Chapter 257: Purple Yang Libationer Huang Mucun

"This poor Daoist is no Libationer of the Yellow Heaven Sect," Xu Jia said with a smile. "I merely have some connection with you all."

That Libationer grew vigilant, looking at Xu Jia with suspicion and uncertainty.

The local Master of Soldiers and the four great Spirit Generals, Wind, Fire, Mountain, and Forest, grew angry: "Another demon Daoist! You've come at the right time; do you think I would fear you?"

It was just that the Cold Ice Hell, Mountain of Knives Hell, Huohai Diyu, Thorns Hell, and Earth Pit Hell of the Lushan Five Hells Array were all extremely dangerous hells.

Once arranged into an array, it possessed the power of "Soul Hooking and Spirit Seizing."

The soldiers and horses of the Five Hells were even more fierce and ferocious; charging into the enemy formation, they were like bamboo being split, and every time they killed someone, they would judge what kind of sin they had committed and which hell they should descend into.

This made the Libationer somewhat wary: "This method is so strange, but being able to command ghosts is indeed similar to our sect's means. No wonder he said he had some connection. Observing his cultivation, it is even higher than mine. If he is not a Libationer, could he be a disciple taken in by the Great Libationer from outside? Or perhaps a stray pearl of the Great Worthy Teacher, the Heavenly Duke General, or the Earth Duke General?"

He did not think or dwell on it further; he still had to subdue this Master of Soldiers first. Next, he had to go to join forces. The Great Worthy Teacher had constructed a God-Sealing Platform on Taibai Mountain to grandly seal the various gods of the world and meritorious officials, establishing the Yellow Heaven Earth Court to correspond with the Heavenly Court. It was a Dao Kingdom stationed in the world, and from then on, the three paths of gods, humans, and immortals would govern the world together.

Thinking of this, the Libationer's heart grew hot. After subduing this Master of Soldiers, with his merit, he would surely be able to become a high-ranking official, governing a Cave Heaven Blessed Land.

According to the Great Worthy Teacher Zhang Jiao, this realm was a Small Thousand World that had fallen in grade from a Middle Thousand World. As long as the Dao Court was built and the various gods were grandly sealed, within a hundred years, it could recover its grade...

He also wanted to become an immortal and achieve the Dao. His gaze was burning, and he cast a method: "Peaceful Weather Four Methods!"

Suddenly, the four energies of spring, summer, autumn, and winter were born within the battlefield.

The four energies combined with the Lushan Five Hells, and immediately the two joined forces, their power surging, refining the four ghost god subordinates of Wind, Fire, Mountain, and Forest back to their original forms.

The Azure Heaven department's soldiers and horses were routed and fled. The military energy in the army scattered. The Master of Soldiers lost its foundation, yet it did not flee. Instead, the many weapons and armor left on the battlefield gathered and connected together, turning into a Winged Iron-Armored Saber-Toothed Tiger.

Xu Jia saw it covered in ten thousand blades, and his eyes lit up, because flying swords must take ten thousand blades to forge the spiritual nature of military energy.

Thus, the Golden Flood Dragon Sword and the Silver Flood Dragon Sword transformed into two flood dragons, spiraling and dancing, gold and silver in color, flowing with brilliance, and in an instant, they passed by the tiger body of the Master of Soldiers.

The next moment, the tiger head fell, and the ghost god lost its soul.

The ten thousand blades of the armor all became broken blades, and the Five Metals Qi all decayed.

The gold and silver twin flood dragons returned to Xu Jia's side, but they were two pills the size of an infant's fist, jumping and hopping, lively and active.

Xu Jia was surprised: Can the ten thousand blades of military evil energy absorbed in the Dharma Realm also enhance the spiritual nature and power of the Sword Pill?

However, this world has much "Borrowing the False to Cultivate the True," and anything related to the supernatural basically involves the Dharma Realm, so this Dao Kingdom in the depths of the Dharma Realm should also be viewed as "when the false is taken as true, the true also becomes false."

Dai Yu of the Wuyue Prefecture also said that ascension is through the Heavenly Gate of the Dharma Realm, not by flying into the sky, breaking through the atmosphere, and reaching outer space.

"Alas! What a pity." That Yellow Heaven Sect Libationer saw Xu Jia behead the Master of Soldiers and sighed: "It's a pity it wasn't a subduing."

However, he still stepped forward and bowed: "Where is this fellow Daoist from, and in which ancient cave or immortal mountain do you cultivate?"

"This poor Daoist is Xu Jidi, a cultivator from the Tongtian Temple in San Francisco overseas."

