"I wonder if Ruyi has ever heard of a saying that says, 'If you jump out of the three realms, you are not in the five elements.'"
Zhang Ke nodded and said:
“The moon hides the jade rabbit, and the sun hides the crow, and the tortoise and snake intertwine themselves.
The appearance is intertwined and the life is strong, but he can plant golden lotus in the fire, gather the five elements in clusters and use them upside down, and he can become a Buddha or an immortal after the work is completed.
All things in the world belong to the five elements of yin and yang. Water is called moistening, wood is called bending and straightness, fire is called inflammation, earth is called farming, and metal is called Congge.
All things circulate in the movement of the five elements. Water moistens wood and generates fire to the top. Earth acquires metal and transforms from life to death. It becomes nourished by another cycle and becomes moist again.
To jump out of the Three Realms and Five Elements is to break away from this scope, not to be constrained by this scope, and finally transcend the Three Realms, and then you can truly be free and live forever."
Xiaoyao Daojun smiled slightly.
"Since Ruyi understands these things, it's easy to explain."
After a brief pause, Xiaoyao Daojun continued:
“The so-called ‘three realms’ are understood differently in Taoism and Buddhism.
The three realms that Buddhism refers to are the ‘desire realm, the color realm, and the colorless realm’.
The desire realm refers to the place where living beings with various desires and emotions live.
The color realm refers to a place where all living beings who have faded away desires and emotions, but still need to rely on material things to survive, live.
The color here refers to various tangible substances, including one's own body.
The formless realm refers to the place where all living beings who have eliminated all desires and emotions and no longer rely on any material survival live.
In Buddhism, all sentient beings in the three realms of desire, form, and form are not free from the six paths of reincarnation.
In Taoism, the Three Realms generally refer to ‘Heaven, Earth, and Man’.
The 'human realm' refers to the human realm, the earth realm is the 'netherworld realm', and the 'heaven realm' refers to the thirty-sixth heaven..."
Xiaoyao Daojun paused and continued:
"In the past, the Heavenly Court was located in the 'Great Luotian', the highest of the thirty-six heavens, where it governed the three realms."
Zhang Ke's heart was slightly shaken, and he heard Mr. Xiaoyao continue:
"As we all know, Daojun is also called an immortal, and there are five categories: heaven, earth, humans, gods, and ghosts.
If you wish, there is a gap in the inheritance in your sect, I will tell you the difference, so as to avoid making mistakes when practicing in the future.
Among the Five Immortals, the Celestial Immortal is the most difficult to achieve. It requires the integration of four kinds of Taoist fruits: Cave, Heaven and Earth Immortals, Hunyuan Human Immortals, Belief Immortals and Netherworld Ghost Immortals.
But only Tao Lords who have become immortals have the chance to achieve the realm of Tao Zun.
The third realm of Yuanshen is called the Cave Heaven Realm, also known as the Hunyuan Realm, because there will be two roads at this step.
The Taoist who uses the cave sky to become a Taoist is called the Earth Immortal, while the Taoist who integrates the Dongtian with himself to become the Hunyuan is called the Human Immortal.
As for the last gods and ghosts, they refer to the Tao Lord who has left the physical body and achieved the power of the faith of all living beings.
In the past, in the heaven above the nine heavens, those who were ranked in the class of immortals and received the imperial title were the gods.
And those who live under the Nine Nethers and work in the ‘Netherworld’ are the ghosts and immortals.”
Zhang Ke suddenly realized it and finally figured out the connection clearly.
Xiantian Yiqi Sect was only established by some abandoned disciples and casual cultivators, and the only one with the highest cultivation level in history was Dong Tianjun.
And this kind of knowledge cannot be written down, so Zhang Ke has never been able to correctly understand the differences between the five immortals among the Tao Lords.
Zhang Ke calculated in his mind that he had all the caves and heavens, a strong body, and no shortage of faith. He seemed to have the foundation to become an immortal unintentionally!
Taoist Master Xiaoyao made it clear that only immortals can achieve the position of Taoist Master.
If people can go to higher places and become immortals, who would choose anything else?
