Preaching the Dao Again

As the formation fully activated, strange phenomena appeared in the sky once more. Heavenly flowers fell in profusion, and exotic fragrances filled the air. Clouds of Merit appeared above Old Ancestor Styx and the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum once again. This time, the Clouds of Merit were not abundant, roughly equal to what they had received from brewing wine before.

They directly divided in the sky. Thirty Percent fell into the Sea of Blood Soul Nurturing Great Array and merged into the nine Main Banners. More than three hundred thousand Auxiliary Banners were also illuminated by threads of merit light! Under the radiance of merit, the Sea of Blood Soul Nurturing Great Array flickered with strands of Primordial Yellow Light. Fifty Percent descended into the Merit Golden Wheel above Old Ancestor Styx's head, making it much more solid once again, while the remaining Twenty Percent was evenly divided among the Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum.

Since following Old Ancestor Styx, the four maidens had benefited from quite a bit of Merit alongside him. Their Fortune and blessed opportunities had continuously risen through Great Dao Merit. Their future could truly be said to hold promise in the Great Dao!

Moreover, this Merit was not a one-time reward. As the Sea of Blood Soul Nurturing Great Array operated, every Living Being it absorbed granted a trace of Merit to Old Ancestor Styx and the five women. Though each share was tiny, the sheer number added up. Accumulated over time, it would become quite considerable! It was equivalent to gaining an inexhaustible tool for obtaining Merit!

After digesting the insights brought by the Sea of Blood Soul Nurturing Great Array, Old Ancestor Styx finally sensed an opportunity to break through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm. One had to know that the Sixth Tribulation was now nearing its Late-stage, and the Innate Demon Gods would soon be born.

That later generation of Innate Divine Beings, such as Sanqing, had basically emerged as Da Luo Golden Immortals with Nine Ranks Heavenly Flowers. Though they were suspected of having been cheated by the Heavenly Dao and possessing insufficient foundations, no matter how hard other Living Beings worked, how many could ever reach the Da Luo Golden Immortal realm? Not to mention attaining Nine Ranks Three Flowers!

Old Ancestor Styx believed that this first batch of Innate Gods and Demons, because of their Great Dao inheritances, would basically not choose to wait until reaching the Da Luo Golden Immortal realm before undergoing Form Transformation. Instead, they would establish their foundations in the Golden Immortal realm. Yet their essences were exceedingly high. Although they had lost their insights from the Chaos era and thus possessed slight flaws, it would not affect their rapid advancement in the Great Wilderness!

Thus, driven by the awareness of preparing for danger in times of peace from his later-life soul, Old Ancestor Styx felt a trace of pressure! He no longer hesitated, returning to the Blood Sea Small World to begin a Closed-door Breakthrough!

Time flew by, and Years passed like a weaving shuttle! Three Eons later, Old Ancestor Styx successfully condensed his Golden Immortal Dao Fruit and broke through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Early Stage. Driven by his cultivation, his physical body also smoothly broke through. Following a burst of rapid metabolism, it reached the Grand Unity Golden Immortal Middle Stage. After all, as the origin of his bloodline rose, the bloodline that had restricted his body's rapid improvement was no longer a problem!

The only thing lacking was keeping it as synchronized with his cultivation as possible; it could not surpass it by too much, or it would affect the Unity of essence, energy, and spirit! The rise of his cultivation and physical body finally allowed his realm to break through that thin membrane, reaching the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal Middle Stage!

At this point, Old Ancestor Styx's breakthrough was considered perfectly complete. Afterward, he first stabilized his cultivation, then sorted through and organized his insights on breaking through to the Grand Unity Golden Immortal realm, along with the newly deduced Cultivation Method. After recording them in the Blood Scripture, he prepared to begin preaching the Dao!

Old Ancestor Styx sat cross-legged beneath the World Tree and sent his voice across the Blood Sea through Dao Sound. "I, Old Ancestor Styx, will preach the Great Dao in Three Hundred Years Later. All who are fated may come and listen!"

Three hundred years passed like a white colt flashing by, vanishing in the blink of an eye! Outside the World Tree sat Plant Spirits born within the Small World. Each possessed pure, upright, and especially peaceful auras, utterly unlike Living Beings nurtured by the Blood Sea. Seeing that the time had come, Old Ancestor Styx released the Blood Scripture. After it covered the entire Blood Sea, he began to preach the Dao!

"The Dao is empty, yet when used, it may never be exhausted. Deep and profound, it seems the ancestor of all things. It blunts its sharpness, untangles its confusion, harmonizes its Light, and becomes one with its dust. Dim and obscure, it seems perhaps to exist. I do not know whose child it is; it seems to predate the Emperor."

As the Dao Sound rang out, the Living Beings of the Blood Sea listened in rapt absorption. Even more Plant Spirits were born. Three hundred years later, after Old Ancestor Styx finished expounding his cultivation insights from the Earth Immortal realm to the Golden Immortal realm, he stopped preaching the Dao. After all, aside from Old Ancestor Styx, the Blood Sea currently had no other Golden Immortal-level Living Beings. The Four Maidens Plum Orchid Bamboo Chrysanthemum were merely at the Profound Immortal realm!

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