Chapter 317: The Mystery of Time, Immortal Sword
"Huang Tian and Taoist Master Baihu have joined forces. These two people are very cunning and have the support of Zifu Tianzun. If you rashly go to find her without being prepared, you will definitely encounter unexpected disasters."
"You don't need to be anxious. I have already made plans for this matter."
"In another hundred years, there will be a great war between the human world and the netherworld, and at that time all three of the Heavenly Lords will take action."
"I will take this opportunity to suppress the White Tiger Taoist Master for you."
"Whether you want to kill her or have other plans, you can do whatever you want."
Upon hearing this, White Tiger God felt a little relieved, and even had an indescribable feeling, as if he had found someone to rely on.
She had always relied on herself in the past. When the empress was alive, she treated all immortals, Buddhas and saints equally, and the disputes between the two sisters were never made public.
But now this man had forcibly taken her body away from her, and he had domineeringly asked her to be his woman. But for some reason, she didn't feel too disgusted until now. Instead, she became more dependent and happy.
Especially after being with Lu Chengfeng over the years, she knew this man's magical powers very well.
Even if Huang Tian and that woman joined forces, they could never be a match for her man.
All kinds of thoughts flashed through her mind, and the White Tiger God became more gentle. In front of outsiders, she was always vindictive, cold and cruel.
But once she completely surrenders, she will be far more gentle and obedient than other women.
"I, I'll listen to you..."
"I will do whatever you say."
The white tiger kept talking and transmitting messages through his mind.
Upon hearing this, Lu Chengfeng couldn't help but burst into laughter. He knew that from now on the white tiger had finally surrendered completely.
……
After leaving the White Tiger God, a drizzle began to fall from the sky.
Lu Chengfeng came to Songtao Pavilion alone. This small pavilion was located halfway up the mountain. From a distance, one could see ancient pines that looked like the ocean. Surrounded by clouds and mist, it looked like a fairyland.
He strolled alone, came to the pine forest, and sat down next to a tall ancient pine tree, his hair scattered on his shoulders and there was a loneliness in his eyes.
He now indulges in sensual pleasures in the Shenxiao Palace, enjoying countless resources and precious elixirs and spiritual objects. He can live in peace in a corner in this chaotic world, enjoying the rare tranquility and peace.
But all of this was left by the empress, or rather, by the junior sister.
According to her original destiny, she should have conquered the underworld before meeting her end in the battle with the Emperor of Heaven.
But because of my appearance, she died 100,000 years earlier.
Although Lu Chengfeng speculated based on information from many aspects that the junior sister should not have really died, she was very likely in an extremely mysterious state and was engaged in an extremely fierce game with the Emperor of Heaven.
But there is no doubt that it was he who personally plucked the strings of fate, causing her to have a life-and-death battle with the Emperor of Heaven in advance.
If Junior Sister loses this battle, she will completely disappear from the Three Realms just like her original fate.
No matter how chaotic the Three Realms become today, no matter how happily those Heavenly Lords dance, everything will return to its original track in the end.
Lu Chengfeng casually picked a white flower from the ground. The falling raindrops diluted the fragrance and added a hint of coolness.
He sniffed the petals lightly, and there was an indescribable gentleness in his whole body.
"Little junior sister, are you okay?"
He could not figure out the emperor's situation, as he could not find any trace of these two people in the past or the future. He could only speculate on the status of the two people through the fragmentary information from the future.
He sighed quietly, and in this deserted place, he felt a little melancholy and lonely.
Lu Chengfeng has never been an ambitious person. He is greedy for money, lustful, lazy, and even selfish and domineering. It can be said that he is no different from those little people in the mortal world.
If he hadn't been gifted with talent, he wouldn't have gotten this far.
Even the women around him are more outstanding than him.
Although Luo Suyi is docile and has never been aggressive, she is the reincarnation of Qingming Tianzun. Her cultivation progress is very fast and she does not have any bottlenecks at all. I am afraid it will not take long for her to return to the position of Tianzun.
Although Zhu Yuxian's cultivation is shallow now, he possesses a rare spirit and courage in the world. He has opened up a new world for martial arts with his own strength and created breathing methods and true form methods.
As for Yi Hongchen, Qi Lingxi and others, they are even more ambitious. Even if they become guardian spirits, they still want to walk their own path and create a foundation.
Not to mention the White Tiger God and the Vermillion Bird Taoist Lord, they were originally high-ranking officials of the Divine Court and held high positions of power in the beginning. Whether in terms of birth, background, character, fortune, or Taoism, they were the top existences in the Three Realms.
And he... was like a country boy who relied on his talent to rush around, without any goals or direction, just going with the flow, being pushed around by all kinds of changes in the three realms.
Although he is now highly accomplished in Taoism and has boundless magical powers, he feels more and more lonely. Instead, he misses the days when he was young and practiced martial arts and swordsmanship at Bixiao Peak.
Now I recall the joy of Jiangnan, when I was young and wore thin clothes.
