Jiang Wen sat on the ground, meditating, his golden core rapidly recovering his mana. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ Beside him, Du Haitang was unconscious, covered by his clothes, deep in slumber.
Du Haitang was only at the Lighting Lamp Realm. Although protected by the formation, she was still stunned by the aftermath of their battle. Jiang Wen checked her body and found no serious injuries. She just needed to rest more, and she would slowly recover.
He chatted with Zile, one sentence at a time. For a naive child like Zile, who was full of endless questions, no one understood him better than Jiang Wen. So the conversation went on and on. Jiang Wen was getting tired of it, but Zile was still diligently asking questions.
“Brother, what are parents?”
“Parents are the people who give birth to you, raise you, and nurture you to adulthood…” Jiang Wen replied helplessly, explaining the concept of parents to Zile. Zile nodded, seemingly understanding, and immediately began to extrapolate.
“Then you raised me, Brother, and brought me up so big. You must be my parents, right? Sister Ziyun gave me life and allowed me to live in this world. She should also be my parent, right? In that case, Zile has two parents.”
“…Well, it can't be said like that. Parents are mainly… how should I put it…” Jiang Wen struggled to explain what constitutes parents to Zile. After all, the way the pagoda tree grows and reproduces is different from humans, capable of independent asexual reproduction. So for Zile, it was still difficult to understand what parents meant.
In the end, Jiang Wen was helpless and could only accept Zile's understanding. Since he raised him, he could be considered a parent. As for who is the father and who is the mother, Zile didn't understand until Hongluan arrived.
Hongluan landed, looking at Jiang Wen and Zile, curious as to why they were chatting so lively. She went over to ask, and Jiang Wen threw the question of what parents are to Hongluan.
Hongluan was, after all, a maiden who had not experienced worldly affairs, and her answer to this question was also hesitant. In the end, she could only shyly change the subject and stop talking about it with Zile.
Fortunately, Zile was innocent and naive, and his attention was easily diverted by Hongluan. Taking the good stuff Hongluan gave him, he went to play alone.
Letting out a sigh of relief, Hongluan rubbed her slightly flushed cheeks. Looking at Jiang Wen with his disheveled hair, she sat down beside him: “The Divine Lord has run away.”
“I know, I even heard his laughter just now.” Jiang Wen nodded.
“The Filthy Pig and Yin Sheep are also gone.” Hongluan said very seriously. “My master suspects they were eaten by the Divine Lord, because traces of those two can be detected in the cave, but they disappeared very quickly.”
“It's to be expected if they were eaten by the Divine Lord.” Jiang Wen nodded in agreement. “I had a guess from the moment I saw the Divine Lord, and I finally found the answer here.”
“What answer?” Hongluan asked in confusion.
“The secret technique for nurturing the Divine Lord may have been deliberately leaked to the Divine Worship Sect by the Orthodox Divine Path. Even those evil and crooked techniques were intentionally or unintentionally obtained by the Divine Worship Sect. As for the Blood Demon Ancestor's defection from the Orthodox Divine Path, I suspect it was also orchestrated by them.” Jiang Wen said with a serious expression.
“You mean, the Blood Demon Ancestor's escape from the Orthodox Divine Path with the secret methods of the Orthodox Divine Path was deliberate? The Blood Demon Ancestor also deliberately betrayed his sect?” Hongluan fell into deep thought upon hearing Jiang Wen's words. She didn't expect that there could be so many secrets hidden within this matter of the Flesh Earth Divine Lord.
“No, the Blood Demon Ancestor's defection from the Orthodox Divine Path is true, but the Orthodox Divine Path letting the Blood Demon Ancestor go is false. They deliberately let the Blood Demon Ancestor go, so that the technique of nurturing the Divine Lord could be spread.” Jiang Wen unraveled the threads, telling Hongluan everything he had thought of during this time. “I'm afraid that the Orthodox Divine Path should know about the Divine Worship Sect nurturing the Divine Lord. They didn't take any action because they wanted to use the Divine Worship Sect's hands to do this. So from the beginning, it was destined that the Divine Worship Sect's nurturing of the Divine Lord would fail. No matter what, the Divine Lord's incarnation they cultivated would escape their control.”
“Truly a cuckoo occupying a magpie's nest, borrowing a womb to bear a child.”
“Hiss, the Orthodox Divine Path actually has such methods? It truly opens one's eyes.” Hongluan felt a chill all over her body. She didn't expect that such a big conspiracy was hidden beneath the layers. “What do the people of the Orthodox Divine Path want to do? Do they just want to nurture the incarnation of the Heavenly Lord they revere?”
“What they want to plot may be even bigger, even the entire Great Qian.” Hongluan was stunned after hearing Jiang Wen's words.
The Great Qian has been stable for ten thousand years, able to go through dozens of generations of emperors. It relies on holding the Mandate of Humanity, revered as the orthodox of Humanity. To shake its position, one must first shake its Mandate of Humanity.
But Humanity is closely related to all living beings in the world. How difficult it is to shake it. Unless the world is slaughtered, and all living beings are plunged into misery. Causing the twenty-four prefectures of Great Qian to be filled with war. Only then can the humanistic position of the Great Qian imperial family be shaken.
But if such a disaster is truly created, will the immortal sects and hundreds of families connected to Humanity stand by and do nothing? It must be known that in ancient times, the Great Cang ruled the world's Humanity, holding the Mandate of Heaven. At that time, how magnificent was its power, not only the twenty-four prefectures were in its hands, but even the hundreds of millions of miles of wilderness in the outer regions were under its control. It truly had hundreds of millions of soldiers, whose cries shook the heavens and the earth, and whose movements shook the mountains. Throwing whips to cut off rivers, and filling the seas with weapons. Its momentum was majestic, swallowing the sky and spitting out the earth.
But even if it was so powerful, when the people later lived in misery and the world rebelled, only the Li family of Nanqi, assisted by the immortal sects and hundreds of families, laughed to the end, becoming the emperor and royal family holding the Mandate of Humanity.
Without the support of the immortal sects and hundreds of families, is it really possible for the Orthodox Divine Path to achieve great things?
Hongluan had this doubt in her heart, and she also told Jiang Wen her doubts.
Jiang Wen nodded after hearing this, then pointed to the peak of Buzhou Mountain above his head and said, “Do you think the Orthodox Divine Path cares about the attitude of the immortal sects and hundreds of families?”
“What do you mean?” Hongluan was stunned.
“Perhaps what they really want to do is not just to hold Humanity, but also to overthrow the Path of Life Fire practiced by the immortal sects and hundreds of families.” Jiang Wen's words were like a thunderclap, awakening Hongluan. She felt a chill in her heart, and increasingly felt that Jiang Wen's guess was not impossible. Even the probability was very high, which made her very certain of this point.
What the Orthodox Divine Path wants is not just the world of Great Qian, but also to subvert the Path of Life Fire practiced by the immortal sects and hundreds of families, and use their method of offering sacrifices to gods to create a world belonging to the Divine Path.
“Do you know what Humanity is?” Jiang Wen asked softly.
“Humanity is the Mandate of Heaven?” Hongluan subconsciously asked back.
“The Dao of Heaven exists, circulating without end, not existing for Yao, not perishing for Jie.”
