Myths and Dharma, starting from Erlang Shen

Chapter 436: One Road and Eight Saints

The night passed.

Ji Ren opened his eyes, a gleam of light flashed in his eyes, and he finally entered the extraordinary state.

In the mortal world, an existence above millions of others.

It’s just a pity that I can’t stay in the mortal world for long.

I just finished a dungeon and now I have to leave.

With a sigh, Ji Ren got ready to participate in the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the heaven.

The real purpose of the Six Nations War.

Use the dragon crystals of the six nations to offer sacrifices to the heavens.

But not many people can watch this scene.

But Jiren obviously can.

As I was thinking about it, there was suddenly some noise coming from outside.

Ji Ren looked up and saw Qingniu using his head to push open the door and walk in.

"Brother Niu, you came to see me? Was it my Grand Master who called me?" Ji Ren asked puzzledly.

"Yes, the six nations are offering sacrifices to the heavens, but this time is different from the past. We need to open the secret realm of heaven, which most people cannot do, and it is not qualified for the master to come in person, so I let you ride on me, I will open the secret realm, and you will explain it." Qingniu said.

"Brother, I ride the bull? That's not a good idea." Ji Ren suppressed the joy in his heart, and the urge to raise the corners of his mouth wildly. He looked at Qingniu's body and said with embarrassment.

He didn't know the cultivation level of this Green Ox, but it must be very high.

Can I ride on it now?

"If you want to go ahead, go ahead quickly and stop talking nonsense." Qingniu said unhappily.

Come up early and finish early.

"okay."

Ji Ren went down quickly and rode on the blue ox. The feeling of riding was quite average.

But riding the green bull, the feeling in my heart is completely different.

Looking at Ji Ren's quick movements, mockery appeared in Qingniu's eyes. Humans are like this, saying one thing in front of you and another behind your back. You say you don't want it, but you are actually coveting my body and want to ride on me.

Carrying Ji Ren, the blue ox pushed hard with its four hooves, and the next moment, they arrived at the Great Song Temple.

Ji Ren sat on the back of the blue ox, overlooking the scene under the clouds from a high vantage point.

It is said to be a grand ceremony to worship the heaven.

But not many people perform sacrifices in the inner core.

There were only nine people in total.

It’s just that each one is extraordinary.

Zhuge Qinglan, Nanhua Laoxian, Moon God, Emperor Wu, Zhang Hui, Bai Wuzhong, Li Wancheng, Xinsheng, Master Zhu.

On the tall altar, Zhuge Qinglan looked solemn and dignified as he recited the sacrificial words solemnly and prayed to God.

"Brother Niu, are we going down?" Ji Ren asked.

"Don't be impatient. We haven't finished praying yet. What's the point of you going down now?" Qingniu said.

Ji Ren nodded, saying that we should pay attention to the process, have a sense of ceremony, and respect them.

Thinking of this, Ji Ren was not in a hurry to get off. He sat on the back of the blue ox and asked curiously, "By the way, Brother Niu, what is your cultivation level? After reaching transcendence, how are the cultivation levels divided?"

Seeing that the catastrophe was about to begin, he still knew nothing about the fairy world.

According to the current situation, there must be the orthodox sect and the unorthodox sect, and there must also be a battle to confer the gods.

But deification and deification are also different.

Ninety-nine percent of the "XX" novels on a certain website are not based on the worldview of the original novel "Fengshen", but on the worldview of the Honghuang novel.

Although they are very similar, a slight difference can make a huge difference.

Like the original novel of Investiture of the Gods, Lord Haotian is the truly almighty Emperor of Heaven. He ordered the twelve immortal heads to submit to him, and let the three religions discuss the matter and compiled the Investiture of the Gods.

Haotian, the Three Emperors of Huoyun Cave, and Hongjun represent the divine power of heaven, ancestors of mankind, and religious beliefs respectively. Among them, the latter two are written about, but this one is high above and has never actually appeared from beginning to end.

In the Honghuang flow, his position depends entirely on the author's mood.

After all, the Honghuang style is not a fixed book, and its settings are not fixed. The most typical one is that the Buddha was originally a Taoist, which can be regarded as the founder of the Honghuang style. However, it was expelled from the Honghuang style by the fans of the Honghuang style, and the main theme is that they look down on each other. According to Ji Ren's guess, the Immortal Realm should be the original work of Fengshen plus the fan fiction.

Just like the mortal world is a combination of history and fiction, especially the Great Qi Dynasty, the elements of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms almost overshadow those of the Records of the Three Kingdoms.

The fairyland is not much better.

After all, it's a game, and the main thing is that everyone is familiar with it.

In everyone's impression, Guan Yu holds a Green Dragon Crescent Blade and rides a hissing Red Hare, while Cheng Yaojin is a devil who holds an Eight Diagrams Xuanhua Axe and is invincible when he has three axes. However, in history, the weapons of these two were both horse lances.

But if there is a game producer who does not use the former but the latter when designing characters, he must not want to make money.

My master is in seclusion, and my great uncle is of too high a status. After much thought, I can only ask Qingniu.

“Golden Immortal. The extraordinary you are talking about is nothing more than a half-immortal. They have not yet achieved immortality and can only prolong their life. There are five realms in the immortal path: Yuanxian, Zhenxian, Xuanxian, Jinxian and Daluo Jinxian.” Qingniu didn’t mind clearing up Ji Ren’s doubts when he had some spare time.

