PDLP Chapter 8: The Birth of Asura and Reactions from All Sides
Chapter 8: The Birth of Asura and Reactions from All Sides
Male Asuras are mostly fierce and strong, while female Asuras are alluring and beautiful.
"Heaven is above, and now, the Styx River is here. In accordance with the will of Heaven, it creates the Asura race. Asura race, come forth!" The Styx River swore to Heaven.
There's no way around it. At this stage, the Great Dao has retreated. If you want merit, you have to swear an oath to the Heavenly Dao, to the Great Dao that has already retreated... He doesn't have that qualification yet.
In an instant, the light of merit descended from the sky once more. This time, the amount of merit was as much as tens of millions of acres, falling from the heavens. The golden light of merit almost dispelled the evil aura above the sea of blood.
The merit Styx gained this time far exceeded the merit he gained when he created the zombie race.
After all, unlike the living corpses that are driven by death energy, the Asura race are truly living beings!
If creating the zombie race was giving all the corpses in the world a chance, then in a sense, the Asura race is the first acquired race created by nature!
Part of the merit Styx received was as a reward for creating the Asura race, but a large part of it was as a reward for Styx's status as the first person to create an acquired race!
If the Asura race weren't unlike the human race, which is more suitable to be the protagonist of heaven and earth, they would have accumulated even more merit!
"Greetings, Ancestor." All the Asuras bowed down before the Styx River.
Styx looked at the group of Asuras and, according to the will of Heaven, appointed the four Asura Kings, the four Asura Generals, and other administrative bodies of the Asura race. Then he dismissed the Asuras and let them develop on their own in the Sea of Blood.
The time was approaching, and he should prepare for his journey to Zixiao Palace to listen to the Dao. After all, it was a rare opportunity for a sage to preach. Although Hongjun had his own plans, those plans were aimed at the future sages, at Dijun, Taiyi, the Twelve Ancestral Witches, Hongyun, and Dongwanggong, and had nothing to do with him.
Although he had already pushed the Great Dao of Slaughter to a certain extreme within the limits allowed by the Heavenly Dao by relying on the fragments of the Jade Disc of Creation, it is always good to draw inferences from one instance to another and improve oneself.
[Congratulations, host! The first acquired race of Creation has greatly enhanced our strength, laying a solid foundation for restoring the glory of all immortals paying homage, and even for further progress. This race has a magnificent destiny and a promising future. The completion rate of the second main quest has increased significantly.]
[Currently rewarding the host: Twelfth-grade Reincarnation Purple Lotus, Reincarnation Dao Inheritance (Chaos Demon God Remnant Version)]
"Fortunately, it's not some weird thing like a karmic treasure."
"However, there really is a lotus platform called the Purple Lotus of Reincarnation." Styx sighed slightly before immersing his mind in the inheritance of the Great Dao of Reincarnation.
This time, the system truly gave him a smooth road ahead.
In the primordial world, all three thousand Great Daos and eight hundred side paths can lead to enlightenment, but that is only in theory. For example, in the last great calamity, Rahu attempted to destroy the Great Dao in one fell swoop, but ultimately failed. This is proof of that.
The Styx's primary cultivation path of slaughter is the same: slaughtering heaven, earth, and all living beings, ultimately slaughtering immortals, gods, and even saints...
To "prove one's Dao" in the primordial world through the Dao of Slaughter is no less difficult than to achieve the Dao of Destruction.
In other words, the Great Dao of Slaughter can provide the Styx with powerful immediate combat capabilities, but in the long run, it's not very sustainable...
Although the path of reincarnation, under the dominance of Hongjun, still offers no hope of achieving sainthood, it is a path that allows one to travel much further than the original Styx River.
At least it won't end up like the original Styx River, which first imitated Nuwa in creating races, then imitated the saints in establishing religions, and finally exhausted its merits but failed to attain sainthood, ultimately becoming trapped in the sea of blood.
Thinking of this, Styx immediately began to comprehend the inheritance of the Reincarnation Demon God and to refine the Twelve-Petal Reincarnation Purple Lotus, comprehending the innate undying spiritual light within it.
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Buzhou Mountain.
somewhere.
Fuxi and Nuwa stand facing each other.
Above the sea of blood, a great deal of golden light of merit descended. Unlike the creation of the zombie race last time, this time, the Asura race, as the first acquired race to be born, attracted the attention of many powerful beings.
"Interesting." Nuwa's elegant and beautiful face was full of curiosity, her snake tail trembled slightly, and her eyes flashed with countless divine lights of creation.
She is a great master who specializes in the Great Dao of Creation and has created many things so far, but... she has never really thought about creating a race, or a group of... living beings.
But what she, a great master of the Great Dao of Creation, never expected, was accomplished by Styx, a master of the Great Dao of Slaughter and the Great Dao of Blood.
Although the methods were somewhat opportunistic, and in fact, no one in the entire prehistoric world except Styx could have done this kind of opportunistic creation of a race, Styx's actions still gave Nuwa a lot of inspiration.
"Fellow Daoist Styx, you are quite remarkable." Fuxi withdrew from his deduction state and sighed.
Fuxi was extremely skilled in divination, and he could deduce anything under heaven or on earth. However, when he tried to deduce the cause and effect of the birth of the Asura race, for some reason, it was as if the secrets of heaven had been disturbed by some great supernatural being. Apart from some very superficial things, he could not deduce anything else.
He could only foresee the creation of the Asura race by the Styx River, and the immeasurable merit and fortune they would gain.
This was something that had never happened before when he deduced other great beings.
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"Senior Brother!" On Mount Sumeru, Zhunti looked at Jieyin and gently stroked the Seven Treasures Tree.
The innate spiritual treasure contains innate and indestructible spiritual light. Over tens of thousands of years, the branches that were cut off by the Styx River have long since recovered, but the sword that wounded the Seven Treasures Tree remains in Zhunti's heart.
"Fellow Daoist Styx, what skillful methods!" Jieyin sighed.
If we were to say where in the primordial world was poorer than the West, it would only be the Netherworld Blood Sea of the Styx River. Besides the endless sea of blood, corpses, and wronged souls... and now with the addition of an incalculable number of zombies, there is nothing else.
Unexpectedly, despite living in such a poor place, the Styx River was able to use it to accumulate merits one after another.
This is something that Jieyin, who was desperately searching for a way to revitalize the West, greatly admired.
"Senior brother, I didn't ask about Fellow Daoist Styx's methods. I'm just curious... what exactly does Fellow Daoist Styx want to do?" Zhunti looked at Jieyin and said with a smile.
Among the Six Sages of Heaven and even the Three Thousand Guests of Zixiao, Zhunti was one of the most sensitive to the development of power.
This sensitivity stems from the current predicament of the West, as well as from the vivid reality of the struggle between the demonic and the three races for supremacy in the previous great eon.
Therefore, while everyone was focused on the Styx's methods of creating races and envious of the vast amount of merit it gained, Zhunti was pondering another question.
What exactly is the Styx trying to do?
"Junior brother, what do you mean?"
But what can a few zombies and Asuras do? Jieyin was somewhat puzzled, finding Zhunti's thoughts difficult to understand.