Between Heaven and Earth, within a single day, five Saints were born, a grand spectacle that utterly shocked the Grandmist.
Once upon a time, within the Grandmist, the concept of a Saint didn't even exist.
Only after Hongjun achieved the Dao, and Zixiao Palace preached the Dao three times, did all beings come to know what a Saint was.
And knowing was one thing, but achieving it was another!
Previously, only Dao Ancestor Hongjun was a Saint, and he had even merged with the Heavenly Dao.
Now, Saints were appearing one after another.
This led anyone to associate it with the Hongmeng Purple Qi that the Three Pure Ones, Nuwa, Jieyin, and Zhunti had obtained.
Only with Hongmeng Purple Qi could one achieve the Dao and become a Saint!
How enviable, jealous, and hateful that was!
The great powers from all sides couldn't help but stir.
Their gazes turned towards the direction of Longevity Mountain Wuzhuang Temple.
Currently, among those who possessed Hongmeng Purple Qi and had not yet achieved the Dao, only Hongyun remained.
So, could Hongyun achieve the Dao?
Everyone was waiting, but until dusk fell, there was still no movement from the direction of Longevity Mountain Wuzhuang Temple.
Hongyun did not follow the Three Pure Ones, Jieyin, and Zhunti in achieving the Dao on this day.
For a time, countless hearts grew even more excited.
Hongyun not achieving the Dao gave them hope!
The only regret was that Hongyun was currently holed up in Longevity Mountain Five Villages Temple, protected by Zhenyuanzi, making it difficult for them to get a chance to act.
In Mount Buzhou, Lin Yang sent off the Enlightenment Tea Tree Incarnation, letting him go to Kunlun Mountain to apprentice under Primordial.
After Jieyin and Zhunti achieved the Dao, they took the opportunity to advertise and promote the Western Sect, urging all beings who wished to join the Western Sect to register as soon as possible.
Seeing this, Primordial and Tongtian also quickly announced to the Grandmist that they would begin recruiting Disciples.
It's easy to imagine that, compared to each other, Jieyin and Zhunti's Western Sect was immediately overshadowed.
The West was barren and desolate; although the great sect had two Saints guarding it, how could it compare to the Chan Sect and the Jie Sect?
Primordial and Tongtian were both Pangu orthodox, and also Hongjun's Personal Disciples, compared to Jieyin and Zhunti, these two Named Disciples.
Their status was much nobler!
Therefore, the two's sects were the most sought after by all beings!
Among them, Primordial's Chan Sect was stricter, only accepting creatures with good foundations and deep fortune.
But Tongtian's Jie Sect accepted all without discrimination, with an extremely low threshold!
Therefore, this further led to no one wanting to go to the Western Sect.
Almost all beings who wanted to apprentice had the same idea as Lin Yang.
Go to Kunlun Mountain.
First apprentice to the Chan Sect.
If the Chan Sect didn't accept, then apprentice to the Jie Sect.
As for Laozi's Human Sect, there was no way; Laozi's acceptance of Disciples focused on the mystical concept of fate, making it too difficult to join the Human Sect.
Moreover, the Human Sect, the Human Sect, to enter the Human Sect, one must first be a human!
First apprenticing to the Chan Sect, and if the Chan Sect didn't accept, then apprenticing to the Jie Sect, this was the worst outcome for Lin Yang.
After all, with the Aptitude of the Enlightenment Tea Tree Incarnation, the possibility of successfully joining the Chan Sect was very high.
In Mount Buzhou, after sending off the Enlightenment Tea Tree Incarnation, Lin Yang placed a sub-Primordial Spirit into the new drop of pangu essence blood.
The pangu essence blood swallowed the sub-Primordial Spirit, forming a large cocoon, emitting bursts of Evil Qi.
This time, the Ancestral Witch template Lin Yang chose was the Ancestral Witch of Earth—Houtu.
He didn't know whether the Incarnation that would be conceived would be male or female.
If, like Houtu, it was female, that would be a bit awkward.
Although it was his Incarnation, it could also be seen as a cross-dressing Lin Yang!
