People in Conferred Gods: Rising from humble beginnings, I am the God of Wealth

Chapter 289 Disrupting Heavenly Secrets and Helping the River Styx, the Two Saints Suffer in Silence!
Inside the Fire Cloud Cave.

Surrounded by primordial pure energy, the three emperors, Fuxi, Shennong, and Xuanyuan, sat upright before the stone table.

On the stone table sits a cloud mirror, reflecting the scene inside an unnamed hill beside Wuyi Mountain.

Shennong and Xuanyuan watched as Styx slashed away Black Lotus's thoughts of ending his own life with a single sword strike, and then with two more sword strikes severed the five qi in Black Lotus's chest and the three flowers on his head, knocking his cultivation level down from the mid-stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal to the Golden Immortal realm.

Finally, he put the Black Lotus and Yang Tianyou into his sleeve, mounted his escape light, and sped towards the Heavenly Court, then suddenly revealed a look of realization.

No wonder Fuxi, that charlatan, said that what Styx did was beneficial to the human race and would not harm them. It turns out that the person in this small mountain was not some quasi-saint, but a cultivator of the Great Luo Golden Immortal, Hei Lian.

"Strange……"

Xuanyuan tapped the hilt of his sword with his fingers, a look of confusion on his face.

"Back then, after Young Friend Yang Xuan established the Heavenly Laws, Styx copied the Heavenly Court he established and forcibly proclaimed the Earthly Path, trying to seize Young Friend's opportunity."

"In the end, not only did he fail to gain the local people's approval, he also offended that lady."

"Logically speaking, the two of them should have some grudges. Now, according to Styx, he has spent hundreds of thousands of years looking for the Black Lotus, intending to take it to the Heavenly Court for you to deal with."

"No matter how you look at it, this doesn't make any sense!"

Xuanyuan's brows furrowed deeper and deeper, unable to understand why Styx, a renowned power in the primordial world, would do such a thing.

Shennong, who was standing to the side, was equally puzzled. Even Fuxi, who was skilled in divination and was jokingly called a charlatan by Shennong and others, could not understand the reason.

They were aware of the conflict between Yang Xuan and Hei Lian.

This story begins during the time of human calamity.

When Yu the Great gathered the strength of the human race from the nine provinces and invited the dragon race to help him, they jointly forged the Nine Cauldrons, intending to set up the Nine Cauldrons Formation and establish the eternal foundation of the human race.

Black Lotus then united all the alien races of the Nine Provinces and instigated alien races outside the Nine Provinces, such as Xuan Niu and Wu Hao, in an attempt to stop the deployment of the Nine Cauldrons Formation, destroy the earth veins of the Nine Provinces, and seize the fortune of the human race.

If it weren't for Yang Xuan's intervention, he would have first used a clear strategy to resolve the Black Lotus's attempt to drive the alien races of the Nine Provinces and destroy the land veins of the Nine Provinces.

He also secretly invited Haotian and the Queen Mother to descend to the mortal realm, and bestowed upon Yu the title of Water Official Emperor, who could use divine power to control the waterways of the nine provinces and enhance his combat strength.

Finally, at the crucial moment, he summoned the White Emperor to descend, who killed the two Great Luo Golden Immortals, Yunyou and Youying, with a single sword strike, and severely injured Xuanniu and Wuhao, thus securing the end of the human calamity.

It is no exaggeration to say that Yang Xuan, with his Golden Immortal cultivation, completely reversed the outcome of this human calamity, causing the Black Lotus's years of planning to fail completely.

The cause and effect between the two parties also stems from this.

In order to get revenge on Yang Xuan, regain his honor, and also to trample on Yang Xuan's face and become famous in the prehistoric world.

Unexpectedly, the trap that had been meticulously prepared for many years was easily broken by Yang Xuan, leaving him with a double loss, and he was only able to escape by relying on a secret technique.

Later, he hid in the West Sea to recuperate, but was blocked at the door by the West Sea Dragon King, a group of dragons, and the Nine Heavens Mystic Maiden. Only a wisp of his soul escaped.

After that, the human race, the dragon race, the Heavenly Court, and even the demon race and the phoenix race all tried to find the Black Lotus, but none of them could find it.

Gradually, they stopped taking the Black Lotus too seriously. After all, this guy only had a wisp of remnant soul left, and it was impossible for him to come out and cause trouble again without spending hundreds of yuan.

But who could have imagined that while the human race and the Heavenly Court had given up, Styx, a Quasi-Saint with two corpses, would personally come out?

Speaking of which, the fact that Black Lotus, a Great Luo Golden Immortal, could be personally searched for by Styx, a Quasi-Saint of Two Corpses, for hundreds of thousands of years is unique in the prehistoric world, and that's quite a lot of face for her.

As for Yang Xuan, who got Styx, a Quasi-Saint with two corpses, to do this willingly, his reputation was even more...

"Young friend Yang Xuan is still as unpredictable as ever, always doing things that are unexpected, as if they were miracles themselves."

Fuxi smiled and shook his head, deeply moved.

