Honghuang Dragon Venerable: Forging the Dao with Merit

Chen Mo, a modern soul, transmigrates to the primordial world by accident and takes possession of the last surviving member of the Dragon Clan. On Fangzhang Island, he obtains an innate white lotus and embarks on a cultivation path that defies the heavens. Hongjun is on the verge of becoming a Sage, and his first lecture has yet to begin. Chen Mo happens to encounter the Daoist Master Tongtian on his travels. His extraordinary insight wins Tongtian's favor, and he is accepted as a personal disciple, joining the core of the Jie Sect. Knowing the fate of the Investiture of the Gods calamity and the Jie Sect's destruction, Chen Mo rejects the usual path of proving the Dao through merit. Instead, he condenses all the merit he has accumulated into a golden wheel, devoted to refining spiritual treasures and protecting his fellow disciples. He gathers disciples far and wide: the Six-Eared Macaque becomes his first disciple, while a Wu warrior, an innate spiritual bamboo, a spirit tortoise who supports the heavens, a noble Qilin, Yang Jian, and a member of the innate human race each become one of his seven disciples. All seven rise to become great powers in the primordial world. Beginning as a True Immortal, Chen Mo steadily advances through the ranks of Profound Immortal, Golden Immortal, Great Golden Immortal, and Quasi-Saint, secretly proving the Dao and becoming a Primordial Great Golden Immortal during the Investiture of the Gods War. In the early stages, he guides Nuwa in mending the heavens and creating humanity, protecting humankind through countless lifetimes until he is revered as the Sage Teacher of Humanity. In the middle stages, he secretly moves his pieces during the War of the Wu and Demons, saving the Jie Sect's elite. In the final stages, he turns the tide of the Investiture calamity, rewriting the Jie Sect's fate of destruction. At last, he leads the Dragon Clan and the immortals of the Jie Sect to stand at the peak of the primordial world, forging a legend of the Dao built on merit and a Dragon Lord without equal.