Chapter 193 Heaven's Will Descends

All the representatives of the Inner Mountains and Rivers severed contact with the Heavenly Palace forces they represented.

All the Heavenly Palaces began to fall silent, not only because a large number of immortals had been downgraded and damaged, but also because, as the Inner Mountains and Rivers approached the Outer Mountains and Rivers, the Heavenly Heart experts deduced that this damage would continue.

The Dao of Heaven takes away strength to supplement weakness.

The Dao of Humanity makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker.

But this expansion or weakening is not unlimited. The Inner Mountains and Rivers, expanding to the extreme, tries to touch the power of the Heavenly Dao and will be mercilessly weakened by it. Heaven and earth are impartial, treating all things as straw dogs. Immortals and mortals are both ordinary beings in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao. Those who have not reached the level of the Dao are all in the same class.

Similarly, the weak Outer Mountains and Rivers will be continuously strengthened.

In the Heavenly Palace Cloud Sea, an order came from the Zhu Huo (Vermillion Fire) Heavenly Palace:

Stop any immortals from descending to the Outer Mountains and Rivers in the form of spirit and body!

The Zhu Huo Heavenly Palace of the Shangqing Sect sealed itself, but arguments broke out within. The Shangqing Ancestral Scripture was about to appear, and at this critical moment, there was no need to worry about the interaction between heaven and man!

"In order to maintain legitimacy, we must obtain the Shangqing Ancestral Scripture! Since the immortals have already been downgraded, we might as well do our best to find a way to go through the Yin Realm and perform Ni Shijie (reverse corpse liberation) to enter the human world!"

Some immortals were not resigned. Anyway, those immortals who had comprehended Taiyi and Daluo were already useless and had no way to break through to the Heavenly Heart Realm. Not only that, they could not even reach the peak of ascension. Dispersed immortals had their paths cut off until their lifespans were exhausted.

In that case, why not let them perform Ni Shijie, shed their immortal bodies, and perhaps have a chance to start over.

"Absolutely not."

As soon as these words were spoken, they were opposed by another Ascended Immortal at the peak of Flying Immortal.

"Madam Wei has ordered that no one is allowed to perform Ni Shijie! Entering the Outer Mountains and Rivers is extremely dangerous... It has been learned from Yuan Huang that the Heavenly Will is descending and the Demon King is coming to the world. Those of you who have no Dao heart, shedding your immortal bodies and entering the Outer Mountains and Rivers, will have to experience the Demon Tribulation again, and this Demon Tribulation will be no ordinary one!"

The Four Great Heavenly Hearts, close to the human world, were monitoring Yuan Huang, and the news of the Demon King's descent had already been learned. What's more, the Vajra of秽跡 from the Buddhist sect had known about this matter for a long time, and even asked for a favor from the Buddha Emperor, but had been slow to speak up, which made the other three Heavenly Hearts quite displeased.

As soon as these words were spoken, many downgraded immortals remembered that Zhu Huo Palace had a grudge against that Demon King, and they could not help but become noisy, sighing and saying it was troublesome.

Their good intentions had long been extinguished, and they would surely die if they experienced the Demon Tribulation again. The Heavenly Will sent the Demon King to descend, appearing at this critical time when the Inner and Outer Mountains and Rivers were merging, and it must be aimed at them.

"Kill him!"

Someone spoke out, and a scattered immortal who had just been downgraded was full of hatred and annoyance: "This poor Daoist is willing to go! Capture and kill this person!"

"Although the descent of the Demon King is frightening, if you think about it carefully, he is just dragging around a remnant immortal body. It can be imagined that they cannot truly manifest and must rely on the reincarnation of the dead or the resurrection of those who have performed corpse liberation..."

Before the scattered immortal could finish speaking, the Flying Immortal had already nodded:

"No need to say more."

"What you said may have already been confirmed."

"One day in heaven is one year in the human world. The so-called heaven is a place of the Dao, and the so-called human world is a place without the Dao. The Inner Mountains and Rivers are prosperous in magic and the Great Dao does not prevail. We see the Outer Mountains and Rivers as dreamlike and fleeting. Passing through the long years, the human world is but a day."

"About ten years ago."

The Flying Immortal told the scattered immortals that several corpse liberation immortals had appeared in the Outer Mountains and Rivers, and they all suddenly woke up and had a unified characteristic.

They are all Han Immortals!

The scattered immortal was stunned, and then his expression became terrified.

