Chapter 636: Danming Rebellion, Causes and Consequences

The Danming Rebellion mentioned by Xuan Zhenzi is actually an event during the Thousand Years of Darkness of the Dao Sect in the Cangmang Realm. It can also be regarded as a major event with a turning point during the Thousand Years of Darkness.

Most of the content of the Thousand Years of Darkness was deleted by the moderate figures in power today, and only a few important things were left. The Danming Rebellion is one of them. Everyone knows about it, but the things left behind have also changed beyond recognition.

That is, Wu Yi, who was born in the History Pavilion and is familiar with historical records, can still infer and improve some of them based on the existing historical records. Ordinary disciples basically believe what the collection says.

However, some content is indeed not suitable for today's disciples to know. There were so many times in history, and sometimes the Yiqi Sect's Daoism was even at risk of being cut off, but it was not called the Dark Period. That thousand years was called the Thousand Years of Darkness, and there must be a reason for it.

In one sentence: humans are no different from beasts, and Taoism is no different from demons.

At that time, the Dao Sect was facing both internal and external troubles. The various sects of the Dao Sect were no longer united under the leadership of Yiqi Sect as they were at the beginning. However, the senior leaders of Yiqi Sect still adhered to the original tough stance. The moderate faction rose, but had not yet taken power.

In a thousand years, Yiqi Sect lost three leaders, all of whom died on the battlefield. As for Dongtian, it was also withered away. The middle-level sects such as Yuanying Jindan could not survive on their own, and there was a gap and a lack of successors.

New disciples had no way to advance. The upright way was slow to take effect and was not enough to survive in the troubled times. Different methods emerged one after another, and many of them took the side door and the unorthodox way. The soul refining method and the blood refining method were unscrupulous, and the corpses piled up like mountains and the blood flowed like rivers.

Humans are the spirits of all things, but at that time, they were just a group of pigs and dogs raised by animals. It was not only the different species that ate people, but the same species were the most brutal.

This is the sadness of the times. Everyone lives in a precarious life. The big fish eat the small fish, the weak are eaten by the strong, and the rules of the law of the jungle are reflected vividly.

It is also the luck of the times. Everyone has the opportunity to stand out. The new and old forces are rapidly iterating. Wealth cannot last for more than three generations. Humph, let's maintain one generation first. The old and new systems collide violently. The flowers of knowledge bloom beside the blood river under the Skeleton Mountain, and the beautiful land is desolate and cold.

In those thousand years, there were more methods created than in the ten thousand years now. It is not an exaggeration to say that in terms of the level of cultivation, Taoism, magic tools, and formations are still relying on the old capital of the thousand years.

However, just as many histories have been tampered with by humans, many Taoism, formations, elixirs, and magic tools have also been artificially hidden or even annihilated. After all, some methods that go against the will of heaven should be annihilated.

The world of cultivation has always had a tradition of advocating ancient methods. It is not that they are stupid, but sometimes the methods found under the cliff may really be more advanced than the current methods. This is the result of practice.

Back to the Danming Rebellion, because maintaining the original expansion state requires a large number of disciples and elders as support, but the emergence of internal and external troubles has greatly increased consumption. The Yiqimen, which is dominated by the human race, is no longer able to maintain and needs to find fresh blood to supplement.

Originally, the Yiqimen has always been dominated by the human race, and has always adhered to this principle since its establishment. However, under the impact of strong external forces, it has to change its inherent principles and concepts and absorb a large number of aliens including the demon race.

As a result, you can also think of it. In a specific historical period, the luck fluctuates sharply. Once it gathers momentum and becomes a way, it will immediately ascend to heaven in one step.

Wu Yi, who became an infant in half a hundred years, was nothing at the time.

The alien race quickly grew into the middle and even senior levels of the Yiqimen, and even occupied most of the positions, and had the ability to influence the big policy.

With the supplement of this batch of fresh blood, the Yiqimen recovered its vitality slightly, and there was a sign of revival. It began to severely suppress the previous rebels. For a time, the vast world was filled with white terror.

Since ancient times, the method of blocking the river has rarely worked, so it must be dredged. The various forces in the Cangmang Realm are dissatisfied with the Yiqimen. Continuing to suppress them will only worsen the situation.

If the big policy is not changed, it will be useless even if more fresh blood flows in.

After a short period of "revitalization", an alien from the Yiqimen who opened a mansion outside raised the banner of anti-Yiqimen, and a large number of people quickly gathered under his banner. This alien was a 3,000-year-old Danmingshi who became a Taoist. After becoming a Taoist, he was called Danmingzi. The rebellion led by him was also called the Danming Rebellion.

This rebellion is very interesting. It is not about confronting the main generals of both sides. The ninth head of Yiqimen, Yang Lingzi, personally suppressed the rebellion. This head is undoubtedly a pure human.

The interesting part is the supporters of both sides. Many people must think that most of those who support Danmingzi must be aliens, and those who support Yang Lingzi, the head of the human race of Yiqimen, must be human.

In fact, it is just the opposite. It was the secret promotion and even support of many high-ranking human leaders of Yiqimen that led to the Danming Rebellion and the final death of Yang Lingzi.

Danmingzi's subordinates include not only a large number of human forces, but also the main forces. When the rituals and music are broken, anyone can be recruited as long as the resources for cultivation are sufficient. Feelings are not as effective as steamed buns.

In fact, when Yiqimen released the restrictions on disciples, it had already taken the lead in breaking the rituals, and the collapse was not difficult to predict.

Whoever has milk is the mother, whether it is the immortal way, the human way, or the divine way.

At that time, Yiqimen was extremely torn internally. Otherwise, it would be easy for the person who could become the head of Yiqimen to ascend to the upper realm (the ascension here does not mean the achievement of the immortal fruit position), and it would be really difficult to die in battle.

Those alien races who created the revival of Yiqimen are Yang Lingzi's most staunch supporters, because they are the direct beneficiaries of this revival. Only if Yiqimen's revival continues can they maintain their current status.

Let's talk about why the human race's top leaders opposed it. In fact, to be precise, it was not the human race that opposed it, but those who wanted to change the big policy.

These people were called moderates, and they were the main body of the human race in Yiqimen at that time. Years of endless and meaningless consumption (at least in the eyes of these people) made them tired and eager for change.

During the reign of Yang Lingzi (the ninth), the power of the moderates could not be underestimated. If the alien race had not entered Yiqimen, it might not have taken so long for this generation to take power.

Similarly, if the power of the moderates had not risen so quickly, the hardliners might not have introduced alien forces to suppress the other side. Cause is effect, and effect is cause, and cause and effect are entangled.

From this perspective, the rise of the moderates is actually inviting wolves into the house, but the previous practices of the hardliners were not the first to destroy this principle and introduce external forces.

No one is better than anyone else, and no one is a white lotus.

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