Primordial Era: I really don't want to be the Heavenly Emperor!

Chapter 148 Firmly Upholding the Dao Heart, Achieving Imperial Fortune

The flames of war in the chaos have subsided!

Hongjun stood in his original position, looked at the spot where Luo Hou had been, sighed, but did not go to look for him. Instead, he came to the front of everyone.

"Greetings, Master/Teacher."

Hongjun nodded and said:

"The Demon Ancestor has now returned from the Great Dao and achieved Hunyuan status. This is in accordance with the great trend of the Heavenly Dao. After all, the birth of a Hunyuan can bring better development to the primordial world. Therefore, the Heavenly Dao Hongjun cannot kill him."

"You must cultivate diligently and attain the Primordial State as soon as possible. When Rahu returns, he will certainly not let this go."

The group replied, "We will obey our Master's/Teacher's orders!"

"Um!"

Di Jun suddenly stepped forward, bowed, and then said:

"Teacher, Rahu was released by the Western Amitabha and Cundi. Such behavior is not worthy of controlling the Primordial Purple Qi. Please take it back, Teacher."

As Di Jun finished speaking, the people of the Heavenly Court spoke up one after another, requesting Hongjun to take back the Primordial Purple Qi that had been given to Jieyin Zhunti.

Upon hearing this, Hongjun said nothing, but instead reached out and grabbed, and an invisible Daoist aura pierced through the chaos and reached the primordial world.

By the time everyone realized what was happening, Jieyin and Zhunti had already appeared in the chaos.

The two looked puzzled, unable to understand how they had suddenly arrived in the Chaos. Despite their injuries, they released their aura.

But after seeing the surrounding situation clearly, he disregarded his injuries and hurriedly stepped forward to pay his respects to Hongjun.

"Master, you must stand up for us! The Twelve Ancestral Witches have gone too far! For the sake of the Primordial Purple Qi, they have destroyed the Western Spirit Mountain. They want to kill their disciple!"

"None of that matters. The most important thing is that they're slapping you in the face!"

Zhunti stepped forward and hugged Hongjun's leg tightly, his voice so plaintive that it saddened and moved those who heard it.

While Jieyin didn't say anything, he exposed his injured left arm and looked at Hongjun with a sorrowful expression.

The many powerful beings of the primordial world were stunned by this scene. Could it really be played like this?

You, Zhunti, are at least a Quasi-Saint and a powerful being, how can you be so shameless!

"Bah, you despicable person!"

Donghuang Taiyi glanced at him with disgust. He really couldn't understand how such a person could become a Quasi-Saint and be accepted as a disciple by the Dao Ancestor, who bestowed upon him the Primordial Purple Qi.

Hongjun didn't react to this scene. He simply pointed, and the two of them stood up. Their injuries from the previous battle had completely healed, and they slowly recounted what had just happened.

What do you two think?

"Master, Master! Di Jun has slandered us! How could I possibly save the Demon Ancestor? It must be the will of Heaven, and has nothing to do with us!"

"Besides, it was the Witch Clan who provoked us first. If it weren't for them, how could this have happened? If we're talking about cause and effect, then the blame should fall on the Witch Clan!"

After Zhunti finished speaking, she was about to cry again, but Hongjun stopped her.

"Your dealings with the Witch Clan have their own causes and consequences. You should know that even the smallest matter can affect the overall situation of the prehistoric world."

"As my disciples, you two must set an example and not cause chaos in the world, or I will not forgive you."

Hongjun spoke softly, but to Jieyin and Zhunti, it was like thunder, leaving them momentarily at a loss.

After all, it was indeed our own dishonest act to rob the Witch Clan's treasury that led to this situation.

Even if the Witch Clan wanted the Primordial Purple Qi, their reason wouldn't be so righteous.

The two dared to argue vehemently in front of the Witch Clan, but dared not utter a single word in front of Hongjun.

