Cultivation: When you do things to the extreme

Through the information obtained from searching the souls of these people, Xu Yang had already figured out the cause and effect of this incident.

Everything starts with "ascension".

Since the establishment of Wandao Academy, it has existed for more than 20,000 years.

Needless to say, the next ten thousand years are the beginning of the emergence of demon dye and the beginning of the union of the two worlds.

At that time, in order to deal with the hidden threat of the "Magic Ran World", Xu Yang forcefully suspended the ascension of Wandao Academy. Even after the problem of the Demon Ran World was solved and a new era of integration of the Taoist world and the Yuanling world entered, this ascension The matter has not been reactivated.

There are two main reasons for this. First, after the fusion of the two worlds, the heaven and earth Yuanling revives. It is no longer the five troubled times where spiritual opportunities are cut off and cultivation is difficult. Academy cultivators can completely enter the realm of integration with the resources of this world. Before that, There is no need to ascend.

This is the first one, and the second one...is the uncertainty of ascension.

Ten thousand years before the founding of Wandao Academy, it dates back to the Guobei Academy period. Due to the silence of Yuanling and the turbulent times of the Five Calamities, the highest level of cultivation can only reach the realm of Yuanying. After that, one has to break through the realm and ascend. According to the ancient immortal gods’ legacy He took the mark and went to the legendary "fairy world" to practice.

Even if he later established the Ten Thousand Dao Academy with the help of skills, fake cultivation, farming, and Luotian Jiao, he could not solve the problem of insufficient spiritual energy. Even he himself was trapped in the Nascent Soul realm and could not break through. To become a god, you can only rely on the methods of the earth to prolong your life.

But others don't have the ability like him, and they can't practice the methods of the earth in this troubled world of five evil spirits. If they don't want to be trapped here until death, they can only ascend to the upper world and seek the hope of entering the realm.

In this way, from the time of Guobei Academy to the more than 10,000 years since the founding of Wandao Academy, Wandao Academy has cultivated nearly 3,000 Yuan Yuans with the help of divine soul cultivation, Luotian Dajiao, and the power of skills and characteristics. The infant monk ascended to the upper world through the mark left by the ancient immortal god.

However, these three thousand Nascent Soul cultivators, after their ascension, disappeared like mud into the sea, without any news.

No one has returned, not even the slightest news has been sent back.

In this way, the matter of ascension has been labeled with uncertainty such as "dangerous" and "unknown". After the integration of the two worlds of Dao, law, Yuanling, Xu Yang has not restarted the matter of ascension for safety reasons. The state of the upper realm.

Although he has not restarted his ascension, he still has great curiosity and desire to explore this "upper realm of immortals and gods".

According to his original plan, when Wandao Academy cultivates a group of sufficient fusion monks, he will mobilize an incarnation to explore the upper world to see if he can advance.

But unexpectedly, before the plan came to fruition, Xiao Qingyun and others brought him information about the upper world, as well as the situation of the ascended monks from Wandao Academy.

very bad!

According to the memories of Xiao Qingyun and others, the upper realm they were in was indeed the upper realm where the ancient immortals and gods ascended to in the Taoist world.

However, the ancestors of the various great traditions in the Taoist world, as well as the gods and Buddhas they enshrined in the sky, including the supreme powers like Taoist Buddha, have disappeared without a trace.

what happened?

No one knew it, at least Xiao Qingyun didn't know it. It was a secret from ancient times, and practitioners at his level were not qualified to access it.

He only knew that in the ancient times, a great disaster and great turmoil occurred. The ancient gods and gods who ascended to the Taoist world, as well as the original powerful monks from the upper world, all disappeared in that disaster, leaving This upper realm called the "Earthly Immortal Realm" has entered a period of darkness and turmoil.

Fortunately, although the ancient immortals and gods have disappeared, their inheritance has not been extinct. There are still many methods left in the world.

Relying on the inheritance left by the ancient gods and gods, as well as the paths that the creatures of the earthly immortal world explored in the darkness, the spiritual practice of the earthly immortal world was finally restored after countless thousands of years, and Mahayana monks began to overcome tribulations and attain enlightenment, becoming immortals. Attainment status, and thus live forever in the world.

After these immortals attained enlightenment, they further explored the inheritance left by the ancient immortals and gods, and some even directly inherited their Taoist traditions, creating the "Heaven", "Underworld", "Four Seas Dragon Palace" and major portals of immortals and gods.

Xiao Qingyun and others came from "Heavenly Court!"

Although one inherits the Taoist tradition and continues the name, it is not the true ancient Heavenly Court, but to be able to create a foundation and establish a portal in the name of "Heavenly Court" in the earthly immortal world where immortals live in the world and surrounded by heroes, one must have extremely strong strength.

