Primordial: From a grain of soil to the ancestor of all paths

Chapter 268 The Terrifying River Styx
"Styx, you are looking for death!"

Upon hearing Styx's sarcastic words, Yuanshi felt as if he had suffered a great humiliation. Without hesitation, he once again activated the creation treasure "Pangu Banner", which generated terrifying creation energy blades that swept towards Styx like a tidal wave!

The countless Heavenly Blades, resembling an impenetrable "sword net," enveloped the sky above the River Styx.

Wherever it goes, all laws and principles of nature, including earth, wind, water, and fire, are annihilated!
If it weren't for the countless great worlds derived from the "Taiji Diagram," a supreme treasure of creation, which protected the aftershocks of the battle outside the River Styx and the Primordial Beginning, the destruction that the Heaven-Opening Blades released by the latter at this moment could cause would be unimaginable!
This shows that Yuanshi's goal was not simply to defeat Styx, but more like to kill him!
"Ah!"

"Want to kill me? Then let's see what you're capable of!"

Looking at the thousands upon thousands of chaotic sword energies and the undisguised pure killing intent on Yuan Shi's face, Styx sneered, and an even more terrifying ferocious aura and boundless killing intent instantly erupted from his body!
After all, Yuan Tu and A Bi, who are born with the ability to kill without incurring karma, and Styx with the Twelve Grades of Karmic Fire Red Lotus, were born for the path of killing!
"Now I'll show you my newly developed supernatural power!"

"Blood God Avatar!"

Immediately afterwards, blood god seeds appeared around Styx and gradually transformed into clones identical to him.

"cut!"

Then Styx and his countless blood god clones wielded the Yuan Tu and A Bi swords, releasing streaks of blood-red sword energy containing terrifying bloodthirsty energy and killing intent!
"boom!"

"Long!"

"Long!"

Soon, the crimson sword energy released by Styx and his Blood God clones collided with the opening-sky blades created by Yuanshi through the Pangu Banner, unleashing a terrifying roar that shook the heavens and the earth, as well as the aftershocks of power that made countless people present feel fear!
Even the myriad worlds evolved from the Tai Chi diagram showed signs of collapsing at any moment!

"How could the battle between my second brother and Styx be this intense?"

Taiqing's expression changed, and he quickly stabilized the layers of heaven and earth formed by the Taiji diagram to prevent the aftershocks of the battle between Yuanshi and the Styx River from really spreading out!

Of course, more importantly, if Taiqing's Taiji diagram is really broken by the aftershocks of the battle between Yuanshi and Styx, it will also make people underestimate him!
Tai Qingzhen found it hard to believe. He couldn't understand why Styx, who had just succeeded in attaining enlightenment and didn't even have any innate treasures, could fight Yuanshi to such an extent.

"And his Blood God clones..."

As Taiqing watched the Blood God clones around Styx rapidly dissipate, his gaze gradually deepened.

Because he is currently trying to create a supernatural power called "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones".

Once this divine power is successful, he will be able to temporarily create three clones with the strength of a saint!

Don't underestimate this kind of clone, because although there are many methods of creating clones in the primordial world, it is basically impossible to create a clone with the combat power of a saint!
Even Taiqing and the others' current three corpses can only possess combat power surpassing that of a quasi-saint, but cannot reach the true saint-level power!

Taiqing had no idea that he only had a partial idea of ​​creating "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones," and it would be many years before he could actually create it.

As a result, Styx had only just attained sainthood when he was able to create tens of thousands, or even hundreds of millions, of Blood God clones.

Although Taiqing could sense that these Blood God clones only possessed the power of a Quasi-Saint at the peak level, and that they dissipated on their own after releasing only one attack, it was easy to imagine how much their strength could increase if Styx continued to perfect the Blood God clone technique!

"A clone of the Blood God?"

"I didn't expect Fellow Daoist Styx to actually succeed?"

Not far away, Tai Chu, watching this scene, smiled.

During a discussion with Styx, Taichu recalled Taiqing's "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones" technique from the original timeline, and also thought of Styx's 480 million Blood God Children. He had a flash of inspiration and suggested to Styx that the Blood God Children be transformed into Blood God Avatars.

Originally, Tai Chu had only mentioned it on a whim, but unexpectedly, Styx actually did it, and now it seems to have succeeded!
Although this Blood God clone still has many flaws, as long as Styx continues to develop it, it may become an even more powerful divine power than Taiqing's "One Qi Transforms into Three Pure Ones"!
also……

"The Great Law of the Doppelganger!"

