Honghuang: I, Huanglong, refine the heavens and do not join the Chan sect

Chapter 176 The ancient sky is collapsing, and the black tortoise stands as a pillar of heaven!
Boom——!
Accompanied by a loud bang, a huge hole appeared in the sky, and a large amount of clear rain poured out from it.

The raindrops seemed clear and harmless, and they didn't fall very fast from the sky, just like a feather.

In fact, it is not so. This is the water of the Milky Way, also known as the Weak Water. Goose feathers cannot float on it, and reed catkins will sink to the bottom. This shows how harmful it is.

The mighty Milky Way fell into the earth, instantly turning many areas into swamps, causing floods and countless deaths and injuries.

The Heavenly Dao Saint and Huang Long were surprised, and they took action to stop the water from the Tianhe River from falling further.

Now that the calamity of wizards and demons has passed, the primitive world is at the critical point of its transition from decline to prosperity and is not suitable to continue to suffer calamities.

The Saint Taiqing raised the Tai Chi diagram to block the gap in the Milky Way.

Nuwa sacrificed the map of mountains, rivers, and the country, and took in a large number of suffering lives into it to prevent them from dying in the Weak Water.

The four saints, Yuqing, Shangqing, Jieyin and Zhunti, are also not idle. They are doing their best to rescue all living beings, and so is Huanglong.

After finishing all this, the Taiqing Saint handed a five-colored stone to Nuwa, and the Daoist Ancestor Hongjun also presented the innate treasure Qiankun Ding at this time, asking Nuwa to start refining stones to repair the sky.

However, Nuwa was a little hesitant.

Being able to save all living beings in the world is certainly a good thing, but you caused all this and now you have to try to fix the problem yourself. This makes her feel a little disgusted.

The Saint Taiqing saw what she was thinking and advised:
"If the sky is not repaired, all living things in the prehistoric world will suffer more. Nuwa should not hesitate any longer."

"I am doing this for the common people!"

Nuwa nodded heavily, but finally couldn't bear to see all the creatures suffer, so she began to refine the five-colored stones to repair the sky.

The Saint Taiqing had anticipated Nuwa's reaction. He smiled and stopped talking. He glanced at the vast world and said loudly:

"Although Mount Buzhou has not collapsed, its divine power has been greatly damaged after this catastrophe, and it is difficult for it to perform its duties as a pillar of heaven."

"What happened today is also a reminder for us to avoid the crisis of the collapse of the pillars in the future, and to relieve the pressure on Mount Buzhou."

"There should be four more pillars standing in the four directions of heaven and earth to jointly support the prehistoric sky. In this way, heaven and earth can be more stable."

Several other Heavenly Dao saints also noticed this problem. They clearly felt that Mount Buzhou lacked a unique aura, which was the breath of the great god Pangu.

Without this energy, the power of Mount Buzhou was greatly reduced, and it was indeed difficult to support the ancient sky.

In order to ensure the stability of the sky, adding pillars became imperative.

They naturally had no objection to this, although their plan to show their power in public was shattered because Mount Buzhou had not collapsed.

But if they could solve the problem of the hole in the sky and set up four pillars to make the ancient world more stable, their reputation would be greatly improved.

They can let all living beings in the ancient world know that the sky above their heads was once supported by the spine transformed by the great god Pangu.

From then on, it was they, the saints of the Heavenly Dao, who set up four new pillars to reinforce the crumbling sky.

In addition, by setting up four pillars, they can also gain some luck and merit.

Although at their level, a little luck and merit have little impact on them.

But for their disciples, it is a significant improvement.

Seeing that the Five Sages of Heaven agreed, Sage Taiqing mentioned the Black Turtle of the North Sea. Just as he was about to tell them what he was planning, he suddenly felt something was wrong and looked towards the North Sea in disbelief.

After hearing Taiqing mention the Black Turtle of the North Sea, the other several Heavenly Dao saints guessed his plan. They all showed a look of enlightenment on their faces and thought that this method was miraculous.

