PDLP Chapter 19 Top-Grade Innate Merit Treasure
Chapter 19 Top-Grade Innate Merit Treasure
The Northern Ocean is vast, with waves stretching for hundreds of millions of hectares.
The Kunpeng transformed into a streak of light, instantly piercing through the protective array outside the Northern Sea, which reversed the five elements and disordered yin and yang.
As soon as he landed in front of Kunpeng Palace, the two boys, Xuanhan and Xuanshuang, came to greet him. Seeing that their master had returned with a full load and his aura was unfathomable, they quickly knelt down and paid their respects.
Kunpeng nodded slightly, casually bestowing upon them a few ancient spiritual herbs that he had casually obtained from Buzhou Mountain, and instructing the two to seal the palace gates, forbidding them from opening them without authorization, no matter what happened outside.
After doing all this, he swayed and did not linger in the Kunpeng Palace, but instead dived once again into the Netherworld Blood Sea located deep beneath the Northern Underworld.
Deep within the sea of blood, karmic forces surged, and a menacing aura filled the air.
He sat cross-legged on the Twelve-Petaled Red Lotus of Karmic Fire, with the Pure White Lotus above his head casting countless rays of purifying divine light, completely isolating him from the surrounding stench of blood.
With a flick of his sleeve, a purplish-yellow divine light flew out and hovered in front of him.
It was the purple-yellow gourd that was forcibly taken from the innate gourd vine of Buzhou Mountain!
This gourd is purple and yellow all over, and its surface has countless fine natural patterns that faintly outline the myriad forms of birds, beasts, scaled creatures, and feathered insects.
"The Demon-Summoning Banner will be the key to the future destiny of the demon race and the source of Nuwa's authority to command the world."
Kunpeng stroked the smooth texture of the gourd's surface, a divine glint in his eyes.
"Now that this treasure belongs to me, the world of the demon race has completely changed."
Without further hesitation, Kunpeng formed hand seals, and vast magical power surged into the gourd like a river bursting its banks.
"Open it for me!"
With a low shout, the purple-yellow gourd suddenly trembled, and its mouth opened by itself.
"call--"
A stream of pale white air, tinged with an eerie glow, burst forth and swelled as it was carried by the wind.
In an instant, it transformed into a gigantic banner a thousand feet tall, fluttering in the void of the sea of blood.
The banner was an eerie white, with countless emerald green runes flowing across it, emanating a chilling aura that sent shivers down one's spine.
It was as if just one glance would cause one's soul and spirit to leave the body and be sucked into that bottomless abyss.
This is the true form of the Demon-Summoning Banner.
A supreme innate spiritual treasure that is extremely domineering, and even somewhat insidious.
Its function is simple and brutal: it forcibly absorbs a trace of the true spirit of all the demon races in the world and imprisons it within the banner.
When the banner is moved, all the demons will come. If any of them do not obey, simply shake the banner pole, and their true spirit will be damaged, or even their soul will be scattered.
"Although it is a great treasure, it was lost due to the tyranny of the powerful, and thus it was of inferior quality."
Kunpeng looked at the eerie long banner in front of him and shook his head slightly.
"Using this treasure to rule over the demon race is nothing more than coercion and enticement; you can gain their bodies but not their hearts."
Once the demon race weakens or gains a stronger backer, this Demon Banner will become a thorn in the side of countless demons, who will wish to destroy it as soon as possible.
In the original timeline, after the destruction of the Heavenly Court of the Demon Race, although Goddess Nuwa held the Demon-Summoning Banner, she was unable to help the Demon Race rise again. In fact, many powerful demons harbored resentment towards Nuwa, which may have been due to this reason.
"Since I have established a demonic sect and become the ancestor of all demons, I cannot follow such a lowly path."
A resolute glint flashed in Kunpeng's eyes.
With a thought, the golden wheel of merit, as radiant as the sun, suddenly manifested!
That was the vast amount of Heavenly Merit he accumulated by creating Taoist texts, establishing demonic sects, and repairing the Western Earth Veins.
This merit is so great that if it were used to improve his cultivation, it would be enough to allow him to instantly break through to the late stage of the Great Luo Golden Immortal realm, or even touch the threshold of the Quasi-Saint realm.
But at this moment, Kunpeng showed no hesitation.
"go!"
He pointed, and the vast golden wheel of merit instantly collapsed, transforming into a mighty, dark yellow river that swept straight towards the sinister demon-summoning banner!
"Sizzle sizzle—!"
Like boiling oil poured onto snow, the moment the golden light of merit touched the demon-summoning banner, it emitted a violent roar.
The original cold, pale white and eerie emerald green on the banner began to rapidly dissolve under the baptism of Xuanhuang's merit.
Kunpeng's expression was solemn as he unleashed countless magical incantations with both hands.
