Ancestor
This title frightened Jianchou again: Who doesn't know that the most senior person in Yashan now is her master, Fudaoshanren himself
But now, the people of Fudao Mountain actually call this old man "ancestor"
Recalling the marvelous scene he had seen before of the old man turning from a skeleton into a full body of flesh and blood, Jianchou had some guesses in his mind for a moment, but he did not show any great surprise. He just restrained himself and showed a little curiosity.
After hearing what Fudaoshanren said, the old man was not so calm anymore.
The two long snow-white eyebrows hanging on the brow bone moved, and a pair of exceptionally dark eyes looked towards Jianchou.
But when his eyes fell on Jianchou, Jianchou felt that there was a faint light in those eyes.
It’s like walking alone in the long night, and suddenly you find a few lights on the long road. They’re not very bright, but they won’t lead you astray…
It was surprisingly transparent, yet also surprisingly frightening.
Even though Jianchou was at the late Nascent Soul stage, he still felt like he had nowhere to hide under this gaze!
Fortunately, the "old ancestor"'s gaze did not stay for long, but turned to Fudaoshanren: "Tell me about it."
Fudaoshanren had never really tolerated this "old immortal", but now that the matter was critical, he had completely restrained his playful look.
The old face, because of its seriousness, actually exudes a rare and fascinating aura.
"My disciple was in the Extreme Region and discovered that the Eight Directions Yama Palace seemed to be secretly plotting against the Nineteen Continents. She also encountered the remnant soul of the Nine-headed Bird in the Extreme Region and asked her to bring back a message, asking us in Yashan to put aside the old grudges, unite with the Nineteen Continents, fight the Extreme Region first, and then establish the reincarnation."
After he finished speaking, he looked at the old man sitting cross-legged on the platform.
"What do you think, old man?"
A thoughtful look flashed across the old man's eyes. He looked at Fudao for a long while, and then he actually stretched out his hand and waved to Jianchou.
"I remember your name is Jianchou, right? Come here."
Does he know his own name
Jianchou was a little surprised, but then he thought again, since even the people of Fudao Mountain had to call him "ancestor", he must be a real "big shot" in Yashan, and it would not be surprising for him to know something.
Upon hearing this, she just glanced at Fudao Shanren.
Fudaoshanren nodded to her and made a noise, indicating that she should go up as he said, but he himself stood below without moving.
Jianchou had no idea why the old man called him up, but with Fudaoshanren by his side, he was not afraid.
At that moment, his figure lightened and he disappeared from the spot, and appeared on the platform in the blink of an eye.
It's a teleportation.
At this point, you can see more clearly.
It was indeed exactly the same as the altar in the Eighteen Layers of Hell, even the size was the same. The only difference was on the surface.
The huge round bronze mirror was covered with a thick layer of dust, but it still couldn't block the golden light flowing from it.
Even without looking closely, one only needs to calm down and feel it to feel the extraordinaryness of this mirror. Moreover, what makes Jianchou even more shocked is the two small characters engraved on the edge of this mirror...
Mi, sky.
At this moment, it was like a thunderclap in my mind!
It was written on the leaf of book that Fu Chaosheng sent over at the beginning that in ancient times, the great Pangu created the world and established the cycle of reincarnation. When he was opening up the polar region, he encountered the same space turbulence that Jianchou had encountered before.
This turbulence is actually a very special place in the universe, a crack when the universe was not fully grown. For those who enter, space transfer is a piece of cake. If you are unlucky, you will come out thousands of years later in the blink of an eye, or go back to the past.
Therefore, the great Pangu used all his divine power to move this turbulence outside the polar region, thereby separating the Yin and Yang worlds, and only built a round mirror for the two worlds to pass through!
This mirror is named "Mitian"!
When Jianchou saw these written records, he thought that these were just legends far away in the horizon, and it was even impossible to verify whether they were true or not. However, he never expected that the legendary thing would suddenly appear before his eyes one day!
My heart was suddenly filled with uproar.
But standing on this high platform, she couldn't figure out the interests involved for a moment, so she tried her best to suppress the shock in her heart.
The old man with Kugao seemed not to notice Jianchou's emotional fluctuations, or maybe he did feel it but didn't care and didn't ask.
He just pointed his finger at Jianchou and said in a hoarse and unpleasant voice: "Lower your head."
Jianchou still didn't quite understand. After hesitating for a moment, he bent down and lowered his head.
Then, the "old ancestor"'s index finger, which was as thin as a dead branch, gently touched her forehead.
In an instant, everything was full of light and color!
Countless flowing lights and shadows flew out from his worried brows and revolved around his wrinkled fingers.
Jianchou only felt a slight chill between his eyebrows, as if a stream of clear spring flowed along his eyebrows into the ancestral orifice and passed through his spiritual platform.
At this moment, she could clearly sense what the other party was doing.