After doing all this, Lin Yang once again transformed into a Gourd Vine and went to sleep.
His Longevity Dao Cultivation was simple: just grow in this valley and sleep silently.
After all, sleeping for an immeasurable eon, even a pig could become invincible, right?
Time flew by, and in a blink of an eye, another five thousand years passed.
On this day, at the junction of the Eastern and Western lands, there was a famous mountain.
And especially in these years, this famous mountain became even more renowned.
Many great powers came to check in and scout.
This famous mountain was precisely Longevity Mountain.
On the mountain, there was a Daoist temple called Five Villages Temple.
And in Five Villages Temple, at this time, there were two great powers: one was the owner of Five Villages Temple—Zhenyuanzi.
And the other was Zhenyuanzi's good friend, Hongyun.
When Zixiao Palace preached the Dao for the third time, Hongyun, though extremely fortunate, obtained the last strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi.
But because of this, he was coveted by many great powers.
Therefore, after returning from Zixiao Palace, he had been hiding here with Zhenyuanzi, cultivating in seclusion.
He had never gone out.
This also gave many great powers a headache.
Zhenyuanzi, the owner of Longevity Mountain Wuzhuang Temple, was not to be trifled with; he held a Book of Earth.
It was formed from the earth's placenta.
Zhenyuanzi used this Book of Earth to form the Innate Earth Great Array; its defense was too strong.
Everyone dared not act rashly against him.
They could only wait for Hongyun to come out.
But they waited for a thousand years, then another thousand years, and another thousand years... but Hongyun still didn't come out.
This was maddening!
In these years, many great powers outside Longevity Mountain had withdrawn, and most of the remaining ones didn't hold much hope.
But who would have thought that on this very day, accompanied by a quarrel, everyone stared in astonishment.
They saw two people arguing fiercely.
These two were Zhenyuanzi and Hongyun.
And after a quarrel, everyone clearly saw Hongyun leave indignantly.
Everyone was stunned.
Hongyun, did he finally decide to come out?
No longer seeking shelter in Zhenyuanzi's Daoist temple?
For a time, everyone's hearts boiled.
And at this moment, in Mount Buzhou, in the valley, Lin Yang, who was in a deep sleep, also received a prompt from the System.
"Ding, Divine Grade Choice System has issued a mission: Hongyun is leaving Five Villages Temple and is about to be ambushed. Please, Host, quickly go to rescue Hongyun."
"Choice One: Accept the mission, and you can obtain the supreme Innate Spirit Treasure Nine-Nine Soul Dispersing Red Gourd, and a strand of Hongmeng Purple Qi."
"Choice Two: Reject the mission, and participate in killing Hongyun, and you can obtain the supreme Innate Spirit Treasure Wu Ji Apricot Yellow Flag, and a drop of pangu essence blood."
"Choice Three: Reject the mission, and remain in Mount Buzhou, and you can obtain the supreme Innate Spirit Treasure Leaving Earth Flame Light Flag, and a strand of pangu primordial spirit."
Which of the three options should he choose?
Lin Yang thought for a moment, then decisively chose three.
Going out of the mountain was impossible.
Moreover, comparatively, the reward for the third choice clearly appealed to him more.
Leaving Earth Flame Light Flag, and the pangu primordial spirit he didn't get last time, he finally obtained it this time.
The only regret was that the Wu Ji Apricot Yellow Flag was in the second option.
He couldn't get this last flag either, otherwise, he would have truly collected all Five Directions Flag.
As Lin Yang made his choice, a flag burning with raging flames, and an ancient and profound Primordial Spirit, immediately appeared before Lin Yang.
Leaving Earth Flame Light Flag, the System really brought it out.
Without thinking, it was stolen again.
After Zixiao Palace's third sermon, Laozi obtained the Leaving Earth Flame Light Flag from the Treasure-Dividing Cliff, which many people saw at the time.
But now, Laozi's treasure was stolen by the System, to be used as a reward for Lin Yang.
This made Lin Yang unable to help but laugh.
He really liked the System's act of robbing the rich to help the poor; whether he could collect all Five Directions Flag in the future depended on the System.