At this time, the more than 300 Jindan Daoist people in Lingxiao Palace are basically the commanders and deacons of various positions in the ‘Xiantian Yiqi Southern Sect’.
Every big move in the 'Xiantian Yiqi Nanzong' sect, including the nine counties of Penglai, is closely related to these people in the palace.
Everyone felt a little strange when they heard the two requests made by Zhang Ke.
They didn't understand why the leader suddenly made two requests that seemed to have little to do with the development of the sect.
And judging from Zhang Ke's attitude, it is obvious that he attaches great importance to these two things.
Xu Qingzhi hesitated and asked:
"Master, now that you are in charge of the sect, it is a great opportunity for the sect to develop rapidly.
If the disciples in the sect or some talented people in the nine counties spend their energy on these two things, I am afraid it will have an impact on the development of the sect."
Xu Qingzhi is not the only one who has this doubt, most people in the hall are a little puzzled at this moment.
Remote calls cannot be said to be useless, but they don't seem to have much effect on the development of the sect.
As for the study of "floating" spells, magical weapons are even more confusing to everyone.
What does the leader want with a flying boat?
Seeing the looks in everyone's eyes, Zhang Ke thought about it for a while before explaining:
"Originally, there are some things that I shouldn't tell you now, and there are some secrets that can only be known when you step into the Yuanshen realm.
However, these two things require the sect’s full efforts to have a chance to be completed, so today I will inform you of some things in advance.
But there is one thing I want to explain. What I say next can only be heard by you and cannot be spread out.
do you understand?"
Shi Zhongxiu and others looked at each other a few times and respectfully responded to the order.
Zhang Ke sorted out the thoughts in his mind and said:
“Actually, I wanted to call on everyone to study these two things more than two hundred years ago.
However, at that time, our sect and the nine counties of Penglai were not able to deduce this.
After all, this kind of thing cannot be done by just a quick brainstorm. It requires countless talents to work hard for many years to complete.
Nowadays, after two hundred years of unremitting efforts to implement the "Education Act", the people of the nine counties of Penglai have basically escaped from illiteracy.
And countless talents have emerged in people's livelihood, daily life and various fields.
Only then did I finally have the opportunity, conditions, and ability to complete these two studies."
After saying a lot of seemingly unrelated words, Zhang Kecai said in a deep voice:
"Eight thousand years ago, a great change occurred in this world.
At that time, there was a type of people in the Azure Realm who embarked on the path of spiritual practice just like us. They were called immortal cultivators..."
Zhang Ke slowly unfolded the whole story of the great change eight thousand years ago in front of everyone in the hall like a picture scroll spanning thousands of years.
For countless years, immortal cultivators have been destroying earth veins and extracting spiritual stone resources, resulting in a lack of spiritual resources in the blue world.
This has frequently triggered various natural disasters, causing the extinction of countless species in the world.
Until countless cultivators discovered that the lack of spiritual power in heaven and earth not only prevented them from cultivating, but even prevented them from maintaining their original realm.
After the last large-scale destructive logging of the blue world, they successively fled their own territory.
Shi Zhongxiu listened to Zhang Ke's slightly heavy tone with trembling heart.
Only then did we know that this realm was almost destroyed by immortal cultivators thousands of years ago.
He closed his eyes and restored the scenes that happened thousands of years ago in his mind bit by bit.
In the main hall, hundreds of people were silent, quietly listening to Zhang Ke's narration.
After roughly speaking about the great changes that took place eight thousand years ago, Zhang Ke waited for everyone in the door to calm down, and then a flick of light burst out from his right hand.
"Peng——!"
A flash of spiritual light exploded in the hall, forming a starry sky scene composed of countless brilliant stars.
I saw countless stars twinkling in the void.
"If we zoom out infinitely, what we see in front of us is roughly what the void of the universe looks like.
In this dark, deep void, there are countless stars operating according to the rules and regulations of the universe.
The Blue World is also one of them."
As Zhang Ke spoke, his right hand randomly clicked a little blue light to fill the bright starry sky in the sky.
It seems to highlight this blue star, which looks particularly dazzling.
