Honghuang: I am Kuiniu, and I instructed Nuwa to create humans at the beginning.

At this time, Laozi had already begun to focus on the principles of the Great Dao and the Law of Yin and Yang. He was only one step away from re-attaining the Dao and becoming a saint.

Even if Lao Tzu wanted to, it would not be impossible for him to become a saint directly through the help of humanity.

But Laozi didn't want to do that, because he had been a saint of heaven for too long. To be a saint means to be suppressed by others.

So at this time, Laozi had decided not to become a true Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian like Tongtian and Niu Kui, and not be controlled by any of the six paths.

Tongtian Jiaozhu was very supportive of this, and specially asked his clone Lingbao Tianzun to accompany Laozi in the Bajing Palace every day to discuss Taoism with Laozi.

Otherwise, there wouldn't be just eleven saints of humanity in the Fire Cloud Cave right now. There should be twelve.

Even without the saint Lao Tzu, the number of saints in humanity can completely crush the saints in heaven.

So now, there are only eight saints under the Heavenly Way, eleven saints under the Human Way, and thirteen semi-saints under the Earthly Way.

Why is there a half-saint in the tunnel? This half-saint is not the so-called half-step saint. It is only in the Nine Netherworld that a general can be called a saint.

Therefore, judging from the number of saints, the Heavenly Dao Saints are the least. However, in addition to the eight Heavenly Dao Saints, there is also a Taoist Patriarch Hongjun who has reached the Hedao realm.

This also allowed the three paths of heaven, earth and man to form a very stable balance. Any saint of any path could not suppress the saints of the other two paths.

Even so, Daozu Hongjun was also very worried. After all, the saints of Heavenly Dao were not in harmony and had their own agendas, but Daozu Hongjun knew it very well.

If the human way and the earth way unite, and add Niu Kui and Tongtian Jiaozhu, the heavenly way represented by Hongjun Daozu may not be able to compete with them.

It is even possible that the Heavenly Dao will no longer be the master of the six paths in the prehistoric world. Therefore, Hongjun at this time is naturally very eager to awaken the Demon Dao and the Buddha Dao.

Then, he united the demon and Buddhist ways to completely suppress the human and earth ways, thus ensuring the immortality of the heavenly way and continuing to be the master of the prehistoric world.

Therefore, Daozu Hongjun has been paying attention to the progress of the Journey to the West. Naturally, he also knows that there is a deviation in the current Journey to the West.

Daozu Hongjun even knew that the Lingya Fairy had gone to the Flower-Fruit Mountain and instigated the White Elephant to rebel.

But now Hongjun Daozu can't do anything directly. After all, he is different from Nuwa Niangniang and Houtu. Nuwa Niangniang and Houtu are just the spokespersons of the earth and humanity.

However, Hongjun Daozu was in harmony with the Way of Heaven, and he used the power of the Way of Heaven. Once he took action personally, it might cause an infinite catastrophe.

The so-called infinite calamity is not a great calamity among the creatures of the prehistoric world. It is a calamity from the depths of chaos that will cause the prehistoric world to return to chaos.

At this time, Daozu Hongjun was not ready to face all of this. Unless he completely merged with the Heavenly Dao and his cultivation was elevated to the Dao Realm, he would be able to deal with the infinite calamity.

But now Hongjun's cultivation is only at the sixth level of the Hedao Realm. He originally planned to use the Conferred God Tribulation to reach the Dao Realm.

But in the end, because the Heavenly Dao Saint was not up to the task, he not only failed to achieve the result he wanted, but also caused the Human Dao to awaken.

Therefore, the current Journey to the West calamity is naturally very important to Hongjun Daozu, because it is related to whether he can reach the state of harmony with the Tao.

The result that Hongjun Daozu wanted in this Journey to the West was the awakening of the Buddhist and demon sects. The key to the awakening of the demon sects was Sun Wukong. Now it was discovered that Sun Wukong was actually related to Jiejiao, and was even very likely to be a disciple of Nuwa. This made Hongjun Daozu more or less uneasy.

At that time, the two saints from the West were directly called to the Zixiao Palace. This inevitably made the two saints from the West feel a little strange.

After all, in their cognition, the current Journey to the West is under control. At most, it is just a detour, after all, Jin Chanzi is already in his Buddhist sect.

As for what will happen to Sun Wukong, for the two Western saints, it is just a small episode.

After all, they had never thought about helping the demons to awaken. They only wanted to awaken the Buddhas and make them their spokespersons.

Daozu Hongjun naturally couldn't be unaware of this, so he immediately said to the two Western saints: "I'm calling you two to Zixiao Palace today because I have something important to tell you."

"That is the current Lingming Stone Monkey, who has become involved with Jiejiao. He may even be a disciple of Nuwa."

"In order to ensure that this Journey to the West Tribulation can be successfully completed, and not be like the Conferred God Tribulation, where the human race took advantage of us for nothing, we must make some preparations in advance."

At this point, even the two saints from the West were a little worried. After all, they knew very well how much advantage the human race had gained during the Conferred God Tribulation.

If the fruits of victory are stolen by humans again this time, let alone the awakening of Buddhism, even the Buddhist sect will have problems with its great heart.

Taoist Zhunti said with a worried look on his face: "Master, the number of saints in the human way is far greater than that in the heavenly way."

"If they forcibly interfere with this Journey to the West catastrophe, I'm afraid only Master can do it himself."

Taoist Hongjun looked at the worried Taoist Zhunti and shook his head, "Don't worry, the Journey to the West calamity is not as good as the Conferred God calamity, and the saints cannot directly participate."

"The key lies in the Golden Cicada and the Spiritual Stone Monkey. Now there is no need to worry about the Golden Cicada, but we need to make preparations for the Spiritual Stone Monkey."

While speaking, Daozu Hongjun waved his hand directly at Taoist Zhunti and presented a five-colored divine stone to Taoist Zhunti.

"This is the five-colored divine stone, and it is from the same lineage as the stone that gave birth to the Spiritual Stone Monkey. I have already cultivated a new Spiritual Stone Monkey in this five-colored divine stone."

"Send it to the Lingshan Mountain in the west, and let it be influenced by the Buddha's teachings in the Eight Treasures Merit Pond. At the critical moment, use it to replace the Lingming Stone Monkey."

After receiving the five-colored divine stone, Zhunti Taoist nodded, but still said with a worried look on his face: "Master, I wonder who is stronger, the spiritual stone monkey cultivated by my Buddhist sect or the real spiritual stone monkey?"

Daozu Hongjun said: "The two Lingming Stone Monkeys are from the same lineage. There is no difference between who is stronger and who is weaker. The only difference is who can complete the origin."

After finishing speaking, Hongjun Daozu sent the two saints from the West out of Zixiao Palace. After all, there were some things that Hongjun Daozu could not say directly.

He couldn't tell the two saints in the West that he had already discovered that the other three monkeys had become Nuwa's disciples, and that he had taken a portion of the essence of the Spiritual Stone Monkey in advance to cultivate this new Spiritual Stone Monkey.

However, even if Hongjun Daozu did not say it directly, his last sentence made the two saints in the West understand everything.

He immediately bowed to Zixiao Palace and then returned to his own temple. At the same time, he did not forget to send a secret message to Xu Bodhi, asking him to retrieve the five-colored divine stone. (End of this chapter)