Most of the merits on the merit tablet were used on Jiao Sheng. He directly destroyed the opponent's clone with one stone tablet, and also did a lot of damage to his original body. After all, the attack of this Merit Monument is not only aimed at the specific things in front of you, but against the existence of the Jiao Saint in the world. Even if Jiao Sheng himself is hundreds of millions of miles away in the East China Sea, as long as Ye Zan has this goal in mind, he will not be able to avoid the attack of the Merit Monument no matter what.
But after that, facing the Jiuyao Dao Lord who was coming towards him, Ye Zan relied on the few merits left on the merit tablet, and it was no longer possible to deal with him like he dealt with the clone of Jiao Saint. He could only sacrifice the merit monument, use the remaining merit to protect everyone on his side, and buy himself a little time to reveal another hole card.
And this other trump card is none other than Gou Chen Supreme and Ling Han Daojun who are imprisoned in the Arctic Immortal Palace.
That Supreme Lord Gouchen broke into the North Pole Immortal Palace without permission, and ended up triggering the restrictions there, and he was imprisoned for nearly ten thousand years. Judging from the time, when Gouchen Zhizun broke into the North Pole Immortal Palace, it was actually the time when Tianyu Daozu escaped from the Immortal Palace. Later, two of Gouchen Zhizun's disciples, Daojun Linghan and Daojun Cangquan, entered the Immortal Palace to look for their master, but they were both trapped inside.
Daojun Linghan found the damage left in the Immortal Palace's confinement when Daozu Tianyu escaped, and successfully found the place where Supreme Gou Chen was imprisoned. However, it is useless to just find it. The damaged part of the restriction is not enough to allow Supreme Gouchen to leave, unless he abandons everything like Tianyu Daozu and only escapes a ray of true spirit.
Moreover, although Daojun Linghan himself entered, he could not get in and could only be trapped in the Immortal Palace with his master.
Soon afterwards, Daojun Cangquan entered the Immortal Palace again, hoping to find and rescue his master and senior brother. I don't know if I should say he was lucky or not, but he did not find the loophole in the restriction left by Dao Ancestor Tianyu like his senior brother Ling Han Daojun. However, he himself could not get out. Instead, he was trapped in a restriction in that void battlefield for thousands of years.
Until Ye Zan entered the Immortal Palace, he first rescued Daojun Cangquan, and then followed the restriction loophole to find Supreme Lord Gouchen and Daojun Linghan.
However, at that time, Ye Zan did not really become the heir of Xuanqing Dao Ancestor. He only held a sign of the Immortal Palace handyman in his hand. As a handyman, he naturally had no power to release the prisoners who were restricted by the Immortal Palace. He could only promise Gouchen Supreme to release the master and apprentice when he was able.
As a result, when Ye Zan was promoted to the realm of Yuanshen and had the ability to release Gou Chen Supreme and Ling Han Daojun, he happened to encounter the shackles of heaven and earth set by Tianyu Daozu.
But now, the shackles of heaven and earth have been broken, and at the same time, Ye Zan is in urgent need of reinforcements, so naturally it is time to release the two of them.
Ye Zan opened the passage with the Immortal Palace Token, said "Everyone, wait a moment" to everyone around him, and stepped into the passage. This time, he didn't have to go through the restriction loophole, and landed directly outside the small courtyard where the two were imprisoned, without even a few seconds of delay.
Arriving outside the courtyard, Ye Zan grabbed the token with one hand and pressed it on the courtyard door with the other. As the light on the token lit up, he slowly pushed open the courtyard door, revealing Supreme Gou Chen and Daojun Ling Han in the courtyard.
The two masters and disciples were meditating in the courtyard at this time. They didn't look like they had been imprisoned for thousands of years at all. They looked like they were sitting in their own yard enjoying the cool air. However, upon noticing the strange movement at the courtyard door, the master and the apprentice both looked towards the courtyard door, and saw that the courtyard door was slowly pushed open by Ye Zan.
That courtyard gate was not an ordinary courtyard gate. It was a courtyard gate that trapped the master and disciple in this small courtyard for a long time. When he was first imprisoned, Gouchen Zhizun also tried to break out the door, but no matter how much magic he exerted, he could not shake the courtyard gate even a bit.
But now, the courtyard door was pushed open from the outside. Ye Zan, who had promised to rescue the two of them, just pushed open the courtyard door and walked in. No one could have imagined what this meant!
