Chapter 727: Finale (I)
At the moment when Lady Qingyi became a saint, Hongjun's voice suddenly fell silent.
A figure appeared in the Zixiao Palace, with a fluttering green skirt and a glowing body like a thousand golden clouds. Her eyes were compassionate and holy, as if she came from a magnificent and dazzling new world, with holy light flowing from head to toe.
Golden lotus flowers are in full bloom, filling the chaotic void.
Li Daoxuan looked at the lady in green, and met her eyes as clear as glass, and his heart was slightly moved.
When our eyes met, it seemed as if there were a thousand words to say , but we didn't know where to start.
"So it's you..."
Hongjun's voice sounded again, with a hint of solemnity.
He seemed to have noticed something and was no longer as calm and composed as before.
The lady in green raised her eyes, and behind her appeared a shadow of a green lotus, with thirty-six flowers in total, blooming one after another. Sitting in the lotus was a woman with an extraordinary appearance , with a human head and a snake body, and her temperament was holy and ethereal.
The thirty-sixth-grade blue lotus of creation and the Saint Nuwa!
Li Daoxuan was not surprised to see this scene. After inheriting the memory of Tongtian Jiaozhu, he already knew the cause and effect of everything, and even knew the truth about the fall of Nuwa.
In fact, the reason why Nuwa and Zhunti Saint died was not because they consumed too much magic power in restraining Daozu, but because they died in place of their two senior brothers.
In The Investiture of the Gods, Master Tongtian died so that he could be reincarnated. In order to gain Hongjun's trust and make the plan go smoothly, Yuanshi Tianzun and Saint Taiqing had to take the Saint-Meteor Pill.
But in order to defeat Hongjun, the combination of the Three Pure Ones is an indispensable link, so the Saint Taiqing and Yuanshi Tianzun cannot die. Nuwa and Zhunti sacrificed themselves and transferred the medicinal power of the Meteorite Pill into their own bodies.
Hongjun secretly transformed the Heaven and Lingshan into his own place to devour gods and Buddhas. Nuwa and Zhunti knew that they would not live long after taking the Meteorite Pill, so they simply sacrificed themselves and died in battle. Together with the power of other saints, they finally suppressed Hongjun temporarily.
Zhunti died immediately.
The same was true for Nuwa, but she left behind a trace of obsession with saving the world. Saint Taiqing took out the lotus heart of the thirty-sixth-grade Green Lotus of Creation, combined it with that trace of obsession with saving the world, and sent it into the Kunlun Mirror. It traveled through time and was randomly reincarnated at a certain time point.
Only in this way can we completely avoid Hongjun's detection and avoid alerting the enemy.
In order to destroy the "evidence", the saint even merged the Kunlun Mirror into the Yaochi Lake to destroy the body and cover up all traces.
Therefore, as soon as the Green-clothed Lady was born, she had no cultivation but was able to predict the future and had a compassionate heart to save the world. When she was alive, she was even willing to burn herself to death to offer sacrifice to the heaven in order to resolve the natural disasters in Yuzhang City.
After she switched to the path of ghost immortal, she immediately felt at home. During her travels, she also obtained the "Avalokitesvara Lotus Sutra", which was a perfect match for her Green Lotus Heart. From then on, her practice improved by leaps and bounds, and she became an extraordinary saint.
Therefore, when the Queen Mother of the West saw her, she would call her a half-old friend.
In this layout spanning 30,000 years, Li Daoxuan is not the real person who should be borne by the calamity. The real protagonist is the lady in green who is standing quietly beside him at this moment.
In order to make it holy, the saints took great pains.
First, the Saint Jie Yin voluntarily gave up the fortune of Buddhism and let Qing Yi become the Buddha. According to normal history, after the Journey to the West, when Buddhism flourished, the popularization of Mahayana Buddhism would push the fortune of Buddhism to a climax and give birth to countless eminent monks.
But in fact, the Buddhist sect has been losing talented people in recent years, because all the luck has been refined and absorbed by the Green-Robed Lady.
This was not enough, the saints also sent Emperor Ziwei into the world to establish the Tang Dynasty and revive the fortunes of the human world. They deified the Green-Robed Lady in the name of the emperor and worshipped her as the Mother of Heaven.
When Wu Zetian ascended the throne of empress, the black dragon of fortune was not meant to restore the Queen Mother of the West's strength, but to be given to the Lady in Green to help her practice.
From the beginning to the end, all the saints were paving the way for Lady Green, and she was the one who was truly leading a life of cheats.
And Li Daoxuan actually plays the role of a protector in this chess game.
For example, he had known for a long time that Hongjun was immortal, but he still risked his life just now. His purpose was to protect the Queen from becoming a saint so that Hongjun would not have time to stop him.
"Haha, I am the Way of Heaven, I am immortal, so what if there is one more saint?"
"Li Daoxuan, even the combined power of the Three Pure Ones can't defeat me, so how can she?"
Hongjun's voice was deafening, echoing between heaven and earth, and seemed to be everywhere.
Faced with the questioning, Li Daoxuan smiled slightly and uttered two words.
"He Dao."
In an instant, the earth-shaking sound disappeared, but the silence seemed louder than thunder.
"Impossible... There's no way she can achieve the Dao!"
Hongjun was very confident, but he didn't know if it was an illusion, but Li Daoxuan seemed to hear a hint of panic.
"He Dao is a realm you created. You have never passed this method on to others. Unfortunately, you were only concerned with guarding against others, but overlooked another thing."
Hongjun reacted immediately and shouted angrily: "The Jade Disc of Creation!"
The Jade Disc of Creation is his treasure for proving his truth. It was made from Pangu's brain and contains the three thousand great ways of the universe. It was with the help of this treasure that Hongjun was able to rise rapidly.
Therefore, before he achieved He Dao, he gave away almost all of his treasures, except this one.
But I didn't expect that it was this little selfish thought that left a glimmer of hope for this catastrophe.
After Hongjun became a demon, the Jade Disc of Creation began to sense something. Although it had followed Hongjun for billions of years, it was ultimately transformed by Pangu, who created the world and could not bear to see the world destroyed by a catastrophe.
The Three Pure Ones were transformed from Pangu's original spirit. With the help of this relationship, they secretly contacted the Saint Taiqing and told him everything.
Therefore, the saints knew early on that the Taoist Ancestor had become a demon, and began to work together to deal with the calamity.
Of course, Hongjun was not completely unaware of his exposure. When the Six Saints asked Fuxi to tell their fortunes, because the hexagram involved him, he lowered his consciousness and deliberately showed Fuxi the wrong direction.
But he did not suspect the Jade Disc of Creation at that time, and only thought that it was a catastrophe deduced by Fuxi.
You can guard against thieves day and night, but you can’t guard against thieves in your own home.
The voice of Lady in Green sounded slowly.
"The only way to defeat the Heavenly Dao is to find a new Heavenly Dao."
She raised her jade hand and formed a mysterious hand seal. She immediately exuded an aura of vicissitudes of life, antiquity, and unfathomableness, which was vaguely similar to Hongjun just now.
This is the art of harmony with the Tao taught by the Jade Disc of Creation, and it can only be performed by a saint.
Hongjun never thought that one day, the thing that could really threaten him would be the art of Hedao that he had painstakingly deduced.
Li Daoxuan held down the hand of the Qingyi Lady, looked at her quietly, and said: "Qingni, you are just a beginner, why don't you let me merge with the Dao."
Hedao sounds good, but after becoming the Dao of Heaven, who knows what impact it will have?
Even someone as powerful as Hongjun gradually fell into the evil realm over the long years.
The lady in green lowered her eyes slightly and looked at the two people's clasped hands. The holy light on her body shook, trying to shake Li Daoxuan away.
However, this time, Li Daoxuan did not move at all.
He smiled and said, "Qing Ni, you can't beat me now."
The lady in green sighed softly, and finally stopped resisting. She shook her head and said, "Li Daoxuan, you are not from this world after all, and you cannot be in harmony with the Tao."
Heaven will not allow a person from another world to become a part of itself.
"You want to replace me?"
Hongjun's voice sounded again, but this time it was no longer calm and gentle, but rather like thundering rage.
In an instant, even the Zixiao Palace went dark and fell into the ultimate eternal night. The earth, water, wind and fire began to reshape themselves, and even Li Daoxuan felt a chill.
The third eye between his eyebrows opened, illuminating all living beings in the three realms.
The ancient world was collapsing, and horrific disasters began to occur in the world.
Landslides, tsunamis, ground fissures, cold currents, volcanoes, plagues...
Hongjun wanted to reshape the earth, water, wind and fire, let the world return to chaos, and destroy the foundation of the Green-clothed Lady's sainthood.
She was able to become a saint because of the blessing of Buddhism and humanity. If the heaven and earth were destroyed, the sainthood she had just achieved would inevitably fall.
Of course, reshaping the heaven and earth will also have a huge impact on the way of heaven. Hongjun is anxious, which also shows that Qingyi Hedao has indeed threatened his foundation.
Lady Qingyi sighed and said, "Time is running out."
Li Daoxuan was silent, and then slowly loosened his hand.
The lady in green recited great maxims, and the ancient, time-honored aura on her body became stronger and stronger. Her appearance also began to change. Sometimes she was as old as a centenarian, and sometimes she looked like a young girl in her twenties, full of vigor and vitality. She even turned into a pink and tender little loli.
After a thousand changes, it finally returns to its original appearance.
In the eternal night, a beam of snow-white light suddenly descended and shone on her body. It was the call of heaven.
She looked at Li Daoxuan deeply, and then flew up.
Li Daoxuan stretched out his hand to grab it, but found nothing.
The current Lady in Green is already in the state of merging with the Dao. Her physical body is gradually disappearing, and her soul will merge with the Dao of Heaven. She will eventually try to replace Hongjun and make him disappear into thin air.
"Qing Ni!"
Li Daoxuan suddenly asked a question that had been hidden in his mind for a long time.
"If all this mess hadn't happened, would you have become my Taoist partner?"
He wanted to know whether Lady Qingyi had any feelings for him.
Qingyi's body paused slightly, and she looked at Li Daoxuan with a very complicated gaze. Finally, she stared into his expectant eyes and slowly shook her head.
"Won't."
As she finished her words, her body gradually dissipated and disappeared forever in the white light.
This answer seemed very heartless, but Li Daoxuan smiled.
He had gotten the answer he wanted.
If she really couldn't do that, then why did she only take away the Zixia fairy clothes that I had given her when she finally achieved enlightenment?
It should be known that when Hongjun achieved enlightenment, he took away the Jade Disc of Creation, a treasure for proving the Tao.
Compared with this, the purple fairy dress is simply an ordinary object.
The reason why she answered like that was that she wanted to appear heartless on purpose so that he would give up his feelings and feel better.
This woman... has always been thinking about others.
For my apprentice, for Taizhen, for Li Daoxuan, and for all people in the world...
But she never thought about herself.
Li Daoxuan suddenly felt a little melancholy. He looked up at the night sky. After the Green-robed Goddess ascended to heaven, a bright and flawless .
The night was dark , as if it wanted to swallow up the bright moon and trap the moonlight in a small space.
Hongjun's voice sounded again, full of murderous intent.
"You have just become a saint and you have achieved harmony with the Tao. Do you think you can defeat me?"
The thick night darkness constantly invaded the bright moon, which seemed so lonely and helpless in the endless sky like thick ink.
There can only be one person who is in harmony with the Tao between heaven and earth. Either the new person dies or the old person perishes.
Li Daoxuan knew that if this continued, the bright moon would be completely swallowed up by the eternal night, and there would be no more light in the world from then on.
But he was not anxious, because the layout that spanned 30,000 years had finally reached the final stage.
The "Book of Exorcising Demons" in his mind burst into thousands of golden lights, moved for the first time, flew out of his sea of consciousness, and landed in his palm.
The four characters "The Book of Subduing Demons" on the cover began to change. Every hook and stroke, every left and right stroke began to arrange and reorganize, and finally became three soul-stirring and magnificent characters.
The Investiture of the Gods!
