Purification Great Dao

"So Fellow Daoist Bai Jing deliberately did Zhenyuanzi this favor?" Houtu asked.

"Yes."

"Why did you do Zhenyuanzi this favor?"

"Because of the Earth Book," Bai Jing replied.

"The Earth Book?"

"The Witch Clan is clearing the earth veins, and Zhenyuanzi's innate spiritual treasure, the Earth Book, is connected to those veins. With the Earth Book's help, the Witch Clan can clear the earth veins with half the effort and twice the result."

Houtu had not expected that Bai Jing's favor to Zhenyuanzi had been for the sake of their Witch Clan. A few traces of gratitude could not help rising in her heart.

"Fellow Daoist Bai Jing has devoted so much effort to planning for our Witch Clan. We are endlessly grateful."

Bai Jing waved his hand, signaling for Houtu not to dwell on it.

After sending Houtu back to the Witch Clan, Bai Jing took the opportunity to ask the Ancestral Witches who had remained behind what the Witch Clan had done during the more than three thousand years he and Houtu had spent listening to the Dao.

Zhu Jiuyin said that Di Jiang and Jumang had led over a dozen Great Witches and a hundred thousand members of the Witch Clan to the western lands.

They had chosen the west because its earth veins had suffered the most severe damage. If they could restore the earth veins of the western lands, it should provide the greatest aid to the revival of the Earth Dao.

The Ancestral Witches had agreed to rotate every ten thousand years. The remaining ten Ancestral Witches continued to comprehend the Twelve Capitals Divine Fiend Formation within Pangu Hall.

Bai Jing's eyes lit up when he heard the name Twelve Capitals Divine Fiend Formation. Naturally, he knew of this formation.

The Twelve Capitals Divine Fiend Formation stood alongside the Heavenly Stars Formation, the Primordial River Luo Formation, and the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation as one of the four great killing formations of the Primordial World. It was also the Witch Clan's strongest trump card.

This formation was activated jointly by the Twelve Ancestral Witches, and all twelve had to be gathered for it to unleash its greatest power.

Drawing upon the strength of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, the formation activated Pangu's blood essence and gathered the Sha Qi of heaven and earth, allowing it to condense Pangu's true body. Its might could stand shoulder to shoulder with a Heavenly Dao Saint.

"When did the Witch Clan come to comprehend formations?" Bai Jing asked, putting on a puzzled expression.

"When we brothers and sisters all broke through to the sixth revolution of the Profound Art, our bloodlines resonated, and this formation appeared along with it," Houtu answered.

"So that was it."

"Bai Jing, your cultivation path resembles that of us Twelve Ancestral Witches. Moreover, you absorbed the blood from the blood pool and a drop of my eldest brother's blood essence. Perhaps you, too, can comprehend the Twelve Capitals Divine Fiend Formation."

"Setting aside whether I can comprehend it, even if I can, isn't this your Witch Clan's formation? Would it not be inappropriate for an outsider like me to learn it?"

Yet Houtu shook her head. "Fellow Daoist Bai Jing gave up the Treasure-Splitting Cliff, which was practically already in his grasp, to Zhenyuanzi in order to help the Witch Clan. Letting you comprehend the Twelve Capitals Divine Fiend Formation is no great matter. Eldest Brother will surely agree as well."

"Then let us wait until Ancestral Witch Di Jiang agrees before discussing it. Now that matters here are settled, Fellow Daoist Houtu, I should return and enter seclusion for a time. We can speak again another day."

"Travel safely, Fellow Daoist."

Bai Jing nodded and walked out of Pangu Hall. Then, a twelve-grade white lotus platform appeared beneath his feet. The platform rose into the air, carrying Bai Jing toward the East Sea.

A hundred years later, Bai Jing returned to Yingzhou Immortal Island. He certainly had to visit Kunlun, but not yet. After all, once he went to Kunlun, he would definitely have to exchange insights on the Dao of artifact refining with Yuanshi Tianzun.