Through observing and comprehending the Blood God's avatar of the Styx River, Tai Chu felt that he was about to master a new Great Dao.

He can also use this clone of the Great Dao Law to reflect on his other Great Dao Laws, thereby comprehending and mastering new Great Dao Laws!
From this perspective, it was truly the right thing for Taichu to come and witness Styx's enlightenment!

On the battlefield!

"How could this happen? How could this happen?"

Yuan Shi felt like he was going crazy.

No matter what kind of attack he used, he couldn't hurt Styx.
The two fought back and forth for hundreds of rounds, but neither could gain the upper hand.
Even though Styx couldn't actually hurt Yuanshi, it was still very painful for him in the latter's eyes!

"All right!"

"You've been fighting for so long and there's still no winner. Continuing to fight won't yield any significant results."

"Let's stop here. Consider this a draw!"

"If any of you are dissatisfied, go back and train hard. Continue only when you believe you are stronger!"

At this moment, seeing that Styx and Yuanshi were fighting each other endlessly, Qinglian stood up and stopped them with some impatience.

At the same time, Qinglian gave Minghe an approving look.

Although Styx didn't actually defeat Yuanshi this time, being able to fight him to a draw was enough to give this unfilial son a good slap in the face!
Upon receiving Qinglian's gaze, Minghe also revealed a happy smile.

He had suffered a lot of mistreatment from Yuanshi in the past, and now he was finally getting his revenge!
However, Styx was still somewhat dissatisfied. If he had been able to master more of the Great Dao Laws before attaining enlightenment, he might have been able to defeat Yuanshi this time!

Fortunately, even after attaining the Dao and becoming a Saint of the Earthly Dao, Styx was still able to comprehend more of the Great Dao Laws!

Most importantly, the Underworld contains the Three Thousand Great Laws!
Unlike the three thousand Great Dao Laws in the primordial world now, which have been gradually replaced by the three thousand Heavenly Dao Laws, it will be more difficult for Taiyi, Kunpeng and others to take the path of integrating the three thousand Great Daos to prove the Dao by force than before!
"hateful!"

Upon witnessing this scene, Yuan Shi's expression turned extremely grim.

He was one of the Three Pure Ones, a sage of the Heavenly Dao, and possessed the creation treasure "Pangu Banner". Yet, he fought to a draw with Styx, who had just attained enlightenment.

What difference does this make from the fact that he has already lost?
If Qinglian hadn't suddenly stepped forward, Yuanshi really wanted to keep fighting Styx until he defeated the latter!
“Fellow Daoist Qinglian is right. Yuanshi and Styx are both saints with inexhaustible magical power. If they continue to fight, it may take hundreds of eons to determine a winner.”

"Let's call this a draw between the two of them!"

"Fellow Daoist Styx, congratulations again on successfully attaining the status of a Sage of the Earthly Realm!" "We have important matters to attend to back at the capital, so we won't disturb you any longer!"

At this moment, Taiqing also stepped forward, retracting the Taiji diagram while smoothing things over for Yuanshi.

Unfortunately, Yuanshi came with the intention of suppressing the Styx River and undermining the power of the underground passages, but ended up fighting the Styx River to a draw.

If this continues, Taiqing and Yuanshi will only lose face even more!
"In that case, I will not see Fellow Daoist Yuanshi and Fellow Daoist Taiqing off!"

Styx knew that the current underground path could not truly contend with the Heavenly and Human Paths. Today was also the day he proved his Dao and became a saint, so it was not appropriate to tear off too much of a rift with Taiqing and the others. Therefore, he accepted the way out given by Taiqing.

"Humph!"

Yuanshi looked quite displeased, but in the end he only let out a disgruntled snort and left the Blood Sea with Taiqing.

"Fellow Daoist Styx, congratulations on your successful attainment of sainthood!"

"We brothers also have many things to deal with in the West, so we won't bother you any longer!"

Even Jieyin and Zhunti hadn't expected that the Styx River could actually fight Yuanshi to a draw.

Now that Taiqing and Yuanshi have left, they, who also belong to the lineage of the Heavenly Dao, could not stay any longer. Therefore, after expressing their congratulations to the Styx River, they hurriedly returned to the West!
"Fellow Daoist Styx, congratulations on your attainment of sainthood!"

"Sage of the Styx River, congratulations on your successful attainment of enlightenment!"

Nuwa and Fuxi quickly came forward to offer their congratulations.

However, after much deliberation, they did not choose to leave immediately like Yuanshi Taiqing and Jieyin Zhunti.

