This is so dishonest!

Chapter 530 Towards a New Era

"The perfect man has no self; the sage has no worries!"

Just as Fuxi and Nuwa were about to gather the scattered Pangu primordial essence, a dreamlike murmur echoed leisurely in the eternal void.

A crimson spider lily, as red as blood, quietly blooms against a backdrop of chaos. The flower blooms without leaves, and the leaves grow without the flower, forever separated.

The goddess of dreams, barefoot and dressed in red, stepped gracefully out from the depths of the flower's heart. As her skirt swayed, it seemed as if three thousand great dream worlds were born and destroyed with her.

"Lord Zixiao, your divine abilities are truly amazing!"

Nuwa's face showed a perfectly timed look of surprise as her gaze fell upon the stunningly beautiful goddess who had returned from her great dream.

"Hmph, Lord Taisu, you really are going to resort to underhanded tactics."

Meng Wuyou slightly raised her snow-white chin and let out a soft hum that sounded like both anger and resentment.

Her beautiful eyes, which seemed to hold endless dreams, gazed at Nuwa, her face filled with undisguised resentment.

Tai Su Jiu Xiao has always had a deep friendship with each other, and the purest trust they have placed in each other is what they have entrusted to each other.

This is why Meng Wuyou is even more convinced that Nuwa is definitely up to no good.

Just then, a purple divine brush imbued with a rich aura of reincarnation appeared out of thin air, its tip flowing with the Daoist rhyme of the netherworld.

The divine brush moved on its own, writing lines of ancient and weathered innate Daoist script in the void.

"The universe was in a state of chaos, like a chicken egg. Pangu was born within it, and it changed nine times a day. He was a god in the heavens and a sage on the earth."

Between the strokes of the characters, it seems as if an entire era of birth and death has been evolved, profound and weighty.

A moment later, a goddess dressed in a black palace gown, with an elegant and composed demeanor, appeared before the three of them. She was none other than Houtu.

Houtu smiled slightly at Nuwa, her gentle smile carrying a hint of grievance: "Lord Taisu is truly heartless. I had originally planned to cooperate with you in the next era."

She sighed softly, a hint of regret in her voice.

"It seems that this plan will have to be put on hold for the time being."

"Meow~~, Lord Langxiao, please cooperate with me!"

A clear meow rang out, and an ancient Kunlun Mirror appeared in the void. The mirror light flowed, and Yaochi leaped out from it.

She stretched lazily and yawned, as if she had just woken up.

"When falsehood is taken for truth, even truth becomes falsehood; when nothingness is taken for existence, even existence becomes nothingness!"

Yaochi looked at Nuwa with a smile and uttered some seemingly profound but actually nonsensical Taoist words.

"Lord Taisu, you've misrepresented me, but you haven't really misrepresented me either."

"You've wronged me, yet it feels like you haven't wronged me at all."

"So there's actually no cause and effect between us."

Yaochi finally looked at Nuwa, chuckled, and revealed two cute little tiger teeth.

"You think so?"

"That's right."

Nuwa's smile grew even brighter, and she nodded in agreement.

Among the Nine Heavens Goddesses, three supreme goddesses, relying on their own incredible Daoist wisdom, revived from the illusion of their fall.

This scene amazed Fuxi on the other side.

"It seems your organization is not united enough."

He said it with a hint of teasing.

“Unlike us human emperors, who have always trusted me implicitly!”

Fuxi's words were full of confidence, as if the fall of the other human emperors was truly a willing sacrifice for him.

The other emperors didn't really have much ulterior motives towards Fuxi, and this time, they were truly tricked by this good brother.

"Haha~~"

The four goddesses simultaneously turned their gazes toward what was behind Fuxi.

Fuxi's heart stirred, and he slowly turned his head.

He saw a face filled with resentment.

"Brother, your words have truly saddened me."

Emperor Shun held a delicate pagoda flowing with the divine light of the five elements in one hand, and a sword of cosmic light as thin as a cicada's wing in the other.

The moment the Time Demon God briefly ascended the throne of the Eternal Lord, the Sword of Time in Emperor Shun's hand was imbued with a trace of immortal and indestructible eternal aura.

