Chapter 343 The Origin of the Small Heavenly Palace
Immersed in the lake of history, Hong Yang could clearly hear a chuckle from the god on the shore, and then he saw a five-colored rainbow falling, making his mind in the chaos more clear and his five senses more transparent, as if he had grabbed the stairs to the shore from the lake.

He did not hesitate. With the help of his remaining connection with the world, he leaped with all his might. The next moment, he reached the shore.

Resurrecting from the dead and coming back again, even though he was once a fourth-rank god, Hong Yang was ecstatic.

Then, he knelt on one knee in front of Zhou Tieyi even more devoutly. This was the courtesy that the generals of the Northern and Southern Five Kingdoms showed to their benefactors. "Thank you for your rescue, Grandmaster. May I ask which Grandmaster you are in person?"

He didn't know how long he had been dead. His current condition was extremely bad, even worse than when Cao Shan was resurrected, because his artifact was completely shattered, which also meant that most of his own accumulation was gone.

Even if he is the original owner of this part of theocracy, it would still take time and resources to consolidate it.

The surrounding space was obviously not in the real world, there was not even the sun, moon, or stars, making it impossible for Hong Yang to determine more information.

Zhou Tieyi chuckled, "I am not the master of the Tianyi Dao lineage. It's just by chance that I got this part of the inheritance."

Not a Taoist master...

Hong Yang raised his head slightly, and suddenly tears flowed from his eyes. He sighed, "Yes, in the battle back then, Daomai lost after all."

Zhou Tieyi asked, "The battle back then?"

Hong Yang felt a little strange in his heart. He looked at Zhou Tieyi. With the means and strength Zhou Tieyi had shown, and he had the Tianyi Jade Disc in his hand, he should have found out what happened at that time.

unless……

Hong Yang once again carefully identified the Tianyi Jade Disc behind Zhou Tieyi's head that was like a bright moon.

As the Prison Suppressing Divine General of the Tianyi Taoist lineage, he has met all the masters of the Taoist lineage and even met the Taoist Master.

He initially thought that the bright moon behind Zhou Tieyi's head was just the proof of the twenty-four grand masters and the Taoist artifact of the Taoist lineage.

But now that he had returned from death, he was able to perceive his surroundings more carefully, and he immediately noticed the difference between this bright moon and an ordinary Tianyi Jade Disc.

Compared to the Tianyi Jade Discs in the hands of other grandmasters, the jade disc behind this deity was even more misty and distant. It was a feeling of looking up at the bright moon in the sky, which was out of reach. He had only sensed this kind of aura from the Taoist Master Tianyi.

Not only that, this deity is dressed in five colors and twelve robes. This is definitely not Him deliberately using gorgeous clothes to dress Himself up.

This is the embodiment of His divine body! It is a manifestation of His divine authority in the external world!
As a god, Hong Yang knew this very well, so when he thought of this, his half-kneeling body could not help but tremble slightly.

Being able to use Chapter Twelve to manifest divine authority can make people feel as if they are looking at the sun and the moon, but it is illusory and unreal, and has not fully reached the realm of the sun and the moon. In addition, the god just now used a strange method to easily pull himself out of the history of death.

Which great god from ancient times has returned? !
Zhou Tieyi said softly, "Can you tell me what happened back then?"

The power he possesses now does not require him to pretend to be strong. He only needs to demonstrate the essence of his power. The higher the level of others and the more they know, the more they can understand his power, because his power is real high-end power. He himself just has not fully grown up. This is essentially the same as those ancient gods who returned from their fall and have not fully recovered their strength.

"Yes."

Hong Yang clasped his fists and said respectfully.

Then he thought for a moment and spoke briefly and concisely starting with the most crucial information.

"At that time, the Taoist master received the support of the ancient nine divine veins and resisted the coalition forces of Wei and Zhao. However, the great masters and divine generals of the Taoist veins were still surrounded and suppressed, and nearly half of them were killed or injured. In addition, the other three countries also began to suppress the disciples of the Taoist vein, making the Taoist vein show a declining trend. With no other choice, the Taoist master finally agreed to the request of the ancient nine divine veins and used a Taoist secret treasure to open the Heavenly Palace."

Zhou Tieyi nodded slightly. There was a flaw in the "General History" recorded by historians. In order to prevent the resurrection of gods, they simplified the records about gods as much as possible, often leaving only a few words, which made it difficult for people to see the whole picture.

In particular, this event records a purely upper-level battle, and involves two "evil obstacles" - the Tianyi Daomai and Shennie, so historians wrote it in simple terms.

Zhou Tieyi recalled this record carefully. During the final decline of the Tianyi Taoist lineage, the historian described it with the words "In July, the sky changed color, fire flowed day and night, and the Tianyi Taoist lineage was cut off."

Zhou Tieyi also read something from this, that is, Taoism holds part of the power of the Heavenly Palace.

The Lord of Daming Palace had revealed this when he had previously communicated with him about his mother's information.

