The Primordial Era: The Mythical Path Beginning with the Jie Sect

Chapter 52 Reincarnation Emerges, Lich Destroyed, Buzhou Collapses, Escape from Timeline, Quantity Transforms into Quality: Refining Essence into Qi
Of the three images in Zixiao Palace, the one representing the demon race has disappeared, leaving only two.

One of them was in a large hall, where the tribesmen were having a heated discussion about the aftermath of the Lich War. This should be the Pangu Hall of the Lich Clan.

Zhou Chen didn't pay attention to that, but instead focused his gaze on another image.

The image shows the figure of Houtu, one of the twelve ancestral witches.

She was seen strolling across the vast, untamed land.

The primordial land has witnessed the slaughter of humans by the demon race, the renewed clash between the witches and demons, and Zhou Chen's act of standing up for humanity. These events have left the primordial land littered with corpses, filled with wronged souls, and desolate with nowhere to turn.

These wronged souls can only wait to dissipate on their own and completely disappear into the world.

Houtu, being the least affected by the earth's turbid energy among the twelve ancestral witches and protected by the earth's laws, is kind by nature, unlike the other ancestral witches who are easily angered and warlike.

At this moment, Houtu felt a pang of pity. The vast land was filled with helpless and tormented souls, and countless corpses had turned to dust.

These scenes inexplicably tugged at her heartstrings, stirring feelings of compassion within her, yet she was powerless to do anything about it.

She wandered aimlessly across the desolate land, lost and confused.

She didn't know how long she had walked, but the sorrow in her heart had not diminished at all, yet it seemed as if something in the darkness was guiding her.

The road ahead is long, accompanied only by the howls and wails of wronged souls, as if a curse is urging her to fulfill some predetermined destiny.

One day she arrived at the Sea of ​​Blood, only to find an even more cruel scene.

Countless wronged souls struggled in agony in the sea of ​​blood, but to no avail.

The Blood Sea, formed from Pangu's navel, is the most filthy place in the primordial world and the sacred site of the renowned Styx Ancestor.

These wronged souls with low cultivation levels are simply unable to struggle out of the sea of ​​blood.

Houtu's arrival also alarmed Styx. He didn't want to provoke these madmen of the Wu Clan, even though he claimed that as long as the Blood Sea didn't dry up, Styx would never die. Even saints wouldn't dare to dry up the Blood Sea, because the karmic consequences were too great; they could bear it, but their disciples couldn't. But these madmen of the Wu Clan didn't care about that. If they were truly provoked, they might do such a thing in a moment of passion. Styx didn't want to test the power of the Twelve Heavenly Gods and Demons Formation.

"Greetings, Fellow Daoist Houtu."

"Fellow Daoist Styx, I wonder why you don't transform these wronged souls into Asuras?"

"Fellow Daoist, you may not know this, but the Asura race is not so easy to convert. There are simply too many wronged souls, and I cannot convert them all."

Styx shrugged with a wry smile. The Asura race was infertile, and he wanted to expand his power, but unfortunately, he was powerless to do so. He could only do his best.

As Houtu listened, her sorrow deepened. She stood there and slowly closed her eyes, contemplating the guidance in her heart.

Styx, standing to the side, also noticed Houtu's unusual behavior.

"Fellow Daoist Houtu?"

Houtu was awakened by the River Styx, but she had already seen her fate. A look of sorrow flashed in her eyes as she looked forlornly in the direction of Mount Buzhou.

"Brothers and sisters, Houtu has found her own path, but she can no longer fight alongside you."

"Daoyou, what's going on?"

Styx panicked a little. Judging from Houtu's tone, she wanted to die! If Houtu died in the sea of ​​blood, would he still have peace?

"Fellow Daoist, if you are alright, Houtu would like to ask Fellow Daoist Styx for a favor."

"Fellow Daoist, please speak. As long as Styx can do it, I will naturally help," Styx quickly replied.

Houtu took out a drop of her own essence and handed it to him.

"Fellow Daoist, please send this drop of Ancestral Witch Blood back to the Witch Clan and give Houtu a message, saying that Houtu is going to do what the descendants of Pangu should do."

Styx was taken aback, but still accepted the Ancestral Witch's essence blood and was about to say something.

Houtu, however, transformed into the true form of the Ancestral Witch and landed on the Netherworld Blood Sea.

"Heaven above, I, Houtu, a descendant of the Father God Pangu, wish to transform myself into reincarnation to mend the primordial chaos, so that the countless lonely souls and wandering ghosts between heaven and earth may have a place to reincarnate and a chance to be reborn. I hope that Heaven will bear witness."

Rumble

Heaven seemed to sense this, and auspicious purple clouds appeared in the east, creating a dense canopy of clouds.

A magnificent and vast power of the Heavenly Dao descended from the sky, continuously pouring into Houtu's Ancestral Witch True Body.

When a certain level was reached, Houtu's ancestral witch form directly dissolved, transforming into six rotating discs, which are the six paths of reincarnation.

The Wu tribe has no primordial spirit, and after their bodies dissolve, Houtu's aura also disappears.