In a sense, this can be seen as a signal that she is getting closer to the authentic lineage!
"hiss!"

"I never expected that Styx would be so powerful after only just becoming a Saint of the Earthly Realm!"

"If he stabilizes his cultivation level, wouldn't it be possible for him to truly surpass the Primordial Sage?"

"And his Blood God Avatar is also a terrifying divine power!"

"Is this the power of a true sage?"

"No, the reason why Styx is stronger than a normal saint is because before he became a Dao Saint, he followed the path of integrating the three thousand Great Dao Laws to prove his Dao through force!"

"Regardless of the circumstances, the fact that Styx was able to attain sainthood means that if we join the Underworld, we also have a chance to become Earthly Saints!"

"Most importantly, I've heard that the Underworld contains the complete Three Thousand Great Laws. Even if we don't become a Saint of the Underworld, we can still try to follow the path of fusing the Three Thousand Great Laws to prove our Dao through force!"

"That's right. Didn't you see that fellow Daoists like Taichu, Tianyan, Taiyi, and Kunpeng also followed this path?"

"If you think it's too difficult to prove your Dao through force, you can also take the path of proving your Dao through a single law!"

"Unfortunately, many of us have already cultivated the 'Severing the Three Corpses,' and it will probably not be easy for us to switch to cultivating the laws to prove our Dao, or to prove our Dao through force!"

"..."

The outcome of Styx's battle with Yuanshi was seen by countless people at the scene as "a draw but a victory nonetheless," which inspired many of them to join the Underworld, try to become a Saint of the Underworld, or take the path of proving the Dao through force!
The prerequisite is that those quasi-saints among them can solve the problem of switching to the cultivation of "Severing the Three Corpses"!

In short, in the time that followed, one after another, the great gods of the primordial world came up to congratulate Styx on his sainthood.

Many ancient deities directly expressed their desire to join the Underworld to the Styx River or Houtu.

The Styx River and Houtu naturally welcomed all comers!
Of course, this could easily attract some people with ulterior motives to join the underworld, but we can deal with them later. For now, we should recruit more independent cultivators and expand the tunnels first!
chaos!

Zixiao Palace!
"It's that damned Primordial again!"

Hongjun's face was somewhat gloomy.

He could also see that the reason why Styx was able to fight Yuanshi to a standstill was mainly because the latter had already mastered many of the Great Dao Laws before he proved his Dao, as well as those Blood God clones that could temporarily unleash the power of a Quasi-Saint at the peak!
What angered Hongjun even more was that, according to his calculations, whether Styx controlled the laws of the Great Dao or created the Blood God clone, it was actually influenced by the Primordial Beginning!

"Taichu is not only growing stronger, but he is also increasingly influencing those around him!"

Hongjun couldn't help but feel a little regretful. If he had known this would happen, he should have completely killed Taichu the moment he first met him!

Otherwise, Tai Chu wouldn't have gradually grown into his biggest threat!

"The demon race, the Styx River, the underground passage, the Primordial Beginning, the Azure Lotus... We must find a way to eliminate all these threats one by one!"

After regaining his senses, Hongjun lowered his head and fell into deep thought.

At the same time, he continued to refine the Heavenly Dao Will within the Heavenly Punishment Seal!

After all, as long as he can completely refine the will of the Heavenly Dao, he will be able to fully control the power of the Heavenly Dao and thus eliminate Tai Chu and the others with absolute power. Why would he need to go through all this trouble and have to find a way to deal with Tai Chu and the others slowly?
The primordial world!

Netherworld Sea of ​​Blood!
"In the primordial world, there were three paths: Heaven, Earth, and Man..."

"typical……"

After offering his congratulations, Styx, as was customary, began to preach to everyone present.

Although Styx was a sage of the earthly path, his sermons were not of much significance to many quasi-sages who had already cultivated the "Severing the Three Corpses" technique.

However, for those below the Quasi-Saint level, especially the countless Yin spirits who came from the Underworld to the Netherworld Blood Sea, it still has corresponding value!

Especially later on, when Styx began to talk about the Great Dao Laws he had mastered before attaining enlightenment, even those Quasi-Saints who had cultivated the "Severing the Three Corpses" technique had some merit in it.

After the Styx River, Houtu, Nuwa, Fuxi, Dijun, Taiyi... as well as Taichu, Tianyan, Qinglian, and others also began to preach to the people one after another, and in the process, they verified their own Dao.

The gains for everyone were even greater!
(End of this chapter)