Chapter 168: Refining the False to Cultivate the True, Proving the Dao with Force

"May I ask the Great Emperor, does the Ghost Immortal Dao also have a method for ultimate Dao-proval?"

A question echoed from within the Nine-Layered Heavenly Que.

"Of course it does!"

Ming He did not even hesitate, admitting it directly.

"Can it also prove Pangu?" The gathered immortals' gazes were burning.

"It can!"

Ming He answered with ironclad certainty; in any case, he only needed to paint the big picture, while the actual work of making the "cake" would be left to Xiang Xuanqing.

Meng Meng Wu You smiled and said, "The Ghost Immortal Dao is a path of living toward death, capable of returning from extinction."

"In the Chaos Era, the three thousand Demon Gods ultimately perished, yet they can also return in this world."

"Therefore, are the returning Chaos Demon Gods not also Ghost Immortals?"

As Meng Meng Wu You said this, Qian Kun, Yin Yang, and Dian Dao all turned their gazes toward her in unison.

We suspect you have hidden meaning in your words; you wouldn't be implying something about us, would you?

Hong Jun and Yang Mei, however, remained calm.

The three thousand Demon Gods of the Chaos Era? What does that have to do with us?

We are the innate spirits of the Pangu Epoch.

"Since Chaos Demon Gods can return from extinction, have you ever thought about a question—Great God Pangu transformed his body into the Primordial World to complete all living beings; after he died, could he return? And how would he return?"

Hmm???

Is this a question that can be discussed?

Once Meng Meng Wu You uttered these words, the Taiyi gods present could no longer sit still.

They looked at Meng Meng Wu You one after another, signaling with their eyes: Fellow Daoist, if you want to get hit by an axe, we certainly don't!

Meanwhile, Lord Jing Yao and Daoist Yuchen turned their gazes toward Xiang Xuanqing.

They saw that Xiang Xuanqing was also feigning a look of shock.

"Drama queen!" Jing Yao and Yuchen muttered in tacit agreement.

"Of course, the main issue we are discussing today is not this, but the Ghost Immortal Great Dao."

Meng Meng Wu You smiled slightly, adding a patch to her topic.

She said, "I think that when Great Pangu opened the heavens and created the world, he chose to extinguish the three thousand, extinguish himself, and transform into the Primordial True Realm to create all living beings; this is also Pangu's Great Detachment."

"And my Ghost Immortal Great Dao, living toward death and proving the fruit of the end of all worlds, imitates the Pangu Great Dao."

"One day, Ghost Immortal cultivators will be able to capture a thread of possibility amidst endless extinction and the cycle of life and death, gathering the soul of Pangu to transform into the Great Pangu himself!"

"In this way, how can it not be considered Great God Pangu returning from extinction?"

Good fellow, you actually managed to round it off?

Ming He, standing beside Meng Wu You, broke into a cold sweat for her in his heart.

In the span of just a few short sentences, the hearts of the Taiyi gods were in turmoil.

After hearing Meng Meng Wu You's words, everyone looked at her differently.

Why?

Because theoretically speaking, this speculation is possible.

The path of the Ghost Immortal is indeed very similar to Great God Pangu's final act of opening the heavens and transforming into the Dao.

With such a compatible Great Dao, if a Ghost Immortal could truly prove the fruit of the end of all worlds, then perhaps...

*Cough cough*, can't think about it anymore; thinking any further would turn this into a ghost story.

The gods hurriedly extinguished the thoughts in their hearts.

Some things cannot be pondered too deeply; if you think about them too much or dwell on them too often, it is hard to predict what might happen.

Hong Jun looked at the founders of the Five Immortals of the Heavenly Cycle, feeling very satisfied in his heart.

Pangu is a Heavenly Immortal, a Earthly Immortal, and can also be a Human Immortal, a Divine Immortal, and a Ghost Immortal.

Pangu himself did not even know he had been defined in such a way.

Just as everyone was still shocked by the characteristics of the Ghost Immortal, Ming He suddenly told everyone another ghost story.

"The Ghost Immortal Great Dao detaches from within the Yin, so the living find it difficult to truly cultivate this path."

"If you want to cultivate the Ghost Immortal Great Dao, everyone must die once and become a ghost of the Yin World."

Ah?

Must die once?

