My version of Heavenly Dao is too old, so it's full of bugs.

Chapter 469 An even greater war has begun!

The meeting in the Lingxiao Palace has finally come to an end!
The gods of Heaven, who had become disaffected due to the machinations of the Supreme Emperor, once again united and regrouped under the banner of the Supreme Emperor, and began to unleash the Heavenly Court's war machine.

Boom!

Boom! !
Countless thunderous chariots raced across the sky, the gods of the Dipper Department constantly shifted their positions, and the gods of the Plague Department opened the treasure trove of viruses, releasing one after another hideous, nightmare-like, terrifying demons of disease.
The entire world was shrouded in a somber atmosphere.

Li Wei has now left the Lingxiao Palace and arrived at Mi Tianxing's cave dwelling in the Nine Heavens—the Environmental Protection and Pure Spirit Cave!
At this moment, he stood in the cave.
Looking at those terrifying divine war weapons from afar,

I couldn't help but feel a sense of awe as I said:

"The Heavenly Court's resources are truly terrifying. I've seen more than twenty supreme Dao weapons alone, and countless other Great Dao divine weapons. Will this great battle be like the ancient times, where heaven and earth are shattered?"

The Environmental Protection True Lord Mi Tianxing sat cross-legged in front of Li Wei, brewing tea as he said, "The Buddhist sect and the Nine Sages of the Heretical Path certainly don't want the world to collapse! But the Dragon Clan and the Heaven-Slaying Alliance are a different story."

Moreover, everyone is currently in the midst of a great calamity, and sooner or later they will all be caught in the crossfire. Only heaven knows how the fighting will turn out.

Mi Tianxing picked up a cup of tea and handed it to Li Wei:
[And just you wait, this is only the beginning! More and more forces will rise up to oppose the Heavenly Court!]

[Every time a great calamity arrives, all god-level forces in the Three Realms will be shrouded in misfortune and fall onto the list of those who will settle accounts.]

However, if you rebel against the Heavenly Court, you can alleviate some of the calamity and have a greater chance of surviving it! If you are powerful enough, you might even receive the calamity's blessing, becoming its darling and possessing the possibility of attaining the "Great" Dao!

The "great" fortune of humankind is finite.
Great Luo, Great Vehicle, Buddha, Great Sage
One radish, one hole.

Furthermore, the available spots have long been occupied by ancient beings such as the Three Pure Ones and the Four Emperors.
So if you want to attain enlightenment in peacetime, you have to find a way to kill these ancient beings first. But you haven't attained enlightenment yet, so why should you kill these ancient beings?
Therefore, for those who come later, achieving the Great Luo or the Great Vehicle is an impossible task!
But thankfully, there's still a major calamity to come!
Every time a great calamity arrives, the ancients are purged, usually several Great Luo Immortals die, and thus the pits become empty.

Moreover, tribulation is also a kind of fortune, and tribulation can also support a "Great Luo" level existence. So if you are powerful enough, you can even directly prove your Dao through tribulation!

Wasn't the Monkey King originally a product of calamity and destiny?

However, such an operation is extremely difficult; it requires perfect timing, favorable location, and harmonious relationships.

Therefore, even among the nine Great Sages, and even among all the gods in the heavens, only the Great Sage Equaling Heaven was an anomaly who successfully proved the Dao through tribulation and achieved the strongest "Great Sage" power in history!
In a sense, the monkey is both a cultivator and a calamity-clearer, and is currently the only known person not affected by the calamity.

Chaos is a ladder!

"There will never be a shortage of madmen in the Three Realms, so although the great calamity is terrifying, it is also an opportunity for many people!"

Li Wei's ability to listen to destiny was automatically activated, as if he could hear the desperate desire of countless people to become immortals and achieve great things.

After a long silence, he drank the tea in one gulp, cupped his hands and said, "Senior Mi! Thank you for your help this time."

A glint flashed in Mi Tianxing's eyes, and he smiled, saying, "I'm not entirely helping you; I also have my own selfish motives! Are you still willing to become my granddaughter's husband?"

"Hmm? But I'm already married to Ao Zi, this..."

[Haha, your marriage to Ao Zi was bestowed by the Heavenly Emperor, but now that the Dragon Clan has rebelled, His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor naturally will not agree to your marriage with a Dragon. And if I remember correctly, you two haven't registered your marriage yet, right?]

Mi Tianxing straightened up and grabbed Li Wei's shoulder, saying, "Don't let my appearance fool you, I'm well-versed in the Heavenly Laws!"

[You haven't registered your marriage, haven't been married for three months, and haven't even lived together yet. What kind of marriage is this?]

[And don't you know that the greatest significance of a god's marriage isn't actually the wedding itself, but rather ensuring you leave behind bloodlines and emotional bonds, so that those above can use you with peace of mind!]

Mi Tianxing's eyes held a deeper meaning: "To be honest, your rise to power has been too rapid. Without marriage or offspring, even with the support of the Three Pure Ones and His Majesty, the gods might still be uneasy about you!"

[To advance further in your career in Heaven, having a bloodline of descendants is essential! If you don't have children, your path to divine status will likely be fraught with difficulties.]

With the Heavenly Court's methods, if they control your bloodline and descendants, they can control you. So, in a sense, getting married and having children is a pledge of allegiance to enter the Heavenly Court's divine authority.

This wasn't the first time Li Wei had been given this advice. Since everyone was saying this, it meant that children were indeed very important for ascending to godhood. So he nodded and said, "I'll consider it!"