Furthermore, the Great Dao of the [Five Elements Demon God] Little Squirrel is inherently unique, neither proving existence nor non-existence, but only proving the existence between existence and non-existence.

This strange Daoist aura indirectly helped Emperor Shun, allowing him to narrowly escape Fuxi's treacherous scheme.

"Oh dear, Your Majesty, look what you've done!"

Fuxi showed no embarrassment, but instead smiled warmly and stepped forward, placing a hand heavily on Emperor Shun's shoulder.

"If you had told me earlier that you had such a way to save your life, I would have dragged you along to share the spoils. Ah, I mean, to usher in a new era together."

Emperor Shun's face darkened even more.

"Brother, if I had told you earlier, you probably wouldn't have been the first to try and get rid of me completely, would you?"

"No, no, that's not possible."

Fuxi's smile grew even brighter. He patted Emperor Shun's shoulder forcefully, his eyes filled with utmost sincerity.

"You know, I, Fuxi, am not heartless, but rather pure and kind!"

Emperor Shun remained silent and did not speak.

Fuxi, however, seemed unaffected and continued, "Alright, there's no grudge between brothers that lasts overnight!"

He then changed the subject, his tone becoming impassioned and passionate.

"Let's divide up the Pangu Avenue left behind by the other brothers!"

"This isn't quite right," Emperor Shun finally had some bottom line, and a hint of hesitation appeared on his face.

Upon seeing this, Fuxi immediately said earnestly, "All the emperors of the human realm are of one mind."

"Now, what belongs to the brothers is ours."

"In the new era, what belongs to us will naturally belong to our brothers as well."

Fuxi looked directly into Emperor Shun's eyes and asked in return.

"Now that you've taken what your brothers have, do you think you'll abandon them in the new era?"

"Alright, brother, that's enough. I understand!"

Emperor Shun immediately stopped Fuxi from speaking, and a look of sudden realization appeared on his face.

Then, suppressing a pang of guilt, he tearfully "licked the bag" and decisively summoned the Five Elements Pagoda.

The pagoda swelled in the wind, transforming into a five-colored divine mountain, instantly taking away all three portions of the Pangu Great Dao Origin belonging to Emperor Yan Shennong, Emperor Bai Shaohao, and Emperor Hei Zhuanxu.

"Hey, that's more like it!"

With a smile, Fuxi waved his sleeve, and the Hetu and Luoshu appeared, drawing in the three powers belonging to the Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan, Emperor Yao, and Emperor Ku.

On the other side, Nuwa and the other three goddesses also showed no mercy.

They smiled at each other, and each used their unique abilities to divide up the "gift packages" left behind by their other good sisters after their deaths.

In the primordial land of the Great Dao, the bloody battles on other battlefields continue.

Chaos is the furnace, and the Great Dao is the fuel.

Three thousand figures of Pangu were engaged in the most primitive and brutal life-or-death struggle on this boundless battlefield.

On the battlefield in the east, Pangu, the water spirit transformed from the First Dragon, is locked in a fierce battle with Pangu the Phoenix and Pangu the Qilin, both transformed from the Primordial Phoenix.

The body of the Ancestral Dragon spans billions of miles of chaos, each dragon scale resembling a vast world. When it wields its dragon claws, it unleashes the Heaven-Opening Divine Seal, formed from the law of boundless water, which will drag all things into the final void.

Yuanhuang then transformed into two bodies. The Phoenix Pangu was engulfed in the Nirvana Divine Fire that could incinerate all paths. With each flap of its wings, it could ignite a piece of chaotic void, allowing the laws to be reborn in the flames.

Qilin Pangu stood firmly on the fertile earth, drawing upon the boundless laws of the soil to transform into indestructible chaotic divine mountains, continuously suppressing the overwhelming offensive of the Ancestral Dragon.

Each collision between the three causes a violent explosion of the surrounding chaotic airflow, giving birth to countless nascent worlds that are briefly born and then perish.

Meanwhile, on another, even darker battlefield, in a boundless sea of ​​blood, Pangu was engaged in the ultimate battle between Tao and Demon against two golden Pangu statues radiating boundless Buddhist light.

The Blood Sea Pangu, transformed from the Styx Ancestor, had 480 million Blood Gods within it, all of whom transformed into Pangu Demon Gods wielding the Yuan Tu and A Bi swords, forming a Blood River Formation that defiled the world.

