The copy of the universe from the journey to the west

Chapter 245 Zhang Daoling survives death! How sad it is for a Bodhisattva to learn from the devil! (ask for monthly votes)
The fact that the mountain god of Hulu Mountain is Shaoyang Zhenjun has a great impact on several people.

It’s so unbelievable!

Even Zhongli Quan never thought so.

One may be the god of heaven and earth that has existed since ancient times, and the other may be the master with whom one lives day and night.

Zhongli Quan racked his brains but couldn't connect the two names together.

If someone had said a day earlier that his master was the mountain god of Hulu Mountain, he would have said that person was talking nonsense.

Is this simply impossible?

But now, his worldview is about to collapse!

He couldn't have thought of it, let alone Mr. Bai and Little Butterfly!
Several people wanted to open Lu Chen's head to see what was inside his head.
How can one associate such a jaw-dropping thing with something like this?
Of course, this is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is... Lu Chen actually guessed it right!
This world is too crazy. Even the mountain god of Hulu Mountain has started to put on a vest and wear new clothes?
"Haha, that makes sense."

Shaoyang Zhenjun's voice sounded: "However, you are wrong about one thing. Cheng Gongxing did come in before, but after he came in, he was scared away by the old Taoist priest. That's why he didn't want to come in. So he changed his tenacious beliefs of tens of thousands of years and was no longer willing to be an ordinary law enforcer. Of course, this is also related to the fact that the current law enforcer himself had some problems."

Lu Chen's heart moved, and he suddenly realized: "So, the current leader... that person is really in a state of confusion?"

"You do know."

Shaoyang Zhenjun smiled and said, "Did Qingyi tell you that?"

Lu Chen said: "Qing Yi is..."

Shaoyang Zhenjun said: "The Green Snake King actually has two faces. One is named Qingling, who is from the Xi Snake clan under the ancient Yi master. The other one is nameless and was created by borrowing a body. The old Taoist calls him Qingyi."

Is that the person who asked the little butterfly to bring a message to him?

Lu Chen asked, "Has Qing Yi met Zhenjun?"

"Never."

Shaoyang Zhenjun said with some regret: "Qingyi's origin is mysterious. She is suspected to be a cultivator from another world. She has magical powers and is not affected by me. I also want to know why she can come to this world, but unfortunately, she is unwilling to communicate with me."

"However, Qingyi's arrival also made the old Taoist priest, and even Cheng Gongxing, realize that the mysterious Zhisui had fallen into a state of Taoist confusion. That's why we dared to change the script and break the rules."

Lu Chen's heart moved, and he continued to ask: "Master, what you mean is that there should have been a Calabash Brothers?"

"Naturally, all stories of time have their own stories."

Shaoyang Zhenjun was not surprised by the three words "Huluwa".

"The purpose of holding the years is to absorb the feedback from the stories of time. Of course, I don't know how many such beings there are, but I have heard a few from the Supreme One."

At this point, Shaoyang Zhenjun laughed again and said, "By the way, I was not born by the hands of the ancient Shenbaojun. Rather, during the Zhou Dynasty, Taishang Qianniu came and found me, whose consciousness was still sinking in the chaos. He enlightened me and took me as his nominal disciple. Because I was born with Yang energy in this extremely Yin land, I was given the name Shaoyang. The name Wang Xuanfu was just a name I picked when I was bored."

Zhongli Quan was anxious at this time: "Master, where is the Shaoyang Cave Heaven?"

His current worldview has been impacted, and he has begun to doubt whether Shaoyang Cave Heaven really existed.

Shaoyang Zhenjun said helplessly, "Foolish boy, Shaoyang Cave Heaven does exist, but my master's original body is this Gourd Mountain. Although I have been enlightened and have a spirit, I have no physical body. Later, when my soul was searching the heaven and earth, I met Baiyun Shangzhen of Baiyun Cave Heaven. However, at that time, Baiyun Shangzhen cut off the source of his own unity with the Tao in order to seek the truth. At the last moment, he met my master, so he offered his physical body to me and asked me for a favor."

