In Yongle Hall, Lin Ze finished approving a memorial, stretched his body, and showed a peaceful look on his face.
It's really refreshing to have a falling out with Taoist Saint and not have to look at his face anymore.
The Self-Dao, which is rooted in the Dao of Heaven, is even more active, frantically absorbing fragments of the Dao of Heaven to replenish itself.
Suddenly, Lin Ze's expression changed slightly, and he looked out of the hall expressionlessly: "Since senior brother is here, why do you need to be so secretive and let people misunderstand you?"
Zhuang Zhou strolled into the hall and asked meaningfully: "Junior brother, are you still willing to recognize me as your senior brother?"
Lin Ze smiled calmly and said, "Senior brother, why did you say this? In the past ten years, although senior brother has occasionally been unreliable, he has always taken good care of his junior brother. It can be said that he has deep love and loyalty."
"Junior brother is not a cold-blooded or ungrateful person. He has always been remembered in his heart and will always treat him as a relative."
Zhuang Zhou smiled brightly and said: "Junior brother, what you said is very nice. I hope I can ask for help from junior brother in the future, and junior brother will not turn his back on me."
Lin Ze stood up on the spot, walked down the steps, looked at Zhuang Zhou with a sincere expression: "Of course not."
The smile on Zhuang Zhou's face became brighter: "I have remembered what junior brother said. In three days, Kunpeng will use the opportunity of building a sacred tree to connect the heaven and earth to worship the heaven and open the gate of heaven. At that time, there may be an opportunity to transcend. The teacher asked me to invite junior brother.
Go and watch the ceremony at Chen hour."
Lin Ze chewed Zhuang Zhou's words carefully and murmured, "Watch the ceremony?"
Zhuang Zhou explained: "It is said that you are observing the ceremony, but in fact, the teacher intends to give you an opportunity."
Lin Ze couldn't deny it: "Really?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Lin Ze waved his hand to close the palace door and decisively activated his destiny-defying magical power.
A burst of mist quickly spread around the hall, like a layer of cloth covering the sky for several miles around.
"Senior brother, please tell the truth. The teacher asked you to notify me to attend the ceremony tomorrow. Is it really to cherish old friendship and chance? Rather than to sacrifice me to heaven?"
Zhuang Zhou said leisurely: "With the lives of hundreds of millions of creatures, even the heavens would not dare to sacrifice you to heaven. Don't worry, as far as I know, the teacher is really kind-hearted."
Lin Ze walked casually around Zhuang Zhou for two steps and said calmly: "Yesterday, the teacher spoke harshly and asked me to preside over the ceremony, but I flatly refused. Did you hear, senior brother?"
"I'm afraid that the teacher now regards me as a traitor in his heart and wants to clean up the family. But the senior brother said that he has good intentions. Aren't you afraid of regretting the brotherhood between you and me?"
Zhuang Zhou frowned slightly and said calmly: "I never lie."
Lin Ze smiled, his eyes slightly cold: "Ten years ago, Xuantang, who had just swallowed the Buddha, met with me in private and said that if he wanted to build a sacred tree to connect heaven and earth in a short period of time, he would need to sacrifice a saint to heaven."
"Just yesterday, I saw with my own eyes the Tathagata Buddha, no, the God of Mount Tai was sacrificed to heaven by the teacher, so that the spirit of Jianmu was transformed into human form."
"Calculating this, as early as more than ten years ago, when the teacher suggested that Taodai Li Zong, the God of Mount Tai, should enter the Buddhist sect, he had already laid out the plan in advance."
"Putting others before oneself, junior brother has been wondering whether the teacher who accepted me as his disciple had some kind of shady plan?"
"Senior brother, I have been following my teacher for a long time. I don't know what you can teach me?"
Zhuang Zhou looked at Lin Ze and was silent for a long time. He sighed slightly and said, "Teacher accepted junior brother mainly to fight for destiny, and then use destiny to exchange for the opportunity to transcend. Didn't junior brother know it a long time ago?"
