The Heaven's Will—that was the will of a world. Normally, the Heaven's Will had no body, no mouth, no bloodline, and not even consciousness!
But the Heaven's Will of the Primordial World actually possessed self-awareness!
Yet now... the Heaven's Will actually looked like a small golden ball???
The next moment, some thoughts appeared in Chen Tian's mind!
They were... expressed by the Heaven's Will!
That made sense, too. The Heaven's Will had no body and couldn't speak, so it could only convey its meaning. This was much like divine sense.
"Heaven's Will, in the future, I will merge with you, yet that will cause the Primordial World to become a Small World where no Immortal Gods remain... Do you know what happened?" Hongjun asked.
The Heaven's Will buzzed, and Chen Tian soon understood. It didn't know either. It only knew that it was incomplete and needed to merge with Hongjun to become whole. Only then could it stabilize the Primordial World and allow it to continue developing. If they didn't merge soon, the Innate Spiritual Qi would dissipate and become acquired spiritual energy.
Then the world's level would decline, the Heaven's Will would weaken, and its consciousness would weaken as well, eventually dissipating.
"That can't be. Tian Chen is the Son of the Great Dao. After the Great Dao's deductions, the results became memories that entered Tian Chen's mind. This matter couldn't possibly fail to happen." Hongjun frowned. Logically speaking, the Great Dao's deductions couldn't be wrong, just as a Saint's deductions about a mortal's entire life wouldn't be wrong.
"Er... Dao Ancestor, I have a question." Chen Tian cut in.
"Speak quickly." Hongjun nodded. After all, he was the Son of the Great Dao. Perhaps he knew some unknown secret.
"May I ask, Dao Ancestor, can the Three Corpses become one?" Chen Tian asked doubtfully.
"Hm?" After hearing this, Hongjun's heart suddenly clenched. The Three Corpses!! That's right!! The Three Corpses!!
"My Three Corpses have never become one." Hongjun shook his head, already having an answer in his heart.
The Heaven's Will understood as well, and Chen Tian now knew what had happened!
"Then, when you merge with the Heaven's Will, Dao Ancestor, will you and the Heaven's Will fall into some unknown state from the outside world?" Chen Tian asked. He wanted to confirm it once more.
Hongjun nodded.
"No wonder... No wonder your temperament changed drastically after merging with the Heaven's Will, and you even pushed things along and initiated several Tribulations, causing the Primordial World to become a world where no Immortal Gods remained." Chen Tian nodded with a frown.
Chen Tian remembered reading about this on Earth. Tribulations were inevitable! Without Tribulations, how could there be the great age of the Primordial World? There was one Tribulation every five Yuanhui. Pangu opening the heavens and destroying the three thousand Chaos gods and demons was the First Tribulation. After the heavens were opened, the struggle among the dragons, phoenixes, and qilins was considered the Second Tribulation. The Third Tribulation was the Witch-Demon Tribulation, followed by the Investiture of the Gods Calamity and the Journey to the West Calamity, also known as the conflict between Buddhism and Daoism.
And what were Tribulations? They existed to reduce the baleful energy between Heaven and Earth, preventing it from striking the Heaven's Will's domain and destabilizing the world! This was also the Heaven's Will's means of self-preservation!
But the arrival of a Tribulation didn't mean the world would decline! Tribulations were created by the Heaven's Will to stabilize the world and protect itself. They couldn't possibly lower the world's level!
Therefore, according to the original course of events, after a Tribulation was carried out, the races caught up in it would still leave something behind. For example, although the three clans had withdrawn into seclusion from the Primordial World after their struggle, they still existed. They had merely been punished by the Heaven's Will, with karmic sin weighing upon them.
Yet the struggle among the dragons, phoenixes, and qilins hadn't lowered the world's level. So why would it happen later? Even if Saints appeared later, how could Hongjun, the Heaven's Will's agent, simply stand by and do nothing? Impossible! Therefore, the root of everything lay with Hongjun!
"Yes... This is an unsolvable problem." Hongjun sighed as he spoke.
Hongjun had attained sainthood through the Three Corpses, but he had also attained Sainthood Through Merit!
