The Quest for Immortality Chapter 2876: Divine Sense Taoist Inheritance (3)
Previously on The Quest for Immortality...
"It’s just that the Great Wilderness God Master has long been silent. As one whale falls, myriad deities are born; now the land of the Great Wilderness is in a state where various gods occupy various territories."
"Different Mountain Realms and tribes each have their own deities they believe in."
"But these deities are all ’Minor Gods.’
"The true great gods either protect the Royal Court or are venerated by ancient tribes such as the Wujiu Tribe."
"It is only the backward and ignorant small tribes, uninformed, that still worship some kind of ’Divine Lord.’
"This is the current real situation of the Great Wilderness Divine Way."
"Moreover, you must remember..." Yan Zhu warned Mo Hua, "The deity you worship is probably just a ’Minor God,’ not a ’Great God,’ much less capable of being called a ’Divine Lord.’
"According to the rules of the shamans of the Royal Court, no contemporary god may claim to be ’Divine Lord.’ Otherwise, it is either ’deceptive words confusing the public’ or ’heretical Evil God,’ which will all be subject to ’Divine Punishment.’
Yan Zhu originally intended to give Mo Hua a ’Divine Punishment.’
However, when the ’punishment’ did not work, he altered his attitude.
Mo Hua nodded.
Yan Zhu’s words differed somewhat from the information he had previously received about the deities of the Barbaric Wilderness.
However, Yan Zhu is a shaman from the Royal Court, and his words may be the closest to the "truth."
Of course, it’s only ’close’...
Although shamans claim to be servants of deities, ultimately, they are merely humans.
They can’t even see ’gods,’ so how could they truly know any ’truth’...
"Then this blessing name you mentioned... what is it?" Mo Hua asked again.
Yan Zhu solemnly said:
"Shamans who serve deities have cut off their mundane origins and don’t have names. Only by wholeheartedly serving deities, having deep faith, and earning outstanding merit can they gradually ascend step by step. If one rises to Upper Witch, they may receive their own ’blessing name.’’
"This blessing name is bestowed by the deity, embodying the ’Dao’ that the deity was born from."
The ’Dao’ born of a deity...
Mo Hua’s heart suddenly skipped a beat, as if thinking of something, he looked at Yan Zhu:
"Your title is ’Yan Zhu,’ so the deity you serve was born from the ’fire’ Dao?"
Yan Zhu was somewhat dissatisfied with Mo Hua’s disrespectful tone but said nothing and merely nodded: "Correct."
Mo Hua furrowed his brows, deep in thought.
Deities, born because of Dao.
This was what Lord Yellow Mountain had initially told him.
And now, according to what these shamans say, the Great Wilderness God Master has become silent, and the deities of the current Great Wilderness also follow different "Daos."
Are these Daos essentially... ’Laws’?
Dao, deities, laws, Divine Thought, Formation...
Generally, cultivators cultivate the Dao, excluding Divine Sense.
Yet now Mo Hua vaguely feels that the matter seems not as simple as it appears...
"Divine Thought" power is invisible, elusive, unteachable.
Thus, most cultivators are ’blind to it,’ ’ignorant of it.’
But Divine Sense contains infinite mysteries, with depths that are frightening.
The traditional Tao cultivation inheritance of the Nine State directly ’castrated’ the Taoist inheritance of Divine Sense.
Ordinary cultivators, from childhood to adulthood, practice within this rigid cultivation inheritance, constantly receiving this inflexible Tao education, step by step solidifying their "cultivation view," and naturally accepting the concept of ’de-divine sense’ inheritance, almost forever unable to glimpse the mysteries at the Divine Sense level...
But the heritage of the Great Wilderness is independent of the Taoist Court.
While it submitted for a time, it was never thoroughly ’tamed’ by the Taoist Court’s cultivation system.
Always regarded as ’barbaric,’ the Great Wilderness internally retains a certain degree of ’faith.’
Though they themselves are unaware, they are indeed trying to engage with and understand the forces at the level of ’Divine Sense.’
From the current scraps of evidence gathered in the Great Wilderness, the strength of Divine Sense may be closely associated with deities, Dao, and laws.
"Divine Sense" has never detached from the complete "Tao cultivation" system.
In fact, Divine Sense may be the most closely related to ’laws’ and ’Dao’ within the cultivation system.
Yet the orthodox Tao inheritance of the Nine State has forcefully ’castrated’ ’Divine Sense’...
Mo Hua’s pupils slightly trembled, his thoughts in turmoil for a moment.