Chapter 264: The Divine Pillars Are Erected and the Saints Fight Again
Upon hearing this, Zhenwu was overjoyed and immediately released his entire spirit and entered the sleeve of Nuwa.
He has been waiting for this opportunity for too long. It can even be said that he has been waiting for such an opportunity since the beginning of the world.
Zhenwu’s background is very extraordinary, and it can even be said that he is the only authentic Pangu left outside, except for the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches.
It's because he is a bit of the remnant soul of the great god Pangu mixed with a drop of essence and blood. Although his remnant soul cannot compare to the Three Pure Ones, which are the origin of Pangu's soul, and his drop of essence and blood cannot compare to the essence and blood of the Twelve Ancestral Witches, which are the essence and blood of Pangu's heart, he has both. He has both the soul of Pangu and the body of Pangu. It can be said that compared with the Three Pure Ones and the Twelve Ancestral Witches, he, the authentic Pangu, is more worthy of the name.
But this is how he succeeded, and this is also how he failed. Because Zhenwu possessed Pangu's spirit and body, he was greatly favored by the prehistoric world. Even the way of heaven had boundless affection for him, and spontaneously descended to the origin of the prehistoric world to sharpen his feet, trying to make him reach a higher level.
But he also fell into the same situation as the laurel tree, that is, the origin was too abundant, making him unable to be free.
Because the origin nourishes the body first and then the soul, his body becomes stronger and stronger, and even turns into shackles, firmly trapping the soul inside. At first, he could still control the body to move around, but as the body became stronger, his soul could no longer control it, and even began to gradually merge into the body.
Although Zhenwu has the body of a black tortoise, his heart is as free as a bird. He is unwilling to stay in one place for a long time, as this would be tantamount to killing him.
But fortunately, the favor of heaven brought him a glimmer of hope. Zhenwu found an opportunity during the Dragon and Phoenix Tribulation. With the power of the companion magic weapon, the Zhenwu Soap Carving Flag, he escaped from his soul and wandered outside with the power of the magic weapon. After all, he was free.
His body became larger and larger day by day, and finally even exceeded a certain limit, becoming even larger than Buzhou.
But there is a certain connection between the body and the soul. As the body becomes stronger, Zhenwu also feels that he is constantly being pulled. Although the pulling force is slight, sooner or later, he will be pulled back into the cage of the body.
In desperation, Zhenwu had to swear an oath to guard the North Pole by himself and not go out unless there was a major change in heaven and earth.
But in fact, only his body was guarding the North Pole, while his soul was still wandering outside. Even so, Zhenwu felt a pulling force arising again not long ago. Apparently, the position of the North Pole God could not suppress his body, causing it to begin pulling his soul again.
In the end, he had no choice but to seek refuge under a saint.
Initially, he went to ask for help from the leader of Hengming Sect. After all, this leader was born overseas and had some relationship with him, so he was the one most likely to save him.
But the leader of Hengming Sect asked him to go to Nuwa, saying that he himself was powerless.
Zhenwu thought that the leader of Hengming was passing the buck, and he felt depressed, but he still forced himself to ask for help from Nuwa. In the end, the goddess gave him a satisfactory answer, which was to dissolve his physical body and set his soul free.
It’s not that Zhenwu has never thought about getting rid of his physical body. After all, no matter how good the physical body is, if it can’t move all day long and makes him feel like he is in a prison, it would be better to destroy it.
But his body was favored by the Heaven, and even his master could not destroy it so easily, or even simply could not do it.
Hearing that Nuwa was willing to help him get rid of his guilt, Zhenwu was naturally very happy. However, Nuwa asked him to wait for a while and she would rescue him from prison when there was a chance in the future. However, his soul had to return to his body for a few years first.
Zhenwu naturally nodded in agreement. After all, if he couldn't find a way to save him, he would have to return to his body sooner or later.
Now that he had received the saint's guarantee, all he could do was obey. He had to obey. Otherwise, he would rather be transformed by the Tao than stay where he was like a stone.
Zhenwu's soul had just left his body, and this huge black turtle began to hold its head high and chest out again, instantly breaking through the barrier between the primeval world and chaos, allowing the boundless chaotic airflow to wash over it without the slightest movement on its turtle head.
Although it no longer has the soul to control it, the aura of this black turtle is not fake. It seems that it is only one step away from achieving the Hunyuan Daluo Dao Fruit.
None of the other four gods have reached such a level, which shows how deeply Zhenwu hides himself on a daily basis.
But facing this huge and unreachable black turtle, Nuwa's face remained calm. She just picked up the furnace of heaven and earth, and without the furnace moving, the black turtle turned into a heavy divine light and fell into the furnace, causing the furnace to tremble.
Compared with the black tortoise, the Heaven and Earth Furnace was not even as big as a texture on his skin. However, such a tiny thing managed to swallow this thing that was bigger than the sky into its stomach, completing the feat of an ant swallowing an elephant. It was simply terrifying.
Seeing that the other saints were beginning to lose their hold, Nuwa immediately began to refine the Pillar of Heaven.
Originally, she wanted to refine a pillar of heaven that was as big as Mount Buzhou, but in the end, she found that there were too many unresolved primitive origins in the black tortoise. If she wanted to integrate them into one, it would take at least ten thousand years. Although ten thousand years was a blink of an eye for her, the saints could not stay outside like this, firstly because of the magic power, and secondly because it was a joke for all living beings to support the heaven and earth like this, so they divided it into four parts and refined it into the four limbs of the black tortoise, turning it into four pillars.