“The old Taoist was also moved by his desire to pursue the Dao, so he used a part of his divine consciousness to enter his body and brought him back to Shaoyang Cave Heaven. However, Bai Yunshang’s real body was already dead, and even the old Taoist could not save it. He had to find another inheritance for his cave heaven.”

"Later, you were smart and went into the mountains to seek the way. You accidentally entered the cave heaven. You had a connection with me, so I accepted you as my disciple. From then on, your obsession with your physical body was severed, and the original energy of the cave heaven returned to Shaoyang Cave Heaven."

“So the body of Baiyun Shangzhen cannot be moved lightly. After leaving Shaoyang, Shaoyang Cave Heaven will be extinct. Only after the origin of the cave heaven energy returns, can the old Taoist completely integrate the body and be free.”

Having said that, Shaoyang Zhenjun also popularized the "theory of harmony with the Tao" to everyone.

Bai Yunshang is the true master of Shaoyang Cave Heaven. His body is integrated with Shaoyang Cave Heaven and he has achieved enlightenment.

At his peak, Baiyun Shangzhen could stand shoulder to shoulder with the Queen Mother of the West in Kunlun Cave Heaven, and was also the leader of a hidden faction.

At that time, Dongtian was divided into three factions. The friendly faction headed by Queen Mother of the West was the faction that was friendly to the dynasty.

The subversive faction headed by Penglai is the one that wants to bring down the Qin Dynasty.

And finally, the neutral faction headed by Yin Changsheng's teacher Ma Mingsheng.

Baiyun Shangzhen is good friends with Ma Mingsheng's teacher Yuzi, so he naturally belongs to the neutral faction.

"Yuzi was taught by Changsang Jun. Changsang Jun did not live in the cave heaven, but on Changsang Mountain. After he achieved the true unity of the Dao on Baiyun Mountain, he ascended to the realm of gods and immortals. However, Yuzi was slow to integrate the original energy of the cave heaven and become an earthly immortal. When he died, he was deeply regretful."

"Shangzhen Baiyun cut off his own foundation in order to seek the true way, wanting to explore the wonders of the real immortals in ancient times. However, his own foundation collapsed, and the origin of the cave heaven almost collapsed. He could only ask the old Taoist to send his body back to Shaoyang Cave Heaven."

Zhongli Quan looked dazed. So that's how it was.

No wonder I have never seen Master come down from the stone.

It turns out that what the master is guarding is not the demons, but the foundation of Shaoyang Cave Heaven!
To be more precise, it is based on Bai Yunshang's real body!

"So, Shaoyang Cave Heaven and Changsheng Cave Heaven are old friends, but why did Yin Yang Master join Cheng Gongxing?"

Lu Chen asked doubtfully.

"Alas, when it comes to this matter, we still need to start from Yuzi's generation."

Shaoyang Zhenjun sighed and said slowly: "Yin Changsheng's teacher Ma Mingsheng, after seeing the old Taoist who occupied Baiyun Shangzhen's corpse, thought that Baiyun Shangzhen had already mastered the ancient immortal way, so he was unwilling to integrate the original energy of the cave heaven to achieve the realm of earthly immortals. In the end, he died within a hundred years."

“When the old Taoist saw this, he changed his name back to Wang Xuanfu, and used the name of the disciple that Baiyun Shangzhen accepted after his failure to break through the realm. He spread the name of Wang Xuanfu. This can be regarded as an explanation to the practitioners in Changsheng Cave Heaven, so that they can stop hurting themselves.”

"It's just that Yu Zi's disciple Ma Mingsheng was deeply influenced by Yu Zi and Bai Yun Shang Zhen, and he had already developed a demon in his heart, and finally he embarked on this path."

"Yin Changsheng is one of Ma Mingsheng's twelve disciples. He treats Ma Mingsheng like his real father. Ma Mingsheng tried to be his disciple. Even when other disciples refused to follow him, Yin Changsheng was willing to serve him. Therefore, Ma Mingsheng valued Yin Changsheng very much and treated him like his own son."

"So although Ma Mingsheng followed Yuzi's old path, he did not want Yin Changsheng to follow his master's and his own path, so he never passed on the secret of Hedao. Before he died, he begged the old Taoist not to tell him, so Yin Changsheng did not know about it."

