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'.
This ‘Ten Thousand Weapons Conference’ had an extremely profound impact on the prehistoric times.
It even opened a new era of 'steam immortality', and the living environment of ordinary people in Dongzhou has been greatly improved.
Li Dazhi, who has lived in seclusion for the past five hundred years, as the organizer of this conference, and Xu Sheng and Xu Xuntian as the main 'technical officers' really stole the show.
As a special guest, Yun Zhongzi continues to strengthen his master's card as the source of weapon refining.
Speaking of Li Dazhi, the man who mastered the Taoist Immortal Tribulation, he naturally attracts a lot of attention on weekdays.
There are many masters of the Interpretation, Interception, and Western religions inside and outside Dong'an City, all of whom have various purposes and want to find this person who is the master of the Taoist Immortal Tribulation;
But for five hundred years, Li Dazhi was not found by these immortals.
The forces on all sides actually don’t know;
After Li Ping'an moved to Xuandu City for seclusion, Li Dazhi went there for a walk every now and then to bring all kinds of news compiled by Tianfang Pavilion.
If Li Pingan had not practiced in the Sea of Chaos, Li Dazhi would have told Li Pingan the detailed situation in Dongzhou.
——This can prevent Li Pingan from unilaterally obtaining information from Zi Yao, and it can also be regarded as a disguised supervision of the Queen Mother.
After careful calculation, Li Dazhi spent three hundred years of the past five hundred years in Xuandu City, and even took Wenrou to settle down in Xuandu City, mainly with a whole family to accompany her.
——Xiao Yue has to be responsible for the affairs of Zhuyun Sect and it is inconvenient to leave the main world.
If there is anything Li Dazhi is dissatisfied with about his current life, there are only two points left.
The first is that his breakthrough speed is getting slower and slower.
The increasing effect of great luck becomes negligible in the later stages of Golden Wonderland.
Fortunately, Li Dazhi is not good at fighting. For him, the difference between the realms after the Golden Immortal is not too big. Immortality is enough.
The second point is also the point that worries Li Dazhi the most...
There is no good news at all for the two daughters-in-law.
The seven fairies are gone!
Li Ping'an, Mu Ningning, and Zi Yao can't be said to be together day and night, but on average, they get together for three or four months every year. There is no shortage of big quilts sleeping together here, and there is no way to avoid it. Everything goes as it is.
But I just can’t get pregnant.
Although Li Dazhi was anxious, he did not dare to rush Li Ping'an too much.
after all……
He and his two wives have been fighting for hundreds of years and have no heirs.
Li Dazhi started to collect all kinds of fertility elixirs and secret recipes when he had nothing to do. Five hundred years of accumulation allowed Zhuyun Sect to successfully develop a whole industry chain of 'health elixirs'.
Spring blooms, autumn brings fruit, the sun rises and sets.
The prehistoric world has changed several times, and the situation in Dongzhou has continued to be disputed. The Heavenly Court has successfully coordinated 70% of the small world.
The Kongmeng Realm is known as the Little East Continent. The four major realms of Xuanwu, Zhuque, Qinglong, and White Tiger have completed preliminary gathering, each occupying dozens of small worlds, and the scale is the same as that of the Kongmeng Realm.
The planning for Juyuan Xiaotiandi is now over 60% complete.
Hundreds of tribes will return home, and the human race will be stable.
Dragons and phoenixes appear auspicious, and all immortals are blessed.
On this day, Li Ping'an opened his eyes from the bed and saw light pink curtains.
There was a rustling sound from the side.
Fairy Ziyao's body glowed with a faint fairy light, and her inner skirt and long skirt were neatly dressed, covering her flawless and delicate skin. Her somewhat messy long hair was also combed into two braids.
She stood by the bed with familiar movements. When Li Pingan got up, she began to dress Li Pingan and comb his hair.
"Counting the days, is Your Majesty going to the Sea of Chaos again?"
"Well," Li Ping'an smiled, his Taoist body cut through shallow ripples, and obvious wrinkles appeared in the universe, "This should be the last lesson. After I leave this time, you will take Ning Ning and the others with you."
Return to heaven."
Zi Yao was startled for a moment: "Are you going to end the retreat?"