His fingers gently caressed the Hetu and Luoshu diagrams, the eight trigrams appearing in his eyes. After a moment of contemplation, he looked at Shennong and Fuxi and said in a deep voice:

"That scoundrel Black Lotus once tried to destroy the earth veins of the Nine Provinces and steal the fortune of the human race. There were even those two from the West behind him."

"He has been lying low in the Nine Provinces for a mere million years and has recovered from his injuries. Clearly, he has something to do with our human race."

"But no matter what schemes he or those behind him may have against the human race, the fact that the Styx River was able to subdue him today and take him away from the Nine Provinces is beneficial to our human race."

"As long as the Styx River brings him to the Heavenly Court, with the Heavenly Emperor Haotian there, even the two Western Saints probably won't be too blatant in snatching him. Our human race might be able to avoid a major upheaval because of this."

"To avoid the two Western Saints becoming aware of this, we should help the River Styx conceal the secrets of this realm. What do you all think?"

Upon hearing this, Shennong and Xuanyuan exchanged a glance, remained silent for a moment, and then nodded.

"That's to be expected. Now that calamity energy is already brewing in the primordial world, the art of divination is already limited. If you were to interfere with the secrets of heaven, even a sage would probably find it difficult to trace it back to us. To put it another way..."

Shennong looked up at the sky and smiled.

"Even if the two Western Saints discovered that you were the one disrupting the heavenly secrets, what could they possibly do to you?"

"exactly!"

Even Xuanyuan's usually stern face couldn't help but reveal a smile.

Fuxi raised his head slightly, a smile on his face, revealing a hint of pride.

Then, Fuxi channeled his magical power and lightly touched the Hetu and Luoshu with his fingers.

In an instant, starlight cascaded down the Fire Cloud Cave.

Ancient star charts rose from the patterns on tortoise shells, with the twenty-eight constellations arrayed and the Big Dipper hanging upside down. The starlight solidified into substance, transforming into billions of silver threads that intertwined to form a giant innate Bagua.

At the same time, the Nine Cauldrons Formation rotated, and the nine bronze cauldrons in the sky above the Nine Provinces trembled slightly. The strange phenomenon in the Fire Cloud Cave then appeared above the small mountain.

But in the next instant, these strange phenomena disappeared again, and the secrets of this place were completely disrupted.

Even if the Black Lotus came to Kyushu on the orders of the Two Sages of the West, unless the Two Sages of the West deliberately deduced it, it would be difficult to detect the abnormality of this place in a short period of time, and they would not know what the Styx River was doing.

That's enough!

"Alas! If the human race had sages, how could the two Western sages be so unscrupulous..."

Although Fuxi disrupted the heavenly order, he also understood that the human race still had a long way to go if it wanted to secure its position as the protagonist of the world.

Thanks to Fuxi's cover, the Styx River encountered no trouble after leaving the Nine Provinces, passing through the Nine Heavens Gale Layers without hindrance and arriving at the South Heavenly Gate. Only then did Jieyin and Zhunti on Mount Sumeru sense something and look up at the South Heavenly Gate.

"The Styx River? Is this guy crazy?!"

The water in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool was boiling, and Zhunti almost crushed the Seven Treasures Tree in his hand, his face extremely gloomy.

Even though the primordial world is now filled with calamity and the art of divination is restricted, a sage is still a sage. In an instant, Zhunti understood the whole story of what had already happened.

Knowing that Styx found the Black Lotus in the Nine Provinces and captured it, it has now arrived outside the Southern Heavenly Gate.

The attempt to use Yang Tianyou to lure Yunhua into a love triangle has not yet succeeded due to the involvement of Qingluan and Zhu Jiu.

They also knew why Black Lotus had been captured by the Styx River for so many years, and it was only now that they realized this, because Fuxi had intervened to conceal the secrets of heaven.

If anyone else had done this, they would definitely have tried to get revenge. Even if it were Xuanyuan and Shennong, those two near-sages, they wouldn't have hesitated. But Fuxi...

Then forget it!
Anyone with a modicum of knowledge knows that Fuxi was the elder brother of the sage Nuwa. If they were of equal cultivation, it would be one thing to have a fight.

However, if Zhunti were to cause trouble for Fuxi with his saintly cultivation, Nuwa would likely appear before him the moment he entered the Nine Provinces, and without a word, unleash her red embroidered ball and smash it down on his head.

Do you really think that the former demon goddess Nuwa was some kind of kind person?
As for the idea of ​​Heaven finding the Styx River and retrieving Yang Tianyou and Hei Lian, that's also unrealistic.

Black Lotus is a hidden agent subdued by the two Western Saints. As long as they don't admit it, even if the human race and the Heavenly Court have guessed some things, they dare not say that Black Lotus is a member of the Western Cult.

But if they were to go to the Styx River to demand the Black Lotus, wouldn't that be blatantly telling Haotian and the human race that the Black Lotus belongs to their Western Cult?

They were the ones who instigated the plot to destroy the earth veins of the Nine Provinces, steal the fortune of the human race, and set up an ambush in Wuyi Mountain to scheme against Yang Xuan. They ended up shooting themselves in the foot!

Similarly, demanding Yang Tianyou from the Styx River became an unrealistic endeavor.

