Chapter 267: Heaven Thief, Light Under the Glory of Haotian
“The Xiling Temple has the most devout belief in Haotian. Since the person who is close to Haotian Guangming did not reveal Sangsang’s identity, it means that this person has other ideas in his mind.”

The Master looked at the puzzled looks of his disciples and resolved their doubts.

“Master, do you mean that the practitioner whose light power is extremely close to Haotian has no faith in Haotian?”

Li Manman, the eldest senior brother on the second floor of the academy, reacted when he heard the teacher’s words, and a look of surprise appeared in his eyes.

He had seen the priest from Xiling outside the city of Chang’an, and had seen the incomparably pure sacred power of light from that man. However, now that he heard from the Master, the priest he had seen did not seem to be that pious to Haotian.

“When one reaches our realm of cultivation, Haotian’s rules and order are no longer our laws. Such great cultivators have their own laws in their hearts, so how could they be willing to be swallowed by Haotian! Those who are closest to the light are also the ones who can best understand the endless darkness behind Haotian’s light.”

Hearing the Master talking about darkness, Li Manman, Jun Mo, Yu Lian, Chen Pipi and Ning Que all looked puzzled. They didn’t understand what the Master meant by the darkness after the light.

“Master, what do you mean by darkness?”

Ning Que asked with some confusion after hearing what the Master said.

“This is the ultimate secret of Haotian. It is also the reason why I have been traveling around the world for many years. It is to avoid Haotian in the Kingdom of God. This Haotian wants to eat people!”

“Heaven eats people?”

“Master, I don’t understand!”

The Master’s words filled his disciples with doubts.

“Yes, it means eating people! Practitioners feed on the vitality of heaven and earth, and the high heaven feeds on great practitioners. Anyone who exceeds the five realms will attract the attention of Haotian in the kingdom of God, just like people eat cattle and sheep. Practitioners who exceed the five realms are delicious food to Haotian. This is the law of Haotian in this world.”

Hearing the Master talking about the truth about Haotian eating people, Li Manman and the others were shocked. If someone else had said this, they would have thought it was just the dream talk of a fool, but it was the Master who said this! No one would doubt the truth of what the Master said.

After the Master finished speaking, he glanced at Ning Que. As the youngest disciple, he was not bound by the Haotian world and was the one most likely to break the Haotian rules.

In the past, he wanted to place his hopes on this little disciple and use the power of the human world to plan for Haotian in the kingdom of God. However, when he sensed the light blooming above the wasteland, he discovered another possibility.

That was a possibility to end the eternal night, so he returned to Chang’an and waited for the arrival of light.

Just when several people in the academy were shocked by what the teacher said, the teacher, who was about to say something, looked outside the academy, and Li Manman also looked outside the academy.

“He’s coming.” Li said slowly and in a low voice.

When the other disciples in the academy heard his words, they all released their mental powers, but they did not sense the presence of anyone.

“A good teacher produces a good student. The Master’s eldest disciple is indeed an extraordinary person!”

Just when they were puzzled, they saw a ray of light appear on the second floor of the academy. When the light dissipated, several people in the academy saw He Lang and Ye Hongyu appear in front of them.

The realm of no distance!

Seeing the two people suddenly appear in the back mountain of the academy, everyone present understood what realm this was.

“Master, I’m sorry to have kept you waiting. This is my gift to you.”

He Lang said this and handed the paper and ink in his hand to the teacher.

“Fellow Daoist, please forgive me for making fun of you. Although Man Man has extraordinary talent, he is still far behind you.”

The teacher looked at the paper and ink in front of him, reached out to take it, and then invited He Lang and Ye Hongyu to take a seat.

When He Lang was looking at the people in the academy, they were also looking at He Lang, wanting to see how powerful this person who asked the teacher to return to Chang’an to wait for him was. However, no matter how they looked, they could not tell how powerful He Lang was. If He Lang had not shown the power of the Wuju realm before, they would have thought that he was just a mortal.

“Master, you invited me to join the academy. I wonder what you can teach me?”

He Lang looked at the first person in the Ever Night world in a thousand years, the god on earth who could fight against Haotian.

“I don’t deserve your advice, but I found that there is another fellow Taoist friend in the world, so I want to meet him and exchange ideas with him.”

The Master was also looking at He Lang, and unlike his disciples who could only see the Infinite Distance Realm, he could also sense the aura of the Temple’s Revelation, the Daoist Sect’s Infiniteness, the Buddhist Sect’s Nirvana, and the Demon Sect’s Heavenly Demon on He Lang.

