Chapter 159 Fellow Daoist, what secret do you have?
[Huang Long gradually untied the knot in his heart and finally decided to let go of all hatred! ]

[Since then, Huang Long has been practicing immortal arts earnestly on Yujing Mountain. Thanks to his divine blessing, he has a very good aptitude. Although he is not as good as the three brothers and sisters of Jinwu in his practice, he is not much slower, and can be said to be making rapid progress.]

[And you can't help but feel relieved to see him resolve his worries: as a remnant of the old era, you have lived to the present moment of the new era, so you naturally want to consign everything from the ancient times to the archives.]

[Barbarism, slaughter, race, slavery... and hatred. ]

[In the new era, these things are no longer needed. Let you end everything in the past with your own strength! ]

[You look at the setting sun on the cliff and think like this...]

[The fact is indeed as you wished. After the main force of the dragon race represented by the Four Seas True Dragons was wiped out, the prehistoric world ushered in the efficient governance of the Heavenly Court! ]

[Emperor Jun coordinated everything, and the Heavenly Court followed his orders. His orders were able to reach all five directions. Under such efficient governance, the long-standing imbalance in resource allocation in various places was fully alleviated.]

[Use more to make up for less, and try to regulate all unbalanced resources to make them relatively balanced. Also, open up population mobility, allow civilians in poor areas to move to rich areas, and do our best to ease conflicts! ]

[In order to maximize the value of every resource, Di Jun even specially improved various alchemy and weapon making techniques...]

[Thanks to the efforts of the Heavenly Court, various places gradually prospered, and as society prospers, the population will increase, which will in turn aggravate the crisis... So in order to alleviate the resource crisis, Emperor Jun issued an edict to restrict population growth. ]

[If there is no one to increase revenue, then we can only cut costs. ]

[In short, Di Jun tried his best. He did his best in all aspects of saving money: the prehistoric world finally entered a new era, and he must not let the resource problem bring him down! ]

[Because if the resource conflicts become too great one day, then the carriage of this new era will return to the old era, and fighting and slaughter will once again become the theme of the era...]

[Di Jun didn't want to see such a thing, because it not only represented the tragic scene of all living things, but also represented the destruction of his own ideals, and even more so represented the complete bankruptcy of his adoptive father's career! ]

[You saved the era of the three tribes, you can't just save one lonely person! ]

[Therefore, Di Jun will use everything to protect your career...]

[But no matter how he maintains and micro-manages, the contradiction between limited resources and unlimited demand will always exist. All means are just to prolong his life, and there will always be a day when he can no longer prolong his life. ]

[Of course, Di Jun will not tell you this question, because you will only be anxious after hearing it, which is not only useless, but also affects your mood...]

[For your freedom, Di Jun decides to take on everything! ]

【…】

[In the "peaceful and prosperous age" that Di Jun carefully created for you, you, who knew nothing, began to enjoy your freedom. ]

[Your original dream was to find a group of like-minded partners, and then travel around the world while chatting enthusiastically. This is freedom.]

[Now, although you still haven’t found a group of like-minded partners, nothing can stop you from traveling in the wilderness! ]

[So you took Huang Long with you, raised him as your grandchild, and then flew away as you pleased.]

[Fishing and watching the sunrise on the East China Sea, playing snowball fights and grilling big fish in the extremely cold North Sea. ]

[Climb Buzhou Mountain in Zhongzhou and stir up the sea water in the blood sea in the western wilderness. ]

[Tease the various star spirits that have not yet been born on the Zhou Tian stars, and visit Zu Feng in the great volcano in the southern wilderness...]

[Seeing you bringing Huang Long with you, Zu Feng was speechless: Just come, why bring irrelevant people with you! ]

[The angry Zu Feng snorted at you, and then ordered a few newly enlightened phoenixes to run errands and get some local specialties from the Great Volcano. Eat and drink, and enjoy yourself...]

[However, when you returned to Yujing Mountain with Huang Long, who also had a great time, you found an unexpected person waiting for you on the mountain.]

……

"Senior, I'm going to go down and practice first..."

Huang Long, who was tactful, saw that the atmosphere was not right and immediately left...

So the only ones left on the top of the mountain were Jiao Ming and the old Taoist in purple robe sitting under the old tree.

"Fellow Daoist, are you still free now?"

Hongjun asked with a smile, but there was something else behind this smile.

"That's very free."

Jiao Ming also responded with a smile, and then sat under the tree as well.

"Tell me, where did you go to play again?"

Jiao Ming asked Hongjun casually:

"Another person ran away...Isn't he going to run into any Qilin tribe this time?"

As soon as these words came out, Hongjun shuddered visibly, and his expression changed slightly:

"You know it all?"

Jiao Ming put away his smile, leaned against the tree, and said softly:

"I can guess it, who else could it be except you?"

Hongjun paused for a moment, and finally sighed:
"Okay, I admit it was all my fault."

"I was the one who enlightened the Qilin tribe and educated them towards extreme revenge. I also planned to distribute them to various places in the prehistoric world... their purpose was to plot against Zulong."

"But its lack of resistance was beyond my expectations. I didn't think it would be so easy to fall into the trap..."

Jiao Ming's eyes twitched. Although he had expected it, he had a different feeling when he heard Hongjun admit it himself.

