The copy of the universe from the journey to the west

Chapter 210: Permanence and Impermanence, the Butt Determines the Position (asking for monthly ticket)

He has all of Zhang Jiao's memories, and even all of Zhang Jiao's emotions.

But after all, he is not the real Zhang Jiao. At most, he is a clone of Cheng Gongxing, regenerated using Cheng Gongxing's soul as raw material.

Of course, this is said according to modern people's thinking.

But in the eyes of Zhang Jiao, Zhang Feng and others, the current Zhang Jiao is Zhang Jiao himself.

Because to them, things like clones are too unfamiliar.

This person has all of Zhang Jiao's memories and all of Zhang Jiao's personal emotions, and he himself admits that he is Zhang Jiao.

You said he is not Zhang Jiao?
Then who else could be Zhang Jiao!
As for the Lingbao Heavenly Master Seal not recognizing Zhang Jiao’s identity as the Heavenly Master?

Wouldn't the Heavenly Master Seal still allow Zhang Jiao to use it?

This is the impact of different world views.

Lu Chen knew the difference, but he didn't say anything.

Zhang Jiao thinks he is Zhang Jiao, so he is. It won’t harm him anyway, right?

So I continued to listen to Zhang Jiao's story.

……

"...I had already reached the realm of the Immortal Dao Lord a long time ago, so my self-awareness had already taken the upper hand, which is why Hui'er was born."

Zhang Jiao looked at little Zhang Hui sitting on his arms again, with a look of love and affection on his face.

Everyone looked at Zhang Jiao, with a look of understanding on their faces.

No wonder Zhang Jiao’s other children don’t have any particularly obvious preferences.

One reason is that the other children are already very old.

Secondly, Zhang Jiao's other children were all born before he was 40 years old. Although Cheng Gongxing usurped his identity, he did not cuckold him.

He never used his body to do anything that violated moral standards.

Therefore, no other children were born under the identity of Zhang Jiao.

Zhang Hui was the son of his new concubine after he broke through to become the Taoist Immortal and his self-awareness grew.

It is also because he is the descendant of Changsheng Daojun that Zhang Hui’s talent is so amazing.

Because Zhang Hui is the true son of an immortal!

Although Zhang Jiao was still dominated by Cheng Gongxing's consciousness at that time, Zhang Hui was the child that Zhang Jiao recognized as his own.

"...When I went back to the mountain several times and met Hui'er several times, I left some small secret codes. As long as the critical point now comes, it will be triggered."

"And I was able to escape this time because Cheng Gongxing's own "Nine Chapters of Divination" was affected by Fellow Daoist Lu's "Heluo Art", and his magical defects also broke out. It happened that yesterday, Liu Yimin and I met the Green Snake King, and I attacked the Green Snake King during this time. The Green Snake King was furious and directly killed Liu Yimin, and also killed my physical body... As you can see, my plan was successful, and a part of my soul escaped..."

As Zhang Jiao continued to narrate, Lu Chen finally pieced together what had happened over the past three days.

On the day Lu Chen left, people from Donglin Temple gathered in Xunyang City, and the human practitioners and the demons began to confront each other.

However, the people of Donglin Temple did not know how to communicate with the Green Snake King. The Crocodile King appeared in person to prove that he was forced to launch a counterattack.

The human and demon races thus fell into a strange calm.

But on the next day, explosive news came from Donglin Temple.

Buddhabhadra, who was "practicing in seclusion" on the Amrita ordination platform, died!
The eighteen monks who were protecting him also died. There were no clues at the scene. The murderer handled the matter very cleanly.

This incident caused a huge response.

Buddhabhadra has an extremely high reputation in Buddhism. Buddhism is still at the stage where foreign monks can chant sutras. Many Buddhist scriptures were translated by these foreign monks. They have the right to interpret many ancient scriptures, which is why they have very high status.

Among the many foreign monks, Buddhabhadra was the one who translated the most.

In addition, he inherited the teachings of Dharmatara and Buddhadashen, making him the inheritor of the second nectar school, and his status in Buddhism was even higher.

