I am guarding the sky prison in Journey to the West

Chapter 265: God-conferring catastrophe?

"More than seven thousand years ago, when I was a local immortal at Guanjiangkou, I swore an oath to the way of heaven. When I swore the oath, it was like a sword coming to my body, and the binding force of the way of heaven was extremely strong."

"But now, I have made two oaths in succession, but I have never felt any restraint. The influence of heaven on the three realms and humanity is almost non-existent..."

As Yang Jian spoke eloquently, Li Anran and Nezha finally understood the reason why he swore to heaven one after another.

The first is because Yang Jian really never thought about breaking his oath and was not afraid that the oath would come true.

The second is that Yang Jian wants to test how much Heaven's restraint on humanity in the Three Realms is left.

It turns out that the binding force of morality on humanity is now almost zero.

This means that the strength and weakness of the way of heaven and the way of humanity have been completely reversed, and the various rules established by Taoist Hongjun when he combined his body with the way will no longer exist!
To put it simply, although there are still merits, luck, cause and effect in the Three Realms today, their influence on all sentient beings in the Three Realms has been extremely weak!
The most fundamental and core rules of the Three Realms have changed from heaven's reincarnation and karma to human nature's naked conspiracy and calculation and respect for the strong——

As long as you are strong enough and calculating enough, you can do whatever you want without any worries!

Nezha's expression changed when he heard this, and he cried out, "If this is the case, wouldn't the Three Realms be in chaos?"

Yang Jian nodded, his expression solemn.

In the past, there was heaven above, no matter whether it was mortal monsters or gods and Buddhas, they all felt awe in their hearts.

The good and evil deeds of mortals during their lifetime will be recorded in the book of life and death. Even if they are lucky enough not to suffer retribution while alive, they will be punished in the underworld after death, and it will also affect their reincarnation in the next life.

The immortal Buddha is immortal, but he is more restricted. Once he acts recklessly and is entangled in karma, he will suffer divine punishment and encounter various disasters.

The laws of the mortal world and the rules of heaven are just supplements to the way of heaven, and are aimed at those fish that slip through the net.

But now, the way of heaven can no longer affect the way of humanity.

The merits and sins of mortals will no longer be recorded in the book of life and death, and gods and Buddhas will no longer have to worry about merits and karma.

This is equivalent to taking down the Sword of Damocles hanging over everyone's heads.

Once the news gets out, everyone will lose their most basic sense of awe, and the three realms will inevitably be in chaos!
Li Anran noticed another point: "If merit and karma have no impact on the three realms, then wouldn't all the things Tathagata Supreme Laojun and the others have been doing over the years become useless?"

"It's more than just wasted effort."

Yang Jian shook his head and said: "This catastrophe is different from before. It is no longer a disaster of heaven and karma, but a disaster of humanity and the human heart. They use heaven and earth as a chessboard and all living beings as chess pieces. , a careful calculation, which seems to be a clever method, but in fact they are already doomed, but they themselves are not aware of it yet. "

Many things in this world are like a layer of window screen. If you pierce it, everything inside will be clear. If you can't pierce it, you will never be able to see through it!
After Yang Jian said this, Li Anran and Nezha compared what he said with their own insights, and they could easily judge that what Yang Jian said was true.

"This is really interesting!"

Li Anran gloated a little.

After experiencing the first tribulation of dragons and phoenixes, the catastrophe of lich, and the catastrophe of becoming a god, the gods and Buddhas of the three realms have learned wisely and actively learned lessons from them, and are unwilling to follow the old path of ancient times where great clans and great religions lost both sides.

As a result, the rules of this catastrophe have directly changed!
They worked so hard and expended so much effort, planning to sacrifice a large number of humans, monsters, water tribes, and the remnants of the ancient heaven, hoping to delay the coming of the disaster, but in the end they themselves were sent to the disaster.

It's really the biggest joke in the world!
A hint of sarcasm appeared on Yang Jian's lips, and he said: "From the moment they started to lay out the plan, the gods and Buddhas in the sky were no longer gods and Buddhas in the sky, but all living beings who had fallen into human nature and were blinded by their emotions and greed. "

"The only difference between them and mortal monsters is that they are stronger, stand higher, and have greater advantages. However, this is only at this moment, and it is hard to say what will happen in the future."

At this moment, Li Anran suddenly had an idea and said, "Second brother, do you think this catastrophe has been postponed now?"

Yang Jian was slightly startled, but soon understood what Li Anran meant. His pupils shrank suddenly, and his face, which was always moody and moody, first showed a look of shock and disbelief, and then he frowned and fell into a deep state of disbelief. Pensive and silent.

"What riddles are you talking about! Why didn't I understand?" Nezha said dissatisfied.

Li Anran said: "What I mean is that the God-conferring Catastrophe may not be a catastrophe of heaven and earth, but a good show arranged by Taoist Hongjun and other saints together or with the acquiescence of other saints."

