Primordial Era: I, Hongyun, take charge of the literary path

Speaking of incarnation, who is the expert in incarnation?

The first one is Hongjun. Hongjun's method of severing the three corpses to become a saint is definitely a top-level incarnation method.

The Three Corpses are more independent than Water Cloud, Fire Cloud, and Wind Cloud in relation to Red Cloud.

For example, regarding the relationship between Dongwanggong, Donghuadijun, and Lü Dongbin, Donghuadijun is the benevolent form of Dongwanggong, and Lü Dongbin is the reincarnation of Donghuadijun.

Donghua Dijun is the benevolent corpse of Dongwanggong, but after Donghua Dijun died as an incarnation, he was able to reincarnate as Lü Dongbin, which shows how independent the three corpses are.

The second one is Taiqing Laozi, not the Styx Ancestor who claims to have 480 million Blood God Child clones. The Styx Ancestor can only be ranked third.

Taiqing Laozi's benevolent form is Taishang Laojun, and he also possesses the method of transforming one qi into three pure ones. Compared to his master, Hongjun Daozu, Taiqing Laozi can be considered to have surpassed his master.

As the benevolent form of Taiqing Laozi, Taishang Laojun took the art of incarnation to an extreme.

When talking about Zhenwu the Great, most people know that he is the 82nd incarnation of Laozi, who was born as the crown prince of Jingyue Kingdom.

The True Martial Emperor cultivated in Wudang Mountain (formerly known as Taihe Mountain) for forty-two years, and after achieving perfect enlightenment, he ascended to heaven in broad daylight. The Jade Emperor then bestowed upon him the title of Xuanwu God who guards the north, with the honorific title "Xuantian Shangdi" and renamed Taihe Mountain to Wudang Mountain, meaning "only Xuanwu is worthy of this title".

Some might ask, since the avatar is highly autonomous, won't it become uncontrollable? Hongyun can only say, "What you gain, you will inevitably lose." Nothing is perfect.

Of course, Hongyun was also on guard.

Considering the potential for discord among the Three Pure Ones in the future, Hongyun planned from the beginning that the Way of Literature, the Way of Alchemy, the Way of Weapons, and the Way of Array Formation would not be in conflict, but rather compatible with each other.

It's like starting a business or company, where everyone shares the same goal and works together towards a common purpose. Even if there are some conflicts, they are manageable.

Red Cloud hasn't figured out how to plan the foundation of Blood Cloud's Great Dao yet, but he's first ruling out the Innate Dao.

The innate way has certain limits. Without the Primordial Purple Qi, the highest limit is only the Quasi-Saint Perfection.

In the myths of the past, Zhen Yuanzi, west Wangmu, Randeng, Tathagata, and others were all stuck at this level.

Like Hongyun and the others, Xueyun will definitely choose the path of acquired knowledge, but the paths of literature, alchemy, weapon crafting, and formation have already been assigned. What should Xueyun choose?

Hongyun thought of the Way of the Sword, and then of the various schools of thought in the pre-Qin period. Their ideas were the seeds of the Way, from which the Way of Mohism, the Way of Confucianism, the Way of Military Strategy, and so on could be extracted.

The Mohist Way, the Confucian Way, the Military Way, and other schools of thought are deeply connected with the Literary Way. In Hongyun's view, these schools are all based on the Literary Way and can be regarded as branches of the Literary Way.

Confucianism and Taoism are undoubtedly the largest branches of literature and Taoism, and in later generations they became the only prominent schools of thought.

As his incarnation, Xueyun was deeply influenced by him. After thinking about it, Hongyun decided to let Xueyun follow the Confucian path. When a great path reaches its depths, it will inevitably branch out and spread. The Confucian path is the first branch of the literary path.

If Xueyun were to prove the Dao through Confucianism in the future, with this example, and Hongyun were to spread the ideas of the various schools of thought, countless cultivators would contribute to the development of literature and the Dao.

Having determined the general direction of Confucianism and Taoism, Hongyun began to organize his thoughts with the help of the Wenyun Tulu (Illustrated Record of Literary Fortune), selecting some of the concepts of literature and Taoism and adding his own understanding to form a general outline.

This process will take a long time, but Blood Cloud Avatar is not in a hurry to break through, after all, his physical body is not yet at the Taiyi Perfection stage, and it will not be too late to wait until after the decisive battle of the three races.

