Chapter 1173: Master and Disciple Meet (Third Update)
Actually, Tần Mục had never blamed Võ Đấu Thiên Sư in his heart, nor had he ever blamed Diêm Vương and the others.
The knot in his heart had always been that one decree from Khai Hoàng, but after he later met Khai Hoàng and saw the current state of Vô Ưu Hương, the knot in his heart was untied.
However, although the knot in his heart was untied, the knots in the hearts of these old subordinates of Khai Hoàng in Phong Đô had not yet been untied.
These people were all heroes. If they could not follow their own hearts to rescue Diên Khang, they would become depressed and their đạo tâm would be damaged.
This time Tần Mục came to see them, precisely to untie the knots in their hearts.
He took his leave of Võ Đấu Thiên Sư and arrived at Thanh Hoàng's Long Thôn. In the village, the girl Thanh Nha saw him coming and was both surprised and delighted. She wanted to cry out but forcibly held it in.
Tần Mục revealed a smile and nodded to her and the other villagers of Long Thôn.
Thanh Hoang lão nhân also sensed his arrival and came out of the village to greet him, bowing in salute: "Tần gia tử..."
Tần Mục returned the salute and smiled: "I am no longer Tần gia tử, but Mục Thiên Tôn."
Thanh Hoang lão nhân was startled for a moment, then sighed and bowed in salute: "Mục Thiên Tôn."
Tần Mục returned the salute: "Thanh Hoàng, the dragon vein of the Khai Hoàng triều đại, the founder of the Diên Khang dragon vein, you are also one of the founders of Diên Khang. It was precisely you who passed the Tổ Long Thái Huyền Công and the Đế Điệp to the lão tổ tông of the Linh family, which gave rise to the later Diên Khang quốc. Why must you blame yourself?"
Thanh Hoang lão nhân shook his head: "I did not protect Diên Khang."
Tần Mục smiled: "No one has ever blamed you. It is only you who cannot let it go. Your connection with Diên Khang runs deeper than anyone else's. There is no need to blame yourself."
Thanh Hoang lão nhân bowed slightly: "Thiên Tôn's instruction, I dare not disobey."
Tần Mục departed and followed Xích Tú Thần Nhân deep into Phong Đô. He heard the vast sound of Buddhist chanting and Sanskrit hymns. When they arrived at the place, they saw Đế Thích Thiên Vương Lý Du Nhiên sitting barefoot among the evil ghosts of Phong Đô, chains wrapped around his body, his eyes tightly closed.
He was meditating on the Vô Lượng Kiếp Kinh, repeatedly entering dreams. His dreams transformed into a supreme Buddhist land, a pure land of ultimate bliss. However, the Buddhist land and pure land were repeatedly disturbed by evil ghosts who infiltrated his dreams. In his dreams, Lý Du Nhiên was once assimilated by the evil ghosts, and the pure land was also polluted, causing him endless nightmares.
Đế Thích Thiên Vương shouted: "If hell is not empty, I vow not to attain enlightenment!"
Tần Mục signaled Xích Tú Thần Nhân to stop. He himself came to sit opposite Đế Thích Thiên Vương in the lotus position, closed his eyes, and entered the dream.
The two people's dreams merged. Đế Thích Thiên Vương's dream was no longer a supreme Buddhist land or a pure land of ultimate bliss, but a world where everyone strived to advance and dared to struggle. Although the evil ghosts were still there, they could no longer easily disturb him.
After a long while, Đế Thích Thiên Vương woke up with a feeling of sudden enlightenment. He bowed to Tần Mục in salute.
Tần Mục returned the salute and drifted away.
Đế Thích Thiên Vương watched him walk far into the distance, pondered for a moment, then left this place where evil ghosts ran rampant, murmuring softly: "Evil ghosts arise from the human world. If the evil people of the human world are not eliminated, hell will never be empty."
"Just now, Mục Thiên Tôn and Đế Thích Thiên Vương did not exchange a single word. Why did Đế Thích Thiên Vương suddenly attain enlightenment?" Xích Tú Thần Nhân was puzzled and asked.
Tần Mục smiled: "Everything I needed to say, I already told him in the dream. Why would I need to speak?"
Xích Tú Thần Nhân was quite puzzled.
Suddenly, Tần Mục stopped in his tracks. He saw Hắc Hổ Thần.
A big black tiger was lying listlessly on the ground. Beside it were two thatched cottages. Tiều Phu had changed into a woodcutter's clothes and was chopping at an old tree.
Every time his axe fell, a piece of the old tree was chopped open, but then it immediately grew back, never able to be finished.
Tần Mục walked closer, watched for a moment, then suddenly drew his sword and cut the old tree down with a single stroke.
Tần Mục sheathed his sword and was about to leave.
"Your senior brother once watched me chop wood for several hundred years."
