Chapter 418

In fact, when Taishang and others proved the Dao and became Saints, they were not even at the peak of the Quasi-Saint realm, and their understanding of the Great Dao was still a long way from the Hunyuan level.

The reason why the six Saints could prove the Dao and become Saints is because they walked the path of becoming a Saint through merit.

Relying on merit, they directly obtained the recognition of the Heavenly Dao, which actively bestowed the Saint status, helping them become Saints.

Through this method, one can become a Saint without any Great Dao understanding.

Just like the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, when they obtained the status of the human Dao, their own strength was probably not even that of a Golden Immortal.

But under the elevation of the human Dao status, the Three Emperors and Five Emperors still possessed the power of the limit of a Quasi-Saint.

The Saint status and the human Dao status can elevate the user's strength and realm because the part of the power elevated all comes from the Heavenly Dao and the human Dao.

In other words, Saints and the Three Emperors and Five Emperors actually possess the power of the Heavenly Dao and the human Dao, not their own power.

Since it is the power of the Heavenly Dao and the human Dao, then their actual realm does not have any influence on their strength.

Proving the Dao and becoming a Saint in this way has both advantages and disadvantages.

The good part is of course that it is relatively easy.

One only needs to accumulate enough merit to prove the Dao and become a Saint.

The bad part is that the power used comes from the Heavenly Dao and the human Dao; one only has the right to use it, not actual possession. Once the Heavenly Dao and the human Dao take it back, one will be directly beaten back to their original form.

For ordinary people, becoming a Saint through merit can be considered a very good shortcut.

Understanding the Great Dao is too difficult.

The reason why Luo Fu's understanding of the Great Dao is so fast is because Luo Fu's comprehension is comparable to the limit of the Great Dao level.

For ordinary people, even Saints, their comprehension is at most equivalent to the Hunyuan level.

Hunyuan and Great Dao are two full major realms apart.

Precisely because understanding the Great Dao is too difficult, for most cultivators, they almost cannot see the hope of completely understanding the Great Dao and proving the Dao of Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal, which is why most people hope to prove the Dao and become a Saint.

The six Saints of the world finally chose to become Saints through merit.

On one hand, it was Dao Ancestor Hongjun's inducement.

The six of them all had great opportunities, great merit, and great karma.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun needed to turn the great opportunities, great merit, and great karma of the six people into his own use by pushing them to the Saint status.

On the other hand, the inheritance was missing, and understanding the Great Dao was too difficult, making them almost unable to see the hope of proving the Dao of Hunyuan.

Before the six Saints proved the Dao, Dao Ancestor Hongjun had just preached in the Zixiao Palace.

A group of cultivators in the world had just stepped onto the path of the Great Dao not long ago.

Even if the six Saints' talents were powerful, it was impossible for them to understand a Great Dao and prove the Dao and become a Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal in such a short time.

And Dao Ancestor Hongjun played quite a bit of scheming when preaching to the world.

Although he pointed out three paths to Hunyuan, he did not explain in detail how the three paths to Hunyuan should be walked, and to what extent they should be walked to reach the end.

The world also lacked a complete Great Dao inheritance, so everyone had no reference when cultivating.

Therefore, after Dao Ancestor Hongjun preached to the world, a group of cultivators were actually still crossing the river by feeling the stones.

The method of beheading the three corpses taught by Dao Ancestor Hongjun to the cultivators of the world is indeed a method of proving the Dao.

But in fact, beheading the three corpses is an auxiliary method.

Beheading the three corpses is to increase the speed of understanding the Great Dao.

It does not mean that after beheading the three corpses, one can definitely prove the Dao of Hunyuan Da Luo Golden Immortal.

After beheading the three corpses, one still needs to completely understand a Great Dao to combine the three corpses into one and prove the Dao of Hunyuan.

Dao Ancestor Hongjun did not tell anyone about this secret.

One path, standing on it, one cannot see the end at a glance.

Another path, however, is within reach.

If it were anyone else, I fear they would choose the second path.

After all, Dao Ancestor Hongjun said that Saints are Hunyuan, but Hunyuan are not Saints.

The six Saints of the world fell into Dao Ancestor Hongjun's trap in this way.

Proving the Dao and becoming a Saint only allowed the six Saints to have the ability to mobilize the Heavenly Dao, and could not improve the six Saints' understanding of the Great Dao.

The Heavenly Dao contains the Three Thousand Great Daos; being able to mobilize the power of the Heavenly Dao means that the Three Thousand Great Daos have all been mastered.

A little Great Dao understanding does not have much effect.

Of course, the Heavenly Dao did not need to help the Saints improve their Great Dao understanding.

Now, not many epochs have passed since the ancient world.

From the many great divine beings in the Journey to the West world, even the Ancestor Ming He, who is at the limit of the Quasi-Saint, is still a long way from Hunyuan, one can see this point.

At this time, Saint Tongtian led many great divine beings and understood the Great Dao of the Sword to the limit, only one step away from breaking through to Hunyuan.

It is enough to see that as one of the Three Pure Ones, Saint Tongtian's talent and comprehension are indeed extremely extraordinary.

Almost destined to be able to prove the Dao of Hunyuan.

This is also one of the reasons why Dao Ancestor Hongjun took a fancy to the Three Pure Ones; pushing the Three Pure Ones, who were destined to be able to prove the Dao of Hunyuan, to the Saint status, not only could he obtain a few good chess pieces, but he could also minimize their influence on the world.

"After I finish handling things here, I will go to see this Saint Tongtian; I am very curious, how much of my master's style this Saint Tongtian has."

Luo Fu withdrew his gaze and muttered to himself.

Subsequently, he withdrew his gaze and refocused his attention on the West Niu He Continent.

In the battle of the Investiture of the Gods, the world was shattered into pieces.

Under the great power of Dao Ancestor Hongjun, these fragments were reshaped into the Earth Immortal Realm.

Among them, the four largest fragments turned into the four great continents, namely the East Victory Divine Continent, the South Jambudvipa, the West Niu He Continent, and the North Kuru Continent.

The West Niu He Continent is the west of the world, which is the territory transformed by Buddhism.

Compared to other continents, the West Niu He Continent is the most barren, full of deserts, with yellow sand filling the sky; all living things in the West Niu He Continent are in oases, and these oases are scattered like stars in every corner of the West Niu He Continent.

Originally, the West Niu He Continent was even more barren, and one could almost rarely see traces of living things.

It was all thanks to the painstaking management of the two Saints of the West that the West Niu He Continent developed to its current level.

From this perspective, although the two Saints of the West were a bit shameless, they could be considered painstaking.

Of course, the reason why the two Saints of the West managed Buddhism so painstakingly also had a lot of selfishness.

If it is said that before becoming Saints, the two Saints of the West managed the West because they were from the West and wanted to possess a force of their own.

Then after becoming Saints, the main reason why the two Saints of the West painstakingly managed the West became repaying debt.

Repaying the debt owed to the Heavenly Dao for becoming Saints.

The six Saints of the world all became Saints through merit.

The Three Pure Ones were transformed from Pangu's primordial spirit and innately possessed a part of Pangu's merit in opening heaven, and were themselves great merit holders.