Although Meng Chen was a transmigrator, he had always had only a hazy understanding of why the Teaching of Humanity, Chan Sect, and Intercepting Teaching existed. It was not until he listened to Yuanshi Tianzun's lecture that he understood the significance of the Three Teachings to the Primordial Wilderness.
He who would wear the crown must bear its weight. As Saints, the Three Pure Ones enjoyed the glory belonging to Saints while also shouldering the missions bestowed upon them by the Heavenly Dao.
The purpose of the Teaching of Humanity, Chan Sect, and Intercepting Teaching was to aid the evolution of the Dao of Heaven, Earth, and Humanity, allowing the Primordial World to continue growing.
The original purpose of the Teaching of Humanity was to use the Human Race as its foundation, advancing the development of civilization and thereby establishing the Human Dao. Thus, among the Three Teachings, the Teaching of Humanity was responsible for overseeing the greater picture, building social systems, and determining the direction of civilization's development.
Sage Laozi's non-action meant following the laws and principles of nature. It did not mean doing nothing, much less doing whatever one pleased.
With the Teaching of Humanity having established a stable social system, Chan Sect then had to refine the rules and maintain their operation. Its specific task was to educate all living beings, awaken their wisdom, and give them proper views on good and evil, life, morality, and ethics.
The doctrines of the Intercepting Teaching were not defiance of Heaven either. If its doctrines truly defied Heaven, why would Master Tongtian have needed to become a Saint?
Seizing a Thread of Life was Master Tongtian's Dao! The Dao was one's true heart, Master Tongtian's most genuine thoughts.
If Master Tongtian truly defied Heaven, yet still went on to become a Saint, would not his words and actions contradict one another?
The Intercepting Teaching actually existed to work alongside the Teaching of Humanity and Chan Sect, constantly adjusting and changing the rules so that the civilization of the Human Dao could continue advancing.
"So, the doctrines of Chan Sect and the Intercepting Teaching are not opposed to each other. They complement one another. Only when the Three Teachings work as one can the Primordial World have a bright future."
Once he understood the significance of the Three Teachings, Meng Chen felt as though a veil had been lifted from his mind.
Since Yuanshi Tianzun and Master Tongtian were brothers, their ideas and beliefs could not possibly have been worlds apart. Unless they had been at each other's throats even before becoming Saints.
Clearly, that assumption did not hold.
After grasping these principles, Meng Chen did not overestimate himself and try to change anything. Even if he wanted to make changes, he first had to raise his standing within Xuanmen and make himself stronger.
If he were like Guang Chengzi in the original work, causing trouble every time he became the Human Emperor's teacher and then getting chased down and beaten by his own disciple during the Investiture of the Gods War, Sage Laozi and Master Tongtian would only treat him as a joke.
After finishing the lesson in ideology, Yuanshi Tianzun began teaching his disciples the divine abilities and Daoist arts of Jade Void Palace.
At this point, Meng Chen listened with exceptional focus. To that end, he even took out an Enlightenment Tea leaf and held it in his mouth.
The Eastern Celestial Pole lacked everything except vegetation and Divine Roots. In terms of attainments in the path of flora, not even Great Immortal Zhen Yuan or Queen Mother of the West could compare to Divine Lord Meng Zhang.
When Yuanshi Tianzun saw Meng Chen being so lavish, he could not help thinking, If I had possessed even one Enlightenment Tea leaf while listening to the Dao at Purple Cloud Palace, I would have long since severed my three corpses and become a Saint of the Three Corpses.
However, when Yuanshi Tianzun remembered that this was his disciple, the one who would carry forward his Dao lineage, he secretly rejoiced. This time, he had truly found a treasure.
Meng Chen naturally had no way of knowing Yuanshi Tianzun's thoughts. He was wholly immersed in the Daoist arts Yuanshi Tianzun was demonstrating.
A Saint's exposition of the Dao was naturally extraordinary. The moment Yuanshi Tianzun spoke, he drew the minds of all his disciples into separate miniature spacetime realms.
Within every miniature spacetime realm stood an incarnation of Yuanshi Tianzun. This incarnation was merely at the Heavenly Immortal realm. After appearing before the disciples, it began cultivating in front of them.
