Honghuang Taihuang

Chapter 146 Three Competitions

"You should know what Cang Hao has done. Does your Xuanmen really want to protect him?"

Taiwei looked at Lingbao, and strands of purple-gold Dao light shattered the awe-inspiring sword intent that permeated the surroundings. A cold glint appeared in his eyes.

Taiwei's aura began to slowly rise. Although he did not want to have too much of a falling out with the Xuanmen Immortal Path, the lid of the Eight Heavens Urn was related to the perfection of Taiwei's own Great Dao foundation, and he could not give it up no matter what.

"Cang Hao is related to the future destiny of my Xuanmen Immortal Path. Although I don't want to confront you, unfortunately, I cannot back down."

Lingbao Tianzun looked at the coldness on Taiwei's face, then turned his gaze to Canghao in the primordial world, and frowned: "However, in the end, this matter can be considered as me not thinking things through before acting."

"How about this, we don't need to go to great lengths. We'll decide who gets Cang Hao based on the results of the three matches. If you win, we'll hand Cang Hao over to you. If I win, Cang Hao will have nothing to do with you from now on."

"Three rounds of competition." Taiwei frowned, looking at Lingbao, and began to think. Three rounds of competition would be relatively fair.

The Xuanmen faction has three Heavenly Venerables, and Taiwei also has Fuxi, Nuwa, and Yangmei behind him. If it really comes down to a contest, Taiwei is not afraid.

However, seeing the resolute look on Lingbao Tianzun's face, Taiwei was curious about what Lingbao meant by the connection between Canghao and the future evolution of the Xuanmen Immortal Path.

Taiwei was calculating with his fingers, trying to see Canghao's future destiny. However, just as Taiwei began his calculations, a white jade bridge came hurtling towards him.

Boundless silver-white light rose up, and with a loud bang, the white jade bridge and the Nine Li Heavenly Demon shattered together. Taiwei frowned, opened his eyes, looked at the smile on the face of Lingbao Heavenly Venerable opposite him, and snorted coldly.

"Ten thousand years later, at the foot of Mount Zhou."

The moment Taiwei finished speaking, his figure disappeared into the Heavenly Netherworld. In the Qilin Royal Court, Taiwei opened his eyes and put the body of the Eight Heavens Urn into his Purple Mansion.

Taiwei transformed into a long rainbow and left the Qilin Royal Court. At the foot of Zhou Mountain, in the dark passage torn apart by time and space, Taiwei, whose body was covered with silver light, descended.

At this moment, the Sirius Ring shone brightly. Fuxi and Nuwa, far away in the Taixu Star Sea, looked at the Sirius Ring shining in their hands and showed a look of surprise.

However, since it was Taiwei who summoned them, there must be something important. Fuxi and Nuwa quickly finished explaining what they were doing and then used the power of the Heavenly Rules and Earthly Laws to escape towards the location of Zhou Mountain.

At the foot of Mount Zhou, a silver-white Dao Palace appeared behind Taiwei, quietly awaiting the arrival of the three Heavenly Venerables of the Xuanmen. Within Taiwei's Purple Mansion, the Purple Gold Pill, the Seven Star Dragon Abyss, and the White Tiger Seven Constellation Star Robe successively shone brightly.

The power of the Nine Li Heavenly Demon continuously refines the power of all things in the primordial world, transforming it into the origin of heaven and earth to enhance the strength of these three supreme treasures.

Despite the fact that Taiwei disregarded the karmic forces of heaven and earth, the three supreme treasures—the Purple Gold Pill, the Seven Star Dragon Abyss, and the White Tiger Seven Constellation Star Robe—all transformed into treasures of creation within a mere eight thousand years.

Of course, the karmic force of heaven and earth on Taiwei also increased considerably as a result.

However, Shenying has now begun to spread the true meaning of the Great Dao of the Primordial World in the many great worlds of the endless void. The continuous merit of spreading the Dao is gathering on Taiwei, eliminating the karmic force of heaven and earth on him.