Checking out her memory of when she was in the Polar Region!
After just a moment, a dark light flashed in the old ancestor's eyes, revealing some understanding, and then he slowly put down his fingers, but his brows were instantly frowned.
"I see… "
Jianchou had only seen this kind of miraculous method in books before. It was called "soul searching" and could not be performed by anyone except one whose realm was two realms higher than the other party. Moreover, there was a danger of backlash if one was not careful.
Generally speaking, people whose souls are searched will either become stupid or crazy.
But I...
Jianchou didn't feel any changes in himself.
The more this happened, the more unfathomable she felt the old man in front of her was.
"What do you think, old man?"
At this time, Fudaoshanren finally came up and sat on the Mitian Mirror as usual without any taboos, and waved to Jianchou.
"You sit down too."
This posture was exactly the same as when Zheng Yao asked her to sit down in Lanyue Palace.
Jianchou's mouth twitched, but seeing that this "old ancestor" did not say a word, as if he agreed, he did not say much and sat cross-legged next to Fudaoshanren as he was told.
What she encountered in the polar region was so mysterious and bizarre that it was unbelievable.
What is reincarnation, what is the nine-headed bird, what is putting aside the internal grudges and attacking the extreme domain first... She knew a little about these, but she was not very clear.
At this moment, I just pricked up my ears and listened.
The old ancestor's expression was unusually solemn.
Unlike Jianchou, who knew very little about the Nineteen Continents, he knew too much, so what he saw was particularly distressing.
"If what this little girl saw is true, the situation in the Extreme Territory is probably even worse than we expected. Even if we don't take the initiative to attack, the Eight Directions Hell Palace will also take the initiative to attack, and the consequences will be disastrous..."
He sighed, put his fingers on his knees, and remained silent for a long time before speaking again.
"Fudao, what do you think?"
What does he think
Fudaoshanren couldn't help but sneered: "What can I do? More than six hundred years have passed, and it's already the eleventh sixty years. The old accounts with the Kunwu Buddhist sect haven't been settled yet, and now you want me to let Yashan go, go to war with Jiyu first, and rebuild the reincarnation... Bah! What a joke!"
"… "
Jianchou had never seen such a Fudaoshan man before.
In the past, she only thought that her master was very unreliable, very willful, and always in a careless manner. But she had never heard him say such sharp words before.
The old grudge with Kunwu and Buddhism
She had some vague guesses earlier, but now she was not sure, so she just looked at the "ancestor" carefully.
As if noticing her gaze, the old ancestor turned around and looked at her.
He seemed to be accustomed to Fudaoshanren's attitude. He even smiled at Jianchou and said, "Your master has always had this bad temper. You don't need to learn from him."
"Who has a bad temper? What do you mean don't learn from me? Is there anyone in the world with a good temper like me?"
When Fudao Shanren heard this, he was immediately dissatisfied and started shouting.
The old ancestor ignored him, as if he hadn't heard him, and continued to speak to Jianchou: "You have only been a disciple for a short time, and you only have a general understanding of the affairs of Yashan. Like everyone else, you are not very clear, right? Especially the battle between Yin and Yang eleven years ago..."
That’s absolutely true.
Jianchou felt vaguely that this old ancestor seemed particularly kind, as if he wanted to explain things to him, so he tentatively asked, "I know a little, but I'm not very clear. Can you please tell me a thing or two?"
She was very respectful, and she exuded a calm and peaceful air.
The old man with a haggard appearance looked at her and found her particularly pleasing to the eye. He suddenly remembered that sixty years ago, when Fu Dao brought her down unconscious to him, she had just established her foundation. Now, she was already in the late Nascent Soul stage.
As far as I can remember, even Fudao and Hengxu back then didn’t have this speed, right
The body of Tianxu, below the level of the body, is hard to find an opponent...
It is really true.
But apart from that, her character and temperament can be said to be one in a million.
No wonder Qu Zhengfeng was able to leave so cleanly. Such a female cultivator is indeed capable of bearing the title of "Big Sister of Yashan".
The old ancestor looked at her with a hint of admiration in his eyes, but he sighed: "The battle between Yin and Yang eleven generations ago is a long story..."
In ancient times, Pangu created the world and established the cycle of reincarnation;
In ancient times, the human race gradually established its superiority among hundreds of other races. Those who attained enlightenment were able to master the rules of heaven and earth and were close to immortality, so they were called "immortals."
About a thousand years ago, the human race had completely taken the lead, and the monks finally became the mainstream. At this time, the "Ancient Times" came to an end.
The era following the ancient times is the present, which is called "the present and the past".
The Jiyu region began to cause chaos around the turn of the ancient times and the modern times.
The cultivators from the original Nineteen Continents were just like the mortals on the isolated islands of the human world. As long as they had not yet ascended to heaven, they would enter the cycle of reincarnation.
