Honghuang Xuanyang Dao

Chapter 137 Gathering at Kunlun Mountain

"Use force to prove the truth!" Kong Xuan's face suddenly showed joy, thinking of the Chaos Immortal Body passed down by his teacher, which is the method of proving the truth with force.

However, just when Kong Xuan was about to ask what the difference was between proving the truth with force and becoming a saint with the Hongmeng Purple Qi.

"Master!" The Golden Crane Child walked in with an invitation in his hand. He bowed to Li Xuanyang and said, "There's a Taoist outside the mountain who wants to see you. He claims to be a disciple of the Jade Purity Saint and has come under the Jade Purity Dharma Order. He wants to invite you to go to East Kunlun Mountain to listen to a lecture on the Hunyuan Dao Fruit."

"Alright, go and accept the invitation and tell him that I already know about it." After saying that, Li Xuanyang chuckled and looked at Kong Xuan and the Golden Crane Boy and said, "You all go back and pack your things, and follow me to East Kunlun Mountain. It's a good opportunity to see it all."

"Thank you, sir!" The Golden Crane Boy's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly saluted Li Xuanyang, then turned and walked outside.

A strange look appeared on Kong Xuan's face. He took this opportunity to see what abilities the disciples of the Human Religion had.

A few days passed, and a golden cloud of light flew out from Xuanyang Mountain, headed towards the coast of the East China Sea, and landed above a human tribe.

Standing on it were two Taoists, two boys, and a strange-looking beast.

One of the Taoists was wearing a golden robe with a sword hanging from his waist. There was no aura around him, as if he was in chaos, as if he had turned into nothingness. When his soul investigated, it was empty, without any trace of him.

The other Taoist was wearing silver armor, had a handsome face, and held a long spear in his hand. He was surrounded by five divine lights of green, yellow, red, black and white.

It was Li Xuanyang, Kong Xuan, the Golden Crane Boy, the Silver Crane Boy, and the Nine-headed Feathered Insect who had left Xuanyang Mountain.

At this time, passing by the coast of the East China Sea, Li Xuanyang stopped the cloud light and waved his hand, sending out a golden divine light.

A moment later, a silver moonlight suddenly rushed out from the human tribe below, came into the air, and transformed into an extremely beautiful woman in palace dress. She walked up to Li Xuanyang with light steps, crossed her hands on her abdomen, with her right hand on top, and bowed slightly.

"Disciple Chang'e greets the teacher!"

"Greetings, Senior Brother Kong Xuan!"

"Junior sister, there's no need to be so polite!" Kong Xuan returned the greeting.

Seeing the lunar radiance emanating from Chang'e, Li Xuanyang faintly felt a trace of lunar divine light emerging, as if it was manifested from his primordial spirit. Every move she made contained a hint of lunar charm, and she became more and more similar to Xihe in heaven.

Li Xuanyang's eyes couldn't help but flash with a gleam of light. It seemed that Chang'e was only one opportunity away from awakening the memories of her previous life and restoring her innate identity as a god and demon.

"If you have nothing else to do, come with me."

After hearing Li Xuanyang's words, a hint of doubt flashed in Chang'e's beautiful eyes. She looked at Kong Xuan, the Golden Crane Boy, the Silver Crane Boy, and the Nine-headed Feathered Insect behind her teacher, but there was no sign of Yun Zhongzi.

With such a large number of people being mobilized, I don’t know where the teacher is going.

"Disciple will follow the teacher's instructions!" Chang'e bowed slightly to Li Xuanyang again.

Li Xuanyang nodded, and a golden cloud of light flashed under his feet, which rolled Chang'e into the cloud and flew out into the depths of the prehistoric world.

Judging from the direction of the cloud light, it is not heading towards the western part of the prehistoric world, but gradually coming to the inland of the prehistoric world, getting farther and farther away from the Eastern Kunlun Mountains.