Every step and every detail of cultivation—the key points and difficulties of every realm, from Heavenly Immortal, True Immortal, Mystic Immortal, Golden Immortal, Taiyi, and beyond—was displayed before the disciples in full, without the slightest omission.
Yes, Yuanshi Tianzun was personally giving each disciple live instruction.
This method seemed extremely complicated, but to Yuanshi Tianzun, it could be accomplished with a single thought. Within the miniature spacetime realms he created, time was infinite and impossible to exhaust.
Meng Chen thirsted for knowledge and devoted himself completely to his studies.
A Saint's guidance always struck directly at the heart of the matter, because a Saint could see through the foundations of Meng Chen's cultivation at a glance. With a slight calculation, the Saint could deduce every mistake Meng Chen had made in his past cultivation.
Under such guidance, Meng Chen felt as if all impurities had been washed away and he was facing the Great Dao directly. As he listened to the Dao, his foundation grew ever more stable, while his understanding of the Great Dao advanced by leaps and bounds.
Even Meng Chen found this realization somewhat terrifying. His imperial father was also among the greatest existences beneath the Saints, more than capable of teaching a Golden Immortal like him. Yet he had never experienced anything like this before.
Only after rebuilding the disciples' foundations did Yuanshi Tianzun begin imparting the general outline of Chan Sect's thousand divine abilities and myriad Daoist arts—the Golden Proclamation of Primordial Beginning.
This Golden Proclamation of Primordial Beginning had been created by Yuanshi Tianzun through combining Xuanmen Daoist arts with Pangu's inheritance. It contained countless wondrous and profound cultivation formulas.
The disciples' minds were directly pulled into the Chaos World.
Within the boundless chaos, a colossal giant who held up Heaven and Earth stood atop the myriad Daos. With every gesture, he controlled the heavens and enslaved the Great Dao. His gaze pierced through eternity, seeing from World Creation all the way to the Immeasurable Calamity.
With a lift of the giant's hand, Dao Birth Dao Destruction unfolded, and countless profound mysteries were manifested: evolving Nothingness, transforming Yinyang, opening Qiankun, reversing life and death...
This method of transmitting the teachings was practically stuffing the Great Dao into the disciples' mouths and even chewing it up for them. All the disciples had to do was exert one final bit of effort and swallow the Great Dao into their bellies.
Meng Chen treasured this opportunity immensely. Free of all distractions, he focused entirely on comprehending it, engraving every method within the Golden Proclamation of Primordial Beginning into his heart.
Seal of Infinity, Seal of Dao's Oneness, Seal of Creation, Seal of Heaven Overturning, Seal of Yin and Yang, Seal of Four Symbols, Seal of Void, Seal of Earth, Seal of Primordial Heart...
Each of the nine divine abilities contained within the Golden Proclamation of Primordial Beginning pointed directly to the source of the Great Dao. Before he realized it, Meng Chen's body had begun moving along with the giant, following the giant's movements with his left and right hands.
Meng Chen was not greedily trying to master everything. Rather, he had truly comprehended the profound mysteries contained within the Golden Proclamation of Primordial Beginning and involuntarily entered a state of unity between Heaven and man.
Little did he know that Yuanshi Tianzun was also stunned by Meng Chen's extraordinary comprehension.
In Yuanshi Tianzun's original estimation, it would already have been remarkable if his disciples could comprehend three divine abilities. Guang Chengzi, for instance, had comprehended only the Seal of Creation, Seal of Heaven Overturning, and Seal of Void.
Yuanshi Tianzun had taught it only once, yet Meng Chen had comprehended all of his Primordial Nine Seals. Such a performance had already surpassed what Meng Chen's realm should have allowed.
However, when Yuanshi Tianzun considered Meng Chen's background, he no longer found it strange.
Divine Lord Meng Zhang was a great figure from the same era as the Primordial Dragon. Most treasures from the early days of World Creation had fallen into the hands of great figures from Divine Lord Meng Zhang's era.
Meng Chen was Divine Lord Meng Zhang's only son and had been entrusted with Divine Lord Meng Zhang's greatest hopes. Divine Lord Meng Zhang had piled every benefit upon Meng Chen, forging for him a foundation comparable to that of a Primordial Saint.
With such a foundation, Meng Chen's aptitude for cultivating the Dao was naturally not something Guang Chengzi and the others could compare to.
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