Forty-Seventh Rule Normalizes Future

  After Kunpeng left the Shennong tribe, he first returned to the North Ming Sea. At this time, although the Hongyuan seemed relatively calm, Kunpeng understood that it would soon be turbulent again. This turmoil was not a catastrophe of heaven and earth, but its scale would not be too small either. The North Ming Sea was Kunpeng's old nest, and he couldn't afford to make any mistakes. Now, while no one was paying much attention to him, he should build his old nest into an impregnable fortress as soon as possible, lest he be caught off guard when the great calamity came.

  Kunpeng couldn't wait to start arranging his old nest, he first perfected the 'Zhou Tian Xing Dou Great Array', this array covered half of the North Ming Sea, 365 star flags were fixed in specific places, as long as someone entered the North Ming, they would be discovered. However, what was used to suppress the core of the great array was not the pre-heavenly spiritual treasure 'He Tu' and 'Luo Shu' in his hand, but the shell of the mysterious turtle that he had killed when Nüwa refined the stone to repair the sky, which was used to refine the array map. This array is not comparable to the 'Zhu Xian Sword Array' and the 'Twelve Du Tian Shen Sha Great Array', but it's also not trivial, unless a saint comes in person, otherwise it's difficult for people to forcibly break through.

  Immediately afterwards, Kunpeng began to arrange his core old nest, which was the Penglai Fairy Island he obtained from the East Sea. This island is one of the most precious things for Kunpeng, although it is not a congenital treasure, but for Kunpeng, it is more precious than a congenital treasure, and can also be said to be Kunpeng's **

  The island of Penglai has collected all the resources gathered since Kunpeng entered the Hongyuan, with abundant spiritual energy and countless rare herbs. There are also the innate spiritual roots 'Huang Zhongli' and the three lights divine water and 'Xuanshui Heilian'. These things would even make a saint greedy. To ensure the safety of Penglai Island, thirty-six second-grade Xuanshui Heilian were used to set up the 'Thirty-Six Heavenly Rake Array' to conceal the heavenly mechanism. The island itself is a fragment of chaos that can conceal the heavenly mechanism, and with this array, even a saint would find it difficult to calculate the root of the island.

  The Kunpeng's formation on this land may have consumed a great deal of energy, but it has placed the entire Penglai Fairy Island in an invincible realm.

  After doing all this, Kunpeng called his eldest disciple Wudao to come forward and said: "Wudao, you are originally a six-eared macaque, and nothing in the world can escape your ears. You carefully search for it and see if you can find the whereabouts of Shennong's daughter Nvwaa."

  Wu Dao smiled bitterly and said, "Master, the Hongyuan is so vast, with my current cultivation level, I can at most detect things within a radius of over 20,000 miles around me. How can I find that Princess Nüwa?"

  Kun Peng said, "Wu Dao, this girl is a disciple set by the master, and she is also your younger sister. How can you not do your best in this matter? The girl was killed by the third prince of the East Sea Dragon Clan, so there is a deep resentment. She has not been reincarnated, so it must be that she will be around the East Sea. You only need to pay attention to the surroundings of the East Sea and you can find her trace."

  Dao Wu listened to Kun Peng's explanation and understood the direction of the search, but he didn't know the girl, so he couldn't do anything. He asked again: "Master, I don't know Sister Girl, what should I do?"

  Kun Peng said, "Master has calculated that your junior sister Yuan Ling has transformed into a small bird. You can search for her based on this information. With this clue, I believe you will find her soon."

  Wu Dao laughed and said, "What the teacher said is indeed correct. Having this information will make things much easier for me. However, there's one thing I don't understand - Teacher, since you know it was the Dragon Clan that killed my junior sister, why not demand an explanation from them?"

  Kunpeng said: "Wudao, although you now have the cultivation of Daluo Jinxian's early stage, but you are relying on your great merits to achieve your current cultivation. Your foundation is inevitably insufficient, and your understanding of the Heavenly Way is not deep. That female disciple of yours is destined to die by the Heavenly Way, and the Dragon Clan is just being used by the Heavenly Way. Moreover, although the Xianyu War was lost, there is still the Nuwa Saint, and they are still under the heavenly court. The aura is still very abundant, even if we go to their door to ask for an explanation, it will be difficult to achieve anything."

  Wudao said: "Teacher, can't we just let it go like this? If so, where will our faces be placed?"

  Kun Peng said, "Of course, we can't just let the Dragon Clan off like this, but now is not the time to settle accounts with them. The prosperity of the Human Tribe is a major trend in the Heavenly Way, and what the Dragon Clan did has also damaged their own fortune. With such great karma on his body, the Third Prince of the East Sea Dragon Clan will surely perish in the next Great Calamity of Heaven and Earth. We have no need to go against the major trend of the Heavenly Way for the sake of temporary face."

  Wu Dao listened to Kun Peng's explanation and also understood that he was still a bit impulsive, which would be very detrimental to his future cultivation. He should pay more attention to himself in the future.

  Kunpeng continued, "Although the great prosperity of the human race is a major trend in the heavenly way, it's not all smooth sailing. The heavenly way will inevitably bring down calamities to temper the human race. For us cultivators, this is a great opportunity to accumulate merit. You should make early preparations and follow my arrangements when the time comes to gain more merits."

  Wudao heard that there was great merit and hurriedly said: "Disciple understands."

