Above the nine heavens, in the Zixiao Palace, Hongjun and Yuan Shi sat opposite each other, and between the two saints, there was a box of chessboards that crisscrossed and stretched nineteen ways.

Hongjun and Yuan Shi are playing chess and talking about the world at the same time, of course, the sage's talk is really talking about the world and the earth.

Yuan Shi said: "Master, this lich war is over, you should be able to make a judgment." ”

Hongjun said: "The battle of the lich is just a trivial matter, the desolate creatures do not prove the avenue, and they will eventually die, whether they will die of birth, old age, sickness and death, or death from war and man-made disasters, there is no difference. ”

"The Lich War is a trivial matter, but what about the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth?" asked Yuan Shi.

"That's why I'm bent on suppressing the way after tomorrow. Hongjun said while falling: "The innate avenue takes heaven and earth as its sect, and takes the protection of heaven and earth as its own responsibility, and the acquired avenue is the way of transcendence, the pursuit is to break the shackles and surpass all the great leisurely realms, and heaven and earth are the greatest constraints of the acquired monks, and the sanctification of the acquired monks will only cause devastating consequences to heaven and earth." ”

Hongjun glanced at Yuan Shi and continued: "This time, if you hadn't wantonly transferred Yuanyang away, how could there be a catastrophe that would not have collapsed and the sky would have collapsed. ”

Yuan Shi said: "This time the catastrophe of heaven and earth, the disciple does have to bear the cause and effect, but the disciple just takes advantage of the situation and lets the catastrophe break out in advance, without the disciple intervening, it will be a matter of time before the mountain falls." ”

With Hongjun and Yuan Shi's Taoism, naturally he will not talk in vain, and Hongjun can't help but sink his face.

Yuan Shi said: "Then the disciple is brave, and he will analyze the cause and effect for the master." ”

"You say. ”

Yuan Shi said: "Buzhou Mountain is the spine of Pangu, the pillar of heaven and earth, it should be the hardest thing in the flood wilderness, after the three promotions of heaven and earth, even if Yasheng makes a move, it is impossible to knock down Buzhou Mountain." So what is the reason for Gonggong to break Buzhou Mountain by such a quasi-saint?"

Seeing that Hongjun was silent, Yuan Shi continued: "First of all, it was Nuwa who took away the Pangu spinal cord and the core of Buzhou Mountain, Xiyang, by coincidence, so that Buzhou Mountain, which was originally at the immortal level, was downgraded to the mixed yuan level, and from then on, Buzhou Mountain could only withstand the attack of the quasi-saint level. After that, the disciples summoned Yuanyang, and the Gonggong angrily touched the Zhou Mountain, which led to the catastrophe of heaven and earth. ”

"What do you want to explain?" Hongjun said.

Although Yuanyang was summoned away by his disciples, the disciples only persuaded him with affection, and did not force him to be free, if he was determined, he must go back, the disciples would not be forced to stay, and there would be no accidents if Zhoushan was not broken. Yuan Shi said: "Nuwa is greedy because of treasure, Yuanyang is cowardly because of love, and Gonggong is resentful because of hatred, this is the reason why Zhou Shan fell, but the three of them are all monks of the Congenital Dao." ”

Hongjun was stunned, he didn't expect this.

Yuan Shi continued: "Shizun thinks about the salvation process again, Emperor Jun Qingtian, after the fall, he still turned into the realm to make up for the leakage of the sky, more than 300 big Luo of the demon clan sacrificed his life to enter the Star Dou, just to make the heavens and the earth stable, and there are countless true immortals Taiyi, who sacrificed to save the common people, they are all acquired monks. ”

Hongjun said: "Do you mean to say that in fact, it is the acquired monks who really protect the heavens and the earth, and it is the innate monks who destroy the heavens and the earth and cause calamity?"

"That's not going to be. Yuan Shi said with a smile: "In the long river of chaos, the ghost car gave up his life and finally protected the lives of a group of little demons; Lu Jian and Mohu Luojia desperately resisted the fairy world and bought time for Nuwa to refine the Heavenly Stone; and Xuangui, in order to help Nuwa become holy, he would rather give up his life. It is precisely because of the sacrifices of these monks that we can exchange for the current safe situation of the flood famine. ”

"What the hell do you mean?" Hongjun said.

"The meaning of the disciple is very simple. Yuan Shidao: "It is not the Great Dao that destroys the flood, it is the people's hearts, and it is not the Great Dao that can protect the flood, but the people's hearts." People's hearts are available, whether they practice the innate avenue or the acquired avenue, they can protect the flood, but if the people's hearts are available, whether they practice the innate avenue or the acquired avenue, they will be a disaster to the world. Therefore, the most important thing for the Heavenly Dao to protect the desolate world is not to suppress the Heavenly Dao, but to guide people's hearts. ”

"Guide people's hearts?" Hongjun pondered, "Do you persuade people to be good?"

"It is not necessarily good, Yuan Yang cares about the father-son relationship with his disciples, good and evil, but he abandoned his duty and became the cause of the catastrophe of heaven and earth. Yuan Shidao: "Good and evil lie in people's thoughts, but the subjective good and evil of individuals will affect the objective results." As the arbiter and guardian of the desolation, the master should judge the possible consequences of good and evil in people's hearts, and then prevent and guide them in advance. ”

After listening to Yuan Shi's words, Hongjun was silent, and after a long time, Hongjun spoke: "Yuan Shi, you are right, from now on, Heavenly Dao will not deliberately suppress the acquired monks. ”

"Master Xie left a glimmer of life for the monks of the day after tomorrow. Yuan Shi stood up and bowed respectfully to Hongjun.

