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Chapter 596: Nine Nether Tree, Red Dust Qi

"Well, I haven't finished talking yet, why are you taking me with you?"

Empress Pingxin was angry and stepped on Hong Chen's shoes with her bare feet.

It certainly wouldn't hurt, but the prehistoric world was not about fighting and killing, but about human relationships, so Hong Chen also showed pain on his face and said aggrievedly: "My queen, I just don't want to dirty your hands anymore."

"Well, if you really didn't want to dirty my hands, you wouldn't have called me over."

Empress Pingxin glanced at him, then looked around: "This is your dojo, it doesn't look that good."

"Xuanling Mountain is located in the west, and this place is barren. I'm sorry to make you laugh, Your Majesty."

“The West is barren, can you, the Emperor Xuanling, still be poor? You are so useless.” As she said this, she flipped her hand and sent out a spiritual root that was completely black in color, with nine branches, blood-red fruits, and exuded a cold and gloomy aura all the time.

"A top-grade innate spiritual root, the Nine Nether Tree. When the underworld was opened up, it should have been a top-grade innate spiritual root, but unfortunately the tunnel was not fully revived later, and it fell to a lower level, only a top-grade one. If you complete the tunnel in the future, it will also be promoted to a top-grade innate spiritual root. Think about where to plant it."

Hong Chen's eyes lit up, he took it and said, "Thank you, my lady!"

Countless innate and acquired spiritual roots were born in the ancient times, but it was a pity that Hong Chen came too late, and those spiritual roots with names already had owners. Now this era has experienced several catastrophes, not to mention the innate spiritual roots, even the acquired ones have already been found. Even though he has great luck now, he has not been able to touch any.

Spiritual roots are as effective as spiritual treasures.

Although it cannot be used directly in combat, it has multiple functions such as assisting spiritual practice, combing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, suppressing cave dwellings, and even arranging the key points of a large formation.

The number of top-grade innate spiritual roots is even smaller than that of top-grade innate spiritual treasures. High-grade innate spiritual roots are even more precious in this era.

Empress Pingxin obviously didn't care about all this. She turned around and felt the misty air that still surrounded her, and reached out her hand to touch it gently with interest.

These auras are not innate spiritual energy, nor are they the rhythm of the Tao. Instead, they are woven together and blended from the three ways of Heaven, Earth, and Man. They are of the same origin as Hong Chen's current Hunyuan Tao, and their light is a unique aura that constantly flows and changes, never stopping.

The invisible and the visible are born and die in a cycle, the pure air and the turbid air are transformed alternately, the laws of nature, the mountains and rivers, the seven emotions and six desires...

All-encompassing and all-inclusive.

“Is this your way?”

At first glance it sounds like a question, but if you think about it carefully it is a completely affirmative tone.

After being promoted to the Hunyuan Golden Immortal, the great Dao became increasingly clear, and the balance between heaven, earth and man, which had mostly existed in theory in the past, has now been perfectly realized.

Hong Chen nodded: "Yes, this is my way."

Empress Pingxin: "This is a new path. Many people have thought about it, but no one has ever really walked it. As the first practitioner, you have the right to name it. What do you call it?"

Hong Chen smiled and said in a sonorous tone: "Red Dust Dao." Pointing at the flowing Qi outside of Empress Pingxin's body that could allow her to escape the suppression of the Heavenly Dao, walk out of the underworld, and return to the primitive world, he said: "Red Dust Qi."

"What a worldly way, what a worldly aura." Empress Pingxin pinched a wisp of aura with two fingers and held it in front of her eyes to observe carefully. In an instant, she seemed to see the birth, peak and final fall of the witch clan, and the joy, anger, excitement and death of the ancestor witch, the great witch and countless people of the witch clan...

The red road of mortal world, evolving into the red world.

Empress Pingxin's eyes turned and she became even happier.

"It seems I was wrong. This is not a simple balance. You have found a new way in the balance."

The further Hong Chen goes, the greater the chance that the thing she wants Hong Chen to help her with will be accomplished in the future. She has no reason to be unhappy.

The red dust refers to the world.

Some people also call the red dust the secular world.

However, among all the heavens in the ancient times, from the Purple Sky to the Netherworld, even the chaos outside of the ancient heavens, where is not the secular world?

The peaceful place is just an appearance.