"how can that be!"

Nezha opened his eyes wide and blurted out: "How could Dao Ancestor and other saints do such a thing!"

Li Anran said: "How could the Tathagata Buddha, the Jade Emperor, Taishang Taoist, Taiyi Tianzun, and all the gods and Buddhas in the sky sacrifice people to eliminate karma!"

Nezha: "..."

Nezha opened his mouth, but couldn't utter a single word.

Taoist Hongjun and the six saints have high status, but in today's Three Realms, they are on par with the Jade Emperor, Tathagata, Taiyi Tianzun, and Taishang Laojun.

If the Jade Emperor Tathagata could do such a thing, Taoist Hongjun and the six saints might not do the same!

And if he had not known in advance that the gods and Buddhas of the three realms would join forces to deal with the catastrophe, he would not have thought that the catastrophes affecting the three realms, such as the pilgrimage to the west and the gathering of the Eight Immortals, would be artificially arranged.

only……

Nezha gasped a little when he thought that the catastrophe that affected the three religions and all living beings in the world, and that countless benevolent and righteous people, including himself, threw his head and blood without caring about his own life, might just be a good show that was destined to end long ago. The suffocating feeling of being out of breath.

"I'm just guessing, it may not be true."

Li Anran noticed the confusion and reluctance in Nezha's heart, and secretly shook his head.

The Catastrophe of Conferring Gods was like this to Nezha, so how could the Yellow Turban Uprising, Pursuing Buddhist Scriptures from the West, and the Gathering of the Eight Immortals be the same to their client?
It's just that in the former case, Nezha was in it, but in the latter case, he was out of it, so his emotions were completely different!

Yang Jian is much calmer and more rational than Nezha.

Although what Li Anran said is just a guess, it may not be impossible to lead from effect to cause!To the sentient beings in the three realms, Taoism and Buddhism are completely different, but to the Taoist ancestors, they are both Taoist traditions passed down by him, and there is no difference!
Judging from the catastrophe, in the Dragon and Phoenix First Tribulation and the Lich Tribulation before the Conferred God Catastrophe, the three tribes of Dragon, Phoenix, Qilin, and the Lich Tribe were all killed and injured, and they almost withdrew from the prehistoric stage.

Only the God-Sealing Catastrophe seems to be tragic, but in fact the most serious casualties are the human race, not the Jiejiao in the eyes of the world!
It seems that the Jie Jiao disciples are completely dead and wounded, and the Taoist lineage is almost cut off. But in fact, many Jie Jiao disciples have converted to Western religions, and those elite disciples are only on the list of gods!
Until now, the list of gods has been shattered, and they have regained their freedom to reincarnate and rebuild. The price they paid was the loss of their previous cultivation and the delay of ten thousand years of cultivation time, but what they gained was the understanding of destiny and the freedom to choose and follow after the tribulation. and better qualifications——

Most of the Jiejiao disciples were born in the demon race, and their heeling qualifications were not very good.

Nowadays, Taoism and Buddhism are in charge of the tunnel of reincarnation, and their reincarnation is very maneuverable. Although the heeling qualifications after reincarnation are not as good as those of innate creatures, most of them are stronger than their previous heeling qualifications!
And a few innate beings, such as Sanxiao, Zhao Gongming, Jinling Holy Mother and others!
The leader of Tongtian Cult had already arranged a backup plan. They didn’t need to be reincarnated and rebuilt. They could directly reshape their physical bodies, and their heel and leg qualifications were the same as before!
Calculating this way, Jie Jiao's disciples not only did not lose money, but actually gained blood!
The Catastrophe of the Gods is not so much the near-annihilation of Jiejiao as it is that it removes the waste and leaves the best and reshapes the Jiejiao. Those who remain are the elites among the elites!

Not to mention Chanjiao and Renjiao!
After the Catastrophe of Conferring Gods, they spread the Taoism throughout the three realms. Although they have declined in the past thousand years, they are still the largest force in the three realms.

The Western Sect has absorbed a large number of disciples of the two Sects of Interpretation and Interpretation. After the Catastrophe of Conferring Gods, it was renamed Buddhism and is now on par with Taoism.

The Heavenly Court gained a number of subordinates from the gods on the list, which made up for the previous shortage of manpower. It has developed rapidly in these ten thousand years, spreading its tentacles to all three realms through the mountain god, earth god, river god and city god, and truly ruled the three realms. , far more worthy of the name than the ancient heaven.

Only the human race suffered heavy casualties in the Catastrophe of Conferring Gods.

The human emperor became the emperor.

The Qi refiners who once took the initiative to seek official positions in the human dynasty have all become aloof immortals, looking down on the human kings in the mortal world, but worshiping the gods in heaven.

