Chapter 1 The Taiji Heaven Palace

The Taiji Perfected Man of the Lishan River's Taiji Heaven Palace bled red smoke from all seven orifices. The transboundary thunderous sound had damaged his foundation, twisting his face in agony.

The scarlet red smoke represented his level of cultivation.

When a celestial immortal cultivated to the peak, all the blood in their body would transform into azure qi, becoming a flying immortal. When the azure qi transformed into red clouds, it represented the highest level of achievement in Daoist cultivation!

When all the Jing qi in the body was red qi and red clouds, it was one of the characteristics of the Daoist Heavenly Heart Realm!

However, the Taiji Perfected Man thought that since he had achieved the Heavenly Heart, he had not encountered such a bizarre blow for thousands of years! It was terrifying, and even the Heavenly Heart could not avoid injury!

But after a few breaths, the Taiji Perfected Man's expression began to change, gradually turning from anger to joy.

He muttered to himself, his emotions gradually becoming more excited, and he spoke with increasing enthusiasm!

"Although I didn't get the Heavenly Dao's opportunity this time, and I wasted the power of the Jade God Plate, I have gained an unexpected harvest! This is a change ordained by Heaven!"

"I didn't expect that in today's world, there are still people who can gather thoughts of sincerity. This is a feedback obtained from the mutual response between Heaven and man. In the past, powerful cultivators opened up paths, and countless descendants followed them devoutly. These people who opened up paths were called Celestial Sovereigns, Patriarchs, Supreme Ones, or Gods."

"But after too many paths were opened up, the paths in the world gradually came to an end, and all methods withered, making it difficult to create new ideas. People then traced back to the source, pursuing more powerful and ancient spells in order to use these spells to forge their own paths."

"In this way, as the methods of the Dao withered, thoughts of sincerity became difficult to gather. Those thoughts are a selfless influence on the surrounding Heaven, Earth, and Humanity. Heavenly Heart Realm experts preach in order to gather thoughts of sincerity, which are of great use to those in the Heavenly Heart Realm."

"But even if enough thoughts of sincerity are collected, it is impossible to completely act on behalf of Heaven. The Heavenly Heart Realm already represents the heart of Heaven. This should have shortened the distance and relationship with Heaven, but instead, it cannot receive a response, because who would pray to themselves?"

"And ordinary immortals cannot open up their own paths, let alone influence the surrounding phenomena of Heaven and Earth. Most of today's immortals are walking the paths of their predecessors, so how can they talk about opening up new ones?"

"Those who contribute thoughts of sincerity to others become the food of that person, unless the powerful figure being prayed to completely ignores these people and does not control their wishes, otherwise..."

Red clouds flowed continuously from the Taiji Perfected Man's seven orifices as he muttered to himself, immersed in the excitement of discovering a new world.

There was a strong man in the human world who had walked out his own path on a road that had already been developed to its extreme, and had received a response from Heaven.

"Man and immortal, immortal and Heaven, Heaven and Dao! The Heavenly Heart Realm uses the human heart to act on behalf of the Heavenly Heart, but the Heavenly Heart cannot replace all the hearts of mortals. Even Buddhist followers like the Great Sun Tathagata need to use the power of the Dharma Realm to forcibly control people's hearts. This cannot be considered a superior path."

"The true way to use the human heart to replace the Heavenly Heart, after achieving the Heavenly Heart, is to make one's own body like the bodies of all living beings, and one's own heart like the hearts of all living beings. This is the true Heavenly Heart!"

The Taiji Perfected Man gradually became manic, sighing and lamenting repeatedly. This had not happened to him, but to a cultivator in the human world, and that cultivator was someone he recognized the first time he saw him through the Taiji Diagram.

One of the two immortals from the Hidden Immortal Sect left in the human world, the one who had previously repelled the Great Sun Tathagata, now had a great reputation in the Lishan River, because this person named Ji Xiang had offended too many forces.

