Zhāo Tíng Shān's one battle, the heartless young master sent Qī Yè into reincarnation, forever a donkey. Those who loved him and those he loved all left him. Born as an immortal, facing the mortal world, how does he feel in his heart? Others do not know. This battle was not just between the heartless young master and Qī Yè, but also triggered internal chaos within the cultivation realm. Supporters of Qī Yè and other cultivators who sought to rush into the mortal world with their divine powers also entered Zhāo Tíng Shān, a chaotic battle where nearly a thousand high-ranking cultivators died.

  After this, the heartless young master made a decision - to seal his divine consciousness, forget the past in the cultivation world, and also forget his own immortal identity, go to the mortal world to be an ordinary person, which is now Feng Junzi.

  Feng Junzi had once vowed to leave all the suffering he endured to Qīyè, and indeed he did! With his cultivation having reached a realm that surpassed the pinnacle of worldly Daoist techniques, he was unable to ascend to immortality because he was originally an immortal. Perhaps others would be proud of this achievement, but Feng Junzi himself was unwilling and couldn't understand it. Since he was in the mortal world, he wanted to become a true human being, to experience the tribulations of the world until he finally attained enlightenment. He had forgotten everything, but Qīyè, who had transformed into a donkey, remembered everything; with a donkey's face and a human heart, he would be reincarnated for eternity - this punishment was truly too harsh and too ingenious!

  This war triggered the long-dormant internal strife in the cultivation world, and it was also an opportunity for the chaos to settle. Before Feng Junzi sealed his divine consciousness, he entrusted all matters of Kunlun to his disciple Mei Ye Shi. Shou Zheng Zhen Ren also fully supported Mei Ye Shi. Mei Ye Shi spent over a decade to finally quell the internal strife and establish new rules, earning the title of the new generation's Divine Lord in the cultivation world for the past thousand years. With all disputes in the world settled, Shou Zheng Zhen Ren also ascended to immortality as a celestial being several years ago.

  Three great masters, Hong Hua, Fei Sheng and Feng Yin, Mei Ye Shi as the foundation of Kunlun Alliance is solid, should be cultivating quietly to maintain peace in the world. However, at this time, they have to face a new problem that has never been encountered before.

  The Kunlun continent has been relatively independent and closed for thousands of years. Although the cultivation world is divided into various sects, there are still unified rules. However, since recent times, drastic changes have occurred in this mortal realm. The world has become more interconnected, and the Eastern Continent is no longer isolated. Many cultivators were already living among mortals, and as the world changed their identities and roles also changed, without needing divine intervention. But while they did not intervene, others did - missionaries from the Western Continent.

  Actually, there are people all over the world who have their own ways of cultivating body and mind, and it is also possible to acquire abilities that transcend those of ordinary people. This point is similar to the Kunlun practice, and the difference may be only in the pursuit, beliefs, and worldview. Among them, the most powerful force comes from the Western Continent's church organization that worships God or the Lord. There are also factions within it, but its attitude towards the outside world is consistent, which is to divide people into different categories based on their faith, believing that all people should be children of God and having a sense of responsibility to save the world.

  Faith itself is not wrong, people also need faith, because it can comfort the restless soul, let everyone know why they come to this world, how to exist with meaning, and avoid falling into nothingness. There may be divine existence in faith, but what guides people's faith is not divine, but people like us. When someone appears representing the will of God, the problem becomes big.

  When the people of God took up arms and expanded across the world, their faith in God and their mission to conquer paganism were their spiritual weapons. Throughout history, this has led to conflicts that have resulted in rivers of blood, and when the conquering colonizers explained all this, they comforted their souls with the conviction that it was a just belief that supported their actions.

  After entering modern civilized society, due to the development of technology, the lethality of weapons has become stronger and stronger, making the cost of war greater and greater. After two large-scale global conflicts, direct conflict and chaos have become less and less frequent. Instead, another form of competition or assimilation-style conquest has emerged, namely the seizure of resources and interests, and control over spiritual identity.

  In modern civilized societies, divine authority has been separated from political power, but faith in God remains the source of strength for their spiritual world. Under this backdrop of faith, various secular behaviors and wills have emerged - they want to spread and indoctrinate their way of existence to the whole world. It can be said that Western modern civilization has many merits, such as the checks and balances of democratic politics and the experimental approach to learning. However, from an essential perspective, it is not a lofty and absolute correctness, but rather a result of balancing strong interests.

