Honghuang: Creation of the Green Lotus, the beginning of the Three Pure Ones

Chapter 96 Chen Xuan explains Laozi's doubts
Just as Sanqing was satisfied with his work.

Surprisingly, he discovered that Fuxi had also taken out two large halls and placed them on the left and right sides of the main hall of the human ancestral temple.

The words "Human Race Wen Hall" were clearly written on the left hall, while the words "Human Race Martial Hall" were clearly written on the right hall.

What Sanqing had not expected was that the two halls were actually top-grade innate spiritual treasures.

This inevitably prompted Yuanshi Tianzun to ask Fuxi directly, "Junior Brother Fuxi, were these two palaces built by you?"

Fuxi smiled and shook his head, "Second Brother, you think too highly of me. I'm not proficient in weapon refining."

"This is the human race's inheritance hall that Master taught me. He asked me to place it on the left and right sides of the human race's ancestral hall."

"Anyone who passes the test in the inheritance hall can become a registered disciple of the Human Sect. As for the Human Sect's direct disciples, they must possess the appearance of Hunyuan..."

Afterwards, Fuxi told the Three Pure Ones and Nuwa the rules that Chen Xuan had set for people. The Three Pure Ones and Nuwa nodded repeatedly after hearing this.

Tongtian even said directly: "When we establish our religion, we must also set such rules. Otherwise, it will damage the reputation of our Qinglian Island."

At this moment, Yuanshi Tianzun suddenly felt something. He waved his hand in front of him, and a stone staircase of 9,999 steps, divided into three sections, appeared before everyone.

"The first 3,333 steps of this stone staircase test your cultivation. The middle 3,333 steps test your perseverance. The last 3,333 steps test your character."

"If anyone can complete these 9,999 steps, they will be allowed to become a direct disciple of the sect."

Regarding this test set by Yuanshi Tianzun, the people present all agreed at the same time. After all, this finally provided a standard.

Finally, Tongtian set up a great fortune formation in Huoyun Cave. The center of the formation was the Kongtong Seal, the most precious treasure of the human race.

As the Qiyun formation was successfully set up, the Fire Cloud Cave also disappeared into the mist, making it even more mysterious.

After arranging all this, the Three Pure Ones said goodbye to Nuwa and Fuxi and went directly back to Qinglian Island to meet Chen Xuan.

As for Nuwa and Fuxi, they would naturally stay in the ancestral home of the human race for a while. After all, the newly born human race still needed their protection.

When the Three Pure Ones returned to Qinglian Island, they immediately met Chen Xuan. After the master-disciple ceremony, the Three Pure Ones took out all the star essences they had collected.

Chen Xuan then instructed Yuanshi Tianzun to refine the origins of these stars into 365 stars according to the corresponding shapes of the stars.

Then he handed it over to Tongtian, who integrated these 365 stars into the Zhoutian Star Array.

To make up for the defect of Tongtian's Zhoutian Star Array, which does not have 365 star gods in charge.

After sending Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian away, Chen Xuan finally spoke to Laozi, "If you have anything to say, just say it. There's no need to hide anything between you and me, master and disciple."

Laozi bowed to Chen Xuan again, and then said: "Master, when the disciple was teaching the human sect to the little junior sister, I felt that something was taken away by the little junior sister."

"Disciple would like to ask Master, what exactly did Junior Sister take away? Does it have anything to do with my future enlightenment?"

As Chen Xuan expected, when Nuwa established the human religion, Laozi really felt that his opportunity was taken away.

After all, in the prehistoric trajectory, it wasn't Nuwa who established the Human Religion, but Laozi. And it was because of this that Laozi was able to attain enlightenment and become a saint. So, in a sense, Nuwa's establishment of the Human Religion was indeed equivalent to depriving Laozi of his opportunity to attain enlightenment.

However, Chen Xuan had his reasons for making such an arrangement. It was absolutely impossible that Laozi would lose the opportunity to attain sainthood because of his bias towards Nuwa.

So he immediately said, "Do you know why Pangu's axe split into three? Do you know why Pangu's spirit became the Three Pure Ones?"

In response to Chen Xuan's question, Laozi shook his head without hesitation, "Disciple does not know, please Master, please enlighten me."

Chen Xuan didn't beat around the bush and immediately said to Laozi, "Because neither Pangu Axe nor Pangu's spirit are tolerated by the Heavenly Dao."

"The Heavenly Dao is worried that one day, Big Brother Pangu will return to the prehistoric world and take away everything that belongs to the Heavenly Dao once again."

"So, under the calculations of Heaven, Pangu Axe became one of the three innate treasures. And Pangu's spirit, also under the calculations of Heaven, turned into you, the Three Pure Ones."

"Even so, the Heavenly Dao is still worried. So, they asked Hongjun, the Heavenly Dao's spokesperson, to accept you, the Three Pure Ones, as disciples."

"Then let you brothers establish three different sects. And the doctrines you pass down will also be different."

"Because only in this way will you constantly argue over your respective doctrines and traditions, and eventually it will turn into fighting."

"In other words, the purpose of Heaven is to keep you three brothers at odds. In the end, they might even go so far as to make you brothers incomplete."

"Because only the Three Treasures of Creation and you, the Three Pure Ones of Pangu, are missing one of them. That's why Pangu will never return, and the Pangu Axe will never reappear."

"And according to the arrangement of Heaven, the human religion established by Nuwa is the great religion you should establish. That's why you feel like your opportunity has been taken away."

"And everything I have done is to ensure eternal harmony between you three brothers. The three treasures of creation transformed from Pangu's axe must also be in the hands of you three brothers."

"Of course, Master's actions will also cause you to bear immense pressure. Perhaps this pressure should not belong to you. This is because this is Master's obsession with Brother Pangu."

At this moment, Laozi finally understood the whole story. He immediately knelt in front of Chen Xuan with a plop.

"Master, the Heavenly Dao plotted against the Father God in this way. Since we, the Three Pure Ones, are the Father God's sons, how can we submit to it out of fear of the Heavenly Dao?"

"So this isn't just Master's obsession with Father God, it's also our responsibility as the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches to Father God."

Chen Xuan smiled as he helped Laozi up. Then, with a look of satisfaction on his face, he said, "Even so, I will not let your opportunity be taken away by others."

"Remember what your master once told you: in the future, the three of you brothers will all lead a single religion, called the Dao."

"Now, there are only a few tens of thousands of years left until you establish your sect. You brothers should start preparing."

"As for which tribe this door belongs to, you should know it clearly without me telling you. So when you have nothing to do, go visit the human race more often."

After hearing this, Laozi nodded to Chen Xuan and said, "Master, don't worry. Wait until the Zhoutian Xingdou formation is successfully completed and sent to the Zuwu Temple."

"The three of us brothers will travel to the human race. We will strive to find an opportunity to establish a religion as soon as possible."

(End of this chapter)