According to the memories of Xiao Qingyun and others, there are five great emperors in Heaven, all of whom are immortals who have survived the ninth level of immortal tribulation. One of them is the main one in the middle and is the Emperor of Heaven. The remaining four belong to the four poles of East, West, North and South. , imitating the "four emperors" system of ancient heaven, became the four auxiliary emperors of today's heaven.

Xiao Qingyun and others are the men under the command of the "Emperor of the West" among the four auxiliary emperors.

With five great emperors and five true immortals, although Heavenly Court has not unified the earthly immortal world, it is still the strongest among the major forces. It has also formed alliances with the "Fengdu Underworld", "Four Sea Dragon Palace" and other forces that inherited the ancient immortal gods' portals. The behemoth, overwhelming the entire Earth Immortal World, few people can challenge it.

It's a pity that it's rare, not exclusive!

In the earthly immortal world, there are not only immortals and gods who are the inheritors of ancient times, but demons and demons are also left behind, and the number is greater and the inheritance is more complete. Some even have bloodlines left behind, which are alien species of ancient demons, gods and demons.

Based on this, two realms of demons have also established their own gates, one is the Hundred Thousand Demon Kingdom, and the other is the Nine Nether Demon Abyss, competing with the Heavenly Court.

In addition, there are the Pure Land of Buddhism, Confucian academies, and other Taoist portals of ancient immortals and gods, as well as heresies, demons, and evil cultivators, presenting a troubled world pattern of "a hundred schools of thought contending."

Although the Heavenly Court is powerful, it is not alone. It often has to fight against demons, and it also allocates its strength to protect its own foundation and suppress the unrest that occurs in various parts of the Earthly Immortal World in order to maintain its rule.

Under such a situation, even if it is as powerful as Heaven, it will sometimes be stretched thin and unable to cope.

During the war, the replacement speed of the middle and lower-level monks will become extremely fast, so that each ministry in Heaven must train a large number of monks every year and recruit all kinds of talents to cope with the military pressure of the Hundred Thousand Demon Kingdom and the Nine Nether Demonic Abyss.

The problem lies here!

Fighting against demons and foreign enemies is a matter of course and understandable.

But in this world, he is unreasonable about many things, right or wrong, and does not see right or wrong.

If it doesn't make sense, then what's the point?

Benefit!

People's hearts!

Although the major forces and cultivator portals in the earthly immortal world have inherited the ancient immortal gods' orthodoxy and even have names like "Heavenly Court", they have not inherited the strict mental cultivation and moral ethics of the ancient immortal gods, but prefer to In the current world of cultivation, the body is in the jungle law state where the jungle prevails.

This system, this ecology...

How should I put it? It’s not conducive to unity!

Using public affairs for personal gain is the norm.

Nepotism is common sense.

Rewards and punishments are unfair, and laws are unfair.

It's natural for people's hearts to fluctuate.

When faced with the threat of the demon-stained world, Wandao Academy can mobilize the power of the entire world and hundreds of millions of cultivators to devote all resources, manpower and material resources to the war. Even matters such as ascension, which are related to the future path, can What is the basis for a ban?

One is centralization of power and strong suppression.

The second is fairness and strictness, and legal regulations.

The third is moral education and moral integrity.

It is all these that make the hundreds of millions of monks from Wandao Academy become a whole, work together, and fight against the enemy together!

The concept of "immortality is noble and private" is not feasible in Wandao Academy. Xu Yang has always rejected this concept and severely cracked down on evil practices. There is no room for the slightest sign, because you can't expect a group of people who "do not care for themselves and will be destroyed by heaven and earth." "The evil monks can drive the overall development and work together to resist foreign enemies.

Even he himself dislikes such things as evil cultivators!

Although the Heavenly Court in the Earthly Immortal Realm has not yet developed to the level of evil cultivation, it is not much better. People's hearts are selfish and fear of war is the norm.

What's even more terrible is that this normal state is not only at the bottom, but also at the top. It is the result of what goes up and what goes down.

The five emperors and the five factions have always been nepotistic, and have even fought openly and secretly to exclude dissidents.

Factional disputes and self-interest struggles have reached a very serious level.

If a force fights internally, it will inevitably lead to external discourtesy and collapse of the situation.

Therefore, in recent years, Heavenly Court has gradually fallen into retreat in the war against the Hundred Thousand Demon Kingdom and the Nine Nether Demonic Abyss, and has had to form an alliance with Fengdu Underworld, Sihai Dragon Palace, and Buddhism to help.

What, demons don’t have internal disputes?

Of course there is, but in the ecosystem of monsters, the upper ones have absolute dominance over the lower ones.

The king among demons can force all demons and demons to fill the battlefield regardless of life or death.

Can heaven do it?

Obviously not. Even if you use unrighteous methods to restrain lower-level monks and force them into the battlefield, it will only make people's hearts become more unstable, make everyone feel insecure, and eventually fall apart.

Therefore, in the past ten thousand years, the situation in Heaven has become increasingly difficult.

