If you don't give up, I'd like to be your adoptive father.

Chapter 1143: Eliminating Demons and Defending the Way
Fuqiu Gong hesitated for a moment before saying, "Chen Sheng also understands the principle of 'not being able to lead the way for the king.'"

Dazexiang will definitely rebel, but in terms of timing...
I estimate that once Hu Hai, Li Si, and the Prince of Lieyang enter Xingyang, they will immediately make Chen Sheng their primary target.

When Chen Sheng realized he had no other choice, his inner courage would surely suppress his fear of Yu Fengxian.

When there is no way to retreat, an explosion is inevitable.

The dwarf complained, "This is too passive. If the Xingyang court is allowed to steadily implement the new policies, the situation will only get worse."

Fuqiu Gong said helplessly, "Brother Dao, we are not in Fulong Court, so we cannot directly ask Qianlong to do anything."

They only offer help when they encounter something they cannot do themselves but must do, in accordance with fate.

During the Investiture of the Gods, not only did Yuanshi Tianzun of Yuxu Palace not interfere with Xiqi's national policies, but even the Twelve Golden Immortals of Chan Sect never led any "mortal" military operations.

All causes and effects, and karma, are borne by Jiang Ziya.

Jiang Ziya was a "filter of cause and effect".

The great immortals of today, such as Fuqiu Gong, do not compare themselves to the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect.

They believed that they simultaneously played the roles of both Yuanshi Tianzun and the Twelve Golden Immortals.

This is not arrogance, but rather a sense of helplessness.

If they had a powerful and protective teacher like Yuanshi Tianzun, who was willing to get involved and help them control the situation, they would be willing to win the final victory easily and without much effort, just like the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect back then.

Nowadays, he not only controls the overall situation but also personally intervenes at crucial moments, handling everything himself.

It's not just tiring, it's also easy to mess things up.

For example, right now, in a chess game, which was originally harmonious and quiet, Yu Fengxian suddenly interrupted, announced that she was also a chess player, and messed around, turning the originally clear chessboard into a mess.

On the surface, only Lu Dingxian came to find Fuqiu Gong.

In fact, the chess players on the first floor were all anxious and restless, and some were even at a loss.

Lu Dingxian represents a group of quasi-Daluo, and Fuqiu Gong also represents a group of quasi-Daluo who guard Tianzhu Peak.

When Yu Fengxian killed Huang An Daxian last year, the impact on the minds of the top powers in the Three Realms was less than one-thousandth of the impact of a few decrees issued casually at this time.

They didn't even get together to discuss the death of Huang An Da Xian that day.

Now, however, it is necessary to convene a "General Assembly of Representatives of the Quasi-Great Luo" to discuss countermeasures.

The dwarf said in a deep voice, "Brother Dao, now that things have come to this, we can choose not to target Qianlong or directly target Bao Qin, but we must treat Yu Fengxian as an adversary."

Fuqiu Gong's eyes flickered slightly as he asked, "Brother Dao, are you perhaps going to Mount Hua to participate in the 'Grand Tutor Selection'?"
With your methods, it wouldn't be difficult for you to seize the position of 'Grand Tutor of Qin'.

But once you're entangled in karma, it's hard to escape!

The dwarf said, "Why should we personally participate?"

—We have raised disciples for tens of thousands of years, and today is the day they will die for their principles!

Fuqiu Gong bowed and said, "Thank you for your trouble, fellow Daoist."

—Fellow Daoist, your righteousness is admirable, but I will not participate.

"What do you mean, fellow Daoist?" the dwarf asked, frowning.

—Yu Fengxian is the greatest enemy of all of us "chess players". You can't just sit back and enjoy the fruits of our labor!

Fuqiu Gong sighed, “The Four Friends of Qionglin made a vow with Yu Fengxian.”

In the future, if she is involved in anything, I should let her know first.

If I participate in what you are planning, I must fulfill my promise once I arrive at Mount Hua.