As the great formation operated, it seemed to transform the entire primordial land of the Great Dao into his own killing field.

Meanwhile, the golden body of Pangu, transformed from Zhunti and Jieyin, held a seven-treasure tree and swept down thousands of chaotic divine lights to purify the filth of the sea of ​​blood.

The other figure stands on a twelve-petaled golden lotus of merit, chanting Buddhist mantras and using supreme meditation to convert the endless blood god children.

The light of Buddha and the light of blood intertwined.

Each annihilation is as if an era of good and evil is undergoing its final reckoning.

In the Northern Sea, the Feng Shui Pangu, transformed from the Kunpeng, has wings like clouds hanging from the sky, soaring upwards and devouring all laws and energy that approach. With a single flap of its wings, it can unleash a chaotic storm powerful enough to tear apart the Great Dao.

Opposing Him was Pangu, the earth transformed from Zhen Yuanzi.

With the Book of Heaven and Earth as its core, He merged with the chaotic earth veins, transforming into a divine being of the thick earth with unparalleled defensive power. No matter how fiercely the storm raged by the Kunpeng, He remained unmoved.

This is a contest between the ultimate spear and the ultimate shield.

Each clash made the chaos beneath their feet more solid, as if laying the initial foundation for the birth of a new world.

The two suns, Pangu, transformed from Di Jun and Tai Yi, were like two eternal and indestructible golden crows of chaos. Wherever they passed, even chaos was ignited, turning into a golden sea of ​​flames.

Their opponent was Pangu, the Yin spirit transformed from Wangshu and Changxi.

"My lord, I didn't want this to happen either!" Chang Xi called out to Emperor Shenjun, but her Taiyin Immortal Sword showed no mercy.

Meanwhile, on the edge of the battlefield, the holy beings from other sects were also engaged in a fierce battle.

The four-faced Pangu, an incarnation of Brahma, chanted the mantra of creation with four faces, attempting to define a new world law through words.

Pangu, the guardian emanation of Vishnu, wields an indestructible wheel of divine vision. Each time he throws it, he can sever cause and effect and maintain the cosmic order he believes in.

They joined forces to fight against the Pangu Formation, which was formed by the four true disciples of the Jie Sect, led by Duobao, the Seven Immortals, and the Three Immortal Maidens of Sanxiao.

Using the Hunyuan Golden Cauldron as the array's core, they drew upon the power of Heaven, Earth, and Man to evolve the ultimate form of the Nine-Bend Yellow River Array, trapping the two foreign deities within and constantly eroding their Dao essence.

"Fellow Daoists of the Jie Sect, you have quite the appetite!" Brahma said with a smile as he looked at the Jie Sect immortals.

Duobao laughed and said, "The Great God Pangu has given us an opportunity. If we don't take a chance, how can we obtain a sliver of a path to enlightenment?"

Such battles were taking place in every corner of the entire Primordial Land.

There is no right or wrong, no good or evil.

The struggle was purely for the sake of becoming the ultimate creator of the world. This bloody yet magnificent battle lasted for countless years.

After the last, earth-shattering roar gradually subsided...

The entire primordial land of the Great Dao has finally regained its long-lost tranquility.

Of the original three thousand "Pangu" figures, each with a different aura, along with the original four—Xuanqing, Taishang, Yuchen, and Luohou—only eighty-one figures remain today.

They stood silently in the chaos, each bearing the imprint of the Great Dao left by the fallen Pangu.

The divine light emanating from their eyes was hundreds or even thousands of times stronger than before!
They were the ultimate victors in this protracted war that shaped the world.

Yes, he is the final candidate for the next "Pangu who created the world".

Xuan Qing's gaze swept over the imposing figures around him, and a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

"That's enough!"

His voice broke the silence of the void.

"Didn't the Celestial Venerable say that the final victor should be chosen to be responsible for ushering in a new era?"

Among the gods, Brahma's face, belonging to the creator god, carried a hint of relief at surviving a catastrophe and a trace of instinctive doubt.

He asked a question as if possessed.

Upon hearing this, the void fell silent.

The atmosphere, which had just subsided and was filled with killing and competition, seemed to be showing signs of regrouping.

