I use my supernatural powers to prove my immortality

Chapter 235: The Strange Old Man
Under the empathy with the Mountain Goddess, Zhong Lixiao's soul is constantly being "punished" by the divine prohibitions.

As time goes by, the intensity of this punishment becomes stronger and stronger.

Even Zhong Lixiao was finding it increasingly unbearable to experience this stinging pain coming from deep within his soul. You have to know that he had practiced the "Boundless Sea of Heart" and his soul strength far surpassed that of his peers.

He seemed to be in great pain, so one could imagine how miserable and embarrassed the other gods were at this moment.

Through this incident, Zhong Lixiao finally had a more concrete concept of divine prohibitions and soul injuries.

Especially the divine ban, which is so powerful that it is absurd.

In Zhong Lixiao's opinion, it was even like some kind of automatically triggered rule.

Just like water flows downwards and people need to eat when they are hungry, it has become some kind of law of nature.

What is even more worthy of reflection is that this kind of divine ban is obviously artificially imposed. It is really hard to imagine how powerful the person who formulated the divine ban rules was!

This gave Zhong Lixiao a clearer understanding of the upper limit of the power of this world.

Breathtaking!

In addition, through the spiritual injury caused by this divine ban, Zhong Lixiao also understood more clearly why when he attacked other cultivators with the spiritual combat skill "Heart Sea Tribulation Wave", other cultivators would instantly become vulnerable to being slaughtered because of the powerful tearing and stinging of their souls.

At the same time, Zhong Lixiao also understood firsthand why so many gods were eager to break through the divine ban.

As long as the divine ban is not broken, there will be a sword hanging over your head, which is intolerable for any intelligent creature.

The search for this suspected Kitchen God is still ongoing, and more and more gods are encountered subsequently.

of course.

The misery of these gods was even worse than he had imagined!
Some of the low-ranking gods have even been driven into a daze by the punishment and torture after violating the divine prohibitions, as if they have completely turned into a walking corpse.

Seeing these scenes, Han Danniang and Zhong Lixiao both subconsciously felt an infinite sense of sadness in their hearts.

Especially for Han Danniang, it was a matter of grief for her own kind.

Gods usually enjoy endless worship from the people and are highly respected.

Even the immortal cultivators have to give some face to him, seemingly to achieve both immortality and freedom.

However, they never expected that when the world began to change drastically, these gods who were usually high and mighty would be reduced to cannon fodder.

Life and death are in the hands of others and we have no control over them.

Han Danniang felt a chill in her heart, and she was even more determined that if she could escape this time, she would find a way to break through the divine ban.

Because the two of them were now in a state of spiritual empathy, Zhong Lixiao naturally sensed Han Danniang's thoughts at the first moment.

Zhong Lixiao was quite supportive of her idea.

This time, there was a mysterious giant holding an unknown war drum, and using the sound of the drum to drive all the gods in the world to act as cannon fodder, which indeed refreshed Zhong Lixiao's three views and cognition.

When he first learned that someone in the world had attained enlightenment, Zhong Lixiao guessed that a battle between powerful people might occur.

After all, at this time, except for that mysterious person who achieved enlightenment, no one in the world wanted to see someone achieve enlightenment before them.

In Zhong Lixiao's imagination, this level of battle between powerful beings might last until the sun and moon lose their light and the world falls into ruin.

Perhaps a major disaster would be brewing, but what Zhong Lixiao never expected was that the giant war had not yet really started, and the spillover of the war had pushed them to the brink of death.

This made Zhong Lixiao once again personally feel the sorrow of the weak!

Just when the gods were enduring tremendous torture and digging deep into the earth but could not find anything about this enlightened Kitchen God, the vision of enlightenment between heaven and earth suddenly occurred again.

In the stoves that never went out, scenes appeared again, such as the flames driving away wild beasts, intimidating ghosts and monsters, and even forcing back many evil spirits.

Through these scenes in the firelight, everyone once again understood the ambition of this "Kitchen God".

Following the wish of “I only wish that everyone in the world could have enough food and clothing”, this preacher made another great wish - to protect.

Once he succeeds in attaining enlightenment, his fire will no longer be an ordinary stove fire.

Not only can it cook, provide lighting, and dispel the cold, it can even scare away threats such as evil spirits and wild beasts.

This fire is not that fire, it is the fire of humanity.

As the first mysterious giant to attain enlightenment, he naturally had no shortage of opportunities and courage.

But even so, everyone still underestimated this man's ambition.

If he could really succeed in proving his truth, perhaps a Yan Emperor, the ancestor of all fires, would appear in the world?
I don’t know how many monks were silenced by this, but everyone knew that this was destined to be the calm before the storm.

