Chapter 835: 785 Heavenly Mystery Dao
Chapter 835: 785 Heavenly Mystery Dao
Chapter 835: Chapter 785 Heavenly Mystery Dao
Atop Shenxiao Mountain, Pei Xuanjing quietly practiced his spells, observing all the events unfolding in the world beneath him. However, he let everything take its course, not showing the slightest intention to interfere.
Pei Xuanjing’s attitude naturally influenced many people. At least while Pei Xuanjing remained noncommittal, those from the Taoist Academy, as well as the Shenxiao Sect and various forces from the Taoist Schools, contained themselves, observing the situation with detached interest, even though they were qualified and had the opportunity to intervene.
The Witch Deity Teaching sought to restore its position as the chief ritual in the human race. The issue was indeed serious, yet, to the Confucian Gate, it meant the weakening of their authority, while for other forces, it seemed to have little impact. In fact, some were even pleased to see it happen.
It’s important to remember that, although the Witch Sacrifice lineage was rather overbearing when they held control of ritual ceremonies, they weren’t particularly opposed to the various forces teaching and recruiting disciples. But after the Confucian Gate replaced the Witch Sacrifice, they were even more domineering. They expelled forces from other factions, barring them from entering the Court, putting Confucianism on a pedestal, abolishing all other lineages, and even eroding the authority and reputation of other parties, causing great dissatisfaction.
Now that the Witch Sacrifice lineage had initiated the challenge, it was actually what the other factions were hoping for—they wanted the two to fight. At least under such circumstances, with a conflict at hand, the other parties would have the opportunity to place their bets and pick sides, which could help them seize more interests.
Of course, a struggle over ritual ceremonies could not be resolved overnight—it would take time to determine the ultimate victor since both sides possessed sufficient power and strength.
For the various forces between Heaven and Earth, the most pressing matter was to initiate the plan to merge the worlds; this was of the utmost importance.
Finally, after nearly a hundred years of preparation, the base points of the Formation Techniques necessary for merging the two worlds had been readied. The plan to merge the worlds was about to begin.
Pei Xuanjing, who had originally been in seclusion on Shenxiao Mountain, received a message just as he was preparing to leave and encountered an old acquaintance—an individual who had long been absent, almost leaving no traces, now appeared on Shenxiao Mountain.
“It has been a long time, Brother Bai. You once united various parties and asked me to agree to the requests from Sky Wasteland’s factions to promote the merging of the worlds. Unfortunately, you were not present at the Shenxiao Debate Conference, to my great surprise,” Pei Xuanjing said, looking at the person before him.
The man he was addressing was none other than Bai Xiaosheng, who had vanished for a long time. Before the Shenxiao Debate Conference, Bai Xiaosheng had visited Shenxiao Mountain and expressed his desire for Pei Xuanjing to agree to the plans for merging the worlds devised by many supreme powers from Tianhuang.
However, it was strange that Bai Xiaosheng, the person who had persuaded Pei Xuanjing, did not show up at the conference afterward and had been missing for decades, almost a century with no news from him.
Were it not for his confidence in this individual, Pei Xuanjing would have almost believed that Bai Xiaosheng had been killed by an emissary of Master Tianji.
“Indeed, it has been over a hundred years,” Bai Xiaosheng also remarked with emotion. “I did not dare to come back then because I had a premonition that if I came to Shenxiao Mountain, I would surely die.”
As a cultivator who practiced the Heavenly Mystery Divination, Bai Xiaosheng was highly sensitive to matters of his own safety. After coordinating with various parties, he had planned to come to Shenxiao Mountain with them, but suddenly felt an urge to calculate his chances and discovered that if he had gone to Shenxiao Mountain, he would have been assuredly doomed to death.
Shocked by such a divination, Bai Xiaosheng knew that with Pei Xuanjing’s protection, no one should have been able to harm him on Shenxiao Mountain. Yet, after performing nine successive divinations, the results were all the same—inevitable death if he went to Shenxiao Mountain, and even remaining in the Daming World posed the risk of death.
Under these circumstances, he dared not tell anyone and resorted to his contingency plans, not only abstaining from visiting Shenxiao Mountain but also leaving the Daming World for Tianhuang to lay low for a while.
But life is full of uncertainties; he originally intended to stay away only briefly, but that departure turned into nearly a century, until he recently returned to the Daming World.
“It seems, Brother Bai, that your fortunes have run deep this time, otherwise your cultivation wouldn’t show such progress,” Pei Xuanjing said with a smile.
Pei Xuanjing didn’t mind Bai Xiaosheng’s breach of the agreement and now congratulated him upon seeing that he had reached the Seventh Level of the Spiritual Realm.
He was well aware that Bai Xiaosheng had significant conflicts with the Sky Mechanism Pavilion. Regardless, reaching the Seventh Level of the Spiritual Realm meant, at least relatively, that Bai Xiaosheng had achieved a great capacity for self-protection.
“It was just good luck,” Bai Xiaosheng humbly replied.
His cultivation method was actually different from ordinary cultivators. In addition to drawing upon the Heaven and Earth Essence Qi like other cultivators, his main focus was the Heavenly Mystery Dao and divination. If he could manage to guide many major events to unfold as he had planned, he could nourish his own realm and raise his level of cultivation.
If Pei Xuanjing were to understand it, the Heavenly Mystery Dao would be akin to a director or screenwriter setting a script for everyone to follow and enact; once completed, it would bring extraordinary gains.
For Bai Xiaosheng, his greatest aid in cultivation was actually Pei Xuanjing. Persuading Pei Xuanjing was part of the grand plans he wove. As long as events progressed as he had deduced, he could gain and improve his power.
The reason why Bai Xiaosheng and Master Tianji were so incompatible stemmed precisely from this—they both walked the path of the Heavenly Mystery Dao, which led to a Dao Contest.
Perhaps for Master Tianji, who stood at the Pinnacle of the Universe, Bai Xiaosheng seemed too insignificant to be considered a rival, but Bai Xiaosheng couldn’t afford to disregard it, especially against a contender in a Dao Contest. Even if weak, Master Tianji wouldn’t hesitate to erase him, and this was precisely why Bai Xiaosheng continually avoided the Sky Mechanism Pavilion.
At present, Bai Xiaosheng, regardless of his realm or techniques, wasn’t yet at the level of treating all beings as chess pieces. Persuading Pei Xuanjing wasn’t a manipulation but a mutually beneficial act. Otherwise, with Pei Xuanjing’s power, the backlash from mere manipulation would be unbearable for Bai Xiaosheng.
Although Bai Xiaosheng had not fully disclosed this to Pei Xuanjing initially, he had still given away enough hints, otherwise, Pei Xuanjing would not have genuinely listened to him.
At least with shared interests, Pei Xuanjing was actually not averse to cooperation.