darknovel Chapter 3 Seeking Merit
Chapter 3 Seeking Merit
"There are still about 90,000 years left." Styx calculated in his heart how much time was left before Hongjun began his sermon.
Over the past 30,000 years, in addition to refining his cultivation path and his own magical power, he has also been doing his best to refine spiritual treasures. Now, he has completely refined the restrictions on the Heaven-Covering Pearl and the God-Slaying Spear.
Although there is still much room for improvement in the Great Dao of Blood and the Great Dao of Sword, his main cultivation, the Great Dao of Slaughter, has now reached a certain limit allowed by the current world. To break through further, it is no longer a simple matter of cultivation.
Great opportunity, great perseverance, and great wisdom are all indispensable.
Now, he should start planning for his future.
To thrive in the primordial world, one needs a lot of merit and good fortune. With enough merit and good fortune, one's cultivation path will be twice as effective. In particular, a great era of contention is about to begin. Under such circumstances, who would complain that they don't have enough merit or enough resources?
When it comes to merit, the first thing that comes to mind for Styx is undoubtedly the Asura race and the Asura religion. In the future, Styx will follow the example of six saints, including Nuwa, to create races and establish sects, but in the end, he still fails to reach the state of the unity of the three corpses.
"Should we create the Asura race now?" Just as Styx was pondering this, his primordial spirit swept across the area, revealing several blood-winged black mosquitoes to him.
Styx frowned, and in the blink of an eye, he annihilated all the blood-winged black mosquitoes he had captured.
"So annoying." Styx, who inherited everything from his predecessor, frowned.
If the River Styx could have any worries at this stage, then the Bloodwing Black Mosquito would undoubtedly be one of them.
Bloodwing Black Mosquito is the same Mosquito Daoist who drained the Turtle Spirit Mother during the Investiture of the Gods and even ate the Golden Lotus of Merit of the Third Grade of Guidance. He has been fighting with Styx for control of the Blood Sea and is Styx's absolute enemy. Of course, it is more accurate to say that he was unilaterally beaten by Styx than to fight for control. In terms of strength, Bloodwing Black Mosquito could be easily killed by Styx.
Regarding control over the Blood Sea, the entire Blood Sea is under the control of the Styx River. The influence of the Mosquito Daoist on the Blood Sea is negligible. However, what is annoying is that the Mosquito Daoist is both an individual and a race. The number of Bloodwing Black Mosquitoes is immeasurable, and each one is a Mosquito Daoist, just like the Blood God Child of the Styx River. As long as there is one Bloodwing Black Mosquito that is not destroyed, the Mosquito Daoist will also not be destroyed.
Moreover, these annoying mosquitoes are extremely elusive, and even relying on the calculations of the Heavenly Dao, it is difficult to find them and annihilate them in one fell swoop. This has led to the Mosquito Daoist being unilaterally defeated by the Styx River for countless years, yet he can still continue to disgust the Styx River by relying on this characteristic.
It's like mosquitoes invading someone's house, trying to take ownership of the house from the owner. Even if the owner kills them one after another, the remaining ones hide in the shadows and breed, and soon they can jump out again to disgust people.
"Got it!" Styx looked at the corpses and wronged souls above the sea of blood and flicked his blood-red Taoist robe.
The Netherworld Blood Sea is the final resting place for the corpses, blood, and souls of some creatures that perished in the primordial world. The appearance of Mosquito Daoist, although it disturbed his joy at his recent breakthrough in cultivation, also provided him with a source of inspiration.
An inspiration for creating a race.
Judging from the Mosquito Taoist's ability to suck food, Styx suddenly realized that there didn't seem to be any zombies in the primordial world yet!
Without a doubt, like Luo Hou's demon race, the appearance of zombies will never bring love and peace to the prehistoric world, but... so what?
