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

Chapter 439 The Two Saints Return to Mount Sumeru, and the Dao Ancestor Issues an Order to Enter Chaos!
In Zixiao Palace.

Hongjun sensed the changes in the primordial world, stroked his beard, and laughed heartily.

"Excellent! Excellent!!"

The higher one's status in the primordial world, the stronger one's combat power in the primordial world, and the easier it will be to comprehend the Great Dao. Saints also need to cultivate; it is not the end point, nor is it unchanging.

Now, as the primordial world evolves into the Three Realms, the cultivation of the Six Sages of Heaven has improved to varying degrees, and they have also gained considerable merit from the Great Dao.

As the representative of the Heavenly Dao, Hongjun naturally received more benefits, allowing his cultivation, which had remained stagnant for many years, to advance further.

No matter how calm Hongjun's Dao heart was, he couldn't help but burst into laughter.

But after a moment, Hongjun seemed to think of something, sighed, and regained his composure. His eyes showed a thoughtful look, and... an undisguised worry.

"Have to guard against..."

Hongjun's eyes flickered as he pondered seriously for a long time, weighing the pros and cons.
Furthermore, with the Three Realms now formed and the Great Calamity over, the Calamity's energy is no longer visible, and the Heavenly Secrets reappear, the methods of deduction are no longer hindered.

Finally, after some deduction, Hongjun made a decision. He flicked his finger and emitted a six-way sound transmission, which reached the ears of the six sages of the Heavenly Dao.

"When the great god Pangu created heaven and earth, three thousand gods and demons tried to stop him, and all of them died under Pangu's axe."
However, among the three thousand gods and demons, countless were near-saints, and nearly half were Grand Luo Golden Immortals, equivalent to saints. They all possessed methods to protect themselves, and even the great god Pangu could not completely eliminate them.

Now, countless eons have passed, and these three thousand dead gods and demons are gradually awakening. Rahu was one of them.
When the primordial world evolved into the Three Realms, traces of three thousand gods and demons also appeared, but due to the vigilance of Houtu and Nuwa, they never made a move again.

But this is by no means the end. The primordial world is naturally on the opposite side of the three thousand gods and demons, and must be guarded against.

To ensure the safety of the primordial world, Jieyin, Zhunti, Tongtian, and Yuanshi, the four of you shall set off immediately for the Chaos Realm to guard the four directions of the primordial world and not allow the Chaos Gods and Demons to enter!
Nuwa and Taiqing, you two stay in the primordial wilderness and continue searching for the chaotic gods and demons lurking there!

The six sages of the Heavenly Path reacted differently after receiving Hongjun's telepathic message.

Tongtian and Yuanshi exchanged a glance, then summoned their disciples to explain the matters concerning the Jie Sect and the Chan Sect. After leaving a message for them to comprehend, they left the prehistoric world and went to the Chaos to establish their own Daoist temple.

After learning about the spatial rift, they realized that it was definitely not formed naturally, but most likely a hidden trick left by the Chaos Gods and Demons, which made them very frightened.

If these cracks are not detected in time and allowed to spread, the space in the west, the four seas, and the Undying Volcano will likely collapse, and the earth's veins will be completely destroyed.

On the vast expanse of the primordial world, gaps of varying sizes were created.

At that time, the primordial world will be like a deflated balloon, with its spiritual energy constantly dissipating.

Even the very origin of the primordial world might dissipate as a result, making it uncertain whether the primordial world could successfully evolve into the Three Realms.

Even if it were possible, it would never be as complete as it is now, and it would likely leave behind huge, irreparable hidden dangers.

Although the Chaos God and Demon took the initiative to retreat this time, as long as the Chaos God and Demon still exist, they are a huge hidden danger that must be guarded against.

Knowing the seriousness of the matter, the Tongtian Sect Leader and the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, having nothing better to do in the Primordial World, decided to leave and go to the Chaos to guard it.