But does one’s ‘wheel’ position count as a god or a ghost?
Zhang Ke couldn't help but ask:
"Dao Lord, now that the Heavenly Court has disappeared, how can we obtain the position of 'god and immortal'? In addition, since the yin and yang are separated, how can we become a 'ghost immortal' in our human body?"
Xiaoyao Daojun and others looked at each other and laughed.
“This is difficult to say and easy to say.
Do you still remember the ‘Shou Lun Method’ you auctioned in Tiantai Mountain in the past?”
Zhang Ke's mind flashed like lightning and he lost his voice:
"Could it be that the 'ninth-level Dharma Protector' is regarded as a 'god'?"
Xiaoyao Daojun smiled and said:
"Exactly! It is said that this method is a shortcut you have created for practitioners in the world!"
Zhang Ke was stunned for a moment and said with a wry smile:
"It's so cheap!"
Taoist Xiaoyao smiled ‘haha’ and continued:
"In this world, all living things belong to the power of Yin and Yang.
The 'Netherworld' is the realm of earth, a purely yin place, and those with yang energy are not allowed to enter.
Generally speaking, living beings cannot enter the underworld."
Seeing Zhang Ke opening his mouth to speak, Taoist Xiaoyao waved his hand to stop him and continued:
"But the tasks in the 'nether world' can be performed by living people. After all, there are often ghosts that escape from the gap between yin and yang and enter the human world.
They need practitioners from the human world to help capture ghosts or coordinate the yin and yang realms.
For example, City God, Land God, etc.
Therefore, some sects will be involved with the ‘Netherworld’, which can be regarded as an escape route for the disciples in the sect.”
Mr. Xiaoyao Daojun briefly introduced the passes between the Five Immortals.
Then he took out a black ghost head token and handed it to Zhang Ke and said:
"The 'Netherworld' was originally built by the Empress Tu in the prehistoric era, who later transformed into the Six Paths of Reincarnation to save thousands of souls from death.
After Empress Houtu, the 'Netherworld' was controlled by Emperor Dongyue. The so-called soul returns to Mount Tai comes from here.
Later, Emperor Dongyue realized that there were too many affairs to deal with, so he divided the underworld and put it under the control of Emperor Fengdu. From then on, the name of the soul returning to the underworld came into being.
Under Emperor Fengdu, there were five ghost emperors, Luo Feng and Six Heavens, and below him the Ten Palaces of Yama, who were responsible for judging and controlling all ghosts in the underworld.
The ten palaces of Yama developed their own subordinates and established an independent system of three divisions, six cases and seventy-five divisions.
There are judges, Wuchang, Meng Po, Niu Tou, Ma Mian, Gui Chai, Gui Pawn, etc.
This token is the ghost mission order for patrolling the world!
If you hold this token, you can enter the 'Underworld' position. Although you are a ghost errand, you are still considered a member of the 'Ghost Immortal' system."
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhang Ke's heart moved, if there is this thing, wouldn't it mean that the foundation of the 'Ghost Immortal' Dao Fruit is also there.
He took the token and looked at it. It was only as big as a palm and looked like a ghost swallowing the token.
The black token is cold to the bone, and hundreds of ghost talismans are scattered all over the token in an orderly manner, but the meaning of these ghost talismans is clearly expressed.
The four characters "retreat from strangers" are engraved on the front.
On the back are engraved four words 'The soul returns'
After flipping through it a few times, Zhang Ke put the token away.
After pondering for a moment, Zhang Ke suddenly asked:
"I wonder how strong the 'Netherworld' is?"
Taoist Xiaoyao glanced at Zhang Ke appreciatively and explained:
“The three realms of ‘heaven, earth, and man’ encompass countless realms of the multiverse.
The ‘human world’ does not only refer to the blue world.
The ‘Netherworld’, as the place where the dead survive in the Three Realms, is very powerful.
The strength of the members of the underworld in the 'Netherworld' in each realm is different and is restricted by the rules of heaven and earth in the realm.
Taking this world as an example, Black and White Impermanence is equivalent to the peak of the Yuanshen Realm, and the judge's strength should be that of a Dao Lord.