A hundred years passed quickly, and Nuwa slapped the lid of the furnace, and four brilliant divine lights flew out and instantly settled in the center of the four poles of heaven and earth. When the divine lights dissipated, four extremely huge pillars supported the heaven and earth, bringing them to the highest or lowest place.
The other saints also stopped after seeing this, but they did not stop all their methods at once. Instead, they took their time.
After all, these four sky-supporting pillars have just been refined, and have not yet communicated with the heaven and earth, and cannot obtain the original power of the primordial universe to operate. Even if it is the physical body of Lord Zhiming, I am afraid it will not be able to take on this heavy responsibility all at once.
With the establishment of these four divine pillars supporting the sky, the entire prehistoric world seemed to have something to support it. The endlessly fluctuating spiritual energy began to gradually return to normal, and the earth veins that originally gathered under Mount Buzhou also began to flow towards these four divine pillars supporting the sky.
Because there was a divine pillar supporting the sky erected in the west and many earth veins were flowing towards the west, the two saints in the west were very happy. They felt that the collapse of Buzhou was not a bad thing, at least the West benefited from it.
However, some impacts of the collapse of Buzhou still exist. Because the origin of the West is incomplete, the collapse of the western sky is the most serious. Even with the divine pillars supporting the sky and the earth, it is still not as good as when the Buzhou Divine Mountain was still there.
So the sky is slightly tilted towards the northwest, but it's not a big deal.
After everything was done, the seven saints were silent for a moment, and then suddenly started fighting, because the ownership of the Chaos Bell had not yet been decided.
But before they could struggle for too long, the Chaos Bell paused slightly, then lost its bright yellow color, turned into a chaotic form, and fell into the void.
As soon as the Chaos Bell fell into the void, several rays of light shot towards it. The methods used by Master Tongtian and the Two Saints of the West were the fastest.
This is because among the many saints and major sects, only Jiejiao and Buddhism need innate treasures to suppress their luck.
Although Patriarch Tongtian has the Zhuxian Sword Formation, the Zhuxian Sword Formation is a killing weapon. In suppressing luck, it is not even as useful as a top-grade innate spiritual treasure. The scale of Jiejiao is the largest among the saints' sects, so Patriarch Tongtian naturally has to find a way to obtain a weapon to suppress luck.
As for the two saints in the West, although they have two saints governing the same sect, even if they do not have innate treasures, it is enough to suppress the fortune of the big sect. However, they want to bring great prosperity to the West, so they must have innate treasures to suppress the fortune.
Otherwise, even if the West prospers, it will not be able to suppress the luck, and instead let it flow into the East. There are many treasures in the East, and once the luck comes, there is no way it will leave. Then, no matter how prosperous the West is, it will only be a wedding dress for others. How can they bear this?
I saw a green sword suddenly cut through the void and blocked the Chaos Bell. With a casual slash of the sword, green lotuses bloomed and the sword energy radiated like light, destroying countless turbulences in time and space, creating a silent place where all things could not exist.
The pure Buddha light and the seven treasures Buddha light were released at the same time, making the six senses pure and quiet. The six senses were pure and quiet, not recognizing all things, and all things were not recognizing. It was as quiet as before, dark and gloomy, and uncertain. However, it was not to block the Chaos Bell, but to trap the Qingping Sword first.
Faced with the entanglement of the Six Pure Bamboos, the Qingping sword energy flew up and down, as if showing the mood of its owner, but the Six Pure Bamboos still flew forward slowly, breaking the blockade of the sword light and making way for the Chaos Bell to leave.
But before the Chaos Bell could fly far, a beam of Seven Treasures Buddha Light flew out and brushed towards the Chaos Bell. It was emitted by the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree.
The Seven Treasures Magical Tree can wipe out everything. Even if the Chaos Bell is an innate treasure, it will be difficult to withstand the wipeout of the Seven Treasures Magical Tree unless there is an equally powerful person to control it.
Just as the Seven Treasures Magic Tree was about to catch the Chaos Bell, a stone bridge suddenly flew out and immediately knocked the Seven Treasures Magic Tree down. At this moment, the Heaven and Earth Furnace also took cover of the stone bridge and flew forward, trying to suck the Chaos Bell into it.
At this critical moment, a white jade Ruyi flew out and hit the Tiandi Hongluo, knocking it to the ground immediately. Then it pressed down the furnace cover hard, and the two began to fight each other again.
Just as the six magic weapons of the saints were fighting, a black and white crutch arrived. Seeing that no one was bothering them, the crutch immediately reached for the Chaos Bell. When he was about to pull it out of the void, the person who was carrying the Chaos Bell into the void revealed his true appearance.
Suddenly, a smiling old man walked out. Not only did the Hunyuan Golden Immortals fail to see him clearly, even several saints did not detect the old man's whereabouts before his arrival. They secretly sighed at the old man's attainments in the avenue of space.
Apart from Yang Mei, who else in the prehistoric world can have such control over the avenue of space?
Zhen Yuanzi's eyes lit up when he saw Yang Mei, and he thought to himself, "It is said that this great god also has an innate spiritual root incarnation, which seems to be a hollow willow tree. Although I don't have an innate spiritual root, I have a ginseng fruit tree among my companions. Speaking of which, I also have a connection with this great god. Perhaps I can find a chance to ask him about the great way of space?"
(End of this chapter)