His death not only caused a stir in Donglin Temple, but the news also spread throughout the entire Central Plains Buddhist community in a short period of time!
Many eminent monks from other places came to Donglin Temple to pay their respects in a short time with their souls and Dharma images.

The actions of many Buddhists naturally aroused the vigilance of the demons.

And at this time, Liu Yimin and Zhang Jiao went to meet the Green Snake King.

At the same time, it should be the time when Lu Chen learned the "Heluo Art".

The emergence of the impermanence of Yi numbers in "The Art of Heluo" caused changes in the calculation of the constants of heaven and earth in Cheng Gongxing's "The Art of Divination in Nine Chapters".

The confrontation between permanence and impermanence has begun.

At the same time, Zhang Jiao also sensed the opportunity to escape.

When meeting the Green Snake King, he directly attacked the Green Snake King.

The fight between the two resulted in Liu Yimin's death on the spot, and Zhang Jiao's physical body was also damaged, so he could only escape with his spirit.

Liu Yimin is one of the Eighteen Great Sages of Bailian, and an extremely important figure.

When meeting the Green Snake King, Liu Yimin introduced himself as 'Liu Yimin, the founder of the White Lotus Society'.

Zhang Jiao seized this loophole and successfully turned his sneak attack plan into Donglin Temple's revenge action against the demon clan.

Donglin Temple said that Liu Yimin is dead?
The corpse can't be fake, right?
This must be a conspiracy of Donglin Temple!

The Green Snake King's body in Xinglin Cave Heaven cooperates with Cheng Gongxing.

However, the Green Snake King in the outside world does not have Cheng Gongxing's magical power - he can know in real time the situation that the split soul outside the cave will encounter.

This also caused the Green Snake King to believe that Zhang Jiao's attack was a revenge by the people of Donglin Temple against it, so the Green Snake King summoned a group of monsters to attack Donglin Temple.

However, the Green Snake King did not expect that because of the death of Buddhabhadra, Buddhist masters from all over the Central Plains began to gather in Donglin Temple.

This resulted in the Green Snake King discovering something wrong after only attacking Donglin Temple for half a day.

After all, there are more and more high-ranking Buddhist monks. Even if the Green Snake King has recovered his strength to that of the Taoist Immortal, he has no way to deal with so many high-ranking Buddhist monks.

Especially at Donglin Temple’s home ground!
As a result, the Green Snake King immediately led his subordinates to retreat.

They even didn't dare to stay in the area around Mount Lushan and could only retreat southwards. This was why no monsters gathered in Xunyang City in such a short period of time.

Now that the Green Snake King, the newly crowned king of the demon clan, has fled, who else among the demon clan would dare to stay here and be a target?
"Buddhabhadra is dead?"

Lu Chen frowned and asked, "Who killed him?"

"I killed him." Zhang Jiao said.

"you……"

Lu Chen almost choked to death, and asked with a strange look: "Why do you want to kill him?"

"Of course, we are looking for that old fellow Bai He?"

As he spoke, Zhang Jiao threw a rosary to Lu Chen and said, "Cheng Gongxing doesn't want the new owner to be born, so he has been looking for Dong Feng's mount, the white crane. He has been looking for it for so many years and finally found some clues, but now it's useless."

Lu Chen took the rosary and sensed it, and indeed there was the aura of Peach Blossom Land in it.

Lu Chen couldn't help but feel a little fortunate. Fortunately, Zhang Jiao and Liu Yimin were a little slower.

If they were the first to find the secret realm of Taoyuan, then Taoyuan would definitely be breached first.

Whoever finds the Peach Blossom Spring first will be the first to grasp the key to breaking the deadlock.

At this time, Zhang Jiao said very easily: "Now I have escaped from Cheng Gongxing's control. Now I am Zhang Jiao, the Heavenly Master of the Heavenly Master Dao!"

Zhang Feng asked in confusion: "Then why didn't you contact me?"

Zhang Jiao looked at him and said, "Because you can't help me, and you're a chatterbox, you will definitely come to me, just like you did just now, but what else can you do besides fighting with me?"

