"Thank you, Master, for the advice. I will think about it carefully." Thanks to Sage Shangqing's guidance, the fog in Jiang Chen's path has cleared, and there are no more obstacles.
What he has to do now is just to choose, choose the path he wants to take next, and go on it unswervingly.
"Master, my doubts have been resolved. I won't disturb you here anymore. I will return to the three realms to welcome the upcoming great tribulation."
Jiang Chen gained more from this trip to Jin'ao Island than he imagined, and he was already very satisfied. He wanted nothing more in his heart and just wanted to go back and deal with the upcoming big trouble, so he thought of leaving.
Seeing Jiang Chen was about to leave, Sage Shangqing suddenly stopped him and said, "Yu Dou, please wait. I have something for you to do."
With that said, Sage Shangqing stood up, took off the Qingping Sword hanging next to the cloud bed, held it in his hand, and handed it to Jiang Chen.
"Yu Dou, my master doesn't like Tathagata Buddha, and I don't want to see him in the three realms. Today I will hand over the Qingping Sword to you. If Tathagata Buddha comes to look for you, you can kill him with this sword." I have something to worry about for my teacher.”
The Sage of Shangqing said it very casually, as if he was not talking about killing Tathagata Buddha, but about cats and dogs. Also, in front of his old man, isn't Tathagata Buddha just like a cat or a dog?
"Yes, Master!"
"If Tathagata Buddha appears, my disciples will try their best to kill him and make him disappear completely between heaven and earth."
Although the Sage of Shangqing didn't say it clearly, Jiang Chen still understood what he meant. What the old man said was to kill Tathagata Buddha, not Taoist Duobao. This shows that in his heart, he does not recognize Tathagata Buddha as the Taoist of Many Treasures.
Everything that Tathagata Buddha experienced can be said to be a dream of the Taoist Duobao, or it can be said to be a disaster that he must go through. He sank in a dream and lost himself in the disaster.
But now, the Sage of Shangqing gave Jiang Chen the Qingping Sword and asked him to kill Tathagata Buddha. The purpose was to awaken the Taoist Duobao. When Tathagata Buddha dies, the dream will be broken, the catastrophe will end, and Taoist Duobao will return to his original appearance and reappear in the wilderness.
However, Taoist Duobao's dream, although it is a dream, has an intersection with reality and has a huge cause and effect with the West. Since it is cause and effect, it must be repaid.
How to pay it back? Of course he would retaliate with death!
Tathagata Buddha was born for Buddhism, and he naturally died for Buddhism. Hundreds of years later, when the Disaster of Journey to the West breaks out, Tathagata Buddha will inevitably reappear in the world to fight Jiang Chen, and this battle will also determine the future of Buddhism.
Tathagata Buddha wins, Buddhism returns to his control, the journey to the West will be led by him, and everything will get back on track.
If Jiang Chen wins, Buddhism will completely fall into his hands. The future journey to the west will also be arranged by him. All the previous plans made by Tathagata Buddha and others will be used as a wedding dress for Jiang Chen.
If Tathagata Buddha wins, Jiang Chen may not fall.
But if Jiang Chen wins, Tathagata Buddha will definitely fall and die fighting for Buddhism. Living for Buddhism and dying for Buddhism, the life of Tathagata Buddha is so magnificent!
And his death also announced that all the connections between Taoist Duobao and Buddhism had disappeared, and there was no more Tathagata Buddha in the world.
He was originally illusory and unreal. With his fall, the dream was shattered, Taoist Duobao woke up, and everything became a passing cloud.
Tathagata Buddha is the life experienced by Duobao Taoist in his dream.
Taiqing Sage arranged it this way from the beginning. Otherwise, could he really give Taoist Duobao to the West? If you really want to do this, it will inevitably attract criticism from the entire Xuanmen and shake the status of Taiqing Saint Xuanmen's senior brother.
You must know that Taoist Duobao's identity is not ordinary. He is not only the chief disciple of Sage Shangqing, but also the first disciple of the third generation of Xuanmen. He is even remotely related to Taoist Hongjun.
The true form of Taoist Duobao was the Fenbao Rock outside the Zixiao Palace. After the treasures on it were taken away, the Sage of Shangqing had a keen eye and felt that the Fenbao Rock was also a treasure, so he stepped forward to take it away.
