nyslfriends Chapter 48 Part 36: The Heavens
Chapter 48 Part 36: The Heavens
Chapter 48 The Thirty-Six Heavens
"Dao Ancestor, this disciple takes his leave." Styx sighed inwardly. Because of Hongjun, he had missed a golden opportunity, but—there was nothing he could do about it.
"Well, I will see you off for now. Just do good deeds and don't worry about the future. Rest assured, the Heavenly Dao of the Primordial World will not let down anyone who contributes to the Primordial World." Hongjun looked at the Styx River and nodded in satisfaction.
In the future, when those two little golden crows perish in the great calamity, and Haotian ascends to the throne, he will likely need the help of the Styx River.
After all, the Three Pure Ones are already so reckless and arrogant before they have even become saints. Who knows what they will be like after they become saints?
Immediately, Hongjun waved his Taoist robe, and Styx felt a momentary daze. When he looked again, Zixiao Palace and Chaos were no longer there. At this moment, he returned to the Netherworld Blood Sea once again.
"Time flows on like this river, never ceasing day or night—," Styx sighed.
Although Styx hasn't figured out the specific reasons why the Three Pure Ones are targeting him so far, there's one thing Styx is certain of: if things go as expected, it's unlikely that his relationship with the Three Pure Ones will end well.
And the primordial beings...
Today he killed Kunpeng to establish his authority and obtained the Primordial Purple Qi, but he is not a disciple of Hongjun. Presumably, as time goes by, someone will try to take the risk. As for giving up the Primordial Purple Qi, if you give it up today, what if someone comes to ask you for a Primordial Treasure tomorrow? Will you give it up or not?
In any case, giving up an opportunity is something only someone who is afraid would do. Since you're afraid, what's wrong with giving up a little more?
Ultimately, regardless of the era, whether one possesses great treasures or is penniless, one still needs more merit, good fortune, and profound cultivation to guarantee one's safety.
Without sufficient cultivation, who knows when a catastrophe might strike, forcing you to sacrifice something of yours to save the primordial world.
Whether it's the interpersonal relationships in Zixiao Palace or the creation of zombies, Asuras, and ghost immortals on this sea of blood, in the end, it's all for one's own cultivation.
Styx retrieved thirty-six Sea-Stabilizing Pearls and the Universe Ruler.
Hongjun gave him twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls and a Qiankun Ruler. Including the Sea-Stabilizing Pearls he obtained from the system, he had a total of thirty-six Sea-Stabilizing Pearls, which corresponded to the number of the Heavenly Gang.
"These Sea-Stabilizing Pearls are indeed top-grade among the finest innate spiritual treasures." Styx exclaimed, looking at the thirty-six pearls shimmering with five-colored light floating in his palm.
Each of the Sea-Stabilizing Pearls is perfectly formed, containing an innate, indestructible spiritual light and the five elements. These thirty-six Sea-Stabilizing Pearls alone make for a fine spiritual treasure that can both attack and help people accumulate magical power. In the Investiture of the Gods, Zhao Gongming used twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls to send the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect flying back several times.
In the end, it was only through the Falling Treasure Coin and Lu Ya's Seven Nail-Head Arrows that Tongtian's disciple was killed.
Now that the Sea-Stabilizing Pearls are all gathered together in thirty-six pieces, their power will be even more astonishing than when they were in Zhao Gongming's hands.
More importantly, the Qiankun Ruler was also in his hands.
In the original primordial world, these twenty-four Sea-Stabilizing Pearls and the Universe Ruler together became the spiritual treasures that brought enlightenment to Randeng. Some say that they evolved into the Twenty-Four Heavenly Kings, who nurtured countless Buddhist disciples for the Western religion and Buddhism, providing endless incense and faith. Others say that these Twenty-Four Heavenly Kings became the twenty-four guardian deities of Buddhism.
However, Styx believes that the two are not in conflict.
The innate, indestructible spiritual light within the Qiankun Ruler contains the Great Dao of Qiankun, possessing the power to purify the winds and regulate the five elements, and to open up the heavens and earth. Each Dinghai Pearl is precisely a carrier of a small world, containing the five elements. For a great supernatural being at the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, as long as they obtain these two spiritual treasures, it will not be difficult to open up the heavens.
As for the guardian deities, you should know that even if it transforms into the heavens, the essence of the Sea-Stabilizing Pearl is still a spiritual treasure. As long as you use it to sever the three corpses, those corpses that are severed by it will naturally transform into guardian deities.
As for whether achieving the heavens is difficult...
To put it another way, all the three thousand guests of Zixiao Palace who were able to go to Zixiao Palace were the most powerful beings in the prehistoric world. However, there are also differences between powerful beings. Styx, who is now a Hunyuan Golden Immortal, is far superior to Randeng, who was living under the roof of the Chan Sect.
Moreover, Styx also obtained the Qiankun Cauldron and the inheritance of the Qiankun Ancestor.
After gaining a certain level of understanding of the Great Dao of Heaven and Earth, one can open up the heavens. For the Styx River, there is not even a need for the Heaven and Earth Ruler.
Thinking of this, Styx once again waved his blood-red Taoist robe, summoning the four Asura Kings of the Asura Clan, as well as the most powerful Ghost Immortals of the Ghost Immortal Clan.
"Greetings, Ancestor." Upon seeing Styx, the Asuras immediately knelt down.
"Greetings, Ancestor." Several ghost immortals also bowed down, not daring to show the slightest disrespect.
"Not bad. In such a short time, a ghost immortal has already broken through to the Taiyi Golden Immortal realm. What realm were you in your previous life?" Styx asked one of the ghost immortals.
"In response to the Ancestor, I was a dragon in my previous life. According to the division of the immortal path, I was only half a step away from the Great Luo realm. Unfortunately, in the last great calamity—" The dragon-headed, human-bodied, and black-glowing ghost immortal answered Styx's question in detail.
"Hmm, not bad." Styx nodded in praise, and then continued to assign infrastructure tasks to the Asuras and ghost immortals present.
And the self-imposed target of construction is naturally the eighteen levels of hell.
"Once it's completed, the task of guarding Hell, watching over it, and interrogating evil spirits will be entrusted to you. Don't let me down," Styx said calmly, looking at the group of ghost immortals and several Asura Kings.
"Yes, Ancestor." All the ghost immortals and Asura King present responded in unison, not daring to show the slightest disrespect.
In fact, even the warlike and bloodthirsty Asura Kings, as well as the ghost immortals who were renowned in the prehistoric world, couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts at this moment.
Sure enough, the Styx Ancestor was still the same Styx Ancestor. Using eighteen extremely cruel tortures to endlessly torment evil spirits was something they could never come up with, no matter how hard they tried to be brutal in their lives.
You must know that if this hell were built, it would not just be one or two vengeful spirits or evil spirits that would suffer; all living beings in the primordial world would face judgment and torment after death.
Immediately afterward, Styx extracted Kunpeng's primordial spirit from the karmic fire.
At this moment, Kunpeng's primordial spirit has been greatly weakened by the constant burning of the karmic fire on the Twelfth Grade Karmic Fire Lotus. His cultivation level is no longer even that of a Taiyi Golden Immortal. It can be said that even if Styx releases Kunpeng now, it will probably be difficult for Kunpeng to recover in a short time.
"Styx, you will die a horrible death!" Kunpeng looked at Styx and cursed weakly.
"Unfortunately, no matter how much Fellow Daoist Kunpeng curses me, it cannot change the fact that I can see your fate, but you cannot see my future."