The immortals were calm, but those cultivators listening in were truly startled.

Everything is fine, who wants to die!

"Can one not become a Ghost Immortal without dying?" The cultivators who had not yet stepped into the ranks of the extraordinary were filled with anxiety.

Just a moment ago, they were eating the "cake" and longing for a beautiful future, ignoring that this seemed to be a path of the underworld.

Now back to reality, they were suddenly worried.

Ming He looked at the frightened cultivators, the corners of his mouth curling up with a smile: "Don't worry, death is not terrible."

"Between life and death, there is great terror, but also great opportunity and great creation."

"For a Ghost Immortal, death is just the beginning of the Great Dao."

"Living beings die and become ghosts, ghosts die and become *jian*, *jian* die and become *xi*, *xi* die and become *yi*, *yi* die and become *wei*, *wei* die and become formless."

"This is a path of Dao-proval that a Ghost Immortal must experience."

Ming He said earnestly: "Therefore, what I just said about 'living toward death' is not empty talk. What a cultivator must experience is precisely one cycle of life and death after another."

"If one cannot penetrate the true meaning of life and death, then how can a Ghost Immortal control destiny and prove the fruit of the end of all worlds?"

"Besides, after dying a few times, you'll get used to it." Ming He said with deep meaning, in the tone of someone who had been through it.

It had quite the sense of "Death is like the wind, always by my side."

"You cultivate immortality, inevitably seeking longevity. You must know that an immortal's lifespan is extremely long; one day, you will grow tired of living."

"At that time, even without external tribulations, you will find ways to court death."

"Whether it's practicing some scriptures that are sufficiently 'underworld,' committing suicide by sword, or going out to seek death, you will always find a suitable way to die."

But we haven't become extraordinary beings yet; if we die once, we're gone... Most cultivators, although longing for the Ghost Immortal Great Dao, still naturally felt some resistance toward death in their hearts.

After Ming He clarified the basic conditions for a Ghost Immortal, Meng Meng Wu You came out to continue supplementing.

"Of course, it's not to say that everyone cannot practice the Ghost Immortal method while in the Yang World."

"In fact, one can not only practice it while alive, but also prepare for becoming an immortal after death."

"For example, cultivators of the Ghost Immortal path can walk between the Yin and Yang worlds while alive, maintaining the balance of Yin-Yang order. Such cultivators will accumulate massive Yin virtue, their names will be registered in the Yin World while alive, and after death, they can directly transition into the Ghost Immortal Dao and achieve detachment on the spot."

"Once you become a Ghost Immortal, you can take up posts in the various Underworlds of the infinite heavens, becoming one of the operators of the Netherworld rules."

Next, Meng Meng Wu You told everyone about the various benefits of becoming a Ghost Immortal and joining the Netherworld Youming Difu.

Since the three giants of the Youming Difu came to attend the Myriad Immortals Assembly, how could they not take the opportunity to promote the newly started Netherworld Youming Difu?

It had just opened and was currently recruiting employees.

Our Netherworld Youming Difu not only has a bright future but also great benefits; there are many positions and many opportunities now, what are you still hesitating for?

Taking up posts in the Underworlds of the Wan Jie? It sounds pretty good... The cultivators in the Nine-Layered Heavenly Que became active in their thoughts again; the Youming Difu's benefit system diluted their fear of death.

If one could not only become an immortal after death but also join a decent force and gain many benefits, that didn't seem unacceptable.

What they were completely unaware of was—currently, there was only one Youming Difu opened in the Wan Jie.

And it was just a branch.

The Netherworld headquarters hadn't even hung up its sign yet.

Everything Meng Meng Wu You said afterward was just painting a big picture.

And as the founders of the Immortal Dao, Hong Jun and Yang Mei did not stop Meng Meng Wu You from promoting the Netherworld Youming Difu.

After all, it had already been discussed that the Immortal Dao would branch out into major Dharma lineages.

If immortals want to go to the Youming Difu, let them go.

The Youming Difu can use the Immortal Dao to strengthen itself.

The Immortal Dao can also "freeload" a portion of the Youming Difu's fortune.

Mutual help, a win-win situation.

After Meng Meng Wu You finished painting the big pictures of the Ghost Immortal Dao fruit and the Netherworld Youming Difu, it was time for Emperor Dong Hua and Yao Chi to take the stage.

