Chapter 125 Yuanshi
"To achieve the true Yuanshi Tianzun, all the Yuqing cultivators scattered outside will eventually return to a single entity. Whoever can dominate the thirteen Yuqing cultivators is Yuanshi Tianzun."

That's what Yuan Huang said, but Ji Xiang thought of the situation when he was initially dispatched to the mortal world by the Yuanshi Tianzun's divine position.

"There was no Yuanshi Tianzun in the past?" Ji Xiang asked.

Yuan Huang paused slightly and responded, "Yuanshi Tianzun is a realm imagined by ancient cultivators, and also the supreme deity. As you know, gods are born from the wishes of the world. Their divine tablets appeared in the Dafu Li Land, which is the world's earliest and largest Dharma realm, encompassing all things."

"Some gods falsely claim the names of certain mortals, but in reality, those mortals are transforming into that deity. They create stories, claiming to be deities descended to earth or stars reincarnated. This way, they acquire the characteristics of that deity, and within the mortal faith, they will be praised, equating the two."

"During the Han Dynasty, it was said that there was a path to becoming a god, which could completely transform a person into a deity, but the secret method was lost and its whereabouts are unknown. The power of this deity is not merely the power contained in the divine tablet. It can be said to be linked to the worship and imagination of the world."

Yuan Huang said, "Therefore, achieving Yuanshi Tianzun means omnipotence. And Yuqing cultivators are extremely special, so they are not like those cultivators who try to transform into deities."

"Our existence does not require the recognition of the world. Although Yuanshi Tianzun is the supreme being imagined by some cultivators in the past, even I don't know when the Yuqing cultivators were born. Gu Xiansheng is already considered ancient, but as far as I know, his position in Yuqing is only the fourth person."

"The first and second persons have not appeared, and there is no way to know their names. Various records under the guise of Yuanshi Tianzun record many names, but you don't know which Yuqing each of those names corresponds to. However, these records were all written by Yuqing cultivators."

"Gu Xiansheng killed the sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, and tenth persons."

Ji Xiang's eyes flickered.

The third and fifth were not mentioned.

"The third person, is it Qing Luo?"

"The fifth person is...."

Yuan Huang nodded, "That's right, I am the fifth person."

"I killed the eleventh person, and then, the twelfth person disappeared, and the thirteenth person is you."

"Of the thirteen Yuqing cultivators, six have already died."

Yuan Huang sighed, "You fought with the Great Sun Tathagata, and you know that he wants to seize the Yuanshi characteristics in order to achieve the original Buddha in his Buddhist sect. This is also a realm imagined by the Buddhist sect, which even the Buddha had not achieved in the past or future. The original represents the root of the word 'Buddha'. It's not that there was a Buddha only after Shakyamuni attained enlightenment, but that it already existed before the Buddha attained enlightenment, but no one could name it."

"And the Dao, or the part of the 'Dao' known as Yuanshi Tianzun, is the same."

"I do not know its name."

"I force a name upon it, calling it Dao."

"I do not know whose child it is."

"It existed before the Emperor of Xiang."

"You should be familiar with the Dao De Jing (Tao Te Ching). These words are the source of the later Taoist interpretation of the Dao. Yuanshi Tianzun and Taishang Laojun (Lord Lao) are both their imaginations of the supreme realm of the Dao."

"Where their roots come from can only be known by finding the first person. Even I cannot understand. I have been searching for the first person, or the second person, but I have never seen their踪影. Perhaps they are no longer in this world, or perhaps they are right beside us."

Yuan Huang's words, towards the end, made Ji Xiang's hair stand on end, and he couldn't help but exhale a breath of fresh air.

With the abilities of the Yuqing cultivators, it was possible to transform themselves into some kind of phenomenon, or some kind of legend. Having seen the false gospel of Christ, the reversal of the future by the Great Sun Tathagata, and Gu Xiansheng's Guiyi Wushang Fa (Return to Oneness Supreme Dharma).

