#626 - Western religion
As Jin Chanzi walked, he reminisced about the scenes in the West.
Back then, the Western Saints, Receiving Guide and Cundi, convened a meeting with the major disciples and core members of the West to discuss matters.
The topic of discussion was simple: the Investiture of the Gods calamity caused by the Human, Chan, and Jie sects.
Despite the Western Church gaining considerable advantages from it, while the Chan and Jie sects suffered heavy losses.
Their reputation had spread far and wide, and everyone in the primordial world knew about the Human, Chan, and Jie sects!
Any one of these three sects was a powerful force to be reckoned with in the primordial world!
Moreover, it couldn't be said that the Chan and Jie sects suffered heavy losses.
Didn't all the disciples who died in the Investiture of the Gods calamity end up serving in the Heavenly Court?
What kind of place was the Heavenly Court? It was the top power that nominally governed all living beings in the primordial world!
Apart from the great sects with Saints, which other sect or living being wouldn't tremble at the sight of the Heavenly Court's power?
From this perspective, the Chan and Jie sects not only didn't suffer any losses but actually gained a great advantage!
Their disciples held important positions in the Heavenly Court, which was definitely more beneficial than harmful to the Chan and Jie sects.
Besides, it was just that their souls were on the Investiture of the Gods list and their physical bodies were destroyed.
The harm of this matter could be great or small.
To exaggerate, it would affect their future cultivation potential and be restricted by the Investiture of the Gods list.
To downplay it, which cultivator's physical body hadn't been destroyed? After being destroyed, there were plenty of ways to get a new one.
Why insist on the old one...
Based on the above, in the eyes of the Western Church, saying that they suffered heavy losses was just the Chan and Jie sects pretending to be aggrieved after gaining an advantage.
After an Investiture of the Gods calamity, none of the truly important core disciples died, except for the small fries. How could this be said to be a heavy loss...
Moreover, they all went to the Heavenly Court to hold various important positions, fighting for considerable benefits and resources for the Chan and Jie sects.
In summary, it's easier to get things done with people in the Heavenly Court.
And after this Investiture of the Gods calamity, the relationship between the Heavenly Court and the Human, Chan, and Jie sects became closer and closer.
When they were in the midst of the Investiture of the Gods calamity, the Chan and Jie sects couldn't wait to beat each other's heads into dog heads and fought each other fiercely.
Now, as the Investiture of the Gods calamity ended, they were all very satisfied with their current situation, and the previous anger gradually dissipated...
Now, the relationship between the Chan and Jie sects was gradually being repaired. After all, the Three Pure Ones were one family.
This could be seen from the immortals of the Chan and Jie sects in the Heavenly Court. In the past, the immortals of the two families never spoke to each other in the Heavenly Court, where they often met.
Now they talk to each other, and sometimes even drink and make merry...
Therefore, in the eyes of the people of the Western Church, especially in the eyes of the two Saints, Receiving Guide and Cundi.
The Western Church suffered the most losses in the Investiture of the Gods calamity.
Although they gained considerable advantages in the Investiture of the Gods calamity and almost no disciples were killed or injured, they lost out after the Investiture of the Gods calamity!
The living beings of the primordial world only knew about the Human, Chan, Jie sects, and the Heavenly Court, but knew very little about the Western Church.
Even if they knew about the Western Church, it was only because of the reputation of the two Saints, Receiving Guide and Cundi.
If it weren't for the reputation of the two Saints, Receiving Guide and Cundi, who would know about the Western Church?
The Western Church had very few famous disciples...
On the other hand, the three sects were different. Apart from the three Saints, Supreme Old Lord, Primordial Heavenly Lord, and Master of the通天 Sect.
Jade Tripod Taoist, Taiyi Taoist, Black Tiger Altar Zhao Gongming, Third Lotus Prince Nezha, Guanjiangkou Yang Jian...
They could name them off the top of their heads without even thinking.
The two Saints of the West were envious! Very envious!
They racked their brains to come up with this Journey to the West plan, on the one hand, to increase the Western Church's visibility in front of the world.
On the other hand, it was because the two Saints, Receiving Guide and Cundi, had become Saints through borrowing and had to repay the debts of the Heavenly Dao.
Arranging for their disciples to embark on this Journey to the West could just repay part of the debts of the Heavenly Dao.
In this way, this matter could be described as a win-win situation.
Most importantly, after the Journey to the West was completed, the Western Church's reputation in the primordial world would be enhanced. Would they still be afraid of not being able to repay the debts of the Heavenly Dao in the future?
When the living beings of the primordial world all chose to join the Western Church, the debts of the Heavenly Dao would be nothing.
The two Saints, Receiving Guide and Cundi, were making calculations in their hearts.
