Chapter 221: Eternal Heaven (Two in One)
Gu Fangchen came to Fancheng secretly, so of course he couldn't expose his whereabouts in such a brazen manner.
Before coming in, he first set up a "mirage array" for himself. With his current level of cultivation, he set up a complete "love" style illusion array.
Moreover, due to the collective rebellion of the "Love" Dao, Gu Fangchen, who is at the fourth level, can even feel a faint power of incense coming from the "Love" Dao at this moment.
The number of people in the "Love" Dao is not very large, and there are only about a thousand people in total. Therefore, the power of the incense is not strong, just like a thread, but it does exist after all.
This shows that the plan that Gu Fangchen had set up at the time had indeed greatly shocked the "emotion" path, so that their belief in Gu Fangchen had reached a fanatical level.
Originally, the Demon Cult was called the Demon Cult because its followers revered the "Master of Taoism" as if he were a god and regarded him as a symbol of Taoism.
It is simply because there are not enough people that the incense realm cannot be created. Of course, most of the "Taoists" have cultivation levels above the third rank and do not need this false incense.
But this incense can indeed increase some strength.
Therefore, the popularity of the "love" path naturally brought some benefits to Gu Fangchen.
For example, he did not originally practice the way of "emotion", so even though he caused such a large-scale emotional fluctuation at the beginning, it could not become his own cultivation.
But now, because the incense of the "love" path is on him, it is equivalent to indirectly giving him the external "love" path.
In other words, even if Gu Fangchen doesn't repair it himself, he can still call the files inside it by connecting an external USB.
Therefore, Gu Fangchen's "Mirage Array" is not only complete, but also has the power of "love".
Not to mention the third rank, even the second rank, as long as the distance is more than ten miles, no clues can be found. Unless they are face to face, they have to be careful, which is a risky level.
It can be said to be superb.
Therefore, Gu Fangchen was already clinging to the windowsill, and Xiao Yinghao had to lower her head to notice that he was there.
Xiao Yinghao was stunned at first, then his face changed. He immediately reached out and pulled him in, closed the window, and activated the formation in the bedroom.
Then she turned around and asked in a low voice:
"You are not here in Qingman to be my great hero, so why are you suddenly here with me?"
Gu Fangchen patted the non-existent dust on his clothes and said with a playful smile:
"I thought the princess would arrest me right away when she saw me, but she just asked me why I came."
Xiao Ying laughed heartily:
"Why would I capture you? Lock you up in the basement and make you my concubine?"
She walked back to the table and clicked on the pile of battle reports:
"This princess knows exactly who Xiao Sheng is. I only saw his ambition, but I never guessed that the Confucianists were even more insane than him, daring to push such an incompetent person to the throne and behead my father in the Purple Palace."
Xiao Yinghao's eyes were serious.
Gu Fangchen walked over, shook his head and said:
"Then I'm afraid... Confucianism is even crazier than you think."
"What they want is not a hundred years of peace and stability, nor a thousand years of prosperity, but 'eternal unity'."
Xiao Yinghao's eyebrows jumped.
She had just recently found out that Yaoshan Academy had a plan called "Eternal Unity", but she didn't know what it meant.
"What exactly does 'Eternal Unity' represent? From what I know, this is the only action that will prevent one from entering the cycle of reincarnation..."
Gu Fangchen didn't say it before because no one would believe it even if he did.
Now that the situation has been completely ignited by the death of Emperor Yong'an, this muddy water has completely turned into a cesspool.
Because the Confucianists have already begun to show signs of what they are doing, if they now say something even more outrageous, the credibility will be infinitely higher...
Gu Fangchen stared at Xiao Yinghao without blinking, and said word by word:
“It’s not that we won’t enter the cycle of reincarnation.”
"That's just a lie they use to deceive themselves."
Gu Fangchen turned his head to look outside and asked:
"Princess, in your opinion, how has the world developed? Or rather, where is it heading?"
Xiao Yinghao pondered and said:
"The 'Extinction' path believes that the world moves from order to disorder, from birth to destruction, and it is a one-way road."
"Buddhists believe that the world is an endless cycle, a wheel-like cycle that keeps rolling forward."