Some even speculated that this person's use of stove fire to prove his truth might be essentially a cover-up, with the purpose only to cover up his proof of his truth in fire.

Flames shot up into the sky between heaven and earth, and incantations of offering sacrifices to the gods could be heard everywhere.

The most pious incense of the people in the world, coupled with the unique rhythm of the Tao that is proven between heaven and earth, has caused the entire heaven and earth to begin to change.

Especially when the true meaning of this protection came out, it was as if the righteousness of heaven and earth suddenly rose.

As a result, many evil spirits and demons that have long existed in the darkness felt a huge threat at this time, and were frightened to the point of howling and trembling.

This kind of deterrence is truly astonishing, and the turmoil it caused in some demonic sects is particularly far-reaching.

This led to some conflicts with the foundation of the demonic sects and even the true meaning of what they wanted to fight for.

There are huge monsters like the Yinmo Sect, the Yama Sea, and the White Bone Taoist Palace. The roars of great demons can be heard from inside the mountain gate.

Under normal circumstances, the roars of these great demons might have a limited impact range.

However, during the period when this mysterious giant was demonstrating the Dao, the rhythm of the Dao permeated the heaven and earth, and all kinds of mysteries that had never been seen before appeared.

The demonic roar resounded throughout the heavens and earth, as if it was going to directly confront the mysterious giant.

While the world was horrified, it also felt once again the difficulty of proving the truth.

This difficulty may be even more difficult than ascending to heaven in broad daylight!

After all, before today, there were still some records about ascension among many major forces and sects with profound backgrounds.

As long as one's cultivation reaches the realm of refining emptiness and survives the thunder tribulation, there is hope of ascending to the upper realm.

Although ascension is a legend that is so old that it cannot be any longer in the current world of immortal cultivation, it is still a grand scene that the world has seen.

but.

Even for the mythical scene of ascending to heaven in broad daylight, there is no record showing that it would make the whole world hostile and lead to the annihilation of all the good, evil and demons in the world.

Promise
Although many powerful people in the world resisted the mysterious and powerful person who had attained enlightenment, after seeing the grand scene of his enlightenment, they still felt a certain degree of yearning in their hearts.

As time passed, the righteous energy between heaven and earth caused by the stove fire's testimony became increasingly abundant.

However, many bigwigs and giants sneered at the same time.

If you rise by this, you will surely fall by this.

Just to prove the truth and keep the world well fed and warm is already a rare great aspiration in the world.

By competing with others for the worst and being the first to achieve enlightenment, he deceived many peasants who were willing to offer him a stick of incense, and successfully took several more steps forward on the path to enlightenment.

But this person was greedy and actually extended his hand to the "Fire of Guardian", causing the power of righteousness in heaven and earth to continue to rise.

If it were in ordinary years, the power of righteousness in heaven and earth would continue to rise, which would be destined to be a great thing that people would look forward to.

The Taoist priest will eliminate the devil, and even the human king Chao will usher in an unprecedented great prosperity.

but.

At this critical moment, the continued rise of the power of righteousness in heaven and earth will only fuel the thunder tribulation that will lead to his attainment of the Tao.

All this is because thunder is a manifestation of the mighty power of righteousness between heaven and earth!
Sure enough, as the power of righteousness in heaven and earth grew stronger, the calamity clouds above the sky began to gradually gather.

In just a short period of time, the world felt a terrifying pressure like "dark clouds pressing down on the city, threatening to destroy it."

This kind of great power is even different from ordinary pressure. The higher the realm, the deeper the feeling, as if facing the entire world directly.

Even Zhong Lixiao, after feeling this terrifying power of heaven and earth, once again felt his own infinite insignificance.

Practicing Taoism and cultivating immortality, as your cultivation level increases, you always feel as if you have conquered the heaven, earth and nature.

but.

Only when you truly face the world can you truly feel how insignificant you are.

It's like a drop of water compared to the entire ocean, or a star compared to the entire universe.

Boom!

Accompanied by a white light that cut through the sky, it suddenly struck down.

In just a moment, everything between heaven and earth was eclipsed.

The universe seemed to be split apart by this, just as if Pangu had created the world.

The thunder was so terrifying that the light instantly engulfed everything around it, like an endless ocean of thunder.

In the face of such overwhelming power from heaven, all living beings are so insignificant that they have no desire to resist.

Absolute light is absolute darkness.

It seemed as if all sounds in the world had disappeared, and everything in the universe had returned to chaos.

of course.

Many people know that all the devastation caused by this horrific scene may just be an illusion.

