Chapter 24: The Three Dao Patriarchs of Unknown Meaning
The cloud-like magic weapon flashed past, and one could clearly feel the rich magic power emitted by the magic weapon, and it showed a light green color.
The farmers in the fields looked at the clouds and mist and couldn't help but cast awe-inspiring eyes.
Some farmers even knelt down on the ground, praying to the immortals to protect their children or for good weather in the coming year.
They may not see a practitioner even once for decades, so they naturally treat him as an immortal and want to offer three animals to him as offerings.
Although Taoist sects are prosperous in this world, the sects are all in the deep mountains and old forests. Mortals rarely have access to immortals. Moreover, with such a huge reputation, it is obvious at a glance that the immortals have great Taoism.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh...
Several more flying swords disappeared into the sky, and the clouds were neatly cut open.
The farmer suddenly noticed something unusual. Could it be that a demon was born in the northwest, which attracted a large number of immortals to gather there?
The carriages and people on the official road all stopped and talked about the immortal.
Some well-informed businessmen, thinking of the rumors from more than half a month ago, immediately turned around and evacuated in the opposite direction.
They heard that the gate of Sanqing Temple has been completely sealed because of demons, and its location is in the northwest.
Maybe the Taoist sect is really going to war because of demons, and I just hope it won't affect mortals.
The fact is indeed as expected by ordinary people, one after another the escaping light approaches Sanqing Temple, almost gathering the Taoist leaders from all over the world.
They stopped outside the mountain gate, and after a brief exchange, they looked at Sanqing Temple from a distance, only to find that the mountain gate had long been shrouded in thick fog.
Taoist Shui Heng frowned and turned to look at Taoist Hua Feng beside him.
Taoist Shui Heng is the master of Qingchengmen, and he set foot on the land of gods three hundred years ago.
Old Taoist Huafeng comes from the Xuanyuan Sword Sect. His status is equivalent to that of an elder. He is a thousand years old and is also a land immortal.
As representatives of the Taoist sect, they stand on the top of the cliff.
Although the rest of the Taoist priests are all high-level officials of various sects, they are far from the realm of land gods, so they are a few meters behind intentionally or unintentionally, and do not dare to interrupt at all.
It was more than ten days ago that I received the message from Master Qingxuan.
They originally thought that the evil cultivators in Wuzhuang Temple were involved, which led to the riot in the Evil Suo Tower. They did not believe in the nonsense that the demon was born, so they did not rush to Sanqing Temple.
Unexpectedly, Sanqing Temple suddenly lost contact with the outside world.
When they came in a hurry, they found out that the mountain gate of Sanqing Temple had been closed, and no matter how they contacted Master Qingxuan, it was of no avail.
"The Sanqing Temple is still a few miles away, but something is wrong here."
Taoist Shui Heng couldn't help but say that the environment of the surrounding mountains was extremely strange. It was obviously the season of early spring, but there was no green color at all.
The soil is pitch black and seems to contain an unknown aura.
"The devilish aura is awe-inspiring."
Old Taoist Huafeng had a solemn expression and squeezed out four characters from between his teeth. Then he hooked his finger and a faint Youyuan fell on his palm.
Youyuan is inherently corrosive, and it immediately sizzles when it collides with mana.
"hiss."
If Huafeng's veteran had not reacted in time, You Yuan would probably have corroded his flesh and blood, and not even the magic power of the land gods could stop it.
There was a strange color in his eyes. The wisp of Youyuan just now was not even refined into Qi. It was at the beginning level at best, but it could make his own magic power collapse.
If he could find You Yuan's secret, wouldn't he be able to go one step further?
Old Taoist Huafeng thought that he had been trapped among the immortals on land for hundreds of years. It no longer mattered whether You Yuan was related to the Earth Ancestor. He even secretly tried to find the Earth Ancestor's remains.
It’s just that the bones of the Earth Ancestor are not compatible with the righteous method.
"Interesting, really interesting..."
Old Taoist Huafeng wanted to put away You Yuan, but found that the storage magic weapon would be destroyed if touched, let alone wrapped with magic power.
Youyuan seems to be the magic power of an immortal, which ordinary people cannot control at all.
Compared with Taoist Huafeng, Taoist Shuiheng is extremely afraid of Youyuan.
The two of them suspected that Sanqing Temple had been destroyed, otherwise there would not have been strange auras everywhere, and no trace of wild beasts or insects.
"Senior Huafeng, let's call some more comrades before heading to Sanqing Temple to avoid encountering unmatched evil spirits..."
Before Taoist Shui Heng finished speaking, Taoist Huafeng turned into a flash of light and disappeared, heading towards Sanqing Temple at an extremely fast speed.
"The Taoist sect is already in danger of life and death, and they are still thinking about their own selfish interests."
Taoist Shui Heng snorted coldly, but his heart beat was obviously accelerating, and he chased after Taoist Hua Feng without hesitation.
The two of them did not realize that as they got closer to the Three Purities Concept, their greed seemed to be infinitely amplified.