Mi Tianxing laughed even harder: [Alright! Next, I'll tell you about the other unspoken rules of becoming a god. After all, besides having children, paying respects to powerful figures, giving gifts, and cultivating connections all affect your divine position.] Don't underestimate Him just because He only has the cultivation of a Yang God!
However, he was an extremely ruthless person who, in the most corrupt era of the Heavenly Court, when the positions of gods were controlled by the major divine blood families, managed to open up the position of the Environmental Protection True Lord by his own strength and break into the four upper departments of the Heavenly Court.

Therefore, Senior Mi's experience in becoming a god can be described as priceless!
Li Wei listened intently, and many insights suddenly came to his mind. It was while he was focused on learning the wondrous methods to become a god that the gods of Heaven finally issued the edict of self-reproach to the Three Realms by the Supreme Emperor Haotian.

On the surface,

The edict of self-reproach was merely an imperial edict.
But in reality, this was a "supreme divine power" jointly unleashed by the gods of Heaven. It was a terrifying killing move that sacrificed part of the "reputation" of the Supreme Emperor Haotian in order to forcefully change the world and invade people's hearts.

Especially since this time the edict of self-reproach was jointly promoted by the gods, almost all the official media in the Three Realms began to cooperate in the propaganda, taking advantage of the propaganda hegemony held by the Heavenly Court to maximize the power of the edict of self-reproach!
In less than half a day, the originally turbulent emotions of the cultivators and the common people were greatly calmed down.

"His Majesty has only been on the throne for a little over a thousand years. It was only because of his youth and ignorance that he was deceived by treacherous officials!"

"Now that the treacherous officials have been eliminated, His Majesty is indeed wise!"

In order to quell the anger of the gods in Heaven and to silence public opinion, the Supreme Emperor of Heaven removed three of his trusted confidants in one fell swoop, shifting all the blame onto them.

Under the deadly power of the edict of self-reproach

The mortals in the lower realms also sensed Shanghao's "acknowledgment of guilt," and focused all their resentment on the three treacherous gods, becoming more lenient towards the Heavenly Emperor.

After all, he's the Heavenly Emperor.

He was inherently holy, but he only did something outrageous because he listened to slander for a moment! Now that the traitors have been eliminated, many people can't help but feel sorry for the Supreme Emperor!
In this way, the Heavenly Emperor gained forgiveness.

Three new divine positions were vacated, so the gods of the major factions in Heaven all benefited.

The people who were trying to reform also found an outlet for their frustrations!
A wonderful world where everyone wins has been achieved.

And most importantly
The edict of self-reproach successfully stirred up public sentiment, and people finally began to attack the Dragon Clan and Buddhism!

"Your Majesty, as the ruler of the Three Realms, has now shown weakness to Buddhism and even apologized to the Dragon Clan, expressing your willingness to investigate the truth! If these two forces continue to pressure Your Majesty, then they are really asking for trouble!"

The cultivators of the Immortal Sphere have suffered countless hardships throughout history. Even when the times are oppressive and the world is chaotic, they have always longed for peace in their hearts.

Dragon Clan, Buddhism, the Heaven-Slaying Alliance, the Nine Saints Heretical Path, Heavenly Court. No one wants to see so many forces fighting each other in the human realm.

When war breaks out, won't it be the ordinary people who suffer the most?
Therefore, Emperor Haotian's edict of self-reproach was in line with the wishes of the vast majority of cultivators and the people. They desperately hoped that the Dragon Clan and the Buddhist sect could take advantage of the situation and temporarily cease hostilities, and not easily start a war.

This is the most vicious part of the self-reproach edict!

By retreating in order to advance, and by influencing the popular sentiment of "harmony among the people," the fate of the three realms can be altered.
If the Dragon Clan and the Buddhist sects forcibly refuse, they may suffer a backlash from public opinion and bear karmic burdens they should not have to bear, causing the fortune of their entire forces to plummet!
But now that things have come to this, can the Dragon Clan and the Buddhist sect really back down?
Impossible!

So the dragon race and the Buddhist sect also started to resort to their methods.

Both forces initially made a gesture of willingness to negotiate with the Heavenly Court, but were soon attacked by the Heavenly Court and suffered heavy losses.

This is the reason they used to resist the "edict of self-reproach"!

All cultivators and common people under heaven, take note! It's not that we refuse to negotiate with the Heavenly Court, but rather that they have broken their promise, shown no remorse, and continued to launch sneak attacks on us first!
All cultivators under heaven:
Do you think we're stupid?

Isn't this obviously a staged performance by you all?

Unfortunately, the people had no evidence.
Furthermore, both the Buddhist and Dragon factions acted very convincingly, and at least a dozen true gods paid the price of serious injury. In fact, six Dragon Gods and four Buddhist Venerables even sacrificed their lives. They finally broke through the Heavenly Court's "Edict of Self-Reproach" killing move!
But this is not the end.
To prevent the Heavenly Court from further stirring up trouble, the Dragon Clan and the Buddhist sect joined forces, raising the banner of "acting on behalf of Heaven and avenging the wicked," and launched a surprise attack on 17 cities in the western and southern parts of the Central Plains!
The situation has now completely spiraled into an abyss!

The Central Plains had already been invaded by the Blissful Demon Land created by the Nine Saints Heretic Path, and now it was attacked by the Dragon Clan and the Buddhist sect, in addition to the Heaven-Slaying Alliance participating in the war as mercenaries.

The Central Plains, originally a vital hub of human society with convenient transportation and thriving commerce, has been transformed into a battleground on all sides!

(End of this chapter)