I rely on length to cultivate immortality

Knowing that Guantian Daozu stayed here all year round in order to control the Yin-Yang Mirror and constantly adjust the yin and yang balance of the world, Li Xiuchang naturally flattered him.

Greatly praise the spirit of Guantian Daozu's dedication to the people of the world.

Of course, it cannot be said that it was all flattery. Li Xiuchang was somewhat sincere in his words. After all, if Guantian Daozu let go, the world might lose balance between yin and yang and be destroyed. By then, Li Xiuchang would probably be the only one left alive in the entire world.

After all, as an "outsider", he has no shadow and will not affect the yin and yang balance of this world, nor will he be affected by the yin and yang balance of this world.

However, Guantian Daozu felt ashamed of Li Xiuchang's praise and said:

"I caused the chaos in the world. I am just trying my best to make up for my mistakes."

Li Xiuchang was a little confused. The chaos in the world was caused by Guantian Daozu? What kind of chaos?

What did Guantian Daozu do?

The Taoist Master Wenxin at the side consoled him, "You can't be blamed for this, Senior Brother. You just wanted to repair the world at the beginning. No one could have expected an accident to happen."

Li Xiuchang keenly grasped the useful information in the two people's words and associated it with one thing...

Taoist Wenxin once told him that someone had tried to flip the Tongtian Immortal Tree from the Shadow World to the Xianyin World to replace the Tongtian Immortal Tree that was lost in the Xianyin World.

But it failed in the end, and the Tongtian Fairy Tree was not moved, but instead created two special places, Xianyin and Xianyang.

It was the existence of Xianyin and Xianyang that opened up the world of both positive and negative sides, and set off the subsequent struggle between the shadow and the original body.

This is indeed the "chaos in the world" today.

So... the person who wanted to turn the Tongtian Immortal Tree in the shadow world over, the person who created the Immortal Shadow and Immortal Yang, was the Taoist Ancestor Guantian?

Well, he really has made a big mess!

How big a mess can one person get into?

The answer is: the greater the ability, the bigger the basket!

The Yin-Yang Mirror used to have the ability to automatically adjust the yin and yang of the world. Why doesn’t it work now?

As an extremely powerful "Tao weapon", the Yin-Yang Mirror has existed since the beginning of the world. Its purpose is to adjust the yin and yang ratio of the world and maintain the normal operation of the world.

It is impossible that everything was automatic before, but now it needs manual control.

Obviously, after the positive and negative worlds were connected, material exchange and personnel flow began between the two worlds, causing the task of adjusting the balance of yin and yang to suddenly become more difficult.

The program written in the Yin-Yang Mirror is unable to cope with this kind of sudden situation, and can only rely on Guantian Daozu to make manual adjustments himself.

Guantian Daozu had good intentions and really wanted to help, but he just made things more troublesome and ended up getting himself into trouble.

But then again... Li Xiuchang asked curiously, "Why haven't I seen or heard of Senior Guantian's shadow in the Shadow World?"

Since the Confucian Sage, the Buddha and the Taoist Master Guantian are all powerful beings of the same level, and the three of them are brothers, it doesn't make sense that the Buddha and the Confucian Sage both have shadows in the shadow world, and only the Taoist Master Guantian is the exception.

Guantian Daozu explained: "I am the one holding the mirror. Unless I take the initiative to expose myself to the illumination of the Yin-Yang Mirror, my shadow will not appear in the shadow world."

So that’s how it is… The person holding the Yin-Yang Mirror has this privilege.

It is like hiding behind a mirror so that no shadow is cast on you.

This has reduced a lot of pressure on Li Xiuchang and the others. Otherwise, if there was another shadow of Guantian Daozu in the Shadow World, it would be really unplayable!

Our Taoist master Guantian holds a mirror in his hand every day and cannot leave it for a moment.

The enemy's Guantian Daozu can move freely in the shadow world.

Who among the strong men in the Immortal Realm would dare to go to the Shadow World?

The last time the shadow of the Confucian Sage took action, he barely managed to keep Li Xiuchang in Xianyang. If there was another shadow of the Taoist Ancestor, Li Xiuchang would have died on the spot.

Even if the shadow of the Confucian saint who took action at that time was in its complete form, that is, had the strength of the first life of the Taoist Master Wenxin, Li Xiuchang probably would not have been able to come back.

The strongest period of Wenxin Daozu was his first life, which is his current state, and the second was his second life, which was the period of Confucian Saint.

For example, now, the Taoist Ancestor Wenxin has recovered the strength of his first life, so the strength of the shadow of the Taoist Ancestor Wenxin in the shadow world has also reached its peak.

This means that it is even more impossible for Li Xiuchang to enter the shadow world again unless he also becomes a Taoist ancestor.

