vstars Chapter 4 Styx: Is this right?
Chapter 4 Styx: Is this right?
"Ten thousand acres of merit, that's a bit little, but..." Styx happily put away the newly acquired Heavenly Dao merit. He didn't intend to absorb this merit, but rather to keep it in his body as a trump card.
To do something, especially something that affects the entire primordial world, you need at least a plausible reason.
The process of "Ying Gou's" birth has been completely presented to the Primordial Heavenly Dao. From then on, any living being in the Primordial World who dies with injustice and hatred will have a lingering resentment in their heart. As their corpses accumulate and absorb Yin energy over time, they will have the opportunity to transform into a zombie-eating race.
As the creator of the vampire race, Styx knew very well that creating such monsters—born from death, filled with resentment, driven by the life force of living beings, and outside the Five Elements—would only help the Heavenly Dao evolve further, but would bring no benefit to the primordial beings.
Like the scientist in a later anecdote who bred cold-resistant mosquitoes, if he cannot find a reasonable explanation for his actions, he is destined to face a fierce attack.
Even with the Blood God Child and the Netherworld Blood Sea by his side, he is not invincible. He can be aloof, but he cannot stand against the vast majority of prehistoric beings.
Therefore, Styx gave this explanation for his actions: the primordial creatures fought each other endlessly, killing too many holy spirits unjustly. The resulting bloodshed led to the birth of zombies, which was retribution. Cause and effect are a cycle, and this is the way of heaven.
Although I created the zombie race, it was for the good of all living beings in the primordial world. What resentment?
They should thank us.
Looking at Ying Gou, who was still kneeling before him, Minghe began to inject the creature with its factory settings: "This creature is called the Blood-Winged Black Mosquito, a great scourge; eliminate it upon encounter!"
After ensuring that the zombie progenitor understood, Styx transformed into a streak of blood light and left the place, leaving Ying Gou behind, who stared blankly in the direction where Styx had just stood, before beginning to wander aimlessly on the sea of blood.
Next, as the rules of heaven and earth are perfected, more and more zombies will appear above the Blood Sea. The seawater and death energy of the Blood Sea will become the nutrients for their growth, and in turn, catalyze the formation of a "great army" that will become the nightmare of Mosquito Daoist.
Styx did not speculate on the future of the zombie race, after all, Ying Gou was not very strong. Styx calculated according to the standards of later immortals that Ying Gou's strength was probably not even that of a Golden Immortal. Apart from being able to absorb lifeless things to restrain Mosquito Daoist, he had no other outstanding points.
How strong can a zombie be?
For Styx at this point, this is merely a practice run. The most important thing for Styx now is how to create the Asura race.
After all, he probably can't do the tasks of revitalizing the Jie Sect and vying for the rightful lineage of Pangu, and as for side quests... it's hard to say how much benefit he can get. Styx, who takes the Dao of Slaughter as his foundation, will probably have to rely on the Asura Clan and the major sects based on them in the later stages of his life.
[Ding! Congratulations, host, for creating the zombie race. With a flick of your wrist, you have dealt a significant blow to the forces of Zhunti, Jieyin, and the Western Sect, allowing them to avenge part of the defeat suffered by the Jie Sect during the Investiture of the Gods. The completion rate of Main Quest Two has slightly increased.]
[You are now rewarded with one copy of the Great Dao of Soul (Grand Luo Golden Immortal level) and one copy of the Great Dao of Food (Grand Luo Golden Immortal level)]
Styx: ?
Targeting Zhunti and Jieyin?
What happened?
He didn't!
In fact, unlike those transmigrators who immediately fought to the death against the two Western Buddhas upon arriving in the world, Styx actually admired the two Western Buddhas.
In Zixiao Palace, there are many who are stronger and more profound than Zhunti and Jieyin, but in the end, they all achieved the position of Heavenly Saint. While Hongjun's arrangement certainly played a part in this, even with someone supporting them, it still requires considerable strength to occupy that position.
For the goal of the great prosperity of the West, they went through countless years and three great tribulations: the Lich Wars, the Investiture of the Gods, and the Journey to the West. Finally, they brought the shattered West to such a great height. Faced with Lao Tzu's powerful open scheme of converting barbarians into Buddhists, they were willing to quell the scheme by taking the position of religious leader. This shows their magnanimity, breadth of vision, and wisdom.
He merely created the zombie race; what does that have to do with Zhunti and Jieyin?
Although he suspected the system might be malfunctioning again, Styx decided to make a calculation out of caution.
After a quick calculation, Styx's expression froze.
……
The creation of zombies by the Styx River was not of great concern to most powerful beings in the prehistoric world. After all, in such a vast world, something always happens.
They didn't care about the Three Pure Ones who were diligently cultivating in Kunlun Mountain, or the Twelve Ancestral Witches who were grinding their teeth and sucking blood in Buzhou Mountain, or Di Jun who was full of ambition with his good brother Taiyi on the Sun Star.
However, this does not apply to Cundi and Jieyin.
In fact, neither Zhunti nor Jieyin cared at first.
When Ying Gou was born, Zhunti and Jieyin were in the East "converting those with affinity" and working hard to revitalize the West. However, the West was in such dire straits that repairing the earth veins and spiritual veins that had been shattered by Rahu was already an impossible task.
However, Zhunti and Jieyin did not intend to give up. But soon, thousands of years later, Zhunti and Jieyin, who were working hard to convert sentient beings, quickly put down what they were doing and rushed back to the West after noticing the disturbance of the Qi in the West.
As the current rulers of the West, they never imagined that even though the West was already in such a dilapidated state, its fortune would still decline so drastically!
Upon returning to the West, seeing the Western land littered with corpses, Zhunti and Jieyin felt a chill run down their spines.
Zombies are living beings who died with resentment, and after death, they have a lingering resentment in their chests. They are born by absorbing the resentment, yin energy, and evil energy between heaven and earth. So, in the present-day primordial world, where are the corpses, resentment, and evil energy the most abundant and densest?
Aside from the sea of blood, there was only the West.
After all, the previous great calamity had a very wide impact, with countless beings in the West dying tragically. Among them were innocent beings, as well as the demon sons and grandsons of Rahu, and even countless beings from the three primordial races.
Their corpses, resentment, and wronged souls remained on this shattered land. Now, in addition to the endless stream of wronged souls, this vicious cycle, woven from demonic energy, resentment, yin energy, and broken earth veins and spiritual veins, has caused waves of zombies to rise up on the western land.
"What happened!" Zhunti was dumbfounded. Smoke swirled above his Dharma Eyes. Even though he was now one of the few great supernatural beings in the prehistoric world, his body still trembled with anger beneath his tattered Taoist robe.
"Who! Who committed this heinous act?!" Jieyin was furious, his seven orifices blazing with anger. It was already difficult for them to convert those with affinity, all because the West was barren. Even though the two of them, great supernatural beings, were willing to impart all their knowledge, there were still very few who responded. Now, this scourge of corpses had appeared on the western land, which was truly adding insult to injury.