Wouldn't that be betraying you all?

The dwarf's expression changed several times, and he said in a deep voice, "No matter what the result is after the Grand Tutor selection, Dazexiang must take immediate action!"

—I'll handle Yu Fengxian, but you must immediately launch the Dazexiang Uprising!
Leaving these words behind, the dwarf turned and flew away, disappearing into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, Meng Qi's figure emerged from below the clouds, his expression strange as he said, "Good fortune may be a harbinger of misfortune, and misfortune may be a harbinger of good fortune."

What was once a loss of face at Yu Fengxian's hands has now turned into a good thing.

We no longer need to directly confront the might of the First Emperor, right?

Fuqiu Gong said calmly, "By choosing the summit of Mount Hua as the location for the duel, she has already made it clear that she will not use the Nine Cauldrons or ride the Ancestral Dragon."

"Do you want to go and watch the debate on Taoism at Mount Hua?" Meng Qi asked.

“Go ahead. Especially at times like these, Tianzhu Peak must not have any accidents,” said Fuqiu Gongdao.

Three days later, early morning.

In the eastern suburbs of Huayin County, at the foot of Mount Hua, a small temple consisting of three tiled houses was built.

It occupies a small area, and its location is not particularly good; it is somewhat remote, sparsely populated, and has few worshippers.

It was around eight or nine in the morning, and the main hall was empty; there wasn't a single worshipper offering incense.

Xiaoyu stood at the entrance and looked around. The signboard did indeed read "San Niang Temple".

"Could it be Grand Tutor Yu from Xianyang?" Suddenly, a woman in her forties hurriedly came out from the side hall, bowed respectfully, and looked at Grand Tutor Yu with surprise.

"It's me. Are you the abbot of the temple?" Xiaoyu asked.

The woman was dressed in casual clothes, with a gray linen apron around her waist, looking like a village woman who had just finished farm work.

She smiled shyly and said, "I'm the only one in the temple. I'm the wife of Niu Rong, the village head of 'Niu Tou Village,' and everyone calls me 'Sister-in-law Zhang.' I practiced Taoism for a few years and am considered a 'living Taoist' who practices while still having hair."

However, during festivals when there are many worshippers, my son Niu Rong would bring his sister-in-law, son, and daughter to help out at the temple.

After introducing herself, she immediately stepped aside to make way for the door and respectfully invited, "Grand Tutor, please come in and have a seat. This humble Taoist priest will brew you a pot of tea."

The front yard was small, about thirty square meters, paved with bluestone slabs, with a large incense burner in the center, covered with a thin layer of ash, and no incense was burning at the moment.

After passing through the courtyard, we immediately entered the main shrine of the Three Holy Mothers.

It's not very big, about seven or eight meters wide and four meters deep. In the center is a beautiful statue of a deity. To the left of the statue is a beautiful goddess statue, and to the right is a fierce guardian deity.

The reason it is described as beautiful is because the statue is not made of traditional clay and lacquered with gold.

The statue of the Holy Mother of the Three Saints is carved entirely from a single piece of jade as white as porcelain.

With porcelain-white skin, exquisite features, a chubby face, and small eyes, he exuded a dignified air.

Well, the statue has very white skin and the carving is quite exquisite, but the accuracy of the reproduction is very poor.

The Holy Mother of the Three Realms has delicate features, with a small face, big eyes, and rosy cherry lips.

To display their majesty, the statues of deities have very large faces, truly "faces as large as silver basins".

Xiaoyu waited in front of the statue for a while, but the Holy Mother of the Three Kingdoms did not "come down" to see her.

She lit an incense stick, placed it in the incense burner in front of the statue, and bowed twice, but the Holy Mother still did not "come down".

Xiaoyu was displeased. She deliberately examined the statue from head to toe, then shook her head and said, "The statue is so alluring and seductive. It will surely encounter a love tribulation in the future. How pitiful and lamentable!"

