An evolutionary game starting from Suolongjing.

Chapter 680: The Dao Disaster Sweeping Pan Jiuzhou! (Two in One, Extra Update)
"A blessed land that opens once every three hundred years? Its scale far exceeds that of the Han and Tang dynasties? There are countless natural treasures, a vast number of magical weapons, and spiritual inspiration comparable to the wealth of heaven. There are also various ancestors and great immortals who can teach and teach, and there is an opportunity to be accepted into the sect."

"Grandmaster, it's not that we disciples don't believe it, but just look at these conditions, is it something that ordinary people can come up with? I'm afraid that even the immortals in the sky don't have this opportunity, let alone ordinary disciples like us!"

Jin Dynasty, Maoshan, inside the Temple of the Three Mao True Lords.

Facing the True Lord Zhongmao, Mao Gu, the Right Forbidden Master of Juqu Mountain Zhenren Dinglu, who revealed his true form and described his extraordinary wealth and glory to his disciples in an ups and downs tone, the group of disciples kneeling in the Patriarch's Hall were all bewildered.

The contemporary head of Maoshan even risked offending the founder by asking the questions in his heart.

To be honest, this blessed land is an irresistible temptation for those practitioners like them.

Although the Taoist disciples’ practice is relatively pure and simple, they also emphasize happiness and success.

Being able to suppress the temptations of the seven emotions and six desires and stay away from the troubles of the worldly world is not the purpose of becoming an immortal and achieving long and lasting life?
Although, whether in the laws of Taoism or the descriptions of the rules of heaven and hell in various sects, being a god may not be as free and easy as being a Taoist priest. All kinds of rules and regulations are very troublesome.

But in fact, as long as you don't choose the Judge, the Thunder Department, the Northern Emperor Sect, and the other immortal gods' frameworks are relatively easy.

What’s more, it’s not that immortals and gods cannot enjoy themselves, it’s just that their enjoyment is somewhat incomprehensible or boring compared to mortals?

Taking a step back, even if one's worldly desires are agitated, there is still the concept of reincarnation. One can enjoy life for several lifetimes and then be saved by fellow teachers and mentors. This not only satisfies one's selfish desires, but also allows one to accumulate practice and eliminate some worldly injustices and demons. By the way, one can do some good deeds to accumulate merits while also repaying the reputation of being a queue-jumper.

There are many choices, it all depends on your own human nature.

This is also the reason why countless people continue to pursue the traces of immortals and gods despite the change of dynasties in Jiuzhou.

Life is but a short hundred years. Even if one is wearing gold and silver and becomes an emperor or a general, after a hundred years he will be nothing but a cup of dust. How can it compare to the freedom and ease of immortals and gods?

As for the blessed land, its concept to people who are practicing cultivation can probably be compared to the land in the land of wealth, friends and Dharma.

To put it more simply, a demiplane independent of the main world is created because most of the blessed places are born in places with beautiful mountains and clear waters and abundant spiritual energy. The surrounding environment must be rich in resources. Various plant spirits and precious mineral veins provide the most basic materials for cultivation. However, most of the places with beautiful mountains and clear waters are remote and sparsely populated, so it is good for the Taoist veins to take root there and occupy the surrounding land to do some work such as growing medicine, raising animals, and reclaiming fields. This can not only provide resources for cultivation but also maintain the operation of the Taoist veins.

What's more, this blessed land, because of its half-plane concept, while enjoying the bonus of the main world's spiritual nodes and earth vein nodes, it also has a certain ability to absorb from the outside world. Therefore, the environment in the blessed land will be richer than the outside world, and there is a high probability that all kinds of natural treasures will be born.

By practicing the four elements in this way, one can create two blessed places.

And within the orderly Taoist tradition, they can develop a variety of newer ways to play.

The most basic method is to use formations to block the dissipation of spiritual energy in the blessed land, so that the spiritual energy cannot escape to the outside world, and continuously increase the basic content of spiritual energy in the blessed land. If a guiding formation is set up in the outside world, the spiritual energy in the entire area covered by the earth veins will be continuously infused with spiritual energy. As long as the disciples use it regularly, the spiritual energy will only become more prosperous day by day, and will even feed back to the blessed land for spontaneous growth.

Just like before, those earthly immortals all played it this way, and even more fancy than this.

