Chapter 489: The Great Dao of the Soul
"I reduce the luck of the world in order to destroy the direct means of life and death, and to bring peace to the chaos. After all, killing people does not increase luck, but instead creates hatred. No one would do such a thing that would lose their ability."

The Jade Emperor said: "It's a pity that I underestimated this world and the way of heaven. Fate is closely related to the lives of heaven and earth. I suppressed most of the fate with the Heavenly Court, and there is not much fate left in the world. Although I have resolved the killing calamity, I have damaged the foundation of life."

"The fate of living beings has been plundered by the Heavenly Court, and cultivation has become increasingly difficult. I recall that time when immortals came to pay homage, it was an endless stream, what a grand scene. Now, in the world, even a true immortal cannot be born in hundreds of years. On the one hand, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth has been refined into immortal energy by the precious treasure in my hand and pushed to the heaven, and the spiritual energy of the mortal world has been greatly reduced. On the other hand, it takes a lot of resources for cultivators to be among the immortals. It only takes a few years for an ordinary mortal to grow from birth to adulthood, while those natural treasures can only be produced over many years. Without external objects, cultivation has become increasingly difficult."

"Thinking back to when the Heavenly Court was first established, the eight divisions of immortals, the sea gods of the four seas, the big and small hairy gods, and the heavenly soldiers and generals were not complete. As long as everyone practiced diligently and escaped from the calamity and ascended to heaven, they could be included in the immortal class."

"But the result of enjoying eternal immortal blessings and living as long as the heavens is that there are more and more immortals, and the Heaven Court is the only one in this world with no rivals. Gradually, there are not enough immortal positions to go around."

The Jade Emperor smiled bitterly and said, "I can only divide and separate my own divine position, and divide it into many immortal positions. I can also set rules and create some miscellaneous gods such as the Grass God and the Kitchen God, but it will be delayed for the time being."

"What makes me even more helpless is the Way of Heaven. The Way of Heaven is the result of the rules of heaven and earth. Naturally, the continuation of heaven and earth and its continuous evolution are the first priority. Man adapts to the Way, and the Way also adapts to man."

"Since I created the Heavenly Court, the world has changed accordingly. Cause and effect have begun to be entangled, and the mechanism of good and evil will be rewarded is formed. That is the prototype of the law of cause and effect. Relying on the Heavenly Court system, using fate and cause and effect as the framework, I have recruited all the people in the world. I think it is beneficial to the rule of the Heavenly Court, and since it is the evolution of the world itself, I will let it go."

"The law of cause and effect is becoming more and more strict, killing people with disasters, and all those who are harmful to heaven and earth will be killed. The way of heaven intervenes, and this move of using chickens to lay eggs is really wonderful. With my heaven as the game, it has set up a net of heaven and earth, and no one can escape. This is the immortal rule of heaven, the law of heaven!"

"When I saw that the laws of heaven were becoming more and more strict, I had already sensed that something was wrong. After a lot of investigation, I found that heaven and earth were planning to destroy the world."

He shook his head: "It's better to say that it's the destruction of people and the destruction of the Dharma. With the discovery of thousands of generations, there are countless immortals and even more cultivators. The heaven and earth can hardly bear it and have no ability to support it. Therefore, for the continuation of the heaven and earth, the cultivators have become the first-class scourge between heaven and earth."

"The Heavenly Palace I created has now become the greatest disaster in the world. The Heaven and Earth intend to destroy the world. They are secretly accumulating strength, preparing for cause and effect, and evolving countless disasters. When the countless killing disasters fall, it is still unknown what will happen to the Heaven and Earth, but all human lives will be lost. This day, I will destroy all people in the world, remove all laws in the world, and let this world enter the Dharma Ending Age."

The Jade Emperor looked at the star map and said, "But I can't stop it. The law of cause and effect has been completely integrated into my own system. The Heavenly Law is even more integrated with the Heavenly Court. We prosper together. Now it's too big to stop. Even if there is no one in the High Heaven Palace and the throne is vacant, the catastrophe of extinction will continue. With only the creatures in this world, it's already a dead end."

“So fellow Taoist didn’t make a fuss on the chessboard, but broke the situation from outside the chessboard,” Gu Qingyuan pointed at himself, “This is why I can enter the world!”

The Jade Emperor nodded and said, "Yes, I will ask my original self to take action and lead the spiritual light of the Heavenly Venerable from outside the world into the world in order to break this situation. This timeline will be your experimental field. If there is a way to break the situation, I in other timelines will follow suit."

