"Tao Ancestor, are the eight saints missing?"
After everyone took away their own merits, Jiang Chen looked at the black and yellow merit energy in the sky that had not disappeared much, and suddenly asked the Tao Ancestor beside him.
"The number of the world, nine is the extreme and ten is the fullness. In order to achieve perfection in the ancient world and be promoted to the highest and eternal heaven and earth, ten saints are required."
"Eight is indeed too few."
Upon hearing this, Daozu seemed to have guessed Jiang Chen's thoughts and replied with a smile.
The conversation between the two fell into the ears of everyone nearby, and it suddenly made them energetic. Why do they think they think there are too few saints, so they want to add a few more saints?
If this is the case, then their chance will come. It is true that as strong men from the old era, they have been abandoned by heaven and are indeed not qualified to become saints.
But just because they are not qualified does not mean that their disciples are not qualified. If the saint of the new era comes under their door, it will bring them great benefits.
In today's prehistoric times, there are a total of eight saints. Of course, there are eight saints, but there are only five saints.
The eight saints are the original six saints of heaven, plus Hongyun's Hongmeng purple energy, and the authentic saint Houtu Empress.
The five saints are from the beginning of the Taiqing Dynasty, including Yin Zhunti and the empress Tutu. If you add another Duobao who is about to become a saint, there will be six people.
Of the two missing ones, one is in the hands of Daozu Hongjun and the other is in the hands of Jiang Chen. They are waiting for the two to pick a suitable candidate to help him become a saint.
This time may be very short, or it may be extremely long. It basically depends on luck or luck.
"Nine is the ultimate. Today's prehistoric world is about to reach its limit, and it is indeed time to give birth to the ninth saint."
Jiang Chen smiled and agreed with Daozu's words. Now that Heaven has given him so much merit, he has no need to use it at all.
In this case, it is better to use these extra merits to create a new holy throne.
"That's how it should be!"
Daozu readily agreed and agreed very much with Jiang Chen's proposal.
The more saints there are in the prehistoric world, it means the more perfect the prehistoric world is, and the closer we are to the eternal world. This is the prosperous age of the prehistoric world, how could Taozu refuse?
"New holy throne!"
When the nearby great supernatural beings heard that a new saint was born, their eyes couldn't help but become hot again. This new saint must be born under their sect.
In the ancient times, eight saints could be born in the prehistoric times. But now, after the prehistoric world has experienced the catastrophe of destruction and re-establishment, its origin has become stronger and stronger, and it will naturally evolve into another holy position.
The number of holy places is the criterion for testing the evolution of the prehistoric world. The stronger the origin, the more perfect the rules of the avenue, and the more holy places that can be eliminated through evolution.
"The number begins with one, establishes with three, becomes five, flourishes with seven, and reaches its ultimate level with nine."
"Seven is the number of great prosperity. Six saints are enough for Xuanmen. It is only one step away from the extreme prosperity. This shows that Xuanmen still has room for improvement, and the younger generations of disciples can continue to make progress."
"But if there is one more saint, it will reach its peak and there will be no possibility of progress. If this continues, there will inevitably be signs of decline from peak to peak."
"Therefore, there can be no more six saints. The two extra saints will never be born in Xuanmen."
Just when the great masters of Xuanmen, dreaming of saints of the new era, came under his door, Taozu suddenly spoke and poured cold water on them.
There can only be a maximum of six saints in Xuanmen, no more. Therefore, facing the holy position released by Jiang Chen, their disciples have no qualifications to compete for it.
The only holy throne they can compete for is in the hands of Dao Ancestor, which should have originally belonged to Patriarch Hongyun.
From fighting for three to fighting for first, it was countless times more difficult. Everyone was speechless for a moment. But they had to admit that what Daozu said did make sense.
Due to the incompleteness of the way of heaven, prosperity must inevitably decline. This is the ultimate principle of heaven and earth, and even the prehistoric world cannot escape it.
The ancient prehistoric era is a symbol. The ancient prehistoric era can be said to have reached its peak of prosperity. However, after the ancient times, the prehistoric era began to decline, and it is only now that it has recovered.
Even the prehistoric times cannot escape the natural law of prosperity and decline, let alone Xuanmen? If the seventh saint is really born, Xuanmen will not be far away from weakening.
