: Arriving to Settle Past Grudges from the Investiture of the Gods

Chapter 29: Arriving to Settle Past Grudges from the Investiture of the Gods

The moment Shi Yuan finished speaking, he saw the gates of the Tushita Palace slowly open.

Two young Taoist boys emerged from among them.

The two Taoist boys were dressed in different colors: one in a golden robe and the other in a silver robe.

Each of them had two unicorn horns, one gold and one silver, on their heads.

The way they looked at Shi Yuan was also strange.

"Brother Shi, the master requests your presence in the palace for a while."

The two of them said in unison.

The child was a disciple of the sage, so the disciples of the sage were always addressed as fellow disciples.

"Thank you both."

Shi Yuan nodded slightly.

Then, the two followed them into the Tushita Palace.

The interior of the Tushita Palace was naturally a different world altogether. As soon as one entered Shiyuan, a thick cloud of smoke rushed towards them.

The smoke swirled around him and seeped into his body.

Subsequently, Shi Yuan discovered that his cultivation and magical power had actually increased by a few points.

Upon seeing this scene, the two boys showed expressions of envy.

However, he didn't forget to explain.

"The master was refining pills just now, and only stopped the fire and stopped the furnace after he heard that you had arrived, senior brother."

The fire was stopped and the furnace was shut down before the elixir was ready.

Then the elixir naturally cannot be refined.

"These are the residual medicinal energy left after those pills were damaged."

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The two boys were naturally very envious.

Such a thing as Laozi's elixir being ruined is something that might not happen even once in a single era.

Even these two boys had almost never encountered such an opportunity.

"I see."

Yuan Fang then nodded.

As the three walked, Shi Yuan even spotted a blue rhinoceros in a cattle pen.

Brother Qing even bowed and nodded to him, addressing him as "Young Master".

Seeing this, Shi Yuan felt even more certain about his previous guess.

Not long after, the two boys, one golden and one silver, delivered Shi Yuan to the alchemy room of the Tushita Palace.

"Senior brother, the master is among them."

After saying this, the two boys turned and left.

Shi Yuan then stepped directly into the alchemy room.

Upon entering, Shi Yuan immediately saw the iconic Bagua furnace inside the alchemy room.

Beneath the Bagua Furnace, a dim blue flame burned continuously.

Within the flames, the Daoist essence of Yin and Yang and the Daoist principles of the Six Ding and Six Jia were faintly revealed.

The Six Ding Divine Fire is one of the five innate divine fires.

Among the five divine fires, the most mysterious is the greatest.

In front of the Bagua Furnace, an old Taoist priest dressed in a Yin-Yang Taoist robe sat cross-legged with his eyes closed.

His identity is self-evident.

The Tushita Palace, the Supreme Lord Laozi.

After the Investiture of the Gods, the Jie Sect contributed the vast majority of those listed on the Investiture of the Gods list.

However, as this is a list jointly signed by the four religions, the other three religions naturally need to have someone on the list as well.

For example, the Chan Sect produced three generations of disciples, including Yang Jian and Nezha.

In Buddhism, this resulted in outer disciples such as Wei Tuo and Li Jing.

However, the Human Sect, to which the Sage Taiqing belongs, is in a somewhat awkward position.

Because among the disciples of the Human Sect, there has always been only one person—Xuandu, the direct disciple of the Taiqing Sage.

In the end, the Sage of Taiqing made a choice that no one had anticipated.

He ascended the list in the guise of one of his three corpses, the "good corpse," and was bestowed the title of immortal god.

This incarnation is none other than Laozi!

He was also the only one among all the saints to send an incarnation to the Heavenly Court.

"This junior has met the Sage."

"I have come here uninvited, and have ruined the sage's elixir."

Shi Yuan naturally had to observe proper etiquette when dealing with sages.

Even if what is before you is merely the benevolent incarnation of a saint, he is still a saint!

But Laozi did not respond after hearing this.

She simply opened her eyes, which had been closed, and looked at Yuan.

His eyes were clear and peaceful, like those of an innocent child.

"Severing the secrets of heaven..."

In the eyes of a sage, everything is its essence.

Therefore, in his view, the cause and effect of Shi Yuan's situation were unclear, and the secrets of heaven were unknown.

Everything is unknown.

So even he hadn't anticipated Shi Yuan's arrival.

They had no idea why Shi Yuan had come.

"That sword strike from Junior Brother Tongtian was for you."