"So it is an immortal truth from overseas! Long admired, long admired!" The Libationer stroked his beard, pondering in his heart which mountain San Francisco was and which temple Tongtian Temple was.

"This poor Daoist is Xuyizi, a Libationer of the Spirit Sheep Palace of the Yellow Heaven Sect."

Xuyizi's gaze lingered on Xu Jia's two Sword Pills, and he praised: "Many thanks to fellow Daoist for your help, only then could that fierce god and evil spirit be subdued. Fellow Daoist's two Sword Pills have vast divine abilities, actually being able to kill that Master of Soldiers fierce god with one sword!"

"Just now, seeing fellow Daoist fighting with this Master of Soldiers, this poor Daoist heard a few words about Azure Heaven and Yellow Heaven. Please forgive this poor Daoist for cultivating overseas and not knowing the world's trends. Is there some clue?"

Xuyizi heard this and looked at Xu Jia in surprise: "Fellow Daoist has a deep connection with our Yellow Heaven Sect, yet you don't know this? I thought all the people of the world knew, after all, the Dao Kingdom has been built for over six hundred years..."

Over six hundred years?

Xuyizi said: "Our Yellow Heaven Sect was founded by upholding the will of the Supreme Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable. We believe in the Central Yellow Element Emperor, that is, the Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable. This Holy Venerable is a god of salvation, a god of saving the world, and even more so the master of the Three Realms."

"Our founding Ancestor, the Great Worthy Teacher Zhang Jiao, was a close minister of the Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable, ranked as a Heavenly Master. He spread the Dharma teachings throughout the heavens and promoted the principle of the Divine Path governing the world. But the Five Directions Heavenly Emperors do not regard the Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable as Emperor, taking the rotation of the Five Elements as the Heavenly Mandate, harvesting the various worlds of the mortal dust..."

Xuyizi recounted the history of the sect's founding and the history of the struggle, sighing: "It has been over six hundred years now, but we still haven't been able to complete the great cause."

The historical development within the Yellow Heaven Dao Kingdom has always remained at the time of the founding of the Yellow Heaven Sect, when the world was in chaos, and has continued for over six hundred years based on this.

It is similar to the mutation of the Three Kingdoms in the previous life, changing into a cultivation mythology Three Kingdoms... It is just that it is ultimately dominated by the Yellow Heaven Sect, and the plot is also the Yellow Heaven Sect subduing many Outer Path Demon Gods, establishing the Earth Court, and unifying the world...

But this kind of history is, after all, void. The history in the secular world did not establish the Yellow Heaven Earth Court, but instead supported the Great Ning Dynasty's rise. The Great Ning Dynasty did indeed seal the City Gods and Earth Deities in the beginning, but later it directly branded the Yellow Heaven Sect as an Evil Sect and erased all traces.

After the Great Ning Dynasty perished, the Yellow Heaven Sect rose again for a period, but it was also quickly extinguished until the Great Ning Dynasty was established.

The Dharma Realm projection has some distortions, but it cannot violate the major historical development.

"Our sect's Southeast Great Libationer, Ziyangzi, subdued a giant tribe some time ago. The Gan giants they believe in have also surrendered to our sect. Now, he is going to seal and appoint them as Giant Spirit God Generals at the top of Zhiyu Mountain. Why doesn't fellow Daoist go to watch the ceremony, and this poor Daoist can introduce you."

Xu Jia was curious, so he nodded: "Good."

He saw Xuyizi take out a talisman, on which clouds and cranes were drawn. He threw it, and suddenly a mass of cloud energy rose, lifting Xuyizi up: "Fellow Daoist, please!"

Xu Jia was truly shocked this time, because he had never learned this cloud-riding technique. This was a skill that every classical immortal in Chinese mythology absolutely had to have.

This Xuyizi's Daoist Practice level was clearly lower than his own, yet he could ride the clouds by relying on talismans, which was simply inconceivable.

But this is the Dharma Realm, not the secular world. The Dharma Realm is mind-only, so pointing out such a skill is considered reasonable.

Thus, Xu Jia did not show cowardice. He used the Sword Pills to break through the long sky, using the spirit to control the energy, and using the energy to control the sword. With the help of the Sword Pills, he also moved into the air.

"The art of sword-riding is truly carefree. My cloud-riding method is only a thousand feet off the ground, not as good as fellow Daoist's sword-riding to break the void."

"Overpraised, overpraised!"

After speaking, the two went together. The so-called Zhiyu Mountain is exactly Three Pure Ones Mountain, only here, Three Pure Ones Mountain is more towering, more precipitous, with strange rocks winding around and flowing clouds like waterfalls.