Of course, it was precisely this pure way of draining the pond to catch fish, which resulted in the situation where the income was not enough to cover the expenditure, that led to the two great gods Lei Dou coming out together more than ten years ago, and the army marched across the border and wiped out all the immortals in Jiuzhou.

Nowadays, although the tradition of earthly immortals still exists in Jiuzhou, there are very few who dare to occupy the blessed land. Most of them circle one or two hilltops and set up some formations and consider them the mountain gate. As for how much they have taken from the heaven and earth, they have to repay it double.

Using just a few big cats or small cats to describe the miserable situation of the earthly immortals is not enough.

Just like the Lingshan system that passed down Xuanzang's Buddhism from top to bottom, it was only after they were hit in the nose and had their spines broken that they finally came to their senses.

Pathetic, but even more ridiculous!

Of course, with the lessons learned from the earthly immortals, the Taoists would definitely not dare to play like this, and they would not play like this, but these do not affect the blessings that a blessed land can bring to the Taoist sect!

But it would be great if the interior space was the size of a town or one or two mountains.

The area is far larger than that of the Han and Tang Dynasties. Are you sure this thing is still a paradise and not an emerging world?
This alone was enough to make these disciples nervous, not to mention the subsequent natural treasures, elixirs, magic weapons and other treasures for cultivation.

It is too targeted and too tempting. Anyone who aspires to become an immortal cannot resist these temptations.

But it was also because the temptation was too great, so great that it exceeded the disciples' imagination, so that even if the founder appeared in person, no one dared to be tempted, and no one dared to believe it!
Seeing that his disciples were unexpectedly sober, Zhenjun Zhongmao raised his eyebrows, but then a smile appeared under his blurred face.

Are you afraid that you won't be able to fool a bunch of kids who have never seen the world?
Thinking of this, he sighed softly: "The blessed land is real, and those precious elixirs are also real!"

"Don't be confused yet, listen to me carefully!" Zhenjun interrupted the headmaster's question and said with a worried look: "You should know that in recent years, my Nine Provinces have undergone changes. The world has changed so much that the rules in all aspects are changing. The most widely circulated one is that the position of the god in the heaven and the underworld is vacant."

"I can tell you for sure that this is true!"

"But it is precisely because of this that the disciples of the Dao Sect, those well-informed unorthodox sects, and the spirits, demons, and strange beasts have also used their own abilities to make the world a mess. Let alone them, let's just talk about you. How many of you have stayed at the mountain gate to meditate and understand the Dao, and practice Huangting in peace over the years?"

"No, not even one! They all went down the mountain to earn merit. I don't even bother to tell you about what you did. Hundreds of disciples from various sects gathered around a wronged soul to save him. The Sutra of Saving People almost lit up the sky. Those who knew about it thought you were slaying demons and monsters, while those who didn't thought you were holding a water and land ceremony!"

"Ah? This is what you get from practicing? You're willing to sacrifice your dignity just for a little merit!"

Seeing the usually gentle and refined master now cursing and spitting, the Maoshan head had never experienced such a bizarre scene, but the big heart he had developed from practicing Taoism for a long time made him subconsciously wipe the immortal saliva on his forehead and advised: "It's really too much, even if you care about merit!"

The actual situation is actually much more exaggerated than what the ancestors said.

The wronged souls surrounded by a hundred Taoist priests are all small occasions that are not worthy of being on the stage.

In fact, after each Taoist sect received the veiled message from their ancestor, everyone from the toddler Taoist boy to the 91-year-old ancestor, and even the people in the kitchen could not help but follow the crowd and go down the mountain to have some fun.

What? What use are these old, weak, sick and disabled people to you?

That would be very useful!

The little Taoist boy doesn't know any magic, but he can help his brothers and masters carry swords and talismans and magic tools, right? If he can't cast magic, he can be a tool man to set up the altar and pass tools, right? Moreover, most Taoist children learn Taoist scriptures when they start. Everyone can recite the simplest eight magic spells that are most effective for them.

The eight magical spells can produce certain effects when recited silently or orally by ordinary people, and the effect is three times stronger when it falls into the mouth of a pure and innocent Taoist child!

One Taoist boy might not be very effective, but the Three Mountains Orthodoxy, which one is not a huge system? Pulling out thousands of apprentices is not a problem at all.