  How the secular society evolves is not something that cultivators can intervene with their supernatural powers, and all they can do is to guide or advise in a secular way. For example, the Buddhist Zen sect that San Shao Monk believes in has always been open-minded and free, guiding people on how to enlighten their minds and see their nature, rather than forcing people not to eat meat with their supernatural powers.

  However, the attitude towards "secular law" from Western beliefs is different from that of the practitioners on the Kunlun continent. Belief is a prerequisite for existence, and "miracles" can demonstrate God's divinity and attract "lost" people. They also cultivate "magic", although it is different from the practice of the Eastern continent, but also has the power of divine communication. This power has two functions: one is to display God's miracles, and the other is to conquer the resistance of heretics, with the characteristic of spiritual and physical dual coercion.

  When the Western Church's power first entered the Kunlun continent, it brought divine power from heaven to conquer everything, but was countered by the Kunlun cultivators' equally powerful divine magic. Later, with the opening up and exchange of the mortal world, their methods changed, infiltrating through various means in the secular world to achieve the ultimate goal of completely indirectly controlling the secular foundation. This is something that cultivators cannot interfere with, because the laws of the secular world are freedom of belief.

  For people like San Shao and Mei Ye Shi, it doesn't matter whether others believe in God or Buddha. However, there is one thing they cannot tolerate: the fact that those who lead people to worship God are not God themselves, but human beings with desires. Under the guise of serving God, they control everything and seek to obtain all the excess benefits in this world. Ultimately, all benefits do not go to God, but to those who claim to represent God. This is similar to what Qi Ye did back then, except that behind them are not just one person, but a group of people or a collective force. For them, faith is merely a means to an end, a cloak for controlling the world.

  The old revolution encountered new problems, and Mei Ye Shi's previous efforts to resolve internal conflicts now face a silent and insidious invasion from outside. God is just an abstract existence that cannot be seen or touched, and all miracles are performed by humans. The disciplinary rules of the Kunlun practitioners could not restrain the Western followers, so it was necessary to find a way to constrain them in order to coexist harmoniously.

  San Shao and the monk stopped talking, and Qingchen waited for half a day before asking again: "Master, why aren't you speaking?"

  "None left."

  "What's gone?"

  San Shao Monk: "My story is finished. ... There are some things you may not dare to believe now, and I didn't dare to believe before I started practicing either. This world is far more complex and wonderful than what ordinary people can see. There are too many unimaginable things, and if you don't enter the door, you won't know its wonders. ... Alright, I know you have a lot of questions, now it's time for questioning."

  San Shao and the monk spoke so much, Qing Chen was indeed very difficult to fully understand and believe at first, but after today's events, she couldn't help but have doubts. She thought for a moment and asked: "You just mentioned that Wang Qing forgot his emotions and had a duel with Qi Ye, where were the other cultivators? What about the two great masters, were they there at the time?"

  San Shao Monk: "The Forgetful Young Master's movement of 9,000 miles of mountain and river energy to fight the Seven Leaf will bring how great a shock to the mountains and rivers of the world? He gave advance notice, at that time Ge Jizan Living Buddha was still in the world, and the other two great masters, as well as my three masters, were all using their magical powers to guard the earth's pulse outside Zhao Ting Mountain, so that the fierce battle between these two would not affect the mortal world."

  Qing Chen: "You just mentioned that some Western monks also know magic, I believe this, and recently I've encountered it, indeed very difficult to deal with... But with the great divine powers of the Kunlun cultivators you spoke of, why can't they simply drive them all away?"

  Three Sha monks: "It's easy to say, but hard to do. For example, at today's wine party, there was a Western magic master who was also a representative of a large investor from overseas. We can compete with her in the sky, but we cannot drive away an investor in the mortal world without a reason. They use worldly methods to enter, and we can only respond with worldly methods as well. Moreover, there is another consideration - this is our own place after all, and if a big conflict breaks out, it's us who will suffer losses. It's like being afraid of hurting ourselves while trying to get rid of a mouse. If you really want to fight, fighting at home and destroying your own home in the process is not very smart... Ah, sinful, sinful! Actually, destroying anyone's home is not good!"

  "Indeed, if there were a hundred people like me and another hundred with equivalent abilities who clashed, it would be enough to destroy this city. What about even more people? Those stronger than me? They could turn the entire continent into ruins."

  San Shao Monk: "You have a good understanding, benefactress! No wonder Mei Meng Zhu has high hopes for you."

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  The content of this chapter mainly expands on the background setting of the entire book, which is a fictional world unrelated to reality.

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