But just after Taiqing felt it, he also had a bad feeling. He turned his head to look at Beihai and couldn't help but frowned slightly.

I saw an incomparably huge black turtle appear between heaven and earth, blocking out the sky and the sun, and a terrifying aura comparable to that of a quasi-saint emanated from its body.

The next moment, the black tortoise opened his mouth, and his old and heavy voice resounded through the sky and spread into the underworld.

"Heaven and Earth, I am the Black Turtle of the North Sea. Today, I feel that the heaven and earth are incomplete, the sky is unstable, and there is a danger of the sky collapsing. I voluntarily offer my four limbs and turn them into pillars of heaven, standing in the four corners of heaven and earth. I hope that Heaven and Earth will bear witness to my actions!"

Rumble——!
As the Black Turtle of the North Sea finished speaking, the ancient world shook violently, and both heaven and earth responded and jointly bestowed enormous amounts of merit.

Among them, about half of the merits fell on the four limbs that the black tortoise had cut off by itself, and turned into four pillars of heaven, standing on the edges of the East China Sea, South China Sea, West China Sea and North China Sea, and together with Mount Buzhou in the center, supporting the sky.

The remaining half of the merit fell on the Black Turtle's soul, allowing his soul to break free from the shackles of the physical body, float into the air, and fully feel the Tao.

After being restricted by his physical body for tens of thousands of years, the black tortoise finally gained freedom.

At this moment, Bai Mi suddenly walked out from the back of the black turtle.

As he waved his sleeves, a ten-thousand-foot-long black turtle emerged. From the appearance, this black turtle was exactly the same as the Black Turtle Ancestor.

The only two differences, apart from the size, are that the entire body of this black turtle is surrounded by wisps of black air, emitting a strong aura of yin and death.

More importantly, the aura of this ten-thousand-foot-long black turtle is extremely similar to that of the Black Turtle Ancestor.

No, that's not right. To be precise, the aura is not extremely similar, but completely identical, like two clones of the same source!
After Huanglong achieved Hunyuan status, in order to allow the tunnel to be created earlier, he traveled through the ancient times and achieved many goals.

In order to conceal his true purpose and avoid being detected by the Heavenly Dao, he did not go directly to Mount Tai and other places, but wandered aimlessly.

When he came to the North Sea, he met the Black Turtle Ancestor and recalled the time traveler's memory, which said that in the future the Black Turtle had its limbs chopped off by the Heavenly Saint and used as pillars to support the sky.

Huang Long felt indignant at what happened to the Black Turtle Ancestor.

The Black Turtle Ancestor was born thousands of years ago. Because his body is too huge, he has been practicing silently in the North Sea. He has never left the North Sea, nor has he let go of any of his mistakes, and he has no karma on his body.

As a result, because his body was big enough and his limbs were strong enough, the Sage of Heavenly Dao chopped off his limbs and all his Taoist skills were destroyed.

Coupled with the incident of Gonggong angrily crashing into Mount Buzhou, Huanglong finally came to the Black Turtle and gave him a method of transforming.

The fundamental reason why the Black Turtle Ancestor has been unable to transform is that his body is too huge. If there were no restriction of this shell, there would be no possibility of difficulty in transforming.

But all of Black Turtle Patriarch’s spiritual skills are contained in this body. If he were to abandon this body, all of his years of hard work would be in vain. How could he be willing to do that?

Since Huang Long proposed this plan, he naturally would have thought of a solution.

This ten-thousand-foot-long black turtle was the compromise solution Huang Long had thought of. It could preserve some of the Black Turtle Ancestor's cultivation, while allowing him to complete his transformation and gain freedom.

In the end, the Black Turtle Ancestor followed Huang Long's plan and squeezed out half of his original essence and blood and handed it to Huang Long.

Since the birth of the underworld, Huang Long placed this drop of essence blood in the purple lotus of reincarnation.

