Chapter 671: Borrowing Debt to Attain Sainthood! The Polluted Earth Vein with Demonic Qi

The Primordial World was all opened by Pangu; even possessing a portion of the opening-heaven merit was enough for the Three Pure Ones to cultivate into sages through merit.

Not to mention, the Three Pure Ones also divided a portion of the primordial fortune and merit of Wan Ling's human race through the act of establishing a sect.

Thus, among the Six Sages of the Primordial World, the Three Pure Ones' path to sainthood through merit was the easiest.

Although Pingxin Niangniang possessed no opening-heaven merit, she first refined the Five-Colored Stone to mend the sky and saved the myriad beings of the Primordial World, then created the Wan Ling human race.

With these two portions of merit, Pingxin Niangniang also attained sainthood.

Compared to them, the Two Western Sages fell far short.

In origin, the Two Western Sages were vastly inferior to the Three Pure Ones and did not inherently possess great merit.

In merit, the Two Western Sages had accomplished nothing beneficial to heaven and earth.

Establishing the Lixifang Sect was merely picking up what the Three Pure Ones left behind, and they gained little merit or fortune.

Moreover, the merit and fortune they obtained had to be split equally between the two.

Even if one person received all the merit and fortune, attaining sainthood would be extremely difficult—how much more so when two people split it?

Therefore, after the Three Pure Ones and Pingxin Niangniang attained sainthood in succession, the Two Western Sages devised a unique method of cultivation for themselves.

That method was borrowing debt from the Heavenly Dao.

Yes, borrowing debt.

Since their merit and fortune were insufficient to attain sainthood,

they would first borrow a portion of fortune from the Heavenly Dao and attain sainthood ahead of time.

Then repay the borrowed debt.

The Forty-Eight Great Vows of Saint Zhunti and Saint Jieyin were, in essence, borrowing debt from the Heavenly Dao.

What is borrowed must be repaid.