Chapter 694 The Rise and Fall of the Yiqi Sect in the Upper Realm (Part 3)
Xuan Weizi led his disciples to guard the North Sea and repair the abyss of the North Sea, which was an immeasurable merit. Although the small Yiqi Sect at that time could not do much, this attitude naturally brought great merit to the Yiqi Sect.
After guarding for more than a thousand years, Xuan Weizi himself became the first immortal to be promoted to the Taiyi fruit position after the war with this merit.
After all the hardships, the disciples of the Yiqi Sect must have been very happy, but it was not over yet. I don’t know if the heaven and earth gave everyone in the Yiqi Sect a lucky artifact for the thousand gold horse bones, which was more magical than pie in the sky.
Yes, you heard it right, it is the lucky artifact, which can gather the huge power of the North Sea.
The lucky artifact, this is not a cabbage, there are only a few in a world, which can mobilize the great trend of a world and represent the peak combat power in a world. Since then, the Yiqi Sect has become the real defender of the North Sea.
Xuanweizi was promoted to Taiyi Immortal, but the sect was still a second-rate sect, at most quasi-first-rate, but the luck artifact obtained by Xuanweizi directly pushed Yiqi Sect to the status of a first-rate sect in the upper realm.
Who doesn't want to have a luck artifact, but do they dare to rob it? The will of heaven and earth can't be violated so easily. If you want to blame, you can only blame your narrow-mindedness at the beginning. Even the first sect in the upper realm, the Holy Spirit Sect, sent envoys to congratulate after knowing this, and dared not have any extra thoughts.
With this luck artifact, Yiqi Sect began to move forward steadily. The North Sea became the inner lake of Yiqi Sect, occupying all the resources of the North Sea.
It sounds like a good thing, but it's not that simple. While obtaining resources, you have to deal with the threat from the evil demons from time to time. This is a bottomless pit. Countless predecessors threw their heads and shed their blood, all buried here.
Moreover, the extreme cold air invaded the Northland and the North Sea, and they became desolate places. In terms of resources, except for the Westland which was no different from the dead land, they could not be compared with the land in other realms.
In short, although the status of Yiqi Sect at this stage has risen, in terms of wealth, it cannot be compared with the same sects at all. When disciples go out, they are laughed at.
Being poor is one thing, but the combat power is not necessarily the lowest. After all, it is a sect that fights with the outer demons all the time.
The constraint of resources has limited the growth of Yiqi Sect. Finding a place with rich spiritual energy and cultivating disciples has become the top priority of Yiqi Sect at that time.
As time goes by, the passage under the North Sea has not shrunk, but has become larger and larger. The outer demons that come to the upper realm have higher and higher cultivation, which puts a lot of pressure on Yiqi Sect.
At first, Yiqi Sect had no intention of opening up the outer world, and still wanted to occupy more territory in the upper realm. However, the upper realm is so big, and the good places have long been occupied by other sects, so the first-class treasure land cannot be obtained.
This is a stock game. No one is so kind as to give you the foundation of their existence.
Even if you have achieved some results with your strength, and have subdued some small sects and made regular offerings, it is still a drop in the bucket. If you want to get more, Yiqi Sect must be stronger.
However, small sects also have their own set of survival rules. When the desire of Yiqi Sect is difficult to fill, they choose to ask other big sects for help, and become fence-sitters. Whoever wins will follow, and maintain the foundation of the sect to the greatest extent.
This strategy has caused great trouble to Yiqi Sect. It seems to be a confrontation with a group of small sects, but in fact it is a game with all forces that do not want to see the rise of Yiqi Sect.
The main force of the sect guards the North Sea, which is the foundation of the sect. It is too busy to split it. How can it compete with the core forces of those sects with some peripheral forces?
For a long time, Yiqi Sect was compressed within the scope of the North by a group of forces in the upper realm. It seems that the territory is large, but there are not many resources at all. A thousand miles of land cannot support one person.
Because of the existence of the North Sea Abyss, the Yiqi Sect continued to lose blood. Therefore, although the Yiqi Sect entered the stage of the first-class sects in the upper realm, it was still the last one.
This situation lasted for about twenty kalpas, until another great kalpa in the upper realm appeared. This great kalpa was about eighty kalpas ago and was called the Earth Demon Tribulation.
This kalpa was not as tragic as the land and sea battle, but it was also an opportunity for a reshuffle of forces. Because of this kalpa, the Yiqi Sect had the opportunity to get involved in the North.
The Earth Demon Tribulation, if someone does not know the details, will definitely think that this Earth Demon is a monster formed by the accumulation of evil spirits in the ground. In fact, this Earth Demon is not that Earth Demon. To be precise, it should be a ghost.
Why call a ghost an Earth Demon? Instead of calling it a ghost directly, it is not the first time that the Taoist sect has encountered a ghost.
The relationship between them is still quite complicated. Let me explain it in detail.
This earth demon calamity seems to be a group of ghosts rebelling and preparing to establish an independent reincarnation, but in fact, it is far from that simple, because behind this group of ghosts is Buddhism spread from the heavens.
The upper realm of the vast world has a hundred or two hundred kalpas, which seems to be a long time, but compared with the real big world, that is, the world separated after the collapse of the original world, there is no comparison at all. These big worlds adhere to the original world, and the origin is rich, even saints can rely on it.
This upper realm has been born for less than a thousand kalpas, and it is still very young, otherwise there would not be even immortals at the Daluo fruit position.
The ancient times, the ancient times, the medieval times and the recent times we talk about are the accumulation of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of kalpas. This is the general trend of the heavens, and it has even exceeded the boundaries of time and space. There are differences between macroclimate and microclimate.
The general trend of the heavens is the macroclimate. The dispute over interpretation has not ended yet, but the evolution of contradictions is no longer as fierce as it was at the beginning. It can be seen that it is the end of this calamity.
However, no one knows when the next period, or the great calamity of the heavens, will come.
Specifically, in some realms, there are microclimates because of the differences in realm growth and external input.
Specific issues require specific analysis. For example, the dispute over land and sea can be said to be a matter of the Middle Ages compared with the general trend of the heavens, but this earth demon calamity, because of the participation of Buddhism behind it, belongs to the category of the dispute over interpretation.
In other words, the essence of this earth demon calamity is a fragment of the dispute over interpretation within the scope of the heavens, and a small episode of the expansion of Buddhism. Of course, this small episode refers to the eyes of the saints. The demonic rebellion in the upper realm was a disaster of great magnitude, and almost overturned the status of the Dao Sect.
This crisis was an imported crisis.