The Law of Water, First Sermon

This flag is the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag, one of the Innate Five Directions Flags, corresponding to the north.

It was transformed from a leaf of the Chaos Green Lotus, one of the rarest top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasures in the primordial wilderness.

When this flag is unfurled, it can obscure the heavens and earth, blot out the sun, cause all evils to retreat, and render myriad spells harmless.

Moreover, if the remaining four flags are gathered—the Eastern Green Lotus Treasure Color Banner, the Southern Ground-Leaving Flame Light Banner, the Western Plain Color Cloud Realm Banner, and the Central Wuji Apricot Yellow Banner—

then the Innate Five Elements Five Directions Grand Formation can be set up. This formation is said to be so powerful that it can trap the Five Saints.

Its might would likely rival a series of great formations such as the Great Zhou Heavenly Stars Array, the Great All-Heavenly Evil Spirits Array, and the Immortal Slaying Sword Formation.

Unfortunately, gathering all of the Innate Five Directions Flags is far too difficult!

Minghe had no such hopes either.

As he took the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag into his nascent soul and slowly refined it, layer after layer of restrictions being broken open, Minghe faintly sensed streams of the Law of Water's origin within the flag's core.

Minghe's heart rejoiced, and while refining the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag, he began to comprehend the Law of Water.

The Law of Water is one of the Five Elements Laws, and the Five Elements are among the most important foundations of the Laws of Heaven and Earth.

This Law of Water naturally held great value for comprehension.

If Minghe could successfully comprehend the Law of Water, then the laws he mastered would increase from two to three.

And later, starting from the Law of Water, Minghe could also comprehend the other four Five Elements Laws.

At the same time as Minghe was refining the Xuan Yuan Water Control Flag, let us speak of the primordial wilderness.

Because Hongjun had become a saint and was to establish the Zixiao Palace in the chaos to preach the Dao, the entire primordial wilderness was shaken for a time.

Great powers from all directions were stunned, and streaks of Evasion Light shot up from every side, flying toward the heavens beyond.

To Minghe, who was in the know, Hongjun's preaching was beneath notice, but to other great powers, it was an unmissable great opportunity.

In the eastern lands, within Kunlun Mountain, three Daoists stood side by side, each of different appearance.

One was an old man with white hair and a childlike face, one was a dignified and solemn middle-aged man, and the last was a handsome and unrestrained youth with a hint of arrogance between his brows.

These were the Three Pure Ones, transformed from Pangu's Nascent Soul: Grand Pure One Laozi, Jade Pure Primordial Beginning, and Supreme Pure Heavenshaker.

"Elder Brother, Second Brother, what kind of being is this Hongjun? And what is this so-called enlightenment and Heavenly Dao Saint?" Heavenshaker spoke thus.

Laozi and Primordial Beginning frowned upon hearing this.

After a moment, seeing Evasion Lights rising from all directions and rushing beyond the heavens, Laozi finally sighed and said, "What kind of being Hongjun is, we cannot yet know."

"But for now, he has become this so-called Heavenly Dao Saint, above us all. Since he has established a dojo in the chaos and will preach his Dao, why don't we go and listen?"

Laozi proposed, looking at Primordial Beginning and Heavenshaker.

Primordial Beginning instinctively wanted to refute, but because Laozi had spoken, he held back.

Otherwise, if Heavenshaker had said it, he would have refused outright.

But since it was Laozi who said it, Primordial Beginning couldn't help but ponder.

Heavenshaker, on the other hand, readily agreed.

After thinking for a while, Primordial Beginning also nodded: "If so, then let us set out."

"We are Pangu's Orthodox Lineage. If we go, we should be the first to arrive, not slower than anyone else."

Thus, the three linked their Evasion Lights into a single streak of light, and in an instant, they shot straight toward the heavens beyond.

At the same time, in all corners of the primordial wilderness, many great powers who had been in secluded cultivation also made up their minds, left their caves, mounted their Evasion Lights, and flew toward the heavens beyond.

Of course, not all great powers did so. Some, for various reasons like Minghe, did not go.

But even so, roughly ninety-nine percent of the great powers in the primordial wilderness went.

After all, the one who attains mastery becomes the teacher. Since Hongjun had shown cultivation far above everyone else, naturally a great crowd went to support his preaching.

However, actually reaching the Zixiao Palace and entering it was no easy task.

For instance, the chaos beyond the heavens was a natural barrier. Any being below the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal who ventured in would surely die.

And even for a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal, entering required profound Magic Power or a powerful protective treasure.

Otherwise, eroded by Chaos Qi, even a Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal would have their Magic Power drained and be ground to nothing.

Not to mention the various dangers that might exist within the chaos.

This was purely a screening. Those without enough fortune or Destiny simply had no qualification to enter the Zixiao Palace and listen to the Dao.

Time in the primordial wilderness is unrecorded; in a flash, three thousand years passed.

Within the Zixiao Palace, those who were meant to come had all come, and those who weren't naturally could not.

The latest arrivals, Jieyin and Zhunti, first used a bitter play to trick Hongyun out of his seat.

Then, revealing their true thuggish nature, with an assist from Primordial Beginning, they also took Kunpeng's seat.

Thus, Hongyun and Kunpeng were out, and Jieyin and Zhunti took their places.

The positions of the Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao were thus settled. And the seeds of love and hatred between Hongyun and Kunpeng were also sown here.

Just then, Hongjun finally appeared, silently and without a sound, seated upright on the high platform.

This startled the many great cultivators below, each of them shaken with alarm.

Could this be a Heavenly Dao Saint? Truly as formidable as this! Unfathomable!

"Very well. From now on, this seating arrangement shall stand. None of you may alter it!" After Hongjun appeared, he swept his gaze over the crowd below and laid down the first rule.

Hearing Hongjun say this, everyone's hearts tightened, and their expressions shifted slightly. Could those six cattail mats really hold some hidden significance?

Still, they weren't too concerned. After all, at this moment, they had no idea what those six mats represented.

In fact, they didn't even truly understand Hongjun himself, this Heavenly Dao Saint.

They were just six mats placed a little closer to Hongjun—what was the big deal?

Take Hongyun, who had been tricked out of his seat. Even he thought nothing of it at the time.

After all, what difference did it make where one sat? Could sitting closer really let you hear more clearly?

Only Kunpeng felt a sudden jolt in his heart, vaguely sensing something was off. He shot a glare at Hongyun.

At that moment, Hongjun continued his lecture: "Since you have all entered Zixiao Palace, you share a connection with me."

"I hold the Jade Disc of Creation and am the first to attain sainthood in heaven and earth. Thus, I bear the duty of teaching all beings. The lectures at Zixiao Palace will be held three times, each lasting three thousand years, with an interval of three thousand years between them."

"This is the first lecture, on the path of the Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal. Listen attentively."