Master uncle?
Li Xiuchang was stunned for a moment.
Fu Yuan is the disciple of Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor, his name is Confucian Sage, uncle, so isn't Confucian Sage Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor's junior brother?
Buddha Ancestor is also the junior brother of Confucian Sage, so he is also the junior brother of Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor?
Li Xiuchang had just speculated that Confucian Sage and Buddha Ancestor might be in the same realm as Three Great Dao Ancestors, but he didn't expect that they were still peers, and even had the relationship of senior brothers!
Confucian Sage nodded to Fu Yuan and said, "Just come back."
Li Xiuchang was about to take the opportunity to ask a few more questions, when suddenly the color of the world changed. It turned out that Cao Wu had attracted Lightning Tribulation.
With Cao Wu's current understanding of the great road, he can directly ascend to the Golden Immortal, not even far from Grand Luo Golden Immortal. However, he has not been able to overcome the tribulation, causing Cultivation Level's realm to be suppressed at Tribulation Crossing Stage.
Returning to the Immortal Shade Realm at this time, a natural disaster immediately occurred.
After transcending the tribulation at the Immortal Shade Realm, it will soar to the Upper Realm Desolate Heaven Realm. Normally, there is a certain danger.
However, Cao Wu obviously cannot be treated as a normal situation. Once he ascends, he has the golden immortal combat power, which is enough to protect himself, not to mention the master Confucian Sage who is protecting him.
Confucian Sage would never put his precious apprentice in danger.
"Disperse quickly!"
Confucian Sage drove Li Xiuchang and others away, for fear that they would interfere with his apprentice's journey through the tribulation.
Li Xiuchang could only take Fu Yuan to the side, and Confucian Sage also pulled Yang Hao to the side, leaving enough space for Cao Wu to overcome the tribulation.
Although Cultivation Level of Cao Wu is stuck in Tribulation Crossing Stage, the Dao perception is there, the strength cannot be weakened, and there will definitely be no problem in overcoming the tribulation.
After surviving the catastrophe without any surprises, he ascended to immortality.
Of course Confucian Sage was worried and pulled Yang Hao to follow Upper Realm.
In the end, only Li Xiuchang and Fu Yuan were left.
Li Xiuchang could finally ask without any scruples, "Brother Scar, what is the relationship between senior Confucian Sage and you?"
Fu Yuan hesitated. For some reasons, he had never taken the initiative to tell Li Xiuchang about this before. Even though he knew Li Xiuchang had a misunderstanding, he did not correct it.
But just now he said "Uncle Master", and Li Xiuchang obviously had a good relationship with Confucian Sage, he thought for a while and said:
"The Confucian Sage and Buddha Ancestor you are talking about are my uncle, that is, the junior brother of my master Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor."
Li Xiuchang asked, "What does Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor and Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor have to do with Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor?"
The question of who among Three Great Dao Ancestors is the real ancestor of the Daoist Sect is controversial throughout the world, and Li Xiuchang is not difficult to judge from some clues that there is some kind of connection between Three Great Dao Ancestors, and it seems that they have a good relationship with each other.
Fu Yuan said, "The three of them are brothers from the same discipline."
Li Xiuchang has been working on his mind for a long time. It turns out that all the Daoist ancestors in the whole world belong to the same family?
Fu Yuan smiled and said with a bit of a showdown, "Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor chose to reincarnate and rebuild many years ago, reopened a new path, and created Confucian Path, so it is also called 'Confucian Sage' by many people."
"Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor also made the same choice and eventually founded Buddhism, which is called 'Buddha Ancestor'."
Li Xiuchang stood stunned on the spot, digesting this shocking news.
"Confucian Sage is Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor, Buddha Ancestor is Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor?"
"So there are only these three Daoist ancestors from the beginning to the end. Confucian Sage and Buddha Ancestor are just vests..."
After accepting this truth, and thinking about many things before, he suddenly felt enlightened.
Before Seventh Layer World, there were Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor, Buddha Ancestor, and Confucian Sage, but Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor and Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor were missing. Now Li Xiuchang just wants to understand.
Yang Hao also made offerings to the three Daoist ancestors, but only received special care from Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor, because Yang Hao is the disciple of Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor!
Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor once picked the fruit of Sky-Piercing Immortal Tree, but in the end the fruit fell into the hands of Buddha Ancestor, because they are the same person.
"Buddha is originally the Tao, and Confucianism is the Tao."
"It turns out that the founders of these two paths are themselves Daoist Sect people. No wonder the shadow of the Daoist Sect can be seen in Confucian Path and Buddhism."
"No wonder Confucian Sage masters the two paths of yin and yang!"
