Chapter 206 The 4th Immortal Cultivation World War
Chapter 206 The Fourth Great War of the Immortal Cultivation World
After Wen Rui finished speaking, the leaders of the four major sects seemed to be thinking about something.
Xue Bao, the leader of Jinting Immortal Sect, showed a look of sudden realization and narrowed his eyes and said, "Master Wen, what a good plan of using someone else's strength to save his own. But how could you have predicted that Great Joy Bodhisattva would choose to sacrifice his own strength to save his own strength, rather than fight to the death with us?"
Wen Rui restrained his expression and said, "Even if Great Joy Bodhisattva doesn't care about the Hunyuan Golden Immortal ancestors standing behind us, he still has to worry about the internal strife of other sects in the same religion."
“Western religion is not monolithic.”
He sneered and said, "There are countless sub-sects within the sect. The Buddha alone is divided into three: the past, present, and future Buddhas. Each sub-sect has a different interpretation of the doctrine."
"However, no matter which sect or branch, they all adhere to a core doctrine, which is to develop a bodhi mind and plant good roots."
"The Bodhisattva Maha Joy did not dare to openly oppose this core doctrine, otherwise he would be undermining the foundation of Western religion."
"If we launch an attack against the Bodhisattva himself, it will be a life-and-death struggle. He will fight back at all costs."
"Because, once we have established that Joyful Meditation is an evil dharma, it will prove that the bodhi mind of the Great Joyful Bodhisattva was wrong.
"The cause and condition for Chang Er Ding Guang Xian to attain the fruit of Bodhisattva does not exist. He will definitely be questioned by other Western religious sects, who will accuse the sect he founded of being a heresy and attack him. Then his fate will be extinction."
"We turned to criticize his disciples. If he stood on the side of his disciples, it would be tantamount to admitting that his disciples' actions were directed by him. All the evil deeds done by his disciples would be blamed on him, and it would be difficult for him to prove his innocence."
"His best option is to keep silent and wait and see. If the disciples win, he can order the Rabbit Bandits to continue to commit sins to accumulate merit for him. Even if the disciples are killed by us, he still has a way out. At most, he can recruit a new group of believers and disciples."
"This is like attacking a city with three sides and one side left. Once there is a way to retreat, how can the cowardly people like Great Joy Bodhisattva, who played both sides in the Conferred God War, dare to risk offending four Daluo Jinxians and a Tianzun and fight to the death with us?"
The look in the eyes of the four sect leaders when they looked at Wen Rui suddenly changed.
Chang Qing Zhenren said: "As expected of the son of Wen Zhong, the war god of the Shang Dynasty, he is indeed a master of planning!"
True Man Zi Yang looked alert and muttered, "My disciple Gu Changfeng has been involved with you for only a few years, and his intelligence and strategy have greatly improved, but I always feel that something is wrong."
Xue Bao squinted at him and said, "If our Western sect starts a war, even if we use your strategy and do not confront the Bodhisattva head-on, the losses will not be small. If you think about it carefully, the one who will benefit in the end is still your Jinling Sect."
Fairy Hanyuan had a complicated and conflicted look on her face.
Among the female cultivators rescued in Tielun City, the majority were female disciples of the Yunxiao Immortal Sect.
Wen Rui's plan could kill the evildoers who harmed the female monks, and Fairy Han Yuan naturally agreed with it. But after listening to the words of True Man Zi Yang and Xue Bao, she felt that the four major sects of the Chan Sect seemed to have fallen into Wen Rui's calculations.
Wen Rui shrugged and stopped pretending. He spread his hands and said frankly, "The arrow is on the string and has to be shot. If you can afford to lose face, you can just swallow your anger and pretend that nothing happened. Treat your female disciple as a tribute to the Bodhisattva and generously not pursue the matter."
At this point, his face darkened, and he said, "But I'm not that magnanimous. Starting tomorrow, all the major branches of the Chamber of Commerce will hire storytellers to lecture on "The Story of Happy and Unholy Fate" in the restaurants and teahouses in the cities where they are stationed, exposing the evil deeds of the traitors of the Dingguang Immortal Sect to the entire human race. What role you want to be portrayed as depends on your specific performance."
