Eastern Continent.
Black Abyss City.
This was the main city of one of the five great emperor clans.
At this moment.
The sound of people was booming, and a faint golden Buddha light gradually spread out from above Black Abyss City.
It formed ripples and looked extraordinary.
A burst of chanting slowly resounded.
Buddhist light pervaded.
The divine monk Huijue stood in the heart of the city, clad in a robe, looking calm and with his hands folded, looking sacred and magnificent.
Behind him, eight hundred sutra-defending monks towered, each with a compa*sionate look on their faces, as if the living beings were extremely pitiful and wanted to bring love to the world.
As for the Black Abyss City, many of the people knelt on the ground and worshipped reverently, but as for the cultivators of Black Abyss City, they all had ugly faces.
They failed to argue the Dharma, not failed, the whole Eastern Continent, was the end of a miserable defeat, being dumbfounded and silenced by the Buddha’s arguments.
One First Grade was almost frantic.
And what was even more frightening was that the Buddha Sect had not used any sophistry.
It was entirely a debate with some reasoning, in other words, the Buddha Sect hadn’t even used fifty percent of its power.
“Amitabha Buddha.”
“Today, after the debate in the Eastern Continent, I still hope that the City Lord will build a temple for my Buddhist Sect, and in ten days’ time, the Buddhist Sect will cross over here to the east to promote Buddhism.”
Hui Jue’s voice rang out, looking at the other party and looking very kind.
However, these words seemed incomparably harsh to the ears of the Black Abyss City cultivators.
It was enough that they had lost the debate, but now they had to build a temple for the other side, and it was not too much to say that it was a great shame.
But this could not be helped.
The Buddhists had come to debate the Dharma, and the East Island Emperors had agreed that the Buddhists would take the Supreme Dharma as their edge, and if they won the debate, they would spread the Dharma in the East Island, and if the Buddhists lost the debate, then the Buddhists would not set foot in the East Island.
If they failed, they would not set foot on the East Continent and would have to pay a painful price.
In contrast, the East Continent pays the price of allowing the Buddhists to move in.
Between the two, it may seem that the Buddhists are the ones who are losing out, but in reality, it is the Buddhists who are actually taking advantage of the debate on the Dharma.
Of course, the Eastern Continent Emperors can also not argue the Dharma, however, the Buddhist Sect launches a Dharma debate, following the doings of the Divine Principle and bringing the faith of the Buddhist beings to argue the Dharma.
If you don’t agree to debate the Dharma, then sorry, the losses will be even worse.
It is a loss either way, and the Eastern Continent chooses to put up a fight, otherwise the Buddhists are riding up to their faces, and if the Eastern Continent Emperors do not step in, not only will they lose their qi, they will even lose their faces.
Although the outcome did not change anything, at least for the moment, there was no disgrace, no loss of backbone.
“Please don’t worry, Divine Monk Hui Jue, we naturally won’t go back on our word, but everything still has to wait until Divine Monk Hui Jue finishes debating the law before the temple will be built.”
The Lord of Black Abyss City spoke with a calm expression, they from the East Continent could still afford to lose.
Only, winning the East Continent was nothing, it had to be considered a victory only after they had debated the Dharma and won it all.
Only then would they have to build the temple.
When this was said, the divine monk Huijue was very calm, he knew what the other side meant.
He just folded his hands, recited Amitabha Buddha, and led the monks away.
“The debate in the Eastern Continent has been won, and we are heading for Great Wei.”
He spoke, and after saying this, his bare feet stepped on the ground, and in an instant a golden lotus appeared, and everywhere was the fragrance of flowers and visions.
The Buddha’s light reflected in golden splendour, and a burst of Sanskrit sounds rang out as faint golden ripples wavered above the vault of the East Continent sky.
Forming circle after circle, the faith of all beings was lost into the Eastern Continent.
The Buddha’s faith was paved in advance for the Buddha Sect’s eastward journey.
If the Buddhists win in succession, the faith of all living beings will envelop the world, and the Buddhists will become the strongest of the six systems in the first place.
It will be favoured by the heavens.
This is a battle of systems, which can be interpreted as a battle of qi between dynasties.
An hour later.
A big mountain.
The divine monk Hui Jue walked among the mountains and rivers, and he looked a little silent.
It was reasonable to say that the Eastern Continent should be joyful at the great victory in the debate, and such silence made the eight hundred debating monks behind him somewhat curious.
“Divine monk.”
“You are so worried, what is the matter?”
A scripture debating monk spoke up and looked at Hui Jue.
“For the Middle Continent.”
The divine monk Hui Jue spoke, three simple words that said it all.
“It is true that the Middle Continent is a land of great people and many wise men, but now that Confucianism has fallen, do we still need to fear the Middle Continent?”
The Scripture-defending monk continued to ask.
But Hui Jue shook his head.
“It is not fear.”
“Rather, it is the Mandate of Heaven.”
“Five hundred years ago, the Little Thunder Sound Monastery debated the Four Continents and lost to the Middle Continent, so much so that the Little Thunder Sound Monastery, fell straight down the Buddhist pantheon, was overtaken by the Tianzhu Monastery and lost its heavenly destiny.”
“If we succeed, everything will be fine. This is to change the fate of the Buddha Sect against the heavens.