"Senior, I wonder if the Buddha returned to this world after his Nirvana?" Li Xiuchang asked.

He was somewhat worried about Brother Gui's situation, so he wanted to ask the Buddha, also known as the Taoist Patriarch Minzhong, in person.

Daozu Wenxin shook his head and said, "He won't come back so soon. After he succeeds in Nirvana, he needs a period of practice to recover most of his previous life's strength. Before that, he can't come back."

Taoist Guan Tian sighed, "Speaking of which, this is the third brother's fourth life. In the second life, I thought he had a chance of success, but I didn't expect..."

The Taoist Master Wenxin also sighed: "The third brother has indeed gone further than me, but unfortunately he is still one step behind."

Li Xiuchang was stunned... The fourth life?

Is this the fourth generation of Minzhong Daozu?

The Taoist Ancestor Wenxin only lived for three lifetimes, but I didn’t expect that the Taoist Ancestor Minzhong lived for one more lifetime.

So, the Buddha's current life is the third life of the Taoist Patriarch of Compassion. Now, after his rebirth in Nirvana, he is in his fourth life. So what about his second life? What is his identity?

Just now, Fu Yuan introduced the multiple identities of the two Taoist ancestors to Li Xiuchang, but did not mention this.

Li Xiuchang looked at Fu Yuan, but saw that he was also confused. He asked in surprise, "What avenue did Junior Master create in his second life?"

Apparently Fu Yuan didn't know that Minzhong Daozu had another life before he became the Buddha.

Daozu Wenxin sighed, "Your junior uncle was the first one to make the decision to reincarnate and cultivate again. He embarked on this path earlier than me. It was because I saw Zeng was so close to success that I made the same choice as him."

"Then why have I never heard of this?" Fu Yuan was puzzled.

Although they are all disciples of Daozu, he is older than Yang Hao's previous life, as well as Shi Tian and Shi Di and others, and he became a disciple earlier, and he knows the most secrets.

He was not born when the two Taoist ancestors first reincarnated and cultivated again, but as the only disciple of Taoist Guantian, he heard a lot of secrets from his master.

But I have never heard of the second life of Minzhong Daozu.

Guan Tian Dao Zu said: "That is the thing your uncle is most reluctant to mention. Many accidents happened to him in that life, which caused a lot of killings. He eventually doubted his own path, which led to his failure."

The Taoist Master Wenxin added: "In that life, he studied and comprehended the original magic power and created the magic path."

"Demon Ancestor!"

Li Xiuchang exclaimed that the doubts that had been in his mind for many years were finally answered.

It turns out that Minzhong Daozu is not only the Buddha, but also the Demon Ancestor!

Li Xiuchang has always been puzzled. There are Confucian saints and Buddhas, so why is there no "Demon Ancestor" for the demon path which is stronger than these two?

Upgrading an artificial avenue to the Daluo Jinxian level is not the limit, but a new beginning.

As it develops further, each of the branches will separate and become independent.

By then one avenue evolved into multiple avenues.

Today's natural avenue can be seen as a branch separated from the avenue created by the God of Creation!

Confucianism and Buddhism are far from reaching this step, but the path of evil has taken this step!

The entire magic path has many branches, which means that the founder of the magic path has the potential to catch up with the God of Creation.

As long as the branches of the Demonic Path continue to grow and improve, and each branch grows to be as powerful as the Natural Path, then the pioneer of the Demonic Path will be comparable to the God of Creation!

Seeing that the younger generations present were all shocked, the Taoist Master Wenxin recalled, "When I founded the Confucian Way, I had the same idea as the third brother when he founded the Demon Way. I wanted to gather everyone's wisdom to quickly develop the Great Dao, and actively recruit geniuses from all walks of life to practice the Great Dao I created."

"The third brother created the magic path based on the original magic power, but at that time he only built a framework. In our eyes, the original magic power is just a high-end power worth learning. When the magic path was first created, there was no evil, murderous thoughts or morality in it."

"Later, more and more people came to practice the magic way. They used their talents to contribute to the magic way, allowing the magic way to develop rapidly and bloom with unprecedented glory! However, as a result, more and more content that exceeded the Third Brother's expectations appeared in the magic way..."

"The magic path has become synonymous with speed and convenience, and has become a shortcut in the eyes of cultivators. It has developed in the direction of seeking speed and power like a wild horse, and has completely escaped the control of the third brother."

"Killing people, taking blood, controlling souls, refining corpses... As long as it can speed up cultivation or make one's own combat power stronger, the demon cultivators will do everything they can and develop all kinds of inhumane methods to assist cultivation."

