Chapter 97

Houtu is the Master of the Earth Dao; if the Heavenly Dao tries to destroy her Dao body again, the Earth Dao will certainly use all its power to resist the Heavenly Dao! The will of the Heavenly Dao is merely equivalent to the program of the operation of the Primordial Heaven and Earth; it has no self-consciousness!

Therefore, if the price of destroying the little Pangu's Dao body is to also destroy the Primordial Earth Dao together, the Heavenly Dao cannot possibly do that.

This sliver of vitality, Zhu Qingyun ultimately still grasped it!

"I am Houtu, styled Pingxin Niangniang, as Master of the Earth Dao, I appoint my elder brother Tianyun as the Ancestor of the Earth Dao!"

"I appoint my brother Dijiang as Master of the Netherworld, the Yin Heavenly Emperor!"

"I appoint my other brothers as the Ten Kings of Yama!"

"I appoint Minghe as the Asura Dao Lord of the Six Paths!"

Although the Asura clan has not yet been born, Houtu, who has become Master of the Earth Dao, already knows that this is an inevitable result under the operation of the Primordial Earth Dao.

Earlier, my elder brother, in order to help me attain the Dao, had made a promise to Minghe; therefore, Houtu naturally will not be stingy with the status of a Dao Lord!

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Upon hearing Houtu's ennoblement, Zhu Qingyun immediately burst out laughing.

"No, the Ten Kings of Yama are ancestral witches? I mean, if the monkey is destined to cause havoc in the underworld, is this underworld really something he can stir up?"

But he didn't have time to think further; as Zhu Qingyun became Ancestor of the Earth Dao, he gained partial authority over the Earth Dao! This authority's strength is not inferior to that of the Human Dao, and he can mobilize both powers together! Zhu Qingyun's combat power instantly rivals that of a triple-heaven Mixed Yuan Great Golden Immortal! However, there is a downside! Because of the additional authority, he almost failed to suppress his cultivation; the literary and martial ways almost let him break into the Mixed Yuan Great Golden Immortal realm!

"No! The Imperial Great Dao has not yet reached perfection; now is not the time for a breakthrough!"

Zhu Qingyun felt a sense of urgency; it seemed he must hurry to the human race! Now that Houtu has become Master of the Earth Dao, he has no rear worries; he might as well go to the human race now!

There are still over two thousand years until the Dao lecture.

Although the human race has only existed for a few short centuries, thanks to its powerful reproductive force, its population has now surpassed the ten-million mark! "Human race!"

Zhu Qingyun gave a brief instruction to the twelve ancestral witches, Houtu, and Nüwa, then set out to wander among the human race.

Zhu Qingyun's figure flickered, and he appeared among the newborn human race.

As the Ancestor of the Human Dao, he clearly sensed that the human race was destined to give rise to the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors; this is a fixed trajectory under the operation of the Primordial Heaven and Earth, and also an inevitable trend of human development.

However, after he transmigrated and altered the course of the Primordial world, Zhu Qingyun deeply knows that everything is full of variables.

Originally, Fuxi was supposed to become the Heavenly Sovereign, but thanks to his protection, he no longer falls and reincarnates into the human race.

So, who will be the Heavenly Sovereign now?

Zhu Qingyun realized that to perfect the Imperial Great Dao, he needs to assist in the birth of the Heavenly Sovereign among the human Three Sovereigns!

Therefore, he chose to conceal his form and walk among the human race! After hundreds of years of development, statues of him and Nüwa can be seen everywhere within the human ancestral lands! Nüwa created humans, mother of the human race; when Zhu Qingyun entered the human race, he integrated his Dao insight, becoming the Ancestor of the Human Dao!

Under Zhu Qingyun's intervention, the potential foundation of this generation's human race far exceeds the original trajectory! Moreover, with his Dao insight integrated, the human race, from its very birth, possesses cultivation methods!

Countless humans temper their bodies, cultivating the Martial Great Dao!

Each one, with vigorous qi and blood, is terrifying; tearing apart great demons and contending with the Wu Clan is no problem at all!

