Houtian Culinary Dao and Merit

Suddenly, auspicious rays surged across the horizon like a tidal wave, while Purple Qi wound its way from the East like a giant dragon. Immortal music drifted through the air, sounding like heavenly melodies! A mass of dark-yellow Merit abruptly appeared above Old Ancestor Styx's head!

Moments later, the cloud split into two. One-tenth of it fell onto the barbecue rack refined by Old Ancestor Styx, instantly transforming it into a High-grade Houtian Merit Spiritual Treasure, while the remaining nine-tenths descended onto Old Ancestor Styx. At the same time, a faint trace of Fortune also fell upon him. Old Ancestor Styx infused the Merit into the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus. Combined with thirty percent of the Creation Green Lotus's origin, it propelled the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus toward evolution into an Innate Supreme Treasure. With this mass of Merit, once the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus transformed into an Innate Supreme Treasure, it would no longer be targeted by Heaven and Earth!

Old Ancestor Styx also realized why Great Dao Merit had descended. As it turned out, his barbecue had inadvertently created the Houtian Culinary Dao, making the world beneath the Great Dao more complete. The reward granted by Heaven and Earth had also appeared because Living Beings were beginning to be born. Just like when the Houtian Forging Dao had emerged earlier, there had only been Fortune and no Merit! Because Living Beings were still scarce, that little bit of Fortune from the Houtian Dao could practically be ignored for now!

This unexpected little interlude had brought Old Ancestor Styx quite a pleasant surprise. After returning to the Blood Sea this time, he might be able to start seeking Merit from preaching the Dao! That was where the real bulk of the Merit lay! Because Living Beings were so scarce, the appearance of this Merit was calm and uneventful, causing no disturbance!

After sorting through his insights from this time, Old Ancestor Styx continued forward in the direction indicated by the unseen. Time flew, and Years passed like a shuttle! In the blink of an eye, thirty thousand years went by. Old Ancestor Styx arrived before a Formation. He had finally reached it! Ever since encountering that Fierce Beast, Old Ancestor Styx had not encountered another Living Being during those thirty thousand years!

Along the way, he occasionally encountered some Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures, all of which he collected. Without affecting the surrounding ecosystem, he also extracted quite a few Spiritual Veins from underground and stored them in the Spiritual Treasure Space. After all, the West was no worse than the East now. If it were still blown up by Rahu in the future, they would only go to waste. It was better to collect them himself!

After organizing his thoughts, Old Ancestor Styx began refining the Formation before him. After ten thousand years of refinement, he finally succeeded in refining it and also learned the Formation's name and function! The Formation was called the "Gengjin Seven Kill Formation." It had only one function: drawing in Gengjin Qi, condensing seven Killing Swords, and slaying everyone who entered the Formation. When he stepped into the Formation, Old Ancestor Styx immediately saw a great banner fluttering in the wind!

After refining it, Old Ancestor Styx also learned the banner's name: the Western Plain Cloud Banner! It was one of the Five Directions Banners, a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure with forty-eight restrictions, transformed from a petal of the Chaos Green Lotus! It was precisely the Metal-type Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure Old Ancestor Styx needed.

Now that he had obtained a Metal-type Spiritual Treasure, Old Ancestor Styx no longer hesitated. After collecting all the Heavenly Materials and Earthly Treasures in the Formation Space, he sat cross-legged before the Western Plain Cloud Banner, drew out Gengjin Qi from it, and began perfecting the Five Qi in the Chest!

Time passed in the blink of an eye! Ten thousand years quietly slipped away, and Old Ancestor Styx awoke from his cultivation. Benefiting from the opportunity brought by perfecting the Five Qi in the Chest, Old Ancestor Styx's physical cultivation quietly reached the Perfected Golden Immortal realm, while his cultivation also broke through to the Mid Golden Immortal realm, reaching the limit permitted by the pressure of the Great Dao and Pangu!