Seeking the Truth From the Toad and Seeking the Truth From People

Chapter 931: Seeking the Way from the Toad and Seeking the Way from People

Dan Fenglai's hands and feet were cold, and a beast-like roar came from his throat. The Ancestor God King was the Ancestor of the Ten Heavenly Lords. These people were all his disciples. He had many disciples, and his students were all over the world. However, the Ancestor God King did not have so much energy to teach his disciples.

Therefore, the one who taught these junior brothers and sisters was Dan Fenglai!

Dan Fenglai was their mentor, and they also respected Dan Fenglai very much. This kind of feeling is hard for ordinary people to imagine.

So many of his fellow disciples and sisters in the Zuwang Palace died here, and his heart ached like a knife. However, he still hardened his heart and suppressed the roar and swallowed it back into his stomach!

The Ancestral God King looked at him and said calmly, "Mu Tianzun has committed many evil deeds. He took advantage of my absence to kill more than 200 of my disciples. My disciple Feng Lai saw it with his own eyes. Is this true? Feng Lai?"

Dan Fenglai bowed and said numbly: "That's right, I saw it with my own eyes."

The Ancestral God King nodded in satisfaction, walked down from the Linyuan Terrace, patted him on the shoulder, and said: "Reform is a great rebellion. You have also heard some of the Tianhe Divine Treasures, but your cultivation is already very high. I believe you know the benefits and harms and will not act recklessly."

Dan Fenglai said yes, woodenly: "Disciple understands. Reform is against the law of our ancestors and is extremely treasonous. Disciple hates this shameless behavior and wishes to get rid of it as soon as possible."

The Ancestral God King walked past him and said leisurely, "Mu Tianzun, this fellow, harmed Langxuan Divine Emperor and now he is harming me. Who is the next Tianzun he is going to harm? When this kid came to the Heavenly Court, many people thought he would die, but unexpectedly, he became more and more active... Fenglai, settle these junior brothers and sisters and their families well, and reward them generously."

"Disciple obeys your order."

Dan Fenglai raised his head and watched him go away, silently saying in his heart: "My junior brothers and sisters died because of Mu Tianzun. If he hadn't taught us the Dharma and preached the Tao, Master would never have killed them! Mu Tianzun, I have a deep hatred for you and I will never reconcile with you!"

He didn't dare to bear a grudge against the Ancestral God King, so this hatred could only be transferred to Qin Mu.

"Mu Tianzun, Hong Tianzun is in seclusion, and our Hong Tian Palace has been sealed off to no outside visitors."

Yun Chuxiu brought Qin Mu and others to Hongtian Palace. The god guarding the palace gate apologized, "I will report to Tianzun Hong about your visit after he comes out of retreat. He will definitely pay a return visit. Please go back, Tianzun Mu."

Qin Mu and others had no choice but to leave.

Yun Chuxiu then led them to Xiao Tianzun’s residence and received the same answer.

They came to Huo Tianzun's palace, and the deity guarding the palace gate said, "There is something unusual happening in Taixu. Huo Tianzun is traveling around Taixu with his disciples to investigate the cause. We don't know when they will return."

When they arrived at Xu Tianzun's place, a divine being said, "Xu Tianzun and Huo Tianzun are traveling with their disciples in the void, and are not in the palace. Mu Tianzun, please go back."

Yun Chuxiu sighed and wondered, "Did all the Heavenly Lords run away?"

Yun Jianli's eyes flickered, and he said with a smile: "Why not go and see Tianzun Yan and Tianzun Qiang?"

Yun Chuxiu glanced at him and smiled sweetly, "Brother, have you forgotten that these two Heavenly Lords are Heavenly Consorts who live in the harem? How can we see them? Why don't we go visit Lord Haotian? Lord Haotian won't be out too, right?"

Yun Jianli smiled but said nothing, thinking: "Which Celestial Venerable is she? Among the ten Celestial Venerables in the Heavenly Palace, in addition to Celestial Venerable Qian and Celestial Venerable Yan, there are also Celestial Venerable Gong and Celestial Venerable Xu who are women. But these two Celestial Venerables also avoided meeting, and I don't know who Yun Chuxiu's true identity is. Is it possible that the Emperor and Empress sisters turned into men?"

Qin Mu said: "I won't go to see Lord Haotian. There are some dirty things between him and me. He will chase me out if I go. I heard that the Taoist has returned to the Heavenly Palace, so I will go to the Heavenly Palace Taoist Gate and pay a visit to this old Taoist."

Yun Chuxiu was afraid that the world would not be in chaos, but when Qin Mu said he was going to see the Taoist Ancestor, she became a little uninterested.

