Chapter 469: Discussing Tribulations and Immortals

Wan Xinrong walked on the street and turned his head to the left.

"That day was truly five-colored auspicious clouds..."

"I saw with my own eyes an Ji Xianren riding clouds flying down from the sky to visit Ji Xianren Lin's mansion, and there were cranes and Ji Xianren children..."

"And there was Ji Xianren music! Every night when I close my eyes now, that Ji Xianren music rings in my head!"

"Yes, yes, yes..."

Wan Xinrong turned his head to the right again:

"It is a chaotic world now, both north and south are chaotic. Ji Xianren Lin becoming an Ji Xianren at this time must be to protect us! And now, whether in the south or the north, they haven't been able to break into Qinzhou. In my opinion, it must be Ji Xianren Lin protecting us in the dark!"

"Wasn't it said before that Ji Xianren Lin was taking the Great Jiang's dragon energy?"

"Hey! That's just people with ulterior motives talking nonsense!"

"People with ulterior motives? Who?"

"You find someone, ask for directions to the Guanxing Palace, drill through the door, and see that ruin, the weeds inside, and you will know."

The people in the capital were still talking about what happened at that time.

But the Ji Xianren Lin in the rumors was no longer in the capital.

Clouds and mist deep in Zhong Mountain, an Ji Xianren in an ancient pine cave.

Lin Jue and Daoist Xuanming sat opposite each other for a long talk. The fox ran around in Daoist Xuanming's cave, opening a pair of curious eyes, looking up and around.

It was a cave, and also a palace.

Because it was chiseled in the mountain, one side was in the mountain body—stone caves, stone walls, stone tables, and stone chairs—and half protruded from the mountain body—red wood pillars, green tiles, eaves, carved beams and painted rafters, with a skylight on the top, and the sunlight shone out blue smoke.

There was a demon child, looking quite young, with the figure and face of a twelve or thirteen-year-old, wearing a Daoist robe and focusing on playing the zither, without even lifting his head.

But from his indifferent expression and the leisurely, old-fashioned zither sound under his fingers, one could figure out that his age was definitely not small.

The zither sound was indifferent, drifting away with the blue smoke.

Drifting out with it were the rich and sweet wine fragrance and the conversation between the two.

"My Third Shixiong is a person who loves wine as much as his life, loves drinking, and loves brewing wine. In my Third Shixiong's words, this Mountain Yili Shenjun, even if he doesn't do it one day, relying on this brewing skill, can be a Wine Yili Shenjun in the human world."

"Truly good wine in the human world! Good wine!"

"How does it compare to Ji Xianren brew?"

"Hahaha! The so-called Ji Xianren fine wine is mostly the longing of wine lovers for Immortals. In fact, how can Immortals be better than mortals in everything?" Daoist Xuanming laughed loudly, tilting his head back. "I have drunk good wine, which was researched by an Ji Xianren who loved wine for hundreds of years, but it can only be said that the flavors are different, and it is hard to distinguish high from low, hard to distinguish high from low."

Hearing him say this, Lin Jue guessed that the fine wine brewed by that Ji Xianren should exceed the Thousand-Day Wine of this Mountain Yili Shenjun of Langtou Mountain.

"Then let's drink freely!"

"Tsk! Ah!"

Daoist Xuanming drank wine, shook his head, and said to him:

"Mortals seeking truth are called Immortals. Immortals seeking truth are True Immortals, and also Sages. Mortals with high magical power who have not become Immortals are called Dharma Masters, and there are often random respectful titles. Immortals with great supernatural powers who have not become Sages are called Great Powers."

"Are Great Powers also Immortals?"

"Great Powers are also Immortals," Daoist Xuanming nodded. "But they are Immortals with more vast supernatural powers and especially high skills."

"Then how can one be called a Great Power?"

"Vast supernatural powers and boundless magical power can be called a Great Power," Daoist Xuanming said. "At that time, you, either changing the sky and the sun, or reversing yin and yang, or words becoming law, or turning mountains into seas—such great skills are naturally a deep understanding of the truth of heaven and earth, with their own heaven and earth anomalies. At that time, you can be called a Great Power."

"Heaven and earth anomalies..."

"Such skills are not so easy to get," Daoist Xuanming said. "For example, Fuchi Shenjun, flesh becoming a Ji Xianren—how many Emperor Great Powers dare to fight him in person? But he is not considered a Great Power."