The cultivation system of the Han Dynasty immortals was not yet perfect. Heavenly Heart, Hunyuan, and the like referred only to a spiritual level, not a basis for cultivation. At that time, becoming an immortal was the highest level. It was not until the Wei and Jin Dynasties that there were distinctions between Heavenly Immortals, Earth Immortals, and Corpse Liberation Immortals. The method of ascending in broad daylight appeared as the most superior method of becoming an immortal.

According to the Flying Immortal, the Han Immortals may have become the carriers for the Demon King's descent, and it was the Heavenly Will that allowed them to awaken in this era!

This is the oldest batch of immortals. There are not many Qin and Han ancient immortals in the Inner Mountains and Rivers. A large number of ancient cultivators explored the method of corpse liberation and fell into a long sleep, until tens of thousands of years later in the Inner Mountains and Rivers, this group of people woke up one after another, as if to remind the world that there was still a group of them in the world.

Gu Shuang "I believe the other Heavenly Palaces have already noticed."

"All Qin and Han immortals will be wanted in the Inner Mountains and Rivers. If they are really favored by the Heavenly Dao, then we can learn from them some methods of cultivating the True Realm of the Heavenly Dao."

"Even if we really don't know, controlling them can prevent them from cultivating to the True Realm of the Heavenly Dao."

The old ghosts of the Qin and Han Dynasties do not abide by the unified order of the Inner Mountains and Rivers and band together with those few surviving Tang Immortals, so if they cultivate to the True Realm of the Heavenly Dao, they will pose a great threat to the rule of other Heavenly Palaces!

But....

The Flying Immortal's eyes flickered.

If we were to say which force has the best hope of cultivating a True Realm of the Heavenly Dao, it is not the alchemist group that came before the Three Religions, but the Buddhist sect, which has the largest force and the most ancient saints in the Inner Mountains and Rivers!

"The True Realm of the Heavenly Dao opened by the dynasty's Great Dao...."

"That Buddha Emperor who was once the Emperor of Han is the most likely to cultivate it, right?"

In fact, alchemists, Confucianists, and Taoists have already begun to put pressure on the Buddhist sect.

A large number of cultivators gathered outside the Great Thunderclap Temple!

Dang—!

The Great Thunderclap Bell boomed out, resonating throughout the Four Great Continents, and a majestic Buddhist voice came out:

"The Medicine Master瑠璃光 Tathagata already knows your intentions! Please go back and tell the Heavenly Heart Supreme Ones!"

"The Buddha Emperor has already sealed himself off. In the next thousand years, unless there is a disaster of the collapse of Thunderclap or an calamity of the disintegration of hell, he will never reappear and will not disturb you in your competition for the True Realm of the Heavenly Dao!"

"Please return!"

The implication was clear: their Buddhist sect would not secretly become immortals without bringing you along.

But the Flying Immortals were obviously not so easy to dismiss.

"I have heard that the Buddhist sect's righteousness is brilliant."

A Flying Immortal cupped his hands: "Those who come are guests. We have come here voluntarily, sincerely to listen to the Buddha's teachings, until the heavens collapse and the earth crumbles, and the mountains and rivers become one!"

After saying that, the immortals descended on the spiritual mountains around the Great Thunderclap Temple, and the immortal realms descended, surrounding the place!

In the Great Thunderclap Temple, rays of Buddha light manifested, and the phantoms of Bodhidharma, Kumarajiva, and Xuanzang appeared among them.

.....

In Shuntian Prefecture, the people watched in horror as the Forbidden City split apart and flew into the sky, flying higher and higher, and then disappeared from their sight.

Panic was evident among the common people. They had just experienced the great event of the collapse of Shuntian, and not long after, another earth-shattering change occurred. Countless people were already preparing to flee from here and leave Shuntian Prefecture.

"I've lived for most of my life, and I thought I'd seen everything. Damn it, the things that have happened in these two or three months, I've never seen in my next life!"

The wharf was suddenly overcrowded, and the wealthy were scrambling to board the ferry, to go anywhere, as long as they didn't stay in Shuntian!

However, in such a noisy and turbulent situation, after about an hour, a huge sound like an earthquake and a mountain collapse resounded through the heavens and the universe!

The Forbidden City appeared, intact, and suspended in the high sky, with the energy of the sun, moon, and stars as its base, and the dust of mountains, rivers, and earth as its foundation!

An extremely powerful national fortune erupted from this Sky Palace and spread to the entire Ming Dynasty!