After death, his soul automatically came to the Jiutou River.
At sunset, the nine-headed bird will swim upstream from the mouth of the Jiutou River in the west and return to the Dongji Peach Tree before sunrise, entering the Ghost Gate and sending them into reincarnation.
But suddenly one day, some monks found a lot of wandering souls near the East China Sea. They were all the souls of monks who had failed to enter the ghost gate!
When the news spread to the major sects in the 19 continents, it naturally caused quite a stir.
Kunwu and Yashan had a very good relationship at that time, so they sat together to discuss who to send to investigate.
Unexpectedly, the person who finally went there was neither a Kunwu monk nor a disciple of Yashan.
But it’s the Green Leaf Ancestor.
At that time, Kunwu Baji Daoist Master had just ascended to heaven not long ago, and Green Leaf Patriarch was becoming famous after snatching away the "Nine-Curved River Map". I don't know if he felt that life was boring, but after hearing the news, he actually went alone to the Ghost Gate!
This ancestor was a man of temperament.
It is said that after arriving at Jiyu, he stood outside Bafang City, where there was only one King Qin Guang, and asked people to come out and talk.
Somehow, they started fighting after a disagreement.
King Qin Guang was neither a human nor a ghost, but the embodiment of the rules of reincarnation in the Extreme Realm. He just had intelligence for some unknown reason and was extremely powerful.
Judging from the situation when the Nineteen Continents later fought with him in the battle between the Yin and Yang Realm, it is no exaggeration to say that his cultivation level was earth-shaking.
But when facing the Green Leaf Ancestor who was in his prime at that time, he had no way to deal with it at all, and was even slightly injured in the battle.
But his incarnation is unique, and even the Green Leaf Ancestor cannot kill him.
But the latter had always acted in an extreme way. He was very unhappy, and when he saw that he could not do anything to the other party, he started to "massacre" without saying a word, and the 72 cities in the newly formed Jiyu were covered in blood and there was wailing everywhere!
King Qin Guang couldn't bear to watch her go on killing like this, so he was finally forced to compromise and temporarily reincarnate in the Nineteen Continents.
At that time, the matter was over before it became a big deal.
Many monks who knew the inside story did not react, but they did not let down their guard afterwards.
"King Qin Guang has evil ambitions. Since he has closed the reincarnation cycle to the cultivators of the Nineteen Continents, he will definitely not give up. He is the incarnation of the rules and will not perish, but Lu Ye is a cultivator. When he reaches a certain level of cultivation, he will ascend to heaven. So I, Yashan, did not take it lightly."
When the old ancestor said this, he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing, and his voice became heavier.
"Not long after, Green Leaf ascended, and the chaos in the Extreme Realm returned as expected..."
It can be said that the Green Leaf Ancestor at that time was the strongest among the cultivators in the Nineteen Continents.
After she ascended to heaven, the people in Jiyu somehow found out about it.
The reincarnation cycle that was originally reopened to the monks of the Nineteen Continents was unexpectedly closed again. As a result, a dark and boundless war finally broke out between the Nineteen Continents and the Extreme Region.
No one can see through reincarnation and resist the temptation of rebirth.
The same goes for monks.
After knowing the situation in the Polar Region clearly, all the major sects in the Nineteen Continents gathered to discuss and concluded that this matter could not be resolved peacefully.
So, eleven generations ago, led by the three major sects of Yashan, Kunwu and Buddhism in the Central Region at that time, the elites of the three thousand sects in the Central Region, the Yin Yang Sect in the Northern Region, and even the Wangjiang Tower which was in its heyday at that time, thousands and thousands of cultivators, gathered together and invaded the Jiyu Region!
The monks were extremely powerful, not to mention such a large number of elite monks. If they were to fight against a mortal army, it would be over in a short time.
But in the polar regions, what they face are endless wandering souls and evil spirits emerging from the ground.
The battle over the power of reincarnation became brutal.
But the Nineteen Continents has a profound foundation, unlike the Extreme Region which has only been established for a short time and seems to have too few disciples.
So after several battles, the Nineteen Continents began to gain the upper hand.
"At that time, we had already pushed our way outside the Eighteen Layers of Hell. Once we crossed that line, we would have truly entered the Extreme Realm. Although King Qin Guang and his men were strong, if they lost this battle, I'm afraid they would be powerless to turn the tide. We all thought that this battle would be a foregone conclusion..."
The wrinkles on his face deepened. The old man smiled and slowly closed his eyes.
"Who could have thought that people's hearts were so sinister that they could kill each other!"
After all, Yashan trusted the wrong person!
Among the Nineteen Continents at that time, the three most powerful factions were Yashan, Kunwu and Buddhism, and that battle should have been a joint effort of the three parties.
