Chapter 1252: The Details of the Dharma
The Holy Emperor's golden chain moved slightly, and one of the paper figures was pulled in front of Li Ping.
Different from the others, this paper figure didn't show much fear on its face. Instead, it looked a little listless and weak.
His thick eyebrows stand upright, which makes him look quite funny.
"Survival?"
"If the skin is gone, where will the hair be attached? If the Xuanhuang Realm is destroyed, where can you survive!" The Holy Emperor said in a cold voice.
The thick-browed paper man smiled bitterly and said, "Our Du'e Sect is only average in strength. If the Xuanhuang Realm is really destroyed, we have no way to deal with it, right? We can only accept it."
"Could it be that Your Excellency would blame the mortals of this world for not standing up to save the Xuanhuang Realm? One's abilities are determined by the magnitude of the things he does..."
Li Ping did not argue with the Du'e Zong paper figurine. He slightly tightened the golden chain again: "You are sharp-tongued and still refuse to repent even when you are about to die."
The golden light slowly condensed, from being as thick as a chain to being as thin as a line.
Wrap the paper figure with thick eyebrows in circles.
The other captured paper people screamed in fear.
Only the paper man with thick eyebrows looked as if he was sitting upright, and his expression became solemn.
He kept muttering to himself: "Time is nothing, and catastrophe is eternal. Hundreds of thousands of catastrophes will melt my golden body..."
The golden source power that had made the Holy Emperor successful in the past lost its effectiveness for the first time at this moment.
Li Ping only felt that the power exerted on the paper man with thick eyebrows was cleverly dissipated by the invisible.
It may even be absorbed by the other party and become a part of its foundation.
The golden thread slowly dissolved, and the paper man with thick eyebrows remained motionless, but the color of the paper man slowly changed from the old white and yellow to a bright gold that was close to the essence of source power.
Shiban, who had been watching from the sidelines, suddenly became serious: "Daoyou, be careful. This is the unique skill of the Du'e Sect, [Eternal Tribulation]. It can transform all the power of tribulations in the world into food for one's own cultivation."
Li Ping sneered, "You are nothing but a coward. You want to use my power to cultivate? I will satisfy you!"
A dazzling golden light like a blazing flame burst out from the Holy Emperor's body.
The light and fire were blazing, illuminating the entire space of Du'e Sect with golden light.
It was as if the golden flame had condensed into substance and was all infused into the golden body of the paper man along the remaining chains.
Those were not the main targets of the Saint Emperor, but the many paper figures that were affected all let out deafening howls as if they were being burned by a raging fire. One can imagine how much pressure the golden paper figure was under. It looked twisted, as if it was about to melt.
But the paper man with thick eyebrows remained motionless, with an indifferent expression.
This scene made Shiban secretly frightened.
Although their original appearances could not be identified after they were transformed into paper figures, they were still able to remain calm and safe under the power of the Holy Emperor, which was rare even in the Du'e Sect when it was in its heyday.
The stone slab was guessing the identity of the paper man with thick eyebrows.
At the same time, the Faceless Saint Emperor did not reduce the torture of the Du'e Sect's paper figures.
The golden flame burned more and more vigorously. Although it did not completely burn the paper people, it slowly coated them with an indelible layer of gold.
Especially the paper man with thick eyebrows, who was wrapped in flames, and the golden light on his body became more eye-catching.
"You want to hide away from the world and avoid disaster, but I won't let you!"
"Xuan Huang is in danger, and you are all responsible!"
The Holy Emperor's voice was like thunder, and the essence of source power burst out violently.
It shines on every corner of the space, and the light is so bright that even the stone slabs can't help but close their eyes to avoid it.
When the light faded, the darkness in the Du'e Sect's main hall disappeared completely.
That extremely uncomfortable dark atmosphere was no longer seen.
The paper people, freed from their chains, fell to the ground in chaos.
Compared to before, it seems to have more vitality.
The paper man with thick eyebrows who was in the lead was directly transformed into a "little golden man".
The golden man still looked listless and dejected. He sighed and said, "Your Excellency, you have wasted so much energy on useless people like us. It is really a waste of resources!"
“It’s not worth it!”
Li Ping said in a deep voice: "If everything in the world was decided by pure reason, I'm afraid the Xuanhuang Realm would have perished long ago! How could you still be making noise here!"
Before he could finish his words, a big "X" suddenly appeared on the face of the gold paper man, blocking his mouth.
The same thing happened to the rest of the paper figures.
The main hall of the Du'e Sect, which was originally like a vegetable market, suddenly became quiet.
"Fellow Daoist Yi Jue?" At this time, Shiban looked at the gold paper man and asked tentatively.
