Hongjun's First Sermon

Styx Ancestor had been born within the Nine Nether Blood Sea and was timid by nature, always afraid of trouble. Seeing Primordial, transformed from Pangu's Primordial Spirit, speak up, he had already begun to retreat. Then Mu Jizi followed up with a perfectly timed remark!

Thus, Styx Ancestor went with the flow. Rising to his feet, he prepared to withdraw, but before leaving, his cold gaze swept over Red Cloud and Zhun Ti separately. He gave a soft snort before departing, yet in his heart, he had come to hate them both!

"Just then!" Seeing Styx Ancestor leave, Zhun Ti and Kunpeng's eyes both lit up. Their hearts stirred, and with a swift step, they lunged toward the sixth purple jade cushion!

With a bang, the two collided, and a fierce struggle immediately followed!

Mu Jizi and Jieyin were just about to help when suddenly—

Dong!

A resounding bell rang out at that moment. Immediately afterward, an ordinary old man appeared before the gathered great divine beings. He wore the Purple Firmament Limitless Crown and the Purple Firmament Limitless Robe, his face utterly expressionless and his form hazy and ethereal!

The sudden appearance of this man gave all the great divine beings a slight shock. They promptly fell silent, then sat upright!

In an instant, none of them even dared to send voice transmissions with their divine sense!

For a time, the hall was exceptionally quiet. Only the sounds of Zhun Ti and Kunpeng fighting over the purple jade cushion could be heard!

Needless to say, that ordinary old man was naturally Dao Ancestor Hongjun!

The two were utterly absorbed and had not noticed Hongjun's arrival in the slightest! Only after fighting over the seat for a while did they sense that the previously somewhat noisy hall had abruptly become silent beyond measure. They could not help stopping their struggle, puzzled as they turned to look toward their respective elder brothers.

They saw Mu Jizi and Jieyin both casting sidelong glances toward the high platform!

At once, Zhun Ti and Kunpeng's hearts skipped a beat. A bad premonition arose, and following Mu Jizi and Jieyin's gazes, they turned toward the high platform!

In an instant, an ordinary yet unsmiling face entered their sight!

If this was not Dao Ancestor Hongjun, who had attained sainthood a hundred years ago, then who else could it be?

Upon seeing Dao Ancestor Hongjun, Zhun Ti and Kunpeng were dumbfounded. Such a shameful affair as fighting over seats had actually been witnessed by a Saint. They must not leave a bad impression in the Saint's eyes!

While the two were anxious and did not know what to say, Hongjun waved his hand, and another purple jade cushion appeared, placed beside Jieyin!

Then Dao Ancestor Hongjun pointed to the eighth purple jade cushion and said, "Zhun Ti, you shall sit here!"

After saying this, Hongjun spoke no further. Once Zhun Ti and Kunpeng had taken their seats, all the great divine beings kowtowed as one and shouted, "May our teacher be blessed with peace!"

"All of you who have arrived here possess great fortune and great destiny. I shall open this forum and expound upon the innate Grand Dao, in hopes that you may gain something and achieve something!" Hongjun nodded, seemingly having paid no heed to the scene just now. Then he said indifferently, "From now on, the seats shall remain as they are. Know that the Grand Dao is boundless, and each person gains according to their own fortune!"

The great divine beings nodded, half understanding and half confused!

At this moment, seeing that all trivial matters had been settled, Hongjun adjusted the Purple Firmament Limitless Crown atop his head. In an instant, purple light soared into the heavens, all of it hazy and indistinct, seeming real yet unreal. Streams of profound light slowly radiated forth, like Chaos, like primordial mist, and like the ultimate truths of the Heavenly Dao—mysterious beyond mystery!

Nine rays of purple light rose like purple dragons, spiraling upward and intertwining. In less than an instant, they condensed into a mass of purple auspicious cloud. The purple cloud hovered above Hongjun's head, spanning a full acre. It churned and rolled within, like a stretch of primordial mist, gleaming in all directions as purple qi shot into the sky—truly wondrous! Upon the purple cloud, hundreds of millions of purple lotuses surged forth layer upon layer. Amidst their rolling motion, clouds and mist swirled together in unparalleled mystery!

