My brother is so cunning

New mission in Chapter 1012?
For Wen Rui now, returning to reality with nothing is not a good choice.

He's a deity now, and a very high-ranking one at that, a big shot among the celestial beings of Heaven.

All the riches, power, and imperial status that ordinary people dream of but dare not even dream of are pale in comparison to what he now possesses.

But it's not an absolutely unacceptable option.

Even after achieving godhood and immortality, Ren Wenrui still couldn't avoid the weekly hellish experience that the system instilled in him, no matter what he tried.

The pain of experiencing the Avici Hell is something that no one who has experienced it can ever truly understand.

Even if Wen Rui only had to endure this pain for two hours a week, and could live a carefree life like a god for the rest of the time, he would still find it hard to accept living like this forever.

The demon's body already has a lifespan far exceeding that of mortals, and the telomere repair technology allows the demon's cells to regenerate indefinitely, extending their lifespan indefinitely.

If one's lifespan is immortalized, then the experience of Avici Hell will continue forever if the task is not completed.

Moreover, the system tasks have time limits. If the task is not completed before the Journey to the West Calamity occurs, the system will eliminate the user.

If we calculate the time frame, the current period should be equivalent to the late Warring States period, which is not much different from the beginning of the Journey to the West tribulation, the late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Therefore, delaying the process and not clicking the task completion button is definitely not a good choice.

Moreover, whether clicking the button actually erases the memory and returns to the real world can only be known after clicking it.

Delaying until just before the start of the Journey to the West calamity, allowing one to enjoy the status of a deity for a few more years, is not only meaningless, but also potentially wastes time and hinders important matters should there be follow-up tasks.

After weighing the pros and cons, Wen Rui no longer hesitated. Even if he clicked the button, the next moment he saw a group of people surrounding him, and the leader said, "You're awake? The surgery was a success..." He had already resigned himself to his fate.

With an excited heart and trembling hands, Wen Rui gritted his teeth and, under his mental control, slammed down the "Mission Complete Confirmation" button.

"Ding dong!"

A crisp notification sound came from the sea of ​​consciousness, and the task panel screen changed. The task progress that had been hanging for hundreds of years, "Enduring hardship and biding one's time to revive the Jie Sect (in progress) Task progress: 100%/100%.", just disappeared.

Immediately, a new item popped up on the task panel.

Wen Rui quickly focused his attention and, upon seeing the image, couldn't help but show a confused expression, like the old man on the subway.jpg.

"The three teachings return to one, and all methods return to the same source (in progress), task progress 0/3."

Wen Rui blinked, not understanding...

What does it mean for the three religions to unite as one?

Could it be that Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism are being merged into one religion?
Or should we merge Buddhism, Taoism, and Buddhism into one religion?
Although the three religions—red flowers, green leaves, white lotus roots, and religions—share a common origin, they had already separated countless millennia ago when Hongjun, the Dao Ancestor, opened his altar to preach and released the primordial purple energy.

How can things possibly be unified now?

Even if the Dao Ancestor Hongjun came, he wouldn't be able to return, right?
When Wen Rui first encountered the task of reviving the Jie Sect, he already thought it was extremely absurd, practically an impossible mission.

The task of reviving the Jie Sect was accomplished, but there was an even more outrageous follow-up. Back then, the Tongtian Sect Leader risked his life, using his trump card, the Four Swords of Zhuxian, and set up the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, making the whole world his enemy. His strategic goal was not to destroy Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism.

All he wanted was to fight for fairness and reduce the number of disciples of the Jie Sect who were listed on the Investiture of the Gods.

If they truly wanted to destroy Buddhism and Taoism, they wouldn't have captured their disciples on the battlefield but not executed them on the spot, waiting for Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun to come and rescue them.

On the contrary, when Laozi and Yuanshi, the leaders of the Taoist sect, dealt a vicious blow to the disciples of the Jie Sect, they showed no mercy and were truly determined to completely destroy the Jie Sect.

Is the system issuing this task to carry out a thorough reckoning, returning everything the three religions did to the Jie Sect back then to them exactly as it was?

Wen Rui even suspected that the system might be an imposter, the Tongtian Sect Leader, trying to use him to complete his revenge.

The task of reviving the Jie Sect can be carried out secretly while biding one's time, but the task of unifying the three sects is an act of annihilation. How should one proceed discreetly?
Each of the three religions has a sage presiding over it. As long as the sage who founded the three religions lives, the lineage of the three religions will never be broken, and they will never be able to be unified.

Sages are beings who reach the pinnacle of the laws of heaven and earth through "enlightenment." Their primordial spirit is entrusted to the Heavenly Dao. As long as the Heavenly Dao does not perish, sages will exist eternally and be indelible.

How could this task possibly be completed?

What's even more disgusting is that the system never provides any explanation. When Wen Rui was completing the mission of reviving the Jie Sect, he could only rely on his own exploration, feeling his way across the river, testing little by little how to improve the progress of the mission.

The current task progress is no longer displayed as a percentage, but instead as a vague and abstract stage number like 0/3.

The most direct speculation is that if one of the three religions—the Human Religion, the Chan Religion, or the Western Religion—were destroyed, the progress would be reduced to 1/3.
The problem is that to verify this conjecture, one would have to kill one of the following: Laozi, Yuanshi Tianzun, or Buddha.

Wen Rui definitely couldn't defeat Laozi and Yuanshi Tianzun. Even if he could, they had already merged with the Dao, and they wouldn't die as long as the Great Dao didn't collapse. In other words, even if he could defeat them, he couldn't kill them.

The Buddha seems to be the only easy target among the three, but even if the Buddha were defeated and passed away, it would not mean that the Western religion would perish.

It should be noted that even if Wen Rui did not intervene, the Buddha would have already entered Nirvana, as recorded in the Mahaparinirvana Sutra.

Even after the Buddha's Nirvana, Buddhism continues and may even flourish again in the next great cycle of reincarnation, but this still cannot achieve the goal of unifying the three religions.

Wen Rui pondered for a long time, tugging at the three strands of his long beard, but ultimately came up with no clue and had to put it aside for the time being, to consider it again in the future.

His attention fell on the flashing red dot on the rewards menu.

Previously, if the task progress increased by more than 10%, the system would issue a task reward and grant a chance to win a prize using advanced technology.

Now that the entire mission is complete, the accumulated mission progress rewards and the final mission completion rewards combined will definitely amount to more than just one or two chances to win a prize.

With Wen Rui's current level of black technology, killing a saint is nothing short of wishful thinking. However, this does not mean that black technology has no upper limit and lacks the power to obliterate the Great Dao and kill a saint.

Examples include vacuum decay, dimensional folding, multiverse interference, dark matter fusion, and meme infection...

If the relevant technology is extracted, even just the preliminary technology, this seemingly impossible task may not be absolutely impossible.

(End of this chapter)