  "Although your merits are good, you must be cautious and not rely solely on merits to improve your cultivation. This will not bring much benefit to your future practice. Look at me, even in the vast expanse of the Hong Huang, there are only a few people who have such great merits as I do. Have you seen me use these merits to enhance my own cultivation?"

  Wu Dao thought for a moment, and indeed, Kun Peng had never relied on merit to improve his cultivation. All the merit he obtained was used to refine spiritual treasures. However, he couldn't understand this point, so he asked, "Master, isn't it said that using merit to improve one's cultivation won't affect future cultivation? Why don't you approve of using merit to improve cultivation?"

  Kunpeng sighed: "Improving one's cultivation through merit and virtue will not affect their future practice, this statement only applies to those who have attained the Dao. In this world, how many people can attain the Dao? Moreover, becoming a saint through merit and virtue is the weakest of all methods for achieving sainthood. Nüwa Niangniang was able to attain the Dao solely through great merit and virtue, so her powers are the lowest among all saints. You were able to cultivate the Great Luo Golden Immortal Dao fruit in less than a thousand years, which is unprecedented among the many cultivators of the Primordial Chaos. Your cultivation speed can be considered the fastest, but can you truly unleash the true power of the Great Luo Golden Immortal now?"

  Faced with Kunpeng's questioning, Wudao did not speak. He indeed could not exert his own magical powers as Kunpeng said.

  Kunpeng looked at Wudao, who was silent and speechless, and said: "It's not that saints will eventually become ants. Who can guarantee that they won't suffer a great calamity? You've also watched the war between witches and demons. Do you think you can compare to the masters of those two tribes under the same cultivation conditions? If not, when you encounter them during the great calamity in the future, can you retreat unscathed? The best way to cultivate one's skills is through self-cultivation, so that they can be used with ease. Relying solely on merit to increase one's cultivation is not desirable. Of course, if you can achieve enlightenment like Nüwa with great merit, that's fine too. But how many people in the world can obtain such great merit?

  At this moment, I finally understood that as my cultivation increased, my state of mind had not improved accordingly. I couldn't control the explosive growth of my abilities well, and compared to other top-notch experts of the same level, I was far behind. In the vast wilderness, the strong were revered, while the weak found it hard to survive. If I didn't have Master's care, I probably wouldn't have survived the last great calamity in the wilderness either.

  "Although having great merit on your body can make people not dare to kill you easily, when the great calamity of heaven and earth comes, everyone will be fighting for a thread of life. Even if you have great merit on your body, someone will still risk everything to take your life. At that time, the only thing you can rely on is yourself. The cultivation obtained from great merit may be good, but it's not easy to grasp. In a life-and-death struggle between two people, the profound cultivation obtained is far less reliable than one's own self-cultivation.

  There is no shortcut in the path of cultivation. If you want to achieve something in the future, you must take one step at a time, solidify your foundation, and never be controlled by **, taking the shortcut path. Otherwise, when the great calamity comes, you will only end up dead. Even as a master, I think that during the last heavenly calamity, those saints didn't want to take advantage of the opportunity to get rid of me. If it weren't for my own cultivation being somewhat decent, I would have died under Nuwa's secret calculations in Mount Buzhou. In such a situation, great merit protecting one's body is just a joke. No one can guarantee that heaven will preserve you."

  "Wudao asked, 'Teacher, you are one of the first batch of living beings to appear in the vast wilderness. People from your time either became saints or were beheaded and had their bodies destroyed, only a step away from becoming a Dao. But you only beheaded one corpse?'"

  "Since you asked, I'll explain it to you. This will be beneficial for your future cultivation. During the same era as mine, most people who achieved enlightenment became saints, while others fell. Only two people, Zhenyuanzi and Minghe, are still around. On the surface, they seem to have higher cultivation than me, but in reality, their true cultivation is far inferior. Among them, Zhenyuanzi is slightly better, as he has been walking the path of beheading the three corpses to achieve sainthood. Although there are some issues with his method, his foundation is still good overall. As for Minghe, compared to Zhenyuanzi, he is far inferior. He initially wanted to learn from Nüwa and achieve enlightenment through great merit, but unfortunately, he didn't have the same luck as Nüwa. He created the Ashura tribe, but only gained a small amount of merit, which was far from achieving sainthood. At that time, he abandoned the method of achieving enlightenment through merit and switched to beheading the three corpses to create the Ashura tribe. However, he didn't realize that his indecisive approach completely destroyed his path to achieving sainthood. Without a firm heart, how can one achieve enlightenment? Although there are three paths to achieving enlightenment, only the method of achieving enlightenment through merit has been verified so far. The other two methods have no practical examples. Even Daozu Hongjun, who achieved enlightenment by beheading the three corpses, didn't reveal how he did it. Everyone must explore and find their own way. I've been cultivating since ancient times, and I've always practiced the method of beheading the three corpses to achieve sainthood. Although I've only beheaded one corpse so far, my magical powers are much higher than those of Minghe and Zhenyuanzi, who have both beheaded two corpses. Their minds are focused on beheading their own selves, while I am single-mindedly cultivating my magical powers. In terms of magical powers, I'm not much different from a saint. My good corpse is transformed from the 12th-grade Xuanming Hei Lian, and it was beheaded using great merit, so I have achieved a cultivation level close to that of a saint. As for my evil corpse, it hasn't been beheaded yet because the quality of the pre-heavenly spiritual treasure used to store evil thoughts is too high, making it difficult to fully materialize. However, considering the time, this evil corpse will soon be beheaded. At that time, even if I face a saint, I'll have the power to fight back."