After Hongjun finished speaking, he looked at the people in the chaos and said again:

"You have all heard the Dao at Zixiao Palace, and you are all destined to meet me. Moreover, you are all innate saints, born and nurtured by heaven and earth. You should have lofty ambitions and great love for heaven and earth."

"Don't let trivial matters and personal gains ruin your future; it's not worth it!"

At this point, Hongjun paused, thought for a moment, and then said:

"As for their bringing back the Demon Ancestor, we must look at it from two perspectives."

"The return of the Demon Ancestor is a good thing for the primordial world and the Heavenly Dao. Jieyin and Zhunti have made contributions, and the Primordial Purple Qi is a supreme treasure of the Heavenly Dao. The two have not committed any wrongdoing, so I cannot take it back."

When Jieyin and Zhunti heard this, they were overjoyed, but before they could be happy for long...

Hongjun then continued:

"But this matter has great karmic consequences for both the immortal and demonic paths, and it will inevitably be reflected in the West and on the two of you in the future. This is unavoidable."

Upon hearing this, the two men's faces fell. Zhunti asked unwillingly, "May I ask, Master, what is the cause and effect? ​​How can we repay it?"

"Cause and effect occur twice, once in the demonic path and once in the immortal path. They are different, and the time is not yet ripe, so the secrets of heaven cannot be revealed."

Hongjun's explanation was very simple, without specifying what it was about.

However, after hearing this, Di Jun and the others didn't dare to ask any more questions and let the matter drop.

But Zhunti was still unwilling to give up and asked again, "May I ask, Master, what great karmic debt do we have with the demonic path? The Demon Ancestor's return was also due to our merit; shouldn't he owe us a great karmic debt?"

Zhunti couldn't understand this at all. He acknowledged the karmic debt he owed to the immortals, since Rahu's return would inevitably clash with the immortals and be detrimental to their development.

Hongjun explained, "The Lord of the West is Rahu, and Mount Sumeru is his sacred site. If Rahu does not return, you two can naturally possess it without any qualms."

"But now that Rahu has returned, in the eyes of Heaven, you two are no longer the first in line, but have taken everything from Rahu. This is the first cause!"

"The second cause is Rahu's karma. The Western Paradise was created by Rahu and me, and I have already repaid my karma. However, Rahu has departed and cannot repay it."

"Now that Rahu has returned because of you, this matter should fall on the demonic path and on you. Yet you still occupy the western lands. The cause and effect are intertwined, and you are no longer distinguished from one another!"

Zhunti was completely bewildered after hearing this. He himself cultivated the law of cause and effect, yet he couldn't understand Hongjun's words at all. What did they mean?

But Hongjun had already fallen silent, and he could no longer press the matter.

"Go back now. Don't worry about Luo Hou. He won't attack you in the prehistoric world."

After hearing this, everyone bid farewell to Hongjun.

Donghua and his companions traveled through the chaos, returning to the primordial world. After arriving in the Nine Heavens, they bid farewell to everyone and returned to the Purple Mansion.

……

Time flies, but spiritual practice knows no bounds!

Since the last Chaos Observation Battle ended, Donghua has been in seclusion in the Purple Mansion for cultivation.

Having witnessed the methods used by Jieyin, Zhunti, Yuanshi, and others last time, Donghua felt a sense of urgency.

Although I have been working hard to cultivate myself, the gap has still widened.

This gap is reflected in the diversity of the Great Way, because he found himself too conservative.

Both Yuanshi and Zhunti had a fanatical pursuit of the Great Dao, to the point that they were willing to become demons or gods.

But looking at myself, I am far from it. I only think about how to survive and protect my life, and my heart for the Way is far from being there.

Moreover, he didn't have any trump cards in his cultivation, nothing to offer. The Great Dao of the Eight Trigrams was his greatest achievement, but it still wasn't enough.

In order to attain enlightenment, Yuanshi cultivated the three paths of gods, immortals, and demons.

He guides us through three thousand great dreams, three thousand incarnations, and three thousand great paths.

