Chapter 17: The New Era of the Primordial Wilderness

  After the great Daos preached in the vast wilderness, the living beings in the vast wilderness no longer had to worry about not having a cultivation method. The living beings in the vast wilderness were originally a kind of blessing, because the vast wilderness was opened at the beginning of heaven and earth when the civilization of the spiritual world had not yet been opened, so it was called the vast wilderness. However, after cultivating, the living beings in the vast wilderness possessed innate spiritual energy that did not exist in later generations. These innate spiritual energies were not precious at all in the current era of the vast wilderness, because the innate spiritual veins in the current world of the vast wilderness are everywhere to be seen. Haven't you seen where so many dragon clans come from?

  Many people say that it is the transformation of Pangu, but that's not true. In the Honghuang world, except for the ancestral dragon and the candle dragon, which are transformed from the Pangu tendon, other dragon clans are all transformed from the innate spiritual veins in the Honghuang world. However, wanting to transform the innate spiritual vein into a dragon is really not an easy thing to do. Therefore, only the first generation of dragon clans were formed by transforming the innate spiritual vein, while other dragon clans were born as descendants through the interaction of yin and yang between dragon clans.

  In the midst of the Primordial Chaos, such a dense Primordial Spirit Energy, coupled with the fact that most living beings in the Primordial Chaos are Innate Life Forms, makes cultivation a simple matter for those who have obtained a cultivation method. After the great powers lectured on the Dao, the Primordial Chaos would bid farewell to its ignorant era and embark on a civilized era. All of this was simply due to Shi Zhong's one lecture, perhaps this is the butterfly effect!

  Time flew like water, and in the blink of an eye, millions of years passed again. At this time, many powerful gods had their own momentum, which belonged to the momentum they received when they preached. After many powerful gods preached, a merit rain fell from the sky, and all the cultivators who participated in the preaching gained merit. Although the merit gained this time was not as much as Shi Zhong's, almost every powerful god gained one percent of the merit that Shi Zhong had gained. This was because so many cultivators were preaching, and the range covered by each cultivator's preaching was not as large as Shi Zhong's. However, a cultivator like Yang Mei Old Ancestor, who preached to the entire Eastern Sea, naturally gained merit that couldn't be compared to ordinary cultivators, and got one-tenth of Shi Zhong's previous merit.

  The current Desolate World can really be said to have Celestial Immortals everywhere, and Golden Immortals are not as good as dogs. The current Desolate World only has Da Luo Golden Immortals who have the qualifications to dominate one side, and cultivators like Golden Immortals have already exited the category of great powers. Now, Golden Immortals can only do things like running errands for others or doing chores.

  There are many forces in the vast expanse of the Primordial Chaos, and it's not just limited to the three tribes. Among the powerful forces in the Primordial Chaos, aside from the well-known Dragon Tribe, Phoenix Tribe, and Qilin Tribe, there are also the Ape Tribe, Dark Snake Tribe, Divine Deer Tribe, Brocade Carp Tribe, Wood Tribe, Witch Tribe, and Fire Crow Tribe. Apart from these tribes, there are other forces like the Demon Gate in Mount Sumeru, the Mystic Gate on Mount Kunlun, the Boundless Gate on Mount Wutai, the Scattered Immortals Alliance on Penglai Island, the Divine Gate in the north of the Primordial Chaos, the Ghost Path Sect in the south, and the Martial God Sect in the east. Additionally, there is also the force of the Jade Pure Mountain. Speaking of the Jade Pure Mountain, it doesn't have much power. There are only Stone's three siblings, his eight disciples, and eighteen guardians of the Jade Pure Mountain, who are also considered Stone's nominal disciples.

  The forces mentioned above are also related to Shi Zhong, among the several major ethnic groups, the Xuan Snake Clan, the Divine Deer Clan, and the Brocade Carp Clan are all clans of Shi Zhong's three disciples. Shi Zhong saw that his disciples still had their own people, so he helped his disciples by creating three sets of martial arts for the people of his three disciples' clans: "Xuan Snake Nine Changes", "Lei Xiao Nine Heavens" and "Hua Long Nine Turns". These three sets of martial arts were created by Shi Zhong based on the nine turns of the Xuan Yuan Jue, and are specialized physical training methods. It's not that these physical training methods only cultivate the body without cultivating the yuan Shen, but rather that their yuan Shen is relatively weak compared to cultivators who specialize in cultivating the yuan Shen.