"Master, are we going to the Thirty-three Outer Heavens?" The Nine-headed Feathered Insect couldn't help but ask out of curiosity.

"It is said that after a saint attains enlightenment, he must travel to the Thirty-Three Outer Heavens, deep within the Primal Chaos, to open up a Daoist temple."

As soon as these words were spoken, Kong Xuan and the Golden Crane Boy both looked puzzled. Weren't they supposed to go to East Kunlun Mountain to listen to the lecture on Hunyuan Dao Fruit? When did it change to the Thirty-three Outer Heavens?

"When did Master ever say we were going to the Thirty-Three Outer Heavens?" Li Xuanyang smiled dumbly and said, "There are still over a hundred years until I can explain the Hunyuan Dao Fruit in East Kunlun Mountain. I can go visit a fellow Daoist."

When Chang'e heard that this trip was to East Kunlun Mountain to listen to the Three Pure Ones explain the Hunyuan Dao Fruit, a light flashed in her eyes, and a hint of joy emerged. No wonder the teacher asked her to go together, but why didn't she see Senior Brother Yun Zhongzi!

"Teacher, why don't you ask Senior Brother Yun Zhongzi to go with us?" Chang'e asked softly.

"The master has sent a message to him, and he can go to East Kunlun Mountain with the disciples of the Three Pure Ones."

As they were talking, a tall, handsome and beautiful sacred mountain suddenly appeared before their eyes. The fairy air was reflected by the sun and formed a forest of shadows. There were streaks of rosy clouds and auspicious clouds circling the mountain. There were birds singing among the green bamboos. It was obvious at a glance that this must be the place of practice for a great master with supernatural powers.

"Wuzhuang Monastery on Wanshou Mountain!" Kong Xuan blurted out, "Teacher, are you going to visit Uncle Master Zhenyuanzi?"

During the last catastrophe of the human race, Li Xuanyang and Zhen Yuanzi only met once and did not talk in detail. He then hurriedly said goodbye and left, heading for the underworld.

This time, he planned to visit Wuzhuang Temple first, and then go to East Kunlun Mountain with him until the hundredth year is approaching.

Furthermore, with the emergence of the Netherworld and the Land of Reincarnation, we can discuss with them how to send the Red Cloud True Spirit into reincarnation.

"Haha, you've arrived just in time, fellow Daoist." Just as Li Xuanyang descended from the cloud light and arrived at the gate of Wuzhuang Monastery, Zhen Yuanzi's voice echoed from within the monastery, "My ginseng fruit has just ripened. Daoist, you can sample some with a few of your disciples."

Following a slightly surprised voice, Zhen Yuanzi stepped out of the temple and jokingly said to Li Xuanyang, "If you don't come again, I might have to go to Xuanyang Mountain to bother you."

"Greetings, Uncle Master!" Kong Xuan, Chang'e and others all bowed to Zhen Yuanzi.

"No need to be so polite." Zhen Yuanzi chuckled and was about to wave his sleeves to lift up the few people.

But when he saw Chang'e, a hint of surprise flashed across his eyes, as if he felt a faint sense of familiarity. "Thousands of years have passed, and your innate Taiyin body has become even more extraordinary. It's truly rare."

"Fellow Daoist, you've gone too far." A faint smile appeared on the corner of Li Xuanyang's mouth. It seemed that Zhen Yuanzi had not discovered Chang'e's whereabouts, and only attributed the changes in her to the innate Taiyin vagina.

As for Zhen Yuanzi's joke, Li Xuanyang just nodded and did not tell him about the Red Cloud True Spirit.

"Please come in, fellow Taoist!" Zhen Yuanzi naturally understood what Li Xuanyang meant. He did not continue to discuss the matter, but invited Li Xuanyang and others to enter the Wuzhuang Temple.

When I arrived at a large hall, I saw that a table had already been set up in the hall. It was filled with various spiritual fruits and drinks, as well as dozens of ginseng fruits.