As long as the Great Dao exists, there will inevitably be a struggle for the Great Dao. The struggle for the Great Dao is no different from the struggle for fame and fortune in the secular world. The only difference is that one sounds more high-end, while the other feels very vulgar.

Because everyone's methods are similar after all, and they all lead to the same destination.

Who is nobler than who?
Therefore, unless everything is extinguished and returns to nothingness, the world is the red dust, the heaven is the red dust, and everywhere is the red dust.

Let’s get back to the topic.

Balancing heaven, earth and man is not surprising in concept.

After the creation of the world, vicious beasts rose up under the leadership of "Shen Ni", the resurrected Chaos Demon God, and wreaked havoc in the ancient world, attempting to seize the authority and Taoist fruits left by the great god Pangu.

At that time, the Chaos Demons who had also returned from the prehistoric world and changed their identities, such as "Yin Yang", "Qian Kun", "Yang Mei", "Shi Chen", "Hong Jun", etc., had already thought about the path of balance and embarked on the path of balance.

However, the balance at that time was between the ferocious beasts that killed countless people and were brutal and cruel, and the opposing moral behavior of killing evil.

However, after the defeat of Shen Ni and the end of the catastrophe of ferocious beasts.

Once the balance of opposites is broken, no one will continue to stick to this path.

Since the resurrected Chaos Demon is drooling over Pangu's legacy, who cares about balance?
Even if it were Hong Chen himself, if he appeared at that time, he would never take the current path, because there would be better choices at that time.

After the three innate tribes pacified the ferocious beasts, the scales, birds and beasts they symbolized were very similar to heaven, earth and humans.

At that time, Zulong, Yuanfeng and Shi Qilin, who were the patriarchs of the three innate tribes, also saw the way of balance.

However, unlike the three paths of heaven, earth and man, the three innate sacred beings who are the clan leaders are involved and cannot make decisions on their own. If they want to balance the three clans, the three people need to advance and retreat together.

The difficulty involved may be no less than Hong Chen sorting out the three paths of heaven, earth and man alone.

Zulong was domineering, brave and decisive. He flattened the four seas, took control of the rivers, and unified the aquatic creatures.

Yuan Feng follows the kingly way, his clan is generous and broad-minded, he soars into the sky and all the birds pay homage to him.

The Qilin practices benevolence, and is centered on the earth element, which helps it distinguish right from wrong, tolerates all living beings, and carries the world with kindness.

If the wills of the three innate tribes were united, combining hegemony, the kingly way and humanity, it might not be impossible for them to directly establish an orderly and prosperous primitive world long ago. At that time, all spirits would have their own way, and everything would develop in a balanced manner. It is not certain whether there would be many catastrophes in the future, and perhaps even the current heavens and worlds would not necessarily come into being.

But this is ultimately an idealized inference.

Even without the Chaos Demon's resurrection and provocation, it would be difficult for the three innate tribes to gather their strength.

Because the fight between Zulong, Yuanfeng and Shiqilin is not just a fight for the interests of the clans such as living space and resources, but also a fight for the great principles that cannot tolerate any retreat.

Unless one side is extremely powerful enough to overwhelm the other two opponents, there will never be peace.

The same was true of the later witch and demon tribes.

It is worth mentioning that the three innate tribes and the two tribes of liches at that time already had the reality of the evolution of the heavens and all worlds to learn from.

But apart from some minor details, nothing seems to have changed.

It was not until today, during the Great Tribulation of the Conferred Gods, that some changes finally occurred due to the emergence of variables.

But now, the plot seems to be converging in the original direction.

This is not an exaggeration, nor is it an afterthought.

In fact, Hong Chen had already thought that if he wanted to balance the three paths of heaven, earth and man, he must not only balance the three paths of heaven, earth and man.

Just like washing feet can’t just be about washing feet…

The Red Dust Path is Hong Chen's detour to balance the three paths of heaven, earth and man. It is also the ultimate avenue he has condensed along the way.

The Three Thousand Great Daos are a means, and the Red Dust Dao is a path opened up by using the laws of the great Dao such as the Dao of the Sword as a means.

It's like Master Tongtian used swordsmanship to open up the way to intercept opportunities. The two are not in conflict.

"Not bad!" Empress Pingxin smiled and nodded in approval.

