The Ancient Saint Emperor of the Heaven-shading

Chapter 319 The Healer of Tai Sui and the Ten Calamities, The White Grand Sacrifice and the Seven Initiatives

The sea was worshipped, and waves and clouds rose.

On the enormous altar, the two chief priests were suppressed and reduced to playthings in the hands of others.

The appearance of the Hall Master and the sudden defection of the White Lord left the Black and Gray Lords somewhat bewildered, but they also had confidence in their hearts, backed by the plateau, which was enough to ensure their survival.

However, Wang Hongwu's next move truly shocked them.

That special evolutionary path covered everything, the spectrum was shining and transmitting, influencing the evolutionary paths of the Black and Gray Lords. They could sense that the White Lord was occupying their history and reshaping their origins!

"What kind of method is this? Is it part of your own system?" The Black Lord was horrified. Looking back, the White Lord's figure appeared in every scene. Even when he received the baptism of the Origin Matter and ascended to the highest point, the White Lord's figure appeared.

Those white masters then flicked their fingers and scattered another substance, five colors merging together to form a terrifying primordial gold that completely covered their bodies.

"You're corrupting them? Corrupting the supernatural?" Upon seeing this, the Lord of the Guiding Hall was greatly surprised. It was always these chief priests who corrupted others and eroded the system, leaving other Immortal Emperors helpless. How come it's the other way around when it comes to the Supreme Tai Sui?

He is corrupting the eerie Immortal Emperor and occupying the ominous path of evolution. It's outrageous and defies the heavens!

"It's just about saving a lost and misguided immortal emperor." Wang Hongwu said calmly, then turned around and said, "Using the power of the Calamity Earth to deal with the Calamity Earth is the most practical approach."

"To get something for nothing?" Upon hearing this, the Lord of the Guiding Hall understood his plan. One Desolate Emperor would restrain the Ancestors from the outside, preventing the Plateau from paying attention to other things, while another God would become the High Priest from within, gradually eroding and consuming the Plateau, turning it into a Holy Kingdom. Finally, when ascending the Sacrificial Path, it would be a pincer attack from both inside and outside, annihilating all the Ancestors in one fell swoop.

"Don't rush off. Stay here a little longer and act as bait. I'll bring the other chief priests over and deal with them all at once." Wang Hongwu then had a new plan: after converting the two chief priests into his own selves, he would then take down the other chief priests in one fell swoop.

The sea sacrifice and the altar are the best places, isolated from the outside world. As long as no messages are sent, neither the great war nor the sleeping ancestors will know what is happening here.

Upon returning, there will be ten chief priests as one, with only the Supreme High Priest.

With his strength, he could easily deal with the remaining seven. The reason he didn't make a move on the plateau was because there were still several sleeping ancestors there. Making a rash move would only attract attention. The appearance of the Hall Master of the Guiding Palace was an excellent opportunity.

He is a suitable bait.

"You and I, take care of the remaining seven high priests in one go?" The Lord of the Reception Hall wondered if he had misheard. This was too confident. Then he saw Wang Hongwu shake his head. He relaxed slightly and was about to say something when he saw this God say calmly, "It's not you and me, but me. You just need to be the bait."

Just you?
one person!

The Lord of the Reception Hall was taken aback, then glanced at the two supreme beings who were suppressed by God with one hand. His expression gradually became strange. It seemed that it was not so strange. After all, the other party had already reached the pinnacle and was waiting to be sublimated. It was not difficult for one to fight against many.

However, there are also high priests in the Calamity Land with extremely deep foundations and ancient experience, who should not be underestimated. For example, the strongest golden one is so feared that even the Lord of the Guiding Hall is extremely wary of it. It can be said to be the strongest being below the progenitor.

“One person is enough.” Wang Hongwu nodded in affirmation. With his strength, if it weren’t for the high plateau that was holding him back, he would have already broken through the priests himself.

At this moment, the Gray Lord and the Black Lord trembled, their expressions changed drastically, and the outline of the White Lord gradually appeared in their eyes. Their history was occupied, and the source of their own evolutionary path was also polluted by the origin matter. Their entire bodies were covered with a layer of metallic luster.

With the two chief priests occupied, the Lord of the Reception Hall unconsciously took two steps back. The Black Lord and the Gray Lord stood behind Wang Hongwu, each with a black and gray evolutionary path extending from their bodies, connecting with the White Lord to form a trinity of black, gray, and white.

Then, ten fierce totems emerged from Wang Hongwu's body. Two of the totems were directly attached to the surfaces of the two chief priests, covering them and merging them into one to form a completely new totem.