After Fen Baoyan left the chaos outside the sky and came to the prehistoric world, he absorbed the spiritual energy of the world and suddenly gave birth to spiritual wisdom. The Sage of Shangqing was delighted to see him and accepted him as his disciple on the spot.
I don't know how many innate spiritual treasures the Taoist ancestors placed on Fenbao Rock back then, but they were all taken away by the three thousand mortal guests of Zixiao Palace.
If you take the treasure from Fenbao Rock, you will naturally have a cause and effect with Fenbao Rock. At the same time, it is necessary to say that Duobao Taoist is extraordinary because he has formed a karmic relationship with so many people with great supernatural powers.
Why is it that among the countless disciples of the three religions, only Taoist Duobao achieved the realm of innate Taoism during the Emperor's era? It is because he is so extraordinary that he is loved by the whole world.
If Saint Taiqing gave such a person to the West, wouldn't it mean that he would directly offend most of the people with great magical powers in the East? A smart person like Saint Taiqing would never do such a stupid thing, so he had already left a backup plan in case Master Duobao was really abducted to the West.
It has been almost one calamity since the Conferred God Measuring Tribulation, and it’s time for Taoist Duobao to return.
Therefore, the Sage of Shangqing gave the Qingping Sword to Jiang Chen and asked him to kill Tathagata Buddha with the sword, firstly to send him to liberation, and secondly to help Duobao return.
"Disciple is gone!" Putting away the Qingping Sword, Jiang Chen said goodbye, then transformed into a rainbow light and flew towards the outside of Jin'ao Island.
"Hey, what a troubled time!"
"This disciple is really more troublesome than the other."
After Jiang Chen left, the Sage of Shangqing shook his head first, and then pointed his swords towards the Antarctic Star in the endless starry sky below. Suddenly, outside the Antarctic Star, an invisible barrier shattered, and contact with the outside world was restored again.
"kindness?"
"Antarctica!"
At the moment when the barrier was broken, on the other side of the chaos in the sky, in the Yuxu Palace, Yuanshi Tianzun couldn't help but open his eyes and looked in the direction of the South Pole Star with confusion.
"What is the third brother going to do? Why did he suddenly let go of the restrictions on Antarctica?"
Yuanshi Tianzun couldn't help but have some doubts. Back then, he and the Sage of Shangqing were angry, so they took action against each other and sealed the Antarctic Star so that no one could enter. But now, the Sage of Shangqing suddenly takes action to break this restriction. What is he doing?
While confused, Yuanshi Tianzun saw a figure coming from the chaos outside the sky and flying straight towards the South Pole Star.
"It's him, Yudou, why is he going to Antarctica?"
But it was said that after Jiang Chen left Jin'ao Island, he identified the direction in the chaos outside the sky, and then flew towards the boundless starry sky.
Now that he has the guarantee from the Sage of Supreme Purity, the first thing Jiang Chen has to do is to take away the innate star maps from the Antarctic Star and the Lunar Star so that he can raise an innate treasure to protect himself.
Returning to the boundless starry sky, Jiang Chen thought about it and decided to go to the Antarctic Star first. After getting the Antarctic Star Map, it would not be too late to go to the Lunar Star.
Ever since he learned that Xi He was living in seclusion on the Taiyin Star, Jiang Chen had subconsciously rejected it, not wanting to get close to it, and at the same time, he was also extremely afraid of it.
This is not to say that Jiang Chen is afraid, but that he was possessed by Xi He's magical power and instinctively developed a dislike and fear of the Taiyin Star, so he did not want to get close to it.
It was not that Jiang Chen didn't know that he had been possessed by Xihe's magical power, but because of this, he didn't want to get close to the Taiyin Star. It's a very simple logic. If he wasn't really welcome, how could Xihe use his magical powers to prohibit him from approaching the Taiyin Star?
Knowing that people hate you, but still taking the initiative to come forward, isn't this just looking for trouble?
"Hiss, when you go to the Taiyin Star to get the Taiyin Star Map, you must go as fast as you can. You must not stay too long." When passing by the Taiyin Star, Jiang Chen hurriedly didn't even take a look there. 's left.
In the south of the boundless starry sky, surrounded by countless star debris, an extremely huge star is blooming with bright blue light, illuminating the dim starry sky.
This is the South Pole Star, one of the five supreme stars in the prehistoric times.
"What a rich vitality. It is richer than the vitality contained in the ancient sky. It is truly a star that symbolizes vitality."