Riding a horse and leaning on the sloping bridge, red sleeves waving in the building.
The past is gone, and it is impossible to go back to the past. Even if he comprehends the law of time, it is impossible to turn back time...
"Huh?! Going back in time?!"
Lu Chengfeng's pupils suddenly shrank and he thought of Qingming Tianzun. With his current level of Taoism and supernatural powers, although he has not yet become a Tianzun, his foundation is not inferior at all. He is even absolutely sure that he can break through.
But even after the breakthrough, it would be impossible for him to turn back time for the entire Three Realms. This would almost require him to suppress the origin of the Three Realms with his own strength, and use his supreme supernatural powers and great fortune to reverse the universe and distort time.
With his current understanding of time, even a great emperor couldn't do this, let alone a mere Heavenly Lord? !
He suddenly frowned, he found that he was too accustomed to some things that happened in the past, and even overlooked some details that he should have noticed long ago.
Reversing time, what kind of magical power is this? !
Even Queen Nuwa, Taoist Master Dao and Buddha have never done it.
Qingming Tianzun, what right does she have?
And the memories of the next 100,000 years that he had seen by chance in the past, now seem incredible.
With his current level of Taoism and control over time, he is unable to deduce the future of the emperor. Who on earth has the ability to allow him to see the 100,000-year memory of two emperor-level figures?
This is too incredible.
Lu Chengfeng felt dazed for a moment. He looked back suddenly and thought about everything that had happened in the past. He found that many things were shrouded in layers of fog, making it difficult to see clearly.
"The incarnation of the Empress and the reincarnation of Qingming Tianzun, what a coincidence, both are in Bixiao Peak?"
"And how could I, a mere mortal, obtain the virginity of the Great Emperor's incarnation? And how could I be karmically involved with both mother and daughter?"
"Coincidence?!" Lu Chengfeng's face suddenly turned cold. Thinking back carefully to everything that had happened in the past, he felt creepy and shuddered, as if everything was just like a script, being controlled and arranged by a pair of big hands behind the scenes. His eyes were dim, and he suddenly thought of the future years he had deduced before, the battle in the underworld, the journey to the west to seek Buddha, and the battle of the gods.
Did he deduce all this, or did someone want him to see it?
"Time is not real either. It is just a possibility in the future. It is to jump out of the Three Realms and observe the fate of all living beings from another higher dimension."
"It stands to reason that as long as one comprehends the origin of the Heavenly Dao to a certain degree, one can jump out of the Three Realms, peek into the River of Time, and thus view the past and the future in another dimension."
"But why is it that in the Three Realms today, almost no one can comprehend time?"
Lu Chengfeng felt more and more weird. He had refined many gifts before. Those immortals, Buddhas, demons and monsters from the ancient and prehistoric times, as long as they were highly skilled in Taoism, had the opportunity to peek into time.
But now...
"A world without time, is this possible?"
He suddenly thought of what the predecessors and sages had said.
Who knows the big dream first, I know it all my life.
Zhuang Zhou dreamed of being a butterfly. The dream was not a dream, and I was not myself.
Lu Chengfeng felt his teeth chattering. "How could there be no time in this real world?"
"Is the world I live in now not real?"
"No, it's impossible..."
He took a deep breath and put his wild thoughts to rest.
Everything he experienced was so real, and the women around him were so charming. If you tell him that it was all fake, how could he accept it?
Lu Chengfeng only felt that he was in a dream, but he didn't dare to wake up.
He leaned against the ancient pine tree, and in the drizzle, his gaze gradually became deep.
"I was too relaxed in the past, indulging myself in sensual pleasures, enjoying life to the fullest, and just going with the flow."
"There are still many secrets in these three realms, and there are still many things in the past and the future that I cannot see clearly."
"Many things may not be as simple as I thought."
Lu Chengfeng let the rain fall on his face, it felt cool and made him feel much more awake.
"In a hundred years, the Netherworld War will break out. Xuanmen and Buddhism will join forces to conquer the Netherworld. Xuanmen will suppress the Ten Kings of Hell, and Buddhism will take away the Peacock Saint."
"The most important reason why I hid in this Shenxiao Palace is because I am afraid of the three Heavenly Lords."
"Those three are not ordinary Heavenly Lords. After they created the world, they were able to integrate the heritage left by the Xuanmen, Buddhism, and the demon race, making the world they created far surpass that of other Heavenly Lords."
“The Pure and Tranquil Heaven of the Xuan Sect and the Xumi Heaven of the Buddhist Sect, this is the heritage left by the Taoist Ancestor and the Buddha. The Xuan Sect and Buddhist Heavenly Masters of later generations can merge their own heaven and earth with the Pure and Tranquil Heaven and the Xumi Heaven, thus possessing combat power that surpasses that of their peers.”
"Zifu Tianzun is in Qingjing Heaven, Xumi Tianzun is in Xumi Heaven. Even the Great Emperor will return empty-handed."
