"Junior brother Yuanshi, don't be too emotional." Supreme Sage comforted Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning.
Just moments before, his disciple's sudden betrayal had triggered his internal injuries from pure rage, causing him to vomit blood directly.
"Cough, cough, cough! Jieyin, Zhunti, what a fine scheme you two pulled off. You have truly reaped a massive harvest in this kalpa!" Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning said through gritted teeth.
Sages, sects, disciples!
Sage was actually an honorific title rather than a power tier.
Quasi-Sages and Sages only appeared after the creation of the Three Corpses Severing Method.
Originally, the realm after the Grand Luo Golden Immortal was simply the Grand Primordial Golden Immortal.
There were three methods to attain the Dao and become a Grand Primordial Golden Immortal:
1, Proving the Dao through sheer force.
2, The Three Corpses Method.
3, Becoming a Sage through merit.
Currently, the only one who attained sagehood via the Three Corpses Method was Dao Ancestor Hongjun, while everyone else practicing this method remained stuck.
The most successful corpse-severing practitioner was Sage Laozi. He severed all three corpses, but he could not merge them back into one to attain the Grand Primordial Golden Immortal realm, and was ultimately forced to adopt the method of becoming a Sage through merit.
Sage Laozi, Celestial Worthy of Primordial Beginning, Tongtian Jiaozhu, Daoist Zhunti, and Daoist Jieyin all attained sagehood through merit.
They borrowed civilizing merit from heaven and earth.
Sects and disciples were essentially their loan projects, and only by educating them into capable talents could they repay this karma.
Among the known Sages of this world, only Sage Nüwa did not owe any karma to heaven and earth. Although she became a Sage through merit, not a single drop of her merit was a loan; it was entirely