Chapter 159 The Five Gods Return to Their Positions, Taiyi Has a Will
This time, the strong man who successfully seized the Dongji Qinghua Taoist Palace was beyond everyone’s expectations. He was an existence that many people had never noticed. He came from the west and was one of the two supreme masters of Mount Xumi, Zhunti Tianzun!
In fact, this Xumi Tianzun is indeed a Wood Element Tianzun. His original body is one of the ten innate spiritual roots in the prehistoric times, transformed from an ancient Bodhi tree. His roots are extremely valuable, and he is considered a top-notch existence among the spiritual Tianzun Taoist Lords in the world. It seems natural for him to compete for the Qinghua Taoist Palace.

The reason why people are so surprised is that in everyone’s understanding, although Zhunti Tianzun is not very famous, he is indeed a big figure who is as famous as the Three Pure Ones of Xuanmen. His strength is so strong that it seems that he should have been detached from the world and should not have participated in such a competition.

Especially some powerful gods who have heard of the deeds of the two Western Heavenly Lords, they know that these two Heavenly Lords are outsiders. Logically, they should not be attached to the power of heaven, right?

In fact, what they didn’t know was that Zhunti was also bitter in his heart. Could it be that he was willing to get involved in such a big event as the dispute between the Emperor of Heaven? If it was not necessary, wouldn’t it be better for him to quietly govern his own West and comprehend the Great Dao of Hunyuan with his senior brother? He really had to make this trip!

The reason why he made this special trip was entirely in response to the request of Emperor Taiyi, and Taiyi’s purpose was actually to force Zhunti and Jie Yin to participate in the subsequent dispute over the Emperor of Heaven among the gods, to provide a backup for the gods in case the worst situation occurred after he failed to attain enlightenment and passed away!

The reason why Taiyi chose the West was very simple. It was just due to two considerations.

Firstly, he knew clearly that Jie Yin and Zhunti from the West actually had no attachment to worldly power. From the beginning to the end, they had only two ideas in mind: revitalizing the West and achieving the Dao of Hun Yuan. They would not do anything to change the world, and they had no interest in occupying the so-called orthodoxy of the gods.

The second is that Taiyi does not trust many people. He does not trust the Three Pure Ones, the gods of the Wu clan, Fuxi who has served as the rotating emperor of heaven, and before that, he actually did not trust Qi Yu who was likely to be in charge of the water element of the prehistoric world. He even does not trust his own designated successor, Di Jun, enough.

That’s right, Taiyi is actually very pessimistic about the current situation of the gods, which leads him to hold a wait-and-see attitude towards his successor. In Taiyi’s eyes, Di Jun is indeed a man of great talent, but the dispute between the wizards and the liches has always made him feel uneasy, and the power of Xuanmen is getting stronger now, and the Three Purities may not be something that Di Jun can deal with alone.

For these reasons, Taiyi specially invited the two Western Heavenly Lords to exchange his own insights on future attempts to attain enlightenment and greater support from Heaven for the West in exchange for Zhunti’s help.

This time, Zhunti obviously lived up to Taiyi’s expectations. He almost suppressed all the strong men in Qingmu Holy Land by himself, and did not commit any killing from beginning to end. While strolling in the garden, he suppressed all competitors and seized the Qinghua Taoist Palace.

As for Fuxi, he was obviously aware of some of Taiyi’s thoughts. Perhaps he did not want to arouse the taboo of the most powerful person in the world at the last moment of the Emperor of Heaven’s enlightenment. Therefore, Fuxi chose to avoid suspicion without any hindrance in his heart, just as he retired at the end of the ancient times.

It was also under the restraint of Fuxi that, from beginning to end, none of the gods in the former Qingdi Palace took action to participate in the struggle in the Qingmu Holy Land. Fuxi himself protected Nuwa throughout the whole process, and reached a tacit understanding with Taiyi.

As a result, Zhunti was able to refine the Dao embryo in the Qinghua Taoist Palace very smoothly. While his Taoism was further improved, he also easily took the position of a local god. He even went one step further and became the first among the five local gods.

