Let’s take the time back to when Li Ping’an first started retreating.

Biyou Palace.

Taoist Duobao was pacing back and forth with his hands behind his back. Six of the eight disciples of Jiejiao were gathered here. There were only turtle spirits and no figures in the sky.

Zhao Gongming stroked his beard and whispered softly: "Ping'an really went to Xuandu City to retreat?"

"Alas!" Our Lady of Wudang sighed, "Junior Sister Guiling didn't even remind you or me."

Fairy Qiongxiao snorted softly: "What's the use of reminding? His Majesty the Heavenly Emperor obviously didn't want to offend either Chan Jiao or Jie Jiao, so he hid in Xuandu City. There is a senior disciple in Xuandu City."

The Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit smiled and said: "Could it be that we have become one fish of the Yin and Yang Pisces?"

Taoist Duobao pondered for a few times: "It is good to avoid Ping An. What we are most afraid of is that Ping An will interfere with the sentiments of the teachings. After all, his teacher is Yun Zhongzi. Although Yun Zhongzi does not care about worldly affairs, he is still a teacher after all.

Explain and teach one of the three golden immortals of merit."

Zhao Gongming sighed: "Senior brother, are we really bound to have a battle with Chanjiao?"

"It's not whether we want to avoid it or not."

Taoist Duobao laughed:

"According to what Immortal Dazhi said, the atmosphere is here. Without a fight, how can we go through the Immortal Tribulation?

"Junior brothers and sisters, don't take any chances. Haven't you seen it from the previous turmoil?

“The so-called general trend cannot be avoided.

"Why else would Emperor Xuanyuan have to fall? This is a lesson learned from the past."

Fairy Bixiao asked: "The most troublesome thing now is that I don't know how this immortal catastrophe was initiated. Are you asking us to find something to cause friction with Chanjiao?"

Our Lady of Wudang said softly: "Don't act rashly. Any restless thoughts you and I have now may be caused by bad luck."

Zhao Gongming said in a deep voice:

“Lingshan is still closed.

"It is only a matter of time before the three thousand worlds are completely ruled by the Heavenly Court. ASEAN will return to the Heavenly Court, and the main heaven and earth will also return to the Heavenly Court. The Heavenly Court controls the entire prehistoric period, but only... 95% of the masters in heaven and earth are not in the Heavenly Court.

"We have too many disciples, so if Heavenly Court doesn't take the initiative to target us, it's safe and merciful."

The Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit said: "But we have to be on guard against this matter."

"What's the matter?"

"There is something that Heavenly Court intends to target," said the Holy Mother of the Golden Spirit. "Heavenly Court has not yet gained momentum before, so it dare not speak loudly to us. But when Heavenly Court fully rises, the situation will be different."

All the immortals nodded.

"Let's do this," Taoist Duobao said, "we, Jie Jiao, will hold a gathering of immortals first and gather together all the disciples who can gather together."

Our Lady of Wudang was puzzled and said: "Elder brother, why are we holding a meeting? Master has not returned yet."

"Finding the bottom," Taoist Duobao said seriously, "how can we know how many golden immortals there are in the sect, Taiyi, and how many immortals have karma in their bodies? I know the Daluo golden immortals well."

Zhao Gongming stroked his beard and said softly: "Let's hold the Ten Thousand Immortals Conference. Will the Church of Explanation have an excessive reaction?"

"What I'm waiting for is that they're going too far."

Taoist Duobao narrowed his eyes slightly:

“Everything must be explained rationally!

"If they can't stand it anymore and take the initiative to plot against us, then we will be justified.

"Even if Uncle Yuanshi comes back, we can still ask for an explanation."

Fairy Qiongxiao sighed: "Can our two families just have to fight each other?"

"The way of heaven is going to be restored to the great road. Grandmaster supports this matter. What else can be done?"

Duobao put his hands behind his hands and looked at the white clouds passing outside Biyou Palace, and murmured:

"If it were a thousand years ago, we would probably only be able to find a way to protect some of our sect members, and maybe we would have to plot something with those who have ulterior motives.

"But now, there is peace in heaven, and he is reasonable, so naturally we can also be reasonable."

Several immortals nodded their heads, said no more, and began to make arrangements for the Jiejiao Ten Thousand Immortals Conference.

Because there are many Jiejiao Immortals traveling outside the world, this Ten Thousand Immortals Conference is scheduled for twenty years later.

As soon as the news of the Ten Thousand Immortals Conference was released, the prehistoric world immediately became a bit more tense and stormy, and rumors related to the Dao Immortal Tribulation were noisy.

The Chanjiao side quickly responded.

The Twelve Golden Immortals of Chanjiao will hold a Taoism conference twenty years later, at which time all "upright people" related to the Taoist heritage of Chanjiao can participate.