  And it's not that the cultivation of the physical body of a saint is inferior to that of other saints, but rather that the practice of refining the body actually requires testing one's yuan Shen in the final stages. Therefore, cultivating the yuan Shen is also crucial in the end, it's just a matter of priority. If the yuan Shen cultivation has not reached the level of Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian, then there is no way to achieve Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian. Because Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian requires a deep understanding and realization, which in turn requires a strong yuan Shen to achieve this process. Therefore, the idea that the physical body cultivation method can achieve sainthood with a relatively weak yuan Shen is simply an illusion.

  Moreover, the Nine Transformations of the Mysterious Snake can achieve the Supreme True Body of the Mysterious Snake. Cultivating to the highest level is also immune to damage from even the finest Pre-Heavenly Spiritual Treasures. The Thunderous Roar of the Nine Heavens allows for the use of various levels of divine thunder for physical refinement and cultivation. The Nine Transformations of the Dragon Transformation are a technique that can transform the Golden Carp into a dragon. Cultivating to the fifth transformation will allow one to transform into the body of a divine dragon, possessing the cultivation of the Great Luo Golden Immortal period. However, one must undergo the Thunder Tribulation. As the saying goes, "there is no free lunch in this world," so if one can survive the Thunder Tribulation, they can achieve the divine dragon's body; if not, they will only have their body and Dao destroyed. The previous few transformations do not have thunder tribulations but can also achieve the true dragon's body. It should be known that the Dragon Clan also has its own ranking system.

  The dragon tribe is generally divided from low to high: Qiū Lóng (single horn, no feet), Jiāo Lóng (double horns, four feet, only the body without the true dragon's grandeur), Zhēn Lóng (like the Four Seas Dragon Kings of later times, belonging to the true dragons), Tiān Lóng, Shén Lóng, Yuán Lóng (it seems that only the Ancestral Dragon and the Candle Dragon are the bodies of the Yuán Lóng).

  It is said that the three powerful tribes were originally the strongest among all tribes because their ancestors possessed the fragments of the Dao-creating Jade Butterfly, but after many cultivators lectured on the Dao, this situation underwent a fundamental change and was no longer dominated by the three major tribes.

  Xuān Shé Zú, Jǐn Lǐ Zú, Shén Lù Zú, with the help of Shí Zhōng, all produced a Fa Ze strong practitioner within a short period of 100 million years, and hundreds of Da Luo Jin Xian strong practitioners. Now, among the three tribes, there is only one Fa Ze strong practitioner and nearly a thousand Da Luo Jin Xian strong practitioners.

  The Wood Clan, as its name suggests, is a clan of tree-like beings. In fact, the Wood Clan is a powerful being and an upper-ranking innate demon god, who achieved enlightenment through the transformation of Tongtian Building Wood. It is the king of all trees. This powerful being obtained a small piece of creation jade butterfly and reached the middle stage of the law boundary. Therefore, it organized all the wood-like spirits with ambition into a clan, known as the Wood Clan. Under the efforts of Tongtian Building Wood, the Wood Clan also produced hundreds of great Luo Jinxian, which is considered one of the major forces in the southern part of Honghuang.

  It's worth mentioning the Wu tribe when it comes to Shi Zhong's lectures back then. At that time, Shi Zhong was lecturing on Mount Bu Zhou, and the twelve ancestral witches also came to listen. Although they didn't understand what he was saying, they were forced to listen for ten thousand years during Shi Zhong's lectures.

  Just after the Dao closed, Shi Zhong thought of the way to prove his Dao in the future. He wanted to ask for a drop of pure blood from the 12th Ancestor Wu, but he couldn't just ask for it without giving anything in return. Shi Zhong promised to refine the Heaven-Opening Evil Qi out of the 12th Ancestor Wu's body. The reason why the 12th Ancestor Wu couldn't produce a Primordial Spirit was mainly because of this Heaven-Opening Evil Qi. This evil energy wasn't something that could be easily suppressed. Do you know why the Gun of God-Slaying had such powerful might, capable of wounding Saints? It's because it contained a large amount of Heaven-Opening Evil Qi, which has the effect of harming Primordial Spirits.

