Information from the Pangu World-Opening Map

Tongtian glanced at Lu Xuan. Seeing that Lu Xuan had no objection, he recounted how he had once entered Lu Xuan's Pangu World-Opening Map and witnessed Pangu opening the world, explaining it before Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerable.

This finally made Primordial Heavenly Venerable understand what the Earth-Splitting Chisel was. He asked in shock, "Does that mean this Earth-Splitting Chisel is also a Chaos Supreme Treasure?"

Before Tongtian and Lu Xuan could answer, Laozi spoke with a grave expression. "Fellow Daoist Lu Xuan, you must know that although the path cultivated by the Six Sages of the Heavenly Dao appears to be the Way of Severing the Three Corpses, it is actually Merit-Proven Dao."

"The root cause of all this, I presume, is that we failed to comprehend the true Way of Severing the Three Corpses. Thus, in the end, we had no choice but to use Merit to forcibly merge the Three Corpses, then rely on Primordial Purple Qi to attain the Dao and become Sages."

Lu Xuan could hear from Laozi's tone that he had already begun to doubt the Way of Severing the Three Corpses transmitted by Hongjun.

At the same time, Lu Xue could clearly sense just how pure the brotherhood among the Three Pure Ones currently was, untainted by any interests.

This inevitably made Lu Xuan suspect that someone had been scheming behind the scenes when the Three Pure Ones split apart in the future, and that person was very likely Hongjun.

However, Hongjun had not acted directly. Rather, when he preached at Zixiao Palace, he had already planted a hidden move—the Primordial Purple Qi within the Six Sages of the Heavenly Dao.

Most importantly, Lu Xuan could clearly feel the Pangu World-Opening Map trembling faintly. At the same time, an inexplicable piece of information flowed from the Pangu World-Opening Map into Lu Xuan's memories.

After digesting this information, Lu Xuan finally decided to make one more effort for the brotherhood of the Three Pure Ones. He hoped to alter the course of the Primordial World through this.

Of course, this was not because Lu Xuan was overly softhearted, much less because he was weak and sentimental. He had his own considerations for doing so.

In the original course of the Primordial World, from the moment the Three Pure Ones split apart, it had already been destined that the Human Race would one day fall into the Dharma-Ending Age, their path of cultivation completely severed.

Then came the Investiture of the Gods Calamity, which used the Investiture of the Gods List to bind the cultivators of the Three Teachings. Even those whose souls were not entered onto the Investiture of the Gods List would ultimately have no choice but to obey the orders of the Heavenly Court.

At the same time, it severed the Karmic Fortune of the Human Race, leaving them without another Human Emperor. They became believers raised by the Heavenly Court, required not only to provide offerings, but also to contribute the power of faith.

Then, with the final Journey to the West Calamity, even the various demon kings scattered throughout the Primordial World were swept up in one fell swoop.

By then, the cultivation path of the living beings of the Primordial World had effectively been completely cut off. It added the final straw for the arrival of the Dharma-Ending Age.

Some might say, since you are a transmigrator and know that doing this means becoming enemies with Hongjun, why put yourself in danger?

Why not find a place to lie low? Even if you became a deity in the Heavenly Court in the future, you would be deathless and indestructible. Wouldn't that be better than opposing Hongjun and ending up reduced to ashes?

But what transmigrator could possibly lack ambition? After countless yuanhui of arduous cultivation, could staying alive still be a transmigrator's only pursuit?

As a transmigrator, he naturally knew all too well about the theories surrounding Hongjun's conspiracies. Yet those were ultimately only later generations' speculations and fabrications, not something that could truly be taken as fact.

But the information given to him by the Pangu World-Opening Map made Lu Xuan understand everything completely.

He could not help but mutter inwardly, "As expected, nothing comes from nothing. Later generations' assessment of Hongjun was fairly accurate."

Then Lu Xuan nodded directly at Laozi. "There are some things that cannot be spoken lightly, even within a Sage's dojo. If the three Sages wish to learn the truth, then follow this poor Daoist."

The next moment, Lu Xuan directly unfolded the Pangu World-Opening Map and brought the Three Pure Ones, who held no resistance whatsoever, into it.