And this was just what he roughly perceived, a few waves on the surface of the bright ocean that was as deep as the sea.

“What do you want to communicate, Master?”

“You are from the Xiling Temple. The Xiling Temple worships Haotian and is the most devout believer of Haotian. I wonder how you, the future High Priest of Light, view Haotian?”

What do you think of Haotian?

He Lang fell into deep thought after hearing what the Master said. Ever since the first Taoist master, the gambler, awakened the first consciousness of the Haotian world from ignorance and concluded the contract between heaven and man, humans and Haotian have become an inseparable whole. Humans worship and believe in Haotian, allowing Haotian to possess endless magic power and supernatural powers, while Haotian protects the Haotian world from threats from extraterritorial demons and outside the universe.

With Haotian’s protection, human beings began to multiply and thrive on the earth and explore this world. Haotian even passed down seven volumes of heavenly books to teach human beings the path of cultivation. This is how the cultivation systems of the Demon Sect, the Buddhist Sect, the Academy, etc., which have developed over countless years in the Haotian world, came into being.

This is why there is a rumor in the Evernight World that the King of the Underworld has eighty thousand dark worlds, and Haotian opened up a world of light among these eighty thousand dark worlds and hid it in the darkness so that the King of the Underworld could not find it.

The story of Haotian and Hades, and also the story of light and eternal night, spread from then on. After exploration, the practitioners of the Evernight world discovered that the reason for the eternal night was that Haotian wanted to devour all living things, so there was a constant struggle between man and heaven. Over the countless eternal nights, only a handful of two people survived the eternal night.

One of these two men is a drunkard, and the other is a butcher. Both are practitioners who have surpassed the fifth realm and escaped Haotian’s harvest.

This was the ending of countless eternal nights in the Haotian world in the past, until the arrival of this millennium, when the Master walked out of the Lu State in the human world. After working as a librarian for several years, the Master began to embark on the path of cultivation. The Five Realms were not his end. He surpassed the Five Realms and broke through to the No Distance Realm, making the ends of the earth seem within reach. Even Haotian, who was looking down on the human world from the Kingdom of God, could hardly catch up with the Master who was determined to escape.

For thousands of years, Haotian and the Master have been chasing each other countless times. In order to eliminate the troublemaker, Haotian began to use celestial calculations to split out his avatar and send it to the human world to find the Master and force him to fight him in the sky.

This was also the reason why Wei Guangming, the great priest of light of Xiling Temple, spied on the coming of Hades more than ten years ago. In order to destroy Hades, Wei Guangming followed the traces he spied on and wiped out the entire family of General Xuanwei of the Tang Dynasty. Only the young protagonist Ning Que escaped, and on the way he picked up Sangsang, the incarnation of Haotian who was born into the world, and the black umbrella of destruction that protected this incarnation.

The Master comprehended the power of the human world and was not afraid of Haotian in the human world. After discovering Ning Que, he also wanted to plot against Haotian and bring him down to the human world.

This eternal night is a cycle of reincarnation, a battle between Haotian and the human world.

When the Master asked the Heaven, he was not asking Haotian, but the Heaven in the heart of He Lang, a mortal.

“The laws of Haotian must be broken, and a new world must be opened up. Haotian has protected mankind for countless years. Now let what belongs to Haotian return to Haotian, and what belongs to the human world return to the human world, and let each of them be free.”

Hearing He Lang’s words, Ye Hongyu’s face changed drastically. He Lang’s words were undoubtedly the biggest betrayal of Haotian!

She thought of a lot at this moment, and felt that the position of the High Priest of Light was somewhat ominous. The first High Priest of Light had betrayed the faith of Haotian, and the current one was even more heavyweight, and he made shocking remarks before he even became the High Priest of Light.

Ye Hongyu’s face became a little gloomy. She wanted to speak up to stop He Lang from communicating with the Master, but just when she had this thought, she unexpectedly found that the Master’s face did not show any joy, but instead his brows were furrowed.

This made Ye Hongyu’s heart move, and she suppressed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.

“Why? Do you want to go to Haotian Divine Kingdom? Even the Taoist saints in the back mountain of Zhishou Temple are unwilling to go to Haotian Divine Kingdom.”

The Master stared at He Lang, his eyes becoming somewhat profound.

Unlike Ye Hongyu who thought He Lang had betrayed Haotian after hearing what He Lang said, only those who have surpassed the fifth realm can understand what He Lang meant by breaking Haotian’s laws.

