Zhen Yuanzi's true body is the spiritual root of heaven and earth. He was born at the beginning of chaos. He and the Six Saints were figures of the same period, and their seniority is frighteningly high.
But although he has innate spiritual roots, he is just a grassroots in the innate chaos. Compared with the followers of the Six Saints, Zhen Yuanzi's background is not impressive.
While the other six saints were dominating the world, Zhen Yuanzi was hiding in Tibet for fear of being taken away and refined into elixirs.
Zhen Yuanzi is undoubtedly lucky. As an innate spiritual root, others with a greater reputation than him have either become magic weapons for the Six Saints or materials for elixirs. Only he has survived alone and persistently.
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He witnessed the enlightenment of the Six Saints, the First Tribulation of the Long Han Dynasty, the battle between the Lich and the Demons, and even the bloody glory of the Gods. However, due to his congenital shortcomings, even though he has lived for such a long time, he is still just a human being.
It’s just Taiyi Immortal.
Zhen Yuanzi's turning point came after the Lich War.
At that time, the demon clan ruled the heaven, the witch clan controlled the earth, and the human race was still a rare animal, struggling in the wilderness and barely surviving, and not worth mentioning.
The war between the two Lich clans lasted for thousands of years, and the war shattered the ancient world, the world collapsed, the three realms were in chaos, and reincarnation came to a halt.
Zhen Yuanzi was naturally not qualified to participate in this shocking massacre. He hid in a dark corner and shivered, and the shock in his heart was beyond words.
As an innate spiritual root, he has a vague understanding of the nature of this murderous catastrophe. He knows very well that such murderous catastrophes will definitely happen again and never end.
He, Zhen Yuanzi, has been lucky for tens of millions of years, but will he continue to be lucky?
Below the saints are all ants. How long can he live with his little spiritual roots?
The horror of death made Zhen Yuanzi decide not to hide in Tibet anymore. He decided to look for his own opportunities and improve his strength so that he could protect himself in the next catastrophe.
He actually found it.
At that time, the ancient continent was broken into four pieces due to the Lich War, and was devastated.
A place in the west called Ten Thousand Corpses Stream has become the cemetery of the two Lich clans. Countless bones, flesh and blood from thousands of years of continuous war are all buried here.
The originally bottomless dark abyss was piled up into a towering mountain of corpses.
The Ten Thousand Corpses Stream has turned into a Ten Thousand Corpses Mountain, where the death energy lingers in the Baizhang Plain, the gloomy clouds condense thousands of miles away, and the yin energy, corpse poison, and mist are mixed together. Even if Taiyi Immortal comes close, he will be corroded and poisoned, and it becomes a desperate place.
But Zhen Yuanzi was keenly aware that this endless death energy contained vitality.
If he didn't come, thousands of years later, this place would become a ghost country and a paradise for ghosts and ghosts.
Zhen Yuanzi intercepted this opportunity and inherited this huge cause and effect.
He took root here and flourished, turning the grass back into roots and turning it into a ginseng fruit tree. The reason why the ginseng fruit is known as the grass returning elixir is because of Zhen Yuanzi's original heel.
Zhen Yuanzi resolved the heaviest and most filthy place in the world, and obtained the merit of pouring heaven. Although he could not become a saint, he became the most powerful Da Luo Jinxian among the saints.
Ginseng fruit absorbs the vitality of all the bones and flesh of the Lich War, so if you eat one, you can live forty-seven thousand years.
But everything has two sides. Zhen Yuanzi rose to prominence because of this ancient cemetery, and received huge karma. He became a popular figure in the ancient times, but he also suffered from huge karma. After all, each ginseng fruit was
It is nourished by countless corpses.
Moreover, his spiritual roots are rooted here and cannot be moved easily, which means that he cannot go to heaven to become an official, nor can he enter the Western Heaven to become a Buddha.
He can only be a Taoist who stays in the world.
Despite this, Zhen Yuanzi finally achieved his goal.
Wanshou Mountain is related to the cause and effect of hundreds of millions of dead people. Even saints dare not touch it easily. Zhen Yuanzi has become a figure that no one dares to provoke easily.
Sanqing is his friend, the Four Emperors are his old friends, Jiu Yao is his junior, and Yuan Chen is his guest. In the Three Realms and Four Continents, everyone knows that there is a ginseng tree owner in Wanshou Mountain in Hezhou, Xiniu, the Great Immortal Zhenyuan.
He is extremely senior and extremely powerful.
As time passed, he became known as the ancestor of the earthly immortals.
At first, Zhen Yuanzi was complacent about this, and he was always content with himself. He had no idea that he had been calculated by Hongjun's Heavenly Dao, making Wanshou Mountain a place where the evil spirits of heaven and earth met, and his body was completely reduced to resolving the filthy spirits of the three realms.
