Donghuang Ziji

Chapter 772 The Inevitable Dao Fruit
Chu Tai's question made Shou Daoren silent for a long time.

"A disaster terrible enough to consume the essence of those who are willing to sacrifice."

"Has this level of disaster ever happened in the Central Plains?"

Chu Tai was even more surprised. If a change of this level had occurred, why was there no record of it in the Jinhua Sect?
Even when he entered Daluo Heaven last time, his teachers did not remind him of this.

Taoist Shou fell silent again, and this time he couldn't help but frown, then he made hand gestures and cast a spell, as if he was trying to recall something.

Finally, Taoist Shou bowed again towards the direction of Kunlun Mountain and prayed silently. As wisps of smoke surged and points of clear light fell, a figure appeared in front of Chu Tai and Taoist Shou.

Taoist Shou immediately bowed and said, "Greetings, Master."

Chu Tai also followed suit and bowed: "Greetings to True Lord Qingshi."

The True Lord raised his hand and asked the two to stand up. He then looked at Chu Tai and said, "Regarding the issues concerning the Holy Country, it is useless to ask all the people below the second rank. Unless they are in special areas such as Kunlun, the third rank cultivators will gradually forget this part after entering the Central Plains."

"And ordinary cultivators, especially those in the Central Plains, are simply not likely to record this part of the content. Even if they know that such an incident has occurred, they only have the concept that there has been a disaster that is terrible enough to consume the essence of those who are willing to sacrifice. But if you ask them what happened specifically, they will not have any relevant memory."

"Saint King Avenue also has this ability?"

Chu Tai raised his doubts. As an existence that could connect to the power of the Saint King's Avenue, he could probably sense a little bit of the power limit of the Avenue left by the Saint Kings. He should not be able to do this.

True Lord Qingshi also saw Chu Tai's doubts and knew that his real intention of asking questions at this moment was to ask himself.

Zhenjun sighed and said, "Because the sealing of this period of history was tacitly agreed by me, Yuli, Hunyuan, Junmo, and Tianmo. During this period, Xuemo and the three Bodhisattvas of Buddhism also intervened to strengthen the seal. Later, after Taiyi attained enlightenment, he also went to strengthen it."

After hearing this, Chu Tai was stunned for a moment. He forced himself to stay awake and deliberately said something completely irrelevant.

"So, only Buddha and Demon are excluded."

After saying that, Chu Tai couldn't stand it anymore and asked, "What happened back then that made you all join in the ban?"

Zhenjun did not answer Chu Tai's question, but instead asked Chu Tai a question.

"What problems do you think will arise in a pure, bright, just, and absolutely orderly country? What problems will force it to collapse and become a taboo?"

As he spoke, Zhenjun looked at the Taoist Shou beside him and also signaled him to think about it.

Upon hearing this, Taoist Shou stretched out his hand and waved it lightly, generating boundless light. After continuous stimulation, black spots gradually appeared.

He tried to dispel the black spots, but as he was dispersing them, he seemed to think of something and slowed down his efforts. As the force weakened, the black spots expanded rapidly.

The Taoist looked at the True Lord and asked, "Is it because of the diversity of the wills of the living beings that they have internal turmoil? Or did they finally choose to gather the power of all living beings together, eliminate independence, and build an absolute order?"

"If that's the case, then Jun Mo doesn't need to ban this history. After all, he is the greatest product of this philosophy?"

Chu Tai raised a rebuttal and looked at Qingshi Zhenjun at the same time, asking a question he had never thought of before: "May I ask Zhenjun, is the birth of Junmo inevitable?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Taoist Shou stood there in a daze, as if he could not understand Chu Tai's thinking as to why he suddenly jumped to the inevitability of Jun Mo's birth.

Zhenjun’s answer made Shou Daoren even more dumbfounded.

"It must not be the Sovereign Demon, but his corresponding Dao Fruit."

Chu Tai froze in place, then whispered, "So, now is also the time when something is bound to appear?"

"No, now is the most chaotic time."

Zhenjun shook his head and retorted: "After all, the two Great Heavens are not an individual. Perhaps there are some higher beings observing above our two Great Heavens, but for us in the Great Heavens, this is the most chaotic and the most uncertain moment."

