Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 708: Heaven Responds to the Central Plains

"There's no need to be so pessimistic. At least we are now aware of the changes and have the possibility to deal with them. This is much better than being affected unconsciously and being in a daze without knowing anything."

He Xiangu looked at Lan Caihe and spoke to comfort him. Then she looked at the golden lamp in Chu Tai's hand and sighed.

The Great Master Mangmang also sighed and said, "Among us, only you are not afraid of the changes of fate and the constraints of the life net. You can just ignore what I said before."

Elder Zhizhen put his hands together and muttered Buddhist scriptures in a low voice. Seeing this, Chu Tai handed the golden lamp to Zhizhen and said, "Master, you have persisted for a long time before. If you had the protection of the golden lamp, you might have persisted longer. Now we still have some time. Master, why don't you meditate on it first and return it to me when I leave?"

Upon hearing this, Elder Zhizhen showed a look of delight. He took the golden lamp and carefully observed the light inside, while Chu Tai began to communicate with the other fellow Taoists.

When they were fighting against the changes brought about by the reorganization of the Life Network, everyone also discovered their own weaknesses.

Among them, Master Mangmang and Zhenren Miaomiao had the weakest resistance, and their methods were completely ineffective. The two also gave their own guesses about this.

The two believed that they had lived in heaven and the Pure Land for a long time, and their breath and laws had long been eroded by the Fate Network. Moreover, they were awake for too short a time and did not have much independent breath, nor did they have the convergence of past causes and conditions. All changes and possibilities were within the calculation and accumulation of the Fate Network. If they wanted to be able to resist the changes brought about by the reorganization of the Fate Network, they needed to increase their own changes.

Similar to the two are the Eight Immortals, who have also lived in heaven for a long time. However, the Bagua hexagrams constructed and operated by the seven of them together cannot form an effective defense. It is more because the Bagua is incomplete, making it difficult to form an effective defense. According to the seven people's speculation, if the Eight Immortals gather together, they should be able to resist some of the influences.

"From this point of view, it is a good thing that we have absorbed some of the karma of the second life network because we fell into the human world. From a certain perspective, it can be regarded as complementing ourselves and increasing our own variables."

Han Zhongli's words made Luo Zhenren and Xu Shenweng thoughtful. The blind Luo Zhenren thought: "In this way, the situation of Fellow Daoist Xu and I can be explained. Although the two of us woke up early, we did not interfere with the outside world. There were not many causes and conditions involved, and there were even fewer variables that could be generated. Therefore, we were weak in the face of the resistance of the Fate Network."

"And Master Huoran not only holds a treasure, but also possesses the energy of the dragon and tiger. He has a large variable and high integrity, so he can form an effective resistance. As for Monk Zhizhen..."

Mangmang Dashi added: "Brother should be self-sufficient in reincarnation and independent of the outside world. This should be a different way of dealing with it from us."

As Chu Tai listened, he suddenly felt that the situation they were dealing with was somewhat familiar. After thinking about it carefully, he realized that this was the game between heaven and man and the unity of heaven and man in the process of practicing in the realm of heaven and man.
The unity of man and nature is that oneself is the subject and the outside world is the object. By eliminating the false and retaining the true, seeing the heart and understanding the nature, nature allows the subject and the object to merge with each other. While maintaining the autonomy of the subject, the subject gradually masters the object. However, as a price, when the object is too powerful, the subject will inevitably be affected by the object.

The game between heaven and man emphasizes the existence of the self, does not pay much attention to the mutual penetration of subject and object, and pursues a more complete self-form. This also means that the subject will not be so easily affected when facing a powerful object.

This sudden thought made Chu Tai's thoughts continue to expand.

'If the group of immortals at this moment are regarded as fourth-grade celestial beings, then can the Nine Heavens Mysterious Lady and the True Lord of Demon-Subduing be regarded as third-grade or second-grade cultivators, and can the Heavenly Court be regarded as the Central Plains Dynasty? '

Although some of the information still didn't match, Chu Tai couldn't help but continue exploring along this line of thought. 'The reason why I had a feeling before was because I would meet one or two third-grade monks who were related to the dynasty in the future? And they would have a great influence on me?'

"But if we follow this line of thought, then who do the Eight Immortals correspond to? Who do the Great Master Mangmang and the Immortal Miaomiao correspond to? What is the difference between the Immortal Luo, the God of Xu, and the Master Xuran? And Elder Zhizhen should also have a corresponding one... It's impossible that only some of these people are in opposition, while the others have no connection..."

Chu Tai had more and more ideas in his mind, but these ideas still lacked some connecting points.

'The most important thing is, if the Central Plains Dynasty really corresponds to the Heavenly Court, then the triple life network of this world, which covers the changes of the entire world, is logically higher than the Heavenly Court. If it is placed in the Great Heaven, it is beyond the scope of the Central Plains. It can't be Daluo Heaven, Dongji Chenguang Great Heaven, and Xianxian Daohua Great Heaven.'

'Then, what should the three disasters correspond to? The recurring disaster is a typical problem unique to this world. Are there any unique disasters in the Central Plains? It can't correspond to the problem of the court system in the Central Plains that keeps repeating the cycle and can never transcend, and even the Saint King Avenue has problems.'

'What is the Human Mind Disaster, and what is the final Disaster of Chaos from Outer Space? After all, the harm of this Disaster of Chaos from Outer Space is far greater than the previous two, and its corresponding existence is not comparable to the two. If there is really a corresponding one, the Chaos from Outer Space Disaster is enough to destroy this world with some power left, and in the Great Heaven, it can at least destroy the dynasty with some power left. It can't be that Daluotian himself has sent down the power. If that's the case, I wouldn't have any sense of it at all...'

Chu Tai felt a headache the more he thought about it, so he had no choice but to lower his standards and start thinking from top to bottom.

'If the chaos and disasters outside the sky correspond to the immortals' manifestation of the Tao and the heavens correspond to the dynasties, and the cyclical disasters are the cycles of dynasties, then are the disasters of human thoughts the conflicts between the immortals, Buddhas, demons and humanity... If it really reaches this level, then it is normal that I cannot deduce it, and it also makes sense that the Donghuang Bell cannot sense it...'

When he thought about it, he felt that it did make some sense, and it even convinced him a little.

“Fellow Daoist, fellow Daoist…”

When Chu Tai was thinking more and more, Elder Zhizhen suddenly called him.

Looking back, he saw Elder Zhizhen handing him the golden lamp and said, "Daoyou, I have understood this thing, so I will return it to you."

Everyone was a little shocked when they heard this. Lan Caihe looked at Elder Zhizhen in disbelief and said, "So fast? But I see that your aura hasn't changed much."

“I simply understood the essence of the Buddha’s light within this golden lamp and saw through the external attachments.”

"But I heard you say before that this Buddha light is not the glory of that Buddha?"

Lan Caihe was a little confused, while Lu Dongbin, Han Zhongli and others beside him seemed to be thinking about something.

(End of this chapter)