Golden Lotus of Merit
Merit was something that countless people coveted. They didn't even mind soaking in the Pool of Merit. Who would complain that they had too much merit? In this world, this kind of thing was like money. No one would complain that they had too little.
But Yang Hongwu didn't care about it.
Merit?
To him, it didn't have any use. He didn't cultivate the Merit Law, and he didn't want to use merit to prove his Dao.
What he needed was karma, boundless karma. He wanted to use karma to cultivate the Red Lotus Karmic Fire and make the Fire Lotus even stronger.
It was just that Yang Hongwu couldn't do those outrageous things. If he did, it would go against his conscience and it would be easy for him to go berserk. At that time, he wouldn't just go berserk. He would definitely become an unparalleled devil.
Yang Hongwu didn't want to become such a demon. At that time, he wouldn't be himself, but another person, another consciousness. His original consciousness would be completely erased and replaced.
Of course, Yang Hongwu didn't want such a situation.
"Who is it that obtained such a huge amount of merit?"
"Could it be that he opened up a small world?"
"No, even if it was a small world, it's impossible to have such a huge amount of merit."
Some ancient existences were discussing. They wanted to know who it was, and what kind of great deed they had done to make the Heavenly Dao bestow such a huge amount of merit power.
These ancient existences were all incomparably envious. To them, after cultivating for countless years and reaching such a level, which one of them didn't have a huge amount of karma on their body? This karma would attract a terrifying heavenly tribulation. If one's cultivation wasn't enough, it was very likely that they would be turned into ashes during the tribulation.
Even if one succeeded in crossing the tribulation and ascended to the Divine Realm, those with too much karma would attract heavenly tribulation after a certain number of years. This was the disadvantage of having too much karma.
However, if one had merit, it would be different. Once there was merit, it could offset the negative karma. Moreover, if there was enough merit, not only could it offset the negative karma, but it could also resist and weaken the Heavenly Tribulation.
More importantly, after ascending, one wouldn't be like those who had too much karma and didn't have merit to protect them. They wouldn't attract heavenly tribulation. This meant that there was no need to worry about their lives and they didn't need to worry about the arrival of heavenly tribulation.
This was something that many people dreamed of. However, for Yang Hongwu, merit was useless.
What he wanted was karma. It was a pity that so much karma. Otherwise, that much karma would be enough to upgrade the Fire Lotus and make his Red Lotus Karmic Fire even stronger.
But now, with the appearance of merit, the negative karma was eliminated, making all of Yang Hongwu's calculations go to waste.
Hence, at that very moment, Yang Hongwu was extremely depressed.
If those old antiques knew what Yang Hongwu was thinking at that very moment, they would definitely be furious. One should know that it wasn't easy to obtain Heavenly Merit. Many people had done a lot of good deeds in order to obtain merit but they didn't get much merit. However, Yang Hongwu had obtained too much merit. It was simply unprecedented.
If he were to cultivate the Secret Skill of Merit, such a huge amount of merit would be enough for him to break through the bottleneck and become an expert at the Peak of Taiyi True God Realm.
However, Yang Hongwu didn't care about it.
Of course, the merit wasn't useless to Yang Hongwu. This was because the Power of Merit didn't just eliminate the karma on his body. Most importantly, it eliminated the Heavenly Way and the world's rejection of him.
This was the biggest benefit that Yang Hongwu had obtained.
In fact, what Yang Hongwu didn't know was that besides these uses, merit had another benefit, which was to increase one's luck.
This was especially true for the providence of this world.
Speaking of which, Yang Hongwu's luck was certainly very heaven-defying. However, in this world, his luck wasn't very good.
If it weren't for his special identity and cultivation method, his luck wouldn't be as strong as those so-called supreme talents in this world.
However, Yang Hongwu's extraordinary luck, or in other words, the luck of the Great Path, was different. It was absolutely incomparable.
The concept of luck was extremely mysterious.
However, it existed.
Not only did the people of the Immortal Dao and Divine Dao have luck, the people of the Demon Dao also had luck.
For example, Zi Tian. In fact, the original body of Zi Tian was a peerless devil with terrifying strength. Moreover, that guy was like a cockroach that couldn't be killed. No, he was much stronger than a cockroach. Many times, he was almost killed by Yang Hongwu. However, he didn't succeed every time.
Moreover, every time he was almost killed by Yang Hongwu, he would become stronger. This made Yang Hongwu extremely annoyed. That guy was like a piece of sticky candy that he couldn't get rid of.
Even now, when he came to the Mortal Continent, he met a Purple Moon Demon King. This guy was very similar to Zi Tian. Although they looked different and had different names, Yang Hongwu was sure that this guy was 100% related to that bastard Zi Tian. Yang Hongwu even guessed that this bastard was an incarnation of Zi Tian.
Those merits condensed into a Golden Lotus of Merit.
This Golden Lotus only had three petals, which meant that it was a Third-grade Golden Lotus of Merit. However, it still surprised Yang Hongwu.
The Golden Lotus of Merit. He didn't expect that the merits he got would form this thing.
In fact, in the original Untainted Three Realms, the Power of Merit was a good thing. The Golden Lotus of Merit was even more amazing. Originally, Zhunti had the Golden Lotus of Merit. Later, in Buddhism, everyone could practice the Golden Lotus of Merit.
The most famous ones were, of course, Guanyin Bodhisattva and Gautama Buddha.
These two could be said to be famous. In the secular world of the Untainted Three Realms, their popularity was the highest.
It could be said that their reputation was no less than that of the Sages. Even in Buddhism, their reputation was much greater than that of the two Hierarch Zhunti and Hierarch Jieyin.
Those who didn't know Hierarch Jieyin and Hierarch Zhunti knew Gautama Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva.
The formation of the Golden Lotus of Merit also made Yang Hongwu very puzzled. He didn't practice any Cultivation Method of the Golden Lotus of Merit. However, these merits formed a Third-grade Golden Lotus.
Of course, Yang Hongwu also knew that this was a good thing. However, it was very difficult to form a twelfth-grade Golden Lotus of Merit. The number of merits needed was absolutely astronomical.
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