Li Xuanyang walked to the table and sat down, looking at the ginseng fruits placed on it. "It's been a long time since I tasted ginseng fruit."

Since Hong Yun's death, Zhen Yuanzi has used the essence of the ginseng fruit tree to nourish Hong Yun's remaining soul, causing the ginseng fruit tree to suffer severe damage and not bear fruit for many years.

Up to this point, Li Xuanyang had never tasted the ginseng fruit.

"You guys, why don't you thank your uncle?" Li Xuanyang said with a smile, "This ginseng fruit tree is one of the ten innate spiritual roots in the prehistoric world. The ginseng fruit it produces is called Cao Huan Dan. It takes ten thousand years to produce thirty fruits."

“Even many quasi-saints with great magical powers have never had the chance to taste it.”

"Thank you, Master!" Kong Xuan had once been to Wuzhuang Temple to deliver Xiantian Lingshui and Sanguang Shenshui, and had tasted the ginseng fruit once, so it was not bad.

But Chang'e, the Golden Crane Boy, the Silver Crane Boy, and the Nine-headed Feathered Insect all showed joy on their faces.

Among them, the nine-headed feathered insect had a greedy look on its face and swallowed a ginseng fruit in one bite, which reminded Li Xuanyang of Zhu Bajie in later generations.

However, Chang'e, the Golden Crane Boy and the Silver Crane Boy began to eat in small bites.

Seeing this, Li Xuanyang asked a few people to meditate to refine the innate Yi wood energy contained in the ginseng fruit. He left Kong Xuan to take care of it, and he and Zhen Yuanzi got up and walked into the orchard.

Looking at the ginseng fruit tree in front of him, Li Xuanyang was silent for a moment, then waved his hand and summoned the Innate Five-Directions Flag, reversing the yin and yang and five elements in the orchard and disrupting the destiny.

"Now that the Netherworld and the Land of Samsara have appeared, I wonder what your plans are?"

Li Xuanyang simply told how he met Houtu, how she turned into the underworld, and how he used the innate spiritual treasure, the Book of the Underworld, and the innate twelve-grade reincarnation purple lotus to enthrone the Queen of Peace and the Emperor of Fengdu. Finally, he talked about Mengpo, who was transformed from Nuwa, the Wangxiangtai and the Three Lives Stone.

Zhen Yuanzi looked troubled when he heard this. "Nuwa is a saint, how could she transform into Meng Po and personally guard the land of reincarnation?"

"In this case, if Fellow Daoist Hongyun's remaining soul wants to reincarnate, I'm afraid it will be hard to escape a bowl of Mengpo soup!"

With Nuwa's ability, even if Li Xuanyang had the innate spiritual treasure, the Book of the Underworld, and the Emperor of Fengdu was in charge of the underworld and the land of reincarnation, it would be difficult to hide the fact from Nuwa and send Hongyun's remnant soul into reincarnation.

What's more, Hong Yun's death was closely related to the demon tribes such as Di Jun, Tai Yi and Kun Peng.

There is also the missing Hongmeng purple energy, and it is hard to say what Nuwa will do to the reincarnation of Hongyun's residual soul.

"Now I only have two ways to send fellow Daoist Hongyun's remaining soul into reincarnation safely." Li Xuanyang said in a deep voice.

As soon as these words came out, Zhen Yuanzi quickly asked Li Xuanyang, "I wonder if you have any ideas?"

Li Xuanyang said, "In my Xuanyang Mountain, there is a Primal Chaos Spirit Spring. There are several innate purple jade lotuses growing in it. They are cultivated from the seeds of the innate twelfth-grade reincarnation purple lotus."

"In addition, you can also take a ray of spiritual light from the Book of the Underworld, and use these two items to protect the remaining soul of Daoist Fellow Hongyun."

"Even if you can't escape the effects of Meng Po soup, it can still help fellow Daoist Hongyun's reincarnation to embark on the path of Taoism sooner and recover his past memories."

