Chapter 14: The End of the Rice-Demon Era, Yang Mei Attains Sainthood

During the time Gu Zhangqing was refining the origin fragments, an event occurred in the Great Desolation West that was enough to shock the Primordial World.

Hongjun and Luo Hou went to war.

Luo Hou, who had set up the Immortal Execution Array and wielded the Immortal Execution Four Swords, and Hongjun, who used One Qi Transforms into Three Purities.

There were also three other Immortal Rice giants: Yinyang Laozu, Wuxing Laozu, and Qiankun Laozu.

The great battle between the five Great Supernatural Beings of the Hunyuan Realm directly affected the entire Great Desolation West.

The aura it emitted made all living beings in the Primordial World realize the terror of the Hunyuan Realm.

This great battle lasted for a full three months.

It caused irreparable and massive damage to the Great Desolation West Continent.

……

The final result was as Gu Zhangqing had expected.

In the end, it concluded with the Demon Ancestor Luo Hou undergoing Transformation into Rice, and the Immortal Rice's Hongjun achieving final victory.

However, the Immortal Rice side also suffered huge losses; of the four giants of the Immortal Rice who possessed the Hunyuan Golden Immortal realm, only Hongjun remained.

The other three, Yinyang Laozu and the others, unfortunately sacrificed themselves on Luo Hou's Immortal Execution Sword Array.

It can be said that in this great battle, the Immortal Rice's Hongjun became the biggest winner.

Now, only three people of the Hunyuan Realm remain in the Primordial World.

One is Yangmei Laozu, who follows the Chaos Demon God Rice; one is Gu Zhangqing, who hides in the dark with the World Rice; and the Immortal Rice's Hongjun.

Perhaps in the future, one might add the Innate Divine Rice Saint Spirit Huang.

In Gu Zhangqing's impression.

After this Rice-Demon Great Tribulation.

The Immortal Rice officially became the mainstream of the Primordial World, and as Yang Mei of the Chaos Demon God Rice was driven out of the Primordial World by the Heavenly Rice, leaving only Hongjun as the strongest in the Primordial World.

The Immortal Rice developed to an even greater height.

This situation reached its peak until Hongjun attained sainthood and the six saints of the Heavenly Rice were born.

However, it is different now.

At this moment, with the variable of Gu Zhangqing, the Divine Rice might not fall into becoming an appendage of the Immortal Rice as it did in Gu Zhangqing's impression.

After the Rice-Demon Great Tribulation, due to the Demon Ancestor Luo Hou's act of Transformation into Rice, the Qi Luck of the Demon Rice plummeted directly.

Coupled with the fact that most of the Demon Rice's vital forces were annihilated by the Immortal Rice forces.

The Demon Rice was suppressed to the extreme by the Immortal Rice.

It became a dispensable cultivation path, even having the implication of becoming an appendage of the Immortal Rice.

A thousand years later……

After Gu Zhangqing completely consolidated his Multiverse realm here.

He then sensed that a powerful spatial concept suddenly existed between heaven and earth, contending with the Heavenly Rice.

Surprised, he could not help but ask the Saint Spirit Huang clone beside him.

"Did you sense it?"

"What?" The Saint Spirit Huang clone was bewildered by the question.

"The Space Law Great Rice in the Primordial World is being captured by a powerful spatial concept……" Speaking of this, Gu Zhangqing seemed to have thought of something.

His vast Divine Sense trembled violently.

"Yangmei the Old Daoist has attained the Hunyuan Daluo Fruit of Enlightenment?!!"

"……"

Perhaps because this spatial concept belongs to a realm above Hunyuan, only those in the same realm can perceive it.

In the Primordial World, and even in the Small Worlds of the All Heavens and the Yuanyi World that he controlled, the Space Law Great Rice of all worlds under Chaos had been copied and captured.

Then, Gu Zhangqing discovered.

The Space Law Great Rice of all worlds had been branded with an indelible mark by a vast and uncontrollable will.

Even the Primordial World was no exception.

The wind and clouds changed suddenly, and Gu Zhangqing projected his Divine Sense rapidly toward the Wai Hun-dun outside the Primordial World.

Subsequently, he saw an infinitely large space willow tree appearing outside the crystal wall of the Primordial World.

