Chapter 64: Chapter 63: Lord of Mountains and Rivers, Nine Orifice Golden Pill

"Hong?!!"

Ning Xunqiu was suddenly shocked, finally recalling who Tianhe True Master was.

"Duan Hong’s master—seems to be Tianhe True Master of the Moral Immortal Sect."

Over the past five thousand years in the Celestial Derivation Volume, Duan Hong within the Mountain and River Seal, without the ’Profound Flood Dragon’ hindering his path, should have already attained the Dao. However, during those years, Ning Xunqiu was always focused on the Ancestral Dragon and the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth,

coupled with relying on the resources of the Jade Sky Immortal Island, had no worries, and never thought to take treasures from the Seal of Mountains and Rivers, instead neglecting Duan Hong’s existence.

"Duan Hong?! Hong?! The Human Emperor is Duan Hong reincarnated?! That Mountain and River Seal is the Human Emperor’s Seal?!"

"Cause and effect?!"

Ning Xunqiu suddenly had a foreboding feeling.

In reality, he used Divine Weapons to kill the ’Profound Flood Dragon’, thus getting entangled with the Dragon Race wherever he went, always ending in battles with them for various reasons, although it’s said the Ancestral Dragon will definitely initiate the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, and none could escape it.

But Ning Xunqiu could remember, when the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth began, the Celestial Dao of the Qingxu Realm described in the Celestial Derivation Volume was ’settling all causes and effects...’

Within the life of the ’General of Guanjiangkou’, the Dragon Monarch of Linyuan Water Mansion was blinded by the Great Tribulation, temporarily setting aside the plans of the Dragon Race to fully attack ’Guanjiangkou’.

As for his cause and effect with Duan Hong.

When Ning Xunqiu left the Seal of Mountains and Rivers, he personally killed Emperor Jin Jiang Hong, ensuring chaos in Jin Country, plus his junior brothers Zhao Ping, Zhang Han, and Little Jingtian preaching the Dao.

It would definitely impact Duan Hong.

Furthermore, there are the recorded ’Chaos Seven Orifices Chapter’ and ’Wind and Dew Qi Collection Scripture’ of Duan Hong, although not the orthodox of the Moral Immortal Sect, this method was also rare.

Cause and effect can be considered big or small.

Ning Xunqiu suppressed the uneasiness in his heart and continued to observe life.

"I, along with Tianhe True Master, retrieved the five sealed ’Panlong Pillars’ deep within the Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy. These Panlong Pillars were refined through great efforts by the Ancestral Dragon, cultivating nine special True Dragons for Dao attainment, best suited for ’Suppression’.

Unfortunately, they are now used against the Dragon Race."

"Tianhe True Master returns, the Orthodox Sect Qi Cultivators use the ’Panlong Pillars’ to suppress the seas everywhere.

They are used to suppress the ’Celestial Dragon’ in the abyss of the Sea Eye in the east, ’Cloud Dragon’ in the south, ’Ying Long’ in the north, ’Yellow Dragon’ in the west, and many True Dragons following along are also suppressed by the ’Panlong Pillars’.

The Four Seas are pacified.

The floodwaters stirred by the will of the Ancestral Dragon begin to gradually recede.

The powerful beings of the Dragon Race are filled with terror, forced to retreat into the deep sea, not daring to easily show themselves.

The Human Emperor Hong personally uses the last ’Panlong Pillar’ to sort out the water veins on the mainland. Within just three hundred years, the water disasters are calmed, the order of heaven and earth stabilized, and the vitality of all things flourishes.

The Human Emperor Hong achieves perfect merit, dispelling the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth.

The Ancestral Vein Divine Land, Three Mountains, Seven Peaks, Five Lakes, Four Seas, Nineteen States, and seventy percent of the living beings in the Qingxu Realm express gratitude, collectively honoring the ’Human Emperor’.

He proclaims to the heavens in the Ancestral Vein Divine Land, bringing boundless Profound Yellow Merit descending from the heavens.

The Human Emperor Hong is endowed with the Celestial Mandate of the Qingxu Realm to become—the Mountain and River Co-Ruler!

I have a sense, discovering that the golden achievement of ’Mountain and River Co-Ruler’ can indeed be accomplished by someone, and there are two ways. The Ancestral Dragon is the most arrogant, directly killing all living beings that do not honor itself, leaving the rest to be its own people? Wonderful indeed.

The second is the orthodox representative, the Human Emperor Hong. Through managing the Four Seas with great merit, earning the gratitude of the living beings. But if the Ancestral Dragon had not stirred the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth to flood the mainland, the Human Emperor Hong would not have had the opportunity to attain the Dao. This seems like picking the Ancestral Dragon’s fruit... Hmm, no, wrong, something comes to mind, and my heart is suddenly shocked!

"Here?"

Ning Xunqiu was suddenly shaken, remembering that in previous lifetimes, those orthodox Great Divine Power Users never acted to suppress the Dragon Race, allowing the Four Seas Human Race to be slaughtered, allowing the Dragon Race to engulf the Nineteen States, even letting it be possible for the Divine Land...

