Chapter 473 Source Change

The origin trembled, the high heavens of Confucianism vanished, and even the existence of countless Confucian disciples was distorted and changed.

It was like a brilliance that surpassed even the most ancient times, blooming when the high heavens of Confucianism suddenly disappeared. When those Heavenly Heart experts realized that billions of pasts and futures were being simultaneously and greatly distorted, the Jade Purity Light that bloomed had already permeated every corner of the Inner Mountains and Rivers.

Unknowing and unfeeling, without giving people a chance to respond or even prepare to think, even all past memories had been altered.

Only the Heavenly Heart realm experts could retain their memories.

Within the vast sea, waves surged tens of thousands of feet high, with the Eternal Life Heavenly Palace suspended above. When the Jade Purity Light reached this place, the Demon Heavenly Master’s eyes reflected the modified past.

He suddenly turned his head to look at the disciples within the Heavenly Palace. Among them, those who had cultivated in Confucianism, or who had emerged from Confucianism, the clothes they wore, the way they spoke and acted, the canonical sentences they recited, and the magical treasures they held, were no longer things of Confucianism.

And they themselves were completely unaware. Even if they had been saying "our Confucianism" in the previous moment, the words coming from their mouths in the next moment became "our Jade Purity" this and that.

"This! The origin has changed, the origin of the leader of the Three Teachings has changed!"

The Demon Heavenly Master was greatly shocked, and a huge fear surged from his heart.

Ever since Ji Ye entered the Qingcheng Ghost Capital, the Grand Canopy Great Moon Seal had lost its perception, and he was unable to know what was happening inside. But now, suddenly, such a terrifying event occurred that shocked all the Sages of the world, and he vaguely felt that it was inseparable from Qingcheng.

How could this be?

That Golden Light Heavenly Heart should be a Confucian cultivator, is it related to him?

But there was only Zhang Xiu's ghost book inside, he only asked Ji Ye to find a spirit book scripture.

The Demon Heavenly Master turned his eyes again, sweeping across the entire Inner Mountains and Rivers, the Ten Continents, Three Islands, Four Great Continents, and the Eight Directions of the Vast Sea.

Confucianism no longer existed.

They had become cultivators under another origin, even their pasts had been modified. Under that origin, there were born all kinds of experiences that they might have had, or might "never have had."

Nothing in the world is truly real.

But now, the Demon Heavenly Master only felt his hair stand on end. To be able to change all the origins of Confucianism, the leader of the Three Teachings, and replace it, this had already exceeded the imagination of the Heavenly Heart realm, and no cultivator of any realm could do this, even the "True Heavenly Dao Realm" that no one had ever proven!

This is absolutely impossible!

He flew out from the Eternal Life Heavenly Palace, heading towards the highest sky in the Inner Mountains and Rivers, where countless Heavenly Heart experts had already manifested.

They were all looking at the high heavens that originally belonged to Confucianism.

"The origin has changed, as if everything has turned into bubbles."

A Heavenly Heart expert looked at the Demon Heavenly Master: "You're not late, just in time, let's watch together."

The Demon Heavenly Master didn't understand why, and at this time, all the Heavenly Heart experts gathered here no longer had the mind to discuss their past grudges and entanglements.

"Look!"

A Heavenly Heart expert pointed to those former Confucian cultivators. He displayed great means of reversing cause and effect, but the bodies of those former Confucian cultivators did not have cause and effect, nor did they have fate and Dharma.

"There is no change in cause and effect, proving that their origin has been determined and cannot be changed."

"This is absolutely impossible." A Heavenly Heart expert was terrified.

"Past, future, cause and effect, fate and Dharma, these are the four constant 'images,' the 'great images' of the world. All the Dharma and our Dao are based on the 'Four Images!'"

"These Four Images give birth to the myriad phenomena, the vast universe, the torrent of time, the twelve links of dependent origination, all the beings in the world and all their connections, and even all the illusory aspects that constitute our existence and the most fundamental spirituality, are all composed of these Four Images."