Miscellaneous thoughts flooded into my mind, including the desire to become an immortal and attain enlightenment, greed for life and fear of death, or malicious intent to add insult to injury.
Even though the other Taoist priests were suppressed by two land gods, they had different thoughts and had forgotten the purpose of coming.
After spending a while, they arrived at Sanqing Temple.
It was not until they faced the embarrassed Sanqing Temple Gate that the Taoist priests suddenly woke up, their expressions filled with fear, and they had the urge to turn around and leave.
I saw that the entire mountain peak was several times larger. The soil was dark red, and the surface was covered with vein-shaped vines. Black-gray ghosts spread throughout the mountain.
The buildings are not much better, there are signs of flesh and blood being activated, which is horrifying.
What frightened them the most was that none of the thousands of disciples of Sanqing Temple were spared. They turned into black and red blood eggs, and a human figure could be vaguely seen inside.
As the source of the disaster, the Evil Locking Tower fell crookedly to the ground, leaving only a deep pit hundreds of meters in size. It was obvious that a huge thing crawled out from the depths of the ground.
Within a hundred meters of the pit, there are three-legged brass tripods. The incense inside was still burning not long ago. They should be specially used to worship the indescribable objects in the pit.
It is hard to imagine how terrifying the demon that is born is. It is at least a hundred meters in size and can make Sanqingguan disciples willingly surrender.
Old Taoist Huafeng took a breath and subconsciously touched the brass tripod with his hand.
The brass cauldron was emitting residual warmth, and it was obvious that incense was burning not long ago. It was probably within an hour of the time they arrived.
"What the hell?"
Taoist Shui Heng thought about it and was very frightened. Could the demons sense their arrival?
Puff puff……
At this time, the sound of flesh and blood eggs breaking was heard one after another, and disciples of Sanqingguan emerged from the eggs one after another and were soaked in the viscous liquid.
Their expressions were confused and they had forgotten their recent memories.
The Taoist priests quickly checked on the disciples of Sanqingguan and found that the latter's body did not look strange at all, and his magic power did not seem to have been lost.
“Where’s Qingxuan, where’s Qingxuan?!”
Taoist Shui Heng asked and hurriedly looked for Master Qingxuan.
The old Taoist Huafeng stared at the mountain gate eagerly, then closed his eyes to feel the wonder of You Yuan, and his expression became dazed.
When Taoist Shui Heng noticed Master Qingxuan, he just burst out of the flesh and blood egg.
Master Qingxuan murmured the words "Tao Ancestor is coming" and his mental state became extremely unstable, but his body and soul were not damaged.
"The Dao Ancestor has arrived? What kind of evil spirits have you come into contact with?"
Master Shui Heng asked again and again. Master Qingxuan regained some consciousness, but when he was about to answer, he found that his memory was extremely confusing.
Under the trend of pain, his consciousness fell into a fuzzy state. He covered his head with both hands and beat it desperately, and blood flowed from his nose.
Immediately afterwards, something incredible happened to all the Taoist priests.
The flesh-and-blood transformation of Sanqingguan Temple disappeared quickly, and the buildings returned to their original appearance in the blink of an eye. The withered grass and trees turned into ashes, and new shoots sprouted from the soil.
The Youyuan that filled the world seemed to have never appeared before.
"No! No!! No!!!"
"My fate as an immortal, the opportunity for me to become an immortal and attain the Tao, Tao Ancestor, Tao Ancestor!!!"
Old Taoist Huafeng screamed in despair, and released a massive amount of mana with both hands, trying to gather the You Yuan of Sanqingguan, but found that You Yuan was like grains of sand between his fingers, unable to grasp it at all.
"Old Taoist, are you crazy?!"
Taoist Shui Heng grabbed Taoist Huafeng's robe and forcibly controlled the latter to avoid destroying thousands of years of foundation.
"I'm mad?"
"If you open your eyes and take a look, they are clearly experiencing the baptism of immortality. It's just because the Taoist ancestors didn't want to appear in this world that they just became Huang Liang Yimeng."
Old Taoist Huafeng was paranoid and threw away Taoist Shui Heng, chasing after the few remaining You Yuan.
Taoist Shui Heng looked around in a daze, and the disciples of Sanqingguan woke up one after another. No one knew what happened.
Xie Sui, or Taozu?
Little did they know that all the cause and effect only came from Ren Qing.
Ren Qing himself stood at the top of the Evil Locking Tower, observing the changes in Sanqing Temple from the perspective of a bystander.
After he confirmed that nothing was missing, he used the Demon Seize Body and disappeared from the place.
In Ren Qing's opinion, the newly restarted immortal cultivation civilization of the Three Dao Ancestors cannot reach the level of the previous era. The so-called land immortals are at best Yang Shen realm monks.
Even because of the low development of weapon refining, land gods are far inferior to those in the Yangshen realm.
But Ren Qing noticed a lot of unusual things.
The first is Song Zongwu and others. Their strength is obviously superior to this world, but why have they created a scattered Wuzhuang Temple in thousands of years, and they themselves are also intimidated in the dark.
