Primordial Era: Reborn as a Qi Immortal, Steadily Cultivating

Chapter 180 The Three Pure Ones Discuss the Dao
Xuandu received his master's orders outside the Taiqing Palace and sat quietly by the Bagua Furnace to meditate for a short time.

That sacred land of East Kunlun, which had remained unchanged for eternity, underwent a change without warning.

Two supreme holy powers, equally vast and boundless yet with completely different Daoist auras, quietly descended from the heavens.

The first is a middle-aged Taoist priest with a dignified face, exuding authority without anger, and wearing a black robe with nine dragons.

He stood still in the void, with endless Jade Pure Immortal Light flowing around him, as if evolving the most fundamental order and rules between heaven and earth.

It was none other than the leader of the Chan Sect, the Jade Pure Primordial Heavenly Venerable.

The other was a young Taoist priest with sharp eyes, dressed in a blue Taoist robe.

His aura appeared calm, yet it contained a hint of sharpness.

He was none other than the leader of the Jie Sect, the Supreme Saint of the Highest Purity.

The two holy powers made no attempt to conceal themselves and fell directly into the seemingly ordinary Taiqing Palace.

"Greetings, elder brother."

"Greetings, elder brother."

Two voices, equally imbued with supreme Daoist wisdom, slowly resounded within the palace.

"Second brother, third brother."

The Supreme Saint, who had been sitting quietly before the alchemy furnace, finally slowly opened his eyes.

He calmly waved his sleeve in front of him, and in an instant, an eight-treasure throne surrounded by endless auspicious clouds appeared in the center of the palace, which was originally empty.

Above the throne, an ancient chessboard carved from an unknown type of celestial jade floats silently.

"sit."

A simple word was uttered softly from the mouth of the Supreme Sage.

Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu did not exchange any formalities, each finding a place on their cloud thrones and slowly taking their seats.

The Three Pure Ones gathered to discuss the Dao at Kunlun.

Such a sight has not been seen for a long time since the age of sages.

"Second brother, third brother, it has been a long time since the three of us brothers have sat down and played chess like this."

The Sage Taiqing spoke calmly, and with a wave of his hand, two chess boxes appeared beside the chessboard.

Yuanshi Tianzun nodded slightly, his expression solemn, and took the initiative to pick up the black piece.

The Master of the Heavens smiled nonchalantly and took the white piece.

Yuanshi Tianzun made the first move, his chess moves were profound, steady, and dignified.

Each move seems to construct an incomparably stable and orderly world, leaving no opportunity for the opponent.

The Master of Heaven's chess style, however, was completely different—unrestrained and unconventional, like a gazelle hanging its horns.
He specializes in taking risky and unconventional approaches, making moves in seemingly impossible situations, carving out a path to survival in desperate circumstances, and stirring up the seemingly square chessboard into a turbulent undercurrent, full of endless variables and opportunities.

Black and white pieces crisscrossed on the chessboard, their silent game seemingly reflecting the endless cycle of birth and death and the struggle for lineage in the primordial world.

The Supreme Sage remained silent with a smile, observing the situation calmly.

When the game reached the middle stage, with both sides locked in a fierce battle and filled with deadly intent, he finally spoke, seemingly casually.

He recounted in detail how Xuandu lost the Dao competition in the holy land of the human race, and even nearly suffered damage to his Dao heart.

As the Sage of Taiqing spoke, the Primordial Heavenly Venerable, who had been focused on his work, became increasingly solemn as he placed his chess pieces!

After the Sage Taiqing finished speaking, he finally couldn't suppress his displeasure and slammed a black piece down in his hand, letting out a cold snort full of majesty!

"Hmph! Ridiculous!"

The moment this sound was uttered, the entire sea of ​​clouds atop Mount Kunlun trembled violently!
The originally peaceful and tranquil laws of nature have become incredibly chilling!

"The human race was created by my junior sister Nuwa, and is the foundation of our sages' teachings. Their fate and future shall be arranged by the Heavenly Dao and us sages; this is destiny!"

The voice of the Primordial Celestial Venerable was cold and majestic.

"That mere Martial Ancestor dared to incite ants and attempt to establish a separate human path in the post-heaven realm, to rival the Heavenly Dao!"

Such defying-the-natural acts are the source of chaos!

"Although it may achieve temporary strength, it has ultimately deviated from the glorious and righteous path of following the will of Heaven and responding to the needs of the people!"

If this continues, humanity will inevitably accumulate endless karma due to its arrogance and hubris, bringing great calamity upon the entire prehistoric world!

"Such unhealthy trends and evil practices should be curbed and the wrongs corrected!"

The words of the Primordial Celestial Venerable were resounding, containing the predetermined order of Heaven that he believed in!
However, before he could finish speaking, the Tongtian Sect Leader beside him suddenly clapped his hands and burst into laughter!
"Hahahaha! Good! What a disrespectful martial art that disregards heaven and earth and only believes in its own way!"

His laughter was filled with heartfelt praise and appreciation!
He casually placed a white piece at an incredibly tricky angle, cutting it into the very foundation of the large black group!

