If the sect doesn't accept geniuses, they will become giants once they leave?

Chapter 422: The Great Wilderness Monk Becomes a Demon
"The difference—"

"You know, among the monks, I'm one of the very young ones, but I come from a good family. Plus, I love learning, so I know a lot about things that happened a long time ago."

Lily Jiang played with the cigarette pipe in her hand, with a soft light flashing in her eyes, as if she remembered something warm.

Li Yanmo didn't want to delve into Jiang Baili's obviously embellished words. "So, what did the studious Sister Jiang read about the Great Wilderness Dao in the book?"

Lily Jiang held the pipe in her mouth and exhaled a breath, along with a word.

"chaos."

"chaos?"

"There's an old saying that the gap between people is greater than the gap between people and dogs. The gap between the cultivators in the Great Wilderness period was even greater than the gap between people," Lily Jiang slowly adjusted her sitting posture and said lazily, "Looking at those Great Wilderness cultivators from today's perspective..."

"Rather than cultivating immortality, it's better to say that you are cultivating demons and monsters."

"The older the Taoist tradition, the less human-like its disciples are. I heard that among those ancient sects in the early days of the Great Wilderness, there wasn't a single human-like person. Having three eyes, three heads and six arms, faces like evil spirits, and no face at all were considered child's play."

"I heard that in some early stages of the Great Wilderness, the three flowers gathering at the top of the head means that the head explodes into three flowers."

"If you put the Classic of Mountains and Seas back to the early days of the Great Wilderness, it would only be considered a children's book."

"Because the monks were even more evil than the demons, the demon race was almost wiped out at that time."

It was the first time that Li Yanmo heard of such a thing, and he subconsciously glanced at Nuyao and Mumei on the foundation-building platform.

One of these two people was a cultivator during the Great Wilderness period, and the other was a demon immortal who first became an immortal through cultivation.

But these two people look like human beings. Mumei's sika deer head is just a head cover. Although Li Yanmo has never seen Mumei's true face, he can occasionally see her chin and confirm that she is definitely a human being.

"Oh~ this——"

Nuyao seemed to have remembered something and patted her thigh. "It seems to be true. When I was a kid, there were many cultivators who became neither human nor demonic after reaching the Golden Core stage."

"Do you know what the reason is?" Li Yanmo was a little curious.

Nuyao was not only the first person to become an immortal through cultivation, but also the first person to form a golden elixir. In a sense, she was like an encyclopedia. Li Yanmo did learn a lot of information from Nuyao, but the problem was that all the information from Nuyao needed to be triggered.

Either it triggers certain keywords, or it is automatically triggered when reaching a special environment.

It’s not that Nuyao is the kind of person who won’t tell anything unless asked, but she really doesn’t know what others need to know.

"Maybe... it's because of me," Nv Yao scratched her face. "Didn't I use the golden elixirs of those monster beasts to break through to the Golden Core stage? But those were golden elixirs formed by monster beasts. I put the monster beast golden elixirs in my body and used them to break through to the Nascent Soul stage and then the Spiritual Transformation stage... right? It would be strange if there weren't some problems."

"Those people are not like me who can repeatedly obtain golden elixirs, so they can only adapt to the monster beast golden elixirs and use them as the source for their cultivation."

"And then... those who practiced that way developed their own methods, which were passed down and improved upon generation after generation."

"From raising a certain monster beast in captivity, to imitating the habits of that monster beast, and changing the environment to the same environment in which the monster beast lives."

"Then use the method of transformation to further improve the inheritance. There is no need to obtain the elixir, but to form the elixir by oneself."

"Of course, you understand... This kind of cultivation method is to teach people to cultivate towards the direction of demons. The so-called transformation method is also to cultivate towards the stronger form of that demon."

Li Yanmo looked Nuyao up and down.

"Then how did you..."

"I'm not stupid. I can obtain the golden elixir without getting hurt," Nuyao crossed her arms and snorted. "Of course I fed the monster beast my way, so the supreme golden elixir I fed it suits me, rather than me adapting to the monster beast's golden elixir." Mumei raised her hand and whispered, "I cultivated immortality through my own experience, and I also figured out the method of forming the elixir myself."

Mu Mei paused and muttered softly, "Those cultivators look scary. I don't dare to cultivate with them..."

Li Yanmo pinched the hair on his forehead and sighed.

Lily Jiang, who had been silent, raised her eyebrows, “So the culprit is you?”

"That's not true. Some people imitated her cultivation method, and some imitated her method of forming a pill, but none of them were able to imitate them well enough, and they became neither human nor ghost. Who can they blame?" Li Yanmo took a sip of tea and said lightly, "It's all greed after all."

"Even if she tells other cultivators how to cultivate the Golden Core, they will covet the Golden Cores of more powerful demon beasts and try to take shortcuts."

“There will be no change in the results.”

Lily Jiang thought thoughtfully, “You see it very clearly.”

"So, why did the Nascent Soul of the cultivators before Daozhu be in the form of babies?"

The Dao Pillar is the starting point for distinguishing the Dahuang Daoist tradition from the Dayu Daoist tradition.

The entire Daoist tradition of Dayu is built on the Dao Pillar.

Li Yanmo already knew why the cultivators in the Great Wilderness became neither human nor ghost, but the mystery of the difference in Nascent Soul had not yet been solved.

Nvyao spread her hands to express her incomprehension.

Lily Jiang blew out a smoke ring, looked up at the sky, and after pondering for a moment, she said leisurely, “Maybe it’s because… the source of the Great Wilderness Taoism is the heartfelt desire to get rid of the poor human body and the desire for the power of the demon.”

"The immortals of the Great Wilderness are merely more powerful beings. They are greedier than anyone else, more prone to obsession with one thing than anyone else, and more prone to anger than anyone else."

"The more they cultivate, the more they realize their own insignificance. The higher their cultivation, the more they can clearly perceive the burden their birth has placed on their cultivation."

"They originally took a shortcut to becoming immortals, so naturally they will look for new shortcuts."

"For example, by nurturing a new self within the foundation-building platform, denying one's own birth, and then trying the method of spiritual transformation and fusion..."

Lily Jiang paused and snorted disdainfully.

"Detachment."

"Just these two vague words opened up the Great Wilderness."

Li Yanmo crossed his arms over his chest and couldn't help but sigh, "Transcendence... Actually being obsessed with these two words is really boring."

Lily Jiang raised her eyebrows, "Oh? Then please trouble the reincarnated immortal, Sect Master Li, to help me solve my doubts and tell me what transcendence is."

Li Yan put down his teacup and looked up at the sky.

Looking at the boundless sky, Li Yanmo said lazily.

"There is no such thing as transcendence. It's just people worrying about nothing."

"There's no such thing as a cage. It's just a refuge we create for ourselves when we have nothing to do and don't have the courage to face the emptiness that comes with it."

(End of this chapter)