than his disciples of the saints.
Moreover, this catastrophe will also involve the human race, which is why he summoned Yang An and six other disciples to come together.
As for the doubts of the six disciples, he naturally had no intention of explaining them.
“I summoned you here today because of a major event concerning the prehistoric world.
One thousand seven hundred and eighty five years ago, when the disciples of Chan and Jie were assisting the Human Emperor, they invisibly committed a killing calamity against the gods. The calamity lasted for a long time and has continued to this day.
Under the entanglement of cause and effect, the evil spirit between heaven and earth has long been pervasive, and has evolved into a catastrophe that affects the prehistoric world!" Hongjun said.
Except for Yang An, all the saints' faces changed. Even though they had already guessed it, they were still a little surprised when they heard Dao Zun Hongjun confirm the catastrophe.
The horror of the catastrophe cannot be underestimated even by saints. From the results of the previous two catastrophes, it can be seen that almost no living being can escape this catastrophe.
Even the Jade Emperor Haotian beside Hongjun was stunned where he was. He thought that his master would make the decision for him, but he didn't know why it involved the catastrophe.
"Master, how will this catastrophe come about?" asked Nuwa.
Although they speculated that the catastrophe was about to happen, the secret had been obscured because of the gestation of the catastrophe.
Even if they become saints, they cannot predict the future of understanding.
Since the Master summoned them together, it was obvious that he had anticipated this matter and knew the secret.
Although the other saints did not speak, what Nuwa asked was what they needed.
"This catastrophe was caused by the saint's disciples and the human race, and will also affect the human race and the saint's disciples!" said Hongjun.
The expressions of the several saints were different. Among them, the two saints of the Western Religion, as well as Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu frowned.
Disciples are the foundation of the saints' great religion. Among the six saints, four of them have many disciples, and Master Tongtian has even more disciples.
If any disciples were harmed during the catastrophe, even they would be implicated, and the sect might even be destroyed.
Daozu Hongjun noticed the changes in the expressions of several disciples, but did not care. Instead, he was surprised by Yang An, who was not easily surprised by fame or disgrace.
This matter concerns the human race, but the human leader looks calm, which is rare.
"After the demons withdrew from the Heavenly Court, I appointed Haotian as the Lord of the Heavenly Court to lead the three realms. But now the gods of the Heavenly Court are not together, and there is no one in charge of the 360 stars in the sky.
The position of the gods in the Zhoutian Department is vacant, and the catastrophe is coming. I want to enfeoff the gods. One is to survive the killing catastrophe and resolve the cause and effect, and the other is to return the gods to their positions to complete the heavenly way! "Daozu Hongjun said.
The Conferred Gods were originally set by Heaven and were the inevitable laws governing the operation of Heaven. They were not targeted at his own disciples or the human race.
The Way of Heaven requires order in the three realms, order in the wild world, and control of the number of strong people, so as to promote the orderly development of the wild world.
If it is not controlled, an unimaginable war will break out as before.
For example, the Longhan catastrophe shattered the prehistoric earth veins and caused the West to wither; the Lich catastrophe caused the pillars of heaven to collapse and the four poles to overturn.
This method is the best one he has come up with, and it can also minimize the losses.
As he spoke, two objects appeared in front of him, one was a banner and the other was a whip.
“This is the divine whip from the Conferred God List, a divine weapon for Conferred Gods, and should be wielded by the person who opens the Conferred God List! During the killing calamity, those with a strong immortal path will enter the immortal path and enjoy peace and freedom for a calamity. The next best ones can enter the Conferred God List with the help of the Conferred God List and be crowned as true gods. The worst ones will be turned into ashes! You may discuss among yourselves how to fill in this list.” Daoist Patriarch Hongjun said.
As soon as he finished speaking, Hongjun's figure faded and disappeared, leaving only one side floating above the seat.
Seeing this, the six saints were silent for a moment. They had never expected that the Master would be so decisive and leave them no room for negotiation.
"Our Jade Emperor is really not someone you will mess with. Now that our master has decided on this matter, it looks like the Heavenly Court will prosper!" Zhunti Taoist was the first to speak.
While speaking, his eyes were already locked on Yang An. The reason why Haotian came here to complain was more or less related to their disciples.
But in the end, it was this human leader who made Haotian, the Lord of Heaven, lose face.
His words obviously intended to make all the saints point their spearheads at Yang An, the leader of the human race.
"We'll talk about the other things later. The most important thing now is how to fill in the List of Gods? Who should be on the list is the most important thing!" said the Saint Taiqing.
He had seen through the Taoist Zhunti's little thoughts, but the focus of his visit today was related to the next catastrophe, and the Conferred God List was the focus. (End of this chapter)