The remaining eighty "Pangu" figures almost simultaneously cast their gazes, imbued with boundless pressure, toward Brahma.

Vishnu was terrified when he saw this.

He quickly stepped forward and kicked Brahma hard in the waist.

"Don't get me wrong, everyone, Brahma is just joking!"

He quickly explained, fearing it would provoke a new round of bloodshed.

The gods then slowly withdrew their gaze, but the atmosphere remained somewhat subtle.

Seeing this, Xuan Qing chuckled and said loudly:

"One era, one way to play!"

His voice was like the supreme pronouncement of the Dao, instantly calming the remaining resentment in everyone's hearts.

"Since the Great God Pangu has resigned himself, we should naturally do something different!"

"What are your thoughts, Celestial Venerable?" the gods asked.

Xuanqing laughed and said, "Eighty-one Pangus created the world at the same time!"

"From now on, we will take turns guarding Chaos."

"Eighty-one Pangus simultaneously creating the heavens and earth?" The gods were taken aback at first, then their eyes lit up.

Immediately afterwards, a meaningful, wicked smile appeared on everyone's face.

"That's a great idea!"

Zu Long clapped his hands and laughed, his voice full of anticipation.

If the saints of the new era want to trace back to the beginning of time, then things will really get interesting!
They will no longer be facing one Pangu, but a full eighty-one Pangus in shifts!

"Then, fellow Daoists, let's begin!"

Xuanqing bowed respectfully to everyone.

"Go and create your own unique new era universe!"

He gave the order.

Eighty-one towering figures of Pangu simultaneously took a step forward.

This step transcends the boundary between nothingness and existence, stepping onto the starting point of a new era!
boom! ! !
At this moment, the eighty-one wills that created the world converged into a primordial torrent that cannot be described in words!

Xuanqing was the first to make a move.

With a gentle wave of his Yuanshi Ruyi, the purest and most primordial primordial energy transformed into the phantom of a heaven-opening axe, which gently cleaved towards the chaos ahead!
There was no earth-shattering roar, only the profound sounds of the nascent Dao.

The chaos before him unfolded to both sides like a scroll, with pure energy rising to become the sky and turbid energy sinking to become the earth, thus giving birth to the most ancient and mysterious "immortal universe".

The Supreme One followed closely behind.

The Tai Chi diagram in his hand slowly unfolded, transforming into a golden bridge that spanned the chaos. The figure of Pangu, the Moral Celestial Venerable, held a carrying pole, one end carrying Yin and the other carrying Yang, and pressed down heavily!
As the two energies of Yin and Yang circulate and the elements of Earth, Water, Fire, and Wind are re-established, a "moral universe" full of balance and order begins to evolve.

The Jade Emperor Daoist, transformed into the Shangqing Pangu, wielded the Qingping Sword, which became a combination of the Four Swords of Zhuxian. With a single strike, he unleashed the sword light of reincarnation, marking the end of all things and the beginning of new life!

The sword light tore through the chaos, and within the destruction, endless vitality was born. A "Heaven-Slaying Universe" full of changes and the chance to seize a sliver of life suddenly opened up!

"Since this is a new era, it's not unreasonable for me to create a true realm of demonic cultivation!"

The demonic Pangu, who was transformed from the Demon Ancestor, wielded the God-Slaying Spear, which transformed into a demonic banner that pierced through the chaos. With a sudden shake, endless demonic energy and the laws of destruction swept out, carving out a main line belonging to the "demonic path" in the river of time and space!

Nuwa, who transformed into Pangu, did not use a divine axe. Instead, she stretched out her slender hands and gently pinched and kneaded the chaos.

Endless light of creation flowed from her fingertips, transforming chaotic rocks into mountains and rivers in her hands, and chaotic energy into birds and beasts. A vibrant and spirit-filled "creative universe" was created by her own hands.

"I'll add some excitement for you, fellow Daoist."

Nuwa chuckled softly and tossed it gently with her delicate hand.

The Nine-Aperture Immortal Stone instantly transformed into a seven-colored stream of light, ignoring the barriers of time and space, and cleaving the boundary between the two universes.

Taishang watched the incoming streak of light silently, without taking any action to stop it.