Now that the plan had been formulated, the next thing to face was who would carry out this plan.
That's why there was a scene of gathering disciples and core members of the Western Church.
These core members of the Western Church and the disciples under Receiving Guide and Cundi looked at me, and I looked at you...
The scene was in a very lively and noisy atmosphere, but the only flaw was.
That was, everyone said that the Receiving Guide Saint and Cundi Saint's Journey to the West plan was so good, so good...
After saying it was good for a long time, when it came to actually letting someone go, no one responded.
At first, the Receiving Guide Saint and Cundi Saint were a little elated.
The fact that their designated plan could be recognized by so many people was a good thing.
But as they listened, they felt something was wrong. They had gathered everyone here today to decide who to send.
You've been saying it's good and praising it for a long time, but why hasn't anyone said they want to go?
Among these disciples, the loudest voices were from the disciples under the Receiving Guide Saint and Cundi Saint.
The eldest disciple under the Receiving Guide Saint was Subhuti, and the second disciple was Jin Chanzi.
Not many disciples under the Cundi Saint were famous, so it's better not to mention them!
Cundi Saint and Receiving Guide Taoist looked at each other.
Receiving Guide Saint coughed lightly, and the noisy scene immediately quieted down, and everyone was waiting for Receiving Guide Saint to speak.
Receiving Guide Saint said: "Ahem, everyone has discussed it for a long time, but has it been decided who will go?"
The people below immediately looked at their noses with their eyes, and their hearts with their noses, and stopped talking.
Don't look at how fiercely they shouted, everyone couldn't wait to show the spirit of going up the mountain of swords and down into the sea of fire.
But when it really came to deciding who would go, no one would go.
Why? The reason had to be traced back to the Investiture of the Gods calamity.
Since the Investiture of the Gods calamity, the Western Church had been regarded as a heterodox by many disciples of the Human, Chan, and Jie sects.
Especially the various unethical things that the two Saints, Receiving Guide and Cundi, had done in the Investiture of the Gods calamity, were settled after the Investiture of the Gods calamity.
Now that the Western Church was launching a Journey to the West plan, even fools knew that the Human, Chan, and Jie sects would not let go of this opportunity to fix the Western Church.
Having understood this, naturally no one was willing to go.
If they went, they would most likely be unlucky!
The Western Church's consistent principle from top to bottom was, I'll take the advantage, you take the bad luck!
This principle had been perfectly inherited in the two Saints, Receiving Guide and Cundi...
When Receiving Guide Saint saw that everyone was not speaking, he was displeased and said:
"What? You were all saying it was so good just now, why aren't you talking now?"
The scene was still silent...
Receiving Guide Saint wanted to get angry, but now these people were all the backbone members of the Western Church.
Once he got angry, it would easily cause a heavy blow to the Western Church's already unstable morale.
As the saying goes, if people's hearts are scattered, the team will be difficult to lead.
A dignified Saint, after establishing the Western Church, had to be restricted by this.
This kind of situation would never happen in the Human, Jie, and Chan sects.
The leaders of these three sects were all ruthless characters who killed without blinking an eye, and their disciples were trained to be obedient.
Were Receiving Guide and Cundi soft-hearted? Absolutely not. When it came to being ruthless, the Saints were basically the same.
But Receiving Guide and Cundi couldn't do this.
The disobedient disciples of the Chan and Jie sects could be punished, and if they were still disobedient, they could be punished again, until they were obedient.
If they encountered someone who was stubborn, they could even directly kill them.
On the other hand, Receiving Guide and Cundi, because they had become Saints through borrowing, they had made many great vows to the Heavenly Dao, one of which was to revitalize the desolate and impoverished West.
Facts had proved that this desolate and impoverished West had indeed been greatly improved under the deceitful actions of the two Saints, Receiving Guide and Cundi.
But in the end, because the region was too desolate, even after the two Saints, Receiving Guide and Cundi, used so many methods, they still couldn't completely revitalize it.
If they were to arbitrarily get angry at their disciples, or even kill them...
Once people's hearts were scattered, the Western Church would soon return to its previous desolate state.
How would they repay the debts of the Heavenly Dao then? Who would repay them? These were all problems...
Therefore, the two Saints, Cundi and Receiving Guide, had scruples and restrictions, and were very unfree to a certain extent.
Therefore, a dignified Saint had to be swayed by the situation.
One of the points of this Journey to the West plan was also to completely revitalize the West!
Even if it didn't completely revitalize the West, as long as it was stronger than it was now, that would be fine.
Now that the many disciples and core members of the Western Church were not speaking, the matter had to continue.
Receiving Guide Taoist gave his eldest disciple, Subhuti, a look...