In front of the willow tree, a huge beast eye also appeared, staring fixedly at him.

"After countless years, this seat has finally taken back the Space Great Fruit of Enlightenment that belongs to this seat!" Yangmei the Old Daoist revealed his human form, both excited and emotional.

Speaking of this, Yangmei Laozu felt his own Chaos divine body, then smiled and looked at the Heavenly Rice Eye.

"Pangu, from this moment on, space is me, and I am space! You opened up the world, which achieved you, but it also achieved this seat!"

After speaking, Yangmei Laozu suddenly glanced at where Gu Zhangqing was and smiled faintly.

"The vastness of Chaos, space cannot reach; the smallness of the world, space cannot be without…… This seat is leaving!" After speaking, he transformed into a towering willow tree, coming without a sound, leaving without a shadow, entering the Chaos like a dragon entering the sea, rolling with the tide.

Seeing this, Gu Zhangqing's heart was filled with infinite envy.

However, the Rice has no end, and sooner or later they will meet again.

Thinking of this, he could not help but look at the Heavenly Rice Eye.

The Space Great Fruit of Enlightenment that Yangmei the Old Daoist attained is not the first, and the next will be this seat's World Fruit of Enlightenment.

Gu Zhangqing secretly vowed with determination.

Taking advantage of the Heavenly Rice Eye still staring at the departing Yang Mei, Gu Zhangqing's Divine Sense quietly retreated.

While leaving, his Divine Sense scanned the Primordial Continent, specifically paying attention to the direction of Yujing Mountain.

When he sensed that aura of a Hunyuan Golden Immortal…… no, to be precise, the Quasi-Saint Peak, Gu Zhangqing instantly withdrew all his Divine Sense and returned to the Innate Great Array.

And the old man Hongjun, far away at Yujing Mountain, also withdrew his gaze from the Chaos at this time, and also looked at the place where Gu Zhangqing had left with a strange expression.

"Sigh, Space Demon God Yang Mei, you have taken the lead after all!!"

Hongjun shook his head and thought to himself.

"However, this poor Daoist is not far behind; once I achieve the Proof of Rice and become a Saint, it will be the moment the Immortal Rice spreads across All Heavens!"

Having thought this, the old Daoist Hongjun brought out the Creation Jade Butterfly and once again fell into a state of enlightenment.

After the Rice-Demon Great Tribulation, he had successfully deduced the Immortal Rice to the Quasi-Saint Peak, and finally, within a thousand years, realized the method of Three Corpses Integration.

Representing the good, the evil, and the self, the Three Corpses integrate, his body becoming the incarnation of All Heavens, achieving the status of a Heavenly Rice Saint.

……

At the summit of Mount Buzhou.

The avatar of Shengling Huang was drinking tea made from the leaves of the Tree of Life, brewed with the Water of Life.

Upon hearing Gu Zhangqing's words, his hand paused.

"Impressive, he is truly worthy of being one of the strongest Chaos Demon Gods; even after falling into Honghuang, he can still return to the realm of a Chaos Demon God," he said with a face full of admiration.

"Heh, just a moment ago you were calling him 'old Daoist' this and 'old Daoist' that, so why are you now afraid to even mention his name?"

Yuan Yi said speechlessly.

"I'm not stupid; someone who has already achieved the Proof of Rice, and in one of the strongest Great Daos of Chaos at that—mentioning his name is just asking for trouble."

"Perhaps the Innate Great Array can conceal it?"

"Who knows..."

"……"

The two were silent for a while.

The avatar of Shengling Huang said: "Your World Rice is much harder than the Space Great Rice; do you have confidence?"

Gu Zhangqing retorted directly: "Ask yourself!"

Having said this, he stopped paying attention to the avatar Shengling Huang and sank his consciousness into the Yuanyi World.

In recent years, he had grown tired of talking to himself, and it was only at this moment that he realized that sometimes he really was a damn clown.

A guy who is serious on the surface.

Looking at the silent Tree of Life, Shengling Huang was also speechless.

He then raised the teacup formed from divine power in his hand, which transformed into a goblet amidst a flash of light.

Then he swirled it in a sophisticated manner.

And took a shallow sip.

"It's a real pity for the main body that such fine tea cannot be tasted," he said with an intoxicated look, clicking his tongue in regret.

……

(End of this chapter)