Therefore, he naturally came to this conclusion.

In fact, this was indeed the purpose of the Tongtian Sect Leader's sword strike earlier—he would not let others know that Shiyuan himself was a person without cause or effect.

Therefore, that sword strike not only severed the secrets of the Jie Sect but also concealed Shi Yuan's special nature.

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But Shi Yuan himself was completely bewildered.

Coincidentally, until this point, he actually knew nothing about the Tongtian Sect Leader's previous sword strike.

The Tongtian Sect Leader did not tell him, while Yunxiao and the others assumed he already knew, so they did not say anything more.

As a result, Shi Yuan naturally did not understand what Laozi was saying.

However, Laozi did not pay attention to Shiyuan's reaction.

He simply closed his eyes again and spoke slowly.

"Why did you come?"

When a sage speaks, he naturally gets straight to the heart of the matter.

Shi Yuan smiled and said, "I came for Lao Tzu."

Just those five simple words.

The eyes of Laozi, which had just closed, opened again in an instant.

This time, however, the calm and gentle look in his eyes when he looked at Shi Yuan was no longer the same as before.

On the contrary, it was radiant with divine light.

"boom!"

An intense pressure erupted from him, and the Lihentian surrounding the Tushita Palace seemed to be wailing.

This was not due to him using magic, but simply the reaction of a sage to the natural world.

His divine might is as vast as the heavens, his divine might is as deep as a prison!

This situation seems rather strange.

After all, everyone knows that Lao Tzu is the name of the Sage of Taiqing.

Shi Yuan said he came for Laozi, which seems like a pointless statement—you've come to see Laozi, so isn't that the same as seeing Laozi?

But only Shi Yuan and Laozi themselves knew this.

This Laozi is not that Laozi.

The person Shi Yuan was referring to was not the Taiqing Sage who was currently sitting in the Bajing Palace on Shouyang Mountain.

It was not the Supreme Lord Laozi standing before them either.

Instead, it says, "Seven years later, in the Bitter County of Chen State."

"With a loyal heart, Dan Sheng was a sage among men."

Shi Yuan said softly.

Then, he looked at Laozi and asked, "Does the Sage truly believe that such a momentous event...can be kept from my master?"

Upon hearing this, Laozi looked at Shi Yuan with even greater intensity.

"It's been five hundred years since we last met. I underestimated Junior Brother Tongtian."

His words, however, rarely carried a sense of lament.

Upon hearing this, Shi Yuan knew the truth.

His plan is already halfway complete.

That's right, that's why he came to Tushita Palace.

Because he knew.

According to the original history.

Seven years later, a person named Li Dan will be born in Ku County, Chen State.

He will pass on his teachings to the world, and it will be called Taoism.

He then rode a rhinoceros westward out of Hangu Pass, transforming from a Taoist into a Buddhist.

He became one of the most outstanding sages in human history.

And most importantly...

The title that Li Dan would be known to the world in the future was Laozi.

In Shi Yuan's eyes now, this is enough to explain the problem.

The names of saints possess their own divine significance.

Thoughts can evoke knowledge, while insults will surely incur divine wrath.

That Li Dan, who was also known as Laozi, was never hated by heaven and earth.

His relationship with the Supreme Sage is self-evident.

It must be a divine incarnation of a sage, personally reincarnated and descended to the mortal realm.

Shi Yuan naturally understood the significance of this.

Since the Investiture of the Gods, the saints have rarely appeared in the Three Realms.

Especially Jambudvipa, which is where humans worship.

The arrival of a sage is even more sensitive.

But if the sage Laozi of Taiqing were truly willing to reincarnate and descend to the mortal realm, he would surely want to become Li Dan.

This undoubtedly shows that this matter is extremely important to him.

It is very likely related to the way of the sage.

It was precisely because of this matter that Yuan even personally visited Biyou Palace not long ago.

Now it seems his guess was indeed correct.

At this moment, Laozi, as always, went straight to the point.

"Tell me, what are your intentions, Junior Brother Tongtian?"

Even he couldn't have imagined that Shi Yuan, a junior, was behind all of this.

In his opinion, his junior brother, who had been trapped in his own prison for five hundred years, had indeed become much more powerful.

After hearing Laozi's words, Shi Yuan also bowed and spoke.

He raised his hand gracefully, revealing the sound of a fisherman's drum.

"To be honest, Your Majesty, I have come here on your orders to settle the old scores from the Investiture of the Gods."