It had been agreed beforehand that Kunwu would lead his men in a frontal attack, while Kunwu and the Buddhist sect would attack from both sides respectively. By taking the enemy by surprise, they would surely destroy the Extreme Domain and regain control of the Reincarnation.
But who could have thought
When Yashan led the monks to fight against Jiyu according to the plan agreed upon by the three parties, Kunwu and Buddhism were still not there.
Although Yashan is strong, he is not strong enough to compete with the power of the Jiyu Realm.
Not to mention, the place of battle was originally in the Extreme Domain, and King Qin Guang was the incarnation of the rules of the Extreme Domain, and his magic could mobilize the power of the entire world.
Ten thousand evil lands have brought out countless evil spirits; a thousand miles of Yellow Springs have brought endless lonely souls.
Even if the monks from Yashan tried their best to hold on, how could they resist it all
There is no way to retreat, and we are surrounded by enemies!
That battle was bloody for the entire Yashan...
"How many of my disciples from Yashan shed their blood on the barren land of Jiyu? But in the end, not even their souls found a good place to return to!"
The old man's hoarse voice finally revealed an undisguised smell of blood, and his eyes were slightly moist.
"When I left, there were thousands of people on the cliffs and mountains, but when I returned, there were thousands of graves covered with weeds on the beach outside..."
Qian Xiu!
Thousands of tombs!
Jianchou had seen the thousands of graves outside when he first arrived, but he had never expected that there was such a tragic past there, let alone that there were so many inside stories in the war between the Yin and Yang realms.
The broken images she had seen through the Ghost Axe in the past flashed back in front of her eyes, and she felt as if something was blocking her throat. She opened her mouth for a long time before she spoke awkwardly, "Then...what about Kunwu and Buddhism?"
"Hmm, them?"
The Fudaoshanren standing by couldn't help but sneer. He took the chicken leg in his hand again and took a bite, revealing a strange ferocity.
"With the concerted efforts of the 19 continents, of course they came in the end. Otherwise, how could they dare to call themselves 'the famous and upright sect'?"
Jianchou could tell something was wrong with his voice and didn't dare to respond for a moment.
Only the old ancestor at the side took a look at him and found that he had not been in seclusion for long, but his cultivation had directly jumped two major realms from the out-of-body state in the past, and in one fell swoop passed the worldly state and entered the return to the void.
I don’t know whether I have seen through it or not…
He shook his head slowly before returning his gaze to Jianchou. The emotional ups and downs in his voice had calmed down, and no trace of emotion could be heard. It was as if he was just narrating something that had nothing to do with him.
"Both of them eventually came."
"Kunwu said that they encountered an ambush on the way and sent their disciple Purple Palace Sword Shen Jiuhan to report. From the Buddhist side, only the Zen sect came, but no Tantric sect was seen. It seems that something happened on the way."
"It's a pity that at that time, all the monks who went forward from Yashan were dead or injured..."
Thus, the war between Yin and Yang came to a temporary end.
The power of reincarnation could not be taken back, and Yashan was severely damaged. The former owner of Ghost Axe, Baili Wanhua, who was about to ascend to heaven soon, was swallowed by the underworld because he used the power of Ghost Axe to save the remaining monks in Yashan. No trace of his body was left, and his soul was scattered.
Even the Ghost Axe and the Yin-Yang Pearl were lost in the Extreme Domain and disappeared, and it has become a broken axe ever since.
After several decades, Buddhism moved northward and officially split into the Zen and Esoteric Buddhism sects.
So the truth that was so belatedly revealed finally surfaced -
Buddhist practice has always emphasized "reincarnation" and "opportunity."
King Qin Guang of Jiyu took advantage of the situation and promised the power of "reincarnation" to separate Buddhism from many sects such as Yashan. At that time, the power of Tantric Buddhism was strong, and the abbot of Buddhism Guizhen agreed to it because of a thought.
However, Zen Buddhism was kept in the dark and only realized something was wrong halfway through.
Unfortunately, after a lot of entanglement, it was already too late when I rushed over...
The two sects of Zen and Esoteric Buddhism began to have a rift from then on.
As time went by, the two sects gradually found that their philosophies were increasingly divergent, and finally split completely when they decided to move the sect to the Northern Territory.
One is based on the West Sea coast and is henceforth called the West Sea Zen Sect; the other is based on the snowy plateau and is henceforth called the Snowy Region Tantric Sect.
"As for Kunwu..."
The old ancestor looked at Jianchou and, for some reason, laughed.
"I don't know anything."
Apart from the sentence "encountered an ambush on the road", there is no other explanation.
The two giants of the Central Region that once stood side by side are now standing among the mountains and rivers of the Central Region as if nothing had happened, and they are still the "pillars" in the eyes of the cultivators of the Nineteen Continents.
Nothing seems to have changed.
Except for the thousand tombs under the cableway and on the river beach, which have been silent for more than ten years...