Age of Sages

Five Sages in a single day!

The strange phenomena between heaven and earth of the Primordial World had yet to fully subside, while the vast pressure representing the three Sages—Taiqing, Yuqing, and Shangqing—still blanketed the four directions like a canopy of heaven.

It faintly confronted and intertwined with the aura of the Two Sages of the West, dividing the Entire Primordial World into two supreme factions of fortune: the Daoist Sect and the Buddhist Sect.

All living beings remained immersed in unprecedented shock and bewilderment. Whether ordinary cultivators or ancient great powers who had never heard the Dao at Purple Cloud Palace,

they all deeply understood what the "Age of Sages" meant—henceforth, all things in the Primordial World would lie beneath sage-like might!

However, just as the uproar and clamor reached their peak, while the auras of the Sages still echoed and resonated throughout heaven and earth—

The West, Mount Sumeru!

An entirely different and immense aura suddenly soared into the sky once more!

This aura was neither the compassionate Nirvana of the Buddhist Sect, nor the tranquil nonaction or murderous life force of the Daoist Sect. It was a terrifying will, cold and grim, carrying the meaning of merciless judgment and order!

Like a drawn sword, it tore apart the peaceful Buddhist chants. Like an invisible court of judgment, it descended upon the Land of Ultimate Bliss!

All great powers, including the Three Pure Ones and the Two Sages of the West, who had just attained Sainthood and whose divine senses covered heaven and earth, were stunned. Their gazes instantly turned westward!

At the summit of Mount Sumeru, Ming Xin stood proudly.

He had witnessed the five Sages successively establish teachings and attain the Dao, especially his own master's heaven-defying feat of refining the Saint Position and attaining the Primordial realm anew.

He had also seen the Three Pure Ones each display their Dao and expound upon their origins. The final veil of mist in his heart was completely swept away!

His Dao did not lie in imitation, but in his true heart! Not in broad acceptance, but in purity! Not in reconciliation, but in... judgment!

His Past Self and Future Self stepped out from his body. The auras of the Three Bodies instantly resonated and merged into one!

The system core operated at unprecedented power, melting all of his insights into Slaughter, Five Elements, Mortal World, Reincarnation, and Fate

into a single furnace, refining them into the most central and essential fragment of true meaning—

To kill was to protect life; Slaying Karma was not slaying people!

Using Killing to Stop Killing, using violence to suppress violence? No! It was using absolute order to judge all sins! It was using thunderous means to manifest the justice of heaven and earth!

Acting on behalf of heaven, purging the universe!

Within Ming Xin's eyes, his left eye transformed into the cold Judgment Eye, reflecting all karmic Cause and Effect in the world;

his right eye transformed into the Chaos Eye, where the Five Elements Cycle evolved, forming the foundation and world that upheld judgment.

Facing the Primordial World, his voice was not loud, yet it carried an unshakable and unquestionable Dao intent, clearly spreading through heaven and earth:

"Heavenly Dao above, I, Ming Xin, see the chaos of the Primordial World, the entanglement of Cause and Effect, the rampant rise of karmic burden, and living beings sinking into the sea of suffering without deliverance!

"Slaughter is not for Destruction, but for cleansing; power is not for plunder, but for protection!"

"My enlightenment has arrived. I shall use Killing to Stop Killing, judge sins, purge karmic obstacles, protect the righteous path, and act on behalf of heaven!"

"Today, I establish a lineage, named—Slaying Karma! With my natal supreme treasure, the Five Elements Chaos Pagoda, I shall suppress its fortune!"

Boom!

The Five Elements Chaos Pagoda flew from between his brows and swelled in the wind. Chaos currents cascaded from its body, while the light of the Five Elements revolved without end before ultimately reversing and returning to one.

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

"The Slaying Karma lineage shall not preach enlightenment or accept all living beings. It shall only uphold the true heart and grasp the Dao of slaughter and judgment! Slay those who deserve to be slain, sever the karma that deserves to be severed!

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

"To kill is to protect life; Slaying Karma is not slaying people! This is my Dao!"

There were no boundless grand vows, no exposition of countless wondrous methods—only the most direct and pure declaration of Dao intent!

This was a unique path, almost fanatically focused upon "judgment" and "purging"!

Even the Heavenly Dao seemed to hesitate for an instant. Yet upon sensing that utterly pure Dao heart and the laws of order it had stirred,

as well as the perfected Great Dao of Killing and Five Elements Chaos Great Dao that served as its foundation, vast heavenly might descended once more!

Though its scale was far inferior to the five Sages establishing their teachings, pure and razor-sharp Xuanhuang merit, mixed with wisps of law-light representing judgment and order,

fell from the void and poured into Ming Xin's body. A small portion also scattered over the floating Five Elements Chaos Pagoda!

Ming Xin's aura surged wildly 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 that stood above all immortals, bearing the cold authority of order and judgment, began to gestate and erupt from within him!

He was not establishing a grand teaching, but the embryonic form of his own Dao lineage, the "Slaying Karma Temple" (or perhaps the Slaying Karma lineage), thereby declaring his resolve.

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

Through this, he sought to directly attain the free and unfettered Primordial Grand Unity Golden Immortal, unbound by the Heavenly Dao—

Within a single day, after the five Sages, a sixth person had actually begun to charge toward the Saint Realm! And in such a unique, such a fierce manner!

The living beings of the Primordial World had already gone numb. Today's shocks had simply been too numerous and too great!

On Kunlun Mountain, the Three Pure Ones; in the West, the Two Sages; every Sage and great power all cast grave gazes toward the west, toward the one who still dared to walk his own path beneath the radiance of the five Sages.

That figure who boldly charged toward the Primordial realm—Ming Xin!

Could he succeed? And what changes would this Sixth Saint bring to the Primordial World?

Everyone's minds were tightly seized by this sudden sixth aura of Attaining the Dao!