"No matter which one it is, the world is endlessly moving forward, just as humans must experience birth, aging, sickness, and death. This is probably also the view of most practitioners."
Gu Fangchen nodded and drew a straight line:
"Indeed, no matter what, the world is constantly moving towards an unknown direction, never stopping, and stretching on and on."
"But the world is finite."
"Ancient practitioners have already tried this. If you keep flying in the direction of the setting sun, you will eventually encounter a fuzzy boundary and then return to your starting point in an instant. That is 'sky'."
Yes, this world is not a planet, but a flat surface.
The present world and the underworld are two sides of the same paper.
However, one of the sides was completely painted black and no light could be seen at all.
The sky is spherical, with that surface across the middle, and the sky rotates around the two surfaces day after day.
In other words, this world is actually a geocentric world, and all the external stars in the sky revolve around the land.
It is because there is a real "sky", so "opening the gate of heaven" when one is old will become a real thing.
Otherwise, what kind of sky would he open...
Such a world is also an important source of the "Honglu" theory.
"Since the world is finite, if humans truly never enter reincarnation and continue to reproduce, then the world will be overcrowded, and at that time, even greater chaos will be caused."
"And what Confucians least want is chaos."
Xiao Ying nodded and thought it made sense:
"But then... what do they mean by not entering the cycle of reincarnation?"
Gu Fangchen paused and said:
"It's simple. Since the original world is always moving forward, it means that entering reincarnation will cause loss. One day, a person's soul will disappear at the end of that distance."
"And this is what Confucianism is supposed to do—"
He bent the two ends of his hand, which had just formed a straight line, towards the middle and connected them together to form a circle.
"They want to make the endless end a cycle that is both the beginning and the end."
"This is 'Eternal Heaven'."
Xiao Yinghao's pupils constricted as she watched his gestures with a look of shock on her face.
"Is this Yaoshan's plan? The so-called "not entering the cycle of reincarnation?"
Once there really is a node that can connect the end of the world, then everything in it will no longer disappear in the cycle of reincarnation.
Because there are always the same people inside...
The soul simply moves back and forth between the underworld and reality, but the total amount will not change.
What this "no reincarnation" means is that everyone is like being in a washing machine, turning around and around, but will always return to the starting point.
Therefore, everyone will meet again one day, no one will really die, and it is even possible to return to the timeline where they originally lived and live again.
Of course, if a practitioner lives long enough, he or she will be able to wait for an identical person to appear.
You can see the same sky!
Therefore, in the original game plot, if you took the Confucian line without knowing its true meaning, the "Four-phase Lord" would tell the player before his death that he knew nothing and followed Xie Qian to the eternal cage called "Eternal Sky".
This is nothing more than a cage.
All the people there were kept in captivity to cultivate the Peach Blossom Spring in Xie Qian's mind, that beautiful dream of "eternal harmony".
In this way, no matter how dynasties change, or how they split and reunite, they will eventually come to an end and return to the unified beginning, and then start over again.
There is no need to worry about the Demon Sect or the Qing Man. Everything is a predetermined script.
This is the ideal in Xie Qian's heart, and he has been planning for it for more than 1,300 years.
Even Xiao Yinghao was shocked by such an idea.
For a moment, she couldn't judge whether this was good or bad...
Because it is estimated that no one would do this, and no one has ever succeeded. No one knows what the world will be like after "Eternal Unity".
If we look at this plan from the perspective of an eternally powerful being, it seems that it is indeed feasible.
But once you start from yourself, you will find that this is a real nightmare.
The Confucians now support Xiao Sheng's ascension to the throne, but they probably don't care how miserable the people will be in the future, because the stability they want is already determined.
No matter how much suffering there is afterwards, someone will always come out to unify the country, and then... the Great Wei will become the Ancient Zhou again.
From the ancient Zhou Dynasty to the present day, not only have dynasties changed, but customs, languages, and systems have also become completely different.
For example, obscene sacrifices were rampant in the ancient Zhou Dynasty, while the Wei Dynasty had already banned incense.
It's hard to imagine how chaotic the world will be by then...
