Humans in the primordial world, inscribing the Way of Heaven!

Chapter 193 [The Past of the Divine Path, the Cutting of Justice] (Please Subscribe)
Soon, Taiqing Laozi stated his first condition, which was not a difficult thing for Xuan Yin.

Preach!

Help others teach and spread the word!
Not long ago, when Goddess Nuwa attained sainthood for the second time, Laozi Taiqing came to obstruct her path. In order to force Laozi Taiqing to back down, Goddess Nuwa directly issued a decree, ordering the human race to abandon the Golden Elixir Dao, and had her protectors Tengshe and Baixi pass on a completely new method.

The three ancestors of the human race also successfully broke through to the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm during this upheaval.

After that, Nuwa successfully obtained her second certificate and fought a great battle with Laozi in the chaos. The battle ended due to the intervention of Yuanshi Tianzun, but Nuwa did not retract the decree she had previously issued.

Although there are still many people among the human race who cultivate the Golden Core Dao, they only dare to cultivate in secret due to the decree of the Goddess Nuwa.

The methods passed down by the Goddess Nuwa are no less effective than the Golden Elixir Path. However, everyone's physique is different. Some humans are suited to cultivating the Path of Creation, while others are more suited to the Golden Elixir Path.

After all, Laozi of Taiqing had the grace of passing on his teachings to the human race, and the three ancestors had also benefited greatly. Xuan Yin was still very confident in persuading them to vindicate the Human Teachings and to spread the Golden Elixir Dao among the human race again.

But the key to the problem lies with the goddess Nuwa. If we can persuade her to set the record straight, it will be a piece of cake.

In Xuan Yin's view, this was not a big deal. It was normal for saints to fight each other. One moment they were fighting to the death, and the next they chose to join forces. This happened from time to time in the Primordial Realm.

Nuwa didn't really want to ban human religion, but rather wanted to force Taiqing Laozi to give in. It all depended on whether Taiqing Laozi was willing to bow down!

The difference between the two sides might just be a step. If Taiqing Laozi were to lower his head slightly, Nuwa would naturally stop making things difficult for the Human Sect.

Xuan Yin readily agreed.

Having figured out the key point, he was still very confident in persuading the Goddess Nuwa.

Furthermore, while fortune is not important to sages, the cultivation of their disciples is inseparable from the support of a massive amount of fortune!
Xuandu was already half a step into the Great Luo realm, but the reason he hadn't broken through was because Nuwa had severed the source of the Human Sect's fortune last time.

If he breaks through at this time, there is a high possibility that some unexpected things will happen.

Taiqing Laozi was naturally aware of this, and after some deliberation, he decided to act as an intermediary between the Human Sect and the Goddess Nuwa.

Seeing that Xuan Yin had agreed, Taiqing Laozi then took the opportunity to propose a second condition.

"Go and kill Hongjun!"

The words of Taiqing Laozi echoed in Xuan Yin's mind like thunder from the heavens, to the point that he felt he was hallucinating.

"what?"

After a long while, he finally came to his senses, pointed at himself and said, "Me, kill Hongjun? Uncle-Master, are you joking with me?"

He and Dao Ancestor Hongjun were not even in the same league. Even if Xuan Yin borrowed the power of the Earthly Dao Fruit, Water Dao Fruit, and Fire Dao Fruit all at once, he still couldn't withstand a single glance from Dao Ancestor Hongjun!

The saying "All men are but ants beneath the sage" is not just a simple statement!

He hit Hongjun...

Guaranteed to die!
Upon hearing this, Taiqing Laozi couldn't help but laugh and said, "This old Daoist is not joking with you! Don't worry, I'm not asking you to deal with that Dao Ancestor who merged with the Heavenly Dao, but rather the mark he left behind in the era of the Divine Dao!"

Upon hearing Laozi Taiqing's words, Xuan Yin felt as if he were courting death, and hurriedly said, "Even a Great Luo Golden Immortal can achieve eternal proof, let alone the Dao Ancestor who is one with the Heavenly Dao. What difference is there between his imprint and his original form that has become a Heavenly Dao Saint?"

