Chapter 97

In the Yao calendar, during the 374th cycle, the 6th meeting, the 2nd cycle, Great Wu Hou Yi shot down the Heavenly Court's top pest, the Sun Star Sovereign, with a single arrow, simultaneously completing the two high-level achievements of Pest Elimination and Shooting the Sun!

Named entities:

Great Wu Hou Yi

the Heavenly Court

Sun Star Sovereign

Pest Elimination

Shooting the Sun

With the success of Pest Elimination and Shooting the Sun, the formation blocking the Middle Heaven Gate, the Heavenly Stars and Dipper Grand Formation, was announced broken; all 365 deployed star sovereigns fell, none captured, including nearly fifty Great Luo Golden Immortals, over two hundred Taiyi, and over a hundred Golden Immortals.

Named entities:

Pest Elimination and Shooting the Sun

Middle Heaven Gate

Heavenly Stars and Dipper Grand Formation

Deployment Star Sovereigns

Great Luo Golden Immortal

Taiyi

Golden Immortal

This also marked the complete downfall of the Supreme Heavenly Court; the ancient primordial world and all beings and myriad spirits desperately needed a great entity to bestow grace and blessings.

Named entities:

Supreme Heavenly Court

Primordial Wasteland

all beings and myriad spirits

But you know, this is not yet the time to proclaim emperors and reward merit; the downfall of the Sun Star Sovereign Group does not mean that everything has already settled into dust.

Named entities:

Sun Star Sovereign Group

to proclaim emperor and reward merit

Di Jun, Taiyi, Kunpeng... these Heavenly Court Quasi-Saints have still not appeared, and the Ancient Wu elder brother Di Jiang remains at large; you must promptly deal with matters concerning them, otherwise uncertainties will remain.

Named entities:

Di Jun

Taiyi

Kunpeng

Heavenly Court Quasi-Saint

Ancient Wu elder brother Di Jiang

Di Jiang

Thus, after you led your troops to storm the Middle Heaven Gate, you did not go to the Hall of Ascending Clouds, which symbolizes the pinnacle of Heavenly Court power, but instead immediately brought over five hundred Great Luo Golden Immortals to storm the Jade Pond Holy Land; according to the captured heavenly official, Di Jun's entire family is here.

Named entities:

Middle Heaven Gate

Hall of Ascending Clouds

Jade Pond Holy Land

Great Luo Golden Immortal

Di Jun

He's not here; he just left.

Indeed, that's exactly the case; I eagerly took hold of the Purple Qi Ginseng and contemplated it for half a primordial meeting, yet I remained utterly confused... Hongyun's talent and cultivation are hardly different from mine; if he can't, then naturally neither can I.

Purple Qi Ginseng

primordial meeting

Hongyun

The war between the two heavenly realms whose highest beings are only Great Luo Golden Immortals indirectly caused the downfall of a Loose Immortal Quasi-Saint.

Great Luo Golden Immortal

Heavenly Court

Loose Immortal Quasi-Saint

I truly don't know whether to say he's unlucky or that he's as fragile as a porcelain doll; in his two successive lives, he has witnessed this old ancestor die twice.

old ancestor

It's an abdication!

In his previous life, Di Jun began transferring power to humanity early on, even moving the capital to Shouyang Mountain; before the formal abdication, the Heavenly Court had already become the Human Court.

Shouyang Mountain

Human Court

It's Di Jiang.

I, too, was muddle-headed; just seeing the Six Saints become saints, I didn't see that even if Hongyun suffocated to death, he could not become a saint; purple qi is merely one of many conditions for becoming a saint.

Six Saints

saint

Hongyun

purple qi

What exactly are the conditions needed to become a saint?

Based on the experience of the Six Saints becoming saints, it's nothing more than these:

Primordial purple qi, quasi-saint peak cultivation, clear understanding of one's own Dao, the birth of humanity, and... merit?

primordial purple qi

quasi-saint peak cultivation

clear understanding of one's own Dao

birth of humanity

merit

Di Jun has purple qi, his cultivation meets the standard, and humanity has long been born; only clear understanding of one's own Dao and merit might be problematic.

Because this place, which ought to be a magnificent heavenly court holy land, is now nothing but broken walls and ruins, utterly dilapidated.

Heavenly Court Holy Land

It seems as if it had just experienced some great war that wrought devastation.

He threw himself into the performance, and to save face, Emperor Jun naturally wouldn't spoil it, immediately offering words of encouragement and praise.

I have such loyal subjects; truly this is a blessing for the Heavenly Court and for all the people.

Heavenly Court

He's dead, but not completely dead.

Your Majesty, you overpraise me.

The primordial purple qi is in Di Jiang's hands?!

primordial purple qi

Di Jiang

Di Jun, still in the Net Suppressing Cloud, didn't understand his words; after giving him a strange look, he continued to crouch among the ruins, alone and dazed.

Net Suppressing Cloud

Di Jun

Jin Bing sighed and uttered a remark that made no sense.

Jin Bing

We have already eradicated the

As expected of the Great Chieftain, he just slaughtered the enemy's last pack of loyal hounds, and now he seems to have become a true paragon of loyalty.

Great Chieftain

Jin Bing said in a deep voice

"Your Majesty, giving me the throne so easily is hard to imagine; it's not like you at all."

Jin Bing, holding the cloud vapor in his hands and overwhelmed with emotion, then asked the most important question.

"Your Majesty, you slew Hongyun and took the purple qi; why not seize the moment to become a saint?"

Hongyun

purple qi

become a saint

"I told the truth, but I simply couldn't become a saint; he instantly flew into a rage, destroying my Jade Pond and seizing my purple qi."

Jade Pond

purple qi

What about merit?

What great contribution did Di Jun make to humanity in his previous life?