Ren Qing was unable to contact them directly because he was re-cultivating the technique, and could only vaguely sense the location of a few of them.
In addition, the world that the Third Dao Ancestor spent so much time shaping feels so meaningless.
The Third Dao Ancestor has no intention of continuing to interfere. It seems that the purpose of coming is just to destroy the original world and create a new one.
Ren Qing was confused.
In his spare time at Sanqing Temple, he also read many classics and noticed that the history of Taoism was very strange, and it could be traced back to the prehistoric period hundreds of thousands of years ago.
But nearly ten thousand years ago, there was obviously a blank period in Taoism.
Ren Qing carefully thought about it and found that the blank period was thousands of years after the arrival of the Three Dao Ancestors. The current civilization might be in another world, otherwise it would be impossible to have such a coherent history.
The three ancestors are all extraterrestrial demons, and it is difficult for him to understand them with normal thinking.
Ren Qing shook his head and decided to find a place to completely suppress the alienation first, and then train Tiandaosheng to the perfection of corpse-dissolving immortality.
The commotion he caused in Sanqing Temple, as long as the monks of the Jailer Hall were not in seclusion, would take the initiative to inquire about the news.
Ren Qing randomly found a cave in the mountains to retreat, and after driving away the wild beasts around him, he began to practice Tiandaosheng without stopping.
After this world was reshaped by the Three Dao Ancestors, only copper ore was left as metal, which led to the proliferation of copper products in both the immortal and mortal worlds.
Ren Qing feels that if resources remain so single, the world will not be complete.
The civilization of cultivating immortals also lacks opportunities to go further. The land immortals in the Yangshen Realm are already at the upper limit, and are not even as good as the World in the Stomach.
In the world in the stomach, at least under the protection of Ren Qing's magic, the possibility of alienation of the body and soul of living beings has been reduced to a minimum. Even if there is alienation, there are pills to suppress it.
Ren Qing rarely interferes with the world in his stomach now.
The relatives and friends I knew well at the beginning have either exhausted their longevity and passed away, or they have been practicing the corpse path in the underworld. They have long since changed.
Even his own character is not immune to the erosion of time.
It is difficult for Ren Qing to regain the enthusiasm he had when he first came into contact with spiritual practice, but at the same time he is even more obsessed with the transcendent way of heaven.
His obsession comes from his confusion about the layout of the Three Dao Ancestors, and also from the frustration of being controlled by others. The solution to all problems needs to overcome the bottleneck of the Corpse Jie Xian.
Ren Qing meditated on the way of life, and the breath circulated throughout the body in the eight extraordinary meridians.
After Tiandaosheng reaches the Yangshen realm, it is no longer important to accumulate the aura of Heavenly Dao. The most important thing is to imprint the rules of Heavenly Dao into flesh and blood and bones, so that the body and soul can resonate.
What Ren Qing has to do is to gradually bring his body and soul closer to the Tiandao Tree.
He sat cross-legged in the cave, his skin and flesh glowing slightly, imprinted on the surface of the stone wall, forming extremely complicated patterns of heaven.
Even if Ren Qing doesn't check the information flow, he still knows that his cultivation is constantly deepening.
Even the Tiandao tree in the world in the stomach began a new round of growth, and countless immortals suddenly condensed on the branches.
Although the Three Realms are a stagnant water, there are many immortals hiding in the dark.
They noticed something strange about the Tiandao Tree, immediately realized Ren Qing's return, and immediately started preparing to survive the thunder tribulation of Daluo Jinxian.
Once you achieve Daluo Jinxian, it means you are highly bound to the world in your stomach.
Previously, the young people did not know whether to live or die, so naturally they did not dare to rush through the tribulation, for fear of becoming a burial object when the world in their stomachs was destroyed.
This is not because there is no need to deal with difficulties, but rather a rule set by Ren Qing.
Ren Qing has a doorway to the mirror world in the stomach world. If something happens to him, the Prison Hall will organize an evacuation.
But now anyone with a discerning eye can see that Ren Qing has eliminated the disadvantages of the technique.
In the extremely prosperous Tiandao Palace, two old men chatting on the roadside looked at each other and smiled, then disappeared after playing the chess game in front of them.
Several coffins in the underworld suddenly shook, and boundless Yin Qi surged into them.
Strange phenomena in the mortal world also occurred one after another, a dragon roared in the sea of wine; a tall man walked out of an active volcano; beasts galloped in the forest; countless sword lights surged in the heavenly palace...
The reason why they gathered together to survive the tribulation was because they still remembered what Ren Qing said.
More than three ancestors have descended on the Heavenly Dao. The current stability may be the calm before the storm, which will soon lead to disasters affecting the Heavenly Dao.
The supreme demon might come to this world within a thousand years.
The world in the stomach can only block part of the power of the disaster. If the heaven and earth fight, Daluo Jinxian may have a glimmer of hope.
As soon as Ren Qing closed his eyes and opened them, decades had passed.
Tiandaosheng successfully broke through to the Heavenly Deception Realm, but no one from the old Immortals and Gods of the Prison Hall contacted him, and there was no trace of him at all.