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He was trapped by this overwhelming cause and effect, and sooner or later, the insects of cause and effect would find him and drown him. This was the biggest dilemma Zhen Yuanzi faced.
Faced with Hongjun's calculations by Heaven, Zhen Yuanzi struggled for a way to escape, but even a saint could not protect himself. This reality made him desperate.
In the end, he set his sights on the variables that were independent of cause and effect, hoping that he could rely on the power of these variables in the catastrophe of heaven and earth to create a glimmer of hope for himself.
In the original plot, he borrowed the help of Sun Wukong to knock down the ginseng tree and wanted the golden cicada to escape from its shell.
But he soon realized that this road was not going to work at all. The day the ginseng fruit tree died was the time for him to calculate the cause and effect.
In the end, he had no choice but to accept the kindness of Master Guanyin, use nectar juice to restore his spiritual roots, and continue to maintain his karma.
But now, the real variable appears.
"The Great Immortal has become the gate of the mysterious women in this world and a part of the great road." He Xie spoke slowly, staring at Zhen Yuanzi with bright eyes, "This matter has been irreversible since the day the Great Immortal chose to take root here.
, cannot be transferred.”
"Not bad." Zhen Yuanzi was a little surprised by He Xie's vision. Even though Taishang Laojun saw his predicament, he could not see it as clearly as He Xie did at a glance.
"If the Great Immortal wants to be liberated, it is not enough just to get rid of the shackles of heaven. He also needs to resolve the cause and effect of thousands of years." He Xie continued, "This matter is difficult to say, but it is easy to say."
He didn't show off, he stretched out two fingers and said with a smile: "I have two methods to resolve the crisis of the Great Immortal."
"First, the golden cicada sheds its shell and is reincarnated. With my protection, the Immortal does not have to worry about cause and effect. When you are reborn, you will not be contaminated by cause and effect at all. But in this way, the Immortal's cultivation will be reduced to nothing, and everything must be paid attention to.
Come."
Zhen Yuanzi solemnly said: "Friend Daoist, why haven't I thought about this method? But it's not easy for me to practice, and I really can't let go of this practice. And I vaguely feel that a big change is coming, and I'm afraid that the situation will be bad before I can get back to it.
The day we return to our peak.”
"In this case, we can only use the second method." He Xie said, "If a saint gives up everything in himself, takes your name, takes over your cause and effect, and takes your position, then the great immortal can escape completely."
Zhen Yuanzi originally thought that He Xie would tell him some good method, but after hearing this, he suddenly looked disappointed and even felt a little unhappy.
In the end, he still had an attack, but he shook his head and smiled bitterly: "Did you, Taoist friend, deliberately make fun of me? All the merits of Xuanmen Gate have been added to me, and now only the cause and effect is left. It is too late for the saint to avoid it, so how can I give it up?"
My body, will it be perfected by me?"
To say that those who feared karma the most in ancient times were the saints.
The cause and effect that Zhen Yuanzi is involved in is simply inexplicable. Sooner or later, he will be assimilated by Hongjun. Who would be stupid enough to give up everything and die in Zhen Yuanzi's place?
Saint is just a title, representing a status and realm, not really a compassionate white lotus.
He Xie smiled slightly and pointed at his nose: "Although I don't have the status of a saint, I have the reality of a saint. If I take the place of the Great Immortal, I will definitely make you escape unscathed."
Zhen Yuanzi was surprised and confused: "Why would you, Taoist friend He, make such a joke with Pindao?"
He Xie said: "He has a golden tongue and will never lie."
Zhen Yuanzi stared at He Xie for a long time, and finally said: "Young Daoist He, you are not a mean person, but everything must have a reason. You Daoist is willing to sacrifice himself for me. I really don't know why."
"He didn't mean to deceive the Great Immortal. I have my own concerns about this matter, and it is definitely not about sacrificing myself." He Xie smiled and said, "And this is a big cause and effect. If I really do this, the Great Immortal owes me a cause and effect."
, I wish the Great Immortal to take another step forward, but in the future, I will need the Great Immortal to help me."
Zhen Yuanzi looked solemnly and asked: "Could it be that what Fellow Daoist He wants to deal with is..."
He Xieruo smiled meaningfully and nodded slowly.
Zhen Yuanzi was moved, and his heart was beating wildly. He was shocked, ashamed, and sighed: "Friend He Dao, I, Zhen Yuanzi, am indeed not as good as you."
Taking his place as the Xuan Ni Gate, assisting him in his cultivation, and asking him to help in battles, Zhen Yuanzi could guess even with his heels that He Xie must be dealing with an extremely powerful enemy. This enemy was as powerful as him, the ancestor of the earth immortals
Because of his identity, he must be Taoist Hongjun.
Of the six saints in the past, only Nuwa and Daode Tianzun are still intact. The remaining four saints died, were injured, or escaped, and their end was extremely miserable.