"..."

Zhang Feng lowered his head in shame: "Sorry, brother, I was wrong."

"It's okay. You are doing this for the entire Tianshidao Zhang Clan. I know everything, brother."

Zhang Jiao just smiled and said, "Now the ending is always good, even though there were some twists and turns, but in the end, we got what we wanted."

"Dad, was my intuition a hint you gave me?" Zhang Hui asked.

"Not at all."

Zhang Jiao rubbed Zhang Hui's head and said with a smile: "Dad's hint is just for you to invite the Taoist Immortal who you can trust to help you when you meet him. But the idea of ​​helping is very vague. You can sense that dad is not your dad. This is your own intuition. Our Hui'er is really a genius in cultivation!"

Zhang Hui got rid of Zhang Jiao's big hand and pouted, "Dad, I'm not a six or seven-year-old child anymore."

"Hahahaha! Dad knows that Hui'er is already eight years old." Zhang Jiao laughed.

After the laughter, Lu Chen asked, "Old Heavenly Master, why are you in the prefectural governor's mansion?"

"Because the government's luck can conceal my existence."

Zhang Jiao said: "There are very few things that can block Cheng Gongxing's Nine Chapters of Divination. The Heluo Art is the most critical one. Of course, the luck of the court can also be used. Luck can suppress all Taoist and Buddhist mystical arts. I haven't completely hidden myself yet. I can only borrow the luck of the prefectural government to cover up my existence so that Cheng Gongxing can't calculate that I'm still alive. But the luck can only suppress it for a few days at most, so I can only use a little trick and let you come to me."

"Senior, what kind of magic is Cheng Gongxing's "Nine Chapters of Divination"? " Lu Chen asked again.

"It's not actually a spell, but a very peculiar way of calculation. It's one of the twelve celestial gods."

Zhang Jiao did not hide it: "Everyone already knows about the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art annotated by Zhang Cang and others, but in fact, the Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art is only a part of the Nine Chapters on the Divination Art." "In addition to the Twelve Heavenly Gods, the Nine Chapters on the Divination Art is also a cultivation technique. Just like what I said just now, if you practice it to perfection, you can calculate everything in the world! And this calculation is just similar to the Heluo Technique, it is just a way of calculation."

"Zhang Jiao also relied on this book "Nine Chapters of Divination" to learn the truth about heaven and earth. At the last doomsday of heaven and earth, he was able to escape the punishment of heaven and earth. In the process, he seemed to have received a message from a mysterious existence outside of heaven and earth. Knowing the "rules", he took the "rules" as his own responsibility and has been committed to perfecting the rules, extending heaven and earth, and preventing heaven and earth from falling into doomsday again..."

At this point, Zhang Jiao paused, pondered carefully, and then slowly said: "Let me put it this way. In fact, I think Cheng Gongxing did nothing wrong. He just experienced the end of the world once and didn't want the world to repeat the same mistake, so he spent his entire life to complete this matter. Well, if you ask me, there is still a little sadness."

When saying this, Zhang Jiao still had a hint of nostalgia in his voice.

From the middle-aged age of forty to the current octogenarian of over a hundred, his soul has been merged with Cheng Gongxing for more than sixty years.

Zhang Jiao also knew everything Cheng Gongxing did.

Perhaps Cheng Gongxing did something that many people would consider to be "the wrath of heaven and the hatred of the people".

However, this only applies to some individuals or at most some groups.

However, Cheng Gongxing always showed a positive attitude towards the evolution of the entire world.

Follow the "rules" and don't let the rules become chaotic, this is his obsession.

Everyone couldn't help but think about Zhang Jiao's words.

Lu Chen and Zhongli Quan were deeply touched. They had met Cheng Gongxing in person and naturally knew that Cheng Gongxing really attached great importance to rules and had an almost morbid obsession with the so-called "right path of heaven and earth."

He would lend a helping hand to anyone or anything that had a meaningful existence to the world, no matter if it was a human or a demon, just like the Green Snake King’s escape from trouble.

Even though Zhongli Quan had posed an obstacle to his plan, he would not kill Zhongli Quan due to his future influence on the Taoist sect.