Hiss...

Thinking from a different perspective.

The Divine Land Orthodox Sect originally intended to let the Four Seas engulf the world, using the ’Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth’ to cleanse the living beings, then supporting the ’Human Emperor Hong’ to attain the Dao.

Ning Xunqiu was in the East Sea, so he initially thought the Ancestral Dragon was the strong side, but actually, the Ancestral Dragon was the one making a comeback in desperation.

Further thinking—

Before the Great Tribulation of Heaven and Earth, the Divine Land Orthodox Sect clearly occupied the absolute upper hand, with eight disciples of the Moral Immortal Sect crossing the seas, openly and secretly fighting against the Dragon Race, gradually nibbling away and dividing the Fortune of the Four Seas.

They even refined the ’Mountain and River Seal’ with the Fortune of the Ancestral Vein. What was the Divine Land Orthodox Sect planning?

Just that the Ancestral Dragon was more patient, more ruthless, first killing the nine-headed True Dragon, then refining the Three Immortals of Jade Sky, setting off the tribulation to shield the celestial secret, enduring silently for five hundred years, bringing out the ’Fallen Saint Spear’ to directly overturn the table, using force to prove the Dao.

Good heavens.

"What grand strategies, what grand strategies indeed."

Ning Xunqiu clicked his tongue.

"Narrow-minded little me, turns out none of you ’Great Divine Power Users’ are poets."

The actions of these Great Divine Power Users completely regard themselves as representing heaven and earth.

The saying ’Heaven and earth are not benevolent, treating all things as straw dogs’ means heaven and earth view every living being equally. It yawns, a disaster, an earthquake, or a tsunami, causing millions to perish.

No matter how you mortals struggle bitterly for survival within, or how you roar and curse the heavens for its injustice, whether you despair or rage.

Just mere noise.

The heavens do not care.

This state of mind caused Ning Xunqiu to feel a slight dread.

Not fear, but a sense of being an ’unwitting pawn’, restricted by fate. Those living beings and the Human Race in the Nineteen States who died in the Great Tribulation won’t ever know the reasons, just died muddle-headedly like this.

Those who survived must even thank him!

Today he escaped disaster because of Master Liuli Immortal Venerable, but what if tomorrow the Master blocks his way, would he not be worse off than the Ancestral Dragon?

The uneasiness in Ning Xunqiu’s heart grew stronger.

"With lingering fears, I paid respects to Master Liuli to resolve doubts. She frowned, saying my Dao heart is unstable, with a great calamity upon me. Master Liuli ordered me not to leave ’Jade Sky Immortal Island’ for ten thousand years, to avoid causing calamity."

"I delved into the ’Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy’ to cultivate in seclusion, yet made no progress in Dao practice."

"After a hundred years, Mountain and River Co-Ruler Hong has not yet attained the Dao."

"One day, within the Spiritual Acupoint Heaven and Earth, the Cyan Mountain Seal trembled violently, causing my Dao lineage fortune to drop by thirty percent. I had a sense—the Cyan Mountain lineage had severed its inheritance, the Monkey had fallen."

"I sighed, stopping my cultivation."

"Not long after, Wenren Hong, Bailing, and Panda of Purple Bamboo Mountain came deep into the ’Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy’ to seek me, saying that the seventh brother Monkey was captured by a ’Sea Race Great Demon’.

Somehow, it was refined into a Nine Orifice Golden Pill capable of Dao attainment and becoming immortal."

"The people of Purple Bamboo Mountain joined forces but failed to rescue the ’Monkey’, so they had no choice but to seek me, the powerful second brother, to act."

"As if seeing through, I knew in my heart that this was an ’Orthodox calculation’, yet an inexplicable anger rose. I prepared to leave the ’Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy’."

"At this time, Master Liuli, Uncle Linglong Fairy, and Fairy Caiyun appeared, stopping me.

’Disciple, halt.’ Master Liuli sighed, ’This is a Celestial Dao calamity, the Divine Land Orthodox Sect is powerful. Once you leave Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy, even we three immortals cannot protect you.’"

"The Divine Land Orthodox Sect wants me dead?!"

"I understood, I finally understood why Mountain and River Co-Ruler Hong clearly achieved perfect merit, yet has not attained Dao; he doesn’t want to, but cannot."

"I am the Human Race of the Seal of Mountains and Rivers, taking away at least thirty percent of the fortune of the Seal of Mountains and Rivers, including ’Profound Dragon Pearl’, ’Sovereign of All Under Heaven’, ’Favor of Mountains and Rivers’, ’Cyan Mountain Dao Lineage’.

I am also a protagonist of that world; I am another ’Profound Flood Dragon’.

Without me, the Seal of Mountains and Rivers is incomplete; how can Mountain and River Co-Ruler Hong attain Dao?"

"But to avoid implicating Master Liuli, I chose to leave the ’Cyan Mountain Seal’, and voluntarily left the ’Jade Sky Streaming Light Galaxy’."

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