When Taoist Shou heard this, he could no longer follow Chu Taihe's thoughts. He bowed and asked, "Master, Fellow Daoist Chu, can you explain it more clearly?"

True Lord Qingshi did not answer, but looked at Chu Tai and asked him to answer.

Chu Tai thought for a while before speaking slowly.

"Friend Shou, let me ask you, when we determine what something is, what concept will inevitably appear?"

Taoist Shou was silent for a moment, and asked uncertainly: "What is this thing not?"

"Correct."

Chu Tai nodded, looked toward the sky, and whispered, "This is the limitation of acquired creatures like me. If I guess correctly, this concept will not affect everyone before acquired creatures enter the third rank. But it is different after entering the third rank. Whether it is Cave God, Cave Mystery, Cave Truth, or Heavenly Immortal, Supreme Saint, True Lord, or Escaping Tribulation, Cave Void, Innocent Heaven, or Refining Void, Combining Dao, Returning to Truth, they all need to seek the truth. Once you start seeking the truth, this concept becomes troublesome."

"What's the trouble? Isn't this the inevitable process of our practice?"

Shou Daoren still couldn't understand, so Chu Tai asked back: "It is an inevitable process, but this process is also the process of us proposing what is true, so correspondingly, there must be a concept of what is not true."

"For cultivators like me, this concept is the embodiment of the game between heaven and man. It is a state of opposition between us and heaven and earth, and a process in which we distort the laws and principles of heaven and earth."

"But the Holy Kingdom is different. You mentioned it before. That kingdom is built around faith, a special order system that is guided from top to bottom and supported from bottom to top."

“People across the country share common beliefs, common moral values, and common ideals, and ultimately they are moving in the same direction.”

"During this period, they also integrated all the positive emotions together, using the Heavenly Cauldron as the center, sublimating them through the way of faith and the way of sacrifice, and constructed a unique cave heaven principle."

"Then can this process itself be regarded as a huge Taoist ritual? Can the entire country be regarded as a huge Taoist fruit?" When Chu Tai said this, he couldn't help but feel a little fear.

"If the entire Holy Kingdom is regarded as a complete Dao Fruit, then where are the distortions and changes relative to it?"

"Perhaps this is the reason why the Holy Nation was destroyed? They could not withstand the correction of this fruit by the Great Heaven, so they were destroyed."

Taoist Shou proposed his own idea, but it was rejected by Chu Tai again: "Then it cannot explain why Jun Mo's Dao Fruit is bound to appear."

"So what do you think caused this situation?"

True Lord Qingshi looked at Chu Tai with a hint of praise in his eyes, encouraging him to speak out his guess.

"After much thought, I think there is only one possibility. That is, when the Holy Nation was first established, when it was operating all principles, it regarded itself as a part of the Great Heaven, rather than an individual that wanted to transcend."

"What's the problem with this? Isn't it just the concept of harmony between man and nature?"

Taoist Shou still didn't understand. True Lord Qingshi sighed silently, looked at Chu Tai and asked, "How did you guess this?"

"I guessed this by accident. After I opened up Dongyue Divine Court, I also felt many powers, such as the power of the Saint King Avenue, the power of Dongji Chenguang Great Heaven, and the power of Dongtu itself. I felt some subtle changes in the process of their integration, and the subtle changes in the process of power gestation, the kind of power that was analyzed and bred from the inside of heaven and earth."

"At that time, I just felt it was mysterious, but then a light bulb went off in my head. If I substituted the Saint King Avenue, the Saint Country Avenue, and the Monarch Demon Avenue into it, it seemed that there was a little bit of similarity. Then, combined with the changes brought about by the divine talisman that you, the True Lord, bestowed upon me, I looked for the difference between the immortal way and the divine way, and between the divine way and the human way, and I grasped a little possibility."

"This is also the reason why I asked you earlier whether the birth of Junmo was inevitable."

"I see, you are indeed a smart child."

After the True Lord exclaimed, he looked at the Taoist Shou who was still confused, shook his head and said, "You should explain it to him."

Chu Tai looked at Taoist Shou, he hurriedly saluted, lowered his posture, and asked the reason.

Chu Tai leaned aside and half-saluted, explaining, "Earlier, the concept of the unity of heaven and man you talked about seems similar to what I said. But the two cannot be compared. The concept of the unity of heaven and man, after all, is to maintain one's own independence, regard heaven and earth as a higher entity, and let oneself fit it. Heaven and man are separate."