The high-level priest is on the altar, with a few people handing tools around him and a circle of little Taoist children below, making up the extreme numbers of seventy-seven and forty-nine, ninety-nine and eighty-one. With such power, a person with ten years of Taoist practice can achieve the power of a human immortal, not to mention going down the mountain to slay demons and eliminate evil.

The Taoist priests in charge of logistics chant incantations like the Taoist children during wartime, and prepare talismans and simple magical instruments on weekdays. They are also suitable for manpower and can better ensure the logistics of their fellow disciples, and ensure that they eat the same things up and down the mountain, so that they don't eat anything they shouldn't.

Of course, what shouldn't be eaten here is definitely not beef, blackfish, wild geese and the like, but those people who usually call each other brothers and claim that the Three Mountains Taoist sects are one family. For this little bit of bad merit, they really dare to attack their own people!
Nightmare curses, talismans, red dragon sealing the door, stealing talismans, there is nothing they can't do, as long as they can delay time and get the first step to slay demons and monsters, no matter how despicable the means are, they can do it.

Fortunately, the entire process of eating and drinking is handled by our own people, otherwise there is no guarantee that there will be some beef, blackfish or something else in the food.

Taoist boys have their uses, logistics have their advantages, and as for the old Taoist priests who are in their seventies and eighties and whose legs and feet are not very useful, they are the main force!

They may not have made progress in their practice and failed to cross the barrier of becoming a human immortal, which has resulted in a limited lifespan and physical decay, but after decades of experience and knowledge, their use of various magic spells are definitely not inferior to others. What's more frightening is that although these old Taoists' bodies are decaying, their magical powers gleaned from decades of practice have not diminished.

They were not good at fighting mobile warfare, but they were good at building altars and engaging in positional warfare. They were much more powerful than machine guns. As long as they had enough consumables, they could be called the ancient version of heavy artillery regiments. Blowing up a mountain in one day and night was not an exaggeration but a fact! After all, within the Taoist sect, if there was no hope of becoming an immortal, the choices left for the old people were not many. Soldiers disintegrated and reincarnated, and Yin Shendi were the two best paths.

Under normal circumstances, those who are able to cultivate the Yin spirit will not reincarnate.

After all, even if the latter is guided again by the mountain gate, no one can guarantee that he will succeed in cultivating immortals in the next life. Instead, if he becomes a Yin God or a land god, even if he starts from the lowest level of Yin messenger, he can climb up step by step. What's more, how can his family be an insignificant soldier? The lowest is a land god with a grade, and the orthodox disciples of the Three Mountains Taoist Sect are of the ninth grade, or start from the eighth grade Yin God or City God!
Although the Yin Gods have a rotation period, they can still grow little by little if they do well. After going through several rounds, when the Heavenly Court has time, with the help of the ancestors and elders, they can be included in the immortal class and gain eternal life!

Therefore, for the sake of the latter, these old guys who usually cherish their lives are now more like firecrackers. Once the altar is set up and there is no one to hold them back, they can really drain themselves of the heavenly thunder from the Thunder Department and the true fire from the Fire Department to flatten the entire demon world.

This happened to one family, and to every family. As a result, ever since the news of Jiuzhou's ascension and the opening of the gates to heaven and hell spread, all the old guys who had been practicing in corners and crevices in various dynasties and countless worlds throughout Pan-Jiuzhou came out in droves from all the mountain gates.

The traces of immortals that the emperor and his ministers had sought but could not obtain in the past are now everywhere in the mountains and plains. When traveling between towns and cities, one out of ten people can be seen wearing Taoist robes, not to mention the wilderness.

Since more than ten years ago, the nights in Kyushu's mountains and rivers have been safer than ever before. Not to mention the beautiful women in the mountains, even the bandits dare not roam the streets at night.

After all, when these Taoist masters see that your merits are negative, they will bombard you with full firepower!

Surrounding the wronged souls is just a small fight. Similar to this is the disciples of each school pretending to be Feng Shui masters and walking around the streets, feeling the graves for zombies, and looking for the yellow fox families who borrow people to practice in the tombs.

Although it is a bit embarrassing to say, the method is really not bad. Everyone who participates can earn some merit, more or less, but it is always something!