From afar, one could see various heavenly soldiers and generals hidden in the clouds, and Earth Deity spirits sitting in spiritual caves. The Spirit Machine was vast, and the ancient trees were dense.

Xu Jia's Qi-observing technique saw at a glance that the Spirit Machine here was ten or a hundred times better than that of the Three Pure Ones Mountain in the secular world.

"Zhiyu Mountain is the place where the Southeast Libationer set up the altar. Inside, there is a Cave Heaven and a Blessed Land. The Cave Heaven is the Jade Brilliance Cave, one hundred and eighty miles in circumference, a place for cultivation, leading directly to the energy of the upper realm."

"The Blessed Land is the Jade Spring Blessed Land, forty-two miles in circumference, connected to the Earth Veins, obtaining the beauty of Earth Treasure and material splendor."

"And those spirits are?"

"Those are the True Gods of our sect who have already been sealed. The Divine Path nourishes the world. They cultivate in the spiritual caves in the mountains. The spirit is the same as the Dao, the Dao is the same as the world, and the world is the same as all things. Like a person's cultivation, this is the method of the world's cultivation. These spirits are all gods of the world's acupuncture points."

Xu Jia suddenly understood. This is different from his own cultivation of treating the human body as the world; they treat the world as the human body to cultivate.

Xuyizi shook his head: "The Three Sovereigns model it, like the sky. The Five Emperors imitate it, modeling the earth, loving virtue and nourishing things."

"Our Peaceful Weather Earth Court seals the gods by using the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors to model the world. The Three Sovereigns are the Heavenly Sovereign, the Earth Sovereign, and the Thai Sovereign. The Five Emperors are the masters of the Five Elements energy: the Southern Fire Qi Emperor, the Eastern Azure Qi Emperor, the Northern Profound Qi Emperor, the Western White Qi Emperor, and the Central Yellow Qi Emperor."

"Once the laws of the Three Realms and Five Directions are set, the world will grow and nourish, loving virtue and moistening. Within a hundred years, everyone will surely be able to have great Achievement."

Xuyizi's expression was excited, even to the point of madness, his eyes glowing as he looked at Xu Jia: "If fellow Daoist joins us, you will surely have a noble position in the future."

Xu Jia listened to him paint a picture, but his heart turned against it, secretly thinking: "To nourish the world with individual strength is to expend double the effort for half the result."

Moreover, in this world, the selfless are few, while the selfish are the majority.

Becoming a deity, sitting on a Spirit Machine point to cultivate, and feeding back into the world—it is impossible to create something from nothing. These deities must necessarily make sacrifices; for example, Ao Jin worked hard in the Xin River for hundreds of years, only to find he could not even defeat Yuan Jiangjun.

As producers, the Divine Path is destined to be unable to defeat those cultivators who intercept the Spirit Machine of heaven and earth, seize the profound mysteries of the sun and moon, and defy heaven to change their fate.

Those Spirit Roots and Immortal herbs cultivated over thousands of years are nothing more than a single mouthful for these practitioners.

How is this any different from a neighbor farming instead of making guns, while I make guns instead of farming? Xu Jia had already roughly grasped why the Yellow Heaven Sect failed.

He thought: "My cultivation, the Inner Heaven and Earth within my body, conceals the profound mysteries. Although I have opened up an Inner Scene Blessed Land, I do not leak my Qi, which can be considered two sides of the same coin as this Yellow Heaven Sect's God Immortal method."

They are selfless and dedicated; Xu Jia's scope is much smaller—it is to cultivate one's own character when poor, and to selectively help others when successful.

Xuyizi descended from the clouds and arrived at the Huangtian Sect Altar. He saw an old Daoist with a goatee and Eight Characters beard sitting cross-legged on a meditation cushion. With every inhalation and exhalation, he was in sync with the mountains and rivers, and thus the mountains and rivers also inhaled and exhaled, the Spirit Machine flowing smoothly, guiding the Cave Heaven Blessed Land as if it were the flow of Qi through human meridians.

Below the altar were other meditation cushions, upon which sat Daoists like Xuyizi. They also inhaled and exhaled in harmony with heaven and earth, though their range was smaller, and they were divided by the Five Elements.

Xu Jia saw that old Daoist and recognized him. Back when the Raw Rice Bowl presented the illusion of suppressing the centipede dragon, it was this person who held the Black Bowl, struck the centipede dragon down, and transformed it into a mountain range—Wugong Ling.

