Above the Great Dao-Chapter 1453 - 675: Outer Dao Is Not Dao (2)

These immortals, after receiving their teachings, indeed saw a significant increase in strength, greatly enhancing their perspective in the face of various bans and dangers. However, human power has its limits, and they still encountered many perils, and at times, both master and disciple found themselves trapped in a dead-end, anxiously awaiting rescue.

Jiao Quezi would stomp his feet in frustration when he saw this and would hurry to save them with Jing Mei, Jiang Guo, and others.

Sometimes, the danger was so overpowering that Jiao Quezi and Jing Mei couldn't rescue them in time. In such moments, the divinity of the masters would sacrifice themselves, struggling valiantly to buy time for their disciples to escape.

After they died, they would soon walk down huffing from their divine seats or altars, pulling the ears of their disciples from under the altar, scolding and teaching them how to break the ban.

After a few days, Qiao Gu returned with Brother Wen, Wen Ting, who worked as a coachman outside, and Jiao Quezi hurriedly pulled them over to help in rescuing people.

With Wen Ting's help, everyone felt much more at ease.

"Where are Brother Bai and Brother Bian?" Qiao Gu asked.

"Well, Bai Jingming is over there testing poisons."

Jiao Quezi said, pointing with his mouth, "He was just poisoned, lying there vomiting, and the gods walking by next to him got fainted by the fumes."

Jing Mei whispered, "Uncle, those junior brothers passed out from the poison fumes he vomited."

"Same thing, same thing. Bian Liu'er is mining in the Demon Suppression Cave, and so is the gourd dog."

Jiao Quezi glanced at Wen Ting and asked, "Wen Ting, did you work as a coachman for Immortal Monarch Lingxiao these years?"

Wen Ting replied honestly, "Yes, just a coachman."

Jiao Quezi, with a stern face, yelled, "Did you do something villainous outside? The Heavenly Yuan Notes you sent back each year aren't a coachman's wages! How much does a coachman make? What you've sent back is over ten times as much! Tell me, what heaven-defying deeds have you done outside?"

Wen Ting, with his thick eyebrows and honest face, said, "Just a coachman. Immortal Monarch Lingxiao saw I was honest, so he gave me more wages."

Jiao Quezi roared, "Dare to lie! If you don't confess honestly, I'll expel you from the sect!"

Qiao Gu, knowing Wen Ting isn't eloquent, quickly explained on his behalf, "Uncle, you might not know. The reason Immortal Monarch Lingxiao paid Brother Wen extra wages is that there's another reason. Immortal Monarch Lingxiao has many enemies and challengers. Every time he goes out and meets enemies or challengers, and thinks he can't take them on, he would say, 'You can't even defeat my coachman.' Then he sends Brother Wen to fight. In such a way, Brother Wen took care of many of his adversaries."

Jiao Quezi suddenly understood and apologized, "Wen Ting, I wronged you."

Wen Ting said, "Uncle, once things here are settled, I need to go back. Immortal Monarch Lingxiao said, if I go back to continue being a coachman, he'll raise my pay."

"To hell with going back!"

Jiao Quezi laughed out of anger, pulling his ear, "Our Golden Turtle Island is prosperous now, and you still want to go back to being a coachman? Look around, these mines, spirit fields, caves, springs, and holy lands are ours! Why be a coachman?"

Wen Ting hesitated and said, "If I don't go back, Immortal Monarch Lingxiao might be beaten to death by someone..."

Immortal Monarch Lingxiao was known in the Earth Immortal Realm as a loudmouth and troublemaker. Because he ascended to the Earth Immortal Realm early, he held the title of Immortal Monarch, having a small holy land under his name. It's only because Wen Ting served as his coachman that Immortal Monarch Lingxiao has survived till now.

If Wen Ting leaves and never returns, it was indeed possible he might be killed by his enemies.

Jiao Quezi shook his head and said, "You've protected him all these years, which is truly doing your duty diligently. If he cherishes his life, he should naturally be cautious in word and deed. If not, then he deserves the death. By the way, all your junior brothers and sisters here come from the Heavenly Soldier Camp in the Heavenly Court and are still soldiers there, receiving pay from the Jade Emperor. You can also have a title there and receive an extra portion."

Wen Ting hesitated, "Being the Jade Emperor's minion? Isn't that inappropriate? Doesn't the Jade Emperor have a grudge with our sect?"

Jiao Quezi was so mad he kicked him: "All our sect's predecessors worked under the Jade Emperor, are they all minions? The grudge lies with the Three Pure Ones Lineage! There's an opportunity to earn Heavenly Court wages, and you still don't seize it?"

Wen Ting mumbled, "The title of Heavenly Soldier and General doesn't sound good either, it sounds like someone insignificant..."

Jiao Quezi moved to kick him again, and Wen Ting quickly dodged, asking, "Uncle, did you also join the Heavenly Soldier Camp?"

Jiao Quezi blushed, then spoke some incomprehensible phrases like 'Gentlemen stand firm,' and Wen Ting understood; his uncle must have truly joined the Heavenly Soldier Camp to receive wages.

"Didn't the Grandmaster choose a disciple?" Chen Shi saw that Doumu Primordial Monarch had not taught a disciple and inquired in surprise.

Without manifesting in battle form, Doumu Primordial Monarch appeared as a gentle and virtuous woman, smiling, "Chen Shi, don't you want to be my disciple? Among all Tongtian Saint's disciples, besides the Duobao Buddha of Western Heaven, I received the Saint's true teachings."

Chen Shi shook his head, "I have already received the Teacher's legacy, comprehended the Mixed Yuan Infinite Innate Skill, and it's not convenient to study other cultivation techniques since this one is difficult to fully understand."

Doumu Primordial Monarch was slightly disappointed. She was already a divinity, walking the path of the Divine Dao; the Daoist skill she once comprehended could no longer be used, yet she eagerly sought an inheritor for herself. She had hoped that Chen Shi might inherit her mantle, but he refused.

Chen Shi's heart stirred, and he said, "I know someone whose talent is no less than mine and might be able to inherit your mantle. His name is Yang Bi, and he is from the West Bull New Continent."

He had just thought of Yang Bi when he noticed that Yang Bi was not in the West Bull New Continent but far away in the Huayan Realm of the Xuanhuang Sea!

"When did I gain such an ability?"

Chen Shi was slightly startled, "Could it be the marvelous use of the Heavenly Mechanism Strategy?"

However, he didn't dwell on it, telling Doumu Primordial Monarch where Yang Bi was: "This person's wisdom surpasses mine. Primordial Monarch, you mustn't miss out."

Doumu Primordial Monarch immediately contacted her main body, which then informed the Doumu Primordial Monarch's clone in the Huayan Realm to seek out Yang Bi.

At this moment, Yu Yuan, the Water Mansion Star Lord of the Water Department, came looking and, upon seeing Doumu Primordial Monarch by Chen Shi's side, appeared slightly disappointed and turned away.

Chen Shi was surprised, and Doumu Primordial Monarch smiled, "The Water Mansion Star Lord is the owner of the Heavenly Net Blood Transformation Divine Sword. He came looking for you, likely intending to take you as a disciple and guide your cultivation."

Chen Shi suddenly understood, just as he was about to seek out the Water Mansion Star Lord, Doumu Primordial Monarch shook her head and said, "You have received the Teacher's legacy and need not take him as your mentor. The Teacher is the reincarnation of a Saint; in terms of seniority, you and I should be peers. How could we call him a master? Besides, Yu Yuan cultivates in demon path ways, which are biased and unsuitable for him to be your master."

Upon hearing this, Chen Shi asked, "Primordial Monarch, in recent days, I observed the Daoist divine skills passed down by sect sages, a hundred flowers bloom, each different, but among them, not few practice demon path and other outer Dao, accounting for four to five out of ten. What is the reason for this?"

Doumu Primordial Monarch walked out of Golden Turtle Island, heading towards the distant outer Dao polluted areas, "Junior brother, have a guess, what was outside the Ancestral Court during the Great Shang Era?"

Chen Shi was about to shake his head saying he didn't know, but suddenly a light bulb went off in his head, and he exclaimed, "Outside the Ancestral Court was the Dark Sea!"

Doumu Primordial Monarch laughed, "Exactly, back then the Ancestral Court was in the Dark Sea. The light of the Sun, Moon, and Stars shone through the darkness, falling onto the Huaxia Divine Continent. Since the Ancestral Court was in the Dark Sea, is it truly that the so-called outer Dao is just outer Dao? The Heaven and Earth Great Dao of the Ancestral Court was also a kind of outer Dao."

Chen Shi was thunderstruck, momentarily lost in thought.

Doumu Primordial Monarch's statement indeed overturned his previous understanding!

He had always thought that outer Dao equated to demonic outer Dao and thus was irredeemably evil, but surprisingly, both Immortal Dao and Divine Dao were also outer Dao!

Or rather, there are fundamentally no so-called outer Dao, Immortal Dao, or Divine Dao!

"Back then, outside the Ancestral Court was the Dark Sea. Then Tongtian Saint established the sect, creating the Jie Sect, widely accepting disciples. Because the Three Pure Ones also established sects and flourished within the Ancestral Court, the Saint set our sect's main altar overseas, which is in the Dark Sea."

Doumu Primordial Monarch reminisced, saying, "At that time, the Saint had already begun to delve into the so-called outer Dao, thinking that the Heaven and Earth Great Dao might not be identical to that of the Huaxia Divine Continent and perhaps might have something of value. We discovered overseas places like Penglai, Jiulong Island, Golden Turtle Island, Three Immortal Islands, Fire Dragon Island, ventured there to study the Heaven and Earth Great Dao there, and the Daoist skills we comprehended were termed demon path by the Three Pure Ones Lineage, deemed to contaminate the Heaven and Earth Great Dao of the Huaxia Divine Continent, which gradually led to estrangement."

Chen Shi inquired, "Did the falling out between Tongtian Saint and the Three Pure Ones have to do with this?"

Doumu Primordial Monarch said, "Perhaps so. They often argued then, debating topics like outer Dao not being the Dao and the orthodoxy of Heaven and Earth. Originally, everyone was still fellow Daoists despite the arguments, remaining amicable day-to-day. But later, during the war against the Great Shang, things escalated, leading to bloody conflicts. They killed many of our sect members, and we also retaliated, killing many of theirs. But ultimately, they killed more of us."