“But if we fail, we will be dealt an unparalleled blow. This time in the Eastern Continent, we defeated the Martial Dao lineage and went to the Central Continent, and our goal is the Immortal Dao and Confucian Dao.”
“If we lose, the three major qi movements, Buddhism, Martial Arts and Immortality, will once again become the dowry of others.”
“This is what worries the poor monk.”
Divine Monk Hui Jue spoke his thoughts.
But the latter was slightly silent and after thinking for a while, he could not help but speak.
“The divine monk’s words are understood by my disciple, but the divine monk is not a bit overly worried.”
“Since Zhu Sheng’s strike, the Confucian Way has been in ruins, and it is precisely because of this that the temple has revived debate.”
“Who else in Confucianism dares to fight with us?”
“To be honest, Master Xu may have some ability, but we are not weaker than him.”
The latter asked, looking at the divine monk Huijue.
The words were confident, but not arrogant.
However, Divine Monk Huijue shook his head and said.
“No.”
“The old ca*sock does not consider Xu Qingnian to be the greatest enemy of my Buddhist sect.”
“The real enemy is Wang Chaoyang, this sub-sage who has suddenly appeared.”
“His origins are mysterious, and it is likely that he is truly a descendant of a great sage.”
“If that is the case, he possesses unparalleled knowledge, and this is the greatest enemy of my Buddhist sect.”
“Xu Qingnian, he is also a handsome man, a great talent of the Confucian Way, who has become a half-saint at a young age.”
“But the two are completely different.”
Divine Monk Hui Jue spoke out, he was not mocking Xu Qingnian, nor was he looking down on him, but rather stating a fact.
It was only when this was said that the crowd was curious and looked at the Huijue Divine Monk, not understanding why the Huijue Divine Monk was saying this?
“Why did you say that?”
“I thought it was because I was afraid of Master Xu, but it turns out it wasn’t?”
“Wang Chaoyang?”
The eight hundred scripture debating monks were very curious, for they had always thought that Xu Qingnian was likely to be their enemy.
What they did not expect was that Divine Monk Hui Jue did not regard Xu Qingnian as an enemy.
This was indeed a bit odd.
The divine Monk Hui Jue was calm and sat down directly on the ground, looking at the monks and said.
“Think about it.”
“Although Xu Qingnian is a Confucian half-saint, most of his path of promotion has to do with public opinion.”
“He clearly intended to learn from the heart and to know and act in unison.”
“He established his words for the people, wrote books for the people, and knew that Heaven’s truth was also a matter of action.”
“Later on, he became a half-saint, clarified his intention for the world’s rulers, set up his words and wrote his books, all because he encountered a crisis.”
“His whole mind was actually still on the battle between the imperial government and the literary palace, and he didn’t have time to think about some of the great truths.”
“It’s not that he doesn’t have the qualifications, it’s that he doesn’t have the time.”
“We have prepared for this debate for five hundred years, travelled ten thousand miles barefoot, seen the end of the sky and looked at the deep sea from the cape, and every truth has been personally perceived by us.”
“If we were to give Xu Qingnian another fifty years, or even thirty years, perhaps he would know countless truths.”
“But for now, Xu Qingnian is still too young.”
“He knows too little, he doesn’t understand the truths, he doesn’t understand the truths of heaven and earth, and in these five hundred years, how many things have we learned? How many things has he learnt?”
“It is not that Old Diamond is gullible, just ask him about the world beneath his feet, whether it is square or round, and he, Xu Qingnian, cannot even answer.”
“So, he is not a match for us.”
Divine Monk Hui Jue spoke, he was not looking down on Xu Qingnian, but he thought that Xu Qingnian’s age was here.
There were many things that needed to be tested for oneself before one could know the answer.
A person who has not experienced something personally will never know how difficult it is or what it means.
Before Xu Qingnian was twenty years old, he was a magistrate, but it only took him a year to become a half-saint.
It could be said that Xu Qingnian possessed the Confucian talent.
But it definitely cannot be said that Xu Qingnian knew a lot of truths.
The Buddhist apologetics expounded the truths of heaven and earth, the truths of nature, and the truths of the living beings.
These are not things that can be learned from books; one needs to experience them for oneself in order to learn them.
Naturally, Divine Monk Hui Jue did not consider Xu Qingnian to be his enemy.
Rather, he was worried about Wang Chaoyang.
Once this was said, the monks understood, and all of them folded their hands and chanted Amitabha Buddha.
But at that very moment, the divine monk Hui Jue spoke again.
“If we fail, its not the addition of qi to the Confucian Way that we are most worried about.”
“The Confucian Way is already irreversible and will sooner or later decay.”
“What I am really worried about is the Qi luck being added to the national luck of Great Wei, if that were to happen, I am afraid that Great Wei would have to give birth to the Dragon Tripod of the Middle Continent.”
“At that time, Great Wei will be truly blessed by the heavens, and within twenty years, it will unify the Central Continent, and in the future, the Great Wei Dynasty will become the supreme hegemon of the Central Continent.”
“At that time, both the Immortal Dao and the Buddhist Sect will be under the control of the Great Wei Dynasty, and at that time, everything will be redundant.”
Divine Monk Hui Jue said with some emotion.
He was not afraid of the Buddhist qi being added to the Confucian Way, because the Confucian Way had been completely abolished.
