Road Fortune

Chapter 76 Road Fortune

The reason why so many great gods in ancient times wanted to open up a new path for the vast number of living beings, even disregarding the emergence of many later-born Great Immortals, was that they were determined to open up a new path.

Perhaps some of them are acting out of great love, but many more are plotting to gain merit and fortune for the world, wanting to bring countless beings into their grasp!

The concept of fortune is extremely mysterious; no one can know the laws governing its flow, but can only discern a few simple patterns.

The first rule is that the more powerful a person is, the more they can gather good fortune, attracting metal like a magnet. The bigger the magnet, the more metal it attracts.

The second rule is rather peculiar, and that is the so-called person destined for calamity.

The Heavenly Way bears the filth of all living beings, and naturally desires to get rid of this chaos and return to tranquility. After all, bearing too much will cause obstacles for the Heavenly Way.

To remove the filth, one must find someone to take it over, since the filth won't disappear for no reason; someone else has to bear it for you.

The one who receives this burden is the one destined for this calamity.

The appearance of those destined to face calamity signifies that the time has come for Heaven to rid itself of filth, and that water and fire will descend upon the world to cleanse all impurities.

Therefore, those destined for calamity are the representatives chosen by Heaven, who will exercise the power of calamity on behalf of Heaven, killing all those who spread filth and leaving only the truly pure and innocent.

Of course, everything has a glimmer of hope. Even the filthy can become clean again if it can hold out until the end of the calamity.

Therefore, in order to help those destined for tribulation grow up quickly, Heaven naturally does not hesitate to bestow its fortune. Even though these people are just mortals, they possess boundless mysteries. With the fortune bestowed by Heaven protecting them, even a Great Luo Golden Immortal cannot harm them in the slightest.

But if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight. Those who are destined for tribulation will not only be favored by the Heavenly Dao, but will also be at the center of the great calamity. If they are not careful, they will be completely torn apart by those cultivators.

Even if they are lucky enough to live to the end, they will still be burdened by the karma of committing great sins. They can barely survive for a while with the help of good fortune, but in the end, they will die when the calamity dissipates and the heavens no longer care.

Therefore, even if such people have great luck, no one will follow them. Following them is just placing a huge bet or trying their best to win in this great calamity.

The most classic people who were destined to face the calamity were the three ancestors who created the world: the Ancestral Dragon, the Primordial Phoenix, and the First Qilin. These three became the people destined to face the calamity during the Great Calamity of Ferocious Beasts. They were one step ahead of all the great gods, slaying the Ferocious Beast King, Shen Ni, and winning the crown. They were glorious for a time. At that time, even Hongjun and Luohou were cultivating in seclusion in the mountains and did not fight against these people.

However, as the great calamity of ferocious beasts evolved into the great calamity of dragons and phoenixes, these three ancestors had no choice but to face the calamity. In the end, their clans were scattered, and they themselves had to guard the prehistoric world for eternity.

If even these three patriarchs met such a tragic end, what chance do others have?

However, those who were destined for this calamity were not without victories. At the end of the Dragon-Phoenix Calamity, another great calamity erupted, even more terrifying than the previous calamity: the struggle between the Dao and the Demon.

Those destined to face this calamity were Hongjun and Luo.

In the end, Hongjun naturally won, but it was a brutal victory for him, at the cost of the deaths of many fellow Daoists. In addition, part of the cause and effect of the destruction of the West also fell on Hongjun.

The third rule is the simplest, but also the most complex.

That is the fortune of the road.

The fortune of a road originates from the fortune of a clan, which refers to clans such as the Dragon Clan, Phoenix Clan, Qilin Clan, Witch Clan, and Demon Clan. The appearance of these clans represents the condensation of fortune.

Each additional member of the clan brings an additional measure of fortune. While this may be slightly biased, the general principle is the same.

However, with a large number of clansmen, there will be no shortage of various karmic consequences. Some of the sins committed by the clansmen will also be attributed to the clan leader. The tragic deaths of the three ancestors in the past were not without the burden of the clan.

Therefore, the concept of road transportation naturally emerged.

To open up a new path for all living beings, whenever someone cultivates their own path, a trace of fortune will be offered to the master of that path.

Although such fortune is extremely rare, if these cultivators cause any trouble, it cannot be blamed on the Lord of the Road.

The Lord of the Road is like a shop that sells kitchen knives, and the cultivators are like the people who buy those knives.

Whether someone buys a kitchen knife to cook or to kill someone, it has nothing to do with the shop that sells the knife. The relationship between the two is naturally indifferent, consisting only of mutual benefit.

As for the clan, that's the gang leader. Whatever dirty things your subordinates do to you, you have to accept it.

The reason why Zhunti and Jieyin had to calculate so clearly with Guangchengzi, even going so far as to divide it into a fraction, a half, a sliver, and a sliver, was because they were discussing the future division of their fortunes.

With their combined blessing, the path of spiritual cultivation will surely become the only orthodox one in the West. Even though the West is on the verge of collapse, it still harbors countless beings.

For example, Mount Sumeru is guarded by these two in succession, and it is unknown how many Western beings are hidden inside.

Even though the path of spiritual cultivation is not completely separated from Hongjun's path to immortality, and a portion of the various kinds of fortune obtained must be handed over, what remains is still quite considerable.

While it seems that the two of them only left Guang Chengzi with a 10% share, completely disregarding the fact that he was the founder of the path of spiritual cultivation, which seems excessive, it was already extremely generous.

This means that Guang Chengzi won't have to worry about anything in the future; he can just leave everything to the two of them and simply wait to be fed.

It is precisely because this path of spiritual cultivation coincides with the Buddhist and Taoist traditions of the two of them that they have this characteristic. Otherwise, they would have started their own separate paths long ago and would not have shared even a fraction of it with others.

Guang Chengzi, seeing that he had the upper hand, immediately nodded in agreement.

In any case, he had already made a great vow in his heart to enlighten the Western world and leave behind the seeds of hope.

This is his fundamental need; as for other things like the path of self-cultivation, those can be discarded.

The three of them reached a consensus without prior consultation and discussed the matter very quickly. Naturally, their relationship improved rapidly, and even the usually sour-faced Jieyin looked at Guang Chengzi with a touch more gentleness in his eyes.

That's really reality.

After the division, Jieyin and Zhunti quickly took their leave, taking with them the millions of cultivators. It was clear they intended to test the path of spiritual cultivation on these people.

With the help of these two, Guang Chengzi was now more relaxed. Looking at this desolate western world, a thought struck him, and he immediately began to search for the scattered innate immortal spiritual light within it.