Chapter 212: Stab me in the back, eh, villain!

It is very normal for conflicts to occur in the cultivation world.

Where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and where there are rivers and lakes, there are conflicts.

No one can change this law.

People in the world of cultivation have even more power and are more likely to fight than ordinary people.

As the saying goes, when you have a weapon in your hand, the desire to kill will arise.

Some people say that spiritual practice is about cultivating virtues, doing good deeds and accumulating virtue, and harmony should be the most valuable thing in the spiritual practice community.

In fact, it is normal to say this. After all, many people think that practitioners in the spiritual world should not fight for resources or pride.

They practice peacefully and steadily, as if they have no desires or requests.

However, the reality is not like this. If you really have no desires and no demands, then you don’t need a sect or a backer, you can just go into the mountains. Why do you need a so-called sect or a so-called force?

What exactly is spiritual practice?
To realize the unity of man and nature, to be free and at ease and be able to go anywhere?
I am brave and aggressive, fighting to the death, struggling against the heavens. From now on, my life is in my own hands?

But no matter what the purpose is, something is ultimately needed to support it.

–strength.

So strength becomes the most important point.

To achieve your goal you need strength, and to get strength you need to fight for it.

The gap in talent is always the biggest gap.

Everyone knows Darwin’s theory of evolution.

Survival of the fittest. In a cruel environment, only those who can adapt can survive.

So does this mean that as long as a person continues to experience dangerous environments and survives, he can evolve?

This is actually true.

Mr. Bai once did an experiment. He found that if a person can overcome danger when his life is in danger, he can move to the next level. If he does this repeatedly, he can achieve explosive growth.

Bai even thought, isn’t this the best way? Climbing to the top step by step, as long as you keep improving, you can reach the real peak.

But later, Bai found that relying on this method to break through was correct, but also stupid.

Climbing to the top in this way, I think this joke will make me laugh for the rest of my life.

It’s like everyone wants to break through to the Tao, but only those who have touched this realm know how difficult it is to break through this limit.

Wanting to reach the state of enlightenment and blindly breaking through the boundaries of death is undoubtedly a foolish dream.

The state of entering the Tao is equivalent to a higher-dimensional existence, and it is a destination that people of lower dimensions cannot reach in their entire lives.

If Mr. Bai uses this method, then no matter how strong people in the world become, they will ultimately be just an extension of mortals, continuing to extend the limits of what mortals can reach.

If you want to feel it more intuitively, it is talent.

A genius can reach a realm that a normal person may not be able to reach in his entire life. There is no real fairness in this world. People may look the same, but talent is determined from the beginning.

The end of an ordinary person’s desperate struggle is just the starting point of a genius.

Isn’t it ridiculous?

But this is the reality, a reality that we have to acknowledge.

There are many examples of ordinary people succeeding, but if we look at the entire human population, the probability is only one in hundreds of millions.

To become one of these one in a hundred million, the price you have to pay may be beyond your imagination. And while paying the price, without luck, you will eventually struggle to survive.

So, God is unfair, but God is also fair.

This is the dividing line that God gave to mankind at the beginning.

It’s really sad and lamentable.

Wait, I seem to have gone off topic.

We’ll talk about this later.

The giant dragon continued to tell the story of what happened two hundred thousand years ago.

“That fight engulfed the entire cultivation world, alarming the eight major clans and other forces.”

“The Buddhist sect at Jinshan Temple has begun to intervene in this matter, not wanting it to become too big and cause loss of life.”

“But when the Buddhist monks investigated, they found that the fight was not just a fight of personal feelings, but had deeper reasons.”

“The Buddhist monk wanted to continue investigating, but at this moment, someone attacked the Buddhist monk and he fell into the trap and died. According to the clues, the attackers were from the Taoist sect.”

“The Buddhist sect was furious and immediately went to Dongzhou to find trouble with the Taoist sect. However, the Taoist sect felt wronged as well. They had never participated in this incident, but were framed. They also lost their temper and promised to give the Buddhist sect an explanation.”

“But, just like before, the Taoist also died, and the murderer was a Buddhist.”

“The two sides finally had a conflict, and they fought back and forth. Some people saw that the Buddhists and Taoists had a big fight, and the two ninth-level Taoists died together in front of everyone.”

“The Buddhist and Taoist sects finally tore their faces apart and started a war.”

