Primordial Era: The Way of the Three Lights and Stars

Chapter 35 035 Merit, the Peril of Humanity

Because it involved directly traversing space, the possibility of encountering trouble or opportunities along the way was very low, so Wei Guang returned to San Guang Island very smoothly.

Upon his return, Wei Guang did not choose to retreat into seclusion for cultivation, but instead began searching for the supplies he needed.

First, Wei Guang collected a lot of tree bark and starfruit vines, and then he found a lot of natural rocks whose main component was calcium carbonate.

The purpose of finding these things is, of course, for the sake of accumulating merit.

Humans have already created all the common things, so if Wei Guang wants to gain merit through creation, he can only do something more complicated.

As it happened, Wei Guang knew how to make paper.

Paper may be of little use to cultivators, since everyone has different methods of conveying the Dao, and something like paper that cannot withstand the test of time is simply not worth their attention.

However, it is still feasible to use it to exchange for merit.

Houses and fishing nets can all be approved by the Heavenly Dao, so paper will naturally have no problem. It's just unknown how much merit it will bring.

After collecting the necessary materials, Wei Guang got to work.

Peeling the outer bark, making lime, boiling the bark...

It is worth noting that even before the paper was made, Heaven began to reward merits one after another. For example, when Wei Guang made lime, or when he made pots and filters, Heaven bestowed merits upon him.

Although the merit was not much, it was still greater than the merit he had accumulated from killing the remnant of the Chaos Demon God.

It was a pleasant surprise.

Every so often, merits would descend upon Sanguang Island, leaving the members of the Jie Sect and even Tongtian stunned. When did Heavenly Merit become so easy to earn?

A year has passed in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, Wei Guang was leisurely lying on a rocking chair in front of the palace, basking in the sun, while on a drying rack not far from him, many semi-finished papers were drying.

It's called a semi-finished product, but it's really just waiting to be dried.

On this day, the wind rose and the clouds surged, and strange phenomena appeared in the sky. Although there was no purple aura coming from the east for three thousand miles, the dazzling golden light of merit attracted the attention of powerful beings from all over the prehistoric world.

Ten thousand acres of merit descended from the heavens.

Among them, three kinds of merit disperse from the main body and eventually fall on the paper that is still drying, turning each piece of paper into a treasure of acquired merit.

The remaining 70% all rushed towards Wei Guang.

Upon seeing this, Wei Guang was overjoyed; the merit he had accumulated far exceeded his expectations. This clearly demonstrates the immense significance of this paper to the future protagonists of the world—humanity itself.

But that's not enough.

According to his estimate, to achieve his goal, he would need at least 100,000 mu of merit. If he relied solely on creation, he would need to go through this process more than ten times.

Wei Guang casually put away the donations and waved his hand to bring the sheets of paper in front of him.

At this moment, Wei Guang was not the only one paying attention to those papers; Tongtian, Laozi, Yuanshi, and even powerful beings from all over the prehistoric world were also watching.

They were very curious about what it was that could attract the favor of Heaven and bestow merit upon it.

Wei Guang picked up a piece of paper and examined it carefully. Although the materials used to make the paper were far superior to those of later generations, it had also received the blessing of Heavenly Merit.

In reality, paper is still just paper; apart from its function of conveying moral principles, it has nothing particularly unique about it.

If there is anything unique about it, it is that, under the blessing of merit, these papers, which have been transformed into acquired spiritual treasures of merit, will not be erased by the water and moon.

In other words, anything recorded on this batch of paper can be preserved forever as long as it is not destroyed by human intervention.

For ordinary people, these papers are absolutely treasures, but for cultivators they are rather useless, as they can easily make a few jade slips that have the same effect.

The powerful figures from all sides roughly understood the purpose of those papers, but it was precisely because of this that they felt frustrated.

There's nothing special about it. How can this possibly earn you Heavenly Merit?

Heaven is truly confused.

However, since the merits were not many, and given Wei Guang's extraordinary status, everyone quickly withdrew their attention and stopped paying attention.

But Wei Guang's actions did not stop there. Now that he had paper, he couldn't forget the other three of the Four Treasures of the Study.

In his spare time from making paper, Wei Guang had already collected all the materials needed to make the other three treasures.

Wei Guang's next target was the pen.

As far as Wei Guang knew, there was a Judge's Pen among the innate spiritual treasures. He wondered if this pen, which was made later in life, could gain the approval of the Heavenly Dao and bestow merit upon it.

All I can say is give it a try.

Even if it fails, it won't waste much time. If it succeeds, it will prove one thing: that merit can be gained not only by creating things that didn't exist in the primordial world.

Wei Guang made a pen in just one month.

There is indeed merit, but not much.

It was this success that made Wei Guangming realize something: the rewards for creation are not based on material possessions, but on technology.

Of course, if the creation did not exist in the primordial world, the reward would be even greater, such as the races created by Nuwa and the Styx.

Once his mind was opened up, Wei Guang continued to develop technology over the next few years, and merits kept descending upon San Guang Island, leaving all the powerful figures in the prehistoric world completely bewildered.

Although the amount of merit gained from each act is small, the number of acts of merit is large.

If he devoted all his energy to cultivation, it wouldn't be impossible for Wei Guang to directly reach the Great Luo Perfection stage. As long as he severed one more corpse, he could directly become a Quasi-Saint level powerhouse.

Is accumulating merit so easy?

However, the attention of all the powerful figures was soon drawn to another matter: the Demon Court, which had been silent for a long time, finally descended upon the earth once more.

This time, however, they did not attack the Witch Clan and made many concessions, as if they were afraid of the Witch Clan.

Their target this time is the human race created by Nuwa.

The 30,000-year protection period granted by Nuwa to the human race has long since passed, but the myriad races of the primordial world still dare not easily attack this weak race.

After all, they were created by the sage Nuwa.

Even if we disregard the monks' reputation, we should still consider the Buddha's. No matter how weak the human race is, there is a saint standing behind them, and ordinary people really don't have the guts to mess with them.

But to the utter surprise of all the powerful figures, the Demon Court actually turned its attention to the human race.

How dare they do that?

Putting aside the fact that Nuwa is a saint, just considering the relationship between Nuwa and the Demon Court, what they should be doing is protecting the human race, not killing them.

Has Di Jun gone mad with demonic possession?

Or is it that, in Nuwa's heart, the human race was not as important as everyone imagined?

No one knows exactly what happened, but we'll find out as we watch. As long as Nuwa doesn't intervene, it means that the human race is easy to bully.

Next, all the powerful figures began to watch the show.

When the Demon Court remained still, it struck with overwhelming force. Countless demons surged forth from the Demon Court, charging towards the human race as if intent on annihilating them in one fell swoop.

Humans will not be slaughtered at will, but the gap between them and humans is simply too great.

With only twenty or thirty thousand years of cultivation time, even if the human race is the darling of heaven and earth, it is impossible for a dozen or so quasi-saints to suddenly appear. Not to mention quasi-saints, the human race currently does not even have a Grand Luo Golden Immortal.

A few Taiyi, and even more Golden Immortals, Mysterious Immortals, or even True Immortals, how could they possibly contend with the Demon Court?

(End of this chapter)