Primordial Era: Refusing Hongjun's path to sainthood, I attained the Dao of Hunyuan.

Chapter 120 Dividing the Family

Next are Yuanshi and Tongtian. Their strengths are roughly equal, and their merits are similar. One has the Pangu Banner, the most powerful creation treasure, while the other has the Zhuxian Sword Formation.

Of course, if Xuanhuang had to choose, he would definitely choose the Pangu Banner. Although the Zhuxian Sword Formation is powerful, it is only a set effect, while the Pangu Banner is a real one.

The third level consists of Nuwa and Zhenyuanzi. Don't underestimate Nuwa. Although she only achieved sainthood through merit, her merit in creating humans was so great that even the Three Pure Ones wouldn't have been able to surpass her if it weren't for their merit in creating the world.

Zhen Yuanzi goes without saying. Although his future is promising, he has only achieved sainthood through merit. Despite the accumulation of power from severing his three corpses, he is only barely on par with Nuwa.

They might even be slightly inferior to Nuwa.

Of course, this is also because Xuanhuang was unaware that Zhenyuanzi had obtained the Jade Tablet of Creation. Otherwise, Zhenyuanzi would have easily surpassed Nuwa and would at least be on par with Yuanshi and Tongtian.

As for the last level, the fourth level, those are naturally the two unfortunate brothers, Jieyin and Zhunti.

Saints are at the bottom.

Despite his great perseverance and wisdom, he was ultimately lacking in innate qualities. Even after becoming a disciple of Zixiao Palace, he only managed to obtain the title of nominal disciple.

If Nuwa were to obtain those two top-grade innate spiritual treasures, and were to abandon her status and engage in a fierce battle with them...

He could easily take on two opponents at once.

However, the one among them, Jieyin, has now begun to gradually comprehend the method of attaining enlightenment in dreams, which still makes Xuanhuang slightly wary.

This may be one of the reasons why the two Western Saints were able to overtake their predecessors and quickly catch up in strength.

The turmoil brought about by the saints' enlightenment lingered in the primordial world for a long time. Due to the great reduction of spiritual energy and the great changes in heaven and earth, the process of the great calamity was accelerated in the dark. Strands of evil energy began to appear in the world in a substantial way.

This is undoubtedly a cause for despair, and the saying "As long as saints live, great thieves will never cease" has even spread.

This means that these sages stole too much of the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, which led to the great calamity.

As long as these saints live, the great calamity will not end.

However, although this was the truth, no one paid any attention to it, nor did they bother to investigate where it came from.

The sages of today have just attained enlightenment, and they are all busy in seclusion to meditate and comprehend.

Moreover, while this statement makes sense, the fundamental nature of the prehistoric world—the law of the jungle—has never changed.

Even if the saints are powerful, so what if they become great thieves, stealing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and causing endless calamities?

Aren't all living beings supposed to just accept their fate?

So although this statement caused a stir for a while, it eventually faded into silence and was gradually mentioned by fewer and fewer people.

All living beings began to adapt.

Moreover, this statement was quickly drowned out by the fact that the sect established by the saints claimed to be accepting disciples.

Countless beings flocked to the sacred sites of the saints, hoping to join their teachings and rely on them to survive this terrible calamity.

There are four sects of saints that claim to be recruiting disciples: the Chan Sect of Yuanshi, the Jie Sect of Tongtian, the Western Sect of Jieyin, the Western Sect of Zhunti, and the Earth Immortal Sect of Zhenyuanzi.

However, each sect has different doctrines and different standards for accepting disciples. For example, the Chan Sect values ​​those with deep blessings and good fortune the most. Therefore, the Primordial Celestial Venerable set up a great formation in front of Kunlun Mountain, and only those who could pass through it could enter his sect.

In the end, thirteen people passed through the great formation, and Yuanshi readily accepted twelve of them as his disciples. These twelve disciples later became the Twelve Golden Immortals of the Chan Sect.

However, only one Taoist remained. Yuanshi hesitated slightly. It turned out that this Taoist had listened to the Tao with him in Zixiao Palace and could be considered a peer. Moreover, he was already a powerful figure in his own right.