"Yin Changsheng merged with the energy of the cave heaven's origin and became an earthly immortal, and then a divine immortal, free and easy. However, his freedom was fake."

"The limit of the origin of the cave heaven is only up to the immortals, because the cave heavens were left by the ancient gods. They cannot surpass this limit. Moreover, after integrating the origin of the cave heaven, they will be completely connected with the cave heaven and it will be difficult to break away from it."

"If you don't know about this, it's still okay. But if you know about it, you will definitely develop a demon in your heart and it will be difficult to control yourself."

"And now Yin Changsheng has learned about this from Cheng Gongxing, and has been possessed by the inner demon!"

Speaking of this, Shaoyang Zhenjun became more and more helpless.

It was originally a good deed, but it ended up causing three generations of people in Changsheng Cave Heaven to suffer a bad ending.

“It’s fate and luck. Alas…” Master Shaoyang let out a long sigh.

Those practitioners in the Changsheng Cave Heaven were all people who were extremely determined to pursue the great Dao. They did not have a good ending, and all one can say is that fate is unpredictable.

Lu Chen nodded: "Yin Changsheng is the inner demon born under such circumstances... Alas, that's not right."

Lu Chen turned his attention back to Zhongli Quan: "Isn't Senior Zhongli also following the path of inner alchemy?"

Zhongli Quan was also a little confused.

He also knew very little about it.

Is it difficult to practice the inner alchemy?

He really didn't feel it.

Shaoyang Zhenjun explained at this time: "According to the rules, it will be hundreds of years later before the inner alchemy will be born. However, as the spirit of Hulu Mountain, the Shaoyang principle produced by the most yin land, I can change the rules through some means. Yunfang has been with me for a long time, so he can ignore the rules. Of course, in hundreds of years, I can only influence Yunfang myself, so I have not appeared in the world in the past hundred years, nor have I accepted disciples."

Zhongli Quan suddenly understood. No wonder his master said that the future of the inner alchemy would be in a few hundred years, and asked him not to go out and recruit disciples. "So that's how it is... Master, Zhang Ling went to the Yin-Yang Realm because he wanted to give birth to Shaoyang from the land of extreme yin?"

"That's right. However, he later found a new path, which the Taoist calls 'seeking life from death'!" said Shaoyang Zhenjun.

"To survive from death!?"

Several people were extremely surprised. This name... didn't sound good at first glance!
Shaoyang Zhenjun recalled: "After he achieved the inner elixir of dragon and tiger with the help of the outer elixir, he looked for the inner elixir to achieve the earth immortality. Later, he heard about Baiyun Shangzhen from somewhere, so he came to the old Taoist for help. The old Taoist saw that he was determined and had a peerless appearance. He didn't want him to sink, so he softened his heart and told him a little bit of the reason."

"Afterwards, Zhang Ling went to the Yin-Yang Realm. I don't know what he experienced in the Yin-Yang Realm, but he actually succeeded."

"Later, he formed an alliance with Luofengshan, and then offered his inner elixir to create the Dragon-Tiger Mysterious Altar and seal the Nine Nether Gate."

"At that time, all the practitioners in the cave wanted to explore Zhang Ling's secrets, but everyone who went would return silently."

"Of course, now it seems that those people must have been frightened. Only an old Taoist can follow the path of extreme yin giving birth to lesser yang. Zhang Ling understands this."

"But he did not give up. Instead, he chose a path similar to the extreme yin giving birth to the lesser yang, which is to seek life from death!" "As the name suggests, it means to let oneself die completely, and then be reborn again!"

"Rules are for living people, or rather, for conscious spirits!"

"For a completely dead spirit, there are naturally no rules! This is Zhang Ling's method. He turns himself into a 'dead' spirit and then resurrects to escape the restrictions of the rules."

Lu Chen asked: "Did he succeed? Is the current Zhang Ling the same Zhang Ling after his death?"

"Of course not."

Shaoyang Zhenjun said: "Zhang Ling's approach can only be considered half successful."

"And the inner elixir he created eventually had problems, giving rise to his own inner demon, the demon Zhang Ling."

"Then, where is the real Zhang Ling?" Lu Chen asked after hearing Shaoyang say this.

