Chapter 124: Lushan Ascends to Enlightenment, Gathering at Kunlun

  Wuji may be enjoying a carefree life, but that doesn't mean he's not concerned about the Three Pure Ones, Xuandu Daoist, Fengqiu and others who are close to him. Although Wuji is having fun here, he still cares about the affairs of his friends and family.

  The Three Pure Ones as the supreme saints, naturally do not need to worry about Yuanshi Tianzun's concerns. The understanding of Xuandu Daoist and Yuanshi Tianzun towards him is probably still in the cultivation of the teacher's non-action way. With a teacher by his side, he doesn't have to work as hard as Yuanshi Tianzun does.

  Only Feng Qiu's four daughters, although they were the named disciples of their teacher, but because they were "named" disciples and not "directly taught" disciples, Feng Qiu's four daughters were still closer to Wuji. The four daughters also spent a long time away from their teacher, so Wuji was more worried about their safety and recent situation.

  Wuji looked at the situation of Feng Qiu and her four daughters, and found that he had worried about them for nothing. After leaving Hongyuan and entering Hundun for tens of thousands of years, their days were indeed very comfortable, and they would often go to Yunxiao's Three Immortals Island for fun, and even lived there permanently.

  Fortunately, Xiaoxiao and Lingzhen did not disappoint Wuji's expectations for them. They successively enlightened the functions of the Luobao Golden Money and the Tiandi Ruler given to them by Wuji, and with the help of Ren Huang Shennongshi, they were circulated among the human race.

  After the matter was settled, the Heavenly Way bestowed infinite merits, and Xiao Tong and Ling Zhen each took advantage of this opportunity to eliminate their good corpses. After closing up on Penglai Fairy Island for thousands of years and stabilizing their own realm, they followed in the footsteps of Feng Qiu and Liu Mei, frequently coming and going between the Three Immortal Islands.

  However, at that time they still treated Penglai Fairy Island as their home. But after tens of thousands of years, seeing that Yuji had not appeared, they simply moved directly to Sanxian Island and became neighbors with Sānxiāo. Even the lazy Huang Niu couldn't bear the loneliness and ran to the Hongyuan Continent. At the time of departure, he didn't forget to take away two bottom-line participants, Cāntóng and Yùnǚ.

  From then on, the Penglai Fairy Island still had its spiritual energy, but it was abandoned. Fortunately, Wuji had laid down an array around the island earlier, and with the remaining aura of Wujin, no one dared to forcibly occupy the Penglai Fairy Island as a Daoist temple.

  Until now, only every ten thousand years will Feng Qiu and others return to Penglai Xian Island one or two times to see if Wuji has returned. Shen Nong Lie Shan has been in power for nearly 100,000 years, but ultimately his cultivation is limited, and he is about to die of old age while still in the position of Ren Huang.

  The Taishang Laojun of the Human Teachings, the first disciple Xuan Du Dao Ren, came to the bedside of Shennong Shi and said: "By order of the Taishang Patriarch of the Human Teachings. Now, there is a god of the human tribe, Shennong Li Shan Shi, who has stopped famine, brought forth the five grains, healed diseases, tasted all herbs, cast currency, promoted circulation, and his merits are boundless. He is now appointed as the Earth Emperor of the human tribe, to be worshiped day and night by the human tribe. He will reside in the Tianwai Huoyun Cave, unaffected by worldly dust, unattached to cause and effect, with infinite longevity, the human tribe will not perish, and the Earth Emperor will not die. May he peacefully enjoy boundless kalpas of serenity and freedom."

  Lie Shan said with a gasp on his deathbed: "Lie Shan obeys the edict." The heavens and earth responded to Lie Shan's faintly gasping reply, and suddenly underwent a great transformation. The Heavenly Way was moved by Lie Shan's merits towards humanity, and bestowed boundless virtues upon him. A seven-colored rainbow light came from the chaotic void outside the sky, and in an instant split into three above Lie Shan. Eight layers of virtues instantly poured into Lie Shan's body.

  The Heavenly Way bestowed infinite merits, and the Heavenly Way's merits assisted Shennong's dying body, starting a new cycle of life. Shennong's originally dwindling vital energy quickly recovered with the help of Heaven and Earth's merits, and his cultivation also rapidly advanced. He became a Celestial Immortal, True Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi Golden Immortal, Daluo Golden Immortal, and Quasi-Sage, reaching the realm of the Perfected Man. Only then did Shennong's cultivation come to a stop, but the excess merits still condensed into a Merit Golden Wheel behind him.

  A layer of heavenly Taoist merit and virtue descended upon Guang Chengzi, the teacher of Lie Shan Shi, in recognition of his help to Lie Shan Shi over the years. With the assistance of this layer of merit and virtue, Guang Chengzi finally broke through the bottleneck that had been holding him back, smoothly beheading the benevolent corpse and advancing to the rank of quasi-sage.

  The last layer fell on all the people who helped Lie Shan, including some saints' disciples, scattered cultivators, humans, and some alien species that had provided help to Lie Shan.

  After the Heavenly Way bestowed merit, a chariot pulled by a nine-headed dragon horse came under the control of an emperor and arrived at the border of Lie Shan Shi. He said to Lie Shan Shi: "Imperial brother, previously I was wrong, please forgive me. Now that you have become a human emperor, you can roam freely in the future. Why don't you come with me to Huo Yun Palace?"

  Liè Shān shì said: "Imperial brother, your words are heavy. Previously, it was just like fleeting clouds in the eyes, let them disperse. Since imperial brother has invited, imperial younger brother naturally follows. However, imperial younger brother today hastily ascended to the throne and has not yet established a new ruler for the human tribe. Imperial younger brother is worried."

