Honghuang: Eat a Hunyuan Daluo

"Boom!" The tip of the Fire-Tipped Spear burst forth with scorching flames, burning the dozens of ferocious beasts in front of it to ashes, leaving no trace of their bodies.

"Damn it! Where did these ferocious beasts come from? They're endless!" Nezha cursed as he killed, and in a short time, nearly a thousand ferocious beasts had fallen to his hands.

Nezha's cultivation level is now at the late stage of Taiyi Golden Immortal. He has also cultivated the "Nine Revolutions Profound Technique," a standard skill for third-generation disciples of the Holy Lotus Sect, along with the Thirty-Six Great Divine Powers of the Heavenly Gang and the Seventy-Two Minor Divine Powers of the Earthly Fiends.

Killing these ferocious beasts, whose cultivation levels were generally between True Immortal and Golden Immortal, was as easy as cutting melons and vegetables.

Nezha's easy killing doesn't mean that the soldiers and civilians of the Shang Dynasty could also deal with these ferocious beasts.

Within just half a day of the beast's appearance, the soldiers and civilians of the Shang Dynasty had already suffered heavy casualties.

Emperor Xin, being the human emperor, was naturally aware of this matter. Chaoge was protected by the aura of humanity, and these ferocious beasts dared not approach it. Therefore, Chaoge was relatively safe. However, apart from Chaoge, all the territories of the Great Shang Dynasty bore traces of these ferocious beasts.

"Grand Tutor, what should we do now?" Di Xin asked anxiously.

"Your Majesty, please do not worry. This old minister has already contacted my master, who said that the Jie Sect has sent disciples to the Shang Dynasty to suppress the ferocious beast."

Your Majesty, these ferocious beasts seem to have appeared out of thin air, and their numbers are constantly increasing. It is very likely that someone deliberately released these beasts into the territory of my Great Shang.

This old minister believes that to completely suppress this beast rampage, we need the help of many more people. Currently, the only one in the primordial world capable of assisting our Great Shang is the Heavenly Court.

"Grand Tutor, do you perhaps wish for me, the Human Emperor, to plead with the Heavenly Emperor?" Di Xin asked in an unfriendly tone.

“Your Majesty misunderstands. How could this old minister allow Your Majesty to do something so shameful? The people already worship the gods of Heaven. This old minister can have the people organize a sacrifice to inform Heaven about the rampant beasts. How Heaven handles the matter afterward is its own business.”

After a moment of silence, Di Xin sighed and said, "Fine, then let the people offer sacrifices!"

Wen Zhong breathed a sigh of relief and immediately nodded in agreement.

Actually, it was the idea of ​​the senior disciple of the Jie Sect, Duobao Daoren, to have the people of the Shang Dynasty offer sacrifices. Duobao Daoren believed that since the people of the Shang Dynasty had been constantly offering incense to the gods of the Heavenly Court, the gods of the Heavenly Court had the responsibility to protect the people of the Shang Dynasty.

If the Heavenly Court ignores the people of the Shang Dynasty during this sacrificial ceremony, then Emperor Xin could use this as an excuse to erase all the Heavenly Court's temples in the Shang Dynasty.

If the Heavenly Court sends troops to the mortal realm to suppress the ferocious beast, then in a sense, the Heavenly Court will have taken sides, making many subsequent matters easier to handle.

That afternoon, the people received an order from the imperial court to prepare for a large-scale sacrifice to the gods of heaven.

The following day, in front of each Heavenly Temple, incense was burning brightly. Such a great commotion could not possibly go unnoticed by Haotian, the ruler of Heaven.

Upon learning of this, Haotian's face was filled with sorrow.

"Why does Your Majesty have such an expression?" Yaochi asked tentatively.

"Junior sister, the territory of the Great Shang has been invaded by ferocious beasts. The people of the Great Shang are now offering sacrifices to the gods of our Heavenly Court, hoping that the gods of our Heavenly Court will appear and save the people of the Great Shang from this disaster."

After hearing Haotian's words, Yaochi immediately understood why Haotian was so sorrowful.