Qin Mu's purpose was to meet Daozu, but he didn't expect so many things to happen, turning the Langxuan Temple and Zuwang Palace upside down, and other Heavenly Masters also avoided him.

However, it didn't seem so abrupt for him to go to the Taoist sect in Heaven to visit the Taoist ancestor.

Heavenly Taoist Gate.

The Taoist sect did not seem to have expected that Qin Mu would come to visit here, so that the old Taoist guarding the mountain gate and the gatekeeper beast stared blankly at Qin Mu and others coming, until they arrived in front of the gate, then they came to their senses and hurried back to the Taoist sect to report the news.

Not long after, an old Taoist priest led many Taoist disciples to come forward and apologized, "Your Majesty has come from afar, and I did not greet you. I hope you will forgive me for not welcoming you."

Qin Mu looked at the old Taoist priest. He found that he was not the Taoist master he had met during the Longhan period. However, judging from the old Taoist priest's voice, he should be the old Taoist priest who walked into the Shouzang Pavilion with Huo Tianzun.

"Your Excellency, this is the Taoist master." Yun Jianli reminded.

"Is Daozu here?" Qin Mu asked.

The Taoist master of the Heavenly Court said quickly, "The Taoist Ancestor returned to the Taoist sect a few days ago and is in seclusion. How about the Heavenly Master come another day?"

Qin Mu smiled and said, "It's okay, I can wait for him to come out."

The Taoist master of heaven had no choice but to invite him into the mountain.

The Tianting Taoist Gate covers a vast area and is much more luxurious than the Yankang Taoist Gate. It is a heavenly palace called the Yuqing Heavenly Palace.

The Taoist sect, which is presided over by Taoist Master Lin Xuan, although the entire Kunlun Territory belongs to the Taoist sect's territory, the sect only occupies one of the hilltops and a few scattered Taoist temples, which are not very popular.

However, the Taoist sect in heaven is extremely luxurious, with magnificent palaces and thousands of towers. The Taoists here are not dressed in simple Taoist robes. They are dressed in luxurious clothes without Taoist attire, and they even have servants to serve their food and daily life.

In fact, those who enter the Taoist sect in Heaven are not Taoists. Taoists are people who practice Taoism and have few desires. The disciples in the Taoist sect in Heaven only come to learn Taoist skills and numerology, and regard it as a place to learn Taoist magic powers.

But they don't care at all about the core of Taoism's teachings.

They are not real Taoists, but the dignitaries in heaven who sent their descendants here to gild themselves.

On the contrary, the Yankang Taoist sect has retained the core teachings that were established when the Taoist ancestor founded the sect, and has adhered to them wholeheartedly. Both the previous old Taoist master and the current Taoist master Lin Xuan have done a very good job.

Of course, there are some Taoists in the Heavenly Palace who are dressed in Taoist robes and have a Taoist and immortal demeanor, but their number is really too small.

Qin Mu had many feelings along the way.

There are real monks and fake monks, and there are real Taoists and fake Taoists. If one merely wears a robe without inner cultivation, he is just fooling people.

"The true teachings of Taoism are not in heaven."

Qin Mu looked at the young men and women in fancy clothes and horses and thought, "No wonder the Taoist master doesn't come back to the Taoist sect often."

At this moment, a Taoist priest came hurriedly and whispered a few words to the Taoist master of Heaven.

The Taoist master of the Heavenly Court nodded gently and said with a smile: "Tianzun, everyone, Daozu has come out of retreat. Hearing that Tianzun is visiting, he ordered me to invite you all over. Please follow me."

Qin Mu was delighted and followed him forward, with everyone following behind.

Yun Chuxiu smiled and said, "When Mu Tianzun went to visit all the Tianzun, no Tianzun dared to meet him. Daozu was so bold that he dared to meet Mu Tianzun."

The Taoist master of the Heavenly Court hurriedly smiled and said, "Daozu is only the Taoist master of our sect. How dare he be on the same level as Tianzun? When Tianzun comes to visit, how dare Daozu not see him?"

They came to the main hall of Taoism, which was the location of the Lingxiao Hall of the Taoist Jade Purity Palace, but it was not built according to the layout of the Lingxiao Hall.

On the contrary, the main hall was unexpectedly shabby. It was a Taoist temple built of thatched huts, about sixty to seventy feet in radius. There were no mythical beasts guarding the door. Qin Mu saw two toads squatting on the left and right of the stone steps in front of the door.

The two toads seemed to be intelligent. When they heard the footsteps, they pried their eyes out of their heads, slowly opened their eyelids, looked at them, and croaked.

Then the two toads slowly put their eyes back into their heads, covering them tightly and neatly.

