owlsbooks Chapter 117 The Heavenly Tribulation
Chapter 117 The Heavenly Tribulation
Chapter 117 The Heavenly Tribulation
Of course, the so-called heavenly tribulation is different from the various heavenly tribulations that will occur during the future Journey to the West tribulation, which will cause countless gods to serve the Heavenly Court in order to avoid various disasters.
Qiangliang, Xizi, and Shebishi, the three Ancestral Witches, respectively wield the laws of thunder, lightning, and weather. Currently, both their physical bodies and the power of the laws they can exert are only at the level of Hunyuan Golden Immortal. It is indeed unlikely that they can control the Heavenly Tribulation of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm.
They don't have that ability either.
The reason why the four ancestral witches, including Jumang and Zhurong, were able to sort out the four seasons is because the solar terms in the primordial world should have a certain pattern. They only needed to sort out the existing pattern. To establish a new heavenly tribulation is far more difficult than sorting out the solar terms.
The way of Heaven is to take from those who have too much and give to those who have too little.
This tribulation is only for beings at the Golden Immortal realm and below. What they need to do is use the power of the laws to create a weather pattern. Whenever a being burdened with karma absorbs too much spiritual energy or breaks through a realm, karmic fire and lightning will descend from the sky to severely punish and settle their karma.
It would be easy for the three ancestral witches alone to create a weather pattern that could attack others with lightning. It would also be easy to incorporate this solar term into the primordial world under the background of the four ancestral witches, including Zhu Rong, who were in charge of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn, and winter. However, it would be difficult to make this new heavenly tribulation recognize beings with karmic burdens and then bring down the tribulation.
Therefore, Styx also dispatched a Blood God Child to accompany several Ancestral Witches. The karma on a living being cannot be hidden from the karmic fire within the Karmic Fire Red Lotus. The Great Dao comprehended from the innate indestructible spiritual light of the Earth Second Grade Karmic Fire Red Lotus is enough to make every living being carrying karma nowhere to hide.
Seeing that the ancestral witches had all left, Styx returned to the Pangu Temple. His "Netherworld Clan" was still in the process of being conceived, and he had to keep an eye on it.
At the same time, he was also trying to comprehend the undying spiritual light of chaos within the Chaos Pearl, as well as the various Great Daos.
With his cultivation level, Styx could easily capture the Three Corpses and become a Quasi-Saint of the Three Corpses. However, using ordinary spiritual treasures to slay the corpses would be a waste of his current resources.
After all, severing the three corpses is not important, nor is the merging of the three corpses into one. What matters is how much of the Great Dao the main body can comprehend from the innate immortal spiritual light within the innate spiritual treasure during the process of severing the three corpses, and how much it can improve itself!
Even if one achieves the status of a Quasi-Saint with three corpses by severing one's corpse using a low-grade innate spiritual treasure, it is still not as good as Taiyi, who only achieved the status of a Quasi-Saint with one corpse by severing his corpse using the Chaos Bell.
Therefore, it is theoretically possible to prove one's Dao by severing the three corpses, but in reality it is impossible. This is because one must find three spiritual treasures that are compatible with one's own Dao, then sever the three corpses to form a complete Dao, and then the three corpse-severing spiritual treasures must be sufficient to support the unification of the three corpses. The difficulty is extremely high.
As a supreme treasure of chaos, the Chaos Pearl is on par with the complete Jade Disc of Creation, demonstrating its formidable power. If innate spiritual treasures can sever corpses, then what about chaotic spiritual treasures?
Since they are all spiritual treasures anyway, isn't it all about entrusting the three corpses to whichever spiritual treasure it is?
By entrusting his three corpses to the Chaos Pearl and comprehending the Great Dao within it, he could not only improve his cultivation...
His increased strength will further enhance his compatibility with the Chaos Pearl, laying a solid foundation for his future creation of the world and attainment of enlightenment within the Chaos Pearl.
However, for Styx, the real difficulty in achieving this was not, like the quasi-saints, worrying about how to capture the Three Corpses, but rather how to entrust the Three Corpses to the Chaos Pearl.
After all, this is a supreme treasure of chaos, with boundless power.
However, this is not an insurmountable difficulty. For the Styx, it is merely a matter of time and patience.
Meanwhile, inside the Pangu Temple, beside the blood pool, the remaining Ancestral Witches gathered together, looking at the newborn spirits that were being nurtured in the blood pool.
The three thousand drops of blood from the River Styx, nurtured in the blood pool, have already transformed into three thousand living beings, while that single drop of essence blood from the River Styx—
At this moment, it is being nurtured in the blood pool of the Pangu Temple, growing rapidly and absorbing the chaos drawn in by the Pangu Temple to improve its own realm.
Although it has not yet taken human form, in just a few thousand years, both its physical body and primordial spirit have reached the level of a half-step Golden Immortal, which greatly impressed the ancestral witches.
"This—this newborn race seems to be just like us, who have acquired a primordial spirit." Zhu Jiuyin looked at the creature still gestating in the blood pool with a worried expression.
To be honest, he was worried from the bottom of his heart that this new race would become a competitor of the Witch Clan, and might even eventually replace the Witch Clan.
Because these newborn spirits are more perfect than the Witch Clan. They themselves dare not even imagine how powerful the Twelve Ancestral Witches would be if they had primordial spirits.
From a realistic point of view, even if the creatures about to be born will become a major threat to the Wu Clan in the future, there is nothing he can do about it, because the key to the problem is not these creatures, but the River Styx.
If the Styx River were to close the Pangu Temple, it would be an extremely bad situation. Even more terrifying is that after driving them out of the Pangu Temple, the Styx River could still nurture the next generation of beings.
"Perhaps the birth of these beings will be a blessing for our Wu clan," Houtu said with a smile, looking at the nascent spirit that was growing vigorously.
To be honest, she envied these beings who were born with both the physical body and the primordial spirit of the Wu clan. However, this did not mean that these beings, once born and gradually growing stronger, would become a scourge to the Wu clan.
At worst, the two races can form a marriage alliance, and perhaps the bloodline of this new race can help the new witch race also possess a primordial spirit?
"The Styx River, its ambitions are no small matter."
"Stop talking, he's here." Sensing that the Styx had entered the Pangu Temple, Dijiang said to his brothers and sisters.
Dijiang didn't know the purpose of Styx creating this new race, but he knew all too well why the twelve ancestral witches created the witch race. Unifying the prehistoric world and bringing the heavens and earth under the rule of the witch race was the right and glory that the twelve ancestral witches, as descendants of Pangu, deserved.
Putting himself in others' shoes, Dijiang felt that Styx's purpose was probably not much different.
Even if it isn't now, it will be one day in the future. When the new race can provide it with more fortune, and the new race needs more land and spiritual energy to cultivate, even if the Styx River's original intention wasn't like that, can it still maintain its original intention in the face of interests and bloodline?
Just like their twelve ancestral witches, at this moment, aren't they being pushed along by the witch clan?
However, Dijiang was not worried at all, because they currently had an even more terrifying enemy, namely the Heavenly Court.
The great battle between the Witches and the Heavenly Court must have occurred long before the emergence of the new race.
Only after dealing with the Heavenly Court can we even begin to consider the threat posed by this new race; otherwise, it's all just empty talk.