ragginovel Chapter 153, Part 3: Clear Understanding
Chapter 153, Part 3: Clear Understanding
Chapter 153 The Three Pure Ones' Enlightenment
Clearly, the Dao Ancestor has demonstrated his stance through his actions. At the same time, this second ceasefire deadline has bought the demon race and the Heavenly Court extremely important time to develop.
After the Pangu phantom formed by the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation was dispersed, the terrifying demonic pressure naturally dissipated as well, which brought a sigh of relief to the entire prehistoric world.
Those powerful figures from the Heavenly Court and the Demon Race who faced the Twelve Ancestral Witches felt as if they had survived a calamity.
"Now that you have taken charge of the Heavenly Court, you should use the power of Heaven and Earth wisely!" Hongjun of the Heavenly Dao turned his head and looked at the group of great supernatural beings in the Heavenly Court, saying, "If you use it or discard it at will, you will surely be entangled in karma one day."
"Your disciples understand," the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa replied respectfully upon hearing this.
"We thank the Dao Ancestor for his guidance." Upon hearing this, Di Jun, Tai Yi, Fu Xi, and the other great supernatural beings, as well as the surviving powerful demons, all hurriedly and respectfully said.
Hongjun spoke, and his words became law. After all, Hongjun was the embodiment of the Primordial Heavenly Dao at this moment. As his voice fell, a profound cause and effect instantly bound the great supernatural beings of the Heavenly Court together.
When the group of powerful beings looked at Hongjun again, they found that Hongjun's figure had already disappeared.
"Heaven's Way is above, and the Dao Ancestor bears witness."
In order to open up the path of immortality, promote the Xuanmen (mystical sect), and protect all living beings in the primordial world, the disciple once evolved the path of the Earth Immortal, and thus obtained the name "Wizard".
Now, the Twelve Ancestral Witches have raised an army and shown disrespect to the Dao Ancestor. Disciple Styx, having received the Dao Ancestor's grace in imparting knowledge, teaching skills, and resolving doubts, now that things have come to this, disciple is unwilling to associate with the Witch Clan any longer. I wish to relinquish the title of "Witch" and, in the sea of blood, shut myself in to quietly recite the Yellow Court Classic. Styx swore an oath to Heaven and Earth.
The event wasn't particularly grand, but the portion of the fortune that originally flowed from the name of the witch clan's wizards onto Styx was severed. From then on, Styx no longer enjoyed the witch clan's fortune offerings, and this causal link was broken.
"Easier than I imagined." Sitting atop the Twelfth Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus in the Netherworld Blood Sea, Styx muttered to himself as he cultivated. Having settled a karmic debt on his body, he no longer needed to worry about being dragged into the terrifying and tragic Lich Calamity. Styx was in high spirits.
In the original primordial world, when Fuxi perished in the Lich War, Nuwa was already a saint. Even so, she couldn't protect her own brother, which shows how dangerous the Lich War was.
Go ahead and hit me, anyway, it's none of his business anymore.
However, Styx thought about it again and realized that severing karmic ties wouldn't be too difficult for him.
Or, to put it another way, the same cause and effect can lead to different results for different people.
Take Hongyun as an example. His abdication in the position of Zhunti and Jieyin in Zixiao Palace is a good deed. This good deed is extremely important. After Zhunti and Jieyin made great vows and became saints, they owed Hongyun a debt of karma for becoming saints. If Hongyun were also a Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal, he could naturally rely on this karma to slowly manipulate Zhunti and Jieyin.
It can be said that after entering the realm of saints, every step Zhunti and Jieyin took forward among the disciples of the Great Dao, he owed Hongyun more. If Hongyun had been just a little more ruthless, he could have eaten Zhunti and Jieyin until the immeasurable calamity came and the primordial world was destroyed.
But Hongyun was only a quasi-saint, so he died. In the original primordial world, Hongyun's demise was largely due to Zhunti and Jieyin's failure to save him, because Zhunti and Jieyin knew that Hongyun could not repay the karmic debts he owed while he was alive.
Taking the abdication of Hongyun Zixiao Palace as an example, Kunpeng lost his sainthood because he was implicated by Hongyun's abdication. However, Hongyun's causal role in this was very small. But because Hongyun did not have decisive power, this small causal role, coupled with the Primordial Purple Qi on his body, became the cause of his demise.
The same applies to the Styx River.
Once an ordinary person becomes entangled in the karma of a sorcerer, it's not so easy to remove. Take Dong Wanggong, for example. He now wants to step down from his position as the Immortal Emperor and extricate himself from the Lich Tribulation, but that's impossible. He can't escape the karma, and the Witch Clan won't agree to it, but the Styx River can.
The same Primordial Purple Qi was a source of disaster for Hongyun, but no one dared to covet it when it was in Minghe.
Meanwhile, at the top of the Thirty-Three Heavens, the Three Pure Ones gathered together once again.
In the Jade Void Palace, Laozi sat in the main seat, his face filled with worry, while Yuanshi and Tongtian below him looked on with some doubt.
"Brother, why is this?" Yuanshi looked at Laozi and asked tentatively.
"Brother, if you are worried about this battle, there is no need to worry. The Zhou Tian Star Array that our Heavenly Court has set up is not yet perfect. Once we perfect the array, we may not be unable to contend with the Twelve Capital Heavenly Gods and Demons Array." Tongtian looked at Laozi and said confidently.
In fact, the Zhou Tian Star Array has been deduced to be quite perfect. The only flaw now is that the number of powerful beings required to set up the array is insufficient. According to Tongtian's idea, if all the Zhou Tian Star Banners representing the main stars were guarded by Great Luo Golden Immortals or even Quasi-Saints, the power of the Zhou Tian Star Array might not be weaker than the Qian Er Du Tian Shen Sha Array.
"What worries me is not the Wu tribe, but rather—" Laozi looked at Yuanshi and Tongtian, unsure of what to say.
Lao Tzu had a premonition that he had probably been drawn into a great calamity, just like the Ancestral Dragon, the Primordial Phoenix, and the First Qilin of the previous great calamity.
As Lao Tzu repeatedly deduced the process of the establishment of the Heavenly Court and the inescapable karma he now bore, the more he thought about it, the colder he felt in his heart.
But he really didn't know how to tell Yuanshi and Tongtian his thoughts. Could it be that they had fallen into his trap?
"My two brothers, I have thought about this repeatedly, and I feel that there is something fishy about it."
"My two virtuous brothers should know where our position as Heavenly Emperors comes from." Laozi looked at Yuanshi and Tongtian before him and continued.
"We will stop the conspiracy of the Styx River and become the Heavenly Emperors," Yuanshi replied upon hearing this.
"This is precisely what I couldn't understand afterward. With Styx's cultivation level, if we really blocked his path to enlightenment, how could he have let go so easily?" Laozi looked at Yuanshi and Tongtiandao before him.
Although Styx, Zhunti, and Jieyin supported the Wu Clan several times afterward, the Heavenly Court had just been established, and they did not take the Wu Clan seriously.
So what if the calamity energy rises? As long as the Wu tribe is pacified, the primordial calamity energy will naturally decline. But it seems that the primordial calamity energy cannot be pacified in a short time, because—they can't even defeat the Wu tribe right now. They need a long period of development to enhance the overall strength of the Heavenly Court.
Furthermore, will the Wu tribe simply stagnate during this process?
So what will be the final outcome for both the Witch Clan and the Heavenly Court?
Thinking of this, Lao Tzu felt a chill run down his spine.