Chapter 209: Six Great Luo discuss the Dao, secrets regarding the future

The Three Pure Ones make their entrance, their presence overwhelming, much to the delight of Emperor Dong Hua.

These Three Pure Ones fellow Daoists are quite reliable!

"Apologies for keeping you fellow Daoists waiting!"

Xiang Xuanqing descended on the Nine-Dragon Agarwood Chariot, holding a Jade Ruyi, and together with Lord Jing Yao and Master Yuchen, exchanged greetings with the immortals.

The gathered immortals exchanged pleasantries for a while.

Xiang Xuanqing smiled and said, "Fellow Daoists, please wait a moment; the two Ancestors of the Immortal Dao are about to arrive."

Upon hearing this, the immortals felt a surge of anticipation and gazed longingly toward the heavens.

Suddenly.

The sky was covered by a canopy, and auspicious signs appeared in abundance.

Before the eyes and beside the gathered immortals, two plain, unassuming old men appeared.

"We pay our respects to the Immortal Ancestors!" the immortals said in unison.

Hongjun and Yang Mei, one on the left and one on the right, simultaneously flicked the horsetail whisks in their hands and nodded to the immortals: "Greetings, fellow Daoists!"

Just as the two sides finished their greetings, Master Mo Zu Luo Hou arrived as well.

One could see the demonic clouds surging across the horizon as Luo Hou descended with a host of Demon Kings and Great Demons.

Four of the five Heavenly Demon Kings of the Demonic Dao had come: Meng Zhang, Zhu Que, Bai Hu, and Xuan Wu.

They were all wearing their Tian Tian Mo Wang guises, here to sponge off the feast.

Among the ranks of the Great Demons, the Demon Sect's Senior Sister Ye Wei was on the right, and the Chan Sect's outer sect Senior Brother Zhu Jian was on the left.

Behind them were Meng Huai and a host of other Great Demons.

Emperor Dong Hua's eyelids twitched when he saw this formation.

Those in the know understood they were here for the banquet; those who didn't might think they were here to wreck the place.

"Greetings, fellow Daoists!"

The Immortal and Demonic paths exchanged greetings, the atmosphere harmonious; one could hardly tell there was any life-or-death enmity between them.

"You certainly give my Immortal Dao plenty of face, fellow Daoist." Hongjun smiled from ear to ear.

Luo Hou spoke bluntly: "I didn't bring so many subordinates for any other reason; I mainly thought about eating and taking some home."

"The gifts have already been delivered; you wouldn't be stingy at the banquet, would you, fellow Daoist?"

"How could I dare? This banquet will certainly satisfy you, fellow Daoist." Emperor Dong Hua and Lady Jin Mu, upon hearing this, hurriedly stepped forward to guarantee it.

The gathered immortals felt a wave of shame; this Demon Ancestor was truly upright and didn't beat around the bush at all.

"Alright, the time has come; everyone, let us enter the assembly."

As the hosts, Emperor Dong Hua and Lady Jin Mu invited the immortals to enter the assembly.

"Fellow Daoists, please!"

"Please!"

The chariots entered the Heavenly Palace, and the immortals returned to the venue.

The ceremonial immortal official announced loudly: "The Immortal Emperor decrees: Resume the music and dance!"

"Fine wines and jade nectars, delicacies of a hundred flavors, all immortals, please enjoy!"

In an instant, ethereal heavenly fragrance filled the seats, and colorful immortal stamens and flowers bloomed.

Attendants served wine, fairies sang, divine generals danced with swords, and the immortals toasted one another, enjoying endless joy.

"Nine-Pattern Flat Peaches?"

On the jade plates upon the tables of the great powers of the Immortal Dao, each held three large flat peaches.

"The Immortal of Immortality's medicine of immortality has the effect of bringing the dead back to life; surely these flat peaches have even better effects. I shall not be polite!" Daoist Kunpeng looked at the purple-patterned flat peaches, his heart filled with joy. At Bai Yu Jing, he had traded with Lady Jin Mu, but those were always refined medicines of immortality; he had never tasted the original fruit produced by the innate spiritual root.

And the flat peaches before him were definitely produced by the mother flat peach tree, not a differentiated branch.

"This is the third batch of fruit from the Innate Ren Water Flat Peach. Its innate foundation is deep; just one purple-patterned flat peach can solidify the Dao foundation for the consumer, and it can also allow acquired beings to reverse their nature to innate, creating an innate foundation." Nv Wa, from the side, softly revealed the origin of the flat peaches.

This left Kunpeng astonished, and he praised: "To be able to deduce which batch of fruit this is just from its appearance and aura, your insight is truly remarkable, fellow Daoist!"

"You must have walked a very long way on the Great Dao of Life."

In his view, Nv Wa had reverse-engineered the flat peaches before them from the perspective of the Great Dao of Life.

