After sending the mosquitoes away and plotting the Gold Lotus, Li Changshou's mood was slightly affected.
He was not too happy. On the contrary, his mood was a little gloomy and heavy. He even felt a little helpless.
"The Great God-Conferment Tribulation transformed into a Buddha. The Buddhist Sect prospered, the Dao Sect weakened, and the Western Journey Minor Tribulation."
That was a logical chain of karma.
In short, it was actually one thing.
It was mixed with the Heavenly Dao's schemes against living beings and the Saints' schemes.
However, at the end of the day, the Dao Ancestor had first drawn a direction — the Western Sect would definitely prosper. From there, it triggered a game between the Saints. The teacher of Taiqing was for the Dao Sect, and the two Saints of the Western Sect were for the Western Sect. A series of subsequent battles occurred.
The Saints used living beings as chess pieces, and the Dao Ancestor used Saints as chess pieces.
The Dao Ancestor had always stood at the highest level. His goal was very clear from the beginning to the end.
In other words, he wanted to reduce the influence of living beings on the world.
If he continued to follow this train of thought, the Dao Ancestor's scheme, or rather, this plan, had been going on for too long. It ran through the development of the entire human race.
That was because there was no conclusive evidence in many parts and only some clues. However, Li Changshou still made an appropriate conspiracy theory.
The Dao Ancestor's scheme regarding the human race should be like this …
Dao Ancestor Hong Jun took in Goddess Nuwa as his disciple and guided Goddess Nuwa on the Dao of Creation.
After that, Goddess Nuwa created the human race. The human race had a Connate Dao Body and a strong reproductive ability. They could adapt to various cultivation methods and even explore cultivation methods on their own.
At that moment, the Heavenly Dao predicted that the human race would prosper and become the protagonist of the world. However, that was only a prediction. It was also part of the Dao Ancestor's plan.
Lao Tzu of Taiqing appeared and took in Master Xuandu as his disciple. He established Ren School and educated the human race. The Heavenly Dao bestowed merit and Lao Tzu became a Saint.
The Heavenly Lord of Primordial Beginning and the Grandmaster of Heaven Hierarch imitated their Eldest Senior Brother and established Chan School and Jie School with their respective understanding of the Great Dao.
Chan School explained the Heavenly Dao. It could be considered a common product of thought after the rise of the ancient Heavenly Dao.
The teachings of Jie School intercepted a chance of survival for the Heavenly Dao and opposed the Heavenly Dao's control of everything. It could be considered a rebellious thought that young people often had.
The Heavenly Way bestowed merit, and the Heavenly Lord Yuanshi and the Tongtian Hierarch became saints.
The other two possessors of Primordial Violet Qi, Jieyin and Zhunti, also wanted to have a share of the loot. However, they were eliminated by the Taiqing Sages. Hence, Jieyin and Zhunti were a little upset.
Li Changshou already had sufficient evidence to prove that the original cultivation techniques of the human race should have been passed down by the Three Saints of the Dao Sect.
The human race ushered in their first great prosperity. They gathered and hunted on the land of the five continents, living the same life as spirit beasts. However, their intelligence was rapidly developing.
Demons valued the individual. The stronger the individual's aptitude and comprehension, the higher the upper limit.
As the saying went, the nine sons of the dragon were all different. The demon race also had a bloodline system, and they were essentially the same. Those with a high bloodline, good aptitude, good perception, and good looks were the true rising stars of the demon race.
However, the human race was created through Goddess Nuwa's divine ability. The first generation of the human race's bloodline had nothing to do with Goddess Nuwa, except that they had more spiritual energy.
Therefore, the human race began the path of collective cultivation while fighting against nature.
They ascended collectively and comprehended the True Spirit Indestructibility. They were known as Qi Refinement cultivators.
During that period, due to their comprehension, cultivation techniques, and aptitude, a large number of Qi Refinement cultivators would be stuck at every bottleneck. A "pyramid" structure appeared among the Qi Refinement cultivators. There were also tribes, leaders, and so on.
According to Senior Suiren's description, in the ancient times, the strongest expert of a tribe was the leader. Suiren was one of the strongest leaders of the ancient human race.
After the human race experienced a period of prosperity, the gap between the Great Magi-Demon War passed. A butcher's knife landed on the heads of the human race.
The massacre of the human race was not just to refine the Magi-Slaying Dharma treasure. There were a few deeper reasons.
Firstly, the Demon Court did not want to see a third party other than the Liches rise.
Secondly, the Dao Ancestor wanted the human race to have enough hatred for the demons. That way, it would be convenient to abandon the Demon Court and purge the demons.