"What's the difference between the five realms?" Ji Ren asked.

"Once a Yuanxian condenses his Yuanshen, he will no longer be bound by his body. He will be free and at ease, and can freely enter the Yin and Yang worlds. Especially for your Chenjiao's Eight-Nine Profound Arts, once you have mastered it, as long as the Yuanshen is still there, you can condense a physical body in an instant. The Yuanshen is immortal and the body is intact. As for higher realms, wait until you become a Yuanxian. Don't be too ambitious." Qingniu said.

"Is it possible to win a cross-border challenge?" Ji Ren asked.

"Of course there is, otherwise what's the point of grading the Dharmakāya? You are a disciple of Xuanmen, and you cultivate Xuanmen magical powers. Compared with some independent cultivators, you can easily defeat them even if their realm is higher than yours. In addition, their different talents and fighting skills will lead to different final results. There are also additional factors such as innate magical powers, formations, and magic weapons, not to mention. However, the higher you go, the lower the possibility of success, because those behind you are people who have successfully crossed the realm and challenged successfully." Qingniu said.

"So Brother Niu was also a very powerful person in the past?" Ji Ren asked.

"That's right! Back then, before I was accepted as a disciple by the master, I was the king of the demon world. I had 72 demon kings under my command, and each demon king had 100,000 men under his command. Back then, all the demons in the demon world were terrified when they heard the name of me, the One-horned Rhinoceros King..." Qingniu became excited when talking about the past.

"Brother Niu is mighty. There are three million big monsters in the monster world, and they all bow their heads when they see Brother Niu." Ji Ren deliberately flattered him.

"That's right!" Qingniu's eyes lit up when he heard it. "Don't look at the six great saints in the demon world now, who claim to be kings and overlords by relying on the name of Jiejiao. They are just younger brothers in front of your brother Niu. When I was a big shot in the sky, they were still infants. When there are no heroes, young men become famous."

The six great saints?
Ji Ren secretly remembered, are these the Seven Great Sages except Sun Wukong?
Relying on the reputation of Jiejiao?
Have they all become members of the Jiejiao sect?

Ji Ren wanted to flatter Qingniu, and Qingniu was also happy to be praised. Anyway, it was not a secret and everyone with some ability in the Three Realms knew it, so he told him everything he knew.

Ji Ren was also satisfied with what he heard, and asked, "The end point of cultivating immortals is the Golden Immortal? Is Grand Master at this level?"

So the rest of the people are at the Golden Immortal realm.

Just like in the Buddhist texts, Zhen Yuanzi, Tathagata and Sun Wukong are all at the level of Lianxu Hedao?
"No, the master is the Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian." Qingniu said.

"Is there a difference? Is Multi-Huanyuan stronger? And is this the sixth realm? Then why didn't you say it just now?" Ji Ren asked puzzledly.

"Because you can reach the first five realms through your own efforts. In your situation, it is only a matter of time before you can cultivate to the Golden Immortal. As for whether you can cultivate to the Daluo Golden Immortal, it depends on your opportunity. If you have the opportunity, you can also cultivate it. But the Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal cannot be cultivated." Qingniu said.

"Why?" Ji Ren asked.

"Because the primordial purple energy between heaven and earth has long been divided up." Qingniu said.

"Hongmeng Purple Qi?" Ji Ren blinked. So it's the second setting of Honghuang style?
"The foundation of the Great Dao, the embodiment of the order of Heaven. Strictly speaking, the Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian is also a Daluo Jinxian, but they obtained the eight primordial purple auras at the beginning of the creation of the world and achieved Hunyuan, which is the same as the Dao. They have insight into the past and the future, are not contaminated by cause and effect, and regard all living beings as straw dogs. They are saints!" Qingniu said at the end, with a look of respect in his eyes.

Saint is a state that is above millions of others.

"Eight primordial purple auras mean there are eight saints. Who are they?" Ji Ren asked.

"Our eldest master, your great-grandmaster, the eldest master of Jiejiao, the second ancestor of Western Buddhism, the Holy Mother Nuwa, the Father of Heaven and the Mother of Earth." Qingniu said solemnly.

The eight of them are the chess players who manipulate the great catastrophe.

Although one of them failed in the last disaster and was replaced.

But no matter what, any one of them could kill it with just one finger.

"Only these eight?" Ji Ren was surprised when he heard this, and pointed upwards and said, "Didn't they say that the Grand Master also has a Master? He is not the Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian."

Where is Hongjun?
"The old man is a part of Tao, and that one is Heaven, Tao, the incarnation of Tao. How can they be the same?" Qingniu said.

What are you thinking?

“So the fairyland is a Dao with eight saints. The eight saints follow the Dao, turning their hands to make clouds and turning their hands again to make rain. We survive in these clouds and rain.” Ji Ren said.

Eight Saints?

Goddess of Heaven and Earth, this elevates the status of the Emperor of Heaven and Hou Tu.

In other words, they have restored the status they should have in The Investiture of the Gods.

Fengshen is the main focus, and Honghuang is the secondary focus?
"Wrong, it's you. I am the master's mount, I don't need to survive." Qingniu corrected seriously.

Looking at Qingniu's smug look, Ji Ren almost couldn't control his expression. It turned out that he was really boastful.

I simply ignored it and looked down at Zhuge Qinglan who was still offering sacrifices to the heavens below. I wondered if my senior brother would be surprised to see me after the sacrifice was over.

(End of this chapter)