Chapter 1019: Sound

"My Dao is accomplished!"

"Haha."

Rumble!

Just as Su Fan was in seclusion on a high peak in Nanjun, the heavens and earth suddenly shook, and a massive burst of laughter spread from the horizon, as if resounding through the Three Realms.

Su Fan was startled awake by this laughter.

This voice is somewhat familiar, Su Fan muttered to himself.

Hmm! It is Zhenyuanzi Daxian; very quickly, Su Fan identified the owner of this voice.

"My Dao is accomplished."

"Could it be that Zhenyuanzi Daxian has already successfully broken through to become a Saint?"

"No, that's not right. If he had truly become a Saint, there would certainly be purple clouds filling the sky."

Su Fan looked up at the sky, but there were no strange phenomena at all; even when Laozi became a Saint of Taoism, there were three thousand miles of purple clouds, and becoming a Saint would only result in an even greater phenomenon.

At present, it seems very calm.

"Could it be that he has not yet become a Saint?"

However, thinking about it, he probably hasn't become a Saint; after all, if Saints were really that easy to break through to, there wouldn't only be six Saints in Honghuang to this day.

Not counting the Dao Ancestor and those like Yangmei, those six Saints took a shortcut; after all, their becoming Saints relied entirely on the Hongmeng Purple Qi and their own Merit.

Without the Hongmeng Purple Qi and a body of Merit, I fear they could never have become Saints.

Especially Merit; the primordial spirits of the Three Pure Ones were transformed from the primordial spirit of the Great God Pangu, and their primordial spirits were naturally born with the Profound Yellow Merit of Opening the Heavens.

Nuwa Niangniang even possessed the Mending Heaven Merit and the Merit of creating humans; even if this Merit is not as great as the Profound Yellow Merit of the Three Pure Ones, it might be higher in quantity.

Only the two Western Saints are worse off; initially, establishing a sect's Qi of Luck was not enough to become a Saint, so they had no choice but to make great vows and owe Heavenly Dao Merit to barely break through and become Saints.

That is why the two Western Saints are the most miserable, and this is also the reason they defected from the Taoist Sect.

After all, the great vows they made before becoming Saints meant they owed karma to the Heavenly Dao; if they didn't repay it, that would be a disaster, and I fear that by then, they wouldn't even be able to remain Saints.

Therefore, they desperately developed the West, broke away from the Taoist Sect, and founded the Western Sect, the Buddhist Sect.

The six Saints becoming Saints was entirely taking a shortcut, walking a side path, not like the Dao Ancestor who completely unified the Three Corpses to finally become a Saint and achieve the Primordial realm.

This is also why the gap between the strength of the six Saints and the strength of the Dao Ancestor is so large.

Even if both rely on the power of the Heavenly Dao, if the power the six Saints borrow is ten, then the Dao Ancestor's is one hundred.

Moreover, even after leaving the Heavenly Dao, the Dao Ancestor can still exert the power of a Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal, while the six Saints would at most only have the power of a Quasi-Saint Peak.

It is even possible they might not necessarily exert Quasi-Saint Peak power.

At the time, there was still a gap in the cultivation realms of the six Saints before they became Saints; most of them had only severed their Good-Evil Two Corpses.

Equivalent to the Quasi-Saint Late Stage, and then they suddenly became Saints.

Perhaps after becoming Saints, they severed their final Self Corpse; of course, it is also possible they did not, as no one is clear on this.

After all, who would dare to spy on a Saint, and one wouldn't be able to spy on them anyway.

But regardless, the six Saints took a shortcut when they became Saints back then, so their foundations are unstable; in the Honghuang world, although they are immortal and indestructible, almost invincible existences, they are still restricted—restricted by the Heavenly Dao.

It is merely an alternative kind of cage.

They cannot easily leave the Honghuang world.

I also don't know if the several Saints have ever regretted it back then, but they probably wouldn't regret it; after all, compared to the Great Supernatural Beings of their generation, those six had already been able to become players in the Honghuang world since the ancient times.

