Chapter 672

Moreover, borrowing debt will certainly incur interest.

Borrowing debt from the Dao of Heaven to become a Saint inevitably brings far more terrifying interest.

After becoming a Saint, everything Qian Ti and Saint Jieyin did was to repay their debt.

Managing the Buddhist faith was an attempt to repay the Dao of Heaven through Buddhism's spiritual fortune.

Toiling to govern the West was an effort to earn merit from Heaven and Earth, using that heavenly virtue to repay their debt.

Compared to other regions of the Primordial World, the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding was far more peculiar.

It was extremely barren; even in the Ancient Era, the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding had little spiritual energy.

This region could be considered a wound upon the Primordial World.

If the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding could be restored, the merit gained might surpass even that of mending the sky.

It was precisely because they controlled the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding that Qian Ti and I had the courage to make forty-eight great vows.

Simply by repairing the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding, they could repay most of their debt to the Dao of Heaven.

Now, Qian Ti and Saint Jieyin have governed the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding quite well, and Buddhism has become the foremost power in the Three Realms.

Qian Ti and Saint Jieyin were nearly seeing the dawn of repaying their debt.

That dawn was the Journey to the West—the eastward spread of Buddhism and its great flourishing in the East.

If Buddhism could flourish greatly in the East, its spiritual fortune would surge dramatically.

At the same time, Qian Ti and Saint Jieyin could seize this opportunity to plunder more resources and talent, fully restoring the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding.

In this way, their debt could be fully settled.

Precisely because of this, Qian Ti and Saint Jieyin cared so deeply about the Journey to the West.

The Dao of Heaven's debt is not easily owed.

The longer the debt lingers, the more must be repaid.

If they continued to delay, even if Buddhism flourished and the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding was fully restored, it still might not be enough for Qian Ti and Saint Jieyin to repay their debt.

As the Primordial World continued to perfect itself, opportunities to gain merit grew ever rarer.

If they failed to settle this debt during this opportunity, Qian Ti and Saint Jieyin would likely never repay it in their lifetimes.

For this Journey to the West calamity, Qian Ti and Saint Jieyin were determined to succeed at all costs.

These secrets, Luo Fu—who had read Journey to the West, transmigrated into the Primordial World, and received abundant transmissions—certainly could not be unaware of.

Precisely because he knew, Luo Fu had appeared on the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding.

Under Luo Fu's control, an invisible perception slowly scanned every inch of the entire Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding, leaving no corner unexamined.

Previously, when probing and perceiving the Three Realms, he had nearly been spotted by Ancestor Hongjun.

Thus, this time Luo Fu's probe of the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding was exceptionally discreet and cautious: his perception range was compressed to an extreme, and he used the Chaos Pearl to activate the Dao for disguise.

The Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding was not small; under such compressed perception, even Luo Fu required considerable time to survey the entire region.

Most importantly, what Luo Fu sought was exceedingly hidden.

Had he not possessed confidence in his own understanding of the Dao, he would never have chosen to search every corner of the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding like seeking a needle in a haystack.

The Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding became so barren because, during the Ancient Era, when Ancestor Hongjun and Demon Ancestor Luo Hou fought for dominance over the Primordial World, they clashed violently upon the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding.

At that time, Ancestor Hongjun was close to attaining the Primordial Oneness.

Demon Ancestor Luo Hou, whom Ancestor Hongjun regarded as an opponent, could not possibly have been weak.

Like Ancestor Hongjun, Demon Ancestor Luo Hou was only one step away from Primordial Oneness.

More importantly, both possessed primordial supreme treasures.

At that time, their power was sufficient to rival ordinary Primordial Oneness cultivators.

Such experts clashing on the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding would cause unimaginable destruction.

Saint Tongtian's battle with the Four Other Saints using the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array nearly restarted the entire Primordial World.

And the original master of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array was none other than Demon Ancestor Luo Hou.

Moreover, the Immortal-Slaying Sword Array was not even Demon Ancestor Luo Hou's primary battle treasure.

Had Ancestor Hongjun and Demon Ancestor Luo Hou not held back during their clash, the entire Primordial Continent might have been shattered into pieces.

Though both restrained themselves, each hoping to preserve a complete Primordial World,

the residual shockwaves from their battle still shattered the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding's earth veins, turning it into a barren desert.

Moreover, Demon Ancestor Luo Hou cultivated the Dao of Demon, the Dao of Slaughter, and the Dao of Destruction—three exceedingly vicious Daos, especially the Dao of Demon and the Dao of Destruction, one profoundly evil, the other annihilating all things.

During his clash with Ancestor Hongjun, Demon Ancestor Luo Hou's Dao forces infiltrated and polluted the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding's earth veins.

The power of the Dao of Demon became entangled with the earth veins, while the power of the Dao of Destruction eradicated the very root of the veins.

The ultimate outcome of their battle was, of course, Ancestor Hongjun defeating and slaying Demon Ancestor Luo Hou.

Otherwise, Hongjun would never have become the Dao Ancestor.

Although Ancestor Hongjun emerged victorious, the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding's earth veins were shattered, and he did not cultivate the power of the earth.

Faced with earth veins whose roots had been destroyed by the Dao of Destruction, even if Ancestor Hongjun had attained Primordial Oneness, he could not restore them.

Most crucially, the Western Continent of Cattle-Feeding's earth veins still retained residual demonic qi left by Demon Ancestor Luo Hou—demonic qi that clung like parasitic worms, deeply fused with the earth veins.