You should know that they had been secretly plotting against Fairy Yunhua for many years, and Yang Tianyou was used to lure Yunhua into a love tribulation.

If Haotian knew that they had been plotting against Yunhua for countless years, would Haotian still have a good attitude?

Furthermore, Black Lotus has a karmic connection with Yang Xuan, and Maitreya has twice gone to cause trouble for Yang Xuan, judging from Haotian's behavior last time.

If he knew that Hei Lian and Yang Tianyou were members of the Western Sect, he would probably think that the Western Sect had been targeting Yang Xuan and wanted to harm the Heavenly Court.

When Haotian first became the Heavenly Emperor, Daozu said in Zixiao Palace that they, as saints, should help Haotian as much as possible.

Instead of providing any assistance, the two Western Saints made things difficult for Yang Xuan, a great contributor to the Heavenly Court, and plotted against the Heavenly Court. It would be strange if the Jade Emperor could tolerate this.

Last time, the two Western Saints wanted to use the theft of Maitreya's treasure to cause trouble for Haotian, wanting Haotian to make Yang Xuan return the treasure. Haotian was very agitated and wanted to sue the Dao Ancestor without saying a word.

If he were to learn that Black Lotus and Yang Tianyou were both agents of the Two Western Saints, he would most likely turn around and return to Zixiao Palace to seek justice from the Dao Ancestor.

If that's the case, then there's no way to salvage the situation. Their subsequent plans will likely fall apart, and they might even drag the West into the Great Calamity as well.

However, losing Black Lotus and Yang Tianyou's two hidden agents would cause considerable trouble for their many plans.

In particular, the plan to lure Fairy Yunhua into a love tribulation, thereby exacerbating the conflict between the Chan Sect and the Heavenly Court and making the Chan Sect the protagonist of the great tribulation, has basically fallen through.

"What on earth is going on with the Styx River? Why would it spend hundreds of thousands of years searching for Black Lotus, a Grand Luo Golden Immortal with whom it has no connection whatsoever?"

Zhunti grew angrier the more he thought about it, and his face became increasingly pale, while he also felt deeply puzzled.

He really couldn't understand what Styx was trying to achieve by doing this. It couldn't just be a gesture to Yang Xuan, could it?

But that doesn't make any sense at all!
Styx has always been a lone wolf. In fact, it can be said that more than 80% of the powerful beings in the prehistoric world have some kind of grudge against him, which shows how bad his reputation is in the prehistoric world.

How could someone like that waste hundreds of thousands of years searching for the Black Lotus across the primordial world just to curry favor with someone?

Moreover, Yang Xuan is just a Great Luo Golden Immortal. Styx could probably kill him with a single sword strike. What qualifications does he have to make Styx take the initiative to show goodwill?

Surely Yang Xuan, this Great Luo Golden Immortal, wouldn't possess something that the Styx River needs?
No matter how you look at it, Styx's actions make absolutely no sense.

In modern terms, he's like a lunatic who's walking down the street and suddenly slaps you for no reason, and you can't do anything about it.

Since becoming a saint, Zhunti has never felt so frustrated.

Jieyin, standing to the side, was in no better shape. He knew perfectly well that Styx and Fuxi had ruined their plans, but there was nothing he could do. For the sake of the bigger picture, they couldn't even admit it.

The feeling of having to swallow your pride and suffer in silence is truly frustrating.

What's even more ridiculous is that Fuxi and Styx most likely had no idea what the two Western Saints were planning. It was just because Styx wanted to bring the Black Lotus to the Heavenly Court that they ruined many of their plans.

It's like a chess master who has been planning for a long time and is about to make a decisive move to checkmate the opponent, but then someone suddenly commits suicide next to him, knocking over the chessboard. In that case, there's no way to make a move.

The feeling of receiving guidance now is much more unbearable than this.

"Yang Xuan...it's Yang Xuan again!"

Jieyin's face was filled with sorrow, his eyes narrowed slightly, and a cold glint flashed in them.

"First you ruined our plans in Kyushu, then you disrupted the situation in the Heavenly Court, and you even tricked Ksitigarbha into leaving the Western Sect. Now Black Lotus and Yang Tianyou have been arrested because of you."

"If you do not join my Western Religion, this matter..."

"It's not over!"

Jieyin took a deep breath and calmed his mind.

After a moment of silence, he looked up at the Heavenly Court and a smile appeared on his lips.

"Fortunately, the arrival of the Great Calamity is inevitable. Even without the Black Lotus and Yang Tianyou, the Great Calamity will still come."

"As for the conflict between the Chan Sect and the Heavenly Court, Taiyi Zhenren and Antarctic Immortal could be good pawns!"

When Taiyi Zhenren and Antarctic Immortal went to Heaven to seek divine positions, they were arrogant and kept missing Yang Xuan, and were left in Heaven for hundreds of thousands of years.

Given the personalities of the disciples of the Chan Sect, how could they possibly have any goodwill towards Yang Xuan? Even the Heavenly Court harbored resentment towards him because of this.

How could the two Western Saints possibly let such a golden opportunity slip by?
PS: 8,000 words finished today.

(End of this chapter)