Chapter 135: The World After Tianmo Chuan

This is not only Yang Zu's wish, but also Lin Yangyang's will.

Like a friend, yet like family.

Not overly intimate, yet able to entrust each other with the most important matters.

【After sending off Lin Chuan's lingering soul, you fulfilled the Heavenly Dao Great Vow.】

【You must guard the order of all beings for one hundred thousand years.】

【During this period, you will still comprehend the path to becoming immortal, but will no longer partake in worldly disputes.】

【Perhaps because part of your mind must be allocated to maintaining the stability of Heaven‑Earth order, you have been unable to attain immortal fate.】

【Time passes, and you remain stuck.】

【You may be called the first Heavenly Pride since the opening of New Heaven and Earth; aside from Lin Chuan's brief half‑step lead, you are most often a lone dust‑clearing figure.】

【Even so, your comprehension of immortal fate is almost nil.】

【Across Boundless Chaos, the Other Shore of the Immortal Path lies on the far side; you cannot even see a bridge, how can you ascend?】

【You occasionally miss Lin Chuan.】

【"Has he crossed the Infinite Cosmic Sea and found a sliver of hope in the Boundless Chaos?"】

【Relying on that Causal Seal, you can still vaguely sense Lin Chuan's soul, but it grows ever more distant.】

【You gaze upon the rise and fall of Heaven and Earth.】

【Sometimes you open your eyes to look at the world, often closing them to cultivate.】

【One day, while secluding yourself for cultivation, you were startled by a massive movement in Heaven and Earth.】

【You looked down from the Heavenly Dome above the Nine Major Star Regions and saw golden merit light pouring into a region, where all beings bowed and knelt.】

【What they worship is not Heaven, but a gigantic golden Fozu statue.】

【You saw endless golden light converging on a single human, and at the same time, a supreme treasure of Heaven and Earth slowly taking shape under the golden light.】

【"Fozu's Broken Eye!"】

【You squint, and in an instant feel murderous intent, but you have already made a great vow to guard the order of all beings for a hundred thousand years, and must not stir up chaos again.】

【All these years, mortal beings have increased more and more.】

【Buddhism, by protecting mortal beings, has gained countless believers, and the Heavenly Dao has bestowed vast merit because of this.】

【Fozu's Broken Eye also forged a life‑destined merit treasure from those merits, and, with the power of the Heavenly Dao, obtained a strand of Immortal Spirit Power Blessing from the depths of Chaos, stepping into the Wangxian Realm.】

【Only you and Lin Chuan differ.】

【The Wangxian Realm achieved by Broken Eye has been limited by the Heavenly Dao from start to finish.】

【Your great vow places you in cooperation with the Heavenly Dao, while Broken Eye is merely a follower of the Heavenly Dao.】

【This means he has no hope of ascending in this life.】

【Not long after Broken Eye attained the Wangxian Realm, the Heavenly Dao again poured endless merit, and the third Daoist Patriarch Qingcang, following you and Wu Zhong, also entered the Wangxian Realm.】

【Along with it coalesced a life‑destined merit treasure, and the one stepping into the Wangxian Realm was the Confucian Sect Ancestor Mengdie.】

【Thus, the Mortal Earth's most prosperous Three Teachings firmly occupy the highest position of being worshipped by all beings, unshakable.】

【The achievements of the Three Teachings Patriarchs made countless cultivators realize the importance of faith's power and Heavenly Dao merit.】

【In an instant, many sects rose.】

【Under the Three Teachings, a hundred schools clamored.】

【All sects rose like waves, surging high then falling, ultimately fading into the river of time.】

【The mortal world thus became considerably more peaceful.】

【A boundary gradually formed between cultivators and mortals; cultivators of each sect refraining from mortal affairs seemed to become an unwritten rule.】

【Under the leadership of Three Teachings cultivators, the Human Race truly became the greatest race between Heaven and Earth, continuing to write a magnificent historical chapter for this world's life.】

【The great races beyond the Human Race no longer reside on Mortal Earth; they all went to the Star Realm Nine Domains.】

【The demonic path cultivators rooted themselves in the dead‑silent Blood-Painted Star Domain, where still there is no order, no rules, only the clash of strong and weak.】

【The Blood-Painted Star Domain became the demonic path's carnival paradise!】

【Even the Three Teachings never set foot there, because the cultivators there have long formed a mindset that distrusts Heaven and Earth, believing only in themselves.】

【Whether it's the inheritance of the Heavenly Demon clan or the entanglements of various sects, essentially they are mutually utilitarian.】

【When the final moment arrives and the so‑called bonds must be sacrificed, the demonic path cultivators of the Blood-Painted Star Domain will not hesitate at all.】

【Those demonic path cultivators who would hesitate can never reach the pinnacle of the demonic path.】

【You hear many sounds between Heaven and Earth.】

【Elsewhere, apart from the Blood-Painted Star Domain, the evaluation of the Strongest Heavenly Demon is filled with negative sentiment.】

【The beings within the Blood-Painted Star Domain, however, revere the words and deeds of the Strongest Heavenly Demon Old Ancestor as supreme truth, going mad for it.】

【The demonic path cultivators call it the apex of the demonic path.】

【The historical "Heavenly Demon Chaos" event still exerts profound influence after many ages.】

【As for the title "Chuan", it has long been forgotten by the beings.】

【Heaven's Will erased his trace; the world's beings only recall that there once was a Strongest Heavenly Demon Old Ancestor.】

【As for Tianmo Chuan, he exists only in the hearts of a few, and only you remember everything about him.】

【After another span of years, the Hong Lian Seed, transformed from Lin Chuan's former life‑destined treasure "Twelve-Petal Annihilation Hong Lian", experienced rapid growth in Heaven and Earth.】

【The Hong Lian draws the desires of beings, fulfilling Lin Chuan's previously made Heavenly Dao Great Vow—to protect the weak, punish worldly injustice, and curb baseless oppression.】

【Because of its existence, the lower beings of Mortal Dust gained the right to exchange lives with the higher beings.】

【Casting life and death aside, they are willing to cleanse the world's evil with their lives.】

【The frail mortals call it—Pure World Hong Lian.】

【The existence of the Pure World Hong Lian shattered many rules, overturning the order set by the Mortal Dust's higher beings, causing another upheaval in the world.】

The Pure World Hong Lian only affects a small portion of Mortals and some low‑level Demon Tribe, and will not provoke the suppression of Heaven's Will.

The places where the Pure World Hong Lian is born are all regions where Buddhism thrives, which greatly reduces mortal beings' faith in Buddhism.

Therefore, Fozu's Broken Eye acted.

You have finally waited for this moment.

"Duanmou, as the founder of a sect, actually betrays your own teachings, disregarding cause and cessation, and attempts to interfere with the mortal world!"

You stopped Duanmou.

"Yang Zu! It's you again!"

Fozu's Broken Eye looked at you, its eyes full of anger.

You said coldly, "I guard the order of living beings for Heaven's Will; when Heaven's Will is not manifest, how could the mortal world tolerate your disturbance?"

Fozu's Broken Eye shouted angrily, "You are clearly acting out of personal desire, seeking to help Lin Chuan avenge my Buddhism!"

"So what?"

You stood proudly, "I am right here; if you dare disturb the mortal world, I will surely cause your Buddhist Orthodoxy to be destroyed."

You anticipated that Duanmou would not dare to strike.

If he were to clash with you over matters beyond Heaven's Will, he would be utterly defeated.