Mysterious mirror hanging high

"I just disguised myself and went to the teahouse in Fugui Immortal City to chat with other cultivators."

Ye Jinyuan said, "This can be considered a small hobby of mine after my daily practice. It's nothing more than listening to some interesting anecdotes and stories to kill time."

"But... the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty has been victorious recently, and the situation on the Juechen Immortal Continent is getting intense, which has caused the morale on our side of the East China Sea to be somewhat unstable."

"I heard."

Jing Yu said calmly, "It's not just that I lack confidence in the battle... but even you, the True Lord of the Spirit Turtle, have been affected by this sarcasm."

"Master knows all this?" Ye Jinyuan was shocked. "What a strong divine sense coverage."

But Jing Yu asked himself:

"Jin Yuan, the world sees the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty's crushing defeat, and they think the Celestial Sovereign of the Immortal Continent Daoist Tradition is weak, repeatedly giving in... The Immortal Continent Daoist Tradition is clearly on the verge of collapse, and I'm afraid it won't last a few more years. Do you think this view is justified?"

"Of course it doesn't make sense."

Ye Jinyuan shook his head. "The major sects in the Immortal Continent are also retreating as they go. Although the [Tianxiang Immortal Continent] has fallen, most of the elite disciples of the Tianxiang human and demon races have been sent to Juechen Immortal Continent intact."

"The more the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty expands, the more our defense lines shrink, and our resistance will gradually increase."

"What's more, we still have [Penglai Fairyland] as the last stronghold."

Ye Jinyuan continued, "Over the years, many earth-type True Lords have used the [Gen Tu Dong Xuan Pei Ling Bao Zhen] to reshape their Dharma bodies, connect their Nascent Souls, and merge themselves with the earth veins, creating countless [Mountain Gods] and [Land Gods]."

"Among them, the Mountain God can rely on the mountain's terrain to bless its magical powers and entrench itself in the immortal mountain connected to it, and can almost leap a small realm to meet the enemy."

"And the Earth can use the earth veins as a pathway to quickly travel to various locations. Now that the Great Void is blocked, the Earth's burrowing technique is almost the fastest means of support."

Ye Jinyuan sighed, "Qiu Dongxuan is truly a genius. The [Gentu Dongxuan Spiritual Cultivation Formation] he created is truly formidable. With the [Mountain God] and [Land God], it's virtually impossible for Penglai Immortal Continent to be breached by those overdrawn Catalytic Nascent Souls of the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty."

"The so-called [unification of the Immortal Continent] is nothing but wishful thinking."

"Besides..."

Ye Jinyuan changed the subject: "Disciple believes that the outcome of the battle at the Nascent Soul level does not affect the overall situation."

"Whether or not we can survive this catastrophe ultimately depends on the many Divine Transformation Heavenly Monarchs."

Jing Yu hummed, "You are right, but that scholar is also right."

Ye Jinyuan was puzzled.

"The reason you can make such a judgment is simply because you are high enough to know that Master and the others have hidden plans, and you are not giving up."

“But this is not a downward revision perspective.”

"For the lower cultivators and the common people, what they saw and felt was the fall of the land and the continuous defeat. Countless lower cultivators and common people became followers under the rule of the Divine Cauldron, intimidated by the rules of the dynasty and never seeing the light of day."

"Two hundred years is a long time. It's two lifetimes for a Qi-cultivating cultivator, and two-thirds of a Foundation-building cultivator's life... not to mention ordinary mortals who can only live for a few decades."

"From their perspective, there's no such thing as the foresight and strategic planning of a Divine Transformation Heavenly Monarch. Hundreds, or even thousands of years later, we will once again destroy the Divine Cauldron Immortal Dynasty, and they won't be able to see this scene."

"Of course they have the right to complain - after all, people don't need to worry about the world after they die."

"Their fate was sealed at the moment of death. We can make our final judgment on them at that moment, but at the same time—they can also make their final judgment on the world."

"Higher cultivators like the Nascent Soul and the Spiritual Infant use their long life spans to judge the mundane lives of lower cultivators, mocking their complaints and shortsightedness."

"Kaixia Xiushi, with his limited life experience and eventual death as the turning point, makes his own conclusion about the era of fallen mountains and rivers and the decline of the Dao—the core of this conclusion is pain, despair, and injustice."

"They don't need, and they can't see, a reversal a thousand years from now."

"Looking at a problem from different perspectives and heights will lead to completely different conclusions. Isn't this the arrogance of high cultivation?"

Jing Yu said calmly, "However... the time to end this catastrophe is not that far away."

"The bait is ready, just wait for the fish to bite."

After Jing Yu finished speaking, he continued to stare at the koi in the spiritual spring. After another half a minute, he suddenly asked:

"Jin Yuan, I'm here to test your divination skills. Cast a hexagram and predict the fate of the koi in this spiritual spring... Guess if I can land a koi today."

Ye Jinyuan was stunned when he heard this, and thought to himself, "Master, are you testing me?"

He probed his mind into the spring, then calculated with his fingers and said hesitantly, "The koi in the spiritual spring usually absorb the essence of the sun and the moon, soaking in the spring water overflowing with spiritual energy... They have tasted many good things. Master's bait is ordinary, I'm afraid the fish won't take the bait."

Another half hour passed, and the koi in the spiritual spring really ignored the bait on the fishing rod, so Jing Yu naturally caught nothing.

But the next moment, Jing Yu threw away the green bamboo fishing rod in his hand, jumped directly into the spiritual spring, reached out and caught a koi, and laughed at Ye Jinyuan:

"Disciple, you guessed wrong!"

Ye Jinyuan had a helpless look on his face and just nodded without saying anything. He never expected that his master would be so dishonest. How could he have any of the majesty of the usual [Master of the Mirror and Mysterious Life]?

Jing Yu was considering whether to stew a pot of carp soup tonight, but he saw the palace pendant on his waist flashing. He probed his spiritual sense into it to take a look, and a look of joy appeared on his face. He casually released the koi back into the spring and disappeared in a flash of light.

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Jing Yu's escape light suddenly rose from the valley behind Fugui Mountain, cutting through the mist and clouds of the East China Sea, and in an instant it crossed most of Tianxu Island.

Where the rainbow light falls is not a crowded place, but a quiet place isolated from the hustle and bustle - a small Buddhist temple built on a cliff and facing the sea.

The temple is not big, with low walls, and is almost completely covered by the canopy of a giant tree.

It was a ginkgo tree that had lived for who knows how many years. It was more than dozens of feet tall, with a trunk twisted like a dragon, requiring several people to hug it.

The layers of branches and leaves of the ginkgo tree are like a natural canopy, filtering through tiny specks of light, sprinkling them on the temple ground covered with a thick layer of fallen leaves, and also on the figure sitting beneath the tree.

The monk under the tree was wearing a moon-white robe that was washed so much that it was almost transparent and spotless.

The man was extremely handsome, with picturesque features, but without the slightest trace of makeup, leaving only a kind of warmth and emptiness that was almost like jade.

It is Nirvana!