Thirdly, the Demon Emperor had already seen through the Heavenly Dao and the Dao Ancestor's path. The Demon Court seemed strong, but it was actually on the verge of collapse. It had to forcefully fight with the human race.
Therefore, the Demon Court wanted to kill the human race with all its might.
Then, the human race completely rose. The demons represented by Senior Suiren overturned the Demon Court. In the era of Taibai Jinxing, Li Changshou destroyed the remnants of the demon race.
The human race became the main characters of the world and began the process of separation between immortals and mortals.
During that period, the Dao Ancestor secretly made another plan.
He modified the Dao law of Reincarnation and used the Six Paths of Reincarnation as the operating platform to reduce the fertility rate of immortals and allow mortals to reproduce quickly.
In the ancient times, everyone could cultivate, and the human race could still reproduce in large numbers.
After the ancient times, especially after the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, the Middle Continent, where immortals gathered, had to rely on the children of the South Continent who sought immortality to maintain the legacy of the various sects.
The Duxian Gate was a typical example.
During the Great God-Conferment Tribulation, in the early stages of the tribulation, the immortal sects of the Middle Continent were in conflict. Large batches of immortal sects collapsed, and the mid-range combat power of the human race was greatly reduced. The Celestial Court took the opportunity to rise.
The main goal of the Great God-Conferment Tribulation was not to weaken the Dao Sect.
Jie School was known as the Ten Thousand Immortals Dynasty, but the dense "forest" of sects in the Middle Continent was the main body of the living beings in the world.
Of course, the Saint's Daoist field had to be in an otherworldly place to have a sense of mystery.
However, at that moment, under Li Changshou's personal control, there were less than ten of the large sects in the Middle Continent. Many "outstanding graduates" of the sects were directly connected to the Celestial Court.
That was the Dao Ancestor's greatest goal.
When that was done, the Celestial Court and the Buddhists would stand side by side. The Celestial Court would be in charge of supervising the Three Realms. The Buddhists would be in charge of spreading the teachings and educating the human race to give up the so-called "demonic nature". They would be good and endure more.
The main point was to endure.
The most precious thing for the human race was not the inheritance of their ancestors, nor was it the position of the main character of the world. It was not the Torch Flame.
It was the spirit of not admitting defeat, not being afraid of losing, and moving forward to overcome all obstacles.
In the end, Senior Suiren had said that it did not matter if the Torch Flame was extinguished. It would burn again. That was because Senior Suiren was wrapped in this spirit and thought.
When the heavens had once forced the human race to the brink of extinction, the human race still stood up.
However, if this spirit was extinguished and diluted by the teachings of the Buddhist Sect, no matter how prosperous the mortal world and how many humans there were, they would only be the shell of the True Spirit. In the eyes of the Dao Ancestor, it was the most ideal True Spirit carrier.
At that time, the meaning of the human race's existence was to give the world a meaning of existence. It would not pose any threat to the world.
"Ah …"
Li Changshou stretched and stared at the blue sky above the treetops.
That was the fundamental reason why he had to rebel.
To the human race, the Great God-Conferment Tribulation was originally a good thing. The rise of the Celestial Court was also a good thing. The separation of immortals and mortals was not good or bad. Everyone's life had different meanings.
However, when those good things became the stairs for the Dao Ancestor to realize his plan.
Then it would be hard to comment on it.
From this perspective, he would realize that the Great God-Conferment Tribulation was meaningless. The human race had already lost what they should have lost.
The Dao Ancestor's "monkey show" was really amazing.
He had established the conflict between the world as a conflict between the Saints and the Great Sects. From there, he attracted the attention of all living beings and inadvertently completed the most important step of his plan.
At the same time, the destiny of the human race gathered in the South Continent of the Middle Continent. It was also a game of chess that the Dao Ancestor had set up long ago. That caused the human race in the trichiliocosm to be isolated by the rules of the game.
The most terrifying thing was …
The plan for the human race was just a part of the Dao Ancestor's ancient plan.
Li Changshou did not know if he was crazy. Facing such an opponent, he still had the confidence to say 70% or 50%.
He was indeed confident. Moreover, it was a conservative estimate under normal circumstances.
There was no other reason. Senior Lang, who said that he did not leave anything good for him, had actually left him too many legacies. They were hidden in those manuals.
Senior Lang wrote that sentence in crooked handwriting on the title page of the last manual.
"If the precious fire of thought is not extinguished, it will definitely become a lighthouse that illuminates freedom."
Li Changshou looked at those words and made a bold deduction.
Senior Lang should have transmigrated from Earth in the era when the Blue Star Internet had just become popular.
If that was really the case, then he would have found the most fundamental "cause" of all the "effects".
Boom!