It’s as if it’s already the 21st century, and modern people have gone back to 5,000 years ago, when we were all primitive people and practiced tribal civilization.
Ridiculous! Ridiculous!
Perhaps ordinary people cannot notice it, but how can practitioners who live for hundreds of years not notice it?
These Confucianists are indeed completely crazy...
Xiao Yinghao, considering the fact that Yaoshan was collecting dragon veins, felt that what Gu Fangchen said was true.
What kind of thing would require the power of five dragon veins?
Moreover, these five dragon veins correspond exactly to five dynasties.
Then, it is obvious that these five dragon veins are the key to achieving "Eternal Sky". Perhaps it is necessary to use the dragon veins to move time and space.
Xiao Yinghao took a deep breath and murmured:
"This is really... outlandish."
Her expression changed: "Then Xiao Sheng is now in Yaoshan, so he has become the container of the dragon vein..."
Gu Fangchen nodded.
Xiao Sheng finally got what he wanted.
Anyway, he just wanted to be emperor. He didn't care how many days he would be emperor or even which country he would be emperor of.
He whispered:
"Xie Qian is so crazy, perhaps because he has come into contact with 'Tianmen'. Those who 'exposed' the Dao may have been his subordinates from the beginning."
Gu Fangchen took out a pen and paper and wrote down the locations of the remaining dragon veins and the corresponding strategies and handed them to Xiao Yinghao.
"The Princess must do her best to stop him from collecting the remaining dragon veins, even if it means delaying him."
"Also, the person who actually killed Xiao Ding was the monk Shenxiu. If possible, please ask the Princess to lead the troops to control Futu City. Don't let him leave, and don't listen to a word he says."
Xiao Yinghao was very surprised. She had heard of Shenxiu, but he was just a true disciple of the Galan Temple.
He actually has the ability to kill Emperor Yong'an?
It seems that there are still many cancers lurking in this Wei Dynasty...
Her face was serious. She reached out to take the paper, looked at it carefully, nodded, and agreed.
Then, the eldest princess raised her eyes again and said calmly:
"So that's why you came to me?"
"Of course not."
Gu Fangchen shook his head, and the princess's expression eased slightly before she heard him say:
"I also want to ask if there is a man named Zhao Shi under the command of the government army in the three nearby roads. He was about five years ago. He used his connections from the desert and should have been promoted to logistics."
Gu Fangchen had previously asked Grandma Meng which government office her son was joining.
After roughly estimating the time, we know that it is impossible for him to join the army in an ordinary government office, and the Xuanhuang Army will not accept such an illegal household.
When desert refugees want to join the army, they usually go to the government army in the outer areas.
The government army is actually part of the White Dragon Army.
Xiao Yinghao glanced at him and said unhappily:
"How could I remember the name of a logistics officer who got in through connections five years ago? Not to mention he was just a government soldier."
She reached out and pulled out a thick directory.
"Here are the backup rosters of the three government armies for the past five years. Any changes are recorded. If you want to find it, take it away and take a look for yourself."
Gu Fangchen took it and said with a smile:
"Okay."
He put the backup list into his cave ring and walked out.
Xiao Yinghao felt depressed seeing him coming and going in a hurry, but it was not easy to stop him. She sighed softly, lowered her eyelashes, and prepared to close the window.
Gu Fangchen suddenly paused, turned around and blinked:
"By the way, Princess, is the strategy I gave you useful?"
Xiao Yinghao paused, and as soon as she heard what he was planning, she snorted softly:
"It's just okay."
Gu Fangchen's face turned serious and he immediately shook his head:
"Impossible, Princess, please don't say nonsense just because you're angry. You can insult me, but you can't insult my strategy."
Xiao Yinghao narrowed her eyes:
"So, do you think it's useful?"
Gu Fangchen said seriously:
"Of course it's extremely useful, so Princess, you have to give me some reward."
Xiao Yinghao was both angry and amused when she saw him asking questions despite knowing the answer and shamelessly asking for a reward.
"What reward do you want?"
Gu Fangchen smiled and said:
"Princess, come here. What I want is not simple."
Xiao Ying went closer, and as expected, she was successfully ambushed by this guy, who hugged her and demanded a reward.
“Hmm…”
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