Where he was really worried was that the Buddhist qi, had been taken away by the Great Wei.
Nowadays, the national fortune of Great Wei had already coalesced into the Dragon Cauldron since Xu Qingnian had become a saint, and with the forty great ambitions set by Wang Chaoyang, the national fortune was even more flourishing.
If the Buddhists lost again and all this Qi luck was swallowed by the Great Wei Dragon Cauldron, it would be terrifying.
This was the thing he was worried about.
For many of the remaining matters, even if Confucianism won the debate, the loss would not be so great that the Buddhists could not accept it.
Five hundred years ago, Little Thunder Sound Temple lost, and the losses were heavy because Confucianism had produced a saint, robbing all the qi not to mention the fact that it was suppressed by the saint.
In the words of the Buddhists, they lost the debate and also the foundation, and it took 500 years to get over it.
Now it was different, as long as it was not a loss to the Great Wei Dynasty, then there was no big problem.
“Let’s go, within ten days, arrive at Great Wei.”
Soon, the divine monk Huijue rose and continued to walk in the direction of Great Wei.
At that moment, the monks rose up, a lotus flower rising beneath their feet, leaving behind a heavy Buddhist light in the places they pa*sed through.
Moreover, they were exercising their Buddhist divine powers, and it appeared that they were taking one step at a time, but in reality each step was hundreds of metres down the road.
Otherwise, if they really had to take one step at a time, they would not be able to reach the capital of Great Wei even if they walked for ten years.
The Buddhists set off for Great Wei.
The news quickly spread to the capital of Great Wei.
But it was not Confucianism that was most anxious, but the Immortals.
When the Buddhists came to Wei, the first thing they wanted to do was to argue with the Immortals.
Only after they had won against the Immortal Sect would they then go to debate the Dharma with Confucianism.
Only then would the process be considered complete.
Right now, the Immortal Sect was a little worried, and apart from the Seven Star Dao Sect, the other six Immortal Sects were all very anxious, all waiting for Xu Qingnian’s Supreme Ancient Scripture.
Unfortunately, it was not good for them to take the initiative to disturb Xu Qingnian, so they could only wait anxiously.
At this moment.
On the edge of the lake.
Xu Qingnian was still pondering over some things.
He really could not accept that the person behind the curtain was Zhu Sheng.
To be more precise, it wasn’t that he couldn’t accept that Zhu Sheng was behind it, but that he couldn’t figure out what the key point was.
To use Xunzi’s words.
Zhu Sheng had his eyes on him from the very beginning.
He had said that he saw a glimpse of the future and saw himself becoming a saint.
So Zhu Sheng had been watching himself.
If that was true, then everything he had done was in his plan.
But this doesn’t make logical sense.
The biggest logical question was, with what power did Zhu Sheng have.
Could he keep everything under his control?
What if Wu Yan had slapped himself to death.
There was no need for Zhao Dafu to have to choose himself as a pawn.
Yan Lei let Wu Yan go, but came to target himself. Later, when he met Cheng Lidong and learnt that he practised the supernatural arts, shouldn’t he have understood that he was also a pawn?
There were too many, too many things that were hard to explain.
Xu Qingnian closed his eyes, he had to find a reason.
A suitable reason.
“If Zhu Sheng is really behind this, he must be by my side.”
“When Wu Yan appeared and wounded me, I hadn’t even entered the rank, and the other party was already an eighth-ranked martial artist and practiced a different art, a single slap could have killed me.”
“At this time, Zhu Sheng chose to appear and saved me.”
Xu Qingnian opened his mouth, he opened his eyes, looked at Xunzi and said so.
It was.
With Wu Yan’s slap down, he would most likely die, but he survived and was given twelve hours to live by chance.
That meant then that someone had stepped in to save himself before he crossed over.
As for Zhao Dafu, he had definitely not chosen himself to be a pawn because he wanted to obtain the Martial Emperor’s relics either.
Rather, he was entrusted by someone.
The nexus of everything, all back to the very beginning.
“Perhaps it is, or perhaps it isn’t.”
“These are not clear to old me, you need to think for yourself.”
Xunzi spoke, this was something he didn’t know either, perhaps this was something he had been thinking about as well.
Hearing these words, Xu Qingnian took a long breath.
The more one went to think about it.
Then the more complicated everything became.
Xu Qingnian was silent for a full half an hour.
Finally, something suddenly occurred to him.
The second pawn of the White Cloth Sect.
It was not Zhao Dafu.
The second chess piece that Sheriff Chen said was not Zhao Dafu.
Zhao Dafu had just gone along with his own meaning and made up an answer that he wanted to get.
He was a member of the White Cloth Sect, but he was definitely not the second pawn.
Or rather, Zhao Dafu was the second pawn, but there was a third pawn, an existence even above the White Cloth Sect.
It was Zhu Sheng.
But, this should not be either.
“If this is really the case, why didn’t Zhu Sheng just kill me?”
“What did he leave me here for? What was his purpose? He wants to live forever, let me do something, and then kill me when I’m done?”
“This is obviously impossible, God forbid, a truly wise man would only minimise the threat.”
“He could have used me, but it’s like now, I know this and it has become a threat to him, he should have been able to anticipate it.”
