Dozens of Confucian disciples, when the foreign enemy invaded, resolutely took off their Confucian robes, left the academy, and went to the battlefield with swords.
It's hard to tell whether their behavior is considered betrayal, or whether it should be said that they are following their own path.
Li Zhixia's two-sentence description made Shu Guan feel a little overwhelmed.
But he was inevitably a little confused. Since the academy disciples had already taken action and there were still dozens of them, why was Jing City still being breached?
Those dozens of academy disciples, even if they are all in the Qi-entraining stage, are a powerful force when they are gathered together. Even if they cannot resist the cannons of the giant ship with their bodies, it is impossible for the cannons to hit them with such cultivation. By.
As for the muskets from three hundred years ago, their lethality was completely different from today's firearms.
The most important thing is that the power of Taoism among practitioners three hundred years ago was much stronger than it is now.
Therefore, if dozens of practitioners gather together, even if they face tens of thousands of mortal armies, as long as it is not a head-on confrontation, there is no possibility of losing. For example, they can take decapitation actions and directly kill the opponent's commander. How can such a battle happen? lose?
Seeing the confusion in Shu Guan's eyes, Li Zhixia sighed softly and said:
"Those dozens of academy disciples all died in the battle. In fact, they were not the only practitioners to take to the battlefield, but just the first batch."
"Because after those academy disciples, there were some practitioners one after another. After all, they couldn't hold back and joined the fight against the Baiyi army. Although they are all otherworldly, they still have family and country in their hearts."
"Among them are the monks from Guiyuan Temple. There are also those of us who are good at it. One of our uncles who was our teacher died in that battle. In addition, there are even some demons and evil cultivators who were originally hidden in Jing City. They all ended up on the battlefield.”
Shu Guan's breathing became a little rapid.
I originally thought there were only dozens of academy disciples, but I didn't expect that there were actually so many practitioners taking to the battlefield. So why did Dahua still lose?
At this time, a guess was already brewing in Shu Guan's mind.
Li Zhixia's next words also confirmed his guess.
"Because there are also practitioners in the Western Continent."
really!
So what do those practitioners in the Western Continent practice? Magic?
Then Shu Guan heard Li Zhixia continue to say:
"What practitioners in the Western Continent practice is actually no different from us."
"You must know that even the Great China Dynasty once included the Western Continent, let alone the Heavenly Court! Before the Heavenly Court was destroyed, the Western Continent was also under the control of the Heavenly Court."
"Although the Baiyi people at that time were just pariahs in the Great China, many people gradually became practitioners. That was ten thousand to five thousand years ago."
"After the rebellion of the Divine Monkey Army, the Great China Dynasty lost control of the Western Continent, and the vassal states in the Western Continent broke away from the Great China Dynasty one after another. However, the Heavenly Court was still there at that time, so the practitioners of the Western Continent were still It is under the control of Heavenly Court, but after Heavenly Court was also destroyed, the situation slowly changed."
"Those practitioners in the Western Continent began to deny that their Taoist origins came from Dahua. They created several false gods and claimed to ordinary people that these false gods were the creators of the world."
"However, the strength of the most powerful practitioners there at that time was indeed extraordinary. Although the methods they practiced originated from heaven, they were able to find another way and create another set of methods to attract the spiritual power of heaven and earth. Just like Taoism, Buddhism, and Confucianism, they form their own system, and they call themselves magic!"
It's really magic...
But the magic in this world is just a branch of Taoism.
"Are those practitioners from the Western Continent very powerful?"
Shu Guan asked as he thought about the final result of the battle in Jingcheng.
"If we talk about the strength of the cultivators in the Western Continent, the magic they practice originates from heaven. Just like us Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism, it is just a side branch. It can only be inherited four thousand years ago. If we talk about the background, it is even the same as Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism. Compared with any Confucian family, it is inferior."
"It's just that now that the Great Dao is declining, the power and effect of Taoist magic is getting weaker and weaker. Those powerful magic spells that were once used are not much different from ordinary magic spells, so this has invisibly widened the gap between the practitioners of the Western Continent and us. .”