Even the Ziwei Emperor and the Three Ancestors of the Human Race could take over at any time. In his eyes, a mark left by Dao Ancestor Hongjun was no different from the original.

Taiqing Laozi immediately laughed and said, "Under normal circumstances, there is indeed no difference! But that is the causal imprint that was once abandoned by the Dao Ancestor!"

"Hongjun is the ancestor of the immortal path, while Di Hong is the master of the divine path, and is the successor chosen by the Heavenly Emperor Cangli!"

"The Three Sovereigns of antiquity transformed into the Dao, and the divine path collapsed. All the causes and effects should have been buried there, but the Dao Ancestor was the one who carried on the legacy and ushered in the future!"

"The innate divine path is born from the authority of heaven and earth, but there is only so much authority in the primordial true world, which means that the divine path does not have universality!"

"The gods of that time did consider developing the acquired divine way, using incense and the power of prayer to construct their own divine kingdom and divine body!"

"But the incense is poisonous!"

"In the hearts of all living beings, there are endless desires, both good and bad. The ancient era was a time of wild growth, when there was little order. After the Three Sovereigns attained enlightenment, the only order that remained collapsed and perished along with them!"

"In that era, many cultivators of the divine path, in their attempts to explore the acquired divine path, were instead corrupted by the desires in the hearts of all living beings!"

"The Dao Ancestor is the same!"

"He knew very well that the path of acquired divinity was a dead end. At least at that point in time, before the order of the Heavenly Dao was established, the so-called path of acquired divinity had no possibility of being promoted!"

"Therefore, he abandoned the path of divinity, opened up the Great Luo realm, and laid the foundation for the immortal path system. Later, he tried to use the method of severing the three corpses to cut off his own divine karma, but things cannot be accomplished overnight!"

"He failed many times!"

"Before officially confirming that the method of severing the three corpses is to sever the three corpses of good, evil, and attachment, he also tried to sever the seven emotions and six desires, the three poisons of greed, anger, and ignorance, his own karma, and some other superfluous things!"

"After that, he became a saint, merged with the Heavenly Dao, and used some mysterious methods to bury the many karmic imprints belonging to Di Hong!"

"Of course, you can also interpret it as... a just cut!"

Although Dao Ancestor Hongjun established the Immortal Dao system, bringing blessings to billions of living beings in the Primordial True Realm, he was, after all, the successor chosen by Emperor Cangli! His feat of abandoning the Divine Dao and establishing the Immortal Dao was undoubtedly a betrayal of the Divine Dao and Emperor Cangli in the eyes of some powerful beings in the Divine Dao.

When he opened up the Great Luo Realm, he also encountered many opposing voices!
For example, the first sun god Zhuzhao, the first moon god Youying, the first five emperors, and some other powerful deities with illustrious reputations.

The rise of the Immortal Path will undoubtedly diminish the influence of the Divine Path, just like reforms, which will affect the interests of many powerful beings in the Divine Path.

At that time, Dao Ancestor Hongjun also fought with his former comrades, and even had to kill many powerful gods when he had no other choice.

Before the great war between Dao and Demon, and before Hongjun became a saint, there were people suppressing the Immortal Path.

It wasn't until he became a saint and invincible in the Primordial True Realm that the dissenting voices subsided. Some even took the initiative to propose cultivating both the divine and immortal paths, achieving the Taiyi rank twice, and increasing their own foundation.

The decline or rise of a cultivation system is never instantaneous; it is often accompanied by blood and fire that stretches across an endless timeline!

"I see!"

Listening to Laozi's explanation, Xuan Yin suddenly realized: "Those who were buried are probably those that the Dao Ancestor did not want to face!"

but……

He still had many doubts in his mind.

For example, why did Laozi of Taiqing want to eliminate the Dao Ancestor and discard the imprint of the divine era? Why did he have to do this himself?