Once their cultivation reaches their level, there's no such thing as a harsh environment; as long as they're not far from the primordial wilderness, it's the same wherever they are.

But the two Western Saints were different. After the primordial world successfully evolved into the Three Realms, the space that had collapsed due to the battle between the four Saints had already recovered on its own, and they returned to Mount Sumeru.

Looking at the immortals of the Jie Sect and the Chan Sect in Mount Sumeru, both of them had smug expressions and were all smiles.

They were able to convert so many immortals from the Chan and Jie sects, yet the Primordial Heavenly Lord and the Tongtian Sect Master were powerless against them, and could only beat them up, which was harmless!

Having converted so many immortals from the Jie and Chan sects at once, including a vice leader of the Chan sect, the two Western Saints were in high spirits.

He immediately waved his sleeves and led a group of immortals to the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, intending to preach the Eight Hundred Unorthodox Methods of the Western Sect to these newly initiated Western Sect disciples.

Even the unyielding Holy Mother Guiling and Daoist Kong Xuan were not spared; they were ordered to be taken to the Eight Treasures Merit Pool.

They wanted to take this opportunity to further convert the two, so that Gui Ling and Kong Xuan could be used by the West as soon as possible.

But just as the two Western Saints led their disciples into the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, they were immediately stunned.

"How could this be..."

Upon entering the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, the two Western Saints sensed an invisible mist that formed a spherical fog covering the central area of ​​the pool.

At the very center of this sphere stands the Western Religion's treasure for suppressing destiny—the Twelve-Petaled Golden Lotus of Merit, a supreme innate spiritual treasure.

However, at this moment, the Golden Lotus of Merit looked weak and its top three rank had disappeared, leaving only the bottom eight rank.

Although a top-grade innate spiritual treasure cannot be damaged by this, as long as there are enough spiritual items to replenish its essence,

With some more time spent on repairs, the four missing tiers of the twelve-tiered Golden Lotus of Merit will be restored without any damage.

However, before it recovers, the Golden Lotus of Merit will lose its effectiveness in suppressing the Western Religion's fortune, and will not be as miraculous as before.

More importantly, everyone in the primordial world knows that the Twelve-Petaled Golden Lotus of Merit is the symbolic treasure of the Western Sect and its flagship.

Now that the two Western Saints have gone on a trip, four of the twelve-petaled golden lotuses in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool on Mount Sumeru have been plucked by someone.
Isn't this a slap in the face to the two Western Saints? No matter how thick-skinned they are, they can't tolerate it!

"How could this be... How could this be? How could this be!!"

The smiles on the faces of the two Western Saints froze instantly, and in a flash, they arrived on the Golden Lotus of Merit.
Seeing the marks torn off the Golden Lotus of Merit, his face darkened, and he immediately activated the River of Time to begin investigating the matter with all his might.

Now that the primordial world has successfully evolved into the Three Realms, the calamity has rapidly dissipated, the secrets of heaven have reappeared, and the methods of deduction are no longer affected.
Given their level of cultivation and the seriousness with which they took the matter, it's clear how intense their anger was.

The Western Sect disciples, including Dipankara and Maitreya, who had come to the Eight Treasures Merit Pool with the Western Sect, were completely dumbfounded when they saw the tragic state of the twelve-petaled golden lotus of merit.

If one hadn't seen it with their own eyes, who would have imagined that the twelve-petaled golden lotus of merit placed in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool would have been damaged, with four petals missing, leaving only eight?

You should know that this is a sacred place, and the Eight Treasures Merit Pool is a holy site of the sacred place. The Twelve-Petaled Golden Lotus of Merit is a sacred object of the Western Sect.

Within this sacred abode, there are thousands of disciples, including many Grand Luo Golden Immortals.

However, thieves sneaked into Mount Sumeru right under their noses, entered the Eight Treasures Merit Pool, and plucked four grades of the Golden Lotus of Merit.

Such behavior is tantamount to urinating on the head of a saint!