"But I guess that during the Holy Kingdom period, the entire nation never believed that it was separate from the Eastern Heaven. The entire nation believed that it was a part of the Heaven and a link in the operation of the Heaven."

Taoist Shou heard something wrong, and Chu Tai continued: "Since the entire country is part of Datian, then we must face a fact."

"Can the process of the kingdom condensing and analyzing the Dao fruit be regarded as the process of the Dongji Chenguang Great Heaven condensing and analyzing the Dao fruit? After all, the kingdom is a part of the Great Heaven."

After hearing this, Taoist Shou finally understood what Chu Tai wanted to express, and an expression of fear appeared in his eyes.

He recalled the first question Chu Tai had asked earlier.

When we determine what something is, the concept of what it is not will inevitably arise, and this is the limitation of acquired organisms.

Well now, Dongji Chenguang Datian, once he has determined what a Dao Fruit is, he must explain what this Dao Fruit is not, which means that he will give birth to a Dao Fruit that is the opposite of it.

"So, Jun Mo is the successor of that Dao Fruit?"

Taoist Shou looked at Chu Tai, then looked at True Lord Qing Shi, stroked his forehead slightly, looked at Chu Tai helplessly and said, "You should explain it yourself."

"He is not an heir, but a person who gathers them. After all, we, the Dongji Chenguang Datian, are not the acquired ones in the true sense..."

At this point, Chu Tai was suddenly stunned, looked at Qingshi Zhenjun, and whispered: "Is this the reason why you Zhenjun sealed this history? Datianhuo..."

Before Chu Tai could finish his words, he was speechless under the gaze of True Lord Qingshi, while Taoist Shou beside him had blank eyes, and it was obvious that his perception was blocked.

"You are more perceptive than I expected, but you can just guess about this matter yourself and don't say it out loud."

Although Chu Tai couldn't speak, his mind became more active and he couldn't help but start thinking about more things.

If it is true that Datian is alive, then some things can be explained, such as why all the True Lords, Demon Lords and Bodhisattvas chose to remain silent when Taiyi Zhenjun was in contact for two days.

After Master Taiyi failed, people of the same level mostly ignored him rather than adding insult to injury.

In fact, this idea can be further advanced. For example, when the Saint King Avenue destroyed the underworld and cut off the inhuman path, was it to facilitate this process or to stop it?

If the destruction of the underworld is linked to the original netherworld and is seen as giving the great sky the concept of death, it should be considered as promoting this process. At the same time, cutting off the inhuman path, destroying the Shinto, and reducing the authority of the gods to divide the world itself can also be seen as promoting this process.

But on the other hand, if the destruction of the underworld is seen as destroying the independence of Dongji Chenguang Datian, then this process should be blocked.

Likewise, destroying the divine way can also be seen as reducing Dongji Chenguang Datian's observation angle of itself, which should also be a way of blocking it.

So, what happened?
As if seeing some of Chu Tai's thoughts, the True Lord sighed and said, "It is not the time for you to know this part of information. When you enter the second level, you will know everything. Now, first..."

True Lord Qingshi raised his hand, as if trying to obscure part of Chu Tai's memory, but the Donghuang Bell shook gently, and drops of light fell, and Chu Tai's memory was not affected at all.

Zhenjun shifted his gaze to the direction of the Donghuang Bell, and after a moment of silence, he said, "It seems that we have underestimated this treasure. Daoist friend Taiyi is lucky to have you accepted into the Taiyi Immortal Sect."

After saying that, Zhenjun looked around and lightly tapped, leaving behind a series of talismans that merged into the void. Chu Tai could feel a certain force influencing everything, and then the power of Hunyuan, Yuli, Tianmo, Xuemo, Junmo and the three great Bodhisattvas appeared one after another and merged together.

At the same time, in the Western Region, the Buddha and the demon who had descended upon the land looked towards the East, his eyes narrowed slightly: "This thing again, what did they hide back then? It seems that the importance of the East needs to be raised a notch..."

Thinking of this, the Buddha and the devil called a few of their own disciples, bestowed the Buddha's light upon them, and then asked them to go to the East to test the waters first.

(End of this chapter)