The Age of Sages

Five Saints in One Day!

The celestial phenomena across the Primordial World had yet to fully settle, as the vast pressure representing the Three Pure Ones—Supreme Purity, Jade Purity, and Upper Purity—still loomed over all directions like a heavenly canopy.

It stood in faint opposition to the auras of the Two Sages of the West, intertwining and dividing the entire Primordial World into two supreme camps of fortune: the Daoist Sect and the Buddhist Sect.

All living beings were still immersed in unprecedented shock and confusion, whether they were ordinary cultivators or ancient great powers who had never attended the lectures at Purple Cloud Palace.

They all deeply understood what the "Age of Saints" meant—from now on, everything in the Primordial World would exist under the might of the Saints!

Yet, just as this uproar and clamor reached its peak, and the auras of the Saints still echoed and resonated between heaven and earth—

In the West, Mount Sumeru!

A completely different, imposing momentum suddenly surged into the sky once more!

This aura was neither the compassionate Nirvana of the Buddhist Sect, nor the tranquil inaction or vibrant life force of the Daoist Sect. Instead, it was a cold, grim, terrifying will bearing the weight of merciless judgment and order!

Like an unsheathed sword, it tore through the peaceful chanting; like an invisible court of judgment, it descended upon the Pure Land!

All the great powers, including the Three Pure Ones and the Two Sages of the West, who had just attained sainthood and were sweeping the world with their divine senses, froze for a moment, their gazes instantly locking onto the West!

There, atop Mount Sumeru, Ming Xin stood proudly.

He had witnessed the five Saints establish their teachings and prove their Dao one after another, especially his own master's heaven-defying feat of refining the Saint Position and re-proving the Zenith Heaven realm.

He had also seen the Three Pure Ones each unfold their own Dao and expound the grand essence of their origins. The last layer of fog in his heart was now completely dispelled!

His Dao lay not in imitation, but in his true heart! Not in broad acceptance, but in purity! Not in harmony, but in... judgment!

His Past Self and Future Self stepped forth from within him in a single stride, and the auras of his Three Bodies instantly resonated and merged as one!

The system core operated at unprecedented power, fusing all his insights on Killing, Five Elements, Mortal World, Reincarnation, and Fate.

He refined them all into a single crucible, extracting the most core, most essential true meaning—

Killing to protect life, severing karma, not people!

Using killing to stop killing, using violence to suppress violence? No! It was to use absolute order to judge all sins! To use thunderous means to manifest heaven and earth's justice!

Acting on behalf of the Heavenly Dao, purifying the universe!

In Ming Xin's eyes, his left eye transformed into an icy Judgment Eye, reflecting all the karma and causality of the world;

His right eye became a Chaos Eye, with the Five Elements cycling, evolving the foundation and world that supported judgment.

He faced the Primordial World, his voice not loud, yet carrying a resolute, unquestionable Dao intent that spread clearly across heaven and earth:

"Heavenly Dao above! Here stands Ming Xin, who senses the chaos of the Primordial World, the entanglement of karma, the rampant rise of karmic sins, and all beings sinking into the sea of suffering with no deliverance!

Killing is not for destruction, but for purification; power is not for plunder, but for protection!"

"I have awakened to my truth. I shall use killing to stop killing, judge sins, purify karmic obstacles, protect the good Dao, and act on behalf of the Heavenly Dao!"

"Now I establish a lineage, named—Slaying Karma! With my lifebound treasure, the Five Elements Chaos Pagoda, I suppress its fortune!"

Boom!

The Five Elements Chaos Pagoda flew out from between his brows, expanding with the wind. Chaotic qi cascaded down from the pagoda's body, and the light of the Five Elements cycled without cease, ultimately reversing and converging into one.

It condensed into a wisp of pure Primordial Chaos Qi, stabilizing the void in all directions and forcibly gathering a brand-new, sharp fortune!

"The Slaying Karma lineage does not practice indoctrination, nor does it accept all beings. It only holds to the true heart, wielding the Great Dao of Killing and Judgment! Slay those who must be slain, sever the karma that must be severed!

With the sword in my hand, I measure good and evil; with the ruler in my heart, I determine causality!"

"Killing to protect life, severing karma, not people! This is my Dao!"

He made no vast vows, expounded no myriad wondrous methods—only the most direct, pure declaration of his Dao intent!

This was a nearly obsessive path, singularly focused on "judgment" and "purification"!

The Heavenly Dao seemed to hesitate for an instant, but then, sensing the purest Dao heart and the laws of order it had invoked, along with the foundation of the perfected Great Dao of Killing and the Great Dao of Five Elements Chaos, the majestic heavenly might descended once more!

Though the scale was far smaller than when the five Saints established their teachings, a stream of pure and sharp Meritorious Virtue, mixed with threads of law-light representing judgment and order, fell from the void, pouring into Ming Xin's body, with a small portion scattering onto the floating Five Elements Chaos Pagoda!

Ming Xin's aura exploded in a frenzy at this moment!

The barrier of the Peak Late Golden Immortal of the Origin was torn apart like thin paper!

His Dao cultivation, magic power, and Primordial Spirit all leaped toward a higher level!

A Primordial Saintly Might, cold with the authority of order and judgment, began to gestate and surge within him, towering above all immortals!

He did not establish a great sect, but rather the prototype of his own Dao lineage—the "Slaying Karma Temple" (or the Slaying Karma lineage)—using this to declare his will.

He resonated his own Great Dao with the Heavenly Dao, walking a path similar to Proving the Dao through Strength, yet fused with his own unique philosophy!

With this, he aimed to directly prove the carefree, Heavenly Dao-unbound realm of—Zenith Heaven Golden Immortal of the Origin!

In a single day, after the five Saints, a sixth person had begun to assault the Saint Realm! And in such a unique, such a fierce manner!

The beings of the Primordial World were already numb—the shocks they had received today were too many, too great!

On Kunlun Mountain, the Three Pure Ones; in the West, the Two Sages; all Saints and great powers fixed their gazes solemnly on the West, on that figure who, even under the radiance of the five Saints, dared to walk his own path

and fiercely charge toward the Primordial realm—Ming Xin!

Would he succeed? And what variables would this Sixth Saint bring to the Primordial World?

The hearts and minds of all were seized tightly by this sudden, sixth aura of Dao-proving!