Chapter 79 – Kettling (I)

“This is why the Confucian Sage wants to seal the Supremes, and it’s also the source of our greatest conflict with the Supremes.”

The Supervisor revealed a rare serious expression, very, very serious, Xu Qi’an had never seen such a serious Supervisor before.

It’s like he’s never met Yang Qianfeng without pretending.

“What do you think, is it better for Heaven to be merciless, or merciful?”

Xu Qi’an and the Nine-Tailed Sky Fox looked at each other, each silent for a few seconds before the former said:

“The heavens are as private as they are public.

“The ruthlessness of Heaven is the greatest justice for all beings.”

The silver-haired siren nodded:

“I think so.”

You should have said: me too! Xu Qi’an muttered silently in his heart.

The superintendent was saying:

“But gods and demons or superpowers, they are all beings with minds.”

He didn’t continue, but Xu Qi’an and Nine-Tailed Fox understood.

If the superlative replaces the heavenly way, then the heavenly way possesses consciousness and selfishness.

It was understandable, if replacing the Heavenly Dao was a matter of integrating into the rules and losing consciousness like the Dao Exalted Heavenly Sect’s split, then the Supremes wouldn’t have taken the pains and trouble of trying to become the Heavenly Dao.

“The living beings of this world, in all their lives, will be enslaved by the Supremes, no, the Heavenly Dao!”

The Nine-Tailed Sky Fox’s face was unpleasant.

Rules without feelings are good rules. It’s a very scary thing when the Heavenly Dao becomes self-conscious and has thoughts and selfish desires.

Although there has never been absolute freedom in the world, but now at least you can still shout “the king and his majesty would rather have seed”, if the heavenly way has a consciousness, the living souls will become puppets and playthings ……… Xu Qi’an was in a heavy mood and said:

“It’s not just as simple as enslavement.

“The process of the civilizations of the races will also come to an end, and the evolution of the heavens and the earth will end, or go into an extreme direction.”

If we look at a more macroscopic perspective, it is impossible for the civilization of the human race to grow savagely any longer, with future generations living under the shadow of the Heavenly Dao for generations to come.

The Superintendent laughed:

“The Confucian sages also feel that this is not good, and that the future should be decided by future generations. The Tao of Heaven is merciless, it is the greatest mercy, it does not need to have selfish desires and consciousness. Therefore, the Confucian Sage sealed all the super products, and bought the living beings in the nine states a respite of more than 1,200 years.

“Buys time for the gatekeepers to show up.”

After speaking, he looked at Xu Qi’an and said:

“You’re making this trip to the sea to seek the opportunity to advance to half-step Martial God, aren’t you?”

Xu Qi’an let out a ‘hmm’.

He was not able to kill the Gala Tree and plunder the other side of the divine essence, the only way out is to go out to sea to look for the descendants of the gods and devils.

You can’t just swallow Master Kou and Asuro.

Supervisor Zheng nodded, “Actually, originally, in my calculations, recapturing the Divine Shush head and devouring the Garuda Tree along with it was the best outcome. It’s a pity that you were given the opportunity and you didn’t use it.”

In his scheme, I should have been promoted to half-step Martial God long ago? No, in that case, I wouldn’t have gone out to sea at all, and today’s interception wouldn’t have existed, and without it, I wouldn’t have been able to qualify to become a Gatekeeper………

Is the old silver dollar fooling me, or did he originally have another plan? It was my appearance that changed his original plan ………

Xu Qi’an was momentarily confused as to whether the supervisor was maliciously mocking her, or whether she really had other plans.

I hate old silver coins …….. He said with a lying down posture:

“So what now?”

The best way to deal with old silver coins is to whittle them down.

The supervisor was looking to the northeast and said:

“Sail in that direction for three days and you’ll arrive at an ancient battlefield, where there’s something you want. Well, that evil disciple, Song Qing, has made an array disk for collecting essence blood, right?”

Although he asked this question, his tone and expression were full of certainty, as if he had great confidence in his sinful disciple.

