The Secret Way of Immortality

The morale of the Taoist sect was high, not only because of the appearance of the Three Dao Ancestors, but more importantly because the earthquake prevented the Buddhist attack, giving them a precious respite.

As for the sudden earthquake, the Taoist sect naturally attributed it to the Three Dao Ancestors.

Little did they know that their every move was influenced by the Imp Jail and the Three Dao Ancestors, and they could not even control their own deaths.

The Taoist sect gathered the population of various towns together, and moved the spiritual veins as much as possible, planning to build an extremely solid fortress.

Although the number of Black Goat herds was terrifying, it was not a big problem to be self-sufficient for a long time after establishing a fortress based on formations.

Zhou Zuosan's arrangement alone completely revived the Taoist sect's game, at least buying Ren Qing two hundred years of seclusion.

However, he was not happy at all, and even faintly worried.

Monks who have mastered Turtle Longevity can predict good and bad omens. According to the omens they provide, the situation will worsen instead.

Zhou Zuosan felt the powerlessness brought about by the limited speed of thinking and calculation, so he immediately launched the fourth stage of brain transformation.

In addition to the brain, the body must also undergo weaponization to fully assist thinking and calculation.

In particular, the internal organs will become organs that provide nutrients to the brain, and the means of using the strange fetus weapon refining method will be used for transformation.

In this case, it is equivalent to Zhou Zuosan completely abandoning his physical body, turning his flesh and blood bones and three souls and seven spirits into a part of the magic weapon.

The immortals and gods tried to stop Zhou Zuosan, but the latter still went his own way.

The Imp Jail had to transfer a large number of weapon refiners to assist in the transformation, and the palaces in the first heaven were refined into large magic weapons for heat dissipation.

Under the witness of the immortals and gods, Zhou Zuosan became the first monk to be weaponized, and even the first heaven will be used to accommodate him.

Tian Daozi was silent.

He stared at Zhou Zuosan, as if seeing his former paranoid self, choosing the most extreme way, just to seek a glimmer of life.

Tian Daozi wanted to ask Zhou Zuosan whether it was worth it.

However, Zhou Zuosan's consciousness fell into contemplation, and his state was similar to that of a tool spirit. He had no emotions or desires, and his thoughts became more and more utilitarian.

Chen Changsheng patted Tian Daozi on the shoulder: "If you can't give up everything, how can you gamble with the Dao of Heaven?"

"Indeed."

Tian Daozi smiled dumbly. The two of them didn't say much. After accepting the task issued by Zhou Zuosan, they flashed and left the first heaven.

Zhou Zuosan was deeply afraid of the divination, so he began to make crazy arrangements.

Each task has a time limit in order to accurately control the variables and calculate the millions of people in the Taoist and Buddhist sides with his own strength.

Zhou Zuosan didn't know how to describe the fourth stage. His thinking seemed to be sublimated to the limit.

Through the information clues summarized by the Imp Jail, he could roughly estimate the surplus time, and any move was affecting the future results.

The entire Imp Jail became a machine, and Zhou Zuosan was the core program, and all the parts were brought into full play.

Thirty-five years after the earthquake at the junction of the North and South.

In the south, the Floating Temple rebelled, and the Buddhist sect transferred two Arhats to suppress it.

Seventy-seven years after the earthquake at the junction of the North and South.

In the north, the Black Goat herd invaded the Sanqing Mountains, causing the death of five innate Taoist bodies. The headmaster is still missing, and Xuanhong Daoist took over.

One hundred and thirty-six years after the earthquake at the junction of the North and South.

The Buddhist sect refined bridges with brass, trying to pass through the Great Rift Valley between the North and South, but failed because the brass reacted with the spiritual energy.

One hundred and fifty-seven years after the earthquake at the junction of the North and South.

The spiritual energy reached its peak, and the Taoist headmaster Xuanhong Daoist became an immortal, passed through the Great Rift Valley between the North and South, and killed the Pagoda-Bearing Arhat.

………

Due to various reasons, the Taoist and Buddhist forces have been in a stalemate, and the outside world has passed peacefully for one hundred and eighty years.

During this period, although Ren Qing had not left seclusion, the Heavenly Dao Tree began to sprout new buds.

However, the sprouted new buds were like skinned human hands, and in a trance, they turned into chaotic light and shadows like a kaleidoscope. If you stared at it for a long time, your soul seemed to be about to escape into the abyss.

Including Zhou Zuosan, no one knew how Ren Qing was doing.

But it was better than withering. The Heavenly Dao Tree's transformation towards the strange and inexplicable also showed that Ren Qing was getting closer and closer to the Heavenly Dao.

With the heteromorphism of the Heavenly Dao Tree, the immortals and gods also suspended their understanding of the Heavenly Dao, and even used magic weapons to temporarily cover the Heavenly Dao Tree.