From behind him came the voice of Tiều Phu Thánh Nhân: "You watched for less than the time it takes to burn a stick of incense before cutting down my tree."
Tần Mục turned around and smiled: "Teacher, what I learn from you is your way of being a person, not your đạo pháp. Your things, I no longer look up to. I have comprehended something better!"
"Stop right there!"
Tiều Phu Thánh Nhân was furious and said angrily: "You look down on what I teach? The reason I did not teach you is because you are too unrestrained, and I did not know what to teach you! Your senior brother, I taught him the longest. I tried to teach him all the achievements of the Khai Hoàng era, but I did not expect him to be too extreme. The only one who was not extreme was your third junior brother. I taught him with the most care. What I passed on to him were thirty-six types of hậu thiên đại đạo that can lead to thành đạo, supplemented by seventy-two types of tiên thiên đại đạo to help him become a thánh nhân."
Tần Mục blinked: "He cannot compare to me."
Tiều Phu Thánh Nhân suppressed the urge to pick up his axe and charge at him, snorted coldly, and said: "The Ten Thiên Tôn of the Thiên Đình walk the path of the Thirty-Six Thiên Cung, attempting to cultivate the Thiên Đình. However, they only have the Thirty-Six Thiên Cung and do not have the Seventy-Two Bảo Điện. Their understanding of the Thiên Đình realm may not be deeper than mine! As the First Thiên Sư of Khai Hoàng, although my natural aptitude is lacking, I have a conception for the Thiên Đình realm."
Tần Mục listened.
Tiều Phu Thánh Nhân said: "Even if the Ten Thiên Tôn cultivate the Thirty-Six Thiên Cung, they are not in the true Thiên Đình realm. Without the Seventy-Two Bảo Điện, their foundations are unstable, and the various Thiên Cung will inevitably restrain one another, limiting their power. They have taken the wrong path. If one wants to quickly cultivate the Thiên Đình, there is only one path: use hậu thiên đại đạo to forge the Thirty-Six Thiên Cung, with seventy-two tiên thiên đại đạo as support. In this way, one can cultivate the Thiên Đình faster, and the foundation will be stable! I have already passed this method on to your third junior brother."
Tần Mục thought for a moment and said: "Partial."
Tiều Phu Thánh Nhân was furious but held it in and said: "Your current abilities surpass mine by a hundredfold, but my insight is still higher than yours. If you want to walk the path of the Thiên Đình, I can help you organize your công pháp, allowing you to also walk the path where Thiên Cung and Thần Điện complement each other!"
Tần Mục thought again, then shook his head and left: "There is no need. I have already comprehended something better. I only have the single realm of Linh Thai. Whether it is the Thiên Cung or the Thiên Đình realm, it is only adding flowers to brocade."
Tiều Phu Thánh Nhân could no longer hold back. He picked up his axe and chased after him.
Tần Mục flicked his sleeve, and a fierce wind swept Tiều Phu Thánh Nhân up, tossing him who knows where.
Hắc Hổ Thần woke up and called out: "Junior brother, don't worry! With me here, the old man won't get lost!" With that, he dashed off to find Tiều Phu Thánh Nhân.
Tần Mục laughed heartily and left together with Xích Tú Thần Nhân.
Tiều Phu Thánh Nhân was spun dizzy by that fierce wind and only landed after a long while. He was secretly horrified: "This kid... has he really walked out his own path?"
Xích Tú Thần Nhân was also astonished. Tần Mục's thần thông was indeed mighty and extraordinary.
Tiều Phu Thánh Nhân was the most learned person, best at breaking thần thông. Although his cultivation realm was not high, he could break any thần thông in the world.
However, Tần Mục had sent him flying with a single sleeve, and Tiều Phu Thánh Nhân had not been able to break this thần thông at all. This showed how formidable it was.
"The deepest part of Phong Đô is where Đế Dịch Nguyệt Thiên Vương resides."
Xích Tú Thần Nhân pointed ahead. Tần Mục looked and saw the Minh Đô Thiên Môn standing quietly in the ninth thần thành of Phong Đô. Outside the city there was also a Minh Hải, which should have been built by Đế Dịch Nguyệt imitating the Minh Hải of Minh Đô, but it was not exactly the same as Âm Thiên Tử's Minh Hải.
"Đế Dịch Nguyệt tỷ tỷ, Tần Mục has come to visit!" Tần Mục called out loudly.
Đế Dịch Nguyệt's voice came from afar, faint and ethereal: "Can we not meet? I have failed you, and I always feel I have no face to see you."
Tần Mục smiled: "The reason I came this time is to plan on breaking Âm Thiên Tử's thần thông."
"Why didn't younger brother say so earlier?"
Đế Dịch Nguyệt laughed heartily: "Come in quickly!"