Confucian Sage and Buddha Ancestor are Tao ancestors themselves. They were reincarnated and re-cultivated in order to create a new way. The starting point is extremely high, not starting from scratch like the normal Dao Founder.
Normally, if Dao Founder started from scratch, the two of them would start a business after they have gained wealth.
Confucian Sage and Buddha Ancestor themselves bring with them the memories of their previous lives and the rich accumulation and insights from their previous lives to create a new path.
Although it started quickly, it will inevitably be affected by the insights of previous lives. The Confucian Path and Buddhism created have the shadow of the Daoist Sect.
Later, for some unknown reason, the Buddhist path and Confucian Path created by the two people did not meet their expectations, so they abandoned these two paths one after another.
The reincarnation of Confucian Sage reopened an unknown avenue, and there are obvious traces of borrowing from Primordial Demonic Power.
Buddha Ancestor has just passed Nirvana, and it is estimated that he will start a new path after his rebirth.
Li Xiuchang finally understood that Confucian Sage and Buddha Ancestor were not at their peak before.
Both of them are in the process of reincarnation and reconstruction. In this state, they are no longer the Daoist ancestors they were at their previous peak.
They are Confucian Sage and Buddha Ancestor, not Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor and Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor.
After reincarnation, the way of the previous life is no longer available.
Unless you abandon the great path created after reincarnation and return to the Daoist period of the first life.
Li Xiuchang also finally understood why Confucian Sage suddenly changed his temperament when he was fighting the demon corpse just now at the Demon Suppressing Realm.
Because at that time, Confucian Sage rediscovered the power of Dao Ancestor and gave up the avenue he reopened.
Returning to the first life, Confucian Sage is no longer Confucian Sage, but Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor, so he can use the Yin-Yang Avenue.
Moreover, retaining the memory of two reincarnations is equivalent to merging the experiences of two lives, and only then will the intertwined temperament appear in him.
Li Xiuchang thought to himself, "It seems that the demonic corpse is indeed very strong and has put a lot of pressure on Confucian Sage. In other words, the third generation Confucian Sage has not yet developed well and is no match for the demonic corpse..."
"In the end, Confucian Sage was forced to give up the avenue created by the third life, restore the identity of Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor in the first life, and use the Yin and Yang Avenue to subdue the demon corpse."
Li Xiuchang's many doubts were instantly explained.
But then came some bigger doubts.
Li Xiuchang asked, "Since the three Daoist ancestors are brothers, then who is their master?"
"Also, why are Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor and Compassionate Masses Dao Ancestor obsessed with reincarnation and rebuilding? Why must they create their own path?"
Fu Yuan opened his mouth and was about to say something when he saw Confucian Sage... or should be called Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor, appearing beside them with Yang Hao and Cao Wu behind him.
Fu Yuan immediately closed his mouth and sent a message to Li Xiuchang: "You can ask my uncle yourself."
He is always embarrassed to talk about his elders in person.
Although Fu Yuan did not get an answer, Li Xiuchang already had a vague guess about the first question.
The three Daoist ancestors are already at the pinnacle of combat power in this world. Who can teach these three Daoist ancestors?
To say that they are born from heaven and earth, the three of them do not need to be called brothers.
Moreover, Four Sacred Beasts was also born from heaven and earth, and his strength was far inferior to the three Daoist ancestors.
So after thinking about it, there seems to be only one answer, and that is the person who created this world!
As the master of the Second Dantian world, Li Xiuchang continues to grow the world and has the power to create it.
In the process, he also had some thoughts about "creation".
It can be seen that this world is being perfected and created bit by bit.
There are some amazing things, and there are also flaws.
For example, the existence of Shadow World is a huge loophole.
But there is nothing to say about this. It is estimated that every creator creates the world for the first time. It is understandable that there are omissions and shortcomings.
Being able to finally create a world that can function normally is already a huge success.
As for the second question, why are the two Daoist ancestors obsessed with creating an unprecedented avenue?
Li Xiuchang doesn't have any specific ideas about this at the moment.
But what he wondered was, if the three Daoist ancestors were really disciples of the Creator, then where had the Creator of this world gone?
When Shadow World was not connected to the Immortal Shade Realm, it could be said to be just a hidden danger, but now it is obviously a huge loophole, a loophole that affects the normal operation of the world.
As a creator, it's time to step forward and fix the loopholes at this time.
Li Xiuchang didn't feel comfortable asking Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor directly. Just as he was thinking about how to find an opportunity to bring the topic to this topic, Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor said:
"I'm going back to the Upper Realm, do you want to come with me?"
Fu Yuan said hurriedly, "Then please take me with you, Uncle Master. After all these years, it's time for me to pay homage to my Master."
Li Xiuchang also said, "Then let's go and pay a visit to Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor."
Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor didn't say anything. He waved his hand and brought all the people to Seventh Layer World.
However, this time Li Xiuchang and the others did not appear in front of Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor's residence, but came to a strange place in Seventh Layer World.
There is a bare barren mountain here. The mountain is a thousand meters high. In the eyes of the monks, it is not considered a high mountain.
However, Seventh Layer World does not seem to be too big, and there are no steep mountains or dangerous peaks. This thousand-meter peak is already rare.
This mountain peak was half bright, half shady and backlit. When Li Xiuchang reached the foot of the mountain, he felt a rule suppressing him, making it impossible for him to fly here, and Divine Sense was also restricted.
Fu Yuan seemed a little excited and didn't care much. He passed Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor and took the lead to climb up the mountain.
Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor is no exception when it comes to hiking and mountain climbing.
Li Xiuchang led Cao Wu and Yang Hao to the end.
Although they couldn't fly, with the strength of this group of people, climbing the mountain was only a blink of an eye. In the blink of an eye, they were close to the top of the mountain.
At this time, Li Xiuchang saw an old man standing on the top of the mountain.
With just one glance, Li Xiuchang, who was a devout believer in Taozu and insisted on Attendant incense, recognized that this old man was none other than Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor.
After all, it looks exactly like the statue of Daozu.
Fu Yuan's eyes turned red, he rushed forward and knelt down to worship, his head banged on the ground. "Disciple, pay homage to Master!"
Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor lowered his eyes and said, "Get up, just come back."
Li Xiuchang noticed that Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor stood still and did not move a step from beginning to end, and did not make any big movements.
And above Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor's head, there is a large mirror hanging!
It was a bronze mirror with a bright surface and a Tai Chi pattern on the back.
Fu Yuan still refused to get up, so Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor raised his hand from the air and forcibly helped him up.
Then Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor shouted, "Junior brother."
While speaking, he did not turn around to look at Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor, Li Xiuchang and others behind him.
Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor pulled the three of Li Xiuchang and walked straight to the front of Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor.
Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor looked at Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor, with a smile on his face and said, "You are back too."
Obviously what he meant by "coming back" was that Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor abandoned his reincarnation and resumed his first-life identity of Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor.
Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor smiled helplessly, "It's a last resort, and Lao San and I have both tried and failed. The result is probably the same this time, so it wouldn't be a pity to give it up."
Li Xiuchang I roughly understand that what they mean by giving up should refer to giving up the path opened by reincarnation.
"And..." Heart Questioning Dao Ancestor paused and patted Li Xiuchang behind him, "We can't do it, maybe we can let others try."
Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor's eyes immediately fell on Li Xiuchang, and he said with a smile, "Thank you very much for bringing my disciple back."
Li Xiuchang immediately said respectfully, "Senior, you're welcome. This junior has been blessed by senior along the way."
This is not nonsense, Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor has indeed helped him several times, such as Heaven Questioning Ritual before.
Li Xiuchang observed that Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor was not in the right state, or that his actions seemed to be restricted.
From the beginning to now, he has not moved a step, or even made any large movements.
He guessed that this might have something to do with the mirror above Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor's head.
Li Xiuchang looked at the mirror carefully. The more he looked at it, the more extraordinary it became. It was different from any other magical artifact he had ever seen. It seemed to contain infinite principles...
He vaguely saw two yin-yang fish, black and white, swimming among them.
"This is..."
"This is Yin-Yang Mirror." Confucian Sage said. "It is also an indispensable Daoist tool to maintain the operation of this world!"
"In the past, it was through this Yin-Yang Mirror that the ratio of yin and yang in the positive and negative worlds was automatically adjusted."
Li Xiuchang looked astonished when he heard this.
Shadow World exists to balance the shadow ratio of the world of immortality, but the yin and yang ratio of the world of immortality changes all the time, so the yin and yang ratio of Shadow World must be constantly adjusted.
This is obviously a never-ending and boring job, and it is unlikely to be left to humans. People will always make mistakes, and the consequences of making mistakes will be disastrous.
Moreover, the workload is extremely exaggerated and cannot be done by ordinary people.
So this Yin-Yang Mirror is equivalent to an automated tool that detects the yin and yang ratio of the two worlds every once in a while and makes balance adjustments.
To put it simply, when the creator discovered that there was a loophole in the world, he came up with the tricky and rough processing method "Shadow World", and then used external tools to make his rough idea feasible.
However, Li Xiuchang noticed that Confucian Sage said "before", which means that Yin-Yang Mirror no longer has the automatic adjustment function!
If it cannot be adjusted automatically, it must be adjusted manually.
So...
Li Xiuchang looked at Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor. Needless to say, Heaven Observing Dao Ancestor was the operator responsible for manual adjustment.