The hope of seeing the light of day again was so close. With the state of mind that the two masters and disciples had honed after being imprisoned for so many years, they couldn't help but feel inexplicable excitement welling up in their hearts at this time. Of course, the years of hard work were not in vain. Although their hearts were already filled with excitement, the master and apprentice did not show any signs of losing their composure in front of Ye Zan who walked into the courtyard.
"Young friend Ye, has the external matter been resolved?" Gou Chen Zhizun stood up, with a faint smile on his face, and asked Ye Zan in a calm tone, without any hint of urgency in his heart.
After Ye Zan was promoted to the Yuanshen Realm, he once came in to meet Supreme Lord Gou Chen and Dao Lord Ling Han, and told them about the renewed shackles of the world outside. After all, he had reached the realm of Yuanshen and was already capable of rescuing the two of them. He always wanted to let others know why he didn't do it.
Although Master Gou Chen and Master Ling Han Daojun were imprisoned in the Immortal Palace and had no access to the outside world. But based on their level, just through the changes in Ye Zan's body, they can know that what Ye Zan said is true.
Therefore, when he saw Ye Zan coming in, Gouchen Zhizun asked this question.
Hearing Gou Chen Zhizun's inquiry, Ye Zan shook his head helplessly and said with a wry smile: "To make senior laugh, this junior is here mainly to ask for help from senior!"
After all, he is also a Heaven-reaching Supreme Being and a Dharma-Xiang Dao Lord. Naturally, Ye Zan cannot open his mouth and ask others to do this or that for him like he did with Wenhua True Lord and the others. Although Ye Zan released the two of them, he felt a kindness to them. But as the saying goes, "a favor rises, a favor fights with hatred." If kindness is not well controlled, it can easily turn into hatred.
Just like in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Xu You surrendered to Cao Cao and attacked Wuchao at night to burn Yuan Shao's food and grass, allowing Cao Cao, who was originally in dire straits, to win the Battle of Guandu. This was originally a good thing, but Xu You didn't know how to restrain himself afterwards. He always regarded himself as Cao Cao's benefactor and savior, opening his mouth and saying "what's wrong with Cao A'man". As a result, everyone knows that after only a few days of enjoying the good treatment of meritorious officials, "there are white people, and they will take it".
Therefore, Ye Zan never mentioned anything about rescuing the two of them, only saying that he came to ask for help when he encountered a problem.
Sure enough, when he heard what Ye Zan said, although Gou Chen Zhizun didn't show anything on his face, he nodded secretly in his heart and asked cooperatively: "Oh! I wonder what kind of problem my little friend has encountered? Although I am trapped in This place has been here for nearly ten thousand years, but I think my cultivation has not fallen. If you need anything, just ask."
Although the masters and disciples of Gou Chen Zhizun and Ling Han Daojun knew about the rebirth of the shackles of heaven and earth from Ye Zan, they did not know much about the details of the whole matter. All I know is that there is a very ambitious demon who has planned to refine the realm for tens of thousands of years. In order to prevent other powerful people from intervening, he set up this heavy shackles of heaven and earth. However, they had no way of knowing the more detailed information about Ye Zan's experiences along the way, as well as the various forces involved.
"Senior, please forgive me. The situation outside is urgent. I'll keep the story short. Here's what happened..." Ye Zan didn't want to waste any more time. Even if there was True Lord Qinghong outside to help buy time, he still couldn't talk too much to Supreme Gou Chen. . So, in a few simple sentences, he briefly described the situation outside, mainly focusing on the key words of Tianyu Daozu, Tiandi Token, and Jiuyao Daojun.
After listening to Ye Zan's brief description, Gouchen Zhizun had a certain understanding of the whole incident. The expression on his face suddenly became a little strange. He looked at Ye Zan and said, "Isn't it possible that I'm not afraid, little friend? After I get the token, , like Tianyu Daozu, refining the realm in order to become an immortal? "
Indeed, if it were seen by others, Ye Zan's release of Gouchen Supreme could temporarily resolve his own crisis, but it would also be equivalent to adding another contender. Moreover, this Supreme Lord Gouchen is different from the three powerful ones. Those three are just clones, but he is the real one.
The Heaven-Bearing Supreme Being has arrived again. In this era, he may be considered invincible. With such a powerful person participating in the fight for the Emperor's Token, there is basically nothing else to worry about. Even that day, Yu Daozu, if his strength could not be restored to a certain level in time, he might not be able to keep the token in his hand.
