Da Zaojun

After using the Golden Needle of the Sun and patrolling the area three more times to make sure there was nothing left, Song Wuji asked, "Besides alchemy and weapon crafting, there must be a place where Laozi rests in this Tushita Palace. Take me there quickly."

The dog said, "Aren't you afraid of being hung up like the monkey?"

"Not afraid!"

Song Wuji said, "I am here to pay my respects to the former residence of a sage."

Shenhou then said, "You old dog who's been infected with the plague, you should be a servant boy who hides from arrows. If you mention such things again, I'll stab your mouth open with my sword!"

Shenhou is a master swordsman who attained enlightenment during the Warring States period and originally had some dignity. Now that he has lost his status as a [demon immortal], he is gradually unable to subdue his restless mind. Here, however, he is quite unruly.

The dog could only grumble, "You won't even let me say it!"

When they arrived at Laozi's resting place, they saw that everything was arranged exactly as it was originally, so it seemed that even a "family thief" could not steal from this place.

It was a bed, a small table with an incense burner on it, and antiques and curios around it.

Song Wuji tried them one by one, but couldn't move an inch of them.

No matter what ornaments, bonsai, incense burners, writing brushes, ink, paper, or even a cup of steaming tea, you can't taste a thing, no matter how hard you try.

The Monkey was so anxious it scratched its ears and cheeks, the Rat was so anxious it ran around in circles, the Pig was grunting and the Rooster was clucking.

Song Wuji looked at a picture on which the character "Dao" was written in a flamboyant style.

It has a signature and a stamp.

There happened to be an incense burner below, and the incense had burned out.

Then, inspired by a stroke of genius, he retrieved the three most precious and valuable incense sticks from his own storehouse: the Reincarnation Incense, the Dao Incense, and the True Incense.

After Song Wuji respectfully offered incense, his perspective suddenly rose, as if the entire universe was above him. He felt a surge of inexplicable insights and saw bright stars arranged like a chessboard in the center of the universe, with the intersections of the chessboard representing individual positions.

However, these business positions are all in swirling patterns, seemingly being reborn. Only a few have been fully formed, but they are mostly low-level business positions.

From this perspective, the entire universe is heading towards chaos and disorder.

The old rules have been broken, but the imprint they left behind remains. This imprint makes the entire universe try to find a way to follow the old path and restore its normal operation according to the old methods.

But in reality, rebuilding is no longer possible; instead, it is overdrawing resources, thus inevitably leading to the destruction of the world.

Song Wuji saw that the Heavenly Dao had chosen a world-destroying demon king to be the Heavenly Emperor and the Great Heavenly Venerable, not to slow down the aging of heaven and earth, but to destroy the world and then recreate it!

Destroy all immortals, gods, and those who have stolen the power of the Great Dao, and return the world to its original state.

But his opponents are Da Luo, Tai Yi, and those who will not perish even if the world is destroyed.

Therefore, there needs to be someone who can kill Da Luo and Taiyi.

As a result, this Great Celestial Venerable felt that there was no future in following the Heavenly Dao, so he directly turned against it and instead extracted the Supreme Fruit Position and a whole set of Karmic Positions condensed from the power of heaven and earth, thus undermining the very foundation of the Heavenly Dao.

This world lacks the anchor of the concept of "Heavenly Court" and is therefore disconnected from the real Heavenly Court.

That's right, this isn't the real Heavenly Court at all.

It is merely one of many universes, not eternal and indestructible.

The Heavenly Court was established here to cultivate those who attain high positions and to nurture the Taiyi.

It belongs to the "colonial world".

Although it was a colonized world, it actually helped to improve the rules. However, the original Heavenly Dao objected: "Is this your home or mine?"

This led to the cultivation of this upright and righteous Great Celestial Venerable, who was actually a Great Celestial Venerable disguised as a world-destroying demon.

This Great Dao Diagram sensed Song Wuji's doubts about the current great calamity of heaven and earth, and thus revealed the truth to him.

Song Wuji was speechless. He had been wondering why the Grand Celestial Venerable would overturn the table, and had considered various questions and possible outcomes, but he never expected it to be like this.

If things go as Heaven and Earth intended, the Great Celestial Venerable would destroy the world, kill all the immortals and gods, and then use the essence of the immortals and gods to nourish the karmic positions. The karmic positions would remain, and might even be strengthened.

After the Great Celestial Venerable destroyed the world, he recreated it. These positions of karma could then give birth to innate deities, large and small. From the very beginning, it was a complete great world with boundless potential.

But if you think too highly of yourself, you'll end up shooting yourself in the foot.

Upon learning the true location of the Heavenly Court, the Great Celestial Venerable immediately had the idea of ​​leaving, for that was the true Great World.

So he decisively seized a huge amount of wealth and numerous official positions and went to the real Heavenly Court.

If the will of Heaven in this world didn't have such a strong desire, it wouldn't have forced the Great Celestial Venerable to be so decisive. It's because he has been urging the destruction of the world every day since he took this position that he has taken such action.

After all, if someone lacks ability, there's still hope; but if their mindset is flawed, there's no hope.

"Hey!"

Song Wuji sighed deeply, unsure of what to say for a moment.

They began to chant, wondering whether they should offer sacrifices to the Heavenly Way and the Earthly Way to awaken the will of the Heavenly Way.

They still chose to become "traitors to the world" like the Great Celestial Venerable, going against the will of the world.

In theory, the Heavenly Court here is a 1:1 replica of the real Heavenly Court, and the so-called Three Pure Ones are all played by certain Heavenly Court deities in the Eternal Great Luo Universe.

If Song Wuji were to think about it, it would be better for Run to go to that side, but the Great Celestial Venerable has already absconded with almost all the karmic positions and origins, and the tax has already been collected into the cataclysmic calamity.

Even the path to the true eternal world of the Heavenly Court on the other side was severed, all for the purpose of [severance].

Now, Song Wuji no longer has the chance to follow the Great Celestial Venerable on his journey.

The only path left for Song Wuji was the path of "saving the world".

Song Wuji even suspected that his time travel might also be a setup.

[Song Wuji, the God of Fire], the shrine on the cover of the Kitchen God's Book is his own name, what a coincidence.

"Saving the world shouldn't be my job! I'm screwed!"

Song Wuji began to have doubts: which side did the Nuwa and Suirenshi he was worshipping belong to?

According to the Great Dao Diagram, when this universe was first created, there were already Dao Lords and Sages who came here to spread civilization and teach living beings.

In a sense, he can be considered the "godfather" and "mentor" of this world.

It's not entirely colonization. Although it was also for cultivating Dao fruits and karmic positions, the way they did it was much more respectable. In comparison, the Great Celestial Venerable, whom the Heavenly Dao will had gone to great lengths to elevate, was far too unseemly.

Even if Song Wuji surrendered with all his positions, he probably wouldn't even get a seat at the table, because his methods were too sloppy. He was like draining the pond to catch all the fish, picking the unripe fruit in advance. He was the only one who got to eat his fill, but wouldn't everyone else get some meat and soup?
And now this mess is left behind. All the humanitarian civilization that has been built up over so long has been destroyed!
It truly lives up to its name as the Great Demon of Destruction.

(End of this chapter)