It takes immense courage to do something like this. Even a Great Luo Golden Immortal wouldn't dare, a Quasi-Saint is unlikely to do it, and even a Sub-Saint probably wouldn't dare.

"Could it be the River Styx?"

After racking their brains, the first person they thought of was the Styx Daoist, who was known as the number one iron-headed man in the prehistoric world.

To accomplish this, it's unlikely without the cultivation of a quasi-saint. But upon closer examination, this conjecture is dismissed.

The Styx Taoist is just stubborn, not mentally unstable; how could he possibly go crazy like this?

Even if the Styx Daoist claims that the Blood Sea will never dry up and the Styx River will never die, even a saint cannot kill the Styx River.
Unless one disregards cause and effect and karma, and forcibly destroys the Sea of ​​Blood, leaving the primordial world incomplete,
Otherwise, there would be no way to kill the Styx Daoist, or even to bring his true spirit back to the River of Destiny. At most, one could destroy his soul and revive him from the sea of ​​blood.

However, just because he can't be killed doesn't mean there's no way to deal with the Styx Taoist.

If you really push a sage too far, trap him in a sea of ​​blood, and when the Styx is resurrected from the sea of ​​blood, just slap him to death.

Again and again, endlessly, even the most stubborn Styx couldn't withstand it.

But if it wasn't the Styx Daoist who did it, then who did it? Looking across the entire prehistoric world, who is more stubborn than the Styx Daoist?

"It seems... there really is..."

The group exchanged bewildered glances, recalling a scene that had unfolded thousands of years ago within the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation.

Before this, Daoist Styx was recognized by all living beings in the prehistoric world as the most stubborn person, a view shared by Maitreya, Randeng, and others.

But now, they don't think so anymore. At least the Styx Daoist doesn't dare to beat up the disciples of the Western Sect in front of the two Western Saints and then go to the Saints to bargain.

Clearly, the person they were thinking of was Yang Xuan.

When Yang Xuan displayed his divine power before the sage and calmly negotiated with him, this scene left a deep impression on them.

What the Styx Daoist dared not do, Yang Xuan might as well do.

But on second thought, they also rejected this conjecture.

To reiterate, Yang Xuan is at most stubborn, not mentally unstable. How could he possibly sneak into Mount Sumeru and pluck the fourth grade of the Golden Lotus of Merit?
After all, Yang Xuan had no major conflict with the Western Religion, so why would he do such a thing?

Even if Yang Xuan did something like bargaining with the two Western Saints during the Ten Thousand Immortals Formation, it was on behalf of Bixiao and had nothing to do with the Western Sect.

After all, they weren't sure if the story of the bloodbath was true.

When Zhunti Daoist stopped Yang Xuan in the Sea of ​​Blood, intending to convert him to the Western Paradise, he was thwarted. Naturally, the two Western Saints would not acknowledge this.

Although the Heavenly Court and the Underworld have publicized this matter, the two Western Saints would never admit it.

As a result, the disciples of the Western Religion felt that the Heavenly Court and the Underworld were smearing the Western Religion, and they argued fiercely with the Heavenly Court and the Underworld.

According to the Heavenly Court and the Underworld, they had alarmed both the Earth Goddess Houtu and the Tongtian Sect Leader at that time.
In their view, this reduced the credibility of the matter somewhat.

No matter how extraordinary Yang Xuan is, he couldn't possibly alarm three... no, four!

The two Western Saints are one entity. If Daoist Zhunti were to take action, Jieyin would also be somewhat affected. How could Yang Xuan, a Grand Luo Golden Immortal, alarm four Saints? This is clearly impossible!

Therefore, apart from the person involved, Styx Daoist, and a few other people who knew the truth, most of the people in the prehistoric world remained skeptical of this claim.

For this reason, they did not feel that Yang Xuan had any grudge against the Western religion.