The location where the Blood Cloud Incarnation was situated was safe enough, so Red Cloud decided to let him stay there until the Great Tribulation ended.

On the other side, after finishing his cultivation, Blood Cloud Avatar began to study the black bead he had unexpectedly obtained.

Hongyun sent a wisp of his divine sense into the black bead, attempting to break the restrictions within it, but each attempt was met with an ancient force trying to erode him.

But Hongyun also discovered that, after being constantly refined by the phoenix tree, that ancient power was weakening, and the phoenix tree seemed to be constantly purifying and absorbing that power.

That ancient power could erode the red cloud because of the red cloud's cultivation level, but it could not erode the phoenix tree because the phoenix tree's rank was high enough, and its magical energy alone was comparable to that of a Primordial Golden Immortal.

The red cloud tested it time and again, but the ancient power weakened with each attempt until it disappeared completely, and the black bead turned into a glittering golden bead.

Hongyun attempted to refine the golden pearl, a top-grade acquired spiritual treasure called the Devouring Yuan Pearl.

The Devouring Essence Pearl is an extremely ruthless spiritual treasure that can devour the essence of all living beings and nourish itself, somewhat similar to the Devouring Heaven Demon Jar of the Ruthless Great Emperor.

While refining the first acquired restriction on the Devouring Yuan Pearl, Hongyun learned about the era in which the Devouring Yuan Pearl once existed.

That was the seventh great calamity before the great calamity of ferocious beasts. The owner of the Devouring Yuan Pearl was a peerless and extraordinary Grandmaster of the Primordial Golden Immortal level from that era, named the Devouring Ancestor.

This Devouring Ancestor cultivates the Great Dao of Devouring, and is said to be able to devour the heavens and the earth, devouring everything, including the fortune of others, and turning it into his own.

Because the Great Dao of Devouring Ancestor was too domineering and vicious, it was besieged by many powerful figures at the time, and eventually perished in an ambush.

Upon seeing this, Hongyun raised an eyebrow. Those people didn't think that the Devouring Ancestor's Dao was too insidious; rather, they were afraid that they would also be devoured by the Devouring Ancestor, so they killed him when he grew stronger.

However, it is clear that the Devouring Ancestor is not the Ruthless Great Emperor, and cannot suppress an era. In the end, he ended up in a mess. But the Primordial Golden Immortal is still the Primordial Golden Immortal. Even though he has been dead for countless years, he can still plan for the future.

There weren't many who cultivated and devoured the Great Dao in the primordial world. Hongyun thought of one person, the second being born from the Blood Sea, the Mosquito Daoist (Six-Winged Black Mosquito), who sucked the Turtle Spirit Mother to death during the Investiture of the Gods Tribulation and absorbed the Third Grade Merit Golden Lotus.

The Mosquito Daoist's achievements alone demonstrate the domineering and insidious nature of the Devouring Dao.

Next, as the restrictions were refined, Hongyun gained a deeper understanding of the Seventh Tribulation.

The characteristic of the Seventh Great Calamity is the existence of numerous dynasties. Let's call it the Great Calamity of Dynasties for now. The ancestor of each dynasty is a powerful being at the level of a Primordial Golden Immortal.

In these powerful beings of the Primordial Golden Immortal realm, one can see the shadow of the Chaos Demon God. Even the Devouring Ancestor is no exception, showing the shadow of the Devouring Demon God.

Is the Great Tribulation of the Imperial Dynasty a continuation of the Great Tribulation of Creation?

Hongyun was puzzled. Shouldn't the continuation of the creation calamity be the second calamity? How did it get to the seventh calamity? What happened to the other calamities in between?

In the end, Hongyun refined the 24 acquired restrictions on the Devouring Yuan Pearl, allowing him to unleash half of its power.

With the help of the Devouring Pearl, Hongyun glimpsed a glimpse of the situation during the Great Tribulation of the Imperial Dynasty, but the fragmented information not only failed to make him understand, but also made him more confused.

In his previous life, Hongyun had read many prehistoric novels. In some of these conspiracy novels, figures like Luo Hou and Hongjun were reincarnations of chaotic demon gods. He had a question in his mind.

Are Luo Hou and Hongjun truly the second incarnations of the Chaos Gods? Could they be the third, fourth, or even the seventh or eighth incarnations...?

Through repeated reincarnations, the influence of the Chaos Demon God was weakened and erased. In this life, he walked the path of demons and immortals, and in this life, he regained the title of Grand Luo Golden Immortal.