As Lu Xuan and the Three Pure Ones vanished from the Azure Wandering Palace, Duobao and the other two awoke from their daze. They did not even know where the Three Pure Ones and Lu Xuan had gone.

They only remembered that Lu Xuan had given them a sixth-grade White Lotus. As for what happened afterward, they knew nothing at all.

They subconsciously assumed that their masters had left to attend to some matter. Thus, they led their two junior sisters in tidying up the Azure Wandering Palace before leaving together.

Little did they know that this had been Laozi's deliberate doing. After all, some things were unsuitable for Duobao and the others to hear, so he had used a Sage's methods beforehand to shield their five senses and six consciousnesses.

Upon entering the Pangu World-Opening Map, they did not see the scene of Pangu opening the world. There was only a stone table and four stone stools.

After the four took their seats, Lu Xuan spoke. "This is the Pangu World-Opening Map, a spiritual treasure refined by Great God Pangu from the blood of the Chaos Demon Ape when he opened the world."

"Not only does it record the entire process of Pangu opening the world, it also contains a space of its own. Even the Heavenly Dao cannot pry into this place in the slightest."

Lu Xuan's words finally made Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerable understand why Lu Xuan had brought them here. The words to come could not be allowed to reach the Heavenly Dao.

Laozi immediately asked, "Fellow Daoist Lu Xuan, could the Way of Severing the Three Corpses taught by Master truly be wrong?"

Lu Xuan shook his head. "Hongjun attained the Dao and became a Sage through the Heavenly Dao, so he was destined to preach the Dao to the living beings of the Primordial World. That is his responsibility."

"Therefore, the Dao he transmitted naturally cannot be wrong. Otherwise, Hongjun could not bear that karma."

Primordial Heavenly Venerable asked in confusion, "Since the Way of Severing the Three Corpses taught by Master is correct, why has not one of the six of us been able to walk it through?"

Others believed that Tongtian had successfully followed the true Way of Severing the Three Corpses. However, Laozi and Primordial Heavenly Venerable knew very well that Tongtian had followed Law-Proven Dao, not the Way of Severing the Three Corpses.

Lu Xuan sighed. "This is where Hongjun's brilliance lies. He was responsible for preaching to the living beings of the Primordial World for ten thousand years, yet he chose to divide it into three sessions."

"On the surface, it was to give those listening to the Dao more time to digest it. But little did they know that listening to a Sage preach the Dao was when one could most easily comprehend its true meaning."

"So his purpose in doing this was to confuse the listeners and prepare to withhold part of his preaching time."

"The first preaching lasted three thousand three hundred years. The second and third preachings likewise lasted three thousand three hundred years each. Altogether, that was nine thousand nine hundred years."

"If the time you spent asking questions in Zixiao Palace is added in, it comes to exactly ten thousand years. Thus, none of the three thousand Purple Cloud Palace Guests found anything amiss."

"Yet his responsibility was to preach for ten thousand years, and that did not include the time he spent answering questions for the living beings of the Primordial World. Thus, every Purple Cloud Palace Guest heard one hundred years less of the Dao."

"Perhaps your opportunities were insufficient, or perhaps you lacked a grateful heart. If someone had returned to Zixiao Palace to thank Hongjun after he distributed treasures at Treasure-Distribution Cliff, they could have heard the Dao of those final hundred years."

"Thus, none of the three thousand Purple Cloud Palace Guests heard the Great Dao of those final hundred years. Only his two attendants, Haotian and Yaochi, heard the complete ten thousand years of Dao teachings."

"And during those final hundred years, what Hongjun preached was the key to the Way of Severing the Three Corpses. Beyond that, there was also the most mysterious Way of Incense."

"The key to the Way of Severing the Three Corpses is that the spiritual treasures used to house the Three Corpses must share the same origin. Only then can Three Corpses Unification be achieved. Otherwise, even if you cultivate for countless yuanhui, you can at most become a Three Corpses Quasi-Sage."

"As for the Way of Incense, this poor Daoist does not know it in full either. I estimate that in the entire Primordial World, aside from Hongjun, only Haotian and Yaochi know what the Way of Incense truly is."