Chapter 286: Confusing Cause and Effect, Man-Made Anomalies

"The Dao will drive the Merciful Boat and come back again to fulfill your wish!"

Without waiting for Han Yi to speak, Duobao Tathagata said to himself: "This is the supreme magical power that the fellow disciple Cihang of the Chanjiao, who will become the Guanyin of Buddhism in the future, comprehended when he achieved the Buddhahood of the Dharma Ming Tathagata after completing his merits! It allows him to use his true self as an anchor point during the catastrophe of the Dharma Ending Age, return to the human world, and save all living beings as a bodhisattva!"

"Of course, the method varies from person to person... This is just one of the ways to use this magical power!"

"In the endless years, Junior Brother Cihang has completely accomplished his meritorious deeds in Buddhism, but 70% of the fortune of Buddhism falls on me, the Buddha. After I attained the Dao of Hunyuan, Buddhism will no longer have the opportunity to attain the Dao!"

"He used the cause and effect of the Chan Sect as a basis, and used his magical power to reverse cause and effect, allowing himself to return to the Xuan Sect and transform into the Xuan Sect's guardian, Cihang Tianzun!"

"At that time, when he created this method, he sought my help many times, so I also have a good attainment in this magical power!"

Han Yi frowned upon hearing this and asked, "What does this magical power have to do with me going back in time and returning to this world?"

"Of course they are related!" Duobao Tathagata said with a smile, "That fellow Daoist Cihang used his magical power twice, once with his own brand as the anchor point, and once with the cause and effect of the Chan Sect as the anchor point! And you and the Kunlun Mirror in your ancestral orifice between your eyebrows are the anchor points for me and several other Daoists to perform this magical power!"

Han Yi was shocked.

As a disciple of Yuanshi Tianzun, Taoist Cihang naturally has profound attainments in the law of cause and effect, so it is not surprising that he can create such a magical power to reverse cause and effect... But Duobao Tathagata is undoubtedly one step better, and he used this magical power of "reversing the Cihang" to modify past history.

"Anchor?"

Han Yi suddenly asked, "Why, why did you choose me as the anchor?"

“This is not chosen by me, but by the one who created you!” Duobao Tathagata sighed softly, “The next two calamities are the Buddha-Devil Calamity and the Dharma Ending Calamity when all dharmas are cut off. In the later period of the Dharma Ending Calamity, that door will appear in the prehistoric world, cutting off the possibility of all living beings attaining the Dao of Hunyuan!”

"I have already achieved the perfect Tao during the Buddha-Devil Calamity. When the Dharma-Ending Calamity comes, it will become an opportunity for me to verify my Tao and thus attain the Tao of Hunyuan!"

"However, several other fellow Taoists had their paths to enlightenment cut off by that door!"

"As for me, because of the destruction of Jiejiao, my Dao heart has always been somewhat flawed. Although I have barely achieved enlightenment, my strength is only at the bottom among all the saints!"

"By some chance and coincidence, I and several other Taoist friends came together and planned to artificially create an anomaly under the Great Dao, and send this anomaly back to the time and space before the Conferred God Tribulation, so as to change the past history!"

"I am the odd one?" Han Yi was stunned and asked in disbelief, "But why didn't you become a saint in your last life?"

Before he came to the Conferred God Tribulation, it was the work of Duobao Tathagata and others, but the second time he went against the flow of time and space, it was the Kunlun Mirror activated by Tongtian Jiaozhu.

“That’s because you came too late!” Taoist Duobao couldn’t help but sighed, “In order to deceive the Heavenly Dao, when I activated the magical power of Daojia Cihang, I set it up so that you and I would meet before I could obtain the memories of the future! But in the last life, when we met, it was already after the Four Saints had killed the immortals!”

"By then, the situation was already hopeless. Even if I became a saint, I would be powerless to save the situation!"

"Moreover, at that time, Buddhism had not yet been established. Without the existence of Buddhism, how could I achieve the Buddhahood of the Buddha?"