"The essence of a True Immortal lies in one word: True!"

Emperor Dong Hua said: "Condense a True Dao Seed, refine the three thousand until they all become true! A True Immortal can be a sovereign, governing the True One, ruling the True Self; this is the path of refining the false to cultivate the true."

"To practice the True Immortal method, one must condense the Great Dao True Seed, penetrate the principle of the Ultimate Truth, clarify the mind and see one's nature, and refine the True Self across all worlds and times."

"In this way, penetrating the ancient and the present, sitting and observing the myriad ages, the true and the false become clear at a glance."

"The Dao of causality, the principle of right and wrong, and the number of illusion and reality in the world are all distinct in the eyes of a True Immortal."

"With a single thought, a True Immortal can falsely create countless Dao bodies across the heavens and times; who is true and who is false is decided by a single word."

"As long as the Dao body does not die, the True Immortal does not perish."

"In this way, governing the True One, distinguishing the true from the false; ruling the True Self, defining oneself, can be considered a small success."

Yao Chi continued: "After a True Immortal achieves great success, they can influence the outside world."

"Refining the false into the true, cultivating the true into the false; the true and the false are defined by the heart."

"The void and the real, the true and the false, the right and the wrong, are all within a single thought."

"A True Immortal can view the universe and all living beings, the infinite cosmos, as void and illusory."

"A True Immortal can refine all absurdity, endless delusions, into truth and reality."

To demonstrate to everyone what refining the false into the true meant, Emperor Dong Hua casually plucked a flower from Mount Bai Yu Jing.

"This is a flower, right?"

The immortals nodded.

Emperor Dong Hua smiled: "Wrong, this is a star."

Having said that, he tossed the flower into the sky, and the flower instantly transformed into a star hanging above the nine heavens.

"The True Immortal's path of cultivating the false into the true masters the definition of concepts."

"The True Immortal Dao fruit is achieved through one instance after another of cultivating the true into the false and the false into the true."

"If one day, a True Immortal goes before the innate, with the great power of cultivating the false into the true, it is not impossible to define oneself as Great Pangu."

Hearing you say that, am I not also a True Immortal... 【Storyteller Immortal】 Hou Tu looked at Emperor Dong Hua, thinking of some myths she was currently crafting.

Wasn't the purpose of that to let these stories spread across the heavens and finally refine the false into the true?

After Dong Hua and Yao Chi, it was Daoist Daoist Kunpeng who began to introduce the path of the Profound Immortal.

"The profundity of the Great Dao is profound beyond profound, without front or back, without above or below."

"A Profound Immortal comprehends the profundity of the Great Dao, pushes open the Gate of All Profundities, creates something from nothing, self-realizes the myriad Dharma meanings, self-clarifies the supreme supernatural powers; it is the source of all Dharma, the beginning of all arts."

"A Profound Immortal Dao Lord creates from nothing, proves nothingness from existence, can exist with Dharma, and coexist with arts."

"If a Profound Immortal achieves great success, the myriad Dharma paths are all my Dharma paths, the myriad Great Daos are all my Great Daos; one can condense the Great Dao Dharma Net, covering the Chaos time and space, encompassing the myriad Great Daos, and prove Dao-proval and detachment amidst existence and extinction, and all sorts of wonderful existence."

"One can also use one's own Dao to connect the beginning and end of the long river of time and space, having a beginning and an end yet no beginning and no end; amidst wonderful existence and wonderful nothingness, the Profound Immortal Great Dao exists!"

"Therefore, the three flowers of the Profound Immortal are essence, Qi, and spirit; they are Dao, Dharma, and art; they are the origin, the existence, and the end!"

Daoist Daoist Kunpeng spoke eloquently, revealing the method of the Profound Immortal.

"The moment a Profound Immortal pushes open the Gate of All Profundities, they are nearly at the Dao, penetrating the principles of existence and nothingness, naturally possessing great Dharma power and great supernatural powers."

"A Profound Immortal possesses this great Dharma power and great supernatural powers; upward, one can encompass all existence; downward, one can prove nothingness."

"One can prove the past, prove the present, prove the future."

"One can also abandon the past, abandon the present, abandon the future."

"The Dao fruits of the three times exist together, yet also do not exist together."

"Profound beyond profound, it is called Tai Xuan."