As Li Xuanyang spoke, he sacrificed the innate twelve-grade purple lotus of reincarnation. A huge purple lotus appeared above the orchard. The flower had twelve grades of blossoms, and the lotus body was as crystal clear as purple jade. It faintly emitted bursts of purple light, and countless laws of reincarnation were derived.

"Innate top-grade defensive spiritual treasure!"

"What a rich law of reincarnation!" Zhen Yuanzi exclaimed, "This innate twelfth-grade purple lotus of reincarnation is surprisingly similar to fellow Daoist's innate twelfth-grade white lotus of the Pure World. Could it be that they were also bred from lotus seeds in the chaos?"

Speaking of this, Zhen Yuanzi couldn't help but show a look of joy.

If these two things help, even if Hongyun drinks a bowl of Mengpo soup, he can still protect his true spirit.

"The second is to wait for the human race to flourish. By leveraging the mysteries of the Kongtong Seal, we can enthrone Fellow Daoist Hongyun as one of the Three Emperors of the human race, thereby attaining the status of Saint Emperor." Li Xuanyang suddenly fell silent, not explaining the mysteries of the Saint Emperor status. Instead, he shifted the topic to Chang'e. "Fellow Daoist, you've just sensed that Chang'e's innate Taiyin body is becoming increasingly mysterious and extraordinary!"

Hearing Li Xuanyang suddenly mention Chang'e, Zhen Yuanzi was obviously stunned for a moment and asked, "Why did you bring up this matter, fellow Daoist?"

"Although Chang'e was born into the human race, her previous life was an innate god and demon named Changxi." Li Xuanyang looked towards the void beyond the Thirty-Three Outer Heavens and said, "Like the Queen Xihe in the Heavenly Court, she was also born from the true spirit of the moon."

"Innate Gods and Demons!" Zhen Yuanzi's face changed slightly after hearing Li Xuanyang's words, "But it's the reincarnation of the true spirit!"

"That's right." Li Xuanyang nodded and said, "Chang'e is the reincarnation of Changxi's true spirit after her death."

"So that's how it is. No wonder I felt that the aura around her was vaguely familiar." Zhen Yuanzi showed a hint of realization.

"No matter what choice you make in the end, you must wait for a while until I find the whereabouts of the Judge's Pen and let the Emperor of Fengdu take complete control of reincarnation." After saying that, Li Xuanyang waved his hand to take back the Innate Five Directions Flag and the Innate Twelve-Rank Reincarnation Purple Lotus, and turned to talk about what he saw and heard in the underworld.

In this way, Li Xuanyang and his companions settled down in Wuzhuang Temple with peace of mind.

For a quasi-saint with great supernatural powers, decades are just the blink of an eye.

On this day, Li Xuanyang and Zhen Yuanzi took Kong Xuan and others to leave Wuzhuang Temple and rode on auspicious clouds towards East Kunlun Mountain.

However, the scene was different from when Nuwa was sanctified and preached.

At this time, outside the East Kunlun Mountains, there were only clouds of light from the quasi-saints, great masters, and Daluo Jinxian cultivators.

There is no shortage of cloud lights of various brilliances, and some even carry bursts of strong demonic aura.

Among them, the one with the highest level of Taoism was only at the level of Taiyi Golden Immortal, while those with lower levels of Taoism had not even set foot on the path of immortality, and even their true bodies had not been completely dissolved. No one knew how they managed to get outside the East Kunlun Mountains.

"Why did you invite these youngsters who haven't yet transformed to come to explain the Hunyuan Dao Fruit?"

Zhen Yuanzi stood on the auspicious clouds and saw many creatures that had not yet transformed, also heading towards East Kunlun Mountain. He couldn't help but said to Li Xuanyang with a look of surprise on his face.

"Back in the day, when Daozu Hongjun and Nuwa were explaining the Hunyuan Dao Fruit, not to mention the younger generation, even many fellow cultivators in Zixiao Palace, who had attained the realm of Daluo Jinxian, seemed to understand vaguely."

