Chapter 1948: Chapter 1227: Decline at the Zenith

“Tao Ancestor, are the eight sacred positions not too few?”

As everyone retrieved their own merit, Jiang Chen looked at the Profound Yellow Merit in the sky, which hadn’t diminished much, and suddenly asked the Tao Ancestor beside him.

“The number of the world, nine is the extreme, ten is the complete. For the Prehistoric World to achieve perfection and ascend to the highest Eternal World, it needs to have ten Saints.”

“Eight is indeed too few.”

Hearing this, the Tao Ancestor seemed to have guessed Jiang Chen’s thought and responded with a smile.

Their conversation reached the ears of the nearby crowd, causing them to perk up. From their words, it seemed too few Saints were disliked, so were they planning to add a few more sacred positions?

If this were true, then their opportunity had arrived. Indeed, as strong figures of the Old Era, they had been abandoned by the Heavenly Dao and had no qualification to become Saints.

But their lack of qualification did not mean their disciples were unqualified. If a Saint of the New Era emerged from their sect, it would bring them immense benefits.

Currently, the Prehistoric World has a total of eight sacred positions. Of course, there are eight sacred positions, but only five Saints.

The eight sacred positions include the original Six Saints of the Heavenly Dao, plus the Purple Qi of Hongmeng of Red Cloud, and Mother Earth, the Saint of Earthly Dao.

The five Saints are Taiqing, Yuanshi, Jieyin, Zhunti, and Mother Earth. If we add Duobao, who is about to become a Saint, that makes six.

The two missing ones are in the hands of Honjan Daizu and Jiang Chen, waiting for them to choose suitable candidates to help them become Saints.

This time could be very short or extremely long, basically depending on luck or a chance encounter.

“Nine is the extreme. The current Heaven and Earth of the Prehistoric World is nearing its limit, and it indeed should nurture the ninth sacred position.”

Jiang Chen agreed with a smile, as the Heavenly Dao had given him so much merit, which he hardly needed.

In that case, why not use the excess merit to create a new sacred position?

“It should be so!”

The Tao Ancestor readily agreed, greatly supporting Jiang Chen’s proposal.

The more sacred positions the Prehistoric World has, the more perfected Heaven and Earth become, and the closer it gets to the Eternal World. This is a flourishing era of the Prehistoric World; why would the Tao Ancestor refuse?

“A new sacred position!”

The nearby Great Divine Transcendents, upon hearing of the birth of a new sacred position, could not help but let their eyes heat up. This new Saint must be born under their tutelage.

In the Ancient Era, the Prehistoric World was able to nurture eight sacred positions. Now, after the great tribulation that saw its destruction and reconstruction, its original source is thicker and stronger, naturally capable of evolving a new sacred position.

The number of sacred positions is the standard to measure the evolutionary stage of the Prehistoric World’s Heaven and Earth. The thicker the original source, the more perfect the rules of the Great Dao, and the more sacred positions evolve.

“The number begins at one, established at three, achieved at five, flourished at seven, peaked at nine.”

“Seven is the number of great prosperity. Having six Saints is sufficient for the Mystic Sect, being just one step from peak prosperity. It shows that the Mystic Sect still has room to rise, allowing younger disciples to progress.”

“But if there is one more Saint, it becomes the pinnacle of prosperity with no further possibility of advancement, likely leading to the signs of decline after prosperity.”

“Therefore, six sacred positions are enough. The two additional ones will definitely not be born within the Mystic Sect.”

While the Great Divine Transcendents of the Mystic Sect were fantasizing about the Saints of the New Era emerging from their sect, the Tao Ancestor suddenly spoke, pouring cold water on them.

The Mystic Sect can only have a maximum of six Saints, no more. So, regarding the sacred position Jiang Chen released, their disciples were not qualified to compete.

The only sacred position they could compete for was the one in the Tao Ancestor’s hand, which was originally supposed to belong to Old Ancestor Red Cloud.

Going from competing for three to competing for one, the difficulty increased countless times, leaving everyone speechless for a moment. But they couldn’t deny the reasonableness in the Tao Ancestor’s words.

Due to the imperfection of the Heavenly Dao, prosperity must decline, which is a natural principle that even the Prehistoric World’s Heaven and Earth cannot escape.

The Ancient Chaos marks this, as the Prehistoric World of the Ancient Era reached the pinnacle of prosperity, but after the Ancient Era, the Prehistoric World began to decline, only recently recovering.

If even the Prehistoric World cannot escape the natural law of decline after prosperity, how can the Mystic Sect? If a seventh Saint were to be born, the decline of the Mystic Sect would not be far off.

Now, we need not mention that the two Western Saints are not Saints of the Mystic Sect.

Their sacred positions were granted by the Tao Ancestor, accepted in Zixiao Palace in the name of disciples of the Tao Ancestor, so unless they renounce their sacred positions, even if they betray the sect, this fact cannot be changed.

They are Saints of the Mystic Sect, one of the Six Saints.

Other forces can decline, but the Mystic Sect cannot. Because the Mystic Sect is too powerful, once it declines, all forces within the Prehistoric World’s Heaven and Earth would likely converge to tear at the Mystic Sect, extracting benefits.

In other words, once the Mystic Sect weakens, it will immediately become the target of all forces within the Prehistoric World, leading to complete downfall, with no chance of revival.

This is the inevitable consequence of the birth of the Mystic Sect’s seventh Saint. If the strong Mystic Sect were to split, external force alone would be powerless; the only possibility is internal division within the Mystic Sect.

This means that once the seventh Saint of the Mystic Sect is born, the division of the Mystic Sect will not be far off. The seventh Saint is the beginning of the Mystic Sect’s division.