Xu Qingnian stated another extremely illogical point.
Hypothesis.
Zhu Sheng was really the mastermind behind the curtain, and he saw the future and became a saint himself.
Then what would Zhu Sheng’s first reaction be?
It should be to put himself to death.
Not to let himself grow.
What was the purpose of keeping himself alive? To wait for himself to become a saint and then kill himself?
Wouldn’t that be asking for death?
We are all saints, and it is not really possible for a Vermilion Saint to kill himself.
Waiting for yourself to become a sub-saint before you do it?
That would also be revealing your identity. More to the point, a sub-saint cannot beat a saint, that’s the truth, but what if? After all, you are a saint of the past and I am a sub-saint of the present.
Now, I am even carrying a national fortune, or a third-ranked martial artist and a third-ranked immortal dao practitioner.
What if you just can’t beat me?
His own master was even a first-grade martial artist.
These were things that Zhu Sheng could not anticipate, but wouldn’t a saint think of the worst?
In other words, without killing himself, even if there was a one-in-a-million chance that he would still become a saint, then for anyone else, especially for a saint who had been hiding behind the curtain for so many years.
He would not dare to gamble.
It is like a man who is rich and has a family fortune of millions and millions of taels of silver, and suddenly a man says to him, “Take ten million taels of silver and give it to you, but there is a one in ten thousand chance that you will die.
Do you want it or not?
For an ordinary person, the choice is definitely yes, after all, the one in 10,000 chance is too low, and a gamble doubles your value.
But for a rich businessman, it’s not a one in 10,000 chance, it’s a one in two.
But if he loses, his life is gone.
For the sage, it is the same thing.
Killing himself might delay the plan and have an impact, but it was better than keeping himself, right?
This was something that Xu Qingnian could not understand.
Unless there was one thing that only he could do, that was why Zhu Sheng would leave himself alive.
But this was completely for the sake of the bar.
It was illogical.
For a moment, Xu Qingnian could not understand.
This was a question that perhaps if he had to go back to Ping’an County again, perhaps all the mysteries would be solved.
Right now, one did not need to think about too many things.
Break through the realm.
Strength, alone, was the eternal and fundamental of everything.
As long as one truly becomes a First Grade Saint, or a First Grade Martial Artist, then all these schemes and tricks will be floating clouds.
Thinking of this.
Xu Qingnian’s gaze could not help but look towards Xun Zidao.
“Dare I ask, sir.”
“This Heaven and Earth Palace of Literature, what is it again?”
Xu Qingnian continued to ask.
The person behind it, was it Zhu Sheng, Xu Qingnian put it aside for now.
It would take a trip to Ping’an County to find out everything.
Right now, let’s ask about some other things first.
“This isn’t the Heaven and Earth Literature Palace.”
“The Heaven and Earth Cultural Palace has completely ceased to exist.”
“There is indeed something wrong with Wang Chaoyang, and there is someone behind him, perhaps the person behind the curtain who has been watching you.”
“But you should really be more careful when it comes to him, he is just fish bait and is destined to end badly.”
Xunzi gave his reply.
He was not omniscient about many things, but the only thing he knew was that the Palace of Literature where Wang Chaoyang was, was definitely not the Palace of Literature of Heaven and Earth.
He, on the other hand, was just fish bait.
“Fish bait.”
Xu Qingnian instantly understood what this meant, someone wanted to use Wang Chaoyang to lure himself out.
It was as if Xunzi had deliberately written about the deeds of some great sages to trick himself out.
Of course Xunzi wasn’t cheating, he was writing the truth, it was just that he couldn’t sink his teeth into it.
“Then we can leave this Wang Chaoyang alone for now.”
Xu Qingnian asked.
Only Xunzi shook his head and looked at Xu Qingnian and said.
“No.”
“To manage.”
“And to suppress him.”
“Shouren, there is one thing, aren’t you curious?”
“A twenty-year-old sub-sage, I don’t think anything of it, but three thousand great scholars, aren’t you curious at all?”
Xunzi slowly spoke out.
When this was said, Xu Qingnian was really a little curious.
Yes.
It was understandable that a twenty-year-old sub-sage could be one or two extremely gifted people among the billions of living beings in this world.
But the three thousand great Confucians were a bit different.
In the heyday of the Vermilion Saint lineage, there might have been three thousand great scholars, but this was the accumulation of hundreds of years.
How could Wang Chaoyang have three thousand great scholars?
Could it be that the Great Sage had left them for him?
He said that the Great Sage was his grandfather, that is, his ancestor, and in the Great Wei, an ancestor could also be called a grandfather.
This is not much.
Even if the Great Sage was his grandfather and had left him many sage’s handwritten notes, and had raised a sub-sage for generations, all this was acceptable.
Three thousand great Confucians.
That would be strange.
“What does Sir mean?”
Xu Qingnian frowned.
“Zhu Sheng finished killing so many disciples on his front foot.”
“On the back foot, Wang Chaoyang carried three thousand great Confucians.”
“If you say there is no coincidence in this, do you believe it?”
Xunzi opened his mouth, pointing the finger at Zhu Sheng once again, only this time, Xu Qingnian could not find any reason to defend himself.
Because it was indeed true.
After Zhu Sheng had killed so many disciples, three thousand great scholars immediately appeared as a result.