At this time, the ascended monks from the Ten Thousand Dao Academy came into the sight of the higher-ups in Heaven.

The Earthly Immortal Realm is the upper realm, connecting many lower realms. There is an "ascension platform" above it, which is specially designed to receive monks who have ascended from the lower realms.

These monks ascended from the lower world and have no foundation in the earthly immortal world, let alone true immortals to stand for them.

Therefore, Heaven can use them as cannon fodder without any scruples, filling them into the most dangerous battlefields, or using them as cattle and horses to exploit them at will.

This is how the "Heavenly Soldiers" of various departments in Heaven come from. They do the most dangerous work and the most arduous tasks, but cannot get corresponding rewards. It is even difficult to take care of their own cultivation. They can only be consumed like firewood until Until it disappears into ashes and becomes worthless.

This is how heaven treats ascended monks, which is better than how evil cultivators treat their slaves, and some are even worse.

In this regard, the ascended monks also want to resist, but they have no background and no foundation, and their cultivation strength is far from enough. How to resist, they can only accept their fate.

The ascended monks from the Wandao Academy are also included in this list, but unlike the ascended monks from other realms, the monks from the Wandao Academy are generally powerful in combat. They also have the methods of heavenly creation and can control the Lingbao mecha and use the Nascent Soul The body resists the monks who transform themselves into gods.

Although the monks of Wandao Academy are not stupid, after knowing the situation of Heavenly Court, they all have the intention of hiding their clumsiness and dormant, but in such an environment as Heavenly Court, the three thousand ascended monks will inevitably be exposed.

The result of the exposure is, "Children hold gold and get through the bustling city!"

The higher-ups in Heaven were extremely interested in Tiangong's creation and asked the monks in the Academy to hand it over.

Because before his ascension, Xu Yang had asked him to put himself first and discard all other external things, so the ascension monks from Wandao Academy did not have many reservations and directly contributed the Tiangong Technique and Lingbao Mecha. .

However……

The human heart is like a ravine, filled with greed and anger!

After the monks from the academy presented the heavenly creation method, some people in the heaven felt that this method was incomplete and did not have the fairy part above the spiritual treasure. They even suspected that the monks from the academy had hidden more extraordinary methods.

Therefore, they used soul searching methods on some of the academy monks!

Although the results of the soul search confirmed that the monks in the academy had not concealed anything and had given up the complete creation method of heaven.

But that is not the point for Heavenly Court. The point is Wandao Academy and Xu Yang, the Taoist Master!

Through searching the souls of the monks in the academy, they learned about the existence of Wandao Academy and many secrets about Xu Yang.

Then, the interests are moving and arouse the ambition of the wolf!

You must know that as early as ten thousand years ago, before the matter of ascension was prohibited, the population under the rule of Wandao Academy reached an astonishing 300 billion, and most of them were practitioners, truly realizing "everyone is like a dragon, and the practice of Dharma flourishes" feat.

A lower realm with a population of 300 billion, mostly practitioners. What a huge force is that?

Not to mention that the Wandao Academy gathers the power of the world and the wisdom of the people to deduce heavenly creations and various developments. The development potential is very terrifying. As long as they, the heaven in the upper realm, invest some resources, such as some high-level methods, they can achieve astonishing results. s return.

This is the power of deduction, as well as the power of the population. As long as some resources are invested to help the monks of the Academy to ascend, Tianting will have a new force that can be used at will. With the Lingbao mecha on the battlefield, it will definitely be able to greatly alleviate the problem of 100,000 The pressure brought by the Demon Kingdom and the Nine Nether Demonic Abyss.

In addition, there is Xu Yang!

As the Lord of Ten Thousand Daos, he has ruled the world for more than 20,000 years. With the help of earth-only cultivation and skill characteristics, he is still at the peak of spring and autumn, immortal and immortal, as if he has obtained the fruit of immortality.

The Wandao Academy has been able to develop to such an extent, firstly, by relying on the false cultivation method left by the ancient gods, and secondly, by relying on him, the Taoist master, to use his skills and characteristics to support agricultural production, fill the gap in resources, and meet the needs of cultivation. .

To be able to create such a foundation in the lower realm where spiritual opportunities are cut off and the five troubles are turbulent, and to live in the world for thousands of years, and to live forever. All these things are written up and down, inside and outside, with the four words "Opportunity to the sky" written on it.

This person must have a great treasure!

This valuable treasure must be in my bag!

This is Tianting's understanding and attitude towards Xu Yang.

Therefore, Xiao Qingyun and others came, holding a so-called heavenly imperial edict, boasting about giving him various titles, and then asked him to quickly go to the upper realm to take up his post. In this way, he invited you to enter the urn and seize the opportunity and Wandaoxue from him. The foundation of the palace.

This is the cause and effect of the whole thing, the whole story.

It is tolerable, but what is unbearable!