Wen Rui smiled playfully and said, "I'm sure your ancestors would be very happy to hear the myths and legends of mortals after they came out of retreat and spread the glorious deeds of their disciples who endured humiliation and honored the great bodhisattva of the Western Religion."
"Hey, don't talk nonsense!"
Xue Bao glared and said, "Who said that this sect master doesn't agree to go to war? Our sect's ancestor Daoxing Tianzun values Taoism the most. Anyone can kill such filthy and evil villains. It is our duty to eliminate demons and defend Taoism. We will go into battle as the vanguard."
Zi Yang Zhenren frowned and said, "Our ancestor, Daode Tianjun, values morality the most. Zi Yang Xianzong has already declared war. The leaders of the Rabbit Suppression Alliance are all talented disciples of our sect. Our sect is the leader in the great cause of exterminating demons!" "Our sect is not good at fighting, but we must do our part in the great cause of exterminating demons. The elixirs, weapons, armor, and talismans consumed in this war will be covered by Yu Ding Xianzong!"
"Dingguang is a pervert who bullies female cultivators. Our sect represents all women in the world and will definitely seek revenge!"
These clan leaders are profit-oriented and timid. Their ancestors don't care about those trivial things and value their face the most. Their disciples rub their ancestors' faces on the ground as if they were insoles. The ancestors could just clean up the sect and replace them with a group of more promising disciples.
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Seeing that the army's morale was high, Wen Rui stood up with a heroic spirit and waved his hand, saying, "Okay, the five major sects have reached an agreement. The Fourth Great War of the Immortal Cultivation World will officially begin from today!"
The four sect leaders looked at each other, unable to react for a moment as to what this "Fourth War in the Immortal Cultivation World" was all about.
But they are all well-informed people. After thinking about it carefully, it seems that there is nothing wrong with naming this war "The Fourth War of the Immortal Cultivation World".
Since Pangu created the world, the world of immortal cultivation has experienced three great disasters.
The first catastrophe of Longhan, the great catastrophe of Lich and Wizard, and the great catastrophe of Conferred Gods.
During these three great disasters, the warring parties were the dragon and phoenix clans, the wizard and lich clans, and the Chan and Jie sects.
This war, which took place five hundred years after the Conferred Gods Tribulation, was an alliance of the five major sects of the Chan and Jie schools, which declared war on the Huanxi Zen branch of the Western School.
It happened to be the fourth war that engulfed most of the immortal cultivation world.
Chang Qing Zhenren smiled bitterly and said, "Isn't it a bit arrogant to list it on par with the three great disasters after the creation of the world?"
True Man Zi Yang and Xue Bao were cheered up: "What a great Fourth Great War for the Immortal Cultivation World! Our heroic deeds will surely be recorded in legends in the future!"
Wen Rui's smile grew wider, thinking that if the war really spread, and both sides failed to restrain their fighting and unleashed real flames, and all the great men and Buddhas and Bodhisattvas from the Chan and Western religions came out to engage in a full-scale war, wouldn't that be the true Fourth War in the Immortal Cultivation World?
After the decision to go to war was made, everyone began to discuss the number of troops each sect would send and the selection of the commander of the coalition forces.
The final number of troops to be sent out was decided to be 2,000 disciples above the Jindan realm each from the Ziyang and Jinting sects, and 1,000 disciples each from the Yuding and Yunxiao sects.
As for the Jinling Sect, it dispatched 4,000 metal puppets and assumed the responsibility of transporting the coalition forces' logistics and supplies.
In this way, the total strength of the coalition forces of the five sects reached 10,000.
As for the commander of the coalition forces, Fairy Han Yuan recommended Wen Rui as the chief commander because among these sect leaders, only Sect Leader Wen had the experience of commanding troops in battles, and he also had a reputation as a famous general in the Battle of the Gods.
Wen Rui immediately offered to withdraw from the competition, on the grounds that the famous general of the time was his father Wen Zhong, and he was only responsible for staff and logistics in the Shang army.
Moreover, commanding a mortal army is completely different from commanding a monk army, and the experience cannot be used interchangeably.
Therefore, Xue Bao, the leader of the Jinting Immortal Sect, was naturally elected as the commander-in-chief by everyone.
Wen Rui was given the title of military commander and did his old job in the Shang army - logistics minister.
(End of this chapter)