For no reason, the Celestial Court suddenly trembled slightly. The Lingxiao Treasure Hall was wrapped in rays of light and slowly rose from the Celestial Court to the middle of the 32nd Heaven.
Following that, the Jade Pool, the Tushita Palace, and the Grand White Palace were also wrapped in immortal light and rose to the 31st Heaven …
The Hall of Enlightenment belonged to the 28th Heaven and could reach the Celestial Court …
In various parts of the Celestial Court, the immortal mountains swayed and the immortal palaces moved. Empty halls slowly condensed and were distributed from the 28th to the 16th Heaven according to the number of Heavenly Cycles.
The Fighting Division, the Thunder Division, the Fire Division, the Water Division, the Finance Division …
The Heavenly King Hall, the Hall of Fragrance, the Spirit Official Hall …
After working for half a day …
The Celestial Court was ready and waiting for the righteous gods of the Celestial Court to enter at any time.
Li Changshou, on the other hand, could vaguely sense something and smiled.
It seemed that what he had said in front of the Dragon Mother had worked. The Dao Ancestor could not hold it in and attacked earlier than he had originally planned.
The Dao Ancestor panicked?
Actually, he had long panicked.
Otherwise, it would be impossible for so many disciples of the Chan School and Jie School to die when Taiyi killed the Goddess of Stone.
Otherwise, he would not have pulled Li Changshou into the dream and "coerced and lured him". He even said things like "you were originally my successor". He was very sincere.
There was a rule in the Primordial World. If someone exposed his background, his combat strength would be greatly reduced and he would panic.
There was actually a similar rule in the battle between him and the Dao Ancestor and the Heavenly Dao.
He understood the Heavenly Dao and the Dao Ancestor, so he targeted the Dao Ancestor's weakness.
Back then, Suiren had pulled him and said that the Dao Ancestor could not be trusted easily.
In fact, Suiren felt that although the Dao Ancestor had gone back on a portion of his promise back then, he had indeed given the human race a good future.
In Li Changshou's opinion, the Dao Ancestor was the enemy of living beings. He could not believe a single strand of hair.
"Let's continue to rest."
Li Changshou muttered to himself and continued to relax.
Ever since the small commotion in the Celestial Court and the Dao Ancestor's attack, the opportunity for him to continue increasing his chances of winning was about to arrive.
Hence, half a year later.
…
Under the starry night, the South Continent lit up. Those were the lights of the Hundred Families.
Outside the city of Xi Qi, two layers of military camps were scattered. The walls on all sides were covered with torches, and there were soldiers everywhere ready for battle.
After the Ten Absolute Arrays, the Celestial Court suddenly announced in a high-profile manner that they wanted to investigate and punish the immortals who had violated the Heavenly rules and privately interfered with the battles of the mortal dynasty. Jie School and Chan School fell silent at the same time.
The Shang army had already fought past Qi Mountain and surrounded Xi Qi City.
However, the immortals of Chan School took out their trump card, the "array diagram". The Zhou Army set up a strange array outside Xi Qi City and temporarily blocked the Shang army that was charging over.
In the Zhou Army and the Shang Army, the generals from Chan School and Jie School were pretending to be mortals, afraid that they would be discovered by the Celestial Court.
In fact, the Celestial Court was just making a big fuss. It was just an announcement and did not take any actual action.
It was just Li Changshou's little scheme.
The starlight suddenly flickered. The Black Qilin that the Shang army was already familiar with stepped on black flames and slowly approached from the eastern horizon. It landed at the east gate of the Shang army's camp.
Along the way, the soldiers lowered their heads and bowed, their eyes filled with respect.
On the Black Qilin, the white-haired Grand Tutor of the Shang Nation, Wen Zhong, smiled faintly, but he could not hide the fatigue on his face.
"Master!"
In front of the tent, two young generals supported him. Wen Zhong waved his hand and jumped down from the Black Qilin. The Black Qilin slowly rose into the sky and went outside the camp to find a place to rest.
"Master, how is it?"
"Let's go in and talk," Wen Zhong said and walked into the tent.
The two young generals were Wen Zhong's disciples. They were considered the fourth generation of Jie School.
In front of the Ten Absolute Arrays, Wen Zhong did not know what was wrong with him. For some reason, he felt old. He felt that he had been fighting for many years and suddenly felt tired.
I'll take in a disciple.
That was what Wen Zhong thought at that time, and he accepted the two disciples just like that.
In the blink of an eye, they could be considered to be independent.
Wen Zhong sat back in the chair and slowly heaved a sigh of relief. He set up a barrier.
The two disciples brought tea and took away the armor that their master had taken off. They wanted to say something but hesitated. They were concerned about the outcome of this trip.