If there wasn’t something fishy about this, Xu Qingnian himself wouldn’t believe it.
This time, the reason was not far-fetched.
Xu Qingnian himself had some suspicions, but Xu Qingnian did not suspect that Zhu Sheng was behind it, he just thought that someone had made use of this opportunity to do something.
If one were to change this perspective, then there was really some possibility.
“Shouren, I know that the reason why you can’t accept many things is because you don’t know, what they really want to do.”
“But there are some things that it’s a good thing that you don’t know.”
“They have been laying out for hundreds of years, and what they really want to do is not something we can know.”
“But in the end, it can’t be separated from longevity.”
“If it weren’t for Everlasting Life, I wouldn’t have thought why they paid such a price.”
“However, there are some things that you must not forget, Shouren.”
“The Great Wei Palace of Literature broke away at first.”
“It was to create saints, and now Wang Chaoyang has returned, also to create saints.”
“Who wants to create saints, I am not sure, but there must be a reason for creating saints.”
“Wang Chaoyang has come to Great Wei for no other reason than that he wants to re-establish a new Confucian power and wants to use it to become a saint.”
“This person, you must crush him completely.”
Xunzi said extremely seriously.
“No matter what, Great Wei, you must have a firm grip on it, as long as Great Wei grows stronger and stronger as a nation, then all intrigue and trickery will be clouds of smoke in your eyes.”
“Of course, if you can become a saint, or become a First Grade, then many things will be better resolved.”
“Only, when you step into the second rank of Confucianism, the crisis that belongs to you will come once and for all.”
“You have to think it over and understand it well.”
“The person behind the curtain, is it the Zhu Saint, I am not ten percent sure.”
“Whether the fourth generation saint is alive or not, I am not ten percent sure either.”
“There are many things that you need to judge for yourself, and you need to weigh them yourself, whether they are right or wrong is up to you to judge.”
Xunzi spoke out, and this was his only advice.
What the situation really is, no one else can say, the only way to truly understand is to understand it yourself.
Otherwise, Xunzi said it was Zhu Sheng.
Zhu Sheng said it was the fourth generation of saints.
If one day the fourth generation sage comes out and says it was Xunzi.
Everyone has their own reasons.
If you really think about it, you may not be able to figure it out in your lifetime.
One still has to take one step at a time, but Xunzi was right.
One’s back is to Great Wei, and only if Great Wei becomes completely strong, then none of this is anything.
Of course, becoming stronger on one’s own is also the eternal truth.
The only two options.
Either one promotes oneself to the first rank.
Either Great Wei unifies the Middle Continent.
No, it was to unify the world.
And the key point to unify the world was the Divine Martial Cannon.
“Thank you, sir, for your advice.”
Xu Qingnian bowed towards Xunzi.
But Xu Qingnian had one last question.
“Dare I ask Xunzi, who exactly are you?”
Xu Qingnian asked the question in his mind.
Why did Xunzi know so much?
And who was he?
Hearing this, Xunzi was bashful, throwing his fishing line into the lake and slowly speaking out.
“You will find out later.”
“But don’t worry, I’m not your enemy.”
Xunzi did not reply positively, but said such a puzzling remark.
There was some helplessness.
There was also some bitter smile as Xu Qingnian bowed towards Xunzi again, then turned to leave.
But the next moment, Xunzi’s voice rang out again.
“Shouren.”
“Amongst the Great Wei.”
“There is another person that you should be careful of.”
Xunzi spoke, telling Xu Qingnian to be careful of one more person.
“Who?”
Xu Qingnian asked.
“Hua Xinyun.”
Xunzi spoke out faintly.
A name that was both unfamiliar and familiar was spoken.
Hua Xinyun.
It was Hua Xinyun again.
Xu Qingnian was indeed both unfamiliar and familiar with this name.
The reason for the strangeness was that he hadn’t seen Hua Xinyun for a long time, he had heard that he was still an official at the court and was now in the fifth rank.
As for familiarity, he had met him himself and had also had some conversations, and from beginning to end, he had not found anything wrong with Hua Xinyun.
Naturally, Xu Qingnian could not help but ask.
“Why?”
“He’s different.”
“Three years ago, I met him and he was a heavenly talent, and arrogant beyond measure, more so than you.”
“But after three years, he has changed, completely and utterly, becoming extremely different, his aura is completely different, he is no longer him, but another person.”
“As for what his purpose is, I am not sure, but one must be careful of him.”
“In contrast, he is even more terrifying than Wang Chaoyang.”
“The one who is sullen and silent is the most terrifying.”
Xunzi said this and said no more.
Xu Qingnian was slightly silent.
There was too much information that had been obtained today.
For a moment, it was a little difficult to digest.
“Many thanks, sir.”
Xu Qingnian took a deep breath.
Eventually.
He left this place.
As Xu Qingnian left.
Xunzi pulled the fishing rod and another fat fish ……. was hooked.
Half an hour later.
Great Wei Imperial Palace.
Inside the Hall of Nourishing Heart.
Looking in the mirror, the empress tidied up her appearance slightly, then made sure there was nothing wrong before she slowly walked out of the back curtain.
He came to the dragon chair.
“Declare, Xu Aiqing to enter.”
After taking her seat, Ji Ling opened her mouth and declared Xu Qingnian to enter.
