"Look at you, for the sake of some selfish gains, you have turned the good old world into a mess and lost your face. You don't even have the slightest trace of being a Taoist immortal."
As soon as Taozu opened his mouth, he reprimanded everyone, saying that they did not practice Taoism in seclusion and had to jump out to cause trouble, thus causing chaos in the world.
"I'm guilty!"
No one dared to refute, they all apologized in fear.
Seeing them like this, Daozu not only did not feel relieved, but became even more angry. To be honest, they were making trouble, but if they really achieved results, Daozu wouldn't be so angry.
But as a result, they have done so many things over the years, and even the world was destroyed twice by them. But in the end, not only did they not get any benefits, but they also put themselves in an unfavorable situation.
If they practiced Taoism peacefully and did not end up competing for the destiny of heaven and earth, they would have become Taoists long ago and entered the realm of Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal.
But it was precisely because they were greedy and insisted on relying on luck to practice that they ended up destroying the world. The environment became worse and worse day by day, and it became more and more difficult to practice Taoism. It was almost a luxury to hope for enlightenment.
When others make trouble, they make themselves better and better, but when they make trouble, they make themselves more and more miserable.
Faced with such a situation, how could Daozu not be angry in his heart? He was really angry that he did not fight and hated him for doing nothing.
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Although everyone looked frightened on their faces, they didn't think so in their hearts. Daozu lowered his head and glanced at everyone, and he already understood what they were thinking.
At this moment, no matter how many words he had, it was difficult to say them out, so he could only sigh helplessly.
"Why!"
With a long sigh, Daozu no longer looked at the crowd, but turned to look at Saint Taiqing and Yuanshi Tianzun below, and said to them: "Taiqing, Yuqing, get up and speak."
There was no emotion or anger in Daozu's voice, but the faces of Yuanshi Tianzun and Taiqing Sage changed drastically, and they quickly apologized: "Master, my disciple is guilty. I hope Master will calm down!"
The two of them naturally knew why Daozu asked them to get up and talk. It was obviously to vent his anger on Empress Nuwa. Therefore, they behaved very simply, without any excuses and directly admitted their mistakes.
"You also know you are guilty!"
"Is this how I teach you, to unite with your fellow disciples to bully your junior sister? If you spread the word, you won't be afraid of being laughed at."
"Also, should you admit your mistake to me? Nuwa is sitting next to you, didn't you see it?"
Not because the two admitted their mistakes, Taoist Hongjun changed his attitude towards them. He sternly reprimanded them in front of everyone and forced them to apologize to Nuwa.
"Junior sister, senior brother is wrong!"
Xu Shi had already made preparations. As soon as Daozu Hongjun finished speaking, Saint Taiqing and Yuanshi Tianzun apologized to Nuwa.
This attitude was so straightforward that everyone present, not to mention Empress Nuwa, was shocked by it, thinking that the two of them had been snatched away.
Saint Taiqing is okay, but Yuanshi Tianzun is famous for not bowing down even if he is killed. Even if he is really wrong, he will never admit it.
Therefore, everyone was shocked to see him bow his head and admit his mistake with such a sincere attitude. Is this still the Yuanshi Tianzun they know? Why have you changed your temper after not seeing each other for a while?
Beside Yuanshi Tianzun, Sage Shangqing also looked at him with surprise.
If Yuanshi Tianzun had been willing to bow to him and admit his mistakes during the Conferred God Period, how could the relationship between the three Qing Dynasties have reached the point where it is now.
Being looked at by everyone with strange looks, if it had been before, Yuanshi Tianzun would have been angry, but now, he was completely unmoved and looked at Nuwa Empress sincerely, as if expecting his forgiveness.
When Daozu Hongjun saw this, surprise flashed in his eyes, but he soon discovered the reason and couldn't help but look deeply at Saint Taiqing next to Yuanshi Tianzun.
Based on his cultivation, it is not difficult to see that Yuanshi Tianzun's changes are related to Taiqing Saint.
Each of Sanqing's characters has its own flaws, such as Taiqing being too thoughtful and being good at calculations. Yuanshi Tianzun was arrogant by nature and refused to bow his head. The Sage of the Supreme Purity acted recklessly and too impulsively.
As the master of Sanqing, Daozu Hongjun knew this very well. At the same time, he knew better that Sanqing also knew his shortcomings and had different views on them.