"Such a path of Tai Xuan existence and nothingness is the Profound Immortal Great Dao."

After the immortals ate this "cake," Daoist Daoist Kunpeng proceeded to expound on his own Profound Immortal Dao.

He said: "The True Immortal who refines the false to cultivate the true is the sovereign of the myriad Daos, possessing the ability to define everything; this can be called concept Dao-proval."

"And my Profound Immortal of Tai Xuan existence and nothingness is the Dao Lord of the myriad Dharmas, possessing the ability to connect the three times of time and space with great Dharma power and prove the Dao of existence and nothingness; this can be called proving the Dao with force."

"As everyone knows, Great God Pangu is the supreme one who proved the Dao with force and slaughtered the three thousand."

"My Profound Immortal wonderful method imitates Great God Pangu."

You also prove the Pangu Dao?

Jie Yin ultimately could not hold back and glanced at Daoist Daoist Kunpeng.

Can great Dharma power also be considered the Dao of Force?

After Daoist Daoist Kunpeng finished speaking, he noticed Jie Yin's gaze and smiled slightly.

How is great Dharma power not force?

Didn't Pangu rely on great Dharma power to hack the Demon Gods to death?

If anyone dares to question it, then go to the beginning of the opening of the heavens and ask Great Pangu?

Jie Yin, who understood Daoist Daoist Kunpeng's meaning, fell silent.

Next, Daoist Daoist Kunpeng stepped down.

The gazes of the gathered immortals focused on Jie Yin.

Everyone had finished speaking; now the pressure was on Jie Yin.

Heaven, Earth, Human, Divine, Ghost, True Immortal, Profound Immortal all prove the Pangu Dao; will you prove it or not?

Jie Yin smiled slightly: "I am the ancestor of the Golden Immortals, Daoist Zhun Ti!"

Once the mask is on, no one cares!

In any case, losing face is not losing my face.

"A Golden Immortal is immortal!"

"Therefore, the Golden Immortal Dao is the path of immortality."

"To practice my Golden Immortal method, one must store a point of golden nature within the Lingtai and condense a wisp of immortal light within the heart and soul."

"Over the years, tempering oneself amidst billions of tribulations, one cannot damage the Golden Immortal nature, thereby sublimating the point of golden nature to be immortal and indestructible; making the wisp of immortal light extraordinary, neither increasing nor decreasing."

"The two merge and complement each other, transforming into the Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light."

"At this time, the Golden Immortal imprints their own Great Dao onto the void, cultivates the law of immortality, understands the order of the myriad Daos, accommodates all fruits of the infinite time and space, achieves the First Cause of the Wan Jie, and thereby condenses the embryonic form of the immortal and indestructible Dao fruit."

"This is the Taiyi Golden Immortal."

"If one achieves great success, one is a Daluo Golden Immortal."

"A Daluo Golden Immortal has the three flowers gathered at the crown, the five Qis facing the origin, infinite causality does not attach to the body, experiences myriad tribulations without perishing, transcends everything, detaches from everything, and proves great freedom and great unfetteredness!"

Jie Yin looked toward Hong Jun and Yang Mei on the high platform.

He smiled: "Our founders of the Immortal Dao are all Daluo Golden Immortals."

The immortals in the Nine-Layered Heavenly Que looked toward the high platform.

Hong Jun and Yang Mei nodded silently.

It had come to this point; even if they weren't, they had to be.

Jie Yin added: "Above the Daluo Golden Immortal is the Hunyuan Golden Immortal."

"And the ultimate method of Dao-proval for a Golden Immortal is to use causality as a guide for one's own immortal and indestructible Dao fruit, performing the act of reversing the fruit to become the cause, and proving the Pangu First Cause once again!"

"Pangu is the source of everything in this epoch, the fountainhead of the order of the myriad Daos, the immortality of immortality, and the cause of all fruits."

"If my Golden Immortal Dao proves the Pangu Dao, what it must prove is this Pangu First Cause!"

Just as everyone was listening with relish, Jie Yin suddenly changed the subject.

"My Golden Immortal method is shared up to here."

"Next, let us listen to the Dao Ancestor analyze the Hunyuan Great Dharma for us."

Hmm?

How did you kick the ball to me?

Hong Jun widened his eyes.

I just covered for you, and you kick me?

That's not proper!

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