Some people may ask: After cultivation has reached the peak of the Immortal Emperor, is there still a way to go higher?
The answer is, maybe, maybe not. If you say it exists, it exists; if you say it does not exist, it does not exist.
Many people practice for a lifetime and cannot get close to the level of the Immortal King or Immortal Emperor, so they cannot imagine the difficulties faced by the Immortal Emperor.
According to the information Lu Chan brought back from his visit to the White Emperor and the Black Emperor, there is still a big step up to the Immortal Emperor, which is to become a "God Emperor", which means "to attain enlightenment and become a saint."
The sanctification mentioned here refers to being recognized by heaven. The specific sign is that he can rub a nebula with one hand, tear a galaxy apart, and make the ancient world of mountains and seas divide and merge as he pleases, just like playing with mud.
Before this, the universe had been shattered countless times. In the long history, many events have been obliterated. For humans, only very few events appear in myths and legends.
According to human legend, the universe split at least twice.
For the first time, Pangu opened the sky and caused an interstellar explosion, causing the separation of the original continent; Empress Nuwa made stones to mend the sky, pulling back many stars and reorganizing the world of Shan Hai Jing.
The second time, the Black Emperor Zhuanxu, with the assistance of Zhong Heli, tore apart the world of the Classic of Mountains and Seas and formed the realm of hundreds of birds. A hundred birds contended, and the universe model of the Bronze Bird God Tree was created. After a few years, , Ancestor Hongjun united with three thousand gods and demons, the sky was horizontal for ten days, and hundreds of birds looked at the phoenix, thus creating a new continent.
This new continent is different from the previous Yuanshi Continent and the Classic of Mountains and Seas world. Because of this, the Lu family explored the world according to "Yu Emperor's Map of Mountains and Seas" and found that it was inconsistent with the topography of the New World.
Every time the universe is torn apart and reintegrated, a different world will emerge.
The world is dividing and reuniting, just like the breathing of the chaotic green lotus. I don’t know how long it lasted, and I don’t know if it will repeat again and again in the future.
With Lu Cheng's current skill, he still can't tear the galaxy apart. Therefore, he must continue to work hard to "enlighten the Tao and become a saint" as much as possible.
It is said that there are three ways to achieve enlightenment and become a saint.
The first is "to prove the Tao through force", that is, "to prove the Tao through laws". By studying the three thousand laws to the extreme and then combining them into one, the effect of "proving the Tao through laws" can be achieved. In history, only Pangu completed this step. Neither can the rest of them.
The second type is "Three Bodhisattvas Enlightenment", also called "Three Corpses Enlightenment". For example, Patriarch Hongjun, who was born as a god and demon, only had one soul and one soul. On this basis, the Yuan Shen was born. One soul, one soul and the Yuan Shen formed the three-in-one trinity. This method of "three gods proving the truth" needs to be supported by three sacred artifacts. Ancestor Hongjun happens to have three innate spiritual treasures: the Sky-Opening Axe, the Chaos Bell and the Jade Disc of Good Fortune. With the help of these three spiritual treasures, he cultivated the soul, the soul and the soul respectively, and used great magic power to cast the good corpse, the evil corpse, and the self corpse, and then the three corpses were combined into one to achieve enlightenment and become a saint. The holy artifacts entrusted in the Three Corpses' Enlightenment need to be of the same origin. Only in this way can the three corpses merge into one in the last step to succeed.
The third method is to achieve enlightenment through merit, using immeasurable merit and supplemented by the Hongmeng Purple Qi to achieve the Great Way.
For example, the ancestors of the Sanqing Dynasty were derived from the Sanqing Dynasty after the death of Pangu's physical body. They inherited the merits of Pangu's founding of the world and absorbed enough Hongmeng Qi before they could attain enlightenment and become saints.
Nuwa, the empress, kneaded earth to create a human being. She also used merit and virtue to merge with the purple energy of the Hongmeng, and she became a saint.