Gu Qingyuan only recently figured all this out. He had always been puzzled by the fact that the gods and Buddhas sat back and watched everything and took no action. However, the deities did not open their mouths to point out the truth, nor did they leave any information behind, so he could only figure it out on his own.

He thought for a moment and said, "It's difficult to break the situation, but it's relatively easy to delay the catastrophe for the time being. Why don't you do it, fellow Taoist?"

Delaying it is naturally easy, and the problem of not having many immortal positions is also simple to solve. All you need to do is kill a group of immortals and free up some immortal positions. The world will have less burden, and the catastrophe will come later.

The Jade Emperor was silent for a moment, then he said, "I founded the Heavenly Court to relieve the sufferings of the world. People in the world kill each other, not because I am kind-hearted and compassionate, but because that is my way." "Practitioners follow their hearts. I don't like the chaos in the world, so I founded the Heavenly Court, collected the luck, established the Heavenly Law, set the order, and regulate the people of the world, just because I want to, I like, and because that is my original intention."

"And I, the Lord of Heaven, have resorted to killing the ministers of Heaven as a means of survival. Even if it is for the continuation of the heaven and earth and all living things, I do not want to do that. Fellow Daoist is also a cultivator, so you naturally know the consequences of distorting your heart."

If one's true nature is distorted, at best one's state of mind will be damaged, at worst one will give rise to inner demons. No matter if one is paranoid or free-spirited, they are the spiritual pillars that support practitioners. Only in this way can one cope with the erosion brought by the years. Otherwise, one will only be an immortal monster with a broken soul and a mad heart!

The Jade Emperor suddenly smiled: "Of course, it is also because I was enlightened by my original self that I realized the vastness of the world. If I can't do something, then it is not impossible that my original self can't do it. If the sky falls, there will naturally be someone taller to hold it up."

Gu Qingyuan was somewhat speechless. This was so similar to how his group of clones were always ready to trick him, and how he himself was bent on passing the blame to the original body. As expected, all crows are black.

He smiled slightly: "That's right, that's right. This outsider monk can actually recite other sutras. In this case, please take a look at my teachings."

Gu Qingyuan stretched out his hand towards the Immortal Star Map: "Come to think of it, I also learned from you on my path."

A beam of golden light entered the picture, sweeping away all the stars, and then the stars became bright.

"I entered the Dao with a tool, and I have countless clones. The tool is the orifice, the clone is the body, the vital energy is the veins, and the heaven and earth are the skin. When they are combined into one, I am a human being."

He waved his sleeves and released an aura, integrating the star map into a golden human figure, and pointed at the head: "Take the purple robe and flying Luoshang internally, the nine true Niwans are stationed in all directions, facing the Jade Emperor in a square inch. This is the root of my Huangting Yuanshen Dao, the god who controls the brain, and the Jade Emperor."

A figure flew out from the head of the human-shaped phantom, and it was exactly the same as Gu Qingyuan, sitting at the center of the top of the head. Then, human figures appeared behind Gu Qingyuan, and streams of breath filled the major orifices of the human-shaped body.

"Open up the six organs and harmonize the five elements."

Five rays of brilliant light enter the human body, the Lord of Taishan in the Spleen Earth Palace takes over, the Lord of the Three Qi Fire Virtue in the South of the Heart Fire Palace sits cross-legged, the Lord of the Nine Spirits Taimiao Mountain Gold Mother in the Lung Gold Palace returns to her position, the Emperor of Yimu Changsheng in the Liver Wood Palace stands on three sides, the Lord of the Five Qi Water Virtue in the Beidou of the Kidney Water Palace settles down, in addition there are the stars in the sky, and the immortals and gods of all sizes are listed one by one.

"One orifice contains one god. The 365 true gods in the body participate in the Huangting together to form the Huangting body. Each of them derives from the gods to lead the orifices of the body. There are a total of 129,600 gods, which is one Yuan. After this, one Yuan will start again and never stop."

"Then use various magic weapons to suppress and absorb spiritual energy, open up large and small caves in the human body, and let the spiritual energy communicate with each other. Use the Jade Emperor's original spirit to control the caves and combine them into one universe. The Dharma body is formed, and its name is..."

"The Jade Emperor's Primordial Spirit created the Dharmakaya of the Universe, which is the foundation of my Primordial Spirit."

(End of this chapter)