Nuwa's Great Dao of Creation evolves the world through creation. Of the three thousand Great Daos, she only cultivates creation, yet she can create three thousand things, forming a complete system.

Zhunti, by gathering his own karma into the long river, reverses the cause and effect, becoming both cause and effect, creating an entangled and unpredictable web of cause and effect, which is extraordinary.

As for Tongtian and Taishang, they haven't made a move for a long time, and Donghua doesn't know what level they've reached.

These later sages are growing at an unparalleled pace, while his growth is far too slow.

Having witnessed the power of Hunyuan, he did not want to live a life of compromise and subservience after everyone else had become saints, nor did he want to be sought out by a junior saint one day.

At this moment, Donghua made a change and began to pursue his own path!

But where is his path?

He once firmly believed in his Daoist heart to establish a moral compass for heaven and earth and to contribute to all living beings, and he still feels there is no problem with that.

He was the head of the male immortals in the immortal path, and compiled the thirty-six great divine powers of the Heavenly Gang and the seventy-two minor divine powers of the Earthly Fiends, which became the protective divine powers for the cultivation of immortals.

This task sounds simple, and there weren't any major difficulties in completing it.

This does not diminish the importance of this matter; it is only because of the role played by the Dao Ancestor.

After the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiend Divine Powers spread widely throughout the prehistoric world, they indeed made an immortal contribution to the development of the Immortal Path.

This also provided Donghua with an inexhaustible source of immortal fortune.

In the realm of gods, he is the Eastern Emperor, the Eastern God, and the Eastern Wood Lord. However, as he cultivates the path of immortality, the fortune that the divine path can bring has become less and less, limited to the meager fortune brought by his regulation of the wood energy in the primordial east.

He had traveled through the prehistoric world twice. The first time was when he returned from his time travel, when he traveled through the prehistoric world with Shao Siming and Taihua. The second time was when he traveled through the prehistoric world with Fuxi and west Wangmu.

During both of these periods, he preached and spread the Dao in the primordial world, especially during the last time, when he merged into the people of the post-natal world and practiced his Dao.

He destroyed the Taotie, extinguished the immortal volcano, sealed the divine incarnation, repaired the western earth veins, brought the Netherworld to life, created the Eight Trigrams Great Dao, and wrote the Book of Changes to spread throughout the primordial world.

Spread the Daoist teachings widely and enlighten the world!

Although I dare not say how much I have contributed to the world, I have indeed done so, and I continue to do so.

Therefore, my resolve to follow the Dao is unwavering!

Having thought this through, Donghua stopped pondering it. His path was not wrong, for it was his true nature.

He began to contemplate the path of his cultivation. The path he was currently cultivating was mainly divided into three types: the Bagua Path, the Pure Yang Path, and the Qi Fortune Emperor Path.

Of these three great paths, the Eight Trigrams Great Path is the general principle, governing all the paths one cultivates, explaining the ultimate principles of heaven and earth, the myriad things of the great path, and the yin and yang and the five elements.

Even the Pure Yang Dao he cultivated could be transformed into the Eight Trigrams.

Therefore, strictly speaking, I now have two main paths to cultivate.

The Great Way of the Eight Trigrams and the Imperial Way of Fortune!

However, the Bagua Daodao (Eight Trigrams Way) has now reached a bottleneck and cannot achieve a breakthrough in the short term.

That leaves only the path of destiny and imperial power.

However, Donghua has always remained tight-lipped about the imperial destiny.

It wasn't just because of fear of the Lich and Demon races.

The main reason lies in whether this path can lead to enlightenment. After all, from ancient times to the present, no one has ever reached the pinnacle of this path and attained the state of Hunyuan.

Moreover, it seems that those who cultivate this path are all short-lived.

The Kunwu Ancestor of the Kunwu Divine Dynasty was the first person to gather fortune and cultivate the Emperor's Way. His fate was predictable; he was cruelly murdered by Shen Ni, and his body and Dao disappeared.