Duobao Tathagata paused and continued, "Buddhism came first, then Hinayana Buddhism came into being. With Hinayana Buddhism, Mahayana Buddhism came into being, and I was able to reflect the fruit of the Tao in this life! Otherwise, if there is no foundation of Buddhism, my future fruit of the Tao will be just a flower in the mirror and a moon in the water!"

Han Yi nodded.

Confusing cause and effect is also conditional. If Buddhism has not been established and causes have not been produced, how can Mahayana Buddhism and the Buddha's fruit be produced?
In his previous life, he wandered in the mortal world for two hundred years before he achieved the realm of true immortality. Such beings are numerous in the Jiejiao, which claims to have thousands of immortals.

As for Duobao Taoist, as the eldest brother of Jiejiao and a well-known person with great supernatural powers, under normal circumstances, he does not even have the qualifications to meet the other party.

Without seeing Duobao, he naturally cannot activate his magical power of reversing the course of events and confusing cause and effect.

Duobao will not be able to obtain future memories.

In fact, if the Zhuxian Sword Formation had not been broken in his previous life, and if Patriarch Tongtian had not summoned the Ten Thousand Immortals of the Jiejiao and prepared to use the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation and the Six Soul Banner to deal with saints such as Yuanshi Tianzun, he would have never had the chance to meet Patriarch Tongtian.

But by that time, it was too late. The Conferred God Tribulation was about to end. Even if Taoist Duobao knew the future, he had no time to establish Buddhism!
Therefore, his plan actually failed!
However, there is always a way out. As a saint, Tongtian Sect Master discovered the Kunlun Mirror in Han Yi's soul when Han Yi reported the Chang'er Dingguang Immortal.

This was his second time traveling against the flow of time.

But this time, because he helped Cheng Tang to defeat Lugui, he met Duobao Taoist who came to help Cheng Tang six hundred years earlier.

The magical power of returning to the past was also successfully activated at this time, allowing Duobao to have memories of the future.

Afterwards, he was accepted by Tongtian as the fifth direct disciple of Jiejiao. Under the order of the saint, he and Duobao Taoist went to the Western Sect to ask for the Zhiyi. Duobao Taoist revealed his Buddha nature, which led to Jieyin Taoist and Zhunti Taoist to establish Buddhism in advance and promoted the emergence of the secret realm of Lingshan.

With the establishment of Buddhism and the emergence of Lingshan, Duobao was able to project the future fruit of the Tao into the present life through the Kunlun Mirror and himself as an anchor. And this is the cause and effect of his two reverse flows of time and return to the past!

"No wonder, I always feel that there is an invisible big hand behind everything!" Han Yi sighed and asked another question that had troubled him for a long time: "What about Cheng Tang and the Sword of Power? At that time, we should not have met yet!"

"No, actually I have seen you before that!" Taoist Duobao laughed and said, "Didn't you reveal your Jiejiao skills in front of Daoxing Tianzun in Xuanbo Marquis's mansion? And Daoxing Tianzun once deduced the cause and effect about you, which made me feel something at that time, so I secretly went to Xuanguo to meet you once!"

"I see!"

Han Yi immediately understood the reason.

With the Kunlun Mirror concealing the cause and effect, Daoxing Tianzun could not deduce anything, so he suspected that Han Yi was a chess piece left in Jiuzhou by several direct disciples of Jiejiao. When he could not deduce Han Yi, he thought about several direct disciples such as Suan Duobao.

Duobao, on the other hand, was able to sense something and reverse the cause and effect. He realized that Daoxing Tianzun had deduced about him in Xuan State, so he secretly investigated Xuan State.

The law of cause and effect is mysterious. No one knows whether when you deduce cause and effect, new cause and effect will arise as a result of deducing cause and effect!
Duobao Tathagata continued, "After I got the memory of the future, I started to make plans secretly, but you have the mark left by the teacher in the Kunlun Mirror, so I didn't interfere with you!"

"As for the Sword of Might and the God-Slaying Spear, they were planned by another fellow Taoist and have nothing to do with me. Our goals are different!"

