Primordial Era: If I remain in Longevity Mountain, I will steadily attain sainthood.

Chapter 67 Guiding the Three Pure Ones to Sainthood

Thunder rumbled and strange phenomena appeared. At this moment, centered on the red clouds, countless wonders bloomed, with flowers falling from the sky and golden lotuses emerging from the ground.

A thousand auspicious rays, ten thousand beams of rosy light, and a vast expanse of purple mist stretching across the sky.

Immediately afterwards, the void above Hongyun's head trembled violently, and a tremendous amount of merit surged out.

Hongyun Liren Sect has once again gained the approval of Heaven and has been granted merit.

The great powers from all corners of the world, as well as the Taiqing Laozi who was right in front of them, were all shocked.

In the West, on Mount Sumeru, in the blissful realm, the two saints, Jieyin and Zhunti, were originally chatting and laughing, exchanging Taoist teachings.

This moment came to an abrupt end.

Their divine senses were fixed on the east, on the red clouds.

Thirty-three heavens away, in the Nuwa Heaven, the goddess Nuwa slightly opened her mouth, her expression clearly one of extreme surprise.

Establishing a teaching brings merit.

Is Hongyun really that skilled? Moreover, he established his sect twice and was recognized by the Heavenly Dao. Nuwa felt a deep sense of the gap in his understanding of the Heavenly Dao.

This junior brother is amazing!

In the serene heavens, Zhen Yuanzi was also watching this scene, a faint smile on his face.

He already knew the purpose of Hongyun's trip, so he was neither surprised nor jealous. He was simply happy for Hongyun.

Meanwhile, as a bystander, Zhen Yuanzi felt a strange sense of satisfaction thinking about the shocked expressions on the faces of others around Hongyun.

"Is this what it means to be brothers in arms? Even though I'm not the one getting the limelight, I can still feel this good," Zhen Yuanzi thought to himself.

As for why Hongyun didn't bring him along this time, Zhen Yuanzi didn't care at all, because he and Hongyun had already discussed the matter.

It wasn't that Hongyun did this intentionally; there was another reason.

At this moment, as Hongyun successfully established his sect, torrents of merit rained down, manifesting behind him the golden wheel of merit.

The already large Golden Wheel of Merit grew larger and larger.

However, it quickly surpassed the golden wheel of merit that Nuwa had accumulated when she became a saint.

This also means that Hongyun's cultivation has once again surpassed Nuwa's, making him the strongest among the current saints.

Besides the Golden Wheel of Merit, a small portion of the merit was integrated into the Cauldron of Creation.

Then, the Creation Cauldron emitted a golden light, and a picture appeared on its surface.

The scene depicted Hongyun preaching to the human race and establishing the Liren Sect.

"BOOM!!"

Hongyun's body suddenly trembled. He had accumulated too much merit, which caused his cultivation level to break through from the early stage of Hunyuan to the middle stage of Hunyuan.

Of course, this only refers to the cultivation of merit; Hongyun's actual strength has not increased significantly.

Even so, merit is still merit, and Hongyun's body immediately exuded an incomparably astonishing aura.

It swept in all directions.

Countless humans knelt on the ground, calling out "Master!"

Hongyun slowly suppressed his aura, a smile spreading across his face. His strength had improved again, proving that all his hard work had paid off.

At that moment, Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Tongtian arrived at the scene, seemingly out of nowhere.

Together with Taiqing Laozi.

The Three Pure Ones gathered together.

Seeing that Hongyun had completed establishing his sect and reaped the merits, the three stepped forward, with Taiqing Laozi speaking first, asking, "Junior Brother, could you please guide us on how to become saints?"

Hongyun established his sect twice and gained merit both times, but it was only in time that the Three Pure Ones could no longer bear it.

At the same time, the system first notified that the Red Cloud task had been completed and the system reward had been issued.

Then, immediately afterward, a new option was released.

"Ding, we have detected that the Three Pure Ones are asking you for guidance on how to become a saint. Please make the following choices, host."

"Option 1: Guide the Three Pure Ones to establish their religion and become saints, and you will receive the reward of the Heavenly Thunder Technique."

"Option Two: Refuse to guide the Three Pure Ones, and you will receive a top-grade innate spiritual treasure as a reward."

Upon hearing the system's prompt, Hongyun quickly made her choice: "System, I choose option one."

Even without Hongyun's guidance, given the current situation, it's estimated that the Three Pure Ones will soon establish their own religion and become saints.

Of course, since the Human Teachings were hijacked by itself, Taiqing Laozi doesn't know what will happen.

However, Yuqing Yuanshi and Shangqing Tongtian are both fine.

Moreover, the reward for guiding the three to establish their own religion and become saints was the Heavenly Thunder Technique, which was the divine thunder used by the great god Pangu to create the world.

How could Hongyun not be tempted?

So, Hongyun looked at the Three Pure Ones in front of him, nodded, and then uttered that classic line.

"If you don't establish a religion, you won't be sanctified!"

These words were originally spoken by Laozi Taiqing to Yuanshi and Tongtian after he established his religion.

But now, it is Hongyun who speaks to the Three Pure Ones.

However, the effect is the same.

While speaking, Hongyun also transmitted his insights on how to establish a religion and sense the Dao of Heaven to the three of them through divine sense.

That's the key point.

Otherwise, it's just a single sentence, which can hardly be called an enlightening revelation.

As expected, Hongyun's guidance was like a wake-up call, enlightening the Three Pure Ones.

The three of them shuddered, their faces showing a sudden realization.

Taiqing Laozi was the first to react. He took a step and came into the air, then raised the Taiji diagram.

"By the Heavenly Dao, I am Laozi, the Taiqing, transformed from the primordial spirit of Pangu, and the chief disciple of the Dao Ancestor Hongjun. I hereby establish a religion called Daoism. Man follows the Earth, the Earth follows Heaven, Heaven follows the Dao, and the Dao follows Nature. The Great Dao is the Dao of Non-Action!"

"I am the founder of Taoism, and with the supreme innate treasure, the Taiji Diagram, I suppress the destiny of Taoism. Taoism is established!"

As soon as Lao Tzu finished speaking, a loud boom resounded, and the Heavenly Dao trembled once more. Above Lao Tzu's head, a great surge of Heavenly Dao merit appeared.

However, Taoism, founded by Lao Tzu, has also gained the approval of Heaven, and thus Heaven bestows merit upon it.

The countless strange phenomena had barely subsided when they bloomed again: celestial maidens scattering flowers, golden lotuses springing from the earth, and auspicious radiance and colors—the list was endless and dazzling.

As the torrent of merit from establishing the teachings fell, a golden wheel of merit instantly formed behind Lao Tzu.

Moreover, in addition to the merit of establishing the religion, an even greater merit was drawn out from the depths of Laozi's primordial spirit at this time.

This merit is the merit of Pangu, the Great God, in creating the world. It belongs to the merit of the Great Dao, and at this moment, it is also gathered on the golden wheel of merit behind Laozi.

As you can see, the golden wheel of merit behind Lao Tzu suddenly swelled and grew much larger.

It has surpassed Nuwa's merit in creating humans and is almost on par with Hongyun's merit wheel.

The difference isn't that big.

This made Hongyun sigh inwardly, thinking that the Three Pure Ones of Pangu were truly born with great fortune.

The legacy left to them by the great god Pangu is truly immense.

Two-thirds of Lao Tzu's merits were for creating the world, while the remaining third was for establishing Taoism.

(End of this chapter)