bookbashuk Chapter 154 The Difficulty of Getting Close
Chapter 154 The Difficulty of Getting Close
Chapter 154 The Difficulty of Getting Close
Seeing that they were rushing, but the Three Pure Ones still arrived first, Duobao secretly cried out that something was wrong. Fortunately, the Three Pure Ones did not blame him, and they also knew the difference in their cultivation levels.
He only tried his best, and Tongtian bestowed two treasures upon him. That was enough, but he did not treat Guangchengzi with the same intimacy.
Tongtian has always been this way of being. He is indeed protective of his own, but he doesn't blindly protect them. He prefers to let his disciples fight, compete, and snatch away the last bit of life for himself.
If his own disciples were to live up to his expectations and snatch all the opportunities from those Hunyuan Great Gods before running back to Kunlun Mountain, then no matter who came, Tongtian would dare to take on the challenge. Even if the sky were to fall, Tongtian would dare to hold it up.
But if you are incompetent and not only fail to seize someone else's opportunity, but are instead seized by someone else, or even lose your life, then you deserve it, and it is against all reason.
For Tongtian, the path of intercepting the heavens is an extremely perilous one. If you don't have the ability, then don't take it. If you do take it and die, then don't cry out.
Anyway, he has thousands upon thousands of disciples. Even if tens of millions of immortals came to pay homage, it wouldn't be worth it. What's the death of one or two immortals? If a Shangqing immortal died, Tongtian would have to take care of it. Even if he were cut into hundreds of billions of pieces, it wouldn't be enough.
He himself didn't have that many disciples. Instead, his disciples took on disciples, and his disciples took on disciples, and so on, generation after generation. Naturally, the number of disciples grew like crazy, and they all called themselves Shangqing Immortals.
Tongtian didn't care about any of that. Let them use the name of Shangqing as they please. He wouldn't care if anyone died because of it.
Therefore, some Shangqing immortals who were hoping that Tongtian would uphold justice for them were disappointed. They saw that Tongtian not only did not teach Guangchengzi a lesson, but also chatted and laughed with him quite warmly, and his attitude was even closer to him than that towards Duobao.
This is somewhat puzzling. It's unclear why Tongtian values Guangchengzi, the enemy who killed his disciple, so much.
The four direct disciples, Yunxiao and the others were not surprised by this. After all, they knew that Tongtian was like this. If they could kill Guangchengzi, Tongtian would definitely protect them. But if they were disciplined by Guangchengzi or killed, Tongtian would not care.
The incompetent deserve to die; this is the philosophy of Tongtian.
Survival of the fittest. If you're not suited, then die. Or you can change the course of fate yourself and rise against the heavens. That's how Tongtian is.
However, some were rather foolish. For example, Jin Guangxian, in a fit of rage, filed a complaint, completely ignoring the presence of the two Heavenly Venerables, Taiqing and Yuqing, and immediately roared, "Master! I accuse Guang Chengzi of wantonly slaughtering the disciples of my Shangqing lineage. His crimes are so heinous that they are beyond description, intolerable to gods and ghosts, and unbearable to heaven and earth! I beg the three Heavenly Venerables to punish him!"
His voice was quite harsh, and now it roared out, making it even sharper, so loud that it made one's eardrums ache and was extremely unpleasant to listen to.
The Celestial Venerables, who had been joking and laughing, became slightly displeased upon hearing this. Tongtian even glanced at him and coldly snorted, "Who died?"
Jin Guangxian glared resentfully at Guang Chengzi, saying bitterly, "It was Senior Brother Zhao Gongming, Senior Sister Bixiao, and Senior Sister Qiongxiao! These three only had a verbal altercation with Guang Chengzi, yet he actually attacked them so viciously! He's truly ruthless!!!"
Tongtian grew increasingly impatient. With a casual gesture, the three people sealed beneath the floor were instantly reborn and teleported to this location.
The three of them were still feeling ashamed and indignant about being trampled on, but in the blink of an eye they were back here, and even saw their master whom they had been longing for day and night. They were overjoyed.
They thought Tongtian had come to save them, and they all burst into tears, vehemently denouncing Guangchengzi's wicked deeds.
"Master, you may not know this, but Guang Chengzi mocked Senior Brother Duobao. I was just indignant and wanted to seek justice, but he sealed me directly under the floorboards. Being trampled by thousands of people is unbearable!"
After Bixiao finished speaking through tears, she immediately covered her face with her hands, and tears like pearls flowed down between her fingers, making her look so pitiful and endearing, making people feel sorry for her.
However, she failed to notice that Tongtian's expression was growing increasingly cold.
Tongtian was truly disappointed in Bixiao. Being sealed under the floor and humiliated was an excellent opportunity to temper one's heart. I don't expect you to become more determined after this, but at least be more resilient, right?
Despite suffering such humiliation, all she does is cry and whine, and when she encounters danger, she comes to complain, leaving even Tongtian speechless.
Can such a disciple truly inherit his lineage?
Bixiao cried for a long time, but did not hear a single word of response from Tongtian, which made her feel uneasy.
She glanced furtively in the direction of Tongtian and saw that her master, who had always been kind to her, now looked at her with no pity whatsoever, only endless disgust.
Tongtian loathes himself!
Bixiao felt a chill in her heart, not understanding when she had offended Tongtian, which made Tongtian even more disappointed.
It's so pathetic that I don't even know why people dislike me!
Tongtian ignored their complaints and simply said, "I sent Guangchengzi to manage you. Your dissatisfaction with Guangchengzi is a form of dissatisfaction with me. Do you intend to rebel against the palace?"
That simple sentence immediately silenced those who had complained, leaving them speechless, heads bowed, trembling like quails.
After silencing these people, Tongtian looked at Wudang Shengmu and Jinling Shengmu. He saw that the cultivation levels of these two disciples were unchanged from before, but their foundations were even more solid. They had even completed the training of their Great Luo bodies and Great Luo souls. They only needed the final Great Luo magic power to possess all the characteristics of a Great Luo. This satisfied him somewhat.
There were still some useful ones after all; otherwise, if his disciples were all incompetent, he would truly be disappointed.
Turning his gaze back to Duobao, Tongtian's expression changed. Duobao had naturally become even stronger, but his strength was only superficial; in reality, his path was somewhat precarious.
Although he cultivated the power of the Great Luo and possessed all the characteristics of the Great Luo, the most crucial path of the Great Luo suddenly became fraught with difficulties, with numerous tribulations and even the difficulty of getting close to others!
This calamity is that someone close to Duobao will deliver a fatal blow to him, and this calamity involving close relatives is the most serious, almost threatening to sever his path!
In other words, Duobao is very likely to fall into this predicament of intimacy and be unable to extricate himself, ultimately sinking into eternal depravity.
After Tongtian noticed this scene, he looked again at the Holy Mother Wudang and the Holy Mother Jinling, as well as the three thousand virtuous immortals. The source of this difficulty in getting close to them was these three thousand people.
"Duobao, Duobao, I put you in charge of the Biyou Palace lineage so you could go further down the path of self-importance. How come you not only failed to subdue these disciples, but also created difficulties in getting close to them?"
Tongtian sighed inwardly, but Duobao was his eldest disciple who had followed him for many years. Even though he didn't care about the life or death of his disciples, he still felt some pity for Duobao and the others.