He learned that even in false worlds or inaccurate futures that have not yet been determined, there might be people hidden.

Malice was everywhere, and those people were hidden in places that the world could never see.

"Next, let's talk about Qing Luo. Gu Xiansheng made Qing Luo's power into Fate (yuan), which he used to search for Yuqing cultivators. Once you are entangled by that Fate, you will be targeted by Gu Xiansheng, but he will not immediately assimilate you...."

"He just wants to use you as a sacrifice to bear Qing Luo."

Yuan Huang said, "The Yuqing evil is not Qing Luo, but it has an inseparable relationship with Qing Luo. Qing Luo may have dissipated in form, but it still exists in some form, which is the Fate scattered in the world."

"Gu Xiansheng collects these Fates. He wants to assimilate Qing Luo, and perhaps Qing Luo is also using these Fates to assimilate us. Once enough Fates are collected, they can become a carrier for Qing Luo's appearance. When that time comes, he will assimilate you, which is directly eating you and Qing Luo together."

Ji Xiang, "Qing Luo is more ancient than him. Now it seems that this Fate, in addition to assimilation, has other unknown uses. Is Gu Xiansheng not afraid of turning himself into Qing Luo by doing this?"

Yuan Huang shook his head, "I don't know, I don't know. Gu Xiansheng is in the future, and I am only in the past. In the present, I can only make certain deductions. My intelligence is also limited. I cannot reverse the future, nor can I change the future, because the more distant future is our death ground."

"Qing Luo's Fate is useful. It will guide you to find opportunities that belong only to Yuqing. By accepting the Fate, you are gradually acquiring things left behind by Yuqing. The characteristics of Yuanshi Tianzun will become more prominent. In the eyes of修士 who don't know the truth, they may think that their real opportunity has arrived, that it is their unique secret treasure."

"As for whether Qing Luo is good or evil, and what Dharma he is cultivating, a glimpse can be seen from the Eleven Great Luminaries Disaster Relief Divine Mantra Sutra. He transmits scriptures and divine mantras to the world, which is to enhance his image of Yuanshi Tianzun, and the extent of its reach cannot be known."

Ji Xiang suddenly had a doubt, "This scripture began to circulate during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Qing Luo is at most a person from the Tang Dynasty, so... you are the fifth person, but are you more ancient than his era? I remember you...."

He stopped halfway, and Yuan Huang also nodded slightly, "You have not forgotten what I said just now."

"I killed a Yuqing cultivator, ate him, and then I could lock myself in the past, so I am more ancient than Qing Luo."

"Remember, the time of appearance you know does not represent their time of existence. The scriptures circulated in later generations, but the person himself may have appeared in the Wei and Jin Dynasties or even the Qin and Han Dynasties, just as Gu Xiansheng has placed himself in the future forever. Scriptures can also descend directly from the past to later generations."

"That is to say, now if you can go back to the past, you might be able to see...."

What he would see was naturally the first and second persons, but Yuan Huang sighed again, indicating that he had regressed to before the Wei and Jin Dynasties, but he had not yet seen those two people.

Could it be in an even more ancient past?

It was necessary to continue acting towards the past to know.

And this shocked Ji Xiang like a thunderbolt from the blue.

Going to the past!

Traveling against time, transmitting the scriptures directly from the past to later generations. Compared to his own glimpse into the future, they were operating on the future in the past. Whatever future they wanted, they directly added it in the past, and then something would suddenly appear in the future....

After a long period of contemplation, Ji Xiang asked again, "So, going to the past, or self-locking in the future, is a divine power that all Yuqing cultivators can obtain? Or do you have to kill a Yuqing to do it?"

"Killing, in fact, is not just killing. I said eating, Gu Xiansheng said assimilating, they are all the same meaning. That is return, you return to me, at this time I am you, and you are me."

"Isn't the Christian method of the West similar to this? Maybe...." Yuan Huang suddenly made a startling guess:

"Christ, may be the first person, or the second person...."

"Or maybe... the twelfth person."