Bai Jing's understanding of the Dao of artifact refining had actually all come from the Dao of artifacts within the Creation Jade Disc Fragment. He had never personally refined a spiritual treasure. Put plainly, his theoretical experience was abundant, but his practical ability was next to zero. How could he simply run off to Kunlun like that? At the very least, he needed to familiarize himself with the basic techniques of artifact refining first.

Besides, Bai Jing had finally obtained the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner and could restore part of his origin. Naturally, he had to refine it at once!

With that thought, Bai Jing flipped his palm, and an azure-green banner appeared in his hand.

The instant the banner fell into his hand, Bai Jing felt as though it were connected to him by blood. If he refined the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner as a spiritual treasure, it would likely be like the Primordial Measure of Heaven Ruler—he could refine twenty-four restrictions in an instant.

Bai Jing sighed inwardly at the pity of it. The Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner was, after all, a rare top-grade innate spiritual treasure, but for the sake of his future Dao path, he could only grit his teeth and refine it.

With that thought, Bai Jing no longer hesitated. He first refined the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner. Just as he had expected, in the blink of an eye, he had already refined twenty-four restrictions and gained preliminary control over the banner.

Then, with a thought, Bai Jing controlled the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner to shrink. He opened his mouth and swallowed the banner.

The moment the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner entered his mouth, Bai Jing immediately circulated the Spirit Devouring Art while controlling the banner to cooperate with the Spirit Devouring Art and disintegrate itself.

This process lasted a thousand years. Bai Jing circulated the Spirit Devouring Art without pause, and at last refined the origin of the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner.

As soon as the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner's origin was refined out, it automatically surged into every limb and bone of Bai Jing's body.

Bai Jing's entire body trembled. His spiritual platform became clear, and insights into the Great Dao of Purification poured into his Primordial Spirit like a rising tide.

Bai Jing slowly closed his eyes, devouring the origin of the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner to repair his own origin while comprehending the Great Dao of Purification.

The Twelfth-Grade Pure World White Lotus inherently possessed the ability to purify all things. The Great Dao of Purification could be said to be the path to Dao attainment most suited to Bai Jing.

Taking advantage of this opportunity to repair his origin, Bai Jing entered the Great Dao of Purification with almost no effort at all. His control over the Great Dao of Purification also increased at an exceedingly terrifying rate.

In the Primordial World, years went unrecorded. After an unknown length of time, Bai Jing suddenly opened his eyes. The Dao rhymes of the Great Dao of Purification and the Great Dao of Devouring appeared upon his body at the same time. The two Great Daos intertwined, making his aura seem ever more profound and weighty.

At this moment, Bai Jing was even confident that he could face the Western duo at the same time without falling into disadvantage.

Bai Jing casually took out a piece of ore tainted with chaotic qi. With a thought, the violent substances within the chaotic qi that were harmful to cultivators' absorption were instantly purified, leaving behind only the purest innate spiritual qi.

"So this is the Great Dao of Purification?" Bai Jing gained some understanding and immediately closed his eyes to inspect the state of his origin.

His origin, which had originally been repaired by roughly half a percent, had leapt to thirty-one percent. His comprehension of the Great Dao of Purification had likewise reached thirty-one percent.

Bai Jing also discovered that his physical body had advanced further. His physical body at the early stage of the Golden Immortal of Primordial Unity realm had become even stronger.

Originally, Bai Jing had estimated that once his comprehension of the Great Dao of Devouring caught up, devouring all the spiritual materials and ores tainted with chaotic qi on his person would be enough for him to break through to the middle stage of the Golden Immortal of Primordial Unity realm. Now, it seemed that devouring only half of them would be sufficient for a breakthrough.

"The Eastern Green Lotus Treasure-Colored Banner truly deserves to be called a top-grade innate spiritual treasure. It even strengthened my physical body considerably. What a pity that there are too few top-grade innate spiritual treasures in the Primordial World, and most are incompatible with my origin, so I cannot devour them directly. Otherwise, using spiritual treasures to break through should be even faster," Bai Jing said with a regretful expression.