Jin Bing went all out with his acting, gasped, and rushed forward to steady him.

Di Jun let out a soft sound of surprise, his eyes narrowing slightly.

In his previous life he could become a saint, showing that Di Jun back then lacked nothing—at least the previous Di Jun clearly understood his own path and had sufficient merit.

So, what is Di Jun's Dao?

The answer can only be one:

Equality of all clans!

Equality of All Clans

He coughed.

Jin Bing, in high spirits, finally wondered about the cause of the chaotic scene at the Jade Pond.

"Did Taiqing tell you that?"

Taiqing

"Di Jiang, or rather the Wu Clan, are nothing like us; they are the true children of Pangu, naturally superior demons."

Di Jiang

the Wu Clan

Pangu

Jin Bing was stunned, his mind full of confusion, but he hurriedly searched everywhere for Di Jun, shouting:

"Where is Your Majesty?"

Di Jun helplessly uttered a name that shocked Jin Bing to the core:

What does he want the purple qi for? The Wu Clan can't cultivate immortality, and Di Jiang is certainly not a quasi-saint peak.

purple qi

the Wu Clan

Di Jiang

quasi-saint peak

Jin Bing smiled, then said with an ambiguous meaning.

"Your Majesty, why haven't you become a saint?"

A proper quasi-saint, endowed with primordial purple qi, just died like that.

quasi-saint

primordial purple qi

"Huh?"

So, before half a primordial meeting, while the Sun was fighting you fiercely, I took Taiyi and Kunpeng on a trip.

primordial meeting

Sun

Taiyi

Kunpeng

Suddenly hearing a cough, a person slowly crawled out of the ruins; everyone looked over and, as expected, it was Di Jun!

The conditions for becoming a saint...

Saying this, the sincere Jin Bing gave everyone a meaningful glance; the crowd promptly cooperated, withdrawing from the Jade Pond and leaving the stage to these two drama queens.

Otherwise, the day he ascends the throne will likely be when humanity once again heads toward ruin.

Went out?

Jin Bing's heart turned cold:

I'm afraid he also ended up beating up Bo Ye……

Everyone: ……

"Your Majesty, don't be startled!"

"You think just holding the purple Qi can make you a sage? Hong Yun already became one!"

"Your Majesty, you overpraise me; this is what subjects ought to do!"

This problem has been troubling Jin Bing; after hearing Di Jun's words, it's even more troubling:

Di Jun's gloating words directly left Jin Bing bewildered……

"Become a sage? Hah!"

"How so? You think he can't use it?"

Di Jun seemed to have suddenly attained great enlightenment, but Jin Bing beside him listened in a daze:

The Heavenly Emperor…… simply cannot become a sage?

Then how did he become a sage in his previous life?!

I understand! Everything is understood!

Having understood, Jin Bing couldn't help but reveal a smile:

Fortunately, this time he didn't choose to abdicate, but instead raised an army to attack heaven, forcefully seizing the heavenly throne, preventing Di Jun from inadvertently gaining merit.

"Power—indeed, it's best seized by force!"

"That's what I guessed."

Jin Bing blankly received that small cluster of red cloud energy, inexplicably feeling a hint of sorrow:

"This guy had originally made an appointment with that Sun rascal to vie for my sagehood time one after another, but the Sun just left, and he barged in asking how much longer I need?"

"On what grounds do I become a sage?"

Moreover, even knowing that humanity is "demon above demons," he still insisted on equality among all races, yet his chosen path was to exterminate humanity.

Di Jun saw his bewilderment and couldn't help but sneer:

"Kid, you'd better find him quickly, or else he'll definitely give you a surprise!"

"Exactly!"

"Could it be the Sun Star Lord……"

"What the heck? We haven't even broken in yet, and some fellow traveler has already snatched the lead?"

"If it wasn't revealed by a sage, but merely his own speculation, then……"

"Di Jiang?! Is he here?"

Di Jun: ……

Di Jun chuckled, his laughter tinged with resigned self-mockery:

Xuan Du: ……

"By the way, what's going on with the Jade Pool?"

"Yuyu's Di Jun suddenly felt a bit of schadenfreude:"

"I advise you to hurry and find him!"

"Even this kind of thing can be snatched ahead?!"

When Jin Bing and the others rushed in with extreme excitement, they were all stunned:

Di Jun's gaze drifted:

"I was forced to abdicate by the Six Saints; becoming a sage is my only chance to turn things around…… but I should have realized long ago that the Six Saints know everything; since they didn't stop me from seizing the purple Qi, it shows I fundamentally cannot become a sage……"

Jin Bing immediately reacted:

Thus he directly asked:

"Is Elder Hong Yun still alive?"

Jade Pool.

Since everything has been guessed, Di Jun simply spoke frankly:

"I indeed wanted to gamble once with the sage's throne; with the sage's throne in hand, the Six Saints cannot force me to abdicate!"

"Good! Good!"

After everyone left, Di Jun dropped the act and coldly said:

"You kid, you're truly beyond loyal!"

"Huh?!"

Everyone looked at each other:

Di Jun openly admitted, then took out a cluster of red cloud energy from his bosom; the cloud energy kept trembling, as if afraid:

"I told him to hand it over directly; if he refuses, I'll have to use force…… but out of fellowship from our Purple Cloud Dao studies, I left him a bit of true spirit origin…… here you go."

Therefore, in the eyes of the Heavenly Dao, Di Jun is making a contribution to humanity by abdicating and yielding the state, which naturally yields boundless merit……

Di Jun glanced at him again curiously, feeling that this kid knows a bit too much:

"Never regard these noble breeds as our commoners; this is my final lesson to you as the Heavenly Emperor about to abdicate!"

……

(End of chapter)