"Damn, where was this?"
Minghe looked around at the blood-red expanse of space and jumped in fright.
Hadn't he died in a car accident?
How had he suddenly ended up in this bizarre place? Could this be the Netherworld Underworld? Had he become a wandering ghost?
Just as he was puzzling over it, wave after wave of memories suddenly flooded into his mind.
He had transmigrated!
And he had transmigrated into the famed Ancestor Styx of the Primordial Wilderness!
The very Ancestor Styx who was said to be the strongest beneath the saints, yet had been bullied mercilessly by the Western saints.
For a moment, Minghe did not know whether to laugh or cry.
"I transmigrated, and you couldn't even give me a better identity? At least let me transmigrate into a saint or something!"
But the deed was done. Minghe—no, he should be called Styx from now on.
Styx readily accepted the fact that he had transmigrated into Ancestor Styx.
After all, he had already transmigrated. With a transmigrator's foreknowledge, he should not end up as miserably as he had in the original story, right?
Speaking of which, the original Styx had truly been rather miserable.
In the original story, he had been one of the same generation of Innate Divine Beings as the Three Pure Ones, Nüwa, Jie Yin and Zhun Ti.
While the others fought each other over a single Innate Spiritual Treasure, he had begun with four Top Grade Innate Spiritual Treasures: the Twelfth Grade Red Lotus of Karma Fire, the Northern Mysterious Yuan Controlling Water Flag, the Yuan Tu Sword, and the Abi Sword.
Among them, the Twelfth Grade Red Lotus of Karma Fire and the Northern Mysterious Yuan Controlling Water Flag had both been formed from the shattered Chaos Treasure, the Thirty-Six-Grade Creation Green Lotus. Their defenses were peerless, impervious to all evil.
They could be called supreme defensive treasures.
The Northern Mysterious Yuan Controlling Water Flag could even produce a drop of Three Lights Divine Water every ten thousand years.
This Three Lights Divine Water was a supreme healing treasure in the Primordial Wilderness.
It was said to revive the dead and restore flesh to bare bones.
So long as someone still had a single breath left, it could save them.
As for the Yuan Tu and Abi swords, they were supreme killing treasures that slew without incurring karma.
When combined, their offensive power was second only to a Connate Supreme Treasure.
With these four treasures in hand, in the era before the Three Pure Ones and the others became saints, almost no one dared provoke Styx.
What was more, aside from those four treasures, Styx also had the entire Blood Sea backing him.
The Blood Sea had been formed from Great God Pangu's navel after he split open heaven and earth and transformed his body into all things.
It was known as the garbage dump of the Primordial Wilderness, where all the foul blood of the entire Primordial Wilderness gathered.
If an ordinary person so much as touched a trace of the Blood Sea's foul blood, they would almost immediately perish completely.
Yet Styx could survive within the Blood Sea. He had even used it to refine 1.296 billion Blood God Doppelgangers and the Asura Race.
He became one of the major powers of the Primordial Wilderness.
He also left behind the legend: "So long as the Blood Sea does not dry up, Styx shall not die."
To put it exaggeratedly, Styx had started with the perfect setup of a wish-fulfillment novel protagonist.
Yet even such an existence had failed to obtain a saint's position in the Purple Cloud Palace.
After the Three Pure Ones and the other six became saints, he practically reduced his presence in the Primordial Wilderness to nothing.
After the Witch-Demon Calamity, he had nearly vanished from the Primordial Wilderness altogether.
Later, he was even suppressed by Jie Yin and Zhun Ti.
Jie Yin and Zhun Ti's Western Sect converted many members of his Asura Race, yet he did not even dare utter a word.
In later generations, Kong Xuan was even called the strongest beneath the saints.
Little did they know that Styx, as one of the most ancient great powers, possessed strength infinitely close to that of a Grand Dao Golden Immortal. How could Kong Xuan, a mere junior, compare with him?
After considering Styx's fate in the original story, Styx finally came back to his senses.
The original Styx had truly been unlucky. He had been bullied so badly in his previous life, and before his new life had even begun, his body had been taken over by someone else.