Soon.
Xu Qingnian’s figure appeared in the hall.
“I, Xu Qingnian, pay my respects to Your Majesty.”
Arriving in the hall, Xu Qingnian bowed towards the empress and said so.
“Xu Aiqing, you have come at the right time, a strange incident has occurred in the territory of Great Wei today, I had wanted to send someone to look for you.”
Ji Ling spoke out, he happened to have something to look for Xu Qingnian, but he didn’t expect Xu Qingnian to come on her own initiative.
“What is it?”
Xu Qingnian was a little curious.
A strange thing had happened in the territory of Great Wei?
“In the northwest, an unidentified lightning ball appeared, destroying mountains and rivers for a hundred miles, Duke Lu went to check it out and found a hundred miles of mountains and rivers crumbling, suspected to be an Immortal Dao Second Grade triggering heavenly thunder, but there was no aura of any cultivator.”
“It is likely to be some kind of magic weapon, Aiqing Xu, could it be that the Immortal Sect has refined some weird magic weapon?”
The empress spoke up and uttered this strange matter.
Upon hearing this.
Xu Qingnian couldn’t help but stare.
He hadn’t really thought that what he had done had actually been discovered by the Great Wei so quickly.
But it was right to think about it.
With such a terrifying sight, it was not like the Heaven Supervising Division was a diner, so if something like this happened in Great Wei, they would naturally be able to detect it.
The Heaven Supervising Division of Great Wei has magic weapons that can detect the situation within Great Wei’s territory, and if there is a force of the fourth rank or higher.
It will certainly be sensed at the first opportunity.
The main concern was that someone was messing around.
What if a Second Grade really has nothing better to do than to slaughter the city and kill people?
Or what if it goes off the rails?
There is a First Grade in Great Wei, but it is impossible for the First Grade to monitor the mountains and rivers of Great Wei in real time.
So the Heaven Supervision Division took on this responsibility and refined a magic weapon that could monitor the Great Wei mountains and rivers, there were hundreds of them, so it was normal to be the first to learn of such things happening.
Thinking of this.
Xu Qingnian spoke up.
“Back to Your Majesty, the incident in the northwest was done by me.”
Xu Qingnian spoke.
For a moment, it caused the empress to be a little surprised.
“What did Aiqing do?”
“Aiqing Xu, do you practise martial arts?”
The empress was somewhat curious.
“Your Majesty, I am not practising the martial dao.”
“Rather, I have refined a weapon.”
“Named the Divine Martial Cannon, it can condense the power of thunder and lightning, and then unleash a mighty power that is equivalent to a second-rate full power strike.”
Xu Qingnian spoke indifferently.
But as soon as this was said, the Empress’ entire being instantly stood up.
As the Empress of Great Wei, how could she not know what these few simple words of Xu Qingnian meant?
“There is still such a divine thing?”
“Aiqing Xu, let me take a look.”
Ji Ling was somewhat shocked and also looked very excited.
At that moment.
Xu Qingnian did not cover up and offered up the Hao Ran Wen Zhong.
At once, the second-grade Divine Martial Cannon appeared within the Great Hall.
For a moment, the empress watched the cannon, she could not understand it, but inexplicably felt it was powerful.
“Aiqing Xu, how can this object be activated?”
The Empress took a deep breath and enquired.
“It can be activated by simply striking in the power of the martial dao, or the power of the immortal dao.”
“However, this Divine Martial Cannon can only release the power of lightning about ten times.”
Xu Qingnian gave his reply.
“Ten times?”
“Why?”
The empress frowned a little.
“Back to Your Majesty, it’s a matter of material.”
“This Divine Martial Cannon, which is a second-grade magic weapon, has already used seven and a half pounds of extremely high-quality spirit gold.”
“To create a first-grade Divine Martial Cannon, one would need hundreds of pounds of extremely high-quality spirit gold, as well as purple cloud jade for the formation jade.”
“But this is only my minister’s preconception, whether it can be refined or not is not certain.”
Xu Qingnian gave a reply.
But once this was said.
The empress instantly frowned.
“Hundreds of pounds of extremely high-quality spirit gold?”
She knew how precious extremely fine spirit gold was.
So at once, she understood how harsh the refinement of this Divine Martial Cannon was.
“En.”
Xu Qingnian nodded.
“In the entire Great Wei, it is difficult to gather a hundred jins of extremely fine spirit gold, and there is only a small amount.”
“There are also among the Immortal Sects, but there’s not much more.”
“Very high quality spirit gold, it’s too rare.”
The female emperor’s expression was filled with difficulty.
Such a divine item was simply a war killing weapon.
Yet, it required extremely high quality spirit gold as the main ingredient.
Very high quality spirit gold itself was rare, and a gram was worth a lot, not to mention that it could easily be a hundred or even hundreds of jins.
This …… How could one not let it be difficult.
“Your Majesty.”
“I have come to you today, in fact, I hope that Your Majesty will think of every possible way.”
“Whether it’s silver or trade, think of every way to get the extremely high quality spirit gold.”
“No matter how difficult it is to get, I want to refine a first-rate Divine Martial Cannon first.”
“In that case, Great Wei would be equivalent to having an additional First Grade.”
Xu Qingnian said earnestly.
