Pawn Crossing the River

When the Great Xuan court set up a large formation in the Five Elements Mountain, the formation covered a large area, almost covering the entire Five Elements Mountain, which brought a super high fault tolerance rate. Even if the Taoist sent spiritual officials to remove one-third of the formation points, the formation did not completely collapse, but only lost some functions.

One of the main reasons is that there is enough distance between the formation points, like a strategic buffer zone, so the "large formation" has never been a lie. If you want the formation to be powerful and have a high fault tolerance rate, you have to build it in a large direction, and the formation points are best replaced by physical objects. Therefore, setting up a formation is actually a big project, no less than building a city, and requires the in-depth participation of the Tianji Hall.

Even if it is to build a large formation, because it requires the circulation of a large amount of Yin Qi to conduct a small-scale time retracing, and involves a behemoth like the extraterritorial demon, the threshold is already very high, even not inferior to the Five Elements Mountain formation.

On this basis, it is necessary to compress the formation into a movable talisman of the size of an inch, infinitely reducing the fault tolerance rate, and to use divine power instead of physical objects to condense the formation points, and to use divine power instead of earth energy, further increasing the difficulty.

To accomplish such a feat, immortals are not enough, and one must be a first-tribulation immortal. And the premise is to gather key things such as the "Gui Zang Lantern", the Emperor Liu Elf, and the head of Wang Jujun. This does not include the massive amount of Yin Qi and the massive amount of divine power required.

It can be seen from this that Qi Xuansu has been a person with a solid foundation after these years of development. Being able to meet so many conditions at the same time is not something that ordinary Canzhi Zhenren can do, and even Pingzhang Da Zhenren may not be able to do it.

Therefore, as Taoism has developed to this day, the role of personal realm cultivation has been weakened. Unless it is a first-tribulation immortal, or even a second-tribulation immortal, it does not have the power to reverse the situation by one's own strength. This requires integrating resources, forming alliances, and defeating other individuals or organizations with organizations. In this case, even if it is an immortal, if you want to make a difference, you have to fight for power and not be free.

Qi Xuansu is undoubtedly a beneficiary. He does not like to fight head-on with others, and he does not like to fight across borders relying on his extraordinary talents, such as pseudo-immortals killing immortals, immortals killing first-tribulation, and first-tribulation killing second-tribulation. Besides, he does not have this talent. He mainly relies on external forces to achieve victory. If he can avoid doing it himself, he will not do it himself. He can use the majority to bully the minority, but never fight alone.

As the old saying goes, the world has changed.

If you still hold on to the old idea that one person can conquer the world, then you will fall in this era.

Although the Central Plains today is in a peaceful world, it is in a period of drastic change in thought and a chaotic world in spirit.

Since the development of the Taoism in Southeast Asia, the rapid development has concealed a large number of problems, especially the great material abundance has concealed the great spiritual deficiency.

For example, the small-scale peasant ecology of working from sunrise to sunset in the past can no longer meet the growing productivity. Another example is the collision between traditional ideas and the civilization advocated by Taoism, and even the fierce collision between Western ideas and the clan ideas of Confucianism in the past.

Although it spirals in internal struggles and rises in development, this span is very large, and it may take dozens or hundreds of years. Many people's lives are in the spiral.

So this era is divided, both inclusive and narrow, both open-minded and conservative, both advocating civilization and reviving traditions, and so on.

When everyone is moving forward together, these contradictions seem insignificant.

But when everyone stops moving forward or even starts to retreat, these contradictions will all be revealed, as is the case with the Dao Sect today. A slight shock is like shaking a water cup, causing the scum at the bottom of the cup to float up.

This led to the split of the Dao Sect, and the dispute between the three Dao Sects accelerated the split, causing the Dao Sect to split.

Therefore, the Grand Masters after the Five Grand Masters had to face this problem, how to bridge the internal division of the Dao Sect?

Qi Xuansu was also thinking about this problem. One person cannot conquer the world, and other forces must be united.

The word unity sounds good, but it is actually about winning over. Many problems have arisen from this. The first one is, where does the benefit of winning over others come from? The answer is from the group that is least likely to betray. Since you are unlikely to betray, then make more contributions, all for the overall situation.

In fact, the Li family is also a group that will never betray the Dao Sect, so the Li family is very opposed to this. The Li family's point of view is, what's the point of winning over? I will take action directly. Either surrender or destroy, and use the sword of the Dao Sect to get more for the Dao Sect. Obviously, I am the winner, why do I have to give up my interests?

Qi Xuansu's faction is relatively mild. On the surface, they still talk about unity. Don't take action, cooperate for mutual benefit, exchange interests, take what you need, and go on for a long time. In fact, it's just verbal talk, because talking doesn't cost money, but actual action costs money. Where does the money come from? No money!

Maybe someone will say that aiding the West Dao Sect is real money. How to explain this? The problem lies here. Aid to the West Dao Sect has a return on investment. It is essentially an investment, not a redemption, and many of the benefits are invisible strategic interests, which cannot be generalized. Since ancient times, there have been people who have done business that cost their lives, but no one has done business that loses money.

The two wars caused financial problems for the Taoist sect, and several Daoist temples were needed to make up for the deficit. Qi Xuansu was able to be promoted to the chief of Beichen Hall because he caught up with the God-given opportunity to make money from the war in Nanyang and successfully completed the task of making up for the deficit assigned by Jinque.

