Patriarch Minghe had been able to hide safely within the Netherworld Blood Sea on the Primordial Northern Continent before the Demon Dao Calamity, quietly building his strength.
The most important reason was that above him stood Devil Race powerhouses such as Luo Hou and Heaven-Crusher, who shared his Great Dao of slaughter and killing and bore a vast portion of its baleful qi.
They had deflected, one by one, the various strands of Slaughter Dao karma that should have fallen upon Patriarch Minghe.
Thus, Patriarch Minghe had ample opportunity.
He could develop slowly within the Netherworld Blood Sea of this plane's Primordial World.
In the Primordial Worlds of other planes, Minghe could even imitate Nuwa's Molding Earth to Create Humans, creating the Asura Race within the Netherworld Blood Sea, with a seven-tenths resemblance to the Human Race.
At the same time, because Houtu attained the Reincarnation Great Dao within the Netherworld Blood Sea and became a Saint of the earth, this expanse of the Netherworld Blood Sea...
In the future ages of the Primordial World, thanks to Houtu's netherworld reincarnation...
Instead grew ever more secure in its standing.
It could even stand on equal footing with the Heavenly Court and the two Western Teachings, becoming a strategic prize that countless Dao lineages arising among the Human Race-including the Chan, Jie, and Western Teachings and the Human Teaching-fought to seize.
And Patriarch Minghe, throughout the histories of the Primordial World across countless planes and dimensions, sat firmly on his fishing platform, unshaken by the struggle.
His standing within the Netherworld Underworld or the Netherworld Blood Sea already surpassed that of Houtu, Ksitigarbha King, and the other Quasi-Saints who would gain their respective fruit positions and Great Dao paths within the Netherworld Blood Sea in the future.
And at this very moment...