Hongjun: That's not right, the amount of Great Dao Merit is wrong

"Bang!"

At the very moment the Great Thousand World was successfully opened, the True Form of Pangu, condensed by the Twelve Ancestral Witches through the Great Array of the Twelve Divine Fiends, reached its limit.

The True Form of Pangu cast a deep look at the Great Thousand World before it, a hint of satisfaction and lingering attachment flashing in its eyes, before it suddenly shuddered and exploded with a bang, transforming into twelve streams of light.

When the streams of light landed and the mysterious radiance dissipated, twelve figures were revealed, their expressions etched with exhaustion and their faces slightly pale, yet their eyes burned with extreme excitement and agitation.

Who else could it be but the Ancestral Witches?

The moment the Twelve Ancestral Witches appeared, immeasurable profound yellow golden light erupted above the nine heavens.

"This, this is merit, and it is Great Dao Merit at that!"

At this moment, not only the many mighty figures watching the Witch Race, but even Hongjun, far away in the Purple Heaven Palace, could not help but stand up.

If even Great Dao Merit has arrived, can the Great Dao itself be far behind?

It was one thing for the Great Dao to remain hidden on ordinary days, but now that the Great Dao had descended in person, shouldn't one show some courtesy?

Even courting death shouldn't be done in such a manner.

At this moment, everyone, including Hongjun, felt as if they had eaten lemons; they were sour with envy.

This was Great Dao Merit.

Great Dao Merit!

Since Pangu opened the heavens and split the earth, through the Primordial and Ancient eras to the present, countless years had passed, yet this was the first time the countless living beings of the Primordial World had witnessed the descent of Great Dao Merit.

It was to be expected; the Great Dao was a noble and supreme existence.

In its eyes, even feats considered glorious to the Primordial World, such as the gods slaying the fierce beast emperor Shen Ni or Dao Ancestor Hongjun defeating Devil Ancestor Luohou, were merely trivial.

This isn't right. Isn't my Purple Heaven Palace also a Great Thousand World? And its grade is no lower than the one opened by the True Form of Pangu. Why didn't the Great Dao bestow Great Dao Merit upon me?

And the amount of merit is wrong too. This is only a low-grade Great Thousand World; how does it deserve so much Great Dao Merit? With this much merit, thirty beings with no cultivation could directly attain the Hunyuan realm!

The more Hongjun looked, the more wrong it felt, and the more agitated he became, until he couldn't help but roar in his heart.

If he didn't know that the Great Dao might have descended in person, and that he absolutely could not show the slightest dissatisfaction or disrespect toward it, he would have wanted to scream, "The Great Dao is unfair!"

Indeed, why?

Hongjun did not understand, but Zhu Jiuyin, having traversed the River of Time and read millions of modern books, had gained a faint realization.

In truth, Hongjun's unwillingness and resentment were not without reason.

Strictly speaking, it was only a low-grade Great Thousand World.

Although the birth of every world could bring a sliver of vitality and creation to the Great Dao, promoting its evolution and perfection, compared to the immeasurable number of worlds beneath the Great Dao, this bit of vitality and creation was not even a drop in the ocean.

And this ocean was a Primordial Divine Ox standing ten million miles tall.

However, what Hongjun did not know was that the Great Dao being impartial was never an empty phrase.

There was only one reason why the Great Dao bestowed so much merit: Pangu.

One only needed to think about it to understand. How powerful was Pangu back then? As a powerhouse at the half-step Great Dao realm, how could his total merit be so meager?

Calculating Pangu's total merit: the Three Pure Ones took thirty percent, the Ancestral Witches took thirty percent, another twenty percent transformed into the Heaven and Earth Profound Yellow Exquisite Pagoda and the Grandmist Measuring Heaven Ruler, and the remaining twenty percent dispersed into the Primordial World, nourishing the world and its immeasurable living beings.

But thinking carefully, this was fundamentally wrong.

One must know that the Primordial World was a top-tier Immeasurable World, and given Pangu's cultivation at the time, the amount of Great Dao Merit that could be condensed from opening a world of that caliber would be astronomical!

Merit was different from supreme treasures or spiritual artifacts; even if divided, its wondrous effects would not diminish in the slightest.

Therefore, theoretically, if the Three Pure Ones and the Ancestral Witches could each truly obtain thirty percent of Pangu's Merit of Opening the Heavens, their foundations would certainly be no worse than those of the Chaos Demon Gods.

Chaos Demon Gods—every one of them was destined to attain the Hunyuan realm upon birth.

Now, at the moment the Great Dao appeared, Zhu Jiuyin understood a little.

Is it possible that this Great Dao Merit was something Father God deposited with the Great Dao back then, and once we were capable of performing great deeds, the Great Dao would return it all to us in the form of Great Dao Merit?

At this moment, Zhu Jiuyin only felt that Pangu's intentions toward them and the Three Pure Ones were truly profound. Perhaps the moment the heavens were opened and they and the Three Pure Ones were born, Pangu had already paved a path for them—a path leading straight to the Hunyuan realm, a path that would surely allow them to become Chaos-realm powerhouses.

It was a pity that in the myths, neither the Ancestral Witches nor the Three Pure Ones walked this path to the end.

No, perhaps only one person did—Houtu.

Do not mention the Three Pure Ones' merit from establishing their sect; that merely drew upon the Merit of Opening the Heavens hidden within them, and that merit was used more to connect the Grandmist Violet Qi to the Heavenly Dao.

Perhaps, the moment the Three Pure Ones abandoned Pangu to worship Hongjun and the Heavenly Dao, they had already severed their bond with Pangu.

Once the Three Pure Ones entrusted their true spirits to the Heavenly Dao via the Grandmist Violet Qi, there were only the Heavenly Dao's Three Pure Ones, and no longer Pangu's Three Pure Ones.

As for the Ancestral Witches, that was even more absurd.

If the Three Pure Ones were ungrateful wretches, the Ancestral Witches were truly hopeless.

In the myths of the Primordial World, they were truly calculated to death by Hongjun.

Honestly, one could see from the Ancestral Witches how correct Pangu was not to bestow the Great Dao Merit directly upon them.

Otherwise, given their actions in the myths, no matter how much Great Dao Merit they had, they would have squandered it all.

After all, in the later stages, whether it was the Ancestral Witches or the Witch Race, one could not tell if they had given up on themselves or if they truly hated the Demon Race to the bone; they were on a path to devouring every single beast and demon in the Primordial World.

Most importantly, as things progressed, even the Demon Race with the foundations of Innate Beings and Innate Demon Gods began to be devoured.

Such large-scale, genocidal slaughter of living beings was not only disallowed by the Heavenly Dao, but it was also unacceptable to the Great Dao.

Therefore, in the end, only Houtu managed to barely escape Hongjun's schemes, becoming the one with the highest achievement among the Ancestral Witches and the Three Pure Ones.

Eventually, even Hongjun could do nothing against Houtu in the later stages.

You are the spokesperson for the Heavenly Dao, but I, Houtu, am the spokesperson for the Earthly Dao.

However, because of this, Houtu essentially bid farewell to the path of becoming a Chaos Demon God.

A sigh, indeed.

Of course, now that Zhu Jiuyin had arrived, many things would naturally be different.

The moment the immeasurable Great Dao Merit permeated the bodies of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, including Zhu Jiuyin, everything about them began to undergo a frantic transformation.