When a being is born into the Six Paths of Reincarnation, the Heavenly Dao bestows boundless merit, which will directly be bestowed upon them within the Six Paths of Reincarnation.

After all the merits were absorbed into the six realms of reincarnation, a girl radiating boundless compassion emerged from the six realms of reincarnation.

A powerful divine might swept across the entire primordial world, and another saint was born, though not a Heavenly Dao Saint.

"From now on, there will only be the Earthly Path and the Heart, and no more Wu Clan Hou Tu."

After Houtu made her oath to the Heavenly Dao, she created the Netherworld Palace deep within the Netherworld Blood Sea, where the Six Paths of Reincarnation were hidden.

After the Six Paths of Reincarnation entered the Netherworld, an extremely profound power emerged from the Netherworld, communicating with the Heavenly Dao.

"Oh no, the tunnel is about to be born. If we stop it, the tunnel will deviate from its predetermined path."

Zhou Chen shouted from inside the Zixiao Palace.

Although the Dao Ancestor had some doubts, he still communicated with the Heavenly Dao and suppressed the Earthly Dao.

After the situation was pacified, the Dao Ancestor couldn't help but ask.

Why suppress the tunnels?

"The Earthly Path cannot be born into the world. If the Earthly Path is born, it will weaken the power of the Heavenly Path, but it will replenish the primordial world and strengthen it."

"It's a charade now, why bring Him into the world? Besides, Mount Buzhou is about to collapse; we're supposed to weaken the primordial world, so bringing the tunnel into existence would be redundant. Let's wait until we succeed."

Zhou Chen explained it casually.

The Dao Ancestor calculated that, as he said, if the Earthly Path were to emerge, although it would plunder the power of the Heavenly Dao, it would continuously replenish the Primordial World through reincarnation, strengthening its origin and even leading to advancement. But what use is advancement in a false worldline? They are currently working hard to weaken the Primordial World, so they certainly cannot allow the Earthly Path to emerge.

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The eleven ancestral witches of the Wu tribe, disregarding their discussions on the war between the witches and demons, rushed to the Netherworld Blood Sea in anguish and met the current Empress Pingxin. After instructing the Wu tribe to relocate a branch to manage the underworld, Pingxin returned to the Six Paths of Reincarnation. The ancestral witches had no choice but to comply with Houtu's request, then received Houtu's essence blood from the Styx River and returned to the Pangu Palace.

The next step is to proceed according to the progression of the primordial world timeline.

The ten Golden Crow Princes of the Demon Clan, bewitched by the Sage Zhunti, went to cause trouble for the Witch Clan. Ten suns suddenly appeared in the sky, wreaking havoc on the prehistoric world.

This attracted the pursuit of Kuafu, the great shaman of the Wu tribe, but he ultimately died at the hands of ten little golden crows. His true spirit flashed by and disappeared into the long river of time.

"Grandmaster! Isn't this too fake? A great shaman at the level of a Grand Luo Golden Immortal was just kited to death by ten Taiyi Golden Immortals like this?"

Zhou Chen curled his lip and said with some disdain.

The Daoist Master smiled but remained silent.

Immediately afterwards, Hou Yi arrived and, seeing his friend's death, angrily killed nine golden crows.

The last little golden crow was rescued by Donghuang Taiyi, and later, Xihe and Changxi devised a plan to seal its true spirit. It became the mortal Wu Gang on Taiyin Star, constantly chopping down the innate spiritual root, the laurel tree.

Then came the great war between the Lich and the Demon, a war that shook the heavens and the earth. The Wu tribe also used the essence and blood of the Ancestral Witch Houtu to create a pseudo-Ancestral Witch to participate in the war.

In the end, after Di Jun used the Slaughtering Witch Sword to kill several Ancestral Witches, the Ancestral Witches went mad and self-destructed one after another, perishing together with the demon Di Jun, Tai Yi, Xi He, and Chang Xi. A trace of Fu Xi's true spirit was taken away by the Goddess Nuwa, while Kunpeng ran away with the Hetu and Luoshu. Only the Ancestral Witch Gonggong survived, barely clinging to life.

The deaths of many ancestral witches drove Gonggong into madness. Overwhelmed with grief and indignation, he rammed his head against Mount Buzhou.

Many sages didn't take it seriously at all. Not to mention the current Gonggong, even in his prime, if he smashed his head to pieces, he still couldn't break Buzhou Mountain. It was formed from Pangu's spine. If it could be broken so easily, it wouldn't be called the Pillar of Heaven. The weight of heaven and earth is far greater than that of the Ancestral Witches.

There are two interpretations of the name Buzhou Mountain: one is that it is destined to be incomplete, and the other is that it will never be perfect.

These two meanings, though seemingly the same, are actually diametrically opposed. The first is that He is destined to perish, while the second is that He will never reach perfection. Considering His ability to absorb chaotic energy and transform it into innate spiritual energy, the latter should be the mission bestowed upon Him by the Great God Pangu: to absorb chaotic energy and transform innate spiritual energy without limit, thus enabling the primordial world to continuously advance.

