Wine Brewing

After thinking for a long while, Old Ancestor Styx's eyes lit up. Since they could not eat all of them, why not simply brew them into wine? Perhaps the effects would be even better! Once the thought occurred to him, he immediately put it into action. Old Ancestor Styx summoned the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum and began instructing them to sort the Spirit Fruits while also refining some vessels for holding wine. Since this might be something that could earn Merit, Old Ancestor Styx naturally wanted his own people to benefit as well!

Old Ancestor Styx personally refined a High-grade Acquired Spiritual Treasure Wine Pool for brewing wine. After the painstaking brewing efforts of Old Ancestor Styx and the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum, Three Hundred Years Later, all the Acquired Spirit Fruits had finally been refined into wine. They obtained a billion jars each of Blood God Wine, made primarily from Blood God Fruits, and Ghost Soul Wine, made primarily from Ghost Soul Fruits!

Old Ancestor Styx ordered Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum to bury the wine jars deep underground. Once everything was settled, thousands of auspicious auras suddenly appeared at the edge of the sky. Primordial Yellow Light shone dazzlingly, and a mass of Merit Auspicious Clouds drifted over, hanging above the heads of Old Ancestor Styx and the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum! The Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum each received one-tenth of the Merit, while another tenth merged into the Wine Pool, transforming it into a High-grade Acquired Merit Spiritual Treasure! The remaining tenth scattered into hundreds of millions of portions and merged into the wine jars buried underground. The wine within the jars all began to glow with Primordial Yellow Light...

Watching the scene before him, Old Ancestor Styx smiled in satisfaction. The Blood Sea had gained another Merit Spiritual Treasure. Merit Spiritual Treasures were different from other treasures. Each one possessed a special effect and could also suppress Fortune to some extent!

The Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum had gained another portion of Great Dao Merit, making their foundations even deeper. Whether used to empower themselves or improve their innate roots, their future paths would become much smoother!

While the light of Merit had yet to disperse, this place could also be considered a land favored by the Great Dao. Old Ancestor Styx decided to seize this opportunity to preach the Dao to the Blood Sea beings once more. He made no further preparations, took out the Altar, sat down upon it, and began preaching the Dao. Plain and unadorned Dao Sound rang out through the Blood Sea space. Accompanied by the Primordial Yellow Light at the edge of the sky, the Spiritual Roots and Spiritual Herbs in the Blood Sea swayed one after another, their intelligence rapidly increasing. A thousand years later, as Old Ancestor Styx finished preaching the Dao...

Within the Blood Sea, another batch of plant elves emerged through Form Transformation. They all knelt on the ground and cried out, "Thank you, Lord, for favoring us and preaching the Dao to us, allowing us to receive this Fortune!"

More Merit descended from the heavens and merged into the Merit Ring behind Old Ancestor Styx. However, compared with the first time he had preached the Dao, the Merit this time was only about half as much as before. Benefiting from the Merit gained on these two occasions, Old Ancestor Styx's Merit Ring finally began transforming toward a Merit Golden Ring. Its form was still rather illusory, but it had already taken shape!

With a casual wave, he dismissed the plant elves, then instructed the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum to watch over these living beings and look after this Small World, which had finally taken shape under the promotion of several rays of Merit!

Old Ancestor Styx rose and walked out of the Small World, then began observing the Blood Sea. During his previous preaching, he had already sensed that the Nether Blood Sea seemed to be showing some movement. However, he had been preaching the Dao, and Old Ancestor Styx's perception told him it was nothing serious, so he had not stopped.

Now that the preaching was over, he had time to properly inspect the state of the Blood Sea. First, he checked the 1.296 billion Blood God Sons and discovered that their Formations were all intact. Each one shone with a blood-colored light and could undergo Form Transformation at any time.

Afterward, Old Ancestor Styx left the seabed and floated to the surface. In his view, wisps of Blood Qi were flowing into the Blood Sea from the Great Wilderness. Some Fragmented Souls also drifted across the surface. There were not many, but they still made Old Ancestor Styx fall into thought. It was said that in later generations, before Houtu opened up Reincarnation, the Nether Blood Sea had been filled with the wails of Fragmented Souls. Thinking of a certain scene in the future, the corner of Old Ancestor Styx's mouth twitched. He did not care what things should have been like originally, but this place was his home now. How could anyone live here if it were filled with wailing everywhere...?