But it is undeniable that at that moment, most of the strong people in the world lost their minds.

And for those who practice Taoism, losing their mind often means death!

While everyone was still feeling their eyes being occupied by the endless white light of thunder, a hint of fiery red slowly emerged from the depths of their eyes. This was a color completely different from the pure white thunder!
But from then on, everyone saw a huge stove slowly appearing in the boundless thunder.

The flame in the stove was burning fiercely, and the red light was in fierce conflict with the light of thunder.

This is a very strange way to transcend tribulation. There is no blood or flesh splattering, nor any magic weapon flying. It seems that there are only two beams of light that grow and shrink.

but.

Any strong person who is qualified to see these scenes can sense the astonishing confrontation within them.

It was precisely because of this fierce confrontation that the mysterious giant who was suspected to be the Kitchen God could no longer hide.

Especially the stove, which exposed more details to the eyes of the world's powerful people.

Only then did everyone realize that this stove was so crude!

It is built with the most common yellow mud. Perhaps due to long-term cooking, the surface has become black and dirty.

Although it was wiped very clean, the black oil stains on it seemed that they could never be washed off.

but.

All the strong people who are qualified to see this stove, no one dares to underestimate it.

All because this stove looks really old!
Time always keeps rolling forward, and even something as inconspicuous as a stove is constantly changing.

Anyone who has been to the kitchen can find that the style of this stove is indeed primitive and crude.

It’s not that the ancient times were necessarily better than the modern times. Today’s stoves are just more practical than this primitive stove.

But in the world of cultivation, we cannot completely consider it from this perspective.

All this is because ancient artifacts that were not powerful enough could not have been passed down to the present day.

Those that have been passed down to this day must have their own unique features.

Not to mention that this ancient stove is now controlled by the first mysterious giant to attain enlightenment. Even if you use your imagination, you can understand that this ancient stove must be very extraordinary.

Could it be that the reason why that mysterious powerful man was able to be the first to achieve enlightenment was because he obtained this ancient stove?

People looked at this dirty stove with a bit more burning in their eyes.

of course.

Even though everyone knew that this stove was indeed extraordinary, no one dared to have any extra thoughts about it now.

boom!
Another horrifying bolt of lightning descended, with boundless calamity energy surging. The endless thunder split into dense spider webs, covering the entire world in an instant.

Compared with the previous axe that created the world, this time the lightning was like a vast net in the sky, covering the entire world.

The net of heaven is vast and nothing can escape it. In just a moment, all the stoves scattered in many places in various states and prefectures across heaven and earth were struck by lightning.

Along with this overwhelming divine power, some great and powerful people realized that these scattered lightning bolts had all struck the many arrangements made by this giant who was suspected to be the Kitchen God in the human world.

At this moment, the world only felt that the mighty power of heaven was as if billions of swords were slashing out at the same time.

Following the cause and effect, he directly slashed at the many clones of this giant who was suspected to be the Kitchen God.

After sensing all this, both the sword cultivators and the magic cultivators fell silent at the same time.

There are ways to kill an opponent against the line of cause and effect in this world, but even the most powerful cultivator cannot simultaneously cut through all the arrangements and back-up plans of this giant like this thunder tribulation.

too strong!
Is this the truth?

Not only will the whole world be your enemy, but the natural tribulation will also be a hurdle that you cannot overcome.

at the same time.

Just as this mysterious giant was suffering from a horrific heavenly calamity and at the same time was slashing at all his arrangements in the human world, the stars under the sky in the area of the Southern Xinjiang Four Symbols Taoist Palace were exceptionally bright.

These sparkling stars are like pairs of eyes, constantly monitoring everything between heaven and earth.

And just as the second bolt of lightning dispersed to all parts of heaven and earth, Zang Yuanchang, the master of the Four Symbols Taoist Palace, made a very rare use of the incomplete Four Symbols True Meaning to see nearly ten thousand unusually bright stove fires in the world.

They are widely distributed in all states and counties in the world and are very secretive. If one had not followed the rays of thunder, it would have been impossible to discover them with the incomplete true meaning of the Four Symbols Taoist Palace.

We have to admit that this mysterious person, who is suspected to be the Kitchen God, has amazing methods.

Even this venerable one has a huge gap with him.

but.

Ever since this secret arrangement was broken by the thunder tribulation, this mystery has disappeared completely.

Then, Zang Yuanchang discovered that there were indeed many backup plans and arrangements that were destroyed by the terrifying thunder strike, but in the end, many stoves were still successfully preserved.

