Before coming to the Jianzhong ruins, Zhang Yan's speculation about this place still focused on the word "Jianzhong". After all, there are the legendary four killing swords of the void, the first sword formation in the great world, the Immortal Killing Sword Formation, and they are full of gimmicks. I think this should be a huge cemetery related to swords.
But now I realize that this place has nothing to do with the cemetery, nor does it have much to do with the "sword" itself. The focus is actually on the word "relics".
And the "relics" here are not simply the remains of an ancient battlefield. Instead, Zhang Yan found many unusual clues that were obviously left behind by humans. But it's hard to say whether these clues point to the direction of the departure of the great world as he guessed.
Perhaps the reason why the word "sword" is placed in the ruins of the Sword Tomb is because of the wandering sword intent that is everywhere in it. However, in Zhang Yan's view, these sword intentions should be an introduction, an introduction to the special level method of "meaning of one way". Of course there are also filtered and hidden flavors in it.
If it weren't for Zhang Yan's unusual skills, he would never have been able to reach the center of this sword pit with his current cultivation level in the early stage of Immortal Realm.
It's just that there is a huge stone monument standing in the center of a ruin left by a fierce killing in an ancient war? No need to guess, this stone monument must have been erected here after the war. Just like those golden fragments.
Zhang Yan's "meaning" adhered to his hand, even if it was only a very weak layer, it was like fire and grease, naturally in conflict with each other, allowing Zhang Yan's hand to pass through that barrier in an instant. Then he repeated his old trick, and after "intention" covered his whole body, Zhang Yan successfully approached the stone monument. On the dark stone tablet in front of him, after he crossed the barrier, golden inscriptions that had never appeared before appeared on the tablet.
The text is still in seal script, and each stroke is like a sword intent suddenly appearing in front of your eyes. Just looking at it makes you feel uncomfortable like a glaring light. He quickly focused his "meaning" on his eyes, and the feeling improved slightly, at least allowing Zhang Yan to continue looking without being unable to open his eyes.
"Those of the Three Religions are the tripod of heaven and earth's creatures, accumulating the essence of the Six Paths and conducting exploration..."
The first three words on the stone tablet raised my attention to the highest level.
Three religions? This almost directly nailed most of his previous speculations about the ruins of the Sword Tomb. You guessed it right. Sure enough, it was a super war between the three religions.
"The three religions originally came from the same source and should be one, but their ideas conflicted and gradually cracked. Later, they argued over fate. Each one has its own intensifying trend...
Of all the difficulties in the world, the most difficult are the matters of living beings.
...One point of luck, but I didn't expect it to be biased. When the great calamity comes, luck will be enough to overcome your fate. Those who are unlucky can only earn it themselves but there is no way to avoid it. And my teacher was exploited, and it was difficult to break free.
I originally wanted to be patient and survive the disaster, using the many elites in the teaching to offset the lack of luck, and then make plans after surviving. Unexpectedly, people's hearts are unpredictable, and they want to remove one of the three legs, annex and eliminate it.
Watching the disciples in the sect being bullied, everyone was filled with indignation. The only thing you can do is to work hard, even if your luck is different, you will never sit still and wait for death..."
The words on the inscription contain evil spirits. Even if there was some "intention" to counteract it, Zhang Yan's eyes and soul could not bear to look at it for a long time. The inscription contains more than ten thousand words, and he took five breaks to read it all.
"I teach" appears many times in the inscription. In addition to the "weak power" and "unfair treatment" revealed in the content, there is also the sign with the word "Tong" when entering this place. Zhang Yan is sure that the inscription comes from an extremely powerful man in the legend of the great world:
Saint, reach the sky!
In fact, Zhang Yan did not take the story about the Tongtian Saint seriously before this. The reason is that there is no such person as Tongtian among the three pure beings worshiped by Taoists. In the legend, Tongtian is the junior brother of two of the Three Pure Ones, and is also one of the disciples of Hong Zu.
The relationship is in turmoil. There are even more contradictions. In addition, the context of Tongtian has never been mentioned in Taoist books. It also indirectly made Zhang Yan not take the story he was involved in seriously.
It wasn't until he heard about the ruins of the Sword Tomb and saw the inscription that Zhang Yan understood that Saint Tongtian actually existed, or at least had existed. But it is not recorded in Taoist Taoist books.
Why is this?
Perhaps the grief, anger and determination revealed between the lines in the inscription can answer Zhang Yan's doubts, which can be summarized in two words: religious struggle.
Renjiao, Jiejiao and Chanjiao are the three teachings.
The place where Saint Tongtian lives is Jiejiao, and he is the leader. The two senior brothers of Saint Tongtian are Laozi, a saint of human religion, and Yuan, a saint of Chanjiao.
Where did the dispute between the three religions begin? The inscription mentions "the dispute was due to fate" and did not elaborate further. But Zhang Yan knew that the so-called luck here did not actually refer to the luck of the three religions, but the luck of the human world in the great world.
Although the human world is not overbearing, it is the largest and most complex of the six realms. It is also the one where luck is entangled the most and variables appear most frequently.
It's like Mingyue Valley wants to take advantage of Zhang Yan's luck. The three religions also hope to use the luck of the human world to strengthen themselves. The so-called go with the flow.
But luck is not a pie that can be divided equally. Who has more and who has less depends on the means, the winner takes all is the norm.
The characteristic of Jiejiao is "teaching without distinction". In Tongtian's eyes, all creatures in the world, whether humans, animals, flying insects or weeds, are actually the same. As long as you have opened your spiritual wisdom and have a heart for the Tao, you can join the religion and practice together. Apart from practicing, the main thing is to follow your heart.
However, Chanjiao and Renjiao are different. There are clearer missionary thresholds and stricter doctrines to follow.
As time went by, differences and even contradictions began to appear in the styles of conduct and practice concepts between Jiejiao, Ren and Chanjiao.
But Jiejiao teaches without distinction, so it has the most disciples, and there are many masters among them. Among the three religions, Juejiao ranks first based on the strength of his disciples, and rarely suffers losses.
But a good man can't stand the crowd. No matter how powerful you are alone, you can't compare to attacking in groups. Especially when facing changes in human destiny.
Should we maintain the old trend and continue to replace it, or should we promote new trends and replace the old trend? This becomes the key.
Before Jie Jiao took advantage of the old trend, he naturally chose to maintain the old trend and continue to change. However, if the People's Education and the Chan Education join forces to break the opportunity of Jiejiao, it can only push new forces to replace the old trend.
Then fierce conflicts began.
There is another big thing and a trap involved.
The big event is the "catastrophe" mentioned in the inscription. The trap was that Saint Tongtian was plotted by his two senior brothers and suffered a huge loss in dealing with the calamity.
The two things should not interfere with each other. However, Renjiao and Chanjiao successfully won the fate battle in order to seize the opportunity of the disaster. All of a sudden, the rhythm that Saint Tongtian could control was completely disrupted. In the end, it turned into a battle where no one could retreat.
The place where Zhang Yan is now is the decisive battle of this war.