Surrounded by the two supreme totems, the True Dragon Black Lord and the Divine Lime Lord, the Lord of the Guiding Hall couldn't help but exclaim, "You're planning to fuse the Ten Priests with the sublimated Ten Fierce Totems? And then reassemble your battle body, it'll probably be incredibly powerful."

"Next, we just need to wait for the fish to take the bait." Wang Hongwu didn't say much. He sat cross-legged on the altar and looked at the vast sacrificial sea. His human body, which was manifesting the myriad heavens, began to connect with the sacrificial sea and gradually devour it into his body, just like the boundary sea back then, to complete his internal worldview.

With a whoosh, waves surged from the sea, and countless illusions of past and present were reflected within his body, driving the sublimation of the human body and shaping the complete universe.

Gradually, another world emerged within Wang Hongwu's body, which could be seen as a reflection of his current worldview. Even the river of time had a corresponding river of origin, where the chapters of history drifted, mixed with his vision of time and the various events that occurred in the real world.

The heavens, the myriad realms, the sea of ​​boundaries, the land of calamity, the floating earth of the four poles, the burial pit of the Heavenly Emperor, the River of Souls, the ancient underworld, the sea of ​​sacrifice... and even the entire map are combined to form a complete world. These products correspond to the outside world, like a reflection.

In other words, he recreated a 'worldview' within himself that corresponds to the present world. Of course, there are still differences in certain special areas, and it needs to evolve step by step.

This, based on the previous occupation of the origin, gave rise to the corresponding 'Reflection of the Heavens', which is also a divine wonder after the Tai Sui system ascended to the highest level. After that, the innate Great Thousand World was formed, immune to all acquired laws and methods, impervious to all laws and untouched by all calamities. This means that existences born after the origin cannot affect him. Even the laws controlled by the chief priest cannot harm him. Only the evolutionary path above time and space can have an impact.

Therefore, the two high priests' use of supernatural powers could not harm him in the slightest, and had no effect. Only the pure collision between the evolutionary path and the physical body could cause damage. But when it comes to the physical body, who has he ever been afraid of? His invulnerability to all laws combined with his invincible physical body created his terrifying combat power. Even if the next seven high priests came out together, he could suppress them all by himself.

As the sacrificial offerings from the sea continuously flowed into his body, Wang Hongwu's physical body grew stronger and stronger. He even used the divine power of the sacrificial bowl to revive the Dao and systems within the 'myriad realms' and 'great worlds' that had been sacrificed to, integrating them into his internal worldview.

If outsiders knew, they would probably be astonished to discover that the sea ritual is being gradually revived and restored to its former glory.

If this were to be fully completed, it would be far more vast and terrifying than the original sea sacrifice.

Behind him lies the highest form of the Tai Sui system, the final realm after freedom: Tai Sui!

The Grand Duke Jupiter (Tai Sui) is the master of the year, the leader of all gods, and in charge of good and bad fortune, cause and effect, and the extinction of karma.

Upon reaching this realm, the causal power previously gathered transforms into a compass. As the pointer rotates, it traces countless causal lines, controlling the arising and ceasing of causes and conditions throughout eternity. With a flick of the finger, one can transfer the fruits of an enemy's arduous cultivation to oneself, or transfer one's own calamities to an enemy to share the burden. Even the most supreme beings cannot escape this.

What is even more special is the characteristics and essence of this field, which is sublimated from the system concept of "stealing from heaven and earth to heal the people, and healing the people to nourish heaven and earth". In order to heal heaven and earth, one must first carry all diseases. Only by experiencing and understanding these diseases of heaven and earth can one resolve them and make them one's own, thereby healing and nourishing them.

During cultivation, one needs to gather the 'ailments' of different great sacrificial years, accommodate those calamities and illnesses, become a balancer between life and death, take the suffering of the heavens as food, take the great calamities of the world as medicine, and take healing the world as cultivation.

When one achieves enlightenment, one is both the source of all calamities, diseases, and misfortunes in the world and the cure for them. One is both the lesion and the catalyst, bearing all the calamities of the past and present, and transforming into a panacea for saving the world from suffering.

It aligns with both the concept of Tai Sui and the cultivation philosophy he created.

When the power of Tai Sui is in its proper phase, it can heal the world, resolve calamities, and eliminate great sacrifices. However, when it reverses, it can also cause all the heavens to fall ill, and cause all paths to show signs of decay and disease. It is the source of all diseases and also the origin of healers.