Jieyin and Zhunti founded Buddhism and Western Buddhism, but their original merits were not enough. They made great aspirations, borrowed merits from the way of heaven, and reluctantly attained enlightenment and became saints.
Tathagata Buddha attained enlightenment and became a saint by opening up the Western Paradise.
In the 4400th year of Shenting's calendar, Lu Cheng returned to Shenjian Villa from China and brought back a large amount of rune information.
He summoned all the great scientists, including mathematicians Lu Qingyan, Ling Shiqi, Lu Qiu Sheng, Lu Yunting, and Yang Yunxiao, physicists Lu Qingshan and Lu Liren, chemist Lu Qingcheng, and his apprentices, astrophysicists Chi Yingyue and Zu Feng and others issued a major topic to them: "Required to establish a theoretical model for enlightenment and sanctification! Determine the key research direction on 'Law Enlightenment'! Try to integrate the three thousand avenues into one and establish a complex multi-dimensional structure." "
If this project can be completed, Lu Cheng can be like the great god Pangu, integrating the three thousand avenues and completing the feat of "proving the Tao with force".
Of course, such a large and complex issue cannot be solved in a short time. Even if a model is established, it cannot be easily applied to itself if it is not fully grasped.
In addition to "proving the Tao with force", Lu Cheng also instructed the immortal weapon masters Lu Songxi and Zhou Zhiwei to continue to study metal magic weapons and improve the level of the magic weapons. It is best to cast three "holy weapons" in one furnace.
The "sacred artifact" mentioned here refers to an artifact that transcends the 49th level of restrictions. These are all sacred weapons developed by the Lu family, and are different from innate spiritual treasures like the Sky-Opening Axe.
In fact, the Lu family has developed 50-51-level forbidden holy weapons, but such holy weapons only appear occasionally in mass production. Under normal circumstances, even one holy weapon may not appear even after casting ten furnaces of immortal weapons.
If three sacred artifacts can be produced in one furnace, then we can study the model of "Three Corpses Enlightenment".
As for the last kind of "merits and enlightenment", this thing sounds simple, but in fact it is not simple.
There are two reasons. First, what is merit? The merits mentioned here are not the merits of protecting the human race, but the merits recognized by the heaven. The heaven is not on the side of the human race.
According to Lu Cheng's guess, the so-called "Heavenly Way" comes from the Chaos Qinglian and represents the will of the Chaos Qinglian. It does not care whether it is a human or a demon.
In other words, the way of heaven is elusive. At least until humans crack the sixty-fourth level of Chaos Qinglian's restrictions, they can't imagine what the way of heaven is!
The Chaos Green Lotus is a living thing. It is equivalent to the ovule of the universe. It needs to breathe in and out. Every exhale and inhale is equivalent to a big explosion, followed by a big contraction. This is a process that is tearing the universe apart and will cause harm to humanity. Therefore, Lu Cheng was unwilling to cooperate with Chaos Qinglian and took the initiative to tear the universe apart, causing the continent to collapse. I don’t even want to repeat the story of Pangu opening up the sky, his physical body falling, and the three pure beings transformed into one thing.
Secondly, the effect of merit enlightenment is not very good! Even if the Three Pure Ones and Three Buddhas achieve enlightenment, what will be the result? Aren’t they still subject to the constraints of Ancestor Hongjun? Those big shots had nominally achieved enlightenment, but they became Hongjun's disciples! This kind of thing is like a big joke!
Could it be said that Hongjun is the representative of heaven? Is he the son of heaven chosen by Chaos Qinglian? Could it be that merit and enlightenment is a trap? Does the so-called enlightenment and becoming a saint mean kneeling down and worshiping Hongjun?
Rather than doing this, it would be better not to attain enlightenment!
Therefore, Lu Cheng thought about it and felt that he could not take the path of merit and enlightenment, and the best option was to "prove the Dao through force". He guessed that if Pangu's "proving the Tao with force" could be integrated with Tathagata Buddha's opening up of a new world, greater achievements might be achieved.
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