Twelve Sea-Calming Beads and the Primordial Sky-Measuring Ruler

On his way back to the Inner Sea, Old Ancestor Styx was carelessly swept into a storm. Fortunately, protected by a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure, he suffered no harm. Instead, he discovered twelve shimmering, multicolored beads within the storm, each giving off a faint glow as it resisted the storm's assault!

Upon sensing Old Ancestor Styx's aura, they automatically flew into his hand. "My Fortune has risen, and a Spiritual Treasure has come to me of its own accord." Old Ancestor Styx laughed in surprise. After refining them slightly, he learned the origins of the twelve beads. They were the Sea-Calming Beads, capable of transforming into the heavens. Legend had it that there were originally thirty-six Sea-Calming Beads. A single bead was a Low-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure; six made a Mid-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure; twelve made a High-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure; twenty-four made a Supreme Innate Spiritual Treasure, and one of the finest among them at that. As for the complete set of thirty-six, it was said to reach the grade of an Innate Supreme Treasure! Moreover, each bead could create a world, forming the Thirty-six Heavens! In later generations, Daoist Tongtian acquired twenty-four of them and bestowed them upon Zhao Gongming. With the twenty-four Sea-Calming Beads, Zhao Gongming shone brilliantly in the Investiture of the Gods, only to eventually fall victim to Ran Deng's scheme and have them taken away. In Ran Deng's hands, the Sea-Calming Beads transformed into the Twenty-four Heavens, supporting Ran Deng's rise to the rank of Buddha!

Setting such idle talk aside, the twelve Sea-Calming Beads Old Ancestor Styx had obtained were likely the twelve that vanished in later generations. They had probably been swept away by an Outer Sea storm and accidentally entered a spatial rift, preventing them from appearing in the world! Now that I have obtained these twelve Sea-Calming Beads, I must find a way to gather all thirty-six and use them to verify another path to Attain Dao that I have in mind! Old Ancestor Styx thought.

After putting away the Sea-Calming Beads, Old Ancestor Styx summoned the Abi Sword and cleaved the storm apart with one strike, continuing toward the Inner Sea. As his Fortune rose, he made it back to the Inner Sea without incident.

After entering the Inner Sea, Old Ancestor Styx began using the Chaos aura he had drawn from Ancestor Continent to calculate the location of Three Immortal Island. Although his powers of deduction were not particularly strong under the suppression of the Great Dao, with a trace of vital connection between things both formed from Chaos Fragments, he still had a chance to unravel the clues and follow that connection to Three Immortal Island!

Thanks to Old Ancestor Styx's increased Fortune, after fully deducing for an Eon, he finally discovered a faint connection. Following it, he found an extremely well-hidden Formation in a vast stretch of sea. After refining it for another Eon, he finally entered the Formation Space and at last understood why this Formation was so formidable!

Within the Formation stood a square island, five thousand li on each side. The island's scenery was enchanting, its mountains and rivers beautiful, with clouds and mist curling through the air like a Xian Realm. Its mountains were filled with gold and jade, its palaces rose majestically, and all kinds of exotic flowers, rare herbs, precious birds, and Exotic Beasts flourished upon it. At its very center, a massive ruler radiating purple Light stretched across Heaven and Earth. The instant Old Ancestor Styx saw it, he understood its name and origins!

It was the Postnatal Merit Supreme Treasure formed from half the Great Dao Merit of Pangu Creates the World combined with Primordial Qi—the "Primordial Sky-Measuring Ruler." Its offensive power could rival that of the Innate Supreme Treasure, the Pangu Banner!

This Great Formation that protected the Dao had evolved with the Primordial Sky-Measuring Ruler as its formation core and contained layer upon layer of space. It had sensed the aura of Pangu bloodline and thus had not launched an attack on its own initiative. Otherwise, with Old Ancestor Styx's modest physique, he likely would not have been able to withstand it at all! Old Ancestor Styx felt a lingering chill of fear.

At the sight of the Primordial Sky-Measuring Ruler, Old Ancestor Styx was overjoyed. His Karma Red Lotus was on the verge of advancing and would at least become an Innate Supreme Treasure in the future. He also possessed the Universe Cauldron, an auxiliary Innate Supreme Treasure. By comparison, when it came to offense, only Yuan Tu and the Abi Sword could hold their own! Now that he had the Primordial Sky-Measuring Ruler, even if he faced a battle between Saints in the future, Old Ancestor Styx would no longer need to worry about being unable to break through his opponent's defenses...