The golden paper figure could not speak, but just blinked at the stone slab.
I don't know whether to admit or deny it.
The two of them had no time to reminisce about the past, as the space here gradually became unstable after losing the support of the essence of source power.
"Let's go out first."
Li Ping brought the stone slab and a group of paper figures that had lost their identities, and flashed to the outside of Du'e Sect.
The ancient immortal sect that had been suppressed by the seal of its legendary teachings also revealed its true appearance at this moment.
A book that unfolds from it.
There are no words in the book, only relief-like mountains and empty building scenes.
As the book is turned naturally, the appearance inside it also changes.
But they are all silhouettes, which look funny and weird.
Li Ping held the Book of Deliverance in his giant hand, and the magnificent scenery of mountains and rivers in it was instantly dyed with a layer of gold.
"receive!"
The Holy Emperor let out a low roar, and the densely packed and stacked paper figures, including the little golden man with thick eyebrows, all flew uncontrollably into the Book of Deliverance.
Bang!
Li Ping closed the book with his right hand.
All the strange phenomena disappeared in an instant.
"It is not advisable to stay here for long. Although my method of breaking the Dharma transmission restriction is very clever, and I can restore the restriction while breaking it, I cannot guarantee that the abnormality here will not be discovered by the Dharma transmission."
"Come with me."
Li Ping said in a deep voice, and his figure had already disappeared in the sealed space.
The stone slab followed the Holy Emperor all the way through the space passage of the Xuanhuang Realm and came to an endless void.
At their speed, they flew in the void for a long time before they could sense the breath of the world ahead.
"That is..."
Slate was slightly startled.
"The Five Elements Cave Heaven of the Yishi Sect? It's actually here. Doesn't this mean that the immortal realm of the Banyun Cave Heaven back then..."
While Shiban was still thinking, Baihua had already come forward.
After his gaze lingered on the stone slab for a moment, Baihua whispered something to Li Ping.
Li Ping nodded slightly.
Then Baihua nodded towards the stone slab and flew back to the Five Elements Cave.
"This is where I rest and recuperate. What do you think compared to the Xuanhuang world?" Li Ping brought the stone slab to the Daqi small world.
With a sweep of his spiritual sense, the general picture of the small world appeared in Shiban's mind.
Even though some places were covered by mysterious forces and he could not know everything, just what was revealed on the surface caused the stone slab to shake greatly.
Although the reputation of the Creation Slate as recording everything in the world is no longer true, at least the Slate knows everything that happened in the Xuanhuang Realm.
However, compared with this small world of Daqi...
It's like being hundreds of years and an era behind.
Even the stone slab itself could not comprehend all of these.
In addition, he also felt the presence of an old acquaintance here.
For example, the ancient tree in the earth vein, and the person from the beast taming sect.
Following all the way to the Holy Emperor's throne, Shiban's shocked mood slowly calmed down.
"I have been carrying the stone slab for so many years, and I thought that everything in the world was in my mind. I didn't expect that what I saw and heard today made me realize that the affairs of the world have already exceeded my expectations..." The stone slab said with some loss.
"Fellow Daoist, don't be depressed. Constant progress is the right path. If the world remains stagnant for thousands of years..."
"Won't it make us look incompetent?" Li Ping smiled slightly.
Slate didn't know how to respond for a moment and remained silent.
Since coming into contact with this "incarnation of heaven", the shock he has received has been truly tremendous.
Compared with the scenes he was seeing now, the Xuanhuang Realm in his mind was like a play on a stage, a false image purely performed for him!
This made the stone slab seem a little lost.
"I knew long ago that the Five Elders Association, the Ten Thousand Immortals Alliance, and even other powerful people in the Xuanhuang Realm, who knew the existence of the stone slab behind me, would try every means to avoid the records on the stone slab. But I never expected that the truth of the world has developed to this point..."
Li Ping vaguely saw the inner thoughts of the stone tablet, and slowly said: "Xuanhuang Realm, the last place of survival in the darkest star sea. Xuanhuang Realm, fragments of other worlds, and survivors of the star sea are the forces outside the high walls..."
"Everything is gathered here. Its form is so complicated that even you, my friend, and even the Transmission of the Law and the Xuanhuang Heavenly Dao itself cannot fully understand it."
"Yeah..." Slate sighed and nodded.
He thought again of the fishing pond he had seen before.
How many such hidden treasures are there in the Xuanhuang Realm?
He, an ancient remnant of the Xuanhuang Realm, now finally feels a sense of being out of touch with the times.
“Things have changed, people have changed, and stories are gone.”
A long time ago, scenes from the original Xuanhuang Realm appeared in Shiban's mind, making him a little dazed.