That was what he had thought before.
And now, after communicating with Xunzi, Xu Qingnian wanted to get a First Grade Divine Martial Cannon even more.
“Good.”
“Don’t worry, Ai Qing, I, for one, will definitely do everything I can to get enough extremely high quality spirit gold for you.”
The empress spoke out.
The tone of her voice was certain.
This kind of beneficial divine object naturally had to be obtained by any means possible.
Even if it was just one.
It had to be refined as well.
It would be the same as having an additional First Grade, except that this First Grade martial artist could only do it ten times.
But even so, it was enough.
A critical moment.
It could change the outcome of a life-or-death battle.
Afterwards, the empress and Xu Qingnian talked about the matter of Buddhist apologetics.
In this matter, Xu Qingnian had the attitude that he would be happy if he came.
He would take part in the debate, but not directly, at least to see what difficult questions the Buddhists had prepared.
If the questions were really too difficult, or if the ideas were too complex, Xu Qingnian would probably give up.
As for the Buddha Sect’s desire to enter the Middle Continent, this matter did not concern Xu Qingnian either.
As long as the Divine Martial Artillery got it right.
Then everyone would be welcome to come to the Middle Continent.
Of course, no matter whether the Buddha Sect lost or won.
Xu Qingnian would make the other side hand over the Eight Treasure Buddha Lotus.
However, it would be best to both win against the Buddha Sect and have the other side hand over the Eight Treasured Buddha Lotus.
After waiting to talk for a while.
Xu Qingnian was about to say goodbye.
The empress offered to have dinner together, but was refused by Xu Qingnian.
He had things to do, so he would not stay for dinner.
Besides, it would be meaningless to eat with the emperor.
It would be better to go to the Peach Blossom Nunnery for dinner, where at least there would be someone to pinch his legs and squeeze his shoulders.
After leaving the main hall.
Ji Ling looked slightly unhappy.
After all, she had taken the initiative to ask Xu Qingnian to stay for dinner, but she had not expected to be refused.
This made her feel a little uncomfortable in her heart.
But thinking that Xu Qingnian was bent on national affairs, in the end, she didn’t think anything more about it.
Inside the imperial palace.
Xu Qingnian walked towards the outside of the palace.
Her heart was extraordinarily complicated.
Whether it was the fourth generation saint.
Or the Zhu Saint.
Or perhaps there were other dark hands hiding.
There were just two paths in front of him.
The first is to step into the first rank.
Martial Dao or Confucian Dao or Immortal Dao.
Secondly, to refine the divine martial artillery in bulk.
Not one or two, but at least ten First Grade Divine Martial Cannons.
Really.
Trouble Zhu Sheng and the fourth generation of saints to come out together, otherwise bullying one saint was a bit less than meaningful.
Of course, Xu Qingnian hoped even more that the person behind this was not a saint.
Whether it was a fourth-generation saint or a fifth-generation saint.
He didn’t want it to be either one.
“The path of the First Grade is out of the question for a short period of time.”
“The only thing is the Divine Martial Cannon.”
“As long as there are enough materials, of can indeed refine the First Grade Divine Martial Cannon.”
“The big deal is to have the Returning Yuan Formation Sect help me carve the formation.”
“Very high quality spirit gold.”
“Very high quality spirit gold.”
Xu Qingnian’s heart was filled with helplessness and emotion.
He wished, very much, that he could obtain a large amount of extremely high quality spirit gold, and was not greedy, a million tons would be fine.
Only.
Just after Xu Qingnian walked out of the imperial palace.
Several figures appeared in front of Xu Qingnian.
It was Daoist Dustless, as well as Jian Wuji and the others.
“Senior Dustless.”
Xu Qingnian froze, and the latter didn’t say much as he directly pulled Xu Qingnian’s hand and said.
“Xu Sheng.”
“The Buddha Sect will be coming soon.”
“We really can’t wait, can we make a trip to the Immortal Gate and instruct us properly, ah.”
Daoist Dustless said with some difficulty.
If the Buddha Sect wasn’t coming to Great Wei right away.
They really wouldn’t have been so anxious.
Right now, after waiting for Xu Qingnian for tens of days, they still hadn’t waited for any news, so they were anxious.
“OK.”
“Daoist Wudu, I was just about to go find you all.”
Xu Qingnian was somewhat in tears.
But the next moment, he himself had already appeared within the Immortal Palace of Tai Shang.
The six Immortal Sect First Cla*ses were all also standing in front of Xu Qingnian with anxious expressions.
“I implore Saint Xu to bestow the Dharma.”
“We pay our respects to Saint Xu.”
All six of them bowed in unison towards Xu Qingnian.
Although they were of the first rank of the Immortal Dao, they were now literally begging Xu Qingnian to bestow the Dharma, and they were willing to lower their posture.
It was not to give Xu Qingnian face.
Rather, they were rushing towards the ancient scriptures.
“You have spoken too highly of yourselves, seniors.”
“I cannot accept it.”
Xu Qingnian rose, very modest.
“Xu Sheng, don’t be modest, you can afford it.”
“You quickly sit down.”
Daoist Wudu directly pressed Xu Qingnian into his seat, with a serious face.
“Xu Sheng, you don’t have to sell yourself short.”
The crowd laughed bitterly.