The Heavenly Secret Pangu, who was transformed from Fuxi, threw the Hetu and Luoshu into chaos. Those two treasures transformed into the most sophisticated cosmic computer, deducing the most perfect cosmic model.

"What era are we living in? Who still wants to seriously cultivate immortality?!"

"If we're going to have fun, let's do something different!"

As he pointed, the chaos before him began to evolve with unparalleled precision according to that perfect model.

"The laws of nature are constant, and mechs can become gods!"

"Flesh and blood are weak and suffering, but the true spirit ascends!"

As Fuxi's decree was manifested, the Great Dao of Heaven began to advance, giving birth to a new universe.

"I want to create a vast universe that proves its existence through 'imagination'!"

Houtu, who transformed into the reincarnation Pangu, used the Purple Brush of Reincarnation as an axe and with a light stroke, drew a boundary between life and death in the chaos.

Then, she began to build her own universe according to her own vision.

"Fellow Daoist, how about lending me some of the power of reincarnation?"

Zu Long suddenly asked.

"Okay!"

With a flourish of her brush, Houtu unleashed a beam of light that seemed to symbolize reincarnation.

"Thank you!"

The ancestral dragon, transformed into the water Pangu, let out a dragon roar that shook the ages.

He rammed his entire body into chaos, using his dragon horns as axe blades and his dragon body as the spine of the world, thus creating a universe of supreme gods.

Do you know what the meaning of the world is?

Do you want to truly live?

The First Dragon transformed into a supreme god and began designing his own new universe.

The phoenix Pangu, which Yuanhuang transformed into, ignited all of its own Nirvana fire, transforming itself into the "singularity" of the Big Bang!
"Where the light shines, all is eternal!"

With a clear phoenix cry, endless flames and light swept out, and a "Nirvana Universe" that was constantly cycling between destruction and rebirth was born.

"This time, we must let the glory of the divine path illuminate the entire era!"

The two suns, Di Jun and Tai Yi, merged into one, transforming into an unprecedented, supremely yang sun that illuminated the entire chaotic void.

"Amitabha!"

Jieyin looked at Zhunti and smiled, "Junior brother, how about we establish a supreme Buddhist kingdom in the new era?"

Zhunti shook his head: "No, no. If all beings can be enlightened, everyone can attain Bodhi!"

“It would be unwise to create a supreme Buddhist kingdom; it would be better to simply build a Buddhist universe to spread the Dharma and propagate the Tao!”

"Good!" The guide clasped his hands together in prayer.

Eighty-one Pangu statues, eighty-one Great Daos, eighty-one completely different ways of creating the world!
Some universes prove their way through force, their laws are rough and direct, and they are filled with a wild and untamed atmosphere.

Some universes prove the Way through wisdom, and their laws are subtle and complex, like the most precise instruments.

Some universes are filled with light and joy; others are shrouded in darkness and silence.

In some universes, time flows at an extreme speed, and countless civilizations are born and die in an instant; in other universes, time is almost stagnant, and it takes billions of years for even a single blade of grass to grow.

At this moment, eighty-one rays of primordial light simultaneously illuminated the boundless chaos!

Eighty-one brand-new universes, like eighty-one dazzling gems, were carefully inlaid on this magnificent scroll called "The Land of the Origin of the Great Dao".

They are independent of each other, yet they are interconnected and influence each other through some mysterious link, forming an unprecedented, magnificent multiverse structure.

Finally, after the eighty-one universes had completely stabilized, the eighty-one Pangu figures withdrew their world-creating power and restored their original divine forms.

They stood outside their respective universes, their eyes met, and genuine smiles appeared on their faces.

"Let's go, the new era is waiting for us!"

Xuan Qing took a step forward, becoming the first to cross the singularity of the era and enter the new era!

"let's go!"

The gods laughed loudly and stepped forward in unison, marching into a new era.

"Huh? No! What about me? What about me?"

Brahma was a step too slow and was stopped by the light of creation before the singularity of the era.

He looked at the gods who didn't turn their heads back, and felt like crying but had no tears.

"Vishnu, Rahu, Amitabha, Cundi, I am waiting for you!"

"You guys really need to come early to relieve us!"

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

Links: [Monthly Tickets] [Recommendation Tickets]

(End of this chapter)