As soon as he approached the Antarctic Star, Jiang Chen felt a strong sense of vitality rushing towards his face, which lifted his spirits a lot.
The Antarctic Star, also known as the longevity star, governs vitality. Therefore, the Antarctic Emperor is also called the Antarctic Immortal Emperor.
"Hey, being born in such a place, Antarctic Immortal Old Man's skills are profound, but it's a pity that he was born in the wrong era. It's not a good time to be born, but he was born in the era when the monster clan was at its peak. If not, With his background, how could he have fallen to this level?"
"If he had been born before the ancient times, he would at least be a powerful person by now."
To be honest, Jiang Chen felt that the Antarctic Immortal was quite unlucky, mainly because he was born in the wrong era. There were only five supreme stars in the ancient world, and the South Pole Star was one of them.
As an innate star god conceived by the Antarctic Star, it is easy to imagine the origin of the Antarctic Immortal. He is extremely noble and extraordinary. In the boundless starry sky, his status is second only to the three in heaven, Emperor Jun Taiyi Xihe.
If he is given enough time to practice and grow, his future will not be comparable to that of Emperor Jun Taiyi, but it will not be too different. At least, he can reach the level of Kunpeng Ancestor.
It's a pity that the Antarctic fairy was born too late.
By the time he was born, the demon clan had already been established. He, the Antarctic Star God, was simply a thorn in the demon clan's side. If he continued to stay in the boundless starry sky, he would suddenly fall.
Therefore, the Antarctic Immortal ran away. And when he ran away, he also ruined his future, and this time he lived a homeless life.
"Choices are very important in life. If the Antarctic Immortal had not chosen to run away, but had chosen to take refuge in the demon clan, his future would have been very different."
Shaking his head, Jiang Chen no longer thought about the Antarctic Immortal, but stepped into the Antarctic Star. The Antarctic Immortal is a disciple of Yuanshi Tianzun. It is not Jiang Chen's turn to worry about his future. Yuanshi Tianzun will arrange everything on his own.
On the Antarctic Star, the energy of life is everywhere, it can be said to be endless, flowing everywhere, powerfully, forming a series of life storms. However, even in a place so full of life, looking around, there is no sign of life here.
The end of life is death. It is precisely because the life energy here is so strong that it is difficult for this place to breed life, and it has become a true life paradise.
Things must be reversed when they reach their extremes, that's how it is.
The further you go, the richer the life energy around you is, and the greater the vitality it contains. When Jiang Chen reached the depths of the Antarctic Star, the quality of vitality filled here was so high that it was almost comparable to the source of life. Even with his cultivation, he felt great benefits.
Going deeper, Jiang Chen gradually arrived at the core of the Antarctic Star. Here, the vitality has become so rich that it is extremely terrifying. Even Jiang Chen can't help but frown, feeling a hint of danger when he is in it.
The vitality here is really too strong. It surrounds Jiang Chen and actually wants to assimilate him and become a part of this place.
At this time, Jiang Chen finally understood why there was no life on the Antarctic Star. A long, long time ago, this place may have been alive, but as time went by, it was assimilated by the vitality that permeated this place.
"The sun is setting, rise!"
Jiang Chen activated the Sun Gou Chen Diagram, manifesting the shadows of the Gou Cheng Star and the Sun Star on the left and right, pushing away the surrounding vitality, and continued to move forward.
The star map trembled, as if it had made contact with the Sun Star and the Gouchen Star. It unleashed endless power to protect Jiang Chen and arrived at the true core of the Antarctic Star, a mysterious space.
"Is this an innate spiritual treasure?"
"No, that's not right, this aura is a bit like an innate treasure."
"So, it turns out to be that treasure. The luck of this disciple, Third Brother, is really amazing. He was able to find this treasure."
"It's a pity that although he is destined to have this innate treasure, he cannot obtain it for the time being."
In the Yuxu Palace, Yuanshi Tianzun saw Jiang Chen offering sacrifices to the Sun Gou Chen Picture, and after a little deduction in his mind, he understood everything. Immediately, he shook his head and suddenly stretched out a finger, pointing towards the South Pole star below.
"For the sake of my third brother, I'll stop you for a while."
The moment Yuanshi Tianzun's voice fell, an inexplicable force quietly emerged in the core space of the Antarctic Star, disappearing into the Antarctic Star Map.