"As for the battle in Jingcheng that year, it was because they had a large number of practitioners who came with their army. The two armies they attacked Jingcheng and Yanjing almost gathered more than 80% of the practitioners from Yinjili and Falan. , they came well-prepared, and we, Dahua, only had practitioners from Jingcheng to fight against them, so we were inevitably at a disadvantage."
"Come prepared? Could it be that practitioners in the Western Continent can interfere in wars between mortal kingdoms at will? Doesn't that mean they can also interfere in human affairs at will?"
Shu Guan asked with a frown.
"How should I put it? If it is within their Western Continent, they are also prohibited from meddling in mortal affairs at will, because they also know very well that if practitioners get involved in disputes between mortals, it will easily make everything uncontrollable. , so there is also an iron rule in the Western Continent, 'Give to God what is God, and to Caesar what is Caesar', which is the same principle as the immortals in heaven will return to immortals, and the ordinary will return to mortals."
"However, when facing the Eastern Continent, mainly our country of Great China, their practitioners and mortal countries have always acted together."
"But we Dahua cultivators are restricted by heavenly rules. Since the creation of Heaven, we are not allowed to interfere in the struggle for hegemony between mortal dynasties. Therefore, in the current situation, unless cultivators from the Western Continent appear on the battlefield, we Only the practitioners here will take action, otherwise they will only take the initiative to intervene in the war."
"Furthermore, we Dahua cultivators have different hearts and minds, and have never been able to join hands to fight against the cultivators of the Western Continent."
This is like fighting with others with your own hands and feet tied up!
Shu Guan frowned.
"But since the Gengshen Incident, we Dahua practitioners have actually secretly fought many times with practitioners from the Western Continent!"
"Mortal armies have their own wars, and we practitioners also have our own wars."
"Then we Dahua cultivators were defeated?"
Thinking about the current situation of the Republic of China, Shu Guan asked somewhat secretly.
"If we Dahua cultivators were defeated, then the current Dahua country would have been destroyed long ago and divided among the powerful countries in the Western Continent."
"In fact, in the battle between practitioners, we Dahua practitioners are not at a disadvantage. For hundreds of years, the competition between practitioners in the Western Continent has always been a stalemate."
"It's just that both the original Great China and the current Republic of China are far behind the powerful countries in the Western Continent in terms of national strength, so they eventually fell into a situation where they could be bullied by others."
Shu Guan thought for a while and then asked another question:
"Master, you once said that the seven immortals like Lu Zu are still in the world, but what about them? Even if they can really not be tempted by things in the world, they will not ignore the battles between practitioners. Ask, don’t you want to take action?”
Li Zhixia shook her head and said:
"The attitude and thinking of Lu Zu and the others are naturally incomprehensible to me as a teacher, but according to what the seniors in Guan Nei said and their speculations, the reasons should be roughly these."
"Although we have Lu Zu and other seven great immortals, those powerful men who created the art of magic thousands of years ago in the Western Continent are also still alive."
"At present, the level of the battle between the Western Continent and our Dahua cultivators has always been controlled below that of the land gods. There has never been a battle between real immortals."
"Because once the Immortal War breaks out, even in today's era of declining Dao, the impact will still be too great, and it can easily cause death to mortals. Whether it happens in Dahua or the Western Continent, both sides are unwilling to accept it."
"In addition, it is said that the powerful men who founded the sect in the Western Continent are stronger than Lu Zu and the other seven immortals. Therefore, since they have not taken action yet, Lu Zu and the other seven immortals will not take the initiative. .”
"As for those powerful people in the Western Continent, they seem to be a little wary of our Dahua practice world. After all, the history of our Dahua practice is many times longer than theirs. They are still worried about us Dahua, and they still hide it. There is some power more powerful than them, it may be other immortals besides Lu Zu's seven people, or it may be some powerful magic weapon."
"In short, Lu Zu and the other seven immortals, and the powerful men from the Western Continent, are checking and balancing each other, and neither side has directly taken action yet."
Li Zhixia's words today solved a lot of confusion that Shu Guan had previously had.
Ever since he learned about the existence of cultivators like Li Zhixia, Shu Guan had been puzzled as to why Dahua was powerless in the face of foreign invasion. At this moment, he finally solved the matter that had puzzled him for a long time.
