Grand Pure Becomes a Saint

Grand Pure held two fingers together like a sword, and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth gathered at his fingertips like a funnel. A tiny golden point of light, pure to the extreme, as though it contained the first ray of light from when the primordial world was born, slowly condensed out of thin air.

The point of light slowly spun. Though it appeared tiny, it radiated a Dao rhythm of perfect indestructibility and eternal freedom! It was the manifested core truth of the Great Dao of the "Golden Elixir"!

Yellow Dragon stared at that Golden Elixir radiating immortal light and muttered, "Is this what they mean by, 'Swallow a Golden Elixir, and my fate is mine, not Heaven's'?"

Grand Pure looked at the "Golden Elixir" emanating a golden halo from his fingertips, a trace of satisfaction in his eyes. "This is the 'Golden Elixir.' Cultivating this method allows one to directly reach the immortality of a Golden Immortal. Everyone can cultivate it."

Grand Pure's expression was calm, and his voice was not loud, yet it clearly reached everyone's ears, like a clear spring flowing through the mountains.

He spoke of the mysteries of the human body's innate Dao physique, the inhalation and exhalation of spiritual energy, the refinement of essence and qi, the nourishment of the three souls and seven spirits, the guidance of the Primordial Spirit... Every word contained the ultimate principles of heaven and earth, drawing the Great Dao to descend.

"...Focus your mind on your lower dantian. Imagine a spark of true fire, like the newly risen sun—warm, but not scorching..." Grand Pure's voice carried a peculiar rhythm.

Led by Grand Pure's Dao voice, the several dozen humans around the sacred fire all entered deep states of Dao comprehension and cultivation. The surrounding spiritual energy was instantly absorbed clean by them all. Seeing this, Yellow Dragon hurriedly used a divine ability to draw the spiritual energy within ten thousand li toward this place, forming a vortex of spiritual energy above the tribe that poured into everyone like a funnel.

That day, Grand Pure finished expounding the Dao, and everyone also ended their cultivation. Those several dozen humans had all stepped into the True Immortal realm. One innate human had even crossed into the Celestial Immortal realm in a single stride, yet his foundation was not the least bit unstable.

Grand Pure looked at the human who had entered the Celestial Immortal realm, a smile appearing at the corner of his lips. "Xuandu, are you willing to enter my sect and become my disciple?"

The man was clearly so stunned by this sudden surprise that he did not know what to do. Flustered, he dropped to his knees and bowed. "I am willing. This disciple Xuandu is willing."

Aside from Xuandu, who remained at Grand Pure's side to cultivate, the other several dozen humans were dispatched by Suiren and the other two to various tribes, where they taught the cultivation method to the other humans.

In merely a few decades, the Golden Elixir cultivation method quietly spread to every place along the East Sea shore where humans lived and prospered.

That day, Xuandu and Yellow Dragon were listening to Grand Pure when they felt Grand Pure's aura suddenly change, as though he had fused with heaven and earth. He was the primordial world itself.

Grand Pure's figure flashed, and he stood in the void.

"Heavenly Dao above, I, Grand Pure, establish a sect today!"

"With humanity as its name, it shall be called: the Humanity Sect!"

"I shall pass down the Human Race's Great Dao of the Golden Elixir and carry out the Great Dao of enlightenment! I use the innate supreme treasure, the Supreme Ultimate Diagram, to suppress its fortune!"

"The Humanity Sect, arise!"

The moment the final word, "arise," left his lips, it was like the first thunderclap that split heaven and earth apart!

Rumble—!!!

The entire primordial world shook violently! Like a calm vast sea suddenly heaving up waves ten thousand zhang high.

Beyond the boundless heavens, immeasurable golden light filled with the primordial world's origin instantly boiled, surged, and condensed into a vast, boundless cloud of merit, its golden rays stretching ten thousand zhang!

The golden cloud rolled and churned, exuding a sacred, gentle, immortal aura that made the souls of all living beings tremble—and yet long for it beyond measure!

Suddenly—

An immeasurable golden light, a hundred times, a thousand times more brilliant than the great sun hanging beyond the heavens, erupted from above the Ninth Heaven without warning!