Although the merit of spreading the Dao is very small compared to the karmic burden of Heaven and Earth on Taiwei, given enough time, this merit will eventually cleanse Taiwei of the karmic burden of Heaven and Earth.

Furthermore, Taiwei doesn't need to eliminate all the karmic burdens on his body. He only needs to eliminate about 50%. After the Four Divine Beasts' destiny ends, the immense fortune bestowed by Heaven will be enough to erase the remaining karmic burdens on Taiwei's body.

The Nine Li Heavenly Demon, the Eight Heavenly Jars, the Purple Gold Pill, the Seven Star Dragon Abyss, and the White Tiger Seven Constellation Robe—these are the five most important treasures on Taiwei's body.

Among them, the Eight Heavenly Urns were still in a damaged state and were not easy to control, so Taiwei did not include this supreme treasure of the Void in his own power.

Even so, with three Creation Treasures and one Void Treasure, their resources are more than enough to deal with any one of the three Xuanmen Heavenly Venerables.

However, Taiwei was unsure what the upcoming competition would be like. If it was a battle, then the clash between the two sides, consisting of six top-tier experts from heaven and earth, would be enough to alter the landscape of the surrounding area for tens of millions of miles at the foot of Zhou Mountain.

Such immense karma would not be of great concern to Taiwei, but he believed that the three great celestial beings of the Xuanmen would certainly not do such a thing.

This eliminates the possibility of violence; if violence is not an option, then other forms of competition are the only recourse.

Among the three great celestial beings of the Xuanmen, Taishang is skilled in alchemy, Yuanshi is skilled in weapon forging, and Lingbao is skilled in swordsmanship and formations. This is already a well-known fact in the prehistoric world.

Taiwei has decided that he will not compete with Lingbao and the other two in these things no matter what. However, this is not necessarily true. The competition items will definitely be randomly selected, and the three Heavenly Venerables of Xuanmen will not allow Taiwei to make any underhanded moves.

Ten thousand years passed quietly, and the Silver-White Palace continued to expand, eventually forming a silver-white plaza covering millions of miles at the foot of Mount Zhou.

Amidst the brilliant light, the plaza, covering millions of miles, vanished into the vast primordial world. Taiwei, however, used the power of the Nine Li Heavenly Demons to temporarily separate this silver plaza from the primordial world to prevent others from disturbing it.

The moment the Silver Plaza took shape, three mysterious, natural, and profound ancestral energies of the Great Dao slowly formed before Taiwei.

The Supreme Celestial Venerable, in black and white Taoist robes and fish-tail Taoist crowns; the Primordial Celestial Venerable, in gold and jade Taoist robes and hibiscus Taoist crowns; and the Spiritual Treasure Celestial Venerable, in green robes and black hair, and lotus-shaped Taoist crowns, all descended together.

The three vast and supreme ancestral energies continuously evolve the beginning and end of all things, from the creation of heaven and earth, the origin of all things, the natural evolution, the order of heaven and earth, the final return to nothingness, and the vortex of destruction. All these things elucidate the true meaning of the Great Dao, which is the law of heaven and earth and nature, and continue to evolve.

Taiwei's eyes narrowed slightly, and the purple-gold Dao light around his body burned like flames. The primordial chaos was flawless, and the creation flowed. The profound and mysterious Golden Core Dao essence evolved into the true form of the Heavenly Tiger and Purple Dragon around Taiwei's body.

Fuxi stepped out from beside Tianhu, his mysterious and profound divine light blocking the surging ancestral Qi of the Great Dao. On the purple dragon, Nuwa stood on the dragon's head, and streams of creation light fell like lotus flowers, obliterating all the surging ancestral Qi of the Great Dao.

"Now that everyone's here, let's begin."

Yuanshi Tianzun looked at Taiwei, Fuxi, and Nuwa, and with a flick of his sleeve, countless golden and jade-like Dao lights surged in front of him. At the same time, Taiwei's own purple-gold Dao light also fell into the golden and jade-like Dao lights, and the two completely different Dao true meanings clashed with each other.

(End of this chapter)