Chapter 9

In the east, on Yujing Mountain, there sat an old man with a whisk in his left hand and a disc in his right hand. He looked towards the west where the voices of the three just came, confusing him deeply.

"What happened? In this world, there are people that aren't in the range of the Jade Disc of Creation's calculations?"

Although he only had a primary control of this innate treasure, he was able to calculate a few things and knew that there should only be a few primordial golden immortals at this time.

The strongest was Shen Ni, the leader of ferocious beasts in the north, followed by other reincarnations of chaos gods, such as Qiankun, Yin-Yang, Yangmei, Louhou and Hongjun.

The first three were somewhat ascetic and decided to keep to themselves and no one knew where their dojos are, while Louhou and Hongjun were in the eastern wilderness, competing now and then for some treasures and places that appear.

Besides them was the first batch of innate beings born in this world: the three clan leaders of the first clans, Zulong the ancestral dragon, Shi Qilin the first qilin and Yuanfeng the mother of all phoenixes.

There should be no more primordial immortals in this world – exactly nine, the limit of heaven, that was supposed to be their stage in this era of the world.

"The great dao is still present, and the way of heaven is weak… the limit of heaven is nine, but the great dao is all encompassing. It seems the world is in more trouble…"

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In the east sea, deep in the water, a majestic palace stood tall with dragons flowing all around. Inside the palace, there was one majestic dragon.

When he heard this, he scoffed at it "Who needs more innate beings? Isn't it good that there are only us?"

Then, he ignored it. Anyways, he hadn't even fulfilled his current goal, which is to conquer the four seas, nor have all dragon-like creatures acknowledged hid status.

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In the south, in a large field full of volcanoes, there was a volcano that spewed fire all the time into the sky. A huge tree was inside a volcano, with many phoenix sitting on the branches. When they heard the announcement, they looked west but didn't pay any more attention.

The phoenix are rather secluded and even in later stories, when they built the nine heavens, they remained in the sky and rarely came down. They were swept into the fight for supremacy by the dragons that attempted to reach into the sky.

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On Mount Buzhou, there were many different peaks besides the main one. These peaks generally cantered around the foot of the mountain, as anything higher would be near impossible since the will of Pangu remained there.

The highest peak here is called Qilin Cliff, the home of all qilin. When they heard the announcement of the west, Shi Qilin had a different expression than the other.

He felt inexplicably that there was a connection between him and the west. Thinking of this, he decided to pay this buddhist sect a visit in the near future, he planned to prepare some things before he went on with the journey.

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Shen Ni in the north didn't react to this, nor did Qiankun, Yin-Yang and Yangmei. They were all secluded and had their own aspirations, whatever others wanted to do, they didn't want to be involved in it.

Especially Shen Ni, he was busy controlling the ferocious beasts and gathering them into his own army, there were still many lacking, currently he has only gathered two generals.

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After hundreds of years, Ran Deng woke up. He looked at the large lake that had been replenished by the merit and the many golden lotus with different layers that bloomed there, then he fixed his focus on the golden lotus of merit in the middle, with a total of twenty-four layers.

"The merit law is truly powerful. It can indeed create a secondary main law. Though this law is weak, and the strength is the weakest among those of the same stage, it is still a blessing for those with great merit. Having a higher view will make it easier to complete the main path.

And… one can indeed condense the merit-law dao fruit. It's strength won't be any weaker than other cultivators, as it is a just path of cultivation. Although one can comprehend the law faster with many merits, if one boosts the cultivation with merits, it will result in the same situation as when it's a secondary main dao, the strength will be weak and the reliance on merit will be even greater.

If there is a merit law cultivator in the future of the sect, this can definitely be used, but the use of a secondary dao fruit is much better. The best is that since the merit lotus is in our hands, we can remove this secondary dao fruit at will and nourish the lotus with it.

Every fully formed dao fruit, which is at the stage of peak primordial immortal, will form a twelve-layer golden lotus of merit. At least the investment of all the merits up to that point won't be lost but only transformed, making it a worthwhile act regardless.

Unfortunately, it lacks the ability to produce merit saints, or rather… it will be like heavenly saints, they will be weak and without foundation, and since there is only one twenty-four-layer golden merit lotus, only one can reach sainthood this way.

Though… if one reaches the small immortal path stage and then uses merit to condense the secondary merit fruit into a saint foundation, and then feed this merit fruit to the golden merit lotus, there will be another option for a saint.

Haha, it seems that with every small immortal path our buddhist sect gains, we gain another merit saint! It's no wonder the heavenly dao restricts this! With so many saints, can heaven still control the world? With so many saints, won't the world's foundation be high enough to advance?

Once the world advances, reaching the true immortal path, also called the heavenly dao realm, won't be difficult, and even the mysterious immortal path will be a possibility. From then on, the heavenly dao will only be one of the many daos that have power in the world. Or rather, its name would be changed to the immortal true path, on par with the buddhist true path!"

Then, he thought of the merits he gained. Yes, he gained merits! It costs merits to create the merit law, and one gains merits when creating a new path, in fact, they didn't lose any merits in the process and even gained a bit.

The merits of establishing a sect aren't as great as the merits of creating a new law that directly points towards the small immortal path. Naturally the merit they gained was only part of it, a major path was condensed towards the golden merit lotus, which formed seeds that transformed into more lotus's and the rest was given to other lotus of the same origin.

After all, this was majorly the work of the chaos green lotus, since its dead, it's own merit will be split between its children.

All around the world, the karmic fire lotus in the blood sea gained the foundation to evolve into the twenty-four-layer lotus of reincarnation, the pure world white lotus hidden in a special space gained the opportunity to enhance its own purification law, if it advances it can not only eliminate bad energies, but it can also even transform energies such as the calamity energy.