Pure Bloodline

After Styx sorted out his current situation, he could not help but sigh. Old Ancestor Styx's origins were actually quite good. Aside from Great Dao Merit, he was hardly inferior to the Sanqing formed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit, and he even came with three Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasures.

However, he had been born from Pangu's navel and tainted by the residual essence blood of the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods. This had left his bloodline mixed and impure. Furthermore, having been infected by some of the resentment the Chaos Demon Gods harbored before their deaths, his nature had become somewhat bloodthirsty and cruel.

He had clearly been born in the Blood Sea, a place that contained traces of the blood of nearly every Chaos Demon God, yet he had ultimately embarked upon the Path of Slaughter. To attain the Dao through the Path of Slaughter, one had to kill people, kill Heaven, kill Earth, and kill all living beings. At the very least, one had to slay a Saint to obtain the Primordial Chaos Dao Fruit.

Yet Styx had also followed Hongjun's Severing Three Corpses Method. How could a Quasi-Saint possibly kill a Saint? Later, he had imitated Nuwa's Human Creation and created the Asura Clan, then copied the Six Saints by founding the Asura Sect. His resolve to seek the Dao could be said to have been exceptionally steadfast. Unfortunately, he had chosen the wrong path from the very beginning, and in the end could only survive within the Blood Sea by relying on the saying, "As long as the Blood Sea does not dry up, Styx shall not die!"

At this thought, Styx could not help but sigh. Seeking the Dao is far more difficult than ascending Azure Heaven! Since I have come to this world and seized such uniquely favorable conditions, if I still do not dare to strive for the path of Primordial Chaos, then I would truly be useless!

It was currently the early-stage of the Second Tribulation. The Great Wilderness was still overseen by the Great Dao, while the newly born Heavenly Dao was still gestating. It would probably not be completed until the end of the Seventh Tribulation, and would only fully take over the Great Wilderness during the mid-stage of the Ninth Tribulation. As long as I attain Primordial Chaos before then, I will face fewer restrictions afterward! Styx thought.

However, Heaven and Earth had only been opened for a single Tribulation. The Great Dao suppressed everything, and he himself had not yet fully gestated, so he could not cultivate yet. He had to wait for the Great Dao to slowly lift its restrictions. What should I do during this period, then?

I have it! Although his bloodline had been jointly gestated from a trace of bloodline belonging to the Three Thousand Chaos Demon Gods, the origin within it was too scant, leaving it excessively chaotic and impure. In later generations, let alone inheriting the formidable bodies of the Chaos Demon Gods, even the Witch Clan—or some powerful members of the Monster Race—would possess stronger physical bodies than him.

He could only contend against great powers by relying on the fact that the Blood Sea would not dry up and Styx would not die, and he had no achievements worth mentioning. In that case, why not strip away those impure bloodlines while my bloodline has yet to finish gestating, leaving behind only Pangu's bloodline, the one most compatible with the Great Wilderness?

That was easy enough to think, but how to actually do it was another enormous problem. After all, Styx was currently nothing more than a placenta and could not make any major movements.

Fortunately, Heaven never blocked every path. Styx eventually found a solution. Thankfully, he possessed three companion Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasures. Companion Spiritual Treasures were born alongside Innate Demon Gods and were almost one with them, allowing them to be controlled easily through thought alone.

Styx's solution was to use the Karma Red Lotus, an Innate Spiritual Treasure transformed from a Lotus Seed of the Chaos Green Lotus, to help strip away his impure bloodlines!

No sooner thought than done. Styx first controlled the Sea of Blood Creation Great Array to continuously extract Blood Qi from the Blood Sea and replenish himself. He then connected with the Red Lotus Karmic Fire within the Karma Red Lotus to burn the Styx Blood Fetus. At the same time, he used the fragmentary Law of Blood inherited through his lineage to assist the Red Lotus Karmic Fire, slowly stripping away his mixed bloodlines.

Fortunately, as Styx's Companion Spiritual Treasure, the Karma Red Lotus was innately close to him. Moreover, Styx had only just awakened his consciousness and had not yet become entangled with any karma. Otherwise, if anyone else tried what Styx was doing, they would likely have been burned to ashes by the Red Lotus Karmic Fire immediately.

Thus, as Time passed, strands of essence-blood origin were gradually stripped from the Styx Blood Fetus, forming three thousand points of light around Styx. They were the traces of essence blood belonging to the Three Thousand Demon Gods that had formed Styx's origin.

Throughout this process, the Styx Blood Fetus slowly changed from chaotic and impure to crystal-clear. Its outer form also gradually began to approach the Innate Dao Fetus among the Forty-Nine Dharma Forms of Pangu.

After all, Styx had only just awakened his consciousness, and instinctively still leaned closer to the human form of his previous life. His consciousness gradually sank into the faint insights brought about by the purification of his bloodline.

Time flew, and the years passed. The River of Years surged onward without cease. While Styx refined his bloodline, the Great Wilderness continued to evolve, and amid this deep stillness, Time quietly slipped away without notice...