At this time, let’s not say that the Second Sage of the West is not a Xuanmen Sage.
Their holy titles were given by Taoist ancestors, and they received them in the name of Taoist disciples in Zixiao Palace. Therefore, unless they abandon their holy titles, even if they apostatize, this fact cannot be changed.
They are the saints of Xuanmen, one of the six saints.
All other forces can be weakened, but Xuanmen cannot. Because Xuanmen is too powerful, once Xuanmen weakens, all the forces in the ancient world will probably compete to bite Xuanmen and squeeze as much benefit from Xuanmen as possible.
In other words, once Xuanmen is weak, it will immediately become the target of all forces in the ancient world, and will completely decline, with no possibility of rising again.
This is the inevitable consequence of the birth of the seventh saint in Xuanmen. And if you want to make the powerful Xuanmen fall apart, external forces simply cannot do it. The only possibility is that the Xuanmen internally splits.
In other words, once the seventh saint of Xuanmen is born, Xuanmen will not be far away from splitting. The seventh saint is the beginning of the split in Xuanmen.
Thinking of this consequence, all the powerful Xuanmen were not very enthusiastic about the birth of the seventh saint in Xuanmen.
If Xuanmen is split, then only a few people in the entire Xuanmen will benefit, and most people will be affected.
After all, only the powerful Xuanmen can continue to control the prehistoric world. On the contrary, if Xuanmen is split, then they will lose their right to speak.
This is the so-called loss of legitimacy, which will inevitably affect your actions. You can no longer do what you used to do before, as long as you use the slogan of justice, you can basically have no taboos.
"What goes up must come down!"
Jiang Chen didn't understand what Daozu said. The words "the most prosperous must inevitably decline" can be said to be the nightmare of many forces in the ancient times.
From the original three Xiantian tribes, to the ancient Lich and Demon tribes, to the ancient human race, the ancient Jie Cult are all examples of prosperity and decline. At its most glorious moment, it gradually began to decline.
No one can escape this law, even Taoist ancestors can only try their best to avoid it. And there is only one way to really avoid prosperity and decline, and that is to promote the prehistoric world to the eternal world.
In the prehistoric times, there was no ever-lasting force, and the protagonists in the world were always changing. The reason for this lies with both heaven and earth.
This situation occurred because of scarcity and limited resources. If there were no flaws in the ancient world, with unlimited resources and boundless territory, then a long-lasting force would naturally be born.
And what kind of place has no flaws, unlimited resources, and unlimited territory? The answer is eternal heaven and earth.
Only in the eternal heaven and earth can there be infinite possibilities.
Therefore, the only way to solve the problem of prosperity and decline is to promote the prehistoric world to the eternal world.
Just ask why Jiang Chen is so impatient to let the ninth saint be derived from the ancient world? Doesn't he know that the prehistoric period has just ended, and I should focus on cultivating my moral character.
Even if we want to give birth to a new holy throne, we should wait until the prehistoric generals Lei Ze, Buzhou Mountain, Guixu and other places have been thoroughly refined and become more perfect, and then it will not be too late to derive a new holy throne.
Jiang Chen was a little anxious. He didn't care that Honghuang had just regained stability and was about to create a new holy position. He was so impatient that a bad operation would even damage the origin of Honghuang.
And the reason why he did this was because of the four words "prosperity and decline".
To prosper and then to decline is a fate that even in the prehistoric times cannot escape. And in the current prehistoric period, although there are just signs of prosperity, it is not far away from its peak of prosperity and decline.
For Xuanmen, the seventh saint is the beginning of Xuanmen's prosperity and decline. But for the ancient world, is it not the case?
In ancient times, weren't there seven saints? Nuwa of the Sanqing Dynasty, who received Zhunti, and Empress Houtu, were exactly seven saints.
The Seven Saints have coexisted for a lifetime, and the prehistoric world has indeed reached its peak prosperity as a result. Then, it began to prosper and then decline, and it continued to decline.
It was like this in the prehistoric times, and it must be the same in the prehistoric times now. The cycle of prosperity and decline cannot be escaped forever, but it can delay this time.
Today, there are only five saints in the ancient world, and even if Duobao returns to his throne, there are only six. Only when the seventh saint is born will the Great Desolate World officially enter its peak stage. Then, it flourishes and then declines.
And there is a question here, what is Shengji?