Taiqing Laozi continued, "Although in the eyes of many powerful figures in the divine path, the Dao Ancestor who opened up the immortal path is undoubtedly a traitor to the divine path, it is an indisputable fact that he was the successor personally chosen by the Cangli clan, and he held unparalleled weight in the era of the divine path!"

"Haotian wanted to command all the gods, and Yuanshi wanted to prove the source of immortality and divinity. The divine imprint left by the Dao Ancestor was an insurmountable mountain for them!"

"Having said so much, with your wisdom, you should understand now!"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yin suddenly realized that the predecessor of Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Emperor Hong, was the ancient divine successor appointed by Emperor Cangli.

He disagreed, arguing that neither Haotian, who wanted to command all gods, nor Yuanshi, who wanted to prove the origin of immortals and gods, could be considered legitimate!
Since ancient times, there have only been two methods of inheritance: one is succession by order of succession, and the other is to erase the mark of the former.

The Dao Ancestor Hongjun buried a portion of the karma belonging to the divine path, and without that karma, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable would never have been able to achieve the source of immortal and divine power.

"Investiture of the Gods..."

In Xuan Yin's view, the divine karma on Hongjun's body can already be divided into two!

The vast majority of them were incorporated into the Investiture of the Gods and into the origin of the Heavenly Dao. Only by re-establishing the titles of the gods can this cause and effect be resolved.

Another part was buried in the river of time along with the divine era by him using his great magical power, along with Emperor Hong's divine imprint.

but……

Xuan Yin still has a few problems.

"If that's the case, why don't the eldest or second eldest master take action personally... to directly erase the divine mark left by the Dao Ancestor?"

"Furthermore, even the mark abandoned by the Dao Ancestor probably possesses top-tier divine cultivation, which is beyond what I, a mere Taiyi, can handle, right?"

There was another question he didn't voice. Although Taiqing Laozi said with certainty that it was a mark abandoned by the Dao Ancestor, since it was the other party's dark history, who knew if he would secretly keep an eye on it?

after all……

Everything has two sides. It is a fact that the Dao Ancestor opened up the path of immortality and brought blessings to all living beings. However, it is also an undeniable fact that he betrayed the path of gods and turned against his former friends in order to promote the immortality system.

The waters of the Primordial True Realm are exceptionally deep. What if he goes through countless hardships to finally reach the so-called Emperor Hong, only to find that the Emperor Hong before him has been replaced by the Dao Ancestor?
Should we prepare a method of death first?
Or should we go up and kowtow to the Dao Ancestor?

"Grandmaster!"

"My reverence for you is like a surging river, never-ending. To mark you with such a mark is truly not my intention!"

"It's all that old geezer Taiqing's fault! He's so rebellious, he forced me to do it!"

Xuan Yin had already roughly imagined the scene: if Dao Zu didn't kill him directly, he would have no choice but to hug Dao Zu's leg and cry his heart out!
Taiqing Laozi responded, "Because there is ultimately a karmic bond between me and the Dao Ancestor, established in Zixiao Palace!"

"If I were to attack the Dao Ancestor's mark, it would inevitably appear as a great act of rebellion!"

"As for the cultivation level of the branded..."

"It's roughly the Saintly B realm of the Divine Path, equivalent to the Quasi-Saint of the Three Corpses in the Immortal Path!"

"However, a brand is just a brand after all, like a floating duckweed on water, without any foundation. Its combat power should not be comparable to a true Quasi-Saint with Three Corpses!"

"I estimate he's slightly stronger than a Quasi-Saint with two corpses!"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Yin's lips twitched involuntarily: "Senior Uncle! This junior is merely a Taiyi Golden Immortal, how could I possibly deal with the Dao Ancestor's mark?"

You'd better find someone else!

When it comes to Dao Ancestor, nothing is simple. Xuan Yin also has many secrets, and he doesn't want to get himself involved directly!
If he could, he naturally wouldn't want to get involved in matters related to the Dao Ancestor!
(End of this chapter)