Pure and vast, carrying the mighty power to soothe all things and cleanse the soul, it flew toward Grand Pure!

The entire Human Race—no, the entire East Sea shore—was shrouded in this sacred radiance of merit!

The cloud of merit was like a heavenly river flowing backward, crashing down and completely engulfing Grand Pure's figure!

At the same time, an even more dazzling and majestic surge of merit erupted from Grand Pure Dao Venerable, merging with the merit descending from the Ninth Heaven.

Within the golden light, a stream of purple qi burst across the sky, vigorous as a dragon, radiating the aura of primordial chaos first separating and the source of the Great Dao—it was the Primordial Purple Qi, the foundation of sainthood!

It transformed into a bridge piercing through heaven and earth. One end connected to Grand Pure, submerged in merit, while the other stretched into the unknowable, immeasurable core source of the primordial world's Heavenly Dao!

At that moment, the primordial world shook!

At the summit of Kunlun, Jade Pure Yuanshi and Supreme Pure Tongtian stood upon a cloud platform, gazing excitedly at Grand Pure within the golden light of merit. On Western Mount Sumeru, the two Daoists Jieyin and Zhunti raised their heads at the same time, the suffering on their faces growing even heavier. Their hands continuously moved the prayer beads in their grasp as they endlessly chanted scriptures.

The boundless Blood Sea churned. Styx Ancestor looked at Grand Pure establishing his sect, then at the Rakshasa Race in the Blood Sea that he had created in imitation of Nuwa, and let out an unwilling sigh.

Beyond the Thirty-Third Heaven, within Nuwa Palace, Saint Nuwa sat upright upon a cloud bed. A faint smile appeared on her sacred face as she slightly nodded toward the center of the golden light.

"I, Grand Pure, have achieved the Saint's fruition today!"

In an instant, flowers of gold fell from the void, while countless golden lotuses bloomed across the earth.

Purple qi stretched across the primordial world.

A Saint was born, and heaven and earth rejoiced together!

A vast pressure, like an invisible tide, swept across the entire primordial world in an instant, centered on the Human Race's Suiren Tribe!

Whether innate sacred beings birthed by heaven and earth, innate living beings, or ignorant plant and tree spirits, hundreds of millions of living beings all felt, deep within their souls at that moment, a suppression rooted in the most fundamental level of life itself!

Thud! Thud! Thud!

From the easternmost reaches of the primordial world to the westernmost, from above the Ninth Heaven to beneath the Nine Nethers, hundreds of millions of living beings—regardless of race or cultivation—aside from the few who could merely lower their heads beneath this pressure, all prostrated themselves toward the center of the golden light and shouted!

"Congratulations to Grand Pure Dao Venerable on attaining the venerable rank of Saint!"

The rolling waves of sound echoed endlessly through heaven and earth like tangible shockwaves, proclaiming the birth of yet another Saint.

When Nuwa created humanity, Yellow Dragon had provided her with the origin of creation, increasing the Human Race's potential. Afterward, he had watched over the newborn humans for three thousand years, helping them survive a difficult period.

When the Human Race built a sacred temple for Nuwa, they carved Yellow Dragon's true form upon the temple, revering him as the Human Race's totem and granting him half a share of the Human Race's fortune.

Now that Grand Pure had established the Humanity Sect and attained sainthood, Yellow Dragon could clearly sense that thirty percent of the Human Race's fortune had separated and flowed toward Saint Grand Pure.

He cautiously glanced at the Nuwa Sacred Temple, an odd feeling rising in his heart. He wondered whether Lady Nuwa, having half her fortune taken away, would come looking for Saint Grand Pure to have a fight!

And as for himself, the little lackey who had led the way—this small frame of his would probably be in for a beating.

Grand Pure looked at Yellow Dragon's worried face and saw through his thoughts at once. Smiling faintly, he said, "Rest assured. Junior Sister Nuwa is broad-minded. If she were the sort to quibble, she would not have allowed me to enter the Human Race's territory in the first place."

Hearing Saint Grand Pure's words, Yellow Dragon could only smile bitterly. "This disciple worried unnecessarily and has made a Saint laugh."