Lin Ze laughed and said: "Senior brother, please don't be joking. With the teacher's calculations and unfathomable cultivation, if he is determined to have his destiny, how can he be snatched away by me?"
"Junior brother has used secret techniques to shield the secrets of heaven. Now, why are you still unwilling to say something more practical? For example, why can't junior brother open the gate of heaven?"
Zhuang Zhou said calmly: "I have nothing to say."
Lin Ze suddenly paused and slowly walked up the steps with an indifferent expression: "Brother, please go back and reply to the teacher. I have been busy with government affairs recently. I will hold a court meeting in three days to discuss the addition of grassroots officials, so I have no time to go."
"I feel very guilty for letting down my teacher's great love. When I have time someday, I will definitely come to the teacher's house to apologize and hope that he will forgive me."
After much thought, Lin Ze decided to shrink back and refuse to attend the ceremony.
After all, no one can guarantee that the audience will not be harmed.
The Tathagata Buddha was sitting on the altar and using the power of faith to worship the sacred tree. Wasn't he being worshiped by the Taoist saints who were the audience?
Hearing this, Zhuang Zhou had a complex look on his face and hesitated: "Junior brother, do you really want to reject the teacher's invitation so decisively? Although there was some unpleasantness between the junior brother and the teacher yesterday, the teacher sent me to invite you to observe the ceremony in three days.
I want to ease the relationship between them."
"Junior brother's merciless refusal may cause the teacher to misunderstand that junior brother holds a grudge. The relationship between master and disciple will be lost due to the deterioration of the relationship. If you miss today, you may not have such a good opportunity to repair the relationship with the teacher in the future."
Lin Ze disagreed with this very much. The relationship between master and disciple is important, but compared with a small life, it is not even one ten thousandth.
However, such heartless and meaningless words were too offending, so Lin Ze could only say tactfully: "No, no, no, senior brother has misunderstood. Junior brother really can't spare time. If senior brother doesn't believe it, we will know in three days."
Zhuang Zhou saw that he could not persuade Lin Ze with friendship, so he had to change his approach: "In three days, the Confucian sage and Master Tongtian will also attend the ceremony. This matter is related to the opportunity of transcendence. Is it possible that Junior Brother is not moved at all?"
Lin Ze said calmly: "Junior brother has a shallow foundation, and the transcendent realm is out of reach. There is no hope that he can step into the transcendent realm through the so-called opportunity. Strictly speaking, he is really not tempted."
This is what Lin Ze is saying. How long has it been since he was promoted to the saint realm?
Ten years.
Well, the total of two lives together is less than seventy years.
Compared to Taoist sages and Confucian sages who waited in units of ten thousand years, Lin Ze seemed to have no need to be too anxious.
Especially this opportunity looks like sugar-coated poison, making people feel afraid and afraid to take action.
No matter how good something is, you have to have a life to get it.
Zhuang Zhouchang sighed: "In the final analysis, junior brother is still worried that the teacher and I will harm you."
Lin Ze smiled and said: "It doesn't matter, the teacher is kind and the senior brothers are friendly, how can they harm me?"
Zhuang Zhou frowned slightly: "Junior brother, there is no need to say it if it is false."
Lin Ze said silently: You were the one who said it first.
Seeing Lin Ze's silence, Zhuang Zhou immediately understood that if he did not dispel his doubts, the other party would not agree to attend the ceremony.
"Junior brother, what do you want to know?"
Lin Ze's eyes brightened upon hearing this, and he asked a crucial question: "Why do you have to have me?"
Zhuang Zhou suddenly fell silent and refused to speak.
Lin Ze smiled slightly when he saw this and said, "Senior brother, forget it if it's inconvenient to answer. Just pretend I didn't ask. By the way, I'll say hello to the teacher for you."
The implication is, don't say pull me down, just go back quickly.
Zhuang Zhou was silent for a while, then hesitantly asked: "Junior brother, do you really want to know?"
Lin Ze looked serious: "I would like to hear the details."
Zhuang Zhou hesitated to speak, but suddenly thought of something: "If I tell the truth, but my junior brother still refuses to agree to attend the ceremony, what should I do?"