In reality...

【Nothing much, actually, it's mainly because I've already eaten them.】 Nv Wa knew Kunpeng had misunderstood, so she smiled slightly without explaining.

Meng Wu You and Hou Tu also knew the ins and outs of the flat peaches on their plates.

They had both eaten them.

The Tai Su Jiuxiao organization was gathered together because of the banquet.

Therefore, the theme of every gathering was eating and drinking, then sitting together to share information, explore the Primordial World together, and explore the Great Dao together.

It was a bit like a tea party.

So, if it came to eating, these goddesses might not lose to the great gourmet Zhen Yuanzi.

The Dian Dao Immortal, Hong Yun, Ming He, and others had also arrived at the venue.

They didn't put on any airs, so they arrived early.

At the banquet, the six Great Luo—Master Mo Zu Luo Hou, Hongjun, Yang Mei, and the Three Pure Ones—sat in a special area.

Hongjun looked at Luo Hou with a smile and asked, "Do you have any plans for the future, fellow Daoist?"

"You think I'd tell you the plans of my Demonic Dao?" Luo Hou rolled his eyes. It was true that his Demonic Dao was upright and open, but he wasn't foolish.

"I can tell you about the situation of our Immortal Dao," Hongjun said.

Luo Hou glanced at him: "What could you possibly say?"

Hongjun sipped some fine wine and said slowly, "My Immortal Dao now has nine methods of attaining the Dao!"

"Oh."

Luo Hou's reaction was indifferent.

"Are you not surprised?" Yang Mei looked at Luo Hou strangely.

"What is there to be surprised about?" Luo Hou took a bite of a flat peach.

"I thought you meant your Immortal Dao had nine Great Luo!"

"Er, what you say is also possible." Hongjun looked at the Three Pure Ones; if he took a Heavenly Book and assembled them randomly, it wasn't impossible.

Luo Hou scoffed at Hongjun's threat: "Wait until these so-called nine methods of attaining the Dao are mature before you come here to show off."

Who didn't know who?

Luo Hou certainly knew about these nine methods of attaining the Dao.

Hou Tu had gone to listen in and brought back first-hand information.

But currently, only the Three Pure Ones' Heavenly Immortal and Xiang Xuanqing's Ghost Immortal had been verified.

No matter how good the PPTs of the other Dao Lords were, why don't you show me one attaining Great Luo!

"Want to see the results of my Immortal Dao? Let me tell you, it's coming soon."

Hongjun spoke frankly: "I have foreseen the future; the Immortal Dao is destined to flourish, and the Demon Dao's defeat is already sealed."

Luo Hou laughed: "I have also foreseen the future; the Demonic Dao will travel across all heavens, and the Ancestor of the Immortal Dao will die a violent death in the void."

The two Supremes were at loggerheads.

Yang Mei remained silent.

The Three Pure Ones sat to the side, eating melons and watching the show.

Xiang Xuanqing added: "How can you know that the future you see is true?"

"What if some deity is feeding you false information?"

Swish!!

The gazes of Hongjun and Luo Hou focused on Xiang Xuanqing.

"Why look at me? I'm just making a hypothesis!"

Xiang Xuanqing looked innocent. "We are all Great Luo; can't you distinguish truth from falsehood yourselves?"

"As long as you verify it a little, you should know that it certainly wasn't my doing."

"That's not necessarily true." Hongjun's eyes flashed with brilliance. He thought of the scene when Xiang Xuanqing first came to Bai Yu Jing. When he and Yang Mei explored the future, some small episodes had indeed occurred.

"If you ask me, don't go looking at the future when you have nothing to do; looking at that stuff too much makes it easy to get trapped."

Lord Jing Yao said so, and he gave the reminder entirely out of good intentions.

"That is true."

Master Yuchen said: "What proper deity would pay attention to the future?"

"Wielding a sword in the present world can cut out countless futures."

"Predicting the future and such, I never do."

Unlike the fixed past that could only be modified to a small extent.

And unlike the present space-time that could be painted at will.

Facing the future, the sacred ones were always extremely cautious.

Because Great Luo could encompass all existence and manifest all heavens; theoretically, it was possible to achieve omniscience and omnipotence.

But if one Great Luo manipulates the timeline, they can be omniscient and omnipotent.

What about when a group of Great Luo plays with space-time?

When omniscience and omnipotence meet, they will inevitably interfere with each other, requiring the removal of falsehood to preserve the truth.

Even if they continue to study deeply later and become senior Great Luo, they will still have key heavenly secrets blocked by existences of the same level.

So-called planning and so-called scheming are nothing more than Great Luo sacred ones exerting force in the domains they control, exerting influence on the future along a timeline they have fixed, thereby causing everything to lean toward the direction they desire.

As for to what extent it can lean in the end, and whether it will be pulled off course by others, that depends on your own means.