"Why?"

"It's not called skill just because of fighting," Daoist Xuanming replied. "Fuchi Shenjun used his life's energy on martial arts, so his fighting is not inferior to Emperor Great Powers, but precisely because of this, he has deep attainments only in martial arts, and other skills are very lacking, and his understanding of the truth of the Great Dao is not deep enough."

"So that's how it is."

Lin Jue savored it carefully.

Immortals are Immortals, True Immortals are Sages. Between mortals and Immortals are practitioners of the Dao, which people call Dharma Masters. Between Immortals and True Immortals are Great Powers.

True Lords and Divine Lords are all True Lords, mostly Immortals.

Emperor Lords and Great Emperors are all Emperor Lords. Because the title of Emperor Lord often has a nominal title, the reason is that anyone who is deified is a person respected by the world. The world respects him and naturally wants to give him a powerful title, so many gods are respectfully called Emperor Lords, so Emperor Lords have many nominal ones.

Nowadays, the Emperor Lords with Great Power are probably the Central Tianweng Yili Shenjun, the Eastern Qinghua Great Emperor, the Southern Emperor Yu Jian Great Emperor, the Western Miaoming Great Emperor, and the Northern Emperor Zi Xu Great Emperor.

However, there are obviously more than these Great Powers.

Just like Lin Zhen has already achieved the Dao. Even if one day his fighting skills exceed those of a Husheng Husheng Zhenjun, he will not become a Husheng Husheng Zhenjun.

Because he will not be a Husheng Husheng Zhenjun.

True Lords and Emperor Lords are all official divine positions of the Nine Heavens.

Between heaven and earth, there are many Immortals who have Great Power but have not been officials or held divine positions, or only hold nominal positions and titles but actually have great skills.

Immortals are not child's play and are destined not to be simple and clear.

If you want to know a corner of it, please look back, look at the human world around you, and you will know it is not so simple.

"Sigh..."

Daoist Xuanming sighed leisurely while drunk: "They all say Immortals are immortal, but there are tribulations, so they are not long-lasting."

"What are these tribulations?"

Lin Jue had no other Master, and the sect had no other people who had achieved the Dao. He didn't rely on anyone, and he didn't understand these things, so he had to humbly ask Daoist Xuanming.

Daoist Xuanming once cultivated in the Nine Dragon Temple on Yishan. The Nine Dragon Temple was on good terms with Fuqiu Temple and was considered a senior. Both had eaten the Four Directions Five Elements Golden Core, so they were considered fated. Daoist Xuanming had specially ridden a crane to congratulate him on the day he achieved the Dao, intending to make friends, and Lin Jue naturally wouldn't refuse.

And Lin Jue was the pathfinder for Fuqiu Temple.

After him, if anyone else in Fuqiu Temple achieved the Dao, it would be much easier than it was for him now.

"Hard to say, hard to say."

Daoist Xuanming said "hard to say" twice:

"There are body tribulations and heart tribulations. Some can be seen, some are hard to grasp. Some can be predicted, some are ethereal. For example, the common decay tribulation also has several types."

"Five Decays of Heaven and Man?"

"It is like that, but different from the human world's saying," Daoist Xuanming said. "These five decays are body decay—the body will weaken and rot; will decay—the will will sink and decay; heart decay—you will lose emotions; Dharma decay—your magical power will weaken and leave; god decay—your soul will weaken and dissipate. If you become an Ji Xianren, you will constantly face it. It will come in different orders, and two or three will even come together. Some come from the outside, some rise from the bottom of the heart. Some can see traces, some are unaware. Hard to prevent, hard to prevent."

"How to resist?"

"That depends on your skills," Daoist Xuanming laughed and tilted his head to drink wine. "Otherwise, where would the Great Powers come from?"

Putting down the wine cup, he said again:

"Some people fight the tribulation, some never encounter it. Some fight with the tribulation, some never pay attention to it. There are also people whose tribulation itself is their own heart. When the tribulation arrives, it is the time of their heart's life. It is when they feel they have enjoyed enough freedom and decide to leave the world. Naturally, they won't respond to the tribulation, so they sit in the mountains, smile slightly, turn into mountain flowers and spring breeze, and leave calmly.

"You say—"

"Does this count as a tribulation?"