Even Zhang Yuelu benefited from this. Even though he was embarrassed by the old Taoist priests, he was still promoted. In addition to the support of the Heavenly Master, it was also because the financial figures were still very good during Zhang Yuelu's tenure as chief.

Although Zhang Yuelu's series of reform measures affected the interests of the old Taoist priests, they also filled the treasury of the Taoist government. Because interests will not disappear out of thin air, the reason why the old Taoist priests did not hesitate to offend the Heavenly Master to oppose Zhang Yuelu was because their own interests were actually harmed, and Zhang Yuelu did not take this part of the interests, so naturally he entered the Taoist government.

Financial issues are a big problem.

Therefore, the Donghua and Qingwei factions have a rare consensus that the method of winning over and buying can no longer be carried out, because the development of the Taoist sect has stagnated, there is no extra interest, and the ceding of interests has almost reached the limit. If the interests are ceded again, it will force the foundation of the bottom to turn around, and it must turn. Even if the ship is big and difficult to turn around, it has to be forced.

However, there are still huge vested interest groups within the Taoist sect, that is, the food and clothing of millions of boatmen, and the power of path dependence is still strong. Because of inertia, there must be strong resistance, and the will of the upper level may not be implemented, so the Taoist sect will fall into a huge period of pain and chaos, which is also inevitable.

In fact, from the attitude towards Buddhism this time, it can be seen that Jinque quickly reached a consensus that it must go to war, and has given up the idea of ​​​​striving for the unity of the three religions with relatively gentle means.

It is not impossible to make Buddhism give up resistance in a united way, but why should people from Buddhism follow Taoism? Taoism has to give money and give up various interests.

Now Taoism has no money and is short of money, so I'm sorry, I can only choose to take action.

What's more, you killed me, a real person who knows knowledge, and want to provoke my internal strife, so I have to take action.

Judging from the current situation, Buddhism has underestimated the top leaders of Taoism, or underestimated the mutual trust and determination between Donghua Zhenren and Qingwei Zhenren. The counter-espionage plan failed, and it began to develop in the direction of shooting itself in the foot.

This is precisely the main reason why Qi Xuansu felt an ominous sign.

Buddhism must have another plan if one plan fails.

Living in a different place, if Qi Xuansu is a high-level Buddhist, what will Qi Xuansu do?

Qi Xuansu's method is to go all the way to the end and try every means to kill the successor of Donghua Zhenren.

The benefits of Taiping Dao have reached the extreme, almost sitting at home and enjoying the benefits from the sky.

Can Donghua Zhenren still maintain his composure? Can he still not doubt Taiping Dao?

So Qi Xuansu felt that he was in danger. He could not stay away from the Great Snow Mountain Palace for the rest of his life. He had to ensure his safety at all costs.

So Qi Xuansu did not wait until Long Xiaobai became an immortal, but directly invited a group of helpers, and now he had to control the outer demons.

Now everything is ready, only the divine power is missing.

It is impossible to let Zi Guang Zhenjun and He Luoshen bring their own dry food and pay for the divine power. These two did not ask Qi Xuansu for wages, which was the greatest support for Qi Xuansu.

So Qi Xuansu still stayed in the corpse raising ground, and his incarnation returned to the upper level of the Great Snow Mountain Palace.

Because of the war in the Western Regions, a large amount of supplies were stored in the Great Snow Mountain Palace, including 230,000 ke of divine power.

According to the rough estimate of Zi Guang Zhenjun and He Luoshen, 13,000 array points require about 130,000 divine powers, which is more than half of the divine power stored in the Western Region Dao Mansion.

Although Qi Xuansu is the Zhenren in charge of the Mansion, he has no right to mobilize so much divine power.

This requires communication from many aspects.

First, the Zhenren in charge of the Mansion, and then the Zhenren Jiang who represents Jinque. It just so happens that the "Thirty-three Days" are under the control of the Temple of Sacrifice, and the Zhenren Ning Lingge, the Zhenren in charge of the Temple, is also there.

In addition, in Yujing, Zhenren Donghua must be involved. He is the Zhenren in charge of the army, and these materials are also related to him. Then there is the Tianshi. After all, it is said that the Tianshi is the Zhenren in charge of the Temple of Sacrifice, and the matters of ghosts and gods must be reported to the Tianshi.

Fortunately, they are all our own people, and there are no Taiping Dao people.

It is best to talk to Wu Niang, just say hello. Zhenren Jiang and Ning Lingge will not deliberately obstruct, after all, Qi Xuansu is not going to use these divine powers to become immortals, but to deal with Buddhism.

Zhenren Donghua is a real master, and the Tianshi is a member of the Yue family.

If it were someone else, such as Chen Zhengxian, he would definitely not be able to open up so many joints, and he would get stuck at some point.

But Qi Xuansu did it.

130,000 ke of divine power, converted into Taiping money, is an astronomical figure.

Then it took three days for the three immortals to join forces and use this 130,000 ke of divine power to add a talisman on Wang Jujun's head, a veritable "divine talisman".

Zi Guang Zhenjun specifically instructed that this talisman can only be used three times, and must be used together with Xiao Yin and the "Guizang Lantern". It is best not to use it unless it is absolutely necessary.