Hunyuan Dao Fruit, how profound.

Even if the Three Pure Ones only achieved enlightenment through the merits of establishing a religion and creating the world, and not through the true slaying of the Three Corpses, it is still not something that ordinary Daluo Jinxian practitioners can understand.

Not to mention these creatures, the one with the highest level of Taoism is only at the level of Taiyi Golden Immortal.

How can one understand Hunyuan Daoguo?

Hearing this, Li Xuanyangxiang angrily said, "What do you mean, Daoist friend? Do you mean to include even my own disciples in this?"

Hearing Li Xuanyang's words, Zhen Yuanzi looked at Kong Xuan and Chang'e in silence. One was the son of the phoenix, whose footsteps were comparable to those of the innate gods and demons, and the other was the reincarnation of the innate god and demon Changxi.

If she had not been accepted as Li Xuanyang's disciple, he would have had to call Chang'e "Daoist fellow" when she regained her Taoist powers from her previous life.

"The Jie Sect, founded by the Sage Shangqing, teaches everyone without distinction. Therefore, any living being or cultivator can come and listen."

At this time, Li Xuanyang chuckled, as if he was not surprised at all by the scene before him.

In fact, it is far inferior to the thousands of immortals who came to pay homage in later generations.

"There is no harm in teaching anyone." Zhen Yuanzi also preached at Wanshou Mountain, and any living being or cultivator could come and listen.

But what he talked about was only the ordinary method of cultivation, while what the Three Pure Ones wanted to talk about this time was the Hunyuan Dao Fruit, the two are incomparable.

Just as the two were standing on the cloud and talking to each other, a cloud fell from the void and revealed a Taoist priest.

"Why didn't you two fellow Taoists descend from the clouds and sit down to rest for a while in Yuxu Palace, but instead chat here?" Xuanyin Taoist asked Li Xuanyang and Zhenyuanzi while bowing.

"You'll have to ask Fellow Daoist Zhen Yuanzi about this." After Li Xuanyang and the Taoist Xuanyin exchanged gifts, he joked with Zhen Yuanzi.

Seeing the look in Xuanyin Daoist's eyes, Zhen Yuanzi was speechless for a moment, "Fellow Daoist, please don't joke around. It's better for us to get in early!"

As they were chatting and laughing, auspicious clouds descended from the sky, and two disciples came up to greet them and saluted Li Xuanyang, Zhen Yuanzi, and Xuanyin Daoren.

"Guangchengzi greets all the real people!"

"Duobao greets all the real people!"

"The mountains are too crowded, so please go to Yuxu Palace to rest for a while." Guangchengzi respectfully invited Li Xuanyang and others.

After hearing Guangchengzi's words, Duobao Taoist seemed to frown and his expression changed slightly.

"Thank you!" Li Xuanyang and others nodded and followed Guangchengzi towards Yuxu Palace.

Along the way, we saw that the scene in East Kunlun Mountain was extremely lively. There were many living beings and cultivators, either in groups of three or five, talking loudly, or sitting together in groups of three or two, making a lot of noise and there was no peace and quiet.

Not to mention Li Xuanyang and other quasi-saints with great supernatural powers, even Kong Xuan and Chang'e felt that it was a bit too noisy.

There are already many fellow Taoists coming to Yuxu Palace now, almost all of them are the listeners of the teachings in Zixiao Palace back then, and they can be said to have gathered together again.

After entering Yuxu Palace, Li Xuanyang and his companions immediately felt a lot quieter. They greeted each other and took their seats.

The Queen Mother of the West and Li Xuanyang bowed and looked at Kong Xuan and Chang'e behind Li Xuanyang. A strange look flashed in her eyes and she said to Li Xuanyang, "Daoyou, why did you bring your disciples with you? Don't you think Kunlun Mountain is not lively enough?"