While allowing the Purple Lotus of Samsara to absorb the original essence, blood and essence, the original essence and blood also use the power of samsara to gradually shape a black tortoise body.

After so many years of preparation, a real black tortoise was finally cultivated.

And under the influence of the netherworld, this body is naturally compatible with the innate dead energy and innate yin energy, and can exert stronger strength in the netherworld and practice faster. When the Taiqing Saint had the intention to kill and the sky was about to fall.

The Black Turtle Ancestor suddenly came to his senses and understood Huang Long's true intention. He cut off his own limbs without hesitation, and all his flesh and blood was absorbed by the Heavenly Pillar.

In this way, his soul was free, and a real body prepared in advance became his best and most suitable sustenance.

The moment the Black Turtle Ancestor's soul entered the body of the ten-thousand-foot-long Black Turtle, the Black Turtle, which was originally like a dead object, suddenly had life and spiritual energy, its eyes were bright, and its form and spirit were complete, truly becoming a living being.

More importantly, he is still the Black Turtle Ancestor!

Although his cultivation was damaged, he was still himself, not anyone else's reincarnation, and he still completed his transformation as the Black Turtle Ancestor.

Rumble——!
Accompanied by a loud bang, a transformative thunder tribulation followed.

Since the Black Turtle Ancestor had just transformed his limbs into pillars of heaven and had done great merit, the heaven and earth were aware of it, and the thunder tribulation was just a formality and did not have much power.

After the calamity clouds dissipated, the Black Turtle Ancestor completed the last step of transformation and turned into a kind-looking old man.

With the help of the merits of heaven and earth, and the true body of the Black Turtle that Huang Long had refined in advance using the Black Turtle Ancestor's essence and blood, although the Black Turtle Ancestor had lost his original body, his cultivation level only dropped a small level, from the middle stage of Quasi-Saint to the early stage of Quasi-Saint.

Compared with the scene in the time traveler's memory, this result is many times better.

Even though the Black Turtle Ancestor did not have the memories of a time traveler, he could not see that scene.

But when Saint Taiqing proposed to erect four pillars in the sky and mentioned his name, he felt a sense of realization that if he could not comprehend Huang Long's true meaning, then death would be waiting for him.

Even if he could be reincarnated in the end, he had no way of being sure whether he would still be himself after reincarnation.

After all, the Heavenly Saint was able to cut off his limbs, so if he wanted to replace his hands and feet after reincarnation, wouldn’t that be easy?
However, if he wants to go further in the future and continue to improve his cultivation, he has to make a decision now.

The Heavenly Dao Saint and Huang Long have already found a path for him. The most suitable path for him is to first become a quasi-saint, and then see whether to become a Hunyuan Golden Immortal or seek the position of a saint.

The position of Heavenly Saint is already full, and the Saint of Taiqing wants to plot against his limbs.

The Black Turtle Ancestor did not hesitate at all and immediately chose to join the underground side.

Afterwards, he waved his sleeves to collect the tortoise shell that had fallen off from his body. With his enormous merits, this tortoise shell had become a treasure of acquired merits.

Then he followed Bai Mi into the underworld.

This scene was completely beyond the expectations of the Heavenly Dao Saints. Their faces became solemn and their moods became even heavier.

Even the Taoist Taiqing, who practiced the way of inaction, had a very gloomy expression at this moment. He looked at Huang Long with eyes full of anger, and it took him a long time to calm down.

Now that such a change has happened, not only did they fail to gain the credit for building the Pillar of Heaven, but they also let the underground tunnel take advantage and obtain the Black Turtle Ancestor, an ancient creature with great potential.

From now on, as long as the Pillar of Heaven stands, the Black Turtle will be able to obtain an endless supply of luck and merit.

In addition, the Black Turtle Ancestor is one of the oldest creatures in the prehistoric world and has extremely deep accumulation of knowledge.

Now that he has successfully transformed, he is no longer hindered by the physical body, and he also has the true body that Huang Long has refined using his original essence and blood.

