My brother is so cunning

Chapter 1021 Intercepting the Great Dao
"I second the proposal!"

"Your humble servants jointly signed!"

Venus mustered his courage and took the lead, but Wen Rui didn't react much. He remained blankly looking around, fiddling with things and muttering incomprehensible babbling.

The celestial assembly was quiet for a moment, then, as if someone had given a secret order, the crowd immediately became indignant, and the immortals stepped forward to loudly protest.

Houji, the God of Agriculture, said: "I am in charge of agriculture and sericulture in the human world. In previous years, which household in the mortal world did not worship at the Altar of the God of Agriculture during spring planting and autumn harvest? Which dynasty or dynasty dared not to hold a grand spring sacrifice ceremony? But now, the farmers in the mortal world are all doing what the disciples of the Jie Sect are doing: using pesticides, fertilizers, biological control, hybrid breeding, and even using iron oxen to plow the fields and iron birds to apply pesticides."

"After this evil practice, fields that originally yielded a hundred catties per mu could yield a thousand catties or even several thousand catties per mu in just a few years, which greatly violated the way of nature!"

Even Luo Xuan, the Fire God who was close to Wen Rui, sighed and said, "Your Majesty, in previous years, when the mortals worshipped the Fire God, the incense could illuminate the glazed roof of the Fire God's palace red. But now, they use gas stoves and electric arc furnaces to make the stove burn and the kiln fire blaze on its own."

“In the past, mortals worshipped the fire god and prayed to be spared from fire disasters. However, the cities, towns and villages controlled by the disciples of the Jie Sect established so-called ‘firefighting’ departments and devised all sorts of fire-fighting methods and equipment. Even with huge forest fires, mortals knew how to use fire to fight fire. They cut down trees or burned firebreaks in advance, and with the help of giant iron birds that sprayed fire retardant, they could extinguish the fire in a few days.”

"The so-called Fire God Festival in the mortal world has degenerated into a childish activity of dancing around a bonfire. Fireworks are also set off during the festival, which explode into colorful fireballs in the air for people to watch and have fun!"

"We, the gods of the fire department, have lost all our majesty, and mortals have no reverence for us. Our sacrifices and incense offerings are becoming increasingly rare!"

Lu Xiong, the Water God, said, “That’s right! When rivers in the mortal realm flood, people have always offered sacrifices to the water god for peace. But now, people have learned water control methods from who knows where, building dikes, forecasting the weather, and even daring to fire cannons at the clouds in the sky, causing rain to fall unexpectedly in places that shouldn’t be raining.”

"The Heavenly Laws stipulate that if the Rain God or the Dragon King sends down three inches of rain by mistake, they shall be executed on the Execution Platform or the Dragon Execution Platform. How shall mortals be punished for using strange and ingenious tricks to disrupt the seasons?"

The gods of plague, smallpox, and medicine, as well as the gods of animal husbandry, mountains and forests, rivers, silkworms, and wine...

All the celestial officials in the Heavenly Court, both those with and without a name, spoke up, recounting their grievances from the perspective of their respective divine duties.

Even the Toilet God stepped forward, angrily saying, "Although it's not a respectable job, the filth of the mortal world needs my divine power to purify it, and mortals remember my small acts of kindness, respectfully calling me the God of the Five Grains' Reincarnation. But now, what about the toilets in the mortal world? They've installed flush toilets and built underground sewage pipe networks, with filth going directly to the sewage treatment plant. After some so-called magical transformation, it becomes clean water."

……

The gods' accusations can basically be summarized as follows: mortals no longer need them and seem to have realized that they can live and work in peace and contentment on their own, even without them.

All living beings only remember the kindness of the Creator Heavenly Venerable in passing down the secret methods of creation and the Way of Intercepting Heaven. As long as mortals study the secret methods of creation and the Way of Intercepting Heaven diligently, they can solve most of the problems that the gods and immortals in the world can solve, or even those that they cannot solve.

When you encounter difficulties, instead of praying to gods and Buddhas, you should seek help from the Demon Alliance government or the autonomous region government.

When faced with an unsolved mystery, instead of resorting to divination or fortune-telling, it's better to consult knowledgeable experts and scholars. There's no need to complain about the unfairness of fate or curse the heavens for being blind. As long as you're willing to work hard and study, the education system established by the Creator can give every wise being a chance to change their destiny—the college entrance examination.

If you get into a prestigious university within the Demon Alliance's territory, even if you were born as a rat spirit, a bedbug spirit, or a salted fish spirit, you'll have the chance to turn your life around and make groundbreaking achievements in a certain field of creation, forever engraved in the annals of the Heavenly Intercept (science), your name written into textbooks, and passed down through the ages.

The Jade Emperor's expression turned solemn, his face shifting between light and shadow before he turned to Wen Rui and said, "Little Heavenly Venerable Wen, your use of the power of creation to benefit humanity is a great achievement. However, the Heavenly Way divides responsibilities, and each god has their own duties, just as rivers flow across the land and the sun and moon traverse the sky—none can be missing. Now, the people of the mortal realm only know of you, not of the other gods; they only burn 'incense of creation' but do not offer sacrifices to the respective deities—do you know what this means?"

"Aba Aba..."

Judging from his anxious expression, Wen Rui seemed to want to say something in his defense, but the more anxious he became, the less he could speak normally.

"You hold the power of creation, so you should know that 'balance' is the foundation of the Heavenly Way. When the gods lose their offerings and their divine power declines, how can they protect the Three Realms? When humanity loses its reverence for the gods, how can those weak, insignificant mortal bodies survive in the vast universe?"

In his haste, Wen Rui kept biting his tongue, so he had no choice but to give up on explaining. He shakily raised his hand, gave the middle finger to the Jade Emperor, and then shakily moved his arm to circle the room with the middle finger, presenting it to every deity in the Lingxiao Palace.

The Jade Emperor didn't quite understand this internationally recognized friendly gesture for a moment, and looked puzzled.

However, some of the gods below the stage recognized the skill, especially the immortals from the Jie Sect, who asked in surprise, "Why did Junior Nephew Wen make the special Daoist bowing gesture of the Golden Spirit Immortal Sect? It seems to be called something like 'Intercepting Heaven Finger'."

"Huh?" A star lord from the Golden Spirit Immortal Sect exclaimed in surprise, "Our Golden Spirit Immortal Sect has such a gesture? I've cultivated in the Immortal Sect for a thousand years, and I've never seen it before, not even before I was conferred the title of god!"

"You're making a fuss over nothing. This is a special Daoist bowing gesture invented by my junior brother Wen after we died—I mean, after the Investiture of the Gods—to uphold the lineage of the Golden Spirit Immortal Sect and to demonstrate the indomitable will of our Jie Sect."

“Look at that gesture. The clenched fist represents the Way of Heaven, and the raised middle finger represents interception. This is the gesture that best embodies the teachings of my Intercepting Sect.”

"Now that you mention it, I think I understand. The way Junior Brother Wen raised his middle finger and gestured at us did indeed have an indomitable spirit of 'I will go even if there are thousands of people against me,' which was very spirited!"

……

The metal puppet servant standing beside Wen Rui seized the opportunity to explain, "My master is unwell and unable to speak. The meaning behind this gesture is that everything he has done in the mortal realm is merely to spread the true teachings of the Jie Sect and enlighten all beings. When mortals master the secret techniques of Jie Tian, ​​they are capturing fragments of the Heavenly Dao. By using the power of creation to transform the world, they are making a rational application of the laws of the Heavenly Dao."

"This is the right path that follows the will of Heaven and the will of the people. All living beings like it. If you don't like it, who do you think you are?"

(End of this chapter)