Xu Qi’an followed his gaze, and her heart stirred, remembering the information given by Pearl, the Sailor Queen.

“The queen of Sailor’s Island told me that there is an ancient battlefield in the northeast where a horrible monster lives.”

The direction that the Shark Queen pointed to at that time was southeast, according to the location at this time, the ancient battlefield was in the northeast, which happened to be the direction that the Supervisor was talking about.

It’s easy to assume that the two places are the same.

Supervise the right way:

“That monster is a super-grade god or demon from the ancient times, and after dying in battle, the residual spirit and will fused and became a soulless monster. Compared to the Gala Tree, it’s more suitable for you.

“It’s because that God-Devil’s spirit embodiment is a symbol of ‘force’. In terms of qi alone, ten Desolations are no match for Him.”

Xu Qi’an’s eyes lit up.

To a martial artist, the lure of chi is even stronger than a stunning beauty.

Putting a chance to enhance double chakra and a great beauty in front of Wu Fu, Wu Fu would choose the former without hesitation.

At this time, the Nine-Tailed Fox, who hadn’t said anything, suddenly knitted and asked:

“How does a superlative rely on qi to replace the Heavenly Dao?”

“Collecting the Qi of the Nine States in one body, then He is the Nine States and the Heavenly Dao.” Supervisor Zheng’s reply was simple and concise.

The nine-tailed fox deliberated:

“So, whether it’s the Witch Gods or the Buddhas, they all want to evangelize the Central Plains and gather faith. As long as all the living beings in the nine states believe in the Buddha or Witch God Cults, He will be able to replace the Heavenly Dao?”

The supervisor sighed:

“It’s possible in theory, but it won’t work in reality. Reality will only be harsher than you think.

“The Great Fathers are based in the Central Plains and have gathered a huge amount of qi, but that doesn’t mean that all of the Central Plains’ human qi belongs to the Great Fathers. From the smallest jianghu gangs to the largest behemoths like the Martial Arts Alliance, as long as they form a certain scale, they are all part of the human race’s qi.

“In addition, there are many outstanding people in the jianghu and temple, and they themselves symbolize a certain amount of qi.

“Da Feng is just the one who has gathered the most human qi.

“By the same token, even if the living beings of the Nine States believed in the Buddha and the Sorcerer God, it would be impossible for Him to take up all of the Nine States’ qi and talk about replacing the Heavenly Dao?”

Nine-tailed Fox vaguely grasped what was going on, but didn’t quite dare to confirm it and tried:

“What then?”

Supervisor Zheng looked at Xu Qi’an and said:

“You once obtained a jade seal in the Great Tomb that stored qi fortune.”

Xu Qi’an nodded.

The superintendent was saying:

“But that dynasty has long since been lost to history.”

“What does that tell you?” The nine-tailed fox didn’t understand.

Xu Qi’an deliberated:

“The qi is coalesced by the people, or living beings, but it does not disappear with the annihilation of the living beings, and as long as it is preserved by special means, it can be regarded as a force ………”

When he said that, his face changed abruptly.

The nine-tailed fox’s eyes widened.

………..

Westfield.

The peaks of Arantha coalesce in nine great phallic forms, like deities descending to earth from the nine heavens above, welcoming the worship of devotees.

But on the backlit side, where no one could see, a pair of huge eyes without eyelashes and without emotion opened.

The eyes in those huge sockets ‘grunted’ and turned, both eyes slanting together towards the right side, as if surveying the believers behind them.

At that moment, the outer layer of rock cracked open on the mountainside of Aranta, revealing dark red flesh and two rows of large, morose white teeth.

Each tooth is the size of an adult body.

The sides of the mouth slowly curved upwards, as if in a grin.

Soon it closed back up and was covered by an outer layer of rock, turning back into a mountain.

The brahmacharya continued, and no one noticed that the holy mountain had come to life.

On the plains at the foot of the mountain, a young girl, dressed in a nobleman’s costume, was “awakened” by a strong urge to urinate, and broke away from her state of devotional prayer.