Yan'er jumped off Qin Mu's shoulder and tapped the head of one of the toads with her beak.

The toad slowly opened his eyes and said slowly, "What's the matter?"

“Can talk!”

Yan'er was startled, jumped back two steps, and asked vigilantly: "Are you monsters?"

The toad rolled his eyes and said unhappily, "Can't you speak, too?"

"I'm different, I'm a demigod and you're a toad!"

Yan'er jumped forward and said with a smile: "If you are a mortal toad, you can't speak, unless you become a fairy."

The toad said, "I am the Tao, not a toad, so I can speak naturally."

Yan'er was extremely surprised. Long Qilin leaned forward and asked curiously, "You are a Taoist? Who told you that?"

"The old Taoist priest said so."

The toad said with a serious face, "He said he was a toad, he wanted to seek the truth, he had something to ask of us, so he brought us here to show us off. You don't understand, go away."

Yan'er and Long Qilin stared at each other.

Qin Mu followed the Taoist master of the Heavenly Court into this small dilapidated temple. The Taoist master of the Heavenly Court turned around and said to Yun Jianli, Qi Jiuyi and others with a smile: "Ladies and gentlemen, the Taoist ancestor only sees the Heavenly Lord, please stay."

Yun Jianli and Qi Jiuyi said quickly, "We dare not. Please do as you wish, Taoist Master."

They all knew that although the Taoist master of Tianting looked like an old Taoist priest who was servile and had no opinion, his strength was unfathomable and he was second only to the Taoist Ancestor in Taoism.

It’s just that Yun Chuxiu was a little unhappy, and wanted to go in to listen to what Daozu and Qin Mu were talking about. However, the Taoist Master of Heaven was guarding the door with a smile on his face, and it was obvious that he didn’t intend to let anyone in except Qin Mu.

"This sloppy Taoist priest is mysterious and sneaky. What does he want to do?" Yun Chuxiu snorted coldly.

Qin Mu walked into the thatched cottage, but saw a slovenly old Taoist sitting under a green lamp. Seeing him coming, the old Taoist stood up and said with a smile: "Master Mu, long time no see."

Qin Mu smiled and said, "Long time no see."

The old Taoist took out his wooden hairpin, picked up the wick, and said with a smile: "There are too many people to hear, Tianzun, come with me to talk in the lamp."

The green lamp exploded into a flower, shining brightly. When the light returned to normal, the old Taoist and Qin Mu had disappeared without a trace!

When Qin Mu regained his sight, he saw that they had arrived at a heaven in the wick of the lamp. At the entrance to the heaven could be seen a lamp-flame-like flame, but this flame was thousands of feet high, extremely shocking.

Daozu was right beside him, saying leisurely, "The Yankang catastrophe broke out, the Yankang reform was interrupted, and Mu Tianzun entered the Heavenly Court alone. When I heard the news, I hurried back to help in return for your advice. Unexpectedly, Tianzun was so resourceful that he easily resolved his own crisis. But Tianzun's way of doing things was too damaging to the harmony of heaven. Tianzun, you disturbed the Heavenly Court. Do you know how many people and gods and demons will die in the Heavenly Court because of your actions?"

Qin Mu sneered and said, "Daozu, be merciful. Do you know how many people were killed in the Yankang robbery? Not even one in ten survived! Billions of lives were wiped out! Did Daozu ever sympathize with them?"

Daozu sighed and said, "The Yankang Tribulation has broken out, and there is nothing I can do about it."

Qin Mu said: "Taoism advocates inaction, but in today's world, inaction will kill people! You can't save the world's sentient beings, but you want to blame me for the death of some Tianzun disciples because I disturbed the heavenly court?"

"I don't dare."

Daozu said: "It's just that flowers, plants and trees are all lives..."

"Stupid! Hypocritical!"

Qin Mu shook his head and said, "Daozu, you helped the Heavenly Court study the great powers of the ancient gods. How many people died because of you? You are also guilty of killing so many people in Yankang. Are these lives not as important as the flowers, plants and trees you mentioned? I only harmed the Langxuan Palace and the Zuwang Palace, and you come to blame me. Who is going to blame you? You say that Tao is a toad, but toads don't understand Tao, but humans do! Not only do humans understand Tao, they can also create Tao."

"Daozu, you are asking the blind for the Tao! If you want to obtain the Tao, you don't have to learn the Tao, but to create your own Tao! Only those who can create the Tao are the Tao!"

He shouted: "It is better to seek the truth from people than from the Tao!"

Daozu's mind buzzed, and he said solemnly: "The Taoist was enlightened by the Heavenly Venerable in the past, and he is enlightened by the Heavenly Venerable again today. I am grateful for your teaching."