Even during the Witch and Demon Tribes era, they could manipulate the game; if they hadn't become Saints, facing the Witch and Demon Tribes, these people would have been in danger back then.

The Witch and Demon Tribes hunted quite a few of the Three Thousand Zixiao Guests back then; if not for them becoming Saints and protecting a portion, I fear most of the Zixiao Guests would have either been controlled by the Witch and Demon Tribes or slaughtered.

And if they hadn't become Saints at the time, perhaps there would be no place for them in the current Honghuang.

After all, without their schemes, no matter who became the final hegemon between the Witch and Demon Tribes, the outcome would certainly have been bad for them.

The Three Pure Ones might not be afraid; with this Merit of Opening the Heavens, even the Witch and Demon Tribes would not dare to easily move against them, and the same goes for Nuwa Niangniang.

But the two Western Saints were different.

I fear the outcome would have been no different from that of Hongyun.

Back then, many Great Supernatural Beings in Honghuang were vaguely starting to set their sights on the two Western Saints.

Even Hongyun was dared to be moved against, let alone the two of them.

After all, back then, in reality, the combination of Hongyun and Zhenyuanzi Daxian was recognized as being stronger than the two Western Saints in terms of strength.

Especially Zhenyuanzi Daxian; he has always been an existence among the Great Supernatural Beings whose strength is second only to the Three Pure Ones.

Possessing an Innate Spiritual Treasure like the Earth Book in his hands, at that time in the Honghuang world, even the Three Pure Ones could not defeat him.

If Hongyun had not left the Wuzhuang Temple of Zhenyuanzi Daxian, even if the two Emperors of the Demon Tribe had come, they would not have been able to break the defenses of the Wuzhuang Temple.

It is a pity that Hongyun eventually left, and then suffered the schemes and sneak attacks of the Demon Tribe and Minghe, ultimately falling.

Of course, in the end, no one had a good time; no one obtained the Hongmeng Purple Qi.

The Hongmeng Purple Qi is not so easy to snatch.

A group of people fought until they were battered and bloody, yet obtained nothing; Hongyun fell, while the Demon Tribe and Minghe offended Zhenyuanzi Daxian.

After the Witch and Demon Tribes ended, Kunpeng had been hiding in Beihai, and Minghe Laozu had also been hiding in the Blood Sea and not coming out; in reality, they were just avoiding Zhenyuanzi Daxian.

After all, in terms of strength, this Taoist big shot is definitely above them; even Minghe, who has peerless offensive power, did not want to fight to the death with Zhenyuanzi Daxian.

After all, Zhenyuanzi Daxian, with this Earth Book, is second only to the Taiqing Saint in terms of defense; without an Innate Supreme Treasure, it is very difficult to break through the defenses of Zhenyuanzi Daxian.

And as for Innate Supreme Treasures, there are only those few; I fear the only ones that pose a threat to Zhenyuanzi Daxian are the Pangu Banner of the Yuqing Saint and the Zhu Xian Four Swords of the Tongtian Shengren.

Of course, there was also a Killing Path Supreme Treasure, the God-Slaying Spear, but this killing treasure disappeared after the fall of Luo Hou.

No one knows where this killing treasure fell, just like the Chaos Bell of Eastern Emperor Taiyi, which also disappeared without a trace after this Demon Emperor died and his Dao dissipated.

Even a Saint cannot track it down.

You must know, this is a top-tier Innate Supreme Treasure, integrating offense and defense; among the other Innate Supreme Treasures, the Taiji Diagram leans more toward defense, while the Pangu Banner is a completely offensive Innate Supreme Treasure.

Only the Chaos Bell can be said to integrate offense and defense, with its attack and defense being no worse than the Pangu Banner or the Taiji Diagram.

That Demon Emperor, back in the day, even relied on this Chaos Bell to withstand the main body of the Pangu True Body summoned by the Ancestral Witches.

Without this Chaos Bell, I fear the Pangu summoned by the Ancestral Witches could have annihilated the Demon Race with a single strike.