Lest monks notice the appearance of the Heavenly Dao Tree, it would lead to an imbalance in their Taoist hearts.

Zhou Zuosan was not sure whether Ren Qing was about to be promoted, but he still increased the friction between Taoism and Buddhism according to the plan. As long as the Heavenly Dao Tree showed signs of promotion, he would immediately provoke a fight between the two sides.

As for the divination of Turtle Longevity, it had deteriorated to an ominous omen, which made him slightly uneasy.

Zhou Zuosan continued to think about the layout, and then, without knowing what he had discovered, his expression, which had always been as calm as an ancient well, fell into a daze, and his eyes were filled with fear.

At the mission bulletin board in Dream City, countless monks used their spiritual thoughts to accept tasks, and there were also a large number of birds transporting supplies in the air.

Suddenly.

The bulletin board, which had been adding new tasks for thousands of years, stopped for about two breaths.

The immortals and gods noticed the strangeness and rushed to the first heaven, but they saw a large number of sparks coming out of the pipes outside Zhou Zuosan's brain. This was because the speed of thinking and calculation had reached its limit.

It is hard to imagine that Zhou Zuosan, whose thinking is comparable to the Dao of Heaven, would have a day when his emotions would be out of control.

The immortals and gods waited for the high temperature emitted by the palace to cool down, and at the same time used their network of relationships to find the incident that made Zhou Zuosan feel deeply surprised.

After a while, Zhou Zuosan let out a long breath.

Da Meng Zhenren asked: "What's wrong?"

Zhou Zuosan rarely hesitated again and again, and then said lightly: "The Three Dao Ancestors have made an inexplicable move."

"The Three Dao Ancestors plan to abandon the Taoist sect and let the Supreme Heavenly Demon occupy this world."

Yuelao's face was full of disbelief. The situation was so stable half a day ago, how could it suddenly become turbulent: "Impossible!!!"

Da Meng Zhenren closed his eyes and felt the outside world, and found that the Taoist sect was still calm.

The fortress was being built in an orderly manner, and it had basically isolated the Black Goat herd outside the city, so that mortals no longer had to continue to be displaced.

The other immortals and gods also used spells to explore the outside world, but they did not see the scene Zhou Zuosan said, and could not help but frown.

Song Zongwu signaled the weapon refiner to maintain Zhou Zuosan's body, and then asked in confusion: "Xiao San'er, is the information wrong?"

Zhou Zuosan shook his head solemnly and said, "This is my deduction of the situation. The Taoist sect will be destroyed within five years."

Seeing that the immortals and gods still wanted to ask, he took the initiative to answer: "There is no possibility of changing or delaying it. The Dao of Heaven will never leave any room for it. The Taoist sect will definitely be destroyed within five years."

"Why do the Three Dao Ancestors want to do this?"

Zhou Zuosan was silent. The countless conclusions drawn from the deduction made him think about it in horror, and even feel powerless to recover.

"I don't know, cut your losses in time."

"Let the side sects represented by the acquired Taoist body break away from the Taoist sect."

Zhou Zuosan sighed and continued, "No matter what the purpose of the Three Dao Ancestors is, the plan to coexist with the Three Dao Ancestors."

"Has failed."

"We are going to fight for Ren Qing."

The actions of the Three Dao Ancestors clearly showed that they had other considerations, which was an unexpected trouble for the Imp Jail.

However, they could not stop the arrangement, after all, Ren Qing would break through the bottleneck at any time.

………

The Taoist fortress is taking shape, a bit like the city of Wuwei back then. The Heavenly Gu realm alone cannot break through the solid city wall.

Everything indicates that the Taoist sect can survive the disaster of the Supreme Heavenly Demon, and even find a chance to recapture the territory snatched by the Buddhist sect.

Until one day.

The side sects, headed by Taishui Daojun, took the opportunity to kill the Black Goat herd and secretly led their core disciples to leave the fortress.

Overnight, the Taoist sect lost a large number of backbone monks.

Xuanhong Daoist was furious, but before they could settle accounts with the side sects, a plague quietly appeared in the fortress.

The source of the plague is the mass grave.

The corpses in the mass grave were piled up like a mountain, all of whom died because of the Black Goat, and invisibly gathered Buddhist energy, but fortunately there was spiritual energy suppressing it.

But for some reason, the spiritual energy, which was at its peak, showed signs of decay for no reason.

Under the seat of Xuanhong Daoist, the headmaster of the Taoist sect, there were fifty-six elders with innate Taoist bodies, all of whom had the cultivation of the Heavenly Gu realm.

They managed different branches, resulting in very scattered power.

When the spiritual energy showed a slight and imperceptible decay, no one cared at all, and it did not attract the attention of the elders when it was transmitted to the upper level of the Taoist sect.