“This battle was so fierce that all the strong men were attracted there. The eight major clans came forward to mediate, but they were powerless.”

“In the end, this battle turned into a war between the East and the West. Right and wrong were no longer important. Grudges, wins and losses, and the struggle for orthodoxy became the real focus.”

As we all know, the dispute over the orthodox doctrine has been a fight to the death since ancient times.

The concept of Taoism is an important aspect of Confucianism.

Since Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty clearly put forward the theory of Daotong, Daotong has always played a role in clarifying self-identity when Confucian scholars think about the relationship between Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism.

Within Confucianism, Daotong plays the role of dividing the boundaries between academic disciplines and schools.

Even within Confucianism, the dispute over the orthodox doctrine is a big issue.

For example, since the birth of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and Lu-Wang Neo-Confucianism, the two sides have been constantly competing for supremacy.

Every time he wants to put people to death.

Because this is one’s own way. Once one’s own way is ruined, one will be ruined as well.

Many people don’t understand why the dispute over the orthodox doctrine is so terrible. To put it simply, it means that the heart of Taoism is shattered.

There is no one who is not afraid of this.

Therefore, when the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism became a dispute over the orthodoxy, there was no reason to stop it.

No one can stop it, no one dares to stop it, even the eight major clans have to avoid it.

I dare not even look at the Xuanyuan Imperial City.

Xuanyuan Che, Nangong Mansion and other forces looked at each other. No, it’s a dispute between Buddhism and Taoism. How many brains do we have to dare to get involved in this vortex?

That is a famous school of thought in the world and a rare existence in the world.

If the two of them fight each other, Confucianism will have to stand aside.

The final result was that both Buddhism and Taoism were defeated and perished.

“I see.”

Shangxuan Zhenren stroked his beard. This kind of thing happened in the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism in the past.
They really don’t know.

I thought he fell in the fight with the enemy, but I didn’t expect it to be… What a pity, what a pity.

“Amitabha, the struggle for the orthodox lineage cannot be avoided. Once it begins, it will be a fight to the death,” the Supreme Master murmured.

The Taoist snorted coldly but didn’t say anything.

The deputy head of the Confucian school said thankfully: “Fortunately, we are gentlemen who are harmonious but different.”

Then the Buddhist and Taoist sects turned their gazes over at the same time.

The deputy head of Confucianism stopped talking immediately.

The giant dragon gave Confucianism a strange look.

Isn’t the dispute over the orthodoxy among you Confucians also quite intense?
Why do I feel like you don’t have to fight?
Never mind, it doesn’t matter, just ignore them.

“When the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism came to an end, the spiritual practice world was torn apart and in ruins, and then there was a period of peace.”

“But soon, something unexpected happened again, and fighting broke out within Confucianism.”

“The School of Mind and the School of Principle, the Second Sage and the Later Sage, different philosophies and concepts began to fight at this moment, and many conflicts were aroused within both sides, and many strong people also died.”

“The winner is one step closer, and the loser’s heart is broken.”

“Confucians even started a unique fight over this.”

There had been internal strife within Confucianism before, but it had not broken out on a large scale.

After the passing of the Great Teacher of All Ages, the Second Sage took the lead in Confucianism and integrated Confucianism. He then evolved Confucianism on the basis of the original one, and benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and trustworthiness became Confucian classics.

However, the theories of the Second Sage conflict with those of the Later Sage.

The later sage integrated the essence of Confucianism and walked his own path, defining human nature as evil, which is completely opposite to the second sage’s view that human nature is good.

Thus, a dispute arose between the Second Sage and the Later Sage.

However, both sides were extremely restrained and did not really divide Confucianism into two schools.

Confucian disciples can freely choose whether human nature is good or evil.

But later, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism and Lu-Wang School of Mind were born, and the principles of heaven and the self finally ushered in an unprecedented struggle.

At the beginning, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism prevailed and suppressed Lu and Wang’s School of Mind, leaving it no breathing space. But later, Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism’s idea of ​​preserving the principles of heaven and eliminating human desires was spurned, and Lu and Wang’s School of Mind prevailed. Mr. Yangming, the master of Lu and Wang’s School of Mind, was hailed as the last sage. From then on, the Confucian schools were completely divided.

Too many schools of thought promoted the development of Confucianism, but this also laid the seeds of disaster for Confucianism.

It is said that a gentleman is harmonious but different, but when it comes to the dispute over the orthodox doctrine, there is no hesitation at all.