The true Three Corpses Path involved severing the Good Corpse, Evil Corpse, and Self Corpse, ultimately merging the Three Corpses into one. It required neither merit nor even Primordial Violet Qi to become a Saint!
Yet Hongjun's Three Corpses had never become one! And Hongjun had long since wanted to live an idle life. He was nothing like the one in the original story, so the true source of the problem lay with the Three Corpses!
"Dao Ancestor, it is highly likely that after you merged with the Heaven's Will, the Three Corpses emerged and began killing one another. In the end, the Evil Corpse took control, erased your consciousness, and finally erased the Heaven's Will's consciousness, allowing it to completely control the Primordial World as well as the Heaven's Will's domain! But in order to protect itself, the Heaven's Will's domain sealed itself off completely. That way, for it to grow stronger, it had to leave the Heaven's Will's domain and could only use a tremendous price to split off divine sense."
Chen Tian paused before continuing, "Then, during the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, Third Master broke the Primordial World, causing the Heaven's Will's domain to shatter and the world's level to decline. He consequently escaped the Heaven's Will's domain, which led to everything that happened afterward..."
It had to be said that after Hongjun first merged with the Will of Heaven, he never appeared again. He had only shown himself once during the Witch-Demon Tribulation, when he summoned the Saints to the Purple Cloud Palace to discuss the Investiture of the Gods. Most of those appearances had likely been projections of his divine sense! It was only after Tongtian shattered the Primordial World that Hongjun truly emerged!
During the Journey to the West Calamity, Hongjun never appeared at all. Not even the Saints had appeared! Therefore, at that time, either Hongjun had already departed, or he had devoured the Six Saints!
Thus, everything had been caused by Hongjun's Three Corpses never becoming one!
Only after the Three Corpses became one would he be the true Hongjun. If they did not become one, then as time passed, all three corpses would develop self-awareness!
Hongjun had severed his Three Corpses long ago. How could he not have lived through several Yuanhui by now? One Yuanhui was 129,600 years. Several Yuanhui amounted to millions of years. Hongjun's Three Corpses likely already possessed self-awareness!
"Then what should we do now? If we don't merge, the Heaven's Will will be unstable and the Primordial World will decline. If we merge, the Primordial World will shatter..." Hongjun's scalp went numb. Damn! So it really was all something I caused?? Why is it so hard for me to live an idle life??
Who knew how long he had waited? Damn, after finally becoming Immortal and Undying, what was wrong with taking a break? And now someone had come to cause trouble again. I... damn!!!
The Heaven's Will didn't know what to do either. It expressed that it was still a child and didn't want to die yet!
Then again, how long had it been since Pangu created the Primordial World? Several hundred thousand, several million, or perhaps several million Yuanhui? After such a long time, the Heaven's Will had only just developed a tiny bit of consciousness. Could it really be ruined just like that??
"Er... The Heaven's Will is incomplete. Isn't the thing that escaped the Primordial Violet Qi? Don't you have seven strands of Primordial Violet Qi, Dao Ancestor?" Chen Tian asked doubtfully.
"Tian Chen, you do not understand. After the Primordial World shattered, most of the Primordial Violet Qi transformed into the Great Dao, while fifty strands of Primordial Violet Qi transformed into the Heaven's Will. As for the one that escaped, it was not one of these ordinary strands of Primordial Violet Qi, but the Primordial Violet Qi from the Primordial Era!"
Hongjun paused before saying, "The Primordial Violet Qi from that era could even create a supreme divine weapon at the level of the Great Dao, while the Primordial Violet Qi in my possession can only serve as the foundation for becoming a Saint."
Put simply, the Primordial Violet Qi from the Primordial Era was the ancestor, while the Primordial Violet Qi in Hongjun's pocket could at best be called its grandson. How could they compare?
"What? Then are my strands of Primordial Violet Qi useless too?" As he spoke, Chen Tian took out the Primordial Pearl and looked speechless.
In the next moment, the Heaven's Will trembled all over, while Hongjun was utterly horrified, his eyeballs practically falling out!!
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