"Gentlemen, the Five Virtues cycle, and the position of the Human Emperor cannot be held by one family or one religion. Your endless arguments about this are not a solution and only damage our friendship."
"How about I, this humble Taoist priest, distribute some to you all today? What do you think?"
After Hu Le finished speaking, he turned to look at Laozi.
Lao Jun nodded slightly under Hu Le's gaze, "Fellow Daoist, why don't you tell me?"
The other sages also smiled and told Hu Le to speak freely.
"Laojun, as the leader of the Human Religion, should take one of the Five Emperors as his disciples."
Hu Le was the first to bestow the title of the Five Emperors upon Laozi.
The sages were speechless upon hearing this.
After all, as Hu Le said, Laozi was the founder of the Human Religion, and he should have been the one to distribute the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
However, the sages were clearly not convinced by him, which is why they fought over it and were unwilling to let him speak about how to distribute it.
Now that Hu Le has stepped forward, it's as if he's taken over Laozi's job.
Therefore, now that Hu Le has handed over a statue of one of the Five Emperors to Laozi for disposal, the other saints can't say anything...
Seeing that the saints had no objections, Hu Le turned his gaze to Yuanshi and Tongtian and said, "One of you two fellow Daoists should also have two disciples."
"Oh? Fellow Daoist, to whom do you intend to entrust them? Perhaps you could be more specific."
The Master of Heaven asked with a smile.
"The two of you have just gambled on the opportunity of the Human Emperor. Since it is a gamble, there are wins and losses."
Since one of you will inevitably lose the Human Emperor, to be fair, these two Five Emperors statues will be given to the defeated Daoist.
Yuanshi Tianzun pondered for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
The Tongtian Sect Leader also expressed no objection.
According to Hu Le's allocation, these five emperor positions are essentially compensation for the losers.
The Guide and the Zhunti Daoist were somewhat displeased. Hu Le had taken three of the Five Emperors' positions in one go, leaving only two.
"Fellow Daoist..."
Just as Zhunti Daoist was about to object, the Three Pure Ones opposite him turned their heads at the same time, their sharp gazes piercing over like swords.
"What, Fellow Daoist Zhunti, do you perhaps have a different opinion? Please speak freely. This humble Daoist is only concerned with fairness and impartiality, and will not show any favoritism." Hu Le's voice rang out in Zhunti Daoist's ears.
Seeing that the four Pangu Saints on the other side were on the same side, the Guide Daoist had no choice but to speak up before the Zhunti Daoist, saying, "We have no objection, let's do as you say."
Upon seeing this, the Three Pure Ones withdrew their gaze.
Hu Le continued, "In that case, the last two positions of the Five Emperors will belong to your Western Sect."
"Fine... let it be!"
By this time, Zhunti Daoist had calmed down and knew that since things had come to this point, he had no choice but to agree.
If he were to become even more greedy and anger the Three Pure Ones on the other side, who would insist on fighting them, the two brothers would likely lose face once again.
They've already tried; even the two of them combined couldn't defeat Yuanshi Tongtian. If they added Taishang as well, wouldn't they suffer an even more crushing defeat...?
"In that case, let's disperse." Hu Le stood up.
The two Western religious leaders also rose and bowed to the saints before leaving the Eight Views Palace together.
Yuanshi and Tongtian also took their leave, leaving only Taishang Laojun and Hu Le, the Taoist leader, in the hall.
After discussing some matters, the two walked out of the Eight Views Palace side by side, each mounted their mounts, and arrived in the prehistoric world.
On this day, they arrived at a void, which was once the dojo of Hongyun, named Fire Cloud Cave.
However, under the operation of the Heavenly Dao, this blessed land has been transformed into the future Emperor's Daoist temple.
However, this celestial realm is located on the prehistoric continent, too close to the mortal world.
After the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors abdicate, if they reside in this grotto-heaven, they could easily use their prestige to interfere in human affairs, which would likely hinder the spread of many great religions.
In the eyes of Laozi and Hu Lai, after the several human emperors have attained perfect enlightenment, they should completely distance themselves from the human race and simply become mascots to suppress the human race's fortune.
As for the human race, let their great religion of saints manage and educate them...
Therefore, Hu Le and Laozi came here to move the Fire Cloud Cave away from the prehistoric world and settle it in the Nine Heavens.
Such actions are far more difficult than plucking stars from the sky or seizing the moon.
However, since both of them were religious leaders and saints, it was merely a matter of relocating a grotto-heaven, which was really child's play...
The two sages arrived outside the cave of Fire Cloud Cave.
Laozi raised his hand and summoned the Taiji Diagram, which transformed into a white jade bridge spanning the void, instantly freezing the space-time around the Fire Cloud Cave.
Hu Le reached out and summoned the Starry Sky Sword, which transformed into a dazzling sword light that rose from the Heavenly Dao Palace and instantly shot into the clouds and disappeared.
In a dozen or so moments, the Starry Sky Sword flew in from beyond the sky, transforming into a streak of cold light that circled once above Hu Le's head.
"go!"
Hu Le raised his hand and pointed at the Starry Sky Sword. The Starry Sky Sword immediately flew out again, circling the Fire Cloud Cave in the blink of an eye, completely severing the cave's space-time from the primordial world.
The golden bridge that had been hanging in the sky suddenly transformed into a scroll of chaotic black and white treasure map, which floated down from the sky, immediately enveloping the Fire Cloud Cave, and then fell into the hands of Laozi.
Hu Le then sheathed his Star Sword...
Having done all this, the two sages urged their mounts to fly towards the heavens, traversing the primordial starry sky before arriving in the chaos.
After the two sages joined forces and used Pangu's divine power in the chaos to create a world, they arranged the Fire Cloud Cave Heaven within this world.
The two had just connected the cave to the spiritual veins of this world.
Suddenly, thunder rumbled in the sky, and in the next instant, three bolts of lightning, shrouded in purple mist, descended from the heavens.
This is one of the highest thunder techniques under the Heavenly Dao—the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder.
Two of the attacks were aimed at Hu Le and Tai Shang respectively.
The remaining one wanted to explode the world, preparing to destroy this newly created world.
The reason why Heaven sent down the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder was because the actions of the two sages slightly defied the will of Heaven.
Yes, it is destined by Heaven that the Fire Cloud Cave will be moved to the outer chaos, completely isolating the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors in the cave, as well as the human elders in the ancestral court, from ordinary humans.
But that is a matter for the future. The two leaders and saints have moved the Fire Cloud Cave to the Chaos several or even dozens of eons in advance.
This move would effectively imprison the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, who had achieved great merit, outside the heavens, completely separating them from the human race.
The two sages had no choice but to do this for the sake of their own great sects, which was clearly against the will of Heaven. Naturally, Heaven would send down the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder to strike them down.
This divine lightning was created by the Heavenly Dao and is specifically designed to target the Primordial Body of a Saint. If a Saint is accidentally struck by it, he will likely suffer damage to his Saintly Body.
Fortunately, Hu Le and Tai Shang had already foreseen everything before they did this.
As the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder struck, the Chaos Bell hanging at Hu Le's waist swayed slightly and emitted a loud clang.
The Purple Heaven Divine Lightning that was about to strike down on their heads was shattered and scattered.
However, before it could completely disperse, Hu Le swept his sleeve and instantly collected the sky full of divine lightning into his sleeve...
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