Primordial Wilderness: I Am Hong Yun, and I Traded My Saint Position for a Wife at the Start - Chapter 9

"Is that Hongjun?"

Hong Yun looked at Hongjun on the raised platform above.

He hadn't even noticed when Hongjun had appeared!

Hongjun's aura was completely restrained, as if he had returned to simplicity.

He looked like an ordinary man, yet seemed to blend faintly with the world around him!

His calm, indifferent eyes held flowing laws.

Like gray whirlwinds, they turned slowly!

Hongjun swept his gaze across the Zixiao Palace hall, taking in all the Innate Deities who had come.

Exactly three thousand.

After Hongjun defeated Luohu, his fortune surged, and the Heavenly Mandate flourished!

He comprehended the Jade Disc of Creation and attained the Dao in one fell swoop.

He achieved the Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal realm!

And became the first Saint in the Primordial Wilderness.

The Primordial Great Luo Golden Immortal was a realm.

The Saint Position, meanwhile, was the highest rank in the Primordial Wilderness.

As a Saint, one enjoyed the authority of the Primordial Wilderness and naturally had a duty to enlighten all living beings.

After Hongjun attained the Dao,

the Heavenly Dao manifested!

Hongjun then knew that his first task was to spread the Dao throughout the Primordial Wilderness and enlighten all living beings.

However, for Hongjun, lecturing the creatures of the Primordial Wilderness did him nothing but good!

And it brought tremendous benefits!

For one thing, after Hongjun lectured on the Dao, many powerful figures in the Primordial Wilderness received his guidance and inspiration.

Some might not follow Hongjun's Immortal Dao, but they still formed a bond of gratitude with him!

It was as if all paths had originated with Hongjun, earning him the title of Dao Ancestor.

Thus, Hongjun naturally claimed a share of their fortune.

But having Hongjun personally enlighten every living being,

was not something he was willing to do.

That was why he held these lectures in Zixiao Palace, summoning three thousand Innate Gods.

Once the three lectures were complete, these three thousand Gods would pass the torch onward, which would count as Hongjun completing his task.

By then, Hongjun would have established the Mystic Gate through the Immortal Dao.

Within the Mystic Gate, the legacies of the Three Pure Ones, Nu Wa, and the Two Sages of the West would also flourish throughout the Primordial Wilderness.

All the fortune of the Primordial Wilderness would fall into Hongjun's hands.

Originally, Hongjun had placed six Prayer Mats in the front row.

These mats were connected to the Saint Positions and concealed the Heavenly Mandate.

He had already decided who would sit in them.

But now, when he glanced over, why had so many extra mats suddenly appeared?

And why wasn't Zhun Ti seated?

Hongjun's usually tranquil expression suddenly rippled, as if a pebble had been tossed into an ancient well.

His right hand, hidden inside his sleeve, made a divination gesture. The Heavenly Dao had only just come into being, and Hongjun was still the only Saint in the Primordial Wilderness.

He immediately understood what had happened.

He couldn't help frowning.

Of these seats, apart from the disciples he favored, the remaining two had been prepared for Jieyin and Zhun Ti of the West.

That was because during his great battle with Luohu, he had damaged the spiritual veins of the West, leaving its creatures unable to prosper and the region increasingly barren.

He owed a great karmic debt for it!

He had originally considered using two Saint Positions to settle that debt.

After Jieyin and Zhun Ti received their Saint Positions, they would be able to revitalize the West, thus repaying the karmic debt he owed.

But now, only Jieyin was seated on a Prayer Mat.

And the other one was occupied by the Ancestral Shaman Hou Tu!

"Hong Yun has ruined my plans!"

Hongjun's brows lifted.

Then he turned his gaze toward Hong Yun and looked at him intently.

Hong Yun had been observing Hongjun.

Their eyes met!

Seeing the calm in Hongjun's eyes, Hong Yun's heart gave a sudden jolt!

Oh, great. He's already got it in for me?

Ever since he had wisely transformed, Hong Yun had often pondered this matter and had long been prepared.

As for giving up a seat in Zixiao Palace,

judging by how events later unfolded in the Primordial Wilderness, Hongjun had indeed decided long ago who he wanted to sit there.

The Three Pure Ones were transformed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit and inherited the legacy of the world's creation.

Nu Wa would create humanity!

The Two Sages of the West were owed a karmic debt by Hongjun.

By that reasoning, the seats really weren't Hong Yun's to claim.

But Hong Yun was blessed with great fortune, and he had also cultivated the Law of Wind, making him incredibly fast when fleeing!

He had actually reached Zixiao Palace first and sat on a Prayer Mat.

That was Hongjun's fault, too.

If you had already decided who would sit where, why not wait until everyone had arrived before choosing and granting the seats?

Instead, you had to make a mystery of it and place them right at the front, leaving it to the Heavenly Mandate.

Wouldn't that mean the fastest one got the seat?

Poor Hong Yun had been caught up in it.

He had originally gotten the seat because he was blessed with great fortune; otherwise, he wouldn't have claimed it when Hongjun had already made other plans.

Then, because of his personality, he gave it away!

"Heaven offers it; refuse to take it, and you invite disaster!"

Hong Yun's fortune had given him the chance to obtain a Saint Position. Though he had given it away, at least he had still been able to bear the consequences.

It would have been better if he had given it up for good. But when he learned that the Primordial Violet Qi was the key to becoming a Saint, Hong Yun couldn't bring himself to let it go.

In the back-and-forth, all his original fortune was exhausted!

No matter how great his fortune was, it couldn't withstand being tossed around over two Saint Positions like that.

In the end, he could only meet his death.

According to later legends, Shen Nong, Medicine Buddha, Yun Zhong Zi, Zhao Gongming, and San Xiao might all have been reborn fragments of Hong Yun's True Spirit.

Shen Nong, for instance, came about because Taiqing Laozi wanted to repay his karmic debt to Hong Yun, while Zhen Yuan Zi had protected humanity with the Earth Book during the Witch-Demon War, creating another karmic debt.

Taiqing Laozi, the Leader of the Human Sect, had stepped in!

That was why people said Hong Yun had been reborn as Shen Nong, the Earthly Sovereign!

Aside from Zhao Gongming and San Xiao, who didn't fare particularly well, the others seemed to have done all right.

Through them, Hong Yun seemed to enjoy the protection of fortune across all four sects.

But the carefree Ancestor Hong Yun, who had once been doing just fine, had ended up as a junior disciple of the Saints.

And as someone who had transmigrated into Hong Yun, how could he risk his life betting on whether those legends were true?

Even if they were, would "Shen Nong" and the others of that era still be him?