The Spiritual Attainment of Minghe

The Red Lotus Taoist’s ability in defense was already pretty excellent with his Red Lotus of Fire. Different from the Map of Heaven and Earth used by the Heaven and Earth Taoist, the Red Lotus of Fire defended the attack, while the Map of Heaven and Earth preferred to absorb the attack and then weaken it. The problem with the Map of Heaven and Earth’s way was that it would be easily destroyed if the attack was too powerful, so Minghe chose to give the Yuantu Sword and the Abi Sword to the Red Lotus Taoist eventually.

After driving the good separation and the evil separation out of his body, Minghe’s capacity was greatly improved. As the third teaching would be held tens of thousands of years later, Minghe decided to further cultivate himself in a quiet place. What’s more, his Law of Heaven and Earth and Law of Spiritual Beings were still at the secondary stage of sage-to-be, so it was a good chance for him to improve them with the assistance of the good separation and the evil separation which were driven out of his body.

As time and tide waited for no man, Minghe needed to be strong enough to protect himself among sages who would be appointed by Hongjun and created by Goddess Nvywa tens of thousands of years later.

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Since the Way of the Three Separations had gone public, the Untainted Land was badly influenced. Any information about Primordial Spiritual Treasures would cause bloody battles, for few figures among those three thousand who had listened to the second teaching possessed Primordial Spiritual Treasures.

However, Primordial Spiritual Treasures played a pretty significant role in driving separations out of one’s body. If one could not obtain Primordial Spiritual Treasures, other elemental objects could also affect one’s cultivation. They might be not as effective; however, people could still make breakthroughs in the Sage-to-be Realm by using them. Some Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals who did not have Primordial Spiritual Treasures would choose other primordial things to drive separations out of their bodies.

Gradually, they found that even the low-grade Primordial Spiritual Treasures could help one reach the Sage-to-be Secondary Stage, while other elemental objects could only assist people to reach the sage-to-be early stage. Furthermore, the quality of separations driven by common primordial things was pretty bad, some of them only reached the Primordial Unity Golden Immortality Realm.

To be honest, there was a large gap between the Sage-to-be early stage and the secondary stage, and it was quite difficult for people to further improve their cultivations once they entered into the Sage-to-be stage. What’s more, the tool one used to drive the Three Separations out of oneself would further influence the quality of separations. Therefore, Primordial Spiritual Treasures became more precious than ever before.

Since everyone had noticed the significance of Primordial Spiritual Treasures, all figures, ranging from Zenith Heaven Golden Immortals to Sages-to-be began to irrationally steal Primordial Spiritual Treasures. That meant that one who owned a Primordial Spiritual Treasure would never get a sense of happiness. On the contrary, the Primordial Spiritual Treasure might bring him bad luck. To kill for treasures was a pretty common thing, let alone to battle for improving one’s cultivation!

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Meanwhile, important figures of the Demon tribe were gathering together at the Divine Wind Palace in the Heavenly Court. The Demon Emperor, Jun, and the Royal Demon, Donghuang Taiyi were sitting in front of others. Their status in this tribe were the highest. It was obvious that both of them had become much more powerful than before. If Minghe had been present, he would have known easily that both of them had already driven the Three Separations out of their bodies.

Just like Minghe, both Emperor Jun and The Great One had begun to cultivate themselves after hearing that the Way of the Three Separations to reach the Way of Tao could help them become immortal. With the merits leftover from the previous tribe formation and countless treasures in their tribe, they too drove Good Separations out of their bodies successfully.

However, because they knew that driving the Three Separations out of their bodies would surely hurt the treasures used in the process, they eventually chose the top grade primordial spiritual treasures to hold their kindness rather than The River Chart and The Inscription of The Luo and Bell of Chaos. Once they’d driven the good separation out, their cultivation levels were soon improved.

What’s more, to drive separations out had never been easy. As for Ji Meng and other great figures of the Demon Tribe, although they were also in the Sage-to-be early stage realm and indeed owned Primordial Spiritual Treasures, they could still not drive the good separation out. That was to say, to drive separations out also needed luck.

Presently, Emperor Jun was sitting upon a chair carved with dragons, displaying his authority at the center of the court. Meanwhile, The Great One was sitting right behind him. Although The Great One’s expression was not as serious as Emperor Jun, he still gave the sacred demons a sense of pressure, for he had Primordial Supreme Treasures and The Bell of Chaos, which made him appear superior to Emperor Jun.

The reason Emperor Jun had gathered the sacred demons together here was to finish the rest of his speech from when they moved to this Heavenly Court. At that time, Emperor Jun had only presented two of his goals in his speech to the public, and the rest of his ideas were left waiting to be expressed as he had been too busy with his tasks.