After all, ever since Lingshan was closed, the atmosphere in the entire Jiuzhou has changed a lot since the group of people who say one thing and do another were no longer in the heavens and underworld.

As for merit, or good people and good deeds, there is no such thing as "intentionally doing good will not be rewarded, or unintentionally doing evil will not be punished."

Good is good, evil is evil, and all the consequences of people's words and deeds will be recorded in the Book of Life and Death and the small notebooks of the immortals and gods. If you have high merits, the immortals and gods will pay attention to you, but your ideas will surely go smoothly. If you have low merits, then they will be recorded in the small notebook and will be counted after you die. If the negative merits exceed a certain limit, and are even mixed with factors of murder and robbery, then you will not be able to wait until after death to be repaid. Your fortune, wealth, and longevity will be reduced one after another, and if you die, you will be dragged to the underworld and given a ticket to experience the Eighteen Levels of Hell.

And because of this, when the retribution in this life is realized, the merits of the practitioners are also realized, and everyone's efforts are clearly reflected in their contributions.

It wasn't just the family graves that were cleaned out; mass graves and beggars' dens were the top priority (refer to the beggars in Bianliang, the capital of the Song Dynasty; they were a bunch of villains!).

While the practitioners, or the young disciples, were eyeing these dens of filth and dirt, the backbone of each Taoist sect, or the main force of the Three Mountains Taoist sect, began to do the old business of Taoism - felling mountains and destroying temples!
One state, one prefecture, one city, and one town were checked one by one. Thousands of Taoists carrying the Three Pure Ones swords and pushing baggage carts checked them one by one. If there was anything wrong, they would use magic to cover their faces. The scene was even more gorgeous than after the ban on fireworks was lifted in later generations.

With the help of some demon cultivators who wanted to gain some merit, the main force's progress was often very rapid. They would determine the location in the morning, arrive on horseback at noon, use the City God's call to confirm the target, and the altar would be erected before dusk. Then, thunder and fire would collide to directly light up the sky!
In this way, for ten years, the Jiuzhou Dynasty, which covered all the worlds of the Nine Provinces, was peaceful and prosperous.

Those who were addicted to earning merits did not feel it was enough even after clearing their own territories. The numerous Taoist main forces began to spontaneously cross the border and expand their territory to the south and north.

There was not so much to say at this moment, and the Taoists who were also bloodthirsty did not care about much.

All those who are not the gods of Jiuzhou are barbarians and evil gods, and anyone can kill them!
But within a few years, most of the world had been cleansed by this group of crazy Taoists, and the world that was originally where immortals, heroes, gods and demons coexisted was directly cleansed into a world of the Dharma Ending Age. All the stories about demons and monsters, and all the legends and vernacular novels disappeared!

What is excessive?

This is too much!
Moreover, until now, the main forces of Taoism could not find any big demons worthy of fighting, and returned to the mountain gates to practice in seclusion without interest. However, there are still young people from various families on the earth wandering in various deep mountains and forests, and remote villages looking for those hidden demons and monsters. Once they are located, they will be greeted by tens of thousands of Taoist elites!

Of course, following the pioneers of the Taoist crusade, each dynasty also entered a period of expansion of territory. Wherever the army went, it would conquer the enemy. The various demands brought about by the rapid expansion of the dynasty also increased the living space of the people.

Apart from the Song Dynasty, no one else could fight against the barbarians in a 40-60 fight without the pressure from foreign gods and barbarians, and when the barbarians were in panic!
It was a good thing, the Taoists earned merits and the common people lived in peace, but in the eyes of the heaven and the underworld, the pressure brought by this group of troublesome descendants was no less than that brought by Zhang Ke.

According to Kyushu tradition, when there is no external pressure, internal fighting will begin.

In order to avoid this situation, or to avoid the signs of it already budding, the immortals and gods had to speed up the process of refining the outside world, and even directly integrate the parts of the outside world into the interior of heaven and earth after preliminary processing.

But the hard work they did to balance the world has become the basis for these foolish juniors to maliciously cheat and open the exam papers!

Even if the gods and immortals issued an order to let these foolish descendants extend the veins of the Nine Provinces and adjust the local feng shui while cutting down mountains and destroying temples, they still couldn't stop this crazy momentum!
Looking at the land in front of them gradually changing from a wild land to fertile soil in the Nine Provinces at a speed visible to the naked eye, and then looking at the returning Emperor of Heaven and Earth and the other emperors, they knew that the day when the number one scourge in the Nine Provinces would return was not long, and the increasingly anxious immortals and gods had to start thinking.