After hearing what Queen Mother of the West said, Li Xuanyang's heart moved, and he vaguely understood what was going on.

The two Kunlun Mountains, east and west, are not far apart.

The gathering of so many living beings and cultivators will inevitably disturb the Queen Mother of the West's meditation.

Furthermore, the reason why the Three Pure Ones occupied East Kunlun Mountain as their Taoist temple was related to Li Xuanyang.

Li Xuanyang chuckled at this, "The Sage of Shangqing teaches everyone, which is a rare good thing. Why bother with the disturbance?"

After hearing Li Xuanyang's words, Queen Mother of the West snorted lightly to express her dissatisfaction.

"Daoyou, you might as well wait and see what happens." Li Xuanyang said this with deep meaning, which made the Queen Mother of the West, Zhen Yuanzi, and Xuanyin Taoist all look puzzled, not understanding his meaning.

"Why do you say that, fellow Daoist!" Xuanyin Taoist couldn't help but ask Li Xuanyang.

"Did you see the disciples of the Chan Sect and Jie Sect just now?" Li Xuanyang smiled slightly and said, "Did you notice any differences between the two?"

The difference!

Several people couldn't help but look around, and saw that the disciples of the Chan and Jie sects in the palace were clearly divided and their relationship was very cold.

Among them, there are not many disciples of the Chan Sect. Including Guangchengzi whom we have just met, there are only about ten of them. However, each of them has a spiritual light in his body, a deep foundation, and even extraordinary backgrounds.

In contrast, the number of disciples under the Jiejiao sect is huge, and their levels of Taoism and supernatural powers vary. There are also those with mixed and impure magic powers. Almost all of them are aliens who have achieved enlightenment, and some even have not yet washed away the demonic aura.

"What are you saying, fellow Daoist?" Xuanyin Daoren's heart moved, and he asked Li Xuanyang.

"Just as fellow Daoist thought." Li Xuanyang and Xuanyin Taoist nodded slightly without saying anything explicitly.

For a moment, several people looked at the disciples of the Chan and Jie sects in the palace, and couldn't help revealing a hint of amusement.

The Three Pure Ones have always been one, but now the disciples of the orthodox and evil sects have some hidden disagreements. I wonder how the Three Pure Ones will deal with this matter.

"It seems that we haven't seen Nuwa and other demon tribes coming." Zhen Yuanzi changed the subject and talked about the fellow monks in the palace.

Not only Nuwa has never seen the future, but even Dijun, Taiyi, Kunpeng, Jieyin and Zhunti have never seen them.

Instead, Yun Zhongzi, Taoist Taiyi, Holy Mother Guiling, Medicine Master, Maitreya and others came from the underworld and came forward to pay their respects to Li Xuanyang and others.

Just as several people were talking to each other, suddenly there was a fairy light in Yuxu Palace. The Taiqing fairy light, Yuqing fairy light, and Shangqing fairy light all appeared and filled the entire Kunlun Mountain.

"Hunyuan Dao Fruit!" Li Xuanyang's eyes flashed with brilliance, and he felt that the fairy light in front of him seemed to contain the general principles of Taoism of the three religions, the laws of yin and yang, the two poles, the three talents, the four images, the five elements, etc., all included.

If we say that Nuwa achieved sainthood through the way of creation, then her whole body of Hunyuan Dao Fruit was based on the laws of creation.

The Hunyuan Dao Fruit of the Three Pure Ones is all-encompassing, and contains all kinds of laws and principles. Even the ways of refining equipment, forming formations, etc. can be vaguely sensed.

The next moment, above the cloud bed in the palace, the three saints Taiqing, Yuqing and Shangqing appeared out of thin air.

"It seems that Taoist Nuwa did not come." Taoist Taiqing sighed lightly, as if feeling a little regretful.

Seeing the Three Pure Ones appear, everyone in the palace stood up and bowed to them, "We greet the Saints!"

(End of this chapter)