Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 771: Faith and Concepts Build a Nation
Feeling helpless towards the heirs of the Holy King Avenue, Chu Tai turned around and looked at the Tianren Ding behind him.

"Fellow Daoist, I am a little curious, what does the Heavenly Man Cauldron symbolize to Jun Mo?"

Chu Tai's question was incoherent, but Taoist Shou understood what he meant immediately and sighed, "Daoyou Taining, I know what you mean. You think the successor of the Saint King Avenue is too incompetent, so you hope to unite with Junmo to deal with these guys first, and then deal with the rest, right?"

Chu Tai nodded and said, "Rather than fighting with the Sovereign Demon, I would rather beat these inheritors of the Saint King Avenue to death first. Moreover, if I unite with the Sovereign Demon, I will be able to gain more time to accumulate strength."

Taoist Shou nodded and said, "Your idea is very correct, but I have to tell you that it is impossible. Unless you are willing to return the Heavenly Cauldron to Jun Mo, there will be no reconciliation between the two of you."

At this point, Taoist Shou looked towards the Central Plains and whispered, "Although those guys are relatively weak to the outside world, it must be said that when it comes to internal fighting, they know too well what Jun Mo wants."

"According to my master, if Jun Mo was given a chance to kill everyone on the Saint King Avenue and a chance to regain the Heavenly Man Cauldron, he would definitely choose the Heavenly Man Cauldron instead of killing the successor to the Saint King Avenue. This thing not only represents his second rank and all his previous cultivation experiences, but is also one of the cornerstones for his future advancement."

After a pause, Taoist Shou looked at the Heavenly Man Cauldron and said, "The Heavenly Man Way and the Way of Faith and Sacrifice in this treasured cauldron are related to the fundamental great way of Jun Mo's past, and are also the traces of the origin of the great way that he has not completely abandoned yet."

"To put it bluntly, this treasure tripod hides a few flaws of the Lord Demon Avenue. But none of us knows whether these flaws are real or left by Lord Demon on purpose. Or maybe they are the past that he is unwilling to let go of..."

Taoist Shou's words basically cut off Chu Tai's desire to cooperate, and at the same time made him deeply feel the professionalism of the heir of Saint King Avenue in these aspects.

He used a supreme treasure to completely cut off the possibility of his alliance with Junmo, and also left a stable foundation for many of their subsequent seemingly crazy operations.

Of course, it is impossible to ask Chu Tai to give up the Tianren Ding.

Not to mention that the difficulty of refining a first-grade treasure lies in the Dao fruit of a cultivator who is almost first-grade. Let's just say that the divine way of Dongyue Divine Court is initially formed and there is a gap in the communication with the Saint King Avenue. It is impossible for Chu Tai to give up the Tianren Ding that can be reconciled in the play.

Not to mention that Chu Tai was secretly gathering the luck of the demon clan, and was also stimulating the foundation of the current Saint King Avenue.

Once the Tianren Ding returns to Junmo's hands, the Dongyue Divine Court will inevitably collapse. Even if the Yuli Zhenjun, Qingshi Zhenjun, Hunyuan Zhenjun, or Taiyi Zhenjun bestow some treasures to fill it, Chu Tai's legitimacy will be largely lost, and he will lose the possibility of competing with Junmo.

And these are obviously the two True Lords Yuli and Qingshi, which is why they gave two talismans to Chu Tai so early.

Especially the talisman of Jade Calendar Master, Chu Tai even suspected that it was used to protect himself. If he really encountered a strong bullying the weak, he could directly use the talisman to hit the Donghuang Bell to stimulate its full power to explode.

Chu Tai, who understood this, gave up exploring and instead asked for information about the former Junmo.

“Speaking of which, although I have heard a lot about Jun Mo’s past, I have never known his past way of cultivation. Can Brother Shou tell me about it?” Taoist Shou was silent for a moment, bowed in the direction of Kunlun, and then took out a small flag and gently unfolded it. Immediately, golden light emerged, and layers of mysterious yellow energy surged, turning into auspicious clouds floating above. There were also lotus flowers blooming, holding up golden lanterns. The lights swayed, and sparks fell, layer upon layer, like rain curtains in front of the eaves, endless.

Chu Tai glanced at the small flag. It was similar to his Soul-Rewarding Banner, both of which were the embryos of some first-grade treasure. Judging from its exquisiteness, the Dao Fruit inside it was already half-perfected. Among the many treasures Chu Tai had seen, it ranked among the top ten.

But he soon had no time to pay attention to it. Taoist Shou waved it around twice, leaving a magical ban, and then spoke to Chu Tai: "As for the place where Jun Mo practiced in the past, I can't tell you. It has become a taboo, branded inside the Saint King Avenue, and even a taboo inside the Great Heaven."

"What I can tell you is that the kingdom was built by Jun Mo and his companions with the magic of the Heavenly Cauldron and faith as the core. It is a special order system guided from top to bottom and supported from bottom to top."

“The humanity of the entire country is based on common beliefs, common moral values, and common ideals. Although everyone has a different understanding of faith, with similar moral values ​​and ideals, the direction of faith will not be wrong.”

"They integrated all positive human emotions into the Heavenly Cauldron, sublimated them with the doctrines of faith and sacrifice, and then constructed their own unique heaven and earth principles with the doctrine of heaven and man."

"According to Master, in the glorious kingdom they created, everyone will be healed. There will be no one born with defects, and no one with evil thoughts. The absence of evil thoughts here does not mean that there are no emotions such as anger and jealousy, but that they will not have these emotions on their own and be controlled by them."

"Back then, that country had almost taken a different path that was consistent with humanity, beyond faith and Shintoism."

"With this kind of belief and mindset, as long as one regards the country's beliefs as one's own beliefs and wholeheartedly identifies with the country's ideals and moral values, everyone is qualified to inherit the Heavenly Human Cauldron. Everyone can gradually sublimate their own concepts under this common mindset."

"Everyone has the opportunity to achieve the upper third rank. As far as I know, Jun Mo's talent was not good at the beginning, but he had a strong ability to empathize and was most in agreement with the ideals of that country, so he was gradually promoted to the second rank."

"It was also because of his identification with that belief that the Buddha and the devil wanted to convert him and seize his foundation. In addition to the evil thoughts of humanity, the Buddha and the devil also wanted the exploration and use of faith by that country back then..."

Hearing this, Chu Tai was somewhat confused. He looked at Shou Dao Ren and asked, "Being obsessed with a belief, achieving the fourth rank might be easy, but the third rank should be difficult. So, this country was destroyed in the end because of the lack of high-ranking cultivators?"

"Back then, almost everyone in their country was a fifth-grade cultivator. They had condensed a common dharma and possessed extraordinary power. As long as they practiced diligently, it was not difficult to achieve a fourth-grade celestial being. After that, as long as they left the country and walked in the human world, or in the many human caves, or in the other eight continents, they could enter the third grade by reorganizing the dharma and the embryonic form of the dharma and the dao fruit."

"And most of those who can come out of it are those with firm faith. Therefore, there are quite a few high-ranking cultivators in that country. At least I know of seven or eight third-rank cultivators, and there are as many as four second-rank seniors if Jun Mo is included."

"Then how did they perish?"

Chu Tai couldn't understand why such a powerful force declined inexplicably and left no information behind. Even its name became a taboo.

(End of this chapter)