Nuwa followed closely behind and was the second to succeed. She refined the Great Dao Embryo, completed her own path, and at the same time won the position of a deity, becoming the second person and adding a guarantee for the Fengqishan lineage.

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As the two Taoist palaces successively confirmed their owners, the eyes of the prehistoric gods could not help but turn to the Shuiyuan Taoist Palace in the north of Buzhou.

At this moment, Qi Yu’s progress in refining the Great Dao Embryo has indeed come to an end.

At this moment, around him, the Xuanming ancestral qi was swirling and rising, interpreting the infinite mystery of the Shuiyuan Avenue, and combining with Qi Yu’s true spirit.

At the same time, the power of water elements from the three realms in Qi Yu’s hands were also displayed one by one. There was the Tianhe origin symbolizing the water element from the heavenly realm, the black water origin symbolizing the underworld, and the Dongji water transport origin that was condensed with the authority of the Dongji water element and could barely represent a corner of the origin of the human world.

Taking advantage of this rare opportunity, Qi Yu began to recast the Yuanling Dharma Image, but this time, his choice was different from that in ancient times. He no longer used Shinto as the foundation to condense the Yuanling of the Water Ancestor Black Emperor, but started from scratch, transformed himself into Xuanyuan Tianzun, and condensed the holy image of the Daluo Black Emperor!

Using the immortal way to shape the foundation of the Black Emperor is an unprecedented thing, but as the Emperor of Xishen, Qi Yu has almost obtained more than two-thirds of the water element authority in the prehistoric world. His foundation in the water element is not worse than when he was Yuqiang in the ancient times. In addition, with his identity as the founder of Xuanmen and the ancestor of immortals, he does have the confidence.

And this move of his was, without a doubt, a serious act of prying into the Shinto way, but it was extremely beneficial to the immortal way, and it was similar to the matter of the human emperor entering the Xuanmen.

Of course, Qi Yu’s reshaping of the Yuanling Dharmakaya at this moment was also just a preparation for the future. Not to mention that he has not yet reached the stage of directly proving the Black Emperor. Even if he really reached that stage, when Taiyi is still alive and the Three Pure Ones have not yet become saints, it is impossible for him to provoke Taitian Heavenly Court so bluntly.

After Taiyi failed in his attempt to prove his truth and passed away, the many arrangements of the Xuanmen were put into action, and the battle for the orthodox position of the gods and the mysterious powers began.

Sanqing and others were clear about this, and Qi Yu was naturally clear about it as well.

Finally, when Qi Yu’s condensed spirit form gradually stabilized, the power of the heavenly origin contained in the Dao Yuantai was gradually consumed. Seeing this, Qi Yu no longer hesitated, and with a thought, he determined his status as the Xiantian Dao Palace in one fell swoop. Then he was born out of nowhere and became the third of the five gods of the gods. After Qi Yu, Di Jun and Di Jiang were born almost one after another. The former won by a slight advantage and became the fourth god of the heaven. Although Di Jiang was holding his breath, he could only be ranked fifth.

At this point, the status has been determined, and the five great gods of the gods have all been born at this moment. They only need to wait for Taiyi to issue a decree from heaven, and then they can take advantage of the situation to ascend to the throne and take turns in the heavenly court, exercising authority on behalf of the Emperor of Heaven, until Taiyi officially abdicates, and then the official five generations of Emperors of Heaven of the gods will be chosen.

In the current situation, Zhunti Tianzun represents the West, Qi Yu represents Xuanmen, Di Jun and Di Jiang represent the demon clan and the witch clan respectively. Di Jun, Nuwa and Di Jiang can represent the orthodox three major gods, the Emperor of Heaven, the Emperor of Earth and the Emperor of Man respectively, which happens to form an extremely delicate balance in the situation.

Seeing such a layout, Qi Yu couldn’t help but sigh in his heart. Taiyi’s painstaking arrangements could be seen from this.