It just scared him.

But if it is someone whose existence has no meaning to the world, he will not hesitate at all to take action against him.

Just like Dong Feng and others who have already died, even though Dong Feng was a medical expert who had saved countless mortals, in Cheng Gongxing's eyes he was just an expired "useless person", or even someone who had affected the "right course of heaven and earth", so he was killed directly.

This gave Lu Chen the feeling that Cheng Gongxing seemed to have treated him as the anti-virus software in the computer.

And it is the kind of antivirus software that is judged good or bad based on your own preferences.

Or, in other words, Cheng Gongxing had already regarded himself as a selfless executor of the Way of Heaven.

No matter who you are, no matter how many great contributions you have made to the world, as long as one day you hinder the continued evolution and development of the way of heaven and break the rules, Cheng Gongxing will kill you without hesitation.

It is indeed very tragic to say, just like a person who uses himself as a chess piece and wants to win half of the victory over God.

But people can't empathize with you much, and it doesn't involve themselves, so you are indeed a tragic hero.

But if it involves yourself, then you are the executioner devil.

In the final analysis, the purpose of a practitioner is to cultivate the word "truth".

We are all true to our nature. You do it for your way, and I do it for mine.

The world may comment on high and low, but when it comes to me... if they say it's not possible, then it's not possible!

Even if it means to make a hole in the sky, it is still a bad thing for me.

It can be said that he doesn't consider the overall situation, but who will consider me?

After everyone was silent for a while, they said that there was no right or wrong in this matter, it was just based on their own interests.

The butt determines the position, which is an eternal truth.

Seeing that the atmosphere was somewhat dull, Zhongli Quan changed the subject and asked, "You killed Liu Yimin and escaped yourself. Didn't Cheng Gongxing want to come over to investigate?"

Zhang Jiao just smiled and said, "Since Cheng Gongxing realized the magical power of turning into a butterfly and even the magical power of the three bodies, he has played more than a few roles over the years. Many of his identities died for no reason, natural disasters, man-made disasters, accidents... Buddhayasas was just going out for a trip, but he was swallowed by the old bull monster in the north. Who can he complain to?"

His words left everyone speechless and they could only say that Cheng Gongxing had a really big heart.

Of course, the more likely possibility is that Cheng Gongxing deliberately let these incarnations die.

Only when the three bodies of the old generation die can Cheng Gongxing transform the three bodies of the new generation.

After all, Cheng Gongxing's "Nine Chapters of Divination" can calculate everything in the world, so it is impossible that he could not predict what danger his incarnation would be in.

This also means that Zhang Jiao's plot against Liu Yimin will be exposed sooner or later.

Zhang Jiao was quite open-minded about this: "I am over a hundred years old and won't live long. I won't be of much use to him."

"But we can't help but be on guard against this."

Zhang Feng said hurriedly: "Let's go back to the mountain quickly."

“Will we be safe in the mountains?”

Zhang Jiao glanced at Zhang Feng, who instantly realized that Cheng Gongxing's seizure of Zhang Jiao's body was what happened on Longhu Mountain.

In other words, Longhu Mountain was not as safe as he had imagined.

"Go and take care of your wounds. You are embarrassing us as a Taoist priest now."

Zhang Feng was sent aside by Zhang Jiao to recuperate.

"It must not be a sudden idea for you to ask Master Zhang Shao to come here, right?" Zhongli Quan asked.

Zhang Jiao nodded and smiled, "Of course not. Ever since Lord Nanming told me that the new master would be born, I have been thinking about this."

Lu Chen asked: "Has Lord Nanming met you?"

Zhang Jiao nodded: "Mr. Nanming went to look for you, but he couldn't find you. Earlier today, Mr. Nanming came back and told me to tell you where the Hulu Cave Heaven is."

"Where is it?" Lu Chen asked hurriedly.

Zhang Jiao said: "In the territory of the Nanzhong Cuan family, as for where exactly it is, we need to find it ourselves."

"We?" Lu Chen raised his eyebrows.