She felt like she’d slept through the night, so muddled that she didn’t know where she was.

“Mother, I want ………”

Her voice came to an abrupt halt, her parents, her clan brothers, and her servants, who had been sitting cross-legged around her, were all gone, and she was left with an empty, terrifying silence.

The little girl stood up in terror and looked around, chanting the names of her parents and older brother.

The voice echoed in the dimly lit heaven and earth, no one responded to her, and those devotees in the distance remained seated with their hands folded, immersed in their own world, with happy smiles on their faces.

For some reason, she was chilled to the bone.

With tears of fear streaming down her face, she crouched down on the ground, clutching her knees and staring at the ground beneath her feet, not daring to move a muscle.

She noticed two clumps arching under the thin dirt, and she froze, carefully reaching out and trying to pry the dirt away.

Before her fingers touched the arching mass, the dirt parted with a huff, a pair of bloodshot lashless eyes.

The eyes stared at her silently for a moment, and ‘grunted’ and rolled their eyes.

The little girl’s face twisted in flesh, her cheeks twitching up as she slowly grew her mouth and was about to burst into a high-decibel scream, but suddenly, the ground beneath her feet cracked open and swallowed her up.

Guangxian Bodhisattva opened his eyes and looked down from a high altitude, the devotees on the plains were rapidly decreasing.

These believers who believed in the Buddha Sect and represented the Buddha Sect’s qi were finally one with the Buddha they believed in.

“Only when the body is in harmony with the Great Dao will it live forever.”

Guangxian Bodhisattva was full of compassion and folded his hands, “May all beings attain the position of enlightenment, and every place in the nine states be a Buddha’s land.”

Beside him, the glazed Bodhisattva lowered his head and gazed at the ground beneath his feet, his gaze piercing through the earth and rocks, looking inside the mountain and seeing a body of devotees seated cross-legged, who merged into the Buddha as if they were ascending to the ultimate bliss.

Liuli withdrew his gaze and looked down at the plains below, the Buddha’s will was extending, the plains became Him, the rivers became Him ……….

……….

“Eating all the Qi Luck of the Kyushu, when the time comes, it won’t matter even if the living beings of the Kyushu become extinct. It’s because the qi luck won’t dissipate, just like the qi luck stored in the jade seal.”

Xu Qi’an stared at Supervisor Zheng dead in the face, trying to get a different answer from him, expecting him to disprove his suspicions.

Disappointed, the supervisor was nodding slowly:

“This is the Great Tribulation!

“Just fighting for the faith and preaching the nine states, what kind of great calamity is that?

“Of course, the more believers there are, and the more vast the territory they occupy, the greater the increase in superpowers. At the beginning of the Founding, if the Witch God Cult had been allowed to have its way, there would have been nothing left of the Buddha and the Compassionate God.

“And three hundred years ago, if Confucianism didn’t exterminate Buddha, I’m afraid that Buddha would have already transformed into heaven and earth by now, taking the Heavenly Dao in its place.”

A shadow seemed to hang over Xu Qi’an’s heart.

Replacing the Heavenly Dao was already intolerable, who would have thought that the state of affairs would be even crueler and worse than he had imagined.

The nine-tailed fox whispered:

“At most, by the end of the year, the Compassion God and the Witch God will be able to break free from their seals ……..”

The sense of anxiety and crisis instantly exploded.

Xu Qi’an opened his mouth and was just about to say something when he suddenly saw that the Supervisor’s figure was slowly dissipating.

The supervisor was looking at him with a smirk:

“Know why the Confucian Sage Carving Knife is close to you and has chosen you?”

He didn’t get to finish his sentence, and his figure dissipated like a dream bubble.

………..

Thirty miles away from Aranta, the city of Pinkham.

Being a city-state close to the holy mountain of Aranta, the area is blooming and densely populated.

The city is economically run as a wine shop and inn, and is an essential stopping point for pilgrims to Aranthra.