The path chosen by the great practitioner in front of him is not to destroy Haotian, but to achieve coexistence between heaven and man. This is something that the Master thinks is impossible. Haotian is too powerful for the practitioners in the world. How can he be willing to see the delicacy in his eyes slip out of his control?

“Of course I won’t go to the Kingdom of God.” He Lang shook his head, denying the Master’s words.

His answer not only made the teacher frown, but also made several disciples in the academy and Ye Hongyu feel confused.

“The reason why I do this is because humans have become powerful in the Haotian World, and the laws of Haotian have become shackles on human development. I support breaking the laws of Haotian, but there must be countless dangers outside the Haotian World. The fact that the gambler has left the Haotian World for countless years and has never returned to the Haotian World is enough to explain everything. Haotian is also a powerful being, and destroying His foundation is not a good choice. Having one more choice is also a good thing for the human world.”

Feeling their gazes, He Lang knew what these people were thinking and briefly explained why he chose to do so.

At the end of the Ever Night world, Ning Que used the character for “human” to cut off the laws of Haotian, and a new world came to the human world. The practitioners in the human world began to walk out of the Haotian world and explore outside the Haotian world. This is a very beautiful story. However, until later generations, these practitioners who went to explore outside the domain were like the ancient gamblers and never returned to the Haotian world. Obviously, these great practitioners all fell outside the domain.

This shows that there are obviously dangers in the world outside the domain that can threaten at least the seventh realm, so Haotian is still necessary to exist, but he needs to change his preference for harvesting all living beings!
After hearing what He Lang said, the Master fell into deep thought. He had been avoiding Haotian all his life. After accepting Ning Que as his little disciple, he had the idea of ​​plotting against Haotian. However, he had never thought about the situation that the Evernight world would face after Haotian’s demise. What He Lang said was not impossible to happen.

“Are you sure you can suppress Haotian?”

After a long time, the Master withdrew his mind from his thoughts and asked He Lang.

The world outside the Haotian world is too far away for the current human world, and now is not the time to think about it. The Haotian in the kingdom of God who is watching the human world is now a sword hanging over the heads of the great practitioners in the human world. Only by moving this sword away will the great practitioners in the human world have the opportunity to look forward to a more distant future.

“Of course there is. Otherwise, how can we achieve harmony between heaven and man? This Haotian has a bad temper!”

He Lang looked outside the house and saw Haotian’s true body in the endless light.

Different from Sangsang in the human world who has the joys, sorrows, anger and happiness of a living being, Haotian, as the rule of the world, only exists with a mechanical consciousness that strictly abides by the rules.

The reason why Haotian came to the world, in addition to finding his master, might be because he had devoured the spirits of too many great practitioners and reached the brink of transformation. When his incarnation in the human world merged with his true body in the kingdom of God, Haotian, who was only the incarnation of the world’s rules, might really be able to break free from the constraints of the world’s rules and be transformed into a living being and be born into the world. At that time, the Haotian world will usher in a son of the world, who will lead the world to expand.

And when He Lang looked at Haotian in the Kingdom of God, it immediately triggered Haotian’s reaction. Endless power of light gathered from the heaven and earth and poured into He Lang’s body from all directions, turning him into a man of light. The endless light made it impossible to open his eyes.

The connection between Haotian and He Lang made the Master’s face change and he realized something.

After seeing Haotian’s light being accepted by He Lang, the Master sensed traces of He Lang’s mental power among the wisps of light divine radiance, and on He Lang’s body, light divine radiance that did not belong to Haotian also emerged. These powers that were different from Haotian’s divine radiance returned to Haotian’s kingdom of God after a quiet transformation, while Haotian’s divine radiance remained in He Lang’s body.

Seeing this scene of substitution, the Master no longer had any doubts about He Lang.

This is a great thief who stole the laws of Haotian to make up for himself.

The Master couldn’t help but feel shocked by He Lang’s boldness, but the Master found that the timing He Lang chose was indeed very clever. If it was twenty years ago, He Lang’s actions would only bring about Haotian’s punishment from heaven, and he would not have had the slightest chance of survival. But now Haotian in the sky has invested part of his consciousness into the human world and become Sangsang, and He Lang was born into the Haotian Taoist sect, and he was the most loyal supporter of Haotian, which naturally made Haotian relax his vigilance.

The Master watched this scene and transformed the small building of the academy into his own world with his own rules, shielding everyone in the academy from it and isolating it from the outside world.

“Do you want to be the next Haotian?”

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(End of this chapter)