The primordial world is a vast enough world to accommodate any existence, as long as it makes the primordial world more complete. This is why the demonic path and the demon race can only bring slaughter and calamity to the primordial world, but Luo Hou, who created the demon race and sacrificed himself to preserve the primordial world, can still gain a lot of merit.
Whatever you create, as long as your creation makes the primordial world more complete, you will rightfully receive the reward of the impartial and selfless Heavenly Dao, and a great deal of Heavenly Dao merit.
Even if the race you create is just a bunch of blood-sucking monsters filled with death energy.
Moreover, apart from preparing to accumulate some merit and practice his skills to create the Asura race based on his main cultivation of the Great Dao of Slaughter, he really didn't have the time or energy to focus on catching mosquitoes. At the same time, Styx felt that it would be beneath him to argue with the Mosquito Daoist with his own cultivation level, and he needed a group of beings with no life force to be sucked to thoroughly deal with the annoying Mosquito Daoist.
Without hesitation, Styx looked at the corpse of a living being above the sea of blood. Using his magic power, combined with his own Great Dao of Blood, he drove the sea of blood, along with the endless death energy and yin energy above it, to swirl towards the corpse.
"When life force is exhausted, it is death. Life and death are interdependent, just like yin and yang. You are in me, and I am in you."
"When yang reaches its extreme, yin arises; when yin reaches its extreme, yang arises. Even the ultimate death gives birth to another kind of 'life.'" Looking at the corpse of the living being, driven by his own Great Dao of Blood, enveloped and nurtured by endless death energy, blood and yin energy in the sea of blood, Styx felt a sense of enlightenment.
But in the end, the corpse did not change at all, and was eventually assimilated by the sea of blood, becoming part of the boundless blood of the Netherworld Blood Sea.
But Styx was not discouraged and continued his experiments.
And these insignificant changes are gradually taking place on the corpses of those beings chosen by the River Styx.
Ten thousand years have passed in the blink of an eye, and finally...
"Roar!!!" An extremely shrill roar, which could instill fear in anyone who heard it, rose from the sea of blood, carrying boundless death energy. The terrifying yin energy and death energy caused the entire sea of blood to tremble incessantly.
Over thousands of years, nourished by the blood, death, and yin energies of the sea, the corpses of the creatures chosen by the River Styx have become unrecognizable.
Its skin was purplish-black and covered with cracks. Its eyes were blood-red, its fangs were exposed, its cheekbones were high, and it exuded a sinister death aura. It wore tattered armor with ghostly chains wrapped in the gaps. Its body was shrouded in black yin energy, and there were faint rustling sounds of wronged souls wailing. It was extremely terrifying.
"It actually worked!" Styx looked at the "zombie" he had created, clapped his hands lightly, and sighed inwardly.
The principles of heaven and earth are endless, and the primordial world is full of wonders. The zombie in front of us is still a corpse, with no vitality on its body, covered with yin energy and death energy, and without a soul. So it can't be considered "alive". But in a sense, it is still alive.
The zombies created by the River Styx respectfully knelt before the River Styx, bowing to their supreme creator.
"From this day forward, your name shall be... 'Ying Gou'!" Styx bestowed a name upon his creation, and at the same time, he raised his head and proclaimed to the primordial world: "Heaven above, today, there is a Daoist Styx here who has created the 'Zombie' race."
In the primordial era, all living beings fought and clashed endlessly, resulting in the tragic deaths of countless creatures. Heaven cherishes life, and those who kill without restraint should not only be burdened with karmic debts but also receive retribution in the world.
If any creature in the primordial world dies unjustly, and its resentment lingers in its heart, then after death, its corpse can gather yin energy and death energy to become a zombie, which is considered…
Thinking of this, Styx sighed softly as he explained the birth process of "Ying Gou" to the Heavenly Dao, and then continued, "Retribution."
After he finished speaking, with the approval of the Primordial Heavenly Dao, a mysterious and profound change instantly took shape throughout the entire Primordial World. Then, merits descended from the heavens and fell into the Netherworld Blood Sea.