Yang Chan couldn't hold back any longer.

The statue blinked, and a majestic, angry expression appeared on its large, silver face. It roared, "Which gossipy shrew is making a scene down there?"

It seemed to have just seen Xiaoyu, and bowed its head. "So it's you, Yu Fengxian. You came to my temple, yet you speak such wicked words. What is the meaning of this?"

Xiaoyu smiled and said, "With such distinguished guests at our door, where is your etiquette?"

“You’re not a distinguished guest; you’re an unwelcome guest with no kind words and no good intentions.” Yang Chan, her colorful skirt fluttering, stepped down from the statue, her eyes filled with wariness. “Coming to me at a time like this is definitely not a good thing.”

—Your intuition is really sharp!

Xiaoyu sighed, "The news of the Mount Hua Dao Debate three days ago has already spread throughout the world. Don't you know?"

Yang Chan sneered, "If you happened to come by for a visit and found me not home, you would surely burn some incense and leave in a hurry. After all, you have the important matter of selecting the Grand Tutor on your mind."

Instead of leaving, you deliberately provoked me with harsh words, causing me to descend in my true form.

What else could this be but ulterior motives?

—Wow, you're noticeably smarter today than usual!

Xiaoyu pointed at the statue and said, "You yourself said that your skin is as white as porcelain, your face is like a silver basin, and your lips are painted with vermilion. Isn't that enchanting?"
Sooner or later, literary figures will come to praise your beauty and stir your desires.

With your composure and your current state of mind, you might feel a quiet joy, but you would definitely look down on it.

If you encounter a lecherous scoundrel who speaks recklessly, you should teach him a lesson.

However, the calamity and karma will continue to accumulate, and one day you will also encounter the 'calamity of immortality'.

When the tribulation of immortality unfolds in the form of a tribulation of love, you definitely won't be able to withstand it, and then you'll be doomed forever.

The prophetism of time travelers is mostly useless.

Sometimes, Xiaoyu makes serious misjudgments due to preconceived notions.

However, if the scattered information possessed by the transmigrator is combined with the celestial secrets of this life, it will produce strange effects.

The essence of the art of divination is to make predictive deductions about the future development of a certain event based on existing information.

The more big data collected, the more complete and accurate the information, and the closer the inference results are to reality.

Xiaoyu treated the information from her past life as big data, stuffed it into a database, and then used the Hetu and Luoshu to evolve the innate Bagua and deduce the changes in heavenly secrets.

If the information from the previous life is completely wrong, it will be useless in this life, and the deduced results will naturally be wildly wrong.

Given her current level of divination skills, she could sense that her mistakes were too egregious.

If the information from her past life is accurate, then during the process of deducing the secrets of heaven, she will suddenly feel inspired and enter a state that is almost like communicating with the heavens, which is very intoxicating, and the result will naturally be very close to the truth.

For example, right now, Xiaoyu wasn't just trying to scare Yang Chan; she basically revealed Yang Chan's true fate.

Upon hearing her prediction, Yang Chan immediately sensed something.

"Don't talk nonsense! My statue is nothing special; most goddesses and immortals are like this."

Yang Chan's words were not entirely sincere; she felt a little uneasy and somewhat irritated.

—Could it be that Yu Fengxian has already inflicted the "unlucky use of honorifics" upon me?
She glared fiercely at Grand Tutor Yu.

Xiaoyu said, "If all goddesses and immortals are like this, then they too may encounter love tribulations. But you are destined to encounter love tribulations, and you will certainly not have a good end."

Yang Chan was unconvinced and said, "Why are they only 'possibly' while I am 'certain' and definitely doomed to a bad end?"
I can tell you that I am a celestial being who has cultivated the elixir of immortality, and I am only one step away from becoming a golden immortal.

My level of mental cultivation is beyond your imagination.