Lin Jue listened without answering, showing a thoughtful look.

This question really stumped him.

Does this count as a kind of "tribulation"?

But he also understood the so-called "tribulation".

This is really a broad and ethereal thing, calling everything that leads to the passing of an Ji Xianren a "tribulation", even if you have lived enough. It is in line with traditional culture.

Various tribulations are like hurdles on a mortal's road—various, visible, invisible, predictable, unpredictable, too many to count.

If you want to deal with it calmly, or even make yourself not feel the "tribulation" at all—the "tribulation" doesn't dare to come to you, and if it comes to you, you can't detect it—the best way is to make yourself have vast supernatural powers.

For example, if you have a body tribulation and some disaster, you have the "method of sending disaster" that has reached perfection, so you can deal with it.

But if one day there is a thunder tribulation or a fire tribulation, your "method of sending disaster" won't work, and you must have other ways to deal with it.

If you are full of righteousness, walk straight, or like quietness, cultivate in the mountains all day, don't ask about world affairs, don't care about disputes, you can also avoid many disasters.

If you are like Fuchi Shenjun, flesh becoming a Ji Xianren, immortal and indestructible, with a great reputation, many people dare not provoke you, then the tribulations you encounter will be much fewer than ordinary Immortals. However, I think there will be other more ethereal or more powerful tribulations.

After passing one tribulation, you continue to exist.

If you can't pass the tribulation, you will die and the Dao will disappear.

The Queen Mother of the West is like this.

The first owner of the ancient book also died in the decay tribulation, but I don't know which kind of decay it was—from outside to inside, or from inside to outside, was it unwillingness, or was it his own heart tribulation, leaving willingly.

If you have vast supernatural powers and boundless magical power, no matter what tribulation it is, most of them can't do anything to you, then you are a Great Power.

So any Ji Xianren who can last long either goes to the Nine Heavens, relying on incense and divine Dao to respond to the tribulation and make themselves last long, or becomes a Great Power. And other Immortals, even if their lifespan is theoretically infinite, even if they say they don't care about the birth, aging, illness, and death of the human world, because of these "tribulations", they slowly disappear in the long river of history.

Among them, there must be those who are unwilling.

Of course, there should also be those who are voluntary.

"If you want to be fearless of tribulations and truly immortal and indestructible, you must seek truth as an Ji Xianren and prove yourself as a True Ji Xianren Ji Xianren," Daoist Xuanming said leisurely. "At that time, you will truly be as long-lived as heaven, coexisting with the sun and moon. Unless one day heaven and earth are destroyed, you will not dissipate."

"Is that so?"

Lin Jue suddenly remembered that the ancient book recorded the passing of a True Ji Xianren.

That was the refiner of the first Golden Core between heaven and earth.

That was the first time. At that time, there were not many cultivation methods in heaven and earth, and the Danding Sect was far from its peak. There might be reasons for coincidences and mistakes. But no matter what, this first Golden Core between heaven and earth, that Ji Xianren Yunzuo, still created the oldest cultivation Dao, the Golden Core Dao. Since then, the romantic rumors of refining pills for longevity and refining pills to become Immortals in the world have been countless, creating an era where everyone from the people of the world to the princes and generals longed for Ji Xianren pills and refining pills.

After swallowing this Golden Core, it helped him become a True Ji Xianren Ji Xianren.

At that time, he was equivalent to the Dao Ancestor of the Danding Sect.

But his tribulation came quickly—the second Golden Core could only become a Great Power.

Later ones could only become Immortals.

Later, other Golden Cores, Four Directions Five Elements Golden Core, Shenhua Huisheng Golden Core, any Golden Core, could at most become Immortals.

The ancient book records: Ji Xianren Yunzuo was already a True Ji Xianren Yili Shenjun, his fortune was as wide as the sea, his lifespan was as long as heaven, but because he didn't understand the meaning all his life, his will was gray, and he was trapped and died.

According to Daoist Xuanming's saying, does this count as a kind of tribulation?

Perhaps from the moment the confusion arose in his heart, he was no longer a True Ji Xianren. Perhaps the tribulation in his own heart was difficult for even a True Ji Xianren to resist.

I don't know which one it is.

Lin Jue only poured wine for Daoist Xuanming, the leisurely zither sound ringing intermittently in his ears, with endless aftertaste. ===== CHAPTER 470 =====