As a result, only two months later, the Buddhist energy in the mass grave broke out, causing a wall of the fortress to collapse, and hundreds of thousands of people turned into Black Goats.

Zhou Zuosan's prediction was correct, it was indeed impossible to stop it.

Even if the Imp Jail had diverted the Buddhist energy in the mass grave in advance, disasters would still occur in the dark, causing the fortress to have frequent disasters.

After the chaos of the Black Goat herd, the fortress directly lost a quarter of its population.

At the same time, because of the weakening of the spiritual energy, the barrier at the junction of the North and South gradually disappeared, and the Buddhist sect began to move again.

Not surprisingly, the Taoist sect may not even last five years.

Zhou Zuosan watched helplessly as the situation went in an unknown direction, and none of his arrangements could control the end.

He was extremely worried that after the Taoist sect was destroyed, the Supreme Heavenly Demon would descend into the world, and the Three Dao Ancestors would still be indifferent, which would be a big trouble.

"Heavenly Dao… Heavenly Dao… Heavenly Dao…"

Zhou Zuosan murmured: "I would rather the Heavenly Dao was transformed by the extraterrestrial demon. It is too terrible for the Heavenly Dao to have human hearts. Could it be that the entire plan has always been the plan of the Three Dao Ancestors?"

His whole body felt cold.

Zhou Zuosan had seen subversive records in Ren Qing's Treasure Pavilion, which said that the Supreme Heavenly Demon was once a part of the Moral Heavenly Lord.

If the Moral Heavenly Lord deliberately separated the Supreme Heavenly Demon?

You must know that after the Supreme Heavenly Demon seized the body of Dingguang Buddha, he completely relied on cutting off the head of the Moral Heavenly Lord and devouring the incomplete Heavenly Dao to have the possibility of going further.

Without the Moral Heavenly Lord, the Supreme Heavenly Demon would never be able to achieve the Burning Lamp Ancient Buddha.

"It's all a plan, the game is too big…"

"Senior Ren, what should I do…"

Zhou Zuosan felt at a loss for the first time. If the fourth stage of transformation was already the limit, he would not hesitate to carry out the fifth stage.

The Imp Jail cannot interfere with the Taoist sect, it seems that it can only start from the Buddhist sect, delay the speed of the Buddhist sect destroying the Taoist sect, and re-balance the situation.

Zhou Zuosan took a deep breath and invested manpower in the north.

But what made him headache was that the previous rebellion of the Imp Jail against the Buddhist sect made the towns in the north as solid as gold.

"Wait, why do I feel that there is a leak in the information of the Buddhist sect?"

Zhou Zuosan flipped through it again and again, trying to find the key to breaking the situation, and noticed that the replacement of the Buddhist abbot was a bit wrong.

"Some information has been erased, and that Huikong is missing."

He remembered a spell called Disaster Elimination Technique recorded in the Treasure Pavilion, which could eliminate one's sense of existence, but not many monks mastered it.

Only Ren Qing himself, and the creator of the Disaster Elimination Technique, Wuming.

"Wuming."

Zhou Zuosan realized that Wuming was his only remaining chance to break the situation.

Wuming had already ascended to the Great Demon Heaven created by the Supreme Heavenly Demon, and Huikong might be a dark hand left by Wuming.

"Da Meng Zhenren."

Da Meng Zhenren appeared in the first heaven after hearing Zhou Zuosan's call.

After learning that the task was to go to the north to find a monk named Huikong, he couldn't help but take a deep look at Zhou Zuosan.

The fact that Zhou Zuosan could issue such an ambiguous task showed how dangerous the situation was.

Da Meng Zhenren passed through the stomach world and arrived at the destination in a few breaths.

Compared to the disaster-stricken north, the south was completely unaffected.

The ground was covered with glazed bricks, and there were magnificent Buddhist temples everywhere. Monks prayed around the temples, offering sacrifices to believers who had been transformed into Buddha statues.

In the distance, there were boundless flesh and blood fields, planted with countless palace rooms.

Da Meng Zhenren looked up, and the island was suspended in the air, and the rich Buddhist light poured down.

"A non-existent monk."

He naturally didn't believe it, but he tried his luck and used the spell, and his body suddenly turned into countless light and shadows and disappeared in place.

Wherever the sun shines, there are Da Meng Zhenren's eyes and ears.

"Eh."

Da Meng Zhenren exclaimed in surprise, and flashed to a temple near the edge, which was inhabited by the lowest-level monks in the Buddhist sect.

There was an old monk in the courtyard sweeping the ground, but his back had a large bulge.

He had already reached the Yin Difference realm, but his breath was very weak, and his body seemed very thin, as if the nutrients were all supplying the swollen bag.

In addition to the Disaster Elimination Technique, the old monk also had a spell aura called Immortal in the Mirror.

Da Meng Zhenren pointed at Huikong's eyebrows, and then returned to the stomach world.