"Master, did you fail to persuade Uncle-Master Lu Yue?"
"Uncle-Master Lu Yue is unwilling to attack mortals," Wen Zhong said. "What he said makes sense. If he uses his poisonous pills on mortals, it will not be considered a skill.
Uncle-Master Lu Yue also said that if it was a thousand years ago, he might agree to that.
However, now, he is already the Deputy Alliance Leader of the Immortal Alliance. He has to pay attention to his identity. If he directly attacks mortals, even if he uses some laxatives, he will be embarrassing Jie School and tarnishing the reputation of the Immortal Alliance and the Celestial Court. He is not enough to be Taibai's brother. "
The two young generals looked at each other and sighed softly.
"Then, Master, are we really going to fight Chan School head-on?"
"Master, the army has already surrounded Xi Qi City. If we don't fight this battle and retreat now, the morale of the army will be low. If Ji Chang and Ji Fa of the Zhou Nation use the opportunity to raise their arms and shout, Chaoge will be in danger."
"Alright, alright." Wen Zhong smiled bitterly and waved his hand. "How can I not know about this? Go down first. Let me think about it. "
"Yes."
"Yes!"
The two disciples lowered their heads and cupped their fists before retreating.
Wen Zhong sighed softly and stared at the map of the surroundings of Qi Mountain hanging beside him. He slumped on the chair, his eyes filled with fatigue.
He did not just invite Lu Yue.
However, for some reason, the elders and peers in the sect who were originally rather kind to him were avoiding him.
The few good friends who had promised to go down the mountain to help, and even his senior brother, Yu Hua, said that they wanted to cultivate in seclusion …
Wen Zhong could not understand nor could he figure it out. However, he vaguely knew that it was related to the two experts in the Ten Absolute Arrays killing the Saints.
What kind of overall situation could he see?
He was just the Grand Tutor of the Shang Nation and a third-generation disciple of Jie School. He was just an insignificant person in the world.
However …
"Your Majesty," Wen Zhong muttered to himself. "That's all I can do."
Wen Zhong took a deep breath and sat up straight. His eyes gleamed as he walked to the 'simple' topographic map that was hanging on the wall.
The original plan remained the same. In three days, the Shang army would advance fully. They had to break through the city of Xi Qi!
Xi Qi City was the core place of the Zhou people. The talents and nobles of the Zhou people were gathered in Xi Qi.
As long as they broke through this place, even if the Zhou Nation was not destroyed, it would still decline for ten to twenty years!
That was the last hope of the Shang Nation, and it was also a period of time that His Majesty urgently needed!
His Majesty was a mortal and his lifespan was limited. After His Majesty died, it would be difficult for his successor to have such courage.
The life and death of the Shang Nation depended on this battle!
Grandmaster's Saint Dao was to obtain a chance of survival for all living beings in the world!
His Dao was only to obtain a chance of survival for the Shang Dynasty.
No, the longer the night, the more dreams there would be.
"Gather the generals of the three armies!"
Wen Zhong shouted outside the tent, "Everyone, kill the deer and sheep tomorrow to strengthen the soldiers!"
"Yes!"
A chorus of responses came from outside the tent. The messengers rushed out, and their shouts spread to camp after camp.
Cries suddenly sounded from Xi Qi City, as if a certain important figure had died.
In the Shang Army's camp, they began to mobilize frequently during the night. The soldiers were urged to sleep early. Before dawn, a rich fragrance of meat wafted.
In the morning, the drums trembled. There were many winding dragons on the ground. The flags of the Shang army fluttered in the wind, and the world was filled with killing intent.
Zhou Ying … hung the battle exemption sign high up and held his breath in the array formation, waiting solemnly.
In the tent of the Shang army, Wen Zhong slowly put on his armor and pointed at a water mirror. He looked at the ancient face inside.
His face was born from his heart, and his appearance was born from his heart.
In today's battle, he wanted to destroy Xi Qi and overturn the Zhou Army. If the war started, the living beings would be plunged into misery and suffering. However, everyone was loyal and fearless.
Teacher, I will definitely let the foundation of the Shang Dynasty prosper again in my hands!
Your Majesty, you are actually going against the heavens and fighting against the heavens.
The one who wants the Zhou Dynasty to replace the Shang Dynasty is actually the Heavenly Dao. Your Majesty …
"Have you thought about it, Grand Tutor?"
A soft voice sounded from behind him. Wen Zhong was stunned. He saw the young Daoist who had appeared behind him silently in the water mirror.
The person did not hide his appearance, but Wen Zhong was not used to it. He was stunned for a moment before recognizing who it was. He hurriedly turned around and bowed.
"Wen Zhong greets Lord Taibai Jinxing!"
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