Zhen Yuanzi never had the courage to fight against cause and effect and the way of heaven from the beginning. All he wanted was to escape, as far away as possible.
So he said he is not evil.
"If fellow Taoist really wants to be like this, I'll leave it to you to do everything!" Finally, after some thought, Zhen Yuanzi made up his mind.
If there is no evil, he can only wait for death.
Although he still didn't want to help He Xie deal with Tiandao Hongjun, with He Xie's help, at least he had a glimmer of hope.
Isn't it this glimmer of life that he has been searching for all this time?
Although it was nothing like what he expected, Zhen Yuanzi could only seize this opportunity like a life-saving straw.
Because it is very likely that this is his only chance of survival.
He Xie also smiled with satisfaction.
Replacing Zhen Yuanzi was also his decision after careful consideration.
Until now, all the worlds he has accommodated are virtual worlds, and only the prehistoric world is the only true world in this tributary of time and space.
He must accommodate this only true world in order to use it as the core to move an entire tributary of time and space.
This is the only way for him to survive and the only way for him to attain enlightenment.
So no matter what, he and Hongjun are bound to have a fight.
Hongjun is a strong man at the level of heaven. He is only one step away from transcendence. He has countless trump cards and the blessing of the ancient world.
It is understandable how difficult it is for He Xie to snatch away the true world that he relies on as his foundation, so he not only needs a suitable intervention point, but also some powerful helpers.
The identity of Zhen Yuanzi and the person of Zhen Yuanzi are exactly what He Xie needs.
Although Zhen Yuanzi is not a saint, it is because of the constraints of the rules of the world, not because his cultivation is inferior to that of a saint.
One initiative, one voluntariness, and He Xie is already very good at the method of cause and effect.
As a result, the two quickly completed the identity change.
Boom!
The moment He Xie officially became Zhen Yuanzi, in a simple and magnificent palace beyond the distant chaos, Hongjun suddenly opened his eyes, his heart beating inexplicably.
His thoughts turned slightly, and he suddenly understood everything.
"He Xie, Zhen Yuanzi..." Hongjun murmured, looking across the distant time and space to the time and space where Yuanshi Tianzun was.
"Disciple, is this what you ended up with in this round? It's true that you took the wrong approach..."
Except for Tiandao Hongjun, no one could notice that He Xie had become Zhen Yuanzi.
As He Xie took over the identity of Zhen Yuanzi and inherited all his causes and effects, everyone in the prehistoric world, including the saints, had their memories of Zhen Yuanzi tampered with quietly.
Zhen Yuanzi is still the same Zhen Yuanzi, but his appearance has quietly changed to that of He Xie.
All those who had seen Zhen Yuanzi's true appearance, at this moment, the appearance of Zhen Yuanzi in their memories suddenly changed to He Xie's appearance.
This is an incredible change, caused by cause and effect. Even the two clones of the Taoist God, the aloof Jade Emperor, and Tai Sutian's Nuwa, were not aware of it at all.
Just because their understanding of cause and effect is far inferior to that of He Xie, they are naturally unable to detect it.
At this time, the real Zhen Yuanzi had completely gotten rid of his body and all cause and effect.
But not only did his cultivation not weaken at all, but there were faint signs of breakthrough. If he hadn't tried his best to suppress it, he would have become a saint immediately.
"Okay! Okay! Okay!" Rao Shizhen Yuanzi has always been indifferent and calm, but at this moment, he was so excited that he couldn't control himself.
Once you are liberated, you can fly high in the sky and jump across the sea. How can you not be overjoyed?
"When I first came here, Wanshou Mountain was still a ghost valley full of corpses," Zhen Yuanzi said with emotion. "This is where I succeed and where I fail! Although I am completely liberated, my merits and virtues are not enough."
It is ultimately born out of this.”
"From now on, Pindao is no longer Zhen Yuanzi, but Gui Guzi!"
Zhen Yuanzi's words made He Xie's eyes shrink suddenly. In an instant, he felt countless causal threads entangled in the dark.
This line of cause and effect comes from all heavens and all realms, and somehow it becomes the cause of all effects of something.
He Xie counted with his fingers and suddenly understood everything.
Without his appearance, although Zhen Yuanzi survived the catastrophe of Journey to the West, he still lost to the way of heaven. In the end, his body died and his soul disappeared, leaving only a little bit of his true spirit reincarnated.
That wisp of true spirit transformed into Guiguzi.
Gui Guzi was originally just an ordinary person, but now, He Xie succeeded Zhen Yuanzi and personally created Gui Guzi who was comparable to a saint!
The cause and effect of all this naturally falls on He Xie.
"Friend He Dao, this kindness is like reincarnation. Please accept me and pay my respects." Gui Guzi looked excited and bowed deeply to He Xie.
He Xie accepted it calmly, no matter whether he had ulterior motives or not, it was an established fact that he freed Gui Guzi.