Hong Chen humbly bowed: "Your Majesty, thank you for the compliment."

"But now that you have opened up this mortal path, you will have more great paths to cultivate in the future."

The so-called red dust is all-encompassing.

Naturally, the more great principles he cultivates and comprehends, the better. Only in this way can he fill the path of the world.

"The journey of the great way begins with a single step. Now that we have made the beginning, why should we be afraid of the large number of great ways?" Hong Chen laughed, "Compared to those predecessors in the prehistoric world who have reached the point where there is no further progress, I feel that I am both lucky and blessed."

Empress Pingxin nodded: "Indeed. The long road ahead is not scary, but not being able to see the road ahead is the most despairing."

Having said that, she thought for a moment, rubbed her slender hands together, and her innate inspiration evolved into various great laws, which eventually condensed into a piece of jade marrow that integrated the three thousand great ways.

She backhandedly injected the jadeite into Hong Chen's body and said, "I have left seeds for you for all the great ways I have comprehended. Go back and absorb the seeds and comprehend them on your own."

A genuine saint is also a saint.

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In essence, she surpassed the Six Saints of the Great Desolation and her status was the same as Hongjun.

In other words, in her eyes, there are no secrets at all about the great avenue that fills the vast universe.

However, even for saints, it is difficult to fully master all the great ways, and they do not need to do so, because what they need is to constantly improve their own great ways. In their eyes, the three thousand great ways are no longer the mysteries of heaven and earth, but just a kind of nutrition that can be used to enrich their own great ways.

To continuously perfect and advance one's own path until one reaches transcendence is the ultimate goal of a saint, namely: the Hunyuan Wudi Daluo Jinxian.

The same will be true for Hong Chen's future, except that he has not yet fully achieved enlightenment. He has just stepped into the Hunyuan realm and is laying the foundation for his future Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian.

Therefore, the chalcedony containing the seeds of the three thousand great ways of the ancient universe is undoubtedly his best gift.

Although he could comprehend the Three Thousand Great Daos step by step on his own, the Dao seeds bestowed by Niangniang Pingxin could save him countless time.

"Thank you for your generous gift, Madam!"

"Hehe, now you know who is really good to you?" Empress Pingxin glanced sideways.

As soon as Hong Chen heard it, he knew who she was comparing herself with, so he didn't dare to speak, nod or shake his head, and could only respond with a simple and honest smile.

By the way, Master Nuwa was quite good to him, but given the current situation in the prehistoric world, the constraints faced by the Saint of Heaven were actually no less than those faced by Niangniang Pingxin, the authentic Saint of Earth.

At the very least, there was no other decent person watching over Empress Pingxin.

Fortunately, Lady Pingxin didn't really argue with him about this. She just glanced at him and let it go. She then said, "Give me more of your earthly energy. I haven't been to the prehistoric world for a long time, and I've never been as free as I am now."

Hong Chen naturally would not refuse, and he supplied a large amount of worldly energy to Empress Pingxin.

However, his efforts were still a little petty in the eyes of the saint, so Empress Pingxin pressed one hand on his chest and grabbed him fiercely, almost turning Hong Chen into a dried corpse.

The magical power of Hunyuan Jinxian is so powerful that it is difficult to measure, but in the hands of a saint, it can be easily molded into a crystal.

Empress Pingxin hung the Red Dust Crystal, which emitted nine-colored rays of light and rotated in circles, on her chest. Her body no longer emitted light all the time, and the rejection of the Heavenly Dao towards her was also offset.

"That's much better! I'm leaving now. Be careful. Although Zhunti is weak, she is still much stronger than you." Before she finished her words, she disappeared from Hong Chen's sight and no one knew where she went.

Hong Chen's face was pale, his cheeks were sunken, and he breathed in weakly.

The spiritual energy around him suddenly rolled like a tsunami and flowed into the body like a river.

After a while, he recovered, bowed in the direction where Empress Pingxin was going away, turned around and walked through the Hongchen Palace.

This Xuanling Mountain was not created by him with his magical powers, but was directly fished out from the human world of the Three Realms. Therefore, behind the Hongchen Palace is the pond that once cultivated the Ninth-Rank Golden Lotus of Merit.

The little crocodile that was originally raised in the pond is naturally still in the Three Realms, so there is nothing in the water at the moment.

