Even if Western Qi was lacking, with this supreme treasure suppressing it, the Western Teaching's fortune was enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Interception Sect
His words fell.
The Heavenly Dao responded, bestowing boundless great power.
All living beings between heaven and earth learned that the Western Teaching had been established.
Vast merit descended, drawing forth the merit Zhunti and Jieyin had accumulated over endless years repairing the Western Lands' earth veins. Bolstered by that surging merit, the Primordial Purple Qi fused rapidly with their Primordial Spirits, and their Great Dao leapt upward.
Zhunti and Jieyin's cultivation advanced by leaps and bounds, their Dao attainments steadily rising as their Primordial Spirits and mana grew at a visible pace.
Jieyin in particular had been transformed from the Twelfth-Grade Purifying World White Lotus. Having witnessed the Merit Golden Lotus advance into an Innate Supreme Treasure, he benefited the most. His cultivation surged greatly, and he faintly touched the threshold of the Late-Stage Quasi-Sage.
Though he had not severed his third corpse, he had cut forth a blurry figure before the merit descended. It counted as half a corpse.
With deeper foundations and higher cultivation, once they became Sages, their strength would inevitably surpass that of most Sages by a notch.
Zhunti had ranked last among the Dao Ancestor's six disciples, with the lowest cultivation and weakest strength. Yet after witnessing the Merit Golden Lotus advance into an Innate Supreme Treasure, his cultivation improved once more. Should he become a Sage, he would surely be vastly different.
Unfortunately, the two Western sages ultimately lacked the profound blessed fortune of the Three Pure Ones. Without creation merit surrounding them, their cultivation stalled at the Sub-Sage realm, and their remaining merit was insufficient to make them Sages.
Jieyin and Zhunti both possessed immense perseverance, great wisdom, and grand bearing. They made their decision without hesitation and each proclaimed twelve Great Vows to the Heavenly Dao:
"If I attain unsurpassed Bodhi