Everyone is trying their best to make their own school of thought the best in the true sense.

The Confucian split began.

After the dispute between Buddhism and Taoism, the dispute over the Confucian orthodoxy also began.

This battle caused the confidence of Confucianism to weaken and it was no longer able to educate the people.

At this point, the three major religions began to decline, and the top forces in the entire cultivation world suddenly weakened to the extreme.

The Buddhists looked at the Confucian deputy leader with a smile, and the Taoists looked at them and sneered.

The deputy head of Confucianism stopped talking immediately.

No, isn’t it that Confucianism advocates harmony in diversity? Isn’t it about friendship between gentlemen? Why is there still a dispute over the orthodoxy?
This is totally inconsistent with our Confucian character.

“In fact, since ancient times, the dispute over the Confucian orthodoxy has always been the most intense.”

Deputy head of Confucianism: “.”

Although it is speechless, we can indeed see the clues now. The three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism have gone from being prosperous to being weak in a short period of time.

Whether it is due to external forces or internal factors, there must be a reason.

Someone is secretly harming the three religions!
“When the three religions fell, we had a bad feeling, so we immediately investigated the three religions.”

“But it’s too late now.”

“A mysterious force has emerged. As soon as they appeared, they swept across the world and devoured the entire cultivation world.”

“The eight clans had no choice but to stop them, and later discovered that they were actually members of the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. They should have died on the battlefield. The two people who provoked the fight between Buddhism and Taoism and started because of their deaths were actually still alive.”

“And united together.”

“Even many people who died in the Confucian infighting came back to life.”

“We sensed something was wrong and were ready to unite.”

“But unfortunately, they are very powerful. Some people who were originally of average strength have become extremely powerful.”

“Even if all the forces of the cultivation world were gathered together, they would not be able to contend with them.”

“The eight tribes feel that if they allow them to continue to act recklessly like this, they will surely be the ones to suffer the consequences one day.”

“So the eight clans also got involved.”

“And with the participation of the eight clans, the situation has gradually stabilized. The eight clans have joined forces to repel them and are about to eliminate those traitors.”

“But when the eight clans were sure of victory, that guy ‘Tian’ took action!”

“It was not until that moment that we finally understood why there were traitors within the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, why they did not hesitate to stir up such a chaos, and why the entire cultivation world was played around with.”

“‘sky’!”

“He has become our worst enemy.”

“But even if we are the enemy of Heaven, we are not afraid. The eight clans joined forces and finally managed to hold off the enemy.”

“But just when we saw hope of victory, Emperor Si Tian, ​​that beast! He betrayed us!!!”

When the giant dragon said this, there was an unconcealable anger in his eyes, and his voice seemed to penetrate the clouds.

“The Nangong clan mobilized all its strength to fight against the Heaven in an unprecedented battle.”

“The Nangong clan was almost wiped out, and Yi was also seriously injured. He felt that he could not lead us to victory with only half a step into the Tao, so he decided to go into seclusion and gather the blood power of the entire Nangong clan to break through into the Tao.”

“And just when we were fighting to the death, that beast Si Tiandi attacked the Nangong clan, forcing Yi to come out early. In the end, he was seriously injured because of forcing his way through the barrier.”

“And with the help of ‘Heaven’, they finally fell. With the fall of the Nangong clan and the betrayal of the Si family, the eight clans were stabbed in the back and attacked from all sides, and ultimately failed.”

“At this point, we lost.”

“If it wasn’t for that beast, Emperor Si Tian, ​​if it wasn’t for that beast, we wouldn’t lose! Never!!!”

One could feel the giant dragon’s anger just from its words.

But that’s right.

There shouldn’t be anyone who isn’t angry.

After all, they were almost able to win, but were stabbed in the back by their own people. This is the most hateful thing.

A villain will always be a villain.

What’s even more abominable is…

The stabbed and betrayed Emperor Si Tian has now become the strongest in the world of cultivation, with the Book of Earth and the Mirror of Heaven and Earth in his hands, making him invincible.

Even the giant dragon that had obtained Nangong Yi’s body and possessed some of his power was no match for Emperor Si Tian.

The Nangong family’s anger towards the Si family can be said to have reached its peak.

When I see the guys from the Si family taking ruthless action, I will definitely do my best to kill them and let them down for my ancestors!
(End of this chapter)