Myths and Dharma, starting from Erlang Shen

"Everything about the secret realm, the truth of the facts, I dare to tell you, do you dare to listen?"

Hearing Ji Ren's request, the man in black laughed strangely twice.

"There is nothing in this world that I dare not hear. It just depends on whether you dare to say it?" Ji Ren said to the man in black.

“Okay, since you dare to listen, I will tell you. Do you know what a great catastrophe is?” The man in black looked at Ji Ren and said.

"The product of the entanglement of cause and effect between heaven and earth." Ji Ren said.

"It's just bullshit. You are also a disciple of the Chan Sect. No matter what, you should know that the so-called great calamity is a cleansing of heaven and earth. It will cleanse 90% of the weak people in this world. Then the so-called immortals and Buddhas will greedily plunder the luck of these lives. The so-called great calamity is nothing but a massacre in which immortals eat immortals and humans eat humans." said the man in black.

“So what? Even if there is no great catastrophe, immortals will still eat immortals, and humans will eat humans. The cause and effect of heaven and earth are intertwined, and there will be disasters. It’s normal.” Ji Ren said, looking at the man in black.

The fight for luck is the deeper truth behind the catastrophe.

After surviving the great calamity, one will be reborn and be able to make the leap to the dragon gate.

Of course, there is also the official explanation.

It is the entanglement of cause and effect between heaven and earth that is why all living things are destined to perish, and therefore destiny is born.

First there is the entanglement of cause and effect, which leads to the birth of a great catastrophe. Then because of the great catastrophe, a large number of lives die, and then the fortune changes.

It doesn't mean that launching a catastrophe is just for the sake of luck.

The Taoist Ancestor created the two major scripts, Investiture of the Gods and Journey to the West, in order to effectively control the damage caused by the catastrophe to the heaven and earth.

If there were no intervention from the Taoist Ancestor to determine the script of the catastrophe and the various rules of fighting, the fighting among the various sects would have no bottom line and would be chaos everywhere.

It is said that there have been precedents in the past.

After the appearance of the two major scripts "Investiture of the Gods" and "Journey to the West", the number of lives killed by the killing calamity of heaven and earth was greatly reduced.

"Indeed, immortals eat immortals, and humans eat humans. This is an eternal law of this world. It will be like this as long as living beings exist. But do you know how immortals eat immortals, and how humans eat humans? During the great calamity of heaven and earth, the Chan and Jie sects fought each other. Logically speaking, if one sect wins, it will gain the luck of the calamity, and the winner will break through. When the next calamity begins, it should have the upper hand. If that's the case, why have the Chan and Jie sects fought for so many years without a clear winner? In fact, the Chan sect has won more times, but the strength of the Chan sect is still weaker than that of the Jie sect." The man in black laughed.

Ji Ren did not answer. He had studied this question before. The official statement was that most of the time, it was the Jiejiao who found the successor of King Zhou's Dharma image, so they had the destiny in the early stage. But if that was the case, Ji Ren felt it was not enough.

And Ji Ren felt that the man in black didn't expect Ji Ren to answer this question, the man in black would answer it himself.

As expected, the man in black answered his own question: "That's because the luck in the world is only one stone, and Hongjun alone occupies nine buckets, and in the remaining bucket, the eight saints each occupy 10%. In other words, in the catastrophe, the luck that all living beings fight for is only 20% of the one bucket, and 10% of this 20% is obtained by the winner of the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect. But even so, the gap between the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect is only 10% of the one bucket. This gap will soon be narrowed in the next catastrophe. Moreover, Hongjun does not want there to be only one winner between the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect. Therefore, there will never be a real winner between the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect."

"The destiny of heaven and earth, the Taoist occupies nine buckets alone?" Ji Ren's face changed slightly when he heard this. Although he had no basis for it, he believed what the man in black said.

Because this logic makes sense and there is precedent.

When they were in the mortal world, the rulers and ministers of the six countries racked their brains to develop their country, increase their fortune, and condense the fortune dragon crystals. But in the end, 90% of the fortune dragon crystals condensed were used for offering sacrifices to the heavens, and only 10% was left for themselves.

Moreover, they do not blame God for this, but their opponents.

They tried their best to develop their own power, suppress the power of the enemy country, and surpass the other five countries, so that the others would give more Fortune Dragon Crystals and they would give less.

Isn't this exactly the same as the fight between the Chan and Jie sects in the fairy world, where they both want to defeat each other and gain more luck?