The Taiqing Sage regarded his shortcomings as his own advantages, and based on this, he developed the method of being too merciless, allowing himself to fall into a ruthless state, thereby aligning with the way of heaven, making the way of heaven ruthless, and immortal in the world.
Because of his ruthlessness, Taiqing Sage can look at problems from the calmest perspective, and his complicated mind has therefore become his advantage, allowing him to calculate others calmly.
Yuanshi Tianzun does not think that he has any flaws. He regards arrogance as his own characteristic and is very proud of it.
The Sage of Shangqing knew that he acted recklessly and impulsively, so he chose to practice swordsmanship and integrated his own personality into it, making his swordsmanship a bit sharper and more powerful than before.
Among the three, Saint Taiqing went further and further away. The Sage of Shangqing was fine before, but after experiencing the apotheosis of the gods, he understood the truth of being easy to break, his personality changed, his sword intention became more restrained, and he showed a tendency to improve to a higher level.
As for Yuanshi Tianzun, there was nothing wrong with him originally, but because of the evil corpse's rebellion and becoming a demon, he was more or less affected, and his personality became increasingly weird.
This is why Yuanshi Tianzun often makes people confused when he does things. When he does some things, his starting point is obviously good, but when he implements them, he will make things worse.
That's what people with twisted personalities are like.
Saint Taiqing was aware of Yuanshi Tianzun's problems and was worried that he would be influenced by the evil corpse and sink deeper and deeper into danger, so he would often get close to him, trying to use his ruthless mentality to make up for the defects in Yuanshi Tianzun's character. defect.
This is why, among the Three Pure Ones, Taiqing Saint is the closest to Yuanshi Tianzun, because Yuanshi Tianzun really has a problem.
Of the two younger brothers, one had no problem and the other had a problem. Saint Taiqing had no problem in his mind, so he naturally chose to help the one with the problem.
And what happened today undoubtedly proves that Taiqing Sage's strategy was successful. Yuanshi Tianzun's character has indeed changed and is no longer as unpleasant as before.
However, Taoist Hongjun could also see that Taiqing Sage's method only treated the symptoms and could not cure the root cause. If you want to completely solve the problem of Yuanshi Tianzun, you have to find a way to get his evil corpse back.
This is the crux of the problem. Yuanshi Tianzun is so arrogant. His evil corpse has become possessed and is unclean in his opinion. Then he would rather not let his own path be lacking than take back the evil corpse. To prevent him from contaminating himself.
He is really too proud, so proud that no one can do anything about it, so Yuanshi Tianzun has suppressed Yuanshi Tianzun for many years, but he has not taken it back.
Otherwise, even if Sanqing cannot refine the Yuanshi Tian Demon Lord, what can Daozu Hongjun do?
The crux of the problem is still Yuanshi Tianzun. He keeps twisting it and is unwilling to take back the evil corpse. That means that even if others want to help, they have nothing to do.
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Empress Nuwa's expression remained unchanged, as if she had not seen the two men's actions and had no intention of accepting their apology.
That's right. Who else could have suffered such great grievances and accept their apology just because of their indifferent words?
Then this price is too light!
Empress Nuwa didn't say anything, and Saint Taiqing and Yuanshi Tianzun couldn't talk either, so they just stood there in a stalemate. For a while, the atmosphere was a little awkward.
Fortunately, at this time, Taoist Master Hongjun suddenly spoke and saw them still saying with emotion:
"Looking at your attitude, you have indeed made progress over the years. Yes, there has been progress. Moreover, your progress does not end there."
"This is not the first time you have bullied your fellow disciples, but this time you have improved a lot from last time. At least this time when you bullied your fellow disciples, you did not unite with outsiders, but with your own people."
Hongjun Daozu's words sounded like good words, and every sentence was praising Yuanshi Tianzun and Taiqing Saint. But to everyone who knew the inside story, they couldn't help but find it a bit ridiculous.
Wherever he was praising them, he was clearly mocking them. They were very good at bullying their fellow disciples.
In just one sentence, although he only mentioned two saints, he also cursed the other two saints.
For a moment, the faces of Saint Taiqing, Yuanshi Tianzun, Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin all turned blue and white, extremely ugly.
In today's prehistoric times, no one but Taoist Hongjun would dare to ridicule him so mercilessly.
It goes without saying who the outsiders that Hongjun Daozu refers to are the two saints from the West. During the Battle of the Gods, Yuanshi Tianzun and Taiqing Sage joined forces with outsiders to destroy his younger brother's Taoism. Taoist Hongjun said nothing on the surface, but he was still extremely dissatisfied with this in his heart.