Jiao Ming's thoughts could not help but fly back to the time when he first met Hongjun in his first life:
I am a general of the Phoenix Clan, and he is a righteous man who seeks to stop the war between the three clans. Although this guy dared to instigate me to rebel when he had no strength at the time, and it was very embarrassing in the end, at least he did not choose to cut ties and run away, but faced Zufeng's wrath with me.

In the end, he chose to commit suicide, and Hongjun was burned to death by Zufeng...

No matter what, it is enough to prove that he is a reliable person and a decent person who is willing to sacrifice himself!

But this pure and upright image was gradually tainted in his second life:
Hongjun revealed his blueprint for becoming a god, and admitted that he killed the evil corpse Luohou in order to become a god, and let Luohou take the blame for the massacre...

That set of detailed plans for achieving enlightenment dumbfounded me at the time. It was hard to imagine that this could be a plan drawn up by the righteous Hongjun.

But then again, given the situation at the time when the Three Patriarchs were achieving enlightenment, Hongjun really had no other choice but to stop killing with killing until he killed the Three Patriarchs.

He wants to bury the old era with absolute violence and then usher in a new era, and he would rather bear the stain for this!

Therefore, although Jiao Ming did not approve of his sacrifice for Wan Ling, he would not blame him excessively.

In this life, Hongjun's image has changed again:

From a pure hero, to a tainted saint, and then to the current... you old pervert!
In Jiao Ming's mind, Hongjun at this moment was no different from the three ancestors in the previous two lives. They all chose to sacrifice innocent people for the benefit of becoming a Taoist...

Taking a deep breath, Jiao Ming said faintly:

"Daoyou, is achieving enlightenment really that important..."

This sentence was used by Jiao Ming to interrogate Hongjun's conscience. He tried to arouse Hongjun's conscience in the most direct way.

Because he believed that Hongjun was only temporarily blinded and could still be saved...

However, what Jiao Ming never expected was that after he asked this question, Hongjun beside him nodded in agreement:

“Achieving enlightenment is really important!”

Jiao Ming: …

No, you are hopeless?!

Jiao Ming was shocked, as if he was meeting Taoist Hongjun for the first time, and his eyes gradually showed disappointment and a different kind of regret:

"Fellow Daoist, I never thought that one day I would become your enemy..."

He began to plan. Hongjun and himself were both at the peak of Daluo. Once they fought, it would be difficult to tell the winner.

It seems that we need to find Zu Feng as well, and then Di Jun and the others as well...

[Faced with your increasingly ugly expression, Hongjun waved his hands repeatedly: Daoist friend, you misunderstood. What I meant was that becoming a Taoist is a very important matter in itself, not only for me, but also for all the spirits in the world! ]

[While you were half-believing and half-doubting, Hongjun told you in a deep voice the desperate prospect that all living things were facing now...]

[“Although there are many cultivation resources between heaven and earth, they are very limited. Pangu’s legacy is not infinite.”]

[Hongjun said seriously: In the barbaric era when all living beings were not intelligent and did not know how to practice, resources were of course sufficient, but as the Ancestral Dragon enlightened countless living beings, the food, clothing, shelter, transportation and other necessities of these billions of living beings would rapidly consume all the resources in the world! ]

[The larger the population, the more prosperous the fire of prehistoric civilization, and the more serious the resource crisis...]

[“How serious can it be?”]

[You, who have never had any idea about this, can't help but ask. ]

[Hongjun said in a deep voice: It will regress to the ancient wilderness, even more miserable than that. Slaughter and war will be the spontaneous and reasonable behavior of all people. Until enough people are killed to return the Tao to heaven, all civilization will start again.]

[But this is only a temporary solution, not a permanent one. This method can only cause all living things in the world to cycle back and forth in this dead end again and again. Rise and fall are cyclical. After prosperity comes decline, and then prosperity again, and decline again...]

[“So, we must break out of the cyclical law brought about by this resource allocation!”]

[The only way to break out of the cycle is to achieve enlightenment! ]

[Whether it was the Third Ancestor who achieved enlightenment or Hongjun who achieved enlightenment, someone had to achieve enlightenment. Only someone who achieved enlightenment could resolve this inevitable contradiction!]

[And fellow Taoist, I understand your kindness, but right now someone must achieve enlightenment.]

[Everything I do is never just for myself. I am still the one who is willing to bear the darkness and move towards the light! ]

[Hongjun passionately tells you: I may fall, but I will never degenerate! ]

[You listened to all this and were stunned for a long, long time...]

[Suddenly, you raised your head and stared at him: "Why do you know this?"]

[You are no longer the simple-minded little firebird. Now you have grasped the key point immediately! ]

[From a long time ago, you have always felt that Hongjun is extremely mysterious: he has noble morals that other natural gods do not have, and he has compassion for all living beings, which is very different from all natural gods. ]

[He also knew many things that others did not know: such as "Rahu's method of imprisoning the true spirit", "the relationship between the true spirit and enlightenment", "bloodline enlightenment method", "indirect enlightenment method", "those who have achieved enlightenment can save the resource crisis"...]

[It is hard to believe that a normal born divine being would know so many things that even the Three Ancestors do not know.]

[“Fellow Daoist, what secret do you have?”]

[Faced with your sudden question, Hongjun was stunned. He didn't expect you to ask this at all.]

【So, he was sweating profusely...】

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(End of this chapter)