Lin Ze thought for a while and said: "Junior brother happens to have a magical ability to distinguish truth from lies. Junior brother will use this magical power later. If what senior brother says is true, junior brother will say nothing and promise to go to watch the ceremony on time."
"If senior brother tells a lie, please push the door open and go out. Don't look back. When we meet one day, you and I will still be brothers, but our friendship will no longer be the same."
Zhuang Zhou responded without hesitation: "Okay, junior brother, please use your magical power."
Lin Ze nodded slightly, knowing that destiny was activated, a mysterious aura fell on Zhuang Zhou's shoulders, and countless confusing messages about Zhuang Zhou appeared in Lin Ze's mind.
"Senior brother, you can talk now."
Zhuang Zhou's heart was like a mirror, and he said calmly: "This matter ultimately lies with the junior brother himself. If I am not wrong, the junior brother is not a living being in this world."
Lin Ze forcibly suppressed the shock in his heart, pretending to be calm and said: "Junior brother was born here and grew up like this, how come he is suddenly no longer a living being in this world?"
Zhuang Zhou chuckled and said: "Junior brother is kind-hearted, but what you said just exposed the fact that you are not a creature of this world. Normally, you shouldn't ask, are there other worlds?"
Lin Ze's expression remained calm, he touched his chin and said, "Isn't the small world of the Saint Realm another world?"
Zhuang Zhou stared at Lin Ze, shook his head slightly and said: "Junior brother, don't deny it. When the teacher saw you for the first time, he recognized that you were not a creature of this world. Junior brother, you know that you are not the first unknown person.
Where are the creatures that come to this world?”
Lin Ze recalled the scene of meeting a Taoist sage once, and he did say that he had traveled through time, so he no longer denied it forcefully, but asked tentatively: "The other one is the original Taoist?"
Zhuang Zhou's face changed slightly when he heard this, and he said urgently: "Junior brother, be careful, don't call the ancestor by his name."
As of now, nothing Zhuang Zhou said is false.
Lin Ze exhaled slightly, and the identity of the original Taoist was confirmed.
So the question is, is it really an accident that I came into this world?
"What does my identity have to do with attending the ceremony?"
A look of contemplation appeared on Zhuang Zhou's face, and he said in a deep voice: "Junior brother, do you still remember that I told you that there is no transcendent state in heaven and earth? It was the pioneer created by the ancestors."
"Except for the Patriarch, none of the amazing beings that have emerged in the world from ancient times to the present have broken through the shackles of the saint realm."
"The ancient gods and demons, the ancestral witches of the witch clan, the emperor of the demon clan, the divine emperor of the gods, and the three emperors of the human race are all great beings who have dominated a generation, but they have stopped at the peak of the saint realm and were eventually annihilated in the long river of time."
Lin Ze couldn't help but interject after hearing this: "Wait a minute, aren't saints immortal? If they can dominate for a lifetime, how can they be annihilated?"
Zhuang Zhou pointed upward: "Heaven wants to destroy you, what can I do?"
"The small world of Saint Realm is formed by absorbing nutrients from heaven and earth. If you continue to expand infinitely, how can heaven and earth tolerate you?"
"Junior brother, as the leader of a country, how can you tolerate the princes putting pressure on you?"
Lin Ze understood at once that Heaven and Earth could allow the Saint Realm to be equal to it to a certain extent, but once there was a threat to it, Heaven and Earth would activate the "antivirus mode" to eliminate the threatening Saint.
According to this calculation, the last demon emperor cut off the Jianmu Sacred Tree, not necessarily to seize the heaven to protect himself, but to fight for his life from the heaven and the earth.
"Senior brother, it seems that only creatures like me who do not belong to this world can be promoted to the transcendent realm?"
Zhuang Zhou nodded slightly and said: "This is the conclusion reached by the teacher after careful calculation for tens of thousands of years. The opportunity to transcend will appear in three days. If junior brother does not go, it will be a joke."
"Including the teacher, among all the saints, it is useless even if they hold the opportunity in their hands."
Lin Ze looked complicated and murmured to himself: "I see."