Jiang Chen knew nothing about this and was walking towards here with excitement, preparing to take away the Antarctic Star Map.
At this moment, in the chaos outside the sky, in the Shangqing Temple, the face of Sage Shangqing suddenly changed and became extremely ugly.
"Yuanshi Tianzun, you are going too far!"
With a loud shout, Sage Shangqing suddenly stood up, casually drew out an innate divine sword, and wanted to kill Yuxu Palace.
But at this moment, an old voice came from far away: "Third brother, second brother has shown mercy. If it wasn't for your sake, Yu Dou would definitely not have gotten that star map, and It’s not like it is now, it’s just that the Antarctic Star Map was sealed for a period of time.”
"A period of sixty years will pass by in the blink of an eye. It will not affect his journey to the West."
"The success or failure of this Xuanmen plan is still open to debate, but as Xuanmen saints, we cannot waver in our stance. We do not say we will help them, but we cannot hold them back from behind."
Saint Taiqing's voice echoed, like a basin of cold water poured on his head, extinguishing Saint Shangqing's anger.
"snort!"
With a cold snort, Sage Shangqing put away the innate divine sword in his hand, turned around and returned to Shangqing Temple, sulking secretly.
Sage Taiqing was right. Now the Xuanmen plan was about to unfold. They knew that Jiang Chen would be the biggest obstacle, but they did not secretly ruin Jiang Chen's opportunity. It was for the sake of Sage Shangqing, so how could they let him go? Go big and get the innate treasure?
For the sake of Sage Shangqing, they will not touch this innate treasure, which still belongs to Jiang Chen. However, before the Xuanmen plan is completed, the innate treasure of the Sun, Moon and Star Diagram cannot appear in the world.
"Hey, Yudou, Xuanmen's plan is very important. I can't help you with this matter. You can only rely on yourself. However, for my sake, no matter what the outcome is, I can always save your life. No worries.”
Yuanshi Tianzun and Taiqing Sage appeared at the same time, which made Shangqing Sage realize that he could not help Jiang Chen in this matter. He already has enough face for his family, but if he is still dissatisfied, it will not be a good thing for Jiang Chen.
The innate star map is among the stars. If the saint is willing, he can take it away before Jiang Chen, so that he will never be able to collect the innate star map.
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Jiang Chen stepped into the core space of the Antarctic Star. Under the resonance of the Gouchen Star Chart and the Sun Star Chart, the void here began to tremble inexplicably. Immediately, a ray of clear light appeared from the void and turned into a pair of clear stars. The picture fell into Jiang Chen's hands.
Although the Antarctic Star Chart and the Gouchen Star Chart are not as good as the Sun Star Chart, they are still the best innate spiritual treasures.
"What a treasure!"
With a word of praise, Jiang Chen offered the Antarctic Star Chart and wanted to integrate it into the Sun Overlay Chart.
But at this moment, a strange aura suddenly erupted from the Antarctic Star Chart. An unspeakable mystery stood in front of the Star Chart, preventing the three major Star Charts from merging.
"This breath is a bit familiar, like the jade fairy light?"
After silently sensing for a while, Jiang Chen's expression gradually changed. He discovered that the aura lingering on the Antarctic star map actually came from Yuanshi Tianzun. He has dealt with disciples of the Chan Cult, and he will never admit the aura of Yuanshi Tianzun, just like this.
"Did Yuanshi Tianzun take action? He didn't want me to get the Antarctic Star Map? But that's wrong. If he really didn't want me to get the Antarctic Star Map, he could just take the treasure away. Why bother setting up a seal? "
Jiang Chen couldn't understand Yuanshi Tianzun's purpose for a while, so he couldn't help but frown in thought. It was at this time that the Sage Shangqing manifested a secret of heaven and let him know the reason.
"I see. I am afraid that my power will increase greatly after obtaining the innate treasure, which will directly ruin Xuanmen's plan, so I have temporarily banned the Antarctic Star Chart so that it cannot be integrated with other star charts."
Jiang Chen was a little helpless. He couldn't destroy the saint's handiwork. In other words, he cannot obtain this innate treasure, the Sun, Moon and Stars Chart for the time being.
However, this may not be a bad thing for Jiang Chen. Above the Antarctic star map, the bright jade fairy light lingers, exuding a boundless atmosphere, mysterious and unpredictable, and it seems that there is a great road contained in it.
ps: 5,000 words is a big improvement.
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