However, both Emperor Jun and The Great One had reached the Sage-to-be secondary stage, so it was time for them to put forward all of their goals they’d set for the tribe in order to unite everyone together, "Everybody, today, I call you here, to put forward the third point about our tribe’s development. I did not mention this before when our tribe was just built."

After hearing Emperor Jun’s words, it occurred to the sacred demons that Emperor Jun had not finished his speech last time due to other responsibilities, like moving the whole tribe to another place. In the meantime, no one had realized that Emperor Jun still had plans for their tribe’s development.

Ji Meng then asked, "Your grace, do you want to allow other great figures and individual cultivators to join our Demon Tribe?" After hearing Ji Meng’s question, Emperor Jun looked at him with admiration. The content of his question was what Emperor Jun had just been thinking about.

Emperor Jun nodded his head. "That’s right. We, the Demon Tribe have occupied this Heavenly Court for a long time. We have already become much stronger than before with you, Ji Meng and the other ten sacred demons who are at the Sage-to-be early stage. In addition, both I and The Great One have reached the Sage-to-be secondary stage after driving the good separation, so it’s time for us to add some new blood to our tribe."

Meanwhile, all sacred demons nodded their heads. They strongly believed that Emperor Jun and The Great One were capable of conquering other figures of the Demon Tribe who did not follow their lead. At this moment, a muscular man walked out of the crowd. The others then noticed that he was the Sacred Demon, Fei Lian. Fei Lian shouted out loudly, "Your grace, I totally support your advocation and I think we should immediately post notices to let those figures you mentioned come to our Heavenly Court as soon as possible and be your followers."

Fei Lian was a brash man and he was not good at considering things from different aspects, much like Zhurong, the ancestor of sorcery. Hearing Fei Lian’s advice, Ji Meng immediately opposed him. "Your grace, I don’t think Fei Lian’s advice is reasonable, for we, the Demon Tribe have just settled. I’m afraid that we cannot conquer all the other figures and individual cultivators at once. If we fail, we will create many enemies."

Hearing Ji Meng disagree with him, Fei Lian glanced at him angrily and then back to the crowd. Even though he thought Ji Meng’s words were reasonable to some degree. In the meantime, Emperor Jun agreed with Ji Meng. Although the Demon Tribe had many Sage-to-be figures, Fei Lian’s way would surely bring them a lot of trouble.

Emperor Jun then asked Ji Meng, "What’s your opinion?" Ji Meng did not reply. Then, after thinking for a while he said, "Figures like Goddess Nvywa, Fuxi, Kunpeng in The Northern Underworld and the Thunder God in the Thunder Blessing are all at the Sage-to-be level. I’m afraid that if you persuade them to join us it will cost you something."

Emperor Jun continued asking, "What’s the cost?" For the Demon Tribe’s sake, Emperor Jun was willing to make a sacrifice. After seeing Emperor Jun’s attitude, Ji Meng hesitated for a short while before replying, "Fuxi and Goddess Nvywa in Mount Buzhou were already in the Sage-to-be realm at the second teaching in Zixiao Palace. Both of them have no tribes, so they will surely join us if you give them high status in our tribe just like The Great One."

After hearing Ji Meng’s advice, the other sacred demons felt pretty unhappy, for another two important and powerful figures would show up in their tribe. That was to say, another two figures would share their tribe’s luck to cultivate. The reason why Emperor Jun and The Great One could make improvements in cultivation so fast was that they occupied much of the luck of their tribe, so if another two figures joined them, the luck remaining for common sacred demons to cultivate would be less.

As for Emperor Jun and The Great one, the arrival of Fuxi and Goddess Nvywa would also share their luck, so Emperor Jun had to consider this well.

In the meantime, Ji Meng also saw Emperor Jun’s hesitation, so he began to persuade him. "Your grace, one cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs. Even though Royal Fuxi and Royal Goddess Nvywa would have high status in our tribe, they have no interest in authority, so both you and The Great One would remain the most powerful figures. On the other hand, if Fuxi and Nvywa were to join us, many other individual cultivators would also be attracted here because of our sincerity."

Ji Meng’s words surely eased Emperor Jun’s worries. Emperor Jun nodded, "Well then, after this meeting, I will go to Mount Buzhou with Ji Meng to invite Fuxi and Goddess Nvywa to join us." Emperor Jun could send The Great One to invite Fuxi and Goddess Nvywa, but The Great One was too arrogant. The Emperor was afraid that he would mess this up, so he would just go by himself.

Emperor Jun then asked again, "So how about others? How can we get others to join us?" With a good plan for inviting Fuxi and Nvywa, Emperor Jun definitely wanted to invite more powerful figures. Currently, every time they fought with the Wu Tribe, they would fail because no figures in their tribe were capable of defeating the Wu Tribe. He hoped to change that shortly.