Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dao Diagram

East Sea Coast.

Human Tribe.

Suiren Shi, Youchao Shi, and Ziyi Shi led numerous Human Race warriors in driving away the surrounding Fierce Beasts and Demons and Monsters.

The remaining humans were also busily building their own homeland.

Gu Xi, the Human Race Holy Father, had instead become free. He was meditating in seclusion within a newly built Elegant Abode, deducing and perfecting the Four Seasons and Twenty-Four Solar Terms.

A corner of the Starry Sky emerged around him, filled with countless glittering stars. Among them, the phantoms of the seven Primordial Stars—Tian Shu, Tian Xuan, Tian Ji, Tian Quan, Yu Heng, Kai Yang, and Yao Guang—shone with particularly dazzling radiance.

The Four Seasons and Twenty-Four Solar Terms were not merely a simple division of the seasonal calendar. They carried profound significance and contained cosmic mysteries such as Star Rotation, the changing of Heaven and Earth Vital Energy, and shifts in nature's rhythms.

Establishing the Four Seasons and Twenty-Four Solar Terms would play an immensely important role in the daily lives, farming, and recuperation of the Human Race and even the entire Primordial Populace.

The changes of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms were closely linked to the rotational patterns of the Big Dipper. Thus, one could deduce the Dao of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms through the Big Dipper's patterns of change.

"Great Eight Trigrams Art, deduce!"

Gu Xi shouted sharply. An unfathomable phantom of an Eight Trigrams Diagram appeared around him, emanating an aura of yin and yang cycling, innate calculation, and the shattering of falsehood.

The hundred-year journey had been fraught with dangers and crises. To reduce the Human Race's losses, Gu Xi had exchanged for this divination art capable of deducing fortune and misfortune from the Three Thousand Great Daos in the shop.

At that moment, as soon as the phantom Eight Trigrams Diagram appeared, the star phantoms around Gu Xi—especially those of the Big Dipper—immediately began spinning madly.

A moment later, Gu Xi's body trembled. An Auspicious Cloud emerged above his head, and a mysterious spiritual radiance appeared within it. Then, that point of radiance transformed into the phantoms of twenty-four hazy Dao Diagrams.

These twenty hazy Dao Diagrams contained the mysteries of the Twenty-Four Solar Terms' changes.

"Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dao Diagram!"

Gu Xi stared at the twenty-four hazy Dao Diagrams within the Auspicious Cloud, delight appearing on his face.

The condensation of these Twenty-Four Solar Terms Dao Diagrams showed that he had successfully made a preliminary establishment of the Four Seasons and Twenty-Four Solar Terms in Hong Huang.

Rumble!

The heavens above the Human Tribe shook violently.

A pillar of golden Merit light, as thick as several people embracing it, descended from above with a majestic and spectacular presence.

Inside the Elegant Abode, Gu Xi was enveloped by the golden Merit light. In an instant, a dazzling Golden Wheel of Merit, as brilliant as the great sun, formed behind his head, illuminating countless stretches of time and space. He looked every bit a virtuous sage.

"Holy Father has gained Merit again."

Within the Human Tribe, everyone gazed at that vast pillar of descending golden light and exclaimed in amazement.

They had already witnessed such scenes many times during the hundred-year journey.

However, the scale of this golden Merit light far surpassed anything they had seen before.

Clearly, their Holy Father, Gu Xi, had accomplished something extraordinary.

Every member of the Human Race was overjoyed by this.

They had now gained a deep understanding of Hong Huang and knew very well what Merit could do.

The more Merit one possessed, the greater the benefits to a cultivator's Dao Practice and fortune.

Furthermore, a living being carrying great Merit was effectively holding a death-exemption talisman. Before other experts dared kill one with Merit, they had to carefully consider whether they could withstand the backlash of the Heavenly Dao.

The East Sea Coast's cultivation environment and resources, while inferior to the lands around Buzhou Mountain and the Thirty-Three Heavens above the firmament, were still exceedingly favorable.

Naturally, such a place was not unclaimed land. Numerous gods and demons dwelled there as well.

At that moment, the many gods and demons of the East Sea Coast looked at the immense pillar of golden light descending from the heavens, their faces all revealing shock.

"Which fellow Daoist has accomplished such a great deed beneficial to Heaven and Earth that they received such immense Merit?"

"The place where the golden Merit light descended seems to be near the territory of the Guishan Monster Race."

"Heh heh, that Primordial Great Sage of the Guishan Monster Race is no kind soul. His methods are exceedingly cruel, so he could never have done something worthy of great Merit... It seems a person of great virtue has appeared near the Guishan Monster Race's territory. Now this will be entertaining."

