If the sect doesn't accept geniuses, they will become giants once they leave?

Chapter 423 The Role of Dayu's Daotong

Li Yanmo drank his tea and stopped talking. This was his only opinion after he learned about the word "transcendence" and the morbid pursuit of it by the monks of the Great Wilderness Taoist sect.

Mu Mei on the foundation-building platform fell into silence.

Nuyao was the first person to cultivate to immortality. It seems the Great Wilderness hadn't even begun when she died, so even though she knew the word "transcendence," she had no obsession with it. However, Meixian was born during the Great Wilderness. Even though her personality kept her away from other cultivators, she knew that the Great Wilderness began with the word "transcendence." If she hadn't also pursued transcendence, there wouldn't be rumors of her pursuit.

But after Li Yanmo said this, the word "transcendence" became a word exclusive to mediocre people, and she really couldn't refute Li Yanmo's words.

Lily Jiang puffed out smoke, and after a long while she suddenly laughed, “So that person, the first generation of Emperor Yu, refined the Dao Pillar.”

"There are no cages in the world. Don't worry about it. Just follow your own path."

"Of course—translated into human language, it means..."

"Your grandmother's legs, stop complaining about it, stop looking for excuses to take the wrong path, and go study hard."

Li Yanmo pondered for a moment and commented, "So the Yuanying of Dayu's Daoist lineage isn't a baby, but a body of light, simply used to connect with heaven and earth?"

"nature--"

Lily Jiang seemed to have remembered something, her voice paused, and she looked at Li Yanmo, wanting to say something but stopping herself, as if she was struggling with whether she should keep Li Yanmo in the dark about what she was going to say next.

Li Yanmo saw Lily Jiang's concerns, spread his hands, and pretended to be relaxed and said, "I am not burdened by debts. How many things do you think I know that I shouldn't know?"

Li Yanmo paused, then added with a troubled look on his face, "I've already learned about taboos that ordinary cultivators shouldn't know."

Lily Jiang was stunned for a moment and couldn't help laughing out loud. The louder she laughed, the more she laughed. She looked so gorgeous.

"That's true, that's true!"

Lily Jiang wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, knocked Li Yanmo's head with her cigarette, and her expression gradually became serious. "Everyone has his own destiny. Everyone is born with his own mission."

"Depending on individual differences and subsequent growth, the missions undertaken will also become more challenging."

"The immortals shoulder the destiny."

"Becoming an immortal through cultivation is a shortcut. Those who take shortcuts cannot shoulder the destiny and may even misinterpret it. Not to mention those who deny their origins and become immortals by using the golden elixir of monster beasts."

"Beneath the false prosperity lies a scarred world itself."

"By the time Emperor Shun realized this, it was too late to save the situation. But when Emperor Shun was about to perish, they launched a final counterattack. The first Emperor Yu rode the wave and ended the Great Desolation, but—"

Lily Jiang shook her head and sighed, “History is coherent. No matter how great the changes are, they cannot be cut off from the past.”

"Even if the Dao Pillar descended and suppressed the Daoist tradition of the Great Wilderness, it would not be able to change the deep-rooted concept of cultivation in the universe. Even Dayu himself is a part of it."

"Dayu's history was built on a precarious wilderness. All he could do was to try to correct it as much as possible. But even after hundreds of thousands of years, it was only a temporary fix, not a fundamental solution."

Lily Jiang raised her hand and pointed to the sky, then pointed to the ground.

Li Yanmo knew that Jiang Baili was referring to the evil star in the sky and the land transformed from the small world.

Li Yanmo crossed his fingers and tapped the back of his hand gently. After a moment, he said, "Actually, I don't really believe in the concept of balance."

"Mistakes can only occur because you didn't do your best, or because someone is secretly plotting something bad. It has nothing to do with fate or destiny. There's no need to attribute failure and disaster to balance."

"In fact, it is true." "If the Immortal Palace had not taken advantage of the lack of manpower when Dayu was first established and used a trick to plant seeds in Dayu's Taoist lineage, the Taoist sect would not have split from the Taoist sect."

Lily Jiang nodded thoughtfully, “What you said is indeed interesting, but it’s a pity that it can’t change the current situation.”

"Do you know where the word 'huang' in 'Dahuang' comes from?"

Li Yanmo scratched his face. "Because of the concept of transcendence, people at the beginning of the Great Desolation Era called themselves Desolate Immortals?"

“Yes, and no,” Lily Jiang wrote the word “Huang” on the table, “He didn’t call himself Huangxian, but he caused the desolation of the world, so he was called Huangxian.”

Lily Jiang tapped her finger on the table and drew a baby. Then she hooked her finger lightly and an umbilical cord appeared.

"If you want to become an immortal through cultivation, you must nurture a small world with your own Dao at its core during the Tribulation Period. Withstand numerous heavenly tribulations and gain the approval of Heaven, until that world is fully formed. Heaven can do nothing but incorporate it into the Great Dao."

"During this process, cultivators in the Tribulation Crossing Stage must continuously absorb the origin of the world."

"The Immortal of Desolation underwent some changes during his Nascent Soul stage—"

"He brought that step forward."

"He is connected to the heaven and earth through his umbilical cord, allowing the heaven and earth to regard his Nascent Soul as part of the world, providing it with nutrients and assisting his cultivation."

"He used this method to merge his spirit and body, and achieved immortality without any tribulation while overcoming the tribulation."

"Everyone followed his example, draining the nutrients from the universe. Coupled with the monks' unrestrained mining of spirit stones, the universe gradually became desolate."

"The cultivators who witnessed this scene... in order to avoid becoming the unlucky person who couldn't achieve immortality without suffering tribulations, practiced even more frantically."

Lily Jiang blew out a smoke ring, “Emperor Shun tried his best, and the ancient sect needed enough people to carry forward the Taoism and let them transcend, so this method of cultivation was stopped.”

Lily Jiang raised her hand to disperse the smoke ring.

"Of course, this is just on the surface."

"The cultivation system has long been deeply rooted. Moreover, cultivators grow by extracting nutrients from the universe."

Li Yanmo understood what Jiang Baili meant, and frowned, "You mean... Dayu Daotong is also squeezing nutrients from the universe."

Lily Jiang nodded, "Yes, this is the underlying logic that is impossible to change, so the first Emperor Yu made adjustments with the Dao Pillar."

"Although the monks exploit the nutrients of the universe, they themselves are also part of the universe, sharing the pressure of the universe's operation and performing their own duties."

"For example, the Six Paths Sect—"

"In the Great Wilderness, humans were even more evil than demons, so the ecology had long been in chaos. The universe itself didn't know whether it was giving birth to demons, beasts, or humans, and could only trace the cause and effect. The Great Wilderness Taoist sect took advantage of this and continuously cultivated its own [Sect Disciples] through breeding. A three-eyed creature couldn't give birth to a normal human, only three eyes."

"If we allow this to continue, there will be no more people in the world."

"The Six Paths Sect's tradition uses the six paths of reincarnation to help the universe sort this out. Humans are humans, and beasts are beasts. Even if their father is evil, their son can be good."

"Even if their father and ancestors are from the Great Wilderness Daoist tradition, there is no need to worry about being influenced by them and being born as a non-human, unable to choose their own future."

(End of this chapter)