This person was none other than the ancestor of the demon Immortals of the Yellow Immortal Temple, Huang Muchun, a God Immortal Realm expert and Great Libationer of the Yellow Heaven Sect. A genuine weasel who had cultivated to Didao.

However, how could such a person, having already cultivated to Didao, still have a projection in the Dharma Realm Dao Kingdom?

That Huang Muchun suddenly opened his eyes, looked at Xu Jia, and revealed a smile that was inexplicably a bit lewd.

"Fellow Daoist is not a person from our Dao Kingdom, are you!"

Golden light shone from his eyes, as if he wanted to see through Xu Jia's origins. He then performed some calculations and could not help but reveal shock and suspicion. Finally, he let out a long sigh of relief.

Xu Jia was not surprised that he was recognized as not being from the Dao Kingdom. After all, strictly speaking, the space-time of the two sides did not belong to the same branch, and one was virtual while the other was real.

If not for the protection of the Three Sovereigns Ten Thousand People Umbrella, combined with the connection between this troop of Yu Yaosheng and the Yellow Heaven Sect, he would not have dared to recklessly wander the Dharma Realm and find the Yellow Heaven Dao Kingdom.

Xuyizi bowed and said: "Reporting to Great Libationer Purple Yang, that Master of Soldiers Fierce God caused chaos. This disciple was incompetent and could not capture or subdue him. With the help of True Person Xu Jidi, a Sword Immortal cultivating at the Tongtian Temple in San Francisco overseas, we beheaded that Fierce God and ended the matter."

"Do not blame yourself for this. That Master of Soldiers Fierce God, whose Five Elements belong to Metal and whose season is Autumn, governs the soldiers of punishment and chaos. That remnant Qi of the Five Emperors always wants to continue the Five Emperors Rotation, not wanting the Earth Court to be established, to eternally pacify the mountains and rivers, for everyone to be like dragons, and for the world to ascend... it is both possible and lamentable."

He then looked at Xu Jia: "Fellow Daoist, what era is it in the outside world now?"

This question was asked just like the villagers in the Peach Blossom Spring, not knowing of the Han, let alone the Wei or Jin.

Xu Jia picked a few things to say, speaking of the founding of the Great Heng Dynasty.

The Daoists nodded: "Our Earth Court takes the character 'Heng' as its foundation, for long-lasting peace."

But when he spoke of how the Great Heng Dynasty enfeoffed the City Gods of the world, and how the Yellow Heaven Sect was subsequently besieged and branded an Evil Sect...

These Daoists all revealed thoughtful expressions.

Huang Muchun, that is, Great Libationer Purple Yang, said: "Presumably, after we achieved success and ascended one by one, our kind carried out acts of usurpation. In the end, there are still those who do not wish for everyone to be able to cultivate. If everyone cultivated, who would be the beasts of burden?"

Huang Muchun said: "The Dharma says, to become a dragon or elephant among Buddhas, one must first be a beast of burden among sentient beings. Certain people, having achieved the status of True Dragon themselves, want to suppress everyone else and not allow them to be True Dragons. Such is the root nature of man; it is normal."

He then said: "Fellow Daoist, have you obtained the treasure I used to establish the sect and suppress the altar?"

Xu Jia asked: "The Heavenly Emperor Relic Jade?"

"Correct. That jade was bestowed by the Yellow Heaven Holy Venerable to Great Worthy Teacher Zhang Jiao, and the Great Worthy Teacher bestowed it upon me. Kunlun Jade is the foundation of the Great Luo Heaven; scattered across the heavens, it can anchor the heavens. Those who cultivate can use this to ascend to the Shangjie."

"Furthermore, this jade is also a great treasure of the Divine Path. It can be used to construct a Cave Heaven Blessed Land and assist the world in ascending. Now that it has reached the hands of a fellow Daoist, I suppose the Cave Heaven I established has already perished. That is right, after all, it is a path of Incense Fire, a method of quick success, rather than the method of an Innate Divine Saint... Losing the foundation of faith, the Cave Heaven naturally withers, plus the various deities being suppressed..."

Xu Jia showed an interested expression: "But the Five Peaks Office says you are prone to rebellion."

"The Five Peaks Office is under the jurisdiction of the Five Emperors. They have some dissatisfaction with the Holy Venerable. They may not dare to speak above the Great Luo Heaven, but in the lower realms they govern, they still want to accumulate strength. After all, the Holy Venerable said when the Heavenly Emperor was on the throne that he would only rule the world for 12,500 years. After abdicating, who would take the throne is unknown."

(End of chapter)