There was really some impatience.
“Alright.”
Xu Qingnian didn’t say much more.
Instead, he directly began to recite the Tao Te Ching.
However, after Xu Qingnian finished speaking a large paragraph, he would elaborate and discuss it with the six people with each other.
This was also a way to improve their understanding.
Just as the Tao Te Ching was recited.
The entire Tai Shang Immortal Palace also, at the first moment, diffused various visions and appeared to be suffused with immortal Qi.
And so it was.
In the blink of an eye.
Seven days had pa*sed.
These seven days.
The entire world was watching the movements of the Buddha Sect.
Seven days ago, the Buddha Sect set off from the Eastern Continent.
Today is the seventh day, and the Buddhists have arrived in the territory of Great Wei.
They have accelerated their journey.
However, they did not come directly to Great Wei’s Kyoto.
Instead, they chose to preach Buddhism directly in the territory of Great Wei.
When they pa*sed through a city, they preached Buddhism for an hour.
Since they entered Great Wei, some people had been concerned that the divine monk Huijue had been chanting Buddhist sutras, attracting all sorts of visions, and that the Buddha’s light was shining brightly, and had indeed gained a lot of faith.
All the local prefectures frowned, after all, the other party had come directly to preach Buddhism, which was completely against the laws of Great Wei.
But the other side was here to debate the Dharma.
But the other party had come here to debate the Dharma and to promote Buddhism, so the officials of the county governments could not stop them.
So it was.
In the blink of an eye.
Three more days pa*sed.
This day.
The world knew that the Buddhist sect was coming to debate the Dharma in the capital of Great Wei.
Naturally, countless eyes were drawn to it.
Great Wei Kyoto had long been overcrowded.
At this moment.
Outside Kyoto.
There were also many people watching and waiting for the arrival of the Buddhist monks.
And just at the hour of the hour.
A magnificent voice resounded for a thousand miles.
“Boundless majesty, or greed and anger, as reason would have it, is also unattainable.”
“As anger and greed are empty of all, and void of reality, and deceive fools, and have nothing to dwell in, so are they, and have no dwelling place, and are not obtainable.”
“It is anger and anger that are born from them and perish from them, and should be known as empty and silent in nature.”
“What should one know? If they are not born, they are not real and not perverse.”
As the magnificent and incomparable chanting of the sutra sounded.
In an instant.
Unparalleled Buddhist light appeared, and as the divine monk Huijue appeared, Buddhist light floated up behind him, reflecting the mountains and rivers of Great Wei.
A burst of Sanskrit sounds rang out.
The whole of Kyoto was as if it had become a Buddhist kingdom.
The Buddha’s light was gentle and pleasant, as if everything was empty and going to the ultimate bliss.
The next moment.
A terrifying power of qi pervaded the entire vault of heaven.
Soon.
A golden Buddha statue appeared on the vault of heaven, each one seemingly ten thousand feet in size, with a solemn and auspicious appearance.
For a moment, the people could not help but kneel on the ground and worship the Buddha.
The people exclaimed in amazement and shock.
This was the means of the divine monk Huijue.
He had chanted sutras all the way to promote Buddhism, and now when he came to Great Wei, he directly displayed the divine power of the Buddha, just to give Great Wei a head start.
It was also to shock the people of Kyoto.
“Old Diamond Huijue, today I come to Great Wei to debate the Dharma.”
“Outside of Kyoto, I will recite the Buddhist sutras for seven days, both to pray for the blessings of the pale beings of Great Wei and to promote Buddhism.”
The next moment.
Hui Jue’s voice rang out again.
He did not enter Great Wei’s Kyoto directly.
Rather, he was outside of Kyoto, promoting Buddhism and praying for the blessings of the pale beings of Great Wei.
He appeared as gentle as possible, not wanting to anger the people of Great Wei, nor the Empress of Great Wei.
After all, this was Great Wei’s home turf.
At that moment, the sound of chanting rang out.
“Boundless and solemn, this Dhamma of the Deeds is able to follow the entry into the Supreme Dharma Wisdom, for the sake of the desire to enlighten the Dhamma of the Buddha.”
“Such is the flow of this Dhammapada that can take in all the vast and true Dharma.
“All the dharmas spoken by the Buddhas are flowing from this infinite dharmakaya.”
“This dharani, for the purpose of purifying all dharmas.”
The magnificent voice was a Sanskrit sound.
Although people could not understand it, they could still feel the power of the Buddha’s school and the meaning of the scriptures.
The Buddha’s light shone in the capital of Great Wei.
It looked incomparably auspicious.
But at that very moment.
Inside Kyoto.
The Immortal Palace of Tai Shang.
Xu Qingnian, who was talking to the crowd about the Tao Te Ching Sutra, felt the vast Buddha power.
He could not help but stop a little.
Wudu and the others, at this moment, had already listened with rapt attention, and were also deeply contemplating the mysteries of the Tao Te Ching.
But at that very moment, after feeling the sound of the Buddha’s Gate.
Several people were also disturbed.
For a moment, the faces of several people became a little ugly.
The main stage.
Xu Qingnian withdrew his gaze.
It was a debate.
Xu Qingnian did not see herself as a match for her opponent.
But to play with visions, right?
A moment later.
Xu Qingnian’s voice slowly rang out.