Ji, Ji means limit. The prehistoric era has to develop to the limit before it can be considered prosperous, and then it will weaken.
Jiang Chen's way of delaying the decline of prosperity is to raise the limit of heaven and earth, allowing him to flourish again after the prehistoric peak, until he is promoted to the eternal heaven and earth.
As long as it remains prosperous and has no limit, it will naturally avoid the fate of prosperity and decline.
And Jiang Chen's way to increase his prehistoric limit was to give birth to an eighth saint, or even a ninth saint.
After the birth of the seventh saint, the prehistoric world will enter a long period of prosperity, and then suddenly weaken when it reaches its limit.
At this time, if the eighth saint can be born in the prehistoric times, after it reaches its peak, it will continue to flourish and reach a new limit.
Then, the prehistoric period will continue in a more prosperous state for a long time.
And when this peak stage develops to its limit, the ninth saint of the ancient world will be born. In this way, we can continue to break the limit and continue to prosper after the peak.
After breaking the limit twice in succession, the prehistoric world continued to flourish even more prosperously. I believe that after such development, the prehistoric era should not be far away from being promoted to the eternal world.
At that time, even without external force, the tenth holy position should be able to evolve in the prehistoric world. In this way, the prehistoric world can be promoted to the eternal world, and thus can completely escape the fate of prosperity and decline.
This was Jiang Chen's idea, and it was inevitable.
Because under normal circumstances, if he had not died, the prehistoric trend would have developed as he thought.
Therefore, what he thinks will definitely become reality, and unless something happens to him, it will never change.
The Ninth Saint has been artificially evolved, and the selection of candidates for the Ninth Saint has begun now. After finding the right person, the prosperity of the ancient world can be continued and become stronger.
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With thoughts flying in his heart, Jiang Chen thought a lot and made various plans for the future of the prehistoric era. But this all happened in a single thought. Soon, Jiang Chen came back to his senses and followed Dao Ancestor's words and said:
"Daozu is right. Xuanmen should be talking about the way of heaven. Six saints are already a lot. The remaining saints should be divided between the earthly way and the human way."
"Now, the underground realm already has the saint Houtu Empress, but the human realm doesn't even have a saint. This is not good."
"Therefore, I decided that this ninth saint from the ancient world should come from the human realm, and preferably be an acquired creature."
Jiang Chen opened his mouth and directly restricted the selection of the ninth saint. He must belong to the human realm and must be an acquired creature.
This basically means that the ninth saint must be chosen among the human race. After all, there are many creatures related to humanity, but there is only one acquired race recognized by heaven and earth, the human race.
There are other acquired races, such as the Asuras, but their innate elements are too heavy, and they are not as beloved by heaven and earth as the human race.
There are many acquired races, but few are as pure as the human race, and even fewer are as powerful as the human race. Not to mention, the human race has a character like Jiang Chen.
As Jiang Chen finished speaking, the selection range for this ninth saint was basically determined, and he could only choose from the human race.
"Nature and acquired are all creatures from the ancient world. Since your majesty chooses the acquired creature, then for this Hongmeng Purple Qi in the hand of this poor Taoist, let's choose an innate creature."
Daozu Hongjun thought for a while and said.
He is influenced by the way of heaven and does things like this, trying to highlight fairness. Since descended souls can become saints, then naturally so can innate souls.
It is true that in the prehistoric times there were no acquired souls that became saints, but there were also no inborn souls that became saints. To a certain extent, the two represent the two largest lower-class groups in the world.
And now, a new saint is selected from among them, which also marks the theme of the new era, not judging one's rank based on one's birth.
"Of the four holy positions, one belongs to the human realm and is chosen among the innate creatures. The other belongs to the heavenly realm and is chosen among the innate creatures."
"One belongs to the old era and should be in Duobao. The other belongs to the new era and should be in the future."
The ownership of the four holy positions was decided during the conversation between Jiang Chen and Daozu, and each had its own selection range.
In this regard, almost everyone has no reason to refute, but one person is an exception, and that is Empress Houtu!
She is the master of the tunnel. Logically speaking, she is also qualified to choose a saint, not to mention that she has also made great efforts in this new life.
Therefore, to confirm the ownership of the holy throne this time, Empress Houtu is qualified to speak out both emotionally and rationally.
(End of chapter)