"Inside his inner elixir, however, his true spirit has fallen silent, remaining in a 'dead' state. It is estimated that he will only wake up when he truly and thoroughly understands the mystery of 'surviving from death'."

Shao Yang Zhen Jun said: "It's just that he didn't die thoroughly enough. He forgot to take his inner demon with him. That's why his inner demon spirit is running around pretending to be him."

Lu Chen looked a little dazed.

Now, everything makes sense.

Zhang Ling wanted to copy the path of Shaoyang Zhenjun and follow the path of Yin giving birth to Shaoyang, but he failed.

Then he used another more extreme way - to survive by dying, to circumvent the restrictions of the rules!
He succeeded, and his inner elixir was far superior to that of Ge Xuan and others.

But he failed too.

Although he avoided the restrictions of the rules, problems arose when he was trying to survive from death, and he was forced to fall into the state of 'death' again, and also gave birth to the current 'Monster Zhang Ling'.

This means that Zhang Ling's "life" is not pure.

"These big guys are just playing tricks."

Lu Chen sighed, he was not being sarcastic but praising.

"This evil demon suppressed underground is harming people!"

Lu Chen shook his head helplessly again.

He really admires these predecessors!
Because of this evil demon, the path to immortality for countless talented people was completely cut off.

Generation after generation of practitioners have been desperately trying to break through their own limits and the restrictions of heaven and earth.

For example, Bai Yunshangzhen, who cut off his own foundation and wanted to forge a new path, Yu Zi and Ma Mingsheng, who had no regrets even though they knew they would die, and even Zhang Daoling, who wanted to die first and then live again...

If these geniuses in the world of cultivation were placed in a normal world, such as the world of Journey to the West, they would definitely be at least seeds of celestial beings!

But in this world, one can only be trapped and die where he is!
"It's not just the underground evil demons, Zhi Sui is also closely related to them."

Shao Yang Zhen Jun said at this time: "This world appeared only after the evil demons were suppressed. The evil demons have been resisting the heaven and earth all the time. The biggest resistance was only after the Yin and Yang Realm was eroded."

"At that time, there was only a great war between good and evil. Later, the evil demons became very crazy. For safety reasons, the Twelve Heavenly Gods sealed the entire Yin and Yang Realm. You all know what happened after that."

"The danger of evil spirits has disappeared, but the chaos of monsters has reappeared. The twelve gods took action to suppress the monsters and established the cave heaven."

"It's just that the wars have continued, and the heaven and earth have been destroyed. The twelve gods don't like this place, so they have ascended one after another, staying away from this world and never being contaminated by the mortal world again."

"It was not until the Zhou Dynasty that a loophole appeared in the seal of the bull monster. The Supreme Lord descended and transformed himself into the Lord Lao, subdued the bull monster, enlightened the Taoist priests, and disappeared after leaving Hangu Pass to the west."

"And at this point in time, something else actually happened..."

Everyone listened carefully to these secrets that even ordinary immortals and gods could not explore.

"That is, Zhi Sui Dao Mi!"

"When Laojun enlightened me, he sighed and said: I have been lost in the Dao for so many years, and I am deeply trapped in the devil's thoughts. I don't know whether I am a Buddha or a devil, and I don't know whether this world is good or bad."

Lu Chen's heart moved, and he asked, "May I ask, Master Zhen, what does Zhi Sui Dao Mi mean?"

Shaoyang Zhenjun sighed and said, "We practitioners all have our own paths. Some are long, some are short, and they are different. But every practitioner must understand that even if his or her own path is shorter and narrower than others, it is unique. But if you suddenly turn around and walk the wide path of others because you envy them, and a conflict of ideas about the path arises, then you are lost in the Dao."

Lu Chen: "So, the Dao fans just turned around and studied other great ways?"

Shao Yang Zhen Jun said: "It's not so absolute. For example, if two roads are very similar, I can take the road you can take, but because you took the road first, you can walk more smoothly. For example, even immortals have their own levels."

"Of course, it's still the same road. Even if it's the same road, if a different person walks on it, it's not the same road anymore. It can only be said to be similar."