"Of course, I am in the state of Yuan Shen now. I can only follow you, the contemporary Yizhu, to avoid being discovered by Cheng Gongxing. Where else can I go if I don't follow you?"

Zhang Jiao said as a matter of course: "Of course, I am definitely not following you for nothing. Aren't you known as a disciple of the Three Caves? How could a disciple of the Three Caves be without the Three Emperors Sutra? It just so happens that I can give you the Small Three Emperors Sutra from my sect. In addition, I can also help you find the Great Three Emperors Sutra from the Three Emperors sect."

Zhongli Quan said: "Just tell me your purpose. Two Heavenly God Levels, that's not the only condition, right?"

Zhang Jiao smiled and said, "Smart! I like to communicate with smart people!"

Zhongli Quan was speechless: "Tell me the other conditions first."

Zhang Jiao said, "Straightforward! Good! If you guys are straightforward, I won't beat around the bush. After we find the Hulu Cave Heaven, if possible, I need Master Yi to help me perform a ritual. Of course, this ritual will definitely not harm Master Yi."

"What ritual?" Lu Chen asked.

Zhang Jiao did not hide anything and said, "As far as I know, Daozu Li Er once went to Hulu Cave Heaven and left some things there. I don't want that thing, but there must be the breath of Daozu there, so what I have to do is to be able to contact Daozu's rituals."

"You are really bold."

Zhongli Quan said in a low voice: "Do you want to ascend?"

"Ascend? I don't have such ambitions."

Zhang Jiao laughed and said, "You misunderstood me. I don't want to ascend to heaven, but I have other things to discuss with the Taoist master."

"Discuss? Do you have the qualifications?" Zhongli Quan also smiled, but his smile was somewhat mocking.

Zhang Jiao also laughed: "I know I am not qualified, so this matter is not only my own business, but also Luo Feng Liu Tian, ​​and... my ancestor Tianshi, they will all support me."

Zhongli Quan's laughter stopped abruptly.

Seeing this, Zhang Jiao continued, "If Shaoyang Dongtian has any ideas, can we join together?"

Zhongli Quan didn't laugh at him this time. He looked at him deeply before saying, "Is it related to the Yin-Yang Realm? Are you trying to reshape the underworld?"

Zhang Jiao nodded: "Western Buddhism believes in reincarnation after death. The group currently occupying Donglin Temple is the so-called reincarnation soul. Although I think the method of Buddhism is not advisable, it is not a bad direction. Keeping the Yin-Yang Dharma Realm is also a disaster, isn't it? I am not seeking immortality, I just want to discuss with the Taoist master to see if he can give me a way to clean up the twisted ghosts in the Yin-Yang Dharma Realm."

Zhongli Quan was silent.

Lu Chen was also surprised by Zhang Jiao's idea.

However, he didn't say anything.

Turning the Yin-Yang Realm into a real underworld is certainly not a simple matter. Even if the Taoist Ancestor gave some things, it would certainly not be something that can be handled in a short time.

"can."

Lu Chen nodded: "But, I want to ask, why me?"

"Because you are the Yizhu."

Zhang Jiao said: "In the past ten thousand years, the real Yizhu has appeared. According to legend, he can talk to the Taoist master in the gourd cave."

Lu Chen's eyes shrank, and he felt a sense of horror: "You mean, the title of Yizhu can only be mine?"

Why do I still feel like I'm being plotted against?
It's endless, right? !

Zhang Jiao shook his head. Just when he thought that Lu Chen still thought that there were other people who could change the owner, Zhang Jiao said, "As far as I know, only the ancient emperor Fuxi has become the owner. He also created the River Map and Luoshu. I don't know if there are any other people who can become the owner later. Maybe you can ask those beings in the Six Heavens of Luofeng. They may know. I only knew the term "Change of Owner" after Lord Nanming told me. Only these old monsters know what "Change of Owner" means... By the way, let me tell you one more thing. The old monsters in the Six Heavens of Luofeng are not from our current world, but existed in the previous world."

"So ancient!?"

Lu Chen's brows jumped.

(End of this chapter)