"I can't go back later than the six saints."
Li Pingan looked at Ziyao and said with a smile:
"Why, what did you do in heaven that you don't want me to know?"
Zi Yao said aggrievedly: "Your Majesty, please don't say that. How can the troubles in the heaven be hidden from you? I just tightened the rules of the heaven a lot, so that the gods in the heaven would complain a little bit... This is not
It’s not because your Majesty can reprimand me in public when he comes back, so that you can quickly restore the prestige of the Emperor of Heaven.”
Li Ping'an squinted and smiled, raised his hand and twisted Zi Yao's face. Zi Yao looked at her, bit her lower lip, and let out a dissatisfied hum from the tip of her nose.
They are considered an old married couple;
Emperor Li Tian still felt a little shaken.
He smiled and said: "I just asked you to impose a strict punishment, but what's the result? You started to prohibit the heavenly soldiers and generals from falling in love with the Yaochi fairy three hundred years ago."
Zi Yao curled her lips slightly: "Desire is the beginning of the fall, and heaven is the center of divine power. Anyway, I did nothing wrong in this matter."
"Let me go back and take a look."
Li Pingan said:
"After this retreat, I should go to the immortal volcano. My teacher insists on letting me realize the magical power of Nirvana by myself."
Zi Yao blinked: "How long will it take for you to return to heaven, Your Majesty?"
"It can take as long as a hundred years, or as short as thirty or fifty years."
Li Pingan's eyes are mostly playful:
"What, you feel guilty? The Queen Mother is getting more and more gracious and powerful. Are you afraid that I will affect the power in your hands when I go back?"
Zi Yao said: "It's not that I feel guilty, but Your Majesty will probably be surprised when you come back. Dongzhou and Kongmeng Realm have completely changed."
"Let's go back and see how far this old father of mine has gone... I'll go find Ning Ningyan to talk about ending the retreat."
Li Ping'an's figure turned into a wisp of dust and dissipated in the wind:
"Yaoeryou remembered to release the news in advance and said that I would return to Heaven before the return of the Six Saints to see the reaction of the two sects."
"Yes, Yao'er obeys~"
Zi Yao looked at the direction Li Ping'an left, leaning against the screen and thinking quietly, with a slight hesitation in his eyes.
Not to mention that he was delayed for six or seven hours at Mu Ningning;
Li Ping'an walked around Xuandu City. The immortals who had stayed here for hundreds of years were preparing to return.
The roc bird is already on its way to pick you up.
This time Li Ping'an deliberately brought his battle body that he had not used for hundreds of years.
Later, this fighting body will also be used as nourishment and be swallowed up by the main body.
Before heading into the Sea of Chaos, Li Ping'an went to find the Archmage specifically, wanting to thank the Archmage for his "grace of taking him in" for hundreds of years. However, as soon as he showed up at the top of the city, the Archmage let out a chuckle.
"Um?"
The Archmage looked Li Ping'an up and down, narrowed his eyes and smiled:
"Your teacher is truly a transcendent person.
"My hands have been itchy lately, how about we compare notes?"
Li Ping'an was stunned for a moment and said with a wry smile: "How can I be your opponent, uncle?"
"Come on, come on!" The Archmage rolled up his sleeves, "I will learn the skills of the Transcendent in advance, and I will definitely have a battle with him in the future."
Li Ping'an was also a little moved.
Although he has not yet swallowed his own body, the newly created magical power of his body has been completed, the name of the Gonggong practice method has been changed, and his own strength can no longer be judged by the usual evaluation standards.
A battle with the Archmage can also give you a sense of confidence and a clear understanding of your current strength position.
He said: "Uncle, let's not use treasures."
"Shan," the Archmage raised his eyebrows slightly, "I will use 10% of my mana. Don't worry, you can show more of the unique skills taught to you by the Transcendent."
Li Ping'an lowered his head and made a bow. When he raised his head, the breath all over his body suddenly rose.
If a sword comes out of its body, it is like a tiger coming out of its cage.
Layers of treasure wheels appeared behind him, and the Taoist robe on his body exploded to pieces, revealing his azure body, and the avenue of killing condensed into a sharp sword.
The Archmage gave a secret praise and pointed a finger at random with his left hand.