Maybe he could go find Junior Brother Wuyunxian and ask him if he could be reborn with a drop of blood. He had seen the shadow of Wuyunxian's golden-whiskered giant fish's original form before, and the dragon head and fish body did look very ornamental.

Alternatively, it would be a good idea to take some time to go to Lingshan to ask Tathagata for a few koi from the Merit Pond.

Now that we are all in the Western Land, we can be considered neighbors.

Hong Chen waved his hand and turned over a piece of soil beside the pond. He planted a three-foot-tall Jiuyou tree, and then dripped the Three Lights Divine Water on its roots.

In an instant, the Jiuyou Tree shook its dark trunk and quickly grew to more than ten feet long. The fruits hanging on the branches also swelled up, and the eighteen bright red Jiuyou fruits were gorgeous and tempting.

The Nine Nether Fruit bears fruit once every 1,800 years, with 18 fruits at a time. The fruit is full of pure Nine Nether power. Eating one can increase your magic power by 18,000 years, and you will have a chance to comprehend the Great Dao of the Nine Nether. It also has a miraculous effect on nourishing the soul.

Jiuyou refers to the nine layers of hell underground, and the ninth layer is "Chongjiu", which means eighteen hells.

The Nine Netherworld Avenue is the law that encompasses the eighteen levels of hell in the underworld.

Therefore, the Nine Nether Fruit can only be eaten by cultivators in the immortal realm. Mortals or cultivators in the mortal realm will die on the spot if they smell it.

Of course, the most suitable people to eat the Nine Nether Fruit are those with injured souls. Compared with that, eighteen thousand years of magic power can only be regarded as icing on the cake.

It is still several hundred years before the Jiuyou Fruit matures, and Hong Chen does not want to waste the Three Lights Divine Water to ripen it. Since there is no urgent need for it, he just lets it grow slowly on its own.

Turning back, he simply sat cross-legged under the tree, and his true spirit connected with the Kongtong Seal.

The refining mark in the Kongtong Seal did not disappear, which seemed to indicate that Zhunti did not ignore his warning and act rudely.

In this way, although the Kongtong Seal fell into Emperor Xin's hands, the ownership still belonged to him. Emperor Xin could not do anything he did not want to do, and he could take it back at any time.

The reason why he doesn't take it now is because Emperor Xin is qualified to hold the Kongtong Seal. In fact, the Kongtong Seal should have been controlled by the Human Emperor.

Hong Chen didn't want to break this rule, even though he had already refined the Kongtong Seal.

If he directly breaks the rules to take back the Kongtong Seal now, it will definitely cause damage to the status of the Kongtong Seal and even the destiny of the human race.

This is the reason why Zhun took action, and it is also the situation that Hong Chen does not want to see.

Perhaps, some people had already calculated this step, and were just waiting for him to attack in anger, and then naturally took the opportunity to deprive him of his control over the Kongtong Seal.

However, even if the Kongtong Seal only changed its owner on the surface, it would still be a blow to Hong Chen's reputation, and it would also be enough to affect the current war situation.

After Emperor Xin took over the Kongtong Seal, his first order was to have the Shang people evacuate the West and return in full. Given the status of the Kongtong Seal as a supreme treasure for the human race, this order was directly sent to all the Shang people in the West and there was no way to question it.

As Da Shang withdrew, Xiqi also left the western land tacitly.

The previous achievements were destroyed.

Only Xuanling Mountain remains, sitting alone in the west.

The first thing Wen Zhong did after returning with the Shang army was to rush into Chaoge City angrily to demand an explanation from Emperor Xin. However, when he saw Emperor Xin holding up the Kongtong Seal and the luck of the Emperor soaring, his aura as the Grand Master was completely suppressed.

Immediately afterwards, Wen Zhong burst into tears without caring about his dignity under the gaze of many excited court officials.

"The way to disaster! The way to disaster!"

Immediately, regardless of Emperor Xin's ugly expression, he knelt down facing Xuanling Mountain and kowtowed.

"As a minister, I have made mistakes. As a nephew, I have committed the greatest sin. I, the sinner Wen Zhong, beg Master, all the uncles, and Emperor Xuanling to forgive me!"

No one responded.

Because at this time, Hong Chen had already ordered all the immortals of Jiejiao to go to Xuanling Mountain to obey his orders.

(End of this chapter)