"And Dao fans are most likely to be formed when walking on other people's paths, because the path you walk has the most marks of you. The more marks you have, when I walk on your path, although I can also produce my marks, I will also absorb your marks."

Lu Chen was stunned and said subconsciously: "Sudden method... Gradual method."

"Yes, this is a saying that came from the West, the difference between sudden method and gradual method."

Shaoyang Zhenjun said: "You practice the gradual method, step by step, but the gradual method also means that this road has been walked by predecessors. The sudden method is a road that has not been walked yet. Of course, the gradual method will not necessarily lead to Tao confusion, because you only absorb this mark, and it will not cause a conflict of Tao. The conflict of Tao is often a collision between one road and another road."

"This world's Zhisui is like this. You already know who Zhisui is, right?"

"Manjusri Bodhisattva of Buddhism?"

"Yes, it was Manjusri Bodhisattva. Manjusri Bodhisattva followed the path of Buddhism, and under this world, there was a peerless evil demon suppressed. When Manjusri Bodhisattva was exploring the path of cultivation of the peerless evil demon, the path of Buddhism and the path of the evil demon came into conflict, so he fell into the maze of Taoism."

"Those rules that should have been constantly changing with the times became completely rigid after he fell into Taoism. This also caused countless geniuses to be forced to find other ways, either trying to break the rules or trying to evade the rules, but they all failed and died one after another."

“So, if Zhisui had not fallen into Taoism, there wouldn’t have been so many things happening in this world. Perhaps, a few immortals would have been born…”

Lu Chen was stunned.

Are Buddhist masters practicing evil methods?
How ironic and sad!

As the ruler of a world, he should have been in charge of the evolution of time in the world, but in the end, because of his evil thoughts, he ended up blocking the paths of countless lives in the entire world.

rule?

Why do you set so many rules?
If we think about it from a more evil perspective, then could it be that Manjushri Bodhisattva really had no selfish motives when he did this?
They are all trying to comprehend the thoughts of the most evil demon, how could they not have selfish motives!

"No wonder Huibao and others from Donglin Temple acted so strangely. At first, I thought it was because of the tricks of the people in Lingshan Cave Heaven."

Zhongli Quan on the side suddenly realized and thought of the destruction of Lingshan Cave Heaven and the infection of Huibao and others in Donglin Temple by the practitioners in the statue of Manjushri Bodhisattva.

Shaoyang Zhenjun said: "The destruction of Lingshan was caused by human factors, but the main reason was that Manjusri Bodhisattva had lost his way. The Maurya Dynasty could have opened up a path for humanity like the First Emperor."

"But in the later period, it was destroyed by Lingshan Dongtian. In the later period, the Maurya Dynasty was completely controlled by Lingshan Dongtian, and all the emerging human destiny was instilled into the statues they created in order to invite the Buddha to come. In the end, it attracted a wisp of demonic energy produced by Manjusri Bodhisattva when he was lost in the Tao. Therefore, the demon Buddha was born, Lingshan was destroyed, and the dignified master ended up with nothing."

Everyone was sighing.

The Maurya Empire had the opportunity to create the same glory as the Central Plains Dynasty, but it made a wrong move and lost everything.

It is said that Manjushri Bodhisattva converted the tyrannical King Ashoka and made him stop fighting. From then on, the Black Ashoka era turned into the White Ashoka era.

In fact, it is quite the opposite.

If Ashoka had not changed and been converted, the Maurya Dynasty might have become the orthodox dynasty of India.

Just, there is no if.

Lu Chen seemed to be thinking about something.

"what happened?"

Zhongli Quan looked at Lu Chen and asked.

Lu Chen hesitated for a moment and then said, "May I ask, Master Zhenjun, what is the identity of that peerless evil demon? Why did even Manjusri Bodhisattva fall into it?"

The main reason lies in the suppressed peerless evil demon!

Shaoyang Zhenjun replied: "I have only heard this man's name once. Laojun called him Bull Demon King, and he called himself the Great Sage Pingtian."

"The Great Sacred Bull Demon King Pingtian..."

Lu Chen murmured, feeling mixed emotions.

Although the Bull Demon King became the Bull Demon King, the title of the Great Sage Pingtian did not change!
(End of this chapter)