Every qiē is inevitable, and every qiē is also accidental: the collapse of the embankment of a thousand miles is inevitable, but the anthill that caused the last crack is accidental; it is inevitable that the sky is dry and the fires increase, but it is accidental that the spark falls on the roof of someone's house; it is inevitable that the sacred tree will be killed, but it is accidental who will do it.

Most of the thirty-seven generations of Taoist patriarchs are in the realm of serving the sun, and there are only three of them serving the moon, one of whom is the contemporary patriarch Fang Xunmo, he thinks that the patriarch of the service of the sun can explain the matter of "killing the gods" more clearly and more reasonably, maybe they don't need to explain, just stand there, and they can use the three words "serve the sun" to persuade everyone.

Fang Xunmo had to use language, the audience was a female Taoist priest and a dazed head, Yang Qingyin was listening hard and trying to understand, but the bald man felt that this was a strange story, which should have been very interesting, but it was told in an obscure way, and he did not have a high opinion of the ancestor's storytelling level.

Fang Xunmo said that the sacred tree is like a fire, bringing warmth and light to human beings, but also bringing disaster and darkness, fire does not distinguish between high and low, each other, intimacy, flattering it and hating it, the result is the same, but the person who uses fire always hopes to be able to tame the fire, to be able to make the fire their own without causing harm.

The sacred tree has great power, and it spreads it at will, but the creatures that can get it always want to monopolize the power are selfish? The demons communicate with each other internally, and the Taoist system also spreads spells to as many people as possible, and they are selfless on their side, but there is a life-and-death competition between humans and demons.

Fang Xunmo talked about the Dao Demon War more than 130,000 years ago, and both sides thought that the Divine Tree would be on their side. Therefore, it was unanimously agreed that the place of the decisive battle would be near the sacred tree.

Dao Tong received Dao Fire from a burning tree root, and of course thought that he was carrying out divine will.

The demons have been studying the method of destroying trees, but in their opinion. Destroying the tree is not to "kill the gods", but to transfer the power of the gods to the demons, so that the sacred tree will live forever in another form, since the sacred tree has never expressed opposition, then the demon's behavior is of course in line with the will of the gods.

But there is no divine will at all in this world, not even a god, only a tree. It happens to have power, like fire, and it happens to be able to cook food. It also happens to be able to burn houses to ashes.

Before the start of the Dao Demon War, the demons had already come up with a way to destroy the tree, they hoped to use a demon seed to corrode the inside of the tree, and then use the Dao fire of the Taoist priest to burn off the external branches. But the tree has no "divine will". But there is an instinct for self-preservation: while being corroded. It also corroded the demon seeds in all the demon races.

This is the fundamental reason for the defeat of the demons, they were defeated by their own corrosive power, the initiator is the demons, and the spreader is the tree.

Dao Tong witnessed the fiasco of the demon race, and thus understood one thing, the demon race and the tree, the Dao system and the tree are inextricably linked, and the tree can spread the power of demonic erosion to all demons, and one day it will also destroy the inner Dan of all Taoist priests.

It was here that the bald man had deep doubts. couldn't help but ask: "The demons want to destroy the tree before they are retaliated, and they deserve it." Wouldn't it be better if Dao Tong didn't provoke the tree?"

Fang Xunmo didn't ignore the past because the problem came from a head, and explained the reason very carefully.

The demons didn't decide to destroy the tree at the beginning, the demons who originally proposed this idea were ridiculed and punished, but this idea did not disappear, after all, the tree is the source of power, and the reverence will always gradually dissipate, but the greed will slowly grow.

More and more demons feel that they are the top beings in the world, and they take the power of the tree to seize it, not only is it not "killing the gods", but it is a kind of worship for the gods.

The first three ancestors understood the history of the demon race, and they jointly exerted their great magical powers, looking at the future that had not yet happened, and foreseeing the decline and change of the Taoist system, they knew that as long as the tree was still the source of power, as long as the Taoist priest knew the existence of the tree, sooner or later the Taoist system would have the same idea of "killing the gods" as the demons.

The three ancestors took precautions, lit the fire on the day of the defeat of the demon clan, and started the business of "killing gods" in advance.

The three ancestors knew very well that it was impossible to complete the cause of the demon clan with the power of the Dao system alone, and the Dao Fire killed the immortal tree, they were actually using the Dao Fire to hide the existence of the tree, and this matter must be done immediately, because the first and second generations of Taoist priests saw the power of the tree and the destruction of the demon clan, and they could understand the importance of this move, and the Taoist priests after the third and fourth generations may not.

The bald man vaguely understood, "It's like my mother knows that I love candy, even if I swear to God that I will never steal it, she will hide the sugar in advance, making me think that there is no sugar at home at all." ”

In Fang Xunmo's view, both trees and sugar can cause cravings, but the intensity is very different, Taoist priests have been getting rid of seven emotions and six desires all their lives, but the desire for cultivation itself cannot be eliminated, and this desire will lead Taoist priests to the sacred tree sooner or later.

The three ancestors also expected this, concealing the existence of the tree is only effective for low-level Taoists, there are always a few powerful high-level Taoists who will guess or see through the truth, some people don't care, some people will be attracted, they may just want to see what the tree looks like at first, step by step, and eventually they will be as greedy as the demons.

The Three Ancestors then set up the Stop Bang Illusion, and all the Taoist priests who entered it would feel the divine will through all kinds of signs, and when they found out that this divine consciousness had nothing to do with the tree, in fact, when it came from the Taoist system, it was too late, whether it was trying to extinguish the fire, or spontaneously combusting the Inner Dan according to the meaning of the Three Ancestors, the result was the same: becoming a part of the Dao fire.