Unfortunately, in Qi Yu’s opinion, such an arrangement still has hidden dangers. The conflict between the witch and monster races has long been irreconcilable. Unless Taiyi is willing to step in to suppress them, the peaceful ascension of the Five Generations of Heavenly Emperors is doomed to be illusory.

The Demon Emperor Di Jun, whom he had high hopes for, was indeed a man of great talent and strategy, but he was also overly ambitious. He was destined to be unable to meet Taiyi’s expectations and become a central emperor who could reconcile all parties.

At this point, the horn of the coming catastrophe has gradually been sounded. Qi Yu can foresee that the war between the wizards and the liches will eventually evolve into a horrific catastrophe that is no less than the Longhan catastrophe, which will settle all causes and effects and bury the past glory of the gods.

Of course, at the moment, only Qi Yu himself can see this trend. Others probably would not have thought that the witch and demon tribes would actually repeat the past events of the three tribes.

After sighing for a while, Qi Yu did not leave immediately, because since the five gods had been born one after another, Taiyi would definitely issue an imperial decree to summon them. Not only Qi Yu, but also Zhunti, Nuwa, Dijiang, Dijun and others had the same idea at this moment, and were all waiting for the order from heaven to come.

Sure enough, after a while, golden light bloomed in the sky, the gate of heaven opened, and Jin Bian, a god under the Emperor of Heaven, descended from the sky. He was still wearing a purple robe, exactly the same as before.

After appearing, he immediately unfolded the Heavenly Decree in his hand and announced it loudly.

“The Emperor of Heaven has decreed—”

“Order the Five Directions Gods to reopen the Five Directions Imperial Palaces and hold an audience with the emperor in the Heavenly Court in three thousand years to uphold propriety and righteousness. In the next three thousand years, no one in the prehistoric world may arbitrarily start a dispute. Those who violate the order will be severely punished. This is my decree.”

Upon hearing this, Qi Yu and the others all bowed in the air, and then praised the will of heaven displayed by Jin Bian.

“I obey the law and order.”

At this point, the battle between the gods came to an end. After the Five Directions Innate Dao Palace had its master, it had re-hidden in the Heavenly Dao and no longer appeared in the world. At this moment, people from all parties also left one after another and no longer stayed on the battlefield.

Of course, there were frictions among the parties during this process, but due to the will of heaven, no one dared to take the initiative to challenge Taiyi’s authority.

Qi Yu’s party also left at this point. Queen Mother of the West and other powerful Xuanmen naturally returned to the Dongji ancestral temple. At this moment, Queen Mother of the West was already rubbing her hands, planning to take action against the defeated King of the East, in order to further establish her leadership position in the Dongji ancestral temple.

Wangshu and Wenjia Daojun went to the Dongyuan Palace together to arrange many matters for the reopening of the Black Emperor’s Palace for Qi Yu. At the same time, the two quasi-saints who were prisoners of war also needed to be escorted by two powerful men in person to ensure that nothing could go wrong.

As for Qi Yu himself, he was not in a hurry to go back, but went to Fengqi Mountain.

After all, in this special period when the new structure of the Heavenly Court and the Gods was just beginning to take shape, the Daiyu lineage and the Fengqishan lineage both occupied the position of God Sovereign, but were relatively weak and isolated, so it was natural for them to join forces.

The purpose of Qi Yu’s trip was to further discuss cooperation matters with Nuwa and Fuxi. At the same time, he also invited many powerful people from the Fengqi Mountain Mother Palace to enter the Black Water Abyss in order to stabilize the situation in the underworld for him.

Even though there was a divine order ahead, Qi Yu knew in his heart that Hou Tu would surely counterattack later. For this reason, he must of course make all necessary preparations in advance, and perhaps, if necessary, he would even strike back at the Witch Clan with a heavy blow.

Let’s stop here for today. One plot point has ended. I will sort out the subsequent plots a bit. Tomorrow’s update will be larger, similar to the first.

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