However, after causing a great catastrophe and monopolizing 90% of the destiny of heaven and earth, Ji Ren couldn't help but have a hint of murderous intent in his eyes.

"Yes, he monopolizes 90%. In order to occupy more luck, he wantonly stirs up catastrophes, regards all living beings as cattle and sheep, sucks their flesh and blood time and time again, maintaining his supreme status. He also enjoys the worship of the world from a high position." The man in black laughed.

"Are the Eight Saints and the Immortals willing to do this?" Upon hearing this, the Moon Goddess could not help but ask.

“The so-called Eight Saints, except Nuwa and Houtu, are puppets of the Heavenly Dao in a nice way, but in a blunt way, they are just six dogs raised by Hongjun. Everything they have comes from Hongjun. If Hongjun gives them things, they are saints. If not, they are just six wild dogs.” The man in black sneered, “And in order not to be wild dogs, they will loyally wag their tails and beg for mercy from Hongjun, and even not allow others to resist. So, in the last calamity, they killed the Emperor of Heaven.”

"So, who are you? What are you doing here?" Ji Ren asked calmly.

He had learned the news of the Emperor's rebellion from Tai Shang.

However, Ji Ren didn’t know much about the specific details.

By now, Ji Ren had somewhat understood that the Emperor of Heaven was not satisfied with being treated as a puppet by the Taoist Ancestor, and the order he had painstakingly created was destroyed again and again. He was even more dissatisfied with Hongjun's distribution, so he tried to overturn the table.

As a result, before the table was overturned, Hongjun noticed it in advance, and then with the help of the two saints Taiqing and Yuqing, he directly replaced the Emperor of Heaven.

This is the complete truth.

Without the support of Daozu, it would be almost impossible for even two saints to replace the Emperor of Heaven.

Are the Three Pure Ones just dogs?

Ji Ren looked at the man in black with a hint of disdain in his heart.

Regardless of anything else, just look at Laozi's operation. This person is probably the most hidden one among all the saints.

I didn't do it simply because I wasn't sure.

Otherwise, Laozi would not have gone in search of Gonggong's image, and would not have helped to conceal it for himself.

"You don't need to know who I am. Even if you know, you won't live long. As for why I came here, it's because this is the only hope to change the situation of the Three Realms." said the man in black.

"The images of two ancient gods and demons?" Ji Ren said.

"Yes, I have been searching for many years, and the hope I finally found is also the only hope of the Three Realms. It's just that I have been in this secret realm for three thousand years to accept the test of another Dharma image, but for three thousand years, I have stopped in front of one person and could not move forward. It was not until you came in that I discovered the changes in the secret realm. The difficulty is greatly reduced when two Dharma image tests are carried out at the same time, so I came to find you. I hope to cooperate with you. If you can condense this Dharma image of the god of war, I will hand over the Zhenwu Soap Carving Flag to you." said the man in black.

"What is that statue of yours?" Ji Ren asked the man in black.

"This has nothing to do with you. I can assure you that I don't covet your Dharma image, but you should not be curious about my Dharma image." The man in black said, "You only have two choices now. The first is to cooperate with me, and you and I can each take a Dharma image. The second is to reject me, and then the aura of the secret realm here will gradually leak out, and Hou Tu and the others will sense it, and then break the secret realm, and they will kill you who knows the truth."

"Cooperate with you? How can you help me? The guy outside is so powerful. If I can kill him, why would I need to hide here?" Ji Ren smiled at the man in black.

"He has his weakness." The man in black said, throwing out a piece of yellow cloth, "This is what I tore off my opponent. It has a great restraining power on the beast outside. He is afraid."

Ji Ren took the yellow cloth and looked at the dragon embroidered on it. He was moved and then looked at the man in black and asked, "How long can the aura of this secret realm be concealed?"

"Twelve years. We only have twelve years." The man in black said, and his figure faded a little. Finally, he said, "The Dharmakāya you want to condense is related to the Dharmakāya of the woman next to you. Together, your chances of winning will increase greatly. Try to condense your Dharmakāya. Only by condensing this Dharmakāya will you have a chance to jump out of the chessboard and become a chess player who controls your own destiny."

After the man in black finished speaking, his body turned into a puff of green smoke and completely disappeared.

Ji Ren's eyes moved slightly, and he looked down at the yellow cloth in his hand, without saying anything for a long time.