"I am more curious about who this person of great virtue is. Since World Creation, no such figure has appeared on our East Sea Coast."

The many gods and demons of the East Sea Coast were all deeply curious about the person behind the Merit and sent their subordinates to investigate.

About a hundred thousand li from the Human Tribe stood a mountain overflowing with Demon Qi. At its summit was a black grand hall.

At that moment, a burly man covered from head to toe in bristling hedgehog-like spines sat imposingly upon a throne. He was powerfully built, his skin dark as iron, and his towering body radiated an overwhelming pressure capable of toppling mountains and overturning seas.

"Hm? A person of great virtue has appeared near the territory of our Guishan Monster Race?"

A strange glint flashed through Great Sage Qiongqi's eyes.

"Someone, tell me—what unfamiliar figures have entered the territory of our Guishan Monster Race recently?"

He suddenly shouted.

"Reporting to Great Sage, a few days ago, the Human Race created by Empress Nuwa migrated to the East Sea Coast. They happened to settle on the plains near the territory of our Guishan Monster Race."

A Demon God entered the hall and reported to Great Sage Qiongqi.

"The Human Race created by Empress Nuwa has migrated from Buzhou Mountain to our East Sea Coast?"

Great Sage Qiongqi's gaze narrowed slightly.

A hundred years ago, he had also ventured into the Chaos Void to witness Nuwa establish Wa Huang Heaven.

He had a deep understanding of a Saint's vast and mighty power.

He was also filled with reverence for Nuwa.

Naturally, he did not dare offend Nuwa.

His eyes spun rapidly.

Empress Nuwa had actually attained sainthood directly through the Merit of Creating Humans.

Without question, the Human Race was no ordinary race. It must possess astonishing potential and fortune.

If he could subdue the Human Race for his own use, perhaps he could rely on the Human Race's great fortune to cultivate into a Great Luo Golden Immortal and become another God and Demon Dao Lord of the Demon Race, one whose might shook Hong Huang.

The temptation was simply too great.

Though a Primordial Great Sage was considered a powerful figure in Hong Huang, how could one compare to a God and Demon Dao Lord who had advanced to Great Luo?

God and Demon Dao Lords merged with and controlled the Great Dao. Their every movement carried the might to destroy worlds, and they were the backbone of every top force in Hong Huang.

If he could advance to Great Luo and become a God and Demon Dao Lord, he would no longer need to "hide away" in this tiny Guishan. He could directly enter the Demon Race Heavenly Court and become one of its great magnates.

"Empress Nuwa is a Demon Race Saint, and the Human Race was created by Empress Nuwa. They should naturally be a branch of our Demon Race. As a Great Sage of the Demon Race, it is only natural for me to subdue and protect the Human Race, isn't it?"

"As long as I do not slaughter the Human Race on a massive scale, I imagine even Empress Nuwa cannot say anything."

Thinking this, Great Sage Qiongqi gritted his teeth and decided to subdue the Human Race.

He said to the Demon God below:

"Go inform the Human Race that they were created by our Demon Race Saint and should be a branch of our Demon Race. Seeing their difficult circumstances, this Great Sage has decided to take them in and protect them."

"From now on, the Human Race must obey the orders of our Guishan Monster Race and provide regular tribute."

"Th-this..." The Demon God below hesitated. After all, the Human Race had been created by Empress Nuwa, and he had his misgivings.

"Why haven't you gone yet?" Great Sage Qiongqi's face darkened, and the temperature throughout the hall instantly plummeted to freezing.

"This subordinate will immediately go announce the Great Sage's Divine Decree to the Human Race."

Sensing Great Sage Qiongqi's killing intent, the Demon God's body trembled. He hastily left the hall.

Reference:

Grand Unity Golden Immortal: Also known as a Primordial Great Sage, Acquired Dao Master, or Primordial Great God. Upon advancing to Grand Unity Golden Immortal, one's Dao Seed transformed into a Grand Unity Dao Embryo.

Once the Dao Embryo was born, it resonated with its corresponding Great Dao.

Great Dao Laws were vast and boundless, endlessly changing. A Grand Unity Golden Immortal's Dao Embryo merged with the Great Dao Laws, using them to drive its divine power and granting that power the might and ever-changing qualities of the Great Dao, making it immeasurably powerful.

The limit of acquired living beings was the Grand Unity Golden Immortal. To advance to Great Luo, one had to cleanse and reshape one's foundation, transforming into an Innate Deity.