"During this process, the magic cultivation system was gradually improved, from the special magic cultivation techniques to the magic weapons, immortal tools and elixirs, etc., as well as magic cultivation skills such as soul control, all gradually became mature. However, the actions of the magic cultivators were also resisted by other cultivators at the time. In order to resist this resistance, the magic cultivators had to unite, and thus one magic force after another was born..."

Taoist Wenxin briefly recounted the story of the rise of the demon cultivator, and Li Xiuchang and others listened attentively.

Later, more and more people chose to practice magic in order to seek shortcuts. The group of magic practitioners grew uncontrollably, and naturally more and more people became the food for the magic practitioners to practice.

A large number of innocent people became victims, and were skinned and blooded by the evil cultivators, and their souls were extracted and refined into corpses...

Later, the great war between good and evil broke out, and a large number of cultivators from both the good and evil paths died tragically.

All these tragedies caused Minzhong Daozu to fall into deep self-blame and self-doubt.

He suspected that his creation of the magic path was a mistake, which brought endless suffering to the world.

Even though he is the pioneer of the Demonic Path, he cannot change the direction of the Demonic Path, let alone destroy it.

Once the Great Way takes root and becomes one with the original world, it will no longer be constrained or restricted by the path-opener.

Other cultivators wanted to practice this great path, and the pioneer could not stop them.

What kind of content other magic practitioners add to the magic path is not something that the Taoist Ancestor Minzhong can decide.

He laid a solid foundation and built a good framework, but how the path of evil would eventually develop was not something that the Taoist Patriarch Minzhong could influence.

He can't stop it!

A pioneer only creates a road, not controls it.

This is one of the disadvantages of rooting the Great Dao in the origin world, which will cause one to lose absolute control over the Great Dao.

The Taoist Master Wenxin saw this point back then, so after reincarnating as a Confucian sage, he chose to carry Confucianism and Taoism on his own body, but this also had obvious drawbacks.

Eventually, the Demonic Path became stronger and stronger, getting closer and closer to the goal of the Minzhong Daozu, but the Minzhong Daozu hesitated and hesitated...

He found that he couldn't even fully comprehend the entire path of magic.

After the demonic path became stronger, there were countless brutal and evil paths. If he wanted to comprehend the demonic path, he had to avoid these evil paths.

But this goes against his moral integrity and goes against his original intention.

What's more, he had long doubted himself and the path of evil. His faith was not strong and he had doubts about the path he was practicing. This was no longer the mentality that a mature cultivator should have.

Trying to force enlightenment in this state will only make you lose control.

So in the end, the Taoist Patriarch Minzhong gave up the evil path, and wanted to make up for the mistakes of his previous life, so he founded Buddhism.

Under his influence, Buddhist practitioners have always regarded slaying demons and eliminating evil as their mission, and eradicating evil practitioners as their bounden duty.

After learning about this ancient history, Li Xiuchang didn't know what to say for a moment.

On the one hand, I admire the talent of Taoist Ancestor Minzhong, who can be both the Demon Ancestor and the Buddha.

On the other hand, he also admired the ability of Minzhong Daozu to cause trouble, which was in no way inferior to his senior brother Guantian Daozu.

Daozu Guantian created Xianyin and Xianyang, Daozu Minzhong created the demon cultivators, and Daozu Wenxin caused all the Confucian cultivators to lose their cultivation overnight, and countless people died on the spot...

It turns out that the greater the ability, the bigger the trouble you can make.

None of these three brothers is easy to deal with.

However, after talking for so long, Daozu Guantian and Daozu Wenxin still didn't say why they were so persistent in creating the most powerful avenue?

They also never mentioned their master.

Li Xiuchang looked at Daozu Wenxin, then Daozu Guantian, and said, "Do the two elders have any instructions?"

Li Xiuchang knew that Daozu Wenxin specially brought him to meet Daozu Guantian, and it was definitely not because he had nothing to do and wanted him to come and make himself familiar.

In the past, he had no relatives or friends with the three Dao Ancestors, but the three Dao Ancestors had all given him a lot of help.

This time when he was in danger, the Taoist Master Wenxin went to Xianyin in person to rescue him, and even risked his own life to force back the shadow of the Confucian saint.

The Buddha also took good care of him, and before his nirvana, he left all his insights into Buddhism to Brother Gui.

There is no love without reason in this world. There must be a reason why the three Taoist ancestors care about him.

Just now, Wenxin Daozu patted him on the shoulder and said that he could give it a try.

What are you trying?

Daozu Guantian and Daozu Wenxin looked at each other and said, "We feel that your Dao of Equality has the potential to surpass the Dao of Demons. It may become the most powerful Dao and accomplish what the three of us brothers have failed to do."

"What's the matter?" Li Xiuchang frowned and asked, "Is it about saving the world?" (End of this chapter)