What is even more incredible is that, with these stove fires that have not yet been extinguished as the center, those cities are lighting up one light after another at the same time.

Every light represents a home.

And where there are people, the fire will naturally be lit again.

This is the world of fireworks, and food always comes first.

Zang Yuanchang was completely shocked.

Is it possible to overcome the tribulation in this way?
It’s just the dietary needs of the common people, but it can actually resist the power of the natural calamity.

There are many powerful people who have similar ideas as Zang Yuanchang, the Palace Master of the Four Symbols Taoist Palace.

but.

Fortunately, some powerful people with great magical powers finally found clues in the stove fire from this thunder tribulation.

"Are you the lonely and weird old man who was once famous all over the world?!!"

The powerful man who had discerned the identity of the person who had attained enlightenment let out a cry of surprise, and with the interaction between heaven and earth, the sound resounded throughout heaven and earth.

Countless powerful people were shocked and began to rack their brains subconsciously, thinking about the information related to the lonely and strange old man.

Immediately, countless people around the world felt as if they had seen a ghost.

The era when the stingy and eccentric old man became famous is really too long ago.

In front of the lonely and strange old man, even the Floating Cloud Venerable Bai Tingyuan and the Four Symbols Taoist Palace Master Zang Yuanshang, who himself had a short lifespan, could only be regarded as juniors.

Not to mention the younger generation, even many Yuanying stage monsters don’t know that there is such a senior as the Lonely and Stinky Old Man.

Even someone like Bai Tingyuan thought that the lonely and strange old man had passed away.

However, he never thought that he had already reached the edge of enlightenment and was the first to set a precedent for enlightenment.

As more and more memories came to light, more and more people finally dug out the life of the stingy and strange old man.

As his Taoist name suggests, the Lonely and Strange Old Man was born without fortune, perhaps because of the martial arts he practiced, and often appeared to be extremely poor.

In addition, he likes to play around in the world, and when he meets someone he likes, he will pass on some skills to them from time to time.

Therefore, there are many legends about lonely and strange old men in the world.

Names like "Old Man in the White House", "Beggar King", "Taoist in White Clothes", and "The Weird Hero with Bowl and Bottle" are all respectful names given to him by the world.

The reason why he finally got the Taoist name "The Lonely and Weird Old Man" was because even though he taught the Dharma as fate would have it, he did not accept any disciples and was always alone.

Secondly, the lonely and weird old man is indeed a lonely and weird person.

If you like someone, you may want to help him no matter what the cost; but if you don’t like someone, it will be difficult to make him look at you even if you give him a lot of money.

Most importantly, this person despises etiquette and behaves extremely strangely.

Not only can they do such eye-catching things as using the ground as a bed and the sky as a quilt, they might even argue with store owners over a steamed bun or a bowl of noodles.

I don’t know if it’s because I’ve never had good fortune with money, but when I have money I like to go out drinking and being treated like a big shot.

But in the blink of an eye, you might be scolded by the pimps and madams of the brothel just because you have no money.
But no one expected that this old man, who was suspected to have been dead for who knows how many years, would actually reach the level of enlightenment.

What is even more unimaginable to everyone is that the lonely and strange old man is a giant in the immortal way, but he chooses to prove his way with the Shinto method.

Is this the reason why he is still alive today?

I don’t know how many powerful people were guessing at the same time!
If Shintoism can really keep them alive without cutting off their spiritual path, then if they are on the eve of their death, they may be able to switch to practicing Shintoism.

Rumble!
Another shocking thunderbolt appeared, and based on this, an endless chain of divine order appeared between heaven and earth.

These divine chains were like waterfalls descending from the sky, rushing down three thousand feet, instantly blocking many stoves including the huge stove between heaven and earth.

These divine chains of order were like the most powerful seal in the world. In just a short period of time, all the stoves lit by the lonely and strange old man were extinguished one after another.

The world was becoming "hungry and cold" at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the aura of the lonely and strange old man that spread throughout the world was also strongly suppressed.

As his breath was gradually blocked, the lonely and strange old man gradually retreated from this state that was almost in harmony with the Tao.

then.

More and more people began to sense the extremely concentrated aura of the stingy old man. It was obvious that the stingy old man was no longer in the state that even the Divine Master could not find him before.

shhhhhh!
Countless powerful people from all over the world began to rush to the places where the aura of the lonely and strange old man was most concentrated.

To preach the truth is what everyone in the world desires.

But if the one who attains enlightenment is not themselves, then it will be very bad!
at the same time.

The war drums that previously drove many gods were beating at an unprecedented intensity.

This is the sound of military drums, symbolizing the entire army's attack!

(End of this chapter)