Above those purple lotuses floated a mass of Chaos light as large as a bucket. The Chaos light was shaped like a droplet, and within it, a crystal-clear jade butterfly emitted hundreds of millions of rays of brilliance! The jade butterfly was hazy and incomplete, with only a little more than half remaining. Yet even so, the aura it radiated was enough to make the gathered great divine beings' hearts tremble!

When Mu Jizi saw that crystal-clear jade butterfly, he became even more excited! Needless to say, that jade butterfly was the legendary Creation Divine Artifact, the Chaos Supreme Treasure—the Creation Jade Butterfly!

The auspicious clouds rolled, purple lotuses surged, and as they turned, the Creation Jade Butterfly rose and sank, sending streams of profound light scattering outward!

At once, the great divine beings felt that amidst the haze, the ultimate truths of the Heavenly Dao were being nurtured within it. Myriad laws and rules emerged with perfect clarity, while endless profundities came flooding in, making them unable to resist sinking into them, falling into those illusory ultimate truths of the Heavenly Dao and unable to pull themselves free!

"Before Heaven and Earth first opened, there was something formed from Chaos, born before Heaven and Earth. Silent and formless, it stood alone and never changed; it moved in cycles and never tired. It could be called the mother of Heaven and Earth."

"I do not know its name, so I force a name upon it: Dao. I force another title upon it: Great. Great means passing away; passing away means far-reaching; far-reaching means returning. Thus, the Dao is great, Heaven is great, Earth is great, and humanity is also great."

"Within the realm are four greats, and all living beings dwell as one of them. Living beings follow Earth, Earth follows Heaven, Heaven follows the Dao, and the Dao follows nature."

"Beneath the Grand Dao, Heaven and Earth form the framework, and all existence is Dao. Thus, the so-called Grand Dao is everywhere, and Dao too is everywhere..."

A Saint's sermon was truly extraordinary. As it reached its depths, the great divine beings felt as though they came from clouds and went into mist. In their muddled understanding, they gained some insight, as though the ultimate truths of the Heavenly Dao were right beside them, within reach if they stretched out a hand. Yet it also seemed as though they themselves had become those ultimate truths, becoming a part of them!

But with that came even more things they did not understand!

Truly, the higher one stood, the farther one saw. The more one understood, the more there naturally was that one did not understand!

This feeling of something that could not be clearly described or explained—wanting to grasp it, yet having nowhere to begin; wanting to comprehend it, yet not knowing where comprehension should start—was truly profoundly mysterious!

For a time, golden lotuses condensed from Dharma power surged up like spring water, while countless heavenly flowers swarmed in like a tide. These golden lotuses and heavenly flowers were formed from pure Dharma power. They could be absorbed without refinement, and by absorbing one, any of the great divine beings could save a hundred years of painstaking Dharma power cultivation!

After the golden lotuses came strange fragrances, while endless purple qi rose and drifted through the great hall. Then celestial maidens descended to scatter flowers, immortal cranes cried out and danced, and white clouds floated gently upward. It was truly a place of immortal splendor!

Of course, all these phenomena had been condensed from Dharma power!

"Dao possesses form yet is formless, possesses nothing yet has feeling; its transformations are unfathomable, and it connects with all living beings..."

Line after line of the Grand Dao's ultimate truths flowed from Hongjun's mouth. His voice passed through Chaos and resounded across the entire Primordial Wilderness. For a time, endless Heaven and Earth spiritual qi leaped and stirred, while limitless rules and principles faintly emerged. All transformed into human figures, cheering and bowing, cheering and drifting!

All living beings received boundless benefits. In their hazy trance, they seemed to see Dao Ancestor Hongjun preaching within the Purple Cloud Palace in Chaos. One by one, they involuntarily knelt and cried out, "Dao Ancestor's great Dharma! Dao Ancestor's great Dharma!"

Hongjun's voice spread across the Primordial Wilderness, and for a time, countless living beings came to understand the cycles of the Heavenly Dao, karma, and retribution!

From that day onward, with Dao Ancestor Hongjun's first sermon since the opening of Heaven and Earth, the living beings of the Primordial Wilderness broke free from merely cultivating blindly and stepped onto the true path of seeking the Dao! Taoism thus entered the mainstream of the Primordial Wilderness...

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