The same fate befell the three subsequent clans; the Ancestral Dragon, the Primordial Phoenix, and the First Qilin met no better ends.

As for the Wu and Yao clans today, according to the final course of history, Di Jun, Tai Yi, Di Jiang, and others also met their end with death and annihilation.

Even the original body that cultivated the Emperor's Path of Fortune could not escape this fate.

In later generations, Haotian also died and was forced to reincarnate. He went from being the dignified Heavenly Emperor to becoming the Jade Emperor, the head of the Six Emperors of Heaven. It was a tragic and pitiful story.

It was as if the destiny and imperial path were cursed, and none of those who cultivated had a good ending.

This is the real reason why Donghua is uninterested in and reluctant to discuss the imperial destiny.

To be honest, if he could have seen even a glimmer of hope for attaining enlightenment from this Emperor's Path of Fortune, he wouldn't have given up on cultivation back then.

After all, the struggle for supremacy is no ordinary matter!

However, the less he cultivated, the stronger his destiny and imperial path became, as if the destiny and imperial path were cultivating itself at all times.

That's really weird!

He once ventured alone into the river of fate, but he still couldn't understand why, and he remains completely baffled to this day.

With his thoughts settled here, Donghua finally lay down.

Since you love spiritual practice, then I will take the initiative to practice!

This time, instead of relying on the power of destiny and the Emperor's Path to operate on its own, Donghua began to control the power of destiny and cultivate towards the Emperor's Path.

At this moment, Donghua sat upright on the Pure World Lotus Platform, with the dragon-headed golden staff and the Kongtong Seal appearing together, and endless power of fortune began to gather.

He possesses the fortune of the head of the Eastern Hua male immortals, the fortune of the innate deity, the Eastern Wood Duke, and the fortune of the Purple Palace.

These are the three largest types of fortune, and countless other types of fortune gradually converge upon them.

It possesses the fortune brought by the divine powers of the Heavenly Gang and Earthly Fiends.

It has the fortune that has flowed in from the West.

It possesses the auspicious energy that converges from the immortal volcanoes of the south.

……

There is also the ever-flowing fortune from heaven and earth, from mountains and rivers, and from all living things. Although this fortune is scarce, its strength lies in its continuous and inexhaustible flow.

Upon seeing this, Donghua frowned, but had no time to think further and continued his cultivation.

Countless streams of fortune converged into a golden river that flowed around him.

The entire Jingyang Palace was bathed in gold!

Donghua also began to unleash his other Great Daos: Pure Yang, Bagua, Innate Wood Dao, Time, Space, Yin and Yang, Five Elements, Cause and Effect, and so on.

Donghua has been involved in all three thousand Great Daos. Mastering one Dao leads to understanding all others. When one cultivates a Dao to its ultimate level, it can naturally be transformed into other Daos.

The same path can yield completely different results depending on the individual who cultivates it.

Take the Pure Yang Dao as an example. Haotian is also cultivating it, but among those of the same realm, Donghua is absolutely confident that he can completely defeat him.

At this moment, the Qi and blood began to flow, driving the three thousand Great Dao Laws and beginning to manifest the ultimate Dao!

Under the pull of destiny, the power of the Three Thousand Laws began to transform into chains of rules.

As the chain of rules took shape, the aura emanating from Donghua grew stronger and stronger.

An ancient and majestic aura spread.

Starting from Jingyang Palace, the route continues through the Azure Sea, Purple Mansion Continent, the Three Islands and Ten Continents, and traverses the East China Sea.

Everyone was shocked. Those from the Purple Mansion looked towards Jingyang Palace, all intimidated by its imposing aura.

Faced with this aura, everyone felt an aura of great love, yet they couldn't help but want to submit and prostrate themselves.

At this moment, cultivators below the Great Luo level were completely subdued by this aura.

His face showed admiration and respect, but his eyes were filled with madness, as if he had been brainwashed.

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