Above the sea of merit, a pair of huge purple eyes appeared. They were the eyes of Heaven, and He appeared in person.
Brush~~
Wisps of purple energy flowed down from his body, which was the origin of the heavenly way. It was mixed with the golden light of merit, and the rules of the great avenue emerged, turning into balls of bright fire, burning the golden light of merit and the origin of the heavenly way.
Under the burning of the regular fire, the golden light of merit and the origin of Heavenly Dao were shrinking rapidly. It didn't take long for the sea-like golden light of merit to turn into a ten-foot-sized purple-gold Dao Fruit, suspended in the chaos.
The supreme aura pervades from this purple-gold Dao fruit, and the perfect Dao rhyme flows from it, making even chaos surrender.
The Hunyuan Dao Fruit, no, it is the Saint Dao Fruit!
This purple-gold Tao Fruit is the legendary Saint Tao Fruit, which represents a holy status. At this moment, as long as Jiang Chen steps forward and picks this Tao Fruit, he can become an immortal saint of heaven.
"Will the seventh heavenly saint appear today?"
Looking at the Saint Dao Fruit in the chaos, the eyes of many people with great supernatural powers were filled with longing, wishing they could take Jiang Chen's place instead.
Who doesn’t want to become a saint? It’s just that most people with great supernatural powers don’t have the qualifications. If possible, many people with great supernatural powers would rather give up the opportunity to become Hunyuan Daluo Golden Immortal in order to become a saint.
Compared with Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian, although saints are bound by the law of heaven and lose part of their freedom, the benefits of becoming a saint are greater.
To put it simply, after becoming a saint, you have basically opened up the road to the Hunyuan. As long as you survive countless tribulations, you will inevitably become the realm of Wujiluo Jinxian.
And this is just a guarantee. That is to say, no matter how bad your talent is, as long as you can become a saint, you will be able to reach the realm of Wuji Luojinxian at worst in the future.
But if your talent is good, then with the blessing of the power of heaven, Wujiluo Jinxian is just the beginning, and it is not impossible to move to a higher realm in the future.
After paying a certain amount of freedom, you can exchange it for the opportunity to reach a higher realm. This deal is very cost-effective. After all, Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian said it was freedom, but like the saint, he was equally powerless in the face of the monstrous trend.
If you want to go against the general trend, even Hunyuan Da Luo Jinxian will fall to pieces.
This point has been personally confirmed by the three Hunyuan Da Luo Jinxian, Di Jun, Tai Yi, and Di Jiang from the ancient times.
If Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian could go against the general trend, then the three of them would not have fallen, and neither would the Lich clan.
When facing the general trend, he is also powerless. What is the difference between the free Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian and the restrained saint? It is better to become a saint!
"Sanctification?"
Looking at the saint Daoguo in front of him, Jiang Chen seemed a little hesitant for a moment.
Although his current state is only in the quasi-sage stage, he has already met the requirements for becoming a saint. This was the state that Nuwa was in when she became a saint.
What Jiang Chen hesitates about is whether he wants to become a saint or not. Needless to say, the benefits of becoming a saint are that he can become one of the ten most powerful beings in the world in one leap.
But the disadvantage of becoming a saint is equally obvious, that is, Jiang Chen needs to give up everything he has achieved.
After becoming a saint, Jiang Chen can no longer become a human emperor. How can a saint defy heaven? The path of the ninth human emperor is the path of defying heaven. The moment of becoming a saint is the moment when the path of other human emperors is cut off.
The human emperor is the emperor of the human race. Human beings are in front and the emperor is behind.
But although saints are human beings, they are saints in front and humans behind. Saints are saints of heaven and earth, not saints of the human race.
Saints should put the interests of heaven and earth first, followed by the interests of the race. Becoming a saint does not make Jiang Chen completely give up on the human race, but he will not be able to do his best as before.
If you can't help yourself, you are talking about a saint.
Just like Empress Nuwa, she is obviously the Holy Mother of the human race, but because of the constraints of heaven, she cannot directly help the human race and can only help secretly.
Becoming a saint is more in line with Jiang Chen's interests, while not becoming a saint is more in line with the interests of the human race. Jiang Chen is hesitant to give up becoming a saint for the sake of the human race.
The great magical powers of the ancient world, including the saints, were all watching this scene. Seeing Jiang Chen's hesitation, they did not speak and were all waiting for Jiang Chen's choice.
No one would think that Jiang Chen would refuse the temptation of becoming a saint. That is becoming a saint. He is high up, overlooking the river of time and space. Everyone asks themselves, who can refuse this temptation?
No!
In such a vast world, no one can resist this temptation.
