"Please sit down."
As soon as Honglin finished speaking, a prayer mat appeared behind Lianyao and Yechen respectively.
Words become law.
The two sat on the prayer cushions.
Among the immortals located on both sides of the main hall, some victims glared angrily at Ye Chen, but dared not act rashly because Hong Lin was present.
Honglin spoke, but instead of questioning Ye Chen, he began to preach.
"I was the first believer under the First God. My Lord, the First God, created countless worlds and abandoned countless worlds. At the height of the First God's power, he controlled three thousand great worlds and countless small worlds. The worlds you control now are less than one-tenth or one-twelfth of his."
"Even the Great World is treated with indifference by our Lord, and is abandoned at will... But the root of the disaster also begins from countless abandoned wastelands."
"The resentment of the desolate realm and the chaotic energy merged, transforming into a chaotic death energy that devoured life force, gradually consuming and eroding my lord's world."
"When our lord discovered this, it was too late, and there was no time to remedy the situation. In the end, our lord was defeated."
"Before his fall, he used his original divine soul to condense the Dark Realm, trapping the chaotic death energy within it, thus preventing the outside world from being eroded by the chaotic death energy and avoiding the extinction of life."
“I left the Dark Realm by the command of the God Lord, taking with me the divine ashes that were formed from his physical body and the three Chaos Divine Objects.”
"One is the White Emperor's Egg, which coexists with Chaos, is the ancestor of all demons, is one of the Heavenly Dao, and is immortal. It is used to guard the gate of the Dark Realm."
"Secondly, the World Mother Tree is the mother of chaos. When yin and yang are combined, it can turn death into life and life into death. It is planted with the ashes of the God Lord, so that it can absorb the death energy of the outside world, turn it into vitality, nourish the world, and thus all living things can exist."
Lian Yao couldn't help but look at Ye Chen.
"The third is the World-Destroying Golden Lotus. This is a rare species of chaos that can dissolve all life force and death energy. However, only endless life force can sustain it. It is inherently intolerable to the Heavenly Dao and is extremely difficult to survive. When my lord traveled through the chaos, he obtained twelve lotus seeds by chance. He tried every means but failed to keep them alive. Only one remained, which I took out of the Dark Realm."
"Now, do you all know why you couldn't withstand Lord Ye Chen?"
Bai Ze and the several great gods around him were the first to understand, while some of the gods and the immortal and demon gods on both sides were still confused.
The Goddess of a Hundred Flowers explained: "The God Lord Yechen is the embodiment of the Mother Tree of the World. We living beings were initially baptized by the life force of the Mother Tree, which gave us intelligence. We then absorbed the life force released by it to cultivate, just like her children. Children cannot resist their mothers."
Seeing Honglin nod in agreement, the immortals were in an uproar, and their gazes toward Ye Chen became incredibly complex.
"After I planted the tree, I opened up the Dao Palace world to sleep in peace, waiting for the creatures of the Origin Realm to flourish before I emerged to pass on the cultivation lineage."
“However, my lineage, which was passed down from the Primordial God, is ultimately flawed. If I continue to cultivate along its old path, I will inevitably follow in its footsteps.”
The First Emperor's fate was to abandon countless worlds, causing resentment and chaos to merge into one, transforming into chaotic death energy that came knocking on his door, ultimately leading to his death and the dissipation of his Dao.
In an instant, the gods who heard these words were all dumbfounded.
The lineage they revered as sacred was actually incomplete!
Even after reaching the ultimate level of cultivation, the result was still death and the annihilation of one's cultivation!
Immortals despise all things, take life and death lightly, and do everything for the sake of the Dao in their hearts.
But now, the person who passed down their teachings is telling them personally that the path they cultivated was wrong from the very beginning!
For a deity, this blow would be fatal.
"No, I don't believe it, I don't believe it!"
Those whose resolve was not firm immediately succumbed to demonic influence.
Honglin raised his hand and swept it away, and the man was suppressed.
The person's inner demon was removed, but he still looked unwilling to believe it, as if he might fall back into demonic possession at any moment.
The goddess Luo said loudly, "Everyone, now that we have embarked on the path of cultivation, we should see through all things. What is there to fear about life and death?"
"Know that if one hears the Way in the morning, one can die content in the evening!"
If I hear the Way in the morning, I can die content in the evening!
These words shook the Dao Palace and resonated with the Heavenly Dao!
The deafening voice of the Heavenly Dao resounded in everyone's ears, and the Dao hearts of those immortals who had almost lost themselves became clear and firm again.
yes!
My path was wrong, and now I know it.
Compared to continuing to cultivate blindly along the wrong path, it is truly fortunate to hear the true path at this moment!
The gods and immortals all had a sudden enlightenment, and many immortal lords directly became gods in this enlightenment.
Becoming a god is difficult these days, and those who were able to become gods in one fell swoop are all those who benefited from hearing the Dao today.
However, the joy of becoming a god could not dispel their worries.
Of all the gods present, apart from the Moon Goddess, the Great Sage, the Relic, and the Zero God, everyone else cultivated according to the orthodox methods taught by Hong Lin and abandoned many small worlds.
They have cultivated the path to death!
Although the Goddess of the Moon Palace also cultivated according to the methods of the Dao Palace, she was naturally aloof and preferred quiet, and never created a small world.