The symptoms he now suffers from are black blood, gray mist, and white light:
The Black Blood Burns the Dao, causing the foundation of one's Dao to ooze viscous black blood. This blood possesses the power to burn away all Daos and erode one's own laws. The White Fiend Withers and Flourishes, this calamity cycles through life and death in an instant, causing one's mind to collapse, the Great Dao to wither, the true spirit to decay, and to turn into nothingness. The final gray mist of eternal silence causes one to dissipate one's power and return to nothingness, decomposing one's physical body, primordial spirit, and even power into mist and expelling them until they are forgotten by all worlds.

Ten ominous substances are ten kinds of illnesses, the 'Ten Calamities'!
After he has enlightened and taken over the remaining chief priests, he will naturally be able to complete these tasks and then achieve complete perfection, enough to begin attempting the path of sacrifice.

At this moment, Wang Hongwu was surrounded by the sacrificial sea, his breath carrying the remnants of an era, his exhalations all being the burning dust after the distortion of space and time. His immortality was even more terrifying than that of other supreme beings, and he had become one with the diseases of the Great Thousand Worlds; this meant that as long as the calamities did not end, as long as there were ominous substances, he would never perish!
Even eternal silence cannot completely extinguish him, because there are still evolutionary paths for ominous substances in the world. Unless the progenitor intervenes and completely destroys and obliterates the corresponding five ominous substances and evolutionary paths, but among them, there are also five people closely related to this. It is necessary to kill those five progenitors as well to have any impact. Therefore, he is fearless and has ample confidence. The Supreme One cannot possibly defeat the Sacrificial Path, but the Sacrificial Path is also truly difficult to kill him. Among the strange phenomena, it can be considered a legitimate strange phenomenon.

"The heavens are in turmoil, but I remain eternally silent; all paths roar, but the void is utterly still."

Wang Hongwu murmured softly, and as the sea sacrifice within his body was successfully completed, he slowly stood up, entered the past, and appeared in the heavens!
He came here to receive the supreme matter from the heavens, so that the ten totems could be promoted and transformed. After all, the ten supreme beings left behind ancient scriptures and matter, and now the totems can also serve as a channel to guide them back.

In an instant, Wang Hongwu entered a vast world. The mountains and rivers remained, but the entire world was deathly silent. There were ancient stone tablets and relics under the grass, and large areas of the mountains were broken. The atmosphere was quite mixed. In addition to the essence of heaven and earth, there was also death energy, and even strange substances, with wisps of ominous power swirling around. The scenery of one corner of the land was enough to represent the entire heavens.

This is the heavens after the great sacrifice, and only beings at the end of the path can see the true world of the heavens; even the Dao Ancestor has no ability to see through it.

"Tai Sui, you have finally arrived. Although the heavens have been sacrificed, your success with Huang is the best hope, and we can still continue." At this moment, a voice rang out, transforming into a woman in a black dress, who was Luo Di.

Wang Hongwu glanced at her and said, "Luo, after the grand sacrifice, only you and Menghai will remain, while Heaven and all the heavens will perish together?"

"That's right. Later, Huang made his move and reflected everything again. Before, when we promoted the birth of the Lord of All Heavens, we also wanted to introduce the power of all heavens and ask the will of all living beings to enter the heavens. But later we gave up because we felt it was inappropriate. What you see now is the result of Meng Hai and I struggling to hold on. Waves have risen from the river of time, reflecting the present world from ancient times." Emperor Luo explained that the heavens of today are all reflections of the heavens.

Wang Hongwu understood; everything was largely in line with what he knew. At the end of the Chaotic Ancient Era, after he left, the first attack by the Primordial Ancestor was repelled. In the subsequent attacks, the Heavens were defeated, resulting in widespread suffering and bloodshed. More than 80% of the beings of all races perished, and only two experts at the End of the Path level remained.

"Sister, you're still here. That small preparation back then has become a crucial link." At this moment, Luo Di suddenly looked at the seed deep within his body, one of the contingency plans left by the heavens back then!

Corresponding to the pollen emperor's seed, it was always carried by Wang Hongwu, rising and falling in the cycle of reincarnation, and stored in the sacrificial bowl, isolating it from all external connections, thus avoiding the great sacrifice.

This also means that the progenitors did not perish forever, and her condition was even much better than in the original history.

Wang Hongwu quickly understood the cause and effect and couldn't help but laugh. This was a good thing. If the Pollen Emperor had a chance to return, then he would have another powerful assistant at the level of a sacrificial priest.

"Luo, so many eras have passed, it must have been very difficult to sustain this." Then, the Pollen Emperor emerged from the seed. She was indeed a woman with loose hair, her true face obscured, yet she aroused the imagination, making one involuntarily believe that she was the most beautiful woman in the world.

However, she was not in good condition. There was an ancient coffin looming behind her, very far away and not clearly visible.