"How powerful is Confucianism, the leader of the Three Teachings! Their Heavenly Heart realm experts have also disappeared, no longer existing, but their disciples and the cultivators under their command have become the 'Jade Purity cultivators' of legend!"

"This means that the annals of history have been changed, and even among the Four Images, there is no longer such a thing as Confucianism. Therefore, no matter how much we reverse cause and effect, it is impossible to change Confucianism back! The origin no longer exists!"

The Heavenly Hearts of Buddhism looked at the Heavenly Hearts of Daoism:

"Taiqing, Yuqing, Shangqing! The Three Purities cultivators originated from Daoism. Even if Jade Purity cultivators are rare in the world, you must know something. What is the relationship between this matter and Jade Purity cultivators?"

"Don't know." The several Heavenly Hearts of Daoism answered straightforwardly.

"The inheritance of the Three Purities cultivators is not the same, especially Jade Purity. The Heavenly Lord only passed down the Shangqing in the second transmission of the Dharma, and Taiqing has nothing to do with... That Jade Purity Dharma is a direct path... Above Shangqing, outside of Taiqing, we really don't know."

It seemed that Daoism had benefited, but the experts of Taiqing and Shangqing also felt their scalps tingle.

Today, an inexplicable disaster can cause the entire Confucianism to perish.

In the future, Taiqing and Shangqing may also be like this.

"The divine seat of the Old Lord has not yet been retrieved, and the origin of my Taiqing is difficult to stabilize."

A Taiqing expert spoke like this, however, alchemists and Buddhists, as well as Heavenly Hearts like the Demon Heavenly Master who were independent, looked at this Taiqing cultivator in horror.

"Who did you say Jade Purity cultivators originated from?"

"Which Heavenly Lord?"

Confusion appeared in the eyes of the Taiqing Heavenly Heart.

"It is a Heavenly Lord."

"Which Heavenly Lord? You, you don't know?"

He gradually became a little frightened, and the other Heavenly Heart experts also recalled fiercely, but they only knew that it seemed to be a Dharma passed down by a Heavenly Lord, but they couldn't remember what his name was or what his holy title was.

"Jade Purity, speaking of which, how did the Jade Purity cultivators come about, why are they called Jade Purity?"

"No! No, we have forgotten something, I want to reverse cause and effect!"

A Heavenly Heart expert directly used reversal of cause and effect on himself, reversing all of his existence, but he still couldn't remember.

"Jade Purity has seized the origin of Confucianism, but where did the origin of Jade Purity come from!"

The Demon Heavenly Master looked at the scene before him. Most of the Heavenly Heart experts from the Three Teachings gathered here, and even Hunyuan realm beings were present, but their expressions were ferocious and their spirits were on the verge of collapse.

Along with them, the "great future" that each of them could guide for their "coreligionists" also began to collapse and disintegrate, and the mist of time on their bodies began to dissipate, meaning the demise of the future they were guiding.

"Everyone, stop your thoughts for now! Otherwise, one of the Three Teachings will be wiped out today!"

Although the Demon Heavenly Master was not on good terms with them, he thought that his disciples were all defectors from the disciples under these people, so-called without their recruitment and wrong training, where could the Eternal Life Heavenly Palace be strengthened, so he decisively reminded them.

This made the Heavenly Hearts who had fallen into obsession and madness suddenly stop, their thoughts also stopped, cause and effect were frozen, and then their states began to flow back and reset.

"Thank you."

The faces of many Heavenly Heart experts were pale to varying degrees, but although their thoughts were all withdrawn, they were still uneasy.

The Heavenly Hearts of Daoism were even more so.

They felt that they had forgotten something very important, but they could not find it in the past or the future.

This caused great chaos in the mountains and rivers.

"Before, the Great Sun Tathagata suddenly disappeared, and no matter how we searched, we couldn't find any trace of him. Now, Confucianism has changed its origin, and the Dao of Heaven and Man has completely perished. What great event is going to happen in this world and all realms!"

"What other great event is there that we Heavenly Hearts cannot see in the past or the future!"