He incorporated his own will, the doctrines of the demonic sect, and the art of weapon forging into it.
He's defying fate and reshaping a supreme treasure!
Primordial spiritual treasures are formed by heaven and earth and are inherently rare.
The treasures of merit and virtue require a vast amount of merit to cultivate, and are extremely rare.
This innate merit treasure must not only be an innate object itself, but also be infused with boundless merit sufficient to change its essence.
The difficulty and the stringent conditions involved are simply unbelievable.
As far as Kunpeng knows, in later generations, the only one that can truly be considered a primordial treasure of merit is the marriage certificate that Goddess Nuwa created using the great merit of a heavenly marriage and a red embroidered ball as its base.
This shows how rare and precious it is!
The reason why Kunpeng was willing to expend the merits of spreading his teachings, which would have made him invincible, to refine the Demon-Summoning Banner into a primordial merit treasure was naturally due to his profound calculations.
Firstly, it was to suppress the flow of fortune!
Although the original Demon-Summoning Banner was a top-grade innate spiritual treasure, its power lay in command rather than suppression, making it difficult to suppress the fortune of a major clan like the Taiji Diagram or the Xuanhuang Pagoda.
This is one of the reasons why, despite the immense fortune of the demon race's Heavenly Court, it still suffered a crushing defeat and lost all its fortune in the Lich War.
Once it is integrated with the great merit of establishing the sect and transformed into an innate merit treasure, the Demon Banner will immediately possess the supreme power to suppress the fortune of the demon sect!
At that time, Kunpeng will be able to sit high in the Northern Sea and enjoy the endless fortune of the Demon Sect.
Even though the demon race lost the war between the demons and the heavenly court later on.
As long as he, the leader of the demon cult, and the Demon-Summoning Banner remain, the fate of the demon race will not be completely severed.
In this way, they can preserve a glimmer of hope for themselves and for the demon race.
They wouldn't end up like they did later, with everyone hating the demon race and forced to cower in the bitterly cold Northern Continent.
Secondly, and most importantly, it is to change the essence of this treasure!
Originally, the Demon-Summoning Banner was a prison that confined the true spirits of all demons in the world.
Once a person's true name and a trace of their true spirit are recorded in the banner, their life and death are entirely in the hands of others. This is a domineering method used by Emperor Jun and Taiyi to coerce and control the demon race.
This method may bring temporary power, but it loses the hearts of the people and is ultimately a path to death.
Once it transforms into an innate merit treasure, the situation will undergo a dramatic change!
The power of merit is the most peaceful and creative energy in the world.
The demon-summoning banner, imbued with merit, is no longer a prison for the recorded true spirit, but rather a supreme place to nourish and protect the primordial spirit!
Furthermore, as Kunpeng continues to refine this treasure in the future, it may even generate all sorts of incredible and mysterious effects.
For example, if the true spirit of someone is recorded in the banner, even if the physical body perishes outside, the true spirit can remain in the banner.
When the time is right, one can use the power of merit and the fortune of the demonic sect to reshape one's physical body and be reborn!
If that's the case, then it's no longer a demon-summoning banner.
It is not the Investiture of the Gods of the Demon Race, but the place of reincarnation for the Demon Race!
In this way, everyone in the world is driven by profit.
Why should Kunpeng take the initiative to coerce with force?
At that time, all the demons in the world, in order to obtain this guarantee of the immortality of their true spirits, will probably cry and beg him, the leader of the demon cult, to record their true names on this Demon Merit Banner!
One method is coercion, the other is enticement.
The difference in their methods is like night and day!
Not to mention, the Merit and Spirit Treasure also has countless benefits such as not incurring karmic consequences for killing and being immune to all evil.
It is precisely because Kunpeng has seen through the complexities involved that he is willing to go to such lengths to carry out this heaven-defying act!
As time went by, a massive amount of merit was forcibly poured into the Demon-Summoning Banner.
The originally gloomy banner gradually underwent a qualitative transformation.
The pale white faded, replaced by an extremely noble purplish-gold hue.
Those strange runes that were originally used to imprison the true spirit have also transformed into sacred and peaceful golden patterns of the Great Dao, with the sun, moon, and stars faintly visible, and mountains and rivers manifesting.
A grand aura, capable of suppressing all heavens and bringing blessings to all generations, emanated from the banner.
After an unknown amount of time, the last ray of golden light of merit disappeared into the banner.
"Boom—!"
The sea of blood trembled, and a precious light soared into the sky!
A long banner, radiating boundless primordial energy, silently floated before Kunpeng.
An aura, a thousand times more noble than before, possessing both the Daoist charm of an innate spiritual treasure and the auspicious energy of a treasure of merit, slowly emanated from the banner.
"A top-grade innate merit spiritual treasure! It's complete!"