  That's the twelve ancestral witches, if it were someone else, they would have been destroyed by this evil energy long ago. Fortunately, Shi Zhong had the Qiankun Ding, a treasure that could refine the evil energy in the ancestral witch's body and return her essence to its origin, transforming it into Pangu's essence. As a result, Shi Zhong returned all of the twelve ancestral witches' essences to their origins, transforming them into Pangu's essence. Only then did he obtain twelve drops of Pangu's essence, each the size of a face basin. Shi Zhong merged these twelve drops of Pangu's essence into his body, within the chaotic world of the lotus flower, specifically within the largest lotus seed. However, Shi Zhong didn't want this lotus seed to develop its own spiritual consciousness and take shape on its own, becoming an uncontrollable powerful being like Pangu. Therefore, Shi Zhong divided a thread of his primordial spirit and merged it into the lotus seed, waiting for it to slowly grow. Eventually, it would replace Shi Zhong in opening up the chaotic world within his body and attaining enlightenment. But that's a long story.

  After the evil energy in his body was removed, Zu Wu easily produced his primordial spirit and successfully inherited the legacy left by Pangu, reaching the peak of Daluo Jinxian. However, after forming the Heavenly God Array, he could find the true body of Pangu, which is equivalent to the late stage of the law, especially after having a primordial spirit, Zu Wu's control over the array method became even more effortless.

  Later, he also calculated the method of creating the Witch tribe, and thus the Witch tribe was born. Among the tens of millions of witches, there were hundreds of them in the early stages, especially those who were born with the law of divine communication, so they were not ordinary Daluo Jinxian who could be provoked.

  Although these witches couldn't possess a primordial spirit like the Twelve Ancestors, their array formations still had very strong power. The Witch tribe, which now possesses a primordial spirit, occupies the surrounding areas of Mount Buzhou and is also considered a powerful force in the vast wilderness.

  Indeed, there isn't anyone who dares to provoke the Witch tribe!

  The Huo Ya tribe is actually a group of crows born in the Sun Star, among which three are particularly different and have stronger cultivation than others. Although they have the body of a Huo Ya, their bodies are golden in color, namely Emperor Jun, Taiyi, and Xihe from mythological history. It can be said that this Huo Ya tribe is also unlikely to have any depth, so it's impossible for them to become a dominant force in the Honghuang world like they do now.

  However, the strong man after Huo Ya's family is different. If you say that the strong man after Huo Ya's family is Hong Jun, then Hong Jun Lao Zu not only healed the injuries in his body during the Bai Wan Nian period but also reached the middle stage of the Fa Ze realm, which is what Hong Jun Lao Zu called the quasi-saint middle stage. This is because Hong Jun entered the Fa Ze realm not by using the Da Luo Dao Guo method like Shi Zhong, nor by using the Xie Mo method like Luo Huan, but by creating his own method of cutting off the three corpses with a pre-heavenly spirit object.

  Because this Dharma was created by Hong Jun, Hong Jun renamed the realm of this law to "Zhun Sheng". At that time, when everyone was talking about the Tao, he himself was unable to talk about the Tao due to his serious injury and gain his own power. So Hong Jun turned his attention to the stars, and Huo Luan was fortunately noticed by Hong Jun. Hong Jun first took in three Golden Crows as disciples, and then taught them the Three Corpses' Proof of the Dao. Therefore, the Huo Luan clan now has a strong Law Realm expert in the vast wilderness. Three half-step Law Realm experts, hundreds of Daluo Jinxian experts. It can be said that the current Hongyuan starry sky is the world of Huo Luan.

  As for the ape tribe, it is the most mysterious of all tribes. It's not because their tribe leader obtained some kind of magical butterfly or a powerful innate treasure. Moreover, the weapons used by the group leaders within the ape tribe are not any innate objects, but rather a top-notch acquired treasure.

  The ape tribe's cultivation is different from that of other ethnic groups, as they cultivate martial arts. Although Shi Zhong doesn't fully understand this martial art, he can clearly determine that the leader of the ape tribe is not a native resident of the Hongyuan world, but rather someone who crossed over from another world and was once a high-ranking martial artist before crossing over.

  Because from the establishment of Wushen Sect, it can be seen that at the time of its establishment, all eighteen types of weapons were successfully forged and passed on to the disciples of the sect. It is also known that Shi Zhong knew some of the eighteen types of weapons in his previous life through some channels.