As Shengxia's voice echoed across Honghuang, more immortals and deities headed toward Penglai Immortal Island.
Shengxia transmitted his voice to Hongjun, explaining the current situation and the unprecedented challenges now facing Honghuang together.
Using the authority of a Heavenly Dao Sage, Hongjun broadcasted a message across Honghuang: the Zixiao Palace would immediately hold its second lecture, and those with a destined affinity could attain a Heavenly Dao Sage position.
Heavenly Dao Sages? Whoever wanted to go could go; the fruit status of a Heavenly Dao Sage was actually being looked down upon, something never seen before in Honghuang.
Did they not see how, in the original text, Hongjun secretly plotted against Hongyun, causing his demise, all for the sake of a single strand of Heavenly Dao Hongmeng Purple Qi? After all, what did everyone cultivate for if not for a higher realm?
Yet once given a choice, who wouldn't want the best?
This time, the matter concerned the safety of Honghuang. If the defense beyond the heavens in Chaos were to fail, Honghuang would face a fatal crisis. If the Outer Demons were to breach Honghuang, it would spell disaster for all myriad races.
In the original text, the three thousand guests of the dust inside Zixiao Palace were currently all gathered to deal with the Outer Demons. Regardless of whether they were great immortals of the East or Buddhas of the West, they united as one, rushing over to listen to the Dao and receive opportunities.
"Ding!" The system's voice sounded in Shengxia's ear: "You have successfully checked in at Chaos Heaven. The host is rewarded with ten sources of Hongmeng Dao, a Hongmeng Spiritual Treasure, one Great Dao Golden Sharp Sword, and fifty strands of Great Dao Hongmeng Purple Qi. All have been placed into the system space."
What on earth was a Hongmeng Dao source? The system's voice chimed in to explain: the Hongjun Dao source is the key to achieving the Great Dao. Refining ten sources of Hongmeng Dao allows one to attain the first tier of a Hongmeng Dao Venerable.
The system explained that Hongmeng Dao Venerables are divided into forty-eight major realms, each with four minor realms.
Now Shengxia understood. The system introduced that even a Hongmeng Dao Venerable is an invincible existence in Chaos because their realm surpasses that of Great Dao Sages.
However, the drawback of refining ten Hongmeng Dao sources was that cultivating to increase one's realm would be slow—extremely slow. The advantage was being invincible across the heavens and able to directly travel to higher-level worlds.
Yet this was not what Shengxia wanted, nor was relying on painstaking cultivation. With a system and a cheat code, who would suffer through grueling cultivation?
Besides, the task of the Merit Golden Body was not yet complete, and cultivation without a complete state of mind left him with no current plans to leave Honghuang.
Meanwhile, Zhao Gongming and the Three Immortal Maidens were in secluded cultivation on the Three Immortal Islands, and all had already reached the peak cultivation of Peak Golden Immortal.
After the four immortals emerged from seclusion, they prepared to travel across Honghuang to seek their own opportunities.
Once the four immortals had discussed it, they prepared to head toward Kunlun and the Xiliang realm—the Daoist sanctuary of Zhenyuanzi, the Ancestor of Earth Immortals—and then travel further west.
"Ding! System check-in successful. The host is rewarded with twelve Sea-Suppressing Divine Pearls, the Chaos Spiritual Treasure Hunyuan Golden Dipper, the Chaos Spiritual Treasure Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors, and the Chaos Spiritual Treasure Zhuxian Seal. Please check the system space; the items have already been placed inside."
Let us introduce the Three Xiao sisters: Yunxiao, Bixiao, and Qiongxiao. In the original text, the Three Xiao sisters set up the Nine-Turn Yellow River Array, which was broken by Primeval Lord of Heaven. Bixiao and Qiongxiao had their primordial spirits placed on the Investiture of the Gods list, while Yunxiao was suppressed beneath Kirin Cliff. Though they were disciples of the same Jie School, their fates scattered to the ends of the world.
Yet today, this world of Honghuang was vastly different.
Shengxia had changed far, far too much about Honghuang.
That system was far too proactive. Knowing that they had taken human form late and lacked good weapons to protect themselves, it had surely prepared these for the Three Xiao sisters.
Whatever the system produced was bound to be of exceptional quality. To avoid unnecessary misunderstandings, Zhao Gongming, possessing the Merit Golden Body, decided to immediately present the Chaos Spiritual Treasures given by the system to the Three Xiao sisters.
Zhao Gongming said, "I took human form earlier than you all and obtained quite a few spiritual treasures while traveling across Honghuang. I am giving them to my junior sisters for self-protection."
He gave the Hunyuan Golden Dipper to Yunxiao, the Golden Flood-Dragon Scissors to Bixiao, and the Zhuxian Seal to Qiongxiao, adding, "With these treasures bestowed, you must not willfully cause slaughter."
Generally speaking, supreme innate spiritual treasures have forty-nine restrictions, Chaos Spiritual Treasures have fifty-one, mid-grade innate spiritual treasures have forty, and innate spiritual treasures have thirty-eight. As for the rest, there is no need to introduce them—just add eight going forward or subtract two going backward.