Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me-Chapter 1566: One thousand and thirty-one, the long dream _2

The war lasted a long time, and eventually, Zhen Yuanzi’s side emerged as the more powerful and thus victorious in the end.

However, although Zhen Yuanzi won, it was a pyrrhic victory. He assimilated the four great continents, but only managed to assimilate ninety percent. The remaining ten percent were left unassimilated, preserved in their original place as a final sanctuary for all races.

In the realm of Earth Immortals, Zhen Yuanzi fulfilled his wish and succeeded in his cultivation, stepping into the boundary of Daluo Jinxian of the Primordial and solidifying his title as the progenitor of Earth Immortals.

But since he only assimilated ninety percent of the four great continents, Zhen Yuanzi’s Great Dao was not as perfect as he had imagined, and it had its flaws.

Therefore, after his ascension, his strength did not reach the anticipated state of standing shoulder to shoulder with Saints, and was instead a notch weaker.

With no other choice, Zhen Yuanzi had to take the newly-formed realm of Earth Immortals to the center of the myriad worlds, planning to merge the lands of all worlds into one, to perfect his own Dao, and to reach higher realms.

With the Immortal World and the realm of Earth Immortals as a foundation, it was hard for All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds not to develop. Along with the birth of the Immortal World, the shattered Boundless Starry Sky also began to change, self-repairing at the cost of downgrading as a whole.

Those star fragments, completely losing their connections, evolved into brand new stars, and over the eons, they fostered living beings. This was the origin of the vast cosmos from Jiang Chen’s past life.

Setting aside the myriad worlds and the starry sky for now, let’s talk about the four great continents that only had ten percent remaining. Their area shrank by a factor of many, having lost ninety percent of their original size.

This resolved some of the early confusion Jiang Chen had.

In his earlier years while traveling the four great continents, he had marveled at their vastness. Even a heavenly immortal, traveling at full speed, would need over a decade to go from Nanbuzhan Continent to Xiniuhe Continent.

Yet Tangseng, a mere mortal, relying only on walking, managed to travel from Chang’an to Spiritual Mountain in just over a decade. That speed was terrifyingly fast.

Now looking back, Jiang Chen understood; with the area of the four great continents reduced by so much, Tangseng riding the White Dragon Horse and taking just over a decade to make the journey from Chang’an to Spiritual Mountain was not only not fast, in fact, it was rather slow.

The sudden reduction in the area of the four great continents to a tenth of their original size had a huge impact. To put it simply, the living space of the races shrunk, and the pressure to survive increased.

The population remained the same, but resources were reduced by ninety percent. As a result, wars naturally erupted over the limited resources.

The first to strike were the different races against the Human Race. Normally, the other races would never be a match for the Human Race, but the circumstances at the time were far from normal.

To plow the myriad worlds and occupy a mainstream position in the new era, most of the Human Race’s experts had all moved to the myriad worlds, giving the other races their chance.

Jiang Chen’s previous life’s so-called "Five Barbarians’ Chaos in China" had its reasons.

After the Five Barbarians’ Chaos, and hundreds of years of turmoil, the Human Race once again unified and established another glorious dynasty, the Great Tang.

Then came the West Journey. There was not much difference from what Jiang Chen remembered from his past life.

Buddhism Dao spread eastward, causing a great rise of the Buddhist door, and those involved in the West Journey, good or bad, if they were still alive, all received education and merit.

However, the prosperity of the Buddhist door did not last long. As the saying goes, "what goes up must come down," and the Buddhist door exemplified this principle. In their haste to expand, the Buddhist door had almost no requirements for accepting disciples; good or bad, as long as one had the heart to turn to Buddha, they could be admitted.

While this move indeed strengthened the influence of the Buddhist door and brought about a brief period of glory, it also sowed the seeds of their future decline.

Soon enough, because of the mixed quality of disciples, the once pure and serene Buddhist door became foul and corrupt, with violators of their precepts everywhere.

Opressing the righteous, rampaging through the countryside, bullying men and dominating women, practicing usury, seizing others’ wives and daughters... all the evils of the world could be seen within the Buddhist door.

The state of the Buddhist door at that time was how the Primordial Heavenly Sovereign and the Saint of Taiqing foresaw the future of the Jiejiao Sect.

Back then, the Upper Qing Saints also did the same, adhering to the principle of teaching without discrimination, accepting disciples of all kinds, good or evil. While this was acceptable at first, it would inevitably bring great disaster to the Upper Qing Saints in the future, and thus, the two often advised the Upper Qing Saints.

But alas, the Upper Qing Saints did not listen. Seeing his brother stray off the path without self-awareness, the Saint of Taiqing and the Primordial Heavenly Sovereign had no choice but to jointly eradicate the Jiejiao Sect.

Well, initially, that was indeed the case. But later, as their own disciples were crippled, the Primordial Heavenly Sovereign couldn’t help but act with personal emotion, and harshly dealt with the Jiejiao disciples, causing many who should not have died to enter the Investiture of the Gods.

The discord among the Sanqing originated from this.

If the Buddhist door had simply become corrupt and foul, it could still have lasted for a while. Unfortunately, the Buddhist door also had enemies.

Seeing how quickly the Buddhist disciples fell, the hidden Demon Sect was overjoyed.

They no longer hid themselves, coming out openly, enticing Buddhist disciples into demonhood, ready to take over their nest and turn the Buddhist door into the Demon Sect.

Soon enough, the Demon Sect rose!

The conflict between Buddhism and demonism lasted for hundreds of years, with many dynasties rising and falling, and other doctrines joining the fray.

In the end, none of these doctrines managed to come out on top, their reputations became increasingly worse, and due to the excessive evils committed by the Buddhist disciples, they even drew the karmic backlash of the Heavenly Dao.