No, it's not that there isn't one. There was such a person in ancient times. He was Emperor Xi. He was able to ignore the temptation of the holy throne and still has no regrets.
When Taozu first preached, he placed six futons in Zixiao Palace.
At that time, Emperor Xi, who was a master of fortune-telling, knew that the six futons contained great fortune at the first sight.
At that time, Emperor Xi could occupy a futon position as long as he wished. But he refused and gave that position to his sister Nuwa.
Even after the secret of the six futons was revealed, which contained the opportunity to become a saint, Emperor Xi did not regret it, because the moment he gave up his position, he realized what he had missed.
Emperor Xi was the only person in the prehistoric times who could resist the temptation of the holy throne, and there should be only one.
In the past, those with great supernatural powers thought so. But now, they have become unconfident, because Jiang Chen, standing in front of the Saint's Dao Fruit, has not made a choice for a long time.
This makes people wonder whether Jiang Chen doesn’t want to become a saint!
Just when everyone was speculating on what Jiang Chen meant, he suddenly laughed and took a step back, away from the Saint Dao Fruit.
"I am a variable. I came against the will of heaven. I will never be able to follow heaven in this life. This position of saint is not destined for me!"
Jiang Chen realized and figured out that he would never become a saint in this life. He was not a living being in this world, but a variable that had smuggled in from unknown time and space for unknown reasons.
He is the variable, the one that escapes.
Through the information he has mastered, he constantly changes the inherent trend of the ancient world and uses his own power to move the entire world. This is his way.
Even if it is a variable, Jiang Chen cannot become a saint.
Being a saint is a destiny. If Jiang Chen becomes a saint, he will change from a variable to a destiny. He will be out of the control of Heaven and return to the control of Heaven.
In this way, his way will be cut off, his extraordinary performance will be far away from him, and he will disappear into the crowd and fight with the other saints. No, he will not even be as good as the other saints.
Without the advantage brought by his variable identity, how can he, a creature that has lived for hundreds of years, compete with those old monsters that have lived for hundreds of millions of years?
Therefore, for Jiang Chen, becoming a saint means ending his own future. He will never be able to become a saint.
After thinking about this, Jiang Chen refused very simply. Even if it was the supreme holy position, he would refuse it as he said.
To be honest, the saint's temptation to Jiang Chen is not as great as outsiders imagine, because he already has the Hunyuan Dao Fruit!
Millions of years later, when the Chaos Green Lotus devours the Twelfth Grade Karma Fire Red Lotus and the Northern Xuanyuan Water Control Flag, he will naturally transform into the Chaos Demon God and become the Hunyuan Great Luo Golden Immortal.
Jiang Chen has more choices, and there is not only one way to become a saint. Therefore, the temptation of becoming a saint is not very big for him. Rejection may make him regretful, but it will not make him heartbroken or regretful.
"It's a pity that the Zhoutian Temple was used by me to repair the boundless starry sky. Otherwise, I could be pushed to the Hunyuan realm just by relying on the power that the Zhoutian Temple gave me after it was promoted to a Hunyuan-level artifact."
Jiang Chen suddenly realized that he was at a loss. He had destroyed the Hunyuan-level combat power of the Hunyuan Temple in exchange for a Saint Dao Fruit that had great restrictions on him. This deal was not worth it!
"Refused…"
"He really said no!"
The great supernatural power users of the ancient times were all shocked when they saw this scene. They did not think Jiang Chen's behavior was stupid, but they admired Jiang Chen's behavior extremely.
They admired Jiang Chen's Taoist heart. This is the mentality that a Taoist should have. He is firm and able to reject all temptations in the world.
People with such a heart of appreciating the Tao are naturally worthy of their admiration, because even if they reject the sage's Tao Fruit, their future will not be bleak, but will become more splendid.
The further you go in cultivating the Tao, the more important the Tao heart becomes, and only those who have identified the Tao heart can reach the end of the road.
"Rejected?"
Yuanshi Tianzun breathed a sigh of relief subconsciously. He didn't want to see Jiang Chen become a saint. How could he feel embarrassed that a junior who had only practiced Taoism for a few hundred years could be as respected as him?
…
Heaven has the dignity of Heaven, but when Jiang Chen refused, He did not say anything to persuade him to stay, nor did he give Jiang Chen a second chance, and directly gave up the Saint Dao Fruit.
Boom!
The saint's Dao fruit exploded and was repainted into a golden sea of black and yellow merit.
"Um?"
"Heaven has a good plan!"
It was at this time that Jiang Chen understood some of the truth about this Saint Dao Fruit.