It was the Holy Emperor's voice that interrupted him.
"The fusion of all realms is a foregone conclusion. There will be a battle between me and Chuan Fa. But no matter who wins or loses, it will not change the fact that Xuan Huang Realm is reborn in ruins."
Li Ping did not mention helping Shiban solve the problem of mental overload, but suddenly said this.
Shiban couldn't help but concentrate his thoughts and look at Li Ping intently.
"The key to the problem lies in the new orthodoxy of the Xuanhuang Realm."
"Does Daoist friend know the details of the teachings?"
Li Ping's mind locked onto the stone slab and he asked in a deep voice.
The stone slab pondered for a moment, then replied, "When the Dharma was first spread, our ten sects investigated it. This person is indeed a native cultivator of the Xuanhuang Realm. His life trajectory from childhood to adulthood is all clean and recorded."
"My Dharma name is Xuanyuan, Zituo. I grew up in a rural village. Because I was weak and sickly when I was young, my parents gave me the nickname Goudan."
"Before he was fifty, his life was no different from that of an ordinary farmer. It was not until he was fifty-one that he suddenly realized the truth and rose to prominence."
"Because of this, during the initial investigation by the Ten Immortal Sects, they were unable to find out his origins. This is because he indeed achieved enlightenment suddenly."
The slate tells the story slowly.
Scenes from the past also appeared in the Holy Emperor's throne.
…
"Xuanyuan Tuo." Li Ping looked at the silly young boy on the screen, who slowly turned into a taciturn middle-aged farmer, and then gradually changed into a white-haired old man.
"It is indeed possible for a mortal to attain enlightenment in one day. But it usually happens when one is young. The evolution of the Dharma transmission usually only occurs when the end of one's life is approaching..."
"It's really puzzling and suspicious," commented Li Ping.
The stone slab nodded: "The Ten Sects also had such suspicions at the beginning. However, we used the secret technique and the Heavenly Dao to confirm that there was no possession of his body or people from the outside world pretending to be his identity."
"But the way he passed on his skills was truly mysterious and extraordinary. He was like someone who knew the innate knowledge. Back then, several immortals from the ten sects attacked him, but he somehow managed to resolve the situation. From then on, he was completely beyond our control. Perhaps, if the ten sects had attacked with all their strength, the result might have been different..." Shiban said with some regret.
The hall suddenly became quiet.
After a long time.
Li Ping suddenly asked, "Heaven's seal... What if the other party's method of stealing the identity is beyond the Heaven's seal?"
Slate was stunned.
At first glance, this sentence seems unreasonable.
But Shiban thought about it carefully and realized that it was precisely because the Ten Sects had too much confidence in their own methods that they had come to this conclusion with unquestionable faith for thousands of years.
"At this point, what's the point of asking about the details of the Dharma transmission?"
After a brief moment of loss, this thought emerged in Shiban's mind.
Confused, he looked at the Holy Emperor again.
The Saint Emperor's voice was like thunder, echoing in the hall: "As I said before, the key to the rebirth of the Xuanhuang Realm lies in the word orthodoxy."
“It’s like a new body pieced together from broken limbs. It’s important who becomes the brain.”
"Today, Xuanhuang Tiandao still considers itself to be Xuanhuang Tiandao. But in the near future, perhaps that may not be the case anymore..."
Li Ping spoke in a gloomy tone.
Shiban knew that the other party was the incarnation of the Heavenly Dao, and it was impossible for him to speak without a purpose. His expression changed, "Daoyou, please tell me in detail."
"You can stand outside of the things you see on the stone slab and look at them from an outsider's perspective. However, the world merges, and the memory is as if you have experienced it yourself, like reality and illusion. Over time, you can no longer distinguish between the false, the real, and the outside of yourself."
"Especially..."
Li Ping looked towards the Xuanhuang world thousands of miles away.
"The Heavenly Dao is weak now, and the power to resist is already minimal."
"If one day, the remaining thoughts of the heavenly ways of all realms burst forth like a flood and rush in all at once..."
"I'm afraid that Xuanhuang Tiandao couldn't bear it the first moment, and went crazy and lost his true self."
Li Ping said with a hint of self-mockery in his tone.
"After this, if someone guides and erodes it with a relatively complete Heavenly Dao idea, they can steal the heaven and change the day, and change the orthodoxy of Xuanhuang. By then, although it is still called Xuanhuang Realm, from the inside to the outside, it is no longer the original Xuanhuang."
Upon hearing this, Shiban fell into deep thought.
The object of the Holy Emperor's words was obviously the transmission of the Dharma.
(End of this chapter)
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