After the two laughed and talked for a few words, Yang Jian said: "As the so-called willing to gamble and lose, since you have fought with me for more than 300 moves, then I will tell you a big secret." ”

In fact, Li Nan has always been a little confused about Yang Jian's intention to come this time.

It stands to reason that Yang Jian is a reinforcement invited by Li Jing, the king of Tota, and the two can be said to be one soldier and the other a thief, but they are in a state of incompatibility.

Although Yang Jian and the Jade Emperor have old grudges, he doesn't contribute to it, there is no need to come over to fight this game, and he deliberately loses the bet contract and tells himself a shocking secret.

Anyway, at present, Yang Jian has taken the initiative, and Li Nan naturally will not provoke the other party, so he immediately said: "Then I will listen to you." ”

Yang Jian didn't tell the secret directly, but asked Li Nan, "Do you know the ultimate goal of cultivation?" ”

This question is a bit big, but it is not difficult to answer, Li Nan immediately responded with eight words: "Heaven and earth live together, the sun and the moon shine together!" ”

Hearing this answer, Yang Jian sighed and said with emotion: "Yes, it is true. ”

"So do you think this can be achieved?" After a while, Yang Jian asked again.

If they are people from this world, then they will definitely give a positive answer, because it is because they are convinced of this that they will devote their whole life energy to cultivation and give everything for it.

But Li Nan is a rare anomaly, he comes from another world, although there is no abundant aura in that world, so it is difficult for cultivators to achieve anything, but when it comes to knowledge, he is definitely far beyond the people here.

Although he didn't know the intention of Yang Jian's questions, Li Nan still replied frankly: "All things in heaven and earth, including the sun, moon and stars, are destroyed, so the cultivator's ultimate goal of living the same life in heaven and earth and the same sun and moon is simply impossible to achieve. ”

"Huh!" This answer made Yang Jian couldn't help but be surprised, because he never expected that among the Three Realms, there would be someone who could put aside this kind of concept that had lasted for thousands of years and made everyone believe in it.

After carefully looking at Li Nan for a long time, Yang Jian nodded and continued: "Since you understand this truth, it will be easy to do. In fact, the secret I want to tell you is about the whereabouts of those saints. ”

The cultivators of this world are divided into many levels because of their different realms, such as the most basic Earth Immortals, and the top ones are Taiyi Scattered Immortals, Taiyi True Immortals, Taiyi Golden Immortals, and even the top Daluo Golden Immortals.

In fact, there is still a realm above the Da Luo Jin Immortal, but since the opening of the world, only one has reached this realm, and that is Hongjun Dao Ancestor.

No one knows what kind of realm Hongjun Dao Ancestor is, but the three disciples under him are famous, they are Taishang Laojun, Yuan Shi Tianzun and Tongtian Sect Master.

During the same period, there were also Nuwa Niangniang of the Demon Clan, the Guiding Daoist and the Quasi-Tidao of the Western Sect, and some other monks.

Because these people have obtained the most abundant spiritual energy in this world after the opening of the world, the top heavenly materials and earth treasures and other resources, their cultivation is also thousands of miles a day, far surpassing the people of later generations.

In that ancient era, there were quite a few monks who possessed these advantages, but for various reasons, in the end, only these seven reached the peak of cultivators with their innate conditions, so they were all called saints.

Everyone in the Three Realms thinks that the saint is immortal and immortal, and has reached the ultimate pursuit of living with heaven and earth, and shining with the sun and the moon, but no one has verified whether this is the case.

However, there is one thing that is very strange, since the end of the Great War of the Gods, Hongjun Daozu left with the Yuan Shi Tianzun and the Tongtian Sect Master, and has not been seen since.

After the Western Sect gathered thousands of disciples, it became more and more prosperous, and developed to the four continents, but the two sect leaders of the Daoist and the Quasi-Daoist also disappeared quickly.

At the same time, the saint Nuwa Niangniang of the demon clan disappeared, which means that except for Taishang Laojun, who lived alone in the Hatred Heaven Doushi Palace thirty-three days away, all the other saints were gone.

As for the traces of these saints, whether it is the Exposition Sect, the Interception Sect, the Western Sect, the Heavenly Court and other forces, they have spent a lot of resources to track them down over the years, but they seem to have evaporated from the world, and they can't find any trace at all.

Yang Jian, as a disciple of three generations of expounding the teachings and the nephew of the Jade Emperor, is extremely powerful in his own right, so he has traveled extensively, and after more than 3,000 years of exploration, he finally came to a conclusion, that is, the saints are dead.

This conclusion sounds a little incredible, the saints who have reached the peak realm of the Great Luo Golden Immortal are known as immortal and immortal, so how can they die?

But if you do the math, it's not impossible.

Most of these top cultivators appeared shortly after the opening of the world, and in terms of age, Hongjun Dao Ancestor was the largest, and the other six were almost the same.

From the formation of this world to the era of the Great War of the Gods, how much time has passed, and the people of later generations do not know at all.

If we calculate according to the time when the earth was formed, then the universe was born 15 billion years ago, laying the material foundation for the creation of the earth. The Earth as a planet originated from the primordial solar nebula 4.6 billion years ago.

If you roughly calculate it like this, each of these saints is billions of years old, and death becomes a very normal thing.

For the secret that Yang Jian told, Li Nan could understand it with the knowledge and concepts on the earth, but he also immediately thought of a problem that contradicted this inference.

"Zhenjun, I agree with you, but have you forgotten that not all saints have disappeared. Thirty-three days away, there is still a saint alive in the Heaven Doushi Palace, you can't say that his cultivation is higher than that of Hongjun Dao Ancestor, so he has lived until now? ”

"Hehehe, Taishang Laojun." Yang Jian said in a disdainful tone: "For more than three thousand years, I have also been observing this former saint, but unfortunately he has never made a move. Every day, he only refines all kinds of pills and magic weapon blades, and he looks no different from a blacksmith and pharmacist, but he has the spirit of a saint? ”

"You mean ......"

"That's right!" Yang Jian said angrily: "The current Taishang Laojun is not that saint at all, otherwise the Western Sect would never dare to invade the four continents under the jurisdiction of Heavenly Court!" ”

"I see!" After listening to Yang Jian's explanation, some of the doubts in Li Nan's heart were also solved.

You must know that the most terrible war in the world is the war between religions, which has no reason at all, and is completely a killing act by one party to destroy the other.

Heavenly Court is the place where the Three Realms are managed, and Taoism is also the native religion promoted by Heavenly Court, but since the War of the Gods, the Western Sect has invaded the four continents from the remote places in the West, and soon occupied the Lingshan of the West Niuhe Continent, and used it as a foundation to spread the Dharma to the other three states.

This time, Tang Seng and others' plan to travel to the west to learn scriptures was actually to preach to the southern Zhanbu Prefecture where the Tang Dynasty was located, but in the face of this naked invasion of the Western Sect, the Jade Emperor and the Queen Mother of the Heavenly Court, the gods, and the Taishang Laojun all endured it, which is a little unspeakable.

Nine Heavenly God Emperors