"Second brother, you are mistaken!"

The Tongtian Sect Leader's sharp, sword-like gaze was fixed on the displeased Yuanshi Tianzun beside him, his voice filled with boundless sharpness!

"The Great Dao is fifty, the Heavenly Evolution is forty-nine, and one is hidden away! That one is the variable, the life force!"

"That human martial ancestor, with a mortal body, created a righteous path of unyielding struggle for the entire human race in adversity!"
Such a heroic act perfectly embodies that glimmer of hope!

The Tongtian Sect Leader paused, his eyes flashing with dazzling divine light.

"If all things in this world are like chess pieces on your chessboard, they can only follow the predetermined rules."

"Then wouldn't this vast road become a stagnant pool, without the slightest ripple?"

"Excellent! Absolutely excellent!"

The more the Tongtian Sect Leader spoke, the more excited he became, and the supreme sword intent around him, powerful enough to sever eternity, soared into the sky!

The human race's spirit of disrespecting heaven and earth and striving for self-improvement actually resonated with his Jie Sect's Daoist principle of "education for all and seizing every opportunity for survival"!
Upon hearing this, the displeasure on Yuanshi Tianzun's face deepened!

He snorted again, his voice now carrying a hint of genuine anger!

"What nonsense!"

"Third brother's words are nothing but heretical and misleading doctrines!"

He suddenly stood up, and the Jade Purity Immortal Light representing supreme order around him surged dramatically!
"The natural order prevails, and there is a distinction between the noble and the lowly!"

"Humans are beings born later, with shallow origins. They should abide by their duties and follow the rules under the guidance of us sages, for this is the true way to ensure longevity!"

"Instead of establishing a so-called human way like that Martial Ancestor, and standing in opposition to the Heavenly Way!"

"This trend must not be allowed to continue! Otherwise, this primordial world will surely collapse and order will be completely lost!"

The words of Yuanshi Tianzun represent his absolute dedication as the true descendant of Pangu to maintaining the order of heaven and earth created by the Father God!

The Tongtian Sect Leader also slowly rose to his feet.

His domineering and unparalleled sword intent was no longer restrained in the slightest!
Incredibly, a giant cyan sword phantom appeared high in the sky, spanning the heavens and earth!

"Second brother, I cannot agree with your words!" "We cultivators seek only a sliver of opportunity to transcend!"

"If one has lost even the courage to resist, and can only be like livestock at the mercy of fate, then what difference is there between them and a walking corpse?!"

A sudden debate on the fundamental principles erupted atop Mount Kunlun!

Yuanshi Tianzun represents absolute order, while Tongtian Jiaozhu represents endless variables.

One advocated following the will of Heaven, while the other advocated seizing divine secrets.

Although neither side used any magical power, the clash of their Daoist sounds was far more dangerous than any battle between supernatural powers or magical treasures!

The Heavenly Laws of the entire Kunlun Sacred Realm were thrown into unprecedented chaos by the clash of the two saints' completely different Great Dao wills!
At times, everything in the world seemed to lose all its color.

Transformed into the purest black and white, everything returns to the cold, deathly absolute order.

At other times, endless, vibrant greenery bursts forth from the barren earth, growing wildly.

They wished to transform this land into a vibrant and blessed paradise!

Two completely different supreme phenomena clashed most fiercely on the summit of Kunlun Mountain!

As the instigator of this Daoist conflict, the Sage of Taiqing remained as calm and composed as ever.

He simply sat quietly on the Eight Treasures Cloud Seat, his gaze calmly fixed on the chaotic chessboard before him.

It was as if the battle for the path of saints that was so powerful that it could shake the entire primordial world was nothing more than a battle between two pieces on a chessboard.

No one could see into what he was thinking in his deep eyes.

He did not judge who was right or wrong, nor did he intervene to forcibly end the moral dispute.

After a long while, he let out a long, drawn-out sigh.

"Heaven's way is for the public good, while humanity's way is for private gain."

"The struggle between public and private interests is a matter of principle."

"Different road non-phase plan."

Upon hearing this, the two extraordinary phenomena that had been fiercely confronting each other on the summit of Kunlun Mountain vanished as if they had never existed.

Both of them were taken aback, and then fell into a long silence.

They were all transformed from the primordial spirit of Pangu, and their talents and comprehension were among the best in the primordial world. How could they not hear the implied meaning in their elder brother's words that revealed everything?

Heaven's way is impartial, regarding all things as straw dogs.

It maintains the balance of the entire primordial world with absolute order.

Humanity is driven by self-interest, by the survival of the race, and by the transcendence of the individual. It involves struggling in adversity and seeking life out of the impossible.

They all understood that their elder brother's words showed no favoritism whatsoever.

What Yuanshi sought was to maintain the order of the Lord.

What Tongtian seeks is to seize that selfish life force.

This is the inevitable result of the separation of the pure and the impure after Pangu created the world, and the rotation of Yin and Yang, which cannot be changed by external forces.

Different road non-phase plan.