Judging from this final result, the three sects of Interpretation, the Western sect, and the Heavenly Court inherited from the Taoist ancestors all made huge profits, but only the human race lost so much that they even lost their pants.

"Empress Nuwa may not know about this, at least not beforehand." Yang Jian thought to himself.

From a purely profit perspective, the human race was created by Empress Nuwa and is closely linked to her destiny.

Before the Catastrophe of Conferring Gods, the Human Emperor only worshiped the Three Ancient Emperors and the Empress Nuwa in addition to offering sacrifices to heaven and earth.

During the catastrophe of becoming a god, Nuwa not only lost much of her benefits, she was also blasphemed by King Zhou's obscene poems, which caused her great loss of face.

Yang Jian suspected that the Nuwa Empress did not know the layout of the other five saints. She sent the nine-tailed demon fox to confuse King Zhou, but she only targeted King Zhou. At most, it would be a change of dynasty, and she did not want to do anything to the human race.

As a result, he fell into the scheme of the other Five Saints, resulting in the complete decline of the human race and itself being affected.

By the time Nuwa Empress realized this, it was already too late. She became so angry that she turned her anger on Daji and allowed Daji to be killed by the flying dagger, instead of saving Daji as promised in advance.

As the god of justice, Yang Jian knows many secrets of the three realms.

He had awakened Li Anran before, and now he was awakened by Li Anran again.

After thinking about it, he felt more and more that Li Anran's guess was very likely. The God-conferring Catastrophe was probably different from the Dragon and Phoenix First Catastrophe and the Lich Catastrophe, but the entire process was planned and secretly controlled by humans!

Suddenly, Yang Jian was startled.

Simply from a profit perspective...

He said before that the Jade Emperor Tathagata and the others were in disaster, so why not him!
In the past, he would never think about the saint in this way, but now...

Yang Jian couldn't help but reveal a wry smile, but his mind could not help but follow Li Anran's guess and continue to speculate.

"If Brother Li Anran's guess is true, Tathagata should know about this matter."

Yang Jian had always wondered why Taoist Duobao, with his character, would listen to the advice of his enemy, the Supreme Sage, to turn Hu into a Buddha and convert to the enemy, the Western religion.

If it was just for the purpose of dividing Western religion into Mahayana Buddhism and Hinayana Buddhism, dividing the destiny of Western religion into two, and guiding the two saints of Zhunti, he was not a fool. How could Duobao be converted to Lingshan and become a disciple of Mahayana Buddhism? The leader and the new master of Lingshan.

However, if Taoist Duobao knew that the Catastrophe of Conferring Gods was a man-made disaster, and that his conversion to Western religions to divide Western religions’ luck was a condition that the saints had already set, then everything would be easy to understand!

After Duobao Taoist knows the truth, he will naturally not hate Yuanshi Tianzun, Taishang Sage and Jieyin Zhunti. And with the instructions of the Tongtian leader, it is reasonable that he will willingly transform Hu into a Buddha!
Later, Tathagata teamed up with the gods and Buddhas of the three realms to arrange four man-made catastrophes in the four major continents to eliminate the cause and effect between heaven and earth and prevent the coming of great catastrophes.

It's also because there is the God-conferring Catastrophe in front of me, and the Tathagata is here to imitate!
After the Catastrophe of Conferring Gods, Taoist Hongjun and the six saints left the Three Realms and disappeared without a trace, which may be related to this matter!
I just don’t know what the reason is yet!
"Second brother, do you think so too?" Nezha looked at Yang Jian as if asking for help.

Yang Jian didn't speak.

However, not saying anything already showed his attitude.

"Why is that?"

Nezha leaned back on the chair a little dejectedly, feeling as if the whole world was fake and about to collapse.

"Brother Nezha, you don't have to worry about these things. How can you see clearly what is true and false in this world? No matter why these things arise, you just need to stick to your true self when facing them. Just your heart will do.”

Yang Jian comforted Nezha, but sighed secretly in his heart.

It is different from Li Anran's belief that the saints had a premonition of the impending catastrophe and sacrificed the fate and lives of human beings to delay the arrival of the catastrophe.

He actually had a darker and more malicious speculation - the five saints were not trying to deal with the catastrophe, but were simply plotting against the human race.

The Jie Sect is known as "Ten Thousand Immortals Come to the Court", which sounds huge, far surpassing the Chanren Sect and the Western Sect, but compared with the human race spread all over the ancient world, it is not inferior at 01:30!
Back then, the six saints joined forces to plot against the two Lich clans in order to prosper the Taoist sect.

The Holy Saint even showed up in person to persuade Kunpeng, accelerating the decisive battle between the lich and the lich.

It may not be impossible for them to join forces to scheme against the human race, which was at its peak, to make the Taoist sect rise from great prosperity to the dominant family it is today.

If he told this speculation, Nezha would probably not be able to accept it!

(End of this chapter)