The two religions of interpretation and interpretation have already begun to compete with each other.

There was no response from the Heavenly Court, and they continued to follow the steps set by the Emperor of Heaven, conquering the Small World, gathering the Small World, taking over ASEAN, recruiting immortal soldiers, and building up the Heavenly Court and the Underworld, proceeding in an orderly manner and slowly advancing.

For all the powerful and powerful people in heaven and earth, twenty years is just a snap of the fingers.

In the past twenty years, Dongzhou has been very lively. The human Qigong practitioners have been debating the doctrines of Chan Jiao and Jie Jiao. Each of the two religions has its supporters.

The Chan religion has a greater influence among the human race;

However, Jiejiao itself had a large number of people, and many Jiejiao disciples secretly went to Dongzhou to participate in the debate.

Confrontation among the cultivation circles in Dongzhou has taken shape.

The conference to explain the two religions was held as scheduled.

The heaven and earth have been extremely lively for several months, and the heaven has also sent hundreds of thousands of additional immortal soldiers to the heaven and earth, for fear that the two sides will really fight.

Fortunately, the two conferences ended smoothly without any surprises.

The momentum of the Chan Sect is far inferior to that of the Jie Jiao. The immortals of the Jie Jiao come from the East China Sea and the South China Sea to gather together happily. The shadows of the immortals are heavy and linger for decades.

This also made many Chanjiao Immortals feel a little more grudged, and they began to deliberately embarrass Jiejiao.

After the two sects held a conference, the practice world in Dongzhou began to become uneasy.

The conflict between the Xianmen sects is becoming increasingly serious.

The casual cultivators, on the other hand, lived in peace.

Heavenly Court did not react much to this, but only set up several more inspection offices and more than ten inspection and mediation teams.

Generally speaking, Heavenly Court's attitude is - Heavenly Court fulfills its obligation to protect the weak, and you can fight others as you please.

The practice world in Dongzhou soon became a stage for secret competition between the two sects of interpretation and interception.

If it were just an open conflict between sects, the casualties wouldn't be too great. At most, they would just be vendettas.

However, under the influence of a third-party force, things gradually spiraled out of control.

In the 120th year of Li Ping'an's seclusion in Xuandu City, several new demon cultivating organizations appeared in Dongzhou, and several sects were killed. Everyone in Dongzhou was in danger, and the two sects blamed each other for the other's doings.

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When the Queen Mother of Heaven heard about this, she became extremely angry and ordered several marshals of Heaven to lead 100,000 heavenly troops to annihilate the demonic cultivators.

There was a battle on the shores of the East China Sea. More than a dozen war dragons blocked the escape of the demonic cultivators. For the first time, the heavenly soldiers used a large formation of dragnet and earth net in public to catch all the demonic cultivators.

This battle left no survivors alive.

This is what heaven intended.

If there are no survivors, there is no need to interrogate, just beat these demon cultivators to death, and all the grudges will be wiped out right here.

After this battle, Dongzhou remained stable for sixty or seventy years.

It's a pity that such stability is only on the surface, and there are still rapids surging secretly.

Many established sects have begun to choose sides. The number of sects that support the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect is growing rapidly, and there are overly scheming immortals in both sects.

The conflict among the Dongzhou Immortal Sect broke out again on a small scale, and began the overt and covert fighting among the Immortal Sects that lasted for more than two hundred years.

Heavenly Court will send troops to eliminate the rising demon cultivator forces every once in a while.

As time passed, the immortals knew the bottom line of heaven.

[The two sects compete with each other on the stage of Dongzhou, and the Heavenly Court will not care about it, but the Heavenly Court will never allow the demon cultivators to cause chaos, and will never allow a fight involving more than a hundred people.]

At this point, Dongzhou has entered a turbulent, but not very turbulent era.

New stars are rising;

From the two sects of Chanjie, there is constant news about which Jinxian has accepted a disciple and which Taiyi has accepted a disciple.

In the eyes of most Dongzhou Qigong practitioners, this era is more of an opportunity.

Even when Dongzhou was in turmoil, one sect was steadily developing and growing.

That was naturally the sect from which the Emperor of Heaven came, the Zhuyun Sect.

The Zhuyun Sect has not participated in any sect's conquests from beginning to end, and has been developing with peace of mind. According to the rhythm of pushing a wave of 'immortal skills revolution' every twenty years, it has rapidly changed the appearance of Dongzhou's products.

In just two to three hundred years, Dong'an City expanded from the largest city on the East China Sea to the largest city in Dongzhou.

When Li Ping'an had been in seclusion in Xuandu City for five hundred years, the Zhuyun Sect also held the 'Ten Thousand Weapons Conference' in Dong'an City. The conference began to introduce to Honghuang the already mature system of 'Spiritless Art'.
To be continued...