Given time, when his soul has completely adapted to this body, his cultivation will soon be able to break through to the late quasi-saint stage.

By then, as long as he digests his previous insights and refines the merits gained from the four pillars of heaven, he will be able to enter the realm of Hunyuan Golden Immortal sooner or later.

If Huang Long is willing, perhaps he can plan a way for him to become a saint.

By this calculation, there are four creatures in the Netherworld who have terrifying potential and are expected to become saints: Black Turtle, Styx, Queen Mother of the West and Chang Xi.

If all four of them could become saints, or achieve the Hun Yuan fruit position, in terms of the number of saints, they would be no inferior to the Heavenly Dao.

In the end, although the Tiandao side did not end up empty-handed, they were still fooled by Huang Long. How could they not be angry?
"Fellow Daoist Huang Long is really good at scheming!"

Yuqing Saint couldn't help but sneer. He also wanted to be dignified and show the demeanor of a saint.

However, accidents occurred one after another, causing huge deviations from what was predetermined by Heaven and leading to confusion in the destiny of Heaven, which was very inconsistent with the way he practiced.

Huang Long was not angry at all at the ridicule of Yuqing Saint. Instead, he smiled and nodded, bowed with both hands and said:

"Thank you for your praise, Daoist Fellow Yuqing. I am just like you, I just did what I should do."

Huang Long's appearance made Yuqing Saint even angrier.

He snorted coldly, knowing that he could not win the argument with Huang Long on this matter, so he changed the subject.

"The pillars of heaven are of great importance. They are related to the stability of the sky. To ensure safety, the four pillars should be guarded by powerful beings."

Afterwards, Yuanshi Tianzun elaborated on the plan to establish the Four Spirits of Heaven and Earth. This matter was beneficial to the operation of heaven and earth, and the other Heavenly Dao saints naturally had no objection. Huang Long also nodded in agreement.

Seeing this, Yuanshi Tianzun smiled slightly, feeling that there was finally something that made him feel relieved.

However, Huang Long's next words made him stunned and his smile became stiff.

"You are right, fellow Daoist. I was not thoughtful enough and almost missed such a crucial thing."

Huang Long smiled and patted his head. The next moment, a huge figure flew out from the bottom of the East China Sea and the Undying Volcano in the south of the sky.

They are a giant green dragon and a scarlet divine bird.

They all have the cultivation level of the late Daluo Golden Immortal, and exude a strong Taoist aura.

"Heaven and earth are above me. I am the Azure Dragon of the Dragon Clan. I volunteer to guard the Eastern Pillar of Heaven and maintain the peace of heaven and earth. I will live and die with the Pillar of Heaven. I hope heaven and earth will bear witness to my actions."

"Heaven and earth are above me. I am the Phoenix Clan's Suzaku. I volunteer to guard the Southern Pillar of Heaven and maintain the peace of heaven and earth. I will live and die with the Pillar of Heaven. I hope heaven and earth will bear witness to my actions."

Rumble——!
The heaven and earth were moved, and two huge bodies of merit fell.

A part of it is added to the fortune of the two tribes, eliminating some of the karma of the Phoenix tribe and improving the fortune of the Dragon tribe.

The remaining part fell on Azure Dragon and Vermillion Bird.

With the blessing of merit, they all broke through the realm, and their cultivation took another step forward, becoming perfect Daluo Golden Immortals.

In the future, as long as they guard the Heavenly Pillar, they will be able to gain endless merits for themselves and the Dragon and Phoenix clans.

Especially Zhuque, his actions can not only reduce the burden of the Phoenix clan, but also give him the hope of becoming a quasi-saint, a quasi-saint without karma suppression!

Soon, the Azure Dragon and the Vermillion Bird each turned into a stream of light and flew into the celestial pillars in the east and south, making the heaven and earth more stable.

How could Huang Long leave such problems behind when doing things?
If there were suitable candidates in the west and the north, he would even have taken control of all four pillars of heaven.

(End of this chapter)