But since he had already transmigrated, if he still acted as cowardly as he had in the original story, would this transmigration not have been wasted?
Just as Styx was filled with ambition and preparing to use his foreknowledge to make something of himself in the Primordial Wilderness, a voice suddenly rang out in his mind.
"Ding dong, the system is binding..."
Styx's eyes lit up.
It was here!
Styx had read novels in his previous life as well.
While reading those novels, one question had always puzzled him.
In the Primordial Wilderness, where the Great Dao reigned supreme, where exactly did these systems come from?
And they were always saying things like, "The Great Dao has already been shielded," or "Here, have Pangu's essence blood."
They acted as if they surpassed even the Great Dao.
But if systems truly were existences beyond the Great Dao, why would they reside within transmigrators or reincarnators and give them rewards?
Could they really just be doing charity?
This question had always troubled Styx.
Now that he finally had the chance to encounter a system firsthand, Styx had to admit that he was somewhat excited!
"The system has successfully bound. The Novice Gift Pack has been issued: Top Grade Innate Spiritual Treasure World-Ending Black Lotus, High-Grade Innate Spiritual Root Underworld Bone Bamboo, advanced version of the Blood God Incarnation Great Method."
As soon as the system finished speaking, two treasures appeared before Styx.
The advanced version of the Blood God Incarnation Great Method was directly imparted into Styx's mind.
Styx was secretly astonished.
The Twelfth Grade Extinguishing Black Lotus and the Spiritual Root Nether Bone Bamboo were one thing.
Though these two items were precious, they were not precious enough to astonish Styx.
After all, Styx's own fortune was quite substantial.
But the advanced version of the Blood God Incarnation Great Method was enough to shock him.
The original Blood God Incarnation Great Method was a secret art Styx had comprehended from the endless essence blood within the Blood Sea.
It could refine the essence blood within the Blood Sea into his own avatars.
If Styx's main body died while an avatar remained within the Blood Sea, Styx could revive through that avatar.
In other words, so long as no one filled up the Blood Sea and destroyed every last one of his avatars within it, Styx could revive endlessly.
However, the Blood God Incarnation Great Method also had a major flaw.
Every Blood God Doppelganger lacked its own consciousness, possessed no cultivation, and could not cultivate. It was merely an empty shell.
Every time Styx revived, he had to restore his cultivation from scratch.
Although Styx had already cultivated once and retained all his insights, so recultivating did not take as much time as his first cultivation.
Still, the foundation of a refined Blood God Doppelganger could hardly compare to his current body of an Innate Divine Being.
This was why the original Styx had clearly possessed the Blood God Incarnation Great Method as a trump card, yet had never used it.
There was no other reason. He simply could not bear to give up his current body of an Innate Divine Being!
But the advanced Blood God Incarnation Great Method rewarded by the system could actually grant every Blood God Doppelganger its own consciousness, allowing it to cultivate independently!
It was even possible for Blood God Doppelgangers to attain strength equal to Styx's original body.
However, even with their own consciousness, Blood God Doppelgangers were fundamentally just Styx's avatars. They could not defy Styx's will, and their thoughts were connected with his.
Whenever Styx needed to, he could seize control of a Blood God Doppelganger's consciousness with a single thought.
Such a powerful secret art was truly formidable.
For the moment, Styx suppressed the shock in his heart.
Then he looked at the Twelfth Grade Extinguishing Black Lotus given by the system.
This spiritual treasure shared the same origin as his Twelfth Grade Red Lotus of Karma Fire.
If he remembered correctly, this item had originally been in the hands of Devil Ancestor Rahula.
How had it ended up in the system's hands now?
Could Rahula already be dead?
But that matter had little to do with him for now.
Even if Rahula were still alive, once this spiritual treasure reached his hands, it was his.
No matter who came to take it, he would not give it up!
But as he thought of something, a smile appeared on Styx's face.
"System, this is all you're giving me in the Novice Gift Pack? Don't you think that's a little shabby? Other systems give out supreme treasures and Pangu's essence blood right from the start. You're giving me this little and expecting to fob off a beggar?"
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