This is a fundamental dispute, and further debate is futile.

Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu exchanged a glance, both seeing a hint of complexity and estrangement in each other's eyes.

They knew that after this day, the Three Pure Ones of Pangu would probably never again be truly of one mind and one heart.

The Sage of Taiqing slowly closed his eyes and said no more.

Both Yuanshi Tianzun and Tongtian Jiaozhu knew that further discussion would be pointless.

The two, each with their own thoughts weighing heavily on their minds, bowed respectfully to the Supreme Saint from afar.

Then their figures transformed into streams of light, and they left Taiqing Palace without looking back, returning to their respective dojos.

……

The sacred land of the human race, the Hall of the Martial Ancestor.

After the departure of the Taoist Xuandu, Wu Zuyuan's prestige among the human race had reached an unprecedented peak!
He did not revel in the victory of this struggle, but instead issued the first formal decree since the founding of martial arts from the majestic Martial Ancestor Hall!
"Dividing Immortal and Martial Arts!"

Its vast Dao sound instantly spread throughout the entire human holy land, and even to hundreds of millions of human cities outside the holy land!
There are two legal provisions.

Firstly, a separate celestial palace should be built next to the Martial Ancestor Hall, the sacred site of the human race.

Within the mortal race, those who aspire to the path of immortality and are determined to cultivate in seclusion and achieve longevity can all enter the inner realm for cultivation. Their resources and expenses are equal to those of martial artists, and all humans are treated equally.

Secondly, it establishes the Martial Ancestor Hall as the core of the human race's martial arts inheritance, and also the place where the human race is in charge of all external wars and protects the race's reproduction and survival!
Once this decree was issued, the entire human race, which had been in turmoil due to Xuandu's personal presence, instantly calmed down completely!
Those clansmen who originally yearned for the path of immortality but feared being ostracized by the martial arts lineage were overjoyed and filled with heartfelt admiration for the Martial Ancestor's fairness and foresight!
And the millions of clansmen who practice martial arts have thus attained enlightenment!

They understood that the Martial Ancestor's actions not only preserved another path to heaven for the human race, but also completely entrusted the supreme responsibility of protection and resistance to their martial arts lineage!
Rumble—!!!!!!!!!

In an instant, the fortune of the entire human race, which had been somewhat scattered due to ideological conflicts, was completely united into one!
Nearly 90% of the human race's fortune transformed into a golden dragon of Xuanhuang fortune that stretched across the heavens and earth, letting out a deafening roar, and all of it converged on the Martial Ancestor Hall, which had become the core of the human race's faith!

Finally, they all poured into the Martial Ancestor Seal that floated on the dome of the Martial Ancestor Hall!
Buzz——!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The treasure of merit that suppressed the martial arts fortune of the entire human race shone brightly!
The initially faint mark of humanity on it has become increasingly profound and solid under the infusion of endless fortune!

It has become an extremely special treasure of fortune and merit!

Wu Zuyuan sat quietly in the Wu Zu Hall, feeling the immense power within him that was completely connected to the fortune of the entire human race, surging like a river, and his heart was clear.

He slowly raised his right hand, and the Martial Ancestor Seal, as large as a mountain, transformed into a stream of light and floated quietly in his palm.

He could clearly sense that as long as he was within the Holy Land of the Human Race and as long as the Martial Ancestor Seal was still in his hands, he could instantly mobilize the entire human race's fortune, which was beginning to show signs of being the protagonist of heaven and earth, for his own use!
With the support of this immense power, he realized that below the level of Quasi-Saint, there was no one who could pose the slightest threat to him!
Even if a quasi-saint powerhouse were to come in person, he was confident that he could hold his own against him, given the geographical advantage of the human race's holy land and the supreme power of the Martial Ancestor Seal!
However, within this almost invincible force...

He also clearly sensed an invisible bottleneck.

Today, the human race is flourishing in martial arts and its fortune is rising.

Yet, they have yet to become the true protagonists of this primordial world.

The demon race that rules the heavens and the witch race that entrenched themselves on the earth remain two enormous, persistent dark clouds hanging over the heads of all humankind.

Although the human race is blessed with good fortune, it is far from reaching its true peak.

Therefore, he could not rely on the current, incomplete human fortune to ascend to the heavens in one step and attain the immortal and indestructible quasi-saintly Dao fruit.

"The time... is not yet ripe."

Wu Zuyuan slowly opened his eyes, his gaze seemingly falling on the still fierce and desolate land, and the nine heavens filled with demonic energy.

He knew that only when the inevitable Lich Wars were completely over could he find a way to survive.

Only then can the human race truly prosper in the world!
At that time, the era of the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors will arrive, and the fortune of the human race will rise to an unprecedented peak!
And he, the Martial Ancestor who laid the foundation for martial arts for the human race, will naturally be pushed into the Quasi-Saint realm by that overwhelming torrent of humanity without any hindrance!
At that time, we will rely on the combination of this external method and the internal and external fortune of humanity.

He would probably be hard to match even below the level of a sage!
(End of this chapter)