To put it bluntly, if Haotian were to send celestial beings from the Heavenly Court to suppress the ferocious beasts at this time, it would be somewhat suspected of siding with the Shang Dynasty. If he were to ignore it, would people still believe in the Heavenly Court and provide incense to it in the future?

"Your Majesty, I believe that the Heavenly Court should send all the immortals down to the mortal realm."

"Junior sister, this is no small matter, don't act rashly!"

“Your Majesty, it is not that I am acting rashly, but if we do not rescue the people of Da Shang now, whether Da Shang continues to prosper or Xiqi replaces Da Shang in the future, the people will remember that our Heavenly Court is unreliable and will not support believers in times of trouble.”

After hearing Yaochi's words, Haotian fell silent.

After a long while, Haotian finally spoke, "Since that's the case, then let's summon all the immortals to the Lingxiao Palace and have them descend to the mortal realm!"

Soon, the immortals arrived at the Lingxiao Palace in accordance with Haotian's summons. Haotian glanced at the gods below and then said, "My beloved ministers, you must already know why I have summoned you here. Right now, the people of the Great Shang are being ravaged by ferocious beasts. Our Heavenly Court has received offerings from the people of the Great Shang, so it is only right that we protect them. Venus."

"The old minister is here."

"You will be in charge this time, assigning the gods of Heaven to descend to the mortal realm to suppress the ferocious beasts within the Great Shang territory. There must be no mistakes."

"Old minister accepts the order."

Then, Venus selected a group of Heavenly Court generals with profound cultivation and expertise in combat.

Even though Taibai Jinxing had the imperial decree, the three emperors Zhao Gongming, Jinling, and Bixiao had no right to be summoned by the emperor. However, the three of them took the initiative to come and descend to the mortal world with the gods of the Heavenly Court.

Yunxiao was somewhat worried about Bixiao. She always felt that the rampant ferocious beasts were caused by someone secretly plotting against her, so she secretly followed Bixiao to prevent her from being harmed.

Soon, the gods of Heaven led a massive army of 100,000 heavenly soldiers and generals to the mortal realm to fight the ferocious beasts.

Maitreya, who was secretly monitoring the ferocious beast, changed his expression drastically when he saw that the Heavenly Court had intervened.

He immediately contacted two saints of Western religion.

When Zhunti received Maitreya's message, he frowned. He never expected that the Heavenly Court would get involved in this matter.

The Investiture of the Gods was originally intended to select talents for the Heavenly Court. The Heavenly Court should remain neutral. Shouldn't the Heavenly Court remain unmoved and watch the turmoil unfold?

Why did they choose to go down and suppress the ferocious beast?
“Junior brother, Haotian has the Haotian Mirror. It’s hard to guarantee that he won’t use it to find out that these ferocious beasts originated from the Buddhist Kingdom of our Western Sect.”

"Senior brother means"

"Close the Buddhist kingdom and stop releasing ferocious beasts. Cut off the source to avoid trouble."

"If we cut off the source, these ferocious beasts will be wiped out quickly, and our plan will fail, won't it?"

"It's alright. Haotian getting the Heavenly Court involved is our biggest gain. If our teacher knew what Haotian had done, he would surely reprimand him. The Heavenly Emperor's authority has been damaged, and it will be easier for our disciples to usurp Haotian's power when they enter the Heavenly Court as gods."

Upon hearing this, Zhunti's eyes lit up: "What you say is very true, senior brother. I will close the Buddhist kingdom here."

After saying this, Zhunti had a thought, and the Buddhist kingdom that suppressed the ferocious beasts quietly closed. Before closing, Zhunti seemed to feel that the number of ferocious beasts was not enough, so he used his magic power to condense a giant hand and grab out countless ferocious beasts, including several ferocious beasts at the Great Luo level.

After doing all this, Zhunti nodded in satisfaction, turned around, and left.

The two Western Saints' subtle actions went unnoticed amidst the surging calamity energy, and the Western Sect disciples responsible for monitoring the ferocious beasts withdrew immediately.