However, Ye Zan could see clearly that when Gou Chen Zhizun said this, the look in his eyes was not greed, but a small sense of pride in seeing through the mystery.
"This, it seems that the seniors have guessed that the Heavenly Emperor's Token cannot be refined by just anyone. As one of the ancestors of our Yuqing Sect, Tianyu Daozu took nearly ten thousand years to refine it to this point. If it were someone else..." Ye Zan shook his head when he said this, and then said without any concealment: "The Emperor's Token was obtained from the endless void by Xuanqing Taoist Ancestor. Later, in order to use it to suppress the fate of the sect, It is already refining and is closely connected to the Yuqing Sect. If the Yuqing Sect is strong, no one can refine it. If the Yuqing Sect is destroyed, the token will lose its foundation. It is precisely because of this that Tianyu Daozu will lose its foundation. In the past ten thousand years, I have only tried my best to suppress the Yuqing Sect, but I have not dared to completely eliminate the Yuqing Sect. "
After listening to Ye Zan's words, Gouchen Zhizun immediately understood. No wonder Yuqing Sect would spread the news widely and allow other sects to participate in the competition for the token. To put it bluntly, Yuqingzong actually wants a group of free thugs to help them deal with Tianyu Daozu. Anyway, no matter who gets the token in the end, it will be better than Tianyu Daozu getting it.
"This... you guys are really scheming!" After thinking about this, Gouchen Zhizun couldn't help but point at Ye Zan with a funny look on his face and said.
You know, the powerful ones outside are not like Gouchen Zhizun, who can hear these inside stories from Ye Zan's mouth. They only knew that one person had obtained a Heavenly Emperor token and wanted to use the token to refine the realm and embark on the path to immortality, but they did not know that not everyone could refine the token.
"It makes the seniors laugh. If we don't do this, how can we invite those powerful people? I'm afraid that they won't know until then, when Tianyu Daozu succeeds in refining the realm and all living beings in the world become his slaves and puppets. Anxious. But by then, it's too late!" Ye Zan said helplessly.
Speaking of which, although people in this world claim to understand the way of heaven, in fact, their vision is not much different from that of people in the technological world.
People in the world of science and technology will pollute the environment without any scruples for the sake of immediate development interests, and overdraw everything for future generations. Anyway, "after I die, I won't care about the floods." It wasn't until one day when the real doomsday came that those people regretted what they shouldn't have done, but by then it was too late to say anything. Of course, what is more important is that they themselves cannot see that day at all, and the evil consequences they have sown will be swallowed by their descendants.
Although people in this world live much longer than people in the technological world, they do not have a longer-term vision because of this. The same goes for them. Most of them only care about immediate interests. The end of the world and the refining realm have nothing to do with them. By the time they felt it was relevant and started to really worry about their future, whatever they were supposed to do was almost done, or had already been done.
"Haha, that's true." Gouchen Zhizun nodded, quite agreeing with Ye Zan's words.
Of course, Gouchen Zhizun did not mean that "everyone is drunk and I am sober", but that he just put himself in the position of others, knowing that he probably had the same thoughts as others. If he only heard a piece of news that someone was going to refine the realm, his first reaction would be to find it ridiculous and unbelievable. And after the confirmation, it was difficult for him to really let go of everything and go all out to do this unprofitable thing.
Only by offering an extremely huge temptation as Ye Zan and the others planned, could everyone have enough motivation to do it at all costs.
Just like now, if those sects didn't have such a huge temptation, would they have thought of using those methods to make the clones of their ancestors come? I'm afraid that even if they send people here, they simply send some powerful souls, and at most they just get them some magic weapons, or the ancestor gives them some means of self-defense.
And with such a huge temptation, they will spend so much thought and think of all possible situations. In particular, since there is an additional possibility of competition, they will rack their brains even more and make complete preparations for it.
We can't say that these powerful people are stupid, nor can we say that Ye Zan's villain's heart is like a gentleman's heart. This is actually very ordinary human nature.
The ascetics are also human beings. In terms of human nature, they are actually no better than ordinary mortals. To put it bluntly, they are just a group of more powerful people. Of course, in this world, it is not that there are people who care about the world, but such people tend to die early. After all, this world is more about the law of the jungle.
After briefly understanding the situation outside, Gou Chen Zhizun didn't ask any more questions. He nodded and said: "In that case, without further ado, let me help you lead the way!"