Zhou Zuosan couldn't help laughing a few times after learning about Huikong's situation, and began to arrange around Huikong, who had mastered the Disaster Elimination Technique.

The immortals and gods frequently appeared in the Buddhist sect, arranging formations centered on the courtyard.

The Taoist sect relied on the foundation of the innate Taoist body to barely gain a foothold, and sealed the Black Goat herd in the depths of the ground.

Before Xuanhong Daoist could catch his breath, the Buddhist sect leaped over the Great Rift Valley between the North and South on a large scale.

The Taoist sect tried to stop them, but lost their armor and abandoned their weapons in front of the Bodhisattva. Within two short years, their power was reduced by another third.

The rest were just lingering on their last breaths.

Just when Xuanhong Daoist was stubbornly resisting with the remnants, the Buddhist sect suddenly chose to withdraw from the north and hurriedly returned to the south.

Xuanhong Daoist released a wisp of divine sense, risking damage to his soul to look over.

I saw that in the hinterland of the Buddhist sect, a portal of more than ten meters had been erected at some point, and a massive amount of Black Goats poured out of it.

However, compared to the Black Goats of the disaster itself, the Black Goats in the door were purer, and there was no trace of the Buddha at all. Their bodies flowed on the ground like mud.

Xuanhong Daoist was overjoyed and hurriedly signaled his comrades to transport the spiritual veins, planning to take the opportunity to retreat thousands of miles and recuperate.

He knelt on the ground and visualized the Three Dao Ancestors, so that his state of mind gradually stabilized.

Unnoticed by anyone, two figures stood at the very top of the doorway.

The Nameless Heavenly Devil had restrained his transformation somewhat, barely maintaining a human form, and his intelligence had mostly recovered, a hint of vicissitude in his eyes.

Beside him was Han Li, who was also undergoing Heavenly Devil transformation, but to a lesser extent.

Nameless nodded and said, "I can agree to Zhou Zuosan's request, it's just a matter of delaying things anyway."

It just so happens that the Black Mountain Goat I brought along can be put to use, to exhaust the power of Buddhism.

"Thank you."

Han Li's expression was dreamlike, still with lingering fear of the Great Devil Heaven.

"The Supreme Heavenly Devil is insane, actually trying to divide himself into two parts."

The Great Devil Heaven was half Buddha Land and half Devil Realm, an unimaginable chaos.

The Supreme Heavenly Devil was originally composed of a large number of souls, and after achieving the Heavenly Dao, the consciousness of the souls conflicted with each other, leading to the division of the Great Devil Heaven.

According to Nameless's estimation, Dipamkara Buddha might use the Supreme Heavenly Devil to be reborn, a kind of reincarnation through possession.

Therefore, after learning that the world had been reshaped, Nameless planned to return.

However, since the two belonged to the Devil Realm, they could not escape the Great Devil Heaven through the Buddhist descent method, so they had no choice but to hide in the Mirror Immortal's Gate of Deceit.

The space within the Gate of Deceit was boundless, with no concept of time at all. It felt like thousands of years had passed, but perhaps only a month had passed outside.

"Let's part ways here."

Han Li went to the world within his stomach, while Nameless had other plans. Relying on the Black Mountain Goat alone was enough to delay Buddhism, after all, the Heavenly Devil aura needed to be painstakingly and meticulously removed with Buddhist energy.

The two went their separate ways. After Han Li digested the memories provided by Grand Dream Daoist, he immediately went to the First Heaven to meet Zhou Zuosan.

In the palace, the immortals and gods had already arrived, discussing the trends of the outside world.

Han Li hurriedly walked into the hall, and without exchanging pleasantries, he took the initiative to inform them of the situation of the Supreme Heavenly Devil, causing Zhou Zuosan to fall into silence.

Zhou Zuosan pondered for a moment, then said with a sigh of relief, "If we use the variables of Buddhism, we can at least buy another two hundred years, enough for Senior Ren to complete his closed-door cultivation."

"Next..."

Before he could finish speaking.

Zhou Zuosan spat out a mouthful of blood.

Old Man Yue's face changed drastically, and he blurted out: "Just now... Xuanhong Daoist went mad for no reason, and the Daoist sect has been destroyed."

Zhou Zuosan said despairingly: "The Spirit Treasure Heavenly Lord has made his move."

Song Zongwu muttered to himself: "The Three Dao Ancestors are forcing the Supreme Heavenly Devil to occupy the present world."

"What exactly are they looking for?"

Han Li's back was cold, and he moved his steps and said, "They are willing to sacrifice the survivors of the Daoist sect to drag the Supreme Heavenly Devil into the muddy waters."

Zhou Zuosan restrained his emotions and said coldly, "Notify the Heavenly Court and the Forbidden Guard Hall, the Heavenly Dao is about to cleanse this world again, and we are afraid that we cannot avoid it."