Xiao Yu asked, "Between a wealthy landowner and a poor old man in the village, who is most likely to die of old age in bed?"
He is clearly a wealthy man.

The only things that could threaten the life of the wealthy man were his lifespan and illness.

There are many things that could take the old man's life.

You are undoubtedly a great benefactor among the immortals; the only thing that could truly become your tribulation is probably a tribulation of love.

Other calamities can be overcome by you using your magical artifacts and background.

Having encountered a love tribulation, your second brother and your uncle will not only fail to be your help, but will instead become your calamity.

Yang Chan glanced at her and asked, "And you?"

Xiaoyu laughed and said, "I don't follow the path of you flashy and cheap women at all."

Don't let my young age fool you, I'm still better looking than you.

But I am already a proper 'Primordial Ruler'.

Have you heard of the Old Mother of Qiushan? That's my 'divine name'.

Qiushan Laomu sat at the same table with Doumu Yuanjun and Lishan Laomu.

If a statue were to be erected, it would resemble a kind old grandmother.

If you wish to avoid calamity, it would be best to separate your immortal and divine positions, and replace your divine position with the 'body of the Old Mother'.

Although the 'Three Holy Mothers' are no match for the 'Yuanjun', at least they have the word 'mother' in their names, which can fool ordinary people who don't understand theology.

The positions of immortals are arbitrary; mortals can only see gods, not immortals.

Yang Chan disagreed with many of her points.

She didn't approve of any of those slutty, cheap women, or women who were prettier than her, or those who sat at the same table as Doumu Yuanjun.

But she couldn't deny that Yu Fengxian was indeed a "Yuanjun," unlike a "goddess" like herself.

As far as she knew, the celestial beings in Heaven who possessed the Yuanjun (Primordial Sovereign) would eventually appear as old women to their believers, regardless of how youthful and charming they were originally, in order to show solemnity and reverence.

—Or, should I go to the Heavenly Court and beg my uncle to bestow upon me the title of "Huashan Yuanjun"?
But "Yuanjun" is already on par with the Great Emperor, while the main god of Mount Hua, Jin Tianwang, is only a "Heavenly King"!

Yang Chan was conflicted, but said impatiently, "Stop beating around the bush and just tell me what you want from me?"

Xiao Yu said, "Do you still remember the promise you made to me in the Netherworld?"

Yang Chan felt a tightness in her chest, vaguely sensing that something was amiss.

"What promise?" she asked nervously.

Xiao Yu said calmly, "That day, you used the banner of eliminating demons and protecting the righteous to make me release Yama and restore order to the underworld."

I agreed, and you promised that next time you encounter a truly chaotic world of evil, you will not waver in your resolve.

They will surely be as brave and fearless as they are in the underworld, daring to face evil proudly even alone.

"This..." Yang Chan's pretty face was conflicted. "Of course I have the heart to eliminate demons and protect the righteous, but I don't think I made any promises to you at the time."

Xiaoyu sneered, "Are you sure?"

She raised her right hand and snapped her fingers, "Click~"

With the activation of the Qi Shadow Technique, a realistic illusion was displayed before Yang Chan.

It's another Yang Chan and another Xiao Yu.

Xiaoyu said: Those who break their oath will be sent down to the mortal world by three hundred heavenly gods sent by the Heavenly Emperor, and crushed into corpse mud with golden maces!

Yang Chan then cried out to the heavens: "Uncle Jade Emperor, please witness my sincerity!"

"Don't think that just because you're the Jade Emperor's nephew, the Jade Emperor won't send a celestial being to smash you with a golden mace."

"When it comes to work, he uses 'professional titles,' and he absolutely won't let personal feelings interfere," Xiaoyu chuckled.

"You, you're plotting against me? What exactly do you want?" Yang Chan asked nervously.

Xiaoyu patted her shoulder and said softly, "Take your Lotus Lantern and come with me to exorcise demons and protect the righteous path."

(End of this chapter)