As luck would have it, when Maitreya returned to the Western Sect, he happened to run into Yun Zhongzi of the Chan Sect, who was helping to suppress the ferocious beast.

Maitreya frowned and revealed himself, saying, "What is Fellow Daoist Yun Zhongzi doing?"

"Naturally, we're suppressing ferocious beasts!" Yun Zhongzi said expressionlessly. Maitreya almost choked on his breath. He gritted his teeth and said, "Fellow Daoist Yun Zhongzi, these ferocious beasts are all within the territory of the Great Shang Dynasty. Your Chan Sect is siding with Xiqi. Is it a good thing for your Chan Sect that the Great Shang Dynasty is being ravaged by ferocious beasts? Why do you still need to take action to suppress them?"

"My suppression of the ferocious beasts has nothing to do with my stance; I simply don't want to see the people of the world suffer!"

Maitreya's face darkened further upon hearing this, but he dared not say anything more.

Because Yun Zhongzi's identity is very special.

In the past, before the Sage of Red Cloud attained enlightenment, he walked two paths. One was the path taught by the Dao Ancestor, which involved severing the three corpses of good, evil, and obsession, and eventually merging the three corpses to achieve enlightenment. The other path was to evolve earth, fire, water, and wind to achieve enlightenment.

Initially, the Sage of Red Cloud followed the path taught by the Dao Ancestor, severing his own good and evil corpses. Later, the Sage of Red Cloud learned of another method of attaining enlightenment from somewhere, and then severed his own good and evil corpses.

Although the Red Cloud Saint severed his good and evil corpses, the fragments of his divine soul that were separated could not be retrieved. So the Red Cloud Saint cast his good corpse into the cycle of reincarnation. After countless reincarnations, it eventually transformed into Yun Zhongzi.

Yun Zhongzi was accepted as a disciple by the Jade Purity Saint and taught cultivation. In just one Yuanhui period, Yun Zhongzi had already condensed the Great Luo Dao Fruit and remembered his past in the mortal world.

Yun Zhongzi then began cultivating on his own and is now a late-stage Quasi-Saint. The method he cultivates is the same one that Hong Yun, who took the first path to enlightenment, cultivated.

Putting aside Yun Zhongzi's late-stage Quasi-Saint cultivation, just his intricate relationship with Saint Hongyun alone would make Maitreya dare not do anything to him.

Upon closer examination, Yun Zhongzi should be considered the son of the Sage Hongyun. To attack the son of a sage is tantamount to courting death.
"Fellow Daoist, you have a kind heart." After saying that, Maitreya snorted coldly and turned to leave.

As soon as Maitreya left, Yun Zhongzi looked up at the void and chuckled, "Fellow Daoist, the eyesore has left. Won't you show yourself?"

Yunxiao was clearly surprised that Yun Zhongzi had discovered her, but then she thought about it and realized that all her supernatural abilities and techniques, apart from the inherited techniques in the "White Lotus Primordial True Explanation", came from her teacher, the Sage Hongyun, including the current method of concealing herself.

And this Yun Zhongzi is the former benevolent corpse of the teacher, so he should be more proficient in these spells, which is not surprising that he would find him.

Then Yunxiao revealed himself and landed in front of Yunzhongzi.

"So it is Fellow Daoist Yunxiao. No wonder I sensed something."

"Greetings, fellow Daoist." Yunxiao gave Yunzhongzi a half-bow.

"No, no, no! I cannot accept such a courtesy from you, fellow Daoist. I am who I am, and I have no relation to Saint Hongyun. You are a cultivator at the peak of the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm. How could I possibly be worthy of your courtesy?"

Upon hearing this, Yunxiao shook his head: "Fellow Daoist, you are mistaken. You were originally a fragment of my master's soul. My master, as a saint, did not sever the karmic ties with you, which means he has already acknowledged your identity."

"If that's the case, why are you in such a hurry to sever ties with my master?"

