Merit Golden Wheel

As the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum absorbed Merit and advanced their own grades, Old Ancestor Styx began deducing where this Merit had come from. After a period of deduction, he understood. It turned out that he had unintentionally perfected the Caste System, and from then on, the Great Wilderness had gained the concept of names!

Watching the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum absorb Merit and raise their own grades, Old Ancestor Styx smiled faintly. He then transmitted his voice to the four women, instructing them that they could use Merit to raise their grades, but must not use it to raise their cultivation. The four women readily agreed. Seeing this, Old Ancestor Styx smiled again and nodded in satisfaction!

Although cultivation raised through Merit was also extremely stable, it had not ultimately come from their own cultivation. It was still an external object, and no one knew whether they might become stuck at a certain realm in the future, unable to break through!

Old Ancestor Styx could not help pondering how he should use his own Merit. Merit was an all-purpose existence. It could not only help people comprehend the Dao and raise their cultivation, but also had a great effect on Magic Treasures and Spiritual Roots!

However, Old Ancestor Styx did not want to use his Merit up just like that. Merit was rare, and Great Dao Merit was even rarer! Using it up so casually would be far too wasteful! Recalling the legends of later generations that Ancestor Yang Mei had broken through to the Primordial Chaos Golden Immortal realm only to be driven out of the Great Wilderness, Old Ancestor Styx vaguely sensed that his Dao lay within the Great Wilderness! He could not simply wait to be driven out of the Great Wilderness by the Heavenly Dao!

With this thought, Old Ancestor Styx made his decision! Recalling how the immortals and Buddhas of later generations always wore a Merit Golden Wheel behind their heads, looking like enlightened experts, he immediately decided to make one for himself as well. With a Great Dao Merit Golden Wheel upon him, even if the Heavenly Dao wanted to expel him later, it would have to consider the Great Dao's attitude. One who bore Great Dao Merit was favored by the Great Dao!

Having made up his mind, Old Ancestor Styx tried to condense a Merit Golden Wheel. However, although he had previously obtained quite a bit of Merit from preaching the Dao, it was still not enough to condense a complete Merit Golden Wheel. He could only compress it as much as possible into a halo of light behind his head. It did not look like a Merit Golden Wheel at all, but more like the divine ring of a Western god!

Forget it, a divine ring is a divine ring. The nature of Merit won't change. I'll find a way to get more Merit later! The Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum had also finished absorbing the Merit. Their grades had reached the peak of Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Root, and they were temporarily unable to advance to High-grade Innate Spiritual Root.

Afterward, he arranged for the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum to look after the Spiritual Roots and Spiritual Herbs in the space and harvest them in time. After two rounds of illumination from Merit Golden Light, the vitality within the Formation Space had increased considerably. Working together with the World Tree, it was rapidly transforming into a Small World. Once the transformation was complete, Old Ancestor Styx would have a stable rear base—a Spiritual Herb cultivation center!

His gaze shifted to the Twelve-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus. At this moment, the Karmic Fire Red Lotus had quietly undergone an evolution. It had transformed into a Thirteen-grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus and was rapidly advancing toward Twenty-four Grades. For the Karmic Fire Red Lotus, Twelve Grades was a threshold. If it could not cross it, it would remain forever at the level of a Top-grade Innate Spiritual Root and Spiritual Treasure. Once it crossed it, the sea would be wide enough for fish to leap, and the sky high enough for birds to fly! Before reaching Twenty-four Grades, there would be no further obstacles at all!

Therefore, although the Karmic Fire Red Lotus had only risen by one grade with the help of the Creation Green Lotus's origin and Old Ancestor Styx's abundant Merit, this was a transformation from zero to one. The path for the Karmic Fire Red Lotus to advance into an Innate Supreme Treasure had already become completely unobstructed!

After inspecting everything, Old Ancestor Styx once again began his closed-door cultivation. While preaching the Dao earlier, he had corrected quite a few minor errors, and many new insights had also appeared in his mind. He urgently needed to enter seclusion and comprehend them!

The Nether Blood Sea also fell silent once more as Old Ancestor Styx entered seclusion. No one knew how many changes had taken place, without a sound, in this place known by the world as a land of filth...