At this point, Duobao Tathagata paused, and suddenly smiled and said, "Come to think of it, our alliance was inspired by Yuanshi Tianzun!"

“During the catastrophe of the end of the law, that uncle-master, together with Taoist Lu Ya, Emperor Fengdu, Demon Buddha Ananda, Water Ancestor, Demon Lord, and the incarnation of the Styx Ancestor, Taoist Qi Sha, used the Investiture of the Gods List, Samsara Seal and other top-grade innate spiritual treasures to create a space called the Six Paths of Reincarnation. Then they selected the most fortunate reincarnators in the heavens and myriad worlds to enter the trial, trying to find a new way to prove the truth under the suppression of that door!”

"pity……"

"Now the Styx has fallen into the catastrophe of losing me, and Taoist Lu Ya has been included in the Conferred God List. There may not be a Lord of the Six Paths of Reincarnation in the future!"

Han Yi couldn't help but twitch his lips when he heard this.

These saints, these people with great supernatural powers, are more playful than the other. Duobao modified history, and Yuanshi Tianzun and others created some kind of reincarnation!
Thinking of this, Han Yi couldn't help but ask: "Did they succeed?"

"no!"

Duobao Tathagata shook his head and said, "Yuanshi Tianzun spent a lot of effort to cultivate a good disciple, who seemed to be called Meng Yuanshi! In the catastrophe of the end of the law, many disciples of the Chan sect died, but he took advantage of the situation to rise and became the product of Yuanshi Tianzun's reduction and seeking emptiness. He can be regarded as the successor of the Chan sect in the future!"

Meng Yuanshi?
Han Yi wrote down the name.

He is now Yuanshi Tianmo and also occupies Yuanshi Dadao. Naturally, he has no good feelings towards Yuanshi Tianzun and Yuanshi Tianzun's successors.

"I have another question!" Han Yi looked at Duobao Tathagata and said in a deep voice, "In the alliance that Senior Brother is in, besides Senior Brother Duobao, Zhu Jiuyin, Queen Mother of the West, and Zhu Long, what are the identities of the other two?"

Duobao Tathagata thought for a moment, frowned and said, "One of them is your creator, Cangjie, the ancestor of human characters. I don't know the identity of the other one either!"

"Cang Jie?"

"There is another one, don't you know?"

Han Yi was stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect to hear such an answer from Duobao Tathagata.

Duobao Tathagata explained: "Everyone in the world thinks that after Cangjie created the characters belonging to the human race, he was envied by the heavens and fell under the calamity of heaven! But they don't know that one day he entered Daluo and integrated into the human way. As long as the human race exists and the human way exists, he will be immortal like the saint of the heavenly way!"

"It's just that before humanity revived, he, like Zhu Jiuyin and Zhu Long, was unable to manifest in the world due to some kind of restriction!"

"but……"

"You were created by Cangjie. Even if he cannot manifest himself in the world, he can still influence some of your behaviors!"

"You can even say that he is the leader of this plan. He approached me and a few other fellow Taoists and formulated this plan to modify history!"

"I want to change the destruction of Jiejiao, Zhulong wants to bring back the ancestor dragon and eliminate the karma of the dragon clan, Zhu Jiuyin wants to help Houtu prove the truth, eliminate the karma of the witch clan, and bring back the remaining ten ancestor witches, and fellow Daoist Cangjie's goal is to make humanity flourish and manifest between heaven and earth!"

"There is another fellow Taoist, brought by fellow Taoist Cangjie. His strength is even higher than mine. I don't know his strength or the purpose of his participation in the plan!"

"Perhaps, you can ask Daoist Cangjie!"

Duobao Tathagata never stops talking until his words are shocking, and every word he says is enough to affect the trajectory of the entire prehistoric world. But what surprised Han Yi the most was the matter of Cangjie... He was not a time traveler, but a creature created by Cangjie, an anomaly of the great Dao shaped by several great masters?

(End of this chapter)