Hongjun received the first salute from the beginning and said: "However, the way of heaven has its own laws of the way of heaven, here in the way of heaven, the innate will always be the darling of heaven and earth, and if the avenue of heaven wants to develop, it not only needs its own efforts, but also has to bear the test of the way of heaven." ”

"The way of the day after tomorrow is the way of transcendence, without tempering, how to transcend. Yuan Shi said with a smile.

"Go ahead!" Hongjun said.

The disciple retired. "Yuan Shi gave another salute.

Hongjun closed his eyes.

Yuan Shi withdrew from Zixiao Palace.

Hongjun opened his eyes, looked at Yuan Shi's back, and said to himself: "The monks of the day after tomorrow will all have to bear the test, Yuan Shi, your test is no longer before sanctification, but now." ”

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Yuan Shi returned to Kunlun Mountain, and along the way, Yuan Shi looked at the new desolate world.

A galaxy composed of countless stars hung above the nine heavens, all of which were fragments separated by the earth during fission, and were drawn to the sky by the starlight of the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array. The largest of them is the size of a mountain range, and the smaller one may be only one-ten-thousandth the size of a mountain.

In addition to the previous stars, the number of stars above the nine heavens is trillions, the original stars, a small number of living beings survived, and the new stars, most of them have no life, but there are also a very small number of stars that have survived some living beings, and they will thrive on these stars from now on.

On the earth, the desolate land has been divided into large and small continents and islands, and the smallest miniature island is only a radius of Lixu, and the number is innumerable, even more than the stars in the sky.

A smaller, slightly larger island is the size of a mountain peak, equivalent to the surface area of a star in the world, so that there are trillions of islands.

On top of the small islands, there are small and medium-sized islands, which are equivalent to the size of a mountain range, and there are tens of billions of small and medium-sized islands.

As for the medium-sized islands, they are comparable in size to a group of mountain ranges, and the number is measured in tens of millions.

The large island is like a fairy land, there are more than a thousand.

No matter how big the island is, it is the size of hundreds of fairy lands. Of course, there are not many islands that can reach more than one immortal realm, and there are no more than a thousand islands in the entire flood wilderness, and as for the largest islands with an area of hundreds of immortal realms, there are fifteen in total.

Different Shi Gong: There is a famous immortal family in Chinese mythology that there are ten continents and three islands, but in fact, there are five earliest fairy islands, namely Daiyu, Yuanqiao, Fangju, Yingzhou, Penglai, and the five fairy islands are carried by giant tortoises in the sea, and later the giants of Longbo country fished away the guardian giant tortoise of Daiyu and Yuanqiao two fairy islands, so these two fairy islands disappeared (some said to have sunk), so only three fairy islands remained. I'm going to use this legend in the later episodes.

In addition to the countless small islands and fifteen large islands, there were four larger continents, and under the starlight of the Zhou Tian Star Dou Great Array, the four continents were located in the southeast, northwest, and four directions.

Four continents, the continent due east (Dongsheng Divine Continent) is the largest, with more than 2,000 immortal realms in size, the Sanqing Divine Kingdom is located in this continent, it is precisely because the Sanqing Divine Kingdom protects the Sanqing Divine Kingdom, so the land near the Sanqing Divine Kingdom has also been preserved, forming the largest continent.

Below the continent due east, the southern continent (Nanzhan Buzhou) and the western continent (Xiniuhezhou) are second, the southern continent has the size of 1,200 immortal domains, and the size of the 1,000 immortal realms in Xiniuhezhou.

The smallest is the northern continent (Beiju Luzhou), which is only the size of five hundred immortal domains, and the Wu Clan, the Five Yuan Demon Kingdom and the Demon Realm are all on this continent.

The so-called division of large and small islands and continents is seen from the perspective of a strong man of the Tao. In fact, from the perspective of later generations of human races, medium-sized islands and even small and medium-sized islands have been regarded as a continent.

The four continents are surrounded by oceans, the East China Sea between the East and South Continents, the North Sea between the East and North Continents, the South China Sea between the West and South Continents, and the West Sea between the West and North Continents.

At the edge of the four continents is the boundary of the flood wilderness, each with a pillar of heaven straight into the sky, this is the limbs of the ancestor of the turtle, at the boundary of the continent, the chaotic qi is constantly transformed into the flood aura, and then the aura will turn into the sea water of the ocean, and the sea water will slowly turn into land.

The Flood Desolate Land will continue to expand, and sooner or later, any of the four continents will be larger than the original Flood Desolate Land.

At the confluence of the four oceans in the southeast, northwest and northwest, that is, in the center of the flood wilderness, there is a high mountain with a broken peak, which is Buzhou Mountain, and the sky above Buzhou Mountain is a world derived after the fall of Emperor Jun - the fairy world, which is also where the future heavenly court is.

The southern part of the fairy world is the entrance to and from the fairy world, and it is also the gateway to the future heavenly court—the South Heavenly Gate.

In the northwest of the fairy world, there is a small gap between the fairy world and the blue sky that has not been blocked, from that small gap, a steady stream of chaotic gas flows into the flood wilderness, but the chaotic gas is transformed into a semi-chaotic and semi-spiritual water flow after entering the flood wilderness, these water flows form a big river, the river water falls from the sky, and finally falls into the confluence of the four seas, looking at it from a distance, it is like a waterfall, very spectacular.

This long river was later called the Heavenly River.

"A new flood, a new era. Yuan Shi sighed.

When Yuan Shi returned to Kunlun Mountain, a beautiful woman with a snake tail was already waiting there.