To the astonishment of the sages, Mount Buzhou was indeed broken in two. What the sages failed to notice was that at the moment Mount Buzhou broke, a phantom mountain shadow, carrying countless true spirits, vanished into the primordial world.

Mount Buzhou was the pillar of heaven, but now it has broken into two pieces, and the world has begun to become unstable, with the sky tilting to the northwest and the earth sinking to the southeast.

A huge hole appeared in the heavens, and the waters of the Milky Way poured in, flowing into the primordial land.

The waters of the Milky Way are the weak waters of the heavens, so fine that even a feather cannot float on them, and birds cannot fly through them; they are extremely poisonous.

The moment it fell, countless lives perished.

In that instant, the entire primordial world seemed to be paused. Endless, incomprehensible, and ineffable energy enveloped the entire primordial world, carrying it along a certain causal line at high speed, erasing the causal line as it departed.

The instant the primordial world broke away from the timeline, the entire timeline erupted with immense, indescribable energy, erasing a portion of it towards the causal line. After failing to catch anything, it slowly disappeared.

It is unknown how much time has passed—perhaps a period of time, or perhaps a moment—when the primordial world finally broke free from the causal line.

The moment it emerged, the energy that had enveloped the primordial world instantly merged into it, causing a tremendous change in the entire primordial world, and everything became real.

But before the people inside Zixiao Palace could rejoice, an indescribable, ineffable, and overwhelming aura enveloped the primordial world.

After probing the area with its aura, it injected some substances and then disappeared.

After He disappeared, the primordial river of time began to reappear with new timelines, and new timelines appeared every moment. The river of destiny also sent forth countless true spirits, heading towards all corners of the primordial world.

Cheers erupted in the Purple Cloud Palace.

"Old friends, we should go back to where we belong. We're leaving the primordial world to you." A burly man, his body radiating light, said this and then disappeared.

"Boy, once the sky is mended, you can go to the Heavenly Court with Haotian Tong'er!"

Hongjun Daozu gave a word and then lifted the restrictions on the primordial world to oversee the mending of the heavens.

"Sigh! They're all the kind of people who only care about using you and never use you. What can I do? My life is so hard!"

Zhou Chen sighed. He continued to observe the situation in the prehistoric world.

Before the Lich War, Zhou Chen rushed to finish defining his realm.

Celestial Realm: Lifespan is one Yuan, Destiny is one Hui.

True Wonderland: Distinguishing the False from the True, Comprehending the True Self

Golden Immortal Realm: Gold is immortal, and lifespan is endless.
Taiyi Realm: Three Flowers Gather at the Top, Five Elements Return to the Origin

Great Luo Realm: Comprehend the Laws, Cultivate the Great Dao

Primordial Realm: Mastering the Laws, Mastering the Great Dao

(Quasi-Saints are a special type of Great Luo Immortal. They cultivate the laws within innate spiritual treasures by severing their three corpses. However, the laws within innate spiritual treasures are imprinted before the creation of the world. The higher the level of the innate spiritual treasure, the more comprehensive the laws within it. But even if one comprehends them all, it is impossible to attain the Primordial Chaos Realm, because the laws of the outside world continuously strengthen with the evolution of the world and the cultivator's understanding. It's just that innate spiritual treasures allow for better access to the power of these laws.)
Zhou Chen also redefined his realm, or rather, he switched to cultivating a different technique.

There was nothing I could do. My grandmaster and the great god Pangu had belittled my cultivation method to the point of being worthless. After practicing for so long, I was still only at the Qi Refining stage.

Cultivating in the world is not a problem, but with so many worlds, even after countless eons of cultivation, the world still cannot advance to the level of the primordial world. Although quantitative change leads to qualitative change, quality is much more important than quantity, so he gave up.

The first stage: Refining essence into qi.
Refine the Primordial Ancestral Qi, which is the root of everything!

It is called "one".

"One begets two, two begets three, three begets all things!"

The primordial primordial energy is neither born nor dies, neither increases nor decreases, yet it is endlessly regenerating, supremely divine and wondrous!
With the Primordial Ancestral Qi, one need not seek true essence and magical power externally. No matter what world or what rules of heaven and earth one is in, one still possesses inexhaustible primordial energy and magical power.

This is the first stage of refining essence into qi, the first realm of quality.

As for how to cultivate? Zhou Chen took a shortcut and defined it directly. After transforming into reality, it was indeed recognized by the Great Dao, and primordial ancestral qi was generated in his body. Although it was only a wisp, it was enough.

Of course, he also defined some other supernatural powers and techniques, such as the Great Destiny Technique, the Great Cause and Effect Technique, etc. He also created the Great Transformation Technique, the Grass Character Sword Technique, the Kunpeng Treasure Technique, the Qilin Treasure Technique, the True Dragon Treasure Technique, and so on.

If given the chance, Zhou Chen would definitely let the enemy experience what a Daoist machine gun is like. Of course, most importantly, he wanted to try and see if he could trace its origins.

As for cultivation techniques, he did not define them. Different world systems exist, and while techniques can be referenced, they are very difficult to cultivate.

Not long after, the Grandmaster returned, bringing with him the Six Sages of Heaven and his two attendants.

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