Of course, there are no absolute enemies or friends in the world. Every cultivator is fighting with Heaven for their life. Before becoming an immortal, they follow the will of Heaven, but after becoming an immortal, they become people who defy Heaven. Heaven needs immortals to carry out its will, but it does not need Heavenly Heart or Hunyuan (Primordial Unity) experts who are more powerful than immortals.

The Heavenly Heart Realm itself is a realm that encroaches on the domain of Heaven, able to change karma and manipulate people's hearts with a single thought. With a thorough understanding of the secrets of Heaven, it has already reached a height equal to that of Heaven.

"Lao Tzu said, 'Heaven and Earth are not benevolent, and treat all things as straw dogs. Is the space between Heaven and Earth not like a bellows?'"

Heaven and Earth nurture all things without claiming to be benevolent, and do not ask all things to use straw dogs to worship it. Therefore, Heaven and Earth do not speak of benevolence, do not compete for benevolence, nurture all things, and do not ask all things to repay it.

But the Heavenly Heart Realm occupies this domain, using the human heart to replace the original Heavenly Heart, calling itself the Heavenly Heart Realm. In this way, the myriad things in the world are no longer straw dogs, and the Heavenly Heart will never treat all things equally.

This behavior breaks the laws of the circulation of Heaven and Earth. Zhuangzi said that if you disrupt the laws of the world and break the principles of all things, Heaven will definitely not let you succeed.

"This is probably why the Heavenly Heart cannot continue to cultivate upwards and obtain the 'Dao'. The Lishan River has methods but no Dao, and the Biaoshan River has Dao but no methods. They echo each other. I think that even if the cultivators of the Lishan River return to the human world, they may not be able to obtain the 'Dao'. Just like yin and yang, they have similarities and differences."

"There are peerless experts who reverse the state of cultivation, reverse their own Heavenly Heart yin and yang into chaos, and accommodate it in their own bodies, calling it Hunyuan, but this is ultimately an act of stealing from Heaven, and they have never truly reached that level."

"The Northern Cold is useless. Jin Jizi has disappeared, and the dynasty's fortune has been seized by others. I didn't expect Donghua to still be alive. It's a pity that Grand Duke Qing Tong is no longer in the Lishan River. Even if a fairy takes the dynasty's fortune and becomes a national immortal, she will not be able to escape the fate of having her magic power abolished and being suppressed or killed in a dozen years. These fortunes are not something she can take."

The look in the Taiji Perfected Man's eyes had changed from clear to mad, even obsessed.

"This kind of person can be my teacher, but as soon as I learn his path, I will immediately kill him, so that he cannot cut off my future. I must go to the human world to become his disciple, and no matter what, I must thoroughly understand this new path of thunder magic from his hands."

Thunder magic is the most common and most powerful spell among Daoist cultivators. Since the existence of Daoism, even tracing back to the primordial era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, there have been legends of the Yellow Emperor using heavenly thunder to kill enemies. When thunder magic is unleashed, lightning flashes, and heavenly drums and axes fall one after another. No enemy can withstand it.

The Daoist cultivators of the world often can't put down thunder magic, and various thunder books, thunder scriptures, thunder talismans, and even the arts of firearms and earth fire, these derived techniques, have also been developed. With the changes of the world, not to mention Longhu Mountain thunder magic, Wudang Mountain thunder magic, and the Divine Firmament Sect thunder magic.

Therefore, the methods regarding thunder have long been exhausted.

"Thunder is the mouth of all living beings."

At this moment, the Taiji Perfected Man was excited to see this new path. He didn't care that he was injured, and instead sent a sincere wish of sincerity to the Biaoshan River. At least at this moment, he truly admired the pioneer of this new path.

An immortal being able to open up a new path was like the past years reappearing, that was the brilliant era of all methods resounding between Heaven and Earth.

He was not afraid of becoming the other party's food, because he was in the Heavenly Heart Realm, and no matter how strong the other party was, he was just an immortal.

The Heavenly Heart Realm reverses cause and effect. When he has learned all of his thunder magic, then, under the transformation of cause and effect, it will not be that he learned the new thunder magic because of him, but that the new thunder magic appeared only after he learned it, and he, then, will become a plagiarist.