Chapter 423 The Role of Dayu's Daotong
Li Yanmo drank his tea and stopped talking. This was his only opinion after he learned about the word "transcendence" and the morbid pursuit of it by the Taoist monks of the Great Wilderness.
Mu Mei on the foundation-building platform fell into silence.
Nuyao was the first person to cultivate to become an immortal. When she died, the Great Wilderness seemed to have not yet begun, so even though she knew the word "transcendence", she had no obsession. However, Meixian was born in the Great Wilderness. Even though she did not come into contact with other cultivators due to her personality, she knew that the Great Wilderness began with the word "transcendence". If she had not also pursued transcendence, there would be no news of her pursuit of transcendence.
But after Li Yanmo said this, the word "transcendence" became a word exclusive to mediocre people, and she really couldn't refute Li Yanmo's words.
Lily Jiang puffed out smoke, and after a long while she suddenly laughed, “So that person, the first generation of Emperor Yu, refined the Dao Pillar.”
"There is no cage in the world. Don't worry about it. Just pursue your own path."
"Of course - translated into human language, it means..."
"Your grandmother's legs, stop complaining about it, stop looking for excuses to do the wrong thing, and go study it."
Li Yanmo pondered for a moment and commented, "So the Yuanying of Dayu's Daoist lineage is not a baby, but a light body that is simply used to connect with heaven and earth?"
"nature--"
Jiang Baili seemed to have remembered something. She paused and looked at Li Yanmo, wanting to say something but stopping herself, as if she was struggling with whether she should keep Li Yanmo in the dark about what she was going to say next.
Li Yanmo saw Jiang Baili's concerns, spread his hands, and pretended to be relaxed and said, "I am not burdened by many debts. How many things do you think I know that I shouldn't know?"
Li Yanmo paused, then added with a troubled look on his face, "I have now become a taboo that ordinary cultivators should not know."
Lily Jiang was stunned for a moment and couldn't help laughing out loud. The louder she laughed, the more she laughed.
"That's right, that's right!"
Lily Jiang wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, tapped Li Yanmo's head with her cigarette, and her expression gradually became serious, "Everyone has his own destiny, and everyone is born with his own mission."
"Depending on individual differences and subsequent growth, the missions undertaken will also become more challenging."
"The immortals are charged with destiny."
"Becoming an immortal through cultivation is a shortcut. Those who take shortcuts cannot shoulder the destiny and may even misinterpret it, not to mention those who deny their origins and become immortals by using the golden elixir of monster beasts."
"Beneath the false prosperity lies a scarred world."
"When Dashun realized this, it was already too late to save the situation. But when Dashun was about to perish, they launched a final counterattack. The first Emperor Yu took advantage of the situation and ended the Great Desolation, but -"
Lily Jiang shook her head and sighed, “History is coherent, no matter how great the changes are, they cannot be cut off from the past.”
“Even if the Dao Pillar descended and suppressed the Daoist tradition of the Great Wilderness, it would not be able to change the deep-rooted concept of cultivation in the Great Thousand World. Even Dayu himself is a part of it.”
"Dayu's history was built on a crumbling wilderness, and all he could do was to correct it as much as possible. But even after hundreds of thousands of years, it was only a temporary solution, not a permanent one."
Lily Jiang raised her hand and pointed to the sky, then pointed to the ground.
Li Yanmo knew that Jiang Baili was referring to the evil star in the sky and the land transformed from the small world.
Li Yanmo crossed his fingers and tapped the back of his hand gently. After a moment, he said, "Actually, I don't really believe in the concept of balance."
"Mistakes can only happen because you didn't do well enough, or because someone is secretly doing something bad. It has nothing to do with heaven or fate. There is no need to attribute failure and disaster to balance."
“In fact, it is true.”
“If the Immortal Palace had not taken advantage of the lack of manpower at the beginning of Dayu’s establishment and planted seeds in Dayu’s Taoist lineage by stealing the sky and replacing the day, the Taoist sect would not have split from the Taoist sect.”
Lily Jiang nodded thoughtfully, “What you said is indeed interesting, but it’s a pity that it can’t change the current situation.”
"Do you know where the word 'huang' in 'Dahuang' comes from?"
Li Yanmo scratched his face. "Because of the concept of transcendence, people at the beginning of the Great Wilderness Era called themselves Wilderness Immortals?"
“Yes, and no,” Lily Jiang wrote the word “Huang” on the table, “He didn’t call himself Huangxian, but he caused the desolation of the world, so he was called Huangxian.”
Lily Jiang tapped her fingers on the table and drew a baby. Then she hooked her fingers lightly and an umbilical cord appeared.
"If you want to become an immortal through cultivation, you must nurture a small world with your own Dao as the core during the tribulation period, withstand numerous heavenly tribulations, and gain the approval of the Heavenly Dao, until that world is completely formed. The Heaven can do nothing but incorporate it into the Great Dao."
"During this process, the cultivators in the Tribulation Crossing Stage must continuously absorb the origin of the world."
"The Immortal of the Wilderness underwent some changes when he was a Nascent Soul—"
“He brought that step forward.”
"He is connected to the heaven and earth through his umbilical cord, allowing the heaven and earth to regard his Nascent Soul as part of the world, providing it with nutrients and helping him practice."
"He used this method to merge his spirit and body, and became an immortal without any tribulation when he was overcoming the tribulation."
"Everyone followed his example, draining the nutrients from the universe. Coupled with the monks' unrestrained mining of spiritual stones, the universe gradually became desolate."
"The cultivators who saw this scene... practiced even more frantically in order to avoid becoming the unlucky person who couldn't achieve immortality without any calamity."
Lily Jiang blew out a smoke ring, “Emperor Shun tried his best, and the ancient sect needed enough people to carry forward the Taoism and let them transcend, so this method of cultivation was stopped.”
Lily Jiang raised her hand to disperse the smoke ring.
"Of course, this is just on the surface."
"The cultivation system has long been deeply rooted. Moreover, cultivators grow by extracting nutrients from the universe."
Li Yanmo understood what Jiang Baili meant, and frowned, “You mean… Dayu Daotong is also extracting nutrients from the universe.”
Lily Jiang nodded, "Yes, this is the underlying logic that cannot be changed at all, so the first Emperor Yu made adjustments with the Dao Pillar."
"Although the monks will extract nutrients from the universe, they themselves are also part of the universe, sharing the pressure of the operation of the universe, and each has their own responsibilities."
"For example, the Six Paths Sect—"
"In the Great Wilderness, humans were more evil than monsters, so the ecology had long been in a mess. The universe itself didn't know whether it was breeding monsters, beasts, or humans, and could only trace the cause and effect. The Great Wilderness Taoist sect took advantage of this and continuously cultivated its own [disciples] through breeding. Three-eyed people can't give birth to normal people, they can only give birth to three-eyed people."
"If we allow this to continue, there will be no more people in the world."
"The Six Paths Sect has used the Six Paths of Reincarnation to help the world sort this out. Humans are humans, and animals are animals. Even if their father is evil, their sons can be good."
“Even if their father and ancestors are from the Great Wilderness Daoist tradition, they don’t have to worry about being influenced by them and being born as a non-human, unable to choose their own future.”
(End of this chapter)
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