After the Great Sage underwent tribulations and became a saint, he only created one world, Flower Fruit Mountain, as his residence, and had no intention of creating smaller worlds to cultivate his divine power.
Otherwise, neither of them could escape it.
Although there are other gods and immortals who have not created their own worlds, they all rely on the main god who created the worlds for their cultivation and are considered subordinate believers.
Since they aided and abetted the wicked, they should share the consequences.
Needless to say, the Relic and the Zero God are both incredibly powerful. One practices asceticism to deliver sentient beings from suffering and resolve the resentment of all realms, while the other directly saves abandoned small worlds from their source and protects them at all times.
These are all great acts of merit!
It's a pity that their lineages appeared too late!
The resentment accumulated in this chaotic world is too great to be fully exorcised, and there are far too many abandoned little worlds that cannot be saved.
The two of them alone were simply not enough to purify the endless resentment and death energy in the chaos.
"Ancestral God, where should we go from here on out? Please enlighten us!"
"Please, Ancestral God, enlighten me!"
"Please, Ancestral God, save me..."
All the gods and immortals sought his help.
Honglin gestured to Lian Yao and Ye Chen below, "The solution lies with them."
"Please be at ease, everyone," Bai Ze advised.
Upon hearing that there was still a way to remedy the situation, the deities on both sides returned to their original seats and listened to Honglin continue his sermon.
"When I planted the tree, I accidentally scattered the lotus seeds along with it. Unexpectedly, the lotus seeds, under the protection of the mother tree, took root, sprouted, and eventually bloomed."
“The Golden Lotus was just beginning to develop consciousness, and was ignorant and unaware. I feared that it could not control the power to destroy the world, so I took it away, separated and sealed it, and placed its soul on a lotus petal to help it take human form. I took you as my disciple, named you ‘Lotus Radiance’, and taught you the way of cultivating the mind and saving the world.”
"Ah!" The immortals all looked at Lian Yao.
Lian Yao remained calm. He had recovered most of his memories, and with his intelligence, he could deduce the remaining small part.
"The original God cultivated the lotus seed in order to purify the chaotic death energy with the world-destroying power of the golden lotus. He perished before he could succeed. Now that the golden lotus has bloomed, it is both our fortune and our calamity."
"The Golden Lotus of Annihilation does not distinguish between life and death; while purifying death energy, it also dissolves life force. If you wish for the Golden Lotus to sweep away the chaotic death energy for yourselves, you must pay the price of all your life force."
As Honglin's voice faded, a deafening thunderclap resounded in the sky, and all the gods and immortals sensed the power of the Heavenly Dao in the darkness.
Some immortals have understood, while others are still unclear about it.
“Your lineages are all passed down from me, and I shall align myself with the Dao of time and space to help you reincarnate again.”
"Good! Good!"
The Buddha's relic, who had remained silent until now, couldn't help but sigh.
He stood up and took out a lotus petal from his sleeve.
As soon as the lotus petal emerged, it automatically flew into Lian Yao's body.
In Lian Yao's two eyes, a golden lotus flower lit up, and his hair, which had turned golden, was also loose and his whole body exuded a terrifying aura of destruction.
Honglin looked at Yechen and said, "Although you nurture all things with life force, you first defied the Heavenly Dao and gave birth to the Golden Lotus, which dissipated your merits. Later, in order to quickly strengthen yourself, you forcibly extracted the life force of all things for your own use, which caused you to be entangled in resentment. You should dissipate all your physical body and divine power to help the world be reshaped, and then use your soul to undergo tribulations to save the world in order to atone for your sins."
"After the destruction of all worlds, your origins, relying on the power of the Mother Tree, can reshape all worlds once again. With the protection of this merit of creation, you will be able to avoid many detours in the cycle of reincarnation in the lower realms."
The clouds in the sky had turned reddish-gold, with countless golden lightning bolts crackling and moving within them.
Honglin offered up the last lotus petal.
The lotus petals flew towards Lian Yao, but he did not absorb them.
Lian Yao formed a protective shield around himself, preventing the last lotus petal from merging with him.
He looked at Honglin, his eyes, hidden behind Jinlian, were incredibly beautiful, carrying a unique kind of compassion. "Master, must it be this way?"
Honglin said calmly, "When the world is in chaos, the same mistakes will be repeated."
Lian Yao closed her eyes.
The Heavenly Emperor sighed and said, "From this day forward, we must descend to the mortal realm to be reincarnated and save the world, and atone for our sins."
"I do miss those days," the Queen Mother said, placing her hand on the Heavenly Emperor's.
The two clasped hands tightly and smiled at each other.
The Goddess of the Moon Palace suddenly walked to Baihua's side and said, "I'll go with you."
The Goddess of Flowers exclaimed in surprise, "Chang'e, you did not create a small world, there is no need..."
Chang'e took her hand, the sound of a hundred flowers stopped, and her beautiful face blushed slightly.
Shariputra said, "Such a magnificent act of self-sacrifice for righteousness should naturally be prioritized by the Buddhist community."
"This is fun! This is fun! Let me, Old Sun, join in the fun!" the Great Sage said with a grin.
Zero God's mechanical voice said, "The optimal result calculated is to merge with you all."
All the gods and immortals fell silent.
Tears streamed down Lian Yao's face as he released the protective shield, allowing the last lotus petal to merge with him.
(Honglin: We are all guilty! Gods: Yes, yes, yes!)
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