The Saint's Dao Fruit itself is no problem, but it is the same as Hou Tu Niangniang's Saint Dao Fruit, with a restriction added to it.
That is to say, after refining this Saint Dao Fruit, Jiang Chen will be imprisoned in the boundless starry sky. He will not be free until the boundless starry sky is completely restored.
Otherwise, Jiang Chen will always be trapped in the boundless starry sky and will not be able to leave this place for even half a step, just like Empress Houtu was confined to the Netherworld.
After realizing this, Jiang Chen felt extremely lucky. Fortunately, he rejected the temptation to become a saint, otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous.
How could he carry out his next plan when he was trapped in the boundless starry sky? Heaven's law is really ruthless. It means catching a person and using it to his death.
Not to mention that Jiang Chen being trapped in the Infinite Starry Sky will affect his plan to reshape the world. In fact, it will not, because the Infinite Starry Sky is also a part of the Infinite Starry Sky. Reshaping the Infinite Starry Sky also reshapes the world.
Tiandao imprisoned Jiang Chen in the boundless starry sky because he wanted him to completely restore this place before reshaping the ancient world. In this way, with the complete boundless starry sky as his back, it would definitely be easier for Jiang Chen to repair the ancient world.
Although the purpose is the same, Tiandao has Tiandao's thoughts, and Jiang Chen has Jiang Chen's thoughts. Jiang Chen doesn't want to listen to Tiandao, but Heavenly Dao doesn't want to listen to Jiang Chen, so that's how the Saint's Dao Fruit came about.
"insidious!"
Cursing the Heavenly Dao secretly for being insidious, Jiang Chen began to collect the merit energy in front of him and use it to cultivate the golden wheel of magical power and merit. Without the origin of the Heavenly Dao, this merit energy is just the merit energy. Even if they are all refined, it will not let people
sanctify.
However, although it cannot make people saint, the amount of merit energy has not been reduced. After Jiang Chen absorbed them all, he directly refined the magical power of the merit golden wheel to the state of Dzogchen.
Buzz buzz...
The void began to tremble inexplicably, and twelve bright golden wheels of merit emerged from the back of Jiang Chen's head, slowly turning, drooping down endless golden light, and engulfing his body.
At the same time, as the twelve golden wheels of merit turned, the power of heaven and earth continued to flow in, continuously transforming Jiang Chen's body, transforming it into the legendary Xuanhuang immortal body.
The Xuanhuang Immortal Body, the supreme holy body, stands between heaven and earth. Even the saint cannot obliterate it and can only seal it.
Of course, this is without using the Heaven-Opening Treasure. In such a vast world, there is nothing that the Heaven-Opening Treasure cannot destroy, including the Dao of Heaven.
If you can't do it, it's not that the Heaven Opening Treasure is not strong, but also that the person who activates it is not strong enough.
"I am already invincible. With twelve merits and golden wheels protecting my body, who can break my defense except Hunyuan Daluo Jinxian?"
Although he has not become a saint, being able to refine the Golden Wheel of Merit to a perfect state is enough for Jiang Chen to be excited. In the future, when he meets people with great supernatural powers, he does not need to be cautious because they can no longer touch him.
Unless he self-destructs or is holding an innate treasure, no matter how powerful a person attacks, there is no way he can break through Jiang Chen's defense.
"The boundless starry sky has been reshaped, and Ziwei Star has also fallen into my control. Next, it is time for my great wish to dominate the world to be put into action."
Stepping slowly, Jiang Chen walked towards Ziweixing.
Taking over Ziwei Star, in this era when the Emperor of Heaven does not appear, Jiang Chen becomes the most noble emperor in the world, the Lord of the Stars, in charge of thunder, and the ruler of countless ghosts and gods in the three realms...
Compared with the Sun Star and the Lunar Star, the Ziwei Star does not breed any treasures. Because the meaning it represents is the greatest treasure.
Is there any treasure in this world that is more precious than power? Mastering Ziwei Star is equivalent to mastering power. This is the most precious treasure in the world.
Rumble!
The moment Jiang Chen took control of Ziwei Star, with Ziwei Star as the center, all the stars began to tremble, and wisps of bright starlight dropped down towards the world.
The light of these stars converged in mid-air, merged with the starlight of Ziwei Star, and turned into a colorful divine light that fell into a small village on the bank of Jiangshui in Nanzhan Buzhou.
In the eyes of ordinary people, this small village is ordinary and nothing special. But in the eyes of the big forces, this seemingly ordinary small village is extremely terrifying, making them deeply afraid.
Because this is the hometown of Emperor Yan, the residence of the Jiang family in the world, and the place where Jiang Chen was born.