The large movement of people brought with it a developed trade.

At the head of the city, a soldier on duty looked out into the distance, the barren land stretching to the end of his vision.

Suddenly, he saw the ground in the distance, bulging like a wave, as if alive.

Suspecting something was wrong with his eyes, he rubbed them hard and looked away again, this time nothing moved.

Suddenly, the ground moved again, this time, very close to the walls, so it was incredibly clear to see.

“Hey, hey, there’s something underground.”

He subconsciously pressed down on his spear and turned his head to his fellow officers around him.

The fellow officer sniffed and grumbled as he peered off into the distance for a moment, seeing nothing:

“I haven’t seen a single ghost, so don’t be alarmed.”

The soldier, unbelieving, looked ahead and scrutinized with all his attention, and after a long time, he gave up helplessly and turned his head to his fellow soldier beside him:

“Strange, I’m obviously ……..”

His voice came to an abrupt halt, his side empty, his fellow officer gone.

Not only that, but at the head of Pingkang City, all the soldiers on guard duty had disappeared.

The whole world was silent.

The soldier looked left and right in bewilderment, unable to comprehend what was happening in front of him, and when he ran to the other side of the wall to check out the situation inside the city, he truly felt the fear.

The whole city is empty.

At that moment, the female wall a few feet in front of her cracked open an eye, an eyelashless, unadulterated eye.

Immediately afterward, all the female walls cracked open one eye, and in rows, their eyes turned at the same time to look at the soldier.

……….

Capital.

Huaiqing, wearing a smooth silk lining, awoke with a start.

Thin as a cicada wings of silk clothing close to the curves of the exquisite plump body, because the sweat has soaked through the clothes.

She lifted the thin quilt, and the robe hanging on the screen flew up on its own and draped over her shoulders.

Huaiqing, with her bare snow-white jade feet, stepped on the shiny and recognizable floor and ran towards the outer room of the chambers with great strides, calling out:

“Come on man!”

The palace maid waiting outside, with her head lowered, came with small broken steps and bowed:

“Your Majesty, the slave girl is here.”

“Immediately send someone to invite Bachelor Zhao and Duke Wei, in a quarter of an hour, I want to see them.” Huaiqing finished speaking very quickly, looked around himself, and added:

“Change my clothes for me first.”

……….

With Aranta as the point of origin, the flesh and blood matter spread rapidly, the earth came to life, the rivers came to life, and the city-states in the distance came to life

Liuli’s stunningly beautiful face was like a sculpture, lacking in emotional change, her voice soft but without rise and fall:

“If we can gather all the believers in the Western Region, in less than three days, the Buddha will be able to refine the Western Region.”

“The Buddha is both Western, so what is the point of refining.”

Gara Tree’s voice came from behind her.

The Buddha is assimilating with the Western Region, where the Buddhist Sect has operated for thousands of years, with faith all over the place, and where the qi has long been integrated into the Buddhist Sect.

Thus the Buddha’s pace of becoming a Westerner was unimpeded and natural.

Bodhisattva Guang Xian laughed:

“When the Buddha has accomplished his great work, he will be able to go east and devour the Central Plains’ qi. And at this time, the Compass God and the Witch God are still sealed.”

The two Bodhisattvas smiled faintly at the words.

Guangxian looked at the Garuda tree and said:

“Xu Qi’an’s journey overseas was doomed to be futile, and the descendants of gods and devils of the third grade and above were slaughtered long ago by that Ancient God-Devil.

“He’ll probably throw his weight around and beat you to the punch. We can set up a trap to kill him.”

Gara Tree’s face was serious and his tone was flat:

“He may not dare to come to the West.”

When he finished speaking, he heard the glazed Bodhisattva at his side frown:

“Where is Duo?”

………

PS: Typos are corrected after the first shift.

Allies can apply for an ally group in the book introduction one click, the group raffle to send the starting point commemorative gift box, the time ends on the 7th of this month, the operating officer asked me to send, I forget