When the head of the sect kneeling in the hall stopped the responsibility with fear and trepidation, he kept saying, "Master, please don't be angry. It's because the disciple didn't discipline him strictly. Please punish him!"

Zhongmao Zhenjun still pretended to be angry and rebuked: "Isn't it you who are talking about them? A great Zhenjun is just like an ignorant young man. Forget it, I don't bother to talk about you!"

"We appreciate your efforts. That is why, at the request of the four great celestial masters and the ancestors of various schools, the two gods, Emperor Heaven and Empress Earth, joined forces with the emperors to open up a paradise.

Treasure it, all opportunities are hidden here, since you are full of energy, go and have a look, broaden your horizons, and try to see if you can grab a glimmer of opportunity in this great transformation!"

"You all know that the transformation of heaven and earth is imminent, but the number of Taoist sects in the world is as countless as sand and gravel, and talented disciples are not unique to Maoshan. Moreover, although the position of God is overflowing, it will not be available to everyone. One still needs to go through many tests and difficulties!"

"This time, the blessed land will be regarded as a large trial field. All of you practitioners will be sent in, and the blessed land will be used to select qualified candidates. If you really have the talent, it is not impossible to prove the position of the emperor. Tomorrow is the time when the blessed land will be opened. It is up to you to go or stay!"

"By the way, this blessed land trial does not involve life and death. Even if you fail after entering, you will only be sick for a year or two. I have other things to do in heaven, so you can do whatever you want."

As soon as he finished speaking, the divine Zhongmao Zhenjun sat back on the throne. His fresh flesh and blood stiffened at a speed visible to the naked eye, and finally turned back into a clay sculpture, leaving the disciples on the ground looking at each other in bewilderment.

"Master, let's..."

"Go, you must go!"

"Must go!"

"Everyone who can try should go, whether it's the Taoist sect or the three armies, all should go. The fusion of heaven and earth is just around the corner, but we don't even have a way to ascend to heaven in the later generations. Although Shang and Zhou have always been kind and treated us as brothers, brothers still have to settle accounts clearly, not to mention that if two worlds and two concepts really live together, conflicts and quarrels are inevitable even if they live next door to each other.

We must fight for this God-given opportunity. I don't believe that 140,000 people can't produce a few immortals!"

Meteorological Center~Oh, now it’s called the Shinhwa Research and Development Department.

In a large conference room in the central building, facing the gazes of thousands of people, Qi Wang said affirmatively.

After more than a hundred years of evolution, later generations have already adapted to the many changes brought about by the revival of spiritual energy and transformed them into their foundation.

Similarly, in the process of Jiuzhou gradually accepting the world in later generations, many foreign countries that had siphoned off the most elite parts of the younger generation, with the gods and immortals above their heads taking sides, mostly went into decline. Only the Northern Alliance and the Western Continent lingered on, but their fate was also over.

As for why they were not annexed directly but kept instead, this was the insistence of later generations.

If others don't hit us, we can't hit them, but similarly, if we don't hit you, you can't even think of becoming one with us.

After all, purifying the blood has become the number one problem for future generations. If there is a schedule, the results of the past hundred years of research would be huge, but they have only eliminated the influence of Mite Qing. Before that, the blood impurities in a series of potential genes such as the Yuan Dynasty, the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and the Five Barbarians Invading China still need to be selectively purified, but that will be a matter for the next hundred years, or even two hundred years.

As for returning blood to ancestral form and purifying impurities, no one has a better way yet. There is not enough time to purify the blood, so how can we let a group of pure barbarians come in and harm us just for a little kindness?

Similarly, because of the purification of their blood, the group of young people who opened their eyes to the world were also affected by the storm, but whether they regret it depends on personal will. Anyway, as far as the current situation in Jiuzhou is concerned, those young people and their descendants have worked harder, and the reason why later generations were able to digest the results of the spiritual energy revival so quickly is also largely due to their efforts.

From the perspective of later generations, the effect was good at the time, but from a personal level, needing more blood and spiritual objects than others also means that they need to work harder in exchange for more resources.
(End of this chapter)