Even assuming these things are true, and Yang Xuan really did have a grudge against the Western Religion,
It's unreasonable to remove three grades from the golden lotus of merit placed in the Eight Treasures Merit Pool by the two Western Saints just because of this incident.

Everyone was puzzled and turned their attention to the two Western Saints, waiting for the result of their deduction.

After a long while, the Daoist Zhunti suddenly opened his eyes, his gaze wide with anger, and shouted:
"Yang Xuan, how dare you!!!"

"Yang Xuan?"

Upon hearing this, everyone showed expressions of shock; they had only ever thought about it.

Who could believe that Yang Xuan was so audacious as to do something so outrageous!
"Why did he do this?"

After the initial shock, everyone looked bewildered, unable to understand why Yang Xuan would do such a thing.

Removing four grades of the Golden Lotus of Merit from the Eight Treasures Merit Pool is considered a slap in the face to the two Western Saints, but that's too lenient. It's tantamount to trampling their faces underfoot.

Even if Yang Xuan successfully severed the evil corpse and became a quasi-saint, there would still be an unimaginable gap between him and a saint.

They simply couldn't understand why Yang Xuan would do something like this. Wasn't he afraid of retaliation from the two Western Saints?
Even if Jieyin and Zhunti were to attack Yang Xuan for such humiliation of the two Western Saints, no one could find fault with it.

What is he after?

Everyone looked bewildered, completely baffled.

In fact, even the two Western Saints couldn't understand... no, to be precise, the two Western Saints were unsure whether Yang Xuan was behind this.

Although there is no trace of calamity energy now, and the deduction method can be used normally, the fact that the Mosquito Taoist devoured the Golden Lotus of Merit occurred during the Investiture of the Gods calamity.

Even though the Great Tribulation has passed, there will still be some obstacles to deduce what happened during the Great Tribulation of the Investiture of the Gods. This is one of them.

Before taking action, Mosquito Taoist used two jade talismans: one to conceal his own heavenly secrets, and the other to conceal the heavenly secrets of the Eight Treasures Merit Pool.
Both jade talismans were crafted by Yang Xuan with the help of Houtu and using the Heavenly Mystery Pearl. They were made before the mist dissipated, roughly equivalent to holding the Heavenly Mystery Pearl while a sage intervened to conceal the heavenly secrets. This is the second one.

Given these two factors combined, it would be extremely difficult to deduce in hindsight that the Mosquito Taoist devoured the Golden Lotus of Merit.

If a quasi-sage were to deduce this, they would definitely not be able to deduce anything. Even with the Hetu and Luoshu, two supreme deduce treasures, they would most likely not be able to see anything.

Even the two Western Saints could only see a small part of it, and knew that Mosquito Daoist had approached the Eight Treasures Merit Pool two thousand years ago, but now he was nowhere to be found, and was suspected to have gone to the underworld.

Having arrived here, they were basically certain that this matter was most likely related to Houtu, but they did not consider Yang Xuan as a suspect.

After all, Yang Xuan is only a quasi-saint now, how could he dare to do such a thing?
But as they continued to extrapolate and deduce along the line of the Mosquito Taoist, they were immediately dumbfounded.

Mosquito Taoist... he's actually one of Yang Xuan's men!

Doesn't that mean Yang Xuan was the mastermind behind the destruction of the Golden Lotus of Merit? Even if he wasn't, he was still closely related to this matter.

But... how could this be? How dare Yang Xuan?

How dare he, a mere quasi-saint, do such a thing? Just because he's protected by the four saints Houtu, Taiqing, Tongtian, and Nuwa, does he think he can do this?
Thinking of this, the two Western Saints fell silent.

If Houtu and the other three acted as they did last time, it seems they really wouldn't be able to do anything to Yang Xuan.

Just then, they heard the voice of Hongjun Daoist in their ears. Their eyes lit up immediately. They made up a story to the disciples inside the sect, then used their escape light to leave Mount Sumeru and fly towards the Chaos...

(End of this chapter)