Upon hearing this, Yun Zhongzi fell silent. After a long while, she sighed and said, "Alas! It's not that I want to sever ties with Saint Hongyun, but that I have no choice but to. Now I am a disciple of Saint Yuqing of the Chan Sect."

Saint Hongyun was able to attain enlightenment largely thanks to Saint Baijing. Saint Baijing's Holy Lotus Sect and Saint Shangqing's Jie Sect have always been quite close. In this Investiture of the Gods calamity, the Holy Lotus Sect will likely stand together with the Jie Sect. Given this, Saint Hongyun would probably lean more towards the Jie Sect.

As a disciple of the Chan Sect, if I don't know when to advance and when to retreat, I'll only put Saint Hongyun in a difficult position.

"Fellow Daoist, you see things very clearly."

Yun Zhongzi smiled and didn't dwell on the matter. He changed the subject and asked, "Did Fellow Daoist Yunxiao overhear my conversation with Fellow Daoist Maitreya just now?"

"Fellow Daoist, please forgive me, I did not do it on purpose."

"It's alright, Fellow Daoist Yunxiao. In fact, I had already noticed Maitreya's whereabouts. He has been keeping an eye on these ferocious beasts, as if he is monitoring them."

Upon hearing this, Yunxiao was taken aback at first, then revealed a surprised expression: "Fellow Daoist means that this ferocious beast is related to the Western Sect?"

“Fellow Daoist Yunxiao, please don’t talk nonsense. I have not mentioned any Western religion.”

Yunxiao smiled and said, "Then I saw that Maitreya was monitoring the ferocious beast, and I guess this matter should be related to the Western Sect."

"Fellow Daoist is truly intelligent and insightful; I admire you greatly."

"Fellow Daoist Yun Zhongzi, you flatter me. There is still one thing I don't understand. I wonder if you could enlighten me?" Yunxiao said, changing the subject.

"But it doesn't matter."

"I have only discovered Maitreya, a disciple of the Western Sect. Have you discovered any other disciples of the Western Sect?"

“There seem to be traces of the Eighteen Arhats of the Western Sect in the northeast direction.”

"Thank you, fellow Taoist, for informing me."

Upon hearing this, Yun Zhongzi shook his head: "It was clearly you who discovered it yourself, why thank me?"

Yunxiao smiled. She had long heard that her teacher, Hongyun, was a kind and wonderful person before he attained enlightenment.

After attaining enlightenment, Hongyun tempered his personality considerably in order to maintain the dignity of a saint.

Seeing Yun Zhongzi now, Yunxiao has some recollection of the former Hongyun.

Wanshou Mountain, Wuzhuang Temple.

Hongyun and Zhenyuanzi, who rarely leave their local area, had a rare opportunity to brew tea and discuss philosophy at Wuzhuang Temple.

Today is the time when ginseng fruits ripen. In addition, the world is currently churning with calamity. Staying in the mortal realm for too long could cause us to miss the opportunity due to a lack of information, thus missing out on the Primordial Purple Qi.

That's why Hongyun and Zhenyuanzi left the local area and came to Wuzhuang Temple.

To Hongyun's surprise, just as he was enjoying the fresh ginseng fruit, he sensed Yunxiao and Yunzhongzi meeting.

If it were any other quasi-saint, even Hongyun, as a saint, could not predict the outcome during the Great Tribulation.

But Yunxiao was Hongyun's disciple, and Yunzhongzi was formed from a fragment of Hongyun's soul. The two had countless connections with Hongyun, and Hongyun didn't even need to calculate carefully; he knew the content of their conversation with a thought.

"Yun Zhongzi's personality is exactly the same as mine in the past!" Hongyun exclaimed.

Upon hearing this, Zhen Yuanzi chuckled and said, "Fellow Daoist, the benevolent corpse is the one most similar to the original body. It is quite normal for Yun Zhongzi to resemble you."

"That being said, whenever I see Yun Zhongzi, I always think of my former self. Unfortunately, this kid is unwilling to come to the Immortal Realm, which is really a headache!" After saying that, Hongyun took a big bite of the ginseng fruit as if venting her anger.

(End of this chapter)