  Xuanyuan Dao: "The emperor's brother is not to be blamed, and it's not intentional. The children and grandchildren have their own blessings, and whether this matter is a disaster or a blessing is still unknown. Humans must go through some hardships before they can see the beautiful rainbow. Emperor's brother, please put your mind at ease for now."

  Then Lie Shan clan followed Xuan Yuan to drive the chariot towards Huo Yun Cave. Because Lie Shan clan proved the way too hastily, so Lie Shan clan did not establish a new common lord for the human tribe. Within 100 years, due to the existence of Lie Shan's prestige, the human tribe still respected the Shen Nong tribe as the most important one. However, after 100 years, the situation changed, and the various town guards and gatekeepers of the human tribe once again became powerful and established their own fiefdoms.

  The Shennong tribe is in a position of humanity, and it has been declining continuously. After all, the Lie Shan clan is the Lie Shan clan, and the Shennong tribe is the Shennong tribe. The two cannot be mentioned together. The existence of the Lie Shan clan makes the Shennong tribe expand rapidly.

  However, with Lie Shan's departure, the powerful Shennong tribe, without Lie Shan as its core, some tribes that had joined the Shennong tribe began to become independent one by one, and the strength of the Shennong tribe also declined at an extremely rapid rate.

  The human race has truly entered the era of vassals represented by the town's guardian deity. Feng Qiu and the other four women, after learning that Ren Huang Lie Shan Shi had attained enlightenment as a human emperor, began to play, discuss the Tao, and meditate on the Three Immortals' Island with San Xiao. Or they would follow San Xiao to the Golden Turtle Island of the Tongtian Sect's founder to listen to the sage's lectures. Alternatively, they would go to the Taiqing Heaven to listen to the lectures of the Supreme Sage.

  Wuji knew about the recent situation of Feng Qiu's four daughters and their safety, so he lived a leisurely life without telling them that he had returned, living alone on Penglai Fairy Island like a farmer.

  The endless happiness was suddenly interrupted, and Yu Yu returned to Honghuang. Although not many people knew about it, Yu Yu did not intentionally conceal his heavenly machine, so those with similar strength could naturally sense Yu Yu's movements from afar.

  Originally, the saints saw that the two tribes of witches and demons who had blocked the spread of the saint's teachings had declined, but the newly born human race, although many people believed in the great teaching of the saints, the strength of the human race grew rapidly, with nearly a thousand powerful beings above the Golden Immortal, successfully threatening the spread of the saint's teachings.

  Many of the human tribe's resources were allocated to these powerful Golden Immortals, which affected the space for the saints' preaching. The saints did not want to have just driven away the two tribes of witches and demons, only to have these people interfere with their mission again.

  All the saints wanted to spread their Tao to the vast wilderness, so they decided to weaken the human race. However, all the saints understood that Wuji was very concerned about the human race and had some connection with them. To determine the situation, the saints used the name of discussing the Tao to let the saints and Wuji discuss this matter together.

  After receiving the message from the saint, Wuji did not dare to be slow and immediately flew towards Kunlun Mountain. In less than a moment, Wuji arrived at Kunlun Mountain.

  Kunlun Mountain, as the Taoist temple of Yuanshi Tianzun, became a gathering place for saints after they had discussed and debated. This time was no exception. Wuji arrived at Kunlun Mountain and exchanged pleasantries with Yuanshi Tianzun before temporarily staying there.

  Guang Chengzi has been in high spirits lately, ever since he advanced to the quasi-saint stage. The position of Grand Disciple of the Exalted Sect is now truly his, and even when meeting with Ran Deng Dao Ren, he has some confidence, no longer as timid and fearful as before.

  Guang Chengzi's performance during this period naturally attracted some of the Tianxian sect's disciples to gather around him, forming a small clique. Yuanshi Tianzun was well aware of the subtle movements among his disciples, but he believed that Guang Chengzi, as the Tianxian sect's chief disciple, needed someone to support him; if he relied solely on himself, how could Yuanshi Tianzun feel at ease entrusting Guang Chengzi with managing the sect's daily affairs in the future?

  Wuji took a look at the recent situation of Mount Kunlun and found that the valley where he had faced the wall to reflect on himself still existed. Wuji revisited the place as if it were an old haunt, feeling the warmth of that moment. Before long, the Supreme Saint and the Ancestral Master of Tongtian came to Mount Kunlun one after another.

  After Wuji and Yuanshi Tianzun, Taishang Shengren and Tongtian Jiaozu exchanged greetings, everyone naturally started chatting. Following the four daughters of Taishang Shengren who saw Wuji, they immediately paid their respects to him. The end point of natural conversation is inseparable from Wuji's whereabouts over the years.

  Wuji understood that it wasn't the right time to let these junior brothers know, if they found out, their pressure would be even greater. To avoid causing them panic, Wuji went alone with Sanqing Saint into the Jade Void Palace.

  Wuji recounted his experiences and insights from the Demon Realm, as well as his conjectures. The Three Pure Ones were immediately shocked. Originally, Wuji's account of the Demon Realm's strength was not enough to alarm the Three Pure Ones. Although the Demon Realm's strength was formidable, the strength of the Primordial World was even greater. Even if the saints did not intervene, it was unlikely that anyone from the Demon Realm could dominate the Primordial World.

  What surprised the Three Pure Ones was Wuji's speculation. If it were true, the Honghuang world would be in danger. A chaotic demon god could evolve a world, and three thousand demon gods would not be able to evolve three thousand worlds, or even more. Moreover, these chaotic demon gods were all killed by Pangu, and the cause and effect of the Honghuang world that Pangu transformed would eventually intersect with the Honghuang world, resolving the cause and effect.