Chapter 692: The History of the Rise and Fall of the First Qi Zong in the Upper Realm (3)
Xuanweizi led his disciples to guard Beihai and repair the abyss of the North Sea, which was an immeasurable merit. Although the small Yiqi Sect at that time could not do much, this gesture naturally brought huge merits to Yiqi Sect.
Yuemo has been guarding the place for more than a thousand years, and Xuanweizi relied on this merit to become the first immortal to be promoted to Taiyi after the war.
After all the hardships, the Yiqi Sect disciples must have been extremely happy at that time, but it was not over yet. I wonder if the heaven and earth actually gave the Yiqi Sect people a fortune artifact for the sake of buying horse bones for a thousand gold coins, which was more magical than a pie in the sky.
Yes, you heard it right, it is a magical weapon of luck that can gather the huge power of the North Sea.
Luck artifacts are not a big deal. There are only a few of them in a world, which can mobilize the general trend of a world and represent the peak combat power in a world. Since then, Yiqi Sect has become the land of Beihai.
A veritable defender.
Xuan Weizi was promoted to Taiyi Immortal, but the sect was still a stable second-rate sect, or at most quasi-first-rate. However, the luck artifact obtained by Xuanweizi directly pushed Yiqi Sect to the status of a first-rate sect in the upper world.
Who doesn’t want to own the artifact of luck, but do they dare to snatch it? How can the will of heaven and earth be violated so easily? If you want to blame, I can only blame you for your narrow vision, even if it is the largest sect in the upper world - the Holy Spirit Sect
, after learning about this, he also sent an envoy to congratulate him, not daring to have any extra thoughts.
With this artifact of luck, the Yiqi Sect began to make steady progress. The location of Beihai became the inner lake of the Yiqi Sect, occupying all the resources in the land of Beihai.
It sounds like a good thing, but it's not that simple. While obtaining resources, you also have to deal with threats from evil demons from outside the world from time to time. This is a bottomless pit where countless predecessors have thrown their heads and blood and are buried here.
Moreover, due to the previous extreme cold attack, the North Land and the North Sea Land have become remote places. In terms of resources, apart from being better than the Western Land, which is no different from dead soil, it cannot be compared with the land in other regions.
All in all, although the status of Yiqi Sect at this stage has risen, in terms of wealth, it cannot be compared with other sects of the same level. The disciples are laughed at when they go out.
Being poor is one thing, but the combat power is not necessarily the lowest. After all, this is a sect that is constantly wrestling with demons from outside the territory.
Resource constraints limited the growth of the Yiqi Sect. Finding places with rich spiritual energy and cultivating disciples became the top priority of the Yiqi Sect at that time.
As time went by, the passage under the North Sea not only did not shrink, but actually grew larger. The demons from outside the world who came to the upper realm were getting higher and higher in cultivation, and the pressure on the Yiqi Sect was great.
At first, the Yiqi Sect had no intention of expanding beyond the world, and still wanted to occupy more territory in the upper realm. However, the upper realm was only so large in total, and good places had long been occupied by other sects, and first-class treasures could not be obtained.
This is a stock game. No one is so kind and willing to give you their own foundation.
Even though they have achieved some results with their strength, and have convinced some small sects and sects to worship them on a regular basis, it is still a drop in the bucket. If you want to get more, the Yiqi Sect must be stronger.
However, the small sect also has its own set of survival rules. When the desire gap of the first air sect is difficult to fill, it chooses to ask for help from other large sects, and becomes a wall-mounted sect. Whoever wins will follow whoever wins, so as to maintain the sect's foundation to the greatest extent.
This strategy caused great annoyance to Yiqizong. It seemed like a confrontation with a small group of sects, but in fact it was a game with all the forces that did not want to see the rise of Yiqizong.
The main force of the sect guards Beihai, which is the foundation of the sect. It has no skills. How can it compete with the core strength of the sect with some peripheral forces.
For a long time, the Yiqi Sect was compressed within the Northland by a group of forces from the upper realm. It seemed to be a large territory, but there were not many resources at all. A land thousands of miles away could not support one person.
And because of the existence of the North Sea Abyss, Yiqi Sect continued to lose blood. Therefore, although Yiqi Sect has entered the stage of a first-class sect in the upper world, it is still at the tail end of the world.
This situation lasted for about twenty kalpas, until another great catastrophe occurred in the upper realm. This great tribulation was about eighty kalpas ago and was called the Earth Demon Tribulation.
This catastrophe was not as tragic as the battle between land and sea, but it was also an opportunity for a reshuffle of forces. As a result of this catastrophe, the Yiqi Sect had the opportunity to expand beyond the North.
Those who don't know the details of the Earth Demon's calamity will definitely think that this Earth Demon is a monster created by the accumulation of evil energy in the earth. In fact, this Earth Demon is not that Earth Demon. To be precise, it should be a ghost.
Why do we call ghosts earth demons? Instead of calling them ghosts directly, this is not the first time that Taoism encounters ghosts.
The relationship between this is quite complicated, let me explain in detail.
This calamity of earthly demons seems to be a group of ghosts rebelling and preparing to establish an independent reincarnation, but in fact, it is far from that simple, because behind this group of ghosts is Buddhism spread from the heavens.
The upper realm of the vast world, a hundred or two hundred kalpas, looks long, but compared with the real great realm, that is, the world separated after the collapse of the original realm, there is no comparison at all. These great realms
The world adheres to the original world land and has rich origins. Even saints can rely on it.
This upper realm has been born for less than a thousand kalpas, and it is still very young. Otherwise, there would not even be immortals at the Daluo stage.
What we call ancient times, ancient times, medieval times and modern times are often the accumulation of tens or even hundreds of thousands of kalpas. This is the general trend of the universe, and it has even exceeded the boundaries of time and space. There are differences between macroclimate and microclimate.
The general trend of the heavens is the big climate, and the interpretation of the dispute is still not over yet, but the evolution of the contradictions is no longer as fierce as it was at the beginning, which shows that it is already the end of this tribulation.
But no one knows when the next period, or the great catastrophe of the heavens, will come.
Specific to certain areas, due to differences in area growth and external input, there are respective microclimates.
A detailed analysis of specific issues, such as the dispute between land and sea, can be said to be a medieval matter compared to the general trend of the heavens. However, the catastrophe of the earth demon, because of the involvement of Buddhism behind it, falls into the category of a dispute of interpretation.
In other words, the essence of this Earth Demon Calamity is a fragment of the interpretation dispute in the world, and an episode in the expansion of Buddhism. Of course, this episode refers to the Earth Demon Chaos in the eyes of the saints.
, in the upper world, the harm is endless, and it almost overturns the status of the Taoist sect.