Then Zhang Ke reached out and touched the air, and a gray translucent wave appeared in the air, rippling endlessly from one end of the starry sky to the other like sea water.
"I discovered a secret from countless historical materials and volumes left by my predecessors.
No, strictly speaking, that's not what I discovered.
Rather, it was discovered by practitioners tens of thousands of years ago, but it has never been taken seriously.
There are countless stars in the universe we live in, and these stars move on their own within the rules of the universe.
At the same time, these countless stars will also affect each other due to their never-ending rotation.
Just like two spheres in water, when they get close and rotate, they will definitely affect each other.
Therefore, the movement of countless stars will naturally produce a kind of force.
This kind of power is tentatively classified by me as..."
Zhang Ke looked at the disciples in the hall and said word by word:
"vitality!"
The hearts of Shi Zhongxiu and others in the hall beat violently at the same time.
‘Is this how ‘vital energy’ is produced?’
Zhang Ke casually waved the starry sky that appeared in the sky in the palace.
I saw the gray waves surging across the starry sky.
After some tiny waves pass over the blue star that symbolizes the blue world, the power gathered by the previous waves explodes at a certain time, forming a large wave that rolls towards the blue star.
And at this moment, Zhang Ke pointed out, and the huge tide was stopped by Zhang Ke at the moment when it reached the blue star.
It's like a thrilling picture permanently fixed in everyone's minds.
"Each star is an independent individual, and they emit their own magnetic field.
These magnetic fields interact and entangle with each other, and the different energies generated by countless stars eventually come together and form a wave flow.
Pulled by countless stars, this wave flows like a tide in the universe, so I call it the "tide of vitality".
According to historical records from different eras, I found that the spiritual practice world was very different in different time periods.
For example, it can be traced back to 63,000 years ago, 52,000 years ago, 41,000 years ago, and 8,800 years ago, etc.
There is a special node in these time periods, that is, there will be a significant change every 10,800 years.
Whenever this happens, the vitality of this realm will become extremely abundant.
At the same time, this is also the reason why the types of vitality are all-encompassing.
Because it was born from countless different stars, it will naturally have different attributes."
Shi Zhongxiu secretly pondered the number '10,800 years' in his mind. He always felt that this number was a bit unusual.
'Ten thousand and eight hundred years?'
A flash of inspiration suddenly flashed in his mind, and he cried out:
"This...isn't this the life limit of a Taoist Lord?"
Xu Qingzhi and others in the hall suddenly realized what they were feeling, but they couldn't describe it in words for the moment.
Zhang Ke glanced at Shi Zhongxiu appreciatively and continued:
"Yes, 10,800 years is exactly the end of a Taoist's life span.
What this means exactly is not clear to me now.
Normally the stars in the universe seem to be immersed in the sea of vitality.
I think the vitality of every world is generated in this way.
After these energies enter the realm, they will fill every corner of the world as the rules change.
Even some vitality will gradually solidify and form veins over time due to the influence of rules and precipitation. This is the origin of Lingshi veins.
The energy in the universe is usually like sea water, but under the influence of the rotation of the stars, it will continue to flow and form waves.
And this wave forms different peaks in the constant surge.
A small peak occurs every three thousand years, and a large peak occurs every 10,800 years.
Every time this time node approaches, the vitality of the blue world will undergo earth-shaking changes."
What Zhang Ke had said before flashed through Xu Qingzhi's mind, and she murmured to herself:
"Since there was a big peak 8,800 years ago, wouldn't it mean that this world will usher in another big peak in more than 2,000 years?"
Suddenly, she thought of something again and couldn't help but said:
"Master, since it has a peak value of 10,800 years, will there be a peak value greater than this?"
Zhang Ke's heart moved. He had never thought about this.
After pondering for a moment, he shook his head and said:
"I haven't seen any record of this. If there is, could it be..."
He stopped talking when he said this. There are some things that are meaningless just to guess, and Xu Qingzhi and others can't explain them clearly.
But in his heart, he added the second half of what he had said.
'Could it be one hundred and twenty-nine thousand six hundred years?'