Yuanshi thought for a moment, but did not dismiss the man. He said to him, "Fellow Daoist Randeng, you and I once listened to the Dao together in Zixiao Palace. It is not appropriate for me to accept you as my disciple. How about this, since the Earth Immortal Sect has also established a vice leader, then my Chan Sect might as well establish one as well."

And so, Daoist Ran Deng became the vice leader of the Chan Sect, a position that was much better than before.

Because the original Ran Deng, although he also joined the Chan Sect, was not the vice leader and did not enjoy the privileges of the vice leader.

Instead, he was also a disciple, but he was forced to take on the role of vice leader, which was typical of working for free. It's no wonder that the original Burning Lamp Society betrayed the Chan Sect and led people to join the Western Sect.

As for now, it's hard to say whether Randeng will defect to the West again. After all, there were originally only six saints in the world, and only four sects of saints.

Now there are eight saints in the world (Xuanhuang is also among them), and the number of saint sects has increased to five.

How the struggle for destiny will unfold afterward is hard to predict.

However, the Jie Sect established by Tongtian had a different approach to accepting disciples. It did not consider the depth of one's fortune or one's background. It claimed that all things in the world, regardless of their nature or whether they were born with or without, could seek the Jie Sect's teachings.

It is conceivable how many beings came to become disciples. As the number of disciples accepted by the Jie Sect increased, Yuanshi gradually became restless. This was because the Jie Sect disciples under Tongtian Gate were almost indiscriminate in their selection, and all sorts of beings, both good and bad, were brought into the sect.

This made Kunlun Mountain noisy and restless, and the conflict between the two began to erupt.

Yuanshi rebuked Tongtian and set many rules for the disciples of the Jie Sect, such as what they could not do, what they could not go, and when they could not make noise.

At first, Tongtian could accept it, but unfortunately, Yuanshi was biased, only restricting the Jie Sect and not including his own Chan Sect.

So the two started arguing, having a small fight every three days and a big fight every seven days. In the end, it alarmed Lao Tzu.

After Laozi left the pass, he saw the two arguing and proposed to separate the family.

You must know that they are now saints. As soon as Lao Tzu made this suggestion, Yuanshi and Tongtian also sensed the change in the heavenly secrets.

They all realized that the separation of the Three Pure Ones was inevitable.

Thus began the sensational division of the Three Pure Ones. Although Lao Tzu was the eldest, he gave up staying in Kunlun Mountain and was the first to leave.

Leading Xuandu, he established the Human Teachings Dojo on a mountain called Shouyang Mountain, which was named Bajing Palace.

Lao Tzu then spent his days in the Eight Views Palace, either refining elixirs or contemplating the Dao, embodying an image of non-action.

The second brother, Yuanshi, remained on Kunlun Mountain and renamed the Sanqing Hall as the Yuxu Palace, using it as the Taoist temple of the Chan Sect.

As for Tongtian, he simply went overseas and established the Jiejiao Daoist temple on an island called Jin'ao Island, named Biyou Palace, to continue preaching to all living beings and accepting disciples.

Meanwhile, on Mount Sumeru in the west, Jieyin and Zhunti were all smiles as the three Pure Ones separated.

The main point is that the Three Pure Ones are not in harmony, but the two fellow disciples are very happy.

Despite this, the Western religion founded by the two is still in a very precarious situation.

It's not that we can't find disciples, it's just that the disciples we do find aren't very talented.

This really frustrated the two brothers, who had already lowered their standards for accepting disciples as much as possible.

Anyone who could come to the West, to the foot of Mount Sumeru, was accepted into their tutelage.

However, the western regions are poor and remote, and with the great changes in the world, spiritual energy has greatly diminished. The most affected are the already impoverished western regions, which are now even poorer.

Therefore, which of those with even a little bit of talent would be willing to come to the West? If the Chan Sect wouldn't accept them, then the Earth Immortal Sect would. If the Earth Immortal Sect wouldn't accept them, then there's the Jie Sect, isn't there?

How could they possibly come to the West?

(End of this chapter)