"This calamity is ultimately unavoidable. The grand sacrifice took place in the heavens. The eight fellow Daoists who died each left a mark, and they also had a backup plan back then, handing over ten corresponding scriptures and materials to God. Now, through His hands, they can recreate stability and not be affected by misfortune. Meng Hai and I also reflect the heavens and reenact the past, hoping to turn the illusory into the real, and at the same time guide the other fellow Daoists at the end of their path to revive and return."

Luo Di revealed the truth: Wang Hongwu's fusion of the material with the chief priest and the totem did not affect the return of the other eight supreme beings; on the contrary, it was helping them. Then, she took out the things that the eight supreme beings had prepared back then and handed them to Wang Hongwu.

The next moment, the remaining eight Ten Fiend Totems appeared, taking over and beginning their transformation.

"The rest I entrust to you and Huang." Luo Di bowed to Wang Hongwu. At present, she and Meng Hai were guarding the heavens and had no time to attend to other matters. Hua Fen Di also bowed gracefully. "I'm afraid I will have to trouble you for some more time."

"It's alright. With your help, my plan can avoid some unexpected situations. After all, the other high priests aren't fools. They will all come up with some backup plans related to the progenitor. I can use your power to resolve them."

Having accomplished his goal, Wang Hongwu was about to leave without delay. In the blink of an eye, he stepped back into the Evil Land, intending to drag the other seven chief priests into the sacrificial sea as well.

When he returned, the other high priests were all surprised. They had all heard about the changes that had occurred at the altar, and seeing the White Lord return alone, they couldn't help but ask, "Something went wrong? Could it be that he and that person really affected the altar?"

The seven chief priests were somewhat uneasy. The changes on the altar were undoubtedly related to the origin of the great sacrifice, a being that even the ancestors had to revere, let alone them.

“Some problems have arisen, and the altar has changed. Perhaps it is a method left behind by that person to help the Lord of the Temple, but it has affected the other two chief priests, who are about to become sacrifices. I have returned this time to ask you all to work together to resolve this hidden danger in one fell swoop.”

Wang Hongwu spoke up, once again making Shi Hao take the blame. There's no need to worry about having too many scapegoats, and the reasons for all the blame being placed on Dangdang are not bad either.

The seven chief priests frowned upon hearing this, but did not believe it immediately. Instead, they began to calculate. Unfortunately, the altar was too strange, and Wang Hongwu's power blocked their way, so they could not calculate anything. Only the false history he had fabricated floated there.

“I know that altar. It is the true place of sacrifice. Anyone who climbs it will be regarded as a sacrifice. The supreme beings of the past, and even the sacrificial beings, were all sacrificed there.”

Even if we went up there, if we were affected, we would become sacrifices.

The most powerful golden high priest spoke, revealing a secret.

Even the most powerful beings at the end of the road in the Calamity Land felt a tremor, worrying that they might one day become sacrifices.
The priests hesitated, but soon the Golden Scale Priest made a decision, looking at Wang Hongwu and saying, "Since Gray has had an accident, you will be in charge of the next grand ceremony. This will be a good opportunity to consolidate our power."

Let's make some preparations first, just in case something unexpected happens.

As they spoke, the high priests unanimously agreed to change the gray high sacrifice to a white high sacrifice!

Those edicts were immediately issued and spread throughout the dark heavens.

In an instant, at the highest point of all the dark realms, a piece of yellow paper was burning and fell from the sky.

"A new era is about to begin. This grand ceremony of the new era will be changed to the White Era Grand Ceremony!" Someone looked at the yellow paper, realized the decree within, and their voice trembled slightly.

"Wasn't it the Gray Era before? Why the sudden change?"

"The Gray Lord has run into trouble, and the stronger White Lord has taken over this era."

The news shocked all living beings, with some even secretly speculating whether the White Lord was too powerful, directly overpowering the Gray Lord and forcibly seizing this era.

Soon, the other chief priests reappeared, each carrying something on them—either a backup plan left by the ancestor or a supreme artifact left behind in the past. They were all taken out, and they were very wary of the changes on the altar. They were even more worried that the Desolate Emperor might have left an avatar there to lure them into a trap!

"Master Bai, let's go." The seven looked at Wang Hongwu and asked him to lead the way.

Although Wang Hongwu was secretly amused, he maintained a serious demeanor and cupped his hands, saying, "Thank you all for your hard work. After this trip, the land of E is sure to prosper. The ten chief priests are as close as brothers and sisters, working together as one. Perhaps there is hope for further progress."

This is the truth.

Pure gold.

(End of this chapter)