‘Isn’t this number the end of Tao Zun’s lifespan?’
'Why is the small peak that appears in three thousand years so closely related to the longevity of True Lord Yuanshen?'
'So it seems that the life span of Dao Lord and the life span of Dao Zun are also related to the peak of this 'vital energy tide'?'
'If we can understand this, does it mean that the way to the Dao Lord can also be found from it?'
'Could this 'tide of vitality' hide the most fundamental secret of spiritual practice?'
For a moment, Zhang Ke fell into deep thought.
After Xu Qingzhi asked, he remembered what Zhang Ke had said before about the immortal cultivators who had left their own world.
I finally understand what the story Zhang Ke meant today.
He cried out:
"Could it be...could it be that those cultivators who left eight thousand years ago will return to this domain again two thousand years later?"
The faces of Shi Zhongxiu and others couldn't help but change color.
According to Zhang Ke, those cultivators who left that year are the top group of cultivators in this world.
Today's practitioners in the azure world are just passed down from generation to generation from those abandoned practitioners in the past.
From this point alone, we can clearly know how huge the gap in strength will be between the current cultivators and the original cultivators.
Zhang Ke came back to his senses after hearing this, nodded and continued:
"Yes, it is calculated based on the most adept at deducing heaven's secrets among the immortal cultivators of the time.
In about two thousand years, the vitality of this world will reach its highest peak in ten thousand years.
And those cultivators who left will also return to the Azure Realm during that time.
If the cultivation system of these immortal cultivators does not change, then they will still devour and destroy this world like locusts as they have done for countless years."
Shi Zhongxiu couldn't help but stood up suddenly and shouted:
"Why?
It was they who destroyed this world and then abandoned it.
It is we, the cultivators from generation to generation who have worked hard one after another and finally repaired this world.
This world is our home and our root, why should they come back again to snatch everything that belongs to us?"
Everyone else in the hall also started making noises with righteous indignation.
"That's right! This is our world, and anyone with ill intentions is an invader.
Even if we can’t defeat them, we still have to fight to the death to defend our homeland.”
"That's right, they were the ones who destroyed this world to a great extent. After they recovered, they wanted to come back and continue to destroy it. How can there be such a good thing in the world?"
"What they thought was so beautiful, but it's a pity that there are no spiritual stone veins in the world now.
Even if they come back, they won't be able to wreak havoc like before, right?"
"You can't say that, since this world was able to disperse the vitality of heaven and earth from the spirit stone veins into the earth veins.
Who can guarantee that these immortal cultivators will not be able to condense the energy in the earth veins together again to form the spirit stone veins.
You must know that the cultivators who left at the beginning are the most elite and most elite group of cultivators!"
"If you ask me, those cultivators who are extremely damaging to the spiritual power of heaven and earth should be exterminated.
Every extra person is a kind of destruction to heaven and earth."
"..."
After eight thousand years of inheritance, the Azure Realm has its own understanding of the wisdom of heaven and earth under the influence of generations.
From the bottom of their hearts, they looked down on the kind of practitioners who relied on spiritual stones and elixirs in the past.
A white light flashed across Zhang Ke's eyes, and he felt a little relieved.
Shi Zhongxiu was originally a person in the Mysterious Realm of Mist, but in just two hundred years, he already regarded himself as a member of the Blue Realm.
This undoubtedly proves that he already has a sense of belonging to the blue world.
After everyone's discussion came to an end and their emotions gradually calmed down, Zhang Kecai said again:
"Everyone is right, the blue world belongs to us.
It is our home, our roots, and no one can take it away from us.
Billions of Zerg cannot do this, and neither can the immortal cultivators who abandoned this world.
What's more, our practice system is fundamentally different from the practice system of immortal cultivators, so they are destined to be unable to coexist with each other.
Therefore, as long as they dare to come back, we will fight them to the end."
Shi Zhongxiu and others felt excited when they heard this, and they couldn't help but feel a sense of mission in their hearts.
Just listen to Zhang Ke continue:
"But, will the cultivators really come back after two thousand years?
just in case......"
He looked at the people in the hall with a layer of white eyes, and said every word: