Chapter 29: The Ambitious Ambition to Revive Jiejiao
Chapter 29: The Ambitious Ambition to Revive Jiejiao
He Lingyun, who had escaped from the trap, was filled with shame and anger. When he saw Wen Rui's ugly face that deserved a beating, he wanted to rush up and kick him twice.
But then she changed her mind and remembered that guy had just reminded her that the dress she was wearing had been tampered with. If she acted rashly, not only would she not be able to kick him, but she would also be tied up like a dumpling by the spider silk. The end result would only be humiliation for herself, and she would be ridiculed and mocked by him again.
Even if He Lingyun went crazy and wanted to tear Wen Rui apart at all costs, she would have to take off her clothes first before posing a threat to him. Those who knew about the scene would see the girl being humiliated and angry and teaching the bad guy a lesson, while those who didn't would think that the nymphomaniac couldn't help herself and threw herself into the man's arms!
He Lingyun secretly made up his mind that if he was lucky enough to escape, he would go back and check carefully. Even if he starved to death or jumped off the cliff of Caiyun Peak, he would never use anything made by Jinling Sect again!
After suppressing his anger, He Lingyun felt a wave of fear again. No matter which of the first two plans proposed by Senior Brother Wen was applied to him, the consequences would be too horrible to imagine, especially the second plan, which was really too scary.
Although I tried to stop myself from thinking too much, a picture still appeared in my mind:
He Lingyun, who had shed her youthful immaturity, obediently crouched at the feet of her treacherous senior brother, her face flushed as she bit her lips and stared at him infatuatedly, her eyes filled with a daze that looked like she was longing for a beating, and in her arms she was holding two chirping little crane chicks...
The lofty ambitions of the wife Crane, the search for immortality, the nobleness and elegance have all vanished into thin air. She has put her most gorgeous feathered clothes at the bottom of her wardrobe, stirring the soup with her bare hands, and waiting for you to taste it shyly. She doesn't care about the royal power and wealth, and she is not afraid of any rules and regulations. She only wishes to be with the person she loves forever...
He Lingyun grabbed his black hair in despair, and shook his head desperately with a distorted expression, trying to get rid of the mentally polluting images in his mind.
The most terrifying thing is that when Wen Rui tied her uniform to the metal chair, if he wanted to realize this plan, he could do it just by thinking about it. It was easier than eating and drinking.
That moment was almost a turning point in He Lingyun's fate. The future destiny was completely controlled by Wen Rui. He could modify and describe it as he pleased, but she could not resist or struggle. She was suffocated and helpless. She could only accept it with pleasure. After accepting it, she would even indulge in it, thinking that was the most suitable destiny route for her and that she was happy!
The more he thought about it, the more He Lingyun felt a chill in his bones, and the more he understood how terrifying this guy was, who was of a low level but could kill others without conviction and even said thank you after his death.
It took He Lingyun a long time to calm down. Wen Rui seemed to know that she was fighting her inner demons, and he sat patiently beside her, drinking wine and waiting.
The girl slapped her cheeks with both hands and said with all her strength: "I understand. There is really no need for you to lie to me... I believe you will tell me the truth."
"Eh, you believe it now?" Wen Rui was surprised and said, "Don't you doubt that I am just trying to spice things up? Do you want to play with you for a while longer?"
"伱!"
"Just kidding, just kidding..."
Wen Rui quickly pushed He Lingyun away and said with a wry smile, "I'm just trying to ease your nervousness. Brother, I'm wrong, isn't that okay? I really want to tell the truth, and you have to believe me."
He Lingyun rolled his eyes, but after what he said, he did feel a lot more relaxed and no longer looked at Wen Rui as a monster.
Wen Rui put away his smile, stared into He Lingyun's eyes with clear eyes, and said solemnly: "Let's get back to the point. Everything I have done in the past few hundred years has the ultimate goal of reviving Jiejiao, nothing more."
"Hey, what did you say?"
He Lingyun suspected that he had heard it wrong.
"Reviving Jiejiao!"
"Reviving what?"
"Jie Jiao!"
"What Jiejiao?"
"Revive! Revive Jiejiao!"
After a meaningless conversation, the two fell silent at the same time, and the atmosphere was a little awkward for a while.
After a long time, He Lingyun was the first to break the silence. She sighed expressionlessly and said, "Forget it, do whatever you want. Let's revive it, quickly, I'm tired."
Wen Rui helplessly spread his hands and said, "Look, if I don't tell you the truth, you will just make wild guesses and make a fuss. If I tell you the truth, you won't believe me. Why don't we go back to plan one? Why don't we know each other when we meet? It's okay if we forget each other."
After hearing what he said, the crane girl lowered her head and thought for a while, then she came to the metal chair that had risen from the ground and boldly sat down. She twisted her body to adjust to a comfortable sitting position, crossed her long legs, and placed her hands on her legs. She tilted her head and smiled elegantly:
"I was just joking, please don't blame me. I would like to hear more about your ambitions, and I hope you can help me solve my doubts."
Wen Rui raised his eyebrows and said in a deep voice: "Five hundred years ago, the battle of the Ten Thousand Immortals ended, and the three religions of Chan, Ren, and Xifang won a great victory. Only one of the Ten Thousand Immortals of Jiejiao survived, and it was almost destroyed. Everyone thought this was the end of Jiejiao, but I think this is just the beginning."
"The Conferred God List conferred titles on the leaders of the Three Realms, eight tribes, and 365 righteous gods. They supported the Heavenly Court to supervise the good and evil in the human world and report the merits and deeds of the Three Realms. The saints of the Three Religions of Chan, Human, and the West believed that they had opened an infinite prosperous era, and the Three Realms would be peaceful and stable for a long time, and the order of the Heavenly Dao would last forever."
"But I am sure that at that time point, the three religions will rise and fall, and will begin a long decline. Buddhism may rise temporarily during this period, but within three thousand years, all the gods and Buddhas will lose their glory, their faith will collapse, and they will even be swept into the garbage dump of history. Even the Jade Emperor who sits on the throne of heaven today will only be used to be printed on waste paper and burned to fool the dead!"
"How can it be……"
He Lingyun, who had just managed to save some face, opened his mouth slightly, and was shocked by Wen Rui's outrageous and rebellious judgment and said:
"His Majesty the Jade Emperor has endured 2 tribulations, each lasting 2680 years, and has practiced for million years. Three thousand years is but a moment for him. How could he become unrespected after three thousand years? Isn't this change too fast?"
Three thousand years is only one millionth of the life span of a person over 2 million years old, and converted into the concept of time for ordinary people, it is only two or three minutes. It is like three minutes ago, you were the CEO of a company that just merged all competitors and dominated the global market, and the richest man in the world, and three minutes later, you became a street beggar. It is not as fast as waking up from a dream to move bricks.
"Living long is nothing special. It takes hundreds of millions of years for a single-celled life form to develop into a multi-celled life form. The Jade Emperor might have been busy cultivating his innate magical power of cell division in the first 200 million years."
Wen Rui said disdainfully, "The laws of nature are not permanent, so it's no wonder that the world changes so quickly. Once a major change that hasn't happened in three thousand years occurs, it will be like 'the goddess should be fine, but the world will be shocked'. Although I don't know how hard the Jade Emperor practiced hundreds of millions of years ago, I know that three thousand years later he became the president of the Bank of Heaven and Earth, and he was a very incompetent president. He issued banknotes indiscriminately, causing the currency to depreciate like the Zimbabwean dollar."
Wen Rui's tone was extremely confident, as if he had experienced it personally, which frightened the two-hundred-year-old little crane girl.
"The teachings you received from your teachers in Lishan Xianzong have probably already begun to 'de-Jiejiao', and even regarded Jiejiao's thoughts as a scourge and a beast, and kept it a secret. Shock therapy, total elaboration, total westernization, Jiejiao failure theory, and destruction theory... Lishan Laomu is absolutely wrong. She is betraying her teachers and ancestors, and burying Jiejiao with her own hands!"
Wen Rui said with great sorrow: "But as long as the banner of the Jiejiao Sect of our Jinling Sect does not fall, the Jiejiao tradition will be passed on, and the Jiejiao spirit will surely shine again!"
"Don't speak ill of the Holy Mother!" He Lingyun shouted, "Her teachings are not wrong. She taught us to be kind, accumulate merits, recite the Huangting Sutra, meditate on the righteous path, stay away from disputes, and avoid evil spirits... It's not as bad as you say!"
Wen Rui did not refute, but asked: "After all, the Lishan Immortal Sect is still the Jiejiao Sect, so you can tell me, what is the most fundamental doctrine of our Jiejiao? Is it what the Lishan Holy Mother said?"
"Uh……"
He Lingyun paused for a moment and whispered, "I've read in the library that the word 'jie' in the teachings means to gain insight into the Way of Heaven. Another meaning is to intercept a ray of hope. There are fifty great ways, forty-nine in the Way of Heaven, and only one is lost. This lost one is the ray of hope that Jiejiao wants to intercept. Therefore, our teaching emphasizes teaching without distinction. Anyone who has a heart for the Way can join the teaching and intercept a ray of hope for all things."
These things were not taught by the Holy Mother of Mount Li. If He Lingyun had not loved to spend his time reading in the library, he might not have known them. The things taught by the Holy Mother of Mount Li may exist in the teachings of the Western Religion or the Explanation Religion, but they were not mentioned in the fundamental teachings of the Jie Religion.
He Lingyun looked at Wen Rui's actions in light of the basic teachings of Jiejiao. It was not that unorthodox to make friends with the demon king, and Master Tongtian really did not care whether his disciples were good or evil. Back then, the disciples of Jiejiao were a mixed bag, with all kinds of monsters and demons. It was precisely because of this that they were criticized by the Chenjiao, the Renjiao, and the Western Sect.
Wen Rui's eyes lit up and he nodded, "Not bad, not bad. Then do you know why the Chan Sect and the Human Sect were both in power and they also created a so-called renegade disciple Shen Gongbao to play the Infernal Affairs and screw us Jie Sect to death? It's not just as simple as giving us a few more places in the Conferred God List."
He Lingyun said weakly: "Isn't it because our disciples of Jiejiao did not abide by the rules and regulations, and recklessly acted against the will of heaven, and reaped the consequences?"
"Humph!"
Wen Rui snorted coldly, "The Chan Sect is the Chan Sect, explaining the Way of Heaven and acting on behalf of Heaven! They say that we, the Jie Sect, are defying the Way of Heaven and suffering the consequences. That's just talk. After all, history is written by the victors. But as a Jie Sect disciple, do you dare to believe what they say?"
"Eh?" He Lingyun widened his eyes and asked in surprise: "Isn't that the case?"
"The fragments of Heaven's Way that we intercepted are insightful, without modification, without personal opinion, and without explanation. Perhaps we only glimpse a tiny part of Heaven's Way, but they are theorems, formulas, laws, and truths that have been repeatedly verified and proven. They are the countless 'missing ones' hidden beneath the surface."
"Although the fire of heaven is scattered, all living beings will gather fuel. When civilization is upgraded, all mortals will be on par with gods. This is how technology changes the power structure of the old world. Man will conquer nature, and gods and Buddhas will be afraid of change! At that time, how will those original gods and Buddhas who have taken the lead and looked down on all living beings by chance, immortal fate, and ancient fate deal with it?"
"Mortals pray to the Buddha for children, but with the advent of in vitro fertilization technology, the Buddha will be out of work."
"Mortals are weak and bitter, if a cyber-transformed machine ascends, the Buddha will have a holiday."
"If you are afraid of thunder, why not install a lightning rod? How many volts of lightning can penetrate the Lafardi cage?"
"When mortals encounter drought, they can use water conservancy projects, artificial rainfall, and even global climate control. Why do they need to offer blood sacrifices to He Bo and kneel down to worship the Dragon King?"
"Earthquakes, tsunamis and many other natural disasters can be warned. When one side is in trouble, all sides will come to its aid. Although heaven is ruthless, people are kind."
"When all the unspeakable and extraordinary secrets of the Way of Heaven are intercepted and revealed one by one, controlled nuclear fusion, artificial synthesis of starch protein, room temperature superconductivity, AI intelligence, Dyson sphere, artificial sun, artificial black hole, control of galaxy matter and energy, control of universe matter and energy, exceeding the speed of light, time and space tunnel, transcending dimension..."
"When these technologies are combined with cultivation, what kind of driving force will be generated for civilization? It's not just mortals competing with gods. The grand occasion of my Jiejiao when thousands of immortals came to pay homage to me is nothing compared to that. When the genes of all the people ascend, the world will be united, all living beings will be immortals, and billions of saints will come to pay homage to me! That will be the true rise of Jiejiao!"
"When the knowledge of the entropy increase and heat death of the universe is understood by all living things, entropy increase can be reversed, and heat death can be rekindled. The only hope for all living things is the rebirth of the universe!"
"I just want to ask, if a mortal of that era threw a two-dimensional foil of the third-level civilization, would the Jade Emperor, who has practiced for 200 million years, be able to catch it? I'm afraid he would just be beaten into a paper man to fool the devil! What kind of existence would the beings who have reached the seventh-level civilization be?"
"If you were a god or Buddha who was controlled by the vested interest group, would you allow Jiejiao to continue to exist? The struggle for the orthodoxy is a struggle for life and death. Our Jiejiao has cut off the main artery of Chanjiao, Renjiao and Western religion, so we have become the target of public criticism and have been strangled by the joint efforts!"
"All the sentient beings in the three realms in countless parallel universes have had a precious opportunity to advance to a high-level cultivation civilization, break through the central curve of the finite universe, and achieve the advancement of multiverse civilization. However, the great filter of Conferred Gods lies across every universe, destroying them time and time again."
"I am Wenrui, the last true Jiejiao disciple of this prehistoric universe. The ultimate goal of all my actions is to revive Jiejiao and seize a ray of hope for all living beings. If you are smart enough, you will understand my good intentions. If you are not smart enough, you can betray me and report me. It's a pity that the immortals and saints will not believe you. They will not believe that a mere mortal, an ant-like existence, can set off a rolling tide that sweeps across the prehistoric universe."
He Lingyun was completely dumbfounded again. In fact, she didn't quite understand what he said, but she knew that what Senior Brother Wen said was extremely powerful. She was so awe-inspired by his aura that looked down on infinite time and space and the infinite universe. With the dual intuition of a woman and a spirit bird, she felt that these incomprehensible things he said seemed to be really true.
Today is a big chapter, 4,000 words
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