Honghuang: Eat a Hunyuan Daluo

Bai Jing didn't stand on ceremony and immediately put away the two supernatural abilities.

"Fellow Daoist Bai Jing, I have another request."

"Fellow Daoist, please speak frankly."

"I implore Fellow Daoist Bai Jing to restrain your disciples and not to exterminate my second brother's followers, thus severing his lineage."

Upon hearing this, Bai Jing smiled and said, "Fellow Daoist Taiqing, are you taking sides?"

"No, if Tongtian's lineage is in grave danger, I will step in to preserve it, at least protecting Tongtian's two disciples."

Bai Jing remembered that in the original novel of Investiture of the Gods, there were indeed two disciples of the Jie Sect who were able to escape their tribulations. One was the direct disciple, the Holy Mother of Wudang, and the other was the nominal disciple, the Golden Hoop Immortal.

Therefore, it seems that this was the work of Laozi.

Having just received two supernatural powers from Taiqing Laozi, Bai Jing felt embarrassed to refuse him directly. So Bai Jing smiled and said, "In that case, I will order my disciples that the Quasi-Saints under Fellow Daoist Yuanshi will not come out, and my Quasi-Saints and Hunyuan Golden Immortals will not directly enter the Tribulation. However, I will not restrict the third-generation disciples."

"That's enough, thank you, fellow Daoist."

Bai Jing nodded, and with one step, he returned from the chaos to Yingzhou Immortal Island.

Bai Jing entered the time field of the dojo and began to study the two supernatural powers. First was "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones". Bai Jing was quite interested in this supernatural power. With this supernatural power, Taiqing Laozi could summon two avatars with similar strength to him. If these two avatars were not present, Bai Jing would definitely crush Taiqing Laozi.

"So that's how it is. This is the 'One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones' technique?" Bai Jing murmured to himself.

At Bai Jing's current level, it doesn't take too long to understand the essence of a supernatural power.

The essence of "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones" is to construct incarnations from three different yet interconnected primordial energies with similar levels of status. For example, the incarnation constructed by Taiqing Laozi is based on the trace of primordial energy from Yuanshi and Tongtian.

This supernatural power is quite useful to Bai Jing, but looking at the entire prehistoric world, Bai Jing's foundation of the 30th grade Chaos White Lotus is already the most outstanding, and he certainly cannot find a spiritual object with a similar rank.

Therefore, the best option for Bai Jing is to construct his avatar using the other four lotus platforms formed from the seeds of the Chaos Green Lotus.

Of the other four lotus platforms, the Karmic Fire Red Lotus is still in the hands of the Styx River, and Bai Jing only asked it for a few lotus seeds; the Merit Golden Lotus was given to Chang Xi by Bai Jing; the World-Destroying Black Lotus has developed sentience and is now in the Demon Realm; and the Creation Green Lotus has disintegrated.

Therefore, the only options are the Karmic Fire Red Lotus and the Merit Golden Lotus.

Thinking of this, Bai Jing had a thought, and a sixth-grade white lotus appeared in front of him.

Then Bai Jing forced out a drop of his own essence blood, which merged into the sixth-grade white lotus. In the blink of an eye, the sixth-grade white lotus had already transformed into the twelfth-grade Pure World White Lotus.

This is what makes the Chaos Spiritual Root so extraordinary; a single drop of Bai Jing's essence blood can cultivate a twelfth-grade lotus platform, regardless of the type of lotus platform.

However, the lotus platform cultivated with Bai Jing's essence blood is ultimately inferior to the lotus platform transformed from the seeds of the Chaos Green Lotus. Although both are top-grade innate spiritual treasures, they have forty-eight restrictions.

However, the lotus platforms formed from the seeds of the Chaos Green Lotus have greater potential and the possibility of further advancement; the twenty-fourth grade is their limit.

The lotus platform nurtured with his blood essence has already reached its twelfth grade.

Bai Jing then summoned Chang Xi and exchanged the twelve-petaled Pure World White Lotus for the twelve-petaled Merit Golden Lotus in Chang Xi's possession.

Chang Xi had long felt that the Golden Lotus of Merit was not suitable for her, mainly because she felt out of place. After all, in the Holy Lotus Sect, whether it was the disciples or the sect leader Bai Jing, they all used the white lotus as a token, while she, as an elder, held the twelfth-grade Golden Lotus of Merit. She always felt that something was not quite right.

Now that it has been replaced by a twelve-petaled Pure White Lotus, Chang Xi felt a sense of relief.

After obtaining the Golden Lotus of Merit, Bai Jing refined another sword formation. The base of this sword formation was a postnatal treasure with 49 restrictions, comparable to a top-grade innate spiritual treasure with 48 restrictions. The 365 flying swords in the sword formation were all high-grade postnatal spiritual treasures.

These flying swords were Bai Jing's previous practice pieces. After being refined again, they were made to shine in harmony with the 365 main stars in the primordial sky, and finally merged with the sword formation.

Once this sword formation is set up, it cannot be broken by anyone other than a saint. If a saint enters the formation and sits in the formation diagram, the power of the sword formation will be even stronger, and it can easily suppress a saint whose cultivation is one level higher than its own.