After hundreds of years, many Wu Clan members have been born in the blood pool of the Pangu Divine Hall; however, the Wu Clan is currently concentrated within the region of Mount Buzhou.

Among the human race today, immortals are not few; moreover, there are innately gifted humans whose cultivation has reached the Great Golden Immortal level! The human race naturally possesses extraordinary comprehension and abundant potential, even comparable to innate divinities, so breaking through to the Golden Immortal realm is natural.

However, to become one of the human Three Sovereigns, it is not cultivation that counts, but merit done for the human race! Therefore, Zhu Qingyun consciously began seeking those who bear merit! One day, several hundred years later, when only fifteen hundred years remained until the Dao lecture, Zhu Qingyun's gaze was drawn to a certain figure.

This is a rough-looking old man, wearing hemp clothing, with a strange, faint red flame burning atop his head.

This flame contains the law of endless life and boundless merit power!

The hemp clothing is a postnatal merit spiritual treasure.

"What a rich abundance of merit and human racial fortune!"

"Moreover… early-stage Mixed Yuan Golden Immortal?!!"

Zhu Qingyun could hardly believe his own eyes.

How long has the human race existed? Just over a thousand years; he believes the birth of a Great Golden Immortal is plausible, but the birth of a Mixed Yuan Golden Immortal truly shocks him as well!

"This is what a normal, heaven-ordained eternal protagonist race should look like!"

Zhu Qingyun couldn't help but sigh.

Indeed, in the original trajectory, whether it was the three innate clans during the Dragon-Han Calamity or the two clans of witches and monsters, the number of Mixed Yuan great experts within those races was terrifying! Yet, for the human race, this heaven-ordained eternal protagonist, only the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, after completing their missions and receiving aid from human racial fortune, reached the peak of Mixed Yuan Golden Immortal.

Thinking about this makes no sense; so just how much did Hongjun meddle? Upon this thought, Zhu Qingyun manifested his form before that figure.

The old man first felt wary at the sudden appearance of Zhu Qingyun, but upon seeing his face clearly, he immediately bowed down.

"The human race's Suiren pays respects to the Human Dao Ancestor!"

It turns out to be Suiren, the foremost of the human Three Ancestors; no wonder he bears such abundant fortune.

So, that flame is the human race's unextinguished fire? "How did you break through to the Mixed Yuan Golden Immortal?"

Zhu Qingyun sensed that Suiren did not master the Mixed Yuan Dao, yet strangely he had reached the Mixed Yuan Golden Immortal realm; to avoid mistakes, Zhu Qingyun asked.

"Replying to the Dao Ancestor, I also don't know; just one day I sensed the human racial fortune upon me, and then naturally broke through to the early stage of Mixed Yuan Golden Immortal."

"As for why the human racial fortune came upon me… I also don't know!"

Suiren's expression was somewhat embarrassed.

However, upon hearing this, Zhu Qingyun breathed a sigh of relief.

It turns out the Human Dao has already automatically selected the Heavenly Sovereign candidate—namely Suiren! Then, how should I guide Suiren to attain the Heavenly Sovereign position?

In the original trajectory, Fuxi created the Eight Trigrams, taught the people to tie knots, weave nets, and fish, also established marriage rites, and created the zither and lute.

As the progenitor of medicine and acupuncture, by this merit he ultimately attained the Heavenly Sovereign fruition! Then, where should Suiren's path to proof of the Dao lie? Zhu Qingyun fell into contemplation.

Suiren saw Zhu Qingyun lost in thought and dared not disturb him.

"Teaching the people to tie knots, weave nets, and fish, establishing marriage rites, medicine and acupuncture—Suiren can do all these!"

"Suiren's achievement of drilling wood to make fire is no less than Fuxi's creation of the Eight Trigrams!"

"But now the human race is stronger, and has not yet fully entered the postnatal era; would simply copying the path to proof of the Dao really work?"

The new book has been released, titled 【Wasteland: Human Emperor Yi, Building the Divine Court of All Heavens】

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