Due to the particularity of the 'Nether World' system, their Taoism generally carries the power of rules.
They walk between yin and yang, traveling thousands of miles in an instant. Although they mostly only appear at night, people of the same level are not their opponents at all.
The most frightening thing is that whether they are black and white, impermanent, or bull-headed and horse-faced, they all have the ability to transform into millions of people, making them almost immortal.
Although they will not appear in one place at the same time, they can fight with multiple people in multiple places at the same time.
Fortunately, it is bound by the rules of the great road. Under normal circumstances, it only captures ghosts and does not attack living creatures."
Zhang Ke couldn't help but take a breath of air.
He remembered that when he was in the Blue Sky Realm, in order to keep his soul behind, he had crossed paths with Black and White.
But at that time, he couldn't even bear the cold snort from its projection, which shows how powerful the 'Netherworld' is.
After listening to Daojun Xiaoyao's explanation, Zhang Ke faintly noticed that something seemed to be of great importance. He thought for a moment and asked:
"Master Dao said before that the 'Three Realms' are 'Heaven, Earth, and Man'. The 'Nether Realm' is so powerful that there are countless high-level monks in the human world.
But Heaven has long since collapsed, can the current system of ‘Dharma Protectors’ immortals alone be able to support this ‘Heaven’?”
Taoist Xiaoyao turned his head and glanced at Taoist Destruction, and saw him nodding slightly, thinking for a moment, and then flicked his finger and a little purple aura flew out of his fingertips.
This bit of spiritual light stopped in the void in front of Zhang Ke, and burst into three circular gears that meshed together.
"Your guess is correct. Since the destruction of the Heavenly Palace, there have been major flaws in the 'Three Realms' system of the Azure Realm.
A realm must be able to self-consistently circulate to be complete, these three gears are like the blue realm."
Xiaoyao Daojun pushed a gear at will.
The gear he pushed immediately began to rotate, and under the bite of each other, it also drove the other two gears.
Three gears were slowly turning in front of Zhang Ke's eyes.
"Under the action of force, the three gears exert force on each other and push each other. As long as they start to rotate, they will not stop.
This is cycle, self-consistency, rule and order!
but..."
Mr. Xiaoyao Daojun snapped his fingers and eliminated one of the gears. The transmission of one gear was missing, and the other two gears stopped after rotating a few times.
"This is the situation in the Azure Realm today. One of the links in the order of the 'Three Realms' is missing.
The order of heaven and earth has become incomplete. If this defect cannot be made up, this world will never be able to advance to the great world.
Thousands of years ago, in order to make up for this shortcoming, this community vigorously implemented the method of belief, opened mountains and built temples to establish the Shinto system.
But in the end, the gods who manifested Shinto caused a great chaos because of the power of faith.
After that, various sects and sects did not dare to promote Shinto methods in a big way, but worshiped Shinto in a small area.
It was not until Ruyi made the ‘Shou Lun Method’ public to the public that this shortcoming in this world was gradually made up for.
Although the 'Dharma Protector' system is still very weak now, we have to take a long-term view.
Perhaps thousands of years later, this system will be able to make up for the omitted shortcomings of the 'Three Realms'."
"Uu~~!"
Zhang Ke let out a long sigh of relief and finally figured out the reason.
After a second thought, he asked a little strangely:
"Since Yin and Yang are forever separated, why was this gate of hell opened?"
The Lord of Destruction interjected:
"This is why I'm looking for you. This time you go back and investigate carefully to see what happened in the realm.
The ‘Ghost Patrolling Order’ can cover one’s own yang energy, and with your transformation skills, it is the best choice for this trip.”
Zhang Ke was a little speechless. Is this a reflection of the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility?
After pondering for a while, Zhang Ke said:
"Since we are dealing with ghosts, I want to bring Yan Fei'er with me. Maybe she can help."
The Taoist Lord of Destruction nodded and said:
"No problem, I will call her back immediately with 'Xingchen Pan'. I wonder when Ruyi is going to leave?"
"The sooner the better, we will leave when Yan Fei'er comes back."