Red Dust Heart Refining

"Guangchengzi, you have always believed that root foundation is paramount, and you look down on beings with low root foundations."

"Today, this Daoist will seal your cultivation and turn you into a snake spirit with a thousand years of Dao cultivation, allowing you to enter the mortal world to promote my Mystic Gate Great Dao. When your Three Thousand Merits are complete, the restrictions on your body will naturally be lifted."

Sect Master Tongtian's voice slowly emanated. As a Saint, his words carried the weight of law. Golden Saintly Dao Runes drilled into Guangchengzi's glabella.

Seeing this, Guangchengzi felt endless fear surge within him.

He never expected Sect Master Tongtian to pull such a stunt. What he expected even less was for Primordial Heavenly Venerate to watch as Sect Master Tongtian demoted him to a Furred and Horned, Born from wetness and eggs.

But under the Saint's majesty, he dared not say anything, nor do anything.

He realized he had misjudged the relationship between the Three Pure Ones.

The Three Pure Ones were not just three brothers; they were three Saintly Gods differentiated from Pangu's Primordial Spirit, each with a different personality.

The Three Pure Ones were one, and the Three Sects were One Family. Every disciple of the Three Sects was not only a disciple of their own teacher but also a disciple of the other two Pure Ones.

If Sect Master Tongtian wanted to punish him, Primordial Heavenly Venerate would not step forward to protect him.

As expected, in the next moment, Primordial Heavenly Venerate's voice also came from the hall.

"Duobao, since you achieved Dao, you have been teaching people 'repay kindness with grudges' and 'suffering is blessing'. Now, this Daoist will seal all your cultivation and cast you into reincarnation to experience a thousand lifetimes of suffering."

"In these thousand lifetimes, you will suffer endless losses and hardships. If you can, within these thousand lifetimes, guide all those who have insulted, slandered, bullied, and mocked you back to the Righteous Path, it will be equivalent to establishing great merit for my Mystic Gate."

Immediately after, Primordial Heavenly Venerate's divine power struck Daoist Duobao's body, immobilizing all his divine power.

Daoist Duobao's eyes were filled with despair. The reason he taught people like that was to "mind your own business."

As long as everyone could forgive those who oppressed and persecuted them, the world would immediately be at peace, and the actions of his Junior Brothers and Sisters would seem Ordinary.

Who would have thought that his visit to the Eight Sceneries Palace this time would land him in the crosshairs of the Three Pure Ones.

Sect Master Tongtian might have been reluctant to punish him severely, but Primordial Heavenly Venerate showed no mercy.

"Go, both of you, cultivate well and do not squander this opportunity."

A beam of green light descended, enveloping both of them, sending them to where they were meant to go.

In the hall, Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Sect Master Tongtian's hearts were heavy. Guangchengzi and Daoist Duobao were their most beloved disciples. Normally, if anyone dared to bully the weak, they would have stepped in to seek justice.

But now, they had to watch their disciples fall into Calamity.

Taiqing Saint closed his eyes and sighed softly. His Dao Sound was as gentle as spring rain nourishing all things:

"Second Brother, Third Brother, it is not that we are heartless, but rather that without removing these Demonic Obstacles, the Great Dao is difficult to achieve."

"Duobao is hypocritical and deceitful, and Guangchengzi is deeply attached. The two of them are already the root of the discord between the Chan and Jie Sects. If they are not enlightened, they will surely become a great disaster for the Mystic Gate in the future, even triggering a mortal combat between Saint Great Sects, leading to the Suffering of the Common People."

"My elder brother is absolutely right." Sect Master Tongtian's voice deepened slightly. "My disciple, on the surface, seems to be detached from worldly affairs and magnanimous, but in reality, he harbors a lust for power hidden in his heart. His indulgence of the disciples in the sect to act recklessly is merely to preserve his own status, and has nothing to do with intercepting a glimmer of life."

"I hope the suffering of a thousand lifetimes will allow him to slightly comprehend his mistakes."

Sect Master Tongtian said this, but in his heart, he was not entirely confident.

No one knows a disciple better than their master. Sect Master Tongtian watched Daoist Duobao grow up, and he understood Daoist Duobao's true nature all too well.

Daoist Duobao was not inherently evil, but rather hypocritical. His kindness was all an act.

Sect Master Tongtian did not expose him because he felt that Daoist Duobao's willingness to pretend to be a benevolent deity, and his ability to restrain himself from causing trouble, was a will worthy of affirmation.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate looked in the direction Guangchengzi had disappeared, a flicker of sadness crossing his eyes.

Guangchengzi was the head disciple of Jade Void Palace. He had painstakingly cultivated him for countless years and placed great hopes on him. Who would have thought that his favoritism would lead Guangchengzi to develop an arrogant personality.

"My Jade Void Disciples have always cultivated morality and valued the Dao Heart, yet I have taught a stubborn disciple who is arrogant and looks down on all beings."

Primordial Heavenly Venerate spoke slowly, his tone tinged with a faint melancholy.

"Only by transforming him into a snake spirit and personally experiencing the suffering of flying birds and beasts can he understand the principles of All Beings are Equal and Dao is in the Heart, Not the Form. The Three Thousand Merits are not a punishment, but an opportunity for him to remold his Dao Heart."

Taiqing Saint nodded slightly. The Mystic Light Treasure Mirror's light flowed, and two scenes appeared within the mirror:

In the desolate mountains, Guangchengzi was being pursued by a group of Human Qi Practitioners.

Guangchengzi did not understand why these Human Qi Practitioners were chasing him when he had done nothing.

Did he want to become a snake spirit? He didn't want to, but he had no choice!

At this moment, Guangchengzi slightly understood the helplessness of beings who cultivated the Dao to become immortal in the form of flying birds and beasts.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate watched this scene and nodded with satisfaction.

Guangchengzi was his disciple, after all, and he would naturally not let anything happen to him.

On the other side, Daoist Duobao had already reincarnated in a small world.

The flow of time in the small world was much faster than in the Primordial World.

Daoist Duobao's first reincarnation was into a farming family with some property. His father was a cripple, his mother was simple-minded, and the family relied on his grandparents for support.

However, when Daoist Duobao was six years old, his grandparents passed away from illness due to overwork.

Without their pillars of support, Daoist Duobao's family's land and property were all repossessed by the clan, and they were driven out to live in a thatched hut.

Daoist Duobao was so angry he wanted to kill someone, but when he remembered Primordial Heavenly Venerate's words, he completely refrained.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate had said that Daoist Duobao must guide those who bullied and humiliated him back to the Righteous Path.

Previously, Daoist Duobao felt great pleasure when he spoke such words to his followers. Now, having to do it himself, he was extremely displeased.

In his second life, he was born the son of a wealthy family but was abducted and reduced to a beggar. He was torn at by vicious dogs, spat upon by passersby, and the scraps in his broken bowl were filled with saliva.

In his third life, he was a scholar. After ten years of arduous study, his achievements were usurped by the powerful, and he was subsequently falsely accused of cheating, thrown into prison, and subjected to all sorts of torture.

Fourth life, fifth life... tenth life.

In every life, he endured immense suffering. In every life, people bullied him, humiliated him, slandered him, and mocked him.

Primordial Heavenly Venerate and Sect Master Tongtian projected their Divine Sense, silently observing their disciples.

Occasionally, they would even manifest as Calamities, teaching their disciples through direct experience.

They had come to realize that merely speaking could not enlighten all beings. Sometimes, beings needed to experience things themselves to comprehend the Great Dao.

The Human Sect teaches with words; experiencing hardship teaches one instantly.