In the Primordial World, there is a fixed past, but no fixed future.

Everything must be fought for by oneself.

How to make the future lean toward the most likely result.

There are two ways.

One is "Unity is Strength."

Find like-minded sacred ones to huddle together for warmth, and everyone influences the future space-time together to remove falsehood and preserve truth.

The other is "To forge iron, one must be strong oneself."

Just how hard does it need to be?

You need to be able to gather the myriad, govern the Great Dao of all heavens, bind all space-time vertically and horizontally, crush those "omniscient and omnipotent" ones, and hand-craft all possibilities into a single result.

Become that "Truth" at the end of infinite pasts and eternal ends.

If you can reach this step, then congratulations, the throne of the second "Pangu" of the Primordial World is yours.

The Demon Gods who explored the future back then had different philosophies.

Pangu stood up and said: "I want to open the heavens."

Opening the heavens and splitting the earth was the future he wanted.

The three thousand Demon Gods united and said: "No! Our future is decided by ourselves!"

They wanted to resist!

Then the two sides fought a great war.

Pangu carried his axe, surrounded the three thousand Demon Gods, and cut out the only result.

Thus, Pangu won.

Thus, the Primordial True Realm was born.

Now, the deities of the Primordial World cannot learn from Pangu; he is an eternal cheater, so it doesn't count.

They can only huddle together for warmth, unite, and walk out the future they want together.

That is why there are various great clans and many organizations.

However, everyone still yearns for Pangu and wants to be "strong oneself," so they all take Pangu as their goal.

After all, who doesn't want to be an era-ender who takes out a kid with one axe?

"Today is a banquet, so let's not talk about these future-related topics."

Yang Mei came out to smooth things over. He said: "The future of the Immortal and Demonic paths, let each rely on their own abilities and strive for it."

"Come, look at the banquet; Lady Jin Mu has carefully prepared a grand musical performance!"

Yang Mei greeted them.

Lady Jin Mu then moved the prepared program up.

She had carefully selected dozens of fairies specializing in the Dao of music on Mount Western Kunlun, and now they made their official debut, making the gathered immortals look forward to it.

Before long, the fairies entered the venue, each holding a musical instrument.

Nv Wa blinked; she saw the little Xuan Nv.

At this time, Xuan Nv was in battle armor, holding a shield and spear, full of heroic spirit.

She also saw a fairy, dressed in green, elegant and composed, who seemed to be the leader of this orchestra.

"A bit familiar, but I've never seen her before." Nv Wa racked her brains, but she couldn't calculate the origin of this fairy.

Does Western Kunlun have this goddess?

Suddenly, the music was hazy and misty, vast and boundless, the rhyme harmonious, making people's hearts immerse themselves.

The immortals heard it and felt as if they were bathing in the warm sun of birth, experiencing the warmth of the spring breeze, harmonious and intoxicated.

Then the drumbeats sounded, like thunder, or like the earth collapsing and mountains crumbling; the zither sounds were sharp, the weapons were put away, shaking the heavens and the earth; the surging river was vast, the rolling great river waves were surging.

The immortals heard it and felt as if they were on a battlefield, surrounded on all sides, personally experiencing a great tribulation.

"Entering the principle through music, entering the Dao through music, it truly scares me!"

Many immortals already felt trembling.

They truly felt they were on the battlefield, facing endless tribulations.

And the great powers were more exhilarated, free and easy, with soaring heroic spirit.

Compared to their daily death-seeking, these were all small scenes.

Finally, the immortal music turned, like clear springs flowing, wind blowing through ten thousand valleys, pine waves surging, relaxed and gentle, free and easy!

The immortals heard it and felt as if, after ten thousand tribulations, they enjoyed infinite clear blessings, infinite luck, their bodies and minds unstained by the mortal world, their spiritual platforms no longer chaotic, swimming in the void, soaring in the nine heavens, the world was so vast, there was nowhere they couldn't go...

"Eh? I broke through!"

An immortal exclaimed.

"Me too!"

"After ten thousand tribulations, I enjoy infinite clear blessings; my spiritual platform is now incomparably clear!"

"This Dao of musical theory is actually so profound!"

"It's that lead fairy who is amazing. I study the Dao of music, and in front of her, I am like an ant seeing Mount Buzhou."

"Where did the leader come from?" The immortals were puzzled.

"Right there, eh?"

An immortal looked left and right, searching for the green-clad fairy: "Where is the lead fairy? Did she leave so soon? I wanted to get to know her; what a pity."

"Does this band have a leader?" a companion beside them asked, puzzled.

"She was there from the beginning! Dressed in green, standing at the very front." The immortal was adamant.

"You must have seen wrong, fellow Daoist; there was no leader from the beginning."

"That's right, there wasn't one at all. Weren't the ones standing at the very front the twelve fairies in black armor?"

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