Taoist Hongjun was unhappy, but Yuanshi Tianzun and Taiqing Sage also felt aggrieved. When they joined forces with the Second Sage of the West, they were still disciples of Xuanmen.
It was at the end of the Conferred Gods Period, and the prehistoric world was destroyed by the Tongtian Cult Leader, forcing Taoist Hongjun to show up in person.
At that time, the two sages from the West met Taoist Hongjun. They came forward to greet him and called him "teacher." However, Taozu did not accept their courtesy and instead called him "fellow Taoist".
At this point, the Two Saints of the West can be regarded as leaving Xuanmen.
Because of the saint's face, everyone didn't dare to laugh out loud even if they thought it was funny. However, Jiang Chen didn't have such scruples. He thought it was funny and just laughed out loud.
"Ha ha!"
Jiang Chen's laughter regardless of the occasion immediately attracted the attention of a lot of people, especially the protagonist, the Saint, who looked at him with the most severe eyes and wished he could eat him alive, but no one dared to tell him to shut up. .
In the end, Sage Shangqing couldn't stand it any longer and yelled at him: "Shut up, this is the place where you can run wild."
The master had already spoken, Jiang Chen couldn't stop laughing, he just looked at Yuanshi Tianzun and Taiqing Sage with a playful look. These two saints were really disgraced today and lost all their face.
But similarly, being able to force Daozu Hongjun, who always paid attention to the face of a saint, to humiliate the two of them in front of everyone shows how dissatisfied Daozu is with them.
If I couldn't bear it, I would never do this.
"This disciple is guilty, please ask Master to punish you."
If it were someone else who dared to say this to them, Yuanshi Tianzun and Taiqing Sage would ensure that they would not be able to see the sun tomorrow. But the person who spoke was Taozu, so even if they were extremely dissatisfied, they could only endure it and be sincerely afraid. ’s admission of error.
"Punish you?"
"Come and tell me, how will my master punish you?"
"During the period of being a god, you teamed up with outsiders to deal with the Supreme Being, and my master confined you in Chaos. I hope you can remember this lesson."
"But the result is good. You must remember the lesson. This time, instead of uniting with outsiders, unite with fellow disciples."
"Tell me, how should I punish you as a teacher? So that you can really remember this lesson?"
Taoist Hongjun also felt helpless. Youdao said that a son has no control over his father. Now that his disciple has become capable and has strong wings, he no longer listens to his master. What can he do?
Punish them? It's easy to say, but how to punish them? Saints are immortal, and any punishment for them is only insignificant and cannot hurt their roots.
As for punishment that damages their face, that is even more unacceptable. The saints represent the face of heaven, how can they let their majesty fall to the ground?
Therefore, some humiliating punishments cannot be used on saints.
To be honest, if the saints really mess up, Daozu Hongjun really can't do anything to them.
"This disciple is frightened and hopes that Master will calm down."
Seeing that Taoist Hongjun was getting more and more serious, not only Taiqing Saint and Yuanshi Tianzun were panicked, but also the great supernatural powers who had joined forces with them to persecute Nuwa Empress were also panicked and began to plead guilty.
"Hey, you are all the ancestors of the same party. Logically speaking, I dare not reprimand you like this. I should save you some face. But look at what you have done recently, there is no face at all."
"If I don't speak up, I don't know what this Xuanmen will become."
"You, the ancestors, are plotting against each other, regardless of the friendship of the same sect. How can the disciples below meet you and work together as one?"
"Someone told me a few years ago that the world is declining, and today's monks are becoming more and more evil-minded. It is not uncommon for them to kill people and seize treasures. It is not uncommon for them to be motivated by wealth."
"Before, it could be said that Jie Jiao led to a bad atmosphere, but now that Jie Jiao is gone, the atmosphere has not changed, but has become even worse."
"In this way, you can't find a scapegoat, right?"
"In my opinion, the reason why the atmosphere has changed is not because of the thousands of monks, but because of you. As the saying goes, if you are the founder, if you are like this, how can you expect the disciples below to be harmonious?"
"People's hearts are broken because of your failure to set an example."
Daozu Hongjun's dissatisfaction seemed to have been accumulated for a long time. Now when he found an opportunity, he didn't care about everyone's expressions. He said everything in detail and reprimanded everyone severely.
(End of chapter)