In the eyes of the cultivators below the Heavenly Heart experts, there is no distinction between the past and the future. They can reflect the past, and they can also exist in the future in their true bodies. The past and the future are connected, but all the Heavenly Hearts cannot understand why such terrifying things are happening one after another, and they have no way to see their source!

"I saw a light, and everything changed where it covered. Can't the source of that light be found?"

The Demon Heavenly Master asked the question, and a Heavenly Heart expert shook his head:

"That is the light of Jade Purity, which spread directly from the high heavens of Confucianism, but even if we enter the high heavens, we still cannot find the source."

"The past is not seen, and the future is without a trace."

"Perhaps it is not that the future is without a trace, but that the future we see, or the future we can exist in, is too short."

"Buddha!" Suddenly someone thought of something, they looked at each other, and all the Heavenly Heart experts understood where to go next.

In the current Inner Mountains and Rivers, or rather, the inner and outer human realms, and the heavens and Dharma realms, only the Buddha, who has the highest level of cultivation, can give guidance to the Heavenly Hearts.

The Saha Excellent Realm.

However, the next thought of the Heavenly Hearts was to appear outside the Saha Realm. Within that Excellent Realm, the birds were singing and the flowers were fragrant, the golden light was auspicious, the sky was high and the clouds were light, but the figure of the Buddha was not seen.

"The Buddha is still here!" The spirits of the Buddhist Heavenly Hearts were slightly panicked, but after careful recollection and perception, they found that the history of Buddhism had not changed, meaning that the Buddha still existed, and had not disappeared like Confucianism.

At the same time, the voice left by the Buddha echoed in the heavens and the earth.

"There are still people in the human world who are favored by 'Heaven's Mandate.' All the great teachings have left behind such people. Perhaps they can retrieve the lost origin, and reconstruct the connection between the origin and the past and the future. Where the mind cannot see, and where the thought cannot reach, then we can only rely on 'fate.'"

"The old monk is not in the Saha Realm and cannot take action for you."

A Buddhist Heavenly Heart spoke: "This is the sound left by the Buddha. He has foreseen today and the future, but we have not seen it!"

"My Buddha! My Buddha!"

They were so excited that they burst into tears, believing that the Buddha would definitely be able to protect Buddhism from being changed in its origin, and even the entire Inner Mountains and Rivers and the human world would not be harmed.

But the next voice left by the Buddha shattered their thoughts.

"Fate is not life. Heaven's Mandate, Great Mandate, Fixed Mandate, its meaning is borrowing and giving."

"There is nothing permanent in the world. The Buddha may also turn into a demon, compassion may become slaughter, our definitions may also be changed, or the origin may be changed, becoming something else that is even more unspeakable and unmentionable. In the past, there were also people who wanted to do this, but they failed."

"But now, the old monk thinks that there should be people who have succeeded. We often say the Age of the End of Dharma and the End of Tribulation. This kind of End of Tribulation does not refer to the demise of Dharma and Dao, or not interfering with each other. But our origin has disappeared, there was no us in the past, and there will be no us in the future. We have clearly been here, but we have never been here."

"This is the Age of the End of Dharma and the End of Tribulation. I think it is about to arrive."

"Unfortunately, the true supreme realm and the true End of Tribulation come together, or perhaps they are the same, or the same thing. If we get through it, then that is the true Great Liberation."

The Buddha's voice completely disappeared, but he pointed out two clear paths for the Sages.

There are still people in the human world who are favored by Heaven's Mandate.

The Great Sage of Mysterious Subtlety, Lin Lingsu, and the Great Enlightenment Golden Immortal; the former has not proven the Heavenly Heart, and in the past there was no such great power to change the origin.

But now it seems that he seems to know something!

The Buddhist Heavenly Hearts became highly spirited.

"Find! Find Lin Lingsu, we must find him, the Great Thunderclap Temple must find him, Mount Gridhrakuta must find him, Mount Sumeru must find him, in the past and in the future, within time, in the human realm, in the heavens and Dharma realms! Mobilize all the Bodhisattvas and Arhats to search every inch of land!"

"How can he, a mere Ascended Immortal, escape our sight!"

(End of this chapter)