Bai Jing handed the array diagram to Chang Xi, instructing her to travel to the underworld and exchange it with Styx for his Twelfth Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus.

Chang Xi nodded in agreement.

In just over an hour, Chang Xi had exchanged the Twelfth Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus for the twelfth grade.

Styx was extremely fond of the array diagram that Bai Jing had refined. He himself cultivated the way of killing swords, and this sword diagram suited his taste even better than the Karmic Fire Red Lotus.

Furthermore, the Karmic Fire Red Lotus was his innate spiritual treasure. Over countless years, the Karmic Fire Red Lotus produced many lotus seeds, and the Styx River also cultivated three ninth-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotuses, enough to replace the twelfth-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus.

This deal is a sure win for Styx.

After Bai Jing obtained the Twelve-Petaled Karmic Fire Red Lotus and the Twelve-Petaled Merit Golden Lotus, he used the "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones" method to inject his own essence into the two lotus platforms. He then allowed his essence to assimilate with the two lotus platforms, thus Bai Jing obtained two different yet interconnected energies.

Then, Bai Jing absorbed both the twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus and the twelve-grade Merit Golden Lotus into his body.

The next step is to slowly nurture these two lotus platforms, allowing them to grow and transform further. Once they break through their limits, they can be refined into their own avatars.

Meanwhile, in the Jade Void Palace of Kunlun Mountain.

Taiqing Laozi told Yuanshi Tianzun about the outcome of his battle with Bai Jing.

Yuanshi Tianzun sighed and said, "Thank you, elder brother, for standing up for me."

Taiqing Laozi waved his hand: "There is no need for thanks between us brothers. Yuanshi Wu and Fellow Daoist Bai Jing have agreed that as long as your Quasi-Saints do not intervene, Fellow Daoist Bai Jing will restrain his Quasi-Saints and Hunyuan Golden Immortals. This is the limit of what I can do. You should take care of yourself!"

"Elder brother, can't you come with me?"

"If I stay with you, what will become of my third brother?"

"Tongtian defied the heavens."

"Yuanshi, it's best not to say these words again." After saying this, Taiqing Laozi took a step and disappeared from the Jade Void Palace. Yuanshi Tianzun remained silent for a long time, and finally sighed. He said to the door, "Baihe, convey my order: all quasi-saint cultivators belonging to my Chan Sect are forbidden from participating in the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation."

As for those outsiders, their actions are none of our Chan Sect's concern; let them be.

"I will obey the decree of the sage." After saying this, the White Crane Boy went to convey the decree of the Primordial Heavenly Venerable to the immortals of the Chan Sect.

The decree of the Primordial Celestial Venerable quickly spread throughout the Kunlun Mountains and was also known to those powerful beings and great supernatural beings who intended to seize the Primordial Purple Qi.

Among all the powerful cultivators, the first one to lose her composure was a female Daoist.

She had also listened to the Dao at Zixiao Palace back then, and even asked the Dao Ancestor whether innate spiritual roots could be used to sever corpses.

After the three lectures at Zixiao Palace, she obtained a mid-grade innate spiritual treasure at the Treasure Sharing Cliff. Subsequently, with her innate spiritual root and this mid-grade innate spiritual treasure, she severed her good and evil corpses. Now she has reached the mid-stage of Quasi-Saint cultivation and is not far from the late stage of Quasi-Saint.

A rogue cultivator with the cultivation level of a mid-stage Quasi-Saint is already extremely rare.

Therefore, after hearing that the Chan Sect had ordered that quasi-saints within its ranks not to participate in the Investiture of the Gods, the female Daoist felt that her opportunity had arrived.

In her view, the Primordial Purple Qi should be given to the cultivator who made the greatest contribution to Zhou's conquest of Shang. Now that the Chan Sect has retreated, she should step up and make a significant contribution. So she went to Xiqi immediately to explain her purpose.

Jiang Ziya was overjoyed. After talking with her, they agreed that the female Taoist would appear to attack the city the next day.

Early the next morning, the majestic city walls of Sishui Pass were bathed in sunlight, and the array runes shimmered with a faint light.

Just then, a terrifying pressure descended without warning, and a ripple spread through the void, revealing a female Taoist figure dressed in a gray-blue robe.

Her face was cold and aloof, and her aura was ancient and powerful, without any restraint. As soon as this aura appeared, it transformed into a tangible pressure, enveloping the entire Sishui Pass.

The array runes on the city wall, which were originally indestructible and flowed with mysterious brilliance, began to tremble and twist violently under this pressure, as if they were being hit by a heavy hammer. The rune light quickly dimmed, and then collapsed inch by inch, dissipating into nothingness!
It should be noted that the city wall formation of Sishui Pass was personally passed down by Daoist Duobao, and its sturdiness is extraordinary. Even a cultivator in the early stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm would need to bombard it continuously for a day and a night to barely shake its foundation.

Even a cultivator at the peak of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm would need to exert all their strength and attack repeatedly two or three times to have any chance of destroying it.