"Only the Primordial Chaos Heaven left by Empress Nuwa borders on Primordial Chaos, which is too dangerous. The Demon Clan Great Saint cannot refine the Primordial Chaos Heaven, but after the death of the Demon Clan Great Saints of all generations, they will return their own heaven and earth to the Great Saint Continent, which is the ancestral home of the Demon Clan. After countless years of accumulation, the combat power of the Demon Clan Great Saints in the Great Saint Continent, even if it is not as good as that of Xuanmen and Buddhism, is far superior to other Heavenly Lords."
Lu Chengfeng carefully considered the current situation in the three realms.
"Buddhism has Sumeru Heaven, which was left by the Buddha. After each generation of the Heavenly Lord dies, the heaven and earth they created will be integrated into Sumeru Heaven, making Sumeru Heaven so powerful that it is unimaginable after countless years of accumulation."
He had seen Mount Sumeru in the scroll of the future. From the scroll of time and space, it was a mountain with no visible top. It was extremely tall and suppressed time and space. It was the Buddhist Mount Sumeru.
The paradise opened up by the contemporary Sumeru Lord is located on Mount Sumeru. When this Lord dies in the future, the paradise will be merged into Mount Sumeru.
"As long as Xumi Tianzun is in Mount Xumi, he is almost equal to the Great Emperor. This is probably also the reason why he dares to attack the Empress and even compete with the Emperor of Heaven for the throne in the future picture I saw."
"As for Xuanmen, it's the same. From the future picture scroll, Qingjingtian is also a fairy mountain, with misty fairy light and covered by clouds. Xuanmen calls it Kunlun Mountain."
"The Sumeru Mountain of Buddhism and the Kunlun Mountain of Taoism are the foundation and heritage of the two major sects. Being in them is like being an emperor."
"Only the demon race lacks the blessing of Primal Chaos Heaven. Although the ancient demon saints shaped the Great Saint Continent, and the origins of the great saints of all generations were integrated after their deaths, the Great Saint Continent has a deep foundation, but it is still not as good as Buddhism and Xuanmen."
"This is also the root cause of the Peacock Great Sage's defeat in the Netherworld War."
Lu Chengfeng stood up slowly. "I originally only wanted to take advantage of the Netherworld War to suppress the other three ancient beasts and capture the White Tiger Taoist Master, so as to break through to the position of Heavenly Venerable in one fell swoop."
"But now it seems that we still need to be more proactive."
"The land of the netherworld contains endless opportunities and fortunes."
"In the future 100,000 years that I saw, the Empress obtained the secret of reincarnation from the netherworld, and thus lived another life, adding 100,000 years to her lifespan."
"The Emperor of Heaven also obtained good fortune from the Netherworld, which enabled him to defeat the Empress, rule the Thirty-three Heavens, and become the unique Emperor of Heaven in the past and present."
"If he can go, I can go too!"
"Why are you guarding the door? You are a door-guarding dog!"
He snapped his fingers and a beam of five-colored light fell down, rolling on the ground, revealing a white jade peacock.
The feathers behind the white jade peacock flickered, and five-colored rays of light swirled around it, and it immediately transformed into a graceful young man wearing five-colored cloud clothes, a Taoist bun on his head, soft boots on his feet, and sword-like eyebrows and eyes.
"From today on, you will be called Kong Xuan. You will cross into the Netherworld and take charge of one side. On the one hand, you will try to get close to the Peacock Great Sage, and on the other hand, you will search for the secrets of reincarnation in the Netherworld."
This young man was the result of his transformation. He was not a so-called clone but could be regarded as one of his original bodies.
Kong Xuan raised his eyebrows when he heard this, and said, "If I go to the Netherworld, I will need two things."
"The first is the authority of the netherworld, which is the position of the impermanent lord that you once obtained. With this authority, I can move forward and backward freely, and at the same time try to obtain more authority of the netherworld."
"The second one is the Immortal Sword, a congenital spiritual treasure hidden in the Empress's collection. This sword contains the Five Elements and the Dao of Life and Death. It is compatible with me and can communicate with the power of the underworld. With this killing weapon protecting me, I can walk freely in the underworld without being suppressed by the laws of the underworld."
"It should be so." Lu Chengfeng nodded and tapped his forehead lightly. The pearl image appeared, and along with a crisp bell sound, an ancient and natural bell engraved with various runes suddenly appeared.
This thing is condensed from the authority of the Venerable Wuchang, and has great magical powers that allow the two worlds to be connected. It can move freely between the underworld and the human world, with no gap between the two worlds, and is free and unrestrained.
When Lu Chengfeng broke through to the realm of True Immortal, the good fortune he gained from Qingmingtian enabled him to push open the door to the underworld.
Kong Xuan raised his hand and took the bell. The bell was only the size of a palm, and was engraved with densely packed Netherworld runes, which made people feel dazzled at a glance.
"The Immortal Sword is in the treasury, just follow me." After Lu Chengfeng said that, he turned and went towards the empress's secret vault.
Kong Xuan put away the bell and followed him.
(End of this chapter)