In this way, the Daoist not only concealed the existence of the tree, but also eliminated the high-ranking Daoists who were wavering, who could have caused even greater danger if they remained within the Dao, killing two birds with one stone.

The first people who were tempted were all Taoist priests who served the sun, and in the last tens of thousands of years, the Taoist priests who served the moon and the Taoist priests who were injected with the gods secretly entered the state of stopping, and their mana was weaker, and the illusion caused by it shook slightly, all of which were recorded by the state of stopping.

Yang Qingyin had been listening quietly, but the bald man raised it when he had questions, "Aren't the three ancestors afraid that the ancestors of the descendants will also be tempted?" For example, you, you know everything, if you quietly enter the state of stopping, you will definitely not be trapped." ”

The Seventh Patriarch is the last to know the whole truth. He invented the method of fundamental concealment, which made the Taoist priest's Mita more solid, and the protection of memory was never more tight. Even a low-ranking Taoist priest is difficult to be taken away, and after his death, the truth is hidden like a tree.

The plan of the Three Ancestors is carried out naturally, and does not need to be promoted and maintained by anyone, the illusion is the illusion, and the actions and thoughts of the Fire Tree King and his subjects have been planned, and they will not have senseless ambitions like the real humans and demon clans. And there will be no unexpected adventures.

Fang Xunmo has served as the thirty-seventh patriarch for more than a thousand years, and he didn't know the secret of the state until a hundred years ago, not because he was smarter and more curious than the previous patriarch. It's because the time has come.

The fire is not extinguished, that is because there is a inheritance from generation to generation, and the fire of burning trees will eventually come to an end, and the fire uses trees as firewood. Trees feed on fire. In the end, the fire and the tree will become one, and the seeds of the fire tree will rush out of the state of stoppage and spread all over the world, they may not have the intention of revenge, but nature allows them to ignite the inner dan of the Taoist priest, which will be the destruction of the Taoist system.

Thus, the secret of the Taoist system was revealed to the contemporary patriarchs. Among them, Fang Xunmo mentioned the details, which involved other secrets that were not known to low-level Taoist priests.

This was the most unpredictable moment of the Three Ancestors' entire plan. More than 130,000 years ago, they had no way of telling whether this generation of patriarchs would be tempted, and Fang Xunmo was one of the three weakest patriarchs in the Dao system, but it was up to him to make the most important decision.

Fang Xunmo did not hesitate at all, the heart of the Taoist priest did not have the slightest ripple because of knowing the truth and the existence of the stronger, he meticulously carried out the plan that the Three Ancestors had already formulated: to find the last Taoist priest to go to the Stopping State within the Dao system, and at the same time test the intention of the demon seed, hoping to get the support of the void.

The demon seed was corrupted by its own power, and the hatred for the tree had long since disappeared, but they knew that as long as the tree still existed, it was a huge threat, so after nearly a hundred years of trial and negotiation, the demon seed agreed to hand over the method of destroying the tree, on the condition that the Dao system remove the demon bell.

Fang Xunmo agreed, in fact, this was also the negotiation condition set by the three ancestors, they expected that the realm of the Taoist priest would become more and more difficult to improve, but the power of the magic weapon would become stronger and stronger, and the overall strength of the Dao system would still be far stronger than in the era of the first Dao Demon War, and it was acceptable to release the demon seed for another decisive battle.

The work of finding candidates within the Dao system is also going smoothly, Fang Xunmo is the ancestor, and he can appoint any Taoist priest to carry out this task of going and not returning, but this is not the way of behavior of the Dao system, he silently observed, if there is a high Taoist priest who happens to see through the truth on his own during this period and is tempted by the tree, then he just needs to go with the flow.

This person appeared decades ago, and it was Zuo Liuying.

Yang Qingyin asked for the first time: "Zuo Liuying, he knows the secret of the Stopping State, but he pushed the task to Mu Xingqiu?"

This is the reason why Fang Xunmo felt that it was difficult to explain, the low-level Taoist priests did not understand the high-level Taoist priests, so that they had doubts that they should not have.

"So far, Zuo Liuying doesn't know anything, but he has triggered the true illusion, has a calamity in his heart, and is even willing to break the void and directly fight the demon seed, such a Taoist priest will definitely be tempted by the tree. ”

However, the three ancestors more than 130,000 years ago and today's patriarch Fang Xunmo could not have predicted all of Zuo Liuying's actions, and this Shenshen Taoist priest actually Tudan twice and lost the strength to enter the state of stopping.

There must be an accident, the Dao system urgently needs a replacement for Zuo Liuying, Mu Xingqiu, who was not in the plan at all, participated, he was not even tempted by the tree, but he walked into the state by mistake.

"The Taoist priests who enter the state of stopping cannot come out again, this is the precept formulated by the three ancestors, in case Mu Xingqiu is unwilling or unable to carry out the task, then I have to assign a Taoist priest to enter, maybe it is myself. ”

While Fang Xunmo was revealing the secret, he was also observing the situation inside the Stopping State, and only his spells could pass through the prohibition and enter the Stopping State.

"I don't think I have to go in. Fang Xunmo looked at the accidental things in front of him with a certain gaze, so he didn't sigh, he only did what he should do, "Mu Xingqiu has an expectation, he will inject his expectations into the illusion, I don't think his expectations can be realized, but I am willing to give him a possible help." ”

Fang Xunmo paused for a moment and took out a palm-sized bronze bell from his wide sleeve, "But I can't stay here, so it's the two of you who will help Mu Xingqiu." ”

The bell greets the wind, and at the same time, the waves in the north stop moving, becoming a wall of water that stands tall in the sky.

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