But now, this female Daoist, relying solely on the aura she exudes, has caused these sturdy array runes to crumble like paper, clearly demonstrating the profound depth of her cultivation.

Without a doubt, this Kun Dao is one of the most powerful beings in the primordial world, a quasi-saint who is high above all others!

At that moment, inside Sishui Pass, from the soldiers guarding the city to the civil and military officials on the city tower, everyone felt a tremor from the depths of their souls.

Even Yang Jian felt immense pressure.

Existences at the Quasi-Saint level are beyond their comprehension and ability to confront.

It's not just a difference in power, but a chasm in terms of the level of life and the understanding of the laws.

Fear spread rapidly like a tide, and the soldiers who had been clamoring just moments before fell silent in an instant, many even unable to hold their weapons properly.

King Wucheng, Huang Feihu, who was leading the troops to guard this place, was as pale as paper at this moment.

Huang Feihu was a veteran of countless battles, having faced numerous powerful enemies, including immortals, whom he had even fought and killed.

But a Quasi-Saint is a realm that only exists in legends. It is a terrifying existence that stands at the top of the primordial world. Just the pressure that the other party unconsciously exudes makes this peerless general feel that he has difficulty breathing and loses his composure.

Huang Feihu immediately realized that with the current strength of Sishui Pass, even if everyone's lives were sacrificed, they would not be able to stop such a powerful being even for a moment.

Without the slightest hesitation, Huang Feihu suppressed his horror and immediately contacted Grand Tutor Wen Zhong, who was far away in Chaoge, through the jade talisman. He quickly informed Wen Zhong of the critical situation where a quasi-saint had appeared in the sky above Sishui Pass and the formation had collapsed.

When Wen Zhong received Huang Feihu's urgent report, even with his calm demeanor, his expression changed drastically.

With a Quasi-Saint arriving on the battlefield, the situation was beyond the reach of ordinary mortal armies or disciples of the Jie Sect, and the deterioration of the situation far exceeded his expectations.

Wen Zhong knew the strength of Huang Feihu and the others well. Facing a Quasi-Saint, even one in the early stage of Quasi-Saint, it would be like an egg hitting a rock, with absolutely no chance of survival.

Faced with this crisis, Wen Zhong acted decisively and without hesitation, immediately ordering Huang Feihu to withdraw his troops: "Quickly withdraw from Sishui Pass! Preserve your strength! You and your men are no match for the Quasi-Saint!"

After giving Huang Feihu the order, Wen Zhong frowned. The situation was urgent, so he immediately contacted his master, who was one of the direct disciples of the Tongtian Sect Master—the Golden Spirit Mother.

Wen Zhong quickly informed Jinling Shengmu of the news that a quasi-saint had appeared at Sishui Pass.

When the Holy Mother of Golden Spirit heard Wen Zhong's report while she was handling religious affairs on the island, her originally calm face instantly became serious, and she couldn't help but frown deeply.

As a cultivator herself at the late Quasi-Saint stage, she was well aware of the power of Quasi-Saints, so the Golden Spirit Mother hurriedly asked, "Is the one who has come a Quasi-Saint from the Chan Sect?"

"It shouldn't be. If it were Huang Feihu, a quasi-saint of the Chan Sect, he should recognize him."

"It seems that those Quasi-Saints who wanted to seize the Primordial Purple Qi have made their move. Quasi-Saints directly intervened in the Investiture of the Gods, and their influence is far beyond that of a Grand Luo Golden Immortal. Please wait a moment, I need to report to my master." After saying this, the Golden Spirit Mother did not dare to delay and immediately got up and went to Biyou Palace to report the matter to her master.

The Tongtian Sect Leader sat upright on the futon. After listening to the report from the Golden Spirit Mother, he calculated with his fingers.

Then Tongtian Jiaozhu slowly said, "It seems that the deaths of Daoxing Tianzun and Qingxu Daode Zhenjun of the Chan Sect on the battlefield have provoked my second brother! He actually ordered that the quasi-saints of the Chan Sect not participate in the Great Tribulation."

"So that's how it is. No wonder a rogue cultivator, a quasi-saint, got involved."

"Alas!" Tongtian sighed deeply. To the Jie Sect, whether it was the Chan Sect or the rogue quasi-saints, anyone who stepped forward to help Xiqi was their enemy.

The Holy Mother Jinling understood what her master was thinking. She bowed and asked, "Master, should we send someone to deal with this?"

The Tongtian Sect Leader pondered for a moment, gazing intently into the distance, and finally made a decision: "With a Quasi-Saint present, the situation is no ordinary matter. Let Wuyun Xian, Huoling Shengmu, and the Ten Heavenly Lords go to provide support first! Their strength, combined with their array formation abilities, should be able to stabilize the situation temporarily."

Golden Spirit Mother respectfully agreed. Although she was still worried, with her master's instructions, she no longer hesitated and immediately took the order to arrange the expedition for the disciples of the Intercepting Sect.

After watching Jin Ling leave, the Tongtian Sect Leader thought to himself, "Not long ago, my eldest brother and Fellow Daoist Bai Jing confronted each other above the Jade Void Palace. Second brother, is your decision related to them?" (End of this chapter)