Military strategists have the ability to go to barren mountains, Confucianists have the ability to go to the academy, and Buddhists have the ability to go to the underworld.

In other words, the most powerful schools of thought among the hundreds of schools of thought each hold some of the keys to unlock the eight desperate situations.

The key held by Taoists corresponds to the heavenly palace.

When Hong Yang said this, a hint of envy flashed in his eyes.

"The Heavenly Palace is indeed worthy of being the residence of the ancient Heavenly Emperor. It is also the place where the Nine Ancient Gods made a covenant and slept for a hundred years. After tens of millions of years, the Dao rhyme rules there have evolved into various secret treasures. At the beginning, the divine veins of the Nine Ancient Gods reached an agreement with us, just to take what we needed and fight against the five countries. However, after entering the Heavenly Palace, the Dao Lord and the Nine Ancient Gods each had their own calculations. Four of the remaining grandmasters even directly rebelled, and finally a war broke out."

Having said this, Hong Yang paused.

When Zhou Tieyi saw Hong Yang's expression, he almost understood the situation at that time. Although Hong Yang, as a fourth-rank god, was qualified to enter the battlefield of the Heavenly Palace, he was just cannon fodder. He was completely killed in the first wave of attacks, and even his magic weapon was destroyed by others.

Just as he thought, although the Tianyi Dao lineage had a good theory and wanted to control the gods with the Dao, it did a very bad job in the process, so that in the end not only the five human nations could not tolerate the Tianyi Dao lineage, even the Shinto itself could not tolerate the Tianyi Dao lineage.

If one wants to realize the Tianyi Dao theory of controlling gods with Tao, then there is only one way, which is to establish a centralized empire like the Great Xia Dynasty, and then take back power from the Hundred Schools of Thought, that is, depose the Hundred Schools of Thought, and then propose a grand unified theory to complete the integration of gods, Tao, and emperors.

According to the theory of the Tianyi Dao lineage, in times of chaos, once there is no absolute power to overwhelm the counterattack of other forces, the internal supporting forces will begin to become chaotic.

Zhou Tieyi thought about it and said with a smile, "It seems that Master Tianyi didn't lose too badly in the end."

Even though we don't know the specific circumstances of the war at that time, but we can infer from the results that if Shinto had obtained the secret realm of the Heavenly Palace, then there would not be only the Taixu Illusion Realm, a place outside the law of Daxia, now.

Hong Yang looked at Zhou Tieyi and said respectfully, "The Lord God guessed correctly. The Taoist master prepared a corresponding back-up plan and used the divine way to split the Heavenly Palace. The last scene I saw was that the sky was broken, and the Taoist master was like a brilliant sun, pouring down streams of fire from the Heavenly Palace to the ground, illuminating the night below as bright as day." "Small Heavenly Palace."

Zhou Tieyi sighed softly.

He got information about the "Little Heavenly Palace" from Wuchang God, and also got a strange key made up of three dragon seals. At that time, he was still wondering where the "Little Heavenly Palace" was and why there was no clear record of it in the history he knew. Even in the words of Wuchang God, the word "legend" was revealed, which means that in the last years of the Five Kingdoms when Wuchang God existed, the Little Heavenly Palace was only a legend and had not been clearly recorded.

Now it all makes sense.

The Small Heavenly Palace existed for a very short time. It was the result of the Taoist Master Tianyi's fight against the Nine Ancient Gods.

At the beginning, it was very likely that the Taoist Master Tianyi had anticipated that the Nine Ancient Gods would betray him, so he pretended to form an alliance with them. His purpose was to open the center of the Heavenly Palace through the power of the Nine Ancient Gods. In this way, he would have the opportunity to completely split the entire Heavenly Palace, and based on the split Heavenly Palace, he would try to ascend to the Realm of the Sun and the Moon and reverse the defeat.

There is no doubt that this is a big gamble.

In the end, Master Tianyi lost the bet, but his loss was not so terrible. Not only did he leave the Small Heavenly Palace, he also destroyed the plan of the Nine Ancient Gods, and even the greatest enemy of humanity did not gain any benefits.

A generation of heroes.

Zhou Tieyi commented to Tianyi Taoist Master in his heart.

Little heaven?
After hearing these three words from Zhou Tieyi, Hong Yang looked thoughtful. This was probably the power left behind by the Taoist lineage, and also the Taoist tradition of the Taoist master.

Zhou Tieyi deliberately leaked the information about the Little Heavenly Palace to Hong Yang, and then asked in detail about the development of the Tianyi Taoist meridian.

During the questioning process, Zhou Tieyi did not ask too many questions about the secret treasures and secret techniques of the Tianyi Taoist lineage. What he asked most was how the mentality of the people below changed when the Tianyi Taoist lineage was merging the two sects of God and Taoism, how the Tianyi Taoist master preached to the people below at different times, and what adjustments were made to the specific structure of the Taoist lineage.

This made Hong Yang even more certain that Zhou Tieyi, like himself, was a god who had just resurrected from the dead. He was extremely ancient but had profound wisdom.

Because in the process of his narration, Zhou Tieyi sometimes just interjected a word or two and analyzed the hidden dangers of the original transformation of the Dao Meridian and analyzed the Taoist master's thoughts on the Dao Meridian at different stages.

Even he, the divine general of the Taoist sect, only showed a look of sudden enlightenment after hearing it after so many years. It turned out that the disaster had already been planted, and the Taoist master was just trying hard to hold on.

After listening to Hong Yang's story about the process of the Tianyi Taoist lineage integrating the Divine and Taoist schools, especially the changes in the mentality of the grassroots people and middle-level leaders like Hong Yang, Zhou Tieyi indeed gained a lot. To him, this is even a peerless martial arts method and another precious treasure of the Tianyi Taoist lineage, but other people just don't care.

Zhou Tieyi stretched out his finger, and the mirage condensed at his fingertips, sorting out the brief history of Daxia after the five kingdoms of the north and the south, and then the mirage floated towards Hongyang.

After taking the mirage, Hong Yang was not worried that Zhou Tieyi would murder him, and he calmly absorbed the knowledge in it.

He closed his eyes and pondered for a while before he sighed, "It turns out that more than four hundred years have passed in this human world, and the world has been unified again."

He existed very early, dating back to the end of the Holy Emperor's reign, so he experienced the entire change from a prosperous age to a chaotic age. Although he did not witness the chaotic age turning into a prosperous age again, he did cross four hundred years of time and came back to the end of a new prosperous age, which made him sigh.

Zhou Tieyi chuckled and said, "But this unified world is about to become chaotic again."

Although his tone was gentle, it was extremely firm, as if he had already seen the outcome from some mysterious divine plan.

Hong Yang felt a chill in his heart, because he had just learned from the information given by Zhou Tieyi that the current emperor of Daxia had begun to practice Taoism in order to seek immortality. This was a sign.

He compared the current situation and realized that before he recovered his strength, it would be best for him to rely on the powerful god in front of him, otherwise he might not even be able to get through the initial weak stage.

"I have no way to repay the grace of the venerable God for saving me. If the venerable God does not abandon me, I will serve him as my Lord."

These words sounded familiar. He looked at the clouds above Hong Yang's head. After the deathly grey color pushed away the clouds, the golden fortune was revealed. There was even a blue-purple aura on it, but these blue-purple auras gathered into eagles and wolves.

Zhou Tieyi understood instantly.

Those who survive a great disaster will surely be blessed in the future, with the eyes of an eagle and the back of a wolf!

He replied with a smile, "Sure, sure."

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After bestowing Hong Yang with a new Shinto talisman and teleporting him out of the white jade chessboard to ask him to go find the virtual fish, Zhou Tieyi took out another gain.

The third-grade Buddhist instrument, the Precious Lotus Flag.

This third-grade Buddhist artifact was originally enshrined in the Qinglian Temple. The reason why it became known to everyone is that seven years ago, the world's number one thief, now the head of a thief family, Kong Kong'er, made a bet with his friends to steal the offerings on the Buddhist table in the Qinglian Temple.

Although everyone knew how powerful Kong Kong'er was, they did not quite believe it, because among the four holy places of Buddhism, Qinglian Temple was the most mysterious. It was hidden in a sea of ​​blood and had very few people. It would be rare for one person to walk the world for hundreds of years. However, almost every one who walked the world was the leader of the Buddhist sect, so it was vaguely known as the number one of the four holy places of Buddhism.

In the end, Kong Kong'er stole the Precious Lotus Flag and showed it off all over the world, but Qinglian Temple did not pursue the matter, as if admitting that they were not strong enough.

Three years later, Kong Kong'er disappeared without a trace, and even the thieves could not find their leader. However, the Precious Lotus Flag appeared at an auction in the illusory world of Taixu.

Zhou Tieyi grabbed the Precious Lotus Flag. The moment it touched the flag, his consciousness sensed a Buddhist world where golden lotus flowers were blooming with soft light. Among the lotus flowers, there was a handsome little monk wearing a light yellow monk's robe, holding a rosary and moving it.

The moment he sensed an outsider entering, the little monk closed his eyes out of habit and said, "Donor Kongkong'er, please don't waste your efforts. This is the Garbha-dhatu, which can only be entered by a Buddha's heart. Donor Kongkong'er, please go back."

Zhou Tieyi sensed the Buddhist world around him. He did sense something like a thin film, but he did not sense any obstruction.

He laughed and said, "Little monk, don't you see who I am?"

There was a bright moon behind Zhou Tieyi's head. He took a step forward with his consciousness, and a huge golden lotus rose under his feet. He smiled, and the constantly changing expressions on his face merged into one and returned to their original appearance.

The young monk sensed someone passing